A.L. Nearing passed away Monday morning, Jan. 19, at the home of his son, Walter Nearing, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY]. Mr. Nearing was 78 years of age having been born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] Aug. 11, 1857, and had resided in this community for 57 years. Services were held from his late home Thursday afternoon at 1:30. Burial in Mt. Upton. [Bainbridge News &Republican, Jan. 30, 1936]
Mary A. Clark, aged 96, a former resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], died at the home of her son, Charles J. Clark, in Holland Patent, Jan. 9. Mrs. Clark had been in poor health for some time. Mrs. Clark was born in Needlingsworth, Eng., the eldest of ten children born to Reuben and Ann Dodson Cave. At eleven years of age she came with her parents to this country. They settled on a farm near Hinckley. Surviving are three sons, Charles J. of Holland Patent' Rev. Robert L., of Buffalo; and William Linus, of White Lake and Bradenton, Fla. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 30, 1936]
Mrs. Rosa B. Jones passed away Friday, Jan. 30, at 1:35 p.m. at the home of her son, Oliver T. Jones, at Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY]. She had been confined to her bed for the past three months. For the past eight years, since the death of her husband, she had made her home with her son. Services were held from the late home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. C.F. Bound officiating. The remains were placed in the vault at Prospect Hill cemetery, Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], to await burial at Roxbury in the spring. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1936]
Edwin D. Hunt, a former resident of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], passed away at his late home in Hartford, N.Y. [Washington Co.], on Jan. 21 at the advanced age of 97 years. For over fifty years he lived on a farm south of Guilford. Funeral services were held at Hartford on Thursday, Jan. 23, Rev. J.R. Jones of Marathon, officiating. The body was placed in the vault at Marathon to await burial in the family plot in Sunset Hill cemetery, Guilford in the spring. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1936]
The body of Dr. Sylvester R. Leahy, of New York city, was brought to this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] for burial in St. Peter's Cemetery on Saturday, Feb. 1; Rev. B.H. Tite officiated. Dr. Leahy was a well-known psychiatrist and alienist, who had been a professor of psychiatry at New York University. He died Jan. 30 of heart disease in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after an illness of several weeks. Dr. Leahy, born in New Haven, Conn., received his medical degree from Yale University in 1905. He was a director for nine years of the Catholic Charities Mental Clinic at St. Vincent's Hospital; also a surgeon for the New York Police Department. As a neurologist he was attached to the St. Elizabeth's and King's Park Hospitals, the Neurological Institute and the Vanderbilt Clinic. He belonged to the American Medical Association, the Neurological and Psychiatric Societies. Dr. and Mrs. Leahy maintained for many years a summer camp on the Susquehanna near Afton and had made many friends in this vicinity. Surviving are his widow, Henrietta Nickel Leahy; two daughters of a former marriage and two brothers. Mrs. R.W. Nickel, Mrs. Henrietta Leahy and Carl Nickel accompanied the body to Bainbridge. They returned to their home in New York, Monday after spending the week-end at the home of Mrs. Charles Clark. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1935]
Christina Maude Norton, two-days-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Norton, died at the Bainbridge Hospital, Saturday, Feb. 1. Surviving are her parents and one brother, Chauncey. Burial was in St. Peter's Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 3, Rev B.H. Tite officiating. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1935]
Mrs. Chester T. Waters passed away Tuesday morning at her home, 6 Maple street, Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], following an illness of three months' duration. Mrs. Waters was the daughter of John and Abigail Parsons and was born in Bainbridge on April 20, 1873. She was united in marriage with Mr. Waters on Oct. 10, 1900, and for the past 18 years they have resided in Oneonta. Surviving are her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Russell Sellew, of West Somerville, Mass. Funeral service will be conducted in Oneonta this Thursday afternoon, following which the remains will be placed in the Bookout vault for later interment in this village. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1935.
Another of the well-known and most respected citizens of this county is no more. Henry Van Der Lyn, Esq., died at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on Sunday last, Oct. 1st, at 1 o'clock P.M., at the advanced age of 81 years. It is not too much to say of the deceased, that he stood, during the greater part of his active life, if not at the head of the Bar in this section of the State, at least in the front rank of the very few who could justly aspire to that distinguished honor. He was devoted to his profession, especially in its higher walks, and never wearied of the study and labor which devolve upon all, without exception, who follow it with success. but with all his devotion to the law, and the industry that he bestowed upon his large and lucrative practice, he was ever social and generous in his intercourse with the world; considerate and tender towards every form of human suffering; and scrupulously mindful of the amenities that belong to a refined and well-ordered life. He was a liberal supporter of both the Church and the Academy at Oxford, and of the latter was for many years an active trustee. During the later portion of his life, after retiring, from the practice of his profession, he gave gratuitous and valuable instruction to the law students of the village, and this he did regularly nearly up to the time of his last sickness. Mr. Van Der Lyn was born at Kingston, N.Y. [Ulster Co.], April 21, 1784. He was the son of Peter Van Der Lyn, a Surgeon of the continental army, and nephew of John Van Der Lyn, the distinguished artist. He graduated at Union College in 1802 and was the valedictorian of his class. He studied law in the City of New York with the late Hon. Ogden Edwards, and after his admission as an attorney, in 1806, moved to Oxford, where he resided to the time of his death. It is seldom that a citizen of this county has died who was more generally known and esteemed while living, or who carried with him to the grave more of heartfelt love and respect, than Henry Van Der Lyn. [Chenango Union, Oct. 2, 1865]
BICKNELL: In Kendallville, Noble Co., Ind., April 4th, 1863, Thompson P. Bicknell M.D., aged 39 years, eldest son of Ebenezer Bicknell, Esq., of Pitcher, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]. Dr. Bicknell spent his student days with Dr. Mitchel of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] and graduated at Geneva Medical College, with its first honors. He commenced the practice of his profession in Noble Co., Ind., in 1847. That section was then an almost unbroken wilderness; but like a true pioneer, he faced every obstacle, and overcame it. For several years he was under the necessity of riding on horseback over roads by marked trees; night and day in his extensive practice was he exposed to the deadly miasma from the swamps of that region that tended to undermine his constitution. He was a gentleman of innate nobleness of heart, and a student that had not ceased to gather knowledge, as the well filled shelves of his library testified. He excelled as a physician and surgeon, and added much to the medical literature of the day, by his contributions of articles marked by study and thought to the medical magazines. The last years of his life he devoted exclusively to surgery, and excelled others in his skill. Not only was his advice sought by the sick and suffering, but by citizens in council his talents and powers of mind were sought. He was a member of the constitutional convention which formed the present constitution of the State of Indiana. Dr. Bicknell's disease was Albuminuria or "Bright's Disease," and possessing as he did strong muscular and nervous powers, his sufferings were at times terrible. The last weeks of his life he was at times delirious and unconscious of things around him. And to add still more to his dreadful sufferings, blindness, at times almost total, quenched every ray of light, and deafness, too, at intervals shut out every sound. From the first of his dreadful malady, he realized the hopelessness of his case and felt willing to trust himself in the hands of an all-wise creator, and hoped to be able to endure all that was inscribed for him to bear in the book of fate. To his friends it seems a hard blow to give up one so useful, just in the prime of manhood, highly educated and with superior talents; one too that had the confidence of a large section of country as their physician, to whom he not only devoted his talents and skill, but to the poor he gave liberally of his substance. It is indeed a mystery of mysteries when we see the noble and good taken, and the dregs of society left. Surely, "God's ways are not as our ways." [Chenango Telegraph, July 22, 1863]
The body of Dr. Sylvester R. Leahy, of New York city, was brought to this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] for burial in St. Peter's Cemetery on Saturday, Feb. 1; Rev. B.H. Tite officiated. Dr. Leahy was a well-known psychiatrist and alienist, who had been a professor of psychiatry at New York University. He died Jan. 30 of heart disease in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after an illness of several weeks. Dr. Leahy, born in New Haven, Conn., received his medical degree from Yale University in 1905. He was a director for nine years of the Catholic Charities Mental Clinic at St. Vincent's Hospital; also a surgeon for the New York Police Department. As a neurologist he was attached to the St. Elizabeth's and King's Park Hospitals, the Neurological Institute and the Vanderbilt Clinic. He belonged to the American Medical Association, the Neurological and Psychiatric Societies. Dr. and Mrs. Leahy maintained for many years a summer camp on the Susquehanna near Afton and had made many friends in this vicinity. Surviving are his widow, Henrietta Nickel Leahy; two daughters of a former marriage and two brothers. Mrs. R.W. Nickel, Mrs. Henrietta Leahy and Carl Nickel accompanied the body to Bainbridge. They returned to their home in New York, Monday after spending the week-end at the home of Mrs. Charles Clark. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1935]
Christina Maude Norton, two-days-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Norton, died at the Bainbridge Hospital, Saturday, Feb. 1. Surviving are her parents and one brother, Chauncey. Burial was in St. Peter's Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 3, Rev B.H. Tite officiating. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1935]
Mrs. Chester T. Waters passed away Tuesday morning at her home, 6 Maple street, Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], following an illness of three months' duration. Mrs. Waters was the daughter of John and Abigail Parsons and was born in Bainbridge on April 20, 1873. She was united in marriage with Mr. Waters on Oct. 10, 1900, and for the past 18 years they have resided in Oneonta. Surviving are her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Russell Sellew, of West Somerville, Mass. Funeral service will be conducted in Oneonta this Thursday afternoon, following which the remains will be placed in the Bookout vault for later interment in this village. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Feb. 6, 1935.
Another of the well-known and most respected citizens of this county is no more. Henry Van Der Lyn, Esq., died at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on Sunday last, Oct. 1st, at 1 o'clock P.M., at the advanced age of 81 years. It is not too much to say of the deceased, that he stood, during the greater part of his active life, if not at the head of the Bar in this section of the State, at least in the front rank of the very few who could justly aspire to that distinguished honor. He was devoted to his profession, especially in its higher walks, and never wearied of the study and labor which devolve upon all, without exception, who follow it with success. but with all his devotion to the law, and the industry that he bestowed upon his large and lucrative practice, he was ever social and generous in his intercourse with the world; considerate and tender towards every form of human suffering; and scrupulously mindful of the amenities that belong to a refined and well-ordered life. He was a liberal supporter of both the Church and the Academy at Oxford, and of the latter was for many years an active trustee. During the later portion of his life, after retiring, from the practice of his profession, he gave gratuitous and valuable instruction to the law students of the village, and this he did regularly nearly up to the time of his last sickness. Mr. Van Der Lyn was born at Kingston, N.Y. [Ulster Co.], April 21, 1784. He was the son of Peter Van Der Lyn, a Surgeon of the continental army, and nephew of John Van Der Lyn, the distinguished artist. He graduated at Union College in 1802 and was the valedictorian of his class. He studied law in the City of New York with the late Hon. Ogden Edwards, and after his admission as an attorney, in 1806, moved to Oxford, where he resided to the time of his death. It is seldom that a citizen of this county has died who was more generally known and esteemed while living, or who carried with him to the grave more of heartfelt love and respect, than Henry Van Der Lyn. [Chenango Union, Oct. 2, 1865]
BICKNELL: In Kendallville, Noble Co., Ind., April 4th, 1863, Thompson P. Bicknell M.D., aged 39 years, eldest son of Ebenezer Bicknell, Esq., of Pitcher, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]. Dr. Bicknell spent his student days with Dr. Mitchel of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] and graduated at Geneva Medical College, with its first honors. He commenced the practice of his profession in Noble Co., Ind., in 1847. That section was then an almost unbroken wilderness; but like a true pioneer, he faced every obstacle, and overcame it. For several years he was under the necessity of riding on horseback over roads by marked trees; night and day in his extensive practice was he exposed to the deadly miasma from the swamps of that region that tended to undermine his constitution. He was a gentleman of innate nobleness of heart, and a student that had not ceased to gather knowledge, as the well filled shelves of his library testified. He excelled as a physician and surgeon, and added much to the medical literature of the day, by his contributions of articles marked by study and thought to the medical magazines. The last years of his life he devoted exclusively to surgery, and excelled others in his skill. Not only was his advice sought by the sick and suffering, but by citizens in council his talents and powers of mind were sought. He was a member of the constitutional convention which formed the present constitution of the State of Indiana. Dr. Bicknell's disease was Albuminuria or "Bright's Disease," and possessing as he did strong muscular and nervous powers, his sufferings were at times terrible. The last weeks of his life he was at times delirious and unconscious of things around him. And to add still more to his dreadful sufferings, blindness, at times almost total, quenched every ray of light, and deafness, too, at intervals shut out every sound. From the first of his dreadful malady, he realized the hopelessness of his case and felt willing to trust himself in the hands of an all-wise creator, and hoped to be able to endure all that was inscribed for him to bear in the book of fate. To his friends it seems a hard blow to give up one so useful, just in the prime of manhood, highly educated and with superior talents; one too that had the confidence of a large section of country as their physician, to whom he not only devoted his talents and skill, but to the poor he gave liberally of his substance. It is indeed a mystery of mysteries when we see the noble and good taken, and the dregs of society left. Surely, "God's ways are not as our ways." [Chenango Telegraph, July 22, 1863]
