Obituaries (March 3)

Darlia Mae Martin

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 13, 1946

Funeral services for Darlia Mae Martin, 2-1/2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Martin, Montage road, Chenango Bridge [Broome Co., NY], who died Monday of burns suffered when boiling coffee spilled on her, was held last Thursday. The child was burned while climbing onto a chair in the kitchen of her home Sunday morning.  Her mother was preparing breakfast at the time.  The child had placed one hand onto the chair.  Her hand became entangled in an electric cord leading from a wall socket to a percolator which was on the table.  In climbing, she pulled the cord so that the percolator overturned. She suffered first and second degree burns on the left side of her face, both arms and part of her body.  She was admitted to the Binghamton City Hospital at 11 a.m. Sunday and died at 5 a.m. Monday.  Dr. A.J. Stillson, of Windsor, a Broome county coroner, ordered an autopsy which was performed Tuesday afternoon.  he said today that 22 percent of the child's body had been burned.  Beside her parents, she is survived by four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Martin of Tunkhannock, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Huntsinger, of Conklin.

 

Abraham Lincoln Kellogg

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 29, 1946

 

Former Supreme Court Justice Abraham Lincoln Kellogg, 87, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], a director of International Business Machines Corp., died Sunday night at his home in that city.  The retired justice had been an official referee of the Appellate Division, Third department, since 1931.  The third Department consists of the Third, Fourth and Sixth Districts.  The Oneontan had one of the longest careers of any New York State jurist.  He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and had served on the bench from 1917 to 1930, when he retired.  A president of the Board of Trustees of Hartwick College from 1930-1943, Justice Kellogg had been a director of IBM since 1934.  He was a native of Otsego County.  Well known in judicial and legal quarters of New York State, Justice Kellogg was born in Treadwell on May 1, 1860.  The son of Marvin Douglas Kellogg and Hannah Schermerhorn Kellogg, he was educated at Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin.  After being admitted to the bar he began to practice law in Oneonta.  Justice Kellogg was a descendent in the eleventh generation from Nicholas Kellogg and Florence Hall, of Debden, Essex County, Ireland.  The justice's great-grandfather, Benjamin Kellogg, was a Revolutionary patriot.  The Oneonta justice was a Republican and served as clerk in the State Senate.  In 1908, he was elected Otsego County judge for a six-year term.  he was reelected in 1914.  In 1917 he was elected to the State Supreme Court in the Sixth Judicial District.  In 1921 he was a member of a state convention to revise the judiciary Article of the Constitution.  he was first president of the Oneonta Bar Association in 1911-1912.  In 1906 he joined the New York State Bar Association, of which he was vice-president in 1915-1916.  He also was a member of the American Bar Association.  He was affiliated with Oneonta Lodge, 466, F. and A.M.; Oneonta Chapter, 277, Royal Arch Masons and Oneonta lodge, 1312, B.P.O. Elks.  He was a charter member of t he Oneonta and Oneonta County Clubs and belonged to Kiwanis, the Oneonta Chamber of Commerce and the Norwich Club.  He was a Presbyterian and a Republican.  He was an honorary member of Phi Sigma Kappa of Williams College.  The justice gave his native Treadwell a public library and athletic field and was instrumental in the village obtaining a new central high school.  On June 21, 1893, he married May Blakeslee Lewis, of Otego, and they had a son, Lincoln Lewis Kellogg.  Mrs. Kellogg died in July 1943, and on March 24, 1944, Justice Kellogg married Noreen VanName, formerly of Binghamton.  Survivors include Mrs. Kellogg; a sister, Mrs. Lillian M. Thompson, of Oneonta; his son, Lincoln, a practicing attorney in Asheville, N.C.; and a nephew, Albert F. Kellogg, of Walton.  Funeral services to be held in the First Presbyterian Church at Oneonta are scheduled tentatively for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.  Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery at Oneonta.

 

Rev. David Wellington Curran

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 29, 1946

 

David Wellington Curran, D.D., 67, former Episcopal clergyman, was found dead in a chair in the lobby of the Arlington Hotel, Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], Saturday afternoon.  Dr. Curran had been accustomed during his residence in Binghamton to take walks which frequently brought him to the Arlington.  He is survived by his widow, the former Riviera Ella Todd, originally of Binghamton.

 

James L. Gage

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 5, 1946

 

James L. Gage, a farmer living on Winney hill, near Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY]\, died in Fox Hospital, Oneonta, Saturday from injuries received the previous Thursday when he was trampled by his team of horses.  He was 60 years of age.  The team became frightened while Gage was getting hay in the barn of a neighbor and as the owner stepped in front of the team to control the horses they bolted and trampled him.

 

Harvey Rider

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 12, 1946

 

Harvey Rider, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], R.F.D., died late Sunday from injuries received when he was gored by a bull near his farm home.  State police of the Oneonta substation who were investigating the incident said Rider apparently was cornered by the animal in the field near the bar, and was knocked down and gored by the steer.  The Cooperstown ambulance was called, state police said, but Rider was dead when the vehicle arrived.