The growth of a century: as illustrated in the history of Jefferson county, New York, from 1793-1894, Part 168

Author: Haddock, John A., b. 1823-
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Albany, N. Y., Weed-Parsons printing company
Number of Pages: 1098

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PALMER SCOTT was born in Massachusetts in 1802. He married Betsey Jones, from the State of Maine, aud came to Felts Mills. In 1846 they came to Carthage, where they re- sided until their death. Mr. Scott was a tanner by trade, and filled acceptably minor offices in the town, and was overseer of the poor. He died in April, 1880, aged 78 years. His wife died in 1872, aged 72 years. Their children are : William J., Lewis W. and Elbridge G., well-known and respected citi- zens of Carthage and vicinity. Elbridge, who was deputy postmaster for 13 years, died in January, 1888, aged 50 years.

MRS. DANIEL BELLINGER has been a resi- dent of Carthage for 41 years. Her maiden name was Mary S. Hyne. She was married October 2, 1831, and was born in Montreal. After her marriage and a residence in New Jersey and other places, they finally came to Carthage. Mr. Bellinger was a tanner by trade, and died August 29, 1861. Of Mrs. Bellinger's six daughters, five are living. At the age of 88 years, Mrs. Bellinger is a re- markably intelligent lady, spending her de- clining years in the Christian's hope, sur- rounded by her descendants to the second and third generation.

VICTOR SALTZMAN AND WIFE, an old Swiss couple, came to Carthage in 1829. They lived in a log house, about one and a half miles from Carthage, on the road to the "Checkered House." There were, at that time, but two dwellings between the Ham- mond House, where the Baptist Church now stands, and the Saltzman's, namely, the Guyot house, where the circus ground now. is, on State street, and the old Carr house, which stood just above Carr Hill, one mile from the bridge in Carthage. The Checkered House was kept at that time by John Morris, a man who weighed upwards of 300 pounds. He afterwards kept the lower tavern in Car- thage, which stood on the corner of State and Water streets. This same Checkered House was kept by another very fat man, by the name of Reuben Rice, who also came to Car- thage afterwards, and kept the lower hotel. This Mr. Saltzman had two sons, Charles and August N., and two daughters, Mary Ann and Eliza. Charles lived in Carthage until within a few years, and died at an advanced age. Angust was a very active, bright boy, and at 17 was sent to Switzerland to learn the watch making trade. In 1840 he opened a watch repairing shop in Carthage. He mar- ried Miss Minerva Auburn, a very handsome blond, and went to New York city in 1845 or

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1846. There he opened a wholesale watch establishment, under the firm name of A. N. Saltzman & Co. He invented a watch which was well and favorably known all through the country as the "Saltzman Swiss watch." It is now considered the best watch in the market, but too high priced for the present day. He became very wealthy, and resides in Paris. His wife is dead. Mary Ann mar- ried for her first husband a French gentle- man by the name of Vuillaum, by whom she had one son Victor Vuillaum. The latter married the widow of the late Charles T. Hammond, and now resides in Florida. For her second husband she married a Canadian Frenchman, by the name of Julius Marseil, by whom she had a daughter, Elese, and a son Eugene. Eliza Saltzman, who was a very handsome woman, married John Pooler, who was half brother to the late Hiram McCollom. Mr. Pooler also became wealthy, and is now deceased. None of the family live near Car- thage, save August, a son of Charles, and a grandson of the old man, Victor Saltzman.

JAMES H. WILBUR was born in Lowville, N. Y., October 7, 1838, and was educated in the common shhools and in Lowville Acad- emy. He learned the printer's trade and worked for several years in offices of local papers. In 1858 he sailed for Oregon, by way of the Isthmus of Panama. At the city of Portland, in partnership with W. B. Taylor, he commenced publishing the " Port- land Daily Morning News," said to be the first daily morning paper ever published in Oregon. In 1860 bis health failed and he was obliged to return East, where he worked on Lowville papers and on the Carthage Re- publican, which paper he purchased in 1868, and later sold an interest in the same to Mr. M. M Williams. In 1864 he was married to Miss Elvira Edwards, daughter of John S. Edwards. In 1872 the Republican was sold to S. R. Pratt, and Mr. Wilbur, on account of ill-health, was obliged to retire from active life.

VIRGIL BROOKS was among the early settlers of the village of Carthage. He was American born and came in 1820. Mr. Brooks was a sober, industrious and kind- hearted man, and always enjoyed the confi- dence and respect of all who have known him. He was a justice of the peace for many years, and was always called "Squire Brooks." He was president of the village trustees and an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church. He died February 5, 1865, aged 75 years. For many years be acted as marshal or director of funerals. In those days the dead were placed upon a bier and borne on the shoulders of able-bodied men.

The Brooks house stood on the corner of State and School streets, on the present site of John Norton's house, near which was a well of excellent water, which with another in front of the old Cutler house (where the Hammond homestead now stands), afforded the only good drinking water in that part of

the town. The old "Brooks' well " is sur- rounded by many tender memories of carly Carthagenians. Mr. Brooks had two daugli- ters, Salina and Hannah. He had five sons : Alonzo, Lorenzo, Mouroe, Virgil and Or- mando. Virgil died at the age of 16; Alonzo joined the Patriots, and was taken prisoner by the Canadians, and banished with many others to Van Dieman's land. After remaining a few years he escaped and returned to Carthage, but was always in great fear of re-capture. Monroe and Ormando both became acceptable Methodist ministers.

JAMES WARD was born in New York city, August 8, 1801. When about two years of age he came to the town of Le- Ray. He was of a retiring disposition and did not seek prominence, refusing all offers of a public or political nature. He bought a farm near Evans Mills, the present home of his son, Buel Ward, and finally became a real-estate broker and a money lender, in which he accumulated a fine competence. He married, in 1825, Lovina Barbour, of Champion. Their wedded life covered a span of 55 years. Mrs. James Ward was a model wife and mother. She was well-read in history, and possessed a fund of general information which rendered her a most agreeable companion and friend. Out of a family of 11 children, but one is deceased, and the youngest bas lived to be 48. Mrs. Ward died at the age of 80, and Mr. Ward in his 80th year. The last 17 years of his life were spent in Carthage, where both he and his wife died.

SANFORD LEWIS was born in the town of Wilna, and was the son of Stephen and Sophia Lewis, who were among the first settlers. Stephen built the hotel in North Wilna. and his father built one previously near by. Sanford Lewis had five daugh- ters : Emeline (Mrs. E. H. Olmstead); Ade- laide (Mrs. John Frecman, of Great Bend); Mary (Mrs. Andrew Dickson); . Libbie B. (Mrs. Charles Sarvey, of Carthage) ; Ada, Mrs. W. M. Maine, of North Wilna Mr. Lewis died in 1891. He was postmaster at North Wilna for many years, and the oldest in the State at the time of his death.

EDGAR B. WILLIS, son of Amos Willis, the daguerreau, served in the 35th Regiment. He was shot through the face and reported killed and his funeral sermon preached in Carthage. Pieces of shell were taken from the wound which weighed 3} oz., which he carried 64 days. He rallied and came home and lived several years.

CHRISTOPHER S. POOR was for many years a respected citizen of Deer River and Car- thage. He came to Carthage about 1870, and there be spent the remainder of his life, Mr. Poor was a builder and contractor, and to that business he gave his best energies. In 1844 be married Miss Maria Clark, of Den- mark. They were burned out in the great fire at Carthage. Mr. Poor died in October, 1887. His widow still survives him, and is a

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very interesting and lovable character. Both her and her husband were nearly all their lives consistent members of the M. E. Church, to which Mr. Poor was an unusually liberal contributor. Mrs. Poor still main- tains her residence in Carthage, but spends her summers in her neat cottage at Thousand Island Park, where she is as well known and as much respected as at her home in Car- thage. Her father was William Clark, of Denmark, Lewis county. N. Y.

. FRANKLIN P. EVANS, special surrogate of Jefferson county, has been a citizen of Car- thage for the past 29 years. He was born in Trenton, N. Y., the son of John and Louisa Evans, whose ancestors came into Oneida county early in the century. Frank was educated in the common schools, completing his education in the Union Free School of Carthage. He studied law with Capt. Welch and A. H. Francis, being admitted to the bar in 1876. He is a popular young man. He married, in 1877, Miss Josephine N., the youngest daughter of Dr. Spaulding, of Watertown.

CHARLES P. RYTHER Was born at Evans Mills in 1833. His father was Peter H. Ryther, a noted mechanic of Evans Mills. who removed to Theresa about 1845, and there Chas. P. reached his majority. He came to Carthage in 1868, where he has since resided. Soon after coming to Carthage he purchased an interest in the firm of Brown & Bliss. In 1871 Mr. Pringle was received into partnership, when the firm became Brown, Ryther & Pringle. Subsequently the Brown interest was purchased by the other partners, and the firm became Ryther & Pringle. The business is general machinery. Mr. Ryther has been quite a politician. He has been president of the village. At the time of the Carthage fire he was made chairman and treasurer of the relief committee. His labors were onerous, but he gave general satisfac- tion-a thing hard to accomplish under such trying circumstances. Mr. Ryther has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary M. De Groat, and she died in 1889. He mar- ried Mrs. Georgiana Stevens in December, 1890.

DR. FRANKLIN EVANS ROBINSON was born in Waterloo, N. Y., June 26, 1845. His father was Evans Robinson, M. D., who was born in Pennsylvania. He practiced in Rochester, N. Y., and other cities for nearly 40 years, dying in Rochester in 1884. Frank- lin Evans, the subject of this sketch, was educated principally in the common schools, then in Prof. Vroman's school, in West Geneva, N. Y .; then in Lima, Livingston county, where he completed his scholastic education. His medical education he re- ceived partly at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, afterwards a course in homo- opathy at Cleveland Homeopathic College. He began practice in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he resided for 15 years, practicing both in New York and Brooklyn. He was married in 1881 to Miss Lillie Ludlam, of Oyster Bay;

Long Island. The delicate health of a favor- ite daughter induced Dr. Robinson to visit the Adirondack region for the benefit of his child, which brought him incidentally to Carthage. He purchased the extensive and valuable property he now occupies in the suburbs of Carthage, comprising 68 acres, and running a full fourth of a mile on the river front, capable of being utilized for manufacturing to that extent. He has built a valuable pulp mill, with five sets of grinders, capable of producing 15 tons of dry pulp per day-equal to 40 tons of wet pulp. He floats bis spruce timber down Black river. His expenditure has reached the large sum of $120,000. The principal part of his pulp is marketed in the South and West. In com- pany with all other business occupations, the pulp industries of Black river experienced great depressions during 1894. The Doctor is a very intelligent, progressive gentleman, and has his business well in hand. He ap- pears to have made a success of manufactur- ing. though not educated for that branch of business. On the west end of his property Dr. Robinson has built a beautiful dwelling, where he resides with his family. They have raised three children, who are all at home.

JOHN HEWITT was the second white child born in Carthage, probably in 1805. He was an industrious and respected citizen, dying in 1878, in his 73d year. He married Hepsey Silena Bassett, whose parents came into the county from Connecticut. They raised three children, one of their sons, Gautier, being a resident of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, a trusted employe of Spreckles, the sugar king. John Hewitt was a brother to Clark Hewitt, who was long a resident and popular inn keeper in Watertown. His daughter married Hon. Pardon C. Williams, and is a most es- timable and respected lady of Watertown.

DANIEL POTTER was born in Connecticut in 1801. His brothers were John and Cicero, and Thankful was his sister. He was mar- ried in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, February 1, 1831, to Miss Almira, daughter of Angel and Ruth Potter, and sister of Henry G. and John A. Potter, late of Car thage. Daniel was supervisor of the town of Champion during the war, residing at Great Bend, and a merchant and the first post- master at that place. In 1867 he purchased the brick block on the corner of State and Church streets in Carthage, where he resided until he died, April 9, 1876, aged 75 years. Mrs. Daniel Potter is residing in Carthage with ber niece, Mrs. Jay A. Loomis, and is a remarkably smart and intelligent lady for her age. She was born July 24, 1806, and is 88 years of age. She is one of the oldest mem- bers of the Baptist church of Carthage.

LOUIS FREDERICK GAUDIN came from Switzerland to New York city in 1819. He married Madeline Buler, who died in that city. Ilis son, Andrew Jackson Gaudin, was born in New York city, in 1833, and went to Fowler, St. Lawrence county, when but three years of age. He was afterwards

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educated in French in New York city. He came to Carthage in 1874, and followed the carpenter trade, proving himself an industri- ous, active man until unfortunately injured by a runaway horse, from the effects of which he was rendered helpless for many months and has never fully recovered. He has very acceptably filled the offices of street commissioner, poor master, and town, village and school collector for many terms. He was married in Watertown in 1868 to Lucinda Price, of Amsterdam, and they have three daughters, Mary E., Emma M., and Eva L. The two eldest are efficient teachers. Mr. Gaudin is a Democrat, and by his genial manner has won many friends.

REV. DAVID BOUTWELL WHITE was born in the town of Tully, Onondaga county, N. Y., April 6, 1831. His early life was spent on a farm with his parents, Francis V. and Phehe White. During the summer he as- sisted on the farm. His mind early turned to religious subjects. In the spring of 1852 he attended Falley Seminary, at Fulton, N. Y., and graduated from that institution June 28, 1855, as valedictorian of his class. May 7, 1856, he married Sarah H. VanAllen, of Pillar Point, N. Y. (whose maternal grand- father, Robert Ackerman, served in the war of 1812 with several of his sons). The same year Mr. White was received into the Black River Conference. When the War of the Rebellion broke out he enlisted as a private, October, 1861, and assisted in raising a company under Col. O. B. Pierce, with headquarters at Rome, N. Y. Mr. White was commissioned captain of Company I, 81st N. Y. Vol. In- fantry. In February they were ordered to the field, under General Mcclellan, and en- gaged in the Peninsula campaign of 1862. He was promoted to major in October, and soon after his command was engaged in the bombardment of Charleston, S. C. He par- ticipated in many important engagements. August 10, 1864, he was detailed to the com- mand of the 5th Maryland Regiment. In February he was commissioned lieutenant colonel. The regiment was mustered out of service, August 31, 1865. For meritorious services, President Johnson conferred upon him the title of brevet brigadier-general, July 23, 1867. After further meritorious service he came to Carthage in 1883 as pastor of the M. E. Church. After a long illness he died, December 13, 1888. in that village. The children of Mr. and Mrs. White are : George L., who died November 22, 1887; Lora E., wife of Wm. B. Kesler ; Imogene, who resides in Carthage.

ALONZO H. FRANCIS was born in the town of Champion in 1829. He is the son of Elijah and Hulda (Andrews) Francis. He read law with Judge Mullin, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1854. After 12 years' practice of his chosen profession at Three Mile Bay he came to Carthage, where he has since resided. Part of the time he was in partnership with H. J. Welch, and later with his brother-in-law, Stephen R. Pratt, but has

been alone for several years. He married Miss Sarah R. Ackerman, daughter of Lor- enzo and Ruth Ackerman. Their only chil- dren, Alonzo and Alton, died in their youth. Mr. Francis has been largely interested in real estate of late years. He is a wise coun- sellor and a true friend.

RICHARD F. NEARY, one of the oldest merchants of the village of Carthage, was born in the town of Wilna in 1831. His parents, Farrel and Margaret Neary, were early settlers near Carthage, and raised a large family of children, who, having reach- ed the years of maturity, have become valu- able members of society. Richard spent the early years of his life with his father on the farm. His health failing when about 23 years of age, he went in company with Peter Foley to California, hoping to be benefited by a change of climate. Return- ing to Carthage just after the close of the late war, uruch improved in health, he ac- cepted the position of postmaster at Car- thage, which was located in the old Farring- ton House, long since removed, and now the site of H. Radin's store. Until the present time, Mr. Neary has been more or less identified with the business interests of Carthage. For many years he was a part- ner in the firm of Horr & Neary, and now of the dry goods merchants. Neary & Byrne. He married Miss Eliza Hepp, of Carthage. Mr. Neary is a highly-respected citizen.

ANDREW B. VIRKLER came to Carthage in 1892, and is one of its most enterprising business men, an extensive dealer in butter, cheese and produce. He has been a practi- cal cheese maker all his life, and built several factories in the West. Of French descent, he was born in the town of Croghan, Lewis county, April 30. 1856, and is the son of John and Barbara Virkler. In 1893 he married Miss Hattie C. Smith, daughter of Walter C. Smith, of Adams, and formerly a teacher iu West Carthage public school. Mr. Virkler purposes to make Carthage his future home.

HANNAH C. HULBERT, better known to the present residents of the town of Wilna as "Granny Davis," was a prominent character on account of her extreme old age. Her maiden name was Hannah Christiana Staley. She was of Dutch parentage, and several times married. She once resided in Wyom- ing, Pa .. and moved to Johnstown about the. time of the French and Indian Wars of 1756- 63. In the Revolution she was supposed to have been captured by the Indians. Her first husband's name was Shove ; the second was named Dobson; the third, Davis, and the fourth, Hulbert. She was over 80 when married the last time. Hulbert was a Revo- lutionary soldier. and. as his widow, she drew a pension for 20 years. She was the mother of 17 children. At the age of 80 she was able to do the work of a strong man. She was a member of the Lutheran Church. She died at the residence of John Nobles, in Wilna, November 29, 1862, and is supposed

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to have been 115 years of age. She had almost entirely lost her sense of hearing. but when her attorney called on pension business, if the magic word "pension" was spoken in her ear at the top of the voice, her face would lighten up. Thus we see that the love of money remains in the human breast to the end of days, and "Granny Davis" was no exception.

ANTHONY WALSH was born in Ireland, county Mayo. He came to this town in 1832, and was an honest, hard-working man, a shoemaker by trade. He married Mary McManus. This couple were blessed with triplets, in August, 1844. Governor William H. Seward, who was in the village to address a political meeting, the guest of Patrick Stewart, expressed a desire to see them on being informed of the unusual event. He called, in company with the late Hou. Marcus Bickford, and named them after members of his own family : Frances Seward, Cornelia Seward and Harriet Weed. Their mother dying soon after, they were sent to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, at Utica, N. Y; Frances and Cornelia grew into womanhood, the latter now residing in Clinton, N. Y. Gov. Seward, a few years after naming them, sent each a present of a gold-clasped Catholic Bible and $50 in money. The other children of Anthony Walsh are: Anthony, who served in the late war in the 14th N. Y. Artillery, and was wounded at Spottsylvania ; James H. Walsh, who also served in the late war, and is commander of the Carthage G. A. R. Post for 1895, and Mrs. Martin Leach. These all reside in Carthage. Anthony Walsh, Sr., died several years ago. His genial good humor made him many friends.

MRS. HANNAH (PRATT) SMITH was born in Shutesbury, Mass., in 1792. She married James Smith in 1815. They came to Car- thage in 1837. Mr. Smith conducted the tannery afterwards operated by Dickerman & Reed on Tannery Island. After accumu- lating a sufficient competence he retired from business. He died in 1855, aged 65 years. Mrs. Smith survived her hushand many years and resided at the homestead at the intersec- tion of School and Church streets, which was destroyed in the great conflagration of 1884. At that time many relics, highly valued, as well as the most of her household goods, were destroyed. Mrs Smith was a valued and active member of the Baptist church of Carthage. and was well acquainted with its early days. She united in her native town in her 18th year. She died in 1891, aged 99. She retained her memory until the last, but her eye-sight was some- what impaired. She entertained her grand- children and great-grandchildren with rem- iniscenses of George Washington. Her general knowledge made her an entertaining hostess or guest. The children of Mr. and Mrs. James Smith are: Susan (Mrs. H. G. Potter), Sophia (Mrs. S. S. Davis, of Car- thage); James W., of Brooklyn; Julia, Mrs. A. H. Spencer, who died in New York in

1891 ; Frances M. (Mrs. George A. Lathrop, of New York city); Amelia (Mrs. Theodore Shotwell, of Brooklyn); Augustus M., who died in 1861. The descendants of Mrs. Smith are numerous and are universally respected. Francis, a son of Mrs. Lathrop, is an artist of note, and George Parsons Lathrop, another son, the well-known writer, married Miss Rose, daughter of the distinguished Nathaniel Hawthorne.

JOHN L. NORTON was born in Alexandria in 1835, and is the son of John and Pamelia (Gordon) Norton. He received his early edu- cation in the common schools, and finished it at the Orleans Academy, at LaFargeville, N. Y. At the early age of 15 he hegan a clerk- ship in a store at Rossie, remaining there a year and a half, and then went to Redwood, where he accepted a position with Joseph Buckbee, with whom he remained five years. Then he made an engagement with Candee & Winslow, at Watertown, with whom he re- mained three years. From Watertown he returned to Redwood and bought W. W. Butterfield's interest in the firm of Butter- field & McAllister, when the firm became Norton & McAllister. He remained there during the Civil War and then sold to G. E. McAllister and came to Carthage, in 1866, and started a new store in company with his brother George, but subsequently bought his brother's interest, the latter going west. During the last year of the war he, with a party of friends, visited the track of those armies which put an end to the rebellion. In 1858 Mr. Norton was married to Helen A., daughter of Lawrence DeZeng. They have two children, Adda B., now Mrs. Charles L. Sleight, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., and Lawrence D. Norton, who is his father's valued book- keeper and assistant. Mr. Norton is a high degree Mason and universally respected-a wholesome man to have in the town. His interest in social life is evidenced by his activity as a Mason and in his unflagging at- tention to the cause of education. he having been for several years president of the Board of Education.

LAWRENCE JOSEPH GOODALE, who has re- sided in the village of Carthage the greater part of his life, was born in Watertown, Feb- ruary 20, 1816. After receiving a liberal education he entered Union College, Schenec- tady, in 1835. In 1838 he commenced the study of law in the office of Sterling & Bron- son at Watertown, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. Soon afterward he came to Carthage to enter upon the practice of his profession. September 1, 1842, he married Isabella, daughter of Patrick Somerville Stewart. In 1842 he formed a partnership with Micah Sterling in Watertown under the name of Sterling & Goodale. Later he en- tered into a partnership with Joseph Mullin. July 4, 1853, Mr. Goodale established himself as a lumber dealer in New York city, where he also opened a law office. He remained in that city eight years. He returned to Car- thage, in 1864 and became the agent of Vin-

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The growth of a century: as illustrated in the history of Jefferson county, New York, from 1793-1894, Part 168

Author: Haddock, John A., b. 1823- Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Albany, N. Y., Weed-Parsons printing company Number of Pages: 1098

Author: Haddock, John A., b. 1823-
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Albany, N. Y., Weed-Parsons printing company
Number of Pages: 1098