Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 74

Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 538

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Having prospered in his business affairs, Mr. Holdridge purchased in 1907 his present beautiful residence on Main street, the Hague homestead, where he and his family are com- fortably domiciled. He is one of the most prominent citizens in this place, and is a Re- publican in politics. It was his desire to serve in the civil war, and at the age of fifteen he left home to enlist, being, however, rejected

at Albany, New York, on account of his youth. He holds membership in Port Leyden Lodge, F. and A. M., where he was first made a Mason. On March 21, 1869, Mr. Holdridge was married, at Port Leyden, New York, to Miss Harriet Amelia Kellogg, a native of that town, where she was born on August 20, 1851, daughter of Hial Handy and Mary Silvina Kellogg (see Kellogg). Her education was received in the schools of Port Leyden and at Boonville high school, and she is eminently fitted for the prominent position which she occupies in the community. As a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and the vari- ous societies connected with it, she has exer- cised a great influence for good ; and is a most influential member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, of which body in Tidi- oute she has been president for the past ten years. She has served one year as county president of the same, and is a very active worker in the cause of temperance. Mr. and Mrs. Holdridge are the parents of the follow- ing children : 1. Franklin L. (q. v.). 2. Mary Emma, born May 8, 1875, at Port Leyden ; marricd George W. Denham; no children. 3. Bessie Esther, born September 4, 1878, at Port Leyden ; married Frank L. Downing, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work ; chil- dren : Vera, Herold and Harriet E. Downing. 4. Ruey Kellogg, born January 16, 1885, at Port Leyden ; married Gaylord Allen. 5. Ed- gar Leroy, born October 28, 1890, at Kinzua, Pennsylvania.

(The Kellogg Line).

Every tradition in this family points to a British origin, there being extant a number of legends as to the derivation of the name and the ancient home of the first progenitors. Hon. Day Otis Kellogg, formerly U. S. Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, one of the best known col- lectors of Kellogg history and traditions, enters an able argument for their Scottish origin, claiming that the family were partisans of James VI. of Scotland, and accompanied him to England when he ascended the English throne as James I. From England the first ancestors of the family in America probably came to this country in the seventeenth cen- tury. The same authority for this theory sug- gests also that the name Kellogg was originally derived from the two Gaelic words "kill," a cemetery, and "loch," a lake; the meaning being, the "family of the lake cemetery."

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Nicholas Kellogg, the first of the family whose name is found in the public records of England, was born about 1488, as shown by his deposition in 1548. He married Florence, daughter of William Hall, of Debden, Essex county, England. He was buried May 17, 1558; and his wife, November 8, 1571. As the names of his children are not mentioned in his will, their names are not all known. The manorial court rolls indicate that he had at least two sons, William and Thomas.

Thomas Kellogg, son of Nicholas and Flor- ence (Hall) Kellogg, resided in Debden, in- heriting his mother's estate and owning much property. He was at Debden in 1571, as he succeeded his mother in the ownership of what was in the possession of her husband, Nicholas Kellogg. Tradition says that he married, and it is supposed that Philip Kellogg was his son, as no other family of this name was resident at that time in this part of England.

Philip Kellogg, probable son of Thomas Kel- logg, was the first of the name in England from whom the Kelloggs of the New World can with any certainty trace their descent. He first appears in Bocking, Essex parish, adjoin- ing Braintree, when his son Thomas was bap- tized, September 15, 1583. Other records of baptism are those of Robert, 1585, and Mar- tin, November 23, 1595; there is burial record of daughter Annis, in Great Lights, May 25, 16II.

Martin Kellogg, son of Philip Kellogg, was baptized November 23, 1595, and married in St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford, county Hert- ford, October 22, 1621, to Prudence Bird ; she died before May 20, 1671, as her name does not appear in the will. Martin Kellogg died in Braintree, England, some time between May 20, 1671, when his will was made, and September 20 of the same year, when it was approved. By trade he was a weaver of cloth. Children, mentioned in will: Sarah; Joseph, mentioned further ; Daniel; Samuel; Nathan- iel ; Martin.

(I) Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg, son of Mar- tin and Prudence (Bird) Kellogg, was bap- tized at Great Lights, England, on April I, 1626. He was the first member of the family to come to America, though the exact date of his arrival is not known. He was in Farming- ton, Connecticut, however, as early as 1651, being one of the early settlers there, and select- man. He and his wife joined the church Octo- ber 9, 1653; the children named in his will

were John, Martin, Edward, Joanna, Stephen, Elizabeth, Abigail, Prudence, Ebenezer, Na- thaniel and Joseph. These probably survived him. He married (first) probably in Eng- land, Joanna - -, who died in Hadley, Mas- sachusetts, September 14, 1666; he married (second) Abigail Terry, born in Windsor, Connecticut, September 21, 1646, daughter of Stephen Terry, who was born at Stockton, Wiltshire, England, on August 25, 1608. Lieu- tenant Kellogg died some time between June 27, 1707, when his will was dated, and Octo- ber 31, 1726, when it was approved. Chil- dren, by first wife: Elizabeth, born 1651 ; Jo- seph, 1653; Nathaniel, 1654; John, mentioned further ; Martin, born 1658; Edward, 1660; Samuel. 1662; Joanna, 1664; Sarah, 1666. Children, by second wife : Stephen, born 1668; Nathaniel, 1669; Abigail, 1671; Elizabeth, 1673; Prudence, 1675; Ebenezer, 1677; Jona- than, 1679; Daniel, 1682, died young : Joseph, born 1684; Daniel, 1686, died young; Eph- raim, born 1687.

(II) John, son of Joseph and Joanna Kel- logg, was born in 1656, and baptized December 29 of the same year, at Farmington, Connec- ticut. His name appears in a list of those owning large estates in Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1720. He married (first) December 23, 1680, Sarah Moody, born 1660, died 1690. Children : Sarah, born 1682; John, born 1684, died 1691; Joseph, born 1685; Samuel, men- tioned further; son, born 1689, died in in- fancy. John Kellogg married (second) Ruth ; children : Ruth, born 1693; Joanna, 1694; Esther, 1696; Abigail, 1697 ; John, 1699. (III) Samuel, son of John and Sarah (Moody) Kellogg, was born April 1, 1687, at Hadley, died May 27, 1761, and is buried at Westfield, Massachusetts, where his gravestone is still standing. He owned several hundred acres of land, and built a saw mill and a grist mill; also the second meeting house, in 1721. He was known as Captain Samuel Kellogg; married (first) July, 1714, his cousin, Mary Ashley, born March 12, 1694, died April 8, 1728; married (second) June 3, 1728, his

cousin, Rachel Ashley, born February 14, 1695. Children, by first wife: Josiah, born 1715; Samuel, 1717; David, 1721 ; Seth, 1723; twin daughters, 1724, died same day; son, 1725; John, mentioned further. Children by second wife: Justus, born 1729; Mary, 1730; Shem, 1732 ; Sarah, 1734.

(IV) Captain John (2) Kellogg, son of

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Captain Samuel and Mary (Ashley ) Kellogg, was born July 5, 1727; he resided in West- field. In 1764 he built a house which was con- sidered the best in the place, and cut a tomb in the solid rock, over which a church was subsequently erected. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, enlisting April 6, 1759, and serving under General Amherst until December 3 of the same year. He was also a soldier in the revolution, serving on the Lexington alarm at the defense of the town and harbor of Boston and at the capture of Dorchester Heights. He was captain in Colo- nel Leonard's regiment "to go to Ticonderoga," in 1777. He married (first) (published Sep- tember 15, 1750) Anne Terry, born August 17, 1732, died October 5, 1764; married (sec- ond) (published September 21, 1766) Anna Lord, born about 1725, died September 2, 1781 ; married (third) July 7, 1791, widow Jemima Ward. Children by first wife: Ann, born 1751; Lovisa, 1753: Josiah, mentioned further ; Bassorah, 1757; Lucy, 1759; Aaron, 1762 ; daughter, 1764, died same day, and was buried with her mother.

(V) Josiah Kellogg, son of Captain John (2) and Anne (Terry) Kellogg, was born May 31, 1755, died January 30, 1814. He resided in Westfield. Married, May 31, 1780, Lois Day, born in Springfield. Children, born in West- field : Lucy, 1782; John, 1784, died 1785 ; John, born 1786; Pamelia, 1788; Silas, mentioned further ; Polly, 1792; Henry, 1794; Arminta, 1799; Collins, 1802.

(VI) Silas, son of Josiah and Lois (Day) Kellogg, was born February 10, 1791, in West- field, Massachusetts. In 1823 he removed to Hopewell, New York, and thence in May, 1825, to Port Leyden, New York, where he died April 9. 1876. He married, October 24, 1816, Julia Loomis, born August 6, 1793, daughter of Jonah Loomis, of Westfield; she died in March, 1878. Children : Silas Frank- lin, born 1817; Julia Ann, 1819, died 1833; Lucy, 1821, died 1844 ; Henry, 1823, died 1847; Sophia, 1824, died 1855; Marietta, 1826, died 1845: Enos Emery, born 1828: Hial Handy, mentioned further; Clarissa. 1832; Amanda, 1834, died 1837.

(VII) Hial Handy, son of Silas and Julia (Loomis) Kellogg, was born August 20, 1829, in Lewis county, New York. He was a farmer, owning a farm of one hundred acres at Port Leyden. He became a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church and was a great

advocate of temperance, being active in the cause of the organization of Good Templars. He was a Republican. On October 17, 1850, he married Mary Silvina, born October 7, 1833, daughter of Solomon and Harriet (Pinney) Tyler. Solomon Tyler was born April 10, 1808, at Port Leyden, and his wife was born March 4, 1811, at Westerlo, New York. Chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, all born at Port Leyden: 1. Harriet Amelia, August 20, 1851 ; married Orry Husted Holdridge (see Hold- ridge). 2. Henry Franklinton, born April 13, 1855, died December 21, 1860. 3. Elmer Er- win, born October 31, 1862 ; married Elizabeth (Libbie) Jordan. 4. Lillian May, born Janu- ary 26, 1871. 5. Herbert L., residing in Ilion, New York.

(III) Franklin Loren Hold- HOLDRIDGE ridge, son of Orry Husted Holdridge (q. v.) and Har-

riet Amelia (Kellogg) Holdridge, and grand- son of Perry and Betsey (Husted) Holdridge, was born November 19, 1870, at Port.Leyden, Lewis county, New York. He was educated in the public schools of Port Leyden, and pass- ed the first eighteen years of his life in that town. He then came to Warren county, Penn- sylvania, and was employed for a year in a furniture factory in Kinzua, and then removed to Utica, New York, where he remained for a short while ultimately returning to Warren county and resuming his employment in the factory, in the veneer department. Later on he was made foreman of this department, hav- ing completely mastered the business, and, coming to Tidioute, became associated with the Simmons & Holdridge Company as one of the partners. For thirteen years he was foreman of the glue and veneer department of this company, being in charge of the purchasing for the department and having complete over- sight. In February, 1910, Mr. Holdridge sold out his interest in the business, and has given his time subsequently to the promoting of his own invention, the F. L. Holdridge Milk Can Lock. He has inherited to the full his father's mechanical ingenuity and inventive genius, and bids fair to make a great success of his inven- tion.

In October, 1912, Mr. Holdridge received the appointment of demonstrator and inspector from the Division of Zoology of the Pennsyl- vania State Department of Agriculture. He is a prominent and active member of the Re-

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publican party, and greatly interested in the welfare of the community in which he resides and the country at large, having shown his patriotism in the good service which he ren- dered in the borough council. He is distin- guished also in Masonic circles, having been made a Mason in North Star Lodge, No. 241, F. and A. M .; he is now a member of Temple Lodge, No. 412, F. and A. M., of Tidioute, and a member of the Lodge of Perfection, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Mr. Holdridge has also been active in the religious affairs of the community, being a member of the First Eng- lish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Warren, in which he has served as superintendent and librarian of the Sunday school. On September 30, 1896, he was married to Miss Viola Muckle, a daughter of Henry L. and Savilla (Hoover) Muckle, the family being an old one and of Scotch descent. According to tradition the name was originally "McMuckle," or "Muckle- heany."

Henry L. Muckle is a son of Benjamin Muckle and his wife, who are buried at Eph- ratah, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He is a cigarmaker by trade, and is now living at Mill Creek, in Huntingdon county, having had at one time a factory of his own in Lancaster county, at Bellville, where he resided for some time. He was also a resident of Evansville, Pennsylvania, where he was an engineer, re- moving to Mill Creek about seventeen years ago and being subsequently employed for a number of years as a night watchman. He was a soldier of the civil war, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife was Miss Savilla Hoover, and they had the following children : Amanda, married William Benner ; Ella, married John Leiby ; Viola, mar- ried Franklin L. Holdridge, as previously men- tioned; Laura, married Claude McDonald ;' Austin C., married May Heading; Adam C., unmarried; Emory, married Verna Hohn ; Beulah, married Oscar Spece.

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin L. Holdridge are the parents of two children : Vivian Bonetta, born December 5, 1898, in Warren, Pennsylvania ; Frederick Burnham, born June 16, 1900, at Tidioute.

Adnah Neyhart, one of the NEYHART most prominent and success- ful of the old time oil men of the Allegheny Valley, was a native of New York state, having been born at Lansing,

Tompkins county, December 20, 1836. He came to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, in 1865, being then a young man of nearly thirty years of age, and having by unfortunate investments in the oil regions lost heavily. Being possessed of an unusual amount of business sagacity, self-reliance and enterprise, he proceeded at once to build up his fallen fortunes and turn his former defeat into a complete and well sus- tained financial victory. He associated him- self with Joshua Pierce, of Philadelphia, in the oil producing firm of Pierce & Neyhart, which became well known throughout the petroleum world, being pioneers in the busi- ness of transporting oil in tank cars. Build- ing a number of large iron tanks in which to store their own production during the low prices of 1866, at which time they owned a number of immense wells, they afterwards gave up operating and confined themselves wholly to the shipping business. Mr. Ney- hart remained in the oil regions, while Mr. Pierce attended to the business of the firm in the east. This association lasted until about 1870, when the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Neyhart continued to carry on operations independently. He became one of the largest and most successful oil producers in the coun- try, applying himself to business with unremit- ting zeal and exercising a wisdom and fore- sight in his dealings which earned for him a wide-spread reputation throughout these re- gions. He became closely associated with the three Grandin brothers, whose sister he mar- ried, and continued operations with them char- acterized by an unusual degree of mutual profit and esteem. Their confidence in the moral and business integrity of one another was so com- plete that little attention was given to record- ing travel expenses when any member of the partnership was abroad in the interests of the work. The close application which Mr. Ney- hart gave to the business, however, gradually undermined his health and compelled him to abandon his personal activities and seek rest and recuperation in a different climate. He removed with his family to California, con- tinuing to direct all important movements by letter and telegram from that place. His enterprising spirit would not allow him to be idle, and he engaged in gold mining, purchased a gold mine, and set up the requisite machin- ery, meeting with his usual success, when he was stricken down by death. He died at San Diego, California, February 17, 1875, and was

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buried at Tidioute, under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a worthy member. His religious affiliations were with the Presbyterian church, and his personal char- acter was such as to worthily uphold its teach- ings and tenets in the community in which the most important part of his life was passed. By his own industrious hands, vigorous intel- lect, and honest principles, he achieved a worldly success that is meted out to but few men who begin life with no other capital save a strong personal character.

On September 17, 1868, Mr. Neyhart was married, at Tidioute, to Miss Maria Jane Grandin, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ann (Henry) Grandin, and sister of the three oil merchants with whom Mr. Neyhart was in business association; further information in regard to this family will be found in the sketch of William J. Grandin, elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Neyhart were the parents of the following children : 1. Emma G., born June 22, 1871, at Tidioute ; married Howard Couse, and resides in Cleveland. Ohio, having one daughter, Margaret, born November 15, 1900. 2. Adnah, born December 31, 1872, at Tidioute ; married Grace G. Ste- phenson, and resides at Framingham, Massa- chusetts ; they have two children : Ruth, born November 7, 1896; and Dorothy, born July 11, 1900.

YOUNIE The first member of this family to come to Warren county, was James Younie, born in Scotland, where he married and in the spring of 1834, came to the United States, settling in Sugar- grove township, Pennsylvania. He there pur- chased one hundred acres, the property now owned by Fremont Ellis, on which part of the village of Sugargrove is built. Later Mr. Younie purchased one hundred acres of the old Robert Falconer estate of William Fal- coner ; the original purchase of this land by Robert Falconer was from the Holland Land Company. Mr. Younie was a member of the Presbyterian church as was his wife. He was a Whig in politics, later a Republican, serving the town as road commissioner. He died in Sugargrove aged sixty-nine years. He mar- ried in Scotland, Margaret, daughter of John and Christie Stuart, a relative of Robert Fal- coner. Children : Christie, born on shipboard, while crossing the Atlantic, married Frank

Miller ; William Alexander, of whom further ; Margaret, born October 13, 1838, died 1908, married Joseph Langdon; James, a cavalry- man of the civil war, died in Washington, D. C., 1862; John, born September 23, 1844, now of Sugargrove, engaged in the meat business, married (first) Julia Green, (second) Elva Ricker : Eliza, born June 1, 1846, widow of James C. Hamilton, resides in Sugargrove, and has child, Margaret.

(II) William Alexander, son of James Younie, the emigrant, was born in Sugargrove township, Warren county, September 27, 1836. and attended the public schools of Sugargrove where his boyhood and early life was spent at the home farm. He enlisted in 1864 in Company G, 211th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving nine months, until the close of the war, receiving honorable dis- charge at Harrisburg, where his regiment was mustered out. He returned to Sugargrove and resumed farming, continuing until the oil ex- citement drew him to Pithole, Pennsylvania, where for two years he conducted a meat mar- ket. He next entered partnership with Will- iam Weld, built a saw mill and began lumber- ing in Warren county. After one year he bought Mr. Weld's interest, continuing the lumber business alone for several years. He then purchased the one hundred acre farm first owned by his father and lived there until the purchase of his present farm, known as the old Robert Gray farm, where he now resides. He is a Democrat in politics and has served as road commissioner and constable. He is a member of the Masonic order.

He married (first ) Florence E., daughter of Robert M. and Hannah (Weld) Gray. She was born March 8, 1847, died December 8, 1891. He married (second) Della Page, born 1857, died 1897, daughter of Richard and Mary Adeline ( Holmes) Page. Children of first marriage: 1. Nellie, resides with her father. 2. Jessie, married, January 30, 1909, Marion L. Daniels. 3. Florence, married Will- iam P. Thorpe, September, 1902, and has chil- dren : Bertrice and William. Children of sec- ond marriage: 4. William Page, born March 12, 1887, now living at Dewey, Oklahoma, in the oil business ; married Mabel Welch, April, 1007 ; children : Gerald A. and Isabel. 5. Ger- ald William, born February 27, 1889, now a farmer in Sugargrove and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; married Matilda Soderholm; child, William.

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WHELOK 1285

The Wheelock family of WHEELOCK Warren county, Pennsyl- vania, are the direct de- scendants of Ralph Wheelock, a Puritan, who was a descendant of Hugh de Wheelock, in the reign of Henry II. The name appears as early as about 1200, sometimes as de Quelok, de Whelok, Whelok, and laterly Wheelock. The Wheelock family has been prominent for sev- eral hundred years. In the early days there was a marriage between the Wheelocks and Leversages, and the two families have been associated with the village of Wheelock, in England, from ancient times. The Wheelock coat-of-arms was adopted in 1285, and is de- scribed : Argent chevrons between three Cath- erine wheels, when the name was Whelok, a cut of which accompanies this sketch.

(I) Ralph Wheelock, above referred to, was born in Shropshire, England, in 1600, in the town of parish of Wheelock. He was edu- cated at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, graduated in 1626, taking his master degree in 1631. He was a relative, perhaps a brother, of Abraham Wheelock, who was the professor of Arabic at Cambridge and later the librarian. He held title to the village of Wheelock. Cheshire county, England. He was ordained

in the Church of England, but became a Puri- tan soon after leaving college and joined the ranks of the non-conformists. He doubtless suffered much in the persecutions of the Puri- tans. In 1637, accompanied by his wife and daughter Rebecca, he migrated to New Eng- land, residing first at Watertown, Massachu- setts, and later removing to Dedham, Massa- chusetts, being one of the proprietors of Ded- ham in 1638-39. His house lot was the first cne granted in the town, at the corner of Main and North streets, and contained twelve acres of land. He served as a selectman, 1651-55, for several years was deputy to general court, taught the first public school there, was ap- pointed by the general court a commissioner to end small causes, the local magistrate, and was appointed to join persons in marriage. He was one of the founders of the church of Ded- ham, learned, devout, unselfish, and practical. He built a house in Dedham in 1652, 011 the north side of Main street, and became one of the founders of Medfield, an adjoining town, in 1649, and removed there a few years later, continuing his career of usefulness and promi- nence. He was one of the signers of the famous Dedham Covenant, July, 1637, his being the tenth name on the list of one hun- dred. This instrument was the constitution of that body of settlers, first colony laws; known as the Body of Liberties, 1641. He was also on the committee to collect funds for Harvard College. He died in November, 1683. His children were: Rebecca, Gershome, Eleasor, Benjamin (of whom further), Samuel, Rec- ord, Experience, Mary, and Peregrine.

(II) Benjamin, born in Dedham in 1639-40, was the first Wheelock born in America, son of Ralph Wheelock, married, and his children were: David (of whom further), Jonathan, Paul, and Silas.

(III) David, son of Benjamin Wheelock, married Lydia White, and reared a family, among whom was Abner, of whom further.

(IV) Abner, son of David Wheelock, was born June 19, 1747, and died May 11, 1831, aged eighty-four years. He was one of the first settlers of Charlton, Massachusetts, and marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, serv- ing in the revolutionary war. He married Mary Blanchard, born March 30, 1754. His children were: Rachel, Lucy, Daniel, Esther, Calvin, Betsy, and Abner (2), of whom fur- ther.

(V) Abner (2), son of Abner (I) Wheelock,

D.f.awheelock MAJOR. 16TH. PA. INF. RETIRED.

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Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 74

Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 Publication date: 1913 Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 538

Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 538