Herkimer County New York Family Sketches
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Herkimer County New York Family Sketches extracted from the History of Herkimer County, New York, by Hardin, George Anson, 1893
Sardis L. Abbot Family Sketch
Abbot, Sardis L., Litchfield, one of the representative farmers of Litchfield, owns a dairy and grain farm of 120 acres. He was highway commissioner for three years, was three times justice of the peace, and held that office for ten years; he also held the office of assessor for five years. He was born in Cobleskill, Schoharie county, February 19, 1810, and settled in this town April 7, 1834. He married Rebecca Budlong, a native of this town, and born on this farm, where she lived all her life. She was born May 3, 1811, and she died October 3, 1888, leaving one son, Charles F.; she had two children who died: John J., August 21, 1858, and a daughter, Ophelia L. Maltby, who died September 15, 1878, and left three children: Eugene A., Charles W. and Lelia R. Maltby. Charles F., the only son of Sardis L. and Rebecca Abbott, married Alice E. Vincent, and they have four children: Florence A., Charles W., Gordon N. and Robert. Sardis L. Abbott is a son of James P., who was a son of Joseph, a native of Hamden county, Mass. Mrs. Rebecca Abbot was a daughter of John Budlong, a native of this State, and son of Aaron Budlong. The law in early days was that every boy eighteen years old was liable to military duty, consequently Sardis L. Abbott was enrolled, and went into the ranks, from which he rose to the rank of captain, and after serving four or five years he resigned.
William H. Abbott Family Sketch
Abbott, William H., Little Falls, was born in the State of Maine. His earlier years were passed upon a farm, and when about sixteen years of age he learned the photographic business, a business he has since carried on. He, after becoming a skilled artist, traveled for some time and located eventually about thirty-three years ago in Little Falls where he now conducts the leading art studio. He was appointed deputy sheriff under Valentine Brown in 1884 and served under him for three years and in 1392, January 1, he was again appointed deputy sheriff under Sylvester Wilson of Herkimer. He has also been foreman of one of the local fire companies. He married Miss Nancy B. Dygert of Little Falls, and has three children: Two sons and one daughter. Sheriff Abbott is thoroughly identified with local, social and benevolent institutions and has been just at present writing appointed excise commissioner.
J. K. Abrams Family Sketch
Abrams, Professor J. K., principal of the Church Street Union school. Little Falls, was born in the town of Charleston, Montgomery county, N. Y. When nine years old he moved with his parents on a farm near Braman's Corners, Schenectady county, attended the village school and worked on the farm when there was no school. When the Princeton Academy opened he entered that institution as a student; afterward the Charlotte Seminary, where he developed as a mathematician. He began teaching early in the fifties, when it was the ambition of farmers' sons to teach school for $14 per month and board round. Twenty-five years ago he came to Little Falls to assume his present position, and has filled it with ability and success ever since. He is the oldest teacher in the county in point of actual teaching, which amounts to almost forty years. During all these years of teaching Prof. Abrams has been a close student of professional literature, besides covering a wide field of general reading. Prof. Abrams is a descendant of an old and honorable German family that came to America in the seventeenth century. He is a Mason and a member of the Presbyterian church. His people on his mother's side came from Connecticut in 1795, and his father served at Plattsburgh during the war of 1812.
Frank B. Acers Family Sketch
Acers, Frank B., Warren, was born in Warren August 22, 1854, and is a son of William E. and Caroline (Duell) Acers. His grandfather, George Acers, came from Vermont and settled north of Little Lakes. He raised a large family and died September 23, 1830. Willim E. Acers was born in Vermont March 4, 1788, and came to Warren with his parents. He was married three times; first to Atlie Scotf, who bore him eight children, and died April 4, 1825; and he married second Margaret Scott, who bore him one child. His third wife was Caroline (Duell) Wall, the mother of our subject. Frank B. Acers began life for himself at the age of fourteen, working by the month. In 1876 he located where he now lives on 150 acres. He is a breeder of Ayrshire cattle, the only one thus engaged in this section; also of Cotswold sheep, of the Dan McDonald flock, for which McDonald received the first premium at the State Fair. He married June 25, 1875, Josephine, daughter of Lewis and Orpha (Waldron) Staring. They have three children, Carrie L., Grace M. and Kenneth G. He is a Republican, and both he and his wife are active in the Methodist church.
John Abrial Family Sketch
Abrial, John, Little Falls, the foreman of George & Holden's mills, known as the Little Falls Paper Company, is a native of Livingston, Columbia County, N. Y. He has worked successfully in many factories, including Bingham Mills, Glencoe Mills, Livingston, and foreman at Linlithgo. He came to his present position four years ago and three years ago was promoted to the position of foreman. His ancestors were residents of this State for upwards of a century. Mr. Abrial is an expert in all departments of the manufacture, and to his skill and intelligence is due much of the credit for the excellence of the products of these mills.
Charles Aland Family Sketch
Aland, Charles, Frankfort, was born in London, England, in November, 1855. He was one of three children of Henry and Martha Martin Aland. He was educated at Helperton Academy, Wiltshire. He married Annie E. Weaver, of London, and in 1880 came to the United States, locating at Rome, N. Y. Mr. Aland took charge of an iron foundry, where he remained for five years, when became to Frankfort, and was placed in charge of the brass and iron foundry of th« West Shore Railroad shops, where he has since remained.
D. E. Allen Family Sketch
Allen, D. E., German Flats, was born in Mohawk, April 12, 1852, and has been in the furniture business since he was eighteen years of age. In 1886 he married Miss. Blanche Elwood. Mr. Allen is a Mason and a man of high standing socially in Mohawk. His father, Enos Allen, came to Mohawk in 1840 from Connecticut. His grandfather, Delaney Allen, was a native of Connecticut and the family history extends back two hundred years in this country. This well and favorably known furniture business was founded nearly half a century ago by E. Allen, father of the present proprietor. Some twenty years ago Mr. Allen associated with him his son, D. E. Allen, when it was conducted under the firm name of E. Allen & Son, and finally in 1886, at the death of his father, D. E. Allen assumed sole control; and he has fully maintained the high reputation of the house which it has always borne for handling the most reliable goods at the most reasonable prices. The warerooms are comprised in a four story building 22 x 60 feet in dimensions and having a floorage area of 6,000 square feet. D. E. Allen was born in Mohawk and is a gentleman of excellent business standing, enjoying the respect and esteem of the entire community. He is a director of the Mohawk Valley National Bank, the Mohawk Valley Knitting Mills, and the Knitting Company of Mohawk, Limited. He is also the possessor of considerable real estate in the village, and although busily engaged in his enterprise, he still finds time to interest himself in fine Holstein cattle, and has one of the finest dairy farms of 225 acres in this section of the State, with a creamery and cheese factory attached.
George A. Armstrong Family Sketch
Armstrong, George A., Winfield, was born in Otsego county July 14, 1859, a son of Azariah and Hannah Armstrong. He was educated at the Academy of West Winfield. He read with Dr. J. F. Huntley and studied medicine at the University of New York, graduating in 1884. He commenced practice at Elizabeth, N. J.; after that went to Buriington, Otsego county, where he practiced four years; then came to West Winfield and bought out Dr. J. F. Huntley, and has bsen here ever since. He married September 9, 1885, Emma Kate Greene, of Tarrytown, a daughter of Joseph and Hester Greene, and they have three children living. Vera H., and Allan Stone and Kenneth Greene. They have lost one child, Edna Grant, who died September 24, 1891, aged about one year.
Delavan A. Angell Family Sketch
Angell, Delavan A., Winfield, is agent and operator at Cedarville Station, on the Richfield Branch of the D. L. & W. R. R. He was the first station agent there, and had his office in a box car the first summer, that of 1870, when this branch was completed to Richfield Springs. He is a trustee of the Universalist church at Cedarville. He was born where he and his sisters, Amelia D. Angell and Louisa A. Angell, now live, in Chepachet. They have a brother, Charles D. Angell, who has one son, Elon Delavan Angell. They are children of Emer Angell, who was born in New Berlin, Chenango county, and Fidelia A. Payne Angell, who was born in Litchfield, this county, a daughter of Seth Payne, of Rhode Island, and Ruth Lynde, of Massachusetts. Their grandfather, Emer Angell, married Lydia Rice, in 1797, and emigrated from Providence, R. I., to New Berlin, N. Y., as one of the first settlers, journeying by marked trees. He was drafted to serve in the war of 1812.
Harry C. Arnold Family Sketch
Arnold, Harry C, Fairfield, is a representative of one of the oldest and best families. He was born June 12, 1862, on the farm he now owns. He received his education at Fort Plain and Fairfield. His farm consists of 350 acres and a dairy of seventy cows. He is a member of the Grange, and takes an intelligent interest in the affairs of the county. His father, Daniel B. Arnold, died in 1887.
Thomas Arnold Family Sketch
Arnold, Thomas, Russia, was born in Rhode Island in 1820, a son of George, a son of Thomas, who was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1730. He was a farmer and lived and died in his native State. His wife was Hannah Green, a relative of General Green of Revolutionary fame. They had three sons and one daughter. George Arnold was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1777. He was a carpenter and built the court-house at Providence, R. 1. He married Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Randall, and Aunie Spiagiie Randall. She was a daughter of Peter Spragiie, of Cranston, R. I., who was a cousin of Governor Sprague. Mr. Arnold was a colonel in the State militia. He came from Newport in 1821, where he engaged in the manufacture of cotton yarn. In 1823 he removed to Poland, and there manufactured yarn for eight years. He afterwards engaged in buying and gelling cotton until his death in 1871 in Poland, and his wife in 1871. Thomas Arnold came to Herkimer county with his parents when a child, and has resided in Newport and Poland for seventy years. He received a common school education, and was reared on the farm where he now resides. He was for a number of years engaged in buying stock and shipping dressed beef east from Chicago, and was also engaged in the same business at Utica. He is a Republican, and has been justice of the peace for about twenty years. His maternal grandfather was Jonathan Randall, a resident of Cranston, R. I.
W. F. Ashenhurst Family Sketch
Ashenhurst, W. F., Little Falls, is a native of Philadelphia and has always been in the plumbing business. At fifteen years of age he began his trade in New York City, remaining until 1872. He then went to Oswego and after spending seven years in that city, came to Little Falls in October, 1880, and the following March entered into partnership with Mr. McDermot. Mr. Ashenhurst is a thorough business man, of the highest integrity, and to his own abilities and industry he owes the success that he has met with. He is a high degree Mason, being past high priest of the chapter of R. A. M., and also an officer in the Little Falls Commandery of Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, and in politics he is a Republican.
C. A. Barringer Family Sketch
Barringer, C. A., German Flats, was born in Ilion December 31, 1845, and has lived all his life on the farm where he was born. His father was Samuel Barringer, and his grandfather Zachariah Barringer. Our subject owns 135 acres of fine farming land, and his two sisters, Mary and Martha, reside with him.
George P. Bellinger Family Sketch
Bellinger, George P., Danube, was born on the old farm in 1867. He was liberally educated at Fort Plain and at the Clinton Liberal Institute and assisted his father on the. farm until the death of that gentleman, when he succeeded to the property, which occurred on the 2d of Noveuiber. 1888. He married Grace Johnson on the 9th of September, 1891, and they have a daughter, Ruth, born November, 18, 1892. Christian Bellinger, great-grandfather to George P., settled here early in the seventeenth century; his great grandfather, Christian Bellinger, was taken prisoner by the Indians. His father, James Bellinger, lived and died on the old farm. He owns about 125 acres of 6ne dairy land and keeps about forty head of stock.
H. W. Bradley Family Sketch
Bradley, H. W., German Flats, was born in St. Lawrence county June 2, 1852, and has been in mechanical lines all his business life. He came to Ilion in 1874 and entered the armory as tool maker. He has been assistant superintendent since 1888. In 1873 he married Anna G. Austin, of Windsor, Vt., and they have had one son, Lester H., who is studying at Norwich University. Mr. Bradley stands high in Masonry, and is one of the substantial men of Ilion.
Amos Bridenbecker Family Sketch
Bridenbecker, Amos, Schuyler, was born on the farm where he lives, April 20, 1817. His father, Daniel B., was also a native of Schuyler, and his grandfather came from Germany and took an active part in the War of the Revolution about Fort Schuyler. September 27, 1838, Mr. Bridenbecker married Caroline Pruyn, and they had three children: Mrs. Dr. E. W. Raynor and Mrs. George W. Richardson, and one son, Ezra D., who died September 19, 1851. He married second, in 1853, Ann M. Young. Mr. Bridenbecker was in the militia under General Spinner, with rank of lieutenant colonel.
Horace Brown Family Sketch
Brown, Horace, Frankfort, was born in Frankfort March 23, 1839, he being one of thirteen children of J. Z. Brown (son of Darius), who was born in the same town October (i, 1807; he was a farmer and a preacher, being a Methodist minister and preaching for fifty years. He died in his native town July 21, 1887. Darius Brown, a brother of Horace, was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion. He died May 10, 1864, aged twenty-nine years. His life was lost at Spottsylvania, his body not being recovered. Another brother, Burton, served in the war, was honorably discharged on account of ill health, and died about a year later. Mr. Brown has always made his home in his native town.
Lyman H. Buck Family Sketch
Buck, Lyman H. was born in Russia, N. Y., January 2, 1837, a son of William Buck, who was born in Chesterfield, Mass., October 6, 1807. He bought a farm near Poland, where he resided until 1860, when he purchased an adjoining farm, where he lived the remainder of his days. He was the first president of the State Bank at Poland, organized in 1870, and president of the National Bank until his death. He died in 1880. His wife Susan, daughter of Jonathan and Susannah (Buck) Millington, is still living in Poland. Jonathan was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., in 1774, was a son of Solomon Millington, a native of Shaftsbury, who died in 1833, and his wife in 1835. Jonathan Millington had one son and five daughters. He was drafted in the war of 1812. He died in 1854. Lyman Buck was educated in Fairfield Seminary. In connection with farming, he taught school several terms. Afterwards followed farming, exclusively on the old homestead, which he and his brother now own. Mr. Buck with Charles D. Buck, Peter Newman, Felus Prindle and Marcena May, owned for a number of years the Poland cheese factory and manufactured large quantities of cheese. Lyman H. Buck owns land in Herkimer County, and also quite extensively in several of tlie Western States. He is one of the stockholders and president of the Union Store in Poland. He is a Republican. He furnished a substitute in the Civil War. Mr. Buck has always supported the Baptist Church. His wife is Frances M. Ferris, whom he married February 20, 1865. She is a daughter of the late Col. Timothy H. Ferris, of Russia. Mr. Buck and wife have one child, Harriet Gudrida, at home.
S. C. Burch Family Sketch
Burch, S. C, German Flats, was born January 8, 1861, and was educated in the Ilion Academy. After acting as book-keeper for some years, he and his father, C. B. Burch, started in business in 1884. The next year Mr. Burch married Alvira C. Budlong, daughter of William Budlong. Mr. Burch has been village clerk, and a prominent member of the K. of P., Odd Fellows, the Ilion Hook and Ladder Company, and is very highly esteemed in the social circles of Ilion.
B. W. Burlingame Family Sketch
Burlingame, B. W., Russia, was born August 19, 1849, in Minden, Montgomery county. His father was Peter B., son of Benjamin Burlingame of Dutchess county, who married Elizabeth Bice and had four sons and two daughters. Bis wife died in 1810 and he married a widow Dempster of Kingsbury. She died and he was a third time married. He died near Gray about 1852, aged seventy-six. Peter B. Burlingame was born July 29, 1804, in Dutchess county. November 17, 1834, he married Sarah E. Bonfie, a native of Montgomery county, born February 14, 1812, and a daughter of Barnabas Bonfie, who was a son of Henry, a native of Connecticut, who had seven children. Barnabas Bonfie was born January 13, 1785, in Amsterdam, and married Polly Smith, of Dutchess county, born February 22, 1787, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters. He died in Gray, 1871, and his wife in 1874. Peter B. Burlingame and wife had four sons and three daughters, two of whom are living, subject of sketch and Mary E., who has three children living. Her mother resides with her. Barnabas E., son of Peter B.. was in the 117th New York Infantry, Company C, and died May 25, 1863, aged nineteen. Mr. Burlingame died January 14, 1888, in Grant. The subject of this sketch is a carpenter by trade, but his principal occupation has been farming. He is a Republican. He is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and his wife is a Methodist. Mr. Burlingame was twice married: First, to Alma S., daughter of Henry Caruthers. She was born June 31, 1853, and died August 29, 1886. They had two children, of whom one died in infancy, and Frank W., born October 26, 1884. His second wife was Mattie (Hollenbeck) Pardee, born in Salisbury, October 10, 1845. Her father was Francis, son of Jasper Hollenbeck, born near Hudson, who married Miss Van Wormer, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. Francis Hollenbeck was born near Hudson, 1810. His wife was Margaret A. Emery and they had three sons and two daughters. He died October 26, 1872, and his wife in 1881. Subject's wife was first married in 1868 to Joseph Pardee, born 1837, in Russia, a son of Loren and Betsy (Prindle) Pardee of Russia. Joseph Pardee and wife had two children: Merritt J., deceased, and Edith G. Mr. Pardee died in 1871.