Welcome! The purpose of this project is to provide an online home for all available pictures of the earliest settlers of Jefferson County, New York, who were either settled or born in the county before the close of the Civil War in 1865. Sources for the pictures on this website include direct donations, other websites, and published books.

*1,012* pioneers online!!!

If you'd like to share a portrait please email it to jeffconyppp@hotmail.com
 

Newest Additions!
  
Added in November 2008

Daniel Ackerman
David W. Ackerman
Greenlief Ackerman
Huldah (Ackerman) Fish Armstrong
Lydia (Ackerman) York
Newton Ackerman
Robert Ackerman, Jr.
Susan (Augsbury) Shimmel
Catherine (Buslar) Shimmel
Ebenezer Calhoun
Anna (Churchill) Cooper
Charles Cooper
Howell Cooper
Benjamin Smith Ellis
Curtis Pike Gould
William Grant
Mary Lavinia (Graves) Rose
Pamelia Caroline (Hathaway) Calhoun
Eliza Jane McDonald
Alexander Doidge McKee
Pamelia (Mitchell) Yost
George Perfield
John Richard Shimmel
Solomon Shimmell
Almyra (Tibbets) Wadleigh
Ann Janette (Whittaker) Worby
Henry Whittaker, Jr.
Schuyler Whittaker
Warren Russell Whittaker
William Eli Whittaker
Lois P. (Woodruff) Cooper
Oliver Martin York
Nicholas Doxtater Yost
William H. Yost

Compliments of
Bernie Brown, Jason Dubray,
Roberta Calhoun Eagan, Benjamin Drew Ellis III,
Jody, Linda, Sharon, Tom Mitchell, Lynette Stilley, Doris Wyss, Felicity O. Yost
& Mark Wentling

 Thank you!!!


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Published Sources Included in This Project

        Many images on this website depict portraits published in county history books that were printed in the 19th-century. These books were chosen because they are difficult for researchers to get ahold of and are poorly indexed, yet contain a wealth of photographic information that would otherwise be overlooked:

In Progress

  • Evert's 1878 "History of Jeff. Co., NY"
  • Haddock's 1895 "Growth of a Century"

To Be Added

  • Haddock's 1895 "Picturesque St. Lawrence"
  • Oakes "Gene. & Fam. Hist. of Jeff.Co.", Vol.1& 2

Finished!

  • Child's 1890 Gazetteer
  • Emerson's 1898 "Our County & It's People"
  • Hough's 1854 "History of Jeff. Co., NY"
  • Monroe's 1912 "Through Eleven Decades of History: Watertown, A History From 1800 to 1912"
  • Centennial Historical Souvenir Issued by the Jefferson County National Bank, Watertown, N.Y. in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Bank, 1816-1916