Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 80

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1180

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Carter married Katie A. Bailey, of Tompkins county, by whom he has two sons: William L. and John M. Mr. Carter is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65.

Cram, Duty S., eldest son of Isaiah and Phoebe (Dakin) Cram, was born in Che- nango county, N. Y., in 1837. Locating in the town of Lindley, two years later they moved to Caton, which at that time was but a wilderness, and commenced clearing up a farm where Mr. Cram now resides, and where the parents died several years ago. Besides D. S., there were six girls and three boys, viz .: Finetta, wife of Joel P. Cady of North Adams, Mass., both now deceased; Polly, wife of Robert Cook of Lindley, both living; Roby, wife of Henry L. Babcock of Caton, both deceased; Emeline, of Caton, deceased; Samantha, wife of John H. Laughhead of Elmira, both deceased; Sarah, wife of James Waldon of Caton, both living; Simeon B., of Caton, deceased; Henry D. of Olean, N. Y., deceased (killed by a falling tree); Robert W., the youngest, now living in the town of Corning. In 1855 D. S. married Sarah A. Stamer, a native of Tompkins county, N. Y. They have at present four children living, viz .: Fred B. of Caton, who married Matie Thorp, and resides on a farm adjoining his father's; Nellie, wife of Eugene Cook, who resides in Elmira; Joel P., who married Estella Vandusen and resides on a farm near his father; Nettie, wife of Walter A. Davidson, and resides on a farm at Lindley. The eldest son, James, died when a boy.

Wellman, John R., West Caton, Steuben county, N. Y., is a native of Otsego county, was born in 1819 and came to his present place, January 2, 1851. In 1842 he married his present wife, who was Anne Histed, a native of Schenectady county. August 14, 1862, he enlisted in Co. D, 141st N. Y. Vols., and served two years and ten months. His children are Sarah A., wife of William A. Johnston, Emma J., wife of M. W. Robbins, Silas E., L. M., Willie I., and Charles R., who died in 1861. Mr. Wellman is serving his second term as justice of peace.

Granger, Leverett, was born in Springfield, Mass., April 2, 1809. John Granger, his father, owned a beautiful farm on the Connecticut, five miles from Springfield, Mass. Through signing notes for a friend, he was obliged to sell and when the sub- ject of this sketch was seven, we find them settled in Dryden, N. Y. In 1822 they moved to Bennett's Creek, one mile west of Canisteo, where they cleared a large tract of land. When but eighteen, Leverett lost his mother; he then started to " carve out his own fortune." Working for ten dollars a month, he laid up his $100 a year; his life was was not all work, for many a time has he told his children about the New Years ball, how he took his girl, not in a carriage, but on behind him, both on the same horse. After accumulating sufficient fortune to support a wife, he married Weltha Chapman, by whom he had seven children: Harriet E., Weltha E., Francis G., William H., Horace A., Harrison D., and Daniel S. He married for his second wife Lydia A., daughter of John Rose of Greenwood, by whom he had seven children; Charles, Elisha, Sarah A., H. Lee, M. Ida, Lura B. and John. Death has claimed two of his children, Francis G. and M. Ida; the others we find scattered in the East and West, and some remaining on his beautiful farm one mile south of Can- isteo. When in the spring of 1894 death claimed his beloved wife, we find him still calm and serene, for his trust has been in Jesus for many a year. Though not a

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Prohibitionist, he is strongly temperate; do we need a better example than this- not one of his eight manly sons love the wine cup? As one has said, "'Tis only noble to be good;" then he must belong to the true nobility, for his life has always been free from quarrels and strife, loved and honored by all.

Cook, Emmett A., was born in the town of Hartsville, March 22, 1854, son of James M. Cook, a native of this county, born in Canisteo, September 28, 1825. He was a farmer and lumberman and the later years of his life were spent in Hornells- ville, where he died February 23, 1866. He was supervisor of the town of Hartsville for three terms and also held some of the minor officers. He was a member of the Methodist church the earlier part of his life. When twenty-six years old he married Harriet, daughter of Joseph Wallace, one of the pioneers of Hornellsville. Mrs. Cook died August 22, 1895, in her fifty-ninth year. They were the parents of three children: Emmett, as above, Eva, the wife of Scott B. Van Benkirk, a farmer of Hartsville and postmaster, and Fanny, who died in 1863. Emmett was educated in Hornellsville schools and Canisteo Academy, and was for one year employed in the grocery of D. C. Corbett of Canisteo. In 1875 he moved on to a farm of 120 acres on lot 6, town of Hornellsville, which he inherited from his father, and on which he now lives, making a specialty of dairy products and potatoes. For a great many years he has raised sheep. In 1891 and 1892 he served as highway commissioner of the town. In 1877 Mr. Cook married Celestia Hendee of Hartsville, who died March 4, 1887.

Griswold, George W., was born in Avoca, Steuben county, N. Y., July 5, 1838, son of John D., who was a native of Spencertown, Albany county, born January 21, 1812. John D. removed to Steuben county about 1835, locating in Avoca, where he estab- lished a jewelry business, where he died March 10, 1893. He was postmaster of Avoca for several years, and a prominent Mason of Bath Lodge. The mother of our subject, Sarah Towner, was a native of this county, and a daughter of Gershom Towner, who was one of the earliest settlers. Mrs. Griswold is still living, being in her seventy-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold are the parents of twelve children, ten of whom grew to maturity, and six of whom now survive. George, the eldest son, first engaged as a clerk in Oscar Smith's dry goods store at Avoca, where he remained two years, and at the age of sixteen came to Hornellsville where he was employed in the same capacity with Smith & Young, and during his five years with them never lost a day's time. In 1869 he established himself in business, opening a general store, which he sold out in 1884, after which he followed farming for eight years. In 1891 he returned to Hornellsville and opened a shoe store in his building on Main street, where he now has a fine trade. Mr. Griswold has served as highway commissioner, collector, and was enrolling officer at the time of the Rebellion. He has been a Mason for twenty eight years, and has twice been Master of his lodge, having held many other high offices in same. In 1861 he married Mary C., daughter of R. M. Traver of Painted Post. She died in 1888, leaving one son, Don C. The present Mrs. Griswold was Anna T. Regan, and their children are Raymond Leo and Wallace Elliot.

Austin, Benjamin, was born in Fishkill, Dutchess county, February 13, 1825. At ten years of age he began work in a cotton factory in Matteawan, N. Y., and at thir-

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teen years of age he came to Prattsburg with his father where he learned the car- penter trade which he has followed for forty years. In 1868 he moved into the village of Prattsburg, and was elected town tax-collector, which office he held six years, and nine consecutive years as constable. In 1890 he returned to his farm where he has since resided. Lockwood Austin his grandfather, was a drum major in the 1812 war, and was a carpenter by trade, and came to Pulteney, Steuben county, about 1839, and later moved to Prattsburg where he spent his remaining days on a farm. He married Susan Meade, by whom he had seven children: William, Daniel, Mrs. Eliza Brewster, Mrs. Olive Adams, Mrs. Fannie Banker, Mrs. Charity Green, Mrs. Ann Burroughs. William Austin, father of Benjamin, was born in Putnam county, in 1801. He was a stone mason by trade, and was for many years a foreman in the cotton factory at Matteawan. N. Y. In 1839 he came to Prattsburg, Steuben county, where he engaged in farming. He married Sally Ann Watkins of Dutchess county, by whom he had five children: Benjamin B., Mrs. Fannie Smith of Prattsburg, Mrs. Elizabeth Trenchard of Hornellsville, Lockwood, who enlisted in 107th Regt., and fought in several battles, died in a hospital, and was buried in Nashville, Tenn., and Mrs. Margaret Earley of Prattsburg. He died in 1890, and his wife in July, 1889. In 1849 Benjamin Austin married Johannah E. A., daughter of Alexander Parker of Pulteney, by whom he had three children: James A., born March, 1850, who is engaged in farming and grape growing, was married to Martha Hults of Pulteney, May 2, 1875; Wm. K., born November, 1857, printer and carpenter by trade, was married to Amy R. Stanhope of Wayne, January 26, 1882; and Benjamin P., born August 15, 1867; is a mechanic and musician, director of Prattsburg band, and a composer of music, and was married to Cheney Brown of Prattsburg in 1886. B. B. Austin has two grandchildren, Lola L., daughter of W. K. and Verie Marie, daughter of B. P. Mrs. Austin died in March, 1878, aged fifty-two years. In 1880 Mr. Austin married for his second wife, Mrs. Betsey E. (Northrup) Smith, who has two children: Miranda E., deceased, and Israel A.

Woodbury, Joseph B., was born in the town of Exeter, Otsego county, N. Y., Oc- tober 21, 1826. When about two years of age his parents removed to New Hartford, Oneida county, where they resided until 1830, when they took up their residence in Winfield, Herkimer county, and continued to reside there until 1841. While living there, the subject of this sketch attended common school, where he evinced a talent for learning far in advance of his years, and was always at the head of his classes. On February 3, 1841, the family commenced a journey to the then comparatively new town of Jasper, in this county, and reached their destination after six days' travel. He attended school until nineteen years of age, a portion of the time at a select school in Addison, under the tutorship of Col. John W. Dininny. His school days ended, Mr. Woodbury engaged in lumbering until twenty-five years of age, when he became interested in farming. He also took took up the trade of mason and worked at it for eight years. Having purchased a farm in the town of Jasper, he continued to reside upon it until April 9, 1862, when he moved to the village of Greenwood to engage in the milling business, having previously bought the Stephens mill in that village. He remained here twelve years, managing in connection with his mill, large lumbering and farming interests. He then retired from these pur- suits, built a house in the village of Greenwood, and invested largely in oil lands,

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owning at one time 153 acres in the oil belt in Pennsylvania, and an interest in thirty-six oil wells. Seeing the rapid emigration to the Western States after the close of the war, and conscious of the increase in the value of western lands which must necessarily follow the settlement of that section, he began to place some of his capital there. Among his earlist speculations was one in land in the State of Iowa, where he purchased two thousand and one hundred acres in Woodbury county. (On an investment of $2,600 he realized within a few years, upwards of $6,000.) Mr. Woodbury in company with Hon. John Davis of Greenwood, N. Y., then bought two thousand acres of pine timber land in the State of Michigan which he held fortwelve years, this costing them about $4,500 and was sold for $40,000. He is now in pos- session of one thousand acres of land in one of the most fruitful sections of the State of Nebraska, and the owner of a large flouring mill at Ord, in that State. He is also interested in the First National Bank of Ord, of which institution he was one of the originators. On December 31, 1886, Mr. Woodbury took up his residence in Horn- ellsville. He is a director and one of the executive board of the Citizens' National

Bank of Hornellsville. He never aspired to hold political office, though often urged by his townsmen to accept. He married first, Mary M., daughter of the late Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Greenwood, on November 11, 1851. Of this union two sons were born, viz .: Merritt A., now deceased, and Martin F., of Sauk Centre, Minn. Mrs, Woodbury died May 28, 1882. His present wife was Mary M., daughter of the late Hon. Redmond S. Davis, also of Greenwood. Merritt A. moved with his family, consisting of wife and one son, to Ord, Nebraska, in September, 1891, and died December 6, 1894

Dartt, Burton .- His grandfather, Joshua, was born in Vermont, and came with his father to Pennsylvania, and from there to Steuben county, locating on the old turn- pike road between Bath and Hornellsville, where he lived to an old age. Franklin Dartt, father of Burton, was born in Pennsylvania, near Blossburg, Tioga county, in 1809, and came to Howard at the age of about twelve years, where he learned the trade of cloth dressing and carding, which business he followed all his life. He married Louisa Dort, who died five years later. For his second wife he married Lidda Clisba, who was born in June 1805, and died in Michigan in 1807. From this union there were four children: Byron H., born Decemher 10, 1836; Burton, born August 18, 1838; Phebe Jane, born in 1842; and Esther Ann, born July 1, 1848. Burton Dartt received a good common school education, and worked in a steam mill for a time, and has since followed farming, having a farm of 141 acres which is located on Windom Hill. He has been inspector of election four years, and also held the office of assessor of the town of Fremont for four years. November 17, 1862, he married Helen M. Demery, who was born May 24 1839, and they have one child, Esther Jane Gray, who was born October 2, 1867, and married March 29, 1885, and has one child, Doras B. Gray, who was born August 28, 1889.

Hulbert, Freeman, was born December 20, 1840. His grandfather, Moses Hul- bert, was born in Hampshire county, Mass., August 7, 1770. In 1816 he came to Dansville and bought a farm on Oak Hill where he followed the cooper's trade, and where he died. Justus. Hulbert, father of Freeman, was born at Fort Ann, Wash- ington county, November 12, 1810, and came to Dansville with his father, where he followed farming. The first fifty acres he purchased on Oak Hill, at eighteen shil-

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lings per acre, and he owned about seventy-five acres when he died at forty-six years of age. In 1838, he married Catherine Flickinger, who was born in Dansville, N. Y., May 5, 1819, by whom he had four children: Freeman, as above; Diana, who mar- ried Daniel Sager; Amelia, who married John Scherer; and Charles Hulbert. Free- man Hulbert has always followed farming, and he purchased the farm in Fremont, on which he now lives, thirty years ago. November 1, 1865, he married Mary A. Cridler, who was born in Dansville, March 20, 1840, daughter of Daniel Cridler, by whom he had one child, Ira Justus, who was born September 25, 1866, and who was educated at Rogersville Union Seminary. March 5, 1890, he married May L. . Kriedler, who was born December 6, 1870, and died October 28, 1890.

Stewart, Edmond, was born in the town of Cameron, N. Y., November 2, 1848, son of John S. and Sarah (Chase) Stewart, natives of Barrington, Yates county, and eastern New York, respectively. The grandparents were among the first settlers of Cameron, where they died. John S. Stewart was reared on a farm in Cameron, where he lived and died. Edmond was educated in the common schools, then en- gaged in farming on the homestead. In 1866 he married Lovina, daughter of Wash- ington and Mary (Smith) Dawley, by whom he has seven children: Albert, Carrie, Nelson, Lizzie, George, Louise, and Minnie. In 1879 Mr. Stewart came to Rathbone and rented a farm owned, by Dea. William Allen; in 1889 he bought 108 acres and made a specialty of sheep raising. The family are Baptists. September 23, 1895, Edmond Stewart died.

Rosenkrans, A. D., was born in Avoca, November 12, 1845. Joseph Rosenkrans, his father, was born in Steuben county, and settled in Avoca in about 1836, on the farm of which his son is now part owner. He married Mary Austin of Wayland, by whom he had three children: Mary H., George B., and A. D., who was educated in Avoca and Naples Academy, after which he engaged in farming which he followed until 1881, at which time until 1887 he spent at milling. He married Annetta, daughter of Will- iam R. Head, by whom he had three children: George M., Mertie M., and William K. Mrs. Rosenkrans died October 1, 1889, and he married for his second wife, Rhoda A., daughter of Martin H. Cooley of Wayland. Mr. Rosenkrans was justice of the peace for some time, and is a member of Avoca Lodge of Masons, No. 673.

Hofstetter, Louis, was born in the town of Hornellsville, February 6, 1854. Casper Hofstetter, the father of our subject, is a native of Germany, who came to this coun- try about 1849, and settled at what is now Webb's Crossing on nineteen acres of land. He afterwards in 1873 moved to the farm of 133 acres where he now resides, and has ever since been engaged in farming in this section. He is seventy-six years old. His wife, Elizabeth Knetl, was also a native of Germany. They have four children, of which Louis is the youngest son. He was educated in the common schools and made his home on his father's farm until of age. In 1877 he started for himself by the purchase of thirty-five acres in the northern part of Hornellsville, and added to that by the purchase in 1883 of thirty-five acres, and eighty-five acres of the old Ashbel Ward farm. He makes his home on seven acres purchased of his father in Hornellsville. He has become one of the leading farmers of this section. He makes a specialty of the cultivation of potatoes, and in 1894 raised 4,000 bushels, and also 800 bushels of grain, besides hay for stock. He was married April 28, 1883, to

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Miss Amanda Colgrove of Arkport. They have three children. Pearl in her eleventh year, May in her tenth year and Ida ten months old.

Paddock, John N., was born in Sussex county, N. J., July 12,1844, and is the eighth of nine children born to James and Nancy (Utter) Paddock, both natives of New Jersey where she died in 1849, aged thirty-eight years James Paddock was born April 3, 1803, and came to Wayne, Steuben county, in 1856, and died in Cameron, Steuben county, in 1887. James Paddock, grandfather of John N., was a farmer and lived and died in New Jersey. The maternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war. John N. Paddock was reared on the farm, and first bought a grape vineyard in Hammondsport, which he sold in 1879 and came to Troupsburg in April, 1880, where he located in the southwestern corner of the town, where he has since resided. He has eighty acres of land with fine buildings, and was once burned out soon after locating on the farm. He married Hannah E., daughter of Barrett B., and Eliza A. (Collier) Henderson, by whom he had two sons: Lewis S., born April 10, 1869, and Frank J., born September 24, 1871. Mr. Henderson was born in Wash- ington county, N. Y., January 22, 1822, and was a farmer and miller at Avoca, and died in Avoca, September 25, 1855. Mrs. Henderson was born in Avoca, December 1, 1825, and died July 29, 1888. She was the daughter of John and Huldah (Towner) Collier of Avoca, and married for her second husband James M. Brandage. In Au- gust, 1862, Mr. Paddock enlisted in Co. G, 107th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably dis- charged in June, 1865. He was at Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, after which all of 11th and 12th Corps were transferred and called the 20th Corps, and were sent to Rosenkrans at Chickamauga. They were at Milledgeville, and Savan- nah, and Mr. Paddock had a sun stroke July 5, 1863, on the march from Gettysburg to Falling Water, and has never recovered from the effects. He is a member of Westfield Grange.

Weaver, Daniel, was born in Germany in May, 1842, son of Jacob and Mary (Ringeisen) Weaver, who came to the United States in 1851, and located on a farm in Southport, Chemung county, N. Y., where they lived till 1883, then retired and moved to Elmira, where Mr. Weaver still resides. In 1890 Mrs. Weaver died and was buried at Webb's Mills Cemetery. Daniel Weaver was reared on the farm and educated in the district school; in 1863 he enlisted in Co. L, 24th N. Y. Cavalry and served two years, and was in twenty-two engagements; he was at the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, South Side R. R., the Weldon Road, etc. Mr. Weaver is a Republican and has been commissioner of highways one term; he is a member of the G. A. R. Post No. 469, also a member of the Merchantville Grange in which he is treasurer since it was organized in 1888. In 1868 he was married to Miss Bertha S. Oelschlae- ger, by whom he has three children: Charles F., Lottie I., Henry G. In July, 1894, his brother Peter's son, Leroy G. Weaver, came to live with them. Mr. Weaver has 185 acres of land, has good barns and in 1884 he built a fine residence.

Carlton, James L., was born in the town of Jerusalem, Yates county, September 22, 1820. James Carlton, his father, was a native of England, and came to the United States in 1812. He was a shoemaker by trade, which business he followed for many years. He settled in Yates county where he bought a farm. He married Sarah Wilkinson, a native of Broome county, N. Y., by whom he had one son, James

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L., who worked several years for one man, of whom he bought a farm of 180 acres in the town of Bath. He cleared his land with his own hands, and is still the owner. In 1874 he came to Campbell and bought a farm of ten acres, where he is now living. He married Margaret M. Markell of Seneca, by whom he had five children: Sarah A., Ellanor C., George H., J. D., and Milton D. For his second wife he married Mrs. Martha W. Gardner, by whom he had one son, Fred W. For his third wife he married Mrs. Malinda Taylor. For his fourth wife he married Mrs. Emily Chambers, daughter of Barny Brown. He is a member of the M. E. church, also a member of the K. of H., and in politics he is a Prohibitionist.

Smith, Ira, was born in the town of Howard, January 5, 1845, son of Andrew Smith, who was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., April 22, 1816, and was the son of the late Thomas Smith, who was born in the same county, and came to the town of Howard, Steuben county, when Andrew was sixteen years of age, and first settled where the cemetery is now located, and afterward acquired a far of seventy acres; he married Betsey, daughter of Jesse Brown of Howard, and they were the parents of five children: Orrin, who died at an early age, Ira, Charles, Anna, and Hannah. Mr. Smith was educated in the district schools, but his advantages were somewhat lim- ited. Ira Smith was educated in the school district No. 14, in the town of Howard, and is a farmer by occupation, and is now the owner of one of the best farms in the town of Howard, which was settled and cleared by his father and sons. He married Jeneatte, daughter of John Lauder of Hartsville, and they have three children: Eugene R., Howard L., and Ernest C. Mrs. Smith received her education at the State Normal School at Albany, and is a member of the M. E. church. Mr. Smith is a member of Big Creek Grange.

Olin, Frederick Marshall, was born in Hornellsville, October 26, 1839, son of Dr. Samuel Olin, a native of Bainbridge, Chenango county, N. Y., who was born July 1, 1799, and came to Hornellsville. He was first located in Greenwood, where he mar- ried Parmelia, daughter of Col. John Stephens, and moved to Ossian and then to Hornellsville, where he continued to practice until 1850 when he returned to Green- wood and was engaged in mercantile business for two years. He had bought a farm of 108 acres on lot 11 in the town of Hornellsville while in practice, and also fifty acres on lot 1. and in 1852 he located on this farm, which he occupied until his death, which occurred March 30, 1869. He was a member of the Board of Education and superintendent of schools, also a member of the Masonic fraternity and the first mas_ ter of Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, and a Knight Templar. He was the father- of four children, two of whom are now living: Mrs. Ann Vernett Baker of Dakota, and Marshall, who was educated in the common schools and has always followed farm- ing, succeeding his father on the old homestead. He has been trustee of schools, and a member of Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, F. & A. M. In 1862 he married Mary, daughter of Abram Stephens, and they have one child, F. M. Olin, jr., who is engaged with his father on the farm. He was a student of Hornellsville Academy.

Tuttle, Martin A., was born in the town of Columbus, Chenango county, March 2, 1842, a son of Harley Tuttle. Uri Tuttle, the grandfather, was a native of Connecti- cut and a pioneer of Chenango county, where he resided for many years on the farm which he cleared from the wilderness. The father was an active and prominent man

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 80

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co. Number of Pages: 1180

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1180