H.D. Brigham
Binghamton Press, March 10, 1909
H.D. Brigham, aged 69 years, died this morning at 5 o'clock at his home, 74 Susquehanna street. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Alva Lyon of Bainbridge, one son, George H. of Scranton, and a daughter, Mrs. Leslie Waldorf of this city. Mr. Brigham was a member of the G.A.R. and of the I.O.R.M. He had many friends in Binghamton who will hear of his death with sorrow. The funeral will be held at an hour to be announced later.
Like a thunder clap almost, came the announcement to our citizens on Monday last, "Philander Prindle is dead!" Yet such is the case. Suddenly without a moment's warning, and almost unattended, he passed the dread river. He had been engaged in conversation during most of the afternoon with friends, and seemed more than usually cheerful. About four P.M., he had gone to his office for the transaction of some business, and while engaged in conversation with Miss Jacobs, who had called to leave his clothes she had been washing, his head dropped, the body wilted and rolled upon the floor. Miss J. at once called W.N. Mason, who was in his office, who in turn summoned Dr. Bailey, who was passing. The doctor immediately went up to the office and found but a slight pulsation at the wrist, which in a moment afterwards had entirely ceased. Dr. Bellows soon came in and united with Dr. Bailey in applying restorative, but without hope, for life was extinct. The Physicians pronounced his disease Paralysis of the Heart.
Mr. Prindle was always somewhat reticent in regard to his own affairs. For this reason, even his most intimate friends did not know his precise age, but as we understand, he was about sixty-two years of age, and was born in, or at a very early period removed to Johnstown, in this State. His education was an Academic one only, but still a good and thorough one; at about the age of eighteen he entered the law office of Judge Cady at Johnstown, where he was a fellow student of Nicholas Hill, who afterwards became one of the best advocates and counsellors that the State has ever produced, and where Mr. Prindle also acquired an exact and thorough knowledge of both the principles and practice of the law, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1829.
He immediately came to Sherburne in this County [Chenango, NY] and opened a law office there in the rooms formerly occupied by L.S. Rexford, Esq., on North Main st., where he remained, engaged in a successful practice and bidding fair for distinction until the 1st of January 1832, when having acquired a distaste for the active duties of his profession, he abandoned it, and accepted an appointment as Deputy Clerk of the County, tendered him by Jarvis K. Pike, Esq., the newly elected County Clerk, he removed to this village, of which he remained a resident, and a continuous boarder at either the old or the present Eagle, until his death.
He remained with Mr. Pike as his Deputy during his entire term of office - three years - and gaining troops of friends by his constant attention to his duties and his uniform urbanity of character and social qualities. From this time, 1835, to 1838 he remained in this village, actively engaged in politics, and one of the most popular men in the County. In the year 1838, the Whigs having gained the Assembly, he was made one of the Deputy Clerks of that body, and appointment which was renewed in 1839, during which years he was also one of the Registers of the Bank Department, in both of which positions he acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of all with whom he had to do, and in the large sphere in which he was acting, evincing the same rare, amiable and popular qualities he had manifested at home, and making friends not in every part of the State only, but throughout the Union. So popular did he become, and so evidently well qualified was he for the position, that there was but little opposition to his election as Clerk of the Assembly in 1840, and again in 1841, in which years he but deepened the public regard for him, and added to the number of his warm and devoted personal friends.
In the Harrison campaign in 1840, he was especially active among the Whig workers of the county, and contributed powerfully to the success of his party. The writer of this well remembers his activity at the log cabin celebration in this village on the 4th of July, and how enthusiastically he entered into the spirit of the day. His party lost its ascendency in the State in the year 1842, and Mr. Prindle returned again to Norwich, remaining quietly there until 1846, when the Whigs again gaining the majority, he was once more made Clerk of the Assembly, an honor which was well deserved and appropriately renewed at the succeeding sessions of 1848 and 1849, when the Democrats again regaining the power he finally left Albany and public life there, with the universal credit of having been the best Clerk that the House had ever had, and we may add that his superior has not yet been found.
Since that time Mr. Prindle has remained in Norwich, where he has received renewed and accumulated testimonials of the popular confidence and regard, having at different times served as Justice of the Peace, Supervisor of the town; at various times, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the county, School District Trustee; and Clerk of the Board of Excise, which office he filled at the time of his death. He was also one of the most industrious and efficient of the War Committee appointed by Gov. Morgan for this Senatorial District. And all of these positions he truly adorned. They were no sinecures. He strove to, and did faithfully perform his whole duty in them all, as well as in whatever position of life he occupied.
But he has gone. His record is made up, and "well done" is the verdict of all who knew him. Without an enemy he died as he had lived, beloved and respected by all. His manly form has passed away, but he leaves remembrances which will be lasting. We shall miss him from our circle, but his counsels will ever live in warm hearts who loved him; a monument of his wisdom, his kindness and goodness of heart.
BOSWORTH - PARK: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 25th, by Rev. John H. Hall, Johnathan Bosworth of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], and Ellen A. Park of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].
REED - ROE": In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 7th, by Rev. John H. Hall, William Reed of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY]\, and Jane E. Ree of Smyrna.
BARROWS - RATHBONE: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 7th, by Rev. A.C. Smith, Eli Barrows and Augusta Rathbone, all of McDonough.
WEBB - THOMPSON: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Charles Webb, and Clara Thompson, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].
BRIGHAM - ROGERS: In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 26th, by Rev. A.J. Buell, H.D. Brigham and C.A. Rogers, all of Coventry.
DOTY - TUTTLE: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 2d, by Rev. Samuel Miller, Clark Doty and Philinda Tuttle, all of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY].
WOOLREDGE - ELWELL: In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], Jan. 7th, by H.A. Campbell, Esq., William Wooldredge and Jane Genette Elwell, both of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].
PIKE: In Whitewater, Wisconsin, Dec. 6th, Mrs. Rebecca Pike, widow of the late Hon. Jarvis K. Pike, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], in the 86th year of her age.
EVANS: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 2d, 1868, Polly A. Evans, aged 54 years.
Katherine O'Shea
Binghamton Press, March 10, 1909
Mrs. Katherine O'Shea, aged 71 years, died yesterday morning at her home, 57 Oak street. She is survived by one daughter, Margaret O'Shea of this city, and three sons, John and Thomas O'Shea of Silver Lake, and Joseph O'Shea of Buffalo. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 9 o'clock at the house, and 9:30 at St. Patrick's Church. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery.
Mrs. C.C. Rogers
Bainbridge Republican, June 8, 1888
Mrs. C.C. Rogers departed from this life of suffering on Saturday last, at two p.m. Her funeral was observed from the church, at Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], on Monday. Beloved by all who knew her, a lady of irreproachable character, and possessed of unexceptionably rare qualities of both mind and heart, she has passed to her reward, and we hope and trust is now fully enjoying the richness of Christ's kingdom at the right hand of God. Her age was 48 years.
Paul B. Maine
Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Norwich, NY, January 15, 1868
MAINE: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 19, 1867, Paul B. Maine, aged 86 years. It will be remembered by some of the readers of the Telegraph & Chronicle, that in one of the last September numbers, a piece was published headed "What old folks can do," stating what the deceased and wife had done during the past summer. Mr. Maine began to decline about the time that was published, and for about ten weeks before he expired, was not able to be dressed. His sufferings were intense, but he bore them with Christian fortitude, and when his children would say to him they wished they could bear the pain for him, he would faintly smile and say, "No one can bear my sufferings for me, I must travel this journey alone." His mind was clear until the last, and he longed to take his departure from this earth and be at rest. His aged widow, five daughters and an only son survive him. Friends, neighbors and children shed tears of sympathy for their aged friend for he always had a kind word for all.
Eugene Kelly
Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Norwich, NY, January 15, 1868
A boy named Eugene Kelly was drowned in this village on Wednesday. He was coasting near the river bridge, when venturing too far, his sled ran off into the water. The current being rapid all attempts to rescue him proved futile. Bainbridge Ledger
Philander B. Prindle
Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Norwich, NY, January 15, 1868
Died: in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday, Jan. 13, suddenly, of paralysis of the heart, Philander B. Prindle, aged about 62 years.Like a thunder clap almost, came the announcement to our citizens on Monday last, "Philander Prindle is dead!" Yet such is the case. Suddenly without a moment's warning, and almost unattended, he passed the dread river. He had been engaged in conversation during most of the afternoon with friends, and seemed more than usually cheerful. About four P.M., he had gone to his office for the transaction of some business, and while engaged in conversation with Miss Jacobs, who had called to leave his clothes she had been washing, his head dropped, the body wilted and rolled upon the floor. Miss J. at once called W.N. Mason, who was in his office, who in turn summoned Dr. Bailey, who was passing. The doctor immediately went up to the office and found but a slight pulsation at the wrist, which in a moment afterwards had entirely ceased. Dr. Bellows soon came in and united with Dr. Bailey in applying restorative, but without hope, for life was extinct. The Physicians pronounced his disease Paralysis of the Heart.
Mr. Prindle was always somewhat reticent in regard to his own affairs. For this reason, even his most intimate friends did not know his precise age, but as we understand, he was about sixty-two years of age, and was born in, or at a very early period removed to Johnstown, in this State. His education was an Academic one only, but still a good and thorough one; at about the age of eighteen he entered the law office of Judge Cady at Johnstown, where he was a fellow student of Nicholas Hill, who afterwards became one of the best advocates and counsellors that the State has ever produced, and where Mr. Prindle also acquired an exact and thorough knowledge of both the principles and practice of the law, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1829.
He immediately came to Sherburne in this County [Chenango, NY] and opened a law office there in the rooms formerly occupied by L.S. Rexford, Esq., on North Main st., where he remained, engaged in a successful practice and bidding fair for distinction until the 1st of January 1832, when having acquired a distaste for the active duties of his profession, he abandoned it, and accepted an appointment as Deputy Clerk of the County, tendered him by Jarvis K. Pike, Esq., the newly elected County Clerk, he removed to this village, of which he remained a resident, and a continuous boarder at either the old or the present Eagle, until his death.
He remained with Mr. Pike as his Deputy during his entire term of office - three years - and gaining troops of friends by his constant attention to his duties and his uniform urbanity of character and social qualities. From this time, 1835, to 1838 he remained in this village, actively engaged in politics, and one of the most popular men in the County. In the year 1838, the Whigs having gained the Assembly, he was made one of the Deputy Clerks of that body, and appointment which was renewed in 1839, during which years he was also one of the Registers of the Bank Department, in both of which positions he acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of all with whom he had to do, and in the large sphere in which he was acting, evincing the same rare, amiable and popular qualities he had manifested at home, and making friends not in every part of the State only, but throughout the Union. So popular did he become, and so evidently well qualified was he for the position, that there was but little opposition to his election as Clerk of the Assembly in 1840, and again in 1841, in which years he but deepened the public regard for him, and added to the number of his warm and devoted personal friends.
In the Harrison campaign in 1840, he was especially active among the Whig workers of the county, and contributed powerfully to the success of his party. The writer of this well remembers his activity at the log cabin celebration in this village on the 4th of July, and how enthusiastically he entered into the spirit of the day. His party lost its ascendency in the State in the year 1842, and Mr. Prindle returned again to Norwich, remaining quietly there until 1846, when the Whigs again gaining the majority, he was once more made Clerk of the Assembly, an honor which was well deserved and appropriately renewed at the succeeding sessions of 1848 and 1849, when the Democrats again regaining the power he finally left Albany and public life there, with the universal credit of having been the best Clerk that the House had ever had, and we may add that his superior has not yet been found.
Since that time Mr. Prindle has remained in Norwich, where he has received renewed and accumulated testimonials of the popular confidence and regard, having at different times served as Justice of the Peace, Supervisor of the town; at various times, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the county, School District Trustee; and Clerk of the Board of Excise, which office he filled at the time of his death. He was also one of the most industrious and efficient of the War Committee appointed by Gov. Morgan for this Senatorial District. And all of these positions he truly adorned. They were no sinecures. He strove to, and did faithfully perform his whole duty in them all, as well as in whatever position of life he occupied.
But he has gone. His record is made up, and "well done" is the verdict of all who knew him. Without an enemy he died as he had lived, beloved and respected by all. His manly form has passed away, but he leaves remembrances which will be lasting. We shall miss him from our circle, but his counsels will ever live in warm hearts who loved him; a monument of his wisdom, his kindness and goodness of heart.
Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Norwich, NY, January 15, 1868
Married
MILES - BENNETT: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 9th, by Rev. Thomas Harroun, Joseph Miles of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] and Rosella Bennett of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].BOSWORTH - PARK: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 25th, by Rev. John H. Hall, Johnathan Bosworth of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], and Ellen A. Park of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].
REED - ROE": In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 7th, by Rev. John H. Hall, William Reed of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY]\, and Jane E. Ree of Smyrna.
BARROWS - RATHBONE: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 7th, by Rev. A.C. Smith, Eli Barrows and Augusta Rathbone, all of McDonough.
WEBB - THOMPSON: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Charles Webb, and Clara Thompson, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].
BRIGHAM - ROGERS: In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 26th, by Rev. A.J. Buell, H.D. Brigham and C.A. Rogers, all of Coventry.
DOTY - TUTTLE: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 2d, by Rev. Samuel Miller, Clark Doty and Philinda Tuttle, all of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY].
WOOLREDGE - ELWELL: In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], Jan. 7th, by H.A. Campbell, Esq., William Wooldredge and Jane Genette Elwell, both of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].
Died
STREET: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 4th, Ellen [Street], wife of Thomas Street, aged 47 years.PIKE: In Whitewater, Wisconsin, Dec. 6th, Mrs. Rebecca Pike, widow of the late Hon. Jarvis K. Pike, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], in the 86th year of her age.
EVANS: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 2d, 1868, Polly A. Evans, aged 54 years.
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