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Child of James Mitchell and Ana (or Anna) ( Mackenzie) Sloan: James Mackenzie, born in Duke Center, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1891 : now a student in the forestry department of the University of Toronto.
This name is also found as WAGNER Waggoner and Wagoner even in the same family. The branch herein recorded ยท descends from the German emigrant, John Wagoner, who first settled in Connecticut, where he married, later going to Central New York, and ending his days in Schenectady. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, serving at the battle of Sackett's Harbor and on the Niagara frontier. He was a farmer and lived on land leased from the Van Rens-
selaer estate. He was one of their tenants during the anti-rent war in New York state, and was a witness if not a participant in some of the armed conflicts incident to that period. He was an active member of the German Methodist church, and a man of strong charac- ter. At one period of his life he lived and farmed in Allegany county, New York. He had four sons and two daughters. The sec- ond generation spelled the name Waggoner.
(II) John Henry Waggoner, son of John Wagoner, was born either in Caroline or Dry- den, Tompkins county, New York, in 1800, and died in 1857. He followed farming all his active life, which was spent in western New York. When a boy he worked on a Van Rens- selaer farm, and witnessed the Case land riot. He was a Whig in politics, and a Methodist class leader. . He married (first) Mary Grout ; (second) Elizabeth Unsauzant; (third) Elea- nor Sears, born on the Genesee river, at Oramel, New York, in 1810, died 1896, daugh- ter of Nehemiah Sears, born in 1755, came with Colonel Gail Brooks Cole to Oramel when a young man, married a widow Hoffman, of Connecticut, and settled on a farm, where he died in 1852. Children of John Henry Wag- goner by first wife: Henry and Hannah, both deceased. Children by second wife: John James, Sarah Jane and Martha Elizabeth, all deceased. Children by third wife: Frank, born October 14. 1840, died in Minnesota, Jan- uary, 1907, married Alice Repenbark ; Charles, born March 6, 1842, died 1908, married Lu- cinda Dake, deceased, leaving children: John Henry, now of Buffalo, New York, and Miles, now of Oramel, New York; Martin Ward, of further mention ; Clark W., born September, 1845, died 1853; George E., born September IO, 1846, died August 20, 1909, married Martha Smith, and left children: Lena, now of Wellsville, New York, and Clark, of Chi- cago, Illinois.
(III) Martin Ward Wagner (as he spelled the name), son of John Henry and Eleanor (Sears) Waggoner, was born in Oramel, Alle- gany county, New York, November 28, 1843. He attended the public schools, and early in life learned the trade of carriage-maker, which he followed until 1860. He was then seven- teen years of age and started out to fight life's battle with little equipment beyond his trade and a sturdy, well-developed body. In 1861 he was at Oil City, Pennsylvania, engaged in oil production. In 1866 he was at Bradford,
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Pennsylvania, and for a number of years was engaged in farming at Custer City, Mckean county, Pennsylvania. Later he settled in Bradford, Pennsylvania, where in 1876 he built the Wagner Opera House, a house of en- tertainment that he personally managed until 1903. In 1879 he so enlarged, beautified and improved the opera house that it was consid- ered one of the best houses for dramatic and operatic purposes in the state. During these years he became associated with Moses Reis, forming the partnership of Wagner & Reis. They gradually extended their operations until they had a circuit of playhouses in western and central Pennsylvania and western New York. They were a successful theatrical firm, and continued together until 1903, when Mr. Wag- ner disposed of the greater part of his interest in the firm, retaining only the theater at Olean, New York, which he still owns. Since 1903 he has been engaged in farming, and a real estate business assisted by his sons Fred and Charles A. In 1882 Mr. Wagner purchased the Moses farm at Limestone, New York, on which in 1875 the first oil well was drilled in the Tuna Valley by William Barnsdall, father of T. N. Barnsdall, of Pittsburgh, and yet known as the "Moses well." During these years Mr. Wagner has had other and varied interests, being a man of great energy, initia- tive and clear foresight. He is a Republican, and as the candidate of that party has twice been elected to represent his ward in the Brad- ford city council. He is very prominent in various fraternal circles, a member of Brad- ford Lodge, No. 334, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar ; Ismailia Temple, Buffalo, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; past master, charter member and first secretary of Brad- ford Knights of Pythias; first master of Grange, No. 1182, New York State Patrons of Husbandry, an office he still holds. His clubs are the Merchants' and Country of Bradford, having been a governor and chairman of the house committee of the latter.
Mr. Wagner married, April 28, 1869, Mary Dette Frank, born in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York, January 3, 1850. She is a member of the Universalist church of Brad- ford, the Woman's Literary Club and the Country Club. Children: 1. Frank Martin, born in Bradford, September 28, 1871, died August 21, 1908; married Lillian Johnson ; no
children. 2. Maud Eleanor, born in Bradford, October 18, 1874, died 1875. 3. Fred Ward, born in Bradford, December 7, 1876; gradu- ated from Bucknell Academy, 1893, and Buck- nell College, 1897; is associated in business with his father; married, November 4, 1910. Effie Eaton, born November 14, 1876; one child : Effie Eaton, born December 7, 1911. 4. Charles Augustus, born in Bradford, January 17, 1880; associated in business with his father ; married, April 6, 1902, Gertrude Mar- garet Lindsay; no children. 5. Mary Isabel, born in Bradford, October 18, 1882, died Feb- ruary 21, 1884. 6. Harry W., born in Brad- ford, August 29, 1882, died January 25, 1883. .
(The Frank Line).
There were two distinct families bearing the name Frank, both coming from Germany and both came to Frankfort, New York, from Pennsylvania, just before the revolution. There is no evidence that they were related prior to intermarriage. Henry Frank and his brother Christopher emigrated from Germany to America before the "Old French War." They landed at Philadelphia and remained in the state of Pennsylvania for a number of years, then settled on the Mohawk river at Frankfort, Herkimer county, New York. Henry Frank's sons, Henry, Laurence and Jacob, were killed in the revolutionary war. His daughters were Eva and Mary, twins, and Margaret. Eva married John Frank, son of Stephen, who was the head of the second Frank family indicated above. During the French war the wife and children of Henry Frank were captured by Indians, taken to near Montreal, but the twin sisters at least were re- turned, perhaps all.
Second family: Stephen Frank emigrated from Germany to America about 1750. The place of his first settlement is not known, but is believed to have been Pennsylvania. He set- tled at Frankfort, Herkimer county, New York, before the revolution.
(II) John, son of Stephen Frank, was born in Germany about 1763, and settled with his father at Frankfort, New York, where he died November 5, 1853. He, with Lau- rence, Eva and Mary Frank, children of Henry Frank, of previous mention, were cap- tured in the "Old French War" by the French and Indians on the Mohawk, and taken pris- oners to Canada, where they were kept several years among the Indians before they were
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ransomed. John Frank was again taken pris- oner in the revolutionary war. At Oneida Lake the first night after his capture he es- caped and by the aid of friendly Indians among the Oneidas reached in safety his home at German Flats on the Mohawk. In 1817 John Frank with Stephen, his son, and his family and his wife's maiden sister moved down the Ohio river, and stopped at Galliopo- lis, Ohio, where John (1) Frank died. The others proceeded to Columbus, Indiana, where the maiden aunt died. Stephen Frank with two of his sons went with a flat-bottomed boat loaded with produce to New Orleans, and on his return died on the Mississippi and was buried on the shore. His brother, John (2) Frank, went to Indiana and brought his mother back, who died at his house many years after at an advanced age. Mary Frank, the maiden sister, on her return from captivity among the Indians, had forgotten her mother tongue and was taken from the Indians much against her will. Thus it will be seen the Franks suffered greatly from the indians dur- ing their life on the Mohawk.
John Frank married Eva, twin sister of Mary Frank of previous mention, and with her shared the Indian captivities. They were both daughters of Henry Frank, of previous mention. Three of her brothers were killed in the revolutionary war, and if suffering for one's country be patriotism, then was she the greatest of patriots. She accompanied her husband down the Ohio until death took him, then went with her son Stephen (2) to In- diana, later returning to Herkimer county with her son John (2). Children: 1. Stephen (2), married Margaret, daughter of Laurence (I) Frank; children: Nicholas, Matthew, Polly, Stephen D., Hiram Ava, Solomon, Elizabeth, Jacob and Joseph, twins. 2. Nicholas, of fur- ther mention. 3. John (2), married Eliza- beth Diefendorf, of German Flats, New York; children : Abraham, John D., died young; Margaret, Harriet, Perry, Christina and Eliza- beth. All the children of John (2) were liv- ing at Frank's settlement in 1859.
(III) Nicholas, second son of John (1) Frank, was born at Frankfort, Herkimer county, New York, died in the town of Busti, Chautauqua county, New York. Members of the' Frank family settled in Busti, John (2) leaving a statement in his own handwriting that he came there February I, 1812, that his brother Nicholas came in 1816, and that his
brother Stephen left Busti in 1807 and died at Fort Pekin, Tennessee, on the Mississippi river, on his return from New Orleans. Nicho- las was a farmer of Busti for the remainder of his life. He married Thankful Landon. Chil- dren: William, of further mention; Andrew, Stephen, David and Mary.
(IV) William, son of Nicholas Frank, born in Herkimer county, settled in Busti, Chautau- qua county, New York, where he died. He was a farmer of Busti, and formed a part of the influential colony of that name. He mar- ried (first) Ursula Bushnell ; children : Darius, of further mention ; Emma Dette, married Syl- vester Abbott; Nicholas, died aged seventeen years. He married (second) Christiana Diefen- dorf ; child: John D.
(V) Darius, son of William Frank, was born in the town of Busti, Chautauqua county, New York, June 1, 1824, died in Bradford, Pennsylvania, 1879. He married Arvilla Maria Watkins, born at Locke, Cayuga county, New York, December 14, 1825, died at Brad- ford, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1899. Children : 1. Derenzel Jefferson, born April 5, 1845, at Busti, New York, died February 18, 1867, married Abbie Hanson and left a daughter Gertrude, born at Bradford, March 1I, 1866. 2. Mary Dette, married Martin Ward Wagner (see Wagner III). Arvilla Maria Watkins, wife of Darius Frank was the daughter of Thomas J. Watkins, born at Milton, Cayuga county, New York, May 23, 1801, died May 16, 1847. He married Mary Austin, born at Cambridge, Washington county, New York, April 3, 1801, died 1830. Children : 1. Volney, born at Dryden, Tompkins county, New York, February 17, 1829, died August 6, 1854. 2. Arvilla Maria, married Darius Frank, men- tioned above.
JAYNES The Jaynes trace their ancestry to Henry DeJeanne, a graduate of Oxford in 1611, later a lec- turer on theology and divinity at the same university.
(II) William, son of Henry DeJeanne, was born in Bristol, England, January 25, 1618. He entered Oxford, but in 1639 was expelled under the decree of uniformity, which required all students of the university to subscribe to all the articles of the Westminster creed. Will- iam dissented from several of them and after his expulsion became chaplain in Cromwell's army. After the restoration of Charles II.
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William DeJeanne sought safety in flight, changing his name to Jayne and securing pas- sage on a vessel bound for America. He landed at New Haven, Connecticut, remaining there until after his marriage. He then joined a party of ten others, crossed the sound to Long Island, where they purchased from the Nas- sau Indians the tract of land on which the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk county, now stands. He was one of the original trustees of the village, serving until 1709, when he was succeeded by his eldest son, William (2). He married Anna Briggs, reared a family of six sons and three daughters, and died March 24, 1714.
(III) William (2), son of William (1) Jayne, was born 1678. He was a resident of the town of ' Brookhaven, Long Island, suc- ceeding his father as trustee in 1709. He mar- ried and left issue.
(IV) William (3), son of William (2) Jayne, was born 1712. He resided on Long Island at Brookhaven ; married and had sons : Timothy, of whom further; John, Isaac and Ebenezer.
(V) Captain Timothy Jayne, son of Will- iam (3) Jayne, was born 1741, died 1790. He held a captain's commission in the continental army, as did his brother Captain John Jayne. Timothy was captain of the famous Jayne company, of which his brother Isaac was lieu- tenant. and his brother Ebenezer ensign. At the battle of Long Island this company was captured by the British, confined on the prison ship "Jersey," but fifteen of them surviving their incarceration. The parole ticket given to the last survivor was issued to Samuel Jayne, September 1, 1778, and bears the auto- graph signature of William Tryon, governor. Captain Timothy Jayne married and had sons : David, William, John and Timothy, of whom further. They all settled in Pennsylvania, the first three in what is now Wyoming county.
(VI) Timothy (2), son of Captain Timothy (1) Jayne, was born September 4, 1777, and was thirteen years of age when his father died. After reaching manhood he came to Pennsyl- vania, settling at Saltsburg, Indiana county. He married Isabelle Trimble, and left issue.
(VII) William (4) Jaynes (as he spelled the name). eldest son of Timothy (2) Jayne, was born December 15, 1803, died at Salts- burg, Pennsylvania, December 1I, 1862. He was a man of education and ability, devoting
his energy mainly to selling goods and travel- ing as agent. For many years he was travel- ing agent for Dr. David Jayne and his then famous remedies. He resided in Saltsburg until his death. He was a Whig in politics and strongly opposed to human slavery. He married, May 1, 1827, Margaret Henderson, who died at Saltsburg, five years after her hus- band. They were both members of the Bap- tist church. Children: I. Lovinia, married Samuel Anderson, deceased, a one-time sheriff of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania ; children : Miles, a deputy sheriff of Jefferson county ; Annie, Harry and Melissa. 2. Joseph Wallace, of whom further. 3. Caroline, died unmarried. 4. Julia, died in Sistersville, West Virginia ; married Abner Cason, a farmer of the old homestead, died 1911; children: Ma- tilda, deceased; Charles O., Frank M. and William. 5. Timothy, a veteran of the civil war, serving from Pennsylvania; now living in Oklahoma.
(VIII) Joseph Wallace, son of William (4) and Margaret (Henderson) Jaynes, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, November 23, 1829, died in Bradford, August 24, 1882. He was educated and grew to manhood in his native county, choosing the trade of black- smith, serving a regular apprenticeship, and following that trade as a business all his active years in different parts of Pennsylvania. He was a resident of Bradford for many years, and at the time of his death was a member of the poor board. During the civil war he was in the employ of the government as a blacksmith, working at the arsenal in Pitts- burgh. He was a Republican in politics and with his wife was a member of the Baptist church. He married, April 28, 1852, in West- moreland county, Melvina Larimer, born in Pennsylvania, September 28, 1828, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1908, daughter of James, son of William Larimer. James Larimer was a merchant and justice of the peace for many years, being known far and near as "Squire" Larimer. He died at Grapeville, Westmoreland county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1854: he married Delitha Bigelow, born in New York state in 1805, died in Der- rick City, Pennsylvania, 1888, daughter of Dr. Lebeus Bigelow, a well-known physician of Westmoreland county. Children of James and Delitha Larimer : 1. Melvina, of previous mention. 2. Lizzie, born 1830, died unmarried.
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3. Terissa, born 1832, married Thompson England, a farmer; moved to. Nebraska, where she now lives near Lincoln, a widow; children : Laura, Samuel, George, Emma and James. 4. Sarah. 5. Milton. 6. Alice. All three latter died in Grapeville in 1854, unmar- ried. 7. Alvira, born 1846; married George WV. Baldwin, a farmer of Washington county, Pennsylvania. Children : i. Jonathan, married Vesta Bane, of Washington county, and now resides at Pleasant Grove, Pennsylvania ; children : Oliver, Mary, Gladys, George, Mil- ton and others. ii. Lizzie, unmarried, resides in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Chil- dren of Joseph Wallace and Melvina (Lari- mer ) Jaynes: I. Delithia Alice, born in West- moreland county, March 19, 1853, died Feb- ruary 2, 1854. 2. James Milton, of whom further. 3. Lizzie Alphina, born March 18, 1858, died at Gilmore, Pennsylvania, Febru- ary 6, 1904. 4. Willie, died June 18, 1862, four months old.
(IX) James Milton, eldest soir and second child of Joseph: Wallace Jaynes, was born in Adamsburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsyl- vania, November 12, 1854. In 1855 his par- ents moved to Pleasant Grove, Pennsylvania, and in 1866 to Vineland, New Jersey, where he received his public school education, finish- ing at Beaver Seminary, Beaver, Pennsylvania. After leaving school he entered the oil fields in Butler county, coming to Bradford in 1879, which has since been his home and place of business, excepting three years, 1905 to 1908, spent in Washington, Pennsylvania, and the few years he was engaged in merchandising. He followed the oil strikes in various capaci- ties until 1888, then became a producer, con- tinning successfully until he had acquired suf- ficient capital to engage in mercantile business. He had a general store at Summit City, which he sold at a profit, reopening in the same line at Gilmore, Pennsylvania. He continued there until 1904, then sold and the same year established a general insurance business in Bradford. He has also important holdings of oil and bank stock and real estate. He is a Republican in politics, a member of Tuna Lodge, No. 411, Independent Order of Odd Fellows: Fosterbrook Lodge, No. 1I, Knights of Pythias, and the National Protective Le- gion, No. 266, of which he is secretary. Mr. Jaynes is unmarried.
Members of the family of HATFIELD Hatfield were early settlers in Massachusetts and Connecti- cut. The first record of this branch is of Mat- thias and Thomas Hatfield, the former a settler at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, the latter at Mamaroneck, New York. They were supposed to be sons of Thomas Hatfield, of Leyden, Holland, a native of Yorkshire, England, and a member of Rev. John Robinson's church at Leyden, Holland. Matthias Hatfield came from New Haven, Connecticut, where he took the oath of fidelity, May 1, 1660, to Elizabeth- town, where in the record of surveys, August 29, 1676, his name is spelled Hatfield. He signed his will "Hattfield." He was a weaver and landowner of considerable means. He died in December, 1687, his wife Maria, born in Holland, surviving him with sons Abraham, Isaac and Cornelius. Thomas Hatfield, brother of Matthias, settled in Mamaroneck about the same time the latter settled in Eliza- bethtown. Descendants of both settled in the Hudson river counties of New York, and trom them spring the many families of the name in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The records fail to show the connection be- tween these early emigrants and Gilbert Hat- field, of White Plains, New York. The family in the early generations were farmers and boatmen and usually men of means and influ- ence.
(I) Gilbert Hatfield was born in White Plains, New York. His occupation was that of farmer, which he followed all his life in the town of his birth. His political party was the Whig. He married Martha Townsend, born at Harts Corners, New York, near the hill which was the scene of General Putnam's famous ride. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. She survived him several years and died at White Plains, New York, over seventy years of age. Chil- dren, all born at White Plains: I. Daniel, of whom further. 2. Rederick, a mechanic, born 1809: married and had two children, both de- ceased; Mary Eliza and Ann Rederick. 3. Benjamin, born 1811, died 1871, a farmer ; married and had children: Edgar and Leon- ard, deceased; Mary Elizabeth, married John Crafts, a broker and lives in Buffalo. 4. Ed- ward, a farmer, died in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania ; married (first) Clarissa ------ , and
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had several children, among them Rederick ; married (second) - -, and had one child, Edward, who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. 5. Ann, died in Peekskill, New York; married Steven Shelley, a farmer, died in Peekskill, New York ; children : Teressa, Jane, Ann, Matilda, Maria, Elizabeth, Henry, Ezra, Enos, George, who lives in Port Chester, New York; Isaac, and four others. 6. Jane, died in New York. 7. Margaret, died in White Plains, New York; married Isaac Wooster, died same place; had three daughters. 8. Mary, died in Wellsville, New York ; married Joseph Fields, deceased, a farmer of Port Chester. 9. Elizabeth, died in White Plains, New York.
(II) Daniel, son of Gilbert and Martha (Townsend) Hatfield, was born in White Plains, Westchester county, New York, De- cember 7, 1807, died in Bradford, Pennsyl- vania, June 21, 1885. He obtained his educa- tion in the public schools of his home town and when a young man learned the ship car- penter's trade, which he followed all his life. In politics he was a Republican and in relig- ion a Methodist. He married Annie Bailey, born at Mount Pleasant, New York, March 18, 1806, died in Bradford, Pennsylvania, De- cember 18, 1878. She was a member of the Society of Friends and daughter of Elihu Bailey, a farmer of Mount Pleasant, where he died 1847; he married Catherine
whose death occurred only a few weeks after his, and had five children. Children of Daniel and Annie (Bailey) Hatfield: 1. Catherine Griffin, born in Mount Pleasant, New York, December 26, 1836; married Dennis Hess, of Herkimer county, New York, a lumber con- tractor, born in February, 1828, died October 4, 1865. Children : i. Frank, a gas and steam- fitter of New York City, born July 24, 1854; married Mary Hanley, born in New York City ; children : Annie, Mary, Edward, Flor- ence, Francis. ii. Catherine, born September 7, 1856, died November 14, 1861. iii. Annie, born December 18, 1859, married Henry Bel- ton, deceased, a miner and native of England. iv. Roswell, born November 16, 1863, died in 1864. v. Child, died in infancy. 2. Samuel, an oil-well operator, born in Mount Pleasant, New York, December 16, 1838, died in Der- rick City, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1906; married Mary McMurray, a native of Scot- land, now living in Derrick City, Pennsylvania. Children : Nellie, lives in Lima, Ohio; Belle,
a resident of Titusville, Pennsylvania ; Guy, resides in Los Angeles, California; Harry, lives in Lima, Ohio; Roy, a resident of New- ark, New Jersey ; Murray, lives in California ; Ray, lives in Kane, Pennsylvania; Griffin, lives in Olean, New York; Ann, lives in Wat- kins Glen, New York; Catherine, a resident of Derrick City, Pennsylvania ; Daniel, deceased. 3. Griffin, of whom further. 4. Mary Jane, born in New York City, June 23, 1842, died there 1847. 5. Isabelle, born in New York City, March 7, 1848, married Charles Roth- well, deceased, a groceryman.
(III) Griffin, son of Daniel and Annie (Bailey) Hatfield, was born in Mount Pleas- ant, Westchester county, New York, Septem- ber 24, 1840. Here he lived until he was five years of age, when his parents moved to New York City. His public education was obtained in New York City, Buffalo and Great Valley, New York, after which he attended Chamber- lain Institute at Randolph, remaining there un- til 1860, and completing his education in a private Friends' school in New York City. He began his business life in the employ of the Bay State Lumber Company in 1862. In 1864, he established in the grocery business at Hol- yoke, Massachusetts, remaining there until 1867, when he moved to New York City, con- tinuing in the same line. Bradford obtained one of its best citizens and business men when he came there in 1877 and became identified with A. B. Smith & Company, a relation he has continued, both as stockholder and as an official for twenty years. For the past fifteen years he has been engaged in oil producing, remarkable success attending all his operations. In religion he is a member af the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics a Republican, having held the office of school director for twenty-one years, and was supervisor and auditor for six years. He married in Decem- ber, 1875, Addie Clark, born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, in August, 1846, daughter of David Clark, a farmer, born in Massachusetts, February 7, 1811, died in Bradford, September 15, 1890; married Mary McKean, born at Black Creek, New York, 1821, died in Brad- ford, January 15, 1892; their children were: I. Edwin F., born January 5, 1843, died in Bradford, Pennsylvania, January 1I, 1903; married Flora Marsh; children : Russell, born January 2, 1879, married Gene Patterson; Harry, born February 9, 1883. 2. Almira, married George Lawrence, lives in West Vir-
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