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The Bradstreet property lay both east and west of the Bleecker land. The part on the west reached as far as the corner of Varick and LaFayette Streets, and included land on both sides of Genesee Street, the east and west bound- ary lines running three miles back from the river.
The Schuyler property extended from the Bradstreet land on the east, to the western line of the State Hospital, and, like the other divisions, stretched back from the river three miles.
The early settlement lay wholly south of the river, chiefly upon one street, called Main, running parallel with the river. The western end of this street was known as the Whitesboro Road.
The Genesee Road, meeting Main Street, formed a square now known as Bagg's Square.
Ibid., pp. 7, 93.
About 1800, Hotel Street was laid out as an avenue to Ibid., p. 90. the Genesee Road, from Utica's first hotel, the York House. ( See X.).
1808-1810, Broad, First, Second, Third and Bridge Ibid., pp. 257, Streets were laid out. The latter, now Park Avenue, was L. M. Taylor, 271. named from a bridge over the river, which it crossed. in Trans. O.
Some of the family names found on the Bleecker prop- erty are Rutger, Dudley, Brinckerhoff, Miller, and Blandina.
H. S., 1885-6.
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1bid., p. 35.
It is said that it was at one time the intention of four members of the Bleecker family to build on Rutger Street. The whole scheme, however, was abandoned, because the location of the Erie Canal, with its high bridges across the plain sloping from Rutger to Broad Streets, had so mar- red the beauty of the place.
Ibid. p. 37.
Names that recall owners of portions of the Bradstreet and Schuyler lands are Potter, Plant, Francis, Jewett, Cooper, Cornelia, Hopper, Henry, and Huntington.
Pioneers, pp.
23, 50, 45, 126.
Hamilton and South Hamilton Streets lie on the Schuy- ler property, and are named for Alexander Hamilton, who
L. M. Taylor, in Trans. O. H. married General Schuyler's daughter. "These are both S., 1885 6, p. 38. small streets, but they carry a great name."
Philip and Schuyler Streets take their names from Gen- eral Philip J. Schuyler.
Ibid., pp.34, 35.
Other streets named for great men of our earlier time are Washington, Herkimer, Jefferson, Clinton, Jay, named for the statesman and judge, Governor John Jay' ( 1745- 1829); Lansing for Chancellor Lansing (1754-1829), also Chancellor Square and Kent Street for the eminent jurist, Chancellor Kent (1763-1847). The lots on each end of Chancellor Square originally fronted upon the square itself, and could be approached only through it. This was rem- edied by the laying out of Academy Street across the west end and Kent Street across the east.
Ibid. p. 39. Pioneers, pp. 554-95.
Besides these, are the streets named for illustrious for- eigners : Steuben, LaFayette ( once called Rome Street), and Kossuth Avenue, named just after the Hungarian pat- riot had visited the city.
Spring Street takes its name from a spring of pure water which once existed in or near it. (See II.).
Garden Street was named for the old Horticultural Gar- den on its boundary.
Bank Street was so called because the region was known
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as the "sand-bank." There were deep gullies and high L. M. Taylor, sand hills which were graded at great expense. St. George's in Trans.O. H. Church stands across a sort of ravine which could then S., pp. 37, 38. have taken in half the church.
Carnahan Street, as the west end of Blandina was once Pioneers, pp called, Aiken, and Mandeville Streets take their names 211 6, 458-64. M H., p. 415. from eminent divines.
Noyes and Tracy Streets are named for distinguished Ibid. pp. 535, lawyers once resident here. ( See XI.). 551-3.
Jason, Parker, Varick, Breese, Devereux, Kirkland, and Pioneers, pp. Faxton Streets recall the names of prominent men, some 41, 177, 376, 343, of them pioneers. 498.
More recent streets are named for public men or well- known families; as Scott, Grant, Bacon, Seymour, Johnson.
Johnson Park (1849), James Watson Williams Park (1897), and the extensive Proctor Park (1899), bear the names of the families who presented them to the city.
X.
OLD BUILDINGS.
F EW of the earliest buildings of Utica are now standing. One or two of real interest have but lately disap- peared.
The First School House and place of worship, which stood on Broad street (See I. and XII.), was torn down in the spring of 1898, after having been used for some time as a mere shed.
The Johnson House on Genesee Street, which has re- cently given way to the new Savings Bank, was built by John H. Lothrop in 1809. Mrs. Clinton, afterwards Mrs. Abram Varick, lived in it a few years. It was then bought by Alexander B. Johnson and was owned by his family until 1897. Here John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, was entertained for three or four days, Mrs. Johnson being his niece. Here too LaFay- ette was received June 9, 1825.
Among the most interesting of the houses still standing, is that built by Peter Smith on Broad Street beyond the Pioneers, p. 15. gulf, where in 1797, his son Gerrit was born. This is now occupied by the Ellison family, and stands a little east of Mohawk Street.
A little later Colonel Benjamin Walker built, also on Broad street, the house afterwards occupied by the Culver Sketch of old family. This has been occupied by Madame Despard, Ibid., p. 68. Utica. who used it as a school building, and by the Seward and Wager families. It stands far back from the street a lit- tle west of Kossuth Avenue.
In 1792, William Inman came to this country from Eng- land. He built an English cottage on the north side of
Pioneers, pp. 158, 629. Miss Miller's Sketch of Old Utica.
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the Whitesboro road, which, with its neighboring elms, still makes a picturesque spot just beyond the "Halfway Bridge." The road ran nearer the house than at present, Ibid. and Mr. Inman, disturbed by the " Yankee dust," moved Pioneers, p. 46. to a more substantial house, which he built far back from the road on the south side. This stands a little within the present city limits, and is now known as the Champlin house.
The old house which stands on the north side of Whitesboro Street, nearly opposite Cherry, known as the Clark House, has in late years awakened much interest and inquiry, but no important facts concerning it have been ob- tained.
In 1800, Judge Nathan Williams built the house on the corner of Whitesboro and Seneca Streets, now known as Sketch of Old the Wager or Goodwin house. Here five generations of Utica. the Williams family have lived.
The Seymour House on Whitesboro Street, corner of Ho- tel, was built by Daniel Childs about 1810 or 1812. In 1820, it was purchased by Henry Seymour and was long Ibid. occupied by his son, Hon. Horatio Seymour. During the Pioneers, p. 177.
closing years of Governor Seymour's life, he lived in Deer- field, but scarcely a day passed in which he did not visit his old home, then occupied by his brother, John F. Sey- mour.
In 1824, Moses Bagg built the house on Broad Street, Ibid. p. 220. corner of Second, long occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Sketch of Old Utica.
Charles A. Mann.
About 1825, Samuel Stocking built on the corner of Broad and First Streets, the house afterwards owned by Ibid. Pioneers, p. Judge Hiram Denio, and later by his daughter, Mrs. Louis 71. A. Tourtellot.
Coming to Genesee Street, we find that the house occu-
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pied by Dr. Willis E. Ford since 1882, was built by Watts Sherman, who came to Utica before 1795. It has l bid., pp. 48, 50. had a succession of honorable owners, having been pur- Sketch of Old chased by General Joseph Kirkland, the first Mayor of Utica. Utica, then by Charles Tracy, and later by Judge Philo Gridley.
Pioneers, p. 265. Sketch of Old Utica.
The house on upper Genesee Street, now owned by Mr. Egbert Bagg, was built, or re-built in 1806, by Israel Decker. Some of the floor rafters are of red beech logs with the bark on, and over a foot in diameter. Early in the century it was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Malcolm. Mrs. Malcolm was the daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler, and later became the wife of Capt. James Coch- ran, son of the Revolutionary Surgeon. (See XI.).
The Miller House on Rutger Place, occupied by Hon. Roscoe Conkling for more than twenty-five years, was planned and the foundation laid by Judge Morris S. Miller in 1820. His son, Rutger B. Miller, completed it about 1830. It was called at the time "Miller's Folly," so re- mote was it from all neighbors. A carriage seen crossing John Street Bridge was known to be coming to "The Hill," as there was no other house to which to go. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walker lived here for many years. Sen- ator Conkling entertained here many eminent guests. among them Generals Grant, Sherman, and Hooker, in 1875.
Among the once famous mansions which have lost their early dignity is that of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, built about 1800. It stood on the east side of Genesee Street amid beautiful grounds, which included nearly the whole space now bounded by Devereux, Genesee, Blandina, and Charlotte streets. The house is still standing on the south side of Devereux Street, about midway between Genesee and Charlotte. It has been turned around and now faces Devereux Street.
Ibid. Pioneers, p. 237.
1bid., p. 114.
Rev. J. R. Harding.
TRINITY CHURCH.
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In 1794, Judge Apollos Cooper came to Utica and built Pioneers, p. 45. a house on Whitesboro Street, near Liberty, in which he Sketch of Old lived until his death, in 1839. The house and grounds Utica. are now used as a summer garden.
Miss Miller's "Sketch of Old Utica " gives many inter - esting details of the architecture and decorations of these dwellings, as well as of the gardens around them and the life within.
Of the early church buildings, that of Trinity (com- pleted 1810. See II.), retains its beauty and its sacred character ; others, however, have been turned to inferior uses.
The Welsh Baptist Church (See II.), a wooden structure built in 1806 near the place where the Hotel Street bridge now stands, was moved when the canal was opened to the Pioneers, p. 134. site of the present church on Broadway, a little north of Thomas' His- Liberty Street. In 1840, when the new church was erect- of America,(in tory of Welsh ed, the old building was again moved to the rear of the Welsh). lot, and is believed to be still standing on Charles Street.
The First Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Wash- ington and Liberty Streets, completed in 1807 (See II.) gave way in 1826 to a new edifice, itself destroyed by fire in 1851. The old building was, in 1826, cut into two pieces, one of which is now the Mansion House, corner of Wash- 461. ington and LaFayette Streets, and the other a large tene- ment house on Whitesboro Street, nearly opposite Charles.
We must not omit mention of Utica's famous hotels. Bagg's Hotel is older than the name of Utica, which was bestowed in 1798. The hotel was founded in 1794 by 40, 218-9. Moses Bagg. In August of that year, he purchased land
Pioneers, p. Thos. Davis.
Pioneers, pp.
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and began to practice his trade, that of a blacksmith, on Main Street, a little east of the Square. He built a log house on the corner of Main Street, which he opened for the accommodation of travelers ; shortly after, he put a two story frame building on the same site. He continued to Theo. P. Cook, keep this tavern until his death in 1805. His son, Moses in Utica Press, Nov. 23, 1896. Bagg, became proprietor of the hotel in 1808. When the first Canal Commissioners visited Utica in 1810, two of them, Stephen Van Rensselaer and Gouverneur Morris, with their servants, occupied the whole of the hotel, from which its dimensions inay be judged. In 1812-15, Mr. Bagg erected the central portion of the brick hotel, and to this he subsequently added on either side.
Pioneers, pp. 86-8. Sketch of Old Utica.
In 1797, Samuel Hooker erected for the Holland Land Company the building still standing on the corner of Whites- boro and Hotel Streets, now called the Atlantic Hotel. This was known as the York House. It was a large brick building, the first brick house in the village, and its like was not to be seen between the Hudson and the Pacific. The land was so marshy, that according to one story, the corner stone, which had been laid with due ceremony in the morning, had disappeared in the afternoon. Hemlock logs were used for the foundations for the stone and brick. This building has been many times remodeled, but no amount of paint has been able to cover up the word " Hotel," which was chiseled over its door in 1798.
John C. Hoyt.
As matters of interest, we mention that the Old Round Building on Whitesboro Street, near Hoyt, was built by David Hoyt, father of John C. Hoyt, and used to grind the bark in his tannery. The power used was not elec- tricity, or steam, or even water, but was obtained by sails on the top of the building which were moved by the wind.
M. H., p. 228.
Mechanics' Hall, corner of Hotel and Liberty Streets, was built in 1836-37. Here were given lectures, plays,
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and other entertainments, and here public meetings of all kinds were held until the Utica Opera House was built in 1871-72.
A few of the noteworthy buildings in the vicinity of Utica should be mentioned.
WHITESBORO. Address on Early Hist. Oneida Co.,pp.
Mr. William Tracy, writing in 1838, says that Hugh White built in 1789 "the house still standing on the south- 34-5. east corner of the village green at Whitesboro." It for- Leaves in the A Few Stray merly had a gambrel roof. Mrs. Whitcher says "the Hist. of Whitesboro, p.
house was moved about half its length westward and mod- 18. ernized in 1861."
The present Town Hall in Whitesboro was erected for a Court House in 1807, on land given by Hugh White. Ibid., p. 48. The land was to revert to the heirs when no longer used in Trans O.
D. E. Wager, for the purpose designated. In 1860, Hon. Philo White, H. S., 1881-4, a grandson of the pioneer, bought from the heirs their re- P. 71. versionary claim, and presented the building and green to the village.
The building is "probably the oldest one in the State yet standing erected for a Court House."
NEW HARTFORD. Cent. Pres. Ch. The Presbyterian Church at New Hartford was begun N. Hart., pp. 24, 25. in 1792, and was dedicated November 29, 1797. "As the Gridley's Hist. oldest church edifice in this county, it is worthy of dis- land, p. 96. Town of Kirk- tinguished consideration."
CLINTON.
Dr. Kirkland moved from Oneida to his lands near Clin- Ibid., pp. 78-80. ton in 1792. The small frame dwelling built by him prob- Allison's ably the year previous has been presented to Hamilton Ham. Coll., p.
Hist'1 Sketch College and, removed from its original location, is pre-17: served in the Campus on College Hill.
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Tracy's Early Hist. Oneida Co., p. 6.
A few years later, probably in 1795, Dr. Kirkland built Prof. E.North. the house on the road "under the hill " long known as the Kirkland mansion, and now occupied by Mr. Harding. Here he lived until his death in 1808, and it remained the home of his widow through her life.
TRENTON.
Jones'sAnnals PP. 452, 464. John F. Sey- mour's Cent. Ad., July 4, 1876. P. 32. Data in
The fine stone mansion in Trenton known as the Mappa House was built by Colonel Adam G. Mappa, agent for the Holland Land Company, and was occupied at least as possess. Tren- early as 1809, and possibly several years earlier. ton Hist. Soc.
XI.
NOTEWORTHY CITIZENS OF ONEIDA COUNTY
Nº O other department of this small outline book has given the editors so little satisfaction as this of Eminent Citizens. The limited space prohibited anything beyond the merest skeleton of biographical notice. The criteria of admission came of necessity to be: books pub- lished ; official position ; or high professional honors.
In many cases, this has seemed to set up a false stand- ard; to imply failure to recognize the worth of personal character and scholarly attainment when these had not been crowned by academic or political honors :- necessity deeply regretted by those responsible for the selection.
Works of authors, wherever mentioned, include only the most important.
Groups : a. Pioneers ; b. Soldiers of the Revolution ; c. Army Officers, Second Period ; d. Naval Officers ; e. Lawyers ; f. Archaeologists and Philologists ; g. Men of Science ; h. Men of Letters ; i. Women Writers ; j. Artists ; k. Actors ; l. Government Officials ; m. Visitors.
PIONEERS.
Among the Pioneers of Oneida County four stand pre- eminent.
REV. SAMUEL KIRKLAND, (1741-1808), Princeton,
1765. For more than forty years a devoted mission- Lothrop's Life
of Kirkland. ary to the Six Nations, especially to the Oneidas. During Allison's Hist. the Revolution, a Chaplain in the army, and employed by oll. Sketch Ham.
the government to secure the neutrality of the Indians ; Duyckinick's Cyc. Am. Lit., his efforts, joined with those of James Dean, were success- Vol, II., p. 738. ful in the case of the Oneidas. By untiring exertions he
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secured the means to establish Hamilton Oneida Academy, which, four years after his death, became Hamilton Col- lege. (See I., X., XII.).
JAMES DEAN, (1748-1823), Dartmouth, 1773. Dedi- cated in childhood as a missionary to the Indians, and sent to live among them for several years under the care of a missionary; adopted by a squaw as her son; licensed to preach, but never ordained. 1775, appointed Indian Agent with rank of Major, and rendered invaluable
Tracy's Early services. Hist. Oneida Co. Jones's Annals
Stationed chiefly at Oneida Castle and Fort
PP. 744-59.
Stanwix. After the war the Oneidas gave him a tract of land in Westmoreland (confirmed to him later by the State), where he lived until his death. Judge of County courts by successive appointments 1791-1813, and twice member of legislature. Wrote a journal of one of his expeditions, and an essay on Indian Mythology, both now lost.
Jones's Annals
HUGH WHITE, (1733-1812). Made the first permanent settlement in the State west of the Dutch settlements, 1784. Appointed Judge, 1798 ; re-appointed, 1801.
pp. 23, 27, 28.
Frothing- ham's Biog. Gerrit Smith. Pioneers, pp. 14-18.
PETER SMITH, (1768-1837). A trader who came about 1789 to Old Fort Schuyler and was trusted equally by Indians and whites ; the latter made him Sheriff and Judge. From the Indians he acquired by purchase nearly one million acres, and thus became the largest landholder in the State.
Two picturesque figures of this period are the Hollanders, Col. ADAM GERARD MAPPA, (1752-1829), Agent of the Jones's Annals Holland Land Company at Trenton, then Olden-Banne- PP. 452 3, 475-85 veldt, and FRANCIS ADRIAN VAN DER KEMP (1752-1829), J. F. Sey- mour's Cent. Ad., Trenton, 1876. who joined Col. Mappa at Trenton about 1797. He had taken refuge in this country ten years earlier from political troubles in Holland. He was received with honor by Washington, and gained the friendship of John Adams,
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De Witt Clinton, and Thomas Jefferson. Harvard College made him LL. D.
In the northwest part of the County, now the town of U. Herald, Camden, another Dutch pioneer, GEORGE F. W. A. SCRIBA Apr. 14, 26, (1752-1836), purchased a half million acres of land. In Jones's Annals 1899. the southern part, JEDEDIAH SANGER (1751-1829), founder Pp. 272, 279-82. N. Hart. Cent. of New Hartford, had a great estate, and has left his name in Trans. O. in Sangerfield. H. S., 1887-9.
SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.
BENJAMIN WALKER, (1753-1818). Came to Old Fort Schuyler in 1797. He was of English birth and a " Blue Coat Boy." He came as agent of the great landed estate of the Earl of Bath. In war and in peace he served his adopted country diligently and brilliantly. He was the right hand of the Baron-General von Steuben, and Wash- Pioneers, p 67. ington's aide-de-camp and trusted friend. After the close of the Revolutionary War, he declined political honors and became an untitled, public-spirited citizen of Old Fort Schuyler.
In June, 1875, a plot in Forest Hill Cemetery was con- secrated to the Revolutionary Fathers, at which time the bodies of Benjamin and Mrs. Walker, and of Dr. JOHN COCHRAN, Director-General of the Military Hospitals of the U Herald, United States in the Revolutionary War, and of his wife, Gertrude Schuyler, were removed from the old village burying ground on Water Street, and solemnly reinterred in the new cemetery.
FREDERICK WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, BARON STEUBEN, (1730- 1794). Commissioned Major-General by Washington, 1778 ; " rendered memorable services which can scarcely Jones's Annals be over-rated in drilling the officers and men of the Con- Johnson's Cyc. pp. 433-45- tinental Army into efficiency ; rewarded by Congress with 160,000 acres in Oneida County; lived after the revolution
June 18, 1875.
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on the edge of our northern wilderness, and is there buried. (See XIII).
GENERAL WILLIAM FLOYD, (1734-1821). A native of Long Island ; member of Continental Congress about eight years ; signer of the Declaration of Independence ; in 1803 removed to Western, near Rome. The town of Floyd, in which he owned large tracts of land, perpetuates his name.
Among revolutionary soldiers who made Utica their home, were: Captain STEPHEN POTTER, (1739-1810), of the regiment called " Congress' Own," of which Nathan Hale Pioneers, pp. 23, 55, 12. was a brother-officer of the same rank ;- TALCOTT CAMP, (1762-1832), who became the first President of the Village of Utica ;- Col. JOHN BELLINGER, (died in 1815), who had stood by the side of Herkimer at the battle of Oriskany ; N. E. Hist'l & _THOMAS WILLIAMS, (1754-1817), who took part in the Gen'l Reg., 1880, p. 70. Boston "Tea Party," a resident of New Hartford from 1790 to 1812 ; died in Utica. DANIEL EELS, who had helped to build the earthworks on Bunker Hill, settled in New Hartford in 1797 and lived there for 54 years; and many other names of interest are remembered in neighbor- ing towns.
Cent'l Day, Pres. Ch. New Hart., p. 42.
ARMY OFFICERS-SECOND PERIOD.
[Florida (1836-8), Mexican (1846-7), and Civil (1861-5), Wars. ]
Lippincott's Biog. Dict. Appleton's Cyc. Am. Biog.
HENRY WAGER HALLECK, (1815-1872); b. Westernville. Maj. Gen. U. S. A .; West Point,'34 ; served in the Semi- nole (Florida) and Mexican wars ; General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U. S., Headquarters Washington, 1862-4.
MORRIS S. MILLER, (1814-1870) ; b. Utica, buried at Mem'l by U.S. Forest Hill. Brev. Brig. Gen., and Dept. Quar. M. Gen., Govt. Pioneers, p. 237. U. S. A .; West Point,'34 ; served in Florida, Mexico, and the War for the Union.
Sanderson's Biog. of Sign- ers of the Dee. of Ind., Vol. IV., p. 131.
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Col. DANIEL BUTTERFIELD, Fifth Infantry, U. S. A., b. Phisterer's Utica about 1831. Maj. Gen. U. S. Vols., 1862 ; Brev. Stat. Rec., Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 1865. Residence, near New York City. P. 250. Lippincott's Biog. Dict.
( For Field Officers of Oneida County regiments, many of whom became Generals, see IV).
During the Civil War, several of the physicians of our County made a record as army surgeons.
Dr. ALONZO CHURCHILL, (1811-1899), was Surgeon 14th Contemp. N. Y. Vols., with the rank of Major ; at Gaines Mills was Biog., Vol. I., taken prisoner with 500 wounded men, and placed in Libby P. 242. prison ; created Colonel for meritorious services.
Dr. SAMUEL G. WOLCOTT, (1820-1883), gave his serv-
Ibid. ices as Examining Surgeon to the Government without M. H., p. 275. charge.
Dr. THOMAS MACOMB FLANDRAU, of Rome, (1826-1898), was Surgeon of the 146th N. Y. Vols., with the rank of Major ; was made Division Surgeon-in-Chief ; served three U. Herald, years ; Brev. Lieut. Col. "for meritorious services in the field." His father's home was in Whitesboro ; his own, later, at Rome.
Aug. 8, 1898.
NAVAL OFFICERS.
MELANCTHON TAYLOR WOOLSEY, (1782-1838), Commo- dore U. S. N. In 1808 was sent to the Lakes to superin- tend the construction of our armaments on those inland seas. Commanded the only large vessel, the Brig "Oneida." Am. Biog., pp. Drake's Dict. After his retirement he lived in Utica, and died there, and his 1005-60. Miss Miller in remains now rest in Forest Hill. Three of hissons served Utica Press, in the War for the Union. Two of these rest in Forest Feb. 11, 1899. Hill ; Commodore M. B. WOOLSEY, U. S. N., (1818-1874). J. T. WOOLSEY, (1821-1894), b. Whitesboro.
WILLIAM MERVINE, (1790-1868), Rear Admiral U. S. N.
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M. H., p. 308. Appleton's Cyc. Am. Biog.
At the beginning of the Civil War, although seventy years of age, he reported promptly for duty and did good service during the first year of the war. Ill health compelled his retirement in November, 1861. His home was in Utica. His son, CATHARINUS B. MERVINE, died in the volunteer military service in 1864.
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