Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 36

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 660


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(II) Pieter Jonasen, son of Jonas Bronck. was born in Holland, died in Coxsackie, New York, 1669. He was a brewer of Beverwyck as early as 1645, owned houses and lots which he sold in 1662, and purchased land in Cox- sackie, which was the colonial grant known as the Bronck patent, upon which he settled. His wife was HIilletje Tyssinck. Of their chil- dren there were two sons, Pieter, Jan.


(III) Jan, son of Pieter Jonasen and Hil- letje (Tyssinck) Bronck, was born in Albany, New York, 1650, died at Coxsackie, New York, 1742. He built a saw and grist mill. He married Commertje Leendertse Conyn. His will speaks of the following five sons only : Pieter, Jonas, Philip, Casper, and Leendert Janse. Daughters, Antje and Helena.


(IV) Leendert Janse (Leonard Janse), son of Jan and Commertje Leendertse (Conyn) Bronck, was born about 1699. He married, February 26, 1717, Anna de Wandalaer. Chil- dren: Jan Leendertse, Sara, Commertje and Catharina.


(V) Jan Leendertse, son of Leendert Janse (Leonard Janse) and Anna (de Wandalaer ) Bronck, was baptized July 14, 1723, died 1794. He married (first) June 17, 1747, Elsje Van Buren; (second) Susanna Hotaling ( Hoogh- teeling). Elsje Van Buren was a descendant of Cornelis Maase and Catalina Martense Van Buren, who came to America on the ship "Rensselaerwyck ;" Cornelis M., died 1043, his wife, 1648. Their son, Martin Cornelis Van Buren, was born in Houten, province of Utrecht. He married Maritje . Their son, Pieter Martinse Van Buren, of Kinder- hook (1720), married Arientje Barentse. Jan- uary 15, 1693. Their son, Barent Van Bur- en, married ( first ) December 20. 1719, Maria Winne, daughter of Livinus Winne and Wil- lempje (Viele ) Winne, widow of Simon Schermerhorn, and granddaughter of Peter


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Winne, from Ghent in Flanders, and Jannetje (Adams) Winne, of Friesland. Their daugh- ter, Elsje Van Buren, married Jan Leendertse Bronck. They had an only son Leonard.


(VI) Leonard, only child of Jan Leendertse and Elsje (Van Buren) Bronck, was born May II, 1751, died April 22, 1828. He was a member of the New York state assembly, 1786-98; of the state senate, 1800. Was first judge of the court of appeals of Greene coun- ty ; was an officer in the revolutionary army, first as a lieutenant, later as captain, and was discharged with rank of lieutenant-colonel; was supervisor of Albany county. He was an intimate friend of General Schuyler and General Gansevoort. He married (first ) Jan- uary II, 1779, Tryntje, daughter of Robert Van Denbergh; (second) Albertje Van Bu- ren. Tryntje (Catherine) Van Denbergh was a daughter of Robert and granddaughter of Richard Janse Van Denbergh and Catherine (Tryntje) Houghtaling (Hotaling). who were married November 13, 1699. Catherine was a sister of Matthys Houghtaling, born 1644, died 1796. Robert Van Denbergh married Brandow. Their daughter Tryntje (Catherine) married Hon. Leonard Bronck. Children of Leonard and Tryntje (Catherine) Bronck : Elsie, born December 23, 1782, mar- ried, November 27, 1799, in Kinderhook, Rev. Jacob Sickles (see Sickles VI), and Leonard, see forward.


(VII) Leonard (2), son of Leonard (1) and Tryntje (Catherine) (Van Denbergh) Bronck, was born June 29, 1797, married Ma- ria, daughter of Dr. John Ely. Their daugh- ter, Adelaide Ely Bronck, married Rev. Lewis Lampman (see Lampman \'). Children : Leonard Bronck, and Maria Bronck Lamp- man.


LUSK John Lusk, of Massachusetts, was an associate of General Hyde, of Lenox, Massachusetts, in the set- tlement of "Township 13. Range 7" of the "Phelps and Gorham" purchase and had fif- teen hundred acres of land at the head of Iron- dequoit Bay (now Monroe county, New York). He was a pioneer in the settlement of that township, going with his son Stephen and a hired man early in the summer of 1789. The father went by way of Schenectady, from there by batteau ; the son and hired man drove cattle overland, crossing Lake Cayuga on a raft, swimming their cattle. They returned to Massachusetts in the fall. In the spring of 1790 he returned with his family and perma- nently settled on his tract. He died 1814, aged sixty-six years. He had sons, Stephen, Erastus, Norman, John Kellogg and Aaron.


(II) John Kellogg, son of John Lusk, was. born in Massachusetts, April 25, 1781, died in Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, No- vember 23, 1818. He lived for a time in Cox- sackie, later removed to West Coxsackie, where he was engaged in general mercantile business until his death. He married Chris- tina Van Denburgh, and had children : John Kellogg (2); Jacob; William Henry and Matthias.


(III) Matthias, son of John Kellogg and Christina (Van Denburgh) Lusk. was born September 9, 1807, died April 13, 1883, in Coxsackie, New York. He was a graduate of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, also of the Theological Seminary of same college. Ordained a minister of the Gospel, and was pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church of Jersey City for seventeen years, when he retired, and moved to Cox- sackie in 1864. He was a man of substance and high character. He married Ann Sickles, born April 23, 1806, in Kinderhook, Colum- bia county, New York, died November 30, 1872, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Elsie (Bronck) Sickles. (See Sickles VII; the Bronck line appears in preceding sketch). Children, born in Jersey City, New Jersey : Jacob S., died in childhood; Elizabeth C., born November 10, 1840: Anna L., July 3, 1843; Sarah C., twin of Anna L., died 1882. Matthias Lusk in 1864 purchased the hand- some residence in Coxsackie, New York, which has since been his home.


(The Sickles Line).


Zachariah Sickles was born in Vienna, Aus- tria, about 1630, went to Holland, thence to Curacoa, where he served as a cadet. When Governor Stuyvesant returned from a visit to Curacoa in 1655 Sickles came with him and was soon after attached to the garrison at Fort Orange. He remained in Fort Orange until after the surrender in 1664: removed to New York, 1693, admitted a freeman, 1698. He married, 1658 or 1660, Anna, daughter of Lambert and Annatie Van Valkenberg, who were residents of New Amsterdam, 1644, af- terwards settled in Albany.


(II) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah (1) and Anna (Van Valkenberg) Sickles, was born in Albany in 1670, died January 20, 1729. In 1693 he went to Harlem where he bought land of his father-in-law. He married (first) August 23, 1693, Maria, daughter of Jan Hendricks and Annatje ( Bastiens) Bre- voort : married (second) July 19, 1717. Mynt- je Dyckman. Sons: Johannes, Jacobus, Zach- ariah, Hendrick, Geraldus, William, Cornelis and Robert.


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(VI) Rev. Jacob Sickles, descendant of Zachariah Sickles, was born April 25, 1781. He lived in Tappan, Rockland county, New York. He married Elsie Bronck, November 27, 1799 (see Bronck VI).


(VII) Ann, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Elsie (Bronck) Sickles, was born April 23, 1806, at Kinderhook, Columbia county, New York, died November 30, 1872. She mar- ried Matthias Lusk ( see Lusk III ). Children : Jacob S., died in childhood : Elizabeth C., Anna L., Sarah C., deceased.


STORY The Story family of Catskill, New York, are of Scotch de- scent. The founder of the fam- ily in Greene county, Francis Story, was born in Birgham on the river Tweed, Scotland, near Berwick, in the year 1804, died in Cat- skill, New York, June 26, 1891. Leaving his native land he began a long search for a promising location. He located successively in Edinburg, London, Quebec, Montreal, Can- ada and New York City, finally at Catskill, where he engaged in merchant tailoring. He continued in active business for twenty or thirty years, then retired from business to an estate near the village where he lived the quiet life of a gentleman farmer until his death. He was a man of quiet habits and cultured tastes, having had the advantages of a good education. He married, October 27, 1832, Jane Overbagh, born January 27, 1813, died October 16, 1888, daughter of Frederick Overbagh, of Catskill. Children: Anna, born 1833, married Henry Wynkoop, of Catskill ; Robert F., of further mention : Frederick, 1837; John, 1839: James, 1841 ; Margaret M., 1843, died 1868; Martha T., married Sanford D. Plank, of Catskill; Francis, 1845, died 1906 married Mary Lucinda Van Orden : Isabella, married Charles H. Person, died 1898; Jacob, deceased. Jane (Overbagh ) Story was a de- scendant of Johann Pieter Overbagh, who came to this country in 1722, hought land in the second division of the Loveridge Patent. and died in 1734. He had six children, name- ly: Johannes, Johann Jury, Marytje, Cath- arine, Annatje, Elizabeth. He devised his land to his two sons. Johann Jury married Catha- rine, daughter of Paulis Smith : four children : i. Catharine, married William Dewitt: ii. Pe- ter, married Catharine Fiero; iii. John, mar- ried Hannah Conves and their children were: a. Frederick, born March 22, 1784, died June 11, 1861, married (first) Catherine Mallory, died June 5, 1809, (second) Hannah, daugh- ter of Abraham and Rachel (Freligh) Over- bagh, she was born November 7, 1791, died April 6, 1864; child of second wife, Jane,


aforementioned as the wife af Franch Story ; b. Jacob: c. William : d. Reberca: @ Hannah ; f. Rachel. iv. Jeremiah, married Smar Van Orden.


(II ) Robert F., son of Francis Anl Jane (Overbagh ) Story, was born at Catskill, New York, June 30, 1835. Ile was educated in private schools and at Fergusonville Acad- emy, Delaware county, New York. He began farming immediately after leaving school and followed that business all his active life. In 1906 he retired from the farm to a pleasant home in Catskill : here he now ( 1911 ) resides. He is vice-president of the Catskill Traction Company and is the oldest director in the Catskill National Bank ; was an original di- rector and stockholder in the Catskill Cement Company ; was member of the school board six years. He is an attendant of the Re- formed church, and in politics a Republican. He married, November 25, 1857, Esther Du Bois, born August 28, 1833, died August 16, 1891, daughter of Joel and Sally Jane ( Hun- ter) Du Bois, a descendant of Louis Du Bois, a Huguenot, born in the province of Artois near the ancient city of Lille. He was one of the twelve original proprietors of New Paltz, where he lived until 1689 then removed to Kingston where he died in 1695. Of the children of Robert F. and Esther (DuBois) Story, two died in infancy, and the surviving children are: 1. Jane, horn October 18, 1858, married Charles A. Elliot, of Catskill : their son, Edsall DuBois Elliot, is a practicing phy- sician. 2. Sarah (Sally), born December 7, 1862. 3. Mary B., born November 20, 1865. 4. John H., born October 2. 1867. married Grace Donohue. 5. Martha T., born Febru- ary 13, 1870, married Fred W. Cussler, of Catskill.


The DuBois and Overbagh families of Cat- skill are intimately connected with the early history of the village and town. The farm of Johann Jury Overbagh was in the form of an oblong, and near the center he built a stone house twenty feet square. During the revolution the cottage was a place of muster for the minute-mon of the district andl a ref- uge for their fantilies when it was rumored that the Mohawks were about. The tomb- stone of John Pieter Overbagh, a narrow slab of gray flagstone, bears the inscription "1734. September 14, J.P.O.B." It is the old- est tombstone in Catskill. (The DuBois fam- ily is further considered in this work. )


The Penfieldl family of Con- PENFIELD necticut were early settlers of ancient Farmington, which then contained the territory now known


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by many names. The first settlers in the sec- tion were emigrants from Boston, Newtown and Roxbury, New York. Settlement was begun in 1640 in Meriden, Wallingford, New Britain and other towns of the section. The history of the Penfields of Catskill, New York, begins with Samuel Penfield, who in 1675 married Mary Lewis. Whether he was the emigrant or the son of the emigrant does not appear. His wife, Mary (Lewis) Pen- field, was born in 1652. Children: Samuel, of further mention; May, born 1678; John, 1680; Sarah, 1683: Isaac, 1685; Hannah, 1687: Jonathan, 1689; Rebecca, 1692; Abi- gail, twin of Rebecca: Benjamin, 1696.


(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Mary (Lewis) Penfield, was born 1676, died at Wallingford. Connecticut, 1714. He was a resident of that town for several years and left a widow and four children : Samuel, born 1700; Peter, of further mention ; Abigail, 1704: Nathaniel, 1706.


(III) Peter, son of Samuel (2) Penfield. was born 1702. He removed to Fairfield, Connecticut. He married, in 1730, Mary Al- len, born 1708. They had an only son, Sam- tel.


(IV) Samuel (3), son of Peter and Mary (Allen ) Penfield, was born 1734, died April 2, 1811, at Fairfield, Connecticut. He served in the French and Indian war and in the rev- olution. He was lieutenant of Captain Thorp's company. Colonel Whiting's regi- ment, Fourth Militia. at Peekskill, in Octo- ber, 1777 : marched October 5, discharged Oc- tober 30. He married, September 2, 1757, Elizabeth Lewis.


(V) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) and Elizabeth (Lewis) Penfield, was born in 1763, died 1791. He married Hannah Hoyt, born 1766, died 1825.


(VI) Samuel (5), son of Samuel (4) and Hannah (Hoyt) Penfield, was born in 1790, died at Catskill, New York, 1851. He mar- ried, April 6, 1812, Ximena Taylor, born 1794, died 1856.


(VII) Samuel (6), son of Samuel (5) and Ximena (Taylor) Penfield, was born in Cat- skill, New York, 1823, died there in 1894. He married, April 19, 1872, Harriet T .. daughter of Danforth K. and Almira ( Blanchard) Ol- ney. ( see Olney VIII). Two children.


(VIII) George, only son of Samuel (6) and Harriet T. (Olney ) Penfield, was born in Catskill, New York, 1872. He was early educated in the public school; entered Yale University, whence he was graduated in the class of 1894. He is by profession a civil engineer.


(VIII) Ellen, only daughter of Samuel


(6) and Harriet T. (Olney) Penfield, was born in Catskill, New York. She married Pierre Jennings, of Catskill, and has two chil- dren : Frances E., and Penfield S. Jennings.


(The Olney Line).


Mrs. Harriet T. (Olney) Penfield de- scends from Thomas Olney, born in St. Al- bans, Hereford county, England, 1600, came to America in 1635 on the ship "Planter"; settled first in Boston, Massachusetts, later in Providence, Rhode Island. He was thirty-five years of age at the time of his coming, and was accompanied by his wife, Mary, aged thirty years. He brought with him a certifi- cate from the minister of St. Albans to show the authorities at London, lest they delay his departure. October 8, 1638, he was one of the twelve persons to whom Roger Williams deeded land that he had bought of the In- dian Sachems, Cononicus and Miantonomo. The same year he was elected treasurer of the town. In 1639 one of the twelve original members of "The First Baptist Church." July 27, 1640, signed with thirty-eight others in an agreement for a form of government. Dur- ing the years 1649-53-54-55-56-64-65-66-67 he was assistant ; in 1656-58-59-61-63 he was commissioner : 1665-67-70-71 he was deputy ; in 1665-66-69-70-71-74-77-81 he was a mem- ber of the town council ; in 1669 he was town treasurer. His will was proved October 17, 1682. He married, in England, Mary Small, born 1605, died 1679. Children: I. Thomas, born 1632; town clerk of Providence, 1664- 65-66-67, and continuously from 1683 to 1715; he was an ordained minister of the Baptist church; six years assistant: thirty years a member of the town council; four- teen years deputy: he married Elizabeth Marsh, died 1722. 2. Epenetus, of further mention. 3. Nedediah, born August, 1637, died young. 4. Stephen, died 1658, unmar- ried. 5. James, died October, 1676, unmar- ried; he was one of those "who staid not away" in King Philip's war and so had a share in the disposition of the Indian captives whose services were sold for a number of years.


(II) Epenetus, son of Thomas and Mary (Small) Olney, was born in St. Albans, Here- ford county, England, 1634, died June 3, 1698. He was a year old when his parents brought him to America. He kept tavern at Providence. In 1666-76-84-86 he was dep- uty : 1695-96-97 he was a member of the town council. He married Mary, born 1648, died 1698, daughter of John and Sarah Whipple. Children: I. Mary, born January 13, 1668, died 1725; married, May 9, 1692, Nathaniel


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Waterman. 2. James, November 9, 1670, died October 6, 1744; married, August 31, 1702, Hallelujah Brown. 3. Sarah, September 10, 1672. 4. Epenetus (2), January 18, 1675, died September 18, 1740; married Mary Wil- liams. 5. John, of further mention. 6. Thomas, born May 18, 1686, died January 28. 1752 ; married, June 15, 1710, Patience Burlingham. 7. Lydia, January 26, 1688, died 1727, married Henry Harris.


(III) John, son of Epenetus and Mary (Whipple ) Olney, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 24, 1678, died No- vember 9, 1754. He was a blacksmith by trade. He married, August 11, 1699, Rachel Coggeshall, died June 24, 1760. Children : John, born May 27, 1701 ; William, February 22, 1706; Jeremiah, November 4, 1708; Free- love, November 10, 1711; Nebadiah, Febru- ary 10, 1715; Stephen, Abigail; Tabitha, I733: Jabez.


(IV) Jeremiah, son of John and Rachel (Coggeshall) Olney, was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, November 4, 1708, died 1765. He married, 1734, Susanna Brown.


(V) Ezekiel, son of Jeremiah and Susanna (Brown) Olney, was born in Eastford, Con- necticut, 1740, died 1826. He served in the revolutionary army with the rank of captain. He married Mary Warner.


(VI) Jeremiah (2), son of Ezekiel and Mary (Warner) Olney, was born in East- ford, Connecticut, 1775, died 1826. He mar- ried Abigail Cheney.


(VII) Danforth K., son of Jeremiah (2) and Abigail (Cheney) Olney, was born in Eastford, Connecticut, 1807, died in Catskill, New York, 1872. He was a leading lawyer of Catskill. He married, 1837, Almira Blanch- ard, born 1813, died 1846. Children : Ellen, born 1841; George, 1842; Harriet T., 1844; Elisha, 1855.


(VIII) Harriet T., daughter of Danforth K. and Almira (Blanchard) Olney, married, April 19, 1872, Samuel Penfield (see Pen- field VII).


(The Blanchard Line).


Almira (Blanchard) Olney, was a descend- ant of Thomas Blanchard, who came to Am- erica in 1639 on the ship "Jonathan"; settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he died. The line of descent is through his son, by his first wife, whom he married in England.


(II ) Samuel, son of Thomas Blanchard, was born in France in 1629, was brought to America by his parents in 1639, died in An- dover, Massachusetts, 1707. He married, 1654. Hannah Daggett, born 1646, died 1725. (III) John, son of Samuel and Hannah (Daggett) Blanchard, was born 1677, died


at Andover, 1750. Ile married, 1701. Mary Crosby, born 1680, died 1748.


(IV) Simeon, son of John and Mary (Crosby ) Blanchard, was born 1726, died 1796. He married, 1746, Rebecca Sheldon, born 1729, died 1814, at Billerica, Massachu- setts.


(\') Justus, son of Simcon and Rebecca (Sheldon) Blanchard, was born 1758, died 1831, at Catskill, New York. At the age of seventeen he joined the patriots on the alarm at Lexington, fought with them that memor- able day and later at Bunker Hill. He was captured by the British and confined in the old "Sugar House" on Liberty street, New York City. On his release he again joined the patriot army. He was with Washington's army at Valley Forge, and in their subse- quent marches and victories. He married Chloe Marshall, born 1767, died 1811.


(VI) Joseph, son of Justus and Chloe (Marshall) Blanchard, was born in 1788, died 1850. He married Mary Woodruff, born 1792, died 1832.


(VII) Almira, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Woodruff) Blanchard, was born 1813, died 1846. She married, 1837, Danforth K. Olney.


(VIII) Harriet T., daughter of Danforth K. and Almira (Blanchard) Olney, married Samuel Penfield.


It has been transmitted from FANNING one generation to another that in the Fanning family their ancestor, Edmund Fanning, escaped from Dublin in 1641, at the time of the great rebellion, and after eleven years of wandering and uncertainty he found a resting place in that part of New London, Connecticut, now called Groton, in the year 1652. On the town records his name is not mentioned until ten years later, but it is then in such a way that denotes previous residence. In the inventory of goods of Richard Poole, April 25. 1682, one article is "two cows and one steere now with Edmon ffanning." After this he had a grant of land and is propounded to be made a freeman in Stonington. llis estate was dis- tributed to his widow and four sons, Ed- mund, John, Thomas and William. . \ de- scendant, Captain Edmund Fanning, of Ston- ington. Connecticut, in 1797-98-99 made a voyage for scals in the ship "Betsey." He discovered several islands near the Equator not before laid down on any chart. They are known as Fannings Islands. Nathaniel Fanning, a brother of the discoverer, was an officer in the ship commanded by Paul Jones in his famous naval battles and by his gallant.


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daring contributed to the brilliant result. He was stationed in the maintop of the Ameri- can ship and led his men upon the interlocked yards to the English ship's top which was cleared by the well-directed fire from his men. He died in Charleston, South Carolina, Sep- tember 30, 1805.


(II) Thomas, son of Edmund Fanning, was born in England. He married Elizabeth Capron, born in England, and settled at Gro- ton, Connecticut.


(III) Walter, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Capron) Fanning, was born in Groton, Con- necticut. Died April 19, 1820, at Gilboa, Schoharie county, New York. He enlisted as a private, May 9, 1775, in Captain Waterman Cliff's sixth company in Colonel Samuel Par- son's sixth Connecticut regiment of New Lon- don, Hartford and Middlesex Volunteers. He married, at Preston, Connecticut, November 6, 1771, Grace Benjamin, who died July 2, 1832. They had thirteen children among whom was Benjamin.


(IV) Benjamin, son of Walter and Grace (Benjamin) Fanning, was born in Preston, Connecticut, August 30, 1776, died at Gilboa, Schoharie county, New York, 1854. He was a well-to-do farmer. He married Christina Dies.


(V) Nelson, son of Benjamin and Chris- tina (Dies) Fanning, was born in Gilboa, Schoharie county, New York, February 14, 1808, died in Catskill, New York, February 28, 1896. The following obituary notice from his brethren of the profession is inserted in full: "It is scarcely five months since this So- ciety was called upon to mourn the death of Dr. Nelson Fanning, Senior, of Catskill, New York, whose death at an advanced age re- moves from this Society its oldest practition- er ; from his many patients a warm friend and physician ; from the county a reputable and upright citizen, and from his family a kind and most indulgent father. His burial was marked by a large attendance of his friends and patients who thus offered a last tribute of respect to the memory of a friend and of sympathy with the family in their bereave- ment.


"Dr. Nelson Fanning was born at Bristol (now Gilboa), February 14, 1808. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Gaius Halsey of Kortright, Delaware county, New York, and graduated from the Berkshire Medical College in 1830. He began the prac- tice of his profession at Broome (now Cones- ville), and in 1837 moved to Gilboa. On the 25th of September, 1861, he went as surgeon with the 134th New York Volunteer Infantry to the front, and was present in many en-


gagements. He was also Brigade Surgeon of the 11th Army Corps, his commission dat- ing from July 23, 1862, under General Si- gel, occupying the Chancellorsville church as hospital headquarters during the battle of Chancellorsville. He returned home from the war on account of ill health during the sum- mer of 1863, his discharge dating, May 22, 1863. November 1, 1863, he moved to Cat- skill in which place he lived and practiced steadily until he died, never having been known to take a vacation.


"He became a member of the Greene coun- ty Medical Society in 1864, was its vice-presi- dent in 1867, and its president in 1867 and during 1868. He was elected to permanent membership in the New York State Medical Society in 1871 and was an Honorary mem- ber of the same at the time of his death. He also served as supervisor for the town of Cat- skill and was coroner, by appointment of the Governor for the county of Greene in 1875. He died in Catskill, February 28, 1896, at the ripe age of eighty-eight years and four- teen days, being the oldest practicing physic- ian in the county, if not in the state.


"The funeral took place at Catskill March 2, 1896 from Christ's Presbyterian church, Reverend C. G. Hazzard, pastor of the church, officiating. In addition to the tribute offered by Mr. Hazzard, Reverend G. A. Howard, D. D., former pastor of Christ's Church, wrote beautiful letters of condolence to the family, he being at Washington at the time, and Reverend E. Van Slyke, D.D., of the Reformed Dutch church of Catskill assisted at the services and spoke feelingly of his many good qualities as physician, friend and citizen.




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