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" Resolved, That Drs. Goodsell and Peckham be a committee to procure suitable places for the accommodation of those who may be sick with the cholera or small-pox, and to furnish for the sick such medicine, attendance, nurses, and other things as may be proper and necessary for their comfort.
" Resolved, That General Ostrom and Dr. McCraith be a committee to designate the proper place where boats may perform quarantine and where they may be cleansed and purified, and report."
The report named Johnson's Basin on the west and the starch factory and Miller's Basin on the east. Committees of two in each ward were appointed on nuisances, and Hon. Joseph Kirkland and Dr. Coventry were made a committee to publish daily the state of health of the city. The committee for the purpose could not find suitable buildings for a hospital and recommended as a site for the erection of a fitting structure Huntington's Common and a spot northeast of the Sulphur Spring. The Sulphur Spring, it should be remarked for the present genera- tion of readers, was in the gulf, the channel of what was known as Bal- lou's Creek, more recently Grace Creek-it trickled from the base. of its east bank a little below Rutger street. On the 4th of July the com- mittee reported that they had agreed with a Mr. Clover for the use of his house, if needed, for a temporary hospital, and about the first of Au- gust a building was erected near Miller's Basin for the same purpose. About the middle of August Samuel Hall, John Dickey, Chauncey Phelps, John Y. Pierce, John Cooper, and William Fay were appointed assistants to the Board of Health, and it was made their duty to see to the care and removal of poor persons sick with the cholera and the burial of the dead.
Most of the foregoing resolutions and proceedings are taken from the book of minutes of the Board of Health, and convey a good general idea of the action taken to mitigate the horrors of the plague. The last record in the book is under date of August 13th. The council proceed- ings show, however, that on the 15th of that month Drs. Goodsell,
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Coventry, Peckham, and McCraith resigned from the Board of Health and E. S. Cozier, William Williams, Joseph E. Bloomfield, Spencer Kellogg, and Alfred Munson were appointed. On the 27th Mr. Bloom- field resigned and Moses Bagg was appointed. On the 14th of Septem - ber Dr. F. B. Wales, physician in the hospital, resigned and received resolutions of thankfulness for his labors. Dr. McCall resigned on the 7th of December.
At one time in the height of the disease the academy was used as a temporary hospital. The alarm felt by the community and with which it was seized upon the first appearance of the disease had become ex- treme, and large numbers fled from the city. It was estimated that 3,000 persons had departed to various parts of the surrounding country in search of a securer refuge from the mysterious scourge. All business was suspended ; schools and churches were closed ; the silence of death reigned in the streets ; few other vehicles were seen but hearses for the dead and carriages for the sick, or in provision for their needs ; minis- trants in like services were the only persons on foot that ventured abroad. Daily bulletins were issued by the Board of Health, and these were continued until early in the month of September. There is no doubt that fear added greatly to the malignity of the disease and set almost at naught the prescriptions of the physicians and the solicitous nursing of friends. The summary of deaths from August 12th to Au- gust 28th was announced as 51 ; the number of cases, 172. By Septem. ber 10th the number of deaths had reached 65 ; of cases, 206.
The hospital which had been established in the academy was discon- tinued on the 11th of September, and the president of the Board of Health published a statement declaring that no more danger existed to persons returning to the city if reasonable precautions were taken. The papers insisted that the health of the city was quite good. On the: 25th of September they announced that the "city was never more: healthy and not a case of cholera had occurred since the last issue."
The following additional particulars relating to the epidemic have been gathered from the public journals and other sources. Cholera broke out in New York and Albany early in July. All through the latter month and down to August 13th the Utica papers insisted that this place was in perfect health and congratulations appeared that no
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case of cholera had yet occurred. But on the 13th of August the papers printed the following : "The Board of Health have the melan- choly duty of announcing to their fellow citizens that the malignant cholera has at length appeared in our city. For the last twenty-four hours there have been four cases, all of which proved fatal. Physicians are ordered to report all cases at or before noon of each day." The four cases mentioned were Philo Rockwell (who was the first), Miss Os- trom, Miss Gainer, and a Mr. Martin. The first three lived in Wash- ington street, which was characterized as one of the cleanest in the city. From the 14th to the 16th there were four cases. On the 17th there were twenty eight cases. Two hospitals were soon provided-one near Mr. Plant's on upper Genesee street, a little out of the city, and the other at the corner of Columbia and State streets.
The public improvements of the year consisted of the laying out of Columbia street from Broadway to Genesee street according to John Fish's survey, a matter that had been often discussed before ; paving of parts of Whitesboro and Water streets; a sewer in Genesee street from J. Singer's store to the sewer in Broad street; Steuben Squre enclosed, walks laid, etc. In spite of the cholera $50 were appropriated for celebrating the 4th of July. It was also determined to erect two new school- houses, one in the Third and one in the Fourth ward. There were at this time five fire companies and a hook and ladder company, and the number of men reported as belonging to each was from thirty- five to sixty, an average of a fraction over fifty, and a contract was entered into for erecting an engine-house on Hotel street.
It will be of interest at this point-the beginning of the history of Utica as a city-to record the condition of business on the main thoroughfares of Genesee street, and the names of all occupants of build- ings on both sides of that street. This has been carefully compiled from existing records and is doubtless correct.
Genesee Street, east side-Beginning at the foot of the street, east side, was No. 9, William Dobson, grocer1. 11, John Mason & Co., paints, oil, and glass, also 3 Granite building. 13, Garnet Jones & Son, cabi- net warehouse. 15, George Martell, grocer. 19, Bagg's Hotel, corner
1 Mr. Dobson resided at the same number, and this was the case with a large number of the business men at that time-they lived in the same buildings in which they carried on trade
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Main, Bagg & Churchill, proprietors; J. Parker & Co., Elisha Backus, John Butterfield, stage proprietor's office. (Main street.) 21, John Adams, merchant. 2112, Gilman & Fuller, grocers. 23, Hubbell & Curran, hides and leather. 25, Joab Stafford, hardware merchant. 27, E. B. Shearman & Co., manufacturers and dealers in American goods and window glass. 29, Warner & Southmayd, druggists. 31, Jona- than R. Warner, hat and fur store. 35, Frederick K. Boughton, hat and fur store. 39, Stephen Thorn, saddler. 41, Elias Rose, grocer ; Joseph Jones, cabinet warehouse; John Baird, jr., hat and fur store. 43, Walton & Hardaway, saddle, harness, and trunkmakers. Corner Broad, Dodge & Dickey, grocers, confectioners. (Broad street.) 53, William Clarke, lottery and exchange office; Oneida Temperance House, Jonathan M. Ropes, proprietor. 55, Elisha M. Gilbert, dry goods ; Ephraim Feltt, dry goods. 57, Nathan Davis, dry goods; Joseph Kirk- land, mayor and attorney, John G. Floyd, attorney, and Dr. William Van Zandt, upstairs; also Joseph Colwell, publisher of the Utica In- telligencer. 59, Wells M. Gaylord, looking-glass store ; John Jay Hin- man and William A. Hinman, attorneys, upstairs. 63, Mrs. Lemuel Snow, millinery, etc. 65, Harvey Barnard, paper hangings; Mrs. Barnard, millinery store. 67, Bidwell & Williams, Utica cash store. 69, George Dutton, music dealer; Mrs. Dutton, millinery. 71, Thomas & Knowlson, dry goods. 73, Robert Jones, grocer and confectioner. 75, Roderick Matson, lottery and exchange office. (Catharine street.) 79, Ezra S. Barnum, grocer, justice, and commissioner of deeds; Jesse Newell, paints, paper hangings, etc., and brush factory; Cornelius Swartout, dry goods. 81, J. Murdock & Co., watchmakers and silver- smiths; H. & E. Phinney & Co., booksellers; Isaiah Tiffany (of H. & E. Phinney & Co.), commissioner of deeds; Elisha A. Maynard, editor and printer of the Utica Observer. 83, Alfred Hitchcock, druggist. 85, Thomas Harris & Co., crockery; Abraham B. Williams, draper and tailor ; Robert S. Lattimore, tailor; Thomas F. Field, merchant. 87, John R. Ludlow & Co., china, glass, and earthenware; William Jarrett. 89, Sanger & Benedict, hardware; Thomas J. Newland, cop- persmith ; Peter B. Ballou, livery stable, rear of National Hotel. 91, National Hotel, John Wells, proprietor. 93, James Sayre, hardware and dry goods ; John F. J. Vedder, boots and shoes ; Nicholas F. Ved-
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der ; Heman Norton, physician, upstairs. 95, James Henry, city boot and shoe store; Alexander M. Beebee, attorney, editor of New York Baptist Register, upstairs; Pierre O. Beebee, attorney, upstairs ; George L. Brown, hair-dresser. (Erie Canal.) Packet office below Genesee street bridge, next door to Coffee House. 101-103, Shepard's Coffee House, Abraham Shepard, proprietor ; Bachelder & Wells, phy- sicians, under the stage office, Shepard's Coffee House. 105, John H. Swift & Co., hats and furs. 107, Philip and Ira Thurber, grocers and fruits. 109, Hunt & Bristol, grocers and druggists. III, Edward Norris, grocer and forwarder. 113, Egan & Clarke, auctioneers and commission merchants; Circulating Library. 115, Franklin House. 117, Louis Green, grocer and ironmonger. 119, Samuel A. Sibley, stoves, copper, tin, and hardware. 121, Tillman & Benjamin, cabinet
warehouse. 123, United States Branch Bank, John C. Devereux, president. 129, Aylesworth & Holmes, importers and dealers in hard - ware; Isaac B. Everson, fruit store ; Tarous & Dufrainoit, hair dressers. (Bleecker street.) 131, William G. Allyn, auctioneer and commission merchant; Hallock Thorne, merchant; Erastus Cross (C. & Joslin and C. & Sykes), merchants, corner Bleecker. 133, Rowe & Woodruff, hardware and fancy goods; Arunah Monroe, tinner. 135, John Cun- ningham, millinery and fancy goods. 137, Edward Vernon, bookseller. 139, Frank B. Wall, physician. 13912, Utica Museum, upstairs over 141. 141, John P. Bachelder, physician. 143, John E. Powell, mer- chant tailor. 145, Miss M. Stoddard, millinery. 147, John Bradish, attorney, office upstairs. 149, William Clarke, ladies' shoe store. 151, Francis T. Lobridge, tailor; Farmers' Tavern, Moses B. Maxon, pro- prietor. 157, Richard B. Bloomfield, grocer, corner Elizabeth street. (Elizabeth street.) 159, Braman's Hotel (changed from Eagle Tavern), David M. Braman, proprietor. 161, James Dean, attorney. 161-163, Carmi Hart, cabinet warehouse, dealer in mahogany. (Devereux street.) `177, David L. Mallison, physician ; Hiram Rogers, physician. 199, City Hotel, Harvey Mason, proprietor, corner Carnahan street.
Genesee Street, west side-Owen Quin, blacksmith, corner Genesee and Water. 6, Hugh Rooney, grocer. 8, Edward Evans, tinner and brazier. 10, Edward Baldwin, dry goods and flour dealer; Miss Jane and Catharine Baldwin, milliners and mantua makers. 12, Ezra S.
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Comstock, grocer and confectioner, proprietor of city garden and baths; Levi Comstock, inspector of leather. 14, Levi Barnum, hat store ; Samuel Lightbody, hide and leather store; Harvey Hannahs, grocer, confectionery, and fruits, 2 Granite building ; John Mason & Co., paint, oil, and glass store, 3 Granite building. 20, Henry L. Smith, grocery store, 3 Granite building. 22, Hickcox & Brown, hardware, merchants, and grocers, Granite building. (Whitesboro street.) 26, Lemuel Snow, shoe store, corner Genesee and Whitesboro; Francis D. Grosvenor, general agency office, corner Genesee and Whitesboro; William Whiteley, musical instruments. 30, Leach & Bradley, military and jewelry store ; Thomas Davies, watch repairer; Patrick McCraith, physician, upstairs over 30 Genesee street. 32, Curtis & Savage,
crockery merchants and grocers. 34, Oren Clark, merchant. 36, Benjamin Frankland, city hat store. 38, Blake & Smith, drapers and tailors; Ostrom & Walker, attorneys, upstairs over 38 Genesee street ; Ward Hunt, up stairs, over 40 Genesee street. 42, James Ingols, fancy goods and hair-dresser; Jacob Overacre, lithograph printer, upstairs over 42 Genesee street; Samuel P. Lyman, attorney, upstairs over 42 Genesee street. 44, Spencer Field, clothing store; Matthew Talcott, attorney, upstairs over 44 Genesee street; Beriah B. Hotchkin, editor of the Elucidator, over 44; George W. Herrick, copperplate printer, upstairs over 44. 46, Joseph S. Porter, jewelry and military store ; Richard Huntington, silversmith and jeweler; Otis Childs, spectacle maker. 52, George Brayton, fancy and staple goods and wholesale dealer in stoneware. 54, Barton & Butler, dry goods merchants. 56, Stocking & Hunt, hats and furs. 58, Daniel B. Lothrop, druggist and grocer. 60, William Williams, bookseller and publisher ; Balch, Styles & Wright, engravers and copperplate printers. 62, Robert Shearman, dealer in carpetings and dry goods. 64, Theodore S. Gold, dry goods merchant. 66, Oliver A. Newell, dry goods merchant. 68, Samuel Thomson, dealer in carpetings and dry goods. 70, Ellis & Cooper, dry goods merchants ; Ontario Branch Bank, A. B. Johnson, president. 72, Stacy & Allen, dry goods merchants. 74, Thomas G. Perkins, dry goods; Horatio Seymour, attorney, upstairs over 74; Samuel D. . Dakin, attorney, John Fish, city surveyor, both over 74. 76, Thomas Hopper, dry goods merchant, Marble building ; Dutton & Hovey, dry
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goods merchants, Marble building; Kirkland & Bacon, attorneys, I Marble building; William Tracy, attorney, 2 Marble building ; J. Wat- son Williams, attorney and clerk in chancery, 4 Marble building ; Nathan Williams, circuit judge, 5 Marble building ; Burton D. Hurl- burt, attorney, 6 Marble building; Sidney T. Fairchild, attorney, 6 Marble building. 78, Daniel J. Morris, draper and tailor. 80, O'Neil & Martin, hardware and copper manufactory and store. 82, John & William Williams, druggists and wholesale and retail dealers in grocer- ies and paints and dyes. 84, Elisha Wells, boots and shoes, Law building ; John Parsons, justice of the peace, Law building; Thomas Walker, I Law building ; King & Wright, attorneys, 2 Law building ; Wetmore & Denio, attorneys, 4 Law building. 88, Daniel Cleveland, dry goods merchant, Law building; Stalham Williams, treasurer of packet boat companies ; James Dana, importer and dealer in hardware and saddlery. 90, Parker & Hastings, wholesale grocers. 92, Joseph A. Sherman, dry goods merchant; Elhanan W. Williams, attorney, up- stairs; Asa S. Ruddock, physician, upstairs. 94, Otis Manchester, draper and tailor ; Grove Penny, tailor; Hastings & Tracy, booksell- ers, printers, and publishers of the Western Recorder ; Western Recorder office, Thomas Hastings, editor. 96, Lord & Shapley, dry goods; Beardsley & Matteson, attorneys, upstairs. 98, John Camp & Broth- ers, merchants. 100, Spencer Kellogg & Son, dry goods; John Os- born, glover, upstairs. 102, Jesse W. & Charles R. Doolittle, dry goods. 104, Alexander Seymour, dry goods. 106, Milton Brayton, dry goods. 108, Hughes & Barry, tailors; Thompson Bacon, jr., boots and shoes; Jacob Vanderheyden, cordwainer. 110, Ziba & Phil- emon Lyon, tailors; Simon V. Oley, boots and shoes and leather. I12, William W. Backus, dry goods, corner of Liberty street; Al- bert Bacon, boots and shoes, corner of Genesee and Liberty street. (Liberty street.) 114, Dennis Nellis, tailor, corner Liberty. 116, Charles Brewster, lottery and exchange agent; Samuel C. Brewster, lot- tery and exchange broker; George Parker, silversmith ; Thomas T. Rowe, watch repairer. 118, Riley Rogers, gunsmith, upstairs. 120, Benjamin F. Brooks, music and jewelery ; Norman Tryon, auctioneer ; Joab Griswold, watchmaker; George Thorp, silverplater ; Landais Wood, silversmith ; John P. Merrill, carver, upstairs. 122, Alexander
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Cameron, auction and commission merchant; Rufus Northway, jr., printer and publisher of the Utica Sentinel and Gazette, upstairs, cor- ner Canal ; Russell Loomis, innkeeper and grocer, and Lewis C. Loomis, grocer, corner Genesee and Canal. 124, Mairs & Dows, grocers and tinners, corner Genesee and Canal. (Erie Canal.) 126-128, Butler, McDonough & Co., forwarders and commission merchants and whole- Sale dealers in merchandise ; John B. Pease, justice of the peace, upstairs over 126; Henry H. Pease, attorney, and Thomas Goodsell, upstairs. 130, George Manchester, draper and tailor; McAllister & Grant, phy- sicians, upstairs. 132, Dennis Saumet, hair-dresser. 134, John B. Marchisi, druggist and grocer. (Franklin Square.) Murray & Carroll, dry goods ; Maynard & Spencer, attorneys, upstairs ; White & Crafts, attorneys, upstairs ; William S. Spear, publisher of the Lever ; all of these were in the Devereux building. John Anson, grocer, head of Hotel street. Thomas Jenkins, boots and shoes, head of Hotel street ; Mrs. Midlam, millinery, head of Hotel street ; William G. Miller, sad- dler and harnessmaker, head of Hotel street; James S. Foster & Co., merchants, corner of Fayette. (Fayette street.) 136, Bennett & Bright, printers, booksellers, and publishers of the New York Baptist Register and Youth's Miscellany ; Theodore Pomeroy, physician, upstairs ; Quartus Graves, publisher of the Record of Genius and the Co- Opera- tor. 138, Hurlburt & Brownell, manufacturers and dealers in cotton goods. 140, Edward Owens, cutler and surgical instrument maker. 142, Stephen M. Perine, chair warehouse ; William C. Rogers, cabinet warehouse. 144, Robert Disney, druggist ; John P. B. Sloan, physi-
cian.
146, John Hale, master mason and merchant; Harvey N. Smith,
coroner. 148, Charles Easton, hardware and paints; George North, merchant. 154, Thomas Bradwell, boots and shoes. 156, Henry New- land, boots and shoes. 158, Robert Higginbotham, shoe store; Isaac N. Meacham, physician. (Columbia street.) 162-164, William B. Gray, saddle, harness, and trunkmaker. 178, Milo Arnold, grocer, corner Pearl street. (Pearl street.) Rev. Samuel Whittlesey, young ladies" seminary, Genesee and Pearl.
To this list are added the names and residences of a few additional persons whose places of business were outside of the limits included in the foregoing: Parker & Swift, grocers, No. I Canal buildings (on
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the canal between Hotel, Seneca, and Liberty streets). Jacob C. Space, No. 7 Canal buildings. John Guild, merchant, Bleecker east of Bridge. William Cattell, city mill. Nicholas and Nehemiah Hallock, pork packers, Elizabeth street. B. S. Merrill, book binder, corner of Main and Third. Thomas M. Francis, canal collector. Jacob Wrattan, car- penter and joiner. Steuben Square : Charles Churchill, lumber dealer, residence Seneca above Canal. James McGregor, master mason, resi- dence Seneca above Liberty. Stafford Palmer, carpenter and joiner, residence Washington above Fayette. J. C. Shippey, master mason, residence Fayette west of Cornelia. Lyman Scranton, carpenter, resi- dence Washington above Pearl. Chester D. Clark, auctioneer, residence Cooper west of Broadway. George Lawson, currier, residence Whites- boro west of Broadway. Roberts & Sidebotham, butchers, 14-16 Clinton market. Tunis Van Syce, though he was temporarily absent from the place in 1832, had already been ten years a grocer here. In 1833 he built the Oneida brewery and conducted it until his failure, but lived here some time longer.
Resuming our narrative I proceed to notice the new comers of the year 1832. Of the aspirants of the profession of law three had de- parted by 1837, viz .: Sidney T. Fairchild, Fortune C. White, and Fla- vel W. Bingham. The following were longer connected with the his- tory of Utica, viz .: Horatio Seymour, Alvan Stewart, Burton D. Hurlburt, J. Watson Williams, and Willard Crafts. Sketches of Mr. Seymour and Mr. Williams will be found in the Biographical Department and of Mr. Stewart in that of the Bench and Bar.
Willard Crafts, a native of Pomfret, Conn., was born in 1789 and came the following year with his parents to Otsego County, N. Y. He was graduated at Middlebury College, Vt., and after pursuing a course of French studies in Montreal began the study of law with Robert Campbell, of Cooperstown, finishing his course with George Griffin, of New York city. In 1815 he opened an office as attorney in Bridge. water, whence he removed after seventeen years of practice to this city in the spring of 1832. This practice he continued until his death, De- cember 9, 1866. Mr. Crafts was never ambitious of either fame or wealth. He acquired a sufficiency for an unostentatious life and never sacrificed a principle for advancement or gain. His tastes were simple ;
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his habits temperate and frugal ; his manners affable and genial; and his home hospitable. Equable of temper he pursued the even tenor of his way without either giving or taking offence, and was ever ready to do any service in his power.
An obituary notice of Burton D. Hurlburt informs us that he was born in Augusta, Oneida County, May 30, 1807. He was educated in Hamilton Academy and entered Hamilton College, but two years later went to Union, where he was graduated with valedictorian honors in 1829. He studied law in different places and was admitted to practice in 1832. He was a few months a partner of Sidney T. Fairchild and was ambitious to rise, but ill health forced him to retire from general practice about 1845. While still doing law business he devoted him . self for some years to the oversight and management of a farm in New Hartford. The failure of Frederick Hollister caused him a heavy loss as his endorser, and through this failure he was engaged as attorney by Brown Brothers, of New York, in important suits affecting the title to the Clayville mills, which Mr. Hollister had owned from 1842 to 185 1. Mr. Hurlburt had charge of the steam woolen-mills, the property of A. T. Stewart, of New York. He was thereby involved in much liti- gation and was successful in seventeen out of eighteen of their suits; the last one, involving $50,000, was carried before the Court of Appeals and was won by Mr. Hurlburt after six years of prosecution. Mr. Hurlburt was one of the original stockholders of the Oneida Bank. He died September 25, 1887.
Physicians now first noted as resident are Lucien B. Wells, Asahel Grant, John P. Newland, John P. B. Sloan, John Budlong, and Row . land Sears. Dr. Wells studied with Dr. Theodore Pomeroy and prac- ticed for some years elsewhere, but returued again to Utica and has lived and practiced here for quite a number of years.
Dr. Asahel Grant soon left the place to go on a mission to the Nes- torians of Persia. His labors among them and his history of that an- cient semi-Christian people are well known. Dr. Newland practiced some time here.
Palmer V. Kellogg, son of Spencer Kellogg, the merchant of 1825, became in 1832 a partner with him in the dry goods trade, which con- nection was changed in 1842 to one with James Rockwell. This lasted
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until 1847, after which and until 1853 he had as a partner his brother, Charles C. Kellogg. About this time he entered on the making and sale of clothing, at first in company with Alexander Rae, but shortly after with John H. Prentiss and James K. Hitchcock, under the firm name of P. V. Kellogg & Co. They made a large quantity of goods which were mostly sent for sale to an associate house in Chicago. To that city Messrs. Kellogg and Prentiss removed in 1869. There the manufacture was continued on a still larger scale, and there Mr. Kel- logg amassed considerable wealth. In addition to the cares of his busi- ness Mr. Kellogg was while here much busied in politics and exerted a good deal of influence in the Whig party. He was ambitious for office and skilled in the advanced methods of politics. He was supervisor for the city, sheriff of the county, and United States marshal for the North - ern District of New York.
James Dutton, a native of Lebanon, Conn., after serving as a clerk in Richmond, Va., came to Utica in 183 I and served in the same capacity with Anson Thomas. In 1832 he established a dry goods business of his own and continued it more than an average life-time, always com- manding the entire confidence of all who held relations with him. He was naturally retiring and modest and managed his affairs as became such a nature. His investments were carefully made. Fortune smiled upon his industry and integrity and he quietly enjoyed its fruits. His home was for many years in New Hartford while he carried on business here. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of that village and was an honor to his Christian profession. His first wife was Eliz- abeth, daughter of Walter King, by whom he had four children. His second was Annie, daughter of Adam Traquard, of Philadelphia.
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