Family Sketches of NewportHerkimer County, NYMany counties of NY state had county histories published between the years of 1860 and 1900. Within many of these works are "family sketches". The list below are sketches of families for the township of Newport that were found within the references provided. This list also contains references for those people living elsewhere who were born or lived for a time in Newport Township. If they reside in other townships of Herkimer or Montgomery counties, look under the respective township for further information. For those outside of these counties, a brief abstract and reference is provided. Furthermore, family sketches provided by individuals whose ancestors are known to have come from or lived in Newport are also provided in this listing. If you would like to contribute your own family sketch, the only requirements are that you know positively that the individual for whom you write about was born or lived in Newport township, Herkimer Co. NY. Please send these sketches to Lisa Slaski. Compiled and typed by Paula Pitts. References: 1). "History of Herkimer County, New York", edited by George
A. Hardin, assisted by Frank H. Willard, D. Mason & Co., Publishers,
1893, Syracuse, NY. Family Sketches section. [Page numbers
are given first as printed on Genealogy Library.com; and second the page
number listed in the book, Family Sketches section (numbering starts at
1)]
Family Sketches: ANGELL, WILLIAM W., was born in the village of Newport in 1824. In his early manhood he learned the blacksmith's trade, and followed that business in his native village until 1857, when he formed a copartnership with E. P. VOORHEES and commenced the manufacture of wagons, carriages and sleighs, under the firm name of Voorhees & Angell, which business, in all its branches, he still continues. He was married in 1856 to Lucy R. HODGES of Jefferson county. He furnished a substitute in the war of the Rebellion at an expense of $600. He has served as trustee of the village of Newport three terms.[Ref. #2, p. 272] BABCOCK, CALVIN G., Newport, was born in Brookfield, Madison county, N.Y., January 7, 1835. His father was Richard C. BABCOCK, a son of Gideon BABCOCK, who was an early settler of Madison county. Richard C. was a native of Rhode Island and one of the first settlers of Madison county. He was a sea captain, having crossed the ocean sixteen times and visited all the important places in Europe, but spent his last days in Madison county as a farmer. His wife was Mary C. PERRY, a cousin of Commodore PERRY. They had six sons and four daughters, Calvin G. being the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. BABCOCK both died in Madison county. Calvin G. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and in Brookfield and Hamilton Academy. On the 20th of November, 1859, he married Lodema GILE, a native of Oneonta, N.Y., by whom he had three children, Mary C., George H. and Calvin G., Jr. In 1869 Mr. BABCOCK with his family came to Newport and settled on the place he now owns. He is a cheese maker by trade and owns Shedbrook factory of Newport, Sterling Creek factory of Schuyler, North Schuyler factory in Schuyler, and the Newport factory. He and his family are Baptists. [Ref. #1, 296/14] BENCHLEY, WILLIAM S., was born in the town of Fairfield, Herkimer county, in 1795, and the same year removed with his parents to Newport, where he has since resided. In his youth he became master of the hatter's trade and followed that branch of industry until 1821, when he engaged in hotel keeping and merchandising, continuing both branches of business until 1858, after which he retired from active pursuits. He has been a member of the masonic fraternity since 1819. He has been twice married, first on October 17th, 1821, to Mary WILLOUGHBY, of Fairfield, and again in 1838, to Roxa Ann POST, of Newport. He has held nearly all the town offices from supervisor down, and was for a time postmaster at Newport. He is the only survivor of a family of seven brothers, and although the father of six children, only two are living. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, for which services he has received one hundred and sixty acres of land and now draws a pension. His father, Joseph BENCHLEY, was a soldier of the Revolution. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BOWEN, H. S., was born in Oneida county, N.Y., in 1811. From 1856 to 1861 he worked at wagon making in Newport, and since 1861 he has been engaged in farming and as stockdealer. He was married in 1840, to Mary, daughter of Samuel HOWE, of Phelps, N.Y. They have three children, viz: Henrietta, widow of the late Captain Algernon SMITH, who was killed at the battle of Little Big Horn, Montana; Samuel H., now living in Ohio, and Seymour S., who married Adelia HAWKINS. Mrs. BOWEN's father Colonel Samuel HOWE, was in the war of 1812. [Ref. #2, p. 272] SMITH, Captain ALGERNON, above mentioned [in sketch of H. S. Bowen], was born in Newport, N.Y., September 17th, 1841, where he resided till the breaking out of the Rebellion. He was married October 10th, 1867, to Henrietta, only daughter of H. S. BOWEN of Newport. Captain SMITH was appointed second lieutenant in the 117th N.Y. infantry August 14th, 1862; promoted first lieutenant April 27th, 1863; captain, October 12th, 1864, and brevetted a major of volunteers to date from March 3d, 1865. He was detailed as aide de camp to Colonel ALFORD on brigade staff; to General FOSTER on division staff and to General TERRY on corps staff. He was engaged in operations before Richmond and Petersburg, Va., including the battles of Drury's Bluff, New Market, Darbytown Road, Laurel Hill, Cold Harbor, the assault and capture of Petersburg Heights, Burnside Mine Explosion and Chapin's Farm, also in the assault and capture of Fort Fisher, where he was severely wounded. He was mustered out of service May 15th, 1865. He received an appointment in the regular army as second lieutenant, 7th cavalry, August 9th, 1867; was promoted first lieutenant December 5th, 1868, and brevetted first lieutenant U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Drury's Farm, and captain U.S.A. for gallant conduct at the storming of Fort Fisher, N.C. During the winter of 1868 and 1869 he was engaged in the expedition against the hostile Indians in Kansas and the Indian Territory, including the battle of Washita River. From April, 1871, to 1873 he was in Kentucky, engaged in breaking up illicit distilleries. In March, 1873, he was transferred to the department of Dakota, and was in the expedition to explore the Yellowstone and Musselshell Rivers, and escort the surveyors of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He participated in the battles of Tongue River, August 4th, and Big Horn River, August 11th, 1873. In 1874 he was quartermaster and commissary of the Black Hills expedition under General CUSTER. May 17th, 1876, the expedition for the Yellowstone country, under General TERRY, left Fort A. Lincoln, Dakota. On June 25th, Captain SMITH, with General CUSTER and nearly three hundred officers and men of the 7th cavalry, fell at the battle of the Little Big Horn, by the hands of the hostile Indians. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BROWN, THOMAS, was born in the town of Newport in 1838. He was engaged in teaching school winters and working at home on the farm summers from 1858 until 1861, when he was married to Mary J. SCHERMERHORN and turned his attention exclusively to farming. In 1869 he removed to California and engaged in the livery business. The following year he erected a cheese factory, which he operated two years. He subsequently returned to Newport and spent several years as a drover, dealing principally in cows for the home dairy market, but since 1877 has devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BRADFORD, HOPESTILL, Newport, was
born in Fairfield, November 19, 1812, a son of Joseph and Lovina (TYLER)
BRADFORD, who were natives of Massachusetts. Joseph BRADFORD settled
in Fairfield about 1809 and moved to Newport in 1815. He was a native
of Zoar, Berkshire, Mass., and settled in this town in 1826. He followed
farming and dairying. He was a son of Elisha and Eunice (BENNETT)
BRADFORD, his father having been a soldier in the Revolution. Our
subject was the only child, and married January 24, 1843, Rebecca M., daughter
of Royal P. and Rebecca (GREEN) LUTHER.
Rebecca GREEN was born in Warren in 1804, a daughter of Dyer and Sallie
(EDDIE) GREEN, and a native of Massachusetts.
Her daughter, Rebecca, was born in Cheshire, Mass., in 1822, May 27, and
settled in this town in 1835. Mr. and Mrs. BRADFORD have three children
as follows: George L., cashier of the Oneida National Bank of Utica; Alice
C. born January 9, 1842, died March 4, 1867; Lovina C., born September
23, 1854, died April 8, 1861. Our subject is a Democrat and has been
assessor and trustee. George L. BRADFORD married Mary C. MORCY,
a native of Fairfield and a daughter of David and Elsie (BUCHANAN)
MORCY, of Newport. He graduated from the Whitetown Seminary, and
was engaged in the Newport Bank for seven years, then with the Oneida National
Bank for twenty-two years. He has two children Reba A.
BRAYTON, WARREN A., was born in Newport, on the farm where he still resides, October 10th, 1844, and was married to Fanny H. BRAYTON, of the same town, April 4th, 1865. He is exclusively engaged in farming, and is also a justice of the peace of his town. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BRIMMER, JOSEPH, was born in Dulkeith, Scotland, in 1834, and emigrated with his parents to Montreal, Canada, in 1837. In his early manhood he served a three years' apprenticeship at the painter's trade in Norfolk, St. Lawrence county, N.Y., which occupation he has since followed, having resided in Williamsburg, Canada, and in Oswego, Little Falls and Middleville--his present residence--in this State. In 1874 and 1875 he was in the U.S. government employ at Oswego. He has been twice married, first to ELizabeth DEVOLD, of Williamsburg, Canada, and again to Eliza E. WILLIAMS, of Little Falls. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BROWN, DR. ALBERT J., was born in the town of Warren, Herkimer county, in 1840. After spending his youthful days at school he commenced teaching, which he followed for seven winters, devoting his leisure time to the study of medicine. He subsequently attended two courses of lectures at the Berkshire, Massachusetts, Medical College, from which he graduated as physician and surgeon in 1863, and afterward served eighteen months as medical cadet in the army at David's Hospital. He spent the winter of 1865-66 at the Bellevue Medical College in New York City, and in 1866 located at Newport, where he still continues in the practice of his profession. He was married to Helen G. HARTER, of the town of Warren, in 1867. He has been president of the village and treasurer of the town of Newport, and is a member of the Herkimer County Medical Society. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BULLARD, BEROTH, was born in Kenebec county, Maine, and came with his parents to this State in 1816, locating in Newport in 1820. He married to Mary HELEGAS in 1839. She dying, he was again married in 1851, to Jane OLDS, daughter of Cortes OLDS, of Newport. He is extensively engaged in farming, which occupation he has followed from his youth. His father, Bezeled BULLARD, was engaged in the war of 1812 at Sackett's Harbor. [Ref. #2, p. 272] BURLINGAME, H. G., was born in Bennington county, Vt., in 1820, and removed with his parents to Herkimer county in 1836. In 1841 he engaged in the mercantile business which he continued until 1857. In 1864 he purchased the water power, saw-mill, tannery and cheese box factory at Newport, which, with the exception of the tannery-which he disposed of in 1871- he still owns and operates. He is also largely interested in agriculture, owning a farm in Newport and one in Schuyler. He has been twice married, first in 1844, to Elizabeth M. GREELY, and the second time to Cornelia WATERMAN, of Newport, in 1855. He held office of supervisor of Newport in 1874, 1875, and 1876. His grandfather, Jeremiah BURLINGAME, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and his father, Richard BURLINGAME, was engaged in the war of 1812. [Ref. #2, p. 272-3] CARTER, DR. SIDNEY S., was born
in Madison, Middlesex county, Connecticut, in 1833, and came to Fairfield
in 1846, where he afterwards attended the academy of that place several
terms. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion in September, 1862,
participated in the first and second battles of Fredericksburg, in the
latter of which he was wounded in the head, and was discharged in May,
1865. He then turned his attention to the study of medicine, attending
several courses of lectures at the
CLARK, JAMES, was born in the town of Schuyler, Herkimer county, November 24th, 1839. He was married to Ellen M. DALY, of Newport, and now has three children. He now resides in Newport, and is by occupation a farmer and dairyman. His father, John CLARK, was a native of Ireland and emigrated to Herkimer county in 1808. [Ref. #2, p. 273] COFFIN, ALEXANDER L., was born in Deerfield, Oneida county, New York, January 29th, 1816. He commenced business as an agriculturist in 1839, on a farm of three hundred and fifty acres in the town of Schuyler, which he still owns. He has been for several years a resident of the town of Newport, where he also owns a farm. He was married to Lovina E. FARMER, of Herkimer, February 11th, 1845. [Ref. #2, p. 273] COFFIN, JOSEPH R., was born in Newport May 30th, 1818, and remained a resident of the town until his death, which occurred in 1872. He was by occupation a farmer and dairyman. He was married to Mary Ann RATHBUN, of Newport, March 7th, 1848, who died January 9th, 1851. He was again married March 29th, 1852, to Sally WILSON, of Newport, who still survives him. Mrs. COFFIN's only child, Lucy, was born November 14th, 1853, and died December 1st, 1866. [Ref. #2, p. 273] CROSSETT, JOHN, was born in the
town of Schuyler December 2nd, 1824, and was married to Martha HALL,
of Newport, February 19th, 1845. He is by occupation a farmer, and
has reared a family of ten children. He furnished a substitute in
the war of the Rebellion at a cost of $1,025. His father, Benjamin CROSSETT,
was in the war of 1812, and his
CRUMBY, DAVID D., was born in Troy,
N.Y., in 1816, and came with his parents to Norway, Herkimer county, in
1818. At the age of twenty-one he entered a dry goods store at Norway,
as clerk, and continued in that capacity-with the exception of one year
spent in California- until 1850, when he removed to Newport and engaged
in the mercantile business, in
CRUMBY, GEORGE FENNER, Newport, was born in Newport, September 14, 18--, a son of David and Julia E. FENNER. David D. was born at Troy, N.Y., March 13, 1816, and settled in the town of Norway when two years of age, with his parents. Here he lived until the age of thirty. He was a merchant at Norway and Newport until 1859, when he moved to St. Paul, Minn., and was engaged in the livery business for eight years. He returned to Newport and followed farming and milling until his death, March 31, 1889. His marriage occurred May 17, 1852. His two sons were George F., born September 14, 1855, and Charles B., who was born September 17, 1866, a graduate of the Eastman Business College, and one of the promising young men of the day. George F. attended the public schools at Newport until sixteen years of age, when he entered Fairfield Seminary, from which he graduated in 1874. He was valedictorian of his class. He then taught school at Dansville, N.Y., for one year, when he entered Hamilton College and graduated in 1879 as valedictorian of his class. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practicing in New York city. After several months he returned to Little Falls and formed a co-partnership with R. H. SMITH. In 1882 he entered into partnership with Hadley W. JONES, which lasted until his death, July 27, 1887, aged thirty-one years. He was school commissioner in 1881, and that same year recived the nomination for assembly on the democratic ticket. He was president of the village of Little Falls at his death. October 4, 1882, he married Lillian GARDNER, and they had two children, Bessie and Mabel. [Ref. #1, p. 302/25] DAVIS, JOHN T., was born in Newport, August 12th, 1840, and still remains a resident of the town, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married to Maria A. BUELL, of Fairfield, January 4th, 1864. [Ref. #2, p. 273] DAVIS, JAMES, was born in Newport, in 1817. At the age of twenty-one he began business for himself as an agriculturist, and is now largely engaged in farm and dairy pursuits. He was married to Louisa HARKINS, of Newport, March 29th, 1838, and has two sons and one daughter now living, viz: John T., Charles H., and Parmelia B. His father, John DAVIS, came from Wales to Newport, about 1800, where he died January 26th, 1855. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.[Ref. #2, p. 273] DEXTER, HENRY W., Newport, was born in Fairfield, Herkimer county, July 16, 1823, a son of William B. and Sarah (JEWETT) DEXTER, who settled in Fairfield about 1819. His mother was a native of Connecticut and his father of Providence. The latter was a volunteer in the war of 1812, and was a Whig and later a Republican. He was very active in politics, and was a member of the Liberal church. He had four daughters and one son: Phoebe A. (deceased), Mary J. (PARKHURST), Henry W., Louisa A. (DEERING), Elizabeth A. (GRISWOLD), and Henry W. The latter married January 18, 1844, Mary E. PARKHURST, a native of Fairfield, and a daughter of Lyman and Susan (ENOS) PARKHURST. They have two children, Addie S., wife of Capt. Thomas E. MERRITT of the One Hundred Fifty-First Regiment Infantry, and at present auditor of the Adirondack & St. Lawrence railroad. He has also a son, Dr. Lyman C. DEXTER, a physician and druggist of Newport. He married Gertrude HARRIS, daughter of Archibald HARRIS. Henry W. DEXTER started in business as a farmer in the town of Newport, 1847, and continued until 1865, then speculated in livestock and produce until 1880. He was on the committee of the right-of-way of the H.N. & P.R.R. and was also a director until 1890. Mr. DEXTER is a 32d degree Mason, a member of Newport Lodge No. 455, Iroquois Chapter, and attends the Universalist church. He is also a director in the Newport National Bank. [Ref. #1, p. 309, 310/38] DEXTER, HENRY W., was born in the town of Fairfield, in 1823, and was married to Mary E. PARKHERST, of Fairfield, in 1844. He began farming in 1847 and is still largely interested in agriculture. From 1855 until 1870 he was engaged in buying cheese for Harry BURRELL, of Little Falls, at the same time dealing in stock and produce at Newport village, where he has long resided. He has served several times as president of the village of Newport, and was elected supervisor of his town in 1878. He was superintendent of the duty department of the state agricultural society from 1867 until 1872, and is now president of the Newport Union agricultural society. [Ref. #2, p. 273] DEXTER, LYMAN C., Newport, was born
February 21, 1854. His early education was obtained in the public
schools at Newport. At the age of fifteen years he entered Fairfield
Seminary. He graduated from Hungerford's Collegiate Institute at
Adams, N.Y., in 1872, and was employed in 1874 and 1875 in Utica, N.Y.,
as financial agent for Alfred PUTMAN
in the dry goods business. He then studied medicine with Dr. A. J.
BROWN,
of Newport. He graduated from the University of Michigan in June,
1879, and then took a post-graduate course in Bellevue Hospital, New York
city, from which he graduated in March, 1880, and commenced the practice
of his profession in Newport the following summer. He started the
first exclusive drug store in Newport, which he now conducts. He
is also a stockholder in West Brothers' knitting mill, and is a member
of the Improvement, Agricultural and Herkimer County Medical Societies.
He is a member of Lodge No. 455, F. & A.M., in which he has been junior
and senior wardens; belongs to the I.O.R.M., the Phalitorian Literary Society
of Hungerford Institute and of the Nonsaskin Literary Society. He is a
Republican, and has been town clerk four consecutive years, health officer
two years, and is at present town physician of Newport. He married June
27, 1884, Gertrude B., daughter of Archibald and Annie
DUDLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, M.D., Newport,
was born at Madison, New Haven county, Conn., January 1, 1855, a son of
Lucian W. and Mary E. (PAGE) DUDLEY.
Lucian W. was a son of David, and he of Roswell who was a son of David,
a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. The latter was a son of Deacon
David, who was a son of Ebenezer, and he a son of John who came to Guilford,
Conn., from England, in 1673, and the same year married Martha FRENCH,
of Guilford, Conn. The subject was one of two children (the brother
being George W.), and settled in Newport in November, 1888. In his
youth he attended the common school, and a preparatory select school of
the grade of an academy. At eighteen years of age he entered the
employ of the father at Norwich, Conn., as drug clerk, remaining five years,
when he entered the office of Dr. W. S. C.
DUNN, RICHARD, was born in Ireland, March 17th, 1814, and was married to Bridget FORD, also a native of Ireland, December 14th, 1836. In 1838 he emigrated to Newport, where for twenty years he was employed by the month as a farm hand. In 1858 he began farming for himself, which, in connection with the dairy business, he still continues. [Ref. #2, p. 273] FARMER, WOOLCOTT G., a native of Newport, was born June 1, 1861, a son of James D. and Abbie (WAIT) FARMER. He started as a clerk about 1885 for V. S. KENYON, grocer, in which business he continued until 1890, when he entered the employ of C. W. Palmer & Company, of Herkimer. January 1, 1892, he rented the grist and flouring-mill at Middleville. He was one of three children, the other two being Grace A. and Minnie, the latter deceased. James FARMER was a son of James and Lydia (ROBINSON) FARMER, and he and his wife are active members of the Universalist church. [Ref. #1, 426/237] FELLOWS, CHARLES L., Newport, a son of George W. and Louisa H. (BOWEN) FELLOWS, was born April 8, 1867, and had one sister, Ruth V. George W., the father , was a son of Joel and Angeline, who had five children. The subject was married to Emma L., daughter of Albert A. and Harriet L. BULLARD. He is a Republican and is town, also village, clerk. He commenced as a drug clerk for Dexter & Holcomb when sixteen years old, and after three years entered the employ of D. WELLS, in the meantime studying law with C. A. MOON. He entered the Albany law school in 1889, from which he graduated June 18, 1890. He was admitted to the bar at General Term of the Supreme Court April 28, 1892. after graduating he entered the office of C. A. MOON, of Newport, and on the death of the latter assumed charge of the business and office. The subject is a member of the Newport Lodge F. and A.M., No. 455, in which he serves as senior warden. [Ref. #1, p. 314/45] FENNER, EDWARD, was born in the town of Fairfield, in 1810, and was married to Elinor JOHNSON of Rhode Island, in 1834. After reaching his majority he worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade until 1857, when he became keeper of the country house, continuing in that capacity until 1871. His grandfather, Arthur FENNER, was a captain in the Revolutionary war for nearly seven years.[Ref. #2, p. 273] FENNER, ROSELL, Newport, was born at Cold Brook January 13, 1825, a son of Jeremiah and Phosa (RICH) FENNER. His father came from Rhode Island to Newport when two years old, in 1794. He was a son of George, whose children were: Jeremiah, Harding, Gorton, Seth, George, Lydia, Sallie, and Elsie. Rosell FENNER had one sister, Maria Louisa (deceased). He married on October 15, 1863, Mary ANN, daughter of Henry BRISTOL. He entered the lumbering business at Forestport in 1850 and after seven years engaged in the livery business at St. Paul, Minn., for seven years. In 1849 he went to California, remaining but fourteen months (in mining interests). He was also in the cigar business at Utica for seven years. He died October 2, 1892. His family are attendants of the Baptist church, Mr. FENNER's father was one of the original owners of the water-power of Newport. [Ref. #1, p. 314/46] FOX, MRS. LOUISA A., whose maiden name was AINSWORTH, was married in 1870 to John FOX, a native of Montgomery county, who died in Jefferson county in 1871. Her father, D. F. Ainsworth, was born in the town of Herkimer in 1811, and was reared and resided on a farm until 1834, when he went to Middleville and entered a general store in the capacity of clerk. He was married to Charlotte KNIFFIN, of Fairfield, in 1836, and the same year embarked in the mercantile business, which he followed until 1840. He subsequently turned his attention to farming until 1869, when he located in the village of Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 273] GALLAGHER, MICHAEL, was born in West Meith county, Ireland, in 1821, and came to this country with his parents in 1822. In 1851 he settled in the town of Newport, where he was engaged in farming and the dairy business until 1862, when he leased his farm and removed to Newport village, where he still resides. He has been for several years quite an extensive dealer in cattle, buying in Canada and the West, for the home market principally. He owns a half interest in the Newport flouring mill. He was married in 1848 to Mary H. CULLEN, of Newport, who dying, he was again married in 1855, to Judeth GALVIN, of Jefferson county. He has held the office of superintendent of the poor, and was keeper of the county poor house in 1873. [Ref. #2, p. 273] GRAVES, GEORGE, was born in the town of Russia, Herkimer county, April 23rd, 1818. He began farming in 1840, which occupation, in connection with the dairy, he still continues in the town of Newport. He was first married to Sarah J. ROSS, of Fabius, Onondaga county, who died in August, 1856. He was again married, to Mary A. STEVENS, of Fairfield, October 6th, 1857. Mr. GRAVES is a deacon in the Baptist church of Newport, and also clerk of that society, and has been honored at different times with various town offices. [Ref #2, p. 273] GRISWOLD, WALTER, was born in Newport in 1845 and was married to Eliza A. KELSEY, of Fairfield, in 1865. He is a son of W. P. GRISWOLD, of Middleville, and by occupation a farmer. [Ref #2, p. 273] HADCOCK, DR. E. P., Newport, was born in the town of Newport March 26, 1831, a son of Adam and Barbara Ann (VANSLYKE) HADCOCK, of Middleville. Dr. HADCOCK's early education was obtained in the latter town. At the age of eighteen he went to Utica and studied dentistry with G. N. FOSTER and William BLAKESLY, and after perfecting himself in the profession located in Newport in 1852, where he has since remained, and is regarded by the profession as one of the skilled dental surgeons in this locality. He has been connected with many of the improvements of the village. He has served as president of the village and was on the school board for nine years, president all this time, and is at present the only original member living of Newport Lodge No. 455 F. [Ref. #1, p. 366/135] HADCOCK, DR. E. P., was born at Middleville, Herkimer county, in 1830. In his early manhood he turned his attention to the study of dentistry and spent three years at Utica preparing himself for the practice of his profession. He afterward located at Newport, where he still continues to follow his adopted calling in all its branches. He was married in 1850 to Henrietta FONDA, of Troy, N.Y., a granddaughter of General FONDA, of Revolutionary fame. Dr. HADCOCK was one of thirty dentists to organize a State and national dental association in 1867. He was also one of the prime movers in the organization of the Newport Masonic Lodge, No. 465. He was honored with the office of overseer of the poor for about ten years, and school trustee for seven years. [Ref. #2, p. 273] HARRIS, JAMES B., was born in Fairfield, Herkimer county, July 23d, 1802. His father, Charles HARRIS, came from Rhode Island and settled in Fairfield about 1790. James B. was married July 18th, 1828, to Louisa BIDLEMAN, who was born in Manheim August 31st, 1808, and the only daughter of Peter BIDLEMAN, of Fairfield. At the time of his marriage, Mr. HARRIS owned twenty-eight acres of land in Newport-which he had paid for out of his monthly wages as a farm hand-upon which he settled and where he remained until his death, July 11th, 1864. He left an estate of four hundred and forty-six acres, which he and his wife by economy and hard labor had paid for, Mrs. Harris oftentimes working in the field with her husband, besides making the butter and cheese from a large dairy of cows. She is still a resident of the town in her seventy-first year. [Ref. #2, p. 273 & 274] HARRIS, ORRIN C., was born in Fairfield, Herkimer county, July 5th, 1842, and was married to Nancy M. SMITH, of Norway, in 1865. He is by occupation a blacksmith and is now engaged in that business in the town of Newport, in connection with the manufacture of cider and various other branches of industry. He is the inventor and patentee of a machine for the manufacture of cheese boxes. [Ref. #2, p. 274] HARRIS, RANDOLPH, was born in Montgomery county, N.Y., April 11th, 1814. He is by occupation a farmer and gunsmith. He has spent much of his time in hunting, a recreation which he still indulges in to some extent, and from which he has reaped handsome pecuniary rewards. He was married to Elizabeth HELMER, of Herkimer, and is the father of seven children. His father, Theophilus HARRIS, was a native of Connecticut, and a soldier in the war of 1812. [Ref. #2, p. 274] HARTER, THOMAS, was born in Herkimer in 1794. He was a life-long resident of the county, and died in the town of Newport in 1871, leaving a large landed estate. He was married August 20th, 1815, to Elizabeth SMITH of Herkimer, who died at the age of eighty-two years. He was the father of twelve children, of whom there are now living Mrs. Margaret PETRIE, Mrs. Lydia JENKINS, Madaline, Louisa and Benjamin HARTER. His father, Jacob Harter, was a Revolutionary soldier. [Ref. #2, p. 274] HAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER, was the first permanent settler of the town of Newport. In his thirteenth year he was apprenticed to Aaron MASON, of Providence, R.I. He had many adventures and he was yet quite a young man when he located in Newport in the fall of 1791. [Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 226] HAWKINS, JOHN G., was born in Newport in 1831, and was married in 1852 to Sarah DORN, of Fulton county. He was employed in agricultural pursuits until 1860, when he engaged in hotel keeping at Newport village, which he has followed most of the time since. His father, George K. HAWKINS, was a son of Uriah HAWKINS, one of the early settlers in the town. He has two daughters and one son, all living in Newport. Mrs. HAWKINS's father, Michael DORN, Jr., was born in Fulton county on the same farm where his father and grandfather were also born, the homestead having remained in the DORN family for over a century. [Ref. #2, p. 274] HAWKINS, KEITH, Newport, was born in Newport June 30, 1825, a son of Thadius K., one of nine children of Uriah and Mary (KEITH) HAWKINS. Uriah was a native of Rhode Island and one of the first settlers of Newport, coming thence in 1802. He settled and cleared the farm which Keith now owns. He served seven years in the Revolutionary war and drew a pension until his death, February 19, 1840. His wife died October 17, 1837. Thadius K. HAWKINS was born in Rhode Island February 12, 1800. He was a mason and a farmer. He married Sophrona, a daughter of David and Lydia FOSTER, natives of Connecticut, and early settlers of Norway, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. HAWKINS had three sons and two daughters. He was a Republican and died in June, 1875, and his wife March 9, 1872. In 1849 Keith HAWKINS married Lucy MARCY, a native of Newport; they had one child, Ellen, born November 15, 1849. Mrs. HAWKINS died March 15, 1850. In 1852 Mr. HAWKINS married Hannah UPRIGHT, of Newport, by whom he had four children, Frank M., Frederick U., Millard J. and George K. He is a mason by trade but for many years has followed farming. He is a Republican and has been highway commissioner and is also a member of Newport Lodge No. 455, F. and A.M. [Ref. #1, p. 429/242] HAWKINS, W. KEITH, is a native and a life-long resident of Newport, having been born on the farm where he still resides, June 30th, 1825. The early part of his life was spent at the mason's trade until 1858, when he turned his attention principally to farming, which vocation he still follows. He was married January 25th, 1849, to Lucy MARCY, of Newport, who died March 15th, 1850, and he was again married, to Hannah UPRIGHT, of Newport, October 6th, 1852. Mr. HAWKINS has held the office of highway commissioner of Newport for thirteen years. His grandfather, Uriah HAWKINS, was a Revolutionary soldier. [Ref. #2, p. 274] HILTON, JOHN, was born in Montgomery county, N.Y., in 1816, and the following year removed to Utica with his parents, where he remained until 1833, when he came to Newport and engaged in blacksmithing. In 1840, in company with E.P. Voorhees, he commenced the manufacture of wagons and carriages, which he followed until 1847. For six years thereafter he was employed in a tin shop, but in 1853 he resumed his original occupation, which he still continues. He was married to Sarah A. REEVES, of Jefferson county, February 16th, 1850. [Ref. #2, p. 274] HOLCOMB, J. B., M.D., was born in 1826 at Willistown, Vt., and came to Herkimer county in 1841. He prepared for college at Fairfield Seminary, and entered Union College, Schenectady, where he graduated with honor in 1850. He studied medicine with Dr. W. Suiter at Ilion, and attended lectures at the Albany Medical College, graduation there as M.D. in 1855. He commenced the practice of medicine at Ilion shortly afterward, and continued in this vocation until 1861, when he removed to Newport to take charge of a drug store, in which business he remained until 1866, with occasional practice in his profession. From 1862 to the close of the war, he served the government as enrolling officer and detective and held the office of town clerk for two terms. He was married to Margaret BURTON, of Newport, in 1858; has two children, May B. and Grant D. His grandfather, Ezekiel HOLCOMB, was a soldier in the Revolution, and took part in several important engagements, among which was the battle of Germantown. [Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 225] HURLBUT, GEORGE H., Newport, was
born in the town of Norway, November 1, 1826, a son of William H. and Chloe
(HULL) HURLBUT. She was a native
of Newport and a daughter of Joseph HULL. She was born January 1,
1800, and died November 13, 1870. William H. HURLBUT came to Newport
at about twenty years of age, but returned to Norway and remained till
1867. He died in Newport in 1887 in his ninety-fourth year.
He had three children, William D., George H. and Horace L., all married.
The grandfather and grandmother were Presbyterians, the former being associate
judge of Herkimer county. William H. was a son of Daniel and Hannah
(COLE) HURLBUT, who came from Connecticut
and settled in Salisbury. George H. married Harriet O. SCOTT in September,
1852, and they have one daughter, Clara B. Mrs. HURLBUT died September
12, 1866, and Mr. HURLBUT married second, Mary L. SCOTT,
on June 12, 1868. They have two sons, George E. and Harry H.
The subject of this sketch is a merchant, also a member of Newport Lodge
No. 455, of which he acted as secretary for nineteen years. He was
also junior warden. He is a Republican and postmaster of Newport
under Garfield and Harrison. He has held the offices of supervisor,
town clerk, president and trustee of the village several years. He
was a member of the Board of Education five years, and a member of the
Republican county committee in 1891.
INGHAM, W. A., was born at Ingham's Mills, Herkimer county, in 1840, where he remained until 1871 engaged in farming, hop raising and dealing in cattle. He then removed to Newport and engaged in the tannery and grocery business, under the firm name of Snell & Ingham. In January, 1879, he became proprietor of what is now known as the Ingham House, in that place. He is the present president of the village of Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 274] JENKINS, JOSEPH, was born in Newport, in 1820. His father, John JENKINS, emigrated from Wales and settled in Newport in 1801, and reared a family of fourteen children. Joseph has been a life-long resident of Newport, and is by occupation a farmer and dairyman. He was married in 1843 to Parmelia WALKER, of Newport, who dying, he was again married, to Lydia HARTER, in 1847. His son Dewitt T. JENKINS was born in Newport, in 1848, and was married in 1872 to Emma Jane, daughter of Solomon ROSCOE, of Indiana. He is by occupation a painter and farmer. [Ref. #2, p. 274] JONES, JEROME E., was born in the town of Newport, January 26th, 1837. He is still a resident of the town, and extensively engaged in farming and the dairy business. He was married December 10th, 1862, to Maggie HARTER, of Newport, who died June 15th, 1866. He was married the second time, to Fannie E., daughter of Joseph KELLEY, of Newport.[Ref. #2, p. 274] KEELER, HENRY B., was born in Albany in 1828, and came with his parents to Fairfield in 1829, and to Newport in 1833, when his father opened a tin shop and remained until his death in 1841. Henry thereafter resided with his uncle Daniel H. EASTMAN, of Fairfield, working on a farm until 1864, when he located at Newport and engaged in carriage manufacturing, which he still continues. He was married in 1850, to Sarah M. ARNOLD, of Newport. He was appointed postmaster at Newport in 1870, which office he still retains. [Ref. #2, p. 274] KELSEY, DWIGHT H., was born in the town of Fairfield, Herkimer county, in 1834, and was married to Alma C. GRISWOLD, of the same town, in 1856. He is now a resident of the town of Newport and is by occupation a farmer, dairyman and cattle broker, which business he has followed since 1855, except during the year 1875, when he was proprietor of a hotel at Middleville. [Ref. #2, p. 274] LONGSTAFF, GEORGE, was born in Northamptonshire, England, in 1822, and came to this State in 1840, first locating at Cherry Valley and engaging in the blacksmith business. In 1843 he removed to Newport, where he still remains, engaged in blacksmithing and farming. He was married to Mary BRADBURY, of Newport, in 1845, and now has a family of five sons and three daughters. His second son, George W., embarked in the drug, grocery and notion trade at Newport in 1878. He is also clerk of the town of Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 274] LOVETT, JOHN H., the sixth of a family of ten children, was born September 16th, 1849. His father, Lebbeus LOVETT, was born in Glenville January 29th, 1815; married Hannah HOSLEY April 4th, 1838, and died May 13th, 1876. Mrs. HOSLEY, the mother of John H., was born in England August 23d, 1815, and is still living. [Ref. #2, p. 274] LUTHER, DAVID B., was born in the town of Newport in 1826. After a prepatory course of study at Fairfield Academy he entered Hamilton College, from which he graduated in 1849, and for twenty years thereafter he was employed in teaching. He was married to Caroline GREGORY, of Sand Lake, Rensselaer county, in 1854. In 1869 he engaged in the hardware trade at Albany, but retired from active business in 1871 and returned to Newport, where he now resides. [Ref. #2, p. 274] MAY, MORTON M., was born April 8th, 1841, on the farm which he now owns and occupies, in the town of Newport. At the age of twenty-one years he commenced business as a commission merchant at Binghamton, which he followed until 1874, when he returned to the farm and has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married to Avis L. MARTIN, of Newport, October 5th, 1870. [Ref. #2, p. 274] MAY, MARSENA P., was born in Weston, Oneida county, July 8th, 1833, and was married to Mary M. BOWEN January 13th, 1858. He is a resident of Newport, and by occupation a farmer and dairyman. [Ref. #2, p. 274] MOON, CLINTON ABNER, Newport, was born in the town of Russia, November 8, 1827, the oldest son of Abner and Emily (MILLINGTON) MOON, the latter a native of Russia, and a daughter of Jonathan and Susannah MILLINGTON, who were members and active workers in the Methodist church. Our subject attended school and prepared for college at Fairfield. He graduated from Union College at Schenectady, class of 1853. He then taught several terms and studied law in Newport with John A. Wooster. He married Frances M., daughter of Christopher HAWKINS. Their two children are Jessie, wife of Frederick HOLTON, and Annie. Mrs. MOON died May 28, 1890, and he married second Harriet F. GRAY of Rome, N.Y., a daughter of Col. Timothy Harvey FERRIS and Eliza (SALISBURY) FERRIS, who were residents of Prospect, Oneida County, N.Y. Mr. MOON died May 11, 1892. He was a Universalist, and a Republican in politics. During the late war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, Company C, and was captain of his company, but received an honable discharge on account of poor health. He held numerous offices in his town, including that of district attorney and supervisor. [Ref. #1, p. 404/199] MOON, CLINTON A., was born in the town of Russia, Herkimer county, in 1827, and graduated from Union College in 1853. For two years thereafter he was engaged in teaching in the department of natural sciences at Frankfort. He then began the study of law with John WOOSTER; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Newport in 1857, where he was soon after elected justice of the peace. In 1860 he removed to Herkimer and the following year was elected district attorney. On August 23d, 1862, he was mustered into the Union service as captain of Company C, 121st regiment N.Y. State volunteers, but soon after resigned on account of ill health. In 1864 he removed to Ilion and in 1866 he returned to Russia, where he was engaged in farming in connection with his legal business until 1875. He held the office of supervisor of Russia from 1870 to 1875. He then located at Newport, where he still remains in the practice of his profession and serving as justice of the peace. He was married in 1853 to Frances M. HAWKINS, a great granddaughter of Christopher HAWKINS, one of the first settlers of Newport. Both his grandfathers, Benajah MOON and Jonathan MILLINGTON, were early settlers in Russia, and the latter a Revolutionary soldier. [Ref. #2, p. 274] MOON, WILLIAM W., Newport, born April 20, 1843, in Cold Brook, N.Y., is a son of Jefferson MOON, who was a native of Petersburg, Rensselaer county, born November 26, 1801. His father died when he was ten years old, and he being the eldest, was obliged to support the family, and so his education was necessarily limited. August 13, 1820, he married Martha PHILIPS. In 1822 he moved to Trenton, Oneida county, and purchased a farm known as the Camp Ground Farm, where he resided until 1833. He then went to Cold Brook, where he spent the remainder of his life. For some time he kept a hotel, was then in the distillery business, afterwards in the lumbering trade, and finally in cheese-box making. In 1863 he retired from business. He was a Whig and a Republican. He was justice of peace twenty-five years and justice of sessions many years. By his first wife, who died in 1853, he had eleven children. His second wife, Sophia NELSON, of Newport, died December 8, 1858. He died January 15, 1875. William W. was reared in Cold Brook and educated in the common schools and Fairfield Seminary. He taught school five years, was agent of Cold Brook Union store three years, and then engaged in the lumber trade with his brother Samuel three years. He and his brother then engaged in farming and dealing in cattle and horses. They are now extensive real estate owners in Herkimer county. On the 28th of January, 1866, he married Alice McVOY, of Grant, a daughter of Patrick and Deliah (WILLOUGHBY) McVOY, the former from Ireland, the latter of Newport, N.Y., a daughter of James WILLOUGHBY. Mr. and Mrs. MOON have two children, James W., of the firm of Forest & MOON, and Flora A. Mr. MOON is a Republican, and was supervisor five years, chairman of the board in 1879, and has been town clerk. He was one of the building committee of the County-House and one of the directors of the Poland National Bank. [Ref. #1, p. 327/68] MOREY, CHARLES D., was born in the town of Fairfield in 1849, and removed with his parents to Newport in 1865, where he still resides. He was engaged in buying and selling cattle until 1876, when he commenced the livery and undertaker's business, which he still follows. He was married in 1871 to Emma KELSEY, of Fairfield. His father, Mason C. MOREY, was born in Fairfield in 1814, and his grandfather, from Connecticut, was among the first settlers of Fairfield. [Ref. #2, p. 274] MOREY, L. A., Newport, was born
in Fairfield, N.Y., November 14, 1845, a son of William E., who was one
of twelve children of David and Annie (PARKHURST)
MOREY, natives respectively of Stephentown and Fairfield, N.Y. In
1793 Mr. Morey settled on a farm in Fairfield, and became an extensive
land-owner. He died in 1860. William E. MOREY was born in
MOREY, MILO, Newport, was born in Fairfield, N.Y., August 7, 1847, a son of David H., who was a son of David MOREY. David H. MOREY was born in Fairfield, October 27, 1812, and on September 8, 1813, he married Elsie BUCHANAN, born October 10, 1813, a native of Little Falls. She is a daughter of Thomas and Mary (CHURCHILL) BUCHANAN, who reared eleven children. Thomas BUCHANAN was a native of Little Britain, N.Y., and when six years of age came to Little Falls with his parents. The children of Mr. and Mrs. MOREY are Newel, Mary, Milo, and Annie. Mr. MOREY was a farmer. In 1859 he came to Newport, but died the same year on December 10th. He was a Whig, afterwards a Republican, and held minor offices in the town. Milo MOREY was educated in the common schools, in Fairfield Academy, and in the Clinton Liberal Institute. He is a farmer, and for the past thirty years has resided on the farm which he now owns. On the 21st of May, 1873, he married Kittie AVERILL, a native of Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, born March 28, 1856. She is a daughter of Theodore and Catherine DAVIS. Mr. and Mrs. Milo MOREY have had two children, Grove and Belle. He is a Republican, and has been assessor five years, and a member of the school board eleven years. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, of Newport, No. 596. [Ref. #1, p. 406/202] MOREY, MILO, was born in Fairfield, August 7th, 1847, and was married to Kittie W. AVERELL, of Madrid, St. Lawrence county, May 21st, 1873. His father David H. MOREY, was born in Fairfield October 27th, 1812; married Elsie A. BUCHANAN September 8th, 1835, and died December 10th, 1859. Milo's mother was born October 10th, 1813, and is still living. His great grandfather, Thomas BUCHANAN, was in the Revolutionary war, and his grandfather, John BUCHANAN, was in the war of 1812.[Ref. #2, p. 275] MOREY, NEWELL, Newport, was born in Fairfield, October 5, 1836, a son of David H. and Elsie A. (BUCHANAN) MOREY. David was a son of David and Mary (PANKHURST) MOREY, who came originally from Rhode Island. David H. was born in Fairfield, and his wife's father was a soldier in the war of 1812. The family are of the Universalist faith. The subject of this sketch started in at farming and cattle raising at the age of twenty-one years, which business he has followed since. He built the first cheese factory in the town, called the Babcock Factory. He is also interested in the firm of Morey & Kimball (meat market and merchandise). He was elected sheriff of Herkimer county from January 1, 1889, to January 1, 1892, and during that time resided in Herkimer. He owns a farm of 280 acres. He married, March 11, 1857, Mary H., daughter of George K. and Delia (KNIFFEN) HAWKINS, of the town of Newport. [Ref. #1, p. 406/203] MOREY, NEWELL, was born in the town of Fairfield in 1837. He located in the town of Newport in 1858, and was married the same year to Mary H. HAWKINS, of that town. He was engaged in farming and the manufacture of cheese, being proprietor of the Newport cheese factory until 1875, when he sold out, and has since been engaged in the meat market business at Newport under the firm name of Crossett & Morey. He has beeen dealing in cattle more or less for the past fifteen years. [Ref. #2, p. 275] MOREY, W. E., was born in Fairfield, Herkimer county, May 8th, 1817. He was the tenth son of David MOREY, who settled in Herkimer county about 1793. He was married to Eliza CARPENTER, of Norway, in 1843, and commenced farming in Newport in 1847. His only son, Lowell A. MOREY, was born November 14th, 1845, and married Maria A. PARKHURST, of Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 275] MURPHY, JAMES A., Newport, was born in Fairfield, May 10, 1857. He is a son of Cornelius, who was a son of Cornelius and Margaret MURPHY, natives of Ireland, who came to America in 1852. Cornelius Jr., was married in Fairfield, N.Y., to Mary FORAN, a native of Ireland, by whom he had six children. Mr. MURPHY purchased the Coe farm in Norway, and there resided twenty-six years. Mrs. MURPHY died in 1865, and Mr. MURPHY's second wife, Mary BUTLER, died in 1890. He is a Democrat, has been highway commissioner and inspector of elections. He now resides with his son, James A. The latter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He is a farmer by occupation. In 1884 he married Mary MAXWELL, a native of Newport, who was born September 25, 1867, a daughter of James and Mary MAXWELL, natives of Ireland, who came to America about 1862. Mr. MURPHY is a Democrat and has held the offices of commissioner of highways and inspector of elections. He and wife are Catholics. [Ref. #1, p. 405/201] NELSON, EDWIN J., Newport, was born in Little Falls February 11, 1855, a son of Henry C. and Gertrude A. (WEMPLE) NELSON, the former a resident and native of Little Falls and the latter of Manheim. In 1849 Henry and his brother, William NELSON, started in the mercantile business in Little Falls under the firm name of H.C. & W. Nelson. Later Edwin J. was admitted as a partner, continuing until the death of William NELSON, February 19, 1881, when for two years he conducted the business, when he sold a part interest to W. A. Pepper, the firm being E. J. Nelson & Company. In 1885 Edwin J. sold his interest, and in 1886 he, in company with William F. Lansing, bought the property and started the knitting-mill under the firm name of Nelson & Lansing. This continued until 1890, when Edwin's mother and two brothers, Arnold and Seymour, moved to Middleville, where Mrs. NELSON died April 11, 1892. Her children were Edwin J., Carrie, wife of William FETER (she afterward married Frank THOMAS); Emma, wife of S. W. DILLENBECK; Seymour and Arnold. Henry C., their father, died November 25, 1876. [Ref. #1, p. 333/78] NEWMAN, A., was born in the town of Russia, Herkimer county, in 1808. In his early manhood he was employed at wool carding and cloth dressing. At the age of twenty years he commenced dealing in cattle, which branch of business he has continued to the present time. He is also engaged in the meat market and grocery business at Newport, and was proprietor of the Newport flouring mill from 1859 to 1870. He was married to Nancy LAWTON in 1844. [Ref. #2, p. 275] PARKHURST, LYMAN, was born in the town of Fairfield, Herkimer county, December 30th, 1798, and was married to Susan ENOS, of the same town, March 18th, 1819. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, buying and shipping cheese a portion of the time until 1872, when he removed to Newport village and retired from active life. He has two sons and two daughters, all living in Herkimer county. [Ref. #2, p. 275] PARRY, EVAN, was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, December 14th, 1819. At the age of thirteen years he commenced the blacksmith's trade with his father, which business he has continued to follow to the present time. He came to this country in 1849, and is now a resident of Middleville, Herkimer county. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were blacksmiths, each working at the business his entire lifetime, and Evan has averaged twelve hours work in twenty-four for every working day since he was thirteen years of age. His two sons, Rowland and James E., are also masters of and working at the same trade. Mr. PARRY has been twice married, the first time in 1839 to Jane JONES, and again in 1854, to Sophrona FARMER. He has two sons and one daughter. [Ref. #2, p. 275] PARRY, ROLAND, the elder son of Evan PARRY, was born in Wales, November 22nd, 1844. He bagan blacksmithing at the age of fourteen years, and still continues to work at that business. He came to this country with his parents in 1849, and was married January 12th, 1869, to Harriet M., daughter of Thomas E. MORGAN, of San Francisco, California. He has three children, viz; John C., Edith J. and Leon T. [Ref. #2, p. 275] PAYNE, GEORGE W., was born in the town of Newport in 1822. After arriving at his majority, in 1843, he spent seven years as a carriage and sign painter, and in 1850 went to California, where he was two years employed at the same business, after which he returned and located in Newport, where he has since been engaged in the manufacture of wagons, carriages and sleighs. He was married in 1846 to Alma L. BAILEY, of Connecticut. He has served two years as president of Newport village. His father, John M., and his grandfather, Jesse PAYNE, were among the first settlers of Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 275] PERRY, IRWIN A., was born in Newport in 1840, and has been a life-long resident of the town. He is by occupation a farmer and carpenter. His father, Mylo PERRY, came from Connecticutr and settled in Newport about 1828, where he died at the age of seventy-four years. [Ref. #2, p. 275] PERRY, STUART, was born in Newport, was a graduate of Union College in 1837, and was married in 1838 to Amy Jane CARTER, who died in 1873, leaving one child, Mrs. William H. CHAPMAN, of Utica, N.Y. In 1875 he was married to Jane W. MAXSON, of Newport. In 1840 Mr. PERRY entered into a large produce buying and commission business with his brother and brother-in-law. After twenty years in a business ill suited to his inclinations and aptitude, what during this period of great commercial activity had been indulged mainly for recreation became the serious employment of life. Thenceforward his time has been engrossed by invention, in the pursuit of which his perserverance and industry are attested by nearly forty patents. They include: an inflammable gas engine, a combination bank lock with a portable key called the Great American or Key Register Bank Lock, numerous horse power inventions, and a rotary hay tedder. [Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 227] POST, DAN, Newport, was born in 1771 and came to Newport with his brother Nathaniel when a young man. Dan worked at farming. He married Mercy (???), and their children were: John, Dan, jr., Spencer, Watson, Willoughby, Nathaniel, Roxy A. BENCHLEY, and Julia A. HALE. Dan Post, jr. married Ann STEPHENS in 1824. She is a daughter of Benjamin STEPHENS of Fairfield. They had two children, Henry and Dan 3d. He married a second, Delcena KNIFFIN, a native of Newport, and a daughter of Obediah KNIFFIN. They also had two children, Charles R. and Obediah K. After his second marriage Mr. POST moved to Ohio, where he remained until his death. Henry POST's father died when he was thirteen years of age, and he lived with his uncle, John POST, in the town of Russia until 1844. He then taught school in Illinois for four years, when he returned to Middleville, and has since followed farming and carpentering. While building a barn on his farm he discovered some quarts crystals, which he mines. He has one child living, Annie, wife of George W. NELLIS, jr., editor of the Wide Awake Herkimer Count Record of Herkimer. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Universalist church and superintendent of the Sunday-school. [Ref. #1, p. 335,336/83] QUICK, WILLIAM, was born in Ulster county, New York, in 1812. Early in life he learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, which business he followed until 1858, since which time he has been engaged in farming. He has been twice married. His present wife, Malvina, was a daughter of George ELLISON, of Greene county. [Ref. #2, p. 275] RATHBUN, CHARLES and ADELBERT, sons of S. C. Rathbun, were born in Newport, on the farm which they now occupy, the former July 31st, 1847, and the latter July 6th, 1849. Adelbert was married to Mary A. BROWN, of Lewis county, October 13th, 1875. [Ref. #2, p. 275] REYNOLDS, GIDEON, Newport, and his wife, Annie CRANDALL, settled in the township of Norway, coming from Rhode Island, and had two children, William and Robert. He died September 9, 1868. William commenced life as a clerk at ten years of age, and at the age of twelve taught school, which he followed for several years, then purchased a farm, where he lived until his death. He was also a produce dealer. William REYNOLDS, jr., was born May 25, 1830. When seventeen years old he took charge of his father's farm, and at the age of thirty he purchased his father's interest in the farm which he followed for two years. He then sold the farm, moved to Newport and followed the produce business seven years. In 1870 he purchased a farm near Newport, which he sold, then purchased the farm of eighty acres where he now resides. He also owns two hundred acres of land in the town of Schuyler. He is a member of the Newport Improvement society, and is president of the canning factory, which employs fifty hands and has a capacity of 20,000 cases of corn. He was justice of the peace of Norway and Newport and was a Republican until 1872, when he became a Prohibitionist. He was trustee and treasurer of the Newport Union Free School eleven years, secretary and treasurer and trustee of the Universalist church. His mother, Betsey (GILES) REYNOLDS, was a daughter of James GILES who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. [Ref. #1, p. 338/87, 88] REYNOLDS, GILES G., was born in the town of Norway, in 1812, where he resided until 1870, engaged in farming and a portion of the time dealing in stock and butter and cheese. In 1870 he rented his farm and removed to Newport where he still resides. He was married in 1837 to Eveline McMICHAEL, of Little Falls. He is the oldest son of William REYNOLDS, who was born in Rhode Island in 1790, and came to the town of Norway with his parents in 1794. [Ref. #2, p. 275] REYNOLDS, WILLIAM, also a son of William REYNOLDS, was born in the town of Norway in 1830, and was married to Esther COFFIN, of Deerfield, Oneida county in 1860. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1862, when he removed to Newport village and began dealing in country produce, which he followed until 1868. He has held several offices in his town and village, and is at present a justice of the peace, and also secretary and treasurer of the Newport Union Store. [Ref. #2, p. 275] REYNOLDS, STEPHEN J., was born in Rensselaer county, New York, in 1809, and came to Herkimer county in 1828. He was married to Fannie BAILEY, of Herkimer, March 4th, 1835. He commenced working at the cooper's trade in 1830, which business he has followed to the present time. [Ref. #2, p. 275] RICHARDS, WARREN W., was born on the farm where he still resides, in Newport, May 6th, 1833. He was married to H. Emogene JACKSON, of Schuyler, September 20th, 1871. He has been engaged in agricultural pursuits since 1868. His father, John RICHARDS, was a native of Wales; came to this country when a young man; married Sarah TANNER, of Schuyler, and reared a family of eleven children. [Ref. #2, p. 275] SHERMAN, JOHN, Newport, was born in Newport, N.Y., August 1, 1855, a son of Waldo, who was a son of Berzillai Sherman, a native of Massachusetts, born January 20, 1788. The latter came to Newport when a young man, and settled on the farm now owned by Earnest SHERMAN. His wife was Sophia IANES, born in 1785, and they had eleven children. Mr. SHERMAN's second wife was Mary FENNER. He served as teamster in the war of 1812, was a Whig in politics, and died January 3, 1862. His first wife died August 15, 1841. His son, Waldo, was born in Newport in 1824, and married Julia FULLER, a native of Newport, and a daughter of Ezra and Lucy FULLER. To Mr. SHERMAN and wife were born three sons: Charles (deceased), John and Earnest. He was a Democrat and held the offices of commissioner of highways six years and supervisor one year. He was a member of Newport Lodge, No. 455, F. and A.M., and he and wife attended the Universalist church. He died in 1890. His son John was reared on the old homestead and educated in the common schools. in 1879 he married Minnie HIGGINS, daughter of Gilbert and Emily HIGGINS. Mr. SHERMAN and wife have three children: Charles Earl, Jennie B., and Ida E. Mr. SHERMAN is a Democrat. [Ref. #1, p. 343/95, 96] SPELLMAN, JOSEPH, Newport, was born in Ireland in 1824, a son of Edward and Anna (ROURK) SPELLMAN, who had a family of three sons and a daughter. Mrs. SPELLMAN died in Ireland, and in 1860 Mr. SPELLMAN came to America, where he lived until his death in 1882. Joseph was reared on a farm, and when a young man left his native land and came to America. He married Anna O'CONNER, a native of Ireland, by whom he has had the following children: Aurora, Edward, Dennis, Minnie, James and Annie. Mr. SPELLMAN is a farmer and owns 135 acres of land in Newport. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion he and family are Catholics. [Ref. #1, p. 417/221] SPENCER, ALPHEUS, a native of Rhode Island, located in Newport in 1812, where he was engaged in blacksmithing until 1840, when he turned his attention to farming, following it until his death in 1868. He was twice married, the last time to Chloe BROWN, of Cheshire, Mass., who is still living in Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 275] STACY, O. L., was born in Oneida county in 1822. In 1844 he engaged in the hotel business at McConnellville, where he remained until 1847, when he moved to Newport, purchased the Newport House, afterward known as the Stacy House, which he continued to keep until December, 1878. Mr. STACY was reared in a hotel and has been connected with the business for nearly fifty years. He was married in 1844 to Mary HADCOCK, of Oswego county. [Ref. #2, p. 275] STILLMAN, EZRA, Newport, was born
in Rhode Island about 1790 and died, aged seventy-three years. He
was a son of Benjamin STILLMAN and married Polly NEWBERRY.
He settled in the town of Newport in 1811 and was the father of eight children,
Nathaniel P., Samuel N., Mary Ann, Erastus B., George, Jane, Nancy and
Jackson. At the age of twenty-three Nathaniel P. started at farming,
where he now lives. He married Lydia WILSON
in 1836. She was a native of Newport and a daughter of John and Sallie
WILSON. She died in 1887, aged sixty-nine years. They have
seven children, as follows: Emily, Adaline, Louise, Minerva, Lydia, Flora
and Ezra. Emily married Gilbert HIGGINS
in 1857, and lives on a small farm near Newport. They have one daughter,
Minnie, who married John SHERMAN, a
farmer, who also lives near Newport. Louisa married William HARRIS
in 1860. The latter enlisted as a private in Company D, First Berdan's
Sharpshooters, in 1861, and died August 11, 1863, at Sulphur Springs, in
Virginia. They had two children, one of whom now survives, Mrs. Carrie
SPELLMAN, of Cold Brook. Louisa HARRIS died August 4, 1875, aged
thirty-two years. Minerva married George WILCOX
July 4, 1864, and died in 1867, aged twenty-two years. Lydia was
born in 1850 and died in 1870, aged twenty years. Flora married John
PAYNE in 1877 and resides in Utica.
They have one daughter, Bertha A. Ezra STILLMAN, Jr.,
STODDARD, WILBUR, O., Newport, was born in Newport, Herkimer County, in 1857, a son of Orville J., whose father was Harvey, a native of Connecticut, born in 1796. In 1820 the latter came to Newport, N.Y., and settled on the farm now owned by his son, Orville J. He married Mary DANIELS, a daughter of Eleazer DANIELS one of the earliest settlers of Newport, and in the war of 1812), by whom he had two sons and two daughters. By trade he was a carpenter and assisted in building the Norway Church, the church at Russia Corners and Middleville Church. In politics he was a Republican. He died March 10, 1869, and his wife died in 1878. Orville J. STODDARD was born in Newport on April 8, 1837, and has always been a resident of the town. August 19, 1855, be married Adelaide J. MINOTT, a native of Schuyler, born March 3, 1841. She was one of the four daughters of Colonel and Betsey (FARRINTON) MINOTT, early settlers of Schuyler, N.Y. The children were Wilbur O., Mary A., wife of George M. JONES, of Newport, and Frank H. Wilbur O. was reared on the old homestead. He and his brother Frank are the leading honey producers of the county and they also do an extensive business in pop-corn raising. He owns two blocks and a fine dwelling in Middleville, is a Republican and has been assessor one term. He has been bookkeeper and treasurer of the Hasenclever cheese factory seven years and has taught school several terms. [Ref. #1, p. 346/101] STROUP, WILLIAM E., JR., was born in Newport January 17th, 1850, and was married in 1877 to Ada M. MOON, of Cold Brook, Herkimer county. He is by occupation a carriage and sign painter and wagon maker, following his vocation at Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 275] SWITZER, WILLIAM H., was born in 1856 at Little Falls, where, in his youth he learned the tinsmith's trade with L. Gilman & Co., and in 1876 he located at Newport and opened a tin shop and stove store, which business he still continues. He was married in 1877 to Edwina ROSS, of Newport. [Ref. #2, p. 275] TABER, FREDERICK FRANK, Newport, was a son of Walter M. and Elizabeth (FRANK) TABER. His father was a son of Peleg TABER, a native of Herkimer county, who had five children: Adelaide, Frederick Frank, Louise, wife of Charles WHITE; George R. and Charles W. The mother, Elizabeth was a daughter of Frederick FRANK, who was a resident of Fort Herkimer. Frederick FRANK was born in the town of Herkimer, December 22, 1837. At the age of twenty-two he began for himself, following farming and teaming for several years, then began the manufacture of chairs, and in 1887 he purchased the hotel which he now keeps. He married Harriet C., daughter of Walter P. and Harriet W. GRISWOLD, and they have two children: Linda, wife of Charles PARKHURST, and Walter G. [Ref. #1, p. 421/228] TABER, PELEG, Newport, came from the town of Danby, Rutland county, Vt., and settled on the Turnpike between Herkimer and Little Falls. He next moved on the first farm north of the County house, and then he and his son, Albert, purchased the first farm west of the County house, which they sold to Walter TABER, and bought the adjoining farm west. Peleg TABER married a Miss COLE, and their children were as follows: Hannah CUMMINGS, William C., Albert, Walter and John, all residents of the county through life except Hannah. Albert married Nancy, daughter of Henry J. and Nancy MYERS, and their children were William Henry (deceased); Helen L., John A. and Ira (deceased). John followed farming and married January 11, 1860, Annette, daughter of Robert and Nancy STEWART. Her father came here when she was young. Their children were Minnie, Stewart J., Etta and Bertie. John TABER started for himself as a farmer at the age of twenty. For six years he worked by the month, then on his marriage he rented a farm in Montgomery county, where he remained three years. Returning to Herkimer county he worked at the carpenter's trade, and then moved to Orange county, where he remained three years, working for his uncle, Samuel J. STEWART. He then moved to Fairfield, remaining thirteen years, for two years being in the hotel business. He was also an officer and made a specialty of collections. In 1881 he purchased his present residence. He has held the offices of constable for twenty-four years, deputy sheriff nine years, collector, and chief of police of Middleville. Ira, son of Albert, was a soldier in the late war, enlisting in company I, 121st N.Y. Volunteers. He was disabled and brought home from Frederick City. [Ref. #1, 351/109, 110] THORNTON, ELISHA, is a native and a life-long resident of Newport village, where he was born in 1822. In 1843 he commenced in the business of harness making, which he still continues. He was married to Anna L. BROWN, of Newport, June 9th, 1847. He has been president of Newport village and has held other offices of the coporation. He has been connected with the national bank of Newport since its organization and is its present vice-president. [Ref. #2, p. 275] VOORHEES, E. P., was born in Albany county, N.Y., in 1813. In 1833 he located at Newport, and was married in 1836, to Ann Eliza CRAUS, of Cobleskill, Schoharie county. In 1840 he commenced the manufacture of carriages and sleighs at Newport, which business is still continued in all its branches, under the firm name of Voorhees & Angell. [Ref. #2, p. 275] WARD, HENRY L., was born at what was then called Eaton's Bush, in the town of Little Falls, four miles north of the village, on the 7th day of February, 1813, on the farm now owned by Sidney WARD. His early education was obtained mostly in the common schools; he attended Fairfield Seminary one term. His father being a farmer, farming seemed also to be the natural occupation of Henry, and he has followed it nearly all his life. At the age of twenty-three he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, one mile south of Middleville. He was supervisor for six terms in the town and also inspector of the county house for five terms. He has been a member of the Universalist church at Middleville. Mr. Ward was married January 21st, 1847, to Sophia, daughter of Isaac PETRIE, of Little Falls. She died in February, 1848, and he was married April 27th, 1850, to Miss Beula Ann, daughter of Ephraim and Mary MARTIN, of Lansingburgh, N.Y. Their children have been H. Judd, born December 6th, 1852; Frank Martin, born July 27th, 1854; Belah J., born September 8th, 1857, and E. Stewart R., born June 5th, 1861, died October 14th, 1864. Mr. WARD's parents were born in Old Guilford, Conn., and died on the farm where he now resides. Mrs. WARD's father was born in New Brunswick, N.J., and died in Troy, N.Y. Her mother was born in Coventry, Conn., and died in the town of Herkimer, N.Y. [Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 225.] WARD, WALTER H., was the son of Peter and Sarah HILLARD WARD, natives of Connecticut, who removed to this country in 1795. The Little Falls Journal of March 5th, 1878, contained the following appropriate obituary notice of Mr. WARD: "He was born upon the farm upon which he died at the age of seventy-seven years. ..." [Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 225] WATERMAN, F., was born at Chatham, Columbia county, Setember 5th, 1787, and when a boy removed to Salisbury, where he was afterwards engaged in the mercantile business with an uncle. This business he continued at Fairfield and Utica until the fall of 1832, when he removed to Newport, where in addition to general merchandising he carried on the milling and tanning business, residing here until his death in 1862. He was first married to Sarah CHATFIELD, of Fairfield, who died in 1832, when he was married to Charlotte WARD, of Little Falls. [Ref. #2, p. 275] WATERMAN, JAMES H., was born in Salisbury, Herkimer county, June 6th, 1828, and was married to Adeline NELSON, of Little Falls, January 27th, 1848, since which time he has been engaged in farming and the dairy business. His grandfather, Glading WATERMAN, was a Revolutionary soldier. [Ref. #2, p. 275] WHEELER, JAMES, was born in Otsego county, N.Y., in 1844, and was married to Miss K. ELWELL, of Delaware county, in 1864. He enlisted in Company I, 1st regiment New York engineers, September 3d, 1864, and was discharged July 3d, 1865. He is by occupation a miller, commencing the business in 1864. [Ref. #2, p. 276] WHEELER, JEROME B., was born in the town of Russia, Herkimer county, January 4th, 1829. He was married to Emily E. BOW, of Jefferson county, February 22nd, 1852, since which time he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, except three years spent as a sailor on the lakes. [Ref. #2, p. 276] WILCOX, HENRY, was born in Massachusetts in 1784, from whence he removed and settled in the town of Norway, Herkimer county, about 1800. He was married to Abigale ROLAND, a native of Rhode Island, by whom he had seven children. He was a captian of State militia in the war of 1812, and his father, Richard WILCOX, was in the Revolutionary war. [Ref. #2, p. 276] WILLOUGHBY, WETEL, M.D. was a native of Connecticut and lived in that State and Massachusetts until he came into this State, when a young man, and settled upon the highlands in the town of Norway about the period of the first settlement of the Royal Grant by New England emigrants and commenced the practice of medicine, which he pursued several years, traversing the by paths of the then dense wilderness on foot, with his saddle bags on his arm. He subsequently removed to the valley of the West Canada creek, near the present village of Newport, where he established himself. Doctor WILLOUGHBY was about twenty years professor of midwifery and of the diseases of women and children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Western District of New York, established at Fairfield, and during a considerable portion of that time was president of the institution. Doctor WILLOUGHBY was twice chosen member of the Assembly, with John M. PETRIE and Aaron BUDLONG, at two successive eledctions in 1807 and 1808. He was appointed one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county in March, 1805, and was continued in that commission until March, 1821. Doctor WILLOUGHBY belonged to the medical staff of the militia of the county during the war of 1812, and was on the frontier whenever his country required his services in that direction. He was elected to Congress from the district composed of the counties of Madison and Herkimer in 1814. He died at Newport, in this county, in the year 1844, aged seventy-five years. [ Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 226] WOOSTER, DANIEL P. B., Newport, a native of Newport, is a son of Sherman and Cornelia (SMITH) WOOSTER. His mother died in 1845. His father was a son of Sherman and Sallie (BUEL) WOOSTER, who settled in Newport in 1804. Both the father and grandfather were Universalists in religious views, and Democrats in politics. Daniel WOOSTER was born February 29, 1840. He married Caroline KUHN, daughter of Gotlieb and Mary KUHN, September 1, 1868. [ Ref. #1, 365/133] WOOSTER, JOSEPH T., Newport, is a native of Fairfield, Herkimer county, and a son of Dr. Joseph and Nancy PICKERT WOOSTER, who settled in Middleville about 1830 from Oneida county, as a physician, which profession he followed until his death in 1846. His wife, Nancy, died in 1887. They had two children, Elizabeth, who died in 1884, and Joseph T., who was born in May, 1844. He entered the Newport National Bank as cashier in 1874, which position he has since held. September 27, 1888, he married Elda A., daughter of Elisha SMITH. They have two sons, Joseph T. jr., and Charles S. Mr. WOOSTER's mother was a native of Manheim, Herkimer county, N.Y. [Ref. #1, p. 357/119] WOOSTER, SHERMAN, was a native of Danbury, Conn., born the 17th of February, 1779, and died suddenly at Newport, in this county, May 21st, 1833, aged fifty-four years, three months and four days. He came to Ballston Spa in 1787, where he was apprenticed to a hatter. In 1801 he removed to Utica, where he remained, working at his trade, until 1804, when he finally settled permanently in Newport, in this county. He was married a short time before this removal, and his wife survived him. He served many town offices including supervisor and justice of the peace. He was appointed by the governor and Senate one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county, in April, 1828. Mr. WOOSTER was intimately connected with political matters in the county and State from 1821 to 1833, the year of his death. [Abridged from Ref. #2, p. 226] Back to The Town of Newport Page Back to Herkimer County NYGenWeb Last Updated: 1/22/99 Copyright ©1999 Paula Pitts / Lisa K. Slaski All Rights Reserved. This site is a county site of the USGenWeb Project. |