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Thomas J. Horton was the son of Col. Benja- min Horton. When a young man, and after pro- curing a meagre education in the schools of his district, he went to Orange County, N. Y., where lie remained for several years. On his return to Long Island he located on a farm about a half mile west of Southold and there resided until his death, which occurred in June, 1856. He possessed considerable musical knowledge and talent, and for many years was the leader of the choir in the First Presbyterian Church, of this place, of which congregation he was an influential miember. He was a Democrat in politics, help- ing his party by his ballot in the election of its nominees. He was well known throughout the county and was one of its most popular citizens.
To Thomas J. and Eliza Horton there were born five children, four of whom survive, namely: Henrietta; Mary E., the widow of S. T. Terry; Nannie W., now Mrs. Henry W. Conklin; and Henry D. Henry D. (first) died when young. Our subject attended the schools of his native place for many years, giving much of his time to his father in the management of the home place. He adopted agriculture as his life work and has made a decided success of this undertaking. . His place is well tilled, and by proper management is made to yield its owner a good income. Mr.
Horton was married December 28, 1868, to Miss Miriam R., daughter of Thomas W. Osborn, of New York City. Mrs. Horton is a well-educated lady and has a large circle of warm friends in the town of Southold. She is the mother of two sons, Thomas O. and Philip H. The family oc- cupy a pleasant home, which is surrounded by eighty acres of fine farming land.
Mr. Horton is influential in agricultural in- terests and enterprises in the county, and is justly regarded as one of the representative men of Southold Town. In his political belief he is an ardent Republican and is very patriotic, holding his own interests secondary to those of his coun- try. For several terms he was Excise Commis- sioner, meeting the requirements of the position in a very creditable manner. His son, Thomas O., who is a brilliant young man and a graduate of Yale College, is a civil engineer, and is con- nected with the East River Gas Company.
J OHN T. GALLUP. A faithful, painstaking and accurate official is John T. Gallup, Post- master of Greenport, and the people of the village have not been slow to recognize and ac- knowledge his fitness for his present office. Born in West Springfield, Mass., March 13, 1832, he is a son of Palmer Gallup, a native of Groton. Conn., born in 1802. The family date their resi- dence in this country from 1630, when John Gal- lup, a native of Wales, crossed the Atlantic and settled in Boston, Mass. Afterward, during the Narragansett War, he was a brave and faithful soldier. The grandfather of our subject. Ben- adam Gallup, was a farmer throughout his entire life. Palmer Gallup had three brothers, namely: James, a carpenter by trade, a man of consider- able prominence in local affairs, and a deacon in the Baptist Church at Mystic, Conn., where he re- sided; Benadam, also a carpenter, and John, who followed the same trade in partnership with his brother James.
Following is the ancestral lineage of the Gal- lup family :
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I. Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, born A. D. 742; married Hildegard, third wife, whose son was
2. Louis I., King of France, who married Ju- dith the Fair, whose son was
3. Charles II., King of France, who by his wife, Ermentrudio, had a son,
4. Louis II., King of France, who married Ade- lind, and their son was
5. Charles III., King of France; married Prin- cess Edgira, granddaughter of Alfred the Great, King of England, and their son was
6. Louis IV., King of France; married A. D. 939, Princess Gerberga De Saxe, daugh- ter of Henry the Fowler, Emperor of Ger- many, whose son was
7. Charles, Duke of Lorraine, eldest son, ex- cluded from the inrone of France; mar- ried First Boune, daughter of Godefiar d'Ardenne, and their daughter was
8. Gerberga, Countess of Lorraine, who married Lambert I., Count of Mons and Lorraine; their son was
9. Lambert II., Count of Mons, who married Ode, daughter of Gothelon, Count of Lor- raine, son of Duke Charles, son of Louis IV .; their son was
10. Henry II., Duke of Brabant, who by his union with Adela of Thuringia had a son,
II. Godfried I., Duke of Lower Lorraine, Bra- bant and Lather; married Ida, daughter of Albert, third Count of Namur; also mar- ried Sophia, daughter of Henry IV., Em- peror of Germany; his daughter,
12. Adelicia, the Fair Maid of Brabant, second wife and widow of Henry I., King of Eng- land; married secondly to William d'Al- bine, Earl of Sussex and Arundel, whose son was
13. William, second Earl of Arundel, who mar- ried Maud St. Hillaris, widow of Roger d'Clare, Earl of Hertford, and their son was 14. William, third Earl of Arundel and Earl of Sussex, who married Mabil De Meschines, daughter of Hugh De Cyoelish (Wales), fifthi Earl of Chester, wliose daughter was
15. Lady Mabel d'Albine, who married Robert de Tattershall, and had a daughter,
16. Emma de Tattershall, wife of Olbert de Cail- ley, Lord of the Court Manors, and mother of
17. Sir Hugh de Cailley, Lord of Oroby Manor, who married Agnes, daughter of Hamo de Hamstead, whose son was
18. Sir William de Cailley, Lord of Oroby Ma- nor, who by his wife, Catherine, had a son,
19. John de Cailley, Lord of Oroby Manor, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, who by his wife, Mana, had a son,
20. Jolin Cailley, Lord of Normanton, whose son was
21. William Cailley, Lord of Normanton, whose daughter was
22. Jennet Cailley, sole heir, who married John Lake, Lord of Manor of Normanton, and their son was
23. John Lake, of Normanton, who married Jane, daughter of Robert Drakes, of Yorkshire; their son was
24. John Lake, of Normanton, whose son was
25. Lancelot Lake, of Normanton, who married Margaret, daughter of Henry and Eliza- beth Twistleton, whose son was
26. Jolin Lake, of Normanton, who married Catharine, daughter of John Pecke, of Wakefield; their son was
27. Lancelot Lake, of Normanton, who married Emma, daughter of Robert Northend, of Halifax, Yorkshire, and their son was
28. John Lake, of Erby, Lincolnshire, who mar- ried Olgarby, and their son was
20. Richard Lake, of Erby, who married secondly Anny Morelly, of Claxby, Lincolnshire; they had a son,
30. Jolin Lake, of Erby, who married Margaret, daughter of Col. Edmond Read, of Wick- ford, Essex, and they had a daughter,
31. Hannah Lake, wife of Capt. John Gallup, Jr., of Stonington. Conn., and mother of
32. Benadam Gallup, who by his wife, Esther Prentis, had a son,
33. Benadam Gallup, married to Eunice Cobb, by whom he had a son,
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34. Col. Benadam Gallup, united in marriage with Hannah Avery, whose son was
35. Benadam Gallup, who married Bridget Palmer, and had a son,
36. Benadam Gallup, who married Cynthia Fish, and their son was
37. Palmer Gallup, married to Desire Worthing- ton Ball, and father of
38. John T. Gallup, who by his wife, Jane E. Young, had a son,
39. Frank S. Gallup, who married Jennie V. Dud- ley.
By reference to the "Universal History," it is found that the father of Charlemagne was Pepin, the grandfather Charles, and the great-grand- father l'epin, the latter of whom was born in the seventh century. Much of interest clusters around the history of the ancestors and the times when they reigned as kings. Bridget Palmer, our subject's great-grandmother, was a great-grand- daughter of John Alden and Priscilla, of May- flower fame.
Palmer Gallup, father of our subject, was a man of superior attainments and a natural mathe- matician. Though he taught school for some time, he was by occupation .a civil engineer, which he followed the most of his life. He mar- ried Desire Ball, a native of the town of West Springfield, Mass., and daughter of Eli Ball, a prominent farmer of that place. Both passed away in Mystic, Conn., the mother February 20, 186, and the father December 31, 1880. They were the parents of three sons and three daugh- fers, as follows: Mozart, who went to Ohio at the age of seventeen, and is now president and the principal stockholder of the Sandusky Tool Com- pany, of Sandusky, that State; Adeline M., wife wi Levi Watrous, and a resident of Mystic, Conn .; Hortense D., wife of Col. William S. Fish, who was a colonel in the army during the Civil War: Mary E., wife of Samuel Edgecomb, a merchant of Mystic, Conn .; John T., of this sketch, and James P., who at the age of eighteen enlisted in a Connecticut regiment in the Union Army, and " orderly sergeant served with valor for a year And a half, dying on the battlefield at Straus- burg. Va.
Until fourteen years of age John T. Gallup re- mained in West Springfield, and then went to Connecticut, where his father was a teacher in the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield, a posi- tion he held for six years. In that school our subject completed his education. At the age of seventeen he went to Thompsonville, Conn., and there learned the tinner's trade, after which he worked in Springfield and Lawrence, Mass., and Richmond, Va. As a workman he made the first preserve tin cans in Springfield, Mass. In 1855 he came to Greenport to take charge of a tinshop owned by Adams & Lathrop, and soon afterward, when the firm failed, he purchased the business, which he carried on successfully until 1886 and then sold out.
February 1, 1887, President Cleveland appoint- ed Mr. Gallup Postmaster at Greenport, but in ISgo he was removed by President Harrison. Under the second administration of President Cleveland he was again appointed to the posi- tion, April 1, 1894, and this he is now filling to the satisfaction of the general public. He has held other positions in the village, and for three years was Assessor. He was also chief engineer of the Greenport Fire Department for two years. In politics he has been a lifelong Democrat. In 1857 he was made a Mason, and was a charter member of the Royal Arch Chapter at Greenport, and in 1867 he joined Commandery No. 4, in New York city. For many years he was a trus- tee of the Presbyterian Church, to which he and his wife belong.
November 1, 1858, Mr. Gallup married Miss Jennie E., daughter of Benjamin W. Young, a native of Franklinville, L. I., but a resident of Greenport at the time of her marriage. Her grandfather, Capt. Benjamin Young, took an active part in the War of 1812. Our subject has in his possession a ransom paper show- ing that Capt. Benjamin Young owned and sailed a sloop named "Nancy," and on the 20th of September, 1814, she was captured by II. B. M. S. "Pomona," Capt. Carteret. On the pay- ment of the ransom money agreed upon, which was six hundred dollars, she was permitted to load with a cargo of firewood and take it to New
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York and return without further molestation by any British cruiser. Capt. Young completed the voyage, and on the trip made nearly enough money to pay the ransom money. The follow- ing is a copy of the ransom paper:
"Having captured the 'Nancy,' sloop of South- old, in Long Island, and received for her the ran- som money according to agreement, she is here- by fully permitted to load with a cargo of firewood and to proceed with it to New York, free from all molestation by any British cruiser, for that voyage only.
"Given under my hand, on board H. B. M. S. 'Pomona,' Long Island Sound, this 29th of Sep- tember, 1814.
“(Signed)
D. Carteret, Captain."
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Mr. and Mrs. Gallup are the parents of four children, as follows: Frank Seymour; Grace Worthington, who is in the postoffice with her father; Ray Clifford and Harry Wells (twins). the former in a store in Brooklyn, N. Y., and-the latter assisting his father in the postoffice. The eldest son was educated in the schools of Green- port, and for the past six years has lived in Lon- don, England, where for five years he has been purchasing agent for the Anglo-American Oil Company, known as the Standard Oil Company. This is a very responsible and lucrative position. He was married in that city to Miss Jennie Dud- ley, daughter of an American who resides in Lon- don and is also connected with that company. They are the parents of a daughter, Jennie Mc- Donald Gallup.
W INFIELD S. VELSOR, an eminent contractor and builder at Islip, has been in business here for twenty-five years, and has a standing that ought to be a com- fort to any man. He came here from Northport, and has established a reputation of doing first- class work, so that he has had the construction, including the finishing, of some of the best houses along the coast.
Charles B. Velsor, the father of our subject, died from an accident when he had reached the
age of fifty-five. He was a wagonmaker by trade, and was considered a man of ability and good character. The grandfather was William Velsor. His father, John, the great-grandfather of our subject, came from Canada, and was the progenitor of the Velsor family in this country. William was a farmer, and died at the age of seventy-eight, his wife surviving him many years. The mother of our subject, who was formerly Arabella Wilson, is still living, and lives in the home of our subject, where she is loved and hon- ored. She was the mother of five children. of whom the eldest, Mary Esther, became the wife of William Platt, a resident of Port Jefferson. Edward is a traveling agent, and makes his head- quarters at Newark, N. J .; Henry is employed by our subject, and is foreman of the construc- tion work; Winfield is the name that appears at the opening of this article, and Charles is an ex- tensive dealer in butter, cheese and eggs &t Brooklyn.
The subject of this article was born January 9, 1846. at Commack, where he spent his boyhood days, attending the schools of the community, and availing himself of such opportunities for an ed- ucation as the time and place afforded. When he was eighteen he went to Northport, and began to learn the trade of a carpenter and joiner. and there for four years he engaged in mastering. in a practical and thorough manner, the business to which he proposed to devote his life. As he was a natural mechanic he soon became very profi- cient in all the details and niceties of his calling. For four years he was engaged as foreman with! G. S. Taylor, of Babylon, after which he appeared it Islip as foreman of the construction work of C. C. Smith, and this position he retained until he went into business for himself. Since work- ing for himself he has been very enterprising. an ! has built up an immense business, his trade cov- ering much territory, and his work being in great demand far up and down the coast. His repu- tation is first class, and it is a common saying that if Mr. Velsor builds a house it is done right.
Mr. Velsor was married December 22. 1872. Miss Catharine E. Hubbard, of Islip, accepting his heart and hand at that time. They have a
JOHN M. ROGERS.
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family of four children, the eldest daughter, Lu- ella, being a resident of New Haven, and the wife of E. Norton, of that place. Richard, Winni- fred and Arabella are still inmates of the parental home.
Mr. Velsor is a Republican in his political ten- dencies, but has never been an office-seeker. He is rather one of those mien to whom office-seekers apply for endorsements. A strong man in his local political influence, he has much to say as to the course of events. Personally he is a man of strong friendships and true manhood, is much devoted to liis family, and is giving his children every opportunity for obtaining an education. He is a Mason of good standing, and his social relations throughout are of the most pleasant character.
JOHN M. ROGERS. This is the name of a man who has done much for Bay Shore and deserves the gratitude of all who are interested in its social and business development. He is the owner of the Prospect House, the great summer resort hotel of the vicinity, whose name is familiar to the inhabitants of hot and dusty cit- ies far to the south and in the great interior, as well as to multitudes who come yearly from Brooklyn and New York. In this hotel he won a name as a hotel man whose judgment was keen and accurate and whose methods were strictly up to date. He is now retired from active life, hav- ing leased tlie hotel to his son, who is carrying it on in a manner not discreditable to the name and reputation which it held in former years.
Mr. Rogers, who came to this charming and interesting spot from Sag Harbor in 1867, saw great prospects liere for a summer hotel, and ac- cordingly opened up an establisliment of the kind against the protests of his friends, who could see nothing but ruin in store for him. He persevered and lias scored a great success and made clear the fact that his confidence in the place was not misplaced.
The father of our subject. Cephas Rogers, was a resident of West Hampton, where he was a
mechanic of good standing and character and where his birth occurred. He passed away at the age of sixty. At Moriches lie was married to Eliza, thie daughter of John Bishop. She died at the age of seventy-three, after becoming the mother of six children, of whom our subject was the eldest. Matilda is the wife of T. V. Ketcham, of Moriches; Charles and Betsy both died very young, while Maty is living at Southampton, where the ancestors of the family settled in 1663, being of English extraction. The youngest child, William, died at the age of twenty-two.
It is in the family traditions that four sons left England in the year noted above and took their way to America, and, settling at Southampton, established the Rogers family on the island, of which our subject is a worthy and typical repre- sentative.
John M. Rogers was born in West Hampton August 8, 1827, and went with his parents to Mo- riches when he was only two years of age, re- maining there for the following fourteen years. Afterward he went to Sag Harbor as a clerk in a dry goods store with George B. Brown. Until the year 1850 he followed this business and then struck out for himself, and began as a store- keeper under the firm name of Tiffany & Rogers. They succeeded remarkably well, so much so that they were soon the proprietors of three stores, one at Sag Harbor, and two at Bridgehampton, and the business continued to grow and increase for twenty years. Mr. Rogers was also for a time ex- tensively engaged in the fishing business, and finally, seeing a good opportunity, built a hotel for summer guests, as noted above. This has proved a great success, and every season finds it crowded to its utmost.
Mr. Rogers has been a great factor in the int- provement of Bay Shore as a summer resort. and he has witnessed its growth along with his busi- ness until it has now become one of the very best and most popular resorts along the coast. Mr. Rogers has been twice married, first to Mary Catharine Harlow, who died after nine years of married life, leaving two children, and for the second time to Mary Eleanor Voris, who is now living. The children of his first wife were two
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daughters, of whom Ada, the eldest, is married to Harry Hand, and is the mother of four chil- dren, Richard, Marshall, Albert, and Charles. The other daughter, Eliza, is married to Charles Rohde, of New York City, and is the mother of one child, Robert C. The present Mrs. Rogers is the mother of five children, of whom the eldest is Frank M., now in the hotel business as his father's success- or. Bessie Baldwin, the wife of George A. Conk- lin, of Brooklyn, became the mother of three children, of whom one, Mary Eleanor, a bright girl, is making her home with her grandfather, our subject. The other two, Louis and Sylvie, are deceased. Albert V. is captain of a steam- boat which during the summer season runs from Bay Shore to Fire Island and elsewhere, and is also the captain of different yachts and sailing vessels. Everett T. is a merchant in this village, and Augustus is on the water, engaged in yacht sailing and kindred pursuits.
Our subject is a Democrat, but has never been an office-seeker, preferring rather to devote him- self to building up liis large interests and the fos- tering of those enterprises that will serve the community in which he has been such a promi- nent figure for so many years. For five years Mr. Rogers served as Trustee of the School Board and as Town Assessor for three years.
D AVID HEDGES HUNTTING, a well known and public-spirited citizen of East Hampton, was born in Egypt, a suburb of this place, July 22, 1851. His parents were Jeremiah and Joan A. (Hand) Huntting, the former of whom was a son of Jeremiah, Sr., and Charity (Hedges) Huntting. The latter was a farmer by occupation, which was almost without exception the vocation of the various members of the family. He owned the property just north of the Presbyterian Church, on which it is sup- posed his father first settled, and which is at the present time in the possession of our subject.
Mrs. Joan A. Huntting was the daughter of
Charles and Betsey Hand, of Amagansett. Her husband and many of his ancestors passed their entire lives on the homestead where she still re- sides. To her marriage there were born seven sons and one daughter, of whom William L. is engaged in the growing and shipment of tobacco at East Hartford, Conn .; Charles H. is a whole- sale grocer of Hartford, Conn .; Jeremiah, presi- dent of the East Hampton Lumber Company, we have spoken of at length on another page in this volume; Samuel B., a tobacco merchant of East Hartford, departed this life when thirty-five years of age; John P. is also living in the same city and follows the tobacco trade; James Edward is gen- eral manager of the East Hampton Lumber Company, and Mary Elizabeth married Josialı Dayton, a resident of this village.
The original of this sketch was married Oc- tober 17, 1872, to Miss Harriet E., daughter of Samuel Hedges Miller, now deceased, but for- merly one of the substantial residents of East Hampton. She was born in this village August 17, 1850, and by her union with our subject has beconie the mother of six children, two of whom died in infancy. Those now living are Carrie Sherrell, Jeremiah Miller, Bessie Edwards and Samuel Baker.
Samuel Hedges Miller, the father of Mrs. Huntting, was born in this village and here died in 1888, aged seventy-four years. He was the son of Samuel Hedges, Sr., and Caroline (Sher- rell) Miller. He married Miss Betsey Edwards, who bore him a daughter, Hattie E., now the wife of our subject. Miss Edwards was the daughter of David and Esther (Barnes) Edwards. and departed this life when in her sixty-second year. Her husband was afterward married to Hannah Edwards, sister of his first wife, who died two years later.
Mr. Miller was an only child and being de- prived of the care of his father when a boy he was taken into the home of his uncle, Isaac B. Miller, who bought the place which our subject now occupies. On this he lived until 1870, dying when past his eightieth year. The maiden name of his wife was Harriet Conkling. They never had children of their own, and when the uncle
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became so feeble that he was unable to do farm work, he lived with Samuel H., who managed af- fairs. On the death of the former he came into possession of the property, which was a very valuable one. He lived here until his decease, making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Hunt- ting, after her marriage.
Mr. Huntting has for the past six years been engaged in farming on the old Miller homestead, just north of the village of East Hampton. As we have before stated, he is the possessor of his father's old farm in the heart of the village, on which his aunt still resides. He is a Republican in politics. With his wife, he is a member of the Presbyterian Church and takes an active part in its various meetings. He bears a high reputa- tion as a man in whom every confidence may be placed and his word is considered as good as his bond.
E DGAR F. HOWELL. For a number of years past the village of Eastport has been noted far and wide for its excellent mer- cantile establishments, and particularly that con- ducted by Mr. Howell, who is one of the first- class business men of the place. In his active career through life he has gained to an unlim- ited extent the confidence and esteem always awarded integrity, honor and industry, and is now one of the foremost men of the county.
Mr. Howell comes of one of the oldest families on Long Island. He was born in Eastport in the year 1846 and is the son of Nathaniel W. and Hulda M. (Albertson) Howell, also natives of Suffolk County. The father is now living, and has just reached the age of three-score years and ten. He has been engaged for the greater part of his active life in the milling business, and, al- though now advanced in years, still gives this in- R EV. THOMAS H. GRIFFITH is the widely known and highly esteemed pastor of the Northiville Congregational Church. which he has presided over since June, 1801. He is one of the men whom we are accustomed to call self-made and who are well represented in the dustry his attention. He is well known and highly regarded as one of the old residents of the county. Instead of taking any active part in politics, he has preferred to devote himself to lis individual affairs. His wife remained his helper and companion for a number of years, . town of Riverhead, where many of their number Unit in 1888 she was called to her final home. are carving out for themselves monuments that
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