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She married, October 14, 1847, William Brooke Chapman, born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 1826, died in Bradford, Pennsyl- vania, October 27, 1895 ; son of Daniel Chap- man, born 1796, a shoemaker, served in the war of 1812, receiving a wound at the battle of Lundy's Lane, died in Bradford, May 22, 1882, a son of a revolutionary sire. Daniel Chapman married Margaret Burt, who died in Conneaut. Children : 1. Uriah, born January 1, 1825, married Rebecca Forsythe ; children : Asa, Hannah, B-, William, Catherine, Uriah, Roxy, Daniel, Rebecca, Mary, Isaac and twins Jacob and Olive. 2. William Brooke, see forward. 3. Mary Ann, born Oc- tober 21, 1828. 4. John Reed, June 14, 1829. 5. Louisa, October 23, 1831. 6. Jane S., Oc- tober 3, 1833, now living in Conneaut, Ohio, a widow ; married James Guthrie. 7. Hannah, born July 5, 1835. 8. Rebecca, October 12, 1841. 9. Thomas Corwin, born November 12, 1844, married and with his wife resides in California. Thomas C. and Jane S. are the only living children of this family. In 1888 eight of them met, the youngest then being fifty-six years old, and had a family picture taken.
William Brooke Chapman was of English and French descent. He grew to manhood and was educated in Ashtabula county, Ohio, graduating from the Conneaut Academy in 1846. He at once began the study of law in the office of General Brewster Randall, at Conneaut ; was married in 1847, and in Feb- rnary, 1852, at Columbus, Ohio, was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Ohio, hav- ing previously been admitted to the Ashtabula county bar. He at once began the practice of his profession, and was becoming well estab- lished when the war between the states broke out. He did not hesitate when duty called, and in July, 1861, enlisted in the Second Ohio Light Artillery. He was chosen first lieuten- ant of his battery and won a promotion to cap-
tain. He was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge. which so incapacitated him for further duty that he resigned his commission, received honorable discharge and returned to Conneaut. He there resumed legal practice, continuing until 1873, when he moved to Erie, Pennsyl- vania, and in 1877 located in Bradford. Here his talents as an attorney and counsellor brought him quick recognition, and he built up a large, lucrative practice of the best class. He was learned in the law, skillful in its applica- tion and thoroughly honorable in all his deal- ings. He was originally a Whig, but later a Republican and an active worker in the party. He was an ardent advocate of the cause of temperance, but opposed to making it the basis of a third party movement. He belonged to the Masonic order, affiliating with both blue lodge and chapter. Children of Captain Will- iam Brooke and Cynthia (Olds) Chapman, all born in Conneaut, Ohio: I. Sarah Margaret, born June 8, 1849; married in Conneaut, Sep- tember 28, 1870, Charles Haywood, whom she survives. He was a harness-maker, but during the last twenty years of his life was cashier of a Conneaut bank. Children: I. Clara, born June 28, 1877 ; Edna, March 16, 1880. 2. Phoebe Ellen, born August 13, 1851 ; married Novem- ber 15, 1876, at Erie, Pennsylvania, Stephen A. Holbrook (see Holbrook). 3. Henry Will- iam, bern April 6, 1854; married in New York City, December 5, 1889, Louisa Dillon; no issue. They reside in New York City, Mr. Chapman having, for a number of years, trav- eled for the firm of Mills & Gibbs, corner of Broadway and Grand street, New York City. 4. John Burtt, born June 29, 1856, now a prac- ticing lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio, but resides in Northfield, Ohio; married in Cleveland, Ohio, October 20, 1880, Nellie Stanley, of Ohio; children : Hazel, May and Henry Stanley, a traveling salesman. 5. Will B., born February 8, 1866, now a practicing lawyer with office in Pittsburgh; lives in Crafton, Pennsylvania. He married in Buffalo, New York, November 25, 1896, Margaret Kennedy ; children: Mar- garet, born September 25, 1897 ; William Ken- nedy, January 20, 191I.
(II) Edmund (2),
FREEMAN-EVANS eldest son of Ed- mund (I) Free- man (q. v.), the emigrant, was born in England, died March 29, 1673. He resided in Sandwich and for seven years represented that town in
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the general court. He married (first) Rebecca, daughter of Governor Thomas Prence, by his first wife, Patience Brewster, daughter of Elder William Brewster, of "The Mayflower." Children: Rebecca, Margaret, Edmund, of whom further; Alice, Rachel, Sarah and Deb- orah.
(III) Edmund (3), son of Edmund (2) Freeman, was born October 5, 1655, died May 18, 1720. He married Sarah , men- tioned in his will. Children, all born in Sand- wich: Edmund, of whom further; Benjamin, Mary, John, Thomas, Joseph, William, Sarah, Isaac.
(IV) Edmund (4), son of Edmund (3) Freeman, was born August 30, 1683, died June I, 1766. He moved from Sandwich to the state of Connecticut, settling in Mansfield, where he died. He married Kezia Pressbury, who died in Mansfield, April 20, 1764, aged seventy-seven years. Children : Edmund, died young; Lydia, married Benjamin Nye; Ed- mund, of whom further; Prence, married (first) Ruth Hall, (second) Elizabeth Stetson, (third) Rebecca Johnston; Stephen, married Hannah Jenkins; Silvanus, married Mary Dunham; Nathaniel, married Martha Dun- ham; Keziah, married (first) Snow. (second) Shaw; Sarah, married Mal- achi Conant; Deborah, married Zachariah Paddock; Skeefe, married Anna Sargeant ; Thomas, died young; Abigail, married Will- iam Johnson ; Margaret, died young.
(V) Edmund (5), son of Edmund (4) Freeman, was born in Sandwich, Massachu- setts, September 30, 1711. He graduated from Harvard College in 1733, taught school, and in 1741 or 1742 moved to Mansfield, Connecti- cut. He married, August 7, 1736, Martha Otis. Children: Edmund, of whom further ; Nathaniel, died young; Nathaniel, twice mar- ried; Abigail, married Aaron Harvey; Jona- than, married Sarah Huntington; Otis, mar- ried Ruth Ricknell; Russell, married Abia Denkee; Moody, married Kezia Freeman ; Frederick, married (first) Abigail Thompson, (second) Abigail Dimmick; Martha, married Roger Harvey.
(VI) Edmund (6), son of Edmund (5) Freeman, was born in 1737 in Dennis, Massa- chusetts, removed to Mansfield, Connecticut, thence to Hanover, New Hampshire. He was first known as "Captain," then "Colonel" Free- man, and commanded a company in the revo- lution. He died in Lebanon, New Hampshire,
August 6, 1813. He married (first) Sarah Porter, died September 13, 1777, (second) Mrs. Theoda (Porter) Esterbrook, widow of John Esterbrook, of Lebanon. Children, first five by first wife: Sarah, married Daniel Wright; Edmund, of whom further; Otis, married Theoda Capron; Nathaniel, married Martha Hall; John Porter, married (first) Martha Larkins, (second) Rachel R. Nye; Theoda, born April 4, 1779, died unmarried ; Joseph, married (first) Nancy Estabrook, (second) Sally Hopkins; Luther, married (first) Roxanna Spence, and a second and third wife.
(VII) Edmund (7), son of Edmund (6) Freeman, was born in Connecticut, August 29, 1764. He moved to New Hampshire and to Hartland, Vermont ; was captain in the war of 1812 and major of militia. He married Zilpah Poole. Children: Edmund, of whom further ; Zilpah, died August, 1813; Sarah, married Rev. Jacob Scales; John, Elizabeth, married - Parmalee; Theoda, Otis, Lou- isa, Russell.
(VIII) Edmund (8), son of Edmund (7) Freeman, was born in Vermont, January 13, 1793, died in Custer City, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1853. After his marriage he settled in Mckean county, Pennsylvania, where he followed agriculture. He married, February 14, 1822, Elizabeth Chadwick, of New Jersey, born April 21. 1799, died July 1, 1882, daugh- ter of Elihu Chadwick, a revolutionary soldier of early New England and English ancestry. Children : 1. Edmund Allen, born March 16, 1823, died unmarried, February 18, 1840, at Custer City. 2. William Chadwick, of whom further. 3. Sabra Calista, born January 15, 1827, died July 5, 1865, unmarried. 4. Dr. Silvanus D., born January 29, 1829, died Au- gust 9, 1894 ; he was a graduate of the medical department of the University of Buffalo, 1856, and began the practice of medicine in Smith- port, Pennsylvania, continuing until the civil war, when he went to the front as surgeon of the Pennsylvania "Bucktails," Forty-second Regiment, Colonel Kane; in October, 1862, surgeon to the United States Volunteers, con- tinuing until the war closed ; he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, and resumed practice until the Mexican trouble of 1876, when he was sent to Mexico as correspondent for the committee on foreign relations ; on returning he again took up his profession, practicing until his death; he stood high in the profession, was a member of the county, state and national medi-
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cal societies, prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, and a thirty-second degree Ma- son ; he married, January 24, 1855, Lucretia A. Reisdorph, now deceased; three children : i. Kate, married Frank Taylor, of Smithport ; child : Bessie, married Dr. Hamilton ; ii. Ella, married H. C. Wells ; iii. Bessie Kane, deceased. 5. Mary Jeffrey, born March 7, 1831, died at Custer City, January, 1840. 6. Melinda Corbit, born March 18, 1833, married, April 30, 1856, Maynard Inglesby, a farmer at Minard Run, Pennsylvania ; child, Maynard Jr. 7. Francis Hallock, born December 6, 1836, died June 14, 1908 ; he was a blacksmith and served through- ont the entire civil war in a Pennsylvania regi- ment, working at his trade; he married, June 14, 1876, Liza Augusta Wood, who survives him, living in Michigan. 8. Mary Elizabeth, born May 13, 1840, deceased; married David Brown, of Custer City, Pennsylvania, a miller, who survives her, and with son Miles, resides in Minard Run.
(IX) William Chadwick, son of Edmund (8) Freeman, was born in Custer City, Mc- Kean county, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1824, died on his farm there, June 24, 1855. He was educated in the public school, and on finishing his studies at once began farming, a business he followed without interruption all his active life. He owned a good farm on which his daughter, Effie E., now resides. He was a member and trustee of the United Brethren church, and a Republican. He married, June 24, 1855, Mary Catherine Hammond, born in Herkimer county, New York, June 18, 1829, died in Custer City, December 10, 1811, daughter of Simon Hammond, who came to Custer City when a boy and spent his life on the farm that he inherited from his father, dying at Degolia, 1871. He married Harriet Frazee, who died in Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1886. Their children : I. Cyrus, died at Bo- livia, McKean county, Pennsylvania. 2. Elea- sor, died in Ohio. 3. Mary Catherine, of pre- vious mention. 4. Henry, a veteran of the civil war (Pennsylvania Bucktails), now living in Los Angeles, California. 5. Cynthia, resid- ing in Vermillion, South Dakota. 6. Susan, died at Lewis Run, Pennsylvania. 7. Hannah, died young. Children of William Chadwick Freeman: 1. Effie Evangeline, of whom fur- ther. 2. William Henry, born in Custer City, October 30, 1858; a merchant of Emporium, Cameron county, Pennsylvania ; he married Rose Russell, of Emporium, Pennsylvania ;
children : Floyd, born in Sherman, New York ; Russell, in Emporium.
(X) Effie Evangeline, only daughter of William Chadwick Freeman, was born in Bradford township (now Custer City), August 13, 1856. . She received a public school educa- tion. She is a member of the United Brethren church of Custer City. She married, Septem- ber 9, 1880, Thomas Eugene Evans, of Welsh and New England ancestry, born in West Val- ley, Cattaraugus county, New York, March 8, 1854, son of Benjamin Evans, born in Massa- chusetts, January 1, 1814, took up a farm in Cattaraugus county at an early date and died there March 19, 1884. He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, March 4, 1844, Sarah Conrad, born April 1, 1826, near Syracuse, New York, died at Phoenix, New York, June 13, 1885. Their children : 1. Benjamin Frank- lin, born February 26, 1845, died in Ashford, New York, June 18, 1871, unmarried. 2. Je- rome D., born November 21, 1851, married Chloe Proctor, born July 4, 1878, deceased. 3. Thomas Eugene, of further mention. 4. Mary Evangeline, born January 1, 1859, died in the west in 1889; married John Off, born in Germany. 5. Angeline, born January 8, 1862, died January 15, 1874.
Thomas Eugene Evans was educated in the public schools of Ashford, New York, and the United Brethren Seminary at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. He studied with a particular view to the ministry and was regularly or- dained a minister of the United Brethren church. He was pastor of the church of that denomination at Bradford, Pennsylvania, one year ; at Machias, New York, one year ; at Port Allegany, Mckean county, three years ; at El- dred, Mckean county, one year; at Sugar Grove, Warren county, three years ; at Find- lay Lake, New York, one year ; at Degolia, Pennsylvania, three years; at Sartwell Creek, McKean county, three years ; at Farmers' Val- ley, Mckean county, one year ; at Custer City, one year; at Sartwell, New York, one year, and at Diamond, Venango county, three years. At all these charges he served his people ac- ceptably and left behind him a record of faith- ful and Christian effort. In 1893 he was com- pelled by circumstances to abandon regular ministerial work to take charge of the old homestead farm of his father-in-law, Will- iam Chadwick Freeman, which he has since conducted, and on which the family now re-
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sides. Mr. Evans is also engaged in photo- graphic work. Child of Thomas E. and Effie E. (Freeman) Evans, Bessie May, born Feb- ruary 13, 1889, residing with her parents.
The Chatley family was
CHATLEY founded in the United States by Francis Chatley, of Scotch- Irish descent, born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1764, and died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He emigrated to America, settling in Beaver county, and becoming a member of the Disciples of Christ. In Ireland he had been a Covenanter, and extremely active in religious circles. He married, in Ireland, Rebecca Spear, who was born in Ireland, and died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1843, aged seventy-seven years. Children, all born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania : 1. Polly, born in 1799, died in Mercer county ; married James Steen, a farmer, who was killed by a bolt of
lightning; children: Joseph and Frank, both deceased. 2. Samuel, born in 1801, died in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, a farmer ; mar- ried Catherine Carr, who died in Mercer county ; children: i. John, living in Mercer county ; ii. Jane, living in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; iii. Francis, deceased; iv. Grif- fifth, living in Mercer county ; v. Catherine. 3. Andrew, born in 1803, and died in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, a farmer ; married Ruth Robbins, from Mercer county, where she died. Children : Milton, Ireneus, Usiverus, Irene, Clara, Jerome, Lucinda and Mary. 4. Eliza- beth, born in 1805, died in the west ; married John Campbell, a farmer, from Beaver county ; children : Ross, a daughter, Frank, died while in army service; Samuel, deceased ; John, deceased; James, living in Arkansas. 5. Jane, born in 1807, died in Mercer county, Pennsylvania ; married William Andrews, a native of Ireland, who died in Mercer county, Pennsylvania ; children : Mary and Frank, both living in Mercer county, and a daughter. 6. Martha, born in 1809, died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania ; married Joseph Clintock, from Beaver county, where he died. 7. John, of whom further. 8. Abijah, born in 1813, died in Beaver county; married and had two chil- dren: Milton, a minister in Ravenna, Ohio, and a son. 9. Nancy, born in 1815, died while young, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
(II) John, son of Francis and Rebecca (Spear) Chatley, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1811, and died in
Mercer county, May, 1887. He obtained his education in the public schools of his native county, also graduating from the academy there. He purchased a farm near Milledge- ville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, which he operated with much success until his death. He and his wife belonged to the Disciples of Christ church. He married Catherine Eleanor Bowman, who was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1817, and died near Milledgeville, Mercer county, April 24, 1860, daughter of Alexander Bowman, born in Ve- nango county, Pennsylvania, in 1791, died in Illinois in 1885. He married Sarah Crane, who died in Venango county in 1840. Chil- dren of Alexander Bowman, all born in Ve- nango county, and went west: I. Harvey, de- ceased ; a farmer ; married and had children. 2. Steven, deceased; a farmer ; married and had children. 3. Hiram, deceased. 4. Catherine Eleanor, mentioned above, married John Chatley. 5. Alexander, married and had sev- eral children.
Children of John and Catherine Eleanor (Bowman) Chatley, all born near Milledge- ville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania: I. Alex- ander, born in February, 1842, an oil well worker in Kane, Pennsylvania ; married Ella , a school teacher in Forest county, Pennsylvania ; she was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania; child: Mary, born in March, 1890. 2. Cyrus, born in February, 1844, a school teacher and farmer ; married (first) Re- becca May, deceased, from Crawford county, and had one child, who died young; married (second) Mary Hibbard, from Crawford county, Pennsylvania. 3. Homer, of whom further. 4. Addison, born in March, 1848; married, in 1876, Sarah Burch, from Erie county, Pennsylvania; children: Stella, born in 1877, living in Erie; Bertha, born in 1879, living in California. 5. Adoniram, born in September, 1850, a lumberman; married Eva Seaman, from Mercer county; children : Charles, living in Alabama; and a daughter. 6. Adeline, born in April. 1853; married David Bortz, a farmer of Mercer county; child, Clyde, born in 1884, in Mercer county, where he is a farmer. 7. Caroline, a twin of Ade- line; married Walter Davis, from Mercer county, an employe in the steel plant at Ens- ley, Alabama. 8. Albert, born in October, 1855, a school teacher, died in Sioux City, in 1892. 9. Charles, born in April, 1860, an em- ploye in the Ensley, Alabama, steel plant ; mar-
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ried Mary Walker, from Erie county, Penn- sylvania ; children, both living in Ensley, Ala- bama : Addison, and another son.
(III) Homer, son of John and Catherine Eleanor (Bowman) Chatley, was born near Milledgeville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1846. Here he obtained a public school education and later graduated from the Normal School at Edinboro, Pennsylvania, following after his graduation the profession for which that fitted him, teaching. He was a teacher at the following places at different periods from 1866 to 1879: Deer Creek town- ship, Shakleyville, Borough New Lebanon ; North East township, Hickory township, French Creek and Belles Camp. After thir- teen years as a school teacher he retired from the profession and has since engaged in oil producing in Sawyer City, Pennsylvania, until 1887, and in Bradford, Pennsylvania, from that date up to the present time (1912). He has been successful, both as a teacher and in business, and is an honored, respected member of the community. With his wife he is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, and is a Re- publican in politics. Both in Sawyer City and in Bradford he has been a member of the Re- publican town committee, a position he now holds in the fourth ward, also serving on the election board. He is a member of Brad- ford Post, No. 141, Grand Army of the Re- public, of which he is past junior vice-com- mander. He married, May 18, 1888, Martha J. Alexander; she was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1856, daughter of Watson Stewart Alexander, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1824, and died January 1, 1879. He was edu- cated in the public schools; became a carpen- ter and finisher, later a farmer and was a mem- ber of the Democratic party. He was twice drafted for service during the civil war, but exempted each time. He married Elizabeth Brown, born in Franklin county, March II. 1818, she died there April 9, 1882, daughter of Joseph Brown, born in Germany, 1800, died in Franklin county, 1871. Watson Stewart Alexander was a son of George Alexander, who was born in Franklin county, and died there in 1860; he married Nancy Stewart, of Franklin county, whom he survived. George Alexander was a son of Randall Alexander. Children of George Alexander : I. Randall, a farmer, died in Burnt Cabins, Fulton county, Pennsylvania; married Martha Kuntzman,
from Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; she died in Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania ; children : Ra- chel, Catherine, George, William, Mary, Mar- garet, Nancy, Martha, Matthew C., John, Rose and Sarah. 2. Martha, died in Dry Run, Pennsylvania; married Samuel Elder, a car- penter and cabinet-maker from Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he died ; children : Nancy, Elizabeth, Ford, Robert. 3. Margaret, died in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. 4. Watson Stewart, mentioned above. 5. Robert, a farmer, died on the homestead in Franklin county ; married Mary Taylor, from Doyles- town, Pennsylvania, living in Spring Run, Pennsylvania ; children : Clara, Emma, Frank and Etta. Children of Joseph Brown, all born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, probably not in order of birth: 1. Maria, died in Franklin county; married Amos Shear, deceased; a farmer ; children : a son, Joseph Brown, died in army service; McGinly, Amanda, Montgom- ery, Susanna, Lucinda, William West. 2. John, deceased. 3. Joseph, a farmer, died in Ohio; married Martha Shear, deceased; chil- dren : Sarah, Jane, Ida, Catherine, Angusta, Elmer and Clara. 4. Elizabeth, mentioned above, married Watson Stewart Alexander. 5. Annie, died in Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; married William Ellicott, a storekeeper from Franklin county, where he died; children : Wilson, Joseph, Jennie, Frank and Belle. 6. Amos, a farmer, died in Knox county, Illinois ; married Mary Ryan, from Franklin county, and had twelve sons. 7. William, a farmer ; married, and died in Illinois; children: Mar- tin, John, Elmer and William. 8. David, a farmer, died in the west; married Margaret Stewart, from Franklin county; all children deceased with the exception of Susanna, who lives in the west. 9. Susanna, died in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, 1903, aged seventy- three years; married John Crouse, from Franklin county, where he died on his farm; children : Mary, William, Emma, Ida, Carrie, Sadie. 10. Rebecca, died in Franklin county ; married George Neal, a farmer, from the same county, where he died; children, both farmers of Franklin county : John and Will- iam. Children of Watson Stewart and Eliza- beth (Brown) Alexander: I. Joseph Brown, born in Franklin county, December 18, 1848, a merchant and farmer of Dry Run, Pennsyl- vania ; married Paulina Gamble, from Frank- lin county, Pennsylvania ; children : Elizabeth, lives in Dry Run, Pennsylvania; Matthew
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Gamble, lives in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania ; Jessie, lives in Maryland; Mary and Frances, living in Dry Run, Pennsylvania ; Clarence, lives in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania; Watson Irving, Glenn and Lois, live in Dry Run, Pennsylvania ; Randall Pomeroy, deceased. 2. Nancy Elizabeth, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1851 ; married Clement McDonald, an oil-well worker in Findlay, Ohio; children: Joseph, born 1874, lives in Rudolph, Ohio; Nora and Nancy, both de- ceased; Frances Josephine, married McDowell, and lives on a farm in Findlay, Ohio. 3. Mary Susanna, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1853; mar- ried John Mowers, from Mowersville, Penn- sylvania. a coachmaker, and lives at Clear Ridge, Fulton county, Pennsylvania. 4. Martha Jane, mentioned above, married Homer Chat- ley. 5. John Shear, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 23, 1858, an oil-well worker in Findlay, Ohio; married Belle Ev- erett, from Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; child: Ethel, deceased. 6. James Kirkpatrick, a farmer at Bear Lake, Michigan; married Catherine Brown, from Mount Gilead, Ohio, died in 1910.
Children of Homer and Martha Jane (Alex- ander) Chatley: I. John Alexander, born in Sawyer City, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1889, an employe of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- burgh railroad in Bradford, Pennsylvania ; married, June 21, 1911, Ruth Sliger, born in Paulding, Ohio, December 28, 1892. 2. Albert Homer, born in Sawyer City, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1892, employed by the American Express Company in Bradford, Pennsylvania. 3. Rodney Ellsworth, born in Sawyer City, August 10, 1894, a student in Bradford high school. 4. Otho Brown, born in Sawyer City, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1898, attends school in Bradford.
The Backus family is one of BACKUS the oldest families in this coun- try and in England is traced to Egbert, first King of England, from him to Cedric, first king of the West Saxons, and tradition says that Cedric was a lineal descend- ant of Woden (or Odin), who was supposed to be a descendant of the eldest son of Noah. There have been many distinguished men in the American family, including Dr. Charles Backus, a president of Yale; Rev. Dr. A. Backus, a president of Hamilton College, New
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