Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 86

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

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Prospect street, where he died April 9, 1893. His first wife died November 27, 1848, leaving one child, Mrs. Henry Morgan of Norwood, who died in 1865. The widow that survives was Delania A., daughter of L. Foote of Potsdam, and they had one son, Henry M., born on the homestead farm, August 31, 1858. He was educated in the common schools and at Oberlin Seminary. He engaged in dealing in live stock and country produce and conducted the farm since he was of age. In 1883, in partnership with H. G. Pert, of Potsdam, he opened a hardware store in Norwood, which they con- ducted four years, then sold and engaged in the wholesale and retail dealing in car- riages, agricultural implements, harnesses, etc. His repository is a large, two story warehouse, 70x30 feet, and besides has a storehouse near the station. Mr. Kinsman married, June 13, 1883, Sylvia Balch, of Stockholm, and they have two children : Gene- vieve D., and Florence May

Laberdee, W. J., Gouverneur, was born in Gouverneur, July 18, 1847. He followed farming eighteen years, and has been nine years in the mercantile business, having worked for some time for Dean & Aldrich. Mr. Laberdee married Mary Laquier, and they have four children. He has resided nine years at Natural Dam, where he con- ducts a general store, is a thorough business man, and very popular. His father, Mar- tin Laberdee, is a native of Canada, as is also his mother. Martin Laberdee and wife are the parents of ten living children, all married, and the family, children and grand- children, number ninety-six, and the old folks' age, father 84, and mother 82, both living.

Laberdee, M. L., Gouverneur, was born in Gouverneur, March 7, 1851. He is a blacksmith by trade and has a genius for inventing He has been a successful business Inan and is much respected by all who know him. He came to Natural Dam, in 1878. He married Alphopina La Flare, and they have four children, two sons and two daughters. Mr. Laberdee is a brother of W. J. Laberdee and their parents are spoken of in the sketch of the former.

Lenney, William, Stockholm, was born in Massena, January 9, 1839, a son of Henry Lenney, a native of Ireland, born in June, 1802, who was there educated and received a liberal education. Coming to Massena he remained a short time, and in 1839 settled on the farm in Stockholm, now owned by William Lenney, where he spent the remain- der of his life. He owned nearly 300 acres of land and was one of the leading farmers of the town. He married in Montreal, Canada, Sarah Gorman, a native of Ireland, and they had three children : Dr. James. Gorman, and William, who is the only survivor. Mr. Lenney was one of the first to assist in establishing a Catholic church at Potsdam. He died October 30, 1892, and his wife May 6, 1874. William Lenney was educated in the Potsdam Academy. He spent nearly two years as clerk for D. Turner of Potsdam, since which time he has been engaged in general farming and dairying. He owns some- thing over 200 acres of land and has over forty cows. His wife was Mary Hayes, a native of Potsdam, born September 10, 1845. To Mr. Lenney and wife were born eight children : Gorman H. and James C., graduates of Potsdam Normal School, are in partnership under the firm name of Empire Book Co .; Tessie M., a graduate of Potsdam Normal School, class of '92, is a teacher ; Agnes S. died July 22, 1883; Lottie A. and

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Anna M., students at the Normal School ; Julia J., at home; Stella E., died September 28, 1893.

Lane, George E., Potsdam, was born on his present farm in Potsdam, July 31, 1866. The grandfather of our subject, Benjamin, was a native of Connecticut, born October 5, 1796, and was sixteen years of age when he came to this country. He was located with his brother in Canada at the breaking out of the war of 1812 and was drafted into the British army. In 1814 they came to this side and he bought a farm of 160 acres, where he made his home. He married in 1820, Mary Parmalee of Potsdam, and they had six children. Daniel, the father of our subject, was the oldest son and was born October 9, 1827, educated in the common schools and took up farming. In 1832 he bought the old homestead of his father and always made his home here. Daniel Lane was a Republican and held the office of excise commissioner. He increased the size of the farm to 172 acres, devoted to dairying. He died December 15, 1889. He married in 1852, Sarah, daughter of Henry Dayton of Potsdam, and they were the parents of five children, three now living : Henry, a telegraph operator of West Potsdam; Eliza- beth, a teacher of West Potsdam, graduate of Potsdam State Normal School; and George E. Mrs. Lane died November 7, 1892. George was educated in the com- mon schools and Potsdam State Normal School and at the death of his father assumed control of the farm, which he now conducts. He married in 1887, Estella, daughter of Isaiah Shields of Potsdam.

Louis, Christopher, Ogdensburg, was born in Loraine, France, December 26, 1826. He came to this country in 1851, located in Utica, and engaged in locksmithing. After two years and a half he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, and engaged in the fruit in- dustry, but not being satisfied, he returned to Utica and engaged in his old business. In 1856 he went to California and engaged in working a gold mine for some three years, when he visited British Columbia, where he remained a short time, and returned to California and worked the mine a short time unsuccessfully. Becoming disgusted with the business he gave up the claim to a friend, and again returned to Utica and en- tered the locksmith industry. In 1860, with a partner, he commenced the manufacture of saws, but sold out to his partner at the close of the year. In the meantime he mar- ried Miss Mary Delestre of Utica, in the spring of 1861. They made a tour to Illinois and finally came to Ogdensburg in April, 1862, and he has since remained here, doing a prosperous locksmith business in addition to working a small farm which he purchased just outside of the city limits. Mr. and Mrs. Louis have reared a family of seven chil- dren, five boys and two girls. Mr. Louis is one of Ogdensburg's esteemed and respected citizens.

Bartlett, Nathan Willard, Parishville, was born in Melbourne, Quebec, Canada, March 1, 1847. He was a son of Alden Bartlett, whose father was Rev. Willard Bartlett, and the latter a son of Capt. Joseph Bartlett, son of Mathew Bartlett, who was a son of Thomas Bartlett. Thomas and Mathew Bartlett were each natives of Brookfield, Mass. Capt. Joseph Bartlett was born in Brookfield, Mass., in 1758, and served in the American army during the Revolution, and was afterwards pensioned for injuries received in the service. He married Lucretia Hamilton, a native of Massachusetts, and they had eleven

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children. In 1796 he moved from Danville, Vt., to Barnston, Quebec, but when he moved from Massachusetts to Vermont is unknown. In 1805 he was appointed captain of a company of militia organized in Barnston, but resigned rather than transfer his allegiance from the United States to Great Britain. He died in Melbourne, P. Q., March 9, 1840. Rev. Willard Bartlett was born September 8, 1783, in Brookfield, Mass., and moved to Barnston with his parents, where he grew to manhood, and was educated at the Stanstead Wesleyan College. He married Louis Mosier, by whom he had nine children. He died in Melbourne, Quebec. Alden Bartlett was born June 23, 1815, in Wheelock, Vermont, and was a carpenter by trade. He married Jane W. Dutton, a native of Vermont, born July 25, 1810, and they had three sons and five daughters. In 1854 Alden Bartlett moved to Parishville, where he has since resided. His wife died April 18, 1868; he afterwards married Mrs. Susan Sherwood, whose maiden name was Britton. She died January 30, 1887. Mr. Bartlett has always been a Republican. Nathan W. Bartlett's school advantages were very limited. His parents were very poor, and school taxes were raised on the "grand list," and as soon as the public money was expended he had to leave school, as his father could not pay the tax on so many. In February, 1865, he enlisted in Co. F, 193d Regt., N. Y. Inf., and was discharged June 29, 1865, from Mc- Kim's Mansion Hospital, Baltimore, Md., for disability ; his regiment was mustered out in January, 1866. Mr. Bartlett's twin brother, William Wallace, served in Co. A of the same regiment, and was accidentally shot March 20, 1869. Mr. Bartlett has been disabled from the performance of manual labor ever since his discharge from the ser- vice. For over three years after his return from the service he was unable to lie down, and sitting up caused a curvature of the spine and a bad physical deformity. The greater portion of those years, Mr. Bartlett's physical suffering was intense. In the fall of 1869 he attended a select school one-half day each day, and the following winter at- tended district school most of the time. In February, 1870, he entered the State Nor- mal School at Potsdam, where he remained nearly three years, doing only about two- thirds of the regular school work on account of his health; he also taught two terms district school. While teaching he had a severe relapse, brought on by over work, and was obliged not only to leave his school but to abandon his chosen profession, teaching. Mr. Bartlett often referred to this as the greatest disappointment of his life, for he greatly loved his work. In September, 1873, he entered the law office of Theo. H. Swift, of Potsdam, "to kill time" until he decided what next to attempt. He re- mained in Mr. Swift's office one year, during which time his health improved and he became very much interested in the study of law. He then entered the office of J. A. Vance, of Potsdam, and remained with him three years, being admitted to the bar in September, 1877. While reading law Mr. Bartlett taught school one winter at Pierre- pont Center, and in the summer and fall of 1875 was principal of the Union Free School of Hermon, N. Y. In November, 1877, Mr. Bartlett located in the village of Parish- ville, where he has since practiced his profession. June 27, 1881, he married Jennie R., daughter of Robert H. and Sarah A. Cooke, of Canton. They have had four chil- dren : Sarah J., born March 22, 1883, died March 27, 1883; Willard William, born March 9, 1884 ; Agnes M., born November 27, 1885, died January 23, 1887; Katy V., born March 19, 1888. Mr. Bartlett was a Republican until 1890, when he joined the Prohibitionists. He is now serving his first term as justice of the peace. He belongs

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to Rockwell Post, No. 328, G. A. R., and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church, of which Mr. Bartlett was a trustee for nine years. During that time the church prospered financially, having purchased a large brick parsonage, moved the church on to the parsonage lot and built a basement for prayer-meeting and Sunday- school purposes, also adding a tower to the church and other improvements at a total expense of about $4,000. In this work, as in all other of a public or charitable nature, Mr. Bartlett was a prime mover. Mr. Bartlett has always been an ardent, zealous tem- perance man, and in 1892 was his party's nominee for surrogate, and in 1893 was their choice for district attorney. On account of declining health Mr. Bartlett has given up all his law practice, except a little office work. He has drawn since his discharge a liberal pension, without which he could not have gone to school or read law. Mr. Bartlett saw but little army service, yet few have suffered as much on account thereof, or been placed at so great a disadvantage in the " battle of life."

Laquier, A. J., Gouverneur, was born at The Cedars in Canada and was reared in Ogdensburg. He has been in Gouverneur twenty-four years and has conducted a suc- cessful general store at Natural Dam nine years. In 1873 he married and has four children, the oldest son, Urban A., assisting his father in the business.

Lytle, Andrew, Lisbon, was born in Lisbon in 1818. His father, James J. Lytle, and his grandfather, William Lytle, came from Salem, Washington county, N. Y., settled near Lisbon Centre in 1801, and followed argricultural pursuits. His brother, David, purchased a part of the old homestead which has been kept intact, as neither he nor his brother, David, have married. They have most materially added to the property and are now counted as among the most influential and substantial property owners in Lisbon.

Lewis, William H., Potsdam, was born on a farm in Stockholm, September 30, 1845, a son of William H., a native of Vermont, born in Addison, September 6, 1799. He came to St. Lawrence county when about forty years of age and located in Stock- holm, where he conducted a farm. He was a carpenter and followed the trade both in St. Lawrence and Franklin counties. He was twice married. His first wife was Orisa Seeley, a native of St. Lawrence county, and his second wife, mother of our subject, he married in 1843. Her maiden name was Hannah Turner, and they had nine children, two of whom died in infancy, one was killed in the war and six are still living. Will- iam A. was the second son. His early life was spent in the town of Russell, where his parents moved when he was only a year old. He was educated in the common schools and is a graduate of Eastman's Business College of Poughkeepsie. He was only sixteen years old when the war broke out, and with the enthusiasm of youth he enlisted December 8, 1863, in the 11th N. Y. Cavalry and was in service with them until the end of the war. He was with Sherman and was in a part of the Red River expedition. After the war closed he returned to Canton, where he at- tended school for a short time and then went to Poughkeepsie. In 1866 he engaged in the mercantile business in Russell. In 1870 he went west, filling a position in the county clerk's office of Buchanan county, Iowa, four years. Returning to Rus- sell in 1874 he, in company with Hiry Derby, established a general store, which he conducted for nearly three years. In 1877 he was elected on the Republican ticket

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supervisor for one year. In 1878 he moved to West Potsdam, where he took up the manufacture of cheese and has been engaged in dairy business ever since, man- ufacturing, buying and selling. In 1893, in company with his brother, A. P. Lewis, he turned the cheese factory into a creame. y, which now produces 125,000 pounds per year. Since Mr. Lewis came to Potsdam he has held the office of justice of the peace six years. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity twenty- seven years, and is a member of Potsdam Grange No. 39. He married in 1874, Elizabeth P., daughter of Cyrenus Z. and Aurilla ( King ) Bostsford of Canton, and they have one son, Percy Llewellyn, now in his ninth year. They have an adopted daughter, Lora Bacon Lewis.

Larock, Joseph, Ogdensburg, was born in Ogdensburg, September 19, 1866. He re- ceived an excellent academic education in the schools of this city, and after serving two years as clerk, went into the grocery business, which two years later he sold out to go west, where he resided for three years, and in 1890 he purchased a grocery business on Lake street in this city and last year's sales exceeded $25,000. Mr. Larock keeps six or seven assistants and two delivery wagons. He is a member of the Ogdensburg Grocery Association and of the Sons of Veterans, and is one of Ogdensburg's most en- terprising and progressive business men and citizens,

La Rock, F. H., Ogdensburg, was born in Ogdensburg, August 12, 1850. He received his education in School No. 1 of this town, then commenced, in 1886, to learn the butcher's trade with Mr. M. C. Bennett, after completing which he opened a meat mar- ket at Ogdensburg, about seven years ago, were he has been successful, the firm name being La Rock & Carter. Mr. La Rock married in 1871, Hattie Goult, and they had one child, born December 28, 1872, who died July 21, 1881. Mr. La Rock has occu- pied his new store, 187 State street, since April 15, 1892.

Lockie, George, Gouverneur, was born in Scotland, October 9, 1810, and came to America in 1818. His parents settled in Rossie. In 1835 Mr. Lockie took up land where he now resides. April 24, 1840, he married Catherine McLaren, also a native of Scotland, and they have five children living : George F,, Colin J., Jolm A., Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Herring. Mr. Lockie is one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of St. Lawrence county, and his long life has always been governed by the most sterling principles.

Loveland, M. E., Gouverneur, was born in De Peyster, July 31, 1864. He has been engaged in hardware business in Potsdam eight years. In the spring of 1893, he removed to Gouverneur and bought out Charles Bowne. Mr. Loveland is a Mason of the thirty-second degree Scotish rite, and a most enterprising business man. In 1887 he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Chisholm, of Gouverneur, and they have one son, Lyle C., now in his fifth year. Mr. Loveland's father was Dwight, and his grandfather, Remembrance Loveland. The family came to Amer- ica in 1675.

Laramée, Rev. E. C., Gouverneur, was born in Plattsburg on February 3, 1857, and was educated for the priesthood at St. Mary's College and Le Grand Seminary, Montreal. He was ordained in 1882 by the late Bishop E. P. Wadhams at St. Mary's

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Cathedral, Ogdensburg, N. Y., and sent as assistant priest to St. Ann's church, Mooer's Forks. He came to Gouverneur in 1883, and the Church of St. James has experienced. a marked advance in every way since his incumbency. The church has been completely remodeled and renewed, and provided with a bell. A parochial residence and a ceme- tery have been purchased, and the congregation lias increased so much that a school has been established. A beautiful school building in now in way of erection and will be inaugurated in November. Father Laramée also attends the missions at Keene, Fine, and Taleville, where he is presently providing these people with churches.

Lockwood, Aldis L., jr., Potsdam, was born in Parishville in 1860, a son of A. L. Lock- wood, a native of Vermont, who came to this country when only four years old. He has been engaged in farming and manufacturing business. He conducted starch factories in Parishville and Crary's Mills, and for fifteen years was engaged with the Montgomery Insurance Company. The last five years as adjuster. He is now retired from active business. His mother was a native of Vermont, but lived in Ohio until her marriage. Her maiden name was Gratia Durant, and they had one son, our subject. The boyhood of Aldis L. was spent in Parishville. In 1870 his parents moved to Potsdam and Aldis was educated in the Normal there, Syracuse University, and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Being obliged to leave the latter school on account of ill health, he went to Wisconsin where he taught music a short time, and after that spent two winters in Florida. In 1887, he established a bazaar for the sale of general merchandise, carrying a line of almost everything useful in the library or kitchen. Mr. Lockwood is a partner in the Potsdam Woolen Mill of Potsdam, for the manufacture of cloths, flannels, sheeting and hosiery. Mr. Lockwood married February 14, 1893, Kathryn Fuller, of Stevens Point, Wis.

La Rose, Rev. P. O., Ogdensburg, was born in Canada, September 9, 1846. He was liberally educated in La Assumption College, and in Montreal Seminary, and was ordained priest in that city in 1872. In 1873, Father La Rose was appointed to the church in Ogdensburg, and since his inauguration to the pastorate has been eminently successful in building up the church, in both spiritual and material matters. He has charge of 820 families, containing 4,013 members, among whom there are 2,339 communicants, and 1,674 non-communicants, also two schools containing 776 pupils, over which are ten teachers under Father La Rose's direction. The latter is very energetic and zealous and enjoys the respect, esteem, and confidence of this entire community.

The Lockwood Family-J. Almeron Lockwood, Madrid, was born in Madrid, June 9, 1817. The earliest ancestor of this family we can trace was William Lockwood, a native of England, who came to this country when a young man. He settled in Ver- mont where he married, and afterward moved into Canada. There he was awarded a contract of land for his loyalty to the British cause during the war of the Revolution. William Lockwood was the father of eight children of whom Joseph, father of our sub- ject, was the oldest son. He was born June 20, 1792, and was only a lad when his parents moved to St. Lawrence county. His father took up a tract of eighty acres in Madrid, and in 1806, when Joseph was fourteen years of age, he bought a farm of

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eighty acres adjoining the homestead, where he always made his home. Joseph mar- ried, May 25, 1815, Azubah Newton of this town, and they had three children : Lucy A., who married Thomas Howe, of Potsdam, and died April 14, 1873 ; Cynthia Alvira, who died in 1841, at twenty-one years of age; and Joseph Almeron. The early life of the latter was spent on this farm. He was educated in the common schools and at Canton Academy. At twenty-four years of age he married and after one year moved to Canada, where he conducted a photographic gallery, being engaged in this business for about eleven years. In 1853 he moved to Ottawa, where he made his home until 1859. He died on the old homestead July 1, 1859. He married, November 10, 1841, Melinda, daughter of John Pierce, of Williamsburg, Canada, and they had eight chil- dren, seven of whom are still living: Alvira, an artist of note and teacher of painting, who has now a studio at Ottawa, Canada; Jasper, a train dispatcher at Los Angeles, Cal .; Eugene, of Los Angeles ; Maria, who is now at Chicago; Eliza, who conducts the homestead farm; Almira, who died in 1879 at twenty-six years of age; Florence, who lives at home, and Joseph of Los Angeles.

Lockwood, the late Homer R., Madrid, was born on a farm in Madrid, October 20, 1851. Charles S. Lockwood, his father, was also a native of this county and was a farmer. Homer R. was his only son. He was educated in the common schools and withheld from a collegiate course on account of delicate health. He assisted on his father's farm until thirty years of age, then engaged in the hardware business in part- nership with his uncle, Edward Lockwood. This partnership existed until 1890, when Mr. Lockwood bought his partner's interest, and continued the business alone until April, 1891. He then left the store in hopes of recruiting his health. But these hopes were false, as he gradually declined and while in Burlington, Vt., where he had gone to be under the care of a specialist, he died, May 7, 1892. Mr. Lockwood was a man of considerable influence in this town and always took an active interest in school and church work. He was a member of the board of education for three years, an officer of the Methodist church, and its Sunday school superintendent a number of years. By his death the church lost one of its most active workers, the town an admirable citizen, and his family a loving husband and father. He married in 1878, Minnie, daughter of John Sullivan, of Louisville, who, with five children, survives him. The children are: Jessie Anna, Howard Charles, Frank Homer, Ruth Elizabeth and Harold Rollin.

McCarrier, James, Ogdensburg, was born in Ireland in 1823, and is therefore in his seventieth year. He came to this country when only twelve years of age with his parents, and as soon as he was large enough commenced to earn his own livelihood and has passed his whole life in worthy industry, and through thrift has accumulated con- siderabie property. He now owns one store on Ford street, a residence on Park street, together with several lots in the city and some property outside, and is just com- pleting a new store in which he proposes establishing a grocery business. Mr. McCar- rier married in 1843 Ella Cavanaugh and they have four children living. Mr. McCar- rier is of stalwart and robust frame, and has lived a life of great industry, honesty and sobriety, much respected and esteemed by all.

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Merriman, C. A., Ogdensburg, was born in St. Lawrence county, February 26, 1851. He received his education in the schools of this county, including Gouverneur Seminary, and for some time afterward was engaged in bookkeeping, and eventually taking up insurance, which he has most successfully prosecuted, representing the New York Life Insurance Company, as general agent, for ten years, and a number of first-class fire insurance companies, which he continues to represent. Mr. Merriman became one of the founders of the Edgar A. Newell Company, and received the appointment of treas- urer, which position he still holds. In 1881 Mr. Merriman married Cora A., daughter of Gates Curtis, and they have a son and a daughter. Mr. Merriman has served as supervisor of the First Ward, is a member of the Ogdensburg Club, and of all Masonic bodies. He comes from New England stock, and his ancestors were among the early settlers of Rossie.

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Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 86

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