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O'Toole, Frank W., is a recent successor to the formerly well-known firm of O'Toole & Finnegan, boot and shoe dealers. Mr. O'Toole was born in Waterville, son of John and Ann (Clarke) O'Toole, both of whom are living in Waterville. He was educated in Kirkland Hall, Clinton, N. Y., and has been identified with the trade for some eight years.
Whitney, Col. S. S., was born December 2, 1814, son of Jared and Patience (Husted) Whitney. His grandfather, Samuel Whitney, was one of the early settlers in Kirk- land, and took up the farm which Colonel Whitney still owns. Mr. Whitney lived on a farm until twenty one years of age, when he learned the trade of carpenter, and in which he was engaged for twenty-five years, after which he resumed farm- ing. He was colonel of the 140th Regiment in the 13th Brigade, 20th Division of the N. Y. State militia, and is one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of Oneida county.
Bangs, G. R., was born January 3, 1831, son of Dennis and Roana (King) Bangs, who settled in Pleasant Valley, and lived there for fifty years. G. R. Bangs engaged in farming up to 1891, when he sold his place to Colonel Sanger, and moved to Wa- terville. In 1877 he married Frances M., daughter of Nicholas and Marietta (Green) Edwards, by whom he has one daughter, Florence M. Nichols Edwards, son of Elijah and Catherine Van Buren Edwards, was born August 5, 1809, at Kinderhook, N. Y., and was a direct descendant of Martin Van Buren. He lived to be eighty-five years old, and came to Waterville when nine years of age with his parents, who settled upon the farm now owned by the Charlemagne Tower estate. In 1839 he went to live upon the eminence where he spent the remaining fifty-five years of his life, only changing from the old house to the new. At middle age he was possessed
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of a fine property ; a man of strong character and striking individuality, and during all his long life was distinguished for his sterling honesty and christianity.
Chapman O. B., was born August 3, 1873, son of C. L. and Mercy S. (Tompkins) Chapman. He was educated in Winfield Academy and the New York School of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in April, 1894. He then purchased the drug business in Clayville, which he has conducted under the name of C. L. Chap- man & Son, the senior member being his father. His grandfather was Willard Chapman and his great-grandfather was John Chapman. His maternal grandfather was Joshua Tompkins, and maternal great-grandfather was Nathaniel Tompkins.
Barnum, D. A., M. D., was born in the town of Paris, N. Y., April 16, 1845, son of David H. and and Narina (Budlong) Barnum. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The Barnum family originally came from Connecticut. Dr. Barnum was educated at the common and select schools and Fort Edward Insti- tute. He studied medicine with Dr. Budlong, and was graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1865, having taken his degree before he was of age. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Sixteenth N. Y. Heavy Artillery, and was in the field with his regiment for six months. Immediately after the war he began the practice of his profession in Cassville, where he has since maintained his office, and has risen to a front rank in his profession. He is a member of the Oneida County Medical Society, The Medical Society of the State of New York, and of the Medical Association of the State of New York. He was supervisor of the town of Paris from 1888 to 1892, and is chairman of the Democratic County Committee, which position he has filled for six years. In 1876 Dr. Barnum married Catharine Rhodes, of Os- wego, N. Y., who was the youngest daughter of Benjamin Rhodes, one of the pioneers of the town of Bridgewater, N. Y., where she was born.
Griffiths, Lewis G., was born in the town of Russia, Ilerkimer county, November 26, 1854, son of William C. and Jane Griffiths, who came from Wales and settled in Russia, where Mr. Griffiths was employed in the tannery business. He moved to New Hartford, Stittville, and then to Prospect, where with his son he engaged in the tannery business, which they followed until his death, July 31, 1882, at fifty-four years of age. Mr. Griffiths and his son, Lewis G., were both members of the Remsen Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 677, Oneida Chapter No. 57. Utica Commandery No. 3, and Lewis G. is a 32d degree Mason ; also a member of the I. O. R. M. No. 221, of Pros- pect, and I. O. O. F., of Trenton, and was treasurer of the Remsen Lodge, F. & A. M., from 1880 to 1885. After his father's death he conducted the tannery business until it burned, since which time he has lived retired.
Wood, A. E., was born in Cooperstown, Otsego county, July 29, 1865, son of Will- iam H. and Mary (Smith) Wood. His grandfather, Robert Wood, was a native of Kent, England, and came to America in 1836. A. E. Wood was educated in the Cooperstown Union School and Academy, and the Clinton Liberal Institute at Fort Plain, N. Y., from which he graduated in 1885. After a short time at the carpenter's trade, he engaged in the mercantile business in Cooperstown, and in 1886 he went to Hubbardsville, and in 1888 came to Waterville, where he is interested in the mer- cantile business, and is also senior partner of the firm of A. E. Wood & Co., job printers. In 1888 he married Eva Terry Nash. Mr. Wood is an enterprising young
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business man, and was for two years clerk of the corporation. He served three years on the Republican county committee, and is secretary of the Grange. On January 18, 1896, he purchased the stock of general merchandise of his father-in-law, C. R. Nash, and is now conductiag the finest arranged dry goods, grocery and boot and shoe store in the village of Waterville; his store is called the Palace Store and is justly named.
Barton, D. W., was born on the old homestead in the town of Marshall, in 1835, son of Eliphaz and Polly (Barker) Barton. His grandfather, David Barton, came to the town of Paris from Granby, Mass., prior to 1800. He walked all the way, and began a clearing ; he also carried wheat on his back from Utica, and planted it with an ax among the stumps, and he was a pioneer from that part of the county. David Barton's father, David Barton, was a captain in the Revolutionary war. The principal occupation of D. W. Barton's life has been farming, and for thirty years he was engaged in growing seeds for prominent houses in New York and Philadel- phia. He was also the pioneer of the commercial fertilizing business in Oneida county, and followed that twenty years. In 1861 he married Mary A. Oliver, by whom he has two children: Mrs. Eva Barton Miller, and Gertrude M. Barton.
Bartholomew, James J., was born at Vernon Center, October 5, 1854. His father, James Bartholomew, was born in the town of Kirkland, N. Y., in 1793. He served in the war of 1812, having the rank of corporal, and at the close of the war returned to his native town and engaged in farmning, and subsequently moved to Vernon Cen- ter. Charles Bartholomew, grandfather of James J., came from Farmington, Conn., where his ancestors had lived since coming to this country. He was a participant in the Revolutionary war, serving in several expeditions, first under Colonel Douglass in New York, and then at Albany, being there at the time of the advance of General Burgoyne. The Bartholomews came from a long line of English ancestry. James Bartholomew married for his first wife, Ruth Cushman, who died January 24, 1851, and in 1853 he married Lucy E. Stockwell, who died October 16, 1876, James Jay being a child by the second marriage. Mr. Bartholomew died in Deansville in 1877. James Jay attended the school at Vernon Center and the Vernon Academy, and when thirteen years old he engaged as clerk in the store of S. Case's Sons at Vernon, where he remained eleven years. After spending one year with S. C. Hayden & Co. at Syracuse, N. Y., he returned to Vernon, and entered into the management of the large flouring mill of Joel H. Hills, and a few years later came into full control, which he still continues. In 1878 he married Mary H., daughter of J. H. Hills, by whom he has two children: William Van Hills and Lucy Hope.
Cunningham, James, was born in Stewarton, Scotland, January 24, 1844. He was educated in his native town, and has been engaged in the manufacture of Scotch caps all of his life. He came to America in 1880 and settled in Utica, at which place he was engaged to start and conduct the cap factory of D. W. Northrup & Co. After two years of service there, he removed to Oriskany Falls and established the business of Hatheway & Reynolds, which he conducted for one year, after which he with W. F. Boynton carried on the same line of manufacturing till 1889. In that year James Cunningham & Son entered into partnership for the manufacture of Scotch caps, and are now conducting a large and prosperous business. His father
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was also a manufacturer of Scotch caps in Stewarton, Scotland, where he was born in November, 1815, and died at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1888, at the age of seventy- three. His mother was Susan McQueen, also a native of Stewarton, Scotland, born in 1818, and died at Kilmarnock, in 1864. James Cunningham was married in Stew- arton, to Mary Boyle, born June 9, 1842, and died at Oriskany Falls, December 2, 1892. They had ten children, five of whom are deceased. Four of the five sons now living are engaged with their father; David being an active partner with his father, and who, in 1884, married Nettie Clay of Oriskany Falls. Mr. James Cun- nningham is a Royal Arch Mason, having received his thirty-second degree while in Scotland. April 2, 1894, he married Elizabeth Black, a native of Danbury, Conn.
Haynes, George H., was born in Marcy, N. Y., December 31, 1840, son of Na- thaniel and Eliza Haynes. Nathaniel Haynes was born in Connecticut, and settled in Marcy where he conducted a farm until his death in 1886. Mrs. Haynes died in 1845. George 11. Haynes was educated in Marcy, and then engaged in farming, and was also engaged as a carpenter and builder for nineteen years; he then en- gaged in the railway mail service for over seven years, after which he engaged in the canning business which he has since continued. He conducts a canning factory in Whitesboro, where he is engaged in canning corn, which he ships largely through the Eastern and part of the Western States. He is one of the school trustees of the town, to which he was elected twelve successive years, and was re-elected at the last election, and he was village trustee for three years. Mr. Haynes married Sarah Whitten, daughter of Daniel Whitten of Whitesboro, by whom he has two children : Mae E. and Fred D. He belongs to the Oriental Lodge F. & A. M. of Utica.
Jones, Evan W., was born in New York city, February 6, 1847, son of Evan and Margaret Jones. Evan W. was educated in Utica and Whitestown Seminary, then began clerking in New York Mills, at which he continued until he entered business for himself. IIe is proprietor of one of the principal stores in New York Mills, and carries a varied stock of merchandise, such as is to be found among the best class of general stores. Mr. Jones married Charlotte J. Adams of New York Mills, by whom he has one daughter, Mary E. Jones. Ile is a member of the F. & A. M., be- ing a member of all the bodies from the Blue Lodge to the Shrine.
Law, George C., was born in Westmoreland, N. Y., October 10, 1828, son of George W. and Harriet (Blakslee) Law. George W. was born January 27, 1800. He was engaged in farming in Westmoreland, and died in March, 1881. His wife, Harriet B., died in 1876. George C. was educated partly in Westmoreland, at the academy at Hamilton, and at Walworth, Wayne county, N. Y. He first taught school in the town of Deerfield in 1847, then in Spencer Settlement, and also taught in Westmore- land, what is now called Bartlett, and he was town superintendent of schools in Westmoreland, from 1850 to 1853. He also taught one term in Lisbon, Il1. He was also engaged in farming at Westmoreland until 1857, when he went West and con- tinued farming until 1861, when he engaged in the hardware business in Wisconsin. He returned to Whitesboro in 1864 and engaged in the coal business. In 1866 he bought out the lumber business of John Waite, and associated himself with Robert Gibson and C. F. Rayner, and afterwards with George and W. B. Williams, and con- tinued with them until 1873. His health failing at that time, he was obliged to dis-
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continue business, and sold out to Messrs. Williams. Since then he has been en- gaged in office work, having an agency for real estate and insurance business, and he also represents the largest coal business in Whitesboro. He married Betsey An- tonette, daughter of Rev. Amasa S. Curtis, then of Westmoreland, by whom he has three children: Ellen J., Eugene H., and Harriet R. Mr. Law is deacon of the Baptist church at Whitesboro.
Langley, Henry A., was born at Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., April 30, 1860. His father, Henry Langley, was born in Northamptonshire, Eng., December 25, 1834, and in 1855 came to this country and settled at Rome, N. Y., where he engaged in farming. In 1885 he removed to Oriskany Falls. He married Adaline Champney, who was born in Rome in 1828, and died in April, 1876. Henry A. Langley was educated at the Rome public schools and Whitestown Seminary. In 1881 he engaged for a time in cheesemaking, and in 1884 went to Oriskany Falls, and, with no ex- perience and less than five dollars in cash, embarked! in the mercantile line, having a general store; after two years of success in this line, Mr. A. T. Davis, of West Eaton, N. Y., bought a half interest and entered into partnership under the firm name of Langley & Davis. In 1889 they purchased the old Hicks woolen mill and commenced the manufacture of cassimeres and flannels; this mill burned January 27, 1894. In 1892 Mr. Davis retired from the firm and was succeeded by Nathaniel Tompkins, of Whitestown, N. Y., which partnership lasted one year, when Mr. Tompkins also retired. After the mill was rebuilt the manufacture of cassimeres was discontinued and Mr. Langley has since carried on successfully the making of woolen yarns, sweaters, hosiery and novelties. All through the depression in business Mr. Langley, by careful management, kept the business moving, until to-day he has one of the most successful trades in the State. June 16, 1886, Mr. Langley married Hattie L. Cross, daughter of John C. Cross, who died August 9, 1894.
Latus, W. W., was born in the town of Bridgewater, N. Y., September 12, 1857, son of George and Sarah (Stokes) Latus. George Latus is a native of England, and came to America in 1832, settling in New Jersey. From there he moved to Frankfort, N. Y., and then to Utica, and from there he went to Bridgewater. where he reared his family. Mrs. Latus, his wife, was also a native of England, and first settled in New Jersey. She then moved to Albany, then to Canada, and then came to Bridgewater. The progenitor of the Latus family in America, was Henry Latus, grandfather of W. W. Latus. W. W. Latus spent the first twenty-one years of his business life on a farm, and then engaged in the milling business. He learned his trade in the mill he now owns, between Clayville and Richfield Junction, and which is an important factor in the manufactory life of the Sauquoit valley ; and he he has conducted the business, as proprietor, for the past nine years with marked success ; being not only an able and enterprising business man, but also very popular with his patrons and public at large. In 1878 Mr. Latus married Elizabeth Walsh, of Bridgewater, by whom he has eight children: William, George, Ida, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary, Genevieve, and Margaret.
Martin, Pliny F., was born in Salem, Washington county, September 4, 1822, son of Adam and Almira (Fitch) Martin. The family originally came from Connecticut,
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and Adam Martin was engaged in tlie harness manufacturing business. He died in June, 1826, and his wife, Almira F., died in Whitesboro in August, 1875. Pliny F. Martin has always been engaged in the hotel business, and from which he retired in 1892. He married Sarah A. Baker, by whom he has one child, Abbie Martin. Mr. Martin is now married to his second wife, Delia Fitch, by whom he has two children: Katherine and James. Mr. Martin has retired to Whitesboro, where he has one of the best located farms in the county; and he is enjoying the rest to which his long, active and successful business career entitles him.
Miller, Philip, was born in Columbia, Herkimer county, N. Y., June 6, 1825, son of William J. and Nancy (Haner) Miller. The occupation of his life has been farm- ing ; but he spent four years as a mechanic, and taught school during the winters for twelve years. In 1865 he settled on his present farm in the town of Paris. He first married Phoebe Buck, of Vermont, who died leaving one son, Clifton Park Miller; and he married for his present wife, Phoebe E. Campbell, by whom he has three children: John, Mary, and William. In politics Mr. Miller is a Republican, and has taken an active interest in the success of his party. He has been assessor of the town of Paris for seventeen years, and has just entered upon another term of three years and was a member of the Board of Equalization of Oneida county four years. He is regarded as one of the leading men of the town.
Tripp, George L., was born in Bridgewater, N. Y., February 7, 1873, son of Milton and Jennie Cole Tripp, of that town. His grandfather, Ira Tripp, is still living at Babcock Hill and he was one of the pioneers of Bridgewater; he was born in the town of Broom, Schoharie county, February 14, 1818, and moved to Bridgewater when fifteen years old. George L. learned the harness maker's trade, and in the spring of 1895 purchased the harness business of C. O. Biederman, which he is now conducting, and popularity in the community, coupled with his superior business abilities, insure him undoubted success.
Terhune, W. L., is a native of Newark, N. J., and was educated there. He first commenced the business of a manufacturing jeweler, but after following it for one year, he engaged in the book and stationery business in Milwaukee; from there he went to Texas, and in 1875 he returned to Newark. N. J., and engaged in the hop business, removing to Waterville in 1877. In 1880 he married Alma J. Foster of Middleville, Herkimer county, N. Y., by whom he has one daughter, Edith D. Terhune. Mr. Terhune's father, James J. Terhune, was also a native of New Jersey, as was his grandfather, William Terhune. The family is an old New Jersey family, and have been in the State for generations. His mother is Margaret (Lefferts) Ter- hune, a native of New York State. His father is dead, but his mother is still living at the age of eighty years. Mr. Terhune is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Royal Arcanum. In the latter he has held many important offices, includ- ing district deputy and member of the grand council. He is also a director of the Y. M. C. A. in Waterville. His father was county clerk of Essex county, N. J., from 1855 to 1860.
Underwood, Frederick G., was born in Utica, N. Y., September 15, 1852, and was educated in the public and advanced schools of Utica. He was a carpenter and joiner in early life. He has been married three times, first to Hattie L. Jones, by
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whom he had two children: Ralph W., who died in his second year; and Mabel L., who resides at home. For his second wife he married Estella C. Marsh, of Herki- mer county, N. Y. She died October 29, 1888, and for his third wife he married Jennie W. Myers, of Utica, by whom he had one son, Stanley. Mr. Underwood's father, Gilbert F., was born in Utica, N. Y., about 1823. He was well educated, and had various occupations, merchant, farmer, etc. He married Eliza A. Thurston, of Herkimer county, by whom he had three children: Frederick G., as above; Will- iam L., and Flora A. He died about 1880, and his wife in 1881. Mr. Underwood came to Oneida in 1884, and is now a resident of the town of Verona. He is a dealer in hides, pelts, skins, tallow, bones, and also carries on a general rendering es- tablishment and manufacture of fertilizers. He is a member of Oneida Lodge, No. 270, F. & A. M., of Eumenia Lodge, No. 296, I. O. O. F., and has held all the of- fices except treasurer and secretary, and is also one of the trustees He is a mem- ber of Adieno Encampment 115, of which he is degree master, and has passed through all the chairs; also a member of Canton Oneida No. 34, and is major of 2d Battalion, 1st Regiment. He is a member of Mizpah Lodge, D. of R., No. 84, and president of the National Protective Legion, No. 72.
Wetmore, Major Ezra F., was born in Whitestown, December, 8, 1820, son of Ezra and Susan (Palmer) Wetmore. Ezra Wetmore was born in Middletown, Conn., about 1782, and came to Whitestown when four years of age. He was the son of Amos Wetmore, who came here in 1786, and bought 400 acres of land of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, and brought his family here the following year. Amos Wetmore was a cooper by trade, and his son Ezra conducted a saw mill and was also engaged in farming. Ezra F. Wetmore was educated at the common school and Whitestown Academy, after which he engaged in teaching school winters, and en- gaged in farming in the summers. April 20, 1861, he volunteered in the 26th N. Y. Vols., and was elected captain of Company F. He went to the front where he was promoted major, afterwards lieutenant colonel, and colonel by brevet. The regi- ment arrived in Washington, June 21, 1861, and went to Alexandria, where they constructed Fort Lyon in the winter of 1861-1862, and garrisoned it until May 4, when they went to Fredericksburg, Va. After various maneuvers covering the period May 4 to August 9, the regiment participated in the battle of Cedar Moun- tain, under Brigade General Tower and General John C. Ricketts of McDowell's Corps. After the battle the regiment remained in the vicinity of the Rapidan four days, during which time they had been flanked by the enemy and were compelled to fall back to the Rappahannock, where they were engaged with the Confederates for three days, when the army fell back on the field of the second battle of Bull Run, and during this period they were in the battle of Thoroughfare Gap, and constituted the rear guard of McDowell's Corps. On August 30 the regiment participated in the second battle of Bull Run, and September 1, the battle of Chantilly. During this period of nine days, the 26th Regiment was under constant fire from the enemy's guns, and lost heavily. In the second battle of Bull Run the regiment was thrown into the enemy's lines, and a hand to hand contest ensued in which the regiment lost three captains. They fell back to Centreville, and on September 5, in a skirmish at Hall's Hill, the enemy was driven back. On September 14 they fought the battle of South Mountain, ascending an almost perpendicular height, driving the rebels from
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position, and following them up met them at the battle of Antietam on September 17. The regiment was on the march from this time until the battle of Fredericksburg, in which it participated December 13, 1862. On May 3 the regiment arrived on the battle field of Chancellorsville, in which fight they took part, and captured detach- ments from the enemy about equal to their own number. At night hearing a noise, Major Wetmore called for officers to reconnoiter, and none volunteering, he took three men himself and they captured a prisoner, and while he was returning alone with him to camp, they came across four others whom the major marched into the Union lines. Major Wetmore was commanding officer in the battles of South Moun- tain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and although he was under constant fire, and participated with his regiment in the hottest scenes of the war, he was never wounded, although struck by balls, when his equipments saved him from injury. At the roll call of Fredericksburg, there were only forty men and officers to respond. On May 29, 1863, the major was mustered out of service (his term having expired in April). Since that time the major has been engaged in farming. He married Rosanna Walker of Whitestown, by whom he has two children: W. E. Wetmore, M. D., a physician practicing in Utica; and Elizabeth J. Wetmore, Major Wetmore has in his possession a sword presented to his grandfather, Amos Wet- more, for meritorious service in the war of the Revolution.
Wilson, Charles M., was born in New York Mills, January 25, 1849, son of Mat- thew, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and Annie (Young) Wilson, a native of Paisley, Scotland. Charles M. attended the public school of New York Mills, and then en- tered the mills in 1859. He has been engaged with the New York Mills Company ever since, having served during the administration of three generations, and in nearly every department of the several mills of the company. In the lower or No. 1 Mill he started the first loom, and he also started the first Lyall positive motion loom in the No. 3 Mill He is at present assistant superintendentent of the No. 2 Mill. Mr. Wilson married Irene Comstock of Williamstown, Oswego county, N. Y., by whom he has two sons, Charles Herbert, and Edward Comstock Wilson. He is an ardent and influential Republican, but has always declined to become a candi- date for political office, though he has served nine years as a trustee of the school. He is a member of Oriental Lodge No. 224; Oneida Chapter No. 57, F. & A. M .; and Utica Commandery No. 3.
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