Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 78

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

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Bolton and family came to Madrid. He afterward came to Stockholm, and here lived until his death, which occurred August 4, 1862, and his wife died in May, 1871. Thom- as H. Bolton was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Potsdam Academy. Mr. Bolton is a natural musician and has studied with Professor Thurston and Professor Morgan of New York city, and has attended the best institutes and con- ventions in Northern New York. He has also studied in Davenport, Ia., taking private lessons and doing institute work. He followed teaching vocal music exclusively for three years. While in Davenport he was engaged in insurance business three years. He then came to Norwood, N. Y., where he was engaged for three years in the same business, representing at one time sixteen of the leading companies in this country and in England. In 1878 Mr. Bolton went to Chicago and engaged in insurance business four and one-half years, representing the American Insurance Company of Chicago. He was located for some time in Springfield, Ill., and had the collecting of several counties for the American Insurance Company of Chicago. While in Springfield he was made the superintendent of agents for the Forest City Insurance Company, and remained with them seven years. He was then appointed special agent of the Ger- man Insurance Company, and after two years came to Buckton, N. Y., and now resides on his farm at that place. He purchased thirty-eight acres of his father and has added to it until he now owns 195 acres and fine buildings. In 1863 Mr. Bolton married Rosina C. Schellenger, daughter of Daniel E. Schellenger, a native of Vermont, who came to Stockholm when a young man. His wife was Caroline Scott by whom he had two children, now living. Mr. Schellenger died in 1888 and his wife in April, 1893. To Mr. Bolton and wife have been born the following children : Malcolm C., who died in infancy ; Malcolm V., a resident of Cedar Rapids, Ia., engaged as bookkeeper for the order of Railroad Conductors in Granby Block, No. 56 Third avenue. The youngest son is Thomas H., who is at home. Mr. Bolton is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of Elk lodge, No. 577, F. & A. M., of Nicholville, N. Y. He and his wife are members of the M. E. church.

Bloss, Albro E., Parishville, was born on the farm he now owns. He is a son of Elvin W., a son of Samuel, who lived in Parishville, as also did his father, Aaron. Elvin W. was born September 30, 1806, in Plainfield, N. H., and came to Parishville about 1838. He married Mercy A., daughter of Isaac Russell, an early settler of Par- ishville, where he died. Elvin and wife had three children, two now living. He died May 25, 1893, and his wife now lives on the old homestead. Albro E. Bloss was reared on a farm and received a good education. He has always been a farmer and owns the homestead place of 272 acres, keeping a dairy of twenty cows. April 3, 1893, Mr. Bloss bought the Lockwood starch factory at Allen's Falls and is now en- gaged in the manufacture of shingles and wooden novelties. He married Mary E. Hatch, a native of Vermont, by whom he had one child who died in infancy. Mrs. Bloss died November 1, 1891. Mr. Bloss is a Republican in politics and attends and supports the Wesleyan church.

Callaghan, Peter, Ogdensburg, was born in Ireland, August 15, 1837. He came to this country in 1856 and engaged in blacksmithing. In 1867 he started in business for himself and gradually worked up into his present business of carriage dealing and horse

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supplies. He married in 1855 Bridget Kelly of Ogdensburg and they have had seven children, four of whom are living. Mr. Callaghan is a self-made man, is careful and painstaking in his business affairs, attends and supervises all details, and is considered a good substantial citizen.

Carpenter, Adam F., Morristown, was born at Russia, Herkimer county, N. Y., Sep- tember 18, 1817. His father moved to Morristown in 1824. He came on September 18, 1831, learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, worked at same until April, 1839, when he went to Charleston, W. Va., from there through Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala- bama and Georgia to Tallahassee and Jacksonville, Fla., from there to Charleston, S. C., then to New York city and home. He resumed work at his trade until July, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. B, 142d Regiment, N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, and served three years in the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., at Fort Fisher, Wilmington and Raleigh, N. C., where the regiment was mustered out and sent home by way of City Point, Va., and New York city. After the war he resumed work at his trade and followed it several years. He is now unable to do hard work by rea- son of sun strokes and fever while in the service, and loss of sight of right eye and deafness since. He was postmaster under President Fillmore and is now president of the village, also of school board, and has been adjutant of G. A. R. post No. 415, de- partment of New York. Mr. Carpenter married Ellen J. Griffiths on May 3, 1842. They have five children, Willis F., Henry C., Charlotta A., Emily C. and Alice C. He is in his seventy-seventh year and his wife in her seventy-third.

Chartrand, George, Ogdensburg, was born in Canada, February 11, 1832. He came to Ogdensburg in 1850 and followed the cooper business for eight years, then entered the liquor business with which he has since been successfully identified. He has been twice married, and has five children. Mr. Chartrand's establishment is located on the corner of River and Commerce streets, where he is assisted by competent help. Mr. Chartrand was one of the founders of St. John the Baptist Society in Ogdensburg.

Cook, W. J., Ogdensburg, was born in Ogdensburg, August 3, 1850. He began his apprenticeship at the meat business with J. B. Armstrong in 1861, and worked for him until 1876 ; he then started business for himself, which he has since conducted very successfully, doing the leading business in this line in the city, having as his patrons all of the leading hotels in Ogdensburg as well as the leading families. He was for a time steward of the Palmer House, Chicago, and is thoroughly versed in every department of his line of business. Mr. Cook married Jennie Green, and they have one child, a boy of fourteen. Mr. Cook is Sir Knight and Odd Fellow and a thorough business man, and is much respected.

Clark, Richard, Waddington, was born in Waddington, August 20, 1840. His father, James, was a native of Poughkeepsie, and when a young man came to Waddington. His wife was Sarah Lard, of Brattleboro, Vt., by whom he had five children. Mr. Clark died in 1842, and his wife in 1891. Richard Clark was reared and educated'in Waddington ; 1862 he enlisted in Co. D., 11th N. Y. Cavalry, and

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served until the close of the war. Farming has been his life occupation and he owns 108 acres of land and keeps a dairy of sixteen cows. He is a Republican, and he and family are members of the Congregational church of Waddington. He married in Lawrenceville, N. Y., March 7, 1888, Emma Patten, by whom he has one daughter, Bertha, and one son, Leslie. Mr. Clark is a member of the G. A. R.

Curtis, Lyman P., Stockholm, was born in Canada, May 12, 1824. He is a son of Crosby Curtis, a native of New Jersey. The latter when a young man went to Chazy, N. Y., and there married Anna Baxter, by whom he had two sons and four daughters. After the death of Mrs. Curtis, Mr. Curtis married second Jemima Whitcomb. In 1857 Mr. Curtis settled on a farm in Stockholm, and afterwards emigrated to Ohio, where he died. Lyman P. Curtis was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools. He married Clara L. Graves, a native of Stockholm, and daughter of John and Patty (Smith) Graves, natives of Vermont. They have six children : Henry C., Alice A., Alma A., Edgar E., Anna A., and Enoch N. In 1861 Mr. Curtis enlisted in the 60th N. Y. Vols., Co. I., and served fourteen months. He is a Repub- lican, and a member of the G. A. R. Gibson Post. Mrs. Curtis is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Brookdale.

Crossman, W. R., Gouverneur, was born in Macomb, June 8, 1870, and was edu- cated at Elmdale. He rents a fine farm of 112 acres. In November, 1891, he married Luetta, daughter of Newell Thayer, and they have one child, Florence G. Mr. Crossman's father, Sylvester, lives at Elmdale. W. K. Crossman is an unusually intelligent and enterprising young man, and has a bright future ahead of him.

Capron, E. B., Ogdensburg, is a native of this State and has resided in this city for the past fifteen years. In 1887 he purchased the Oswegatchie Hotel, which he has since most successfully conducted. This hotel contains thirty-five rooms, and is filled up with all modern conveniences, the office and bar being especially fine. Mr. Capron is married and has one child. He has been eminently successful in the business.

Charlton, John, Waddington, was born in Waddington, June 11, 1839. His father was Laurence, son of Edward Charlton, a native of Ireland and an early settler of Waddington, where he lived and died. Laurence Charlton was born in Ireland, May 1, 1797, came to Waddington early in life and assisted in building the dam across the St. Lawrence river between Ogden's Island and Waddington Village. He married Margaret Hodge, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. Mr. Charlton was a farmer and purchased the land now owned by our subject. He was a Republican, and he and wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He died in 1872, and his wife in 1880. John Charlton was reared and educated in the town of Waddington ; except nine months in California, he has been a farmer. Mr. Charlton has traveled extensively in the Western States. He married Maria, daughter of James Clark, in 1858, and they have had seven children : Sarah A., (deceased), Margaret, Josephine, Gertrude A., Lawrence E., Jennie M., Carrie F. Mr. Charlton is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the M. E. church of Waddington.

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Coughlin, D. J., Gouverneur, was born in Ontario, May 6, 1865, but came over to this country early in life, and has always been a popular hotel-keeper. He came to Gouverneur in 1888. In March, 1892, he married Lena Ridlespraker of Lewis county. Mr. Coughlin is a strong Democrat, and a genial as well as successful business man.

Crosby, Samuel Thompson, Potsdam, was born on a farm in the town of Madrid, near Potsdam, August 18, 1839, son of Henry, a native of Ireland, born in Belfast, December 25, 1806, and came to this country when twenty years of age. He first located on a farm in the town of Madrid, where he resided until 1850, when he bought a farm of 132 acres in Potsdam, where he died August 20, 1875. He married in Madrid in 1833, Mary, daughter of George Morgan, one of the early settlers of Pots- dam, and had eight children, six of whom are still living: Catherine, wife of Brainard Hall, of Madrid; Julia, wife of Abrahan Loomis, of Norwood; Henry G., of Caze- novia, Kent county, Mich .; Thomas, who lives on the old homestead; Ellen, wife of Darwin Hall, of Lake Park, Iowa; and Samuel T. Mrs. Crosby still lives on the old homestead, aged eighty years. Samuel lived on his parents' farm until he was twenty- four years of age. His first business venture was made in Somerset, Niagara county, where he was employed on a farm for over four years. After spending a year in Mich- igan in 1868, he bought a farm of 110 acres on the Ogden tract, where he has erected a beautiful residence. He conducts this as a dairy farm, with twenty head of cattle and three horses. He married in 1873 Angeline, daughter of Enoch Hibbard, of Adrian, Mich., and they have two sons : Henry Enoch, now in his seventeenth year; and Ernest Samuel, now in his ninth year. Mr. Crosby and family are members of the Seven Day Adventist's Church Society of Buck's Bridge. Besides this farm Mr. Crosby owns the old Sylvenus Ellis farm on the Canton road of 111 acres, which he leases.

Carpenter, H. D., Norfolk, was born in Orange, Orange county, Vt., December 7, 1819. His father was Jesse Carpenter, a native of Plainfield, N. H. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He went to Corinth, Orange county, Vt., with his parents when a boy. His parents were Jesse and Percis Carpenter, and they had ten children, seven sons and three daughters, of whom Jesse was the oldest. Mr. Carpenter married in Vermont Catherine Taplin, a native of Corinth. Mr. Carpen- ter and wife have had five sons and five daughters. He came to Lawrence, St. Law- rence county, N. Y., in 1834, located on a farm and there spent most of his days, but died in Norfolk, March 18, 1863, and his wife June 22, 1866. Mr. Carpenter was al- ways a Democrat in politics. He and wife were members of the Freewill Baptist church. H. D. Carpenter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of Lawrence, and studied English literature, mathematics and civil engineering. Mr. Carpenter has always been a great reader, and has a very fine library. He married in 1846 Mary J. Jones, a native of Willsborough, Essex county, N. Y., by whom he has had two children ; Mary A., deceased, and Nettie C., deceased wife of A. C. Danforth, a Methodist minister of Fort Covington, N. Y. Mr. Carpenter went to California in 1852 and engaged in mining, and there remained until 1855, when he returned to Nor- folk and settled on the farm he now owns. He has 220 acres of land devoted to dairy- ing, keeping twenty-six cows. Mr. Carpenter is a Democrat in politics, was assessor of the town fifteen years, and is now serving his fifth term as justice of the peace. He

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was supervisor of the town one year. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the Norfolk Grange, No. 541. He is a member of the M. E. church of Norfolk, and Mrs. Carpen- ter was also a member of the same church. She died. October 13, 1880.

Clark, Silas W., Norfolk, was born in Raymondville, November 17, 1845, a son of Joseph and Rizpah Clark. He was reared on a farm until fourteen years of age. He then spent three years as clerk, and then for a short time tried railroading in Pennsyl- vania. In 1866 he went to Nevada, and there for seven years was engaged in mining and ranching. He then spent six years in California farming, after which he returned to Nevada and spent another seven years. He then came to Raymondville, and has since been engaged in farming, owning 140 acres of land. He has also been success- fully engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. In 1872 Mr. Clark married Janet Scott, a native of Louisville, and a daughter of Charles and Janet Scott, natives of Scot- land, and early settlers of Louisville. Mr. Clark and wife have one child, Harry S. Mr. Clark is a Democrat, and a member of Norfolk Grange, No. 541, of which he has been master two years. He is at present master of the St. Lawrence county Council, P. of H., is a member of What Cheer Lodge, No. 689, F. and A. M., and I. O. O. F., No. 486, of Norwood.

Chandler, Charles Arthur, Madrid, was born in Potsdam, May 3, 1842. The first of the family to come into this county was Stephen, grandfather of our subject, a native of Vermont, and among the earliest settlers of Potsdam. He was the father of these children : John, Henry, Samuel, David, Gardner, Mariabe, Roxie and Hannah. David, father of Charles A., was born in Vermont, June 9, 1796, and married Orilla Smith, who was born in Berkshire, Vt., January 22, 1802, and at the age of three years came with her parents to this county. David and Orilla were the parents of four children : Orpha M., wife of John Hall; Catharine J., widow of Henry Dayton of Madrid ; one daughter who died, aged two years; and Charles A. The latter was five years old when his mother moved to Madrid. He was educated in the common schools and St. Lawrence University at Canton. At seventeen he entered the employ of A. W. Hall in the Union store at Madrid Station where he acted as clerk three years. In 1882 he bought a grocery, which he conducted but a few weeks, when he established a store in his present location at Madrid Station. Here he has ever since been engaged in business. In 1864 he was appointed postmaster under President Lincoln, and with the exception of three and one half years under the first Cleveland administration, has held the office continuously for over twenty-five years. In 1872 he was elected justice of the peace, an office he has filled for six consecutive terms and now holds. He is a member of the Episcopal church. In connection with his store Mr. Chandler conducts a flour and feed mill at Madrid Station which has grown into a very extensive business. He married in 1864, Jane E., daughter of Robert Hanna of Lisbon. They have had one son, who died, aged two years.

Clark, Amos F., Norfolk, was born in Gilsum, Cheshire county, N. H., March 19, 1825. He is a son of Joseph, son of Jonathan Clark, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1758, who removed to Gilsum, N. H., where he died in 1830. His wife was Delia Thompson, a native of Massachusetts by whom he had three sons and five daugh-

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ters. Mrs. Clark died December 5, 1819. Joseph Clark was born in Gilsum, June 25, 1802, and married January 2, 1824 in Gilsum, Rizpah Field of Surrey, N. H., born March 20, 1802, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters. Mr. Clark came to Norfolk in the spring of 1836, and settled on a farm at Raymondsville. He built a wagon shop, where he carried on business for many years, being in partnership with our subject for a number of years. He was a Democrat in politics, and was overseer of the poor several years. He died in Raymondsville, February 15, 1878, and his wife July 27, 1877. Amos F. Clark was reared on a farm and edu- cated in the common schools and the academy at Raymondsville. He served an ap- prenticeship in the wagon shop of his father, for whem he worked until twenty-two years of age, when he became a partner, continuing in business until 1850, (January 1) when he married Clarissa Carpenter, a native of Washington, Vt., and daughter of Jesse Carpenter. Mr. Clark and wife had three children : Kate R., deceased wife of Fred R. Smith, editor of the Norwood News. She died March 4, 1879, aged twenty-seven years ; George A., born in Raymondsville in 1855, a farmer of Norfolk, who married Carrie Stearns, a native of Louisville, N. Y., by whom he has four daughters. Mrs. Clark died in March, 1892 : and Fred H., born July 18, 1862, who died October 13, 1883. In March, 1851, Mr. Clark went to California, and engaged in mining, where he re- mained about a year, when he returned to Norfolk and engaged in contracting and building. He also carried on a lumber business at Raymondsville, and in 1854 returned to California and followed mining and saw-milling. After four years he returned to Norfolk, remaining until 1862, when he again went to California, and in June of that year he took passage in the Golden Gate which burned on the Coast of Mexico, and Mr. Clark was landed by a small boat about ninety miles below the harbor of Manzanillo, in the wilderness. His brother, Edwin J., who was sick, was with him, and they barely escaped with their lives, losing $7,500 in gold. During the last twenty-five years Mr. Clark has been engaged in the farming and nursery business, and makes a specialty of breeding Holstein cattle and Shropshire sheep. He at present owns 175 acres of land, about fifteen acres of which is nursery. He makes a specialty of apples and has a dairy of twenty cows. For the past twenty-five years he has been engaged in selling agricultural implements.

Clark, Charles A., youngest son of Joseph Clark, was born in Raymondsville, June 28, 1848. He was educated at the Lawrenceville Academy, Eastman's Business College, ete. In 1874 he built the Raymondsville Butter Factory, it being the first one built in Norfolk. Mr. Clark has since been engaged in the manufacture of butter, of which he makes 115,000 pounds yearly. He has three branch factories, two in Louisville and one in Norfolk. Mr. Clark married, October 26, 1871, Josephine Stearns of Chase's Mills, N. Y., and they have had four children : Joseph S., Rizpah F., Charlotte A., and Charles A. Mr. Clark is a Republican and is now serving his third term as justice of the peace. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church of Raymondsville.

Carpenter, C. C., Fowler, was born in Fowler, April 10, 1830, and has lived in Fowler all his life except twelve years spent in Norfolk. In 1852 he married Marion E. Cross, and their children are: C. A. Carpenter and Mrs. John Mowatt. Mrs. Carpenter died in the spring of 1893. Mr. Carpenter's father, was Jonathan J. Carpenter, a native of

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Providence, R. I. His mother was Lucy (Johnston) Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter has held different public offices in the town of Fowler.

Crawford, James V., Morristown, was born in Edwardsville, January 22, 1859. He was a farmer's son but early took to mercantile affairs and clerked four years, when he embarked in busines for himself in Morristown, twelve years ago. He has now the largest establishment in the place. In 1880 he married Agnes L. Colborn, and they have one son, James Grover. Mr. Crawford is a member of the Foresters and. of the Masonic Fraternity. In the former he is Court Deputy High Chief Ranger. He has been police justice and is now justice of the peace. He has also been treasurer of the school board. Mr. Crawford is an active Democrat, a member of the town committee and a strong man in his party.

Cuthbert, William, Hammond, was born in Scotland, June 23, 1820, and came to America in 1834, settling in Hammond in 1835. He has been a most successful farmer and has accumulated wealth. He married Margaret Cunningham, and has seven children, three sons and four daughters : William S., David, John R., Elizabeth Jane, Jeanette, Mary Ellen and Margaret Cecil. Elizabeth Jane is the wife of Albert Rodger; Jeanette is Mrs. F. A. Burt; and Mary Ellen is the wife of Rev. Mr. Fergu- son, the popular Presbyterian minister of Hammond. William S. Cuthbert is one of the best stock breeders in St. Lawrence county, and is making himself a name for his Shropshire sheep and Berkshire swine.

Chaffee, James E., Heuvelton, was born in Oswegatchie, March 16, 1839. His ances- tors and descendants in this country were Capt. Ezra Chaffee of Revolutionary fame, one of Washington's most trusted soldiers, and James E. Chaffee's grandfather, Rufus, a son of Capt. Ezra Chaffee, who settled in Vermont from Connecticut about 1785, Elisha H., son of Rufus Chaffee, who moved to St. Lawrence county in 1820 from Vermont, and who eventually died in Illinois in 1841; and finally the subject of this sketch, James E. (son of Elisha H.,) who married in 1864 Sarah J. Bell. They have four children : Florence, Mary M., Abel and William J. Florence married W. L. Millard, the successor to the business of James E. Chaffee in the hardware business of Heuvel- ton, which Mr. Chaffee had conducted for over twenty-one years. In 1861 Mr. Chaffee enlisted in Co. G., N. Y. Inf., and was assigned to extra duty in hospital, which he entered first for disability contracted in service. As soon as he had recovered he requested to be sent to the front, but this was refused, as his services were neces- sary and most valuable at the hospital, where he had charge of the culinary depart- ments. After eighteen months there he received his discharge and returned to Heuvel- ton, where he again enlisted, and was again assigned to extra duty at Harper's Ferry, where he remained until the close of the war, and received his discharge in October, 1865. After the war he followed farming for six years, then established the hard- ware business, which he conducted until he sold to his son-in-law. Mr. Chaffee has been a Mason since 1863. He has served as superintendent of the poor for many years, and frequently as president pro tem. of that body. He is one of St. Lawrence county's most substantial and representative citizens. He received the appointment of postmaster of Heuvelton July 15, 1889, which position he still fills. His mother

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was Catharine Russell, a daughter of William Russell, who settled in this county from Johnstown in 1820.

Cutting, A. B., Gouverneur, was born in the town of Pierpont, St. Lawrence county, February 2, 1836. Daniel H., the father (now living at the age of eighty- five) was born in Canada near Rouse's Point. The mother, Jane (Barrows Cutting) was born in Dorset, Vt. The ancestors on the father's side came from Worcester, Mass. In 1850 Mr. Cutting became a clerk in a hardware store in Canton, where he remained for ten years. He then went into business in Carthage for one year, when in the spring of 1861 he came to Gouverneur and went into business with B. Hodskin, of Canton, un- der the firm name of A. B. Cutting & Co., which partnership continued for three years, when Edwin Dodge bought the interest of Hodskin, and in 1869 he sold to Boardman. The firm being Boardman & Cutting for the nineteen years following. Since 1888 Mr. Cutting has been the sole owner of what is considered the largest hardware business in the region outside of Ogdensburg ; the business requiring services of from eight to ten men. Mr. Cutting married in November, 1860, Ellen M., daughter of John L. Barnes, of Canton, who was among the earliest merchants of that place. The have two chil- dren living : Hurlbert B. and Mrs. G. L. Carpenter.

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Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 78

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