Daniel Haskell served in the sherrif's department.
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Lucy was married to Daniel Putnam Haskell, the son of Daniel and Lavina Warner Haskell, and had four children with two surviving: John, Athalia, Carrie and Daniel. In 1850-1880, the family was in St.Lawrence County, New York where Daniel was with the Sheriff's department. Daniel died on 18 November 1893, and Lucy came to Wood County with her son, Daniel, and daughter,Carrie (Rutherford). Their son John was born in Canada and their daughter Athalia in New York. Athalia was named for Lucy's mother. Lucy also had a brother, John Thomas.
New York, Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts
Name: John Haskell
Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1843
Birth Place: Madrid, New York
Enlistment Year: August 13, 1862
Enlistment Location: Madrid, New York
Muster Year: August 27, 1862
Separation Details:Died of typhoid fever at North Mountain, Virginia June 26, 1863, rank corporal.
U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records
Name: Dudley Blanchard
Residence: Troy, Rensselaer, New York
Class: 2
Congressional District: 15th
Age on 1 July 1863: 42
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Race: White
Place of Birth: New York
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Times (Troy, NY)
January 8, 1891The death of Dudley Blanchard occurred last month at Pittsburgh, Penn. Mr. Blanchard was a well-known Trojan and local politician prior to 1866, when he removed from Troy to Brooklyn. In 1854 he was elected alderman from the old ninth ward and served one term as street commissioner. During President Clevelands administration he was appointed to an important position in the Brooklyn navy yard, but he resigned before the expiration of his term, and accepted a position with the Greenpoint Iron Works. A few weeks ago he decided to visit his only son, who resides in Pittsburgh, and while in that city he was taken ill and died. Many of the older citizens of Troy can remember when Dudley Blanchard was one of the Democratic leaders of the southern wards.
U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records
Name: Samuel Blanchard
Residence: Norfolk, New York
Class: 2
Congressional District: 17th
Age on 1 July 1863: 40
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1823
Race: White
Place of Birth: New York
Our County and its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by Gates Curtis
Syracuse N.Y., D. Mason & Company, 1894Rutherford. James, Madrid, was born in Northumberlandshire, England, April 13, 1826, and came with his parents to this country in 1832. William, his father, settled on a farm in Madrid of eighty acres of uncleared land. The first residence was a log hut. The father and two sons cleared the land, and in a few years had made it a good average farm and had increased it to 164 acres. 'William Rutherford died on the old homestead July 4, 1878, aged seventy-five years. The mother of our subject, Violet Amos, was also a native of the same county in England, born in 1805. They had eight children, six of whom survive. The mother of our subject died in August, 1888.
James, the oldest son, was educated in the common schools, and made the farm his home until twenty-seven years of age. He then married and rented a farm in Potsdam, afterwards buying 174 acres, where he lived for ten years. In 1865 he bought a farm of 266 acres in Madrid, where he has since resided.
Mr. Rutherford is a staunch Republican, and has been the town assessor in Madrid.
He married in 1853 Sarah, daughter of Putnam Haskell, the first settler of this part of the town, and they had four children: Polly, wife of William Rutherford, of Madrid; William, who lives on the Haskell farm; Mary Rutherford, of Boulder Col.; and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Rutherford died April 16, 1883, aged fifty-six years.
Our County and its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by Gates Curtis
Syracuse N.Y., D. Mason & Company, 1894Mary Louisa Haskell Dixon was born and brought up in the town of Madrid, and was the daughter of Israel Putnam Haskell and Pollie Williams Haskell of Vermont, her parents being among the early settlers, and her father a descendant of Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame. She received her education in the Madrid school and the district school in her father's neighborhood, and united with the Congregational church in Madrid village, May 28, 1841.
She led a quiet life, loved by all who knew her, was the means of bringing a great many to Christ by the pure life she led, as she was a person who would not have an enemy, and was a thorough Christian lady,
She married William N. Dixon April 23, 1846. She lived in the village of Madrid after her husband's death, until the time of her death, December 6, 1893, and was sixty-four years old. The cause of her death was congestion of the lungs or pneumonia.
Our County and its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
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Syracuse N.Y., D. Mason & Company, 1894Dixon, William Henry, Madrid, was born near Yorkshire, England, July 1, 1824, and was six years old when his parents came to this country. His father, Robert, took up land on the Ogden tract in the town of Potsdam, where he reared a family of five children and spent the balance of his days. He died in October, 1854. The mother of our subject, Ann Allenby, also a native of England, died in April, 1858.
The early life of our subject was spent in Potsdam. He was educated in the common schools and took up farming, which he followed with his father until after marriage when he bought a farm of 120 acres in Potsdam and lived on it until April 1, 1852, when he sold and bought a farm in Madrid, which he cultivated and increased, until at the time of his death. November 19, 1875, he owned 330 acres. He also owned village property in Madrid village.
Mr. Dixon was always a Republican. He was many years a trustee of the school, and was a member of the Congregational church of Madrid, and a trustee for a number of years. He always lived a very quiet and retired life, and maintained a great influence among his townspeople.
He married April 23, 1846, Mary L., daughter of Israel P. Haskell, one of the earliest settlers in Madrid. They have had eleven children, only three of whom are living: Julia A., wife of James Fox, a commercial traveler of Potsdam; M. Christene, who lives with her mother; Mabel Katherine, a student of Potsdam State Normal School.
Cortes Dewey was a farmer.
U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
Name: David W Haskell
Residence: Madrid, New York
Class: 2
Congressional District: 17th
Age on 1 July 1863: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1825
Place of Birth: New York
Our County and its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
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Syracuse N.Y., D. Mason & Company, 1894Charles Nathanial Bixby was born in the town of Norfolk, February 14, 1836.
The boyhood of our subject was spent on the homestead in Norfolk, and was educated in the common schools and old St. Lawrence Academy at Potsdam. He taught school for a number of winters. He commenced the study of law in the office of Brown & Spencer at Ogdensburg, in the spring of 1861, at the same time that Louis Hasbrouck was studying in the same offic
In 1865 he entered Albany Law School, and completing his course was admitted to practice as attorney and counselor in May, 1866. In the fall of 1867 he was admitted to practice in the United States Courts. He was for six months after admittance a clerk in the office of Knowles & Bicknall of Potsdam, and in April, 1867, opened an office in Norwood, where he has since been engaged in practice. In 1869 he was appointed register in bankruptcy for this congressional district, and still holds the office. He has been justice of the peace for ten years and a member of the Board of Education of Norwood Union School and Academy fifteen years, ten years of that time president of the board. He has served as a member of the Board of Village Trustees and has held many minor offices.
He married, June 21, 1869, Mary Ann Lamphire, niece of Mrs. B. G. Baldwin, and they have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, now a musical student of the State Normal School. Mrs. Bixby died October 29. 1884.