GENEALOGY AND HISTORY S t Johnsvllle Enterpr ise and News, St . Johnsville, N . Y. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1943

EVANS From the Bible of John and Sar­

ah (Kniffin) Evans. All entries with the exception of las t two deaths made in one handwri t ing. Bible pub­lished in 1866.

Bi r ths : John Evans born June 17, 1796

in Pleasant Valley, Orange county, N. Y.

Sarah Kiffin born June 17, 1799 in Pleasant Valley, Orange county, New York.

Jeremiah K. Evans born July 10, 1818 a t Rockland, Sullivan county, N. Y.

Phebe W. Evans b o m Augus t 29, 1820 a t Wanwajsink, Uls ter Co., N . Y.

George W. Evans born October 21, 1822 at Wanwajsink, Ulster Co., N. Y.

Andrew K. Evans born May 18,

when her son, Frank , was a small child. He w a s in 1924 pastor of a Canton, Ohio church. Robert never married. John ' s widow lived in Fitchville, Huron county, Ohio. Goul-die Stevens marr ied Sarah Johnson.

Ruie mar r ied 1st Eras tus Hoose; 2nd Nathanie l Bracy and removed to Huron county, Ohio where he died on May 14, 1863 aged 75 years . Ruie died in 1881. Robert Stevens had two b ro the r s known to me, Wil­liam who mar r i ed a second cousin, Debby Ann Clausen (Clason) a na­tive of Grea t Hollow, New York and John Stevens of Cleveland, O. Milo Stevens of Cleveland a nephew of Robert .

E ra s tu s Hoose and wife, Ruie Stevens, lived a t Auburn, Cayuga county, N . Y. when their daughter Miranda, w a s born on Janua ry 29, 1829. She marr ied Andre / Kniffen Evans in Huron county, Ohio. E ra s -

Leavttt^Gencalogy I By

Mrs. Leora Mae Greene Hildeiibrand

(Continued from las t week)

182^ at Wanwajsink, Uls ter County, j t u 8 W M k U l e d w h i l e s k , d d i l , f l o g g

Maryann C. Evans born Sept. 17, 1827 at W'anwajsink, Ulster County. N. Y.

Savilla E. Evans born Dec. 15, 1830 a t Wanwajsink, Ulster Co., N. Y.

Susan A. Evans born July 31, 1835 a t Rockland, Sullivan Co., N. Y.

Sally J a n e Evans born Dec. 21, 1840 a t Greenwich, Huron Co., Ohio.

Marr iages : John Evans and Sa rah Kniffin

married on Jan. 19, 1817 by Amos Grant, Esquire a t Liberty, Sullivan Co., N. Y.

Jeremiah K. Evans and Hannah Quimby married on Nov. 11, 1837.

Phebe W. Evans and Elijah Steele married on May 24, 1838.

Andrew K. Evans and Miranda Hoose on March 10, 1849

Maryann C. Evans and Isaac-Rounds on July 15, 1849.

Deaths: John Evans died August 24, 1854

a t Canton, Benton Co , Iowa. Jeremiah K. Evans on May 8,

1857 in Webster County, Iowa. George W. Evans on April 17,

1862 a t P i t t sburgh Landing, Tenn. Savilla E. Evans on Oct. 9, 1845

a t New London, Huron Co., Ohio. Susan A. Evans on Aug. 30, 1850

a t New London, Huron Co., Ohio. Andrew Evans on Sept. 30, 1876. Mary Ann Rounds on April 1, 1881

a t Hartland, Huron Co., Ohio.

Children: Phebe I Mrs. Jordan) ; Nan cy (Mrs. Van Vosburg) ; Mary Ann born 1827 mar r ied 1st Abraham Ba­ker; 2nd J e r r y Norton, Union sol­dier; Miranda and Hiram who mar­ried Lucy Webb.

Children of Ruie (Stevens) Hoose and (2) husband, Nathaniel Bracy : Daniel who marr ied Adelaide Webb, sister of Lucy; Nathaniel who mar­ried Hannah Scott and removed to Brooklyn, Iowa. He was a Union sol­dier; Harr ison who married Sarah Perago and Lau ra whose husband, John Scott, Union soldier, was a brother of Hannah . Phebe and Nan­cy remained in New York.

Mrs. G. R. Fawkes, Sr.

History of the

Town of Ohio I t ' s Ear ly Se t t l e r s and History of

Some of i ts Leading Families By S. C. Kimm

(Continued from last week)

The I ^ s t Whistle For more than a quarter of a

century the old tannery brought prosperity to the village of Troy. But the early 80's gave a great ly

Remained in New York, all t race reduced earnings and finally I think

Children: 11. Richard Gould Hinds born Apr.

18, 1927 (adopted child.) 9. Mary E m m a Gould born May

18, 1861, died Aug. 28, 1866. 9. Jessie Gould born Sept. 4, 1867

mraried Feb. 26, 1889 Wal ter Eu­gene Bird. He born Sept. 24, 1863 died Nov. 19, 1917.

Children: 10. Erroll S. Bird born Aug. 20,

1890 married Dec. 26, 1916 Ethel Morrell. She born March 3, 1891.

Children: 11. Samuel Eugene Bird born Jan.

16, 1819. 10. Royal Gould Bird born Sept.

14, 1893 marr ied June 1, 1920 Bar­bara Kephart , she born Aug. 4, 1897.

Children: 11. Margare t born Dec. 25, 1925. 11. Laura Mack born March 5,

1929. 10. Eugene Wal ter Bird born Dec.

30, 1897 died June 26, 1915. 9. Evere t t Willoughby Gould born

Oct. 18, 1873 died Aug. 18, 1937, married Alice Ethel Williams Nov. 10, 1904, born Oct. 9, 1880, died July 22, 1933 in New York City.

Children: 10. Margare t Leavi t t Gould born

July 5, 1906, marr ied S turg is Star-buck Wilson, June 10, 1933. He born Nov. 22, 1906.

Children: 11. Alice Gould Wilson born June

28, 1936. 10. Ruth Williams Gould born

Feb. 13, 1910 married David Merrill I Weeks Sept. 21, 1935. born March

21, 1903. Children: 11. Nancy Gould Weeks born Fb.

3, 1937.

10. Ka thar ine Lois Gould born J une 6, 1912 marr ied Henry P r a t t Fos t e r Nov. 12, 1937. H e born Dec. 27, 1912.

8. E m m a M. Leavi t t born J une 23, 1838 died Oct. 17, 1916, mar r ied Charles Leavi t t Hubbs. He born June 6. 1843.

Children: 9. Charlies Leav i t t Hubbs, J r . born

March 15, 1865 died June 2, 1885. 9. J ay Alexander Hubs born Jan .

8, 1867 marr ied Chloe Sherman Aug. 25, 1889, died New Mexico Oct. 20, 1932.

Children: 10. J ean Edna Hubbs born J une

15, 1890 mar r ied Rober L. Deering. Reside San Francisco, Calif.

9. Merr i t t J u s t u s Hubbs born Jan . 12, 1869 died May 23, 1886.

9. E m m a Mary Hubbs born Pine Island, Minn. Sept . 9, 1870 marr ied Guy Car te r Ellis June 30, 1897 in New Mexico.

Children: 10. Rober t Cort land Ellis born

Winslow, Arizona March 16, 1828, married Ruth Westere l t Jan . 14, 1928.

10. Dorothy M. Ellis born Ju ly 28, 1902, marr ied Silas Bra inard Duf-field Dec. 24, 1927.

Children: 11. Nancy Bra ina rd born J a n

1930, Berkeley, Calif. I. Pa t r ic ia Ann born Sept.

1932. 10. Helen M a r g a r e t Ellis born

Oct. 13, 1905, marr ied Joseph Bryon Corcone July 10, 1926.

Children: 11. Donald Ellis Corcone born Jan .

28, 1928. 11. Pe te r Warbren ton born Jan . 18,

1930. 11. John Leavi t t born Sept. 23,

1931. 10. Jul ia Garde! Ellis marr ied Pau l

M. Oakley Dec. 21, 1928. 9. Elma Vossler Hubbs born May

27, 1872 marr ied William A r t h u r Strong June 30, 3 897.

Children: 10. Bonnie E I M . I S t rong born Sept.

15, 1899 marr ied George A Hender­son Oct. 4, 1930 in Berkeley, Calif.

Children: 11. Constance Dean Henderson

born Oakland, Calif. March 7, 1930. 9. Edna Benne t t Hubbs born Oct.

20, 1876 died Dec. 1, 1878.

(To be continued)

THE JACOB S. M0YER FAMILY OF VAN HORNESmLE. N. Y.

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By D. W. Kaufmann 1524 Mason Street Dearborn, Michigan

(Cont. from last week)

After pa r t ing from Alice Cryder-man, "Doc" moved north, to a fa rm between Bar ry ton and Remus, Mich., near which he la ter acquired a sec­ond farm. His second marr iage w a s to Mrs. Annie Bonnie, whose family w a s of o r near Remus, Mich. She had two sons and a daughter Mabel by her first marr iage . Circa 1938 Mabel was marr ied and had two sons but no fur ther da ta are known.

The daugh te r Millie, by "Doc 's" first m a r r i a g e to Alice Cryderman, was understood by Mrs. Kaufmann to have marr ied a Dilley ( ? ) and to have had five or six daughters , all living near ei ther Mulliken or Char ­lotte, Mich. She is believed to have died circa 1935-1940.

Doc's adopted son Benjamin lived wi th him for twelve years on the farm where Doc died, and in 1940 was in Jackson, Mich. Doc's s tep­daugh te r Mabel married a Dedaire ( ?) and lives on a farm east of Grand Rapids, Mich.

30. Mary Elizabeth Moyer. Accord­ing to her s is ters Harriet Ann and Rose Helen, she was born April 7,

I u re r of tha t organization for a I g r ea t many years .

He was one of the kindest, most generous and most universally lik­ed and respected of men. The wri t ­er a t this late d a t e looks back upon his own father with something akin to amazement t ha t such a quiet and pat ient personality, handicapped a s a deaf mute from his earliest years, compelled to work in a cigar factory a t the age of ten, should have been able to at tend college, and in spite of notoriously poor pay of a teacher, to have encouraged and aided all five of his children to the extent t h a t all five graduated from the Univer­s i ty of Michigan in due course.

He is buried in the Par t low ceme­te ry west of Grand Ledge, Mich., on the same lot a s Les ter M. and H a r ­r ie t Ann Joslyn.

Rose Helen Kaufmann is today the las t living of the children of Dr . Solomon W. Moyer and resides a t 1034 E. Huron s t reet , Ann Arbor. Mich. The children of Rose Helen and Fred M. Kaufmann a r e :

32. Dale Wilmer. 33. Laurie Mae. 34. Lynden June . 35. Floyd Donald. 36. Kenneth Karl . 32. Dale Wilmer Kaufmann. Born

1860 on her father 's farm, and died j F P ~ oq -,o0o „„ +Un f c \ r. . ., ooc . j * en. <jy, lsya, on the farm of Lester

From the Notebook of a Bibliophile—

of her and h e r s lost. it was in '86 or '87 t ha t the tannery Jeremiah Kniffin Evans died May j closed down for good. Tt was a sad

is much more likely as he died of consumption brought on by his ex­posure on the grueling march made to the rescue of survivors of the Spirit Lake (Iowa) Indian Massa­cre of some forty set t lers on March 8, 1857 (some killed on March 9th.) Soldiers from Webster and Hum­boldt counties and the present coun­ty of Hamilton comprised the Relief Expedition. Histories show tha t Je r ry Evans ' homestead, then in Humboldt county. For a short time after 1857 same farm in Webster county and now in Palo Alto.

George W. Evans and his family lived in Wisconsin but in 1853 ac­companied his parents , sister Sally J a n e of Hart land, Huron county, Ohio and the Je r ry Evans family late of Marietta, Ohio to Iowa. Wintered in Benton county, intending to go on to California. By spring John Ev

utxy iu l m e v Hict^c, etc v\ eii <xz> iuz the whole town. The people almost dressed in mourning. The old whistle tha t had for yea r s cheerfully called the men to work, and dismissed them to their meals, now blew a long and mournful good bye call tell­ing the folks t h a t the old tannery was dead. T h e villagers gathered in groups to l isten to the long drawn out whistle and asked each other, will some o ther business come to take the place of the job now lost?

But, alas, no other important bus­iness ever turned up. The last relic of the old t anne ry was the store tha t so often supplied the necessities of the workmen and their families. Finally this w a s purchased by Dell Bullock and B r a d Mattison and mov­ed away. The old tannery is only a memory now. Many of the young people went elsewhere to seek larger opportunities of growth and have ans had decided to s t ay and George ! "* 1 "l B™win ana nave

Evans, with family, re turned to i ! S 2 ! ? f ^ P & r t * t h C d e * 1 velopment of o ther communities Wisconsin. He enlisted in Union

Army, was injured a t Bat t le of Shil-oh (P i t t sburgh Landing) and s ta r t ­ed for his homo, a t Linwood, Por­t age county, Wis. according to a certificate sent me by Adju tan t Gen­eral. Died on April 17, 1862 a t New Albany, Ind. S t range that Bi­ble gives no record of marr iage. have no trace of family.

Wo

A Sad Ending The forests have been stripped of

their wealth a n d the soil robbed of its fertility. The land that took to its bosom so m a n y sturdy settlors and yielded to their families a rug­ged subsistence has become largely a scene of w a s t e and desolation. I t

By Austin S. Hogan Among the many Revolutionary

War heroes who followed a political career af tr the cessation of hostili­ties was Col. Marinus Wrillet. After the defeat of the Bri t ish a t Johns­town and the subsequent t r ea ty of pcrtce, Uoi. VV l i ie t m a d e in s Hume in New York City. In 1784 the Coun­cil of Appointments placed him in the Assembly as one of the officers from New York County. He only served for three months, resigning to become the sheriff of New York City. This position he held for three years and then in 1807 he was ap­pointed the mayor. This office was only held for a year and al though po­litically active he did not hold any public position again until he was well along in years, becoming pres­ident of the Electoral College of the state in 1824.

In 1811 Colonel Willot ran for Lieutenant Governor aga ins t DeWit t Clinton. I t was r a the r an exciting time. Clinton was making his f irst bid for national recognition and the presidency with character is t ic frank­ness. Opposed to him was the young Society of T a m m a n y with Colonel Willet as their most beloved sachem. When the news of Clinton's nomina­tion reached the city, T a m m a n y bolt­ed the par ty and succeedd in pu t t ing forth Colonel Willet as their choice. At the time it seemed good political s t ra tegy. The Colonel was a groat war hero, he was well liked and po­litically experienced. Men were still living who knew of his French and Indian war record. Ups ta te r s who had borne a rms in the combat of is but another proof tha t when those

Andrew Kniffen Evans, Union sol- I ^ m ° n t S w n , i c h b u l l t UP a commun- j 1775 still told ta les of his g r e a t vic-dior, injured a t Bat t le of Stone Riv er. died Oct. 1, 1876 a t Hart land, Ohio. Las t heard from Sally Jane was a let ter to her mother wri t ten from south and in which she told of yellow fever about her.

Sarah Kniffin had a first cousin, Debby Ann (Sut ton) Washburn of Huron county, and surely this Debby Ann was daughter of the Henry Sutton and Deborah Kniffin" mar­ried 21 Dec. 1786 a t Salem, West­chester county, N. Y. and this Deb­orah Kniffen Sutten a s is ter of Sar­ah 's father.

John Evans had a brother, the Rev. Robert Evans, Bapt i s t minister a t New London, Ohio. The rest of his brothers and sis ters remained In New York and it is known tha t some of the family removed to Ken­tucky.

Federal census of Orange county (1800) shows but four Kniffens tKniffins wi th female children ten or under.) These were Jeremiah, Gil­bert, Daniel and John. Only two Evans with male children ton or un­der, Daniel and Henry. A Gilbert Kniffin lived a t Ple&S&ttt Valley in 1790.

Robert Stevens was born Nov. 14, 1783 111 New York it is my belief! The name of his first wife is not known. She died in New York and ho, married 2nd Phebe who died Ju­ly 10, 1850 In Huron county, Ohio. The 3rd wife, Hannah Carr sur­vived him. He died June 2, 1871 in New London, Ohio.

Robert Stevens and 1st wife had Rf l«a«t Wer :, Rule (Rhue) bom ht rut 1*02, Robert, Gouldie and John. Weed married and had a t least one daughter , Mary who mar­ried T^aF lyette Brundage Mary died

ity are no longer present the com- tories in the valley and a t Stanwix munity itself will begin to fail and i where he had sent Sir John John-disappear a l together . When the ests were cut off many prosperous communities in Ohio, Salisbury and Stratford disappeared, and the little farms are covered with w o r t h i e s scrub, now tenanted by the fox and jack rabbit.

(To be continued)

MOHAWK VALLEY HOME OF COLONIAL GOVERNOR CLARKE P I C T U R E D

Mr. and Mrs . Nelson Greene, of Fort Plain, N. V. have issued their annual Holiday greet ing card. It pictures the s tone house, which Sir George Clarke, Colonial Governor of the Province of New York, built bo-fore 1738 in w h a t is now the village of For t Plain, which was then known by the Mohawk Indian name of "Otsmiago." Governor Clarke and his family occupied tho house as a sum­mer home from 1738 through 1712, after which da te he was recalled to England,

SHRADERS GENEALOGICAL IN-dox Boston Transcr ip t beginning 1888: over 6873 family names, 50591 people. Send 50 cents and postago a su rname for research. Transcr ipts bought and items sold or copied. J . VV, Shrader, 73 Tre-

mont St., Room 1118, Boston. Mass.

KEEP THE BEER BARREL ROLLING

Enter ta ining in the home, whether family or friends, is a most delight­ful OUStom, and a key to happiness is to serve Utiea Club Pilsner Lager or XXX Cream Ale. Adv,

SOdi scurrying into the forest. Un­fortunately, a l though Colonel Willet and Tammany overwhelmingly car­ried New York City, the rural a reas of the s ta te preferred the brilliance of DeWitt Clinton ra ther than the past heroics of his opponent. Clinton was elected and Marinus Willet nev­er sought an elective office again.

Rare Books

Following is a selection of ra re books which relate to the early his-tory of middle New York Sta te . All have a t one time or another ca ta­logue listings in excess of fifteen dollars. The Benjamin Frankl in quoted has gone as high as $700. Prices 1 have in m y card indexes are not given as they do not refloo t cur­rent auction records. Ra the r the list is offered as an aid to those inter­ested in historical research and col­lecting,

WILLIAMS, ELEAZER. Two hom­ilies pronounced a t Onetda Castle. 20 pp. Svo. Gron Bay, Wis. 1842.

McMurtie, No. 131. Two copies lo­cated. Williams achieved fame on thf hypothetical claim ho was the Lost Dauphin. Tt was largely th rough his influence t he Oneida " P a g a n Par ty ' 'abandoned their idols.

(FRANKLIN, B.) T H E TREATY hold with the Indians of the Six Na­tions, a t Philadelphia, in Philadel­phia, in July 1712. 4to. Pr inted and sold by B. Franklin. Philadelphia, 1743.

DoPuy 17. Delegates were present from all the Six Nat ions and the Shawaneae, Nanl icokes and Dela-wares, Conrad Weiaer acted as an interpreter. Encroachments were the chief points of discussion,

SMITH, WILLIAM. The His tory of the Province of N e w York, from the First Discovery unti l the yea r MDCCXXXII. F r o n t s . View of Oswe­go. 4to. Calf. London 1757.

Sabin 84566. M'LEOD. D. A brief review of the

Sett lement OL u p p e r Canada uy the U. E. Loyalists a n d Scotch High­landers in 1783. 12mo. cloth, Pape r label. Cleveland, pr in ted for the au­thor, 1842.

John J o n n s o n s loyalists and their set t lement; subsequent revolt of thei r descendants in 1837-38 and a review of the mil i tary executions, burnings and sacking of towns by the Bri t ish.

HUBBARD, J O H N . Sketches of Border Adventures , in the Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen, a surviving Soldier of the Revolu­tion. By his grandson. Svo. cloth. Bath. (N. Y.J 1842.

Ayer 139. Major Van Campen was captured by Indians and in 1782 was involuntarily adopted into the Butler family.

WILLET, W I L L I A M M. A n a r r a ­tive of the Mili tary Actions of Col­onel Marinus Willot, taken chiefly from his own Ms, P repared by his son William M. Willet. P o r t r a i t and Plan. 4to. boards N. Y. 1831.

The colonel's life ijrom his first, sortie a t Ticonderoga in 1758 to 178.1.

BtTRGOYNE, J O H N . S ta te of the expedition from Canada as Laid bo-fore the House of Commons by Gen. Burgoyne. Wr i t t en and collected by himself. 6 maps. 8vo. % calf. London 1780.

Burgoyne's a t t e m p t a t vindication. The maps are excellent for reference as to the position of the Bri t ish Ar­my a t Sara toga .

PRIEST, JOSIAH. Tho Low Dutch Boy, A Prisoner a m o n g the Indians. Being an account of the cap ture of Frederieh Schermerhorn when a Lad of 17 by a p a r t y of Mohawks. 8vo. Wrappers . Albany 1839.

PRIEST, JOSIAH. Stories of the Revolution. The Los t Child of the Delaware, Wheaton and the Pan the r 8vo. calf. Albany, 1838.

Probably the bes t of the old e<>l-lections of ear ly legends folk lore. Also contains the Captive Boys of Rensselaerville, the F e a t s of Colonel Harper, The Escape of Cowley and Sawyer, The S to ry of the Hessian women of Burgoyne, the escape of the Mohawks wi th Burgoyne, The Fivo Prisoners of Bran t a t Cherry Valley, The escape of Mrs . Moore, McKeanfl Scout ing P a r t y a t Otsego.

B. J. SERVICE Burt J. Service of 802 Locust av­

enue, Schenectady died October 23, 1943 and was buried in Vale Ceme­tery, Schenectady.

For many yea r s Mr. Service has been a frequent correspondent of this paper on various historical subjects and especially in regard to the gen­ealogy of the Service family and re­lated families in tho Mohawk Valley and elcewhere. His many and inform­ative contr ibutions will be sadly missed in the columns of the Enter* prise and News,

His son, Ha r ry J. Service, h a s charge of his effects and his valua­ble historical papers . His address Is 128 Elmer avenue, Schenectady.

Uncle AD says it wouldn' t be so bad if a lot of b r a s s ha ts didn' t have too much b ras s already.

in December, 1885 She marr ied Kit McCormick in De­

cember, about 1883, a t Grand Ledge, Mich. Kit McCormick was from a fa rm about five or six miles south­eas t of Charlot te , Mich., and was be­lieved to have had four brothers , al­though Rose Helen remembered only the names Clyde and "Fa t ty . " The re were also believed to be three sis­ters , Lois, who married Bradford Kellogg, Effie who married a Fox, and one other .

There was one child from this mar ­riage, Mary Elizabeth, born about 1884 who w a s raised by Kit McCor-

; mick 's sister, Mrs. Lois Kellogg, of | Charlot te , Mich. Mary El izabeth I moved to New York City when ! about 18 or 20 and is believed to have marr ied about 1912 and to have been living in Brooklyn in 1919.

31. Rose Helen Moyer. The pres­ent wr i ter ' s mother was born Sept . 10, 1863, in the log cabin erected by her fa ther on his newly cleared farm. She was made both deaf and mute a t a very early age by scar le t fever. She s ta r ted at tendance a t the Michigan School for the Deaf a t Flint , Mich, in September, 1875, aged jus t 12. I t w a s here tha t she m e t her future husband, Fred M. Kauf­mann. They both graduated in June,

She marr ied Frederick Marx Kaufmann a t her father 's home on J a n u a r y 2, 1890. He was born May 22, 1861 in Negaunee, Mich., and died Dec. 28, 1934 a t 1034 E . H u ­ron street , Ann Arbor, Mich. His pa ren t s were Mayer Kaufmann, 1839-1902, and Margare t Kreutzer , 1841-1914.

F red M. Kaufmann attended Gal-laudet College, Washington, D. C. and then re turned to the Michigan School for the Deaf, a t Flint where he was head supervisor and teacher from 1892 to 1931, when he re­signed due to age, and moved to Ann Arbor, Mich,

He w a s act ive and prominent in both S ta te and National affairs of the deaf, th roughout his life. He w a s president of the Michigan Associa­tion of the Deaf in 1893 and t r eas -

and Harriet Ann (Moyer) Joslyn near Grand Ledge, Mich. Married J an . 23, 1922 a t Timmins, Ontario, Margare t J ane Hoover. She was born Jan. 22, 1899 a t P a r k River. N. D., a daugh te r of William Edie and Margaret J a n e (Buckles) Hoov­er, of Whitmore Lake, Mich. Fur the r details in Who's Who in Engineering, 1941 ed. Children: Virginia Dale, William Hoover, and Frederick Hoover. Res. Dearborn, Mich.

33. Laurie Mae Kaufmann. Born May 11, 1897 on the Joslyn farm. Married Sept. 14, 1918 a t Long Branch, N. J., J a m e s Murle Cork, a t this wri t ing Professor of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Children: J a n e t Lee and J a m e s Allan. Res. Ann Arbor, Mich.

34. Lynden June Kaufmann. Born May 21, 1903 a t Flint, Mich. Mar­ried April 7, 1927 a t Dexter, Mich., Katherine Electa Hubbard, daugh­t e r of Duncan Bur ton and Inez (Mercer) Hubbard of Mt. Clemons, Mich. Children: Pe t e r Moyer and Duncan Mercer. Res. Detroit, Mich.

35. Floyd Donald Kaufmann. Born Feb. 10, 1905 a t Flint , Mich. Mar­ried May 9, 1931 a t Ann Arbor, Mich., Evelyn F e m e Swanson. She w a s born April 7, 1908, daughter of T*otf»r and ^Mfond (TThfittift^ ^ du-QM

son of Minneapolis, Minn. Child: Swanee. Res. Philadelphia, Pa .

36. Kenneth Kar l Kaufmann. Born May 4, 1908 a t Fl int , Mich. Married a t Ann Arbor, Mich., March 7, 1930 Alethia Elizabeth Keatley. She was born Oct. 11, 1906 a t Charleston, W. Vt., daughter of Edwin Miner and Alethia Prince (McCreeryJ Keatley. Child: Karl Frederick, Res. (Alethia E. Kaufmann,) Spokane, Wash. Ken­neth K. Kaufmann is a t this writ­ing a major with the 12th Bomber Command in Africa.

The above concludes the present wr i ter ' s information to date on this par t icular branch of the many Moy­er families. I will be grateful for any additional information on mem­bers of the family, and will be glad to have any mis takes pointed out for future correction.

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SCHENECTADY CLASSIS

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REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA

Edited bv REV, WILLIAM E, COMPTON

1681—1931

F I R S T C H U R C H , SCHENECTADY By Rev. Clayton J. Po t t e r

An in teres t ing feature of the de-tal work is the. symbolism of all the ornamenta t ion to be found in the s t ruc ture . Nothing is meaning­less. In the capitals of the columns a t the front en t rance are the f rui ts of Mohawk valley: Hops, and corn, wheat , rye, oa ts and barley, broom corn, oak leaves and pine branches . Over the "Brides Door," a r e t iny shafts of whi te marble, with orange blossoms carved on the capitals, Tho organ bears reproduction of ear ly musical ins t ruments . The pupit is massive and beautiful with i ts con­t r a s t ing port ions of colored marbles. The screen dividing the church from tho consistory room bears on its columns the representation of tho seasons of the year. On the interior walls, three tablets have been erect­ed. One to the builders of the edifice, one to th*' founders and ministers, and one to Daniel Janse Van Ant­werp, "who gave par t of the land on which this church was built." Tho i oiling with its white S t a n Oil a blue background suggests tho "vaulted sky" above all the people of God.

In addition to the pioneer service rendered by the earlier ministers of tho church, cer tain important facts a re to bo related concerning the la ter ministers . During the pastorate of William J. R. Taylor, the Second Re­formed Church was o ganizod, large­ly through his efforts. D<*nis Wort-man served the denomination as agent for the Disabled Ministers Fund, and really began the work which has now resulted in the os-tahllflhment of the Ministers Fund. William Elliot Griffis was interested in many fields of Christian service.

He assisted the Japanese govern­ment in the development of a mod­ern system of education, and render­ed signal service in pointing the way towards the adoption of some of the be t te r methods of western civiliza­tion in tha t land which he dearly loved. He was ins t rumenta l in the erection of many historical tablets, in Schenectady, in I thaca and in the Nether lands . F r o m the period of his pastorate in this church he had unbounded admirat ion for the Dutch forefathers, His wri t ings covered Dutch, Korean and Japanese, life. On February 5th, 1928, he entered into eternal life, and throe days later, on the anniversary of the massacre of 1690, the funeral service was held in the church he ever loved. Albert C. So-wall came from a family which had served the Congregational Church in New England for several generations. He was called to this church from the Congregational Church of Willinmstown, Mass. He was afterwards minis ter of the Sec­ond Street Presbyter ian Church of Troy, N. Y. He entered into eternal life on October 5th, 1928. During the pas tora te of John Sheridan Ze-lie, tho Sunday school building was erected. George R. Lunn was called to this church from the assis tant pas tora te of the Lafayet te Avenue Church of Brooklyn. He is now a member Of the Public Service Com­mission of the S ta t e of New York.

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