TOWN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published 1893
 
 

Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893

History of the Town of New Albion – Chapter XXXVIII (38)

Pages 823 - 826

New Albion, the fourth township north from the south line of the State, in range eight, contains 22,988 acres as surveyed by the Holland Land Company. It was formed from Little Valley on February 23, 1830. A few years before this, several prominent families from Orleans county had settled here and New Albion was named from Albion in the county they had left. The surface of the town is high and hilly, and occupies a part of the "dividing ridge." From the summit of Tug hill a grand panorama of the surrounding country is displayed and a distinct view of Lake Erie can be had. The town is well watered by small brooks and by numerous springs. The streams in the northern part flow into the south branch of Cattaraugus creek, while those in the southwestern part find an outlet into the east branch of the Conewango. The soil is fertile and produces abundant crops of excellent hay and furnishes fine pasturage, which is mainly consumed by dairies. Remunerative crops of Indian corn and other grain are also raised. Fruit is successfully cultivated and the manufacture of maple sugar receives considerable attention. The town is bounded on the north by Persia and Otto, on the east by Mansfield, on the south by Napoli, and on the west by Leon.

A squatter named Matthew DIMMICK, who settled in 1818 on lot 57, is credited with building the first shanty in New Albion for a white man’s habitation, but he did not remain long nor did he make such improvements on the place. James GODDARD the same year settled on lot 9 and was the first permanent settler in town. He opened his log house as a tavern and kept hotel until 1830. Robert GUY, from Otsego county in 1822, settled on the main road to the west. He purchased the interest of David HAMMOND and built a log house for a tavern. He was a prominent man. Judge Benjamin CHAMBERLAIN resided on lot 1 in 1818. In 1824 he sold his improvements to Leicester TRACY, the first supervisor of New Albion in 1830. Jonathan KINNICUTT settled on lot 18 the next year. He came from Montgomery county. The same year David HILL came from the same county and settled on lot 18. He later removed to Gowanda. Smith WATERMAN came about the same time, settled on lot 25, sold to Robert CHAMPLIN, and moved to Perry. John A. KINNICUTT came from Rensselaer county and settled on lot 18 on January 12, 1821. The town was then a part of Little Valley and Mr. KINNICUTT was a justice of the peace in that town; he was the first town clerk of New Albion. Other prominent settlers of the town from 1821 to 1830 were Jeremiah MAYBEE in 1822; Horace SNYDER in 1825; William BUFFINGTON in 1826; William TRAVIS, a son-in-law, who settled near Mr. BUFFINGTON; John S. HARVEY, who had eighty acres of cleared land in 1838 and was then the largest farmer in town: Isaac RICE, who was one of the first justices, and who mysteriously disappeared while on a business trip down the Alleghany river; J.H. and S.B. HERRICK, who settled off lot 4 about 1826; and Robert CHAMPLIN on lot 33 the same year. Abram DAY made a home on lot 34 and was keeper of the light-house at Dunkirk in General JACKSON’s administration. Calvin HARTWELL came from Orleans county in 1826 and Calvin RICH from the same county in 1828. Mr. RICH was one of the most prominent men of the town. His brother Arad settled near him. James and Warren BARNARD came from the same place. Charles SIBLEY, who settled on lot 44, built the first grist-mill in town. The ROSS and PAYNE families and Jacob SMITH all came before 1830. Nicholas EVERTS, James and Jonathan B. JEWELL, Daniel H. POWELL, and Thomas J. WATERS were all early pioneers of New Albion. Hon. Horace C. YOUNG settled on lot 41 in May 1832, where he spent the rest of his life.

Primitive saw-mills were constructed on the streams in different neighborhoods which had water enough to run them. Matthew NEALY erected a mill in 1834 on a branch of Cattaraugus creek on lot 29. John JONES was the next mill proprietor. William KENDALL built a saw-mill on lot 35 quite early. This was operated by Solomon G. WRIGHT, who built for himself, near the mill, a residence which was so unusual in shape and design that his neighbors called it "Solomon’s Temple," a name it still bears. Charles SIBLEY built the first grist-mill in the town in 1836, on a branch of Conewango creek, which served the settlers about 20 years. James GODDARD kept the first tavern on lot 1. He is supposed to have opened his house to travelers as early as 1820. The first white children born in town were Robia A. and Avis C., twin daughters of Mr. And Mrs. Jonathan KINNICUTT, in April 1819. The first wedding was solemnized by a Methodist minister in 1824, the contracting parties being Noel HOPKINS and Sally SIMMONS. The first death in town was that of a daughter of Noah DREW. James GODDARD, who died in 1830, was the first adult who departed this life in New Albion.

The first town meeting was held at the house of John A. KINNICUTT, March 2 and 3, 1830, and made choice of a full set of town officers: Leicester TRACY, supervisor; John A. KINNICUTT, town clerk; John A. KINNICUTT, Isaac RICE, Calvin RICH, Abram DAY, justices of the peace; Josiah PIERCE, Isaac RICE, William ROSS, assessors; James MAYBEE, collector; Timothy GUY, Noah HIGBEE, Isaac P. WOOD, James MAYBEE, constables; James BUFFINGTON, James WILLIAMS, Arad RICH, commissioners of highways; William BUFFINGTON, William HIGBEE, Leicester TRACY, school commissioners; Comfort E. SUMNER, Calvin RICH, John A. KINNICUTT, school inspectors; Robert GUY, Timothy GOWAN, overseers of the poor. The supervisors, town clerks, and justices of the peace since 1830 are as follows:

Supervisors. – Leicester TRACY, 1830; Calvin RICH, 1831-36; John S. HARVEY, 1837; Byron GRAHAM, 1838-42, 1844; Horace C. YOUNG, 1843, 1845-48; William BUFFINGTON, Jr., 1849-50, 1857; John MOSHER, 1851-52; Alson LEAVENWORTH, 1853-54; John P. DARLING, 1855-56, 1858, 1860-61, 1863, 1865, 1867, 1875; Martin HARDENBURG, 1859; Hiram RUMSEY, 1862; John KINNICUTT, 1864; Bolivar R. LAMB, 1866,1871; Horatio N. BABB, 1868; Eugene A. NASH, 1869-70, 1873-74; T.L. TEN EYCK, 1872; Sylvester W. COX, 1876; Gilbert MILKS, 1877; Wilber J. MANLEY, 1878-79; Herbert C. RICH, 1880-81; A.E. SNYDER, 1882-83; Francis M. MOSHER, 1884-85; George LATTIN 1886-87; Sanford F. BURGER, 1888-89; Charles J. RICH, 1890; D.H, CARROLL, 1891-92; William E. MOSHER, 1893.

Town Clerks. -- John A. KINNICUTT, 1830-34, 1835-45, 1847-48; Thomas J. WATERS, 1835; Josiah WHITCOMB, 1846; Reuben J. WATERS, 1849-52; Charles KENDALL, 1853; John COOPER, 1854; Whitney JEWELL, 1855; Hiram RUMSEY, 1856-57; 1859, 1866-67; L.H. MALTBIE, 1858, 1860; Elisha L. JOHNSON, 1861-65, 1868-69; Hiram N. HERRICK, 1870; William C. MAXSON, 1871; Ezra HUNTON, 1872-74; Marion J. RICH, 1875-76; George HUNTON, 1877; Tompkins L. TEN EYCK, 1878; Daniel E. POWELL, 1879; Ara E. MOSHER, 1880-82; Sanford F. BURGER, 1883-86; Walton F. ANDREWS, 1887-88; Orlando WHITE, 1889; Hollen W. RICH, 1890-91, 1893; J.H. SIGMAN, 1892.

Justices of the Peace. – 1831, Comfort E. SUMNER, Linus SUTLIFF; 1832, Isaac RICE; 1833, Charles SIBLEY, Calvin HALL; 1834, Horace C. YOUNG; 1835, John A. KINNICUTT, Calvin HALL; 1836, Abram MATTESON; 1837, John MOSHER, Adonijah BURRELL; 1838, John A. KINNICUTT, William TRAVIS, Robert YOUNG; 1839, Arad RICH; 1840, Calvin HALL; 1841, Solomon G. WRIGHT; 1842, John A. KINNICUTT; 1843, Seth LANE; 1844, Melzer JONES, Arad RICH; 1845, William D. CORNELL, Harrison JUDD; 1846, Levi W. BOARDMAN; 1847, John A. KINNICUTT; 1848, Harrison JUDD, Solomon G. WRIGHT; 1849, William D. CORNELL; 1850, Arad RICH; 1851, Orrin TUBBS, Levi W. BOARDMAN; 1852, Pliny L. FOX, Asa FRANKLIN; 1853, Warren BERNARD; 1854, Beulah TARBOX; 1855, John A. KINNICUTT, Arad RICH, Jason HUNTLEY; 1856, Alson LEAVENWORTH; 1857, Asa PRITCHARD, Allen CAMPBELL; 1858, William C. MILLS, Melzer JONES; 1859, John A. KINNICUTT, Zumri HOWE, Daniel BROWN; 1860, Jared PUDDY; 1861, Arad RICH; 1862, George HUNTON; 1863, George A. PAYNE; 1864, George STRAIGHT; 1865, Arad RICH; 1866, Wilber F. KINNICUTT, George HUNTON, Elias L. MATTESON; 1867, John A. KINNICUTT, John RUSSELL; 1868, Truman MATTOCK; 1869, James H. RIDER; 1870 George HUNTON; 1871, Edwin DAVIS; 1872, William P. PFLUEGER; 1873, Salmon L. JOHNSON; 1874, George HUNTON; 1875, Edwin DAVIS; 1876, Salmon L. JOHNSON; 1877, George STRAIGHT; 1878, George HUNTON; 1879, Edwin DAVIS; 1880, Salmon L. JOHNSON, Myron COOK; 1881, George STRAIGHT, Albert J. EDDY; 1882, George HUNTON; 1883, J.L. HIGBEE; 1884, Albert EDDY; 1885, George STRAIGHT; 1886, Edgar E. WAITE; 1887, George HUNTON; 1888, Albert EDDY; 1889, Henry A. LOCKE; 1890, Edgar E. WAITE; 1891, L.H. NORTHRUP; 1892, Albert EDDY; 1893, Lewis W. MORGAN.

The first settlers in this town largely preferred the hills to the valleys, and the first highways were made on the highlands. The old Chautauqua road is an apt illustration. The early inhabitants on Snyder hill cut a road several miles through the woods to a saw-mill in Skinner Hollow. As the settlements progressed, roads have been opened in all parts of the town and are kept in good condition. The Erie railroad, completed in 1851, traverses the eastern part of New Albion and has a station at Cattaraugus.

Schools were taught in New Albion several years before it was set off from Little Valley. The first one was kept in the summer of 1823 by John ALLEN. Francis WINCHESTER taught one in the Buffington neighborhood in 1826. In 1830 the town had a population of 380; in 1850, 1633; in 1870, 1487; in 1890, 1858. In 1892 there were seven school districts and schools were maintained in each of them, and were taught by twelve teachers. The aggregate attendance was 509. The school buildings and sites were valued at $19,100; the assessed value of the districts was $637,835. The amount of public money received from the State was $1,679.56 and by local tax $5,012.46.

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History of the Town of New Albion – Chapter XXXVIII (38)

The Village of Cattaraugus

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Cattaraugus, the principal village of New Albion, is situated in the northern part of the town about eight miles north of Little Valley. The business part of the town is located on the hillside facing the southeast. As late as 1830 the entire site was a dense forest. In May 1851, the railroad was completed and a station erected. The farm of Joseph PLUMB embraced the territory, which he forever dedicated to temperance by inserting in the conveyance of the lots which he had platted for the village a prohibitory clause, by the terms of which the title is forfeited if intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage on the premises and the property reverts to Mr. PLUMB or his heirs. After several years had elapsed, a Mr. TUBBS began to openly sell liquors on his property. Mr. PLUMB entreated him to desist, but in vain. PLUMB commenced a suit to recover his lot, which was stubbornly contested by TUBBS and his abettors to the Court of Appeals, where the decisions of the lower courts in favor of Mr. PLUMB were affirmed. Mr. PLUMB magnanimously deeded the reverted property to the family of Mr. TUBBS, who had involved himself in debt in the struggle. Simultaneous with the building of the depot was opened the store of Mr. ELLIOTT and the faithful coadjutor of Mr. PLUMB, S.L. JOHNSON. A hotel was also opened to the public by William BUFFINGTON. In the same year, M.F. MALTBIE came and established business in the manufacture and sale of clothing. The firm of DARLING & WILSON opened a general store in the fall of 1852. Other early merchants were Hiram RUMSEY, A.E. LEAVENWORTH, L.D. BOTSFORD, James FERRIS, and Nathaniel CHRISTIE. The village now contains three general stores, a hardware store, a jewelry store, a drug store, two groceries, two merchant tailoring establishments, a harness shop, two carriage shops, several dealers of various kinds, one weekly newspaper, a tannery, an edged-tool manufactory, a barrel and stave factory and flouring-mill, a tin and sheet-iron manufactory, three lawyers, two physicians, a Union Free School and Academy, five churches, a bank, telegraph, telephone, and express offices, two or three hotels, the usual complement of shops, artisans. etc., and a population in 1890 of 878. The village is incorporated and the present officers are William EASTON, president; Fred RICH and John OSBORN, trustees; Danford RICH, collector; F.E. JOHNSON, treasurer. The post office was established with S.L. JOHNSON as postmaster in 1851, and in October 1877 became a money order office. Cattaraugus has had one sweeping cyclone and three fires. The severest fire occurred Sept. 5, 1889.

The Bank of Cattaraugus was organized as a private bank in 1882 and each co-partner is individually liable. At its organization the bank had a paid up capital of $11,000 which has been increased to $22,000. The first officers were O.F. BEACH, president; C. MOENCH, vice-president; H.E. GREENE, cashier. The present officers are S.S. LAING, president; C. MOENCH, vice-president; F.E. JOHNSON, cashier. The stockholders represent $400,000 capital. This institution was re-organized as a State bank March 30, 1892.

The Cattaraugus Union Free School and Academy was organized from school district No. 1 October 29, 1878. The first Board of Education – Rev. J.L. HIGBEE, Dr. T.L. De NIKE, Frank S. OAKES, Christopher MOENCH, and John S. GIBBS – was awake to the advantages of education of the children of their village and at once adopted a policy to make the school it was founding an institution where the young might be thoroughly prepared to enter any college in the country. At the opening of the school there were only 175 children of school age residing in the district and but three teachers were employed. The number of children has increased to 325 and the number of teachers to seven. In 1888 the academic department was inaugurated and placed under the supervision of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. The first class graduated in 1891: Nellie Ethel RICH, Inez P. RICH, L. Lena LATTIN, and Clarence B. FARRAR. A much larger class graduated the year following. During the school year, of 1892-93 there were 300 pupils enrolled. Two students of the year are entitled to Regents’ classical diplomas and six to graduation. Thirty-nine non-resident pupils were in attendance. In 1887 an imposing, well-built, and convenient brick school building was erected, which was burned February 20, 1893. The remainder of the term was taught in rooms temporarily fitted up and the school was closed but one day. The district soon unanimously voted the sum of $18,000 with which to rebuild and furnish, with library and apparatus, a new brick structure, which will be completed in time for the fall term. The site is situated on high ground and surrounded by a beautiful maple grove.

Liberty Park Cemetery Association was incorporated February 1, 1892, with these officers: Albert TEN EYCK, president; William PFLUEGER, vice-president; D.W. KEELER, secretary; R.H. MALTBIE, treasurer. The cemetery is situated within the limits of the village and embraces about five acres, which have been used for a burial place for some years. The present trustees are J.H. JEWELL, D.W. KEELER, O.C. RICH, and A.F. SIGMAN.

The little post village of New Albion, formerly known as HORTH’s Corners, is situated near the geographical center of the township and was for many years the only business place in the town. It contains the hotel erected by Erastus HORTH, who kept the house many years and was succeeded by Thad CORNELL. Since then it has had numerous landlords. For many years the village has maintained two stores, a saw-mill, and a cheese factory. Besides these it now contains one church edifice and a population of about 100. Since the advent of the Erie railroad its business interests have materially decreased. The post office was established as early as 1833 and the mail is now received daily by carrier from Cattaraugus.

The Cattaraugus tannery in Cattaraugus Village, the property of C. MOENCH, was originally built by Martin HARTENBURG in 1851. It was then a small concern operated by two men. June 29, 1865, Mr. MOENCH purchased it, several times enlarged and improved it, and in June 1888, the entire plant except the dry house was consumed by fire. Mr. MOENCH immediately rebuilt and had the present commodious building ready to resume business the ensuing October. The main building is 250 x 60 feet and the dry house is 110 x 40 feet and four stories high. A second dry house is used for finishing upper leather. The business has been conducted by the firm of C. MOENCH & Son since July 1, 1889. From 1865 to 1880 the firm name was C. MOENCH & Co., and consisted of C. MOENCH of Cattaraugus, and Charles A. GAENSSLEN and Mathias GAENSSLEN of Chicago. From then until 1889 C. MOENCH conducted the business alone. They now employ seventy-five men and are building an addition to the tannery which will double its present capacity.

TEN EYCK Edge Tool Company, in Cattaraugus, was incorporated under the laws of the State of New York on April 6, 1883, and had their shops erected and opened for business in July following. The officers at the organization were E.L. JOHNSON, president; L.H. NORTHRUP, secretary; H.E. GREENE, treasurer; Albert TEN EYCK, superintendent. The plant was consumed by fire January 24, 1890, and immediately rebuilt, enlarged, and ready to resume business in April. The company commenced with a capital of $20,000. Their plant covers an area of 200 x 40 feet, besides a convenient office and storage building. The motive power is generated by an eighty horse-power boiler. They manufacture axes, broadaxes, hatchets, and adzes, and employ fifty men. Their annual output averages $50,000. The present officers are H.W. HINMAN, president; L.H. NORTHRUP, secretary, treasurer, and manager; Albert TEN EYCK, superintendent.

The Cattaraugus mills are located on Mill street on the railroad. The motive power is furnished by an eighty horse-power engine. This plant combines a grist-mill with two runs of stone, a circular saw-mill, planers, and matchers, machinery for the manufacture of barrels, and a shingle-mill, and employs to twenty-five men. The mills are owned by S.L. & E.L. JOHNSON.

George M. DAVIS’s saw-mill at New Albion was erected by WAITE & DAVIS in the fall of 1889 near the site of a mill built by Daniel HAWKINS in 1873. The property passed to Mr. DAVIS in 1888. Two mills have been burned on the site, the last one being consumed in 1888. Mr. DAVIS is sole owner. The motive power is steam and the capacity is 12,000 feet of lumber per day.

The Methodist Episcopal denomination was the first religious society to hold regular meetings in town. As early as 1827, a Methodist class was formed on SNYDER hill by Rev. Joseph S. BARRIA, a preacher on the Forestville circuit. The meetings were held at Horace SNYDER’s house – he being one of the members of the class – until Calvin RICH settled there in 1828 and built a larger log house, when they convened at his dwelling the ensuing twenty years. The quarterly meetings were sometimes held in barns. In 1832 a Methodist class was formed at HORTH’s Corners, now New Albion. This class now contains twenty-five members and holds regular service in the Free Methodist church alternate Sundays. Rev. O.G. McENTIRE, of Cattaraugus, is pastor.

January 8, 1857, the Cattaraugus Methodist Episcopal Society was incorporated and Arad RICH, L.D. BOTSFORD, Spencer RICH, Danford RICH, and Ephraim FORD were chosen trustees. Their present church edifice was erected in the Village of Cattaraugus at a cost of $2,500. The Methodist class on SNYDER hill formed the nucleus of this church. In 1877 the title of the society was changed to the "Methodist Episcopal Society of the village of Cattaraugus." The house of worship has been enlarged and much improved and now has a seating capacity for 500 persons. Anson SMITH donated to the society a fine parsonage with ample grounds, valued at $2,000, and Mary RICH has also made it a valuable gift. The whole property is valued at $6,000. The church now has 150 members and over 40 probationers with Rev. O.G. McENTIRE as pastor. The large Sunday school is regularly attended.

A Freewill Baptist society was organized in the eastern part of the town about 1840, which held meetings in the school house of the neighborhood eight or ten years and disbanded.

The Christians organized a society simultaneously with the Freewill Baptists and held their meetings in a log school house northeast of the village of Cattaraugus, near the corner of the town. It existed only a few years.

The Wesleyan Methodist church of Cattaraugus was organized by Rev. F.M. MOSHER on March 8, 1880, with nine members. Rev. Mr. MOSHER became the first pastor. In 1880 the present house of worship was erected at a cost of $1,000. The church now has sixty-two members with Rev. S. BEDFORD as pastor. The present value of the church property is $2,500. The edifice will seat 200 people. The Sunday school has fifty-six scholars.

St. John’s Lutheran church, located in the village of Cattaraugus, was organized January 1, 1886, by Rev. W.E. ROMMELL, who was the first pastor. It then consisted of twenty members and has increased to forty-two. In 1888 the first and present edifice was erected of wood and has a seating capacity for 350 persons. The church property is valued at $3,000. Rev. Lew ULMER is the present pastor. The Sunday school is attended by 15 or 20 scholars with William PFLUEGER as president and William DIETRICH as secretary.

The Free Methodist church, located in the village of New Albion, was organized in 1884 by Rev. Thomas SLOCUM with eight or nine members. The church edifice was built of wood and dedicated July 4, 1885, and will seat 140 people. The membership in 1892 was only three with six probationers. The pastor was Rev. Joseph THOMPSON, of Cattaraugus. The Union Sunday school has forty-five scholars and seven teachers with Miss Ellen BONARD as superintendent.

The Free Methodist church of North America, located in Cattaraugus village, was organized in 1878 by Rev. Mr. ESSEX, who was its first pastor. It originally had nine members, the present being thirty-six with nine probationers. The present pastor is Rev. G.M. ALLEN. In 1880 the society erected their first and present house of worship at a cost of $1,500; this with the grounds is valued at $1,200. This church maintains a Sunday school.

St. Mary’s church (Roman Catholic), of Cattaraugus, was incorporated December 12, 1863, the trustees being Rt. Rev. John TIMON, Bishop of Buffalo; Rev. F.N. LESTER, vicar-general; Rev. John BAUDENELLI, pastor, residing at Dunkirk; and Stephen O’DONNELL and John GORDON, lay members. A plain church edifice was erected. It is now a part of Dayton parish and Rev. Father NASH is the parish priest.

Cattaraugus Lodge, No. 56, A.O.U.W., was instituted January 10, 1877. The first officers were Thomas BABB, P.M.W.; George P. WALTERS, M.W.; William A. COX, F.; M.F. LENOX, R. It now has thirty-five members.

Glen Lodge, No. 888, Knights of Honor, was instituted January 31, 1878, with about thirty members. Thomas BABB was elected dictator and W.W. TERRY, secretary. The present membership is thirty.

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The ADAMS family in America are of English origin. Their ancestors settled in Quincy, Mass. in 1630. Henry ADAMS was the father of John ADAMS, the second president of the United States. John ADAMS was the father of John Quincy ADAMS, "the old man eloquent" and also president. His son, Charles Francis ADAMS, was the father of Charles Francis ADAMS, Jr. Henry ADAMS, son of David, was born in Johnstown, NY, July 18, 1804, and was a lineal descendant of Henry, of Quincy, Mass. Oct. 6, 1831, he married Belinda COWEN, in Hanover, NY. She was born in Martinsburgh, Lewis county, Nov. 17, 1806. Her father was a minuteman in the War of 1812. Mr. ADAMS was a farmer in Hanover until the spring of 1837, when he removed to Snyder hill in New Albion, where he died April 11, 1885. He was employed in digging the Erie canal, and he and his wife early united with the Methodist Episcopal church. He was first an old line Whig and later a Republican. Mrs. ADAMS survives at the age of over eighty-five years. Children: Jane Ann, born June 28, 1832, died May 4, 1850; Marcellus, born Feb. 5, 1834, of Sturgis, Mich.; Martha M. (Mrs. Job BENSON), of New Albion, died in 1876; Marcena, born Aug. 20, 1838, married Hiram H. LUCE, Oct. 23, 1856, who died in April, 1862, at Fortress Monroe; Persis J., born Jan., 17, 1841, married George W. WEBSTER of Big Rapids, Mich.; Marquis Dela, born March 23, 1843, married Mrs. Alice (CROWELL) JACQUAY, and remains on the homestead; and John H., born Aug. 29, 1845, a farmer in Tyrone, Mich.

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John G. ACKERMAN, son of John G. and Barbara (BENLARE) ACKERMAN, was born in Concord, NY, May 2, 1856. His parents were born in Germany, where they were married. They came to America when Buffalo was a small city. The father died when John G. was seventeen and the latter removed from Hamburg to Otto very soon after. There he learned the tailor’s trade. In the spring of 1886, he came to Cattaraugus and became a merchant tailor.

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Horatio BABB, born in Barrington, NH, May 19, 1812, married Oct. 28, 1833, Mary A. DeMERRITT of Dover, NH, and first settled with his parents where his oldest son, Leander E., was born March 20, 1835. He went to Boston in 1835, and in 1836 to Baltimore, and was later a merchant in New York. In 1844 he resided in Steuben county. He was actively engaged in the construction of the Erie railroad and removed to Alfred Center, Alleghany county. In May 1851, he came to Cattaraugus as station agent, which position he filled to the close of his life excepting the time he spent in the army. In 1861 he enlisted in the 64^th NY Vols. And served as regimental quartermaster until he resigned on account of ill health. He returned to his position and died Nov. 12, 1871. For many years he served as trustee of the village school and was supervisor of New Albion in 1868. Mrs. BABB died Dec. 8, 1886.

Children of Horatio and Mary BABB:

Leander E. BABB, of Chicago

Mertia D. BABB (Mrs. J.H. WARREN), died Aug. 5, 1871

M. Elizabeth BABB

H. Sue BABB, (both sisters reside on the homestead)

Thomas BABB of Chicago

Albert H. BABB of Chicago

Ben L. BABB of Cleveland, Ohio

Belle BABB, widow of H. M. HERRICK

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Stephen BEMIS, son of Stephen and Clarissa (HUNTLEY) BEMIS, was born in Vermont, April 7, 1799. He removed with his parents to the Holland purchase, and on Feb. 21, 1821, married Sally SMITH, who was born Nov. 19, 1802. In 1829 they came to New Albion and settled on the farm now owned by their son Alonzo. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. BEMIS died April 30, 1863; Mrs. BEMIS died June 19, 1881. Children: Lucius, born in Middlebury, NY, July 26, 1823; Nancy (Mrs. George BOOTH), born Jan. 19, 1825; Minerva (Mrs. Rufus TOWN), born July 18, 1827; Alonzo, born Feb. 1, 1832, married Alpharetta TAYLOR, May 5, 1877, has one daughter, Rosa May, born Feb. 2, 1879, and resides on the homestead; and Sarah, born Oct. 1, 1842, died age ten months. Alonzo BEMIS, soon after he was twenty-one, assumed the heavy debt against the old home, supported his parents to the close of their lives, and has added to his farm until he now has 110 acres.

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Helen Elizabeth BLACK, eldest daughter of Willis M. and Mariette ANDREWS, was born at East Otto, July 18, 1842. May 6, 1860, she married William W. MOREY, son of Barton MOREY, one of East Otto’s pioneers. William W. MOREY enlisted in April, 1861, in Co. I, 37th NY Vols., dying while in the service at Annapolis, MD, May 26, 1862. Thus widowed so young by ruthless war, she took up the burden of life as a school teacher. Feb. 7, 1872, she married Charles BLACK, who was also a volunteer in the military service of the United States, and who died at New Albion, Aug. 8, 1877. Though twice a widow and childless, her pleasant home is a favorite gathering place.

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Harry BLAKELY, born in Marcellus, NY, May 3, 1792, died July 26, 1837, He was a natural mechanic, but spent his life as a farmer. He married, in Forestville, Fanny CLOUGH, who was born in 1800. About 1822 he purchased one hundred acres on the Gowanda road in Persia, then a part of Perrysburg, and a year or two later cleared several acres. He returned to Forestville, and in 1826, with a pair of steers and a cart of his own construction, in which was loaded his household goods and family, he came to Cattaraugus county. Mr. BLAKELY was one of the prominent men of his town and held many of the prominent offices. He died on the place where he first settled. Mrs. BLAKELY survived until 1844. Children: Justus, born Sept. 26, 1821; Hiram, born April 1, 1826; Welthy, born May 2, 1828, married Hiram VINCENT of Persia, deceased; Harriet, born in 1831, married Darius DANLEY; Darwin, born in 1833, died in 1834; and Otsy O., born in 1836, married James CRANDALL.

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Hiram BLAKELY gained a good English education and began his business life a farmer. He was also a skillful carpenter and cabinet maker, and placed in operation the first planing-mill and cider-mill in Cattaraugus. With his sons and sons-in-law he manufactured thousands of dollars worth of furniture and erected eight houses in Cattaraugus village. He married Fidelia, daughter of Eldridge and Eunice EDDY, of Persia, Feb. 11, 1844. She was the mother of Ermina J. and Edgar E. She died in Dec. of 1849. On March 31, 1850, he married Laura FREEBORN, of Persia. Children: Charles F., Lelia A., Elson J., L. Rosella, Frank N., Walter V., and R. Ernest. Mr. BLAKELY died on May 13, 1893.

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H. Frank BLOOD, son of John, was born in Arcade, NY on April 30, 1847. He received a good English education, which he finished at Arcade Academy. His father was a farmer and blacksmith, and he assisted in both avocations until he became twenty-three, when he commenced cheese making, and the year following became a butter and cheese buyer. In 1877 he purchased a half-interest in the general mercantile business of S.F. MANN in Arcade under the firm name of MANN & BLOOD. Two years later he sold this interest and the firm opened a store in Franklinville, of which Mr. BLOOD had entire charge. About 1881 he purchased the interest of Mr. MANN and became sole proprietor. In 1889 he began the erection of his large brick block in the village of Cattaraugus, to which he moved his stock of goods. Mr. BLOOD is a member of the Board of Education.

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Levi W. BOARDMAN was a son of Ephraim and Sarah (SPENCER) BOARDMAN, natives of Connecticut, who married there. Ephraim was a colonel in the Revolutionary War; his wife’s father, John SPENCER, was a captain. Levi W., born in Otsego County, NY on Sept. 12, 1809, married on Feb. 7, 1831, Araminta D. CHAPIN. He settled there as a farmer, where four of his children were born. In the fall of 1844 he settled a little north of the village of New Albion, where he died on July 20, 1891. Mrs. BOARDMAN died Feb. 5, 1880. He was justice of the peace eight years.

Children:

Albert E. BOARDMAN, born Jan. 25, 1832

Isaac H. BOARDMAN, born June 14, 1835

Maria T. BOARDMAN, born Dec. 30, 1836

Francis D. BOARDMAN, born Sept 26, 1840

Thomas W. BOARDMAN, born Feb. 21, 1847

Francis D. BOARDMAN came to New Albion with his parents, and in July 1859, married Cynthia B. GARFIELD, a relative of the late President GARFIELD. On Sept. 2, 1861, he enlisted in the 9^th NY Cav. and in December was confined by rheumatism in the regimental hospital at Camp Fenton, remaining until Feb. 1862, when he was sent to the hospital in Washington and discharged April 9, 1862. He receives a pension. Mrs. BOARDMAN died on March 28, 1873. On March 28, 1874, Francis married Mrs. Isabel W., widow of James A. GARFIELD of Buffalo County, Neb. Children: Carrie E., Ernest L., and Glenn F. Francis BOARDMAN was a pioneer in Buffalo County, Neb. from 1870 to 1881. He served on the first grand jury of that county and was a member of the grand or petit jury of each succeeding court until he left the State.

Isaac H. BOARDMAN married Lucy C. POWELL, of New Albion, on March 17, 1861. In 1863 he settled where he now resides. On Sept. 2, 1864 he enlisted in the 13^th N.Y.H.A. and was discharged on June 2, 1865. He has served as highway commissioner and on the Board of Excise.

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Sanford F. BURGER, son of Andrew BURGER of Otto, was born in Olean on March 15, 1860. He attended the common schools and finished his education in Oberlin College, Ohio. He taught two terms of district school, the first one in Otto at the age of thirteen. His father was a cabinet maker, and from him he learned his trade. In 1880 he came to Cattaraugus and engaged as clerk with OAKES & CALVER, dealers in cheese factory goods and manufacturers of scale board. He succeeded Mr. CALVER in the business, and the firm became OAKES & BURGER. Mr. BURGER is a staunch Republican. In 1882 he was elected clerk of New Albion and held the position five consecutive years. In 1888 he was chosen supervisor and was re-elected in 1889. He has also been president of Cattaraugus village two years and is now superintendent of the village water works and chief of the fire department. On Dec. 27, 1885, he married Ell GOLDSBOROUGH, daughter of Dr. Levi GOLDSBOROUGH (see page 161).

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Ebenezer CAREY, born in Oxford, Maine, Jan. 25, 1806, went at the age of eighteen to reside in Massachusetts, and married., in Waltham, Susan WYMAN, Jan. 1, 1834, who was born Nov. 8, 1814. Mr. CAREY was a carpenter and settled in Waltham, where he followed his trade until 1843, when he came with his family to Napoli, arriving July 18^th, and there followed carpentering and building. Some years later he bought a farm, and two years before his death he rented it and had a home with his son, Charles H. CAREY, in New Albion, where he died July 19, 1886. He was a natural mathematician.

Children:

Suel H. CAREY, born in Massachusetts, enlisted in the Union army, and died in the hospital at Alexandria, Feb. 11, 1862.

George CAREY, born in Napoli, Feb. 27, 1843, enlisted in Aug. 1863, in Co. C, 13^th N.Y.H.A., and served to the close of the war, resumed farming, married on Jan. 1, 1868 Melissa M., daughter of Addison and Mary KENYON, and settled on the homestead of her grandfather, Jeremiah KENYON; Adelaide, born in Napoli in March 1845, died in 1876.

Charles H. CAREY was born on April 8, 1848. On Dec. 31, 1869, Charles H. married Elsie A., daughter of Hudson DAY and granddaughter of Erastus DAY, an early settler of New Albion. They settled on the homestead of her father. Children: Herbert S. of Limestone; Grace A.; and Alice M.

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Daniel H. CARROLL, son of John, was born in New Albion, Aug. 1, 1858. His father was a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, immigrated to America about 1845, and is a farmer in the southeast part of this town. Daniel H., at the age of nineteen, commenced to learn the trade of blacksmith, which he follows, and is also dealing in carriages, sleighs, and agricultural implements. Mr. MOSHER is connected with him in the carriage and coal trade. In politics, Mr. CARROLL is a Democrat and was supervisor of New Albion in 1891 and 1892. On May 1, 1888, he married Catherine LUNDERGREN. They have one daughter.

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Robert CHAMPLIN, born in Rhode Island on Feb. 20, 1773, married on Newport Island, Mary MOORE. They resided in Rhode Island on the old CHAMPLAIN farm and finally removed to Westchester County, NY, and thence came to Alexander in 1812. In 1828 he came to New Albion, settled on lot 33, and died on the place now owned by his son Robert CHAMPLIN on lot 9. In early manhood he was a sailor on a merchant ship. His Sons were:

William M. CHAMPLIN

Asa CHAMPLIN, who died at the age of twelve years

Robert CHAMPLIN, Jr., born Feb. 24, 1810

Jesse CHAMPLIN, a carriage maker in East Randolph

George CHAMPLIN, who removed to Wisconsin and died in 1889

Dudley CHAMPLIN, a farmer and mechanic in Salamanca

William M CHAMPLIN, who came from Genesee County a year prior to his brothers and settled near the center of Napoli.

Daughters of Robert CHAMPLIN, Sr.:

Hannah CHAMPLIN married Alanson BOARDMAN, and settled in Napoli. Mr. BOARDMAN was a blacksmith. They removed to Wisconsin, and thence to Iowa, where they died.

Mary CHAMPLIN married John MERRILL and settled in Batavia.

Lydia CHAMPLIN married Thomas J. WILLIAMS, first settled in New Albion, and died in Minnesota.

Sarah CHAMPLIN married Erastus WYMAN and resides near Chicago.

Armenia CHAMPLIN married Harvey METCALF, is a widow, and resides on Elm creek in Conewango.

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Robert CHAMPLIN, Jr., came to New Albion in 1827 and contracted for 150 acres on lot 33 and 50 acres on lot 25 for himself, his mother, and his brother George. His brother sold out and removed west. About 1837, he married Ursula GILLILAND and settled on lot 9, where James GODDARD, the first permanent settler in town, located in 1818. The place then contained 130 acres. Mr. CHAMPLIN added to it until he had 600 acres. Children:

William M. CHAMPLIN, born Nov. 10, 1840, married Eva S. HANSON on June 22,1885. Children were Mary and Leland.

Theodore CHAMPLIN, born Jan. 12, 1842, married Emma DAY on Jan. 1, 1880. Children were Willie R., Bessie May, Grover C., and Jesse T.

John CHAMPLIN, born Oct. 4, 1844, married Cora GLOVER in Dec. 1882. Children were Alson and Robert Clayton.

These brothers (William, Theodore, and John) jointly own the homestead of 600 acres, a cheese factory receiving the milk of 400 cows, and give some attention to breeding horses.

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Russell A. COOPER, born in Andover, NY on Feb. 6, 1844, was a hardware merchant in Aiken, PA in the fall of 1878. In 1881 he removed to Cattaraugus and opened a hardware store, which was burned in the fire of Sept. 5, 1888. He soon resumed business and in Feb. 1889, he sold to J.H. JEWELL & Sons. On April 23, 1891, he purchased the grocery stock of J. A. ANDREWS. On Dec 16, 1879, he married Theresa MERZ of Jamestown, and they have one son, Willie R. Mr. COOPER has served as president of Cattaraugus village two terms and on the Board of Education seven years.

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Dennis CROWLEY, a native of Ireland, came to America in early manhood, married Ellen MULCAHY in Ellicottville, and since 1851 has resided in Cattaraugus. When he came here he assisted in building the depot, and was afterward employed as a trackman. He finally became a baggagemaster, which position he still holds. Mrs. CROWLEY died on May 22, 1890. They had fourteen children, of whom a daughter and four sons are living: Julia, P. E., J. J., T. W., and D. R.

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John P. DARLING, son of Rufus and Prudy (LEE) DARLING, was born in Berkshire County, Mass. on Feb 25, 1815. His father was a farmer who settled in Lenox, NY in 1818, and removed thence to Otto in 1824. He died in 1828, aged forty-seven years. Mrs. DARLING survived until July of 1873, aged eighty-six years. She was remarkable as a lady of rare abilities of mind and noble qualities of heart, John P. DARLING received a common school education. In the spring of 1831 he became a raftsman on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. In the fall he went to Grand Island in the Niagara river and spent most of the winter chopping cord-wood. He labored for the farmers in Otto a large portion of the time until 1834, when he became a clerk in the store of C. B. ALLEN in Otto village, where he remained until 1838, when he formed a partnership with William F. ELLIOTT and continued in trade until 1848, when he conducted business alone. In 1851 he established a branch store in the village of Cattaraugus, and in 1853 he removed thither with his entire business. Here he was in mercantile trade until 1856, when he retired. In early life he cast his lot with the Whig party and was a subscriber for the New York Tribune from its first issue to the close of his life. He was intensely "Free Soil". In 1856 he took the stump for General Fremont and was ever afterward a staunch Republican. Mr. DARLING, besides other town offices, was supervisor of Otto in 1845, 1846, and 1847, and of New Albion nine terms between 1855 and 1875. He was chairman of the board in 1860 and 1861 and at the special session held in March of 1867. In 1850 he was appointed postmaster and held the office through President Fillmore’s administration. In 1851 he was elected treasurer of Cattaraugus County and served three years. In the fall of 1856 he was elected to the State Senate by a majority of 8,000 to fill the remainder of the unexpired term of Hon. Roderick WHITE, who died in the preceding spring. He was renominated in the succeeding fall and re-elected. In the spring of 1864 he was appointed State assessor and resigned the position a year after. Senator DARLING is a conspicuous example of a self-made man. As a business man he was methodical, cautious, and careful. He was an indomitable worker. As a politician he was honorable, a successful organizer, impressed his friends with the feasibility of his plans, and was a natural leader. Mr. DARLING died on June 17, 1882. Mrs. DARLING survived until Feb. 15, 1889. 

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JOSEPH A. DAVIS, born June 1, 1819, was a son of Rev. Eber DAVIS, a preacher of the M.E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church and a pioneer on the place now owned by his grandsons, Emory W. DAVIS and Adelbert D. DAVIS. Joseph A. DAVIS was also a local preacher. His brother John DAVIS was thirty years a Methodist minister and member of conference. Joseph A. married Electa LYON on Nov. 29, 1842, and succeeded to the homestead, which has never been out of the possession of the DAVIS family.

Children of Joseph and Electa:

Giles C. DAVIS, born on July 18, 1844 

Wilbur F. DAVIS, born on May 10, 1846 and died on June 21, 1849

Wilbur F. DAVIS (2nd) born on Sept. 17, 1850

Emory W. DAVIS, born on Nov. 23, 1854

Adelbert D. DAVIS, born on Jan. 17, 1858

Adella DAVIS (twin of Adelbert), born on Jan. 17, 1858 and died on Sept. 17, 1858

ADELBERT D. DAVIS married on June 17, 1879 Ida M. HORTH, who was born on Nov. 2, 1856, a daughter of Alexander HORTH. He was first a cheese maker, then a farmer four years, a merchant three years, and since a farmer, and has served as inspector of elections four years. He owns jointly with his brother Emory the DAVIS homestead, which was first settled by his grandfather, Capt. Joseph DAVIS, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and also a preacher. He has two sons and two daughters.

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James DAWSON, born in Ireland on Feb. 1, 1802, married Dorothy WIDHOUSE, who was born on June 17, 1803. Their oldest son was born in Ireland about 1825. In 1828 he came to America in a sailing vessel. They landed in Quebec, remained in Canada two or three years, removed to Boston, Mass., and thence to Windsor, VT. They came with teams to Albany or Troy and thence by the Erie canal to Buffalo and finally to New Albion, where they arrived on Oct. 19, 1841, settling on the place now occupied by P. HERRICK, where he cleared 100 acres. He early became a citizen of the United States, joined the Whig party, and became a staunch Republican. In June of 1862, he enlisted in the army for two years. He died on Dec. 12, 1864, and Mrs. DAWSON on Dec. 14, 1877.

Children of James and Dorothy DAWSON:

Henry DAWSON, a wagon maker in Gowanda

James DAWSON, who married Ellen HILL, of Gowanda, and was killed by the cars in Dunkirk on Dec 27, 1869.

Alexander E. DAWSON

Rose A. DAWSON (Mrs. Ralph HOWE)

Mary J. DAWSON (Mrs. Silas VINTON) of Gowanda.

Alexander E. DAWSON, born in Boston on July 10, 1835, came to New Albion with his parents in 1841. On March 28, 1861, he married M. Caroline LITTLE and began life as a mechanic. On Sept. 2, 1864, he enlisted in Co. D, 9th NY Cav., and was discharged on June 1, 1865. He is a musician and a teacher.

Children: Eva (Mrs. W. COLLINS); James Albert, who married Winnie SANDERS; Charles A.; and Henry E. DAWSON

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Abraham DAY was born in Massachusetts in 1800. His father, himself, and younger brother enlisted as musicians in the Seminole war. He was a celebrated drummer and was promoted to drum-major, At the close of the war he went home with General JACKSON as his errand-boy and remained with him until the expiration of his term of enlistment. He married Joanna, daughter of Robert GUY, in Broome County, NY, and in June of 1822, came to New Albion and settled on the homestead of Horace C. YOUNG, where he was a farmer until about 1830, when he received the appointment of keeper of the light-house at Dunkirk from General JACKSON, which position he held until 1841. He resigned and returned to New Albion and again engaged in farming. He was commissioner of highways several years and located many of the roads in his town. He owned a farm of 170 acres. Mrs. DAY died on May 4, 1876.

Children of Abraham and Joanna DAY:

Laura A. DAY (deceased)

Abraham R. DAY, who married Serepta PHILLIPS, and died in 1890, leaving a widow and two sons, who reside on the homestead.

Clarendon Guy DAY, born on Nov. 6, 1832 in Dunkirk, settled on July 10, 1870 on the DAY homestead, which he manages.

Thomas DAY (deceased)

Jefferson D. DAY

Emeline J. DAY (Mrs. Francis BIGELOW), deceased

Lottie M. DAY, a teacher

Clarendon Guy DAY resides in the village of New Albion. He is a Democrat and has been assessor and the nominee of his party for supervisor. He has one daughter.

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Erastus DAY, son of Noah and Ann (LOOMIS) DAY, was born on March 4, 1787, married Marion LEE in 1812, and was an early settler and farmer of New Albion. He was a lineal descendant of John DAY, of Hartford, Conn., whose father, Robert DAY, came to America in April of 1634. He first settled in Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass. In 1639 he was a resident of Hartford, Conn. and was one of the first settlers of that place. The children of Erastus DAY: Asahel, born on June 4, 1813; Eli, born on May 10, 1815; Hudson, born on Aug. 28, 1816; Wealthy, born on July 11, 1818; Orrin, born on Jan. 10, 1821 and Elias, born on July 18, 1827

Orrin DAY married Brooksanna JONES of Cattaraugus in 1845. She was born in Milford, NY on Dec. 16, 1825. Her father, Moses J. JONES, removed from Otsego County and settled in New Albion in Feb. of 1835. Orrin DAY was a farmer and teamster, and succeeded his father (Erastus DAY) on the homestead, where he died in 1868.

Children of Orrin and Brooksanna DAY:

Alvin C. DAY, born April 18, 1848 (deceased)

Frances E. DAY, born on Aug. 3, 1951

Estella DAY (twin of Rosella), born on Sept. 17, 1857. Estella married John MEROW of Little Valley.

Rosella DAY (twin of Estella), born on Sept. 17, 1857. Rosella died in January of 1878.

Beorge B. DAY, born Aug. 20, 1862.

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Richard C. DUNN, son of John and Mary (WELCH) DUNN, was born in Lyndon on Sept. 3, 1856, was educated in the common schools and Franklinville Academy, and commenced his business life in Lyndon as a cheese maker. A year later, he purchased and conducted two factories in Cuba, NY, and followed the business in all about ten years, He came to Cattaraugus in the spring of 1890 and has since conducted the excellent Cattaraugus House, connected with which is a good livery owned and managed by M. S. STORUM.

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John EASTON, whose father came from England, was born in or near the city of New York. Between the ages of twelve and twenty-six, he followed the seas as a sailor, attaining the position of mate. He married Sarah TATTERSON on Long Island, and in 1830 came to Leon from Middlebury, NY, settling there where his grandson, Richard EASTON, now lives, and where he died aged eighty-four years.

John’s youngest son, Erasmus EASTON, was born in Middlebury on Dec. 24, 1822. Erasmus chopped, logged, and cleared land, and in 1842 married Olive CHAPMAN. He resided on the homestead a year, and for five years has resided on a farm near the northwest corner of New Albion. Mrs. EASTON died on Dec. 9, 1889, aged seventy-nine. Children of Erasmus and Olive EASTON: Marvin, Polly, Mary, Elizabeth, Lucretia, Albert, William, and Sarah.

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William N. ELLIS was born at Cherry Creek, NY, on Jan. 14, 1843. He enlisted in Co. K, 9^th NY Cav. on Oct. 14, 1861, and re-enlisted in the same organization on Jan. 2, 1864, being always with his company except when he was in the hospital for a sabre wound on his head and a shot through his right arm, both received at the battle of Brandy Station, VA on Aug. 1, 1863. He was discharged on July 17, 1865, and now receives a pension. On Dec. 5, 1866, he married Phebe A. COLE, of Cattaraugus, who was born in Hamburg, Erie County, on June 30, 1845. Children of William and Phebe ELLIS: William H. and Charles E.

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William EPLEY, of German ancestry, was born in Steuben County on July 12, 1828, and reared in Livingston County. At the age of twenty-one he went to Rochester, where he was a clerk in several wholesale houses about ten years. He was in Michigan until 1864, when he enlisted in the 12th Mich. Vet. Inf. Vols., and was discharged on Sept. 31, 1865. He was first sent to Camp Blair at Jackson, Mich., and two hours after his arrival was detailed as a clerk at the headquarters of the colonel, where he was retained four or five months. He then joined his regiment in Arkansas and continued a clerk until he was discharged. In 1880 he settled in Cattaraugus, where he has a merchant tailoring business.

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T. J. FARRAR, son of G. W. FARRAR, was born in Machias July 26, 1844, was raised a farmer, learned the carpenter's trade, and was several years a dry goods clerk. On Jan 1, 1874 he became a partner with S. L. and E. L. JOHNSON under the firm name of JOHNSON and FARRAR. Three years later Mr. FARRAR established an insurance business known as the Cattaraugus Insurance Agency. In April 1890 he sold this, and has since been engaged in the sale of real estate, in which he has had large transactions, mainly in Buffalo. On March 3, 1874, he married Maria HAWKINS, of Buffalo; they have a son, Clarence B. FARRAR, born Nov 27, 1874. The family has recently removed to Buffalo.

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W. W. GARLOCK, son of William M. and Eliza A. (SMITH) GARLOCK, was born in East Otto on Sept. 4, 1860. His paternal grandparents were natives of Germany. His father was born in America and early learned the trade of shoemaking. He served in the late war and after his discharge, went to Michigan, where he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. His maternal ancestor, Amasa SMITH, was a pioneer of Mansfield, where he settled in 1828. His grandfather, Welcome SMITH, was born in Marcellus and his grandmother was the sister of the pioneer doctor and county judge, Dr. Alson LEAVENWORTH. W. W. GARLOCK, whose mother died when he was ten years old, had a home with his grandmother, who had married her second husband, Rev. Clark HOLMES, of Cattaraugus. In Feb. of 1878, he opened a photographic studio in the village. He holds a certificate from the Photographers Association of America conferring upon him the title of professional photographer. On Aug. 12, 1879, he married Carrie A., daughter of F. J. KEELER. She died on March 12, 1891, and left a daughter, M. Spray, born on June 12, 1886.

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Frank. B. GOULD was educated in the public schools of Dunkirk and in Waterford Academy in Pennsylvania. He learned the tinner’s trade and in 1872 came to Cattaraugus, where the same year he married Sarah. R., daughter of Danford RICH. He entered the employ of OAKES & ELLIOTT, where he has since been engaged, having the business charge of the establishment.

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Robert GUY was born of Irish parents in 1774. He married Laura STICKNEY in Otsego County. They resided near Ogdensburg, NY at the time of the War of 1812. They were in Broome County as early as 1816 and removed thence to New Albion in 1821, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They settled in a log house on lot 33. Mr. GUY died on June 10, 1851, and Mrs. GUY on March 19, 1856. He was a Jacksonian Democrat and liberal in his religious views. He was one of the first to open his house as a tavern.

Children of Robert and Laura (STICKNEY) GUY:

Joanna GUY (Mrs. Abraham DAY)

Timothy P. GUY, who was twice married, settled on the homestead, and left a son, Robert E. GUY

Emily GUY (Mrs. Ira VALAIANT)

Laura GUY

Emily GUY (Mrs. Kimball CHASE), deceased

Almira GUY (Mrs. Hiram BARTON), deceased

Himan GUY, who removed to Iowa and died.

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Samuel B. HERRICK, of English descent and of New England parentage, was born on Dec. 8, 1781, married Mary BOSSELLER in Montgomery County, who was born there on Nov. 29, 1782, and first settled in Sennett, NY. In the spring of 1830, Mrs. HERRICK with her children came to New Albion and settled on thirty acres of lot 12. Mr. HERRICK was a carpenter and builder and remained in Sennett to complete some work, and joined his family in December following. He added to the 30 acres 100 more and followed his trade. Mr. HERRICK died at the age of eighty-two. Mrs. HERRICK died later at the age of eighty. Children: Charlotte, Larry, Esther, Jeremiah H., John R., Fanny, Stephen M., George, and Elisha HERRICK.

Jeremiah H. HERRICK, was born in Sennett, NY on March 8, 1820, and came to New Albion with the family in 1830. On Dec 24, 1845, he married Eunice B., daughter of Joshua PARMELEE, a pioneer of Mansfield. She was born in Spafford, Onondaga County, on July 26, 1822. They settled on 75 acres adjoining the homestead on lot 4, and finally, by additions, had a farm of 180 acres. In the fall of 1869 he presented his oldest son the home, on lot 4, and settled where he now resides. He has been assessor twelve years.

Children of Jeremiah H. and Eunice B. (PARMELEE) HERRICK:

Judson HERRICK

Theodocia HERRICK, died on March 5, 1866

Fred B. HERRICK, who married Eureka HORNING

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William HIGBEE, a native of Connecticut, married Hannah HOPKINS in Turin, NY, where several of his children were born. About 1827, he removed from Barre, Orleans County, to New Albion and settled on Snyder Hill, where W. V. PAYNE now lives. He had four sons and three daughters, all of whom, except his youngest son, settled in the neighborhood. In early life he was a sailor. He was passionately fond of hunting in his old age, and on one of his excursions he gathered a quantity of Lobelia seeds and tried their medicinal qualities on himself. After a hearty vomiting exercise he threw the remainder in the fire. He died aged eighty-five years.

His son Sanford HIGBEE was a preacher and resided on the homestead.

Noah HIGBEE also moved to New Albion about the same time his father came and was a farmer. He married Harriet LUCE.

Jerome L. HIGBEE, son of Noah and Harriet (LUCE) HIGBEE, was born in New Albion on Feb. 16, 1839, and was raised a farmer. At the age of seventeen he became strongly impressed with a desire to obtain an education. He attended the schools of Cattaraugus and Gowanda and Fredonia Academy, and entered the preparatory department of Hillsdale College, in Michigan, in the spring of 1860, graduating therefrom as A.B. in 1866. Three years later he received the honorary degree of A.M. From the time he commenced his studies, he sustained himself by teaching. After graduating, he was two years engaged as a teacher. In the spring of 1869 he commenced the study of law in the office of Col. E. A. NASH at Cattaraugus. He married Martha, daughter of N. CHRISTIE, and at the solicitation of his wife and her father he became a merchant under the firm name of CHRISTIE & HIGBEE. He was elected school commissioner and served three years. About 1874 he entered the ministry of the Freewill Baptist Church and was the pastor of the church at Cherry Creek for one year. He spent the year 1875 in New York as business manager of the Baptist Union and preached there occasionally. In 1876-77 he was the pastor of the Freewill Baptist Church at Hamlet, Chautauqua County. At the same time, he taught a select school as he had at Cherry Creek. He also continued his mercantile business, and for about three years he had an interest in an additional store in Randolph and lived there. From Hamlet he returned to Cattaraugus, where he attended to his mercantile business until 1884. Besides constructing his own house, he has erected in his village twelve or fifteen other buildings. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and in 1891 was the nominee of his party in his district for State senator.

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Levi HILL came to Napoli from Chenango County at a very early day. He cleared a farm and set out one of the first orchards in that town, and resided there as late as 1833, when he removed to New Albion, where he was a farmer, and where he died in 1864. He married Philena MOREY. Late in his life, his wife died, and he married widow Ruth A. DREW.

Children of Levi and Philena (MOREY) HILL:

Gardner, Alexander, Clark, Eunice, Clarissa, Jerome, and Sarah HILL

Gardner HILL, was born in Chenango County on Dec. 12, 1821. On Oct. 24, 1845 he married Matilda A., daughter of John A. KINNICUTT, and settled in New Albion as a farmer. He died on March 1, 1854.

Children of Gardner and Matilda A. (KINNICUTT) HILL:

Leroy N. HILL, born Dec 11, 1846, married Martha J. JOHNSON of Conewango, was a farmer until Nov. of 1884, and since then has conducted a general store in the village of New Albion.

Lucius D. HILL, born on March 25, 1849, a merchant of Conewango.

Ellen S. HILL, born on May 2, 1852, married Thomas V. BOARDMAN, deceased.

Charles G. HILL, born on July 24, 1854

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Simeon B. HINMAN, born in Rutland VT on Aug. 11, 1800, came to East Otto in 1824. Mr. HINMAN married, in Aurora, NY on Dec. 6, 1826, Keziah BULLIS, who was born in Bennington, VT on June 24, 1806, a daughter of Benjamin and Rachel (HOYT) BULLIS. Mr. BULLIS was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mr. HINMAN, with the aid of his industrious sons, paid for his farm, built good buildings, and accumulated a competency. He was a prominent citizen, and both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. HINMAN died on March 28, 1890. His widow resides in Otto village.

Simeon B. and Keziah (BULLIS) HINMAN had eight children:

Adaline HINMAN (Mrs. Oscar F. BEACH) of East Otto

Lucy HINMAN, who died at age twenty-four

Hoyt W. HINMAN

Lyman H. HINMAN, resides in Marshalltown, Iowa

Millard F. HINMAN, of East Otto

Benjamin B. HINMAN, of Hinsdale

Rachel J. HINMAN, widow of Hiram DEWEY, resides with her mother (Keziah) in Otto village.

Marshall L. HINMAN, ex-mayor of Dunkirk, and secretary and treasurer of the Brooks Locomotive Works.

Hoyt W. HINMAN, born in East Otto on Feb. 5, 1831, began life laboring by the month for his neighbor, E. A. RICE. Three years later he located on a farm of 200 acres in Iowa, which he owned five years, when he exchanged it for a farm of 150 acres in Otto, which he still owns. In the fall of 1869 he removed to Cattaraugus village, and the past eighteen years has been an extensive buyer of butter and cheese. He purchased the Dr. LEAVENWORTH estate of five acres and has given the house and one acre to his only child, Hattie (Mrs. C. R. RICH). He is a large stockholder and a director of the Bank of Cattaraugus, the largest stockholder and president of the TEN EYCK Edge Tool Company, and owns several village lots. Mr. HINMAN is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a singer in the choir. On Oct. 23, 1856, he married Sylvania F., daughter of Salem EDMUNDS, of East Otto, a native of Massachusetts.

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Hadley S. HORTH, son of Benjamin HORTH, a pioneer of New Albion, was born on the farm where his father settled, on Oct. 11, 1845. He enlisted in the 72d N. Y. Vols. on Oct. 18, 1861, and re-enlisted as a veteran in Dec. of 1863, serving nearly four years. The first two years he was always on duty. Afterward his health became much impaired and for total disability he was sent to the general hospital and thence to his home. Returning to his regiment, he was made a prisoner in 1865 and paroled three days later. On Nov. 1, 1868, he married Maggie, daughter of James KILBY, Sr. Children of Hadley and Maggie HORTH: Ernest, Louis, and Hattie HORTH.

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Dorus INGERSOLL, a native of Washington County, was born in 1801. In 1823 he removed from Middlebury, NY, and subsequently to Leon. He was a prominent pioneer and held several town offices, being justice of the peace many years. He married Sarah EASTON, of Middlebury, and had five sons and five daughters. Mr. INGERSOLL died in 1881, and Mrs. INGERSOLL in 1866. Their son, Denzil INGERSOLL, was born in 1843, married Jennette BROWN of Boston, Erie County, in 1866, who was born there in 1847, and settled on the homestead in Leon. In the fall of 1875 they removed to their present home in New Albion.

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THOMAS JEWELL, the progenitor of a numerous race in America was probably born in England about 1600. The name was written as JULE, JOYELL, JEWEL, and then JEWELL. The first authentic account of him is in the early part of 1639, and shows that he then had a wife and one child. He received a grant of land the 24th day of the 2d month, 1639, of four acres for three heads – 12 acres – upon the covenant of three shillings per acre, located on the "Mount" near Boston, Mass. The "Mount" was Mt. Woolaston, first settled in 1625 and incorporated as Braintree in 1640. He was a miller. His sons were Thomas, Joseph, and Nathaniel. 

Joseph, born April 24, 1642, first lived in Charlestown (Mass.) and conducted the ferry between that place and Boston, and his son Joseph [Jr.] assisted him. When about 50 years old, he removed to Stow and there owned a grist-mill, which for years (as late as 1815 at least) went by the name of "JEWELL’s mill". This old mill-site was as late as 1860 occupied by a carpet factory and the stream is the dividing line between Sudbury and Stow. He died at about the age of 94. His second wife, Isabel, lived to be over 103.

Their son Joseph JEWELL [Jr.], born in June, 1673, was married in Boston to Mary MORRIS by Rev. Cotton MATHER, Sept. 14, 1704, and died in Dudley, Mass. in 1766.

Their son Nathaniel JEWELL, married Elizabeth WEBSTER, March 20, 1739, and died in Dudley, Mass. in 1782. 

The son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, John Morris JEWELL, was born Sept. 4, 1739, married Sarah PRATT, and died in Cherry Valley, NY on March 20, 1828. He raised quite a family.

[Ed. NOTE: dob was Sept 24, 1739 per "Jewell Register" pub. 1860]

The son of John and Sarah, Jared JEWELL, was born March 8, 1780, married Esther BURRELL, and died on Dec. 26, 1820.

The sons of Jared and Esther JEWELL:

James, Jonathan, Osborn, and Jared (who died in infancy)

James JEWELL (of Jared) came to New Albion from Westford, NY about 1831. On Jan. 20, 1836 he married Hannah GUY.

Jonathan JEWELL (of Jared) married Amanda DENTON in Otsego County, NY on Oct. 27, 1825. In 1832 he came to New Albion and located a farm on Lot 53. He died on April 13, 1887; Amanda died on Feb. 18, 1886. 

Children of Jonathan and Amanda JEWELL:

John D. JEWELL was born Dec. 7, 1829 and died Dec. 15, 1854 in Auburn, NY, where he was keeper in the State's prison.

Hannah JEWELL was born in 1832 and died in 1834.

James H. JEWELL was born Sept. 23, 1836 [in New Albion, NY]. He received an education in the common schools and Randolph Academy. In June 1854, he married Jane HENDERSON, of Otisco, NY. James began life as a live stock buyer and farmer, which business he continued several years. Since 1873 he has been an extensive dealer in cheese and is also the senior member of the firm J.H. Jewell & Sons, of Cattaraugus, dealers in hardware and crockery. Mr. JEWELL is a Democrat, and has been assessor nine years and was postmaster of Cattaraugus through Cleveland's first administration.

Children of James H. and Jane JEWELL:

Frank D. JEWELL

William N. JEWELL

Osborn JEWELL (of Jared) was born Feb. 25, 1810, married Electa RUSSELL on Sept. 24, 1849, and was a merchant in Buffalo. 

Their son John R. JEWELL, was born in Buffalo, married Harriet E. BENSON, daughter of George BENSON, in New Albion, and has spent his life as a seaman. He has passed through all the grades from the cook's helper to master, and still holds an American and British shipmaster’s certificate.

[NOTE: Information herein is a direct-line of ancestors of Jared and Esther JEWELL and their sons – James, Jonathan, and Osborn JEWELL. Anyone researching the JEWELL ancestry will find a wealth of information in "The JEWELL Register", published in 1860 by Pliny JEWELL and Rev. Joel JEWELL. This book attempted to identify all descendants of Thomas JEWELL (ca 1600), and includes about 2000 family members. As "The JEWELL Register" is now about 139 years out of date, a number of JEWELL descendants are contributing information to update our lineage. Any JEWELL information will be greatly appreciated. -- Arthur J. Burch -- Cincinnati, OH

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JEWELL Family of Cattaraugus County

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James H. JEWELL was born Sept. 23, 1836 in New Albion, NY. He married Jane M. HENDERSON in June of 1854. James died in 1909 in Cattaraugus Co. Jane died in 1915, also in Cattaraugus, Co. They had four children:

Frank D. JEWELL was born in Aug. of 1854 in New Albion, NY. Frank married Anna D. MOORE abt 1880 in New Albion. Frank died in 1920 in Cattaraugus Co. Anna died here in 1905. They had five children

William N. JEWELL was born on Nov. 24th, 1857 at Otisco, Onondaga Co., NY. He married Capitola McWHORTER, who was born in 1860 in Cattaraugus Co. She died here in 1895, at age 35. For over fifty years William lived in Cattaraugus, being associated with his father (James) and brother (Frank) in the hardware business. Later he became a jeweler, which profession he followed both in Cattaraugus and in Rimersburg, PA until illness forced his retirement. William died in Rimersburg, on Jan. 29, 1936, and is buried at Liberty Park Cemetery in Cattaraugus. [NOTE: Information indicates a daughter, Alice JEWELL, to have married Merle PEPPERDINE in Cattaraugus Co.]

Alice A. JEWELL was born in 1862 in Cattaraugus Co. and died here in 1880 (age 18). She is said to have married Maurice TULLER, but we have no further information.

Arthur R. JEWELL was born in 1874 in Cattaraugus Co. and died there in 1887, at the age of 13.

Children of Frank D. and Anna D. JEWELL (all of Cattaraugus Co.):

Harry JEWELL was born in 1880 and died in 1888

Jennie JEWELL was born (and died) in 1884

Mercy A. JEWELL was born in Dec. of 1884, married Olin HALL, and died in 1950.

Helen Vivian JEWELL was born in Oct. of 1892, married W. Leone BROWN, and died on Feb. 9. 1952. W. Leone and Helen have two children (still living). More information regarding the heritage of W. Leone BROWN is posted elsewhere in the Cattaraugus BIOS.

Homer W. JEWELL was born in 1886, married Victoria SWANK, and died in 1944, in Nevada.

[NOTE: Information provided through the combined efforts of Arthur J. Burch and Wende Butler Brock.

Persons requiring further information, or wishing to provide additional details regarding this family, may contact either of us.]

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Salmon L. JOHNSON was born in Cortland (then Homer) N. Y. April 6, 1818. In 1824 his parents removed to Fredonia, in 1825 to Ellicottville, and in 1826 to Ashford, where his father practiced his profession as a physician until 1846, when he removed to Otto and died there in 1870. S. L. became a clerk at the age of eighteen. He received an academic education and taught a district school one winter (1840-41). In 1841 he became a partner of his uncle, David B. JEWELL, as a general merchant in Ashford. In 1844 this partnership dissolved and in 1845 he became a partner in a like business in Otto with the late William F. ELLIOTT. In 1851 this firm established an additional store in Cattaraugus, and shipped their first goods from Dunkirk on a construction train before the railroad was formally opened. There were then only four small framed houses within the present incorporation of Cattaraugus village. In religion he is a Presbyterian, but is a regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a staunch Republican. He was influential in establishing the postoffice at Cattaraugus in 1851 and was its first postmaster, serving as such about fifteen years. He was three terms justice of the peace, and it was at his suggestion that Mr. PLUMB decided to insert in all his deeds conveying his lands in Cattaraugus village the clause forever prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on the premises conveyed. Several years afterward a petition was circulated praying Mr. PLUMB to rescind this prohibitory article and Mr. JOHNSON was the only one who refused to sign it. May 12,1861, he married Lucy E., daughter of Zane A. HAMILTON, who was born Aug. 5, 1828.

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Elisha L. JOHNSON was born in Ellicottville, May 10, 1828. His father, Elisha JOHNSON, was a physician of the old school and a graduate of Geneva Medical College. The son received his education in common schools and in Fredonia Academy. In 1845 he began to learn the moulder's trade at Fredonia and alternately pursued his studies in the academy. In 1850 he was a journeyman moulder in Gowanda, and in 1851 in Buffalo. In the spring of 1852 he entered the store of his brother in Cattaraugus as a clerk. In 1856 or 1857 the partnership of S. L. & E. L. JOHNSON was formed for the sale of general merchandise, which continued until the great fire. In 1866 the firm became the joint owners with O. W. HOWE of the Cattaraugus mills, of which, in 1868, the JOHNSON’s became sole owners, and which E. L. has since conducted. Mr. JOHNSON has served as town clerk several years. He married, first, Malvina BUGBEE, of Gowanda, who was the mother of both his children: Mary (Mrs. S. J. BENEDICT) and Grace B. (Mrs. Charles J. RICH, Jr.). Mrs. JOHNSON died in Oct., 1886, and in June, 1889, he married Mrs. Emily, widow of Rev. L. H. BUGBEE, D. D.

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Melzar JONES, born in Washington, Vt., Jan. 18, 1807, came to Candor, N. Y., in 1813, where his father, John JONES, was a pioneer. He was a manufacturer of pine lumber at the age of twenty-one, and in 1838 he settled on a farm of 53 acres on lot 5 in New Albion. About 1864, on account of failing health, he removed to Cattaraugus village. He assisted in building the school building and the Methodist Episcopal church, and was present and helped raise the first frame building and sat on the first jury at a justice court. He was elected a justice of the peace, but refused to accept the office; he has served as assessor seven years. In Sept., 1826, he married Tabitha JONES, who was born March 29, 1807, and died March 23, 1875. Children: Hiram A., Chauncey M., Colby, Ansel M., and Melzar B. The latter was born on the homestead Oct. 1, 1841. He finished his education at Hillsdale College in Michigan, and in 1863 took a commercial course in the office of the president of Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in Buffalo. He then took charge of the theoretical department of the institution and was next a merchant in Ellicottville with W. A. BOSWORTH. In Aug., 1864, he enlisted in the army and served five months. He then resumed teaching. Feb. 22, 1865 he married Jennie A. FRASIER, of Ellicottville, and settled on the homestead. Ten years later he came to the village of Cattaraugus and is now the proprietor of the Cattaraugus Marble Works. He has two sons and two daughters. The daughters are Emma M. (Mrs. Charles SMITH) and Jessie.

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The KINNICUTT family in America is of Scotch origin and is descended from Roger KINNICUTT, who early emigrated to Rhode Island. John Anson KINNICUTT, born in Pittstown, R. I., in 1800 came from Livingston county, N. Y., to New Albion on Jan. 12, 1821, and brought his wife, Sophronia CHAPEL, and their child to his shanty on lot 18. He was prominent in the early settlement of Little Valley and in the town of New Albion. At the organization of this town he was elected its clerk and held the office seventeen years. He was also justice of the peace in Little Valley and in New Albion forty years. He had five sons and five daughters. Their son, John Albertus KINNICUTT, was born in Jan., 1828, and was elected supervisor in 1864, the last year of the civil war, when the amounts levied in the county reached hundreds of thousands. The board held six sessions during that year. He married, in 1851, Helen, daughter of Benjamin HORTH, who was the mother of his sons, Anson C., Bion P. (died aged thirty-three), and Robert A. In 1874 Mr. KINNICUTT married Nellie ROPPS, of East Randolph; Children: Norman N. and Nora A. (twins).

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Jehiel LAMB, son of David, was born in Vermont, March 3, 1787, married Lois VARNUM, Jan. 1, 1810, who was born Jan. 2, 1789, and settled in Warrensburg, N. Y. In 1829 they came to Otto with two yoke of oxen and a heavy wagon followed by their single cow, making the journey in twenty-one days. They settled in "North Otto." He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was class-leader and superintendent of the Sunday school. About 1836 he sold his improvements and removed to Mansfield, where he died Jan. 30, 1870. Mrs. LAMB died Jan. 12, 1856. They had nine children. Their youngest son, Bolivar R. LAMB, was born July 6, 1830 and has always been a farmer. Oct. 17, 1853, he married Mary E. BARNARD, of New Albion, and purchased the homestead of Warren BARNARD, his wife's father, where she was born Feb. 20, 1834, and where they still reside. He is in sympathy with the Methodists and a worker in the Sunday school. He served as supervisor in 1866 and 1871. He has one daughter, Effie M., born June 6, 1865, the wife of Rev. W. W. MANNING.

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Earl M. LEWIS, son of George and Mary J. (FLYNN) LEWIS, was born in Freedom (q. v.). He was a clerk in the store of E. W. WEED & Co., of Yorkshire Center, and is now engaged with H. F. BLOOD in Cattaraugus. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a teacher in the Sabbath school. His maternal grandfather, Rev. William H. FLYNN, was a clergyman of the Freewill Baptist church about thirty years. When he retired from active work as a preacher he settled in Cattaraugus, where he spent about twenty years. He now resides at Yorkshire Center with his daughter, Mrs. LEWIS, widow of George LEWIS. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding in Feb., 1890.

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Lucius H. MALTBIE, born in Weedsport, N. Y., in Jan., 1828, lost his father at the age of five years, and his mother and stepfather, Mr. ROSE, settled in Otto about 1837, where Lucius H. learned the trade of tailor of his older brother. In 1851 he came to Cattaraugus, built a shop of boards, and began business as a merchant tailor. About 1878 he changed to groceries. In 1881 he added a line of drugs and medicines. He was appointed postmaster under General GRANT and held the position seven years. He has served as town clerk. In Oct., 1856, he married Kerrella, daughter of Charles BROWN, of Forestville. She died March 29, 1888. Children of Lucius and Kerrella MALTBIE: Ralph H., Burt L., and Bertha A. MALTBIE

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Nathaniel MANLEY, son of Jesse and Betsey (FRENCH) MANLEY, was born in Dummerston, Vt., June 29, 1817. June 22, 1832, his father and family arrived Mansfield and were fourteen days making the journey. Mr. MANLEY was a man of good education, had taught school, and had served as selectman in Vermont. He died in 1862 and Mrs. MANLEY in 1849. Nathaniel MANLEY, on Dec. 4, 1842, married Mary VOSBURGH, of Schuyler, N. Y., and succeeded his father on the homestead. He has been for many years an extensive buyer of butter and cheese. He was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. Mrs. MANLEY died April 26, 1887. Children of Nathaniel and Mary MANLEY: Martin H., Wilber J., Emmett F., and Jennie MANLEY (married Frank WOODWARD).

Wilber J. MANLEY, born March 9, 1847, was educated in the common schools, in Jamestown Union School, Randolph Academy, and Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in Buffalo. On April 27, 1871, he married Henrietta, daughter of Angus McDUFFIE, of Otto. In 1870 he began buying butter and cheese, which business he has since followed, except the years 1882, 1883, and 1884, when he pursued farming. In politics he is a Republican, and he held the office of supervisor of New Albion in 1878 and 1879, has served three terms as a member of the school board, and has been president of the village. Children: Robert E. and Roscoe.

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Christopher MOENCH, son of Christian, was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, June 22, 1835, and was apprenticed to the trade of tanning from 1849 until 1853. He then came to America and found employment at his trade in Versailles with Mr. GREEN. He was next a journeyman in the employ of Walter WEBSTER, of Gowanda, until Sept., 1861, when he bought out his employer and formed a co-partnership with F. AGLE, which continued under the firm name of C. MOENCH & AGLE till May, 1865, when Mr. MOENCH sold his interest to his partner and purchased the Cattaraugus tannery. In October following he organized the company of C. MOENCH & Co., which continued until 1880. He conducted the business alone until July 1, 1889, when the present firm of C. MOENCH & Son was formed. At the organization of the Bank of Cattaraugus he was elected vice-president, which position he has since held. He has served several years as a member of the school board. June 29, 1865, he married Caroline DIETRICH, of Hamburg, Erie county. Children: Henry L., Amelia L., Carrie A., Hattie F., George E., Dora C., Alice M., and Harmon F. MOENCH

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History of the Town of New Albion – Chapter XXXVIII (38)

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John MOSHER, son of John, was born in Hoosick, N. Y., married Eliza POTTER, and settled in Middlebury, N, Y. In the Spring of 1827, he removed to New Albion and settled where his youngest son, Reuben H. MOSHER, lived. He took an article for 300 acres, which is all in the hands of his sons and grandsons. He was a prominent and influential citizen and held several town offices. He was supervisor in 1851 and 1852. He died Feb. 9, 1874. Mrs. MOSHER died May 13, 1886. Children who lived to mature years:

George H. – A farmer, who settled in the northwest corner of New Albion and died there

Mary A MOSHER – Widow of George SIBLEY, of Great Valley

William P. MOSHER – Married Elizabeth ELLIS (died Dec. 10, 1889), settled on the south half of the homestead, and has served as assessor nine years

Cordelia MOSHER – Married J. PARMELEE

Alfred T. MOSHER – Born Sept. 18, 1827, married Ann BABCOCK (died Sept. 5, 1860), settled on a farm adjoining the homestead, where he now resides, and about 1864 married Susan MILK

Reuben H. MOSHER

Reuben H. MOSHER was born Aug. 16, 1834, and always lived on the homestead. He died Jan. 19, 1893. He married Betsey LOWE. He was assessor three years. "No man more completely enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people than did Reuben Henry MOSHER. He was rich in honest thoughts, and his self-respect raised him above receiving or bestowing flattery. He chose to pass for what he was – a plain, outspoken, and deserving man. In his business relations his word was a bond, which was sacredly kept. In his family he was considerate and kind. His friendship lived through adversity and was highly prized by his neighbors." Children: Ara E., Frank H., and De Lora J.

Ara E. MOSHER, born on the homestead, was first a clerk, and succeeded T. L. De NIKE as a druggist in Cattaraugus in 1879. He was twice burned out. He is now manufacturing a horse tonic, which is rapidly gaining in favor. He is also a dealer in farm implements and is associated with D. H. CARROLL in the sale of carriages and coal. In Sept., 1879, he married Gertrude E. MURDOCK, of Leon.

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Bio from:

Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893

History of the Town of New Albion – Chapter XXXVIII (38)

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Luther Herbert NORTHRUP, son of David and Keziah (TOWN) NORTHRUP, was born in Otto, Feb. 12, 1854. At the age of ten his father died and his mother removed to the village of Cattaraugus. He became a clerk in a general store and began his first business enterprise at the age of eighteen as a dealer in ready-made clothing under the firm name of MALTBIE & NORTHRUP, and later as HOAG & NORTHRUP, general merchants. In 1879 he was a member of the Cerbat Mining Company and spent two years in Arizona. He has also been a railroad station agent and an insurance agent. He is a stockholder, secretary, and treasurer of the TEN EYCK Edge Tool Company, and president of the Board of Education and a magistrate of New Albion. Oct. 8, 1878, he married Addie, daughter of Oscar F. BEACH, of East Otto. Children: Anna, Arthur B., and Kate NORTHRUP.

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Bio from:

Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893

History of the Town of New Albion – Chapter XXXVIII (38)

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Frank S. OAKES, son of Nichols and Mary (RICH) OAKES, was born in Arcade, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1844. Raised a farmer, he was educated in the common schools and had a few terms at a select school at Yorkshire Center, and at the age of twenty began learning the tinner's trade in Otto. In the spring of 1869 he came to Cattaraugus. In 1873 he had invented and patented his famous Common-Sense milk pan and then formed a partnership with M. G. ELLIOTT for their manufacture, which continued four years. He has since been engaged in the manufacture of everything in the line of cheese factory and creamery supplies, the present firm being OAKES & BURGER (S. F. BURGER, q. v.). Mr. OAKES has been a member of the school board over thirteen years. Sept. 11, 1872, he married Jennie CALVER and has two sons and a daughter.

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Bio from:

Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893

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