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hood of Nathan L. was spent in Louisville. When seventeen he entered the old St. Lawrence Academy, where he finished his education. He taught for two years and in 1860 went to Ogdensburg to learn the photographer's profession. He was a partner of James McDow one year. In 1862 he went to New York where he studied with Abram Bogardus. He had galleries at various times at Carthage, Antwerp and Canton and in 1870 located in Potsdam. In 1872 he opened the photograph establishment which has developed into the extensive business of N. L. Stone & Son. Mr. Stone married in 1860, Betsey S. Clark of Madrid, and they have five so. s and three daughters. He was chairman of the Republican county committee in the campaign of 1888. He isa mem- ber of the Methodist church and has held different offices. He is now district steward and was elected a member of the General Conference in 1888. He is now president of the St. Lawrence County Bible Society.
Shields, Isaiah (deceased), Potsdam, was born in Ireland, March 10, 1828, and came to this country in 1854. He first settled on a farm in Fort Covington, Franklin county, where he made his home for about three years and then sold and bought a farm in Bombay. Mr. Shields sold his right in this farm after a year to his brother and moved to Chateaugay, where he lived for nine years, and after spending one year on a farm in Norwood bought 215 acres in Potsdam, where he erected a beautiful brick residence. The farm is used for dairying, with thirty-seven head of cattle and eleven horses. Mr. Shields was a Republican, and was for four years commissioner of highways. He was a member of Potsdam Grange No. 39. Mr. Shields married in 1855, Electa, daughter of John and Electa (Colson) Willis of Windsor, Vt., and have had eight children: Sarah Augusta, wife of Frank Burnham, a farmer of Potsdam ; Ella Jane, wife of Fred Roach a speculator of Canton; Emma, wife of Edwin Mc- Donald, principal of Norwood Academy ; Estella, wife of George Lane, of Potsdam, a farmer; Willis J., of the firm of Prosser & Shields, real estate, insurance and loan brokers, of Pasadena, Cal. ; C. Wilbur, who assists on the homestead farm ; and Jessie a student of Norwood Academy. The fourth daughter, Minnie L., died January 2, 1882, aged seventeen years. Mr. Shields died March 31, 1893.
Sanford, Joseph H., Potsdam, was born at West Stockholm, St. Lawrence county, May 2, 1831. The father of our subject, also Joseph H., was a native of New Haven, Vt., where he was born in 1799. He was a young man of eighteen years of age when he moved to this county and settled in West Stockholm, where he was a land agent for Henry Pierrepont and was also engaged in mercantile busi- iness. In politics he was a Loco Foco Democrat, and held the office of supervisor of his town a number of years. He was a influential man in his town and an honest, upright business man. He removed to Potsdam in 1842 and conducted a general store here. He built the block now occupied by W. H. Walling, and was interested in the woolen mill that burned in 1839, also one of the leading spirits in the bringing of the Potsdam & Watertown railroad, of which at one time he was treasurer. He was a strong member of the Masonic fraternity. He married in 1825, Elmira, daughter of Joseph Goulding, of Potsdam, and they have seven children, our subject the only one living. J. H. Sanford, sr., died in 1865. Our
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subject was only eleven years of age when he came to this town, and he has ever since lived here. He was educated in St. Lawrence Academy, and his first busi- ness venture was in the livery business, which he followed about five years and then engaged in the dealing in live stock, which he has been interested in nearly all his life. He now occupies the office of street commissioner of Potsdam village, and is the superintendent of the Racquette Valley and St. Regis Valley Society Fair. He married in 1854, Mary E., daughter of Aaron T. Hopkins, of Potsdam, and of seven children, but four are living : George H., in mercantile business in Portland, Oregon ; Mary E., of Portland; Sarah E., and Charlotte A., who live at home.
Sargeant, Harvey Amos, Potsdam, was born on a farm in Potsdam, October 5, 1850, son of Amos Sargeant, a native of Vermont, born in Mount Holly, August 16, 1803, and came to this country in 1824. He was located in Parishville two years, and was in Canton about four years. In 1830 he bought a farm of fifty acres, where he lived until he died, October 26, 1872. Mr. Sargeant was a member of the Methodist church of Potsdam. He married in Canton in 1830, Margaret, daughter of Jacob Earl, of Canada, and they had seven children, two of whom are living: Orpha, who lives in Potsdam; and Harvey Amos. Mrs. Sargeant died October 30, 1885, aged seventy-six years. The whole life of our subject has been spent in this town. He was educated in the common. schools and the old St. Lawrence Academy, and assisted on the farm until the death of his father. Amos Sargeant had increased the size of the farm to 150 acres, which our subject conducts as a dairy farm with twenty cows, the milk being sent to the cheese factory. Mr. Sargeant is a member of the Masonic fraternity Rac- quette River Lodge No. 213, and has been a member thirteen years, also St. Lawrence Chapter No. 24. He married January 28, 1880, Isabella, daughter of Simon Barkley, of Winchester, Canada, and they have two children : Wilburn H., twelve years of age ; and Wesley, now in his sixth year.
Sholette, Leo, Ogdensburg, was born in Canada, December 31, 1859. He came to this city in 1882, clerked awhile in different business places until seven years ago, when he started his present grocery business, in which he was very successful. He married Minnie Doe, and has two children, a son and daughter. He is secretary and collector of St. John the Baptist Society, and a member of the St. Mary's church.
Schrier, John, Ogdensburg, was born in Schenectady, February 8, 1824. He re- ceived his education in the schools there, and in April following his seventeenth year accepted a position on the New York Central Railroad as fireman, which position he held for two years. He then changed to the Philadelphia and Reading road as con- ductor of freight train, and also worked in the machine shops of this company. In 1850 (April 20), he received an offer and accepted the position of engineer with the then new road called the Northern, now known as the O. & L. C. railroad. He therefore was the first engineer to take a train over this road. He con- tinued in this position for seven years, after which he served as passenger conductor for about thirteen years. He then received the appointment of division superin- tendent, which he held for six years and then left the employ of the O. & L. C.
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railroad, and accepted the position of station agent for the Black River Railroad here. This office he most acceptably filled for seven years. Mr. Schrier then retired from the railroad, and has since conducted a coal business in Ogdensburg. He married in 1850 Nancy C. Collamer, and they had two children, one of whom is living. Mr. Schrier's father, Peter was a native of Holland, who came to this country when eight years of age and settled near Albany where so many of the Mohawk Dutch settled first, and where so many of the first families of this and adjoining counties date their ancestry from. Mr. Schrier is an able, conscientious and stalwart gentleman who has seen all sides and phases of life.
Smith, B. Howard, Gouverneur, was born in Orange county, Vt., June 17, 1800, being the eldest man now living in Gouverneur. He learned the tanner's trade when young, but subsequently engaged successfully in farming, and now has been a farmer for nearly fifty years. In 1826 he married Caroline Jackson, who is eighty-seven years of age. They have four sons : Avery J., William H., and Harvey L. and Albert M. They have one grandson, Harvey Douglas Smith, a student in Ithaca at Cornell University.
Shattuck, E. A., Parishville, was born in Castleton, Vt., April 10, 1830, a son of Loren and Arrilla (Partridge) Shattuck, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Massachusetts. They reared three sons and three daughters. When a young man, Loren came to Massachusetts with his parents, afterwards removing to Vermont, where he died in 1857, and his wife February 17, 1889. E. A. Shattuck was reared on a farm and had a common school education. In 1848 he went to Russell and engaged in farm- ing and also bought a sawmill. In 1869 he sold the sawmill 'and came to Parishville, where he bought the St. Regis hotel, built by Mr. Parish. He was proprietor here for four years, when the hotel was burned (1875). He then bought the Shattuck House, of which he was proprietor many years, when he again nearly burned out in 1884, losing considerable. Mr. Shattuck owns twenty nine acres of land in Parishville and 115 in Hopkinton. In 1857 he married Nancy M. Van Brocklin, a native of Johnstown, Ful- ton county, and they have one son, Loren J., who is a mechanic and lives in Parishville. His wife is Melvina Dewey of Hopkinton, and they have two children: Carlos L. and Anna S. Mr. Shattuck is a Republican in politics. The father of Mrs. E. A. Shattuck was M. C. Van Brocklin, son of Gilbert, a native of New York, the family having orig- inally come from Holland. Mr. Van Brocklin was born in Denmark, N. Y., October 19, 1804, he married Ann Veeder, by whom he had three sons and four daughters. Mrs. Van Brocklin passed to her heavenly rest December 19, 1890, and Mr. Van Brocklin March 24, 1892, both at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Shattuck.
Seaman, R. L., Ogdensburg, was born in Heuvelton, December 4, 1838. His family came originally from New England, and settled in Heuvelton early in the present cen- tury. R. L. Seaman received his education in the schools of that locality and the Wes- leyan Seminary at Gouverneur, and in 1852 entered the dry goods store of Bronner & Kraft, with whom he remained about five years. He then was a valued assistant in the establishment of the Franks for sixteen years, and in 1876 formed a co-partnership with C. W. McClair, under the firm name of Seaman & McClair, dealers in dry and
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fancy goods. This firm continued until 1889, when it dissolved, each member inaugur- ating separate establishments in Ogdensburg, both of which have been very successful. Mr. Seaman married in 1866, Harriet E., daughter of the late Alfred Hawley. Mr. Sea- man is identified with the Masonic fraternity, being past commander of Ogdensburg Commandery No. 54, K. T., and past master of Ogdensburg Lodge No. 128, F. and A. M., and a member of Media Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is courteous and genial and possesses a host of friends in this city. His business is an important factor in the commercial life of the city and furnishes employment to a considerable number of assistants,
Story, Harvey M., Potsdam, was born in the town of Fairfax, Franklin county, Vt., June 20, 1831, a son of Asahel Story, a native of Vermont, who married Chloe Digin- son, also a native of Vermont. They had ten children, of whom our subject was the the youngest. He was educated in the common schools and Bakerfield Academy, Vt., and after leaving school worked on a farm and taught for three years. In September, 1852, he came to Potsdam where he for four years was a clerk in a grocery store and then went into the dry goods store of Theodore Clark & Son, which firm afterward be- came Clark & Forbes. He was with them only one year and then went into the store of Charles Cox, becoming a partner with him in March, 1856. This partner- ship existed eight years. In 1866 he formed a partnership with E. D. Brooks in the dry goods trade, which lasted three years, and then bought Mr. Brooks's inter- est and has since continued alone. Since 1874 he has occupied the present store. Mr. Story carries a general line of dry goods, wall paper and sewing machines, em- ploying four clerks. He married in 1856, Maria, daughter of Samuel Sherman of this town, and they have two children : Helen M., and Harvey M., jr., who is the stock manager.
Scott, Robert, Lisbon Centre, was born in Quebec in 1829, and removed to Lisbon when one year old. He received his education in the public schools, and early learned the cooper's trade, at which he worked for over twenty years, successfully conducting a shop devoted to this branch of trade. He married in 1852, Margaret Gray, and they had three children, only one now living. During the past fifteen years Mr. Scott has con- ducted a produce business at Lisbon Centre, buying farmer's produce for the jobbing trade. He is a staunch Republican, has served as town clerk of Lisbon for twenty-five years, has been notary public since the year 1869 to the present time, is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he has also been clerk for a number of years, and is now president of the Lisbon branch of the Genesee Loan and Building Association. Mr. Scott is a veteran hunter and sportsman with the gun and rod, and is a gentleman of of stalwart frame, genial manners and excellent business abilities. He enjoys the con- fidence and esteem of the entire county.
Simonet, Eugene J., Spragueville, was born in Jefferson county, January 6, 1848, and was a butter and cheese maker in his earlier days. He followed the latter occupation for fourteen years, and founded a large butter and cheese business in Iowa. In 1886 he went to Gouverneur and conducted a saloon for three years. For four years he has been owner of the Simonet House at Spragueville, a first-class hostelry and summer re-
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sort, finely equipped. He also carries on a livery. Mr. Simonet married Jennie, daugh- ter of Hugh Cameron. Mr. Simonet's father was a native of Paris and a noted man of Jefferson county.
"Sudds, W. F., Gouverneur, was born in London, Eng., in 1843, and at the age of seven years came to this country with his parents, who located on a farm near Gouver- neur. His fondness for music was evinced very early in life and at the age of fifteen he was a self-instructed performer on the violin, guitar, flute, cornet and violoncello. The purity of his musical taste was remarkable, as was also his insight into the princi- ples of harmony, and his deep interest in church music, although at that time possess- ing neither piano nor organ. A year or two later, through the kindness of a friend, he was permitted to practice the piano and eagerly walked three miles after his day's work on the farm, in order to avail himself of the privilege. His first regular piano lessons were from a French professor in New Orleans, while a convalescent soldier in an army hospital in 1864. In 1873 he was a pupil at the Boston Conservatory of Music, studying the organ with Eugene Thayer, and the violin and composition under Julius Eichburg, who gave him much encouragement and foresaw his future success. It was not until six years ago that he fairly entered the field as a composer, since which time his progress has been as rapid as it has been well merited, furnishing a practical refuta- tion to the fallacy that good music cannot become popular. He is not only a composer but a music dealer and teacher, keeping a well-appointed music store with studio ad- joining, is organist of the First Baptist church of Gouverneur, and was, until recently, in charge of the musical department of the Gouverneur Seminary. He still teaches, but cannot accept all his applications owing to the growing demands from his publishers. Mr. Sudds is located at Gouverneur." The above is taken from the Philadelphia Mu- sical Journal of 1881. Since that date his success lias been marked; his compositions,
more and more eagerly sought for by American and foreign publishers, now include works in nearly all fields of musical composition, viz .: piano solos, piano duets, piano trios, violin and piano, 'cello and piano, and orchestra, a few songs, five or six volumes of anthems well-known to nearly every church choir in the United States, instruction books for piano, violin and organ. Mr. Sudds no longer desires to teach, but is still prevailed upon to accept a few advanced pupils. Unlike the average prominent musi- cian, he is also a business man of conservative and reliable judgment.
Storie, T. D., Gouverneur, was born March 8, 1853, and is a carpenter by trade, and has followed it for many years. He has been in the mercantile business several times, and in the spring of 1893 he entered into partnership with J. H. Lalore in the grocery busi- ness in Gouverneur. In 1881 he married Ettie Fox, daughter of Daniel Fox, and they had three children : Lilly, Herbert and Nina. Mr. Storie's father was James Storie and his mother was Juliette (Smith) Storie. His father was Jason Smith, a pioneer of this part.
Shaw, William, Madrid, was born in Potsdam, February 27, 1854, and John Young Shaw was born on the same farm, June 14, 1857. The father, William, was a native of Scotland and came to this country about 1847, locating in the town of Potsdam. He married in 1853 Elizabeth Young, widow of Thomas Oliver, and they had four chil-
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dren, only two of whom survive : William and John. They have always been residents of the town. In 1872 they bought the farm of 201 acres on the town line of Madrid, where they have since conducted a dairy of twenty cows and other stock. In 1888 they added improvements to their residence and now they have one of the prettiest homes in this end of the town. John Y., the younger brother, married in 1885, Della, daughter of Robert Murray of Potsdam, and they have three children : Truman Jay, Lila and Robert Mason.
Sudds, H., Gouverneur, was born in England, March 25, 1839. His parents, William and Susan (Adams) Sudds, came to this country with their family in 1850, locating at Smith's Mills, where the son lived until 1859, when he went to Gouverneur as book- keeper for W E. Sterling, where he remained for two years. In 1860 the first banking house was established here by Charles Anthony & Co., and in the spring of 1861 Mr. Sudds became cashier of that institution, where he remained until 1871. He then went to Ogdensburg and became a partner in a new banking house, where he remained until 1874, when he returned to Gouverneur to the Anthony & Co. bank, where he has since remained as cashier. In 1879 the company went out of business and the concern was incorporated into the Bank of Gouverneur, one of the prominent financial institutions of this region. Mr. Sudds married, October 1, 1863, Louisa N., daughter of Abram and Deborah (Griffin) Thompson of Gouverneur. Deborn Griffin was the daughter of Dr. Wolcott Griffin, the first physician of Gouverneur.
Sprague, Daniel W., Gouverneur, was born in St. Lawrence county, June 27, 1830, and learned the trade of shoemaking with his father, Seth Sprague. This he followed for twelve years, then entered the mercantile business, and has conducted a general store in Spragueville for twenty-five years. He has been postmaster four years and assistant sixteen years. He married Sarah E. Penniman, and they have two sons : Charles S. and Fred A. He has been a justice of the peace for the past twenty-four years and is now serving a second four-year term.
St. Denny, Charles, Ogdensburg, was born in Malone, N. Y., February 7, 1861. After leaving school he followed for four years the occupation of foreman on the Central Vermont railroad, and April 19, 1892, he, in connection with his brother, established a liquor business in Ogdensburg, of which Mr. St. Denny is now the sole proprietor. He married in 1888, Emma Myers, and they have two children, a son and a daughter,
Sauve, Emory, Ogdensburg, was born at Cato Landing, Canada, in 1836. His earlier years were passed in Canada, and in 1862 he came to Ogdensburg, after which he worked at different things until he accumulated some money, when he purchased prop- erty on Ford street, and later on more real estate on State street. On both le erected excellent buildings, in one of which he conducts a saloon and billiard room. Mr. Sauve married in 1858, Adaline Lacour, and they have three children. Mr. Sauve is one of Ogdensburg's esteemed citizens of French origin, of which there is a large contingent here, and enjoys the confidence of his fellow countrymen to a marked degree.
Smith, S. W., Ogdensburg, is a native of this country. He received his education in the schools of Ogdensburg, and has been engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor bus-
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iness on the west side for the past few years. He is a prominent Mason, and identified in a marked degree with the commercial life of this city. He occupies his large stores and furnishes employment to several assistants. Mr. Smith married in 1888, Julia Leahy, and has two children. He is looked upon as among our most substantial citizens.
St. Germain, Louis, Ogdensburg, was born in Montreal in 1822. He has lived in Ogdensburg for the past sixty years, and has followed the occupation of tinsmith. His wife was Emma Gilbert, and they have had thirteen children. Mr. St. Germain was for many years in the employ of Waters & Lawrence and E. B. Allen. He is a prom- inent member of St. John the Baptist Society, and is at present conducting a tobacco and cigar establishment here.
Stevenson, M. L., Brier Hill, was born in Morristown, November 29, 1865, and fol- lowed farming until 1887 when he established in mercantile business at Brier Hill. He conducts a general store and does a thriving business. He married Adelia Maxson in 1885. She is a daughter of Stephen Maxson of Hammond. Mr. Stevenson's father is Aaron Stevenson, a native of Morristown.
Shepard, George W., Norfolk, was born in Norfolk on the farm he now owns, De- cember 15, 1833. His father, Chauncy L., was a son of Bohan Shepard, a native of Vermont. The wife of Bohan Shepard was Charlotte Stannard, by whom he had five sons and four daughters. He and his wife, in 1828, came to Norfolk and spent the re- mainder of their days. Chauncy L. was born in Vermont, March 28, 1803, and there reared and educated. In 1823 he came to Norfolk and settled on the farm now owned by subject. In 1827 he married Rachael, daughter of Jonas Ball of Madrid, who died in 1834. Mr. Shepard and wife had three daughters and one son. He was a carpenter and stone mason and was at one time superintendent of the building of the wood work for river and canal locks at Montreal and Beauharnois. He was also superintendent of the grading and mason work on the Ogdensburg and Champlain railroad. In 1851 he went to California and remained two years. With his own hands he took out a nugget of gold worth $950. He returned in 1853 and engaged in farming and commenced building, and had at his death one of the finest farms in Norfolk, containing 250 acres of land. He was one of the first to start a stage line in this section, and drove the first stage from Norfolk to St. Regis, and was one of the proprietors of the route. He was a drover and drove cattle to Montreal and Quebec. He was highway commis- sioner fifteen years, and built two iron bridges over the Racquette river at Norfolk. He died November 7, 1881. George W. Shepard, our subject, was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Ogdensburg Academy. Farming has always been his occupation and he owns at present 256 acres of land and keeps a dairy of twenty-five cows. He breeds Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire swine. Mr. Shepard has been twice married, first to Clara Yale in 1860. She was a daughter of Lloyd Yale of Norfolk. Mr. Shepard and wife had two children : Chauncy L., and Laura L., deceased. Mrs. Shepard died July 22, 1866, and January 5, 1872, he married Ellen T. Bartlett, a native of Norfolk, daughter of Lester Bartlett, who was born in Vermont in 1816. He came to Bangor, Franklin county, when a young man and in 1831 came to Norfolk, and here died in 1850. His wife was Theodosia
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McDowell of Waddington, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Bartlett married for her second husband, Joseph Bartlett, a brother of her first husband, and they now reside in Norfolk. Mr. Shepard and wife have had six children : Leroy B., William H., Clara T., Fannie M., George L., and Ellen E., deceased. In politics Mr. Shepard is a Democrat. He is a member of What Cheer Lodge No. 689 of Norwood, also of the Norfolk Grange No. 541.
Smith, Bela B., Madrid, was born in the town of De Peyster, St. Lawrence county, February 23, 1835. His father was a native of Vermont, born in Pittsford, July 14, 1805, and came to St. Lawrence county when twenty-one years of age. He took up a tract of land in De Peyster, where he reared a family of three children and spent nearly the whole of his life. He died April 4, 1887, in the village of Heuvelton, to which he and his wife retired in Sepember, 1881. The mother of our subject, Eliza Bell, was a native of Canada, born in 1804, and she died March 28, 1888. John W. Smith, the oldest son, is a resident of Heuvelton. The sister, Priscilla, married Charles P. Ander- son of Oswegatchie, and they are now residents of Heuvelton. The early life of our subject was spent in De Peyster. He was educated in the common school and lived on the old homestead farm until in 1886 he sold the farm and went to Heuvelton to take care of his parents. In May, 1888, after their death, he came to Madrid, where he bought a half interest in partnership with W. B. Maloney in the grist mill, and at the expiration of three years he sold his interest to Mr. Maloney. After two years he, in company with W. H. Hall of Madrid, bought back the mill, which they now con- duct. Mr. Smith was a Republican until 1885, when he believed it his duty to work for temperance, and he has since been an avowed Prohibitionist. He and his family are members of the Methodist church, and he is treasurer and trustee of the Madrid church. He married, December 26, 1855, Elizabeth, daughter of William Anderson of Oswegatchie, and they have one child, Cynthia S., married October 28, 1890, James R. Fisher of Madrid, who forms part of the family of our subject, he being employed in the mill.
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