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David Dunsmore died in 1874, and his wife, Elspie (Johnson) Duns- more, died January 19, 1900.
ZADOCK HARRIS, was born in Plainfield, Windham County, Conn., May 16, 1769, and was educated in the schools of his native place. On May 30, 1793, he married Abigail Dean at Plainfield. Their children were Fannie, wife of James Ingalsbee, Chester, Mira (who married first, Sylvanus Thomas, and after his death, Levi Ely), Leon- ard and Truman.
Zadock Harris was a lineal descendant of Captain John Gallup who was killed in the "Great Swamp Fight" in the Pequot War. Decem- ber 9, 1676. His wife was in direct descent fromn Lieut. Thomas Tracey of Norwich, Conn., who emigrated to America in 1636.
Zadock Harris and his wife were among the earliest settlers in East Hampton, Washington County, then called Log Village. They settled there in 1799. He was a practical and successful farmer and was the
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inventor of the first iron plows, for which he took out letters patent in 1819, signed by James Monroc, President, and John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State.
Zadock Harris died at East Hampton, N. Y., in 1854, and his wife died at the same place in 1860. Truman, the youngest son, who suc- ceeded to the old homestead, was born in 1814, and having lived sixty- nine years on the same farm, died where he was born, in 1883, leaving an honorable record.
HIBBARD BROTHERS-This firm was established in 1888 at Sandy Hill, N. Y., where they carried on the manufacture of paper makers' plugs until 1896. In 1894, however, they began the manufacture of wood cogs, which is still part of their product. In 1897, they began perfecting a gas or gasoline engine, which is now their principal manufacture. They have made a number of improvements, over- coming the defects of other gas engines, and have been particularly successful in perfecting the method of mixing the charge before tak- ing it into the cylinder, as well as overcoming the back explosions which are an objectionable feature on all other engines. In this, as well as in other important particulars, they have succeeded in making a perfect engine, and while attaining all this, have at the same time simplified the engine, doing away with all valves, gears or other mechanism on the outside of the machine. Only two adjustments are needed to operate the engine, both of which being marked, require no special skill, and any one can start and run the engine with five minutes instructions. Experts pronounce the Hibbard engine the finest running engine on the market.
The firm of Hibbard Brothers consists of Sumner, Warren and Charles Hibbard. They are all practical men and make all their own designs and patterns.
The parents of Sumner and Warren Hibbard were Joseph and Phoebe Hibbard. Charles Hibbard's parents were Joseph and Emma Hibbard; Joseph Hibbard having married twice.
Sumner Hibbard married Eva Mcknight, Warren married Phoebe Hard and Charles married Margaret Knights.
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FREDERICK INGRAHAM, the subject of this sketch was born in Center Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., March 18, 1847. He received a thorough education at Claverick Academy and at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
Shortly after the close of his college career, he engaged in business with his father in the manufacture of stoves, the firm name being A. Ingraham & Co. The business was located in Troy, N. Y. Fred- erick Ingraham was afterward engaged in business in Chicago and Minnesota for twenty years.
In 1869 Mr. Ingraham was united in marriage to Elizabeth D. Merriam of Troy, N. Y., who died in August, 1897 They had three sons, one of whom, Malcolm R. Ingraham, survives.
Mr. Ingraham has practically retired from business and lives in a fine, beautifully environed and roomy mansion at Center Cambridge.
In politics he is a staunch Republican and takes an active interest in all public affairs in his part of the county. His judgment and advice are always sought after in matters of county, district and state political policies.
The Ingraham family is an old American one and is of English origin.
A. D. BUMP was born in the town of Jackson, Washington County, N. Y., January 27, 1855, and was educated in District school No. 9, of his native town. He resided with his father until February 4, 1880, when he removed to East Hartford and married Margaret M. Gilchrist Bump, widow of Warren S. Bump. They have one daughter, Ada E. Bump, born July 19, 1883. He followed the occu- pation of farming until November 14, 1891, when he commenced buy- ing potatoes at Smith's Basin, which business he continued for six years. On October 4, 1894, he began the manufacture of cider and vinegar. He bought the estate of Warren S. Bump, in partnership with A. W. Bump, August 8, 1898, and on April 1, 1899, they estab- lished the Maple Grove Hotel, A. D. & A. W. Bump, proprietors, and have since conducted the same.
A. D. Bump's father, Charles A. Bump, was born in Watertown, N. Y., January 2, 1824, and is now living in Jackson. His mother, Rebecca H. (Valentine) Bump. died May 25, 1872. He is one of a
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family of five children, all of whom are living. Besides A. D. Bump the others are Julia E., Nancy, Ida M. and Horace V. Bump.
Mrs. Bump was educated at the Hartford Academy, and, like her husband, was one of a family of five children, the others being Hor- ace, Lucy, Archibald and James Henry.
A. W. Bump is a son of Warren S. and Margaret M. Bump, and was born June 15, 1875.
The Bump family is an old American one and has long been identi- fied with Washington County.
AUBREY EDGERTON MEVER, son of Isaiah and Ida (Adolphus) Meyer, was born in New York City, February 4, 1868. He received his early education in the Charlier Institute, New York City, which he at- tended until fifteen years of age. He was then sent to Europe and took a college course in Zurich, Switzerland. After graduating from that institution he entered the Royal Weaver's school at Crefeld, Germany, in order to learn the art of silk weaving. He remained two years in the weaver's school and then went to Lyons, France, and after a further short course of study returned home in 1886. In that year he entered the service of Plegram & Meyer of Patterson, N. J., his father being the junior member of that firm. He remained with that house until his father's death which occurred in August, 1888, when he began the organization of the present company in Whitehall, of which he is President. This concern is known as the Champlain Silk Mill. The factory is a large and substantial stone and brick structure two hundred and fifty feet in dimensions and six stories high and has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds per year They employ upwards of five hundred skilled operatives, and manufacture spun silk yarn. They keep three traveling sales- men on the road and have an extensive trade throughout the United States and Canada. The business was established in 1890 and was incorporated in 1891 under the laws of the State of New York.
The entire operations of the business are under the strict super- vision of Mr. Meyer, who is not only a shrewd business man, but possesses executive ability of an unusually high order, and under his able management the trade of the concern has steadily increased until today the Champlain Silk Mills have a standing second to none in the world.
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Mr. Meyer is also public-spirited to a high degree and takes a deep interest in the welfare of the community, state and country, as well as in his own immediate business, and is universally regarded as one of the most enterprising and valuable citizens of Washington County.
On November 17, 1892, Mr. Meyer married Alice, daughter of Martin and Malvina (Rosenbeck) Weil. They have a family of two children, namely: Aubrey Edgerton, Jr., born June 14, 1894, and Dorothy T., born June 15, 1895.
Mr. Meyer's father was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and came to America in 1830. He settled in Louisiana, where he engaged in the general merchandise business until 1860, when he removed to New York City, where he engaged in the real estate business, finally branch- ing out in the silk business as a partner in the firm of Plegran & Meyer of Patterson, N. J.
JOSEPH B. STONE of Salem, was born in 1847 in the town of Water- ford, Saratoga County, New York, and educated in the public schools of that place. His parents, William A. and Olive (Combs) Stone, were natives of Massachusetts and both of English descent. He learned the carpenters' trade before he reached the age of twenty and followed that occupation both in Waterford and in Middle Granville, for about seven years. In 1869, one year after moving to Middle Granville, he accepted a position in the hotel of H. S. Clark, now of Cambridge, and remained in his employ for four years. With the revival of trade and the great increase of building which the opening of new slate quaries occasioned at Granville in 1873, Mr. Stone re- turned to his original occupation and engaged actively in building and contracting for about six years. In 1879 he leased the Fairvale Hotel at North Granville and conducted it for two years, after which he became connected with the management of the North Granville Military Academy, where he remained until the autumn of 1887. He spent the winter of 1887-88 in California and on his return to the east bought the Central House at Salem, N. Y., which he altered and improved, and where he now continues in prosperous business. He has been a Republican from his earliest voting days; he is a mem- ber of Salem Lodge No. 369, F. & A. M., and a Director of the People's National Bank of Salem. He married, in 1876, Miss Eliza- beth Holland of Poultney, Vt., and has one child, Marie.
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BENJAMIN L. WARD was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1837. He was educated in the public schools in Northampton, and at the early age of fourteen he learned the cigar-making trade and worked at this until the war broke out when he was one of the first of those to res- pond to the call of his country. He enlisted in 1861 in Company F, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and received his honorable discharge in June, 1862. He immediately re-enlisted with the 79th Indiana, with which he served three years. He was for two years detailed at Department Headquarters of the Cumberland as messenger, from February, 1863, to the close of the war. Mr. Ward was in several hard fought bat- tles. He was wounded in the head at Stone River. He was at Mis- sionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and Perryville. He has achieved the reputation of a brave soldier and a splendid marksman. After the war he resumed his trade in Indiana, and in 1867 settled in Cam- bridge Village, where he followed his trade up to the Harrison Administration, when his friends, recognizing his long devotion to the Republican party, his ability and loyalty to his country, secured his appointment as Postmaster at Cambridge. He was again made Postmaster under William McKinley, which office he still retains.
He is a member of Post John McKean, G. A. R., of which he has been Commander. He held the office of Village Trustee for seven years and was serving his second term as President of the Village when he resigned to accept the Postmastership. For six years he has been a member of the Board of Education, which office he still holds.
In 1873 he married Anna McMurray. Three children were born to them, B. Frances, John G. and Irene M.
The father of the subject of this sketch was John G. Ward, whose wife was Sylvia Moulton. The Wards were among the pioneers of Massachusetts, and settled at Sudbury in 1639.
Kieley Ward, a great grandfather, was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He served in his uncle's regiment. All of the Wards and Moultons were patriots.
JESSE GIBSON was born in the town of Hartford, Washington County, N. Y., June 24, 1874, and was educated in the public schools of Hebron, N. Y., and at the Albany Business College. He was reared on a farm and followed that occupation until the spring of
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1894, when he embarked in the mercantile business in South Hart- ford, which he still continues.
Mr. Gibson is prominent in the Republican party in the town of Hartford, and has served on committees and in various ways assisted in furthering the interests and securing the success of his party in his town and county.
On December 7, 1898, Mr. Gibson married Millie L. Hall, daughter of Solomon Hall. Mr. Gibson's parents were James and Jane (Lundy) Gibson. James Gibson was born in the north of Ireland and came to this country and settled in the town of Hebron, N. Y., about the year 1840, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1894. His wife, Jane Gibson, is a native of Washington County, and resides in Hartford, N. Y.
GEORGE YOUT was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County N. Y., September 22, 1856, and is the son of Dow and Lucinda (Betts) Yout. He was educated in the district schools and, outside of some time. during which he was occupied as lock tender on the canal and a period during which he was engaged at the printer's trade, he has been a farmer, which is his present occupation.
George Yout married Cora Brate, daughter of William and Laura Brate. They have one son, Charles Yout. Mr. Yout takes an intelli- gent interest in the public affairs of his town, and has held the office of Poormaster as well as minor town offices.
ARTHUR WALSH, was born in Ireland January 15, 1837, and was a son of John and Jane (Todd) Walsh. Arthur Walsh came to the United States at the age of twenty and located at Bennington, Vt., where he learned the trade of machinist, which business he has made his life pursuit. He worked in Bennington for about eighteen years, when he moved to Cambridge, N. Y., where he has since resided, and where for seven years he has conducted a foundry.
Mr. Walsh possesses inventive genius as well as mechanical skill, and has patented a governor for a water wheel, which has proved very successful, and from which he receives a liberal royalty.
On February 1, 1862, Arthur Walsh married Margaret Bowers.
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DAVID HARVEY KING, the subject of this sketch, was born July 14, 1835, in the town of Milford, Otsego County, N. Y., and is of Revolu- tionary stock on both father's and mother's side. His grand-father, Omstead, served on the staff of General Washington. His father, Elijah King, moved his family in 1844 to Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., where on April 14, 1847, he died leaving a widow with seven children.
At the age of thirteen David H. entered the employ of a general mer- chant in Cambridge village, where he remained until the spring of 1850, when he went to Newbury, Vt., and entered the employ of F. & H. Keyes, in the same business, but attended school each fall and winter at the Seminary in that village. In 1854-55 he attended school at Fort Plain and Fort Edward. In October, 1855, he took Mr. Greeley's advice and went west, (minus the $300) where he re- mained two years, or until September, 1857, when he came east on a vacation, but never returned, as he yielded to the solicitations of mother and wife and went into the drug trade with his brother the M. D., in which he remained until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when on April 17, 1861, he enlisted and went to the front in Co. "B" 22d Regiment N. Y. S. Vol. Infantry.
In June, 1861, Mr. King was appointed Sergeant and Hospital Steward on the Non-Commissioned Staff of the Colonel, and in June 1863, was mustered out of the United States service with the regi- ment, but having acquired a taste for war and military life he re- entered the service in the 93d Regiment N. Y. Vet. Vol. Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was with his command at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, and assisted in issuing rations to the hungry rebels.
He holds five commissions from the Governor of the Empire State -Second and First Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, Captain and Major.
Since the close of the four years of war he has held many positions of trust, honor or profit, conferred upon him by the government and his fellow citizens. His surviving comrades of the 22d and 93d Regi- ments by unanimous vote made him historian of the Regiments. He has completed the History of the 93d Regiment, and a volume of 620 pages is now in print and for sale, from which he is deriving only moral dividends. He is a thorough and painstaking member of the G. A. R. ; he was the founder and organizer of C. E. Mills Post 491,
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and was for several years its Commander. He has also organized and mustered several other posts; has held the office of Aid-de-Camp on the staff of several Department Commanders and Commanders-in- Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has always been ready and willing to answer the call of needy or sick comrades and neigh- bors.
He became an Odd Fellow in 1858 and a Mason in 1860. He has held by vote of his brethren every office in the Lodge, and has served two terms as District Deputy Grand Master of the 13th Masonic Dis- trict of New York.
When able to be about he is always to be found at the meetings of his Post and Lodge, and practices Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty.
EDWIN MORTON KING, M. D., was born December 13, 1860, in Fort Edward, N. Y., attended public school, and graduated at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, studied medicine and surgery at the Medical College in Burlington, Vt., graduating with honor, and was the vale- dictorian of his class; took a post-graduate course in Albany Medical College and began the practice of his profession, but his health fail- ing he engaged with Parke, Davis & Co., manufacturing chemists of Detroit, Mich., and was located at Baltimore, Md., at which place he died January 17, 1893, just as he had entered upon the threshold of a useful life.
He left one son, E. Tallmadge King.
GEORGE J. WEBB, son of William M. and Amanda M. (Barrett) Webb, was born in Waterloo, Seneca County, N. Y., in 1861. In 1868 his parents moved to Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., and he received his early education at the public schools in that place. In 1876 he accepted a position in a grocery store in Hudson, Mich., where he remained three years. Upon his return to the east he estab- lished a general merchandise store in Salem, N. Y., which he con- ducted for four years. He then entered the hardware business, accepting a position in a wholesale hardware house, and again moving west where he had charge of the agencies of his firm in Iowa and
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Dakota. Soon after his return east in 1888 he went into partnership with his brother-in-law, F. L. Weir, and established a meat and grocery business in Salem, N. Y., which he conducted until 1895, when he was appointed Postmaster of Salem, which position he held until 1899.
He is Secretary of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the F. & A. M., Lodge 396, and a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 45. He was married in 1887 to Emma J. Maxam and has four children, all sons, Harold, Leo, Fred and Earl.
HON. WILLIAM R. HOBBIE .- The subject of this biography was born in Waldo County, Me., December 22, 1848. He received his prelim- inary education at the Cleveland High School, graduating in 1864, and then took a course in Amherst College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1869. After graduating he accepted the management of the A. J. Johnson publications, he having charge of the business for the states of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. He con- tinued in this position until 1872, when he organized the Phoenix Paper Company, with Mills at Battenville. This company was a part- nership between Mr. Hobbie and H. L. Morey, which continued until 1896. In 1897 the company was incorporated under the name of The Phoenix Paper Company. The product at first was straw paper, but the manufacture is now entirely tissue paper The officers of the company are William R. Hobbie, President, and H. L. Morey, Secre- tary and Treasurer.
Mr. Hobbie is well known throughout the state as an ardent Repub- lican, and he has always been active in furthering the interests of his party. In 1889 and 1890 he was Supervisor for the town of Green- wich, and in 1892 he was elected Member of Assembly for Washing- ton County. He was re-elected in 1893 and also represented the county again in 1896 and 1897. In 1894 he was Chairman of the Com- mittee on Insurance; in 1896 was Chairman of the Committee on State Prisons, and in 1897 was Chairman of the Fish and Game Com- mittee.
Mr. Hobbie takes an active part in church affairs and is a warden of St. Paul's Episcopal church at Greenwich and has held the office
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for thirteen years. He is also a Trustee of the Methodist church at Battenville. He is a member of the Order of American Mechanics, Philip Schuyler Council, No. 11, and is a prominent figure in this great and intelligent association of men.
On June 2, 1880, William R. Hobbie married Phæbe, daughter of Roswell P. and Caroline (Smith) Walsh of Battenville. Roswell P. Walsh was a Lieutenant in the War of the Rebellion and received his death wound at the battle of Drury's Bluff.
Mr. Hobbie's family consists of three children, namely: Phoebe Elizabeth, born July 12, 1881; Edward Walsh, born March 15, 1884, and Marion, born August 23, 1888.
The first representative of the Hobbie family in this country was William Hobbie, who was born in 1634. He settled in Boston and was one of the first merchants there, and was a warden in the first Episcopal church erected in Boston. (King's Chapel.)
William R. Hobbie's father was William Henry Hobbie, a prominent educator of Maine. He went to Cleveland in 1860, and was engaged there as a teacher for a number of years, afterwards becoming asso- ciated with A. J. Johnson in the publication of his standard works. His wife (mother of Hon. William R. Hobbie) was Sarah Chase Gilkey.
In business, politics and socially, Mr. Hobbie stands high through a long career of usefulness, success, and the maintenance of an exalted standard of integrity and honor
GEORGE HOLLEY was born in the town of Kingsbury, Washington County, N. Y., August 18, 1840, and has pursued the occupation of farming all his life. He takes an active interest in the affairs of his town, and has been School Trustee and Pathmaster. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
On February 22, 1866, Mr. Holley married Mary E. Vaughn, and they have a family of two children, namely: Lillian, wife of Fred Bancrof, and Daniel G., who married Lavanchie Fisher.
Mr. Holley's parents were Daniel and Arasliah (Vaughn) Holley. His ancestors on his father's side settled in the town of Hartford, and his ancestors on his mother's side came from Rhode Island and settled in the town of Kingsbury.
HON. G. R. MARTINE, M. D.
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HON. GODFREY R. MARTINF, M. D., Glens Falls, N. Y .- James J. Martine, father of the subject of the following sketch, removed from Troy, to Glens Falls, Warren County, N. Y., in the spring of 18.45, and shortly after to the adjoining town of Caldwell in said county, where he purchased a tract of 400 acres of land. He was well known as a man of scholarly attainments in his day and generation ; lived a long and busy life, passing away in 1888 at the ripe old age of eighty- nine years. His son, the Hon. Godfrey R. Martine, was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1837. and accompanied his father to Warren County when eight years of age. He received his first scholastic training in Troy, N. Y., afterward in the Warrensburgh Academy, where, among his instructors, was Gen. O. E. Babcock, who in later years became General Grant's secretary. He pursued the classical course under the direction of Rev. R. C. Clapp of Chester, who was then considered one of the most competent teachers of the classics in Northern New York.
He then took a course in the State Normal School at Albany, N. Y .. receiving a teacher's state certificate. For some time afterward he was engaged in teaching, during a portion of that time was, for sey- eral terms, principal of Warrensburgh Academy. He had, however, a natural taste for the study of medecine, and entering the medical department of the University of Vermont, graduated from that insti- tution in 1862. He at once entered into active practice at Warrens- burgh, and later at Johnsburgh, where he practiced his profession until he removed to Glens Falls in 1882. In 1869 Dr. Martine was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Woodward Macdonald, a lady of marked intellectuality and refinement, the only surviving daughter of the late Charles Macdonald of Warrensburgh, and a niecc of the late Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, G. C. B., D. C. L., L. L. D. They have one son, Byron A. Martine, born in Glens Falls, N. Y., in 1883.
In politics Dr. Martine has been a pronounced Democrat, believing that this party more nearly represented the true interests of the great mass of the people. From 1866 to 1870 he represented Johnsburgh in the Board of Supervisors, and in 1879 was elected a member of the New York Assembly from a strong Republican county. In the halls of legislation he was, as elsewhere, a gentleman of pronounced ability, honesty of purpose and enthusiastic in his support of what- ever he considered best for his constituents. Among other beneficial
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