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Mr. Burhans is now serving as Sewer Commissioner for the extensive sewerage system now being constructed in the village of Saugerties. Socially he is identified with the Masonic order. He was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude J. Renner, of Ulster County, and they have two sons, Roger and Wallace.
CHARLES BURHANS, Treasurer of the Kingston Savings Bank, was born . in Kingston, July 12, 1846. Jacob Burhans was the progenitor of this branch of the Burhans family in America. The earliest record of his life is on March 28, 1660, when he appears as a soldier on the Esopus in the Netherlandish Service in
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the company of Director General Peter Stuyvesant, from whose sister, Anna Stuyvesant Bayard, Mr. Burhans is descended. The name of Jacob Burhans stands third on the list of members who formed the first organization of the Reformed Dutch Church of Wiltwyck (now Kingston), December 7, 1660. From November 21, 1661, to December 6, 1664, he was Collector of Church Rates and Excise Com- missioner. He was elected Scheppen (Magistrate) of the Court of Wiltwyck on April 28, 1666, and was re-elected the following year. In June, 1663, during the second Esopus War, he had two houses burned in the "New Village outside the stockade." He died some time prior to June, 1677.
Charles Burhans was educated at the Kingston Academy. When eighteen years of age he became clerk in the State of New York Bank. He later became book- keeper, and on January 12, 1869, was made cashier, which position he held seven years.
On August 2, 1879, Mr. Burhans became treasurer of the Kingston Savings Bank and has since held that responsible position. He is also a trustee in the bank. He is a member of the Kingston Lodge of Masons, having joined in 1868. In 1870 and 1871 he was Treasurer of the Village of Kingston, and held that office in 1872 when Kingston was incorporated as a city. He has been a member of Company B, Twentieth Battalion, New York State Militia, since its organization in 1873, and in 1875 was commissioned Inspector of Rifle Practice with the rank of Captain. He was vice-president of the Holland Society of New York for the County of Ulster, 1898-1901, and has been treasurer of the Kingston Board of Education fifteen years (1887-1902). He is trustee and treasurer of the Senate House Association, member of Kingston City Hospital Association and City Library Association.
On December 3, 1889, he married Mary Swart, daughter of John C. F. Hoes, D.D., pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston from 1845 to 1867.
CORNELIUS BURHANS was born in Kingston, New York, June 3, 1821. He obtained his education at private schools and the Kingston Academy, and at the age of fifteen years entered his father's store as clerk, where he remained ten years. In 1846 he took the business and with his brother, John Salisbury, continued it until 1871, when he formed a partnership with Titus Felten and engaged in the coal and lumber business. In 1891 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Burhans retiring.
Mr. Burhans has been prominent in Masonic circles and was treasurer of Kings- ton Lodge and Mt. Horeb Chapter for over thirty years. As a member of the fire department, he was very active, serving for two years as chief engineer. In 1844 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Shaw, of Ulster County. Their chil- dren are Jacob, Charles, Wm. S., Augustus and Mary Jane. Jacob Burhans, father of our subject, was one of the foremost citizens in the early days of Kingston and was sixth in descent from Jacob Burhans, who came from Holland and whose first recorded service in this country is on March 28, 1660, as a soldier under Gen. Peter Stuyvesant.
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WILLIAM BURHANS, of Saugerties, New York, is a native of Ulster County, having been born in Kingston, June 16, 1851. The early years of his life were spent near Oberlin, Ohio, and he received his education in Kingston and the public schools in Ohio. He came to Saugerties in 1874 and entered the employ of Burhans & Bernard, bluestone dealers, as bookkeeper, and remained with them four years. In 1886 Mr. Burhans, with Uriah Van Etten, engaged in the coal and lumber busi- ness, which they conducted ten years and sold to the Saugerties Coal & Lumber Co. The six years following, he and John C. Davis were engaged in the boot and shoe business. In April, 1902, Mr. Burhans and Joseph Keenan established the furniture and undertaking business which they are successfully conducting to-day.
Mr. Burhans has served as postmaster eight years, four years under the Harrison administration and four under President Mckinley's. He is now one of the vil- lage directors, having been appointed to that office in January, 1906, to fill a vacancy. He also served as chief engineer of the fire department in 1896, and in 1904-5 was Master of Ulster Lodge No. 193, F. & A. M.
RICHARD LALOR BURTSELL .- The Very Rev. Richard Lalor Burtsell, D.D., was born on April 14, 1840, in the city of New York, where his paternal ancestors had lived for more than a century. His mother, Dorothea Morrogh, of Cork, Ireland, was a granddaughter of Francis Plowden, an English historian of the beginning of the nineteenth century, and a lineal descendant of the Plowden to whom Charles I. gave in 1632 a charter for New Albion, now New Jersey. R. L. Burtsell studied as a boy at St. Francis Xavier's College in New York, and spent two years in the Sulpician College in Montreal, and continued his studies for nine years in the college of the Propaganda, Rome, Italy, where in 1858 he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and in 1862 the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was ordained to the priesthood at Rome on August 10, 1862. From November, 1862, to the end of 1867 he was assistant to the Rev. Thomas Preston at St. Ann's Church, on Eighth Street, in New York. In 1868 he founded the parish of the Epiphany, using the halls of the Demilt Dispensary for divine service. By April 3, 1870, he had completed the erection of the splendid church of the Epiphany, on Second Avenue, near Twenty-first Street, with a fine rectory. He also built a well-equipped parochial school. In 1883, while remaining pastor of the Epiphany, he established the Church of St. Benedict the Moor for the colored Catholics of New York. In 1890 he was appointed by Archbishop Corrigan to the rectorship of St. Mary's Church, Rondout, where he has given steady attention to the welfare of his parishioners, without neglecting the civic duties which he recognized as due to his fellow citizens of Kingston.
On the occasion of a visit of Dr. Burtsell to Rome in 1904, Archbishop Farley requested Pope Pius X. to honor him by taking him as one of his household cham- berlains; this request was acceded to, and hence the title of Monsignor which has been given him. St. Mary's parish was made by Archbishop Corrigan a so-called irremovable parish, and Dr. Burtsell declared its first irremovable pastor. At the diocesan synod in 1901, Archbishop Corrigan appointed Dr. Burtsell his vicar-
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forane for Ulster and Sullivan Counties. This position was confirmed and re- newed by his successor, the present archbishop, Most Rev. John M. Farley, D.D.
CHARLES F. CANTINE .- Judge Charles F. Cantine, eldest son of Peter and Sarah A. (Starin) Cantine, was born at Saugerties, November 4, 1858. He re- ceived his preparatory education at Saugerties Academy and graduated from Rut- gers College in 1880. He then entered Columbia Law School, and in May, 1882, was admitted to the bar at Ithaca, N. Y. In the same year he opened an office in Rondout and began practice as a member of the firm of P. & C. F. Cantine. In 1892 and 1893 he was a member of the Republican State Committee and was chair- man of the Republican County Committee of Ulster County during 1893 and 1894. In November, 1895, he was elected district attorney, holding the office nine years. In 1904 he was elected judge of Ulster County, and in administering the duties of his present office he has demonstrated his ability as a learned and impartial arbiter of the law.
He was married December 21, 1882, to Mary C. Sheffield, of Saugerties. She died February 27, 1889, leaving a daughter, Agnes L. September 1, 1893, he mar- ried Mary E., daughter of James Post, of Brookhaven, N. Y.
Judge Cantine is a direct descendant of Moses Cantine, the Huguenot, who married Elizabeth Deyo at New Paltz in 1691. Peter Cantine, father of our sub- ject, was the eldest of the family, representing the sixth generation. He was born in the town of Marbletown, Ulster County, in 1831. At the age of twenty-two he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He began practice in the village of Saugerties and was eminently successful as an attorney and counsellor-at-law. He was admitted to practice in the District and Circuit Courts as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, and obtained favorable de- cisions in some of the most intricate and important litigations in Ulster County and on appeals to the appellate courts. In his death, which occurred December 21, 1900, the bar and county lost a man of sterling worth.
MARTIN CANTINE, manufacturer, of Saugerties, New York, is a descendant of one of the Huguenot patentees of Ulster County. This family has since been most influential in State and national affairs. There were Members of Congress, Senators, framers of the Constitution of the State of New York, delegates to the convention which submitted the Constitution of the United States for adoption, brigadier-generals of the militia, members of Assembly, members of the Council of Safety and officers during the Revolutionary War, county judges, among them- famous lawyers, illustrious divines, successful business men-and it is connected by marriage with many of the leading families of the county.
Mr. Cantine was born in Saugerties, January 22, 1866. His father, Hon. Peter Cantine, served with distinction in many public positions and was one of the lead- ing lawyers at the Ulster County bar, and his brother, Hon. Charles F. Cantine, is the present county judge. After receiving an educational training in the Sauger- ties Academy and the Seventeenth Street Grammar School in New York City, Martin Cantine, at the age of 18 years, secured employment with J. B. Sheffield &
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Son, paper manufacturers, where he remained about five years, serving from office boy to positions of responsibility. In 1888 he purchased the plant of The Alston Adams Co., at Albany, and engaged in the manufacture of paper. He organized the firm of Martin Cantine & Co., and on January 1, 1889, they began operations in Saugerties. In 1890 the Martin Cantine Company was incorporated, and Mr. Can- tine was chosen president, which position he still holds and he personally manages the entire business. In 1893 the plant was purchased and enlarged until they now have 100,000 square feet of floor space, fully equipped with modern machinery, and in which employment is furnished to one hundred and fifty people. In 1893 Mr. Cantine also purchased the first right to the magnificent water power from the John G. Myers estate, which gives him the first right on the entire creek. He also developed electric power, his dynamos being driven by the water wheels. In June, 1890, Mr. Cantine was married to Miss Fanny, daughter of Gen. William B. Rudd, of Lakeville, Conn., and they have two children, Holley Rudd and Francis. Po- litically he is an ardent Republican, active in political affairs, and has served several terms as director and two years as president of the village (1896-97).
He has been president of the Board of Education since 1900 and was chief engi- neer of the fire department in 1899, president of the Saugerties Board of Trade in 1900, and prominently identified with the best and most important business and social interests of the village.
PETER N. CANTINE was born near Ellenville, Ulster County, New York, January 21, 1845. His ancestors settled in this region in early times, his grand- father, Jacob Cantine, being a native of Ulster County. Jacob Cantine was a farmer and blacksmith by occupation, and in politics a Whig. He married Ann Brodhead, and settled upon a town in Wawarsing Township, where they reared a family of seven children. The family has been connected with the Dutch Reformed Church as far back as there is record. Mathew J. Cantine, the father of our subject, was born April 13, 1808, and grew to manhood upon his father's farm. In early life he was a butcher by occupation, but later became a farmer. On December 2, 1832, he married Caroline LaMoree, who was born October 1, 1809, in Dutchess County, New York. Of the six children born to them, all but two are still living. The father was a Republican in politics. As a member of the Reformed Church the family held a leading place, Mr. Cantine being deacon for many years. He died February 21, 1880, his wife October 9, 1885.
Peter N. Cantine, our subject, pursued his early life upon his father's farm, and acquired his education in the district school and the academy at Ellenville. Enter- ing business life, he first clerked for two years in the store of W. T. Homes, and then, in 1869, moved to Napanoch and formed a partnership with a Mr. Cudney in a general store, under the firm name of Cudney & Cantine. This was dissolved at the expiration of one year, and Mr. Cantine then clerked four years for A. S. Schoonmaker, at Napanoch. Since that time he carried on a butcher business until September, 1906, when he sold out and is now living retired.
On October 18, 1877, Mr. Cantine married Henrietta Sagendorph, who was born May 17, 1845, in Shandaken, Ulster County. Her grandfather, Adam Sagendorph,
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came to this country from Germany when a young man; he married Elizabeth Heavener, a lady of German descent, and settled in Columbia County, where his son Andrew, Mrs. Cantine's father, was born December 16, 1820. Andrew Sagen- dorph married Amanda Trites, a descendant of an old Holland family, who was born February 24, 1823, and Mrs. Cantine was the second in their family of four children. Louise, the eldest, married Byron Dutcher, a farmer and merchant at Big Indian, Ulster County. Two younger children, Horatio and Harriet, died in in- fancy. Mrs. Cantine's father died April 4, 1882, her mother January 24, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Cantine have had no children. Mr. Cantine is a Republican in politics and has held public office in his neighborhood.
MAJOR OLIVER P. CARPENTER, Attorney, of Kingston, was born near the village of Clintondale, town of Plattekill, Ulster County, on December 7, 1840. He attended school in the towns of Esopus, Rochester and Marlborough and at Clinton- dale. Later he attended the Friend's Nine Partners' Boarding School, at Washing- ton, Dutchess County. He taught school, first at Clintondale, and then Highland.
In the summer of 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Forty-fourth Regiment, N. Y. V. I. and was later detailed to serve in the Quartermaster's Department, of the Department of the South, under Generals Sherman, Hunter and Mitchell. Shortly thereafter, he became ill with fever and returned home. Upon his recovery he again enlisted in the Second New York (Harris Light) Cavalry. He served as Ist Lieutenant and Captain, and the night before Lee's surrender, while in command of the first squadron, which was the advance guard, he led them in the charge on Appomattox Station and captured the trains of supplies which had just arrived for Lee's army. He was then ordered to charge upon and take a battery, and in doing so lost his favorite horse, and was himself wounded. He was discharged from the service as Captain, but was brevetted Major. Major Carpenter, while serving with the famous Harris Light Cavalry, participated in those memorable battles of the Shenandoah, under Generals Sheridan and Custer. After his discharge from the service, he entered the University at Albany, and was graduated from the Law Department of that institution with the degree of LL.B. on May 25, 1866. He began the practice of law in Highland and remained there until January 1, 1872, having been elected District Attorney. He removed to Kingston, where he has since resided. He served as Surrogate of Ulster County for the years 1887-1892, and Recorder of the city of Kingston 1900-1905.
He was married at Highland, September 22, 1866, to Ethelind, daughter of Elias M. and Mary E. (Malcomb) DuBois, and nine children have been born to them. He is a member of Pratt Post No. 127, Department of New York, G. A. R .; Kings- ton Lodge No. 10, F. & A. M .; Mount Horeb Chapter No. 75; Rondout Com- mandery No. 52, K. T .; Kosciusko Lodge No. 86, I. O. O. F .; Franklin Lodge, K. of P., and Fraternal Mystic Circle, No. 529.
ALBERT CARR, undertaker, of the City of Kingston, was born in Washington- ville, Orange County, N. Y., on December 7, 1840. His education was obtained in the city school.
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In 1861 he enlisted in the Twentieth Regiment, N. Y. S. M., at the first call for troops. At the expiration of the term he returned to this city. In 1862 he again enlisted as a private in B Company, 120th Regiment, N. Y. V., for the term of three years. Before arriving at the front he was promoted to Sergeant Major, to date from time of leaving Kingston, August 24, 1862. Mr. Carr was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy in 1863, and to First Lieutenant in 1864, which rank he held until his discharge in 1865. About 1870 he engaged in the furniture and under- taking business as a salesman, serving in that capacity until the year 1889, when he opened his present undertaking establishment, taking with him his son, Harry P., who continued as a member of the firm of A. Carr & Son until the year 1900, when he disposed of his interest in the business, and Arthur G. Carr associated himself with it. Thus the firm name still exists as A. Carr & Son. Mr. Carr is a Repub- lican, and has served six years as Coroner.
On August 21, 1862, he was married to Sarah E., daughter of Peter Folant of Kingston, and six children have been born to them, Minnie and Augusta, who died in infancy, Harry P., Hattie F., Arthur G. and Mabel. Mr. Carr is a member of Pratt Post No. 127, G. A. R .; Kingston Lodge No. 10, F. & A. M .; C. S. Clay Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Franklin Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
JAMES EBER CASE, Deputy County Treasurer, was born in Ellenville, Octo- ber 30, 1853. His education was obtained in the village schools and the Fort Edward Institute, graduating from the Commercial Department of the latter insti- tution in 1872. He first began business life as bookkeeper in the Ellenville Glass Factory, where he remained several years. In April, 1894, he opened a boot and shoe store in Ellenville, which he conducted until January, 1896, when he came to Kingston and took the office he now holds. He held the office of Town Clerk of Wawarsing one term, and twelve years ago was appointed U. S. Loan Com- missioner for Ulster County, an office he still retains. -
Mr. Case is a member of many of the local fraternal societies, in Wawarsing Lodge No. 582, F. & A. M., and the Chapter No. 246, R. A. M. He has been Master and High Priest and has filled all offices in the Blue Lodge. He is also a member of Rondout Commandery No. 52, K. T., and Cypress Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He married Emma R. Mckinney and two daughters have been born to them, Lillie, died when six years of age, and Mamie, living at home. Mr. Case died April 25, 1907.
JACOB CHAMBERS, M.D., deceased, was for many years one of the most prominent and successful physicians in Ulster County. He was born at Stone Ridge, Ulster County, February 6, 1852, and his education was obtained at the Monticello Academy, Fort Edward Institute, and Phillips Academy, at Andover. He also received instructions from a private tutor. He took up the study of medicine at the Buffalo University, from which he graduated in 1875. He practiced as a physician for a time in Stone Ridge, and in 1882 came to Kingston and opened an office. He continued in practice in this city until his death, September 15, 1904, becoming widely known as a capable physician and a skilled surgeon. In 1882 he married Florence Kerr, a daughter of Ex-Sheriff John W. Kerr, and two children
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were born to them, Letitia Josephine, who died in infancy, and Donald. Dr. Chambers was for many years the City Health Officer and a member of the Board of Pension Examiners. He was one of the organizers of the Police De- partment of Kingston, and was a Police Commissioner four years. He served as Surgeon for the West Shore Railroad, and was a member of both the State and County Medical Societies.
The existence of the Kingston City Hospital is largely due to his energetic efforts in furthering the project at the time of its inception. Deeply impressed with the need of a hospital, he devoted much time in securing funds for its erection and equipment, and for thirteen years it had no more faithful and self-sacrificing friend and supporter than Dr. Chambers. From the day of its opening he gave to its inmates the benefit of his rare skill as a surgeon and great experience as a physician.
Dr. Chambers was a son of Hon. George Chambers, M.D., in his day a prominent physician and a well-known figure in politics. He served in the Ulster County Board of Supervisors from 1861 to 1866, for the town of Marbletown. He served one term as State Senator, and represented his district in the State Legislature.
The Chambers family sprung from the Scottish Clans of Camerons, the name having been changed when the ancestor of the Chambers removed to France. An old burial place still exists in Aberdeen, Scotland, where may be seen a stone bearing the family arms, and the date 1313 is evidence that this family is one of the oldest known in genealogical records. The ancestors of Dr. Chambers were among the earliest settlers of Ulster County; his great-grandfather, Jacob, was a Revolutionary Patriot, and the records show that in 1800 he was serving as Trustee of the town of Marbletown.
DR. GEORGE CHANDLER, of Kingston, was born at Clyde, New York, De- cember 13, 1872. The son of a Methodist clergyman, he was obliged to move from city to city, obtaining his education from private tutors, the Bishop Scott Military School at Portland, Ore., the Ithaca High School and the classical department of Syracuse University. In 1895 he graduated with the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, serving first as house physician of St. Vincent's Hospital, and later as chief of the woman's division of the out- patient department and assistant visiting surgeon of the same institution. He was for a time attending physician at John Wanamaker's New York store while prac- ticing in New York. He is at present visiting surgeon to the Kingston City Hospital, and surgeon-in-chief of the Benedictine Sanitarium, Kingston, where he has practiced his profession for the past five years. He is also surgeon for the Kingston Division of the West Shore R. R., and the Ontario & Western R. R. He has given up general practice and limits his practice to surgery.
Dr. Chandler is a member of the County, State and National Medical Societies ; the Quiz Medical Society of New York; the D. K. E. Fraternity, and the A. M. P. O. Medical Fraternity. He has written for a number of medical periodicals, and the treatment of sunstroke advocated by him at St. Vincent's Hospital has been adopted in some of the text-books of medicine. He married Martha Schultze, a
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member of a prominent Syracuse family, her father being the founder of the School of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. They have two children, Dan and Fehmor.
Among the leading pulpits occupied by Rev. George W. Chandler, father of our subject, are Taylor Street Church, Portland, Ore .; Delaware Avenue M. E. Church, Buffalo, and the First M. E. Church, Ithaca, N. Y. Dr. Chandler's mother, who was Izora Chandler of New York, was the authoress of several works. "Three of Us," "Anthe" and "Told in Gardens of Arabia," have been widely read. She was equally well known as a miniature and portrait painter, having exhibited in the Academies of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. She died August 25, 1906.
DR. ARCHIE B. CHAPPELL, practicing physician, of the town of Plattekill, was born in Plainfield, N. J., in 1882. In 1891 his father, Samuel F. Chappell, removed to Kingston and engaged in business, and in the Kingston Academy Dr. Chappell received his' preliminary education. He entered the Albany Medical College and graduated from the Department of Union University in 1905. He then located in the village and town of Plattekill, where he is now engaged in practice.
HON. GEORGE BRADLEY CHILDS, who for many years was Secretary and Treasurer of the Ellenville Savings Bank, was born in Grahamsville, N. Y., Feb- ruary 9, 1838, and died in 1897. He was a direct descendant in the seventh genera- tion from Benjamin Childs, who came from Wales with an uncle Ephraim Childs in 1630 and settled at Roxbury, Mass. Mr. Childs' line of descent is as follows : Benjamin Childs, his son Benjamin, son Penuel, his son Richard, his son Timothy, his son Richard Dwight, the father of our subject.
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