George K. and Fayette D. Graves, brothers from Rensselaer Falls NY, were the sons of James and Catherine Graves. George, born in 1842, served as a private in company G of the 142nd infantry division NYS volunteers. He was wounded in 1864, yet he continued to serve until the war was over in 1865. He died in 1916.
Simon Giffin was born in Ireland around 1711 and emigrated to the U.S. around 1738, marrying Jennet Lechman in the Boston area in 1739. He later lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This first generation Giffin had four children. In the 1880s, Dan Spafford Giffin of Heuvelton, NY, a direct descendent of Simon Giffin, began a quest to write a family genealogy. Through extensive travel and research in New England and Nova Scotia, Dan Giffin had compiled much information.
The Richardson family came to the Brick Chapel area of Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York in 1805 from Vermont. Gertrude Richardson was born October 27, 1855. Shirley Claus was also from Canton, born December 8, 1920.
George S. Parsons (1843-1927) was a lifelong resident of Gouverneur, NY who served in the 1st U. S. Volunteer Calvary from 1861-1862. After his service in this company, Mr. Parsons joined the 11th N. Y. Calvary as part of “Scott’s 900” and served from 1863-1865. He was injured during a training exercise sometime between July 12, 1863 and Aug. 26, 1863. Mr. Parson’s injury occurred when his horse was startled during a firing exercise and fell on top of him, damaging his back and hip. Mr.
George O. Newbury was raised by the Pike family at their farm in Cornish, Maine. He was mortally wounded at Bermuda Head during the Civil War and died in June of 1864 at Hampton Hospital, Fort Munroe, Virginia. The letters were donated by William A. Hunt (Professor of History at St. Lawrence University) in memory of his mother Agnes Snow Hunt a direct descendant of the Pike family.
The letters were donated by William A. Hunt (Professor of History at St. Lawrence University) in memory of his mother Agnes Snow Hunt, a direct descendant of the Pike family.
George Roland Malby was born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., September 16, 1857; attended Canton Union School and St. Lawrence University; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced the practice of law in Ogdensburg, New York. He became a member of the State assembly from 1890-1895 and served in the State senate from 1895 until 1907. In 1907 he was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served until his death July 5, 1912 in New York City.
George Redington, lawyer, land speculator and lumber entrepreneur was born November 23, 1798 in Vergennes, Vermont. His family moved to Madrid, New York in 1799. He was educated at the St. Lawrence Academy and taught school in Montreal from 1816-1819. He returned to Waddington to study law and was admitted into the bar in 1823.
Harry K Rutherford (1883-1964) was a General in the United States Army and native of Waddington, N.Y. A graduate of West Point and Harvard, he held administrative positions during WWI and worked in the War Dept. in Washington D.C. during WWII, being appointed to the Army and Navy munitions board in 1938. He retired from Army service in 1948.
GardenShare traces its roots to the North Country Garden School, founded by Phillip Harnden in 1994 as a way for people to learn skills for gardening in Northern New York. Because gardeners often grow more food than they can use, Harnden began exploring ways for gardeners to share the extra food with hungry people. In 1996, Harnden produced a brochure describing North Country Garden School’s new “GardenShare Project.” The brochure was mailed to many local gardeners, to the Garden School workshops, to local stores and churches.
Emigres by the tens of thousands, men and women of the court, noblemen, army and naval officers, priests, and loyalists were among the French who fled to this country when their lives were threatened by the Revolution and Napoleon. They settled in northern and central New York, Pennsylvania as well as various other parts of the United States. Azilum was the French Refugee Colony in Pennsylvania that was planned as a refuge for Queen Marie Antoinette and Royalist fugitives from Revolutionary Paris. Azilum was deserted when Napoleon offered the emigres full amnesty in 1803.