Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 19, 1874
Deaths
STICKLER: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], March 14th, Mr. Jacob Stickler, aged 23 years.
BOWERS: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], March 10th, Gurdon Wallace [Bowers], son of Gurdon Bowers, aged 2 years and 7 months.
THOMPSON: At Wood's Corners [Chenango Co. NY], March 12th, Mary [Thompson], wife of Daniel D. Thompson, aged 68(?) years.
DOTY: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 13th, Almira [Doty], wife of Reuben Doty, aged 74 years.
DRAKE: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 10th, Adella [Drake] daughter of Zebra Drake, aged 2 years.
BUSH: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 5th, Ammarilla [Bush], daughter of Lyman I. Bush, aged 40 years.
BURLISON: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 26th, Mr. Seth Burlison, aged 68 years.
WHEELER: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of her son, Phillip Wheeler, March 9th, Mrs. Naomi Wheeler, widow of the late Henry Wheeler, aged 90 years.
ALEXANDER: In Baldwinsville, N.Y. [Onondaga Co,] March 10th, Mr. William Alexander, aged 26 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
SALISBURY: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], March 8th, Guy Roswell [Salisbury], infant son of George R. and Elizabeth A. Salisbury.
SHEPARD: In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], March 4th, Mr. Robert McCoy Shepard, aged 74 years and 10 months.
PIERCE: In Solon, Cortland Co. [NY], March 6th, Robert L. [Pierce] son of A. Smith Pierce, and grandson of Mrs. Daniel Noyes, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 4 years and 6 months.
ECCLESTON: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], March 12th, Elizabeth A. [Eccleston], wife of Hosea B. Eccleston, aged 49 years. The subject of this notice was a sufferer for the past few months, having in vain sought relief, but finally gave up all hopes of recovery. The nature of her disease was such that she could receive but little nourishment without producing suffering intolerable, so that she became literally reduced to a skeleton, by the slow yet constant and painful wasting away of the powers of life. Yet all this she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, without one murmur - one complaining word. But now her trials and tribulations are over. She has gone - forever gone! Neither skill, nor sympathy, nor tears, could avert the stroke which has caused wounded hearts to bleed, and opened wide a fountain of tears. But those who mourn, "mourn not as those without hope," have the comforting assurance that their loss is her unspeakable gain - that she died the death of the righteous - that her last end - calm and serene, was like that of His.
"Death to her was life in Heaven, / Life of never-ending bliss, / Life where joy and peace are given, / Life where naught is found amiss."
There are but few men among us who have a more numerous list of friends than Hosea Eccleston, and those of them who had also the pleasure to know his wife, can sympathize with him in the severe trial that has been laid upon him. She had been among us villagers but a short time, in recent year, and yet her loss will be felt throughout the community as that of a friend, gone to that bourne from whence no traveler returns. Thanks to a blessed Gospel we can hope to meet her again. She has only gone before us. Soon we will join her, never to part again. We are glad indeed to say that the manifestations of our people towards Mr. Eccleston and his family have been of the kindest character, and that he feels deeply the obligations that have been imposed upon him by his friends. [Chenango Telegraph, March 19, 1874]
DAILEY: In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], March 4th, Martin J. [Dailey] infant son of David P. and Amelia L. Dailey, aged 3 months and 18 days.
An empty crib, ah, tell too true, / Our darling Martie's gone. / Too pure and beautiful to stay, / The Saviour called him home.
Mrs. Julia C Whitney, widow of the Late Gen. Joshua Whitney, founder of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], died at Cairo, Greene County [NY] on the 11th inst. in the 85th year of her age. Her funeral was largely attended at Binghamton on Monday.
The funeral of David J. Smith, the late engineer of the water works, who met with such a terrible death on Tuesday morning of last week, took place in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], on Thursday afternoon last. It was the largest, except that of Hon. D.S. Dickinson, ever witnessed in that city. The Masonic fraternity, of which he was a member, turned out.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 19, 1874
Marriage
BROWNING - DUKE: In Seto, Allegany County [NY], on the 11th inst. by the Rev. M.D. Jackson, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. H.M. Browning to Miss Nora E. Duke, both of Scio.
Deaths
CLARK: Died, at Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], March 15, 1874, John Clark, M.D., aged 61 years.
Deceased was born at Mayfield, Montgomery County, N.Y., December 10th, [1812]. He graduated at Fairfields, and removed to Guilford, and commenced the practice of medicine, the 7th of April 1833. Thus, he was more than forty years in one locality, and has, therefore, seen one generation pass away and another come on the stage of action. In his death, community has lost a man of integrity and morality, society a pillar and an ornament, the church of God a devout member and a liberal supporter, and his family a loving husband, a tender father, and one of unstinted liberality. May the good example of his life be followed by his surviving family and the community in which he lived, now that his place is vacant at the fireside, and his presence will be seen and heard no more.
MARSH: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], after a brief illness, on Saturday, March 14th, Hamilton Marsh, in the 70th year of his age.
Mr. Marsh was born in North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], we believe, and something over forty years ago moved from there to this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], where he has resided ever since. He has been a hard-working man, intelligent, honest, and a good citizen. He never shrank from performances of public or private duties as he understood them. and always enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He died, as he had lived a sincere Christian in full enjoyment of a blessed faith that looks beyond this life to one more enduring beyond.
Hamilton [Madison Co. NY]: On Monday evening about seven o'clock a Miss Rogers broke her neck by falling down stairs. Death ensued almost instantaneously. Miss Rogers was well advanced in life, being about sixty years of age. She was a member of the family of Mr. Israel Bonney, who lives on the hill back of the University.
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Death of the inventor of Railway Turntables
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 19, 1874
The Binghamton Times [Broome Co. NY] of Saturday last notices the death of one of the pioneers of that city - Mr. Locy Halstead, one of the oldest most prominent and most highly esteemed citizens, who died at his residence on Friday afternoon, aged seventy-two.
"Deceased was born on the 6th of December 1802, in Cayuga County in this State [NY]. While he was quite young his parents emigrated into the then comparatively western State of Ohio and settled at North Bend, where his father purchased a farm adjoining that of Gen. Harrison. From this place, at the age of eleven, and after the death of his father, the subject of this sketch removed to Covington, Kentucky, where he became an apprentice to the business of cabinet maker. He came to Binghamton in 1824 - fifty years ago. He pursued his trade here for several years, having at one time a little shop on Court Street in a neighborhood now occupied only by substantial and handsome business establishments. He afterwards engaged in lumbering and mercantile pursuits with indifferent success, and for about five years he took charge of freight canal boats plying between Binghamton, Utica and New York.
"In 1837 he married a daughter of the late Lewis St. John, and shortly after returned to his first occupation of cabinet making. During all these years he lived a life of quiet industry, frugal, energetic and persevering.
"In 1848, under the direction of Engineer Adams, he constructed the first turntable on the Erie Railway at this place. Adams' table was an entire failure, and Mr. Halsted went to Utica to study and make drawings of a turntable there. In doing this he discovered the mechanical principle which is now in use upon every railroad turntable in the United States and Europe. He was then unaware that this principle could be patented, and he returned home with the idea that he would construct a model, for his own use only, in building railway turntables. Had he known at that time that he could have obtained a patent covering the principle embodied in his discovery, he would have been spared many years of severe physical labor and drawn a revenue in royalties from every railway company in the United States. He was then forty-seven years of age, without capital or resources, and his whole previous life might have been considered by many as unsuccessful. Most men would have despaired of acquiring a fortune at that age, and yet Mr. Halsted by the labor of his own skilled hands and the wise direction of a mind trained to the solution of mechanical problems, accumulated in less than eighteen years a sufficient amount of means to be considered one of the wealthy men of Binghamton.
"He built turntables upon the Erie, New York Central, Chicago and Rock Island, Hannibal and St. Joseph, Grand Trunk in Canada, and upon many other roads east and west throughout the United States. He built the first table upon the Union Pacific at Omaha, and the one at Fremont on the same road - the half-way station between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
"In 1868, Mr. Halsted gave up the building of turntables and returned home to remain, long after most workingmen would have considered themselves too infirm to engage in manual labor. In April 1872, he was stricken with paralysis, and since that period up to the hour of his death he was an invalid."
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Arrested on Suspicion of Murder
Chenango Union, March 19, 1874
Two young men of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] name Charles and Henry Montgomery, were arrested on Tuesday morning, on suspicion of having committed the murder of Mr. Edward Edwards, of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], in September last. Sheriff Benedict, of Otsego County, accompanied by two deputies, arrived in Norwich on Monday, and procured the endorsement of the warrants of arrest before Justice Gunn. Deputy Sheriff Lewis accompanied them on Tuesday morning to the house on Cortland Street, where the Montgomerys resided, and the young men were arrested without difficulty. The house was also searched for articles that were carried off at the time the murder was committed, but we are informed that none of the money or goods were discovered. Two coats, that are said to answer the description of the coats worn by two of the burglars, and a carpetbag that the officers said resembled one that was seen with them on the day before the crime was committed, were found on the premises, and taken in charge. It is rumored that two bottles of varnish were found in the satchel spoken of above, and that Mr. Edwards, the murdered man, sold two bottles of varnish to the men who robbed his house and shot him. We give the rumor for what it is worth. The officers claim that they are in possession of strong circumstantial evidence of the guilt of these young men but refused to state the nature of it. They took the prisoners away on the train for Sidney [Delaware Co. NY] at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. We are informed that the arrest of another, at or near Oneonta, also named Montgomery, for the same offense, was effected on Tuesday.
Of the probable truth of the charges against these young men we have no means of judging. They are, we believe, cousins, and have resided in Norwich for several years. Charles worked in Maydole's Hammer Factory for a time last season and has been employed in various capacities about town. We know nothing about their general character but have never heard anything said against them. If guilty, we trust that they will receive punishment to the full extent of the law, but if innocent, we sincerely hope that they may be able to establish it to the entire satisfaction of all. We shall await the result of the investigation at Cooperstown with interest.
In order that our readers may understand the nature of the crime with which they stand charged, we republish the account of the burglary and shooting, which we printed at the time. The crime was committed on the night of the 26th of last September, and the subjoined account was telegraphed to the Utica Herald. Mr. Edwards lived some three weeks after the shooting.
"Mr. Edward Edwards, a cabinet maker, and an old and highly respected citizen recently sold his business and was collecting his accounts preparatory to removal to the West. yesterday, Mr. Edwards noticed a man prowling about his premises in a suspicious manner, and became convinced that a robbery was contemplated, and during the day he procured a revolver as a means of protection. Mr. Edwards' family were all absent except a daughter, who slept in another part of the house, some distance from her father's bedroom. Both retired as usual last night. About three o'clock this morning, Mr. Edwards was awakened and found the robbers at their nefarious work. They had already secured two hundred and twenty dollars, his watch and some silver ware. Mr. Edwards arose, drew his revolver and fired, when the burglars, three in number, turned upon him, knocked his pistol out of his hand, and shot him twice with it; one ball taking effect near the shoulder and one passing through the lungs. Mr. Edwards sank insensible to the floor and the robbers sprang through a window and escaped, one leaving his hat behind him. The daughter, aroused by the shooting, sought her wounded father and promptly gave the alarm. Mr. Edwards revived during the day enough to state that he did not recognize the robbers, as it was dark. His condition is very critical. The doctors say he cannot recover. The affair creates the most intense excitement here. No definite clue to the robbers has yet been obtained."
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