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From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912.

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GEORGE GALE was son of Peter GALE, Jr., and Hannah TOTTENHAM. His father's American ancestors were Peter6, Isaac5, 4, Abraham3, 2, Richard1. His mother's were Nathaniel4, Elisha3, Eliah2, Henry1. George GALE was born at Burlington, Vermont, November 30, 1816; had a fair education, thanks to early tendencies to study; read law at Waterbury, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, and then set out for Elkhorn. He at once took an active interest in all movements in furtherance of morals, education, and community development. He founded a newspaper at Elkhorn and was for a year its editor. His Form Book, published in 1846, went to revised editions in 1848, 1850 and 1856. In 1847 he was member of the committee on judiciary in the second constitutional convention. In 1850 he was state senator, chosen over General BOYD andJeduthun SPOONER In 1851 he went to La Crosse county, was county judge for a term for four years, and was circuit judge 1857-63. In 1853 he bought land on which he laid out the village of Galesville, and moved for the organization of Trempealeaucounty. He gave ten thousand dollars toward establishing a "university" at his new village. One of the later labors was the compilation of a genealogy of the descendants of Richard GALE and wife Mary, of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1640; and of Edmund GALE, of Boston. He died April 18, 1868, at Galesville. He had married at Elkhorn December 5, 1844, Gertrude, daughter of Capt. George YOUNG and Ann WALDRON - the latter one of the innumerable heirs of Anneke Jans BOGARDUS. Their children were George, William, Helen.

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PALMER GARDNER (Sylvester6, Palmer5, Sylvester4, Nicholas3, 2, George1), son of Sylvester GARDNER and Sarah COGSWELL, was born in the town of Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, February 23, 1803; his parents moved to Manlius, New York, in 1810, where he received an academic education, and to this added a year at Hobart College. For some years he found employment as a surveyor and civil engineer in New York, Canada and Maryland. In 1835 he went forth to see what prospect for him there was in the West. Southern Michigan seemed already pre-empted, and he came by way of northern Illinois to southeastern Wisconsin. Returning, he equipped himself abundantly for prairie-breaking, grain-sowing and home-making. Thus setting forth, he reached by well-deliberated stops the prairie named for himself and in April 1836, built his cabin. He entered land in sections 24, 25, 36, of Spring Prairie. February 14, 1844, he married Margaret S., daughter of Samuel WILLIAMS, of Manlius. She was born in 1822 and died May 19, 1871. The official list of his town shows his name but once - as town clerk in 1847, and in the same year he sat five weeks as representative at the first session of the last Territorial Assembly. His colleague, Charles A. BRONSON, of La Grange, also retired at the end of that session.He seems to have had an unusual if not un-American indifference to public service. After his wife's death he moved to Burlington, where he married again, and died there January 19, 1888.Lucretia May, his daughter, was born November 24, 1844; died January 19, 1865. Amy GARDNER, his father's sister, wife of Willard SMITH, brought her family into relationship with other old families of the eastern side of the county.

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ANDREW GILBERT was born January 15, 1792; married Calma BUTLER; came from Madison county, New York,to section 24, Walworth; died at Delavan, October 22, 1870. Calma was born July 9, 1793; died March 5, 1872. Their children (known) were Ethan Lamphere (married Elizabeth Caroline CURTIS),Phineas C. (married Elizabeth Ann LEWIS), Nelson, Esther L. (Mrs. P. Dudley KENDRICK), Sarah (Mrs. Edwin PHELPS), Charles H. (married Eliza DAY), Ethan L. was a business man at Lake Geneva. Phineas C.'s wife was Hollis LATHAM's step-daughter. Charles H. died in military service, in 1864.

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ZACCHEUS PHELPS GILLET Zaccheus P.5, Zaccheus4, Isaac3, Nathan2, 1), son of Zaccheus P. GILLET and Elizabeth HOLCOMB, was born November 1, 1776; came to Geneva with his sons while that town was yet young, and died August 9, 1861. His wife, Clarissa, daughter of Charles HUMPHREY (and Naomi WORCESTER), whose ancestors were Samuel4, 3, Michael2, Samuel1. The later of these GILLETs were from Litchfield, county, Connecticut, and then to Oneida county, New York. Among their children were Rinaldo Phelps and Charles Leander, by whom the name has been spelled GILLETTE. Rinaldo P. GILLETTE married Abigail BOUGHTON, and their daughter, Martha Emeline, born at Victor, New York, March 4, 1838, and died at Elkhorn, August 1, 1899, was married to Benjamin F. SKIFF. She was one of the brightest and truest of wives, mothers and friends. Charles Leander GILLETTE married Eliza Ann HANNA. Their son, Almerin, was captain and major in the Twentieth Infantry; later railway commissioner of Kansas; and was a man with highest sense of personal and commercial honor.

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CHARLES MOREHOUSE GOODSELL was born at East Haven,Connecticut, in 1805; his parents moved to Otsego county, where he was bred to the business of a general store, grist-mill and distillery. His father failed in all this business, and the young man took the wreck of the property and so managed it as to clear away its debts. In 1834 he went to Cincinnatus to raise farm stuff and to sell goods, and also to begin a Christian life. He seems to have prospered so far as to enable him to come west in 1836 with a convenient capital for new enterprises. Having lingered a year at Chicago, he came in 1838 to Geneva where he built the first grist-mill. He also bought land in section 12, Linn. He refused to grind for whisky-making and suits were brought to compel him to grind alike for Trojan and Tyrian; but in the end he held his ground. He was a man much after the manner of Mr. DWINNELL and Col. PHOENIX, and like them was active in religious work and in opposition to whisky and slavery. He had some not precisely-told part in the foundation of Beloit College. He married twice - the sisters Abbie F. and Elizabeth JENNINGS. In 1850 he removed to Minnesota, where he died.

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PETER GOLDER, son of Peter GOLDER and Deborah WOOD, was born in Dutchess county, July 5, 1819; learned to make shoes as a means to gain a legal education; went to Ontario county, where, at Victor, he married Mary Jane, daughter of Hervey HICKOX and Lydia WEST, March 3, 1841; came to Kenosha in 1842, and in the same year to Elkhorn. He studied law while he made and mended boots, and was admitted to practice in 1850. About 1855 he formed a short-lived partnership with James DENSMORE, of the Independent. In 1857 he was elected county judge (over Hollis LATHAM) and held that place for twenty-nine years. Squire SMITH said that "God made Peter for a probate judge," - this by reason of his qualities as a man and a lawyer. He was a life-long student and also a reader of the best things in literature, from the Atlantic Monthly to theRepublic of God. As a personal friend he was one not to be forgotten by any who deserves to be himself remembered. His wife, born at Victor, September 15, 1819, died at Elkhorn, December 6, 1889. Her ancestors, in father-line, were Hervey7, Asa6, John5, Samuel4, William3, Samuel2, William1. Judge GOLDER's increasing deafness compelled his retirement. He went to Norborne, Missouri, to live with his adopted daughter, Helen Laura, whose husband, George Dana VILES, had gone there to become a banker. Before his death, July 11, 1900, he was wholly deaf and blind.

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LEWIS BURR GOODSELL, Charles M., his cousin, was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1800; while yet a boy his parents moved to Cooperstown, where he reached manhood and was bred to business. In 1836 he went into retail business at Chicago, in partnership with George L. CAMPBELL. In 1845 he came to Geneva, and built up an increasing trade. In 1852 he died at New York, whither he had gone to buy goods. His wife was Caroline, daughter of Munson SMITH. His son Munson Smith GOODSELL married Annie Marie, daughter of Giles T. ARNOLD and Iris Welton HICKOX. He had also a son Henry.

GAYLORD GRAVES, son of James N. GRAVES, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was born at Richfield Springs, New York, May 22, 1804; married, first, June 18, 1824, Nancy TUCKERMAN, who died January 5, 1845; came in 1836 to East Troy, and was one of the justices appointed by Gov. DODGE in 1838; he served as town and county supervisor, and in 1846 was a member, at its last session of the Fourth Territorial Assembly - lower house. In 1848 he was a member of the first State Legislature. March 15, 1848, he married, second,Keziah FREEMAN, who died in the next spring. His third wife was Mary Ann, daughter of Isaac U. WHEELER and widow of Calvin PIKE. He died August 28, 1889, at Northwood, Worth county, Iowa. His five children were of the first marriage. A daughter,Parthenia, was wife of Christopher P. F. CHAFIN.

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WILLIAM E. GREGORY died at Elkhorn in 1847. His widow, Olive, daughter of Nathaniel and Isabel COLBURN, was born at Hawley, Massachusetts, July 28, 1805, and married in 1827. She died April 17, 1891. Her children were William ELLIOTT, who went to Galveston and died November 13, 1895, aged sixty-four years. His brother Asaph, born in 1830, died at Elkhorn November 22, 1879. Elizabeth became, first, Mrs. Michael THOMPSON, second, Mrs. BOWE. Louise, born 1836, went to Nebraska after her mother's death. Mr. GREGORY left his family in comfortable circumstances, and Elliott prospered honorably at Galveston. Asaph was not wholly a bad fellow, though it is not recalled that he had more than one positively good quality. He would say mean true things to men whom none else cared so to affront, but who were better men than he, and who sometimes needed such reminders that they were not impeccable. He was unmarried.

ISIAH HAMBLIN (Barnabas5,Sylvanus4, Elkanah3, James2, 1) was son of Mary BASSETT and was born at Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1790; married Daphne, daughter of William HAINES, November 30, 1812; moved to Kirtland,Ohio, whence he came in 1836 to section 25, Lafayette, where he built his cabin and with his wife endured the first hard winter. His son-in-law, Isaac FULLER, came also. Mr. HAMBLIN was a disciple of the prophet of Palmyra, Kirtland, and Nauvoo, and in a few years after coming to this county he followed his tribe to Utah, and died at Santa Clara in 1857. His wife died in 1847 in Pottawattomie county, Iowa.

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JESSE HAND (1783-1846) was son of Abraham HAND and Mary SOUTHARD. He married Lucy J. COWLES (1783-1866). These two were buried at Springfield cemetery. Of their children were:

1. John S. HAND (wife Emma Jane),who had sons Elbert Osborn, Jesse, and John Wesley.

2. Nathan Benton HAND, who married Marcia K. COWLES, September 1, 1842; married Mary Antoinette, daughter of Nathaniel Barlow HAND and Mary PALMER, September 25, 1851.

3. Lorenzo Dow HAND (1814-1889), a teacher of highreput. He married in 1853 Lydia Ann CHURCH (1831-1889).

4. Harvey HAND born about 1805; died in 1882. His wife was named Martha. They had children Eleanor, Linnaceus,Lacon, Bernadotte, Ellery Channing, Arthur. It is not here supposed that these were all of the children and grandchildren of Jesse and Lucy.

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LEMUEL HAND, related nearly, it is presumed to Abraham HAND, married Lydia DOUBLEDAY, and part, at least, of their children were born in Columbia county, New York. The best known of these were Jared, Osborn, Nathaniel Barlow, all of whom were thrifty farmers of Geneva.

JARED HAND, born October 26, 1808; married, first Dorcas MONTROSE; second, Mary Jane RAYMOND; died March 18, 1883. Of eight children five lived and married; Milton J. (married Adeline WISCHHUSEN); Helen M. (Mrs. Joseph M. MOORE); Raymond J. (married Harriet COWLES); Hannah A. (Mrs. John GREENWOOD); Temperance (Mrs. Jasper M. FISH).

NATHANIEL BARLOW HAND, born September 3, 1816; married Mary, daughter of Joseph PALMER and Mary PALMER in 1841; died November 6, 1891. Wife, born May 17, 1825; died March 14, 1898. They left children: Nathaniel Palmer, Mary Antoinette, Joseph Spencer.

OSBORN HAND, son of Lemuel HAND and Lydia DOUBLEDAY, was born at New Lebanon, New York,August 27, 1810; married Maria, daughter of Moses COWLES and Pamela FELLOWS, November 6, 1834; came to northern Geneva in 1842; about 1855 to Elkhorn where he died February 1, 1886. Mrs. HAND was born July 21, 1814, died January 25, 1890. They had seven children, of whom George Cookman was a soldier of Company A, Thirty-sixth Infantry, and died, a prisoner, at Salisbury. Mr. HAND was a thrifty farmer and an old-fashioned teacher, thoroughly versed in common school studies, and a reader of the best old-fashioned books. He acquired a clear and forcible style of writing for the local papers and was an ingenious debater. He was a prudent manager of his moderate means and was able to help his neighbors who could give good security. When money brought its less considerate owners thirty-six percent interest he would receive but twelve percent, the legal rate. In later life he was a stockholder of the National Bank. He hated slavery, alcohol, and tobacco openly and vehemently. No Negro, whether freedman or bondman, was refused food and shelter. His heart warmed toward young men teaching themselves under difficulties. His children were encouraged to study and to earn their living by honorable effort, for he was a judicious as well as kind parent.

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JAMES HARKNESS, born April 21, 1776, married Mary WARE, born December 12, 1777, and died in her eighty-fifth year. They lived in Washington county, New York. Their children were Jacob; Nancy (Mrs. Isaac WRIGHT); Mary (Mrs. ROSS); James (married Hanna R. WHITMORE); Jesse; Dr. Daniel (married Harriet WHITMORE); McDonough; Samuel (married Marietta CHAPMAN. These WHITMORE wives were daughters of Joseph WHITMORE and Hannah CALL. McDonough brought upon himself a most barbarous torture, mutilation and death at the hands of Indians in Oregon. Samuel's wife was a sister of Mrs. Edward WINNE.

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JACOB HARKNESS, son of James and Mary, was born March 22, 1800; married Jerusha HILL; came to Lafayette in 1843; died April 8, 1874. Jerusha was born in 1812; died July 18, 1886. Their children were Jane, Eliza, Melanchthon, Daniel, Augusta, Adelaide, Burnham, McDonough, Frances. Daniel married Ruth WATERS (1854-1900).

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PERRY GREEN HARRINGTON, son of Job, was born at Laurens, Otsego county, July 9, 1812; married Marietta ELDRED; came to Milwaukee in 1836 and the next year to section 15, Sugar Creek. From 1845 to 1852 he was a member of the county board and for three later terms. In 1848 he was the candidate of the Cass-and-Butler Democracy for sheriff, but was third in the race at the election. In 1854 he was assemblyman, having beaten Daniel HOOPER; and was twice president of the Agricultural Society. He died September 19, 1876, and his wife followed October 23, 1876. They had five children of whom the eldest was the first-born of the township. Commodore HARRINGTON (as he was called) was one of the best of men in a county where good and capable men have never been hard to find.

DANIEL HARTWELL, son of Phipps and Olive, was born atGranville, New York, August 4, 1801; married September 14, 1826, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander HAMILTON; came to Lafayette in 1837; died February 19, 1884. Mrs.HARTWELL's father, it is said, was a nephew of his eminent namesake. She was born in 1803; died June 18, 1862. Children: Mary; Lethe; Waldo (married Mercy Ann ELLSWORTH); Wallace (married Helen Mary ISHAM), Smith A.(married Emily DWINNELL); Seldom D. (married Annabel McKENZIE). Smith A. HARTELL served three years as a second lieutenant in the Twenty-eight Infantry.

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SEYMOUR NORMAN HATCH (Hervey7, Timothy6, 5,4, Benjamin3, Jonathan2, Thomas1) was son of Hervey HATCH and Amy SEYMOUR (Zadock5, Stephen4, Ebenezer3, Richard2, 1), daughter of Zadock and wife Naomi, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth MUNGER. He was born at Leroy, New York, April 12, 1817; came in 1842 to sections 4, 15, Linn; married March 30, 1846, Mary M., daughter of Richard STONEALL; died August 3, 1899. Mrs. HATCH was born in Wiltshire, England, March 25, 1822; died November 29, 1887. They had eight children, of whom Louisa was married to Isaac, son of Henry MOORHOUSE, of North Geneva. Mr. HATCH was a prosperous farmer, as well as a good citizen.

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MORRIS FANT HAWES, son of William HAWES and Martha WOOD, was born at Warwick, New York, November 12, 1797; moved to Steuben county, was a boy-soldier of the war of 1812; married May 17, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Capt. Nathan LOUNSBURY, and moved to Chautauqua county, and thence in 1830 to Hillsdale county, Michigan. In 1837 he came to section 34, Richmond. With a few neighbors he built the first schoolhouse on a corner of his land. He was elected member of the first constitutional convention, but did not attend its session. He died at Whitewater January 13, 1868. His wife had died July 28, 1859. They had nine children.

DANIEL HEIMBACH, son of Philip and Eva, of an old Pennsylvanian family, was born in Columbia county, May 2, 1821; married Harriet (1831-1901), daughter of Gorham BUNKER and Rachel RUSSELL; died August 7, 1902. He lived many years on his large farm in section 25, East Troy, and his estate is still held by his children. The names Benjamin and Peter are also found - apparently these were his brothers. Part of this family spell the name "HIMEBACH."

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SAMUEL WIRT HENDERSON, son of Dr. John M. and first wife, Rebecca WIRT, was born at Willoughby, December 17, 1817; studied in his father's office and was graduated from the medical college at Cleveland. He married, January 11, 1845, Rebecca, daughter of Nathan HICKS. After practicing in Herkimer county (once his father's home) and in northern Ohio he came in 1847 to Elkhorn. He died May 6, 1857, having a week before jumped from a wagon to hard ground, causing intestinal constriction orintussusception, followed by inflammation. Doctor HENDERSON's perception was quick, his mind active, and his action prompt, nd he was rated among the better county physicians and surgeons. He was also a working Democrat and persecuted opponents with nbridled tongue, vitriol-dipped pen, and jack-knife wickeder than tongue or pen; for it made caricatures on pine as ugly as modern exaggerations in the Sunday papers. His knife and pen were voluntary contributors to his friend UTTER's paper. He left three little boys, of whom, John Hicks, the eldest, was a soldier of Company B First Heavy Artillery.

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JACOB HERRICK, son of Joseph6, and Hannah NORTHRUP, of Salem, Connecticut, was born in Chenango county, in 1790. His older ancestors were Joseph5, Stephen4, Samuel3, Ephraim2, Henry1 of Ipswich. His first wife was Roxana BRADLEY. In 1841 he came to section 21, Geneva; married Mrs. Sarah (CORWIN) ROUSE; died October 30, 1859. His children were Gilbert, Jason, Henry, Miles, Polly Maria, Phoebe, Adeline, Julia, and Harriet. All these were long residents and became connected by marriage with other old families as ARMSTRONG, GRAY, ROSS, STEVENS, and WAIT. The brothers, Alonzo and Moses S. HERRICK, of the same town, were not definitely related to Jacob's family, but Moses S. married Jacob's daughter Julia.

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THOMAS WORDEN HILL, son of Henry HILL and Fanny WORDEN, was born at Swanton, Vermont, January 9, 1817; in 1822 his parents moved to Lewis, Essex county, New York, where they soon afterward died leaving him to the care of Joseph WELLS, his uncle. In 1838 he came to Geneva village, making much of his way on foot. He worked on farm and in mill for R. Wells WARREN, Andrew FERGUSON, and Charles M. GOODSELL in succession for the next five years. In 1839 he bought with his savings a farm in sections 18, 19, Lyons; married February 12, 1843, Lydia, daughter of Lewis FERRIS and Samantha CROSBY; moved to his farm in 1844 and proved himself a most capable farmer. He was for nine terms a member of the county board and three times its chairman. In 1853 he was assemblyman, chosen over Charles M. BAKER and Simeon W. SPAFARD, and again in 1863, having been preferred to Dr. Alexander S. PALMER. In 1865 he began his long service as poor commissioner. He became assured that he could be of greater service to the inmates of the county-house and to the tax-payers by taking upon himself the duties of overseer or resident commissioner. This was neither to his own liking nor to that of his wife, but to both a duty clearly seen was not to be evaded nor to be performed in other way than entirely and well. He died suddenly, while directing improvements on his farm, May 26, 1879. Mrs. FERRIS was born at Tyrone, New York, April 4, 1823; died at Lyons November 5, 1900. She was granddaughter of Gould FERRIS and Lydia NICHOLS,of Westchester county, New York. Mr. HILL joined the Presbyterian church of Geneva in 1842, and in his after life his actions showed forth the sincerity and constancy of his profession of faith. His physical and moral courage were one, and equal to each occasion's need. He attended no talking conventions of philanthropic reformers at distant cities, but remained at his post, working hand in hand with the county board, the superintendents of the poor - his colleagues - and the county physician, and was at once their indispensable servant and their practically wise leader. He may be said to have put an undying soul into a half-formed county institution and gave its management definite direction and purpose, with intelligent and business-like methods ofoverseership. His death was not an irreparable loss, but men might well regret, for a time, that such a life should have been stopped in its sixty-third year. When, if ever, the county shall make up its roll of best and most serviceable citizens, their names placed as nearly as men may judge in the order of their merit, the name of Thomas Worden HILL will not be hard to find in that honorable list.

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EDWIN HODGES, son of Erastus HODGES and Laura WHITING, was born at Torrington, Connecticut, in 1810. He married Catherine Jane, daughter of John HICKOX and Clarissa DANFORTH, January 13, 1836; came to Elkhorn in 1843, with some money and went into various kinds of business; was county clerk in 1846, five times a member of the county board and twice its chairman; five times treasurer of the Agricultural Society, postmaster under a Whig administration. About 1868 he went to Kansas, and later to Winterset, Iowa, where he died July 23, 1884. Mrs. HODGES was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, and died at Hutchinson, Kansas, June 16, 1892. Their daughter, Laura E. was married to Charles H. BRITTON. George W., their son, went to Winterset. He was a soldier of Company F, Fortieth Infantry. Clarissa DANFORTH's ancestors were William1, Paul2, ofSuffolk, England, Nicholas3, Thomas4, Nicholas5, Jonathan6, 7, Samuel8, Jonathan.

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WILLIAM HOLLINSHEAD, son of James HOLLINSHEAD and Sarah STROUD, was born near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1806; was well instructed in common school and in practical farming; came in 1837 to section 3, Delavan; in 1839 was county treasurer; married June 20, 1842, Caroline, daughter of James BURSON and Deborah STROUD and settled for a long and honorably useful life at his new home. He was the first county treasurer, but he was a thorough farmer and was not to be turned aside for official uncertainties. He was always at the service of the Agricultural Society and of farmers' institutes. When he took part in discussion it was to talk from his own experience and well-matured thinking. He died October 20, 1895. His wife was born November 1, 1815, and died February 11, 1890. Their daughter Elizabeth H. was married to Herman A. BRIGGS. She was born June 1, 1843; married her cousin April 23, 1880; died, full of good works, September 20, 1908.

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HENRY GEORGE HOLLISTER (Seth L.7, Elisha6, Benjamin5, 4, John3, 2, 1), was born at Perry, New York, May 15, 1826; came in 1843 to sections 13, 14, Delavan; married first, Mary Ann, daughter of Henry MALLORY, December 21, 1848; she died December 29, 1873, at Delavan village, whither he had moved. He married, second, November 29, 1877, Mrs. Helen C. daughter of Peter Millspaugh KEELER and Prudence STURTEVANT and widow of William CRARY. He died December 17, 1902. He was proprietor of a livery stable, and he was for twenty-three years a member of the county board. His son Seth Henry was twice sheriff of this county. Other children were, John H. (married Kay HOWE),Pamelia, Ella.

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KINNER HOLLISTER, son of Isaac HOLLISTER and Elizabeth NEWCOMB, had ancestors John1, 2, Joseph3, Capt. Timothy4. He was born January 13, 1783; married June 5, 1805, Mary, daughter of Lemuel WINCHELL; bought government land in Darien and Richmond; died April 28, 1850. Mrs. HOLLISTER was born September 8, 1784; died February 3, 1849. Of their children,Cyrenus N., Lemuel and William came to Darien.

CYRENUS NEWCOMB HOLLISTER, was born at Olive, Ulster county, New York, December 1, 1808; married May 7, 1837, Maria Catharine, daughter of Alexander LATIMER and Nellie SMITH; came in 1839 to Darien; in 1866 to Delavan; died January 8, 1890. His wife was born at Middletown, New York, December 22, 1816. Their children were Uriah Schutt (married Emma Q.MORRISON); Kinner Newcomb (married Fanny M. TILDEN); Eugene B. (married Nellie V. JONES); Lillian (Mrs. A. Hastings KENDRICK); William Cyrenus, Elmer Latimer.

LEMUEL HOLLISTER was born at Dryden, Tompkins county, October 12, 1818; married Gertrude Ann, daughter of Alexander LATIMER, January 26, 1842, came to Darien in 1844; was living in 1902. His wife was born January 26, 1842; died October 10, 1902. Excepting Melbourne H. (1857-1904) their children, if there were more, are not found in records.

[Transcriber's note - the record has an obvious error when it states Lemuel married his wife on the same date as she was born.]

WILLIAM HOLLISTER was born at Dryden May 17, 1811; came in 1838 to Darien; married Sarah VAN AERNAM, January 1, 1848; died June 26, 1884, leaving children: Charles and Nellie (Mrs. James CARTER, of Darien).

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SETH L. HOLLISTER, son of Elisha HOLLISTER and Jane THOMPSON was descended from John1, 2, 3, Benjamin 4, 5. He was born at Chatham, New York, July 19, 1792; married Catherine BRIGHAM, April 12, 1818; died March 16, 1867. His wife was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, February 10, 1796; died at East Delavan, May 12, 1868. Children: Catherine Jane (Mrs.Elihu G. EATON); Laura (Mrs. Harrison BARNES); Edward Brigham (married Harriet EATON); Henry George; James Heath (married Elizabeth WILLIAMS); Milton L. (married Hannah Eliza BARNES).

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JOSEPH TRUMBULL ISHAM (Enoch5, Joseph4, Timothy3, Isaac2, John1), son of Enoch ISHAM and Mary CARVER, was born at Bolton,Connecticut, August 19, 1815. While he was very young his parents moved to Smyrna, Chenangocounty. He married January 28, 1841, Mary Jane, daughter of James STURTEVANT and Lovina YAW, at Earlville; came in 1847 to Sugar Creek, where he lived as farmer and blacksmith, and occasionally as town officer, until his removal to Elkhorn about 1886, where he died November 7, 1902. Mrs. ISHAM was born in Washington county, New York, November 11, 1822, died April 21, 1891. A child died young. The other children were Helen Mary (Mrs. Wallace HARTWELL); Fred Willard; Dora (Mrs. Frank HENDRIX), Henry Devillo; Reta (Mrs. Arthur WALES). Enoch ISHAM, born at Bolton, July 29, 1787; died at Delavan, June 21, 1880; had a sonDevillo K. (1828-1905) unmarried. Mr. ISHAM's mother's mother, Esther TRUMBULL, was of the historic family of her name.

WILLIAM WILLARD ISHAM, son of Enoch and Mary, was born at Smyrna, March 24, 1820; was apprenticed to a carriage maker; in 1842 was master of a shop at Earlville; married March 1, 1843,Eluah Newcomb FRANCIS, daughter of Levi and Hannah FRANCIS, and had six children, of whom FrancisDevillo was a soldier of Company K, Forty-ninth Infantry, and Charles TRUMBULL was for many years a railway postal clerk. In 1845 Mr. ISHAM, with Charles H. STURTEVANT, and later with Joseph WALTON, began a steadily increasing business of wagon making, and found distant markets for their products. In 1869 he became a hardware dealer. In 1855 he was assemblyman elected over Josiah DODGE; was a trustee of the school for the deaf; and a town officer. He died November 26, 1876. Mrs. ISHAM was born in Washington county, New York, November 30, 1822, and died June 15, 1901.