John K. Crawford passed away at his home Monday night, June 2, at the age of 72. Mr. Crawford was the son of Horace and Jane (Knickerbrocker) Crawford and lived in Ithaca until his marriage to Florence Green when they started life together in Candor, moving to Afton a few years later and from Afton to the Lanson Booth farm at Brackett lake which he purchased at that time, the year 1911. The year of 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford joined the Baptist Church at West Bainbridge by letter from the Afton Baptist Church. Mrs. Crawford passed away about 10 years ago and Mr. Crawford continued on living a Christian life. He was First Trustee of his church for 25 years and a member of the Afton Masonic Lodge 360. Members of the lodge acted as bearers and had charge of the services at the grave. Funeral services were held at Colwell brothers Funeral Chapel in Bainbridge Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with his former pastor, the Rev. Lester Huptable, of Union, Pa., and his present pastor, the Rev G. Louis Jones, officiating. The funeral was largely attended and the many floral tributes played a silent part in the high esteem in which he was held. Mr. Crawford is survived by a sister, Mrs. J.L. Murphy, and an aunt, Mrs. Gussie Decker, of Ithaca, and an adopted son and daughter, Robert Crawford, of Bainbridge and Mrs. Jane Wakefield, who with her husband lived with her father, and also several cousins. Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery, at Afton [Chenango Co., NY]. [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941]
Mrs. Olga Jensen Munk passed away June 11, 1941, at the Bainbridge Hospital, the wife of James Munk, now deceased. She was born April 13, 18878, daughter of Oline Andersen [and] Theodore Jensen, at Ronne Bornholm, Denmark. She came to the United States in 1905, living in New York and working as a seamstress until her marriage in 1910 to James Munk. The family later moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] in 1919 where she has resided since. The funeral was held at Colwell Bros. chapel in Bainbridge, June 15, with the Rev. Sidney E. Heath officiating. Burial was at Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY]. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Rosenkranz, and two grandsons, James and Robert Rosenkranz, of Long Island, two sons, Ove and George Munk, of Sidney, also two sisters, Mrs. Andrew Sejersen, of Bainbridge, and Mrs. J.K. Hansen of Oneonta, and several relatives in Denmark. [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 26, 1941]
WAIT: At his residence in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday afternoon, the 2d inst., Col. John Wait, aged 69 years. Mrs. Wait was born at Preston, in this County [Chenango] in the year 1809, and was one of a large family. In early life he gave indications of that energy and perseverance which commands success, with a desire for improvement that soon carried him so far as the common schools of the town could afford an opportunity. With this he was not satisfied. Desiring an academic education, but lacking the means to acquire it, he made an arrangement with his father who was carrying on a distillery, to chop wood for him, at two shillings per cord, the same price paid to others, and was in addition to be paid at the same rate for all he cut over an average days work. This privilege was so well improved that at the end of the winter he had earned $10 extra. With this he brought two very fine sheep which he hired kept for $1.00 a year, having all the increase which was very large. With this increase, as we are informed, he supported himself at Hamilton Academy, where he spent some time, acquiring a good education, and also while reading law in this village, the result being that after his admission to the bar, on about that time, he sold the remainder of his flock for about $100. He commenced reading law in this village about the year 1833, and as we are informed, with C.A. Thorpe, Esq. being admitted to the bar about 1836, and then entering into practice with Abial Cook, Esq., and remaining with him for several years. After this, he practiced alone for a long while, but later was successively the partner of Harvey Hubbard, Franklin Beebe, and B. Gage Berry, Esqrs., with the last of whom he dissolved partnership in the year 1861, since which he has remained alone, and doing a comparatively small business owing to his failing health. From the first, Mr. Wait had a fair practice and a deservedly high reputation, as a high-minded, talented lawyer; which his success before a jury was beyond the average, he principally exceled as a sound, wise and sagacious counselor, whose legal opinion was of great value, implicitly trusted and rarely overruled even by our highest Courts. In this department of the profession he has never had a superior in the popular estimate, in the whole history of our county. He was never an aspirant for public or political honors. Nevertheless, he has been President of our Village, in the preparation of the Charter of which he took great interest, and was one of the candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court of this District at the first judiciary election under the present constitution. He was also frequently sent, by his constituents to State and other conventions, where his opinions and counsel were influential and was also, in other respects trusted by the leading men in the old Whig party, and later of the Republican party, of both of which he was an active and conscientious member. He has been, for several years, the victim of a wasting disease, which has finally removed him from us. He passed away with the unfeigned regrets of his many friends, leaving no enemies behind him, and in the full assurance of the Christian faith. [Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Nov. 11, 1868[
Mrs. Olga Jensen Munk passed away June 11, 1941, at the Bainbridge Hospital, the wife of James Munk, now deceased. She was born April 13, 18878, daughter of Oline Andersen [and] Theodore Jensen, at Ronne Bornholm, Denmark. She came to the United States in 1905, living in New York and working as a seamstress until her marriage in 1910 to James Munk. The family later moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] in 1919 where she has resided since. The funeral was held at Colwell Bros. chapel in Bainbridge, June 15, with the Rev. Sidney E. Heath officiating. Burial was at Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY]. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Rosenkranz, and two grandsons, James and Robert Rosenkranz, of Long Island, two sons, Ove and George Munk, of Sidney, also two sisters, Mrs. Andrew Sejersen, of Bainbridge, and Mrs. J.K. Hansen of Oneonta, and several relatives in Denmark. [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 26, 1941]
WAIT: At his residence in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday afternoon, the 2d inst., Col. John Wait, aged 69 years. Mrs. Wait was born at Preston, in this County [Chenango] in the year 1809, and was one of a large family. In early life he gave indications of that energy and perseverance which commands success, with a desire for improvement that soon carried him so far as the common schools of the town could afford an opportunity. With this he was not satisfied. Desiring an academic education, but lacking the means to acquire it, he made an arrangement with his father who was carrying on a distillery, to chop wood for him, at two shillings per cord, the same price paid to others, and was in addition to be paid at the same rate for all he cut over an average days work. This privilege was so well improved that at the end of the winter he had earned $10 extra. With this he brought two very fine sheep which he hired kept for $1.00 a year, having all the increase which was very large. With this increase, as we are informed, he supported himself at Hamilton Academy, where he spent some time, acquiring a good education, and also while reading law in this village, the result being that after his admission to the bar, on about that time, he sold the remainder of his flock for about $100. He commenced reading law in this village about the year 1833, and as we are informed, with C.A. Thorpe, Esq. being admitted to the bar about 1836, and then entering into practice with Abial Cook, Esq., and remaining with him for several years. After this, he practiced alone for a long while, but later was successively the partner of Harvey Hubbard, Franklin Beebe, and B. Gage Berry, Esqrs., with the last of whom he dissolved partnership in the year 1861, since which he has remained alone, and doing a comparatively small business owing to his failing health. From the first, Mr. Wait had a fair practice and a deservedly high reputation, as a high-minded, talented lawyer; which his success before a jury was beyond the average, he principally exceled as a sound, wise and sagacious counselor, whose legal opinion was of great value, implicitly trusted and rarely overruled even by our highest Courts. In this department of the profession he has never had a superior in the popular estimate, in the whole history of our county. He was never an aspirant for public or political honors. Nevertheless, he has been President of our Village, in the preparation of the Charter of which he took great interest, and was one of the candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court of this District at the first judiciary election under the present constitution. He was also frequently sent, by his constituents to State and other conventions, where his opinions and counsel were influential and was also, in other respects trusted by the leading men in the old Whig party, and later of the Republican party, of both of which he was an active and conscientious member. He has been, for several years, the victim of a wasting disease, which has finally removed him from us. He passed away with the unfeigned regrets of his many friends, leaving no enemies behind him, and in the full assurance of the Christian faith. [Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Nov. 11, 1868[
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