Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, February 14, 1872
Marriages
McDONALD - DYE: In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. J. Clarke, Mr. S.R. McDonald to Miss Anna Dye, both of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
PARDEE - EAGLES: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 7th, by Rev. R.W. VanSchoick Mr. George Pardee, to Miss Esther Eagles, all of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY].
BLADES - DIGHTMAN: In Windsor, Broome Co. [NY], Dec. 31st, by Eld. Hammond, Mr. James F. Blades, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Sarah Dightman, of Centre Village [Broome Co. NY].
BINGHAM - HALL: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 6th, by Rev. I.S. Pattengill, Mr. A.D. Bingham of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Lucy A. Hall, of Bainbridge.
NEWMAN - BROWN: At Bennett's Corners [Oneida Co. NY], Jan. 30th, by Rev. E.R. Crain, Mr. Frank Newman of Vernon [Oneida Co. NY] to Mrs. Caroline Brown of South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
KINGSLEY: In Brooklyn, Feb. 7th, of hemorrhage of the lungs, Hon. Lewis Kingsley, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 48 years.
PABODIE: At the residence of her son-in-law, George J. Coville, in Preston [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 5th, Mrs. Prudence D. Pabodie, wife of Alfred Pabodie, aged 57 years.
McMINN: In North Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 11th, Samuel McMinn, Esq. aged 87 years, 11 months and 26 days. He was buried with Masonic honors, by South Otselic Lodge F.&A.M.
FIFIELD: In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 15th, Mr. Mason Fifield, aged 39 years.
McNEE: In Brisbin [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 8th, Catharine D. [McNee], wife of Peter A. McNee, aged 43 years.
FELT: Near Earlville [Madison Co. NY], Jan. 28th, Mr. Warren T. Felt, aged 63 years.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 14, 1872
Marriage
CLEVELAND - BENHOW: In New Hartford, N.Y., Feb. 7th, 1872, by Rev. T. Youngman, Mr. I.A. Cleveland of New Albany, Story Co. Iowa, to Miss M.J. Benhow, of Ithaca, Richland Co., Wis.
Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, February 14, 1872
Marriages
ROWLAN - PRESTON: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], on the 5th, by Rev. S.F. Brown, Mr. Henry Rowland of Oswego [Oswego Co. NY], to Mrs. Bethiah Preston, of this village.
NORWOOD - WILLCOX: In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 31st, by Rev. T.P. Halstead, Mr. Franklin Norwood of Canada, to Miss Hattie E. Willcox, of Sherburne.
Guilford [Chenango Co. NY]: Married on the evening of the 7th inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. George Heaton, Gurdon Miner to Ella [Dickinson], second daughter of Edwin Dickinson. Many and hearty were the congratulations bestowed upon the youthful couple.
Deaths
LEE: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], on the 2d inst., Arthur H. [Lee], son of Dr. D.M. and E.G. Lee, aged 8 months.
CUMMINGS: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 10th, Mrs. Mary A. [Cummings] wife of Mr. Abijah D. Cummings, and daughter of the late Abner Gifford, aged 57 yrs. "God giveth his beloved sleep."
ROCKWELL: In German [Chenango Co. NY], on the 4th inst. Miss Eliza Rockwell aged 73 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 15, 1872
Marriages
At the Baptist parsonage in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 25th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Oscar Courtney to Miss Annie Ressegieu, both of Marathon, N.Y. [Cortland Co.]
At the Congregational parsonage, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], by Rev. Geo. Porter, Mr. Frederick R. Alford to Miss Eliza A. Griswold, both of Coventryville [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
In Windsor, N.Y. [Broome Co.] Feb. 8th, Mr. Sheldon Frost, aged 75 years, father of H.W. Frost, Esq., of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, February 10, 1872
Marriages
At the Congregational parsonage, Walton [Delaware Co. NY], Jan. 24th, by Rev. S.J. white, G.W. Reynolds of Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY], and Miss Mary Wheat, daughter of Silas Wheat, Esq., of Franklin [Delaware Co. NY].
At the residence of the bride's parents in Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] by Rev. J. Davis, of Franklin, Wm. Holdridge of Burlington [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Ida Cummings.
At the residence of the bride's parents, Jan. 1st by Rev. E.C. Hodge, Daniel I. Gardiner, of New Lisbon [St. Lawrence Co. nY], to Miss Miranda L. Richards, of Laurens [Otsego Co. NY].
Deaths
In Morris [Otsego Co. NY], Jan. 22d, Mrs. Mary Deming, wife of David Deming, deceased, aged 84 years.
In Laurens [Otsego Co. NY], Jan. 18th, Harvey Eldred, aged about 70 years.
In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], Jan. 30th, of heart disease, James Redfield, in the 80th year of his age.
In Sidney [Delaware Co. NY], Jan. 27th, Libbie Archer, aged 6 years 1 month and 10 days.
In Laurens [Otsego Co. NY], Jan. 27th, Mrs. Betsey Fuller, aged 80 years.
In Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], Jan. 28th, Orsemus Reynolds, aged 43 years.
In New Lisbon [St. Lawrence Co. NY], Jan. 19th, Miss Anna Sprague, aged 91 years.
In South Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY], Jan. 22nd, Mrs. Chester Wright in the 86th year of her age.
Death of Judge Kingsley
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, Feb. 14, 1872
The Bar of Chenango County, of which Lewis Kingsley has been for many years a member, met on receipt of the intelligence of his death, and choosing Isaac S. Newton chairman of the meeting, after resolving that they would, as a body, meet the remains of the deceased on its arrival at Norwich, and attend the funeral, on motion of Hon. B.F. Rexford a committee of five, consisting of David H. Knapp, Solomon Bundy, C.L. Teft, J.W. Glover, and Robert A. Stanton, was selected to present resolutions expressive of the regard of his associates, and their sorrow for his death. The committee reported resolutions which were unanimously adopted, and it was voted that the chairman submit them to the press, with a brief outline or sketch of the life of our departed brother. The resolutions thus adopted were as follows:
Whereas, The Supreme Judge and Law Giver, having suddenly removed from our midst one of our number, the Hon. Lewis Kingsley, and we having met to express our sorrow at his loss, and our estimate of his excellence as a lawyer and as a man and Christain, Therefore it is
Resolved, that in the death of Hon. Lewis Kingsley the members of the bar of Chenango County and this State have lost one of their most faithful and distinguished associates, one who by patient study and industry, laborious investigation and research, honesty and singleness of purpose, made valuable contribution to legal science, and reached a position eminent for learning and ability in his profession; that while he had but little taste for the contentions of the trial, he performed with a faithfulness and patient labor those duties a lawyer so frequently neglected, with an ability seldom equaled.
Resolved, That while we recognize in this mysterious dispensation the hand of Him who doeth all things well, we mournfully embrace this opportunity to testify our appreciation of our comrade's public spiritedness as a citizen, his fidelity as a lawyer, his impartiality as a judge, his noble disinterestedness as a friend.
Resolved, That the uniform kindness and amiability, and the steadfast Christian faith which characterized his everyday life, will ever be held by us in pleasant memory.
Resolved, That in his death we have lost a safe and judicious counsellor, his family a kind and affectionate husband and father, and all his acquaintances, a warm and sincere Christian friend.
Resolved, That the members of this bar wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That we hereby tender to the family of the deceased our sympathy in their bereavement, and that a copy of these resolutions be furnished his family and published in each of the county papers.
S. Bundy, D.H. Knapp, R.A. Stanton, C.L. Tefft, J.W. Glover, Committee.
Judge Kingsley was born at Cincinnatus, Cortland County [NY], in December 1823. There he spent his early life, attending such common and select schools as the place afforded. When about seventeen years of age, he became a member of the family of his aunt, the widow of Benjamin Rexford, deceased, at Sherburne, in this County, and attended the Academy at that place, under the charge of Rev. Phineas Robinson. He remained a pupil there for some two or three years and acquired an excellent standing as a student of the Latin language, and in the higher branches of the English. During that time he won the esteem of his fellow students, with many of whom he continued the acquaintance thus commenced, until his death, and between him and his teacher, who is remembered as the kindest of men, and whose love of literature and the classics was a passion, an affection so strong existed that they kept up a correspondence until about one year ago, when the latter, ripe in age and piety, proceeded his pupil and friend to the Better Land.
Mr. Kingsley, soon after leaving Sherburne, commenced the study of law at his home with judge Barak Niles. After one year's study there, he came to Norwich, and continued his study with Mr. Rexford two years, and was admitted to practice, at Utica, in June 1846. He immediately commenced practice as a lawyer at Cincinnatus, where he remained five years, first as a partner of judge Niles, and thereafter as a partner of Samuel E. Graves. During these years he was supervisor of his town in 1848, and Member of the Assembly from his County, in 1850. In 1852 he was elected judge and Surrogate of Cortland County, and removing to Cortlandville, served in that office four years. At the end of that service, in January 1856, he formed a co-partnership with his cousin, Mr. Rexford, at Norwich, whither he removed with his family, and continued such partner until 1870.
In politics he had been a Whig until the formation of the Republican party. He was one of five delegates representing his County in the famous Saratoga Convention of 1854, where the new movement had birth, and was ever after an ardent supporter of that party. At Norwich for several years, he pursued his practice as his only and constant business. He was never fond of the contentions of the trial, preferring the preparations of the papers and the briefing of the law; yet he tried many cases during these years, in which he always proved himself thoroughly acquainted with the duties of the advocate. In the interim, his love of study and of literature led him to gather a fine private library, and here and in the extensive law library of his partner, he spent much of his time.
In 1864, he became associated with Mr. Berry in editing and publishing the Chenango Telegraph, in which position he remained until 1870, dividing his time between his office and the editor's room. In 1869, he received the Republican nomination for a seat in the State Senate but was defeated at the polls. in 1870 he accepted an appointment as Deputy Naval Officer, at the port of New York, which position he occupied, notwithstanding the changes in the head of that office, until his death.
While at Norwich, Judge Kingsley held many positions of trust in minor matters' such as Village Trustee, Trustee and President of the Academy, and Trustee of the Church of which he was a member. He was one year on the Republican State Committee, often on local committees, and very often delegate to conventions; in short, he was prominent in every organization with which he came in contact, social, religious, or political. He carried a ready pen, and being economical of his time, and working with precision, he was enabled to accomplish much in his two-fold position as lawyer and editor.
Mr. Kingsley prepared an immense manuscript work of references, which he never published. It involved the careful examination of every case reported in the State of New York. This work made him so accurate and thorough in his knowledge of the course of legal decisions, that he was thereby well fitted to write works of law and practice. He commenced by preparing a new edition of Coven's Treatise, at the request of the publishers. This work was published in 1870 in two volumes. He next wrote a work on the Law of Fixtures, now in press.
While holding the post of Deputy Naval Officer and filling all the leisure he could get with his loved work as a writer, he was suddenly stricken down with a hemorrhage of the lungs, on the 3d of February 1872, from which he died at Brooklyn on the 7th.
Mr. Kingsley, in early life, became a professor of religion, and wherever he lived, untied himself to the church of his choice, and everywhere wore worthily the armor of a true and consistent Christian. He married, at Cincinnatus, on the 2d day of October 1860, Julia A Kingman. She survives him. He leaves three sons, having buried one in 1864. His remains were brought to Norwich, and followed by a stricken community, were on the 10th of February buried by the side of the son he so loved. Neither space, nor the sadly pleasant duty given to me by my brothers of the bar, render it proper here for me to attempt anything like a eulogy of the deceased. suffice it to say that his life in every relation was one whole eulogy; words cannot add to it. Our resolutions are but a shadow of the reality. he was not perfect here, but we retire from his grave, in the full confidence that in his perfected State he has heard those blessed words, "well done, thou good and faithful servant." and has entered into rest.
Isaac B. Newton, Chairman.
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