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THE FIRST DECADE
ROBERT "GUTHRIDGE" appears to have arrived in the new world early in the 1700's. The following record is all that we know concerning him:"Married by Mr. Sam Willard Feb. 11, 1703: Robert Guthridge & Mary Thaxter. Issue:
John, b. Sept. 8, 1706.
Buttolph, b. Sept. 16, 1707.
Mary Anna, b. Sept. 2, 1711." (From Boston Records)
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THE SECOND DECADE
PATRICK GUTHRIE, of this period, lived on the Eastern Shore, of Maryland. He lived in a Presbyterian settlement and must have been from the North of Ireland. His lands were in that part of Somerset, which was included in Worcester County, when the latter was formed. He married Angelica , presumably a daughter of Daniel Selby, who bequeathed lands to them. She was living in 1741, but was evidently deceased in 1758 when he made his will. He died February, 1759."
Children:
1. (Presumably) Hugh Guthrie.71
2. (Presumably) James Guthrie.72
3. Mary Guthrie.
4. Elizabeth Guthrie.
5. Rachel Guthrie.
6. Phillip Guthrie.
7. Moses Guthrie."
8. (Presumably) Joshua Guthrie .74 (Below)
9. (Presumably) Elijah Guthrie.74
Joshua Guthrie (above) lived on land that had formerly belonged to Patrick Guthrie. He married Mary ; died September-October, 1788."
Children:
1. William Guthrie. (Below)
2. Caleb Guthrie.
3. James Guthrie."
4. Joshua Guthrie.
5. Nancy Guthrie, who m. a Mr. Williams and had a son John Williams.
6. Jesse Guthrie.
William Guthrie, son of Joshua Guthrie, (above) served as a lieutenant with Maryland Troops in the Revolutionary War." Afterwards he was refered to as "Captain Guthrie." He married Hannah died May, 1796.
Children:
1. William Guthrie, who was a soldier in the Revolution.7810
2. Etc. Others whose names are unknown.
THE THIRD DECADE
JOHN GUTHRIE is generally credited with having migrated to New England about the year 1700. Hughs in American Ancestry, Vol. 5, p. 165, under head of "Seymour Guthrie of Chicago," says,
"John Guthrie, who was in the iron business in Edinburgh, Scotland, with three brothers, went to Ireland in 1680; emigrated to America (Connecticut) 1700. Started a foundry at Litchfield, Connecticut, 1730."
Seymour Guthrie, himself says in his book, "A Brief History of a Branch of the Guthrie Family,"
"The earliest traditional knowledge of the family is in 1680, in Edinburgh,
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Scotland, where they were of the best middle class and interested in the manufacture of iron.
"About this time John Guthrie severed his connection with his partners and brothers, Robert and James, and with a small capital sought his fortune in Ulster County, Ireland. It is not known what business he embarked in while there, but it is probable that his knowledge of the iron industry led him to take up some branch of it. He had not been there long before he married a Protestant lady of good family. At that period the Protestants were unpleasantly situated in that country, and naturally his mind turned to the New World where religious oppression was unknownwhere a man could worship his Maker as his heart dictated without risking his life or jeopardizing his chances of gaining a livelihood. It was about 1700 when he bade farewell to his friends in Ireland and set out to seek his fortune in the new world.
"After a wearysome voyage of two months he landed at Boston. Remaining here but a few years, he moved to Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and engaged successfully in the iron business, running a forge and furnace on the Housatonic river. There he died in 1730, leaving four sons who carried on the business.
"About the time that John emigrated from Ireland, his two brothers, Robert and James, came out from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania."
Harriet N. and Eveline Guthrie Dunn in "Records of the Guthrie Family," give virtually the same as Seymour Guthrie and will not be quoted here.
The Ancestry of William Dameron Guthrie gives,
"John Guthrie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he kept an iron foundry. He left there in 1670 and went to Ulster County, Ireland. In 1700 he emigrated with his brothers James and Robert to America and settled in Washington, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, where he established an iron foundry. He died there in 1730."
Mrs. Amy L. Peoples, of Los Angeles, Calif., a descendant of John Guthrie says,
"Sometime about the year 1700, two brothers, Robert and James Guthrie, came from the North of Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania, and soon after a younger brother John Guthrie came to Connecticut and married a woman by the name of Cone and raised a family of ten children."
Mrs. Peoples also quotes Truman Guthrie of Newbury, Ohio, as stating
"Previous to the Revolutionary War three brothers of the Guthries emigrated to the Colonies from Scotland. Their names were Robert, James and John. Robert settled in Pennsylvania; John settled in Connecticut, in or about the county of Litchfield, where he married and raised a large family of children, consisting of six sons and four daughters."
A, comparison of these statements shows that all save the last one give 1700 as the approximate date of emigration. There is a general agreement about the brothers coming at about the same time. There is a conNsion as to whether the emigrant John was the father of the large family in Litchfield County, Conn., or the grandfather. No one gives any account of the emigrant between the years 1700 and 1725. No records in New England have been found to prove that there was a John Guthrie in the colony during that period. The writer does not believe that he was in America during all that period. If it be
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true that John migrated at about the same time as Robert and Jaynes to Pennsylvania, it is quite certain that he did not come before 1718. Furthermore in view of the fact that the Ulster movement to New England took place in 1718, it would seem likely that John came at about that time and that he was the father, not the grandfather, of the family of children born in Connecticut.
Mr. William K. Jewett, of Pasadena, Calif., a descendant who made investigations of the early Guthries in New England says"I am not satisfied that John had brothers Robert and James, nor am I satisfied that he ever settled in Boston, nor do I know when he arrived in America."
With these statements pro and con before him, the reader is left to his own conclusions.
This family has a tradition that there were seven Guthrie brothers in Scotland, that owing to religious persecutions they left there, some going to Ireland, others to America. One version is that of those who went to Ireland, some returned to Scotland after the oppression had ceased. A tradition among some of the Pennsylvania Guthries was that there were seven Guthrie brothers in Ireland who migrated to America. It is not possible to show who they were nor to determine which version is the correct one. John Guthrie, the emigrant, is said to have had four sons, one of whom was John, whose line follows.
The first record found of John Guthrie in Connecticut is that of a resident in Durham, Middlesex County, where it seems that he had moved for safety during the Indian wars on the frontier in Litchfield County. It seems that this residence in Durham was of about seven years duration. From there he moved to Stratford, Fairfield County, where lst, Nov., 1726, he purchased the home of Samuel Beardsley. Later, about 1734, he returned to Durham and from there went to the town of Woodbury in Litchfield County, where he became a wealthy and influential citizen owning large dads of nearby lands and lots in neighboring towns in that section of the country.
John Guthrie married (1) June, 17267, Abigail Coe, who was born 11th Nov., 1702; united with the First Congregational Church of Stratford in 1726; died"Abigail, wife of John Guthrie March 25, 1747." "
John Guthrie married (2) Susanna . They had no children. He died about July, 1756.'
From his will and from other sources we have the facts that the first five children were born in Stratford, the next four in Durham, the last two in Woodbury.
Children of John Guthrie and Abigail Coe:
1. John Guthrie, b. "Jan. 20, 17278,"13 (p. 80).
2. James Guthrie, 1st., b. "July, 1729""; d. in infancy.
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3. William Guthrie, b. Dec. 30, 1730; "Dec., 1730," 113 (p. 83).
4. James Guthrie, 2nd., b. April, 1732; "baptized 1732,"13 (p. 87).
5. Joseph Guthrie, b. June, 1733; "baptized 173334,"88 (p. 121).
6. Mary Guthrie, b. Dec. 20, 1735, (p. 152).
7. Ephriam Guthrie, b. March 1, 1737, (p. 152).
8. Ebenezer Guthrie, b. July 20 (or 21), 1740, (p. 153).
9. Abigail Guthrie, b. May 3, 1742; baptized July 21, 1742; d. at the age of nineteen years.
10. Sarah Guthrie, b. April 3, 1744;" (See The Murrays, Allied Families).
11. Lydia Guthrie, b. July, 1746; m. Aug. 5, 1765, Eleazer Ingraham. (See
The Ingrahams, Allied Families).
JOHN GUTHRIE, eldest child of John Guthrie and Abigail Coe, married in Woodbury, Conn., May 10, 1750, Patience Knapp. They lived in Kent, Litchfield County, Conn. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War;"John Guthrie, May 12, 1775." (List of Revolutionary soldiers from Litchfield County).
Presumptive children of John Guthrie and Patience Knapp:
1. John Guthrie. (Below)
2. James Guthrie, (p. 81).
3. Joel Guthrie, (p. 81).
4. Daniel Guthrie, (p. 82).
5. Abram Guthrie, (p. 83).
John Guthrie," Presumptive son of John above, may have been meant in the following:
"John Guthrie, Feb., 1778." From the list of soldiers in the Revolutionary War, who were from Litchfield County.
His son John is doubtless referred to in the following:
"John Guthrie was a native of Connecticut; went to Aurora, New York, and at the age of 21 removed to Groton, New York. He married Sept. 7, 1800, to Olive Wilson and their children werePolly, Thankful, Maria, William, Nancy, Sophronia (married to Daniel Swazy), John W., Lyman H., and Oliver N."86
Of these William Guthrie was born December, 1814; died Sept. 24, 1896, at Wausheka, Wis. He married in Tomkins County, N. Y., Sarah Neill, who was born in that county, December, 1820. She was a daughter of Tellyer Neill, who married Elizabeth Jacobs.
After their marriage William Guthrie and wife removed to Wausheka, Wis., where she died April, 1893.
Children:
1. Tellyer Gnthrie, b. Jan., 1840; unm. In the Civil War he enlisted in Co. D, First Wisc. Vol. Inf. He d. Oct. 6, 1863.
2. Eliza Guthrie, b. Jan., 1843; unm.; d. Sept., 1866.
3. John C. Guthrie, b. Nov. 10, 1845; m. ; was living in 1915 in Milford, Dickinson County, Iowa.
4. Sarah Guthrie, b. Feb., 1848; unm.; d. Sept., 1871.
5. Daniel Neill Guthrie, b. May 30, 1851. (Below)
6. Emma P. Guthrie, b. Sept., 1854, (p. 81).
7. F. H. Guthrie, b. Sept., 1857; m. AddressRoute No. 39, Mukwonaga, Wisc.
8. W. F. Guthrie, b. Sept., 1859; m. lives in Milford, Iowa.
9. C. R. Guthrie, b. June, 1865; m. lives in Wausheka, Wisc.
Daniel Neill Guthrie married March 3, 1875, Adella N. Guthrie, daughter of John 0. Guthrie, who married Delia M. Holbrook. In
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June, 1911, Daniel N. Guthrie and family removed to Dowling Lake, Alberta, Canada, where he engaged in farming.
Children:
1. Ada Guthrie, b. June 7, 1877; m. Nov. 5, 1896, N. H. Lund.
Children:
(1). Harold Lund, b. March 3, 1898.
(2). Daniel Lund, b. Jan. 28, 1903.
2. Edna Guthrie, b. Sept. 27, 1878; d. July 9, 1879.
3. Grace Guthrie, b. Aug. 17, 1885.
Emma P. Guthrie married F. H. Millard.
Children:
1. Frank R. Millard, m.; lives in Pomona, Calif.
2. Eva Millard, who m. a Mr. Snyder.
Oliver N. Guthrie, son of John Guthrie and Olive Wilson, (p. 80) is supposed to have been the Oliver Guthrie who died at the age of 33 years and was the father of
1. Mortimer Charles Guthrie, b. Oct. 7, 1845, in Orange, N. J.
2. William Alonzo Guthrie, of 448 Summer Ave., Newark, N. J.
Mortimer C. Guthrie married Oct. 7, 1866, Annie Vale Jenkins, in Newark, N. J. For a time thereafter they lived in Morristown, N. J. Present Address918 E. Locust St., Bloomington, Ill.
1. Mary Jane Guthrie, b. June 27, 1867; m. S. G. Fosdick, Route "A", Sterling, Colo.
2. Oliver James Guthrie, b. June 23, 1873, in Morristown, N. J.; m. Jan. 16, 1907, Oliva Randall, who was b. Jan. 3, 1878, near Blue Mound, Ill. They live at 2533 Elmwood Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Children:
(1). Baby Guthrie, d. at birth Oct. 29, 1907.
(2). Robert Oliver Guthrie, b. Nov. 15, 1911, in Kansas City, Mo.
(3). Eldred Randall Guthrie, b. May 13, 1913, near Kansas City, Mo.
James Guthrie, presumptive son of John Guthrie and Patience Knapp, (p. 80) seems to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. "James Guthrie, April 24, 1777." From the list of Litchfield County Revolutionary soldiers. He is supposed to have had a son
James Guthrie, who married (1) Oct. 25, 1821, Marcia Way, of Washington, Conn. "Marcia, consort of Mr. Jas. Guthrie, Jr., died Oct. 15, 1822, in her 19th year."
He married (2) April 29, 1823, Mary Goodwin, who was born Nov. 8, 1803, in Litchfield County; died "April 13, 1865, Mary Goodwin, wife of Jas. Guthrie, aged 62."
They had a sonJohn Guthrie.
Joel Guthrie, believed to have been a son of John Guthrie and Patience Knapp, led a life of hardship and tragedy. At the close of the Revolution, Connecticut continued to follow up her claims to territory lying to the west and sent out troops to fight the Indians on the western frontiers. Oct. 6, 1785, Captain Strong's Company of Col. Harmar's Regiment arrived at West Point, N. Y.
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Joseph Buell, a native of Killingsworth, Conn., was the orderly sergeant of this company and kept a diary of events during the expedition to the west to which reference will be made. On the 17th of November, 1785, Major Wyllis arrived from New York with orders to march immediately for the western frontier. They left on November 20 and arrived at Fort Pitt, Dec. 21, 1785. Here the troops rested for four days and then pushed on for Fort McIntosh on the Ohio River.
Extracts from Sergeant Buell's diary
"December 25, 1785. We crossed the Allegheny river and marched ten miles into the woods and halted for the night. It snowed and we made a large fire by an oak tree and had jerked beef and two swallows of rum for our Christmas dinner."
"December 26, 1785. Marched at daybreak for Fort McIntosh and arrived at sunset. Went into the old barracks which were very ruinous, being without roof and floors. Here we closed the month of December in repairing our barracks and trying to make ourselves comfortable for the winter. The troops are raw and unacquainted with duty; the officers strict and treatment excessively severe, flogging men with 120 lashes a daily occurence."
"January 1, 1786 We began the New Year with a desertion. A man by the name of Alger deserted. Courtmartials continually sitting and the men uneasy without much to eat.
"January 25, 1786. Corporal Davis, John C. Dittman, Joel Guthrie and Alexander Patterson crossed the river on a pass. The corporal returned and reported that the three men refused to return with him Sargeant Fitch and guard were sent after them and they surrendered and were brought back prisoners to the garrison. Major Wyllis, who commanded Fort McIntosh, without waiting for the formality of a Court martial, ordered out a file of soldiers and the three privates above named were shot to death."
"The order and shooting was the most inhuman act I ever saw; all three were young and the finest soldiers in the company."
The sargeant also recorded that Fitch had been ordered to shoot the men on sight, but being a humane man he disobeyed the order for which he was reduced. The shooting was reported to the Secretary of War who ordered a Court Martial to sit at Fort Pitt. Major Wyllis was acquitted. In the campaign under General Harmar in 1790 Major Wyllis was ambushed and slain by Indians.
Daniel Guthrie, presumptive son of John Guthrie and Patience Knapp, was among settlers from Connecticut in the Wyoming
Valley of Pennsylvania.
"Guthrie, Daniel; one free white male over 16; one under 16; one free white female (U. S. Census 1790, for Pa. p. 148). Chauncy Guthrie, it appears was his son. Chauncey married he died in 1904 at Paris, Mo.
Children:
1. William Guthrie. (Below)
2. Daniel Guthrie, (p. 83).
3. Albert Guthrie, (p. 83).
William Guthrie married moved to Missouri, where he died.
Children:
1. Emerson Guthrie, b. at East Troy, Bradford County, Pa., living in Kansas City, Mo.
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2. Percy Guthrie, b. at East Troy, Bradford County, Pa.
3. William Guthrie, b. at East Troy, Bradford County, Pa.
Daniel Guthrie was born at East Troy, Bradford County, Pa., in 1868; married Ellen Todd, who was born May 6, 1872; died Feb. 23, 1892, at Moberly, Mo.
Children:
1. J. Elmer Guthrie, b. Sept. 17, 1890, Moberly, Mo. He m. Vera Phipps, who was b.May 5, 1891, at Moberly, Mo., daughter of Seymour Phipps, b. Aug. 7, 1851; m.Jennie Dunn. They had another daughter Velma Phipps. J. Elmer Guthrie is an insurance man of Moberly, Mo.
Children:
(1). Herschel B. Guthrie, b. Feb. 17, 1910, in Moberly, Mo.
(2). Ina L. Guthrie, b. Aug. 29, 1917, in Moberly, Mo.
Albert ("Bert") Guthrie, older than Daniel, lived on the old Guthrie farm at Columbia Cross Roads. At one time this farm was owned by Warren Guthrie, a cousin of his. Annie L. Guthrie, granddaughter of Warren, lives at Columbia Cross Roads, a few miles north of East Troy, Bradford County, Pa.
Abram Guthrie, presumptive son of John Guthrie and Patience Knapp, (p. 80) is referred to in the following"Married Abram Guthrie and Kezia Mallory, Jan. 9, 1783."
"Abraham Guthrie, Feb. 28, 1778," Revolutionary soldiers of Litchfield County, Conn.
WILLIAM GUTHRIE, son of John Guthrie and Abigail Coe, (p. 80), united with the First Congregational Church of Woodbury in 1752. He married Susanna . In 1764 William Guthrie and wife were admitted to membership in the West Preston Congregational Church of Litchfield County, Conn." In the year 1787 they removed to Jericho, now Bainbridge, Chenango County, N. Y. Some of the family located in New Berlin, N. Y.
He is first mentioned in the local records as attending a town meeting held April 19, 1791. The U. S. Census of 1790 shows him as a resident of Chemung, N. Y. Many of the town meetings of Bainbridge were held at his house. He died in 1806.
Children:
1. Anna Guthrie, b. 1761, (p. 87).
2. William Guthrie, b. Dec. 1767, Washington, Conn., (p. 84).
3. Eunice Guthrie, (p. 86).
4. Rhoda Guthrie, (p. 87).
5. Mary Guthrie, "baptized March 27, 1771, Mary, dau. of Wm. Guthrie." She m. a Mr. Moore.
6. Sarah Guthrie, "baptized Aug. 28, 1774, Sarah, daughter of Wm. Guthrie."" She m. a Mr. Merwin.
7. Jemima Guthrie, "baptized July 7, 1776, Jemima, daughter of Wm. Guthrie," (p.87).
8. Ruth Guthrie, "baptized Aug. 6, 1780, Ruth, daughter of Wm. Guthrie," 11 (p.87).
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William Guthrie, eldest son of William Guthrie and Susanna married Dec. 3, 1799, Sarah Whitney, who was born in Connecticut, May 8, 1775; died in Bainbridge, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1859. She was the daughter of Joshua Whitney, who married Hannah Green. He was a descendant of John and Eleanor Whitney, who settled at Watertown, Mass., in 1632. William Guthrie died at Bainbridge, N. Y., March 14,1813.
Children, all born at Bainbridge, N. Y.:
1. William Guthrie, b. Aug. 12, 1800; m. in 1850 Sarah ; d. April 16,1880.
2. Gershorn Hyde Guthrie, b. Jan. 14, 1802. (Below)
3. Sarah Guthrie, b. Nov. 5, 1803. (Below)
4. Susan Guthrie, b. Jan. 25, 1805. (Below)
5. Olive Guthrie, b. Aug. 6, 1806, (p. 85).
6. Emaline Guthrie, b. Aug. 11, 1808; m. June 2, 1848, Deacon Samuel Stowe.
7. George Whitney Guthrie, b. Feb. 15, 1810, (p. 85).
8. Ophelia Guthrie, b. Aug. 31, 1812.
Gershom Hyde Guthrie married June 5, 1836, Elizabeth he died March 28, 1845.
Children:
1. Ophelia Guthrie, b. Jan. 10, 1838; d. Sept. 15, 1839.
2. Sarah Guthrie, b. July 14, 1840.
3. Emma Guthrie, b. Aug. 28, 1842; m. Dec. 24, 1878, Isadore Converse; lived in Florida.
Children:
(1). Mary Converse.
(2). Ralph Converse.
4. William Guthrie, b. Dec. 31, 1844; m. Feb. 22, 1882, Sarah Crum. They live in Union, New York.
Susan Guthrie, b. Sept. 30, 1852; m. July 3, 1878, Anthony D. Thompson.
Sarah Guthrie, (above) daughter of William Guthrie and Sarah Whitney, married Dec. 12, 1823, Zachariah Tarble. She died Oct. 27, 1833.
Children:
1. William Tarble, d. in childhood.
2. Sarah Guthrie Tarble, b. Aug. 6, 1825; m. Wxn. Whitley.
3. Harry J. Tarble, b. Nov. 7, 1830; m. Malvina Smith. Lived In Kansas City, Mo.
Children:
(1). Charles Tarble.
(2). May Tarble.
(3). Lottie Tarble.
(4). Frank Tarble.
4. Susan Tarble, b. June 24, 1833; m. Nov. $0, 1859, Dr. Robert De L.Evans.
Susan Guthrie, daughter of William Guthrie and Sarah Whitney, (above) married Philo Kirby, a descendant of the Kirbys of Litchfield County, Conn. She died Nov. 15, 1867.
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Children, all born in Bainbridge, N. Y.:
1. Anna Louise Kirby, b. 1826; resided on the old GuthrieKirby homestead on the banks of the Susquehanna in Bainbridge, one of the first settlements in western New York.
2. Charles P. Kirby, b. 1830; m. Margianna Craig. Lived in Bainbridge.
Children:
(1). Mary E. Kirby.
(2). Charles C. Kirby. (4). Edward G. Kirby.
3. George Frederick Kirby, b. May 22, 1836. (Below)
4. Henry H. Kirby, b. Nov. 21, 1844; d. Oct. 10, 1865, while in his second year at Ann Arbor University.
George Frederick Kirby graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, N. Y., class of 1857, as a Civil Engineer. When the Civil War began he was a resident engineer for the Mobile and Ohio R. R., located at Corinth, Miss. He resigned from that position and became connected with the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railway Company, having charge of the construction of that line, now a portion of the Chicago and Northwestern R. R. from Council Bluffs to Omaha. He was in charge of the construction of a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, at Clinton, Iowa. At the completion of that work he was made superintendent and engineer of the Chicago and Northwestern R. R. and later became superintendent and engineer of the Iowa Central Railway Company and located in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he continued to live until the time of his death.
He married in 1868 Jennie Reed of Fort Plain, Montgomery County, N. Y. She was the grand daughter of Col. Enoch Reed, of the American Revolution. No children.
Mr. Kirby in later life became president of the Fidelity Savings Bank, of Marshalltown, and of the Le Grand Marble and Stone Company of Marshall County, Iowa. He died in 1915.
Olive Guthrie, (p. 84) fifth child of William and Sarah (Whitney) Guthrie, and sister of Susan (Guthrie) Kirby, above, was born August 6, 1806. She married January 26, 1829, Allen Randall.
Children:
1. Jessie Randall, who lived in Lisle, New York.
2. Thomas Randall, who lived in Sterling, Minn.
3. Gersharn Randall, who served in the Union Army in the Civil War and d. while in the service at Chattanooga, Tenn.
4. Sarah Randall, who m. Frank D. Goetchurs. They resided in Binghamton, New York.
Children:
(1). Frank Goetchurs.
(2). William Goetchurs. (3). Frederic Goetchurs.
George Whitney Guthrie, (p. 84) seventh child of William and Sarah (Whitney) Guthrie, was born at Bainbridge, Chenango County, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1810. He married 1855 Emma Gosson, in
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San Francisco, Calif., where he was a prominent citizen. Emma Gosson, was the daughter of John Gosson, Esq., of Dublin, Ireland. Removing to Paris, France, in 1862, later to New York, where he died May 30, 1883; his widow, Jan. 9, 1888.
Children:
1. Francesca Guthrie. (Below)
2. Henry G. Guthrie, who d. Feb. 13, 1883.
3. William Dameron Guthrie, is a prominent lawyer in New York City. He is a member of the law firm of Seward, Guthrie, and Steele. He in. May, 1891, Ella Fuller, in New York. They have one child, Ella, who in. W. Eugene Kimball.
4. Emma Guthrie.
5. Beatrice Guthrie, who d. in infancy.
6. Eugenie Guthrie, b. in Paris.
7. George Guthrie, b. in New York; d. in infancy.
Francesca Guthrie, eldest child of George Whitney and Emma (Gosson) Guthrie, was born in California. She married Oct. 30, 1890, Charles Daniel Moyer, a lawyer. They lived in Chicago.
"Mrs. Francesca GuthrieMoyer's great musical talent, (inherited from her mother, a finished vocalist), was so strongly shown that her parents placed her under the greatest masters in Paris. Her great natural ability and magnificent voice made her4one of the leading dramatic Sopranos of her time. Mrs. Moyer has appeared in the leading roles of Italian and Wagnerian grand operas in Europe and the largest cities in America as well as in oratorio and important Musical Festivals with great success."
Children:
1. Francesca Emma Moyer, b. in Chicago, Ill.; Sept. 3, 1891.
2. William Guthrie Moyer, b. in Chicago, Ill., April 1, 1893.
3. Eleanor Guthrie Moyer, b. in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 28, 1897; d. April 21, 1898.
Ophelia Guthrie, (p. 84) eighth child of William and Sarah (Whitney) Guthrie, was born at Bainbridge, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1812. She married Washington L. Lane; died June, 1844. They lived in Philadelphia, where for many years Mr. Lane was the editor of the Public Ledger. At his death, Mr. Childs the proprietor, in token of his esteem, erected a handsome monument in his memory.
Children:
1. Ophelia Lane, only child, in. Richard J. Hoffner. They live in Phila- delphia, Pa.
Eunice Guthrie, (p. 83) daughter of William Guthrie and Susanna , married April 30, 1778, James Graham.
Children:
1. William Graham, who d. unin.
2. Ann Graham, who d. unin.
3. James Graham.
4. Lucy Graham, who in. a Mr. Harper. Children: (1). Susan Harper, who in. Vincent Whitley. (2). Eliza Graham Harper.
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Rhoda Guthrie, (p. 83) daughter of William Guthrie and Susanna , married April 30, 1778, Heath Kelsey.
Anna Guthrie, (p. 100) daughter of William Guthrie and Susanna , 'married Oct. 28, 1782, Reuben Curby" (Kirby), born 1760; son of Joseph Kirby and Rachel Hand. Joseph Kirby died in 1766 (see p. 122).
Children:
1. Laura Curby, who in. a Mr. Hinman.
Children:
(1). Curby Hinman.
(2). Miles Hinman, who became a physician; lived in California.
2. Sally Curby, who in. Judge Sylvester Smith.
3. Lois Curby, who in. Robert Foster.
Jemima Guthrie, (p. 83) daughter of William Guthrie and Susanna , married Dr. Gershom Hyde, M.D., who graduated from Yale College, Sept. 10, 1788. He died August, 1801. She married (2) Rev. Stowe.
Children, first marriage:
1. Ira Hyde, b. Sept. 28, 1800; in. Jan. 30, 1823, Sally Humphrey, daughter of Thomas and Sally Humphrey. She was b. Aug. 22, 1804; d. Aug. 2, 1891. Ira Hyde d. June 18, 1876.
Children, second marriage:
1. Charles Stowe.
Ruth Guthrie, (p. 83) youngest child of William Guthrie and Susanna , married a Mr. Cooper.
Children:
1. Huldah Cooper.
2. William Cooper.
3. Charles Cooper
4. Eliza Cooper, who in. a Mr. Daggett and had fifteen children. One of these, John Daggett was at one time Lieutenant Governor of California; was also President of the U. S. Mint of California, and later a prosperous gold miner of Alameda, Calif.
JAMES GUTHRIE, 2nd, fourth child of John Guthrie and Abigail Coe, (p. 80) united with the First Congregational Church of Woodbury, Conn., in 1752. lie married July 17, 1755, Abigail Betts. They moved to Lenox, Berkshire County, Mass, where they joined the First Congregational Church of that place Aug. 4, 1771. He parchased 125 acres of land near there from the Executors of James Dvdght in 1775.
"James Guthrie figured prominently in the stirring events of his day. He drew up and was the signer of many important documents before and during the American Revolution. Among them was the historical document, termed the 'Covenant,' signed at Lenox, in 1774; and like his namesake, James Guthrie, the Martyr, he was one of the first to step forward and sign his name."
The following instructions were sent to representatives of the town June 3, 1776.
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"Thes are to direct you to use your Best Endeavours to suppress the Tyranical measures that have or may take place from Great Britain; and as likewise to take as much care that you do not set up anything of a Despotick Power among ourselves; but let us have freedom at home although we have war abroad. We do Further Direct you to use your utmost abilities and interest with our Assembly, and they theirs with the Continental Congress, that if they think it safe for the Colonies, to declare independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain. And in your so doing, we Do Declare in the abovementioned thing. We will stand by you with our lives and fortunes.
(signed by)
ELIAS WILLARD,
JAMES GUTHRIE,
JAMES RICHARDS, JR.,
Committee."
James Guthrie was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, from Lenox, Mass., as were also his sons, Samuel and Joseph.
Jn 1786 he sold twentyfour acres of his land and in 1792 the remaining ninetynine acres. He removed that summer to Bainbridge, N. Y., and the following fall found him in Sherburne. John Lincklaen, of the Holland Land Company, wrote in his Journal"Thursday, Oct. 11, 1792, we passed through Sherburne, Chenango County, where we found one Mr. Guthrie, who had been there three or four months."
The Meeting House on West Hill was the first church building to be erected in Sherburne. The society was formed in the home of James Guthrie, Tuesday Nov. 25, 1800. James Guthrie died in Sherburne, April 22, 1804; his wife in 1814.
Children:
1. Samuel Guthrie b. May 23, 1756, in Woodbury, Conn. (Below)
2. James Guthrie, b. Nov. 19, 1757, (p. 98).
3. Joseph Guthrie, b. 17609 (p. 99).
4. Benjamin Guthrie, (p. 101).
5. John Guthrie, (p. 108).
6. Nathan Guthrie, b. 1767, (p. 108).
7. Sally Guthrie, (p. 121).
8. Esther Guthrie, (p. 121).
9. Harvey Guthrie.
Samuel Guthrie, eldest child of James Guthrie and Abigail Betts, moved with his parents to Lenox, Mass., in 1771, and enlisted in the War of the Revolution from that place. At the close of the war he studied medicine and entered upon the practice of the profession at Brimfield, Mass., where he attained fame as a physician and surgeon. His house is still standing and a bridge across Hitchcock's brook, nearby, is still known as "Guthrie's Bridge."
He was twice married; (1) Sarah ; (2) Anna . Dr. Samuel Guthrie died in Brimfield, Mass., Aug. 23, 1808. His will is preserved among the records of the county.
Children of Samuel Guthrie and Sarah ; both born in Brimfield:
1. Samuel Guthrie, b. in 1782, (p. 89).
2. James Guthrie, b. Aug. 19, 1784, (p. 98).
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Children of Samuel Guthrie and Anna , both born in Brimfield:
1. Rufus Guthrie, studied medicine and became a practicing physician in Brimfleld.
2. Alfred Guthrie, likewise entered the medical profession.
Samuel Guthrie, Jr., eldest child of Dr. Samuel and Sarah () Guthrie, studied medicine with his father, and shortly after attaining to the dignity of M.D., removed to Sherburne, Chenango County, N. Y., where he began the practice of his profession.
Samuel Guthrie, Jr., married in 1804, Sybil Sexton in Smyrna, N. Y. He was one of the original members of the Second Calvinistic Congregational Society of Sherburne. This church was organized at the home of his grandfather, James Guthrie, Tuesday, November 25, 1800.
The following extracts are taken from Ossian Guthrie's Memoirs of Dr. Samuel Guthrie, and relate to Dr. Guthrie's practice of medicine and discovery of chloroform.
"The years of Jenner's struggle, from the conception to the successful demonstration of the great principle of inoculation, 1790 to 1803, were contemporaneous with the student years of our embryo doctor. Inspired with confidences in Jenner's discovery, he carried it with him to his first professional home. Dr. Waterhouse, of Cambridge, Mass., who in 1803, had introduced it into this country, had no more enthusiastic or daring disciple than he. His first subject was Sarah Guthrie, his cousin.
"A fortuitous case of smallpox afforded the doctor the coveted opportunity, in which his zeal was eclipsed by the fortitude of his subject. Sarah Guthrie volunteered to act as nurse and both she and the doctor passed successfully and triumphantly through the ordeal; and thenceforth his advance to distinction was rapid.
"During the winter of 181011 Dr. Guthrie attended a course of medical lectures in New York, and again at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
"His diary, kept (31 days), shows 275 closely written or illustrated pages; some of the pages where no illustrations occur, contain about 200 words. He found time even then to criticize or commend his professor according to impressions made upon his mind by the lecture.
"During the War of 1812, Dr. Guthrie was examining surgeon in the army.
"In the year 1817 he removed with his family to Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson County, New York, where, after the war, he had established a vinegar manufactory for supplying Madison Barracks, a military post established in 1812; here he also continued his experiments in the manFfacture of powder.
"He manufactured the flrst practicable percussion cap ever made, and at Madison Barracks, nearby, fired the first cannon ever fired by that agency, with powder of his own manufacture.
"He was widely known, his priming powder being almost universally used throughout the United States and Canada, the manufacture of which began in 1826. It was put in tin canisters of one ounce, and labeled, 'WaterProof Percussion Priming, S. Guthrie, Sacket's Harbor. Agents, Van Buren Wardell & Co., N. Y.'
"He removed to Jewettsville, a hamlet about a mile from Sacket's Harbor, and where as the Encyclopedia Britannica expresses it, 'Samuel Guthrie, of America, produced chloroform.'
"Dr. Guthrie devoted his time largely during the years 1830 and 1831 to experimenting in his laboratory, the results of which were quite fully given
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In Vols. W and xxii. American Journal of Science and Arts. As a contributor to this journal, judging from the frequent and complimentary notices by the editor, Prof. Silliman, he was among those most highly esteemed. About oneeight of Vol. xxi. was devoted to his work.
"Under the head of 'Chemical Products formed by Mr. Guthrie,' the editor says,page 92, v. xxi.,
" 'I add a notice of the following facts, communicated by Mr. Guthrie in his letters, not for publication, but which I conceive are honorable to the rising chemical arts of this country. I presume it was little suspected that such things were doing in a remote region on the shore of Lake Ontario.
" 'Mr. Guthrie's method of preparing it (Chloric ether) is ingenuous, economical and original.' Ibid, p. 69.
" 'The above notices, (Pure Oil of Turpentine and the manufacture of Chlorate of Potassa,) as matters of fact, will probably be interesting to the chemical public of this country! Ibid., p. 93.
" 'Mr. Guthrie's preparations have all arrived, and although I reserve the trial of most of them, to my winter course of experiments, I am impressed with both at his skill and intrepidity! Ibid., p. 295.
" 'Dr. Guthrie's liberality having placed it in my power, I have recently distributed several bottles among medical friends, and the report as far as it has been received, is highly satisfactory! Ibid., p. 405.
"An interesting fact in this connection, is, that Prof. 0. P. Hubbard, Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth from 1836 to 1883 was Prof. Silliman's assistant at Yale in 1831 and received and opened the packages containing the chemical products above referred to. Prof. Hubbard, now after a lapse of fiftysix years, furnished the writer (Ossian Guthrie) a small quantity each of the 'chlorate of potassa,' 'potato molasses,' and 'gunpowder,' mentioned on pages 92 and 93 (Silliman's Journal), the labels on the original packages, having been written and placed upon them by him in 1831."
From the foregoing even the layman will see that Dr. Samuel Guthrie, possessed a keen scientific mind of great power. A pioneer in his field he had nothing to guide him save his own reasoning processes in making his original experiments. The honor due him therefore, as the discoverer of chloroform is by so much the more enhanced. Although space forbids us giving a more minute account of this great discovery, and of the immense value of it in the practice of medicine and especially of surgery, a more extended account is given in Records of the Guthrie Family, by Dunn and Dunn, Chicago, 1898, pages 27 to 34.
As in the case of many other notable discoveries and inventions, there were rival claimants to the honor of first producing chloroform. The French chemist Soubeiran, and a German, Liebig, both claimed to have been the first discoverers of the new chemical substance. History has shown that however original may have been their labors, both of them were antedated several months in the actual production of chloric ethein by Ek. Guthrie in AmeHca. The following report made by a committee of the Chicago Medical Society gives a brief and careful summary of the question.
"Chicago, February 6, 1888." "Mr. Chairman and members of the Chicago Medical Society: Your committee appointed to consider the subject of the discovery of Chloroform would respectfully submit the following report:
There are three claimants to the honor of discovery,Liebig, of Germany; Soubeiran, of France; and Guthrie, of America.
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LIEBIG'S CLAIM
"Liebig claims to have published the discovery in November 1831. (See Lebig's Annalen, Vol. 162, page 161.)
SOUBEIRAN'S CLAIM
"Soubeiran claims to have published his paper on ether biclorique in October, 1831, in the 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique.'
"Liebig shows (see Liebig's Annalen, Vol. 162, page 161) that the October number of the 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique was delayed in its publication, and that it did not appear until January, 1832. It certainly is evident that it was not published in October as it contains the meteorogical report for the entire month of October.
GUTHRIE'S CLAIM
"In the January number, 1882 of 'Silliman's American Journal of Science and Art,' we find an article by Dr. Samuel Guthrie, dated Sept. 12, 1831, in which he says, 'A bottle and a phial contain alcoholic solution of chIoric ether. The contents of the phial me as strong as I could conveniently prepare them but not equal to some which I made not long ago.'
"In the October number, 1831, of the same journal (Page 64, Vol. xxi.), we End an article by Dr. Guthrie, without date, upon a "New mode of preparing a spiritous solution of chloric ether,' in which he says, 'During the last six months a great number of persons have drunk of the solution of chloric ether, not only freely but frequently to the point of intoxication!
"We find a notice to contributors in Prof. Silliman's journal in which he says, 'Communications to be in hand six weeks, or so when long, and especially with drawings, two months before the publication days.'
"Dr. Guthrie's paper on Chloric ether must have been in the hands of the printer in July or August, 1831, and if persons had drunk his chloric ether for six months, it would place the date of his discovery in the early part of 1831.
"We therefore conclude that Dr. Samuel Guthrie is justly entitled to the honor of first discovering chloroform, and that the publication of his discovery antedates that of either Liebig or Soubeiran. Respectfully submitted,
F. E. WAXHAM,
N. S. DAVIS, JR.,
E. WYLLS ANDREWS.
On motion the report of the Committee was accepted and ordered printed in the transactions of the Society.
NVM. T. BELFIELD, President FRANK BILLINGS, Secretary.
Dr. Guthrie's genius and indefatigable energy were not revealed alone in his laboratory. Evidences of these were to be found in everything with which he came in contact. The wild place in which he located was in the course of a few years transformed into cultivated fields and beautiful gardens. Brick were made from a nearby claybank with which he built a comfortable house, pure water from a neverfailing stream on the sand hill about a quarter of a mile distant was piped to the house. The carefully tended garden supplied all fruits and vegetables which would grow in that climate.
The land was carefully cleared of stones, these being used in making walls around the cultivated fields.
The doctors library was one of the very best of the times. In it were to be found the best scientific journals, standard works on
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medicine and chemistry, The Edinburg Encyclopedia, Shakespeare, some good novels and last but not least, the Bible in which he was well read.
Doctor Guthrie was interested in the promotion of industrial enterprises being a stockholder in one of the first woolen mills established in the neighboring town of Watertown, N. Y. He was active in establishing the Houndsfield Library of which he was a trustee.
Those who knew him bore testimony to his goodness and kindness. Judge Robinson, of Sherburne, said of him"He was a great man, but his greatness was not to be compared with his goodness."
In person, he was of medium stature, slender build and slightly stooping figure. He was of dark complexion and thoughtful mein. His head was well formed, the face slightly oval, the nose prominent, but the most distinguishing feature about him was his dark expressive eyes. In later life, a spasmodic twitching of the muscles of one side of his face disfigured it so a daguerrotype was never taken of him.
Dr. Samuel Guthrie passed from this life, Oct. 19, 1848, at the age of 66 years. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Burt, of Sackett's Harbor, his wife having died at their home at Sackett's Harbor, Feb. 10, 1840. (See the Sextons, Allied Families).
Children:
1. Alfred Guthrie, b. March 31, 1805. (Below)
2. Edwin Guthrie, b. Dec. 11, 1806, (p. 96).
3. Harriet Guthrie, b. in 1810, (p. 97).
4. Cynthia Guthrie, b. June 2, 1823, (p. 98).
Alfred Guthrie, eldest child of Dr. Samuel and Sybil (Sexton) Guthrie, was born in Sherburne, N. Y. He married (1) Oct. 2, 1823, Nancy Piper, born in Rindge, N. H., April 7, 1805; died in Chicago, Ill., June 10, 1855. (See the Pipers, Allied Families). Alfred Guthrie married (2) March 31, 1857, Phoebe A. Guthrie, born in Sherburne, N. Y., June 7, 1828. She was the daughter of Chauncy and Eliza (Dunn) Guthrie,see the line of Joseph, brother of Samuel Guthrie, Sr., below.
Alfred was a man of genius and learning and seemed to possess to no small degree the scientific and inventive faculties of his distingqished father. He designed the "Hydraulic Works," of the Illinoig and Michigan canal, which was designed to supply the summit level, which was thirty miles in length, with water from Lake Michigan.
"This was the first work ever erected for such a purpose, and was capable of raising a larger quantity of water than any other establishment then in existence, and for twentythree years, and until 1871, when the canal deepening was completed, never failed to perform the duties required. These works, in point of economy of construction and efficiency of cooperation, were among the most successful public works of the time, and were for many years under his direction.
"The terrible steamboat disasters of 1851 so impressed him that he conceived the idea of laying the foundation for National legislation to control the
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construction and management of steamvessels. To this end, and at his own expense, he examined about two hundred steamboats. By various devices he secured opportunities to note unskillful and dangerous management, and take notes and measurements of defective parts. He made drawings of faulty boiler connections, safety valves, feeding apparatus, etc., and gave special attention to the methods of engineers during exciting races.
"The results of these investigations were embodied in a memorial to Congress, accompanied by the data he had collected, and drawings he had made. He drafted a bill which was substantially the 'United States SteamBoat Law,' of today; it included also the lifesaving service. His efforts were met by strong opposition from steamboat owners, and delegations were sent by them to Washington, to defeat the passage of the bill, but his work had been so thoroughly done as to leave no doubt of the necessity for a law, and the bill he had prepared was passed without material change. He was appointed supervising inspector under its provisions by President Fillmore and again by President Lincoln."
As a parent, Alfred Guthrie was gentleness and kindness itself. He never used corporal punishment in correcting one of his children and he was strongly opposed to this form of punishment in the public schools of that time. In this respect he was one of the pioneers of that day whose influence led to the adoption of the more enlightened government of schools now generally practiced in the public schools of the country.
At the time his father's estate was settled up, and his portion received, he wrote in his journal,"Today came to me the things given me by my father, whilst they bring to mind scenes of a joyous and happy youth, of kind and affectionate parents; they but remind me that I in turn must do by mine, as they have done by me."
Alfred Guthrie died in Chicago, Ill., Aug. 17, 1882.
Children, first marriage:
1. Eveline Guthrie, b. June 26, 1824, in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.; m. Sept. 12, 1852, in Chicago, Ill., William Dunn, who was b. at Meadville, Pa., Oct. 29, 1823. (See the Dunns, Allied Families).
2. Ossian Guthrie, b. Feb. 23, 1826, in Turin, Lewis County, N. Y. (Below)
3. Samuel Guthrie, b. Dec. 11, 1828, in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., (p. 94).
4. Wardell Guthrie, b. April 29, 1831, in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., (p. 95).
5. Sybil Guthrie, b. July 24, 1841, in Morristown, N. Y.; d. April 13, 1844, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Children, second marriage, all born in Chicago, Ill.:
1. Alfred Guthrie, Jr., b. Aug. 8, 1858, (p. 95).
2. An infant son, b. Oct. 25, 1864; d. Nov. 5, 1864.
3. Chauncey Joseph Guthrie; b. Nov. 7, 1867, (p. 96).
Ossian Guthrie, (above) the second child of Alfred and Nancy (Piper) Guthrie removed to Chicago, Ill., in 1846, where he won fame as a geologist and mechanical engineer. At the age of eighteen he made the pattern for the engine, which afterwards propelled the first tugboat up the Chicago river. Two years after his arrival in Chicago he was placed in charge of the pumping station which pumped water from the Illinois and Michigan canal. The following year he was master mechanic on the construction of the old Bridgeport pumping works, which at the time of its completion was
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the largest plant of its kind in existence. Mr. Guthrie became chief engineer of the plant, which position he held for many years. He studied the problem of clarifying the Chicago river and was one of the first to advocate a sanitary canal to dispose of the sewerage which formerly polluted the Chicago River.
As a geologist he made a special study of the glacial theory, in support of which he wrote a number of extensive and original articles. He demonstrated to the satisfaction of experts that the boulders which are scattered over the northern states of the Mississippi basin were transported from the places of their former existence by ice sheets rather than by icebergs as was formerly held by many geologists. It was due principally to his studies in geology that he projected the great Chicago drainage canal, a plan which he worked indefatiguably to promote, in legislatures and conventions and even carried the matter to Congress.
Mr. Guthrie, possessed the inventive ability which characterized his father and grandfather. He was the inventor of a device for forming and preserving ice by utilizing the natural means which is provided wherever natural ice is found. It was said, "In this department, he stands alone, for his name only appears in the Patent Office reports on this subject."
"An original investigator, a fine generalizer, an ingenius inventor, an accomplished practical engineer, a genuine patriot, an honest man and valuable citizen, he stands prominent among the levelheaded, publicspirited men for which Chicago has been famous."
Ossian Guthrie was a member of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, being directly descended from three revolutionary ancestors.
He married (1) Martha Betts, daughter of William and Mary (Hitt) Betts of Saratoga County, N. Y. He married (2) Lois R. Osgood, of Blue Hill, Maine. He married (3) Eunice Hoxie of Northfield, Maine; and (4) he married Mrs. Lucy (Adams) Stebbins, of Adams, N. Y
Children of Ossian and Martha Betts Guthrie:
1. Alfred William Guthrie, b. ; d. in infancy.
Children of Ossian and Eunice Hoxie Guthrie:
1. Martha Lois Guthrie, b. ; d. in infancy.
2. Eveline Guthrie, b. d. in infancy.
3. Ossian Guthrie, b. d. in infancy.
Samuel Guthrie, (p. 93) third child of Alfred and Nancy (Piper) Guthrie removed to Chicago about the time some of his relatives were settling there, and at the age of 21 he was appointed assistant engineer of the Chicago Water Works. He afterwards attended Harvard University and graduated from the Law School. He was admitted to the Illinois bar and practiced in Chicago several years under the firm name of Hopkins and Guthrie. He became one of the most popular lawyers of Chicago. In 1860 he removed to San
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Francisco, California, where at last accounts he was still residing. He was appointed Supervising Inspector of Steamboats, under President Grant. He was a staunch Republican and took an active interest in political affairs.
Samuel Guthrie married Mrs. Fannie Malory Case, daughter of James P. and Francis Malory Ashley, of Kentucky, and niece of General Ashley, who was at one time commander of Jefferson Barracks.
Wardell Guthrie, (p. 93) fourth child of Alfred and Nancy i Piper) Guthrie, was born in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., April 29, 1831. He married Caroline Pomeroy, (See Pomeroys, Allied Families) in Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 11, 1855, and removed to Illinois. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he raised a company which became known as Company 1, Illinois Infantry. He was elected its Captain. He remained in command of Company I until it with its regiment was mustered out of the service. lie then entered the Quarter Master's Department and was an engineer on a government boat operating on the Mississippi river. He went from St. Louis to Vicksburg, where he was transferred to the tug boat, Dime, and made its captain.
Soon after being made captain of the Dime, he was recalled to St. Louis and appointed harbor superintendent. At one time or another he served as captain of five different steamers in the Quarter Master's Transportation Department, and navigated on the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Cumberland and the White rivers.
He remained in the service until the close of the war, when he returned to Chicago, and was appointed United States Local Inspector of Steamboats, which position he held for three years, resigning it in order to engage in the ice business with his brother Ossian and sister Mrs. Dunn.
He was appointed Inspector of Boilers of Chicago under Mayor Roche and during his term of occupancy not a single boiler accident occurred. He was appointed a member of the Board of Examiners of Engineers under Mayor Washburne, and again was secretary of that board under Mayor Swift.
Children, all born in Chicago, Ill.:
1. An infant daughter, b. and d. Sept. 16, 1856.
2. Addie L. Guthrie, b. Feb. 23, 1858; m. March 18, 1880, in Chicagc, Ill., Henry Erastus Weaver. (See the Weavers, Allied Families).
3. William Hopkins Guthrie, b. March 21, 1860; d. April 27, 1862.
Alfred Guthrie, Jr., (p. 93) eldest child of Alfred Guthrie by his second wife, Phoebe (Guthrie) Guthrie, spent much of his early life in the old Guthrie home at Sherburne, N. Y. He was forced to leave school at the age of thirteen on account of his health. He was fond of study and research and at an early age conceived the ambition to follow in the steps of some of his forebears and become a
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physician. No opportunity offered itself until at the age of thirtyfour, he then entered the Chicago School of Dental Surgery and graduated April 2, 1895, tying with one other for second place in a class of one hundred and twentyfive students. He followed his profession in Chicago.
Alfred Guthrie, Jr., married He and his wife were members of the First Universalist Church of Englewood, where they were active in Sunday School work.
Chauncy Joseph Guthrie, (p. 93) third child of Alfred and Phoebe (Guthrie) Guthrie, married July 14, 1895, Alice Poole. He was a member of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution and could trace his lineage back to six ancestors who were in that war.
Edwin Guthrie, (p. 92) the second child of Dr. Samuel and Sybil (Sexton) Guthrie, was born in Smyrna, N. Y., Dec. 11, 1806. He removed from there with his parents to Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., where he married Sept. 7, 1827, Adaline Jewett. They removed to Iowa where he was at one time prominent in the political allairs of that state. Guthrie County, Iowa, was named in honor of him. In 1846, Edwin Guthrie was commissioned Captain of Company K, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, and went to the front in the Mexican War. Just before that time, Captain John Page, of the Fourth U. S. Infantry, was killed in the battle of Palo Alto, by having his lower jaw shot away. Alfred Guthrie, upon learning of his brother's intention of going to the front, wrote him, calling his attention to the fate of Page and urging him to abandon the idea. But he was not to be dissuaded. He with his son, Southwick, served gallantly in Mexico.
The following letters dictated to his son tell of his end.
Well, brother Alfred, I have indeed met the fate of Page. I have been wounded and am to die in the Castle of Perote. A few hours closes my earthly career.
EDWIN GUTHRIE.
MY DEAR BELOVED SISTER:The physicians have been in this evening and told me there is no earthly hope; a few hours closes my life on this earth. Accept a brother's dying love.
EDWIN GUTHRIE.
He was wounded in the knee by a guerilla, on June 20, 1847. He suffered two amputations which were unsuccessful in saving his life. He died July 20, 1847, after dictating the above letters, the signing of which was the last act of his life.
Adaline (Jewito Guthrie, wife of Edwin Guthrie, was the daughter of Nathan Jewett who founded Jewettsville, in Jefferson County, N. Y. Nathan Jewett married Hannah _. He was the son of Ezekiel and Hannah (Platts) Jewett, whose family is traced under the Pipers, given above.
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Children of Edwin and Adaline (Jewett) Guthrie:
1. Southwick Guthrie, b. in Jewettsville, N. Y., April 16, 1830. (Below)
2. Adaline Guthrie, b. in Jewettsville, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1831; d. in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1832.
Southwick Guthrie, eldest child of Edwin and Adaline (Jewett) Guthrie, was born in Jewettsville, Jefferson County, N. Y., April 11 (or 16), 1830. He married Dec. 6, 1858, Sophia Campion, at Ft. Madison, Iowa. She was born in Philadelphia, Pa, Dec 27, 1830.
Children:
1. Edwin Guthrie, b. in Fort Madison, Iowa, Aug. 30, 1859. He became an attorney and resided in Washington, D. C.
2. Clarissa Sidney Guthrie, b. in Fort Madison, Iowa, Aug. 9, 1861. (Below)
3. Grant Guthrie, b. in Washington, D. C., Dec. 27, 1864. (Below)
4. Paul C. Guthrie, b. in Washington, D. C., June 10, 1867; d. in Wash ington, D. C., July 12, 1869.
Clarissa Sidney Guthrie, above, married September 10, 1884, Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, in Washington, D. C. He was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy of Annapolis, Md., but gave up a naval career to become a minister of the Episcopal Church. He was the son of NA. and Nbc J. E. Brady of Leavenworth, Kan. She was a woman beautiful in physical form and in mind and spirit. Her mind was stored with everything that was pure and good; her personality made her loved and remembered by all who met her. She was a poetess of skill and merit but as she seldom published her poems, her skill was unknown except to her closest friends. She was a loving mother, devoted wife and a devout Christian. She died in Crete, Nebr., May 27, 1890.
Her "In Memoriam," written by her fatherinlaw, Mr. J. E. Brady, is reprinted in Records of the Guthrie Family, by Dunn and Dunn, Chicago, 1898, p. 98 to 102.
Children:
1. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Jr., b. in Omaha, Nebr., June 23, 1887.
2. Susan Elizabeth Brady, b. in Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 8, 1888,
3. Sidney Guthrie Brady, b. in Crete, Nebr., May 20, 1890.
Grant Guthrie, (above) third child of Southwick and Sophia (Campion) Guthrie, married August 1885, Isabelle G. Robinson, of Nebraska, Kan. They made their home in Harrison, Nebr., where he engaged in the practice of law.
Children:
1. Edwin Guthrie, b. June 12, 1886, in Netawaka, Kan.; m. May 25, 1912, Ruth G. Field, who was b. at Viroqua, Wis., they live (1928) in San Diego, Calif. They have one child, a daughter, Doris Ruth Guthrie, b. in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 24, 1918.
2. Basil Guthrie, b. Aug. 28, 1893, in Harrison, Nebr.
Harriet Guthrie, (p. 92) third child of Dr. Samuel and Sybil (Sexton) Guthrie, was born in Smyrna, N. Y., in 1810. She removed with her parents to Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., where she united with
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the First Presbyterian Church. She married Feb. 12, 1831 Thaddeus Chamberlain. (See the Chamberlains, Allied Families). They removed to Chicago, Ill., in 1845. She was received into the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Bascom, and became very much interested in the work of the church. She was a woman of kind sympathies and always strove to relieve those in distress. In the days of the slavery agitation she was a strong abolitionist and active in aiding the cause. During the great struggle of the Rebellion, she was devoted to her country and engaged in many enterprises for the benefit of the soldier& She gave cheerfully of her time and strength in this cause. She was one of the first ladies of Chicago who assisted in raising funds for the establishment of a permanent Soldier's Home.
Harriet (Guthrie) Chamberlain died in Chicago, 111.
Cynthia Guthrie, (p. 92) fourth and youngest child of Dr. Samuel and Sybil (Sexton) Guthrie, was born in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., June 2, 1823. She married Feb. 4, 1841, Francis F. Burt, (see the Burts, Allied Families), in Sackett's Harbor. She united with the Episcopal church of Sackett's Harbor in 1850 and remained a consistent member of that denomination throughout her life. She was a woman of many rare virtues and was deeply loved by all whose privilege it was to enjoy acquaintance with her. For a number of years she was an intense sufferer from bodily infirmities, but she bore the pain with patience and Christian fortitude. She died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Anna (Burt) Davies, in Madison, Wis., July 23, 1884, in her sixtyfirst year. She rests in her last sleep in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 111.
James Guthrie, (p. 88) second child of Dr. Samuel Guthrie, Sr., and Sarah , studied theology and became a minister widely known for his zeal and his efforts to prevent litigation. He removed from Brimfield, Mass., to Dayton, Ohio, where he married April 22, 1813, Mrs. Elizabeth Ainsworth Andrews, widow of Hugh Andrews, by whom she had five children. She was born Aug. 26, 1774; died in Dayton, Ohio, September, 1850. James Guthrie died in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 3,1860.'
Children:
1. Abelard Guthrie, b. March 9, 1814. (Below)
2. Eloise Guthrie, b. June 19, 1817; m. Jacob Light.
3. Margaret Guthrie, b. May 19, 1819; m. Isaac Strohm.
Abelard Guthrie married Nancy Brown. They had a daughter who married a Mr. Lane and lived in Kansas.
James Guthrie, (p. 88) second child of James Guthrie and Abigail Betts, removed from Woodbury, Conn., to Sherburne, N. Y., with his parents, and there married Mehitable Hicock, who was born Nov.
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7, 1757, the daughter of Thaddeus Hicock and Mehitable Porter, who were married Oct. 21, 1745. Mehitable Porter was the daughter of Ebenezer Porter and was baptized in Woodbury, Conn., Aug. 29, 1725. James Guthrie with his family removed from New York to Ohio.
Children:
1. Eliza Guthrie. 3. John Guthrie. (Below)
2. A daughter. 4. Absalom Guthrie.
John Guthrie married Susan ; they moved from Ohio to Otselic, Chenango County, N. Y.
Children:
1. Loraine Guthrie, who m. Thomas Wilcox.
2. Lucy Guthrie.
3. Caroline Guthrie , who m. Mr. Moore.
4. Emeline Guthrie, who m. Mr. Bliss.
5. Jane Guthrie, who m. Mr. Peckham.
6. Hiram Guthrie.
7. William Henry Guthrie.
8. James Guthrie.
Joseph Guthrie, (p. 88) the third child of James and Abigail (Betts) Guthrie, removed with his parents to Lennox, Masg., where, in 1776 at the age of sixteen, he enlisted as a drummer boy in the Continental army and served for seven years. He married Nov. 10, 1784, Phoebe Abbott. They removed to Sherburne, N. Y., in 1792, where he became a prominent citizen. At the first election in the county, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held for twentyeight years. He was public spirited and firm in his allegance to right and justice as he saw it, nevertheless of gentle and kindly disposition. He was a lieutenant of the Militia, organized April 11, 1796; later he was Captain in the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment in 1803.
He was a charter member of the First Baptist Church of Sherburne, but in later life became identified with what were known as the Restorationists. He was ever ready to respond to a call from those in need, and destitute strangers were always referred to his door by those who were themselves unwilling or unable to extend hospitality.
The following illustrates the kindness and tenderness of his nature. It is told that when he was an old man, and susceptible to cold, he would not have a fire built in his room until late in the fall when he was sure all the swallows had flown from his chimney for the season. fie died in Sherburne, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1845. The following is inscribed on his tombstone
"I came in the morning, it was spring, and I smiled, I walked out at noon, it was summer, and I was glad, I sat me down at even, it was autumn, and I was sad. I laid me down at night, it was winter, and I slept."
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Phoebe Abbott, wife of Joseph Guthrie, was born in 1768, and was the daughter of Colonel John Abbott, who at one time was lieutenant governor of Vermont, and who on the death of the governor, that term, filled out the unexpired time of his office. Phoebe (Abbott) Guthrie died in Sherburne, N. Y., May 19, 1833.
Children:
1. Elizabeth (Betsy) Guthrie, b. Oct. 4, 1785; d. unm., June, 1855.
2. Sarah Guthrie, b. Jan. 8, 1787; d. unm. in Sherburne, N. Y., in 1859. She is the cousin mentioned in the case of smallpox, under the care of Dr. Samuel Guthrie, when as a volunteer, Sarah was vaccinated by the doctor and slept in the room with the smallpox patient to demonstrate the efficacy of the doctor's serum.
3. Diantha Guthrie, b. Oct. 3, 1789; d. unm. in Sherburne, N. Y., Septem ber, 1840.
4. Chauncy Abbott Guthrie, b. Oct. 11, 1790. (Below)
5. Justus Smith Guthrie, b. in Sherburne, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1792. He was the first white child b. in the county. He m. Nancy Warren Montague. He d. in Sherburne, N. Y., December, 1854. No children.
6. Almira Guthrie, b. in Sherburne, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1795; m. James Green; d. July, 1874.
7. Phoebe Statira Guthrie, b. in Sherburne, N. Y., March 14, 1798; d. unm. July, 1823.
8. Joseph Guthrie, b. in Sherburne, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1801. (Below)
9. Lauren Lucian Guthrie, b. in Sherburne, N. Y., May 6, 1804. (Below)
Chauncey Abbott Guthrie (above) married Eliza Dunn in Sherburne, N. Y. He died April, 1828; she died November 12, 1864.
Children:
1. Mary Guthrie, who m. Sanford Champlin.
2. Phoebe Guthrie, b. in Chenango County, N. Y., June 7, 1828; m. March 31, 1857, Alfred Guthrie, eldest child of Dr. Samuel Guthrie. They were second cousins. Their descendants are given under Alfred Guthrie above.
3. James Guthrie, who d. unm.
Joseph Guthrie, (above) the eighth child of Joseph and Phoebe (Abbott) Guthrie, was one whose personality so impressed itself upon his relatives and friends that after he was gone his memory was held fresh and green by scores of persons. Some pass from this life and are soon forgotten. Not so with him. Endowed by nature with a remarkable intuition, he wove his influence into the lives of many with whom he came in contact. He acquired a fine education which, together with unusual abilities, marked him as a man of great possibilities. He graduated from Hamilton College in New York State, September, 1826; was admitted as an attorney to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Aug. 14, 1829. He became counselor of the Supreme Court of the State, January 18, 1834. He died at the age of thirtysix in Sherburne, in 1837, unmarried.
Lauren Lucian Guthrie, (above) ninth child of Joseph and Phoebe (Abbott) Guthrie, was born in Sherburne, N. Y.
"He was a fine musician and a violinist of celebrity in his native town; his good nature and lively disposition made him many friends,
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and the future seemed bright before him. He was playing for a gay party of friends at Tompkins, Delaware County, N. Y., when called to by an acquaintance, he leaned over the balustrade of the balcony to speak to him, a decayed post gave way and he fell to the ground below, a friend, thinking to save him, caught him in such a manner that he struck on his head, crushing his skull."
He died unmarried, in June, 1829, at the age of twentyfive years.
Benjamin Guthrie, (p. 88) fourth child of James Guthrie and Abigail Betts, married Milly Milke. He was a member of the First Congregational Society, of Sherburne, N. Y., later moved with his family to Pennsylvania.
Children:
1. Clarissa Guthrie, who was b. in Massachusetts; baptized Sept. 8, 1804, at Sherburne; m. in 1816, Nathaniel Beckwith. He d. in Bloomfield, N. Y. They had one son, Watt Beckwith, who was b. June 8, 1825, in Bloomfield, N. Y. He m. November, 1869, a Miss Gilkey.
2. Abigail Guthrie, who m. a Mr. Sprague; d. in Sherburne, N. Y.
3. Elsie Guthrie, who d. unm.
4. Chauncey Guthrie.
5. Phelman Guthrie.
6. Almond Guthrie, b. Dec. 15, 1797. (Below)
7. Lewis Guthrie.
8. Samuel Guthrie.
9. Charles Guthrie.
Almond Guthrie (above) married July 18, 1820, Elizabeth Salisbury, who was born Aug. 18, 1799, in Phelps, N. Y. After their marriage they lived in Smyrna, N. Y., where their first child was born, then at Phelps, where their second child was born. Early in the year 1824 they removed to Cataragus County, N. Y., and settled on a large &act of land on Wright's Creek, near Burton, afterwards known as Humphrey. This land was acquired from the Holland Land Company. They were the first settlers in what was then a waste and howling wilderness, but at once proceeded in true pioneer style to carve for themselves a home out of their primeval surroundings. The other children were born in the little log cabin on Wright's Creek. The children all obtained a common school education, some of them taught school before marriage and when they established homes for themselves lived on subdivisions of the original had. Supreme Court Justice, G. W. Cole, a kinsman, said of this family that they were the most stalwart mentally, morally and physically of any family he had ever known. They not only made real contributions to the political and social life of their community, but assisted very materially in the erection and maintenance of the First Baptist Church of Humphrey.
Almond Guthrie died Aug. 16, 1868; his wife Elizabeth, April 11, 1865. Both rest in the cemetery at Humphrey, N. Y.
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Children:
1. John B. Guthrie, b. Sept. 10, 1821. (Below)
2. Electa Louisa Guthrie, b. Dec. 8, 1822, (p. 103).
3. Mary Ann Guthrie, b. June 4, 1824, (p. 104).
4. Fannie Elizabeth Guthrie, b. Feb. 17, 1826, (p. 105).
5. Edwin Guthrie, b. Sept. 29, 1829, (p. 105).
6. Clarissa Guthrie, b. about 1831; lived on the old home place, where she d. about 1891, unm.
7. Eliza Rachel Guthrie, b. June 6, 1838, (p. 107).
John B. Guthrie, above, married Catherine Du Bois, who was born in 1822; died in 1895, at Humphrey, N. Y. He died there in 1898.
Children, all born at Humphrey, N. Y.:
1. Elizabeth H. Guthrie, b. April 29, 1850. (Below)
2. Almond G. Guthrie, b. Feb. 25, 1852; m. (1) March 27, 1879, Mary Ophelia Brown; m. (2) Aug. 14, 1922, Mrs. Ada Flint Abott. No children by either marriage. He d. in 1930.
3. Electa L. Guthrie, b. July 12, 1853; m. in 1880, Edson Hale. No children. She d. Feb. 8, 1892.
4. Conrad J. Guthrie, b. Dec. 12, 1856, (p. 103).
Elizabeth H. Guthrie (above) married Nov. 9, 1871, Albert A. Armstrong; died Oct. 2, 1920, at Humphrey, N. Y.
Children:
1. Wilson J. Armstrong, b. Feb. 23, 1873, at Humphrey, N. Y.
2. Edith L. Armstrong, b. Aug. 10, 1876, at Great Valley, N. Y.; m. May 8, 1902, at Geneseo, N. Y., Harry J. Wolfkill.
3. Bessie Esther Armstrong, b. Oct. 8, 1879, at Great Valley, N. Y.; m. July 16, 1900, at Boliver, N. Y., George H. Holcomb.
Children:
(1). John Holcomb, b. July 17, 1902.
(2). Chester A. Holcomb, b. Oct. 17, 1903.
(3). Helen L. Holcomb, b. March 25, 1905; m. C. R. Lawton.
(4). Hugh W. Holcomb, b. Sept. 19, 1906.
(5). Mark S. Holcomb, b. July 8, 1908.
(6). Owen M. Holcomb, b. Feb. 6, 1910.
(7). Edith E. Holcomb, b. Nov. 1, 1912.
4. Sarah C. Armstrong, b. Oct. 6, 1882, at Great Valley, N. Y.; d. Aug. 17, 1884.
5. Robert Grant Armstrong, b. May 16, 1886, at Great Valley, N. Y.; m. May 26, 1906, Bertha Monroe.
Children:
(1). Arnold M. Armstrong, b. April 7, 1907, at Port Alleghany, Pa.
(2). Stanley H. Armstrong, b. April 8, 1915.
6. Lillian Armstrong, b. Dec. 9, 1889; m. in 1907, at Humphrey, N. Y., Orr Kinney.
Children:
(1). Mary Elizabeth Kinney, b. Oct. 24, 1914.
(2). Edith Ella Kinney, b. Nov. 6, 1916.
(3). Pearl Louise Kinney, b. Feb. 6, 1922.
(4). Orr Kinney, Jr., b. March 22, 1926.
7. Ruthanna Armstrong, b. Dec. 4, 1894, at Niobe, N. Y.; m. July 14, 1915, at Fivemile, N. Y., Daniel Garfield Sweet.
Children:
(1). Russell Ardene Sweet, b. Nov. 6, 1916.
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(2). Alice Jeanette Sweet, b. Dec. 8, 1917.
(3). Elizabeth Marie Sweet, b. Aug. 30, 1919. (4). Roberta May Sweet, b. Sept. 21, 1921.
Conrad J. Guthrie Q. 102) married JarL 1, 1878, Caroline Zevia Pratt; died Nov. 7, 1898.
Children:
1. Cora Aleath Guthrie, b. Oct. 26, 1879; m. June 20, 1901, Harry Asa Pemberton.
Children:
(1). Harry C. Pemberton, b. Jan. 11, 1903. He enlisted April 6, 1927, in the U. S. Air Service and was stationecl at Bolling Field, Washington, D. C. He was promoted to Corporal, Nov. 26, 1928 and to Sergeant, Feb. 5, 1928. Afterwards he was stationed at Scranton, Pa., as sole station commander. He was discharged from the Service April 5, 1930, and recommended for Second Lieutenant in National Emergency. He m. June 29, 1929, Elizabeth Wallace. They have a daughter, Elizabeth, b. Sept. 29, 1930.
(2). Lysle Clifford Pemberton, D. Nov. 3, 1907.
(3). Leland Frank Pemberton, b. Dec. 15, 1918.
2. Leslie Conrad Guthrie, b. Nov. 1, 1883; m. June 2, 1904, Julia. Washburn.
Children:
(1). Harold Guthrie, b. March 10, 1905.
(2). Merle Guthrie, b. Oct. 4, 1907.
Electa Louisa Guthrie (p. 102) married Dec. 11, 1853, George Calvin De Golia; died Nov. 13, 1908.
Children:
1. Andrew J. De GOA, b. Jan. 2, 1857. (Below)
2. John De Golia, b. Feb. 13, 1859, (p. 104).
3. George Edwin De Golia, b. June 1, 1863; m. Jennie RebeccaL Smallman. No children. They lived in Buffalo, N. Y. He d. there in 1932.
Andrew J. De Golia (above) married May 16, 1880, Mary Etta Cross.
Children:
1. George A. De Golia, who d. in infancy.
2. Blossom De Golia, b. Sept. 1, 1882; m. Dec. 25, 1902, Llewellyn S. Dort.
Children, all b. in Allegany, N. Y.:
(1). Roland Stephen Dort, b. Dec. 24, 1903.
(2). Richard L. Dort, b. Feb. 20, 1905.
(3). Alfred Luther Dort, b. Jan. 17, 1910.
(4). Fanny Irene Dort, b. April 30, 1915.
(5). Francis De Golia Dort, b. March 27, 1918.
(6). Paul Dort.
3. Bud C. Do Golia, b. Oct. 5, 1884; m. May 18, 1911, Susie M. Plummer; d. 1932.
Children:
(1). Arthur L. De Golia, b. July 19, 1912.
(2). Josephine E. De Golia, b. July 28, 1914.
(3). Gladys De Golia, b. Dec. 20, 1916.
(4). Rose Eloise De Golia, b. Jan. 30, 1919.
4. Electa De Golia, b. Aug. 10, 1887; m. Elvin Sencas; d. March 3, 1908.
5. Fred De Golia, b. Jan. 2, 1899; m. Dec. 25, 1918, Flora Baker.
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John De Golia (p. 103) married Pearl Bacon.
Children:
1. Nellie De Golia, b. Sept. 13, 1897; m. Oct. 25, 1914, Talmadge Carter.
Children:
(1). Norman 0. Carter.
(2). Roland N. Carter.
(3). Vernell Carter, b. Aug. 8, 1920.
(4). Laura Carter, b. Jan. 15, 1922.
2.William De Golia, b. July 15, 1900, at Humphrey, N. Y.
Mary Ann Guthrie (p. 102) married July 1, 1848, Cephas Childs. They lived in Humphrey, N. Y. There their children were born and there she died March 11, 1908. Children:
1. Elizabeth ("Betsy") Childs, b. Feb. 25, 1854. (Below)
2. Almond Childs, b. Dec. 21, 1856. (Below)
3. Phoebe Childs, b. Nov. 5, 1858. (Below)
Elizabeth Childs (above) married Jan. 1, 1873, Charles Fay. Children:
1. Adrian Fay, b. July 11, 1876; m. in 1902, Bessie Burt.
Children:
(1). Leora Fay, b. 1903; m. April 22, 1923, Vernon Potter.
(2). Alice Fay, who m. June 22, 1923, John Raiber.
(3). Ada Fay, who m. John Lewis; one daughter.
2. Erwin Fay, b. Jan. 13, 1879; m. Aug. 19, 1901, Emily Ballard. One childGrace Fay, b. June 8, 1902; m. Melvin Peterson.
Almond Childs (above) married Dec. 24, 1876, Nettie Wright, who was born April 1, 1858. He died June 5, 1915.
Children:
1. John C. Childs, b. March 24, 1878; m. Sept. 5, 1896, Edith Flint; d. April 2, 1932.
Children:
(1).Mina 0. Childs, b. April 22, 1899; m. George Baker.
Children:
i. Laura L. Baker, b. May 3, 1920.
ii. Agnes Alverna Baker, b. June 14, 1921.
iii. Beatrice Alberta Baker, b. Aug. 20, 1922.
iv. George Vernon Baker, b. Feb. 25, 1924.
(2). DeForest A. Childs, b. June 30, 1909.
(3).Laura L. Childs, b. July 12, 1910.
2. Edith Childs, b. March 4, 1896.
Phoebe Childs (above) married March 1, 1877, Fred Pierce.
Children:
1. Mary Pierce, b. March 11, 1878; m. a Mr. Miles. They had one childKenneth Miles, b. April, 1906.
2. Roy Pierce, b. April 21, 1883; m. Dec. 24, 1903, Pearl Dunninger.
Children, all born in Salamanca, N. Y.:
(1). Raymond John Pierce, b. Feb. 21, 1906.
(2). Pauline Eva Pierce, b. Feb. 21, 1908; m. 1930, Robert Hahn.
(3). Margaret Ruth Pierce, b. March 24, 1910.
(4). Edward Lee Pierce, b. June 5, 1915.
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3. Earl Pierce, b. June 1, 1890; m. April 28, 1911, Ethel Hinman. They have one childHoward Charles Pierce, b. Nov. 3, 1912.
4. Dewey Pierce, b. Feb. 17, 1899.
Fannie Elizabeth Guthrie (p. 102) married Oct. 1, 1848, William Haggerty; died Aug. 26, 1906.
Children, all born at Humphrey, N. Y.:
1. Sarah Elizabeth Haggerty, b. July 16, 1849. (Below)
2. Frank Haggerty, b. March 30, 1855; m. June 21, 1882, Mertie B. Dammon, who was b. Oct. 18, 1862, at Wheatville, N. Y; d. Jan. 23, 1922. He d. in 1932, at Great Valley, N. Y.
Children:
(1). Frank Haggerty, Jr., b. May, 1884; d. July, 1884.
(2). A child, b. and d. September, 1899.
(3). Grace A. Haggerty, b. Aug. 30, 1900; m. June 22, 1924, Frank Zink, who was b. May, 1889. They have one son Edmund Haggerty Zink, b. Dec. 25, 1925.
3. Thankful Louise Haggerty, b. June 19, 1862; m. Dec. 2 (or 20), 1882, Frank Snow, who was b. Dec. 22, 1851; d. July 7, 1929. They had one childCarroll Snow, who was b. July 14, 1893.
Sarah Elizabeth Haggerty (above) married June 20, 1871, at Great Valley, N. Y., Charles E. Whitney. Soon after their marriage they migrated to Peabody, Kan., lived there until 1883 and then returned to Humphrey, N. Y. Their three older children were born at Peabody, their two younger, at Humphrey.
Children:
1. Clara A. Whitney, b. July 18, 1873; m. (1) July 18, 1892, at Humphrey, N. Y., Frank M. Maher, who d. Jan. 1. 1919, leaving an only child, Lois E. Maher, who m. Nov. 6, 1920, at Howe, Ind., Herbert Slusser. ChildrenMargaret, b. May 22, 1923; Richard, b. Jan. 5, 1925; John, b. September, 1927. Clara Whitney Maher m. (2) Sept 3V 192t in Jamestown, N . Y., George B. Howe.
2. Julia Eleanor Whitney, b. Nov. 22, 1874; m. July 7, 1897, (or 1899) Ora Linderman; d. Nov. 10, 1905.
3. Fred H. Whitney, b. Oct. 21, 1876; d. Oct. 22, 1882.
4. Marian Elizabeth Whitney, b. Sept. 16, 1883; m. Dec. 25, 1912, at Alle gany, N. Y., Ernest F. Maher.
Children:
(1). Elizabeth Maher, b. Dec. 5, 1915.
(2). Leah Florence Maher, b. Oct. 8, 1923.
5. Fannie A. Whitney, b. April 18, 1891. She is a graduate nurse in the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N. Y.
Edwin Guthrie (p. 102) married Sophia Mack, of Danville, N. Y. They lived at Humphrey, where their children were born and where he died April 1, 1920.
Children:
1. Eveline S. Guthrie, b. Jan. 14, 1859; m. Sept. 19, 188% Spencer Whitney; d. July 8, 1915. No children.
2. Frank Guthrie, b. March 22, 1861; m. June 22, 1898, Cora White of Perrysburg, N. Y.; d. Jan. 7, 1919. No children.
3. Ida Guthrie, b. July 10, 1863; d. June 23, 1869.
4. Edwin Guthrie, Jr., b. Sept. 16, 1865, (p. 106).
5. Elisha W. Guthrie, b. Nov. 28, 1867, (p. 106).
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6. Josephine Guthrie, b. March 1, 1870 (p. 107)
7. Allen Guthrie born June 30, 1872; m Chloe Kimball
Children:
(1). Raymond Guthrie, who m. Oct. 10, 1920, Guinnith Binckley.
Children:
i. Geraldine Chloe Guthrie, b. July 18, 1921, in Oklahoma.
(2). Cecil Guthrie.
8. J. Burdette Guthrie, b. Dec. 26, 1875; m. Dec. 20, 1905, at Great Valley, N. Y., Ethel Irene Shaffer. They live in Salamanca, N. Y.
Edwin Guthrie, Jr., (p. 105) married June 24, 1887, at Franklinville, N. Y., Carrie Sill.
Children:
1. Norman E. Guthrie, b. Sept. 17, 1889. He served in the World War; left Los Angeles, Aug. 3, 1918, for Camp Lewis, Wash.; embarked Sept. 6, 1918, at New York for France with the 45th Medical Replacement Unit. He was discharged from the Service, Jan. 10, 1919, at Camp Kearney, Calif. He m. Aug. 11, 1920, Margaret Helen Rowland, of California.
2. Fleda Guthrie, b. Oct. 15, 1891, at Humphrey, N. Y.; m. June 25, 1914, at Flat Rock, Ill., Terrence V. McNichols.
Children:
(1). Virginia Marie McNichols, b. Dec. 4, 1915, at Drumwright, Okla.
(2). Dallas Terrence McNichols, b. July 10, 1917.
(3). Reva Lorraine McNichols, b. July 16, 1918, at Robinson, 111.
(4). Burdette Guthrie McNichols, b. May 7, 1929, at East Long Beach, Calif.
3. Reva Guthrie, b. July 5, 1893, at Humphrey, N. Y.; m. February, 1929, Elmer Montgomery; d. June, 1931.
4. Merle Guthrie, b. Jan. 15, 1895; d. in childhood.
5. Clifford Burdette Guthrie, b. March 8, 1897, at Great Valley, N. Y.; moved with his parents to Robinson, 111. He enlisted September, 1917, in the Aerial Service of the U. S. Army and worked up to Second Lieutenant in the Aviation Corps. He became an expert stunt flyer and was ambitious to serve overseas during the World War. He was not privileged to do so, but was retained as an instructor in aviation. He was killed in an accident while instructing a cadet, Aug. 29, 1918.
6. Donald Guthrie, b. May 6, 1900, at Bradford, Pa. While attending the Illinois State University, at Urbanna, he enlisted Oct. 2, 1918, in the Students Army Training Corps; was discharged Dec. 21, 1918, from the same.
Elisha W. Guthrie (p. 105) married (1) in 1891, Callie Dunning; married (2) Jennie Wright. No children by second marriage.
Children:
1. Wayne Guthrie, b. Jan. 4, 1892; was a soldier in the World War and saw active service in France.
2. Howard Guthrie, b. July 30, 1894.
3. Carl Guthrie, b. June 23, 1896; d. in young manhood, unm.
4. Dora Estelle Guthrie, b. June 30, 1898; m. May 15, 1918, at Yankton, S. Dak., Martin W. Lusk.
Children:
(1). Willard G. Lusk, b. May 1, 1919.
(2). David Thomas Lusk, b. Dec. 31, 1921.
(3). Eloise Lusk, b. March 17, 1923.
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Josephine Guthrie (p. 106) married Oct. 22, 1896, Leslie 0. Morehouse.
Children:
1. Harland Morehouse, b. March 3, 1899; enlisted Dec. 15, 1917, in Battery B, 60th Regiment Cost Artillery Corps and saw service overseas on four different fronts including St. Mihiel and MeuseArgonne. He was discharged Feb. 21, 1919. He m. Dec. 10, 1922, Margaret Feneran.
Children:
(1). Leo. Dana Morehouse, b. Jan. 13, 1924.
(2). Frank Morehouse, b. Jan. 13, 1927.
2. Laurence Morehouse, b. Oct. 26, 1900; m. June 24, 1924, Hildegarde Kneiser.
Children:
(1). Laurence Merl Morehouse, b. Feb. 28, 1926.
3. Bruce Morehouse, b. April 5, 1904; d. in infancy.
4. Cora Morehouse, b. March 23, 1966; m. Sept. 18, 1927, Kenneth Adams.
Children:
(1). Alice Jeanette Adams.
(2). Kenneth M. Adams, b. March 4, 1930.
5. Walter Morehouse, b. Feb. 11, 1912.
Eliza Rachel Guthrie (p. 102) married June 27, 1866, Allen B. Bullard; died Feb. 4, 1904, at Salamanca, N. Y.
Children:
1. A son, d. in infancy.
2. A son, d. in infancy.
3. Clara Bullard, b. July 29, 1867, at Great Valley, N. Y. (Below)
4. Emma Bullard, b. Nov. 27, 1869, at Salamanca, N. Y. (Below)
Clara Bullard, above, married July 19, 1888, at Salamanca, N. Y., James N. Norton.
Children:
1. James Ray Norton, b. June 19, 1889, at Morrison, Pa.; m. Aug. 31, 1917, at Rochester, N. Y., Margaret McMahon.
Children:
(1). Jean Norton, b. March 11, 1919, in Brooklyn, N. Y. (2). Doris Norton, b. Sept. 12, 1921.
2. Allen Bullard Norton, b. Feb. 1, 1891, in Morrison, Pa.; m. May 22, 1916, in Standish, Mich., Eleanor May Milne. They have one child, Mary Eleanor, who was b. Nov. 10, 1917.
3. Neva Norton, b. May 29, 1892, in Morrison, Pa.; m. Nov. 4, 1919, Dr. Theodore Fill Conklin.
Children;
(1). Roger Norton Conklin, b. March 18, 1921.
4. Emma Norton, b. Jan. 6, 1895, in Morrison, Pa.
5. Theodore Tint Norton, b. July 21, 1902, at Salamanca, N. Y.; d. April 15, 1912. He was drowned in the Allegany River at Salamanca.
Emma Bullard (above) married Aug. 11, 1887, in Salamanca, N. Y., Tint Champlin; died at Little Valley, N. Y., March 6, 1917.
Children, all born at Little Valley, N. Y.:
1. Hazel T. Champlin, b. Jan. 12, 1889; m. Nov. 30, 1917, James Andrew.
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Children, all born in Little Valley, N. Y.:
(1). Barbara Andrew, b. Sept. 7, 1918.
(2). Faith Andrew, b. May 20, 1920.
(3). Shirley Andrew, b. June 1, 1922.
2. Francis Champlin, b. May 1, 1892; m. July 22,1916, Bernice Hart.
3. Phillip Champlin, b. April 23, 1899; m. Jan. 30, 1920, Ethel Ellis.
Children:
(1). Phillip Tint Champlin, b. Jan. 4, 1921.
(2). Theressa K. Champlin, b. June 12, 1922.
John Guthrie, (p. 88) fifth child of James Guthrie and Abigail Betts, married Polly Purdy, daughter of Judge Purdy, of Sherburne, N. Y. John Guthrie was one of the original members of the Calvinistic Congregational Church of Sherburne and was the second postmaster of that place.
Children:
1. Minerva Guthrie, who died in Thomasville, Ga., unm.
2. Glorian Guthrie, who m. a Mr. Carpenter.
3. Mariah Guthrie.
4. John Guthrie, Jr.
5. Albert Guthrie.
6. William Henry Guthrie, who was baptized September, 1817.
Nathan Guthrie, (p. 88) sixth child of James Guthrie and Abigail Betts, studied medicine and became a physician of note in Sherburne, N. Y. He was a man of great intelligence, with a profound insight into both the physical and mental natures of men. He enjoyed to an unusual degree the confidence and affection of his community. He married (1) in 1792, Mabelle Patterson, who was born in 1768, and died in Sherburne in 1805. He married (2) in 1807, Mrs. Abi (Richardson) Hale, in Scottsville, N. Y. She died in Sherburne, in 1816; he in 1820.
Children of Nathan Guthrie and Mabelle Patterson, born in Sherburne:
1. Luman Guthrie, b. in 1793; m. Sophronia Shepard; d. in Lockport, N. Y.
2. Aurelia Guthrie, b. Nov. 11, 1796; m. June 23, 1822, in Scottsville,Monroe County, N. Y., Chester Savage. (See the Savages, Allied Families).
3. Harvey Guthrie, b. in 1798. (Below)
4. Francis Guthrie, b. June 4, 1801, (p. 110).
5. James Guthrie, b. in 1803, (p. 116).
Children of Nathan Guthrie and Mrs. Abi (Richardson) Hale, born in Sherburne:
1. Jesse Guthrie, b. Jan. 28, 1811, (p. 117).
2. Joseph Guthrie, b. Dec. 12, 1815, (p. 120).
Harvey Guthrie, (above) third child of Dr. Nathan and Mabelle (Patterson) Guthrie, married in 1822, in Scottsville, Monroe County, N. Y., Mary Beach. They moved to Conneaut, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives.
Children, all born in Conneaut, Ohio:
1. Alvin Guthrie, b. about 1824.
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2. Harvey Guthrie, b. about 1826; served in Captain Cortius' Independent Battery of Ohio Artillery Troops, during the Civil War.
3. Catherine Guthrie, who m. a Mr. Fenton and had a daughter, Elizabeth Penton, who was b. and lives in Conneaut, Ohio.
4. Nathan Lewis Guthrie, b. March 18, 1841. (Below)
5. Esther Guthrie, b. about 1844.
Nathan Lewis Guthrie, during the Civil War, served as a volunteer in Captain Cortius' Independent Battery of Ohio Artillery Troops. In 1865 he entered the University of Michigan as a student in the classical course and graduated in 1869 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later he received from his Alma Mater the degree of Master of Arts. Following this he accepted a professorship in the Oakland (Calif.) Military School, which he held for four years, resigning to prepare himself for the gospel ministry. He was licensed as a Local Preacher by the Methodist Episcopal Church and entered Drew Theological Seminary as a student. III health compelled him to leave Drew before the completion of his theological course. This was in 1875. He was offered the principalship of the Public School of Conneaut, Ohio, which he accepted and served until 1878, when he entered the regular ranks of the Methodist ministry in the Detroit Conference. He was pastor of Forester, Mich., 187880; Washington, Mich., 188082. Failing health that year led him to move to Arizona. He became a member of the Arizona Mission Conference in 1885 and served Prescott, Ariz., 188588; Flagstaff, 188891; and Wilcox, 189193. lie was principal of the Public Schools at Prescott and was the organizer of the Methodist church at Flagstaff. At one time he was Department Commander of the Q A. R. in Ohio and served as commander of G. A. R. Rawson Post, No. 4, Department of Arizona. In politics he was a Republican.
He married (1) June 15, 1870, Nellie Mizener, daughter of Rev. David Mizener of the Erie Conference. She died June, 1875. They had one child, a daughter, who died in infancy. He married (2) in 1876, Amelia Avis Smith, a daughter of Plin Smith, who was born Aug. 5, 1802, in Sheldon, Vt.; married Amelia Weeks, who was born Aug. 26, 1810. They migrated by wagon and canalboat to Andover, Ohio, where they took up land, cleared it and built a log cabin on it Amelia Avis was born May 16, 1849, at Andover, Ohio, and died November, 1881, at Macomb, Mich. He married (3) Oct. 15, 1883, at Monteill, Ohio, Georgia Nye, of Chardon, Ohio. He died April 1, 1893, at Wilcox, Graham County, Ariz., and was buried in Conneaut, Ohio.
Children, second marriage:
1. Elsie Amelia Guthrie, b. May 27, 1877, in Conneaut, Ohio; unm.; lives in Dayton, Ohio.
2. Arthur Cuyler Guthrie, b. Aug. 26, 1880, in Forester, Mich., (p. 110).
Children, third marriage:
1. Virgil Guthrie, b. June 16, 1885, in Prescott, Ariz., (p. 110).
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Arthur Cuyler Guthrie (above) married Aug. 6, 1906, Margaret A. Quinlin, who was born Dec. 21 188t in Tucson, Ariz. She is a daughter of James Quinlin, who was a native of the State of Maine, moved to Tucson before the railroad was built and died there in 1902. His wife was Mrs. Anna Foyle, nee Roger, who was born in Wisconsin and died in Tucson, in 1912. Arthur Cuyler Guthrie and family live at 224 Fremont St., Tucson, Ariz.
Children:
1. Donald Quinlin Guthrie, b. June 14, 1911, in Tucson, Ariz.
Virgil Guthrie, (above) only child of Nathan Lewis Guthrie and Georgia Nye, after the death of his father removed with his mother to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she was living in 1922. He married Ruth, daughter of Wilson M. Day, of Cleveland, Ohio. He is editor and manager of the NaHon& Petroleum News, address936 Brunswick Road, Cleveland, Ohio.
Children, both born in Cleveland, Ohio:
1. Robert Day Guthrie, b. Nov. 23, 1914.
2. William Harvey Guthrie, b. Oct. 26, 1916.
3. Richard Farnham Guthrie, b. Sept. 28, 1924.
Francis Guthrie, (p. 108) fourth child of Dr. Nathan and Mabelle (Patterson) Guthrie, studied medicine and afterwards theology and became a prominent minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Oct. 21, 1821, Elizabeth Hughes, who was born in Kanawha, W. Va. She, a daughter of Rev. Edward and Nancy (Foster) Hughes, was a devout and earnest Christian and an able helpmeet to her husband. They devoted their lives to the ministry of the gospel. He died July 7, 1881, in Gallopolis, Ohio; his wife, in Cheshire, Ohio. They were the parents of thirteen children, the four older of whom were born in West Virginia, the next five in Ohio, the tenth in Mercer County, Pa., the eleventh in Tyler County, W. Va., and the two youngest in Ohio.
Children:
1. Square Hughes Guthrie, b. Dec. 8, 1822. (Below)
2. Aurilla Patterson Guthrie, b. Oct. 23, 1824, (p. 111).
3. James Madison Guthrie, b. July 28, 1826, (p. 111).
4. Christopher Columbus Jarrett Guthrie, b. March 10, 1828, (p. 111).
5. Roxena Varian Guthrie, b. Nov. 27, 1829; m. Sept. 25, 1847, in Gallia County, Ohio, Franklin Mills Rowley. (See the Rowleys, Allied Families).
6. Jane E. Guthrie, b. Jan. 2, 1832, (p. 112).
7. David Preston Guthrie, b. July 8, 1833, (p. 113).
8. Wesley B. Guthrie, b. April 18, 1835, (p. 113).
9. John P. Guthrie, b. Oct. 25, 1836; d. in infancy.
10. Rebecca F. Guthrie, b. March 1, 1838, (p. 113).
11. Francis Asbury Guthrie, b. April 1, 1840, (p. 114).
12. William H. Guthrie, b. Oct. 7, 1841; was a soldier in the Union Army in the Civil War; was killed in the Second Battle of Bull Run; unm.
13. Henry C. Guthrie, b. July 27, 1842; d. in infancy.
Square Hughes Guthrie (above) married April 27, 1845, in Gallia County, Ohio, Chamelia Wilcox.
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Children:
1. Elizabeth F. Guthrie, b. Sept. 4, 1846.
2. Mary Guthrie, b. Jan. 18, 1848.
3. Roxena A. Guthrie, b. July 25, 1849.
4. Hiram T. Guthrie, b. May 4, 1851.
5. Louise E. Guthrie, b. May 4, 1853; d. in 1857.
6. Catherine Guthrie, b. Nov. 23, 1855; d. in 1855.
7. Elma Guthrie, b. Jan. 21, 1857.
8. James M. Guthrie, b. June 29, 1858.
9. Lewella Guthrie, b. Aug. 1, 1860.
10. Adeline Guthrie, b. May 18, 1863; d. in April 26, 1895.
11. Clarissa Guthrie, b. Aug. 11, 1866.
Aurilla Patterson Guthrie (p. 110) married Joseph Cook, of Wood County, W. Va. She died in 1892.
Children:
1. Elizabeth Rebecca Cook, who m. Edward Balantine.
Children:
(1). Myrtle E. Balantine.
(2). Herbert Balantine.
2. Mary Cornelia Cook, who m. Robert Denton, of St. Catherine, Canada.
3. Francis Jerome Cook, who m. Ida Coffman, of Parkersburg, W. Va.
4. Julia Emma Cook, who rn. (1) Corbin Cramer; (2) a Mr. Thompson.
Cbildren:
(1). Joseph Cramer.
(2). Denton Cramer.
(3). Donald Cramer.
5. Joseph H. Cook.
6. James Herbert Cook, who m. Sadie Cole, of West Virginia.
7. Olivia G. Cook, who d. at the age of eighteen.
James Madison Guthrie, (p. 110) third child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, married (1) April 4, 1850, in Wood County, W. Va., Susan Spencer; (2) May 2, 1858, Sarah Tate; (3) Mary Galbraith. He died July 2, 1871, in Cheshire, Ohio.
Children, first marriage:
1. David G. Guthrie, b. Jan. 21, 1851.
2. Francis A. Guthrie, b. Sept. 29, 1853. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Children, second marriage:
1. Alice Guthrie, b. February, 1859, in Ohio; m. a Mr. Butcher; d. Sept. 1, 1890, in Point Pleasant, W. Va.
Children, third marriage:
1. Frederick E. Guthrie, b. Dec. 13, 1863.
2. Wesley H. Guthrie, b. Aug. 23, 1865; d. May 24, 1886, in Cheshire, Ohio. Christopher Columbus Jarrett Guthrie, (p. 110) fourth child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, graduated from the Medical College, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and from the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He visited Europe several times and attended medical lectures in London, Paris and Vienna. He began the practice of medicine in Clarksville, Ark., where he married Oct. 11, 1854, Mary Frances Collier, who was born near Nashville, Tenn.,
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a daughter of Willis and Mary (Morgan) Collier. They had been led into the Cumberland Presbyterian Church under the ministry of Rev. Eli Guthrie, one of the strong leaders of that denomination at an early day in its history, and whose line is traced elsewhere in this book. The Colliers moved from Tennessee to Clarksville, Ark. In 1865, Dr. Guthrie removed from Clarksville and settled in Belpre, Ohio, with which place so many of his Guthrie relatives had been associated. There he built up a very extensive practice on both the Ohio and West Virginia sides of the River. His fame spread abroad and patients came to him from all parts of the United States, from Canada and from the isles of the Pacific. Dr. Guthrie possessed a magnetic personality, was benevolent and kind and attached friends to himself by the thousand. He was not only eminently learned in his profession, but his brilliant mind was stored with the best of literature. His knowledge of history was especially notable. His death which occurred April 26, 1893, at his home in Belpre, Ohio, was a great shock to multitudes of friends and former patients.
Children:
1. Anna Guthrie, b. July 23, 1855, in Spadra, Ark.; studied music at Harpersburg, W. Va., and at the Cincinnati College of Music; was an elocutionist of unusual style and method and possessed a remarkable control over her vocal organs. Her entertainments were supported by large throngs of her friends and admirers. She m. Feb. 28, 1883, in Belpre, Ohio, Phillip S. Cole, a son of William Cole and Louise Shields.
Children:
(1). Pauline Cole.
2. David P. Guthrie, b. Aug. 18, 1857, in Clarksville, Ark.; graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, practiced law a short time there, then accepted a position as chief clerk in the joint office of the L. & N. and the C. & 0. Railroads at Covington, Ky. He m. May 10, 1881, Laura V. Culp, of Louisville, Ky.
Children:
(1). Gertrude Hughes Guthrie.
(2). Helen Culp Guthrie.
3. George Wesley Guthrie, b. Nov. 14, 1860, in Clarksville, Ark.; d. March 2, 1884, in Belpre, Ohio. He studied medicine at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. One month before the commencement at which he was to have graduated, he accidentally cut himself with a dissecting knife and bloodpoisoning set in, resulting in his death. His instructors regarded him as having unusual faculties for surgery and medicine.
Jane E. Guthrie, (p. 110) sixth child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, married in Wood County, W. Va., George W. Copen.
Children:
1. Alice Copen, who m. in Elizabeth, W. Va., Joseph Stewart.
Children:
(1). Isaac Stewart. (4). Milo Stewart.
(2). Newton Stewart. (5). Francis Stewart.
(3). Ralph Stewart.
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2. William Copen, who m. in Elizabeth, W. Va., Alice Bartlett.
Children
(1). Clarence Copen.
(2). Charles Copen.
3. Maud Copen.
4. Fannie Copen.
5. George Copen.
6. Pearl Copen.
7. David Copen.
8. Francis C. Copen, who studied law, was admitted to the bar and in 1896 was elected prosecuting attorney of Wirt County, W. Va.
9. Elizabeth Copen.
David Preston Guthrie, (p. 110) seventh child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, attended college at Meadville, Pa., also the Ohio State College at Athens, where he graduated. Afterwards he took a postgraduate course in the same institution. He was First Lieutenant in the One Hundred and Ninetyfourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. After the war he was superintendent of Public Schools in Point Pleasant, W. Va., Gallipolis, Ohio, and Ashland, Ky. He married in 1874, in Belpre, Ohio, Edna Hibbard, daughter of T. B. and Sarah (Porter) Hibbard. She was a woman of unusual mental power and admirable character. She was a graduate of the Marietta High School, in which she held the highest honors of any in her class. She died Sept. 28, 1881, in Belpre, Ohio.
Children:
1. Francis Hibbard Guthrie, who m. Susie Jarvis.
2. Hattie A. Guthrie.
Wesley B. Guthrie, (p. 110) eighth child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, attended college at Meadville, Pa., at Athens, Ohio, and at Ann Arbor, Mich. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati. He married Sept. 13, 1870, in Hartford, W. Va., Selina Maria Brown, daughter of Major Brown, who was born March 2, 1813, in New York State; married Selina Matthews, who was born in New England, July 12, 1812. They moved to Hartford, W. Va., where they passed the remainder of their days. By ability and enterprise he amassed considerable wealth. Wesley B. Guthrie died
Children:
1. Charles Wesley Guthrie, b. Sept. 13, 1871.
2. William Luther Guthrie, b. July 21, 1873.
3. Martha B. Guthrie, b. March 19, 1875; m. Guy Wright.
4. Anna Selina Guthrie, b. June 24, 1877.
5. Mary Brown Guthrie, b. March 10, 1882.
Rebecca F. Guthrie, (p. 110) tenth child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, married (1) in 1857, in Parkersburg, W. Va., James A. Good, who died in 1858. She married (2) in Parkersburg, about 1860, Barnett F. Ball. He was the son of
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(? James) Ball, who married Mary Barnett (or Bennett) and removed from Fairfax County, Va., to West Virginia. He was of the same family as Mary Ball, mother of the illustrious George Washington. Barnett F. Ball was a member of the first Board of Education of Elizabeth, W. Va., and was also a member for three years of the Board of Supervisors. For two years he was the president of the board. He was a delegate to the convention, which assembled in Wheeling during the first year of civil strife, and voted that the western counties should remain in the Union, and should constitute the State of West Virginia.
Rebecca F. Guthrie (Good) Ball died
Children, first marriage:
1. James William Good, b. 1858, in Parkersburg, W. Va.; graduated from the Louisville (Ky.) Medical School and became a doctor of medicine; m. Eldorado Van Camp of New Martinsville, W. Va.
Children:
(1). Mark Good, b. March 23, 1884.
(2). Hattie Good, b. March 10, 1886; d. Oct. 12, 1896.
(3).Lucy Good, b. Feb. 17, 1888.
Children, second marriage:
1. Evander Ball. 6. Francis Ball.
2. David 0. C. Ball. 7. Ina Ethel Ball.
3. Anna Ball. 8. Arthur Ball.
4. Barnetta Ball. 9. Isabella Ball.
5. Mary Elizabeth Ball.
Francis Asbury Guthrie, (p. 110) eleventh child of Rev. Francis and Elizabeth (Hughes) Guthrie, was a student in Allegheny College, Meaaville, Pa., when the Civil War began. He volunteered and enlisted, Sept. 10, 1861, as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was made a Sergeant, Nov. 2, 1861; Second Lieutenant July, 1862; First Lieutenant, November, 1862; Captain, March 30, 1863. After the war he attended the law school of Ann Arbor, Mich from which he graduated. He located at Point Pleasant, W. Va., and began the practice of law. His rise in the profession was rapid. He was elected State Attorney and in 1880, by a very large majority, was elected Judge of the Circuit Court. He was reelected for a second term of eight years in 1888 and again for a third term in 1896. Judge Guthrie was a Republican in politics. He married April 30, 1866, Clara Elizabeth Van Gilder, born Aug. 18, 1847, at Cheshire, Ohio, a daughter of Amasa Van Gilder, who was born near Cape May, N. J., a son of Jeremiah Van Gilder. Amasa migrated to Ohio settling first on the Ohio River about 21/2 miles below the mouth of the Little Hocking. Later he purchased lands near Cheshire, Ohio, on which he lived the balance of his life. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Julius Chappell, of Washington County, Ohio. (See the Chappells, Allied Families).
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Judge Guthrie died Tuesday morning, Aug. 16, 1904; his widow Dec. 29, 1908.
Children:
1. Lewis Van Gilder Guthrie, b. Jan. 8, 1868, in Point Pleasant, W. Va. (Below) Lewis Van Gilder Guthrie received his education in the public schools of Point Pleasant, W. Va., the college of Blackburg, Roanoke College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, (now the University of Maryland), at Baltimore. During his college course he majored in the elementary studies of medicine. He graduated in medicine in 1889 after having done undergraduate work as resident physician in the maternity hospital of the University. Dr. Guthrie practiced general medicine in his home community for four years, then accepted a post at Spencer Hospital, which he held for four years. June 1, 1897, he was Unanimously elected uperintendent of the West Virginia State Hospital for the Insane at Huntington, and was at the time the youngest superintendent of such an institution in the United States. He held this position for 29 years. As originally established this institution was intended for the incurably insane, but under the regime of Dr. Guthrie it became a mental hospital, where epileptics, defectives and those having many forms of insanity were received and treated. He gave himself intensely to the study of the cases under his care with the result that within a few years he had won a wide reputation as an expert in his field. Many persons, whose families did not wish to have them committed as state charges, entered the hospital as pay patients, seeking especially Dr. Guthrie's care. For years the funds thus derived were held by the State for the beneRt of the institution and out of those earnings several of the more important buildings of the present hospital plant were built. Dr. Guthrie was much in demand as a consultant. Friends urged him to retire from public service and establish private offices and , clinics and had he done so he might have reaped rich rewards but he chose rather to devote his abilities to the service of the State. Nevertheless his fame as an alienist and a psychiatrist became nation wide. By Civil Service examination he ranked first in his profession in the U. S. He was the author of numerous treatises on mental disorders; served in many capacities with various Aassociations and commissions and was a distinguished member of a number of medical organizations. Aside from his professional activities, Dr. Guthrie, who was a good financier, was interested in several businesses, For many years he was VicePresident of the First National Bank of Huntington. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a KnightTemplar. It was in the inner circle of intimate friends and loved ones that Dr. Guthrie's rare qualities of soul were best appreciated. He was motivated by a high sense of honor, duty and service to others. He
was generous, kind and understanding. Some one said of him that he was great in the little things of life as well as the big things. His was a deeply spiritual nature and his emotions were easily stirred by the lofty themes of the Christian faith. He conceived his great duty to himself to be to conserve his own physical health (he was not naturally robust) and to so live in this world that he might attain unto life eternal. Reared a Presbyterian, in later life he was a member of the Episcopal Church, it being the communion to which his wife belonged. A lover of the outofdoors, of field and waterway; having a fine sense of humor; an appreciation of poetry; a tender regard for loved ones and faith toward Godhe was in every sense a nobleman.
Dr. Guthrie married June 15, 1889, Margaret Lynn English, who was born April 28, 1869, at Point Pleasant, W. Va. She is a daughter of John W. English, one time Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of W. Va., who was born Jan. 31, 1831; married Fannie Lewis, who was born Nov. 10, 1839. She was descended from John and Margaret (Lynn) Lewis, who settled at Staunton, Va., in 1729. Dr. Guthrie died at his home on Rugby Road, Huntington, W. Va., at 5:30 It M., Saturday, Sept. 20 1930. He was laid to rest in the Spring Hill Cemetery of Huntington.
Children:
1. Kathleen Lewis Guthrie, b. May 5, 1891, at Point Pleasant, W. Va.; m. Jan. 30, 1912, Frank Witcher McCullough, who was b. May 3, 1889, in Huntington, W. Va. He is a son of Frank and Alice (Witcher) McCullough. Mr. F. Witcher McCullough and family live in Huntington, W. Va.
Children:
(1). Witcher Guthrie McCullough, b. July 8, 1915.
(2). Frank Witcher McCullough, 11, b. Dec. 4, 1921.
2. Fanny Elizabeth Guthrie, b. Aug. 16, 1901, in Huntington, W. Va.; educated at Cathedral School, Washington, D. C.; m. Aug. 1, 1923, Ben Mitchell Williamson, who was b. March 3, 1900, at Catlettsburg, Ky. He was educated at Culver Military Academy and at the University of Virginia. They live in Ashland, Ky.
Children:
(1). Margaret Lynn Williamson, b. April 23, 1924, in Huntington, W. Va.
(2). Elizabeth Guthrie Williamson, b. Dec. 7, 1926, in Ashland, Ky.
James Guthrie, (p. 108) fifth child of Dr. Nathan Guthrie and Mabelle Patterson, married (1) in 1832, Harriet Shepard, of Riga, N. Y. She was a daughter of Ira Shepard, a native of Connecticut. In 1838 they moved to Conneaut, Ohio, where in 1841 Harriet died leaving no children. Later he returned to Riga and married (2) Theria Shepard a sister to Harriet. They lived and died in Conneaut.
Children:
1. James H. Guthrie, b. Oct. 6, 1850, in Conneaut; m. May Stevenson, who was b. May 1, 1855, in Manchester, Pa. She was a daughter of Robert M. Stevenson, b. in 1830, in Columbiana County, Ohio; m. Elizabeth Reed and hadRobert M., Jennie, William, Elwood, Fannie and May.
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Mr. Guthrie lives in Conneaut, Ohio. May Stevenson Guthrie d. May 28, 1926.
Children:
(1). Ethel M. Guthrie, b. July 22, 1874; m. Edward Diebler.
(2). Leslie H. Guthrie, b. Aug. 18, 1875.
(3). Elizabeth Guthrie, b. June 30, 1881; m. a Mr. Taylor.
Jesse Guthrie, Q. 108) eldest child of Dr. Nathan Guthrie and Mrs. Abi (Richardson) Hale, married Nov. 29, 1835, in Ireland, Hanna Crean. He was a seafaring man and for a number of years after his marriage made Waterford, Ireland, his home port. Later they lived in New York City, and later still, in Earlville, N. Y. He died in Syracuse, N. Y.
1. Maria Guthrie, b. Nov. 19, 1836, in Waterford, Ireland; m. Feb. 19, 1867, Ferdinand Saunders. He d. in Sedalia, Mo.
Children:
(1). Ernest Saunders, b. Dec. 8, 1867.
(2). Fred Saunders, b. Dec. 1, 1870; d. July 4, 1896.
(3). Oswald Saunders, b. Dec. 8, 1872; d. April 4, 1873.
(4). Osmond Saunders, b. Nov. 16, 1874; d. Dec. 24, 1876.
2. Joseph Guthrie, b. Dec. 16, 1838, in Waterford, Ireland. (Below)
3. Hannah Guthrie, b. Sept. 12, 1847, (p. 119).
4. Chauncey Guthrie, b. Sept. 24, 1849, in EarIville, N. Y.; d. Oct. 4, 1860.
5. Elizabeth Guthrie, b. Oct. 14, 1851, in EarIville, N. Y.; d. Dec. 31, 1864, in Syracuse, N. Y.
6. Sarah Guthrie, b. Nov. 10, 1853; d. Aug. 2, 1888.
7. James Guthrie, b. Feb. 18, 1856, in Earlville, N. Y., (p. 119)
8. Jesse Guthrie, b. April 19, 1858; d. April 19, 1864, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Joseph Guthrie, above, enlisted April 12, 1860, in the First Artillery Company, U. S. Regular Army. He served three years and during the Civil War was in the Army of the Potomac and in all the important engagements into which it enteredtwenty battles in all. He was honorably discharged from the service, April 9, 1863. After this he held a Government position at Duval's Bluff, Ark. At the close of the war he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he married Sept. 19, 1865, Mrs. Mary Duval, nee Griffith, who was born Jan. 23, 1834, at Maysville, Ky. She was a true type of the old Aristocracy, modest, genteel and a wonderful homekeeper.
Joseph Guthrie died in Los Angeles, Calif., June, 1915. Mary (Duval) Guthrie died June 27, 1904. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The following letter from Joseph Guthrie, to Eveline G. Dunn, is taken from Records of the Guthrie Family.
St. Louis, Mo., September, 1897. Dear Miss Dunn:
If I am right in my surmise, and you are the granddaughter of Alfred Guthrie, what a train of memories that relationship brings to my mind; it takes me back to the time when my father returned to his native heath, after an absence of years, dating from the time when he left, a callow youth, to seek his fortune; and now he has brought it home in the shape of a wife and two children, a girl of ten years, and a boy of eight, who is your humble correspondent. We had lived in the City of New York, where 1 had attended school, and although
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so young, I had advanced so that reading to me then, Was as easy as now, think of the feast of reading matter I found in the old Guthrie mansion, and being very small for my age, I was the marvel of the dear old people, who wondered at that mere child sitting and reading most of the time just like older people. It seems as if it were but yesterday, so deeply engraven in my mind is that expression made by aunt Betsey, the eldest, a tall, finelooking lady, very quiet and kindly in disposition, with a certain grace about her every action which seemed to speak the goodness of her heart. Then there was aunt Sally, not quite as tall as aunt Betsey, but with a heart big enough to take in the world.
I could easily give you a map of the old place from memory, with a description of the old house which I think, when built, was considered quite a mansion; how it was built into the only hill on the place high enough to make the cellar in the back of the first story, making it three stories in front, and two stories back, four rooms on a floor, a large hall running through from east to west, above all, was the great rambling garret, the delight and terror of we children. This garret was fllled with the paraphernalia for spinning and weaving, it contained the most complete outfit I have ever seen: spinningwheels for linnen, cards for carding wool, flax breaks, and two looms. The old kitchen was as we find represented in some old pictures, with strings of apples, and bunches of herbs, sage, thyme, pepper and spearmint, with wormwood and horehound of bitter memories attached to a cold.
Then the orchard, where apples of all colors and flavors grew; the great barn piled with hay and grain; maybe there was no fun in that old barn. Then the old cob that Uncle Justus would let me ride, my short legs scarcely reaching across his broad fat back; but I have never taken a ride since with so much enjoyment; and the Chenango River, with its fishing and swimming. Sister and I attended the little woodcolored schoolhouse, a mile and a half north, where Cousin Phoebe taught school.
The woods were a continuous source of wonder to me. In the very thickest of these woods a remnant of the Oneidas' camped in true aboriginal style, and like their fathers before them, looked upon the Guthries as their particular friends. One whose name I remember, Abe Tusknott, was wont to spend many hours in the chimney corner in the Guthrie home during appleparing time. Old Abe could make an appleparingmachine blush, so evenly would he pare an apple.
I am told the original settlement was a mile square. A beautiful tract of land, pleasant to look upon. Commencing at the west branch of the east fork of the Chenango River and running back some threequarters of a mile to the west line, which was lost in a fine tract of timber called the sugarbush, which furnished fencing, fuel and sweetness for the family. A beautiful homestead in the beautiful Chenango valley, which although unsung as is the Mohawk, will safely bear comparison with any; and which, for so many years, was the home of our race, but knows no more the footsteps of a Guthrie. The memories of my boyhood days around that old homestead come nearer to elysiurn to me than any other chapter of my life. I have never seen any country to compare with that beautiful valley. I may be excused for giving expression to my thoughts, especially as I think that in writing to you, I write to one, who, like myself, is proud of the name and race of Guthrie.
I must allow the imagination to wander to the old church on Sherburne Hill, where, in the cemetery back of it, so many of our race are buried. If I had any particular desire touching the final resting place of this mortal clay it should be that when the signal for my release is given, that it might be laid in that quiet spot.
Children of Joseph Guthrie and Mary Griffith Duval:
1. Laura Guthrie, b. in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 16, 1867, (p. 119).
2. Elizabeth Sarah Guthrie, b. in Syracuse, N. Y., June 11, 1869, (p. 119).
3.Jesse Guthrie, b. in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 29, 1871 ; d. Jan. 17, 1872.
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4. Leon Joseph Guthrie, b. in Potosi, Washington County, Mo., Sept. 11, 1876. (Below)
Laura Guthrie (p. 118) married Feb. 7, 1885, in St. Louis, Mo., Clark Martin, who was born in St. Louis, April 3, 1848. Their address is 4002A Lucky St., St. Louis, Mo.
Children, all born in St. Louis:
1. Joseph Keith Martin, b. Nov. 13, 1885; d. Oct. 6, 1910.
2. Lucien Walter Martin, b. Nov. 19, 1887; m. They live in Chicago, Ill. ChildrenEleaine and Lucile.
3. Mary Frances Martin, b. Dec. 6, 1891; m. June, 1913, They lived in Ironton, Mo., where she d. Jan. 7, 1915, leaving an infant daughter, Mary.
4. Leon Harold Martin, b. April 27, 1897, lives in St. Louis.
5. Thelma Joyce Martin, b. Feb. 17, 1901; m. Stephenson. They live in St. Louis, Mo. One childThelma.
Elizabeth Sarah Guthrie (p. 118) married (1) March, 1884, William Hall; she married (2) William Kaler; she married (3) Allen. They had one son, William Allen. They live in Santa Anna, Calif.
Leon Joseph Guthrie (above) married Nov. 10, 1898, Pauline Pausch, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 16, 1877. Her parents were both born in Germany, coming to America in early life.
For many years Leon J. Guthrie was a weather observer, connected with the U. S. Weather Bureau at Ft. Smith, Ark. In 1922 he was transferred to the U. S. Observatory at Atlanta, Ga. He was a Christian gentleman and a gifted scientist. He died in Atlanta, Dec. 10, 1923, burial in St. Louis, Mo.
Children:
1. Una Guthrie, b. in Curacao, W. L, Oct. 20, 1899; m. ; lives in San Francisco, Calif.
2. Leon J. Guthrie, Jr., b. in Springfield, Ill., June 2, 1901; lives in St. Louis, Mo.
3. Solita Guthrie, b. in Ft. Smith, Ark., Aug. 1, 1912.
Hannah Guthrie, (p. 117) third child of Jesse and Hannah (Crean) Guthrie, married September 12, 186C John Greenarq in Syracuse, N. Y. He was the son of Patrick and Nancy Greenan. He died in 1887, and his widow resided in Holyoke, Mass.
Children:
1. Jessie Ann Greenan.
2. Mary Jenette Greenan, who m. W. P. Griffin.
3. Ida Theresa Greenan, who m. Fred Anderson.
4. Catherine Vincent Greenan.
5. Josephine Agnes Greenan.
James Guthrie, Q. 117) seventh child of Jesse and Hannah (Crean) Guthrie, married November 24, 1879, Mary Ellen Walker, who was born March 11, 1863, and was the daughter of Francis and Ella (Purcell) Walker. They made their home in Springfield, Mass.
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Children:
1. James Francis Guthrie, b. Oct. 14, 1880; d. Feb. 2, 1882.
2. Francis Jessie Guthrie, b. Oct. 13, 1881; d. Dec. 12, 1881.
3. Joseph Leon Guthrie, b. Feb. 1, 1883.
4. Walter Eleazer Guthrie, b. Jan. 16, 1885.
5. Percy Jefferson Guthrie, b. Oct. 30, 1887; d. Feb. 1, 1888.
6. Raymond Harold Guthrie, b. Aug. 20, 1889.
7. Beatrice Irene Guthrie, b. Aug. 31, 1890.
8.Frederick Otto Guthrie, b. July 16, 1892.
Joseph Guthrie, (p. 108) the second child of Dr. Nathan and Abi Richardson (Hale) Guthrie, obtained a common school education and at the age of nineteen began teaching school. Later he took up the study of medicine in the office of Dr. L. Tucker, of Earlsville, N. Y. He remained with him for four years and attended lectures at Geneva, N. Y. In the spring of 1842 he received a diploma and began the practice of medicine. In this he was very successful a