Alfred B. Roe

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0a5d05a3.jpg"> <div> Orange County, New York</div> <div> American History and Genealogy Project</div> <div> Alfred B. Roe</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="0a6d2123.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/orange/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/or"><U>Orange County AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/"><U>New York AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://ahgp.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ahgp.org"><U>AHGP</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://alhn.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://alhn.org"><U>ALHN</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="623" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 679 WIDTH="617"><div> <IMG SRC="061d31f0.jpg" border=0 width="211" height="287" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" >T</FONT>HE Roe family is very large in Chester, and Alfred B. is the direct descendant of one of the oldest branches in the town. He is of Scotch descent, the family having come from that country in 1730, and settled in Florida, N. Y.</div> <div>      The old homestead on which Alfred B. lives, now in the town of Chester, was purchased in 1751, and has continued to be the home of this  branch of the Roe's ever since. </div> <div>      Alfred B. Roe was one of a family of seven children born to Jesse and Dolly Caroline Booth Roe.  He began his career August 12, 1840, in one of the typical luxurious homes of this beautiful valley.</div> <div>      He was provided with the best schooling which Chester could afford, and finished his course in Bloomfield, N. J.</div> <div>      He allowed nothing to divert him from farming.  No other calling had quite so much charm for him.  If he ever thought of law, or theology, or medicine, or business, or the army as a calling, something came to prevent his entering upon any of these lines of life.  He seemed destined to farm, and is satisfied with his destiny.  In any other line he might have been a success, but in farming he is a grand success.</div> <div>      He has been an ardent Republican from his earliest political associations, and is justly proud of what his party has achieved in the history of our nation.  While aspiring to no place of political power and emolument, he is deeply interested in filling all offices with good and true men.</div> <div>      He was married February 25th, 1869, to Miss Martha V. Durland.  They began their married life on the home farm, but in a new house which was built for the young couple.</div> <div>      Five children were born to them, one of which died in infancy.  Three of the others are still living at home, Jesse, Miss Anne and Fred, while the oldest daughter, Matilda, is married to Dr. H. B. Masten and lives in the village of Chester.  Alfred B. Roe united with the Church when he was fifteen years of age, at the time of special ingathering after the erection of the present Church building.</div> <div>      He is, therefore, while still a young man, one of the oldest members of the Presbyterian Church of Chester.  It seemed very fitting that he should be elected, as he was in 1889, to the Eldership, after serving as Trustee for ten years, and a member of the Church for thirty-four.</div> <div> He has represented the Church at Presbytery, has served as a member of the Board of Education for ten years, and as a Director of the Chester National Bank since 1894.</div> <div>      A deep sorrow has fallen upon his household in the unexpected death of his beloved wife in February, 1896.  She had been a wife and mother in the truest sense of those words, and was the inspiration upward of all who knew her.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="pg33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charles Board Roe"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pg1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>