For the past seventeen years a resident of Topeka, Mr. Bronson has been a considerable factor in the material prosperity of the state, particularly in connection with the agricultural interests. As resident agent for a firm of foreign capitalists, he has been instrumental during his time in handling and distributing over $25,000,000 cash to the […]
The following names have been copied from monuments found in Woods, Pastures, Fence corners, Stone walls, Barnyards, and small family plots. All are cemeteries are found in the town of Stark, Herkimer county, New York. FIKES Adam, d. 27 Apr. 1834, ae. 55 yrs., 6 mos., 28 days. Son of Adam Fikes. Christina, d. 15
Almost the only living individual among those earliest settlers who came to Rock Island County in the thirties and forties, when the present City of Rock Island was a small village, known as Stephenson, is Sylvester Washington McMaster, a man whom nearly every man, woman and child throughout Rock Island County knows, either personally or
Tombstone inscriptions of the Otsquak Cemetery. This is the first burial place of the early settlers of the town of Stark. In this cemetery was located the first church in this section. It was built in 1798 and the presiding minister was John Christopher Welting. He is buried in the Fort Plain cemetery (in the
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Hermon S. Todd6, (Samuel Beach5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Feb. 5, 1804, died July 3, 1873, married Jan. 4, 1832, Susan A. Carpenter who was of Norway, N. Y. At one time they lived at Russia, Herkimer County, N. Y. Children: *1015. Hamilton H., b. Aug. 24, 1833. *1016. Morris M., b. Oct. 6,
Caleb Todd6, (Caleb5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Dec. 13, 1807, at Fairfield, N. Y., died March 25, 1856, at Clayton, Genesee County, Mich., married first, at Westfield, N. Y., by Elder Chapman, March 17, 1833, Lucretia Wood, who was born April 10, 1816, at Westfield, N. Y., died Oct. 5, 1840, at Chautauqua, N.
Lyman S. Todd6, (Samuel Beach5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Nov. 7, 1802, married Sept. 26, 1830, Sarah Damaris, daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Todd) Baldwin, of Brandford, Conn. For the ancestry of Sally (Todd) Baldwin, see No. 225. They lived at Little Falls, N. Y. Children: 1013. S. Fannie, m. Henry Link, of Little
Thomas Jefferson Todd6, (Caleb5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born March 11, 1803, at Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., died Aug. 10, 1880, at Plattsmouth, Neb., married May 12, 1830, Mary Smith at Kiantone, Chautauqua County, N. Y. In the year 1832, they removed to Jamestown, N. Y.; in 1836 they went to Geauga County, Ohio;
Charles Manning Todd8, (Eugene M.7, Manning S.6, Samuel B.5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born May 8, 1868; he is married and lived in Fairfield, N. Y. Child: 2436. Leon.
Morris M. Todd7, (Hermon S.6, Samuel B.5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Oct. 6, 1836, died Feb. 24, 1862, married, Feb. 1858, Adeline Evans, of Middleville, N. Y., where they afterwards lived. Child: 1747. Ida G., b. April 11, 1859, m. Sept. 19, 1877, Thaddeus Hildreth, of Herkimer, N. Y.
Ora B. Todd7, (Bela6, Caleb5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Dec. 20, 1808, in Salisbury, N. Y., died Feb. 9, 1889, in San Jacinto, Cal., married Oct. 1832, Lorinda, daughter of Luke and Lucia Wolcott, who was born Oct. 27, 1810, died Oct. 19, 1885, in Santa Paula, Calif. They removed from Panama, Chautauqua County,
DR. W.C. McKAY. – One by one the pioneers who braved the wilderness and its dangers, in order that their posterity might enjoy the fruits of their hazardous conquests of the domain of the savage are passing away. As the poet sang of the valorous knights of the days of chivalry, “Their souls are with
LOOMIS, Ann P. Todd7, (Stephen6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born April 17, 1807, in Salisbury, N. Y., died Nov. 20, 1879, in Little Falls, N. Y., married Oct. 5, 1831, in Salisbury, N. Y., Hon. Arphaxad, son of Thaddeus and Lois (Griswold) Loomis, who was born April 9, 1798, in Winchester, Conn., died Sept.
Ward Salisbury. The Salisbury family have been residents of Hiawatha County for over thirty years, and Mr. Ward Salisbury, who was a child when his father located there, had succeeded the older Salisbury as proprietor of the leading grain elevator and his business as a grain buyer extends all over that section of Kansas. Mr.
REV. GUSTAVUS HINES. – Gustavus Hines was born in Herkimer county, New York, in 1809. On his mother’s side he was descended from the Carvets and Wilkensons of the old Massachusetts colony, and on his father’s from the Hopkinns of Rhode Island, all names of the highest respectability and even celebrity in the early history
Scudder B. Todd9, (John B.8, Hiram7, Isaac6, Samuel5, Samuel4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born at Lyons Falls, N. Y., April 2, 1893, married at Old Forge, N. Y., Feb. 1916, Hazel White. Child: 2676a. Lucille J., b. Feb. 2, 1919.
John Pierpont Todd7, (Manning S.6, Samuel B.5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born May 5, 1845, married, Jan. 27, 1869, Margaret Butler Harrison. They live in Fairfield, N. Y., where he is a mason and where he worked at his trade. Child: 1744. Hobert Harrison, b. Aug. 7, 1870; he is married and lives in Fairfield,
Hamilton H. Todd7, (Hermon S.6, Samuel B.5, Gideon4, Gideon3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Aug. 24, 1833, died Nov. 16, 1862, married, Sept. 11, 1855, Laura A. Parkhurst, of Middleville, Herkimer County, N. Y., where they lived. Children: 1745. Adrian H., b. July 29, 1857. 1746. Mary A., b. Dec. 21, 1860.
Stephen Todd5, (Stephen4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born March 23, 1735, married Rachel Johnson, who was born in 1740, in Wallingford, Conn. They removed to Salisbury, N. Y., or it may have been Salisbury, Conn., where he is said to have died when an old man. He was at one time a physician in Wallingford, Conn.
BULLOCK, Mary Todd6, (Samuel5, Samuel4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) she was called “Polly”, born in Conn., moved to Middletown, Delaware County, N. Y., in 1802, married Daniel Bullock. They moved to Herkimer County, N. Y. Children: I. Daniel, a Methodist minister. The story is that one time in his youth, he was visiting his aunt Clarissa
