His first book was published in 1876 under the title of "Castle Windows," from the press of H. B. Nims & Company, Troy, and was received with high praise in the literary world.  The Boston Literary World said of

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the book:  "'Castle Windows' contains some of the finest verses of the day--strong, graphic, refined, polished."  The New York Tribune said:  "Latham Cornell Strong makes an excellent first appearance--very much such a one in lyric as the author of 'Deirdre' in epic poetry."  The Troy Daily Times:  "It is not alone the sweet cadences, unfaltering metre and beauty of expression which please the reader; underlying all is a stratum of deep thought.  The very essence of musical rhythm is condensed in the 'Rhyme of Thula,'  It is like the rippling of a mountain brook." Harper's Monthly: "His verse is well-nigh perfect in its finish, and in more than one stanza each line constitutes almost a separate picture.  The experiences portrayed are somewhat mystical.  We can think of nothing with which to compare his work so apt as one of those veiled statues which at once suggest and obscure an exquisitely lovely face."

          He published in 1878 "Poke O' Moonshine" a poem founded on the romantic legend of the Le Moille Valley on the shores of Lake Champlain, and it was also received with enthusiasm by readers and critics.  Edgar Fawcett, the author and critic, write in The Evolution: "It is not hard to perceive that Mr. Latham Cornell Strong, in his recent poem, 'Poke O' Moonshine,' has proved himself possessed of the true poetic faculty.  Mr. Strong's taste is never at fault.  He has an unerring perception of fitness.  He never offends us with a dissonance either in phrase or rhythm."  His third and last book was entitled "Midsummer Dreams" and that also won a high place in American Literature.  His career was cut short by death at the age of thirty-four years, December 17, 1879.  He was buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, where his father and grandfather are also buried.  Of attractive personality, earnest, upright, able, cultivated and gifted, he seemed to have before him a brilliant future.  He was an attendant of the Reformed Church.

          He married, January 26, 1871, Mary Eddy Fowler, who was born September 1, 1847, at Hoosick Falls, New York, daughter of Dr. Harvey W. Fowler.  After his death, she married (second), in October, 1883, John Henry Furman, M. D., of Tarrytown, New York.  Dr. Harvey W. Fowler was born at Lansingburg, New York, September 25, 1812, mary (Eddy) Fowler, his wife, was born at Hoosick Falls, April 30, 1815, a daughter of  Jonathan Eddy; she died from injuries received in a railroad accident on the Troy & Boston Railroad near Hoosick Falls, Monday night, October 4, 1869.  The Eddy family is traced to Rev. William Eddy, A. M., vicar St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, county Kent, England, from 1591 to 1616, a native of Bristol, England; educated at Cambridge University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and also that of Master of Arts from Trinity College in 1586; the same year he was appointed vicar of Cranbrook.  After his death, in 1616, his sons Samuel and John came to America in the ship "Hand-maid" and located at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630.  Samuel Eddy, the third in line, located at Middlebrook, Massachusetts, a town near Plymouth, and died there in 1685.  Dr. Fowler was of English ancestry.  He was a cousin of Chancellor Reuben Walworth, of New York, and of Benjamin Walworth, whose son Benjamin married Charlotte Eddy, a sister of Mrs. Fowler.

          Children of Latham Cornell and Mary Eddy (Fowler) Strong:  1. William Cornell, born at Lansingburg, New York, February 14, 1872; married, June 2, 1897, in Tarrytown, Edith Blanche Lockwood.  2. Clarence Edgar, born at Troy, March 24, 1874, died August 14, 1874.  3. Rae Latham, mentioned below. 

          (VIII) Dr. Rae Latham Strong, son of Latham Cornell Strong, was born at Troy, September 27, 1876.  He attended Irving Institute at Tarrytown-on-Hudson, Professor Fancher's Military School, at Yonkers, and St. Jon's at Ossining, New York, and graduated from Columbia College, New York, in 1895, With the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  He studied his profession at Buffalo Medical University, graduating in the class of 1899, and began to practice medicine at Tarrytown.  After three years, on account of ill health, he went to the Adirondack's and there had charge of Gabriel's Sanatorium for tuberculosis patients at Paul Smith's station.  In 1906 he made two trips as physician and surgeon on British steamships to Para, South American, and a thousand miles up the Amazon River.  Since then

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he has been in general practice at White Plains, Westchester County, New York.  He is a member of the Omega Upsilon Phi fraternity, the Westchester County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

          He married, at Lynn, Massachusetts, October 3, 1900, Ethel lee, born at Lynn, July 12, 1878, daughter of George Herbert and Jennie Ardella (Colby) Cushman, the former a show manufacturer;  children:  1 Walter Colby.  2. Ethel Lee.  Mr. and Mrs. Strong have on child, Latham Cushman, born July 12, 1901, at Tarrytown.

KEITH.    Rev. James Keith, the founder of this family, was born at or near the town of Keith, in the northern part of Scotland, in 1643, or 1644, and died July 23, 1719.  The family has been one of some distinction in Scotland from the eleventh century; but efforts to trace the direct ancestry of the Rev. James Keith have been unsuccessful.  He was educated at Aberdeen, Scotland, and emigrated to Massachusetts at the age of eighteen.  Rev. Dr. Increase Mather, recommended him as the minister of a body of people of Duxbury, Massachusetts, which was to form a new settlement, now Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.  Hence he became one of the first settlers of this town and its first minister.  His merciful judgment, contrary to that of most others of his time, had great if not decisive weight in saving the life of the young son of the Indian, King Philip.  A curious illustration of the customs of those days is afforded by his sermon text after the marriage of his daughter Mary.  Her suitor, Ephraim Howard, was objectionable to the minister; the couple being secretly married, he preached the next Sunday from Hosea IV, 17: "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone."   Time softened his resentment, however, and he preached again from Jeremiah XXXI, 20:  "Is Ephraim, my dear son?  Is he a pleasant child?  For since I spoke against I do earnestly remember him still."  His funeral sermon was preached by Cotton Mather.  He married (first), May 3, 1668, Susannah, daughter of Samuel Edson, who was born about 1640, and died October 16, 1705.  Her father was also one of the first settlers of Bridgewater, and a deacon in the church.  He married, (second), in 1707, Mary Williams, widow of Thomas Williams, of Taunton, Massachusetts.  Children, all by first marriage:  1. James, born December 5, 1669, died October 21, 1739; married, September 3, 1695, Mary Thayer.  2. Joseph, born February 14, 1675, married Elizabeth Fobes.  3. Samuel, born in 1677, died in 1750, married Bethiah Fobes.  4. Timothy, referred to below.  5. John, born in 1688, died in 1761; married April 18, 1711, Hannah Washburn.  6. Josiah, married in 1703, Mary Lathrope.  7, Margaret, married -------- Hunt.  8. Mary, married Ephraim Howard.  9. Susannah, married Jonathan Howard. 

          (II) Timothy, son of Rev. James and Susannah (Edson) Keith, was born in 1683, or according to another less probable account, April 3, 1675, and died November 8, 1767.  He was one of the first settlers in the north parish, now North Bridgewater, early in the eighteenth century, and was moderator of the first meeting held after the parish became a precinct.  He married, February 1, 1710, Hannah, daughter of Deacon Edward and Elizabeth (Howard) Fobes, who was born in 1686, and died May 21, 1765.  Children:  1. Timothy, born January 27, 1711, died in 1740, married, June 2, 1737, Bethiah Ames.  2. Abiah, referred to below.  3. Nathan, born December 16, 1714, died January 9, 1786, married, August 26, 1746, Hannah Snell.  4. Hannah, born April 16, 1718, died in 1802, married, January 28, 1742, Daniel Ames.

          (III) Abiah, son of  Timothy and Hannah (Fobes) Keith, born October 11, 1712, and died September 9, 1781.  He married, August 22, 1737, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (William) Snell, who was born in 1716, and died June 11, 1804.  Children;  1. Mary, born April 6, 1738, married, June 25, 1759, Adam Howard.  2. Reuben, born October 3, 1740, died April 11, 1758.  3. Mehitable, born January 1, 1742, died March 21, 1747.  4. Isaac, born May 13, 1744, died March 5, 1747.  5. Anne, born September 30, 1748.  6. Asa, referred to below.  7. Bathsheba, born October 14, 1752, married, February 27, 1772, Edward Bass.  8. Keziah, born April 12, 1754.  9. Shepard, born November 3, 1756, married, March 12, 1795, Sally Hawes. 

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(Snell) Keith, was born June 10, 1750.  He died of smallpox, before 1705.  His sons all removed from North Bridgewater.  He married, June 21, 1774, Susanna, daughter of Ephraim and Susannah (Alden) Cary, who was born in 1750; she married (second), in 1795, Eleazer Keith.  Children;  1. Bethuel (1), referred to below.  2. Mehitable, born April 26, 1778, died in 1813, married in 1800, John Keith.  3. Asa, born May 12, 1783.  4. Susannah, born March 10, 1785, died in 1813.  5. Sibil, born February 3, 1787.  6. Mary, born February 24, 1789, died in 1809. 

          (V) Bethuel (1), son of Asa and Susanna (Cary) Keith, was born June 5, 1775, and died at Randolph, Orange County, November 2, 1848.  He married, March 30, 1802, Mary Pearson,, who died July 4, 1802 (?).  Children:  1. Mary, born August 30, 1803, married Asa Sprague.  2. Martha F., born March 22, 1805, married Laban Ainsworth.  3. Sally, born August 6, 1807, died June 12, 1825.  4. Amelia, born March 13, 1809, married Samuel Bannister.  5. Bethuel (2), referrred to below.  6. Asa, born September 24, 1813, married October 4, 1836. Laura E. Story.  7. Susan Glidden, born December 27, 1815, married Pheleg Morey.  8. James Monroe, born April 15, 1819, married (first), August 20, 1849, Adeline Weatherbee, he married (second), October 16, 1856, Mary (--------) Richardson, and (third), September 3, 1863, Louisa Josephine Dyer, 9. Samuel, born July 16, 1821, married, June 17, 1847, Millicent Benson.  10. Henry Clay, born April 26, 1823, married, September 4, 1849, Ruth C. Canney.  11. George Hackett, born May 4, 1825, married, July 2, 1863, Henrietta S. Jewett. 

          (VI) Bethuel (2), son of Bethuel (1) and Mary (Pearson) Keith, was born in Vermont, December 21, 1811.  He settled at Stratford, Connecticut, where he practiced medicine.  He married, July 1, 1835, Elizabeth Prescott Paine.  Children: 1. George Holland, referred to below.  2. Frances Wayland, born August 26, 1844.  3. Shepperd. 

          (VII) George Holland, son of Bethuel (20 and Elizabeth Prescott (Paine) Keith, was born at Dover, New Hampshire, October 27, 1840.  In boyhood he has an attack of inflammatory rheumatism, which left him with severe heart disease, and this unable him to enlist for the Civil War.  He was a manufacturing chemist.  He was a Republican in politics, and a Unitarian in religion.  He married, May 7, 1863, Lucy Ann, daughter of Uriah and Ruhamah (Clark) Wiggin, who was born at Dover, New Hampshire, July 12, 1840.  Her father, son of Nathan Wiggin, was born at Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, November 11, 1811, and served in the New Hampshire legislature, both as representative and as senator.  Her mother, daughter of Hardin Clark, was born at Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, August 2, 1813.  Children of George Holland Lucy Ann (Wiggin) Keith:  1. Elizabeth Wiggin, born June 7, 1864.  2. Frederick Walter, born July 7, 1867.  3. Horace Greeley, referred to below.

          (VIII) Horace Greeley, son of George Holland and Lucy Ann (Wiggin) Keith, was born at East Orange, New Jersey, March 20, 1873.  He attended the public schools of New York City and the College of the City of New York.  Ill health compelled him to leave the latter institution without finishing his course.  When his health was restored, he entered the employ of a large wholesale notion house, but no liking commercial life, he prepared for the examination of the New York State Board of Regents.  After passing this examination he entered in 1891, the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, and graduated in the class of 1894.  He spent a year at the Homeopathic Hospital of Rochester, New York, and then in 1895, settled in Yonkers, New York, where he has since been engaged in the practice of medicine.  Together with the courses mentioned, he studied, in the summer of 1893, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and visited many hospitals and clinics in foreign cities.  He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy; the New York Homeopathic Medical Society; the Westchester Homeopathic Medical Society; the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; the International Congress on Tuberculosis; the National Society of Electro Therapeutics; the Academy of Pathological Science; the Dunham Club; the Meissen Club; the Yonkers Clinical Club.  He is a physician to the executive medical offices and president of the Yonkers Homeopathic Hospital and Maternity Hospital; examining physician of the Equitable Life Assurance So-

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ciety, and the Bankers Life Insurance company; examining physician to the new York State Hospital for Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis; examiner in lunacy, and a member of the board of directors of the Sprain Ridge Hospital.  He is a Mason, member of the Nepperham Lodge, No. 730, of Yonkers.  In politics, Dr. Keith is first a patriotic American citizen; by conviction he is a Republican.  He and his family attend St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church, Yonkers.

          He married Mary Alberta, daughter of John Albert and Josephine (Eisenprice) Crandell, who was born in New York City, August 4, 1872.  Her father was a banker.  Children of John Albert and Josephine (Eisenprice) Crandell:  1. Mary Alberta, referred to above.  2. Maud Mecelia.  3. Paul Morgan.  4. John Stanley.  Children of Dr. Horace Greeley and Mary Alberta (Crandell) Keith:  1. Starr Crandell, born January 19, 1902.  2. John Holland, born October 27, 1907.

GLOVER.     The surname Glover is derived from the name of a trade, and the word itself was of Saxon origin, spelled golofre originally, and varied from time to time until the fourteenth century, when the present spelling became fixed.  The family was seated at an ancient date in counties Warwick and Kent, England, and tradition connects the American family with the Warwickshire Glovers.  Robert Glover, believed to be direct ancestor of the American line given below, was burned at the stake September 14, 1555, during the persecution of the Protestants in the reign of Bloody mary.  The story of his martyrdom is told in Fox's "Acts and Monuments," pages 814-819.  He married Mary ---------, and had sons Hugh and Edward, who succeeded to his estate at Baxterly, Warwickshire.  The family has always been distinguished by its piety.  The English coat-of-arms:  Sable a chevron ermine between three crescents argent.

          (I) Thomas Glover, English progenitor of all the American families, died in Rainhill parish, Prescott, Lancashire, England, December 10, 1619.  His will was dated December 19, 1619.  He married there February 10, 1594, Margery, daughter of Thomas Deane.  Children:  1. Ellen, baptized February 2, 1595, married William Barnes.  2. John, twin, baptized July 27, 1599, died same day.  3. Elizabeth, twin, baptized July 27, 1599, died same day.  3. John, of whom further.  5. Henry, baptized February 15, 1603, married Abigail -----------, went to New England and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts.  6. Anne, baptized October 19, 1605.  7. Thomas, born 1607, married Deborah Rigby, of Cranston.  8. William, born 1609, married Mary Bolton, of Rainhill.  9. George, born 1611, married Margaret ---------.  10. Jane, baptized September 13, 1612, married -------- Watts. 11. Peter, baptized March 22, 1615.

          (II) John, son of Thomas and Margery (Deane) Glover, was baptized in Rainhill parish, August 12, 1600, died February 1, 1653, in Boston, Massachusetts.  About the year 1625 he was married in Rainhill, and the Christian name of his wife was Anna.  He inherited a large estate from his father, but instead of remaining in England to enjoy his wealth he joined the large company of colonists in 1630 and came to New England.  His property in the old country he afterwards conveyed to his eldest son, who remained there and was a merchant in London in 1652.  Prior to his emigration John went to London, where he joined the Honorable Artillery Company, becoming its captain, and in the records of that period is referred to as "the worshipful Mr. Glover."  He was one of the organizers of the London company for promoting colonization of New England in 1628, and came as a passenger in the "Mary and John," bringing with him besides a large number of cattle, the necessary servants, appliances and other supplies to establish and carry on a tannery.  Settling in Dorchester he opened the first tannery in New England; was one of the organizers of the town in 1631; and when the church was organized in 1636, under the pastorship of Rev. Richard Mather, he and his wife Anna were among the subscribers tot he covenant.  Aside from holing important town offices he represented Dorchester in the general court from 1636 to 1652, when he became assistant governor, and in all he served the colony some eighteen years.  In 1650 he removed to Boston, where he died February 1, 1653, while still serving as assistant governor. 

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He was not only prominent in Dorchester and Boston, but elsewhere, as he is mentioned in the records of Salem, Charlestown, Cambridge and Barnstable.  His children, born in Rainhill and Dorchester were;  1. Thomas.  2. Habakkuk.  3. John.  4. Nathaniel, of whom further.  5. Peletiah. 

          (III) Nathaniel, son of John (1) and Anna Glover, was born in 1630-31.  He resided in Dorcester, and his death occurred there May 21, 1657, at the age of about twenty-six years.  He married Mary Smith, born in Texteth Park, near Liverpool, July 20, 1630, daughter of Quartermaster John and Mary (Ryder) Smith.  She married (second) Thomas Hinckley, of Barnstable, who was subsequently chosen governor of the Plymouth Colony, and died at Barnstable, July 23, 1703.  By her first husband, Nathaniel Glover, she had two sons:  1. Nathaniel.  2. John (2), of whom further.

          (IV) John (2), son of Nathaniel and Mary (Smith) Glover, was born March 15, baptized March 18, 1654, in Dorchester, died August 26, 1690, in the same town.  He was six years old when his mother married Thomas Hinckley.  He was then placed under the guardianship of his uncle Habakkuk Glover, and lived with his grandmother, Anna Glover in Boston, where he learned the cooper's trade.  In 1672 he purchased a house and lot in Boston of Proctor, a cooper, for one hundred and fifty dollars.  In 1674 when the Newbury estate in Dorcester was divided he received his share which he sold soon after to his uncle and in 1675 sold the Proctor House.  In 1680 he purchased back from his uncle the one-sixteenth interest in the Newbury Farm at Dorcester for fifty pounds.  This he sold four days later and about this time removed to Barnstable, Massachusetts.  He was admitted a townsman in 1684 and subscribed to the freeman's oath June 5, of that year.  He was again in Dorchester in 1688 and died there two years later.  He married (first) in 1672, Mary (probably) Proctor, who died April 30, 1687, in Dorchester.  He married (second) in 1688, Miriam, daughter of John Smith of Boston, who survived him thirty years less three days, dying August 23, 1720.  Child of the first marriage:  1. Robert, of whom further.  Child of the second marriage:  2. John, born May 6, 1689.

          (V) Robert, son of John and Mary (Proctor) Glover, was born in 1673, in Boston.  He went early to sea, and became a skilled navigator, and master of the privateer, "Dragon" at the age of twenty-one years.  In July, 1695, he sailed this vessel to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, where he captured a French ship valued at fifteen hundred pounds.  He paid taxes in Boston in that year and the following.  Subsequently he made voyages to England and was lost at sea on a return voyage.  According to tradition, he was lost at the island since known as Glover's Island.  No record of his wife appears, but he had children:  1. Robert (2), of whom further.  2. Thomas.  3. Hannah.  4. Anna.

          (VI) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Glover, was born 1697-98, died or was killed 1745.  He resided for some time in Boston, subsequently removing to the Piscataqua River, in the vicinity of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  During Queen Anne's War he served under Sir William Pepperell.  His wife Mary at the time of his death was living in the island of Antiqua, British West Indies, with her son, Robert (3), of whom further.

          (VII) Robert (3), son of Robert (2) and Mary Glover, was born in 1720.  For some time he was a merchant at Antiqua.  He probably returned to the New Hampshire coat, but further record of him is missing.  He was undoubtedly the father of timothy, of whom further.

          (VIII) Timothy, son of Robert (3), Glover, was born about 1750.  He married, at Madbury, New Hampshire, July 7, 1784, Tamsin Brown, both being residents of Lee, New Hampshire.  They probably had a son, Timothy (2), of whom further. 

          (IX) Timothy (2), undoubtedly son of Timothy (10 and Tamsin (Brown) Glover, was born about 1795, in Durham, new Hampshire.  His parents died when he was a small child.  He was always a farmer, residing in north Woodstock, New Hampshire, and was a member of the Calvinist Baptist Church, of Woodstock.  He married Eunice Hooper, a native of Madbury, and they had children;  1. Lorenzo, born 1821.  2. William, 1826.  3. Franklin Rockwood, of

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whom further.  4. Ivory H., born 1833, was a soldier of the Civil War, formerly a farmer in Franconia Township, Grafton County, New Hampshire, where he has been one of the foremost citizens; a Democrat, and active in party affairs; selectman for several years; and has held many of the local offices; in 1906 elected a member of the state legislature.  5. Mary J., 1835.  6. Julia A., 1838.

          (X) Franklin Rockwood, son of Timothy (2) and Eunice (Hooper) Glover, was born June 4, 1829, in North Woodstock.  He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and soon after attaining manhood purchased a large farm near the town of Littleton, New Hampshire, where he resided until a few years since.  He now resided in Littleton, retired from active life.  He is a Republican and served on the school board in 1888-89-90-91; was chairman of the executive board of the Little Musical Association from 1885 to 1896, being president of that body in the latter year. He was selectman of the town of Littleton in 1898-99-1900.  For many years he was extensively engaged as a cattle drover.  He is attendant at the Methodist church.  He married (first) October 3, 1853, Phebe Marie, daughter of Levi and Julia A. (McCullock) Streeter, of Lisbon, New Hampshire, born December 2, 1835, in that town, died there October 29, 1877.  He  married (second) February 26, 1881, Alma Cassie, daughter of John Whipple, born 1850 in Lisbon.  Children of the first marriage:  1. George F., born at Woodstock in August, 1854, died in November, 1854.  2. Charles A.,  June 20, 1856.  3. Inez A., September 15, 1860, died at age of three years in Littleton. 4.  Eunice J., August 11, 1862, married Charles McCarthy.  5. Joseph L., of whom further.  6. James A., March 25, 1868, is a mechanic at Ardsley, New York.  7. Minnie A., October 12, 1871.  8. Orrin A., January 26, 1874, resides in Littleton. 

          (XI) Joseph Lawrence, son of Franklin R. and Phebe M. (Streeter) Glover, was born august 28, 1864, in Littleton.  He attended the public schools, including the high school.  He began the study of law in the office of D. C. & J. W. Remick, of Littleton, the latter of whom was substantially a judge of the state supreme court.  He then took a literary course at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan.  He completed his literary and legal studies at the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1889.  For four years thereafter he engaged in the practice of law at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and for two years was deputy states attorney of Minnehaha County, South Dakota.  In 1894 removing to New York City, he engaged in practice for two yeas, since which time he has also maintained an office at White Plains, Westchester County.  He is associated with ex-Comptroller John J. Adams, who manages the New York office.  Mr. Glover resides in the beautiful suburb of Ardsley, where he is police justice and corporation counsel.  He is also justice of the peace for the town of Greensburg.  He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at White Plains; the Knights of Pythias, and the college fraternity Alpha Tau Omega.  He embraces the religion of the Episcopal Church.  He is a very earnest supporter of the Republican Party, being now and for the past sixteen years secretary of the Republican committee, of the seventh district of the town of Greensburg, Westchester County, and is active in every movement calculated to promote the welfare of his party and of the community and nation.  He is a member of the Westchester County Bar Association, and is counsel and one of the directors of the Ardsley Ice Company; also counsel to board of education. 

          He married, February 22, 1898, Cora S., daughter of William Berri, of Brooklyn, who was for many years a carpet merchant on Fulton Street in that borough.  They have on child, Cora Berri, born August 3, 1899.

EIDEL.     This family, now represented in Woodbourne, New York, by Frank Adam Eidel, is of German origin. 

          (I) Casper Eidel, the first of the name of whom we have knowledge, was a native of the Fatherland, and was the father of four children:  1.  Peter.  2. Jacob.  3. John, mentioned below.  4. Elizabeth.  Casper Eidel was a farmer and these children were all born and brought up on the paternal acres.

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States, where he found employment in the lumber woods and saw-mills.  While still a young man he was killed while at work in the forest by a tree falling on him.  In religion he was Roman Catholic.  He married, before coming to this country, Maria Eller, born in 1824, in Germany, and their children were:  1. Emma.  2. Jacob, mentioned below.  3. John.  Mrs. Eidel survived her husband many years, passing away in 1866. 

          (III) jacob, elder son of John and Maria (Eller) Eidel, was born January 1, 1846, in Woodbourne, and received his education in the public schools.  For six years he worked as a farmer and then for eight years was employed as brakeman on the Monticello & Smithville Railroad.  In 1880 he purchased a farm of four hundred and fifty acres and engaged in the raising of cattle and the cultivation of vegetables.  In 1897 he bought a grist mill which he has ever since operated with the assistance of his sons.  In politics he is a Democrat.  He married, April 23, 1877, Mary, born in May, 1852, daughter of Caspar and Mary Guntlaw, the former a farmer in Woodbourne.  Mr. and Mrs. Eidel are the parents of three children:  1. Charles, born May 9, 1879.  2. Frank Adam, mentioned below.  3. John, born December 26, 1886. 

          (IV) Frank Adam, second son of Jacob and Mary (Guntlaw) Eidel, was born July 28, 1881, in Woodbourne.  He received his education in the district schools of the neighborhood.  From 1894 to 1902 he assisted is father on the arm, and in the latter year, having attained his majority, he went to New York and became an engineer in the work of bridge construction, following this calling until 1909, when he returned to Woodbourne and became actively interested in the mill.  In addition to this he was variously employed, sometimes working as an engineer.  He votes with the Democratic Party.  Mr. Eidel married, in 1905, in Woodbourne, Ruth Anne, born November 3, 1882, daughter of Eugene and flora (Swartout) Warren, the former the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Centerville.  Children:  1. Delbert, aged six yeas.  2. Gertrude, aged five.  3. Elmer, aged three.  4. George, an infant.

YOCOM.     Isaac Yocom, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, came from Sweden with his wife, Margaret and settled in Pennsylvania.  Their remains are interred in the Swede's burying ground in Norristown, Pennsylvania.  Child:  1. Edward S., of whom further.

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