Landmarks of Orleans County, New York, Part 95

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1084

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Waterman, John Hancock, a great-nephew of the famous signer of the Declaration of American Independence, was a native of Cooperstown, N. Y., born February 15,

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1814, and was one of the twelve children of John and Susan Waterman. He was brought up on a farm, and in 1819 moved with his parents to Owasco, Cayuga county, and still later to Wayne county. When eleven years old our subject went to work, and from that time always made his own way in life. In Owasco, in 1839, Mr. Water- man married Mary Bevier Nimmons, by whom he had six children : Geraldine, now wife of Franklin D. Love, or Buffalo; James, of Barre; George M., of Albion; Justus D., of Albion; Kate M., of Albion; and Mary E., who died in infancy. In 1845 the family moved to Barre and occupied the farm, which Mr. Waterman still owns. The farm now comprises 200 acres, and is considered one of the best in the town. He began life with no help from his parents, but has built up a comfortable fortune. In politics he is a Republican.

Miller, John T., was born in the town of Barre, Orleans county, April 13, 1853, and followed farming until 1890, when he came into Medina and established his prosperous grocery business. In 1890 he married Rachel S. Gray, of Medina. Mr. Miller's father was John Miller, a native of England, who came to America in 1851, and his mother was Mary (Stanford) Miller.

Gilmore, George F., is a grandson of John Gilmore, who was born in Saratoga, and died in Parma in 1842, aged seventy-two. He settled in Parma in 1810. The father of our subject was John, born in Hadley, Saratoga county, April 21, 1800, and died in Carlton, March 9, 1879. The latter married Delina Sutton, a native of Pittsfield, Otsego county, born April 15, 1803, and their childred were: Estel, born April 17, 1825, died March 26, 1879; Berentha E., born March 19, 1827 ; Julia D., born July 3, 1829; Mary A., born January 21, 1832, died February 13, 1871 ; John W., born April 23, 1834 ; George F., born October 30, 1836; Rhoda D., born January 5, 1840, died February 6, 1891; Sarah L., born June 4, 1845, died December 29, 1893. The boyhood of George F. was spent upon the farm, and his education acquired in the public schools. He pur- chased the homestead farm of eighty acres, which he now owns, in 1877. He was for some time in Michigan, where he occupied the position of foreman in a sawmill at Saginaw, the output of the mill being 125,000 shingles daily, with about thirty men employed. This position he filled for twelve years. Mr. Gilmore is a member of the I. O. O. F., Buena Vista Lodge No. 182, Saginaw, Mich.

Luttenton, Joel H., is a grandson of Oliver, who was born in Herkimer county, and removed from there into Murray in 1822, and died in Carlton February 13, 1849, aged seventy-seven years. The father of Joel H. was Truman, born in the town of Salisbury, Herkimer county, in 1801 and died in Carlton, July 27, 1888. His wife was Sarah Eastman, born in the town of Bridgewater, Windsor county, Vt., in 1804, who died July 23, 1882. Her parents came to Murray in 1816, when she was twelve years of age. They were married in 1827, and lived in Murray, where Truman struck the first blow on the Erie Canal in Orleans county. Settled in Carlton in 1831, where he bought fifty acres of land in the wilderness, on which he afterward lived and died. Their chil- dren were as follows: Nathaniel, Augusta, Ruth A., Sarah J., Amanda M., May E., Truman N., Joel H., who was born in Carlton October 22, 1843, and Rosamond E. Joel H. married in Illinois, June 24, 1868, Frances M. Richey, born in Charlton, N. Y., June 23, 1846, daughter of James Richey, who was born in Saratoga county, and died in Michigan, January 19, 1880, aged eighty-five. He was a captain in the War of 1812, and married Elizabeth McLean, who died in Chicago in 1891, aged eighty-six. They were the parents of ten children. Mr. and Mrs Luttenton have had these children : Miles G., born June 24, 1869 ; Elvira J., born December 20, 1870, died in 1872, and Florence N., born June 28, 1872 ; who is now a teacher.

Stuckey, William, jr., was born September 18, 1847, in Devonshire, England, a son of William Stuckey, who came to America in 1851, and settled in Clarendon, where he engaged in farming. In 1865 he bought a farm a half mile east of the village, and here

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he died December 25, 1886. In 1831 he married Mary Parkhouse, and their children were: Mary A., Martha, Thirza, Rebecca, Emily, William, and Millia. Mary married David Wetherbee, of this town; Martha died unmarried ; Thirza married Joseph Turner of Clarendon; Rebecca married Ernest Shaw; Emily died unmarried ; Millia married Orange Lawrence; and William is unmarried and resides on the homestead, taking a lively interest in town affairs. Mrs. Stuckey was born July 6, 1800 and is still living, her mental faculties being unimpaired.

Gaylord, John, was born December 25, 1843, in Somersetshire, England, and is a son of William and Martha (Wakelee) Gaylord. In 1859 he went to South Africa, and for several years was in the British army. During the civil war he was orderly to the governor of Cape Town, and upon the Confederate cruiser Alabama dropping anchor in that port he was commissioned to bear a message to her commander to leave the harbor in two hours, or the ship would be blown up. In 1871 Mr. Gaylord came to America and first settled in the town of Barre where he lived till 1884, then removed to Claren- don, and bought the Guy Salisbury farm. Mr. Gaylord takes an active part in the politics of the town. In 1891, he was elected excise commissioner of the town on the No License ticket. He is a member of Holley Lodge I. O. O. F. In 1867 he married Mary Clark of Grahamstown, South Africa, and they have three children : Clara, Addie and Frances.

Warren Family, The. This family traces its ancestry back to the Pilgrims of the Mayflower. David, the first to settle in Orleans county, came from Tolland, Conn., in 1819, and took up a farm in Clarendon cne and a half miles southeast of Holley. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His children were: Palmer, who settled in Batavia ; Asaph and John, who died young ; Nathaniel, who first settled here and then in Bergen ; Martha, Rachel, and Emeline, who died young ; and James, who was born in 1817, and died in 1878. He was a farmer, and settled in Clarendon. He married Loduskie Woodmansee in 1850, and their children are: Wilbur, David, Fred, Le Vantia, Lina L., Charles, Ralph, and Grace. David Warren died in Clarendon in 1841.

Storms, George W., is a son of George Storms, who was born June 6, 1800, near Johnstown, a son of David Storms. George came to Bergen in 1818, and the same year moved to Clarendon and bought out a man by the name of Parker, later took up eighty acres a little northeast, and in 1824 built the house now occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Emily Wetherbee. In 1826 he took up forty acres more, and built the house on the opposite side of the road, and here spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1879. In politics he was a Whig, and later a Republican, and was one of the prominent men of his town. His wife was Eliza Stearns, and their children were: Willard, who married Temperance North, and resides in Holley ; Sophronia, who married Daniel W. Mitchel; Emily, who married Charles Wetherbee; Ellen, who married Horace Green ; and George W., who, with the exception of a year spent west, has always resided in Clarendon. He is a farmer, and for many years dealt in agricultural implements. He has been a member of Holley Baptist church for over thirty years. In 1852 he married Phoebe Humphrey, of Clarendon.

Botsford, B. H., is of New England descent, his father and mother being natives of Vermont and Connecticut. The father, Ephraim Bennett Botsford, was born in Sharon, Conn., and died in Arcade, Wyoming county, in 1858, aged seventy-four years, and the mother was born in Vermont and died in Arcade in 1855, aged sixty-six, her maiden name being Ruth Hatch. The children of Ephraim and Ruth (Hatch) Botsford were as follows: Alva H., born in Chateaugay, Franklin county, in March, 1810, and died at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1879; Osro D., born in Franklin county in 1812, and died in Iowa in 1884, married Abigail Hall, who died in Iowa in 1886; Lois and Louisa, (twins) born in Franklin county in 1815, Louisa died at the age of three years, Lois married Charles Hatch, and died in Michigan in 1892; Dalina, was born in Franklin

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county in 1817, and married Samuel Lovel ; Barnabus H. (our subject), born in Arcade, Wyoming county, in March, 1820; A. Bates, born in Arcade in 1823, and resides in Grand Rapids, Mich .; Merit, born in Arcade in 1829, and died in Michigan. Ephraim B. Botsford, the father, was a tanner, currier and shoemaker through life. Barnabus H. was educated in the common schools of Arcade, after which he learned the trade of tanner and currier, and the shoemaking business of his father at the age of eighteen, and followed the business of shoemaking to the present time, in the village of Gaines. He has been a Republican since the party was formed in 1856, and has served as town clerk of Gaines nine terms. Mr. Botsford, in 1844 married Elmira Truchel, who died in 1849. They had one son, Albert W., now residing in Tennessee, is married and had four children, three living. In 1850 Mr. Botsford married his second wife, Mary C. Bacon, born in 1813.

Chadwick, Thomas, was born in 1856 in Yorkshire, England, and is a son of Samuel and Martha (Lund) Chadwick. Thomas Chadwick came to America in 1883 and settled in Albion where he was engaged in the quarries. In 1885 he was a partner with Thomas and Allen Chadwick in the quarries. He then purchased lands west of Hinds- burg on the canal and opened a quarry and has since been engaged in business there. He married in 1876 Sarah Knowles, and their children are: Lydia, Ethel, Martha, Jennie M., Ada, Albert, and Fred.

Briggs, Phineas, a native of Massachusetts, came at an early date to Canastota, where he married Rachel Van Camp, and in 1831, they settled at Rich's Corners. Their chil- dren were : George Nelson, William Henry Harrison, Marion, Mary, Joseph, Fidelia, Sarah, and Hersey. Phineas Briggs died in 1861, at the age of sixty-four. His wife died aged eighty-five. Mr. Briggs took an interest in political affairs though he never cared for office. He was a great reader of the Bible, a ready and fluent talker, and was one of the founders of the Baptist church at Albion, though he died a Universalist. George Nelson Briggs was born July 4, 1812, and his wife, Jane Hoag, was born in 1822. Their children were: Nelson George, born 1842, died 1863; Mary, born May 12, 1843, married Orrin Osborn ; Alvinza M. ; Horace, who died in infancy ; Emory B., born April 14, 1850, now in Nevada; Ida, born May 12, 1855, widow of George Webb. George N. Briggs was a farmer, having ninety-four acres of land, and accumulated a fair property. Like his father, he was a strong Whig and Republican, and a great reader. He died September 16, 1861, and his wife August 8, 1869. Alvinza M. Briggs was born March 25, 1845, and in October, 1867, married Sophia Puzey, of Barry. They had one child, who died in infancy. In 1870, Mr. Briggs engaged in business in Albion, and, though having been out of business for a year or two, has almost continuously been engaged at the county seat in connection with mercantile interests. His store, one of the best in the village, was erected in 1890.

Cary, John, was a pioneer of Kendall, having come to that town in 1817, from Oneida county bringing his family. His children were: Susan, who married Andrew Stang- land, and died in Indiana; Bela, who died in Illinois; Richard, who died in Hamlin, Monroe county ; James, who died in Illinois; Benjamin, who died in Michigan ; John, now living in Chicago; Isophena, who married first a Mr. Edwards and afterwards Mr. Hakes; Ozro, who died in Albion; Cicero, now in Minnesota; Canute, who died in Hamlin and was a clergyman of the Methodist church twenty-five years; Ira B., of Clarkson : Alexander and Leander (twins), the latter of whom died at Grand Rapids, Mich. John Cary cleared the farm on which he lived. From Holley to Kendall, he found his road by marked trees, at that time there being only one house on the lake shore. His first dwelling was a log cabin. His family came with an ox team to Holley, thence were conducted to their wilderness home by a Mr. Hubbard. John Cary built up a substantial property, and has one of the best farms in the county. For twenty-five years he was connected with the Methodist church, of which he was a trustee. He

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died December, 10, 1863, and his wife in June, 1866. Alexander Cary, was born in Kendall, November 7, 1830, and lived on the old home farm until he was fifty years old. He was a farmer until he came to Albion, in 1881. In April, 1855. he married Sarah A., daughter of Russell Potter, of Carlton, by whom he had five children : Lillie, deceased ; Jennie A., wife of Anson Hutton; Nellie I., wife of Charles T. Kerry, of Reed City, Mich .; Lydia E., wife of E. D. Hickox, of Gloversville, and Ira B., who died in childhood. Since his residence in Albion he has become connected with the Presbyterian church, and is now serving his third term as one of its deacons. He is a Republican, was elected assessor in 1891, and again in 1894.

Whittleton, T. Edwin, is a grandson of Thomas, who was born in England, and died in 1876, aged sixty-four years. Subject's father was George Whittleton, born in England, June 29, 1835, and died in Carlton April 11, 1894. He emigrated to this country when eighteen years of age and settled at Medina, N. Y., where he remained four years, and at which time he married Mary A. Stockwell, born in Lyndonville, N. Y., December 10, 1838. They moved to Racine, Wis., where they remained two years, then returned to Ridgeway and remained one year. He purchased a farm at Oak Orchard of sixty acres, where he lived three years; then sold out and purchased the farm where our subject now resides. The farm now contains 128 acres. They had four children : Frank, born in Grant county, Wis., February 5, 1857 ; George, born in Wisconsin February 12, 1858; T. Edwin, our subject, born in Medina, September 4, 1860; and Phoebe, born in Ridgeway, N. Y., June 21, 1864, died September 26, 1889. Our subject was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming. He married at Carlton, January 11, 1881, Libbie E. Groat, born in Jamesville, Onondaga county, N. Y., May 1, 1860, and they had one son, Floyd C., born October 27, 1881, and died May 25, 1884. Frank L. Whittleton married Laura E. Baker, and has two children, Mary A., born March 12, 1883; Myron B., born September 12, 1885. George Whittleton mar- ried Emma C. Handy, and they have three children : Earl E., born May 30, 1881; Daisy E., born January 11, 1883, and Harold Ray, born February 28, 1892. Phoebe Whittleton, married Walter S. Shackelford, and they had two children : Albertie, born June 13, 1885 ; and Ora G., born February 29, 1887, died June 26, 1889.

Church, Hon. George B., is the only son of Hon. Sanford E. Church (see Bench and Bar), and was born July 23, 1842, in Albion. He had the benefit of the best instructors in his education. He first attended the Albion Academy, and after several terms there he became a pupil at the famous private school of D. Reed, at Geneva, still later enter- ing the Geneva Wesleyan Seminary, where he remained over a year. He then took a course of instruction in the Buffalo Business College, where he finished his education. In 1865 at the age of twenty-three he accepted a position in New York city as book- keeper in the Department of Public Works, which position he successfully filled for over two years, leaving his desk to fill a more responsible place. In the winter of 1870 he was appointed deputy superintendent of insurance for the State, which office he acceptably filled until May 13, 1872, when, until November 22, of the same year, he was acting superintendent of the department. January 1, 1890, Mr. Church was appointed Deputy State Treasurer by Hon. Elliott Danforth, State treasurer, which position he held with marked ability until the retirement of the State ticket in 1894. In 1866, he married Florence, daughter of Orson Tousley, of Albion. She was born December 5, 1841. Her mother's maiden name was Cook. Her father moved to Claren- don with his parents when young, and in 1847 he bought the farm where our subject now lives. He was a canal and railroad contractor, and was identified with many of the leading events of his county. He died in 1863, aged sixty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Church have had one son, now twenty-six years of age, who, after finishing his education in the academic lines, studied for the bar, and is now a highly esteemed young lawyer in his native village.

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Posson, Edward, was born in Schoharie county, August 2, 1841. He was educated in Genesee College, came to Ridgeway and followed farming some time, then studied law in the office of Judge Childs three years and was admitted to the bar in 1874. In 1875 he was elected school commissioner and filled the position nine years. He was then a partner in the law firm of Pitts, Posson & Sherwood for six years. In 1879 was again elected school commissioner for three years, since which time he has been practicing law by himself. He was president of the village of Medina in 1876, 1880, 1881 and 1882, and president of the Board of Education many years. In 1862 Mr. Posson married Helen Noble, who died in 1863. In 1864 he married Samantha A. Williams, and they have three children: Neal F., Myra K., and Verna.

Bidwell, Daniel H., was born at Elba, Genesee county, April 23, 1852, and is a son of Richard, who was a son of Eliphas. Eliphas came from Brunswick, N. Y., in 1835, and settled two miles east of Albion village on the canal, where he purchased 130 acres of land and engaged in farming. He was a wagon maker by trade and before coming to Orleans county followed that business. He married Elizabeth Dubois, and their children were as follows: Charity, who married Richard Rhodes; Cyrus, who married Jerusha Hawley and settled in Albion; Richard, of Murray ; Eliphas, a farmer in Ken- dall; Chester (deceased); Catherine, who married Stephen Webster; Phoebe, who married George Kingsley ; Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Root; Henry, a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, who married Mary Scofield and resides in Murray ; Abraham, who married Mary Root and died at Albion. Richard Bidwell was born May 4, 1817, in Rensselaer county, and has always been a farmer. He came to Albion with his parents and resided there until 1852 when he settled in Kendall, and in 1865 removed to Murray, purchasing the Baker farm on the Ridge road, west of Sandy Creek, where with the exception of ten years spent in Albion, he has since resided. In 1848 he mar- ried Rebecca Palmer, and they had one son, Daniel H. Mrs. Bidwell died in 1872, and in 1874 Mr. Bidwell married Caroline Ballard. Daniel H. Bidwell is a farmer. In 1872 he married Jane Spalding, daughter of Matthew Spaulding of Murray, and their children are : Bert D., Arthur H., Florence D., Earl R., Roy F., and Clara J. Ephraim Spaul- ding was the first of the family to settle in Orleans county. He came from Monroe county to Murray in 1828, and took up a farm on the Ridge road, west of Sandy Creek, and cleared it. His children were: Erastus, Ephraim, Oliver, Lyman, Edwin, Florilla, Abigail, Lydia J., and Mathew. Of these, Edwin and Mathew were all that settled in Orleans county. Edwin was a farmer and died in Kendall. Mathew settled on the old homestead and was always a farmer. He married Eliza Bain, and to them were born these children: Jane, who married Daniel H. Bidwell, of Murray, and Alice, who lived unmarried.

Starkweather, Arthur, is descended from Seth, his grandfather, who was born in Saratoga county and died in 1855 at Gaines, aged eighty years. Seth Starkweather settled in Gaines in 1830. The father of Arthur was John, born March 11, 1806, in Saratoga county, and died in Gaines in 1856, and his mother was Alzina Taylor, born in Saratoga county in 1809 and died in September, 1891. The children of John and Alzina Starkweather were as follows: George, born in Gaines in 1831, married Eunice Castle, born in 1834, and died February 22, 1894; Amanda J., born in Gaines in 1833 and died November, 1853; Arthur T., born in Gaines in December 1835; Marion E., born in Gaines in 1837, and died in 1869 ; John, born in Gaines in 1839, married Anna - resides in Brooklyn, and has one child (Fredia); Ray D., born in Gaines in 1841, and died in 1869 ; Harriet, born at. Gaines in 1843, died in 1869; Viola A., born in Gaines in 1845, married John Green, and resides on Long Island ; Seth E., born in Gaines, June, 1853, married Sarah J. Johnson, and they have six children : Ray, Mary (deceased), George, Fred, John, Frank, and Sarah. Arthur Starkweather received his education from district schools at Long Ridge, after which he worked by the month on a farm. He then worked as steersman on the Erie Canal for two years, when he

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bought a boat and ran it for eighteen years, and finally bought a farm in Gaines, known as the Shelley farm, where he has since resided. He has served as excise commissioner for twelve years and as assessor two terms. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., Danold's Lodge, Eagle Harbor, No. 224. January 1, 1863, Mr. Starkweather was mar- ried to Amanda Shelley, born May 17, 1835. Her father, Nathan Shelley, was born in Hartford, Washington county, March 17, 1798, and died September 23, 1879. He settled in the town of Gaines with his parents in 1812, first locating on the farm now owned by John Ferris, and then moved to West Gaines on farm now owned by Fred Chaver on the Ridge road. It was at his house that the first dance in the town of Gaines was held. They commenced dancing at three o'clock in the afternoon as was then the custom, and the only one living who attended that party, is Miss Laura Shelley of Eagle Harbor. Mr. Shelley married Dorcas Tallman May 21, 1820, and died in Gaines, September 23, 1879. She was born in Thurman's Patent, Washington county, August 4, 1795, and died in Gaines March 15, 1879. The children of Nathan and Dorcas Shelley were : James Miller, born February 7, 1822; Diana Julia, born July 24, 1823; William Barnum, born March 17, 1825; Albert Nelson, born September 19, 1826; Ephraim Sanford, born July 15, 1828; Nathan Alonzo, born July 9, 1830; Charles Wesley, born December 24, 1832; Amanda Melvina, born May 17, 1835. Mr. Shelley resided on the farm on which he located in December, 1821, until his death. Arthur T. and Amanda (Shelley) Starkweather are the parents of one child, William Shelley, born October 1, 1875. When Nathan Shelley moved on his farm in 1821, he cut down two trees to make a site for the house which he built. This frame house is still standing.

Hitchcock, Daniel, was born in Columbia county, February 17, 1837. He taught school several terms before engaging in the railway business. He came to Knowles- ville in 1863, and has been station agent here ever since. In 1860 he married Mary M. Lewis, who died in 1877, leaving two sons and two daughters. In 1879 Mr. Hitchcock married Mrs. Ella S. Reed. His father was Julius V. Hitchcock, and his mother, Delia Hilt. Julius V. was a schoolmate and life friend of Samuel J. Tilden, and the Hitch- cock family have been in America since the days of the Pilgrims.

Fuller, Reuben E., is a grandson of Capt. John Fuller, who died in Carlton in 1817. Reuben, son of John, was born in Pennsylvania May 7, 1800, and died May 13, 1891. He came to Carlton with his parents and settled in 1810 on the farm now owned by his son, our subject. The children of Capt. John Fuller and his wife, Amy Shaw, were : John, Stephen, Reuben, George, Thomas, Polly, Lorinda and Sally. The children of Reuben, sr., and his wife, Fanny Morehouse, were: Norman, born in 1826; Harvey, born in 1828, died in 1833; Fanny M., born in 1830; Reuben E., our subject, born August 3, 1832; Joanna, born in 1834; Susan P., born in 1838, died in 1851; George S., born in 1841 ; Harriet E., born in 1843, died in 1847 ; and Lewis D., born in 1845. Mrs. Fanny Morehouse was born in Connecticut in 1804 and died in 1856. Reuben E. was educated in the common schools of Carlton, and attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. He was given fifty acres of land by his father, and to this he has added until his place now comprises 108 acres. He is a member of the I. O. G. T., Kuckville Lodge No. 374, and also a member of the A. O. U. W. of Waterport, No. 156. Septem- ber 5, 1854, he married Delilah Williams, born in Carlton January 14, 1838, and died August 19, 1856. She left one child, Perry E., born August 17, 1856, who died December 16, 1860. Mr. Fuller married second, Celia Fuller, born November 4, 1834, and they have had seven children : Lester S., born February 19, 1858, died December 29, 1862; Hattie D., born September 21, 1860, married Zachary Thompson, and has four children : Alvah A., born December 4, 1863, married Sadie E. Rice; Vernon E., born October 14, 1867, married Susie M. Eckler ; Gertie A., born August 24, 1870, married James H. Smith, and has one child: G. Ray, born February 13, 1872; and Myron C., born September 28, 1876, died March 7, 1887. Reuben Fuller, father of our

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Landmarks of Orleans County, New York, Part 95

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1084

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1084