Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century, Vol. II, Part 73

Author: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: [Boston] : The Boston History Company
Number of Pages: 1094

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Loomis, Lorenzo, Manlius, was born in Berkshire Co., Mass., Feb. 19, 1808. The family trace their descent back to Joseph Loomis, who came from Braintree, Eng- land, in 1638, and settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1639. Hezekiah Loomis, the father of Lorenzo D., was born in Westfield, Mass., and came to New York State in 1817 and settled at Oran, where he spent the balance of his life, dying in 1852. Lorenzo

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D., the youngest of the three sons was given a good education and as soon as old enough engaged in the mercantile business at Oran, where he also filled the position of postmaster for many years. In 1851 he removed to Syracuse, where he engaged in contract work on railroads, etc., which profession he followed for many years. He died in Troy, Dec. 20, 1871. Mr. Loomis was a member of the Masonic Lodge for a great many years. In 1835 he married Sarah, daughter of Artemus Jackson, by whom he had three children. One child died in infancy, Chandler H. is president of the Atlantic Dredging Co., of New York city; and Harriet, widow of the late C. B. Morse, a civil engineer of considerable fame.

Lewis, Edward, Manlius, was born at Manlius Center, Aug. 21, 1851. Jabez, his father, was a native of Montgomery Co. and was one of the earliest settlers in the town of Manlius. On his arrival here he took up a large tract of land and was influ- ential in having a large part of the northern portion of the town settled and culti- vated. He established a store at Manlius Center, which at that time was one of the most extensive in the county. He represented his district twice in the State Assem- bly and was supervisor of the town a number of times. He died Oct. 27 1872. He was the father of eight children, five of whom are now living. Edward, the third son, was educated in the common schools. After leaving school he engaged in farming until nineteen years of age. He then went west and entered the employ of the Union Pacific R. R. Co., as fireman, where he remained two years. Returning to New York State, he entered the employ of the N. Y. C. R. R. Co. In the fifteen years he has had charge of an engine, he has had but one accident. He is a member of Division 14, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and also of the Royal Arcanum Lodge No. 383. Jan. 16, 1875, Mr. Lewis married Susan E., daughter of Capt, David P. Johnson, of Milton, Delaware. They are the parents of three very bright children and they intend to give them the highest education within their reach. They are Eva May, Seward E., and Esther Olive.

Murray, Blake A., Manlius, was born in Collamer, town of Dewitt, Aug, 15, 1858. George Murray, his father was born in Albany Co. in 1824, where he made his home until his marriage, which occurred when he was twenty-one years old. He then moved into Cicero, where he lived for a few years, then moved to Collamer, where he made his home until April, 1867. He then returned to his native town, where he remained until the April preceding his death, which occurred June 20, 1872, then moved into the town of Dewitt on a farm of 140 acres, which he bought in 1870. The old homestead containing 100 acres, was purchased in 1867 and is still owned by the family. The wife of George, Harriet J., is a daughter of Robert Knox, a native of the town of Manlius. She is now living in Syracuse at the age of sixty-eight years. Of this union seven children were born, three of whom are now living: Cassius W., a farmer of South Bay; Robert A., who conducts a sale stable in Syracuse and is manager of the old homestead farm; and Blake A. Blake was given a good com- mon school education. He then engaged in farming and lived on the farm of his parents until 1877. At the division of the farm, after his father's death, he took the 45 acres on the south side of the road, and after his marriage in 1877, he conducted that for two years and then sold to his brother. He then conducted a farm at Cicero Center for ten years, then the Rood farm in Manlius for one year. In 1891 he took charge of the Stephen M. Clement farm, working it on shares. This is a fine farm

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of 155 acres on which a general line of farming is followed, making specialties of tobacco, grain and hay. Mr. Murray has held several minor town offices. Nov. 1, 1877, he married Sarah A., daughter of John R. and Sarah A. (Hamilton) Lowe. john R. Lowe was a native of England, born in Tenterden, Kent Co., in 1824, and came to this country in 1843. He died Jan. 10, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Murray have eight children: John 1., aged 16; Harriet J., aged 14; George W., aged 12; Fred A., aged 10; Willie B., aged 8; Mabel E., aged 6; and Frank R., aged 4 years, and Hazel M., aged 5 months.

Maine, Marvin T., Manlius, was born in the town of Sullivan, Madison Co., Sept. 1, 1842. Paul P., his father, was a native of Madison Co., and a farmer. He died Jan. 4, 1845. His wife, Parmelia Barber, also a native of Madison Co., is still living, aged seventy-seven years. Marvin was educated in the common schools, Cazenovia Seminary and Fayetteville Academy. After leaving school he lived with his uncle on a farm until twenty-two years of age. He then went to Illinois with his mother, returning to this section in 1876. In 1882 he bought the Gardner farm of four and one-half acres on the Syracuse road, where he devotes his attention to the cultivation of fruit. He is a Republican, but has never aspired to public office.

Mabie, Oliver, Manlius, was born in the town of Manlius, April 4, 1826. David Mabie, his father, was born at Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co., May 18, 1796 He had a good business education and always followed farming. In 1817 he came with his father, Abram, to Onondaga Co., locating at Hartsville, where Abram bought 100 acres of land and made his home for ten years. He died in 1832. In 1827 David bought sixty acres one mile north of where Oliver now lives. He died Feb. 10, 1856. His wife, Catherine Bellinger, was a native of Palatine, who died Nov. 14, 1888, aged 93 years, Of this union nine children were born, six of whom are now living. Oliver, the second son, was given a good common school education. He has in- creased the ancestral acreage to 300 acres and owns 218 acres in Sullivan, Madison Co., making him one of the leading laudholders in the county. Mr. Mabie and his family attend the Universalist church of Kirkville. Nov. 26, 1861, he married Re- becca A., daughter of the late Stephen F. Chaffee, a manufacturer of Cazenovia. They have three children: Catherine J., wife of Jacob A. Link, a farmer and hop grower of Sullivan; Oliver C., assists his father on the farm, married March 30, 1891, Flora Bull of Sullivan, by whom he has one child, D. Edgar, born Feb. 1, 1894 ; and Henry E., eighteen years old, student of Wells College, now living at home.

Moulter, Oliver W., Manlius, was born in the town of Manlius, Feb. 22, 1838. David Moulter, his father, was born in Madison Co., in 1805. His first farm in this town was on the Salt Springs road, where he made his home for twenty years, then settled in Manlius village, where he died June 29, 1887. His wife, Catherine Negus, was a native of Rhode Island and dicd Feb. 25, 1895. Four children were born of this union: Mrs. Jane Bangs of Fayetteville; Hiram, also of Fayetteville; Mrs. Sarah Steel of Wichita, Kansas, and Oliver. The latter was educated in the common schools of his native town. After leaving school he was engaged in farming for a time, but afterward engaged in dealing in stock; then returned to farm work. In 1861 he bought a farm of 108 acres in Manlius, but removed to the village of Man- lius in 1885, where he now makes his home. Mr. Moulter is agent for the Adrience Platt Machine Co., also Solid Comfort Plow Co. of South Bend, Ind. He is a mem-

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ber of Lime Stone Creek Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has passed all the chairs. In 1873 Mr. Moulter married Ella, daughter of Horace Chapman, a farmer of Pompey. She (lied July 9, 1891, leaving two children : Grace E. and Nellie E.

Mason, Wilbur W., Manlius, was born in Michigan, Oct. 23, 1864. The family trace their descent back to Mason of the " Mason & Dixon Linc" fame. Three gen- erations of the family were natives of Michigan. John Q., father of Wilbur, died in De Ruyter, Madison Co., March 17, 1892. Ilis wife, Mary S. Sweetland, was a na- tive of De Ruyter and is now living with Wilbur, the only surviving child of this union. He was educated in the city schools and Syracuse High School. After leav- ing school he was employed with Pierce, Butler & Pierce of Syracuse for six years. He then established a flour and feed store, which he conducted for two years. In 1890 he bought the Eugene Pratt farm of sixty acres in Fayetteville, making a spe- cialty of fruit culture, having thirteen acres devoted to grapes. In 1884 Mr. Mason married Elizabeth J. Nicholson of Port Byron, Cayuga Co., by whom he has two children: Wilbur W., jr., aged 8 years, and Katherine Sweetland Mason, aged 2 years.

McLyman, Nathan, Manlius, was born in the town of Manlius, April 4, 1826. 11is father, Jacob, was a native of New York State, probably Oswego Co. He was a cooper by trade and was for a number of years employed in Salina. At the time of the cholera epidemic in Syracuse, in 1832, both parents of Nathan were stricken and died. As Nathan was only eight years of age, he for a time made his home with his uncle, Nathan; also with his grandmother McLyman. When nine years of age he went to live with David Collin, with whom he remained until twenty-three years of age. January 1, 1849, he married Annie C., a daughter of David Castleman, a farmer of Manlius. After his marriage he settled on one of Mr. Collin's farms, where he made his home for ten years. In 1859 he moved to the Oak Grove farm, where he spent two years; then moved on to the Ambrose Clark farm, where he re- mained for three years. In 1864 he bought a farm of eighty-seven acres on Lot 67, where he made his home two years, then sold and bought a farm of seventy-three acres on Lot 67, where he has since made his home. He has greatly improved the property, and has now one of the pleasantest homes in the town. Mr. McLyman has been a member of the Baptist church for thirty years. He has five children living: Lucy, wife of George L. Taylor; Ellen, wife of Byron Brower of Dolgeville, Herki- mer Co. ; Sarah, wife of Adelbert Rasbach of Dolgeville; Ambrose, a farmer of Man- lius, and Mary, wife of Albert Daniels of Hartsville.

Moore, La Fayette T., Manlius, was born in the town of Marshall, Oneida Co., May 9, 1836. Thomas A., his father, also a native of Marshall, was born Jan. 19, 1812. He was educated in the common schools and always took a great interest in medicine. When thirty-three years old he went to study with Dr. George Sheldon of Cazenovia, with whom he studied about one year, and at the death of Dr. Buckly of Manlius in Dec., 1845, Dr. Moore moved to Manlius and engaged in the practice that was destined to make him one of the most reputable and distinguished physi- cians of the county. In 1850 he took lectures at the Syracuse Medical College, and was given a diploma with the degree in 1851. In 1834 Dr. Moore married Fidelia Maltby of Sauquoit, Oneida Co., who died April 30, 1852. He then married Mary Robertson of Ellicottville, Cattaraugus Co. Dr. Moore died March 10, 1885. The

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children of the first marriage were: Verdine, died 1838, aged 2 years and 10 months ; Rosamond F., died in 1852, aged 14 years; Julia, died 1840, aged 9 months; Edgar A., merchant of Manlius; and La Fayette. The latter was educated in the common schools and Manlius Academy. After leaving school he engaged in farming, which he followed until twenty-one years of age. He was then engaged in mechanical pursuits and farming intermittently until 1866, when he bought a blacksmith shop in the village of Manlius, of which he was proprietor nearly seven years. The win- ter of 1872-73 he spent at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., as engineer on government con- tract. In the latter part of 1873 he bought a farm of sixty acres in Manlius, where he has since made his home. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Military Lodge No. 93, also a member of the choir of the Congregational church of Kirkville. In Sept., 1856, Mr. Moore married Lovina, daughter of Harvey Eaton, a farmer and manufacturer of Manlius. They have had five children; Ida L., wife of Furman Sponberg of Manlius; Rosamond F., wife of Jasper Hopper of Hannibal; James E., of the U. S. Army, now farming; Leon, clerk in dry goods store at Utica, and Helen M., a massage treater of Syracuse.

Moore, Dr. Thomas Atherton, Manlius, was born in the town of Marshall, Oneida Co., Jan. 26, 1812. The family are of Scotch and English descent. Amos Moore, his father, was a native of Salem, Mass., and an early settler of New York State, coming here at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Betsey Atherton, his wife, was also a native of Massachusetts. Thomas A. was the seventh of a family of eleven children. He was educated in the academy at Waterville and in a select school in Marshail kept by Prof. Ingersoll, father of Robert, of theological fame. Having a natural taste for medicine, he began reading while yet a student of twenty years of age. He taught school, assisted on the farm and was engaged in various ways during his early years. In 1839 he went to Cazenovia, where, after a few years on a farm, he returned to the reading of medicine with Dr. Sheldon. In 1849 he located in the village of Manlius, and in the fall of that year entered Central Med- ical College, from which institution he received a diploma Feb. 1, 1850. He con- tinued his practice in Manlius thirty-five years and died March 10, 1885, respected by all who knew him. In 1834 Dr. Moore married Fidelia Maltby of Oneida Co., who died in 1851, leaving three children. He then married Mary, daughter of Clark Robertson of Ellicottville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. One child of this union survives him: Frank R., a graduate of Colgate University, now beginning his thirteenth year as principal of No. 34 Grammar School at Brooklyn, N. Y.

Nolta, William H., Manlius, was born in Germany, Nov. 3, 1817, and came to this country in 1856. He was given a good education in the Lutheran schools of his native land, and when he came to the United States he located in Chittenango, en- tering the employ of the N. Y. C. R. R. Co. He followed railroading until 1858, then removed to Chicago, where he remained one year, then returned to this State. After spending three years more in Chittenango, in 1861 he bought a farm of twenty- four and one-half acres in the town of Manlius, making other purchases until he had a fine farm of fifty-eight acres, where he died, Dec. 23, 1873. Mr. Nolta was an offi- cer of the Evangelical church of Manlius. In 1848 he married Dorothy Herman, by whom he had six sons: August, a locomotive engineer on the N. Y. C. R. R .; Fred- erick H., conducts a blacksmith and wagon shop in East Syracuse; William, a farmer

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of Kirkville; Otto conducts the old homestead farm in partnership with his brother John; and Frank, also a farmer at Kirkville. Mrs. Nolta is still living at the age of 74 years in feeble healtlı.

Osborn, Ozias, Manlins, was born in New Hartford, Oneida Co., N. Y., April ?, 1825. Ozias, his grandfather, was a native of Massachusetts. He was drowned in his native State in 1794. Ozias, his son, was born in Massachusetts in 1794, and at the age of eighteen he was serving in the Continental army, located at Sackett's Harbor. He came to New York State when a young man and located in Oneida Co. He married Lucy, daughter of Ira Porter, of Oneida Co., by whom he had four chil- dren, of whom Ozias was the youngest. Ozias, the father, was killed in 1828, while digging a well. Mrs. Osborn died in 1877, aged 72 years. The boyhood of Ozias (our subject) was spent in Oneida Co., and he was educated in the common schools. After leaving school he engaged in coopering, which he followed for six years, then took up the carpenter and joiner trade, which he worked at for six years. In 1868 he bought the Bridgeport cheese factory, which he conducted for eleven years, and in 1879 he bought the Marcy farm of sixty-six acres in the town of Manlius, which he has since conducted as a fruit and grain farm. He has two and one-half acres of grapes, one acre of strawberries, and other fruits. In 1880 he built a cheese factory on the farm, which he conducted for four years. Mr. Osborn has never as- pired to political office, although he has been voluntarily offered such at different times. Jan. 1, 1849, he married Mary C., daughter of Prof. Henry Herbener, by whom he had six children: Charles H., a musician, died Sept. 1. 1872, aged 20 years ; Frank C., a graduate of Syracuse University and inventor of the Osborn cash regis- ter, now resides in Detroit, Mich .; Augustus R., a machinist of Smith Typewriter Works of Syracuse; Theresa C., wife of George Crownhart, of South Bay; Ida, wife of Frank Tuttle, of Madison Co., died May 21, 1885, aged 23; and Elmer, a postal clerk on the Auburn division of the N. Y. C. R. R., now 36 years of age.

Palmer Family History, Manlins .- One of the oldest families of this town is of the above name. We learn that Elias Sanford Palmer of Stonington, Conn., pur- chased a soldier's right of 600 acres, lot 64, in the town of Manlius, and in 1805, July 4, his son Charles settled on one-half of the same, and in 1812, Sanford, another son, located here, and the farm was divided between them and has since been occupied by their descendants. Charles Palmer was the father of five sons and two daugh- ters. Henry D., the father of our subject, was the third son. He was born on the old homestead farm in 1809, and after his marriage to Harriet Cady of Madison Co,, was located in Oneida Co. near Oneida Castle for a short time, and it was here that A. Cady was born. But one other child was born to this union, Beatrice Palmer of Fayetteville. A. Cady Palmer was educated in the common schools and at Chitte- mango Polytechnic School, graduating from the latter institution as a civil engineer. He was one of the surveyors of the Erie Canal at the time of its enlargement, and was engaged on Western railroads at the time of the breaking out of the war. In July, 1861, he enlisted with the engineer corps of the 50th Regiment and was in the army service three and one-half years. He went out a second lieutenant and the next year was made first lieutenant and soon after was given a captain's commis- sion. After his return he followed contracting for a few years and then settled down on the old homestead, making his home in the house built by his grandfather in

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1825. Mr. Palmer has always been a staunch Republican and a hard worker for his party, and is now serving his sixth year as supervisor of the town. He was first elected to that office in 1883, serving three successive terms with great credit to him- self as the advocate of all that pertained to the best interests of his constituents, His second term (1884) he was given the honor and distinction of being chosen chairman of the Board of Supervisors. After a period of five years' rest he was again chosen chief executive of his town, and is now serving his fourth successive term. Such is the record of a man who has many friends and few enemies. The other descendants of Charles Palmer living in Onondaga Co, are Luther J., Sara A., Zada E., Kate A., and Mrs. Elizabeth Erkenbeck of Fayetteville, and Mrs. Ella E. Barber of Manlius, children of Jerome B. Palmer, and Mrs. Mary W. Nichols of Fayetteville. Sanford Palmer came from Stonington. Conn., in 1812, with his family of five sons and three daughters, and located in Manlius, near the present village of Fayetteville. He died Oct. 4, 1828. Sanford Billings Palmer, his oldest son was born in 1793, and married Polly Chapman of Stonington, and they were the parents of two sons and two daughters. In politics Mr. Palmer was in early life a Whig, but afterward promi- nently identified with the anti-slavery movement, at the time of his death acting with the Republican party. His son, Byron R. Palmer, was a prominent and suc- cessful business man and was at the time of his death, in 1886, the president of the National Bank of Fayetteville. The only surviving member of the family is Mrs. Fidelia Eaton, widow of Dan Hibbard Eaton, who was a prominent member of the old transportation line between Syracuse and Oswego. He is remembered as an active member of the Second Baptist church of Syracuse. Denison Palmer, the third son of Sanford Palmer, was born Dec. 2, 1800. In 1812 he came to Manlius, and until 1830 his life was spent upon the farm; afterward for some years he was en- gaged in milling and mercantile business. Until 1850 le acted with the Democratic party, then joining the Free Soil movement, he became, and continued until his death, an ardent Republican. Though never an aspirant for public office, he was in- duced, by reason of his strong interest in the cause of popular education, to fill for many years offices of trust connected with the public schools. He died July 22, 1874. He was married May 2, 1829, to Almira, daughter of Amasa Martin, who located in 1809 where Dewitt now stands. The only child of this union was Sophia L. Palmer, who was married Nov. 13, 1856, to Thomas B. Robinson, and who resides at the homestead in the village of Fayetteville occupied by the family since 1831.

Phillips, Willard J., Manlius, was born in Copenhagen, Lewis Co., Feb. 8, 1857. Amos Phillips, his father, was a native of Vermont and came to Lewis Co. when a young man of fifteen years of age, where he learned the miller's trade and followed it for over fifty years. He was also engaged in the manufacture of plows and cheese boxes. He died in the town of Manlius (where he removed in 1885) Oct. 9, 1890. His wife, Freelove Carr, died May 14, 1893. Willard, the youngest of a family of five children, was educated at Martin Institute in Martinsburg and when seventeen years of age he entered his father's mill, with whom he remained until he became of age. In 1887 his father left the mill and Willard established a flour and feed store in Martinsburg, which he conducted for a year, then leaving his father to conduct the store, he accepted the position of head miller of Bradway & Crofoote Steam Flour Mill at South Butler, Wayne Co., which position he held for four years. In 1885

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Peter Snyder (see his history) offered him an increase of salary to come to Manlius Station and he was in his employ for three years, and then conducted his mill one ycar as proprietor. In 1887 he bought the old stone mill at Manlius, which he has greatly improved. Mr. Phillips has filled the office of trustee for two years and in 1894 was elected president of the village, and was re-elected in 1895. Ile has been a member of Military Lodge No. 93 for five years, also is a member of the M. E. church, of which he is steward.

Platto, Alexander F., Manlius, was born in Guilderland, Albany Co., July 17, 1819. Frederick Platto, his father, moved to Onondaga Co. in 1836, locating near Syracuse He was by trade a mechanic. He had previously bought 160 acres of land in Sulli- van, Madison Co., where he removed in 1837, leaving Alexander employed at his trade of carpenter and joiner in the village of Kirkville; was educated in the city schools of Albany previous to his coming to this county, and followed his trade until fifty years of age, building many of the residences of the town. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. Mr. Platto was elected justice of the peace in 1857 and with the exception of four years, has held that position continually ever since. He has been a resident of Manlius Station since 1863 and has been trustee of the school many years and is now clerk of the district. In 1847 Mr. Platto married Marion Blanch- ard of Dewitt, who died June 29, 1849. The present Mrs. Platto was Sarah A., daughter of the late Michael Kellar of Dewitt. Marion Blanchard Platto, wife of Edwin A. Smith, a boot and shoe manufacturer of Spencer, Mass., is a daughter of his second wife, Delia A. Blanchard. Their son, Cortland C. Platto, died in 1887, aged 26 years.

Rowland, Frank B., Manhus, was born in the town of La Fayette, near Cardiff, Nov. 12, 1859. The first of the Rowland family to come to this country was Isaac, grandfather of Frank B., who was a native of Vermont and came here when a young man. Harlow O., father of Frank B., was born in La Fayette, June 30, 1825, and has always followed farming in that town. His wife, Malora N. Newell, is also a native of this county and is still living at the age of 60 years. Six children were born of this union, of whom Frank B. is the oldest. He was educated in the com- mon schools, also by his well chosen reading and close observation. After leaving school, he engaged in farming, which he has always followed with the exception of one year (1891) when he occupied the position of superintendent of the Eureka Plaster Co. at Syracuse. In 1886 he bought the Martin Murray farm of 160 acres in the town of Manlius, where he carries on a general line of farming. March 10, 1886, Mr. Rowland married Myra E., daughter of the late William Jones, a farmer of La Fay- ette. They have one daughter, Elizabeth M., aged eight years Mr. Rowland is the inventor of the Rowland Plow Wheel, patented Feb, 7, 1894.

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Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century, Vol. II, Part 73

Author: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908 Publication date: 1896 Publisher: [Boston] : The Boston History Company Number of Pages: 1094

Author: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: [Boston] : The Boston History Company
Number of Pages: 1094