Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 117

Author: Curtis, Gates
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1328

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born December 30, 1822. They reared six sons and six daughters. Mr. Patten died May 1, 1884, and his wife June 26, 1878. The children of David S. and wife were as follows: Mary M. born August 9, 1842, married A. E. Chafflee, and died June 12, 1855, leaving four children ; Porter, born 1844, died 1846; William C., born April 19, 1846; Delia and Amelia, twins, born in 1848 and died in 1850; Henry S., born March 15, 1851, who resides with our subject ; Emma, born December 5, 1854, married Rich- ard Clark of Waddington ; Timothy T., born September 3, 1857, resides in Waverly, N. Y. ; Ella M., born April 18, 1859, married Leon Barney ; George S., born March 4, 1861, and lives in Badaxe, Mich. ; Herbert G .; Ida, born October 2, 1865, and resided with our subject until her death, October 7, 1893. Herbert G. was educated in the Lawrenceville Academy, and has devoted considerable attention to veterinary work, re- ceiving in 1890 a license to practice. He is a member of Deer River Lodge No. 499, F. & A. M., and of Lawrenceville Lodge No. 619, I. O. O. F., also of Good Templar Lodge No. 173, and P. of H. No. 702 of the same place. January 26, 1886, he married Mary, daughter of Michael and Margaret Gabler, and they have two children : Howard L., born October 31, 1886; and C. Arthur, born November 27, 1888. Mrs. Patten died December 17, 1892.

Robinson, H. N., Massena, born April 17, 1806, is a son of Daniel and Esther (Kil- burn) Robinson, the former born in Massachusetts in 1774. The father of Daniel was Ichabod, who lost his property in the Revolutionary war, and moved from Massachu- setts to Vermont, where he cleared a home. He was a soldier of the Revolution and died in St. Lawrence county in 1804, while on a visit to his son, being the first person buried in the Massena cemetery. Daniel came here in 1802, one of the first settlers, and bought the farm now owned by our subject. He was an extensive land and lumber dealer. He had nine children, all deceased but three: H. N., Holton and George. Daniel died July 9, 1855, and his wife in 1829. H. N. Robinson was reared on a farm in Massena, and educated at the Potsdam Academy. He followed farming until about 1874, when he retired and rented the farm. In 1837 he married Mary M., daughter of Ira and Chloe (Nichols) Goodridge, of whose ten children, four survive. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have one adopted son, Joseph, now in New York in the mercantile bus- iness. He was educated in Fort Edward and Potsdam Academies, and was prepared for college when the war broke out, when he volunteered, and served about four years. At the close of the war he was engaged to write the discharges of soldiers. He served as adjutant, quartermaster, and on Ricket's staff. In politics H. N. wishes to go down as a Cleveland man. Joseph is a Republican.

Horton, R. J., Massena, was born in Ira, Rutland county, Vt., a son of Hezekiah, a native of Guilford, Vt., born in 1791, who went to Clarenden, Vt., when a boy, and there married Anna Hutchinson, born in 1790, by whom he had three children. In 1840 they came to Massena and settled on the farm now owned by R. J. Horton, where the father died in 1844, and the mother in 1875. At the time of his parents' settlement in this town our subject was sixteen years of age. February 16, 1853, he married Har- riet Russell of Massena, born September 7, 1830, in Peru, Essex county, N. Y., a daugh- ter of John and Naomi Russell of this town. Mr. and Mrs. Horton have had two children ; Edson J., born February 11, 1854, who was educated in the Potsdam Normal

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School, and is engaged in farming. He married Sarah J., daughter of Philemon Polley of Massena, and has two children, Mark P. and Harlan R .; Elon A. was born in Mas- sena, June 26, 1859, was educated in Massena and Potsdam, and graduated from East- man's Business College in 1880. He is engaged in the carriage business, both whole- sale and retail. March 22, 1888, he married Una E. Benson of Massena, daughter of Samuel Benson, and they have had two children : Hazel H. and Floyd E. R. J. Hor- ton has been a Republican since the organization of the party. He and wife are mem- bers of the Baptist church.

Dodge, S. W., M. D., Massena was born in Massena, March 9, 1845, a son of Levi R., born in Andover, Vt., April 2, 1815, whose father Major Thomas Dodge of New Hamp- shire, was born August 13, 1773, a descendant of the Salem Dodges, who came to Massa- chusetts in 1629, from Cheshire, England, where they are of very ancient lineage. Thomas Dodge had eleven children. He received the title of major from the Vermont inilitia. Levi R. came with his parents, when two years of age, tc Massena, where the major bought 160 acres of land, most of which is still in the possession of the family. He was among the earliest settlers. March 20, 1844, Levi married Lois P. Young, daughter of Robert Young of New Hampshire, born December 31, 1790. To Mr. and Mrs. Dodge were born these children : S. W., our subject ; Luther A., born October 12, 1846, died December 22, 1881; James B., born December 22, 1847; Orange W., born January 17, 1850, a professor in Ogdensburg Academy; Henry, born January 18, 1852, died September 12, 1877 ; Mary L., born March 12, 1857, a teacher ; Harvey R., born June 9, 1852. Mr. Dodge died in 1880, and his wife survives him. S W. Dodge was on the farm until the age of fifteen. He was educated in Lawrenceville, Malone and Potsdam, teaching, attending school and preparing for the medical college. He studied medicine with W. P. Gordon, M. D., of Old Ripley, Ill., for one year, and was over a year at Ann Arbor, Mich., medical department. Returning home on a visit he decided to finish his medical education at the University of Vermont, where he was for a year. He was two years at Bloomingdale, N. Y., then a year at Vermont University, gradu- ating in the spring of 1875. He began practice at Bloomingdale, where he remained until 1889, then came to Massena, where he has built up an extensive practice. He is a member of St. Lawrence and Northern New York Medical Societies, is a Republican, and was town clerk five years in Franklin county. He was U. S. examining surgeon at Bloomingdale fourteen years. He is a Good Templar of Massena Lodge No. 566, belongs to Massena Grange No. 704, Massena Court No. 693, I. O. F., is a court deputy and a court physician. He is a member of Gordon (Ill.) Lodge No. 473, F. & A. M. July 28, 1875, he married B. Narina, daughter of Hiram and Martha (Rice) Fish, and they have had four children : Leon H., born June 15, 1876 ; Mark F., born January 20, 1878; Sidney W., born January 11, 1885; Ruth Lucinda, born September 8, 1893.

Cooper, Eugene, Lawrenceville, was born May 7, 1846, a son of James Cooper, born in Salem, Mass., about 1804, whose father came to Constable and later to Brasher, buying a farm, where he lived until shortly before his death. He married Jane Ann, daughter of Daniel and Polly (Mansfield) Smith, of Vermont and Con- necticut respectively, the former having served in the War of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper had six children, five sons and one daughter, all living but one, Robert U.,

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who was killed January 9, 1891, at Denver, Col., by falling from a building, on which he was working, a distance of forty feet. Eugene Cooper, our subject, was reared on a farm and began life on the same. After seven years he bought a farm in Connecticut which he sold after two years and bought again. In 1877 he again sold and came to St. Regis, Province of Quebec, and was there three years engaged in mercantile business. He sold out and bought a farm of 200 acres near Law- renceville, where he remained till March 4, 1893, then rented his place and bought a small farm where he now lives. He keeps a dairy of twenty-five cows, and is also engaged in raising horses. One of his principal crops is hops. Mr. Cooper married first, Laura, daughter of Joel Wheeler of Connecticut, by whom he had one daughter, Jenette, wife of Samuel Barrett of Seymour, Conn. Mrs. Cooper died in 1879, and he married, May 1, 1880, Anna E. Burkett, daughter of Michael and Margaret (Connors) Burkett, and they have two children: Walter E., born Febru- ary 22, 1881; and Eva May, born Mry 16, 1882. In politics Mr. Cooper is a Repub- lican, and he and wife are members of the Catholic church of Lawrence.

Atwood, I. M., Canton, was born in Pembroke, Genesee county, March 24, 1838. Received the usual academic and high school education, graduating from the Lockport Union School in 1855. He taught school several terms, founded and conducted the Genesee Classical Institute, and fitted for entrance to the sophomore year in Yale Col- lege, in 1859. He began preaching and studying for the ministry in that same year, and was ordained at Clifton Springs in 1860. In 1867 he became editor of the Univer- salist, now the Christian Leader, in Boston, Mass., and has held editorial connection with that journal continuously up to the present time. After twenty years of service as preacher and editor, he was called from his parish in Cambridge, Mass., to the presi- dency of the Theological Seminary in Canton, entering on his duties in that position in June, 1879. The same year he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Tufts College, having been given the degree of M. A. by the St. Lawrence University ten years before, in 1869. Dr. Atwood has contributed to the journals and quarterlies of of the day on a great variety of themes, and has published besides "Have We Out- grown Christianity," Boston, 1870; " Glance at the Religious Progress of the Country," Boston, 1874; "The Latest Ward of Universalism," Boston, 1878 ; " Walks about Zion," Boston, 1882; " Episcopacy," 1884; "Revelation," 1890; and " A System of Christian Doctrines," 1894. He contributed papers to the Religious Press Congress and the Parliament of Religions, in Chicago, 1893. In 1861 Dr. Atwood was married to Almira Church of Clarendon, N. Y., and they have four daughters and one son, the Rev. John Murray Atwood of Clifton Springs.

Gilbreth, William, Lawrence, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, May 14, 1828, a son of Samuel and Ellen (Garven) Gilbreth, the latter also born in Ireland, who reared nine children. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth came to America in 1841, setting first in Vermont, and nine years later they came to this county and settled on the farm now owned by our subject. The latter was thirteen years of age when he came to Vermont, and six- teen when he came to St. Lawrence county. He was educated in the public schools and worked in the woolen factory in Vermont about five years. He is the owner of about 113 acres of land, and follows general farming, keeping twelve cows. He also

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has about 500 sugar trees. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1856 he married Mar- tha Beattie, a native of Ireland, born in 1832, died February 16, 1885, a daughter of James and Mary (Forsythe) Beattie, who had two sons and five daughters. Our sub- ject and wife had four children: Mary E., born November 16, 1857, died May 27, 1882 ; Sarah J., born June 4, 1859, died May 29, 1879; Alice L., born June 18, 1864, and mar- ried September 20, 1887, Webster A. Ballard, a native of Lawrence, born October 20, 1864, a son of Elwood D. and Ruth M. (Day) Ballard of Peru, Essex county. Webster A. Ballard and wife have had two children : Warner D., born June 18, 1889; and May R., born February 23, 1892. The fourth child of our subject, Anna M., was born August 5, 1869, and married H. D. Blanchard of Nicholville, by whom she has one child, William L.

Andrews, Morris B., Massena, was born in Massena, July 23, 1821, a son of John B., mentioned in this work. Mr. Andrews was reared and educated in Massena, and also attended the Malone Academy and Potsdam Academy. He engaged in farming when a young man, and inherited about 107 acres of land from his father, to which he has added until he now owns about 250 acres of land and village property. He resided on his farm until 1888, when he came to the village and has since lived retired. Mr. An- drews has always voted the Democratic ticket, but has not aspired to office. March 16, 1863, he married Margaret, daughter of James and Sarah (England) Carney, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Massena, who were the parents of eight children, and who both died in Massena. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have had one son, Justin B., born in Massena on the old homestead, January 5, 1865. He was educated in the common schools and the Massena High School, and also follows farming, living in the old home. He is a member of Massena Grange No. 704, of which he is a past master. He is also a member of the I. O. F. Court No. 693 of Massena. His wife was Evelyn Chittenden, daughter of Nelson Chittenden of Louisville, by whom he has two daughters, Lena C. and Velma E.

Aldrich, Newton, Gouverneur, was born June 6, 1830, in Luzerne, Warren county, N. Y., a son of Seth Aldrich, born in Athol in 1799, and Mira Adams, born in Luzerne in 1805. He came to Gouverneur in 1867 and engaged in the lumber business, in which he is still interested. Mr. Aldrich is president of the Bank of Gouverneur, of the Gouv- erneur Wood Pulp Company, and of the United States Talc Company. He is also a member of the firm of W. Weston, Dean & Aldrich of Natural Dam. March 17, 1858, he married Kate Griffin, a native of Warren county, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Lindsay) Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich have one son, Herbert G., born December 3, 1860, at Luzerne, who is now practicing law at Gouverneur. He graduated from Ham- ilton College in 1884 and from Harvard Law School in 1888. September 2, 1890, he married Jennie A. Loucks.

Bridges, J. D., Massena, was born in Chester, Vt., November 22, 1821, a son of Wil- son, whose father, John, was a captain in the Revolutionary war. Wilson was born in Athol, Mass., in 1792. He came to Chester, Vt., with his parents, and there married Lucy L. Dana, a native of Vermont, by whom he had four children, two now living, J. O. and J. D. In 1826 Mr. Bridges came to Massena and settled at Racket River Bridge

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on a farm where he spent the remainder of his life. His wife died in 1834, and he married second, Maria Hall of Fort Covington. N. Y., by whom he had seven children. He served in various town offices and died in 1876. He served in the war of 1812. J. D. Bridges was five years old when he came to Massena, where he was educated in the public school and later went to Potsdam Academy. He has always been a farmer, and has been extensively engaged'in cattle buying, for the past twenty-five years. He first engaged in teaching, which he followed for several terms. He now owns 400 acres, and has also given his only son 175 acres. He is a Democrat and has served as justice of the peace sixteen years. In 1845 he married Lydia Boynton of Massena, born March 19, 1826, a daughter of Luke Boynton of Montpelier, Vt., born October 9, 1798, who came to Massena in 1823, and here died in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Bridges have had two children : Guy B., born in 1846, now residing in Massena, who for many years has been connected with the stage line, also the steamboat line. He married first, in 1868, Louisa Hodgkins of Massena, and had one son, Fred, now married in Brooklyn. Mrs. Bridges died in 1878, and he married second, Margaret Combs, bv whom he has three sons : Roy, Guy and Harry. Ida, second child of J. D. Bridges, was born April 3, 1853, and married James Britton of Massena, who afterwards established the Mas- sena Bank, of which he was president several years. Ida died November 19, 1878, and Mr. Britton died in January, 1894.

Robertson, D. M., Canton, was born in Gouverneur, December 1, 1829. He was edu- cated in the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary and the Canton Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1871, and opened his present office in the same year. In 1861 Mr. Robertson enlisted in Co. A, 60th N. Y. Infantry, and served nearly two years, enlisting as a private and returning home as a major. In 1872 he married Sarah Thatcher, and they have one daughter, Jessie Robertson. Major Robertson has been president of the St. Lawrence County Veteran's Association for two years, was for- merly deputy county clerk of St. Lawrence county, was for several years superinten- dent of the St. Lawrence County Agricultural Society, and is now and has been for three years president of the Canton Savings and Loan Association.

Delaney, Thomas, Massena, was born in Mountrath, on of the chief towns in Queens county, Ireland, March 3, 1820, a son of John and Catherine (Kennedy) Delaney of Ireland, who came to Canada in 1848, and two years later to Massena, where the mother died in 1858, aged seventy-two years, and the father in 1865, aged eighty- four years. Of their seven sons, only two survive. Thomas was reared on the farm, educated in the common schools, and in 1840 emigrated to the United States, land- ing in New York on May 15, and worked for the Shakers of Albany at gardening until late in the fall, then went to Woodville, Jefferson county, where he engaged in distilling until November, 1844, when he went to Dickinson's Landing, Ontario, to superintend a large distillery at that place, and remained in that position until the close of 1850, when the concern closed up business, and he then came to Mas- sena and commenced farming, in which he is still interested. He owns a farm of about 150 acres of highly cultivated land, nicely situated on the St. Lawrence River. In 1881 he, with his family, moved into Massena Village, where he owns a com- fortable residence and where he still resides. Yet, though partly retired from the

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active duties of farming, he still takes a lively interest in the progress and devel- opment of agriculture. He is a Democrat and was appointed census enumerator in 1875, held for many years the offices of inspector of elections and excise commis- sioner, and has also filled many positions of trust and responsibility, the duties of which he discharged with scrupulous fidelity and care, to the entire satisfaction of all the parties interested. He and all his family are members of the Catholic church. In 1845 he married Caroline Jaycox of Massena born February 4, 1826, a daughter of William and Barbara (Ruport) Jaycox, who were among the earliest settlers of this town, the former dying in 1836, the latter in 1886, in Massena. Mr. and Mrs. De- lany have had eight children, four of whom are now deceased, namely : John M., died at the age of six years : E. Ado, died aged five years; Martha A., born July 6, 1854, died April 2, 1892; and William J., born March 28, 1848, and died October 6, 1893, leaving two daughters, Bessie L. and Mary L. The surviving children are: Lu- cilia, wife of Herbert H. Holcomb of the town of Stockholm, now of California, by whom she has had seven children, Maud (deceased), T. Tyler, Delany J., Kate E., James F., Harry and Jeremiah; Agnes, wife of Capt. James Fox of Massena, owner and captain of the steamer Algona, a freight and passenger boat on the St. Lawrence River ; T. Edwin, married first, Ella Costigan, who died April 26, 1890, and second, Sarah Bennet, by whom he has one daughter, Ella M. He resides in Ogdensburg; and S. Inez, wife of Charles McQuillan of Chicago, by whom she has one daughter, named Ellen A.

Sanford, Hon. Jonah, Hopkinton, was born in Cornwall, Vt., November 30, 1790. He was the son of Hon. Benjamin Sanford, who was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1756, and in 1784 removed to Cornwall, Vt., of which town he was a prominent citizen. Jonah Sanford's educational advantages were limited, and through his own efforts he became an influential citizen of this county. He was a farmer, but being ambitious he, while young and the country new, purchased a few law books and mastered them even- ings, after working throughout the day on his farm. He was elected to various offices of trust : supervisor of his town, member of Congress during the unexpired term of Silas Wright, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, also a member of the Constitutional Convention. He was appointed commissioner to lay out a road between Hopkinton and Port Kent, a distance of seventy-two miles. He discharged this duty with strict integrity and untiring zeal. He made several trips through the great woods before a tree was cut. In the military service he began early life as a volunteer in the War of 1812. Mr. Sanford was granted power by Governor Morgan to raise a regiment of

volunteer infantry, and in 1861-2 he organized in Potsdam, N. Y., the Ninety-second Regiment and accompanied it to James River. Here his health failed. His extraordi- nary efforts in this work with his age, being seventy-one years old, so told upon him that he reluctantly resigned his commission and Col. Sanford returned to his home. In 1811 he married Abigail, daughter of Rev. Henry Green, of Cornwall, Vt. He then came to Hopkinton and purchased the farm where he resided over fifty years, and until his death December 25, 1867, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. Mr. Sanford's first wife died in 1842, and in 1845 he married Miss Harriet Barney, of Belleville, Jefferson county, N. Y. She is living and is eighty-two years of age. Mr. Sanford was the

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father of eight children by his first marriage, and two by his last marriage. He was a strong Republican and a lover of his country. At one time he had two sons and four grandsons in the war. His son Rollen died in Andersonville prison after suffering for weeks for the want of food and care.

Palmer, George W., Lawrence, was born in Franklin county, December 18, 1831, a son of Leonidas Palmer of Hinesburg, Vt., born in 1801, who married Cyrena Hoadley, of Vermont, by whom he had six children, four of them were school teachers, one was a justice of the peace for many years, supervisor for about fifteen years, a member of assembly two terms in the third district and land surveyor, our subject being the oldest. L. Palmer first came to Franklin county, and in 1840 to St. Lawrence county, and set- led on the farm now owned by George W. Here he died in 1874. He was a Republi- can and served in various town offices. His wife is now living at the age of eighty- three, there being now four generations in one house. Our subject was nine years of age when he came to this county, and he was educated in the common schools, teach- ing for a number of years when a young man. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade, but follows farming principally. He owns 159 acres of land and keeps a dairy of nine- teen cows, owning Jersey cows among the stock, and also keeps sheep. He is a Re- publican and has served several years as trustee of schools. He is a member of P. of I. Riverside Lodge at Lawrenceville. His wife was Eliza Washburn, a native of Wil- mington, Essex county, N. Y., a daughter of Israel and Asenath Hurd, who came from New Hampshire to Essex county, where they died. By a previous marriage to Caro- line Sweet, daughter of Thomas Sweet, of Hopkinton, our subject had two children : Edwin E., who died in infancy ; and Estelle M., a music teacher, who married Uriah Denton, by whom she has had one child, Carl E.

Maley, A. J., Massena, was born in Massena, August 19, 1844, a son of John, a nat- ive of Ireland, who came to America when a child. He settled in Massena, and there married Philena Perkins, a native of Stansted, Canada, born in 1802. Mr. and Mrs. Maley had five sons and two daughters, three sons surviving. He went to California in 1851, returned to Massena in 1852, and died in 1860, leaving a farm of 300 acres in Massena, besides other real estate in Iowa. His widow resides with our subject at the age of ninety-three. A. J. Maley was educated in the common schools, and at the age of seventeen he went to Iowa (1861). In 1862 he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteers and served eight months, when he was discharged on account of disability. In August of the same year he enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Cavalry and served two years and four months. He was in several engagements and many skirmishes, and was taken prisoner at Atlanta, Ga., July 13, 1864, taken to Andersonville, held for five months, then removed to Florence, S. C., where he remained till February 13, 1865, when he was paroled, and remained in the hospital at Annapolis and at Little York, Pa., where he was discharged in July, 1865. At the close of the war he spent a short time in Massena, then returned to Iowa. He spent the next few years in various work. He went to Cornwall, Canada, and was proprietor of the American House for seventeen years. In 1891 he came to Massena and became proprietor of the Allen House, where he now resides. He followed farming several years prior to this. He is a Republican and a member of Cornwall Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M. He is also a member of the

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Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 117

Author: Curtis, Gates Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1328

Author: Curtis, Gates
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1328