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they removed in 1857 to Skaneateles, where John Stephenson died September 18, 1894, and where his wife's death occurred December 31, 1890. Of their five children one is deceased ; the others are Matthew M., John C., Eliza J., and Mary A., all resi- dents of Skaneateles.
John C. Stephenson was educated in the district school of Mottville, and at the age of fourteen entered the office of the Skaneateles Democrat to learn the printer's trade. His progress was so rapid that he soon assumed practical charge of the paper. Later he was night editor and foreman of the Auburn Morn- ing News for one year. On March 21, 1874, he began the publication of the Skaneatc- les Free Press, of which he has ever since been the editor and proprietor. His first edi- tion numbered 400 copies ; now the paid circulation amounts to nearly 1,600. For twenty- two years he has never been absent from the office a half- day on account of illness; has never failed to be present and superintend the issue of the paper on every publication day; has read the proof of every column of type set up in the establishment; has never been absent from the printing office more than sev. enty-five consecutive hours at JOHN C. STEPHENSON. a time; and has never missed a publication day nor issued less than a full four-page or eight-page paper. This is a record of which any publisher might well feel proud. By perseverance, careful business management, and increasing application he has placed the Free Press among the leading weeklies of the county. As a newspaper it admirably reflects local public sentiment, ably fosters the privileges and interests of the community, and carries weight of argument and an epitome of current events wherever it goes.
Mr. Stephenson takes a lively and often an active interest in the affairs of the vil- lage and town. He is a member of Elbridge Lodge, No. 275, I. O. O. F., of Skan- eateles, and in 1889 was largely instrumental in organizing the Onondaga County Press Association, of which he was chosen president. He was married on October 16, 1882, to Miss Louisa E., daughter of James Nolan, of Skaneateles. They have two children: John C., jr., and Louisa N,
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HOWARD C. BEAUCHAMP.
HOWARD C. BEAUCHAMP, editor and publisher of the Fayetteville Recorder, Is the only son of Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, of Baldwinsville, and was born in Ravenna, Ohio, October 7, 1865. His parents were then residents of Baldwinsville, Onondaga county, and there he was educated in the public schools and academy, graduating from the latter institution in 1884. In the fall of that year he entered Cornell Uni- versity, from which he was graduated as B. L. in 1888, with special distinction in his- torical work. While in college he was, a part of the time, one of the chief editors of the Cor- nell Magazine, and in that capacity received a practical training which proved of value in after years.
Mr. Beauchamp's first work in the printing office was on the Baldwinsville Gazette, where he early formed an in- clination for a journalistic career. In this he derived no little inspiration and enthu- siasm from the fact that his paternal grandfather founded and for a time conducted the Skaneateles Democrat, the oldest weekly paper in Onon- daga county outside of Syra- cuse. After graduating from Cornell he accepted a reporto- rial position on the New York HOWARD C. BEAUCHAMP. Tribune and a year later en- tered upon similar duties in Rochester on the Post-Express. Two months afterward, however, he became a reporter and did general department work on the New York Press, with which he remained one year. During the ensuing year he filled various positions in Syracuse, and on June 1, 1891, purchased of A. W. Wilkin the Fayetteville Recorder, of which he has since been the editor and proprietor. He has made the Recorder a bright, reliable, and successful family newspaper, one of the oldest and best weeklies in the county. He is a member of the Fayetteville Lodge, No. 578, F. & A. M., and takes a lively interest in the welfare of the community.
June 29, 1893, Mr. Beauchamp was married to Miss Lillian Frances, daughter of Frank A. Weed, then of Baldwinsville, but now of Syracuse. They have one daugh- ter, Elizabeth.
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CHARLES B. BALDWIN.
THE subject of this sketch was born in Syracuse, N. Y., October 26, 1858, and was the son of Charles and Laura Woodworth Blanchard, The father had died shortly before the birth of this son, and the widowed mother was left to care for three chil- dren, two sons and a daughter. The youngest son, Charles, was adopted in Septem- ber, 1862, by Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Baldwin, most worthy people of Baldwinsville, N. Y., and taking their name has since resided in the land of his adoption. A com- mon school education, with Regents' diplomas in these completed his school work, and after a season of work by the month on a farm he in 1875 went to learn the printing business with George S. Clark, then editor of the Gazette. In 1876 Mr. Clark, his employer, was compelled, much against his inclination, to reduce the ex- penses of his establishment and Mr. Baldwin found himself temporarily out of em- ployment. He returned to his former vocation and worked for several years for one of the prominent farmers of Lysander. J. F. Greene having succeeded to the
ownership of the Gazette, he offered Mr. Baldwin a position which was accepted. Under Mr. Greene's management and encouragement he was promoted to various positions of trust until January 1, 1888, he was taken into the firm, the members then being J. F. Greene, James A. Ward, and C. B. Baldwin, under the title of the Gazette Publish- ing Company. This copart- nership existed until 1894, when W. F. Morris, one of the most prominent citizens of the village, purchased the in- terests of Messrs. Greene and Ward, the firm name continu- ing the same until May 1, 1895, when the business was incor- porated under the title of W. F. Morris Publishing Com- pany, with W. F. Morris, pres- ident; C. B. Baldwin, vice- C. B. BALDWIN. president; W. W. Lewis, see- retary and treasurer. The Gazette is one of the oldest and best country weeklies in Central New York The editorial and other departments are conducted with a thorough system which makes it a progressive purveyor of local happenings, and is clean and stands for everything which is pure and good. The paper was established as the Republican in 1844 and as the Gazette in 1846, and this year (1896) will appro- priately celebrate the semi-centennial of its existence.
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JOHN L. KYNE.
JOHN L. KVNE, editor and general manager of the East Syracuse News, was born on a farm in Marcellus, Onondaga county, June 19, 1855. His father, Thomas, came to America from Ireland about 1840, settled in Marcellus, and died there February 28, 1895, aged seventy-nine years. Mr. Kyne was educated in the common schools of his native town and was graduated from the Clinton Liberal Institute at Clinton (now at Fort Plain), N. Y., in 1879. He then went to Albany and entered the employ of the Albany Telegraph, where he remained eight years, ris- ing from the position of can- vasser to that of general man- ager. In December, 1884, he formed a partnership with Edwin F. Bussey, under the firm name of Bussey & Kyne, and started the East Syracuse News, with which he has ever since been connected. Two years later he became sole owner, and in February, 1893, he organized the East Syra- cuse News Publishing Com- pany, of which he has since been the secretary, treasurer, and general manager.
Mr. Kyne, through his own personal exertions, has placed the News among the leading weekly newspapers of the JOHN L. KYNE. county. Its extensive circula- tion and influence are wholly the result of his individual enterprise and able business management. As an editor he is shrewd, capable, and efficient, a fluent writer, and a talented critic. Possessed of unusual energy, and endowed with striking native characteristics, he is a close observer of both events and human nature, and his political and other articles have gained for him a wide and favorable reputation. He is also prominently identi- fied with the growth and prosperity of the village, to the building up of which he has given both time and money. For many years he has been quite largely inter- ested in real estate, and besides has taken an active part in furthering the general welfare of the place. He was one of the chief promoters of the Syracuse and East Side Street Railway between the city and East Syracuse, was one of the incorpo- rators of the company, has been continuously a member of its board of directors, and was for a time superintendent of the line. He was also an incorporator and has since been a director of the Central City Building and Loan Association of Syracuse.
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In November, 1895, he was made assistant general manager of the Auburn City Railway, which position he still holds, besides attending to the duties of his editorial work and other interests. He is a staunch Republican in politics and has very creditably filled a number of local offices. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., the K. of P., and the A. O. U. W.
WILL T. HALL.
WILL T. HALL, editor and publisher of the Skaneateles Democrat, the oldest weekly newspaper in the county outside of Syracuse, was born in Skaneateles vil- lage February 28, 1862. His grandfather, Capt. James Hall, a native of Massachu- setts, came to Skaneateles at a very early day and died there in 1857, aged about sixty-five. He was for many years engaged in the manufacture of carriages and wagons in partnership with his brother, Capt. Seth Hall, their establishment being situated on the site of the Dixon House, and about where the Kelley blacksmith shop in Jordan street now stands. Capt. James ac- quired his title in the old State militia. He was twice married, his second wife being Persis Miller, who died in 1890 at the age of ninety-three. Their chil- dren were William, of Skane- ateles; Edwin, deceased; Ade- line (Mrs. Orrin Terry) of New York city; Sarah (Mrs. George A. Hamlin), of Jersey City, N. J. ; Sanford, deceased; Henry, deceased; and Allen of New York city. William Hall suc- ceeded his father in the carriage business and continued for sev- eral years under the firm name WILL T. HALL. of Hall & Porter. He married Mary A. Whitfield, of Newark, N. J., and has two sons: Will T. Hall and Warren H. H., both of Skaneateles.
Will T. Hall was educated in the public schools of his native village, where, at the age of fifteen, he entered the Democrat office and learned the trade of printer. After working as a journeyman on the dailies of Syracuse and Philadelphia he returned to Skaneateles in 1888, and on January 1, 1890, assumed charge as editor and publisher
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of the Democrat, succeeding the venerable Harrison B. Dodge, who for nearly forty years had been its efficient conductor. Mr. Hall has since carried on the establish- ment, keeping the paper up to its former high standard and improving it in various departments. He is a Republican in politics, thoroughly alive to the needs of the community, and keenly interested in every project promising general benefit and advancement. He is a member of Skaneateles Lodge, No. 532, F. & A. M.
Mrs. Hall was married on the 16th of October, 1895, to Miss Lella S. Odell, daughter of Levi Odell, of Moravia, N. Y.
FRANK L. MAINE.
FRANK L. MAINE, editor of the Manlius Eagle, was born in Fenner, Madison county, N. Y., February 20, 1853. His father, Asa R. Maine, was a prominent resi- dent and farmer of that town, was for many years supervisor, justice of the peace, etc., and at the time of his death in 1862 was collector of internal reve- nue.
FRANK L. MAINE.
Mr. Maine was educated in thecommon schools of hisnative town and at Cazenovia Semin- ary, taught school for eight years, and entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B., in 1880, and where he was admitted to the bar of that State at the same time. Prior to this, how- ever, he had been admitted to the bar of Indiana, and in April, 1880, he was admitted to the New York bar at Ithaca. He practiced his profession about three years in copartnership with N. R. Chapman, of Fay- etteville, and was attorney for
the Farmers' Bank of that place, until it ceased existence.
In 1883 Mr. Maine took charge of the Fayetteville Recorder, which was then owned by a stock company, and conducted it as editor and manager for about two years. When that paper passed into the hands of W. A. Wilkin he remained in the office about three years as foreman. On December 21, 1887, Mr. Maine started The
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Eagle in Manlius village, making " the thirteenth paper established in that place, ' and has since been its editor and publisher.
Mr. Maine is a Republican in politics, and has served as a justice of the peace in Manlius since 1886 and as justice of sessions one term. He is also a surveyor and civil engineer, and has done considerable work in this line in his own and adjoining towns. He is a member of Military Lodge, No. 93, F. & A. M., Manlius, was master of Fayetteville Lodge, No. 578, F. & A. M., for five successive years, and is a member and for three terms was noble grand of Limestone Creek Lodge, No. 245. I. O. O. F., Fayetteville. He takes a lively interest in the welfare and progress of the commu- nity, and as an editor is able, progressive and influential.
February 2 1881, Mr. Maine was married to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Henry U. King, now of Phelps, Ontario county. They have three children : Eloise G., Paul H .. and Murray A.
CLARENCE H. BIBBENS.
CLARENCE H. BIBRENS, editor and publisher of the Jordan Times, is the eldest son of the late Dr. E. Weed Bibbens, and was born on a farm in Spafford, Onondaga county, December 20, 1859. Dr. Bibbens was born in Weedsport, N. Y., September 4, 1836, and was a grandson on his father's side of one of six brothers, all of whom were Methodist min- isters, and who was one of the early circuit riders of western Onondaga and adjoining terri- tory. He was educated in his native village and at Fort Plain, N. Y., and early in life settled on a farm in Spafford, whence he went a few years later to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up the study of medicine and where he was graduated from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College in 1867. He practiced his profession in Weedsport about one year, was in Clark- son, Monroe county, about the same period, and practiced med- icine in Brockport, N. Y., about three years, and then returned CLARENCE H. BIBBENS. to his native village, where he continned successfully until about 1887, when he removed to Syracuse, where he died March 10, 1896. There he also engaged in the drug business for a time. Ile mar-
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ried Miss Cornelia E. Barnes, of Weedsport, who survives him, as do also their four children: Clarence H., of Jordan; Dr. Stewart S., of Syracuse; Mrs. L. C. Sherman, of Savannah, Wayne county; and Susie C., who resides with her mother in Syracuse.
Clarence H. Bibbens was educated in the Union Free School and Academy of Weedsport, and in 1880, soon after completing his studies, came to Jordan, Onon- daga county, where on February 1st of that year he purchased the Jordan Intelli- gencer, which he published about two years. He then changed the name to the Jordan Times, beginning a new volume, and has continued ever since as its editor and publisher. He is a Republican in politics, and has made the Times not only a power in local affairs, but one of the brightest and ablest country weeklies in the county. He was for five successive years clerk of the village, and is a member of Jordan Lodge, No. 386, F. & A. M. He takes a lively and often a prominent inter- est in the welfare and prosperity of the town and village, and is keenly alive to all that affects the community.
Mr. Bibbens was married on June 12, 1884, to Miss Luella M., daughter of James R. and Mary J. Loomis, of Brewerton, but now of Fulton, N. Y. They have two children: Leola H. and Llewellyn C.
CHARLES P. CORNELL.
CHARLES P. CORNELL was born in the village of Skaneateles, N. Y., April 15, 1861, son of Horace and Amy Cornell. He was educated at the academy in Skaneateles. In 1877 he entered the employ of Harrison B. Dodge, then editor and proprietor of the Skaneateles Democrat, and after serving an apprenticeship of three years, se- cured a position in the job department of the Auburn Advertiser, where he re- mained but a short time, when he was promoted to assistant foreman. After leaving the employ of the Auburn Advertiser, where he stayed four and one half years, he secured a situation in the job department of the Rochester Post-Express. He was next employed as superintendent of the Auburnian, and when that paper was consolidated with the Auburn Bulletin, he secured the position of sup- erintendent of the Morning Dispatch office in Auburn, where he remained for some time, when he resigned his position in order to establish the Baldwinsville Era, which he started in November, 1885, the first issue of the paper bearing the date of November 21, 1885, and has ever since been its sole proprietor and editor. There had been several attempts to start a second paper, but each proved a failure, until Mr. Cornell started the " Era," which has always been a good paying invest- ment and is accorded a large trade. He was also the promoter and first president of the Onondaga Press Association. August 4, 1881, Mr. Cornell married Miss E. May Royce, of Moravia, N. Y.
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C. A. ROE.
CARY A. ROE, editor and publisher of the Marcellus Observer and Camillus Enter- prise, is a son of Rev. Andrew Roe, a prominent clergyman of the M. E. church, and was born in Gouverneur, N. Y., August 5, 1861. His earlier education was ob- tained in the public schools in the towns where his father held pastorates. He was graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1880, and the same year entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1884, and which in 1887 conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. There he at- tained special distinction in natural science. After graduating he taught Latin for two years in Dickinson Sem- inary at Williamsport, Pa., and natural science one year in the High School of Sara- toga, N. Y.
Mr. Roe came to Marcel-, lus, Onondaga County, in 1887, and in March of that year purchased of the late A. de L. Rogers the Marcel- lus Observer, of which he has since been the editor and proprietor. On January 1, 1894, he started the Camillus Enterprise, printing it at the Observer office, but issuing from the village of Camillus. Mr. Roe is one of the ablest country editors in the coun- ty, and has made his two papers powerful factors in the communities which they represent. The Observer especially, under his ener- getic and business-like man- C. A. ROE. agement, ranks high among the leading weeklies of Onondaga. He is a Republican in politics, takes an active interest in local affairs and all worthy movements, and served the village of Mar- cellus in 1894, as president.
In June, 1886, Mr. Roe married Mary L., daughter of Joseph Coats, of Watkins, N. Y., and they have one son, Ralph Coats Roe.
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RICHARD R. DAVIS.
RICHARD R. DAVIS was born in Prince Edward county, Ont., July 21, 1853, and came with his parents to Cape Vincent, N. Y., in 1859, becoming a citizen of the
United States before he was sixteen years of age, by the naturalization of his father. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Cape Vincent, N. Y., and in the high and model schools at Picton, Ont. He learned the printing trade in the office of the Picton Ga- zette, and was associated for a time during 1875 with W. H. Ashley as editors and propri etors of the Owen Sound Comet. The following year, in company with R. W. Well- banks he published the Picton Sun. In 1879 he founded the Saved Army Trumpet, a paper published in the interest of the Saved Army of Canada, resigning the editorial and business management of the Trumpet in 1881 to accept a position in the Government RICHARD R. DAVIS. Printing Office at Ottawa, Ont. February 1, 1888, he entered into partnership with Frank R. Slayton, publisher of the Tully Times, assuming full management of the business. The firm of Slayton & Davis continued four years. and was dissolved on February 1, 1892, Mr. Slayton selling his interest in the office to the present proprietor, R. R. Davis.
WILLIAM F. BRAND.
WILLIAM F. BRAND, editor and proprietor of the Liverpool Telegraph, was born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., September 4, 1861, and is a son of Charles E. and Harriet M. (Hill) Brand. He was educated in the public schools and acad-
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emy of his native village, graduating in 1883, and learned his trade in the Patriot office in Cuba, Allegany county, and in the office of the News in Ellicottville. In 1886 he became editor and proprietor of the last named paper. In the spring of 1888 he removed to East Syracuse, Onondaga county, and for four years held the position of associate editor of the East Syracuse News under John L. Kyne. In May, 1893, he came to Liverpool and on the 21st of that month establish- ed the Liverpool Telegraph, which he has developed into a bright and progressive week- ly newspaper. It is non-par- tisan in politics, and ably represents the best interests of the village and inhabitants. Mr. Brand is a member of Liverpool Lodge, No. 525, F. & A. M., and takes a keen interest in the material ad vancement of the commu- nity.
WILLIAM F. BRAND.
RT. REV. FREDERIC D. HUNTINGTON, D.D., LL. D., L. H. D.
RT. REV. FREDERIC DAN HUNTINGTON, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York since its organization in 1869, is the youngest of eleven children of Rev. Dan and Elizabeth (Phelps) Huntington, and was born in Hadley, Mass., May 28, 1819. Rev. Dan Huntington was of colonial Connecticut stock, and John Warner Barker, in his "Connecticut Historical Collections," gives the following quaint in- scription copied from a monument in the ancient burial ground at Norwich :
"Here lyes inter'd ye remains of Deacon Christopher Huntington of Norwich, November 1st, 1660, and ye first born of males in ye town. He served near 40 years in ye office of a deacon, and died April ye 24th, 1735, in ye 75th yr. of his age. Memento mori."
A grandson of the founder of the family removed to Lebanon, where, after two generations, Rev. Dan was born, the seventh of a large family of children. He en- tered Yale College at the age of sixteen, and after his graduation became a tutor there. He entered the ministry, was married on New Year's day of the present century, and in 1816 removed to Hadley, Mass., to live on his wife's estate. Here
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he carried on the extensive farm with the aid of his sons, and was also for some time preceptor of Hopkins Academy, where the future bishop was prepared for college. Each of his children received a thorough education, three of the sons being sent to Harvard and the daughters to Mrs. Willard's Female Seminary in Troy.
Bishop Huntington entered Amherst College in 1835 and was graduated from that institution as the valedictorian of his class. He spent his vacations in teaching, his leisure in reading and study, and imbibed those sturdy principles of New England life which distinguish so many sons of that generation. The family faith, originally that of strict Puritan type, was that of Congregationalism, under which the Rev. Dan exercised his ministry, but during the reaction from Calvinism both he and his estimable wife became impressed by those teachings which dwelt upon mercy rather than wrath. In the cause of the slave, of temperance, and of universal peace the mother found her delight. Dr. Channing, at this period, was ably representing the doctrines of Unitarianism, and under these influences it was natural that the future bishop should seek the ministry of that denomination. After leaving college he spent three years in the Cambridge Divinity School and then settled in Boston at the South Congregational church, where his inspiring influence was felt beyond that body, and where he also achieved a brilliant reputation as a public lecturer. In 1855 he was called to the Plummer professorship of Christian morals in Harvard College and as preacher to the university, and in these capacities acquired even greater fame through the fearless and candid spirit of his teachings. In 1860 a number whose spiritual life had been quickened by his religious devotion organized Emanuel church, Boston, and of this he became rector immediately after his ordination to the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal church. Many of his sermons preached during his rectorship there are collected in two volumes entitled "Christ in the Christian Year."
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