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Wagner. 3. Anna, October 31, 1731. 4. Nanning, December, 1732; married (first) August 17, 1760, Catrelie Wendell; (second ) November 2, 1764, Helena Lansing. 5. Alida, March 23, 1735; married, September 5, 1753, Gerrit Roerback, of New York. 6. Barent J., see forward. 7. Johannis, April 23, 1739; married, May 7, 1763, Elizabeth Bradt. 8. Jo- chim, December 31, 1740, died in childhood. 9. Gerrit, October 24, 1742; married Lady Sa- rah Turner, in Ireland.
(V) Barent J., son of Johannes Nanning and Annetje (Staats) Visscher, was baptized in Albany, March 13, 1737. He married, April 22, 1765, Sarah Harmense, daughter of Harmanus and Sarah (Wyngaart) Vis- scher, baptized September 20, 1741. Children : I. Annetje, born August 25, 1766; married, before 1788, - Lieverse. 2. Sarah, No- vember 24, 1767; married, August 5, 1787, Benjamin Van Zandt. 3. Johannes B., see forward. 4. Alida, November 7, 1772. 5. Harmen, November 26, 1774; married, Sep- tember 10, 1823, Anna M. Chapman. 6. Ali- da, February 8, 1777 ; married John Everton. (VI) Johannes B., son of Barent J. and Sarah Harmense (Visscher) Visscher, was born in Albany, September 4, 1769. He mar- ried (first) Geertruy (Gertrude), daughter of Lavinus Dunbar and Margarita Hansen, born October 17, 1777, died February 1, 1804. Married (second) Catharine, daughter of Ed- ward S. and Sarah (Fryer) Willet, born June 14, 1779. Children by first wife: I. Har- men, born Jannary 4, 1802, died July 14, 1872 ; married, September 10, 1823, Ann M. Chap- man. 2. Geertruy, December 5, 1803, died June II, 1831 ; married - Lovell. Chil- dren by second wife: 3. Barent, died in in- fancy. 4. Barent, born January 8, 1812, died May 17, 1824. 5. Edward, died in infancy. 6. Gerrit, died in infancy. 7. Edward, born November 18, 1817. 8. Sarah Ann, Novem- ber 30, 1819; married, December 19, 1849, Philip S. Lansing. 9. Lydia, January 16, 1822. 10. John B., see forward.
(VII) John B., son of Johannes B. and Catharine (Willet) Visscher, was born in Al- bany, August 31, 1825. His entire life was spent in Albany where he died January 31, 1890. He was educated in private schools, and after reaching manhood engaged in the management and improvement of his estates. He was a large land owner and did much for the improvement of the city. His principal interest outside of his private estate was in the First Reformed Church of Albany, to which he was devoted. He held the office of trustee, which he administered as a sacred trust. He was a member of Albany Chapter
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of the Holland Society, and affiliated, after its formation, with the Republican party. He was of modest, retiring disposition and would never accept public office. He married (first) July 8, 1857, Ann, daughter of Abraham R. and Annetje (Visscher) Ten Eyck, born April 17, 1822, died February 5, 1863 ; no children. Married (second) October 18, 1866, Alida, daughter of Douw and Jane Ann (Leversee) Lansing, born October 1, 1844. Children: I. John Douw, born August 31, 1867, died De- cember 27, 1868. 2. Edward Willet, April 5, 1870; was educated at the Albany Boys' Academy ; was connected with the Mechanics' & Farmers' Bank, of Albany, for ten years, then engaged in the real estate business in Albany, New York, January 22, 1895, mar- ried Mame Eugenia Palmer, of Chicago, Illi- nois. 3. William Leversee, see forward. 4. Clarence Eugene, died in infancy. Alida Lan- sing was a descendant of Jacob Lansing and his wife Helena Huyck, who came from Hol- land about 1700. Their son John settled in the vicinity of "the Bocht" and founded the family in that section.
(VIII) William Leversee, son of John B. and Alida (Lansing) Visscher, was born in Albany, June 3, 1874. He was educated at the Albany Boys' Academy, graduating with the class of 1892. In that year he entered the employ of Spencer Trask & Company, bankers, in Albany. After remaining a year and a half with them, he toured Europe, re- maining for nearly a year. On his return to Albany he began the study of law in the offices of Harris & Rudd. In 1898 he ma- triculated at the Albany Law School, gradua- ting in 1900 with the degree of LL.B., and was admitted to the bar the same year. In 1901 he became associated with the law firm of Harris & Rudd, now composed of William P. Rudd and William L. Visscher. Later he was admitted to practice in the United States district and circuit courts. The firm do a. gen- eral legal business, making a specialty of cor- poration law. They are well established and command a large practice. Mr. Visscher is a member of the New York State and Albany Bar associations, and politically is a Republi- can. He is a trustee and secretary of the board of trustees of the First Reformed Church of Albany. Through his pure Dutch ancestry, both paternal and maternal, he gains membership to the Holland Society of Amer- ica, belonging to Albany Chapter. He is a trustee of the Fort Orange Club, governor of the Country Club, member of the Univer- sity, Albany and Troy clubs. His fraternity is the Phi Delta Phi (legal) of Albany Law School. He has always been fond of athlet-
ics and out-of-door sports, particularly of ten- nis. His vacations are spent in automobiling and as much as possible in the open country. He is unmarried.
CLUTE
The first of record in the Clute family of Cohoes here under con- sideration was Frederick Clute.
Through intermarriage they are connected with the oldest among the Dutch families of the Mohawk Valley: The Du Monds, Marselis, Van Epps, Heemstraats, Van Bom- mels, Schermerhorns, Vroomans, De Graffs and others.
(I) Frederick Clute came from Kingston, New York, in 1703, and bought land of Jo- hannes Clute in Niskaguna. He married Fruneyntje Du Monds, who bore him ten children.
(II) Jacob, fourth child and second son of Frederick Clute, married, in 1727, Maria Brower, in Albany, New York. They had five children.
(III) Pieter, third child of Jacob and Ma- ria (Brower) Clute, was born October 13, 1731, in Albany. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving in the Second Albany County regiment of New York militia under Colonel Abraham Wemple and Captain Jesse Van Slyck. He married Catherine Marselis, who bore him sixteen children. She was a daughter of Dirk and Lysbet (Van Epps) Marselis, granddaughter of Aliaserus and Sara (Heemstraat) Marselis, great-grand- daughter of Marselis Janse Van Bommel and his wife, Annetje Gerritse. Marselis Janse Van Bommel was born in Bommel in the Netherlands, Province of Guilderland, and to designate him particularly Van (from) Bommel (his native town) was added to his name.
(IV) Nicholas, fourteenth child of Pieter and Catharine (Marselis) Clute, was baptized December 24, 1775. He married, in 1799, Helena Schermerhorn ; both died in 1832. She was a daughter of Richard and Natje (Van Vetchen) Schermerhorn, granddaughter of Ryer (2) and Maria (Veeder) Schermerhorn, great-granddaughter of Johannes and Elzetjhe (Vrooman) Schermerhorn, and great-great- granddaughter of Ryer (1) Schermerhorn, who married the widow of Helmer Otten. Ryer (1) Schermerhorn was one of the pat- entees of the grant of 1684 and settled at Schenectady. New York. He was a son of Ja- cob Schermerhorn, born in Holland, 1622, lived in Albany before 1648; was a wealthy and important man. He married Jannetje Seeyers Van Voorhandt, and died in Schenec- tady, 1688.
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(V) Pieter (2), eldest child of Nicholas and Helena (Schermerhorn) Clute, was born May 31, 1800. He married Maria, daughter of Peter De Graff. Children : Nicholas, Ab- raham, John, Jacob, Frederick H., mentioned below.
(VI) Frederick H., son of Pieter (2) and Maria (De Graff) Clute, was born in Rot- terdam, New York, June 8, 1833, died at Waterford, New York, December 1, 1907. He was a millwright and machinist and was for a long term of years with the Cohoes Iron Foundry. He was an attendant of the Dutch Reformed church, and was until just before his death a Democrat. He married Eunice W. Veeder, born in Guilderland, Al- bany county, New York, December 22, 1828, died December 1, 1880, at Cohoes, daughter of Simon Veeder, who was born and died in Guilderland; he was an active leading Re- publican of his district and served in the New York legislature. Children: I. Veeder Simon, see forward. 2. Alfred J., born in Cohoes, June 3, 1867 ; partner with his broth- er in the firm of Clute Brothers; married (first) Louisa Purdy ; children : Gerald Purdy and Dorothy Elizabeth; married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Long) Dawson.
(VII) Veeder Simon, eldest son of Fred- erick H. and Eunice W. (Veeder) Clute, was born at Callanan's Corners, Albany county, New York, July 26, 1863. He was educated in the Cohoes public school, and for a number of years was a mill worker. In 1889 he formed a partnership with his brother, Alfred J. Clute, under the firm name of Clute Broth- ers, for the sale of electric supplies, to which they added a line of dynamos and electric ma- chinery. In 1908 they began the operation of a factory for the manufacture of cotton bat- ting, and are agents for a well known maker of automobiles since 1905. The firm is an active, prosperous one. Veeder S. Clute is a Republican, but not active in public af- fairs. He is a member of the First Metho- dist Episcopal church of Cohoes, and for years librarian of the Sunday school. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Mystic Club of Cohoes. Mr. Clute mar- ried, August 1, 1887, in North Troy, New York, Minnie F., daughter of James Ham- mond, a manufacturer of woolen goods, and his wife, Silva (Van Arman) Hammond. Be- sides their daughter, Minnie F. (Hammond) Clute, they have three sons: James Ham- mond, with the General Electric Company, Schenectady : Charles Hammond, with his brother-in-law, Veeder S. Clute; Merritt Hammond, engaged in the insurance and real
estate business in Schenectady, New York. Children of Veeder S. and Minnie F. (Ham- mond) Clute: 1. Frederick Veeder, graduate of Waterford high school at age of fourteen, now a student at the Troy Conservatory of Music. 2. Bertha R., graduate of Waterford high school, class of 1910. 3. Bessie I., twin of Bertha R., graduate of Albany Business College.
MORANGE The Morange family of Al- bany derives descent from French ancestry whose resi- dence in France was in and around the city of Bordeaux. The first of the family to come to the United States was James Morange, who was born in Bordeaux and came to this country about the time of the revolutionary war. He died in New York in 1850. He married and had issue.
(II) Pierre L., son of James Morange, was born in France, and was eight years of age when the family came to America. He be- came a resident of Albany, where his after life was spent. He married Jane Cecelia Duffy, of New York City, who bore him eight children: James W., see forward ; Wil- liam, deceased; Jane Cecelia, deceased ; Jus- tina, a resident of New York City ; Pierre, a resident of Albany. Three others died young.
(III) James W., son of Pierre L. and Jane Cecelia (Duffy) Morange, was born in Albany, New York, August 3, 1824. His early education was obtained in the city pub- lic schools, after which he entered and was graduated from the Boys' Academy. He was regularly indentured and learned the up- holstering trade, at which he engaged until 1880. In that year he became actively in- terested in undertaking, which business he continued until his retirement from active business in 1905. He has lived a long, active and useful life in the city of his birth, where he is well known and honored. He has been for many years a member of the Masonic order, and has enjoyed many of the honors of that order. He has taken all the degrees of the Scottish Rite, and is past high priest of Temple Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and member of lodge, council, commandery and all Scottish Rite bodies. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Morange was a member and an officer in the Albany Burgesses Corps, a noted military company of Albany, and one . of the charter members of the Aurania Club of Albany. He and his wife were members of the Reformed church, later of St. Peter's and now of St. Paul's.
He married Jane Hamilton, born in Dover, England, died February 11, 1908, in Albany ;
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came to the United States in early life, lived in New York City, and after her marriage passed her life in Albany. Children: I. Wil- liam V. H., born in Albany, September 7, 1853, died January 10, 1883; he was a young man of great promise, and died universally regretted; married Adelaide Scarborough, born in West Troy, New York, March 22, 1858; he left a daughter Isabella, born in West Troy, August 21, 1881, who married, December 4, 1907, J. Harmon Conde. 2. Edward, born July 5, 1855, died August 10, 1867.
VAN WORMER The Van Wormers of Schenectady county de- scend from Peter Van Wormer, who is believed to have been the brother of Abram Van Wormer, born in Holland, 1737; came to America and mar- ried Catherine Lainhart, of Guilderland, Al- bany county, New York, who died in 1845, aged one hundred and one years, a remark- able instance of longevity.
(I) Peter Van Wormer was born May 16, 1749, in Holland, probably in the village of Wormer; died June, 1808, in Schenectady county, New York, where he settled. He mar- ried Rachel Van Housen, born October 8, 1753. He had several children, among them: Casper, see forward; Maria, baptized March 8, 1777; Laurens, born September II, 1789; Johannes, born April 5, 1793.
(II) Casper, eldest child of Peter and Rachel (Van Housen) Van Wormer, was born July 16, 1770, died in West Glenville, December 16, 1859. He married, January 29, 1794, Eve Van Dyck. Among his children were : Maria, born May 23, 1795 ; Peter, Sep- tember 25, 1797; Engeltje, February 14, 1800, married John I. Swart, died January 5, 1851, at West Glenville; John C., see forward.
(III) John C., son of Casper and Eve (Van Dyck) Van Wormer, was born October 5, 1813, died April 29, 1889. He was born in the Mohawk Valley (Montgomery county), where he grew up a farmer. After his mar- riage he removed to West Glenville, where he founded his home on the old Van Petten homestead inherited by his wife. He became a man of wealth and influence, was a meni- ber of the Dutch Reformed church, and is buried in the cemetery of that church at Glenville Corner, where many of the Van Petten and Van Wormer names are at rest. He married Nancy Van Petten, born in Glen- ville in 1820, died in 1906, daughter of Simon and Eva (Conde) Van Petten, of Glenville, Schenectady county, New York. Simon Van Petten, son of Johannes and Neeltje (Veeder)
Van Petten, was born September 3, 1775, died at West Glenville, December 20, 1851 ; mar- ried Eva, daughter of Adam Conde, Decem- ber 16, 1797. Johannes, son of Nicholas and Rebecca (Groot) Van Petten, was baptized April 29, 1739. He married, July 10, 1762, Neeltje, daughter of Simon Veeder. Nicholas was the son of Claas Frederickse Van Pet- ten, who first came to Schenectady in 1664 and became a prosperous farmer. He was a brother-in-law of Ryer Schermerhorn. In 1683-84 he owned a farm at Papsknee, below Albany. In 1690 he was appointed justice of the peace by Leisler. Claas F. Van Petten was born May 30, 1641, died October 3, 1728. He married Aeffie, daughter of Arent and Catalyntje (De Vos) Bratt. She died Jan- uary 23, 1728, aged twenty-eight years. The Van Pettens are of Holland descent. Nancy (Van Petten) Van Wormer and her hus- band were members of the Dutch Reformed church. Children: I. Oscar, died at Glen- ville at the age of forty-two years, of lock- jaw; married (first) Emily Romeyn, no issne; (second) Effie Ludwig, also deceased ; children: Nancy B .; Bessie, married Miner Van Epps, who left a son, Van; Blanche, married Joel Swart, of Schenectady. 2. Eve Emma, married Drew W. Stanrod, judge of the supreme court of Idalio and one time nominee of his party for governor of that state; two children : a daughter Cammie, de- ceased, and Drew WV. 3. Charles, a con- tractor and builder of Aurora, Illinois ; mar- ried Fannie Bourne and has five children. 4. Henry, see forward. 5. Ada, married A. V. Siewert; resides in Duluth, Minnesota. 6. Sarah, unmarried, resident of the state of Washington.
(IV) Henry, son of John C. and Nancy (Van Petten) Van Wormer, was born in Glenville, Schenectady county, New York, February 14, 1854. He was educated in the Glenville public schools and the Charlton Academy. He has always been engaged in agriculture and is the owner of three farms in Glenville, which he personally superintends. He has always been an active Republican and has served his town for sixteen years as as- sessor, an office he still holds. He is a mem- ber of the Dutch Reformed church. He mar- ried, in Glenville, Elizabeth Chamberlain, born in New York City, daughter of William and Philomena ( Mellius) Chamberlain. Her par- ents were born in the Mohawk Valley, and removed to New York City, where they died. Children of Henry and Elizabeth Van Wormer: Beulah, died at the age of eighteen months, and John Cornelius, born February 19, 1893, educated in the public schools and
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at business college, now his father's assistant at farming.
CATLIN Under the spellings Catlin, Catlyn and Catlyne, this family is found in England, dating from an early period. In America the name was sometimes spelled Catling, Ketling and Catlin. Thomas Catlin was of Hartford, Con- necticut, as early as 1645-46. He was for many years constable, "one of the most honor- able and trustworthy" offices of the colony. He was born about 1612, died 1690, and left a son John. This is the earliest recorded family, and from them descend a numerous progeny.
(I) Leonard Catlin died about 1855; he was a general merchant. He married and had issue.
(II) Charles Titus, son of Leonard Catlin, was born near Fort Ann, Washington county, New York, March 12, 1821, died January 7, 1898. He was always active in the Baptist church, and later in life became a minister of that denomination. He married Jane Amelia Morrison, born in West Troy, January 31, 1822, died December 7, 1879, daughter of and Maria T. (Hart) Morrison.
(III) Charles Leonard, son of Charles Titus and Jane Amelia (Morrison) Catlin, was born in West Troy, New York, January II, 1848. He was educated in the common and high schools of Troy, and was graduated at the latter with the class of 1864. He de- cided to follow his natural talent for music, and studied under Professor J. W. Andrews, Professor Charles W. Harris and Mrs. C. B. S. Cary. He gave particular attention to the pipe organ, conducted choruses and choirs, and when young taught music for a time. He was also a skilled performer on the piano, and was the composer of several well-known pieces of music: "The Russa March," an arrangement of the Lord's Prayer, a patriotic song, "Our Motto," "In God We Trust," all
compositions of note. He also wrote the local song, "We Collar the World." In 1880 he was appointed cashier of Paul Hartwell & Company, of Troy He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Baptist church. He married, September II, 1879, Mary Esther Husted (or Huested), born in Clifton Park, Saratoga county, New York, daughter of Jeremiah and Melissa (Wood) Husted, who were married January 9, 1850. Jeremiah Husted died June 12, 1897. His wife died March 13. 1902. He was a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Wicks) Husted, of Saratoga county. Charles L. and Mary E. (Husted) Catlin have a son, Charles Edward, born May
9, 1882. He is a graduate of Troy Academy, class of 1900, and of Albany Business Col- lege, 1903. He was private secretary to Palmer Ricketts, president of the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute for a time, and occupied the same relation to Henry Russell, of Al- bany. Since 1904 he has filled an instruc- tor's chair at the Albany Business College. He served in the State National Guard in Troop B of the cavalry. He is prominent in the Masonic order, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is a member of the Baptist church. He was one of the charter members of the Country Club of Waterford, also the Waterford Club.
VEGHTE The following first two gen- erations of the Veghte family are compiled from the original wills of Hendrick Veghte, dated July 31, 1716, and of his grandson, Hendrick Veghte, September 14, 1767, and the family record written in Dutch, of which Gerrit H. Van Wagener made a liberal translation and pub- lished in vol. IX, "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," page 180.
(I) Claes Arentse, as he is called in the list of emigrants, or Klaes Arents Vecht, as written by himself, with his wife Lammentie and three children, emigrated from the Prov- ince of Drenthe, in Holland, in the ship "Bon- ticou," or "Spotted Cow," April, 1660, set- tled in Brooklyn, and in 1669 erected the old stone house known as the Vechte mansion. His sons were Hendrick, Klaessen Veghten (see forward), and Gerrit Claessen (through whom the family in Fulton county descend), the latter of Salem Island, where he owned land as early as 1689. Claes Arense Veghte (the emigrant) obtained of Governor Andros a grant for one hundred and twenty acres of upland and twelve acres of meadow along the Kill Von Kull, September 29, 1677, which later came into the possession of his youngest son, Gerrit Claessen, as per record of deeds in office of secretary of state. New York.
(II) Hendrick Claessen, eldest son of Claes Arentse and Lammentie Veghte, emigrated to America with his father and purchased a tract of land in 1702, near Millstone, New Jersey, though it does not appear that he ever lived there. In his will (1716) he describes himself "Hendrick Veghte, of Brooklyn, on the Island of Nassau, at a place called Go- wanus." In his will he left his lands in New Jersey to his eldest son Reynier, provided for his wife Grietje, his son Nicholas and his daughters Hillite, Janetje, Lammentie and Gerritie. He married Grietje Reiners Wizzle- penning.
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(III) Reynier, son of Hendrick and Grietje Reiners (Wizzlepenning) Veghte, was bap- tized in the Dutch church at Brooklyn, New York, March 12, 1701, died October 28, 1758. He was the first of the name to settle perma- nently in New Jersey. He married (first) Jacomyntie Van Duyn, born January 8, 1700, died February 10, 1736; (second) Doyna Van Leuwen, whom he married December 3, 1737.
(II) Gerrit Claessen, youngest son of Claes Arentse and Lammentie Veghte, died in 1772. He married (first), September 25, 1682, Jan- netje Crocheron, of Staten Island, where Gerrit owned land in 1689. He married (sec- ond), March, 1693, Magdalena Jans.
(III) Gerret (as the records spell the name), son of Gerrit and Magdalena (Jans) Veghte, was baptized April 4, 1694. He died about 1734, as on January 2, 1734, his execu- tors filed an inventory of his estate, now in the office of the surrogate of New York. He married and had issue: Gerritje, married Frederick Jacobse Bergen; Jan, married Cor- nelia Staats; John, of whom further.
(IV) John, son of Gerret Veghte, settled in Fulton county, New York, at an early day. He devoted his life to farming, being one of the pioneers of the county and an active par- ticipant in the stirring scenes attending the early settlement. He married, in 1759, Cath- erine Vanderbilt. They had seven children. (V) Nicholas, son of John and Catherine (Vanderbilt) Veghte, was born December I, 1755. He was educated in the public schools, and followed the occupation of a farmer. He married Barbara Carncross, December I, 1808; she was born May 22, 1784. Children : I. John, born March 1, 1810, died May 12, 1810. 2. Baltram, March 3, 1811. 3. John, July 14, 1812, died April 22, 1857. 4. Elizabeth, April 17, 1814. 5. Henry Wyckoff, December 8, 1815; married (first), August 15, 1842, Margaret A. Hardin, who died May 23, 1850; (second) June 12, 1851, Christina, eld- est daughter of Duncan and Anna (Walker) Clark ; children by first wife : Mary Jane, died in girlhood ; Barbara A., married Henry F. Tiffany; Margaret, married William Van Deuzen ; children by second wife: Clark, mar- ried Esthier Van Deuzen; John, married Ade- lia Vollans ; Ann E., married William I. Mc- Ewen; Charles, married Carrie Selmser. 6. Lewis, see forward. 7. Mary Ann, March 13, 1819. 8. Jane, June 18, 1822; married, De- cember 18, 1841, Michael Argersinger.
(VI) Lewis, son of Nicholas and Barbara (Carncross) Veghte, was born on the home- stead farm, May 6, 1817, died June 19, 1897. He was educated in the public schools and at
the academy. He was a farmer in earlier life, but retired and devoted himself to other pur- suits. He was a member of the executive committee, a director and large stockholder in the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Rail- road Company. He was also a director of the People's Bank. He was a most careful and capable business man and commanded uni- versal respect. The old homestead upon which he was born was conveyed to his an- cestor in 1776. The deed reads: "Bought on March 25, 1766, by Marteneus Waldorf," and bears the autograph signature of Sir William Johnson. Ten years later, in 1776, the prop- erty was bought by John Veghte and has since been in the family. Lewis Veghte mar- ried, March 19, 1846, Catherine Yost, born November 5, 1825, died September 9, 1907, daughter of John B. and Mary A. Yost. Chil- dren: I. Nicholas, born December 10, 1846; married, December 22, 1880, Anna M., daugh- ter of Daniel and Charlotte (Bice) Rudes ; child : John, born January 26, 1882, married Bertha Wiles. 2. John, born Octo- ber 6, 1848, died January 9, 1878; married Marietta Horning. 3. Elizabeth, born Jan- uary 27, 1851, married, March 14, 1878, John Y. Dorn; children: Fred Y., born December 18, 1878; Flora, born September 9, 1881, mar- ried, February 10, 1902, William H. O'Neil. 4. Mary, born April 3, 1852; resides in Johns- town, New York. 5. Henry, born December 18, 1854; married, October 14, 1896, Jessie . M. McIntyre; children: Lewis, born March 14, 1898; Archibald M., November 14, 1900; Catherine, May 2, 1902; Henry J., February 21, 1905. 6. Jane, born September 2, 1856, died May, 1859. 7. William, born October 9, 1858, died November 9, 1877. 8. Lewis (2), born April 7, 1861; died December 7, 1877. 9. Anna, born January 24, 1863, died October 20, 1863. 10. Jane, twin of Anna. II. George, see forward. 12. Catherine, born November 30, 1867 ; married, March 19, 1896, William E. Hall.
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