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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.


Robert Earl Family Sketch

Earl, Robert, 2d, Herkimer, was born in Herkimer December 22, 1867. He received his education in the Herkimer schools, St. John's Military Academy, Manlius, N. Y., and Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. After the completion of his studies he entered the office of D. H. Burrell & Company Little Falls, N. Y., and later the offce of the Saxony Knitting Company of the same place. May 1, 1892, he was elected assistant cashier of the "Old" Herkimer Bank, Herkimer, N. Y., which position he now holds. Mr. Earl is a trustee of the village of Herkimer, and has the distinction of being the youngest member ever elected to that board. He is a Mason and a member of several social organizations. He is a son of the late eminent Samuel Earl and a nephew of Chief Judge Robert Earl of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York.


Hendrick Eckler Family Sketch

Eckler, Hendrick, Warren, with his family came from Holland and settled in Warren about 1765. He had a son Captain Henry, who was born in Holland, who received his father's homestead of 100 acres. He had four sons: Christian, John, Daniel and Henry. John Eckler was born in the homestead and spent his life there. His wife was Sophia Van Home, who bore him five children: John, Thomas, Henry, Christina, Mary A., the latter the only one living. John Eckler was born on the homestead in September, 1810, and died September 9, 1876. He was twice married, first to Hannah Van Denberg, who bore him three children: Clarinda, Orange and Van Denberg (deceased.) His second wife was Hannah, daughter of Cornelius and Eva Cronkhite, who bore him four children: Foster (deceased), Mariette (deceased), Lester C. and Rose. His second wife died in 1872. Lester C. Ecker was born March 1, 1847, in Springfield, where Hendrick Eckler first settled. He added sixty acres to the original farni and lived there until March 1, 1886, when he bought the hotel in Warren and has since conducted it. He received an academic education, is a Mason and a Republican, and has been postmaster under Harrison. He married, December 14, 1870, Julia, daughter of David and Christina (Harder) Johnson, and they have one child, Ralph J.


Dr. Irving S. Edsall Family Sketch

Edsall. Dr. Irving S., was born October 15, 1858, a son of William and Jane (Swartout) Edsall, residents of Delaware county, N. Y. He attended the Roxbury public school until eighteen years of age, when he entered the Albany Normal School, from which he graduated in 1879, He taught school for a time, then commenced the study of medicine, entering the Albany Medical College in the fall of 1882. He graduated in March, 1885, and settled in Middleville the same year. He is a member of the Herkimer County Medical Society, of which he was vice-president in 1890 and president in 1891. He is also a member of Newport Lodge F. & A. M. No. 455; of Nehasena Tribe I. 0. R. M. of Newport, of which he is a charter member; and also belongs to the Middleville Council Royal Arcanum No. 1335, in which order he served as medical examiner. He is a Republican in politics and was appointed county physician in 1888. He is a member of the Board of Trustees in Middleville and was one of its original trustees when it was incorporated, in 1890. In 1892 he was elected its president. Dr. Edsall is a member of M. E. Church, of which he is Sunday-school superintendent. September 11, 1885, he married Ella Sikes, adopted daughter of Harvey Sikes of Greene county, N. Y. They have one child, William, born in 1890.


Lorenzo Ellis Family Sketch

Ellis, Lorenzo, Russia, was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, January 6, 1836, a son of Daniel Ellis, born in Slab City, Madison county, in 1802. He married Sallie Coy, a native of Madison county, by whom he had five sons and one daughter, Orrin, Alanson, Orlando, LeRoy, Lorenzo and Louisa. He went to Oneida county and followed farming, and later in life became a boatman on the Erie Canal. He died in Oneida county in 1858 and his wife in 1874. Lorenzo Ellis married November 12, 1858, Jane, daughter of Ozias and Emily (Jenkins) Wilcox, natives of Oneida county. To Mr. Ellis and wife seven children have been born: Frank W., Mary M., Walter and Eugene C, living, and Charles, Lewis and Alice, deceased. Mr. Ellis was a boatman on the Erie Canal from 1847 to 1863. He then went to Newport, where he was engaged in lumbering one year and in the express and stage business eighteen years. In 1887 he went to Poland and engaged in the hotel business. In 1889 he purchased property now known as the Ellis House, of which his son Frank is proprietor. Mr. Ellis also has a good livery. He is a Republican.


Samuel Ely Family Sketch

Ely, Samuel, Warren, was born where he now lives, near the south line of Warren, November 29, 1807, and is a son of Samuel and Fannie (Cooley) Ely. His grandfather was Simeon Ely, of English descent, and born near West Springfield, Mass. In 1805 he settled on the farm where the subject now lives, and died there in 1815, aged eightyfive. The subject's father was born in Massachusetts in 1774, and came with his parents to the present homestead in 1805. He died in 1851 in his seventy-seventh year, and his wife died about 1862 in her ninetieth year. They had five children. Our subject has always lived on the homestead, has never been sued and has never sued, has not tasted liquor in fifty-three years, and has been a member of the M. E, Church fifty-four years. He married in 1831, Mary A., daughter of George and Betsy (Cooke) Snyder, and they have had seven children: Lorana, wife of James Pollard, dead, left one son; Ann, wife of Ira Dunckel; Helen, wife of Rosell Warren; Wesley, Elizabeth, died unmarried; Fannie A., and Darwin, who served three years in the 121st N. Y. Volunteers. Mrs. Ely died in 1880 in her seventy-second year.


John Emery Family Sketch

Emery, John, Russia, was born in Ohio, November 23, 1824, a son of Rowland Emery, born in Charlestown in 1786. He came to Ohio at an early day, one of the pioneer settlers, where he spent most of his life. His wife was Elizabeth Jones, by whom he had two sons and six daughteis. His brother, Matthew, was in the War of 1812. Rowland Emery died in Ohio in 1849, and his wife died in 1842. In 1846 John Emery married Mary A. Curtis, born in Schoharie county February 25, 1828. a daughter of Joseph and Amie Curtis, who about 1838 came from Duanesburg, Schoharie county, and settled in Ohio, where they reared four sons and seven daughters. Mr. Emery at the age of nineteen years was captain in the militia under Governor Bouck. He was highly honored in his native town, being excise commissioner for four years, a member of the auditing board for four years, supervisor 1866-67, justice of the peace from 1866 to 1870, and was one of the members who incorporated the M. E. Church in Ohio. He held all the offices in that church in time, and was superintendent of the Sunday-school for fifteen years. He moved from the town of Ohio to the village of Poland, January 1, 1889, where he now lives. His grandfather, Robert Emery, was born in New York and early in life settled in Montgomery county. He died in Stratford, aged ninety-three.