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1891.' Mr. Robbins is prominent in Masonry, and has recently been appointed district deputy grandmaster for the 19th Masonic District. In 1876 he married Martha Whit- ney, a native of Mexico.
Russell, Charles E., was born in Herkimer county in 1829, moved to Richland when twelve years old, and from there to New Haven in 1884. In 1852 he married Melissa Slater, who was born December 16, 1832, in Richland and died in 1891, leaving a daughter, Nettie, now Mrs. Hollister Wallace. Mr. Russell married second Lucinda Slater (born June 11, 1835), widow of J. A. Russell, who was a cousin of Charles E. Our subject served about a year in Co. G, 184th Regiment, which was discharged at Richmond, Va. His father, Elisha, was in the war of 1812, and resided in Richland, where he died.
Read, Sala H., was born in Connecticut and when eleven years old moved to Scriba and from there a year later to New Haven. In 1851 he married Ann Millard, and they have had the following children: Edgar S., who died aged fourteen; Emma, who died aged seven; Hiram S., who died in infancy; Cora, now Mrs. Asa M. Dar- row; and Ida, now Mrs. W. W. Townsend. His parents, Sala B. and Lydia (Hamil- ton) Read, were natives of Connecticut and died at the subject's home in New Haven in 1842 and 1881, aged forty-three and eighty-six respectively. Mrs. Read is a daugh- ter of Carmi and Experience Eason, natives of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Her father was born in 1800 and is still living. Her mother died in 1877, aged seventy-three.
Rhoades, T. W., was born in South West Oswego, October 17, 1849. In 1875 he married Geraldine Cushman, and they have two children, Francis and Louisa. Mr. T. W. Rhoades's father was Francis C. Rhoades, a native of Massachusetts, who came to Oswego county in 1824, and his mother was Louisa (Place) Rhoades. Mrs. Rhoades's father was Silas Cushman of Franklin county, and was supervisor of his town several years. Ambrose Cushman, the first of the many Cushmans in this country, came over in the Mayflower. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoades are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was for several years one of the stewards. Mrs. Cushman's mother was Lucinda Barker Cushman.
Reilly, O. M., was born in Middleburgh, Schoharie county, March 15, 1857, and moved from there with his parents to the town of Albion, Oswego county, when only one year old. His boyhood days were spent on the farm about two miles from the village of Sand Bank, attending school winters and working upon the farm in sum- mers. In 1887 he entered Pulaski Academy, from which he graduated in the spring of 1881. While there he taught school during the winter, and after leaving school taught at the village of Williamstown. He then entered the law office of J. W. Shea of Pulaski and remained there about one year, after which he entered the office of Hon. D. A. King in the same village, remaining until December, 1884, and in October of that year was admitted to the bar. Two months later he removed to Williamstown, and opened an office, practicing his profession till August, 1888, when he removed to Phoenix where he has since been actively engaged in practice. In 1885 he married Almeda R. House, also a school teacher from Parish. Mr. Reilly's mother died in 1882, and his father, William, died in July, 1883.
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Robinson, Dennis, of Canadian ancestry, was born September 17, 1817, in Otsego county and died November 19, 1891, in Oswego county. His father, James, was born in Canada and died in Oswego county, aged seventy-eight years. He married Olive Holmes of Herkimer county, who died aged seventy-five years. Their children were Olive, William, Nathaniel, Septimus, Dennis, Osmer, Sarah; of whom Olive, Nathaniel and Dennis are deceased. The latter married March 3, 1856, Harriet, daughter of Hiram and Isabella (Balcom) Gates, of Vermont. Mr. Robinson's father was the first settler in Oswego county. The children of our subject and his wife are John, born January 23, 1860; Myra, born October 22, 1868; and Nellie, born Febru- ary 1, 1873. John married Kittie McChesney; Nellie married George Matteson and Myra married Joseph Coffin, all living near their parents.
Rice, Dr. Alfred, was born in Hannibal, a son of the Hon. Arvin Rice, and a grandson of Asa Rice. Arvin came to this town with his father, Asa Rice, one of the early settlers from Rensselaerville. He settled on a soldier claim near Three Mile Creek, not far from Oswego. Dr. Alfred Rice was born May 6, 1817, and grad- uated from Union College at Schenectady in 1840 with the degree of A. B., to which was subsequently added that of A. M. He then went to Kentucky where he taught school. He read medicine and graduated at the Medical College at Castleton, Vt. He commenced practice at Hannibal about 1844. He continued the practice there until he entered the service in the Rebellion as assistant surgeon of the 110th Regi- ment N. Y. Vols., being soon promoted to the position of surgeon, and remained with the 110th until the close of the war. He married, first, Caroline E. Gray, who died in 1849, aged twenty-seven years, and second, Caroline Dudley. She died in February, 1862, aged thirty-one years, leaving two daughters, Mrs. Chauncey C. Place of Ful- ton; and Mrs. Dr. C. G. Plumb of Red Creek. Dr. Rice married, third, Mrs. Har- riet (Wilson) Craddock, and they have one son, Ernest Wilson Rice.
Stillman, Charles, a resident of Mexico, was born in 1838, and has always been a citizen of Oswego county. Henry and Harrison Stillman of Oswego are his broth- ers. He has two children, Ethel and Wade. His wife, Julia, is a daughter of Dean Davis, a native of Oswego county. His father, Chester Stillman, was born in Oneida county in 1802, located in Oswego county when a young man, and married Almira Welch, a native of Connecticut. He died in 1884, and his wife the same year.
Shultz, Frank, was born in Cortland, of German ancestry, August 3, 1858, a grandson of George of Germany, who died in Canajoharie, this State, aged ninety- four; and a son of Nathan, who died in Cortland, aged eighty-two. The latter married Polly Barton, who also died in Cortland, aged seventy-two. Their children were David, Della, Ida, Mary, Frank and Elmer. Their father was a farmer and a deacon in the Baptist Church. Frank was educated in Cortland, and went west as a miner. Returning in 1887, he went to Oswego and engaged in business for a time, but sold out and engaged in the carriage and music business. He is an Odd Fellow. In' 1883 he married Carrie, daughter of William and Clarissa (Williams) Ryan, of Cortland county. Mr. and Mrs. Shults have built up an extensive business in musi- cal instruments and goods, and carriages, having a large wareroom comprising three stories, and the entire building being occupied by the two branches of business. Mrs. Shults attends to the musical department.
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Stevenson, R. H., was born in Canada, February, 13, 1852, son of Walter and Amanda Smith, was educated in Canada and started the manufacture of cheese in 1871, has continued at it ever since, and now conducts a cheese farm and factory in Parish. Was married in 1878 to Hattie M. Ackler. Has six children: Horace, Ralph, Fred, Earl, Emma and Eva.
Stone, Benjamin S., was born in Bridport, Vt., March 26, 1821, came to Mexico with his parents, Isaac and Lydia B. (Hurlbut) Stone, in 1826, and has since resided here. Reared on a farm, with all the privations and hardships which that implies in those days, at the age of seventeen he entereed upon a clerkship in the general store of Peter Chandler, with whom he remained until that gentleman's retirement from business in 1843, when he was succeeded by S. H. and B. S. Stone. In 1857 the partnership was dissolved, and B. S. Stone engaged with S. A. Tuller, under the firm name of Stone & Tuller, in the hardware trade. Later on Mr. Tuller withdrew, and the present firm of B. S. Stone & Co. was formed, giving Mr. Stone an active mercantile career of fifty-six years. In 1846 he married Sarah Elizabeth Chester, and has four sons living: Walter C., proprietor of the Advance-Journal, Camden, N. Y .; Edward T., of B. S. Stone & Co .; Dr. William G., since 1880 physician in Northern Hospital for Insane at Elgin, Ills. ; and Rev. Carlos H., at present propri- etor of Cornwall Heights School at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. His wife died in 1861, and he afterward married Mrs. Ellen S. Boyle, born Hicks. Mr. Stone has never sought political preferment, but has nevertheless been called to many positions of public trust and honor. He has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church since young manhood, and for the greater part of that time one of its trustees. A member of the Board of Trustees of Mexico Academy for forty years, and president since 1878, he was prominent in the erection of the present building, estimating its cost, and what is noteworthy in these days, completing it within the estimate. He has several times served as trustee of the village, has for twenty-five years been prominently identified with the Mexico Cemetery Association, of which he is at present one of the Board of Commissioners, and has since its foundation been a trustee of the Oswego County Savings Bank, of which for several years he has been one of the vice-presidents.
Snyder, Henry, grandfather of R. H. Snyder, was of German descent, born June 3, 1790. He lived in Sandy Creek and Boylston, dying in the latter place April 3, 1862. His wife was Rachel Dunlap, who was of Scotch descent, born April 1, 1789, and died April 8, 1859. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Daniel Calk- ins, born July 4, 1794, who served in the War of 1812. He was a Methodist minis- ter, and died December 21, 1856. His wife was Hannah S. Shaver, who was born July 13, 1794, and died September 18, 1878. Ransom Snyder, son of Henry, and father of our subject, was born February 23, 1829, in Boylston, and died January 31, 1875, in Orwell. He served in the Civil War in Co. E, 189th N. Y. Vols. He mar- ried Abigail Calkins, a native of Boylston, born May 26, 1829. Afterward she mar- ried Simon Pruyn, and now lives in Sandy Creek. The children of Ransom and Abigail Snyder are as follows: James G., born in Boylston June 23, 1849; Rev. B. De Forest, born in Boylston August 13, 1850; Ivanette, born in Loraine, Jefferson county, March 30, 1855; Ransom H., born in Orwell February 13, 1865; Carol D.,
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born in Orwell October 7, 1873, died February 7, 1875. Ransom H. was educated in the common schools of Orwell and Sandy Creek till 1883, when he attended Sandy Creek High School, graduating in the classical course in 1887. In the fall of that year he entered Hamilton College, from which institution he was graduated in the classical course with the class of 1891. During 1891-2 he was principal of the school at Redfield, N. Y. ; during 1892-3 principal of the Holland Patent Union School; and in 1893 was elected principal of Sandy Creek High School, and re-elected in 1894. Though taking no active part in politics, he is a Democrat in national ques- tions, but independent otherwise. He belongs to Sandy Creek Lodge No. 564, F. & A. M., in which he is senior deacon.
Seaman, John S., was born in Madison county June 8, 1836, son of George and Ma- tilda Seaman. George Seaman is among the earliest settlers of Parish, having set- tled on the same farm on which he now resides and which he cleared himself. He has been in Parish over fifty years, and reared eighteen children, many of whom are now residing in Oswego county. Subject was educated in Parish, and went to work at farming. He volunteered in the late Civil War in 1862 and went to the front with the 147th N. Y. Inft., and participated in seventeen of the principal battles; among others were Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, etc., and numerous skirmishes ; he was taken prisoner at Gettysburg and confined at Belle Island and Libby prison for fifty-two days. He married Florine Allen, and has two children, Leroy and Flossie May.
Stewart, Joel W., of English ancestry, was born in Oswego county June 4, 1844, son of Draper of Massachusetts, who isstill living aged eighty-two. He married Mary Luke, born in Massachusetts, who died in Oswego county aged thirty-seven. Their children were Delilah, Lydia, Esther, Thomas, Joel W., our subject, Harriet and Sarah, of whom Harriet is deceased. The father was a farmer and hunter. The grandfather, Ethel, was born in Massachusetts and died in Oswego county aged eighty years. Subject was educated in Richland, and in 1864 enlisted in the 184th N. Y. Vol. Inft., served in the army of the Potomac, was promoted to corporal, and was discharged at the close of the war. He married September 4, 1866, Eva Mary, daughter of George Urich and Annie (Quire) Wakerhout of Wurtenburg, Germany, who emigrated from Germany in 1847, and died in Oswego county. Their children are May L., born December 17, 1869; Rosa B., born September 27, 1872; Delilah born June 3, 1878; and Eve Lily, born August 29, 1884, all of whom are living. Rosa married Asa Filmore of Richland.
Suits, Erastus S., was born in Onondaga county in 1828, resided in Jefferson county till twelve years old and has since lived in the towns of Mexico and New Haven. In 1851 he married Susan, daughter of John Turk of Mexico. In 1864 he enlisted in the 4th Heavy Artillery, Co. G, serving till the close of the war. He was on guard duty at Reidville, near Boston in the Invalid Corps, and was also detailed to the commis- sary department. His parents, Elisha and Lana (Smith) Suits, were natives of Her- kimer county. The father died in 1865, aged fifty-eight, and the mother in 1833, aged twenty-four.
Sherman, Samuel S., was born in 1824 on the farm where he has always resided and is a son of Wright and Lydia (Luther) Sherman, who moved from Rhode Island
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to Herkimer county, married there and moved to New Haven in 1816, locating on the farm where they died. Wright Sherman was in the war of 1812. Samuel S. is one of three surviving of nine children, was married in 1854 to Matilda Grinnolds, by whom he had these children: Ettie, wife of Henry Reed; Anna, wife of John Flowers, both of Scriba; and George, who with his wife Delia (Tucker) Sherman, and one child Eva, resides with his parents.
Whaley, Nicholas, was born in Camden, Oneida county, in 1827, and in 1829 came to Amboy with his father, George Whaley, who died in Amboy leaving a large family. Mr. W. settled on the farm he now occupies in 1860, where he has been a farmer and lumberman, clearing a large part of his farm himself. His wife was Lydia M., daughter of Benjamin Alby, and they have four children, Edward H., Charles L., Walter M. and Nettie E.
Whitney, Edwin, was born in Mexico August 12, 1830, and has always followed farming except two years when telegraphing. He married Anna Winkworth, Feb- tuary 25, 1869, and they have two children, Jessie E. and Irving E. Mr. Whitney's father was Orrin Whitney of Mexico, and his mother Emaline Ames, a sister of Leon- ard Ames. Mrs. Whitney's father was David Winkworth, and her mother Agnes Moore.
Kinney, William P., was born in Amboy, son of Jebes M., who settled in Amboy in 1827 and died in 1822 leaving four sons and five daughters. Mr. Kinney was in the late war, in Co. D, 24th N. Y. Vols., and since his return to Amboy in 1863 he has been a farmer. He was assessor three years, and inspector of elections two years. He married Olive, daughter of Clark Stewart, and their children were Silas W. and Warren H.
Miller, Merritt, was bornin Granby, Oswego county, in 1842, and is a son of Henry Miller, a native of Ludlow, Hamlin county, Mass., who settled in Onondaga county when he was a boy, coming with his parents. His wife was Louisa Lampman, and his father Ithimer Miller. Subject married Lucinda, daughter of Asa Chapman, who was born in Hoosick, Rensselaer county. The father of subject, Henry Miller, died in this town in 1880, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Louisa Miller is still living at the age of seventy-four years. Subject and wife have two children, Frank A., married Mary Marvin, the second, a daughter, is still at home. Subject owns seventy-five acres of land.
Cooper, Chester, of Bowen's Corners, is a farmer and owns a fine place of 123 acres. He was born in Onondaga county in 1838, and came here and settled in 1868. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. B, 1st N. Y. Light Artillery, known as Capt. Pettit's Battery, and served two years and six months; he then re-enlisted for three years and served till the close of the war. In 1866 he married Luvilla, daughter of Aaron Stranahan, of Granby. They have seven children: Dollie (Mrs. Summerville), Gipson, Grace, Glen, Farron, Hazel, and Florence. Chester is a son of William Cooper, who settled at Cooperstown at an early date, and removed thence to Onondaga county.
Cole, Jay B., a son of Joseph Cole, who was a farmer of Sandy Creek, came to Will- iamstown and settled in 1871. He has been a teacher for twenty-four terms in the village school, and was also school commissioner six years. For the past five years he has been in the insurance business.
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Rowlee, S. E., was born in the town of Volney in 1836, and settled in Hannibal in 1874. He is a son of John C. Rowlee of Groton, who was one of the early set- tlers in Volney, and he a son of Heman Rowlee a deacon of the Presbyterian Church of Fulton. John C. married Caroline, a daughter of Shubael Hewes, a son of George R. T. Hewes, who helped to throw the tea overboard in the Boston harbor. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Subject married Emily M. Distin of Volney, daughter of Eli Distin, who died in 1850 aged forty-one, a son of Joseph Distin of Connecti- cut. Mr. and Mrs. Rowlee have four children: John E., who married Francelia Miller of Ira, and has two children Emma and Maud; Jennie married B. H. Green- field of Ira; Mrs, Carrie Hannum, who has one child, Lottie; and Anna, who is at- tending Fulton School. Subject was drafted in the war of the Rebellion. Mrs. Rowlee had a brother, Joseph W. Diston, who was killed at Gettysburgh and buried in the National Cemetery there. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rowlee had two children, Shubael E. and Virgil J. The latter has two sons, Ernest and Earl. Subject owns a farm of 165 acres.
Rhoades, Parsons, is a member of a prominent family of Hannibal, whose ances- tors were influential people of England, the motto of their family being "Places may change, but principles never." This was the legend on their coat-of-arms. One of the early members of the family was banished and imprisoned in a castle in Wales. There he retained his coat-of-arms, but changed the motto to " Death be- fore dishonor." Samuel Rhoades came from Marblehead to Chesterfield when about thirty years of age, and died in 1823, aged eighty-five years. In 1806 he came to Skaneateles, Onondaga county. His son, Samuel Rhoades, jr., a native of Chester- field, Mass., came to Skaneateles with his father, where he died in 1850, aged sev- enty-four. He married Electa Cleveland, and had four children: Parsons, Lewis H., Sumner and Cornelia E. Parsons married Armelle P. Fay, and they have two sons, Julius P., who married Amanda H. Fletcher, and has one child, Fanny F. The younger son, Masillon F., married Hattie Lodge, and has one son, Walter P. They are relatives of Grover Cleveland,
Hydorn, George L., was born in Troy, March 27, 1829. His grandfather, Peter, was born in Germany where he died, and his father, Peter, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., and died in St. Lawrence county, aged sixty-six. The latter married Elizabeth Morrison, who died in Sandy Creek, aged seventy-eight. Their children were Julia A., Peter, Philip, William, Mariah, Elizabeth, Melinda, John H., Gitta and George L. The father of our subject was in the War of 1812, and was a hotel keeper and farmer. George L. was educated at Troy and St. Lawrence county, and followed farming until the age of forty, when he opened a store in Lacona and has continued in the mercantile business ever since, having now a general store in La- cona and doing an extensive business. April 10, 1849, he married Margaret Bris- tow of Morristown, a daughter of Thomas and Annie (McDougall) Bristow, and their children are Peter, Thomas (deceased), Mary, Martha, Daniel B., George W. and Nora. Peter married Ada Corse and is in business with his father; Mary married Frank H. Mellin and resides in Minneapolis, Minn .; Martha married A. B. Clayson of Buffalo; Daniel B. married Ada La Due and lives in Michigan ; George W. mar- ried Ellen Rowsear and resides in Alpena; Nora married A. Miller and lives in Al- bany county.
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Hitt, George, was born in Westchester county April 29, 1830, son of Hiram and Clarissa Hitt, natives of Somers, Westchester county, a farmer and proprietor of a stage line and mail route between Somers, Sing Sing and New York. He was of Holland ancestry, and had a family of ten children. When fourteen years old George Hitt went to New York, where, for two years, he was with Kipp & Brown, omnibus proprietors, and from September, 1846, to November, 1850, with Van Am- burg; in the spring of 1851 he came to Hastings and engaged in farming and lum- bering In 1862 he enlisted in Co. E, 110th N. Y. Vols., and served three years; during a charge at Port Hudson he was wounded, and had typhus fever in New Or- leans, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. After the war he resumed farming. In 1873 he married Almira Babcock, who died in 1884. In 1887 he mar- ried, second, Flora M. Slawson of Hastings, by whom he had one child, Mildred A., born in 1889. Mr. Hitt is a Mason, and a member of the Isaac Waterbury G. A. R. Post. He has served as commissioner five terms, and collector one term. He and his wife are members of the Grange, and Mrs. Hitt is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps.
Harrington, Orris W., was born in Constantia February 26, 1848, a son of Delos W., a native of New Lisbon, Otsego county, born in June, 1820, one of eleven chil- dren of Stephen Harrington, a native of Vermont. His father was Stephen, a na- tive of England, who settled in Rhode Island, a Revolutionary soldier and aid-de- camp to George Washington. Stephen, jr., was a farmer in Otsego county, and was a prominent man. He was justice of the peace many years, and later an attorney. He settled in Constantia in 1835. Delos W. was originally a farmer, but later stud- ied medicine and practiced to a considerable extent. His wife was Lois P., daugh - ter of Nathaniel Gardner. She was a native of Otsego county, and their children are Orris W., Nancy, Alger and Joseph. Mr. Harrington died in 1893, and his widow resides on the homestead. Our subject remained at home until he was twenty years of age. His educational opportunities being very limited, he devoted his leisure hours to study, and taught eight years in the winter, and worked on the farm in the summer. In 1867 he engaged in the general merchandise and agricultu- ral implement business in North Constantia, where he has since been successfully engaged. Through his efforts a post-office was established at this place in 1877, he being appointed postmaster, which office he held until August, 1892. He has been justice of the peace continuously since 1876. In 1881 he married Minnie F., daugh- ter of Peter and Sarah M. (Vrooman) Ogsbury of Albany county, and their children are Delos G., Maurice T., Rowland W., who died in infancy; and Susie M. Mr. Harrington is a member of the church and Ladies' Mite Society of North Con- stantia.
Cook, Newton, M.D., was born in Argusville, Schoharie county, N. Y., July 1, 1851, a son of Nicholas Cook, who was born in Oneida county, and married Jane Newton of Sandy Creek, N. Y. They had five children: Henry, Ella, Newton, Ca- leb and Viola, the latter two deceased. The mother died in Sandy Creek, Newton was educated in Schoharie county and began reading medicine in 1871 with Dr. Shibley in Montgomery county. Moving to Sandy Creek in 1876, he finished his studies with Dr. Bulkley of this place. He graduated from the University Medical College of the City of New York in 1879, and began practicing medicine in Sandy
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Creek, where he still continues. He married Flora M., daughter of Benjamin G. and Julia K. (Grennell) Robbins, February 25, 1881.
Chapman, John S., is a son of Benjamin Chapman, who was a soldier of the Revo- lution. He drew a pension, also a soldier's claim of 160 acres of land. He was a native of Hoosick, Rensselaer county, but settled in Hannibal in 1857, and lived here until his death, August 11, 1887, aged eighty-four years. He was a son of John Chapman of Rhode Island, who settled at Hoosick at an early day. Benjamin Chap- man married Mary B. Lawson, who died August 21, 1872, leaving five sons and. three daughters, of whom seven are now living: Aaron B., Laura M., Horace B., Cortland C., Celinda A., John S. and James H. Our subject was born August 7, 1837. He married Sarah J. Brownell of Hoosick, Rensselaer county, a daughter of Joseph M. and Lydia M. Brownell, by whom he has one daughter, Ruth E. Osborne, who also has one child, Hazel B. The father of Mrs. John Chapman was a birthright Quaker, and her mother's people were descendants of the Hyde brothers, who came from England.
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