Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 70

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


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Ile married. in Troy. June 5, 1901, Frances, daughter of William D. Hardy, born in Can- ada, now a retired merchant of Troy, and Ruth (Horton) Hardy. Children: Carolyn Hardy. horn December 31, 1904: Parker Hor- ton. April 8, 1908.


Martin Ingham Townsend, TOWNSEND son of Nathaniel and Cyn- thia (Marsh) Townsend, was born in Hancock, Massachusetts. Febru- ary 6, 1810, died in Troy. New York. March 8, 1903. At the age of six years he removed with his parents to Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he was reared on a farm and received' a practical education in the common schools, which was supplemented by attendance at Williams College, from which he was gradu- ated with degrees of A. B., 1883, A. M., 1836. He was admitted to the New York bar, May 13. 1836, and commenced the prac- tice of his profession in Troy, where for many


Martin Ingham Townsend, 5L. ().


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years he was associated in partnership with his brother, Randolph Wanton Townsend (A. B., Williams, 1836, A. M., 1839), which was both successful and remunerative. He was employed by the United States government to attend and report upon the trial of Cadet Whittaker in New York City, which contin- ued for two years, and which resulted in Whittaker's acquittal. He also acted for de- fense in the noted cases of Henrietta Robin- son, Andrus Hall, Whitbeck and George E. Gordon. He retired from practice in 1901. Martin I. Townsend received the honorary de- gree of LL. D. from his alma mater in 1866, and was a regent of the University of the State of New York, 1873-1903, a period of thirty years. He served as district attorney of Rensselaer county, New York, 1842-45; was a delegate from the state-at-large to the constitutional convention, 1867-68; a Repub- lican representative from New York in the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses, 1875- 79: United States district attorney for the northern district of New York, 1879-87, and a member of the constitutional commission of 1890, by appointment from Governor Hill. Until 1848 Mr. Townsend was an adherent of the principles of Democracy, but, influenced by the proceedings of the Democratic na- tional convention of that year at Buffalo, he became a strenuous opponent of the resolu- tions then passed upon slavery, and his home in Troy was raided on July 15, 1863. by an anti-draft mob.


Mr. Townsend married, in 1836. Louisa B. Kellog, of Williamstown, Massachusetts. who died in 1890. Their daughter married Professor H. B. Nason of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.


This family settled in VAN BROCKLIN the Mohawk Valley at a date prior to the revolution. The records of "New York Sol- diers in the Revolution" show many of the family to have been engaged in the struggle for independence. One of the number, Nicho- las, an enlisted member of Captain Jillis Fon- da's company of "Associated Exempts" was taken prisoner by the Indians and Tories. taken into the wilderness and was never heard of again. The region in which the family settled was the theatre of the operations of Brant and the Johnsons and the cruel, re- morseless Tories and Indians were only held in check by the determined bravery of the Mohawk settlers and patriots. The Van Brocklin family in the Mohawk Valley was founded by two brothers one of whom was Gilbert. There were four brothers that came


from Holland about the year 1730 with their sister Barbara. They were Gilbert, Malachi, Nicholas and Harpet. Two of the brothers never married and from the other two have sprung probably all the Van Brocklins of New York state.


(I) Gilbert Van Brocklin, immigrant an- cestor, came from Holland to America in 1730 and settled in what is now Montgomery county, New York. He married and had issue.


(II) Gilbert (2), son of Gilbert (1) Van Brocklin, was born in 1768, died April 15, 1849. He was a farmer of Montgomery county, a Whig, and a member of the Lui- theran church. He married Jemima


born 1783, died February 3, 1849. Children : I. Hannah, born 1806, died 1870; married Michael Stotter, born 1803, died 1880. 2. Matthias, of whom further. 3. John G., died May 9. 1852, aged thirty-four years : his son Jolin enlisted in the One Hundred and Fif- teenth Regiment, New York Volunteers, at the age of sixteen years, and was the first man killed in that regiment; he was orderly for Colonel Sammons and was instantly killed by a shell while in the performance of duty. 4. Margaret, died unmarried at the age of sixty- seven years.


(III) Matthias, eldest son of Gilbert (2) and Jemima Van Brocklin, was born in the town of Johnstown, then Tryon, now Fulton county, New York, January 1, 1813, at the locality known as Albany Bush, died at Am- sterdam, New York, August 28, 1889, and is buried in the family plot in Green Hill ceme- tery. He learned the carpenter's trade at which he worked for several years. In 1868 he began the manufacture of stockings in Am- sterdam, meeting with such success that in 1872 he enlarged his plant, added underwear to his line of manufacture, and admitted his son William to the firm. In 1873 Matthias withdrew as an active partner and formed a company called the American Hosiery Mills Company, which continued until September. 1876. At that time their mills were destroyed by fire and were never rebuilt. He was a strong Republican, and served as president of the Amsterdam village corporation the last year prior to its becoming a city. Ile was an active member and in the early years the chief supporter of the West Amsterdam Lutheran Church. He married, at Albany Bush, De- cember 27, 1836, Charlotte Stoller, born June 3. 1815, at Albany Bush, twelfth of the thir- teen children of Michael and Magdalene Stol- ler. Michael Stoller died May 9. 1853, aged eighty-one years. Magdalene died December 21, 1859. aged eighty-four years. Charlotte.


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( Stoller ) Van Brocklin is a resident of Am- sterdam, New York, retaining to a remarkable «legree her mental and physical activity, al- though in her ninety-sixth year. She is a lifelong member of the Lutheran church. Children : I. William Shields, of whom fur- ther. 2. John, born February 20, 1842; mar- ried Louise Revies, June 15, 1864; resides with mother in Amsterdam; has a daughter Clara, who married Wenans, of Roch- ester. 3. James, born July 6. 1844, died No- vember 11, 1909; married, October 20, 1868, Katherine Simpson, who survives him; chil- dren : Susan and Mrs. E. Watson Gardner. 4. Eli, born November 3, 1846: a glove and mit- ten manufacturer of Northville, Fulton county, New York, since 1898; previously a knit goods manufacturer from 1872; he is a Presbyterian although reared in the Lutheran church, and a Republican ; he served as vil- lage trustee for two terms, and since 1901 has been trustee of the board of education, having held the same office when residing in Amsterdam ; he married, April 14, 1869, Mary C. Mosher, born May 13, 1851 ; children : Matthias, horn January 6, 1871 ; Lottie, born November 14, 1873, married D. Newton, of Gloversville : Charles Gilbert, born 1878.


(IV) William Shields, eldest son of Mat- thias and Charlotte (Stoller) Van Brocklin, was born in Amsterdam, New York, Decem- ber 5. 1839. died Octoher 15. 1908. When twelve years of age he went to New York City, where he obtained a position as mes- senger boy in a bank. He was a lad of in- dustry and good habits, and was able to com- mand promotion and salary. For six years after leaving New York, he was connected with a lumber company in Troy, New York. Leaving Troy he became interested with his father in the manufacture of stockings and for twelve years was a manufacturer in Cats- kill, New York. Later, in Amsterdam, he was of Van Brocklin, Stover & Company, manufacturers of knit goods, a successful enterprise in which he was engaged until his death. He was a director of the First Na- tional Bank of America and held the same position in the Johnstown Bank. He was in- terested in many enterprises of his town, where he was held in high esteem. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, which he served as trustee. Mr. Van Brock- lin married, in Amsterdam, May 7, 1862, Mar- garet Kline, born in the same city, June 23, 1840 (see Kline IV). Children : I. Harry D., born July 1, 1876, died at the age of two years. 2. Frank V .. July 29, 1880 : was edu- cated in the common and high schools of Am- sterdam and Ithaca, New York; succeeded


at his father's death to the management of his large business interests and has proved a worthy successor.


(The Kline Line).


The question of the nationality of the Kline immigrant is not one that has yet been set- tled to the unanimous satisfaction of his de- scendants. But either Germany or Holland is believed to have been his native country. The best proof we have at hand that he was from Holland is the fact that in his will he provided that his large "Dutch Bible" should go to a certain son. As he referred to the Bible as being "Dutch" it forms a strong pre- sumption that he was a Hollander. This will was made only a few years before his death. William Kline, the emigrant ancestor above referred to, was born in 1736, died 1814. He emigrated to America when a young man, and located in New York City where for a time he followed his trade of journeyman baker, but in a few years established a busi- ness of his own in the same line. He was in the baking business in New York at the time of his marriage and for a few years thereafter, when he sold out and with his young wife set- tled in Montgomery county on land he pur- chased in what is now Amsterdam township, village of Aiken. Here he and his wife thereafter lived and died. This was after the revolutionary war. On the New York rolls of enlisted men in the revolution is the name of William Kline. As these rolls were printed from old and imperfect lists and spelling was often a matter of choice with the writer, it establishes as a fact beyond a doubt the tra- dition of the family that William served in the revolutionary war. (See New York in the Revolution, p. 69.) While conducting his bakery in New York, William Kline became acquainted with and married Mary O'Reagen, born in Ireland in 1740, died in Montgomery county, New York, August 28, 1827. Chil- dren: 1. James. 2. Adam. 3. William, born in 1775, died April 1, 1861 ; married and had issue ; his home was in Amsterdam. 4. John, born 1777, died December 1, 1885 ; he married and had issue; he is buried at Tribes Hill. 5. Joseph. 6. George, see forward.


(II) George, youngest son of William and Mary (O'Reagen) Kline, was born May 23, 1783, died September 29, 1857. He was a farmer at Aiken, Montgomery county, New York, where he died and is buried in the fam- ily plot. He and his family were members of the Lutheran church. He married, in 1803, Sarah Van Nest, born September 21, 1785, died December 22, 1851, daughter of Henry V'an Nest, born October, 1757, died June, 1832,


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and Mary (Ten Eyck) Van Nest, born No- vember 7, 1765, died March 2, 1832. Chil- dren of George and Sarah (Van Nest) Kline: 1. Maria, born January 23, 1804, dlied .August 28. 1884. 2. Hannah, De- cember 13. 1805, died December 3, 1857. 3. Jane, February 3. 1809. died January 27. 1803. 4. William, April 22, 1811, died February 14, 1841. 5. Henry V., of whom further. 6. Charity, June 8, 1815, died March 16, 1883; married, May 31, 1843, Jo- seph Clark May, born May 17, 1815, died January 3, 1893. 7. Catherine, March 6, 1818, died May 21, 1897. 8. John, March 8, 1820. ‹lied December 20, 1828. 9. Sarah Jane, August 25, 1825, died August 1, 1859.


( III) Henry V., son of George and Sarah (Van Nest) Kline, was born March 17, 1813. lied December 3. 1879. He married, in Am- sterdam, Maria, born May 17, 1814. died Jan- uary 7. 1849, daughter of Frederick and Han- nah (Lingenfelter) Moore, both of whom lived and died in Amsterdam township. Chil- dren: 1. Margaret, of whom further: 2. George, born February 3, 1842 : a veteran of the civil war : resides near Aiken, New York. 3. Sarah, wife of Stephen Quilhot, a manu- facturer of Amsterdam. By a later marriage to a sister of his first wife, Mr. Kline had a son. John M., now deceased.


( IV) Margaret, eldest child of Henry V. and Maria (Moore) Kline, was born in Am- sterdam, June 23, 1840. She was educated in her native town, and after her marriage to William S. Van Brocklin (see Van Brock- lin IV) was of material assistance to him in the development and management of his busi- ness. She was an unusually capable business woman and a devoted wife and mother. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and though nearing her three score and ten years is very much interested in the affairs and happenings of the present. She and her son, Frank V., reside in Amsterdam, New York.


John Milliman, of Kingston, MILLIMAN Rhode Island, died in that city in 1739. He married Anna Bryant, who died in 1741, leaving three children: 1. John, see forward. 2. Anna, born 1738: married Rev. William Bentley, a minister of the Baptist church. 3. Bryant, born 1740. died 1829: married Elizabeth Mitchell, and settled in Genesee, Livingston county. New York ; later removed to North Hoosick. He was a soldier of the revolution. (II) John (2), son of John ( 1) and Anna ( Bryant) Milliman, was born in Kingston, Rhode Island, March 13, 1736, died February


12, 1810. Ile was a farmor an ! a large land owner, owning eight parel. of land. incluid- ing the "State Line Ilouse," which enjoyed the unique distinction of resting on corner stones erected in two states, three counties and four towns, and was surrounded by six hundred acres of land. This property for which he paid eight thousand dollars at that early day was bought from Captain Mat- thews, who is supposed to have built the house. John Milliman later settled near Wattoomsac, Rensselaer county, New York. Ile was a private of the Albany county militia. Four- teenth Regiment (Land Bounty Rights) (see "New York in the Revolution," p. 235). Ilis son John, Jr., served in the Fourteenth Regi- ment, Albany county militia (see "New York in the Revolution," p. 127). He was a man of great influence in his community and of high character. He married .Anna Fowler, born January 20, 1740, died March 26, 1819. They were the parents of a large family.


(III) Captain Samuel Milliman, son of John (2) and Anna (Fowler) Milliman, was born near Wattoomsac. Rensselaer county, New York, in 1770, died January 16, 1863. He was a wealthy and influential citizen, very prominent in a quiet way, and like his father and his son Nathaniel a courtly gentleman of "ye olden style." He was commissioned cap- tain of horse by the governor of New York, March 22, 1797. holding this position until 1809, when he resigned. He married Sarah Niles, born May 17, 1775, died March 30, 1830, a descendant of Jolin Niles, of Brain- tree, Massachusetts, 1639.


( IV) Nathaniel, son of Captain Samuel and Sarah ( Niles) Milliman, was born on the homestead farm near Wattoomsac. Novem- ber 11, 1793. died February 18, 1872, at Cold Spring, near Baldwinsville. New York. He settled at Baldwinsville with his brother Sam- nel, who at this time sold the "State Line House," previously mentioned. He made the trip on horseback, with saddlebags filled with gold, and it is supposed that the brothers were accompanied by a Mr. Baldwin. On settling at Baldwinsville he purchased property, and at once assumed a leading part in town affairs. He was justice of the peace, and was execu- tor for many estates. Ile was much loved in the community, and highly respected. He married. April 6, 1813, Desire Clark, born February 26. 1794, died January 14, 1863, daughter of an old Hoosick Falls family. They had issue.


(\) Myron Clark, son of "Squire" Na- thaniel and Desire (Clark ) Milliman. was born at Baldwinsville, New York. April 12, 1829, died March 8, 1905. He became a pros-


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perous farmer, and inherited the courtly man- ners and kindly heart of his ancestors. He married, August 15, 1847, at Baldwinsville, Luania E. Tucker, born in that town, May 2, 1830, and now living at Syracuse, New York.


(VI) Nathaniel Niles, son of Myron Clark and Luania E. (Tucker) Milliman, was born in Baldwinsville, New York. December 28, 1850, and is now living practically a retired life at Valley Falls, New York. He was edu- cated at a private boarding school at Fulton, New York, and most of his life followed farming, in which he was deeply interested. In 1906 he was appointed postmaster at Val- ley Falls, and is still in office (1910). In 1888 he removed to Troy, where he engaged in mercantile life for about ten years, and then returned to Valley Falls, New York. He is a Republican in politics, and attends Bethel Church. He married, April 7, 1874, Mary Agnes Pierson, at Baldwinsville, her native town, and place of death. Children: I. My- ron Clark, see forward. 2. Roetta, married Albert Acker, a traveling salesman of Valley Falls, New York. 3. Louis Niles, born in Baldwinsville ; now an architect of Troy, New York. 4. Mary Park, married Irving Free- man, of Troy ; child, Eleanor.


(VII) Myron Clark (2), son of Nathaniel Niles and Mary Agnes ( Pierson) Milliman, was born in Baldwinsville, New York, Janu- ary II, 1875. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Troy, and later took the high school course under an instructor. He early became associated with the firm of Hall, Hart- well & Company, of Troy, New York, manu- facturers of shirts, collars and cuffs, and has always been connected with that firm until the present date (1910). He started in the stock room, and has passed through several promotions, and is now manager of the out- of-town factories, with a residence at Hoosick Falls. He is an active Republican, and a member of the Baptist church. He is a mem- ber of the Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, having been the past exalted ruler of the lat- ter order. He is president of the Hoosick Falls board of trade, and a member of the Hoosick and Country clubs. He married, April 10, 1901, Bessie Kendrick, of Troy, daughter of Arthur Thomas and Harriet A. (Kendrick ) Smith. Arthur Thomas Smith was born in Townsend, Vermont, August 7, 1855. Ile removed to Troy where he engaged in merchandising. He is active in Republican politics, and since 1904 has been city treas- urer. He for several years represented the third ward in the city council. He is junior warden of Christ Episcopal Church, Troy,


having been chosen in 1906. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Milliman: Marjorie Elizabeth, born in Hoosick Falls; Arthur Smith, born in Hoo- sick Falls, New York, February 23, 1905.


(The Kendrick Line).


Harriet A. (Kendrick) Smith, born in Hudson, New York, July 24, 1855, is a de- scendant of George Kendrick, born in Eng- land, 1612, died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1680. He was a grandson of William Ken- drick, of Shropshire, England, and his wife Marguerite Their son John, of Moore, England, married Elizabeth Hodge.


(I) George, son of John and Elizabeth (Hodge) Kendrick, and the American an- cestor, came to America during the Puritan emigration of 1632. He was of Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1633, and of Rehoboth, 1639. He was deputy in 1642-44.


(II) Abraham, son of George Kendrick, the emigrant, was born May 19, 1665, died in 1716.


(III) John, son of Abraham Kendrick, was born in 1700. He married and had a son William.


(IV) William, son of John Kendrick, was born in 1732. He married and had issue, among whom was David.


(V) David, son of William Kendrick, was born in 1771. He married Margaret Harring- ton.


(VI) Richard John, son of David and Mar- garet (Harrington) Kendrick, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1799, died 1861. He married, in 1826, Phoebe Bennett, born in Poughkeepsie, 1804, died there in 1845, daughter of Reuben and Phoebe Bennett. Reuben Bennett was born in England, emi- grated to America, enlisted in the revolution- ary army, and was wounded at the battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776.


(VII) John Richard, son of Richard John and Phoebe ( Bennett) Kendrick, was born April 7, 1829, died December 27, 1898. He was connected with the Troy office of the New York Central railroad most of his life. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, of Troy. He married Clarissa Keller, born June 24, 1836, now ( 1910) a resident of Troy.


(VIII) Harriet A., daughter of John Richard and Clarissa ( Keller) Kendrick, mar- ried Arthur Thomas Smith, and their only daughter, Bessie Kendrick Smith, married Myron Clark Milliman (see Milliman VII).


Jeremiah Lockwood, a de- LOCKWOOD scendant of Robert Lock- wood, of Watertown, Mas- sachusetts, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut,


Platt Votter


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and died in New York. The family is numer- ous, and from early days have been prominent in Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Connecti- cut. Savage says eleven Lockwoods were graduates of Yale prior to 1834. Jeremiah Lockwood located in Easton, Washington county, New York, where he purchased a farm on which he lived all his days and was buried. He married Lillis Beard. Children : I. Mary, married Joseph Beach, deceased, and has a son, Charles H. Beach, of Albany. 2. Maria, married Joseph Taylor, and has a son, Joseph Cornell Taylor. 3. Frank, died in 1909. 4. Nellie. 5. Duane, see forward.


( II ) Duane, son of Jeremiah and Lillis (Beard) Lockwood, was born in July, 1826, in Easton, New York, died 1880, in Troy, New York, where he is buried in Oakwood ceme- tery. He was educated in the Easton public school, and when a young man settled in Lan- singburg. He became associated with Jo- seph Fox in the baking business, and later was a cracker manufacturer on his own account. He was prominent in the public affairs of the town and served on the school board, as over- seer of the poor and in other public capacities. He was a Republican in politics, and a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church. He married Amelia Bradford, born 1822 in Lansingburg, New York, where she died at the age of sev- enty-three years. Children: I. Marie Emma, married James J. Child. 2. Charles D., see forward. 3. William A., of Lansingburg. Amelia (Bradford) Lockwood was the daugh- ter of John Bradford, born of a well-to-do family of the north of Ireland. They settled there about the time of the great siege of "Derry," and were generally farmers. John Bradford, who came to America, was the only son of his parents. He came to the United States at an early day, and was possessed of considerable means. When he located in Troy, New York, a part of the family fur- niture was a piano, then a great curiosity and which was the object of much interest. He died at age of forty-six, leaving children : I. Amelia, aforementioned as the wife of Du- ane Lockwood. 2. Martha, died young. 3. Jane, died in 1905, unmarried. 4. Margaret, married Joseph Sherman, born July 25, 1818, died at Half Moon, January 16, 1879: chil- dren: John, Sarah Jane, Alfred A., Emma Frances and Maggie.


(III) Charles Duane, son of Duane and Amelia (Bradford ) Lockwood, was born in Lansingburg, New York. He was educated in the public school, Academy of Lansingburg and Troy Business College. He then entered Albany Law School, from which he was grad- uated in 1887. After graduation he entered


the law office of R. D. Cook. Ile was admit- ted to the bar, and in 1800 formed a partner- ship, which was soon dissolved. Mr. Lock- wood maintained his legal offices in Troy, where he has a satisfactory clientage. He is a member of the state and county bar asso- ciations, and stands high in his profession. He is a Republican and has filled many of the political positions in the town and county, among which were comptroller and police jus- tice of Lansingburg. He is unmarried.


Platt Potter, jurist, was born


POTTER in Galway, New York, April 6, 1800, son of Restcome and Lucinda (Strong) Potter. After acquiring a rudimentary education in the common schools of his neighborhood, he entered the Schenectady Academy, graduating therefrom in 1820, after which he studied law under the preceptorship of Alonzo C. Paige. He was admitted to the bar in 1824, and practiced his profession in Minorville, New York, from 1824 to 1833, and in 1834 was engaged in practice in Schenectady with Alonzo C. Paige, his preceptor. Aside from the practice of his profession, he filled satisfactorily various offices of public trust, serving as master and examiner in chancery from 1828 to 1847; as member of the assembly from Montgomery and Hamilton counties in 1830; as district at- torney of Schenectady county from 1839 to 1847 ; as justice of the supreme court of New York and of the court of appeals from 1857 to 1865, re-elected in the latter named year, and in 1870 caused the arrest of Henry Ray, a member of the New York assembly, for ig- noring his court summons, and in consequence was himself tried for "high breach of privi- lege," but was vindicated on his own argu- ment.




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