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The mother of Cynthia
Herrick was Cynthia Brush, who died at
Amenia City, Nov. 19, 1815, aged 50.
Cynthia Brush was the daughter of Richard
Brush, of Amenia, who made his will August
27, 1795, leaving "all real estate to
Richard Brush Herrick, the present youngest
son of Benjamin Herrick." The same document
mentioned his wife Hannah, and is copied in
a Greenwich, Connecticut, deed. Here also
is entered his birth record, "Richard Brush
had a son Dec. 17, 1727, named him
Richard." The Herrick homestead at Amenia
adjoined on the north that of Stephen
Reynolds.
Children: 1.
Lydia Maria, died in infancy. 2. Lydia
Louisa, b. in Amsterdam, N. Y., Sept. 11,
1817, d. in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1876;
married, Albany, at St. Peter's Church, by
Rev. Horatio Potter, April 29, 1841, Dr.
Thomas Hun, son of Abraham Hun and Maria
Gansevoort, who was born in Albany, Sept.
13, 1808, was graduated at Union 1821, died
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In Albany, June 23,
1896, by whom five children: Edward Reynolds
Hun, born Albany, Apr. 127, 1842; was
graduated at Harvard, 1863, married in Troy,
N. Y., April 29, 1874, Caroline DeForest
Gale, died in Stamford, Conn., March 14,
1880. 2. Marcus Tullius Hun, b. in Albany,
May 22, 1845, was graduated at Union, 1865,
married, Albany, Dec. 21, 1875, Mary Keith
Vanderpool (see Van DerPool Family). 3.
Leonard Gansevoort Hun, b. in Albany, May
10, 1848, was graduated West Point, 1869, d.
unm in Somerville, Mass., March 1, 1891. 4.
John Hun, b. at Albany, June 10, 1852, d.
Aug. 16, 1852. 5. Henry Hun, b. in Albany,
March 21, 1854, was graduated at Yale, 1874;
m. in Albany, Apr. 28, 1892, Lydia Marcia
Hand (see Hun Family) Marcus T. had also by
his wife Cynthia Herrick: 3. Cynthia, b. in
Amsterdam, N. Y., in 1819, d. there Mch. 25,
1837, and buried there.
Marcus T.
Reynolds married (second) at St. Peter's
Church, Albany, N. Y., May 6, 1823,
Elizabeth Ann Dexter. She was born in
Albany, march 24, 1797, and died at her
home, No. 7 Park Place, Albany (where the
capitol stood in 1910), on august 30, 1840.
Her father was Samuel Dexter, born in
Northampton, Mass., Nov. 14, 1756, removed
to Albany, between 1790-5, where he was a
druggist; died there at No. 56 State Street,
Aug. 27, 1825, being the son of Ebenezer
Dexter, born October 17, 1729, died May 4,
1769, who married, in 1745, Lydia Woods,
born Oct. 17, 1736, died Dec. 24, 1774.
Her mother
was Elizabeth Province, born in Northampton,
mass., July 4, 1763, died at her residence
opposite the Middle Dutch Reformed Church,
on Beaver Street, Albany, October 18,
1846,. Being the daughter of John Province,
born in Glasgow, Scotland, came to America,
May 10, 1740, settling in Boston, Mass.,
died July 6, 1792, who married, may 9, 1748,
Sarah Prince, born in 17309, died March 11,
1810, and was buried in the Prince tomb in
the Granary Burial Ground at Boston (see
Prince Genealogy for ancestors). Samuel
Dexter and Elizabeth Province were married
May 20, 1790.
By his wife
Elizabeth Ann Dexter, Marcus T. had: 4.
Mary Dexter, born in Amsterdam, N. Y., m.
Aug. 14, 1824, d. at 98 Columbia Street,
Albany, Jan. 29, 1897, buried in Albany
Rural Cemetery; married by Rev. Horatio
Potter, at St. Peter's Church, Albany, Apr.
29, 1847, Dr. Frederick Cholet Adams, son of
John Adams, and his wife Laura Farmer, who w
as born at Catskill, N. Y., May 25, 1823;
Williams College, 1843, died in Albany,
Sept. 22, 1862, by whom two children: 1.
Admiral James Dexter Adams, U. S. N., born
in Catskill, N. Y., May 4, 1848, married,
Vallejo, Cal., May 6, 1873, Margaret Jane
Phelps, dau of Admiral Thomas S. Phelps, has
three children. 2. William Reynolds Adams,
born in Albany, Mch. 7, 1853, d. in Albany,
Jan. 30, 1855, buried there. 5. Dexter,
born in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1828, d. in
Albany, Aug. 19, 1906; married in Rochester,
N. Y., Apr. 19, 1865, Catherine Maley Cuyler,
born in Cuylerville, Livingston County, N.
Y., Dec. 2., 1845, daughter of Col. William
Tremper Cuyler, and Nancy Bancker Stewart
(see hereinafter). 6. Laura, born in
Albany, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1830; married at her
father's residence, No. 25 North Pearl
Street, Albany, N. Y., by Rev. Horatio
Potter, Feb. 1, 1854, Bayard Van Rensselaer,
son of Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer and
Harriet Elizabeth Bayard, and who was born
in Albany, Sept. 8, 1833, died in Pau,
France, Jan. 12, 1859, by whom two
children: 1. William Bayard Van Rensselaer,
b. at 98 Columbia Street, Albany, N. Y.,
Oct. 4, 1856, died in Albany, Sept. 25,
1909; was graduated at Harvard College,
1880; married in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 3,
1880, Louisa Greenough Lane, born Nov. 21,m
1860, dau. of the Prof. Geo. Martin Lane, of
Harvard University. 2. Dr. Howard Van
Rensselaer, born at 98 Columbia Street,
Albany, N. Y., June 26, 1858, Yale, 1881.
Dexter--Marcus Tullius--Stephen--Stephen--Nathaniel--James--John--John.
5. Dexter
Reynolds, son of Marcus T. Reynolds and
Elizabeth Ann Dexter, was born in Albany, N.
Y., December 22, 1828, and died at 09
Columbia Street, Albany, August 19, 1906.
He received his early education at the
College Hill Academy in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
and continued his preliminary studies at the
Albany Academy, which he entered in the fall
of 1842, remaining two years, when he was
prepared to enter Union college in 1844.
Here he joined the sigma Phi fraternity, and
was a classmate of President Chester a.
Arthur, who was an intimate friend in later
years. he graduated July 26, 1848, ranking
second in his class of 120, and was honored
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with the Latin
salutatory. He attended the Lawrence
Scientific School at Cambridge, Mass., the
year of its founding, 1848-9, and was a
graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of
1850. He was admitted to the bar at Albany,
December 2, 1851, and in 1853 wrote the
volume published by Gould, Banks & Co.,
Albany, 1853, "A Treatise on the Law of Life
Insurance." He formed a partnership with
Orlando Meade. Afterwards he was in
partnership with John Olcott, son of Thomas
Worth Olcott, the banker. Later on, he was
associated with the law firm of M. T. & L.
G. Hun, nephews, at No. 25 North Pearl
Street. With his friends, Erastus Corning
and J. Howard King, he made a number of
visits to Western states on hunting trips,
and it was then he purchased large tracts of
land in Iowa, equal in extent to nearly half
the area of that state. His final sale in
closing the investment was 210,000 acres.
In the Civil War he was paymaster of the
Third Regiment, and went to Richmond,
Virginia, under Gen. Frederick Townsend,
commanding.
His patented
inventions numbered twenty or more, and each
of these was among the pioneers of very
important lines. He first gave considerable
study to the manufacture of paper from wood
pulp at a time such processes were not
practical or paying. In 1858 he published a
treatise on the subject. His investigation
was most thorough, and gave an impetus to
the trade at a time of discouragement.
Among the
earliest of his inventions was a typesetter,
which he manufactured in Rochester, previous
to 1875, and followed this with an automatic
distributor, which was the fist attempt to
distribute movable type by machine. In this
connection he invented the notching of
type. It was placed in a publishing house
in Albany about 1876, and was
discountenanced by the printers, who saw
their means of support about to disappear
through a saving to the employer. The
theory of this machine was utilized by a
manufacturer of such machines, and tedious
lawsuit for infringement resulted, which was
finally compromised. A direct steel and
wrought iron process occupied his attention
for some twenty years, which led to an
experimental furnace erected in the early
spring of 1903, which was the first to
nodulize fine ores ina revolving cylindrical
furnace, which roes had hitherto been of
value only when briquetted. This process,
the furnaces now enlarged to over a hundred
feet, is in general use throughout the
country for nodulizing fine dust and
magnetically separated ores.
Dexter
Reynolds married, at Rochester, N. Y., April
19, 1865, Catherine Maley Cuyler, (see
Cuyler family), Rev. R. Bethel Claxton, of
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiating.
They resided at 20 Elk Street, Albany, N.
Y. She was born in Cuylerville, Livingston
County, N. Y., December 2, 1845; was
educated at a boarding school in Utica, N.
Y., died while visiting in Rochester,
October 23, 1875,, and was buried in the
Reynolds lot in the Albany Rural Cemetery.
Her father was Col. William Tremper Cuyler,
who was born in Albany, December 22, 1802,
died in Cuylerville, N. Y., December 21,
1864, and was the son of John Cornelius
Cuyler (born in Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 5,
1766, died there October 25, 1828), and
Hannah Maley (b. Oct. 12, 1769). Her mother
was Nancy Bancker Stewart, who was born in
Leicester, N. Y., Feb. 1810, died Feb. 3,
1848, and was daughter of John Stewart and
Nancy Bancker Clute (born in Schenectady, N.
Y., Dec. 25, 1776, died in Moscow, N. Y.,
Apr. 28, 1864). Dexter Reynolds and
Catherine Maley Cuyler had children--Cuyler
and Marcus Tullius.
Cuyler
Reynolds, son of Dexter Reynolds and
Catherine Maley Cuyler, was born at 98
Columbia Street, Albany, N. Y., August 14,
1866. At the Albany Academy and a boarding
school in Catskill, N. Y., he received his
education, which developed particularly his
faculties as a writer, establishing in 1885,
the school paper, of which he was made its
editor-in-chief. He engaged in newspaper
work and followed it some fifteen years, at
the same time contributing to more than a
score of the better magazines. Turning his
attention then to the writing of books,
novels and reference works, he produced ten
or more, the most valuable of which were his
"Classified Quotations," Putnam, 1905, and
"Albany Chronicles," 1907, the latter a
volume so comprehensive and copiously
illustrated that it is likely to endure and
be cited as one o f the best authorities of
state history. Later he became
editor-in-chief of the "Hudson-Mohawk
Genealogical and Family memoirs," in four
octavo volumes.
By a
scientific study and enumeration of
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the letters of the
alphabet as they occurred in books,
magazines and newspapers, he arranged a
table of the recurrence of letters, which
results he set forth ina monograph entitled,
"The Recurrence of Letters," read before the
Albany Institute in 1894, then published in
Paper and Press in 1895, and while it
served as a key for the solution of ciphers
or secret writing, its more practical use
was in its application to the keyboards of
typesetting machines, and in this form is
universally used.
Much
interested in historical research,
especially as it concerned his home city, he
was made director of the Albany Institute
and Historical and Art Society at its annual
meeting in 1899, and continued as such for
ten years. He made for this society several
of its most noteworthy collections,
numbering a dozen or more, at the same time
filling the office of librarian. As
Librarian, he gathered nearly one thousand
books written by Albanians, which list
composed a biographical catalogue of 14
pages in 1902. The opening of this
institution's new building, May 12, 1908,
gave him opportunity to originate the novel
system of indexing and the method of keeping
the various record books.
In March,
1907, he received the appointment of
director of the New York State Historical
Exhibit for the Jamestown Exposition;
collected and installed it in systematic
order, the features of which he set forth in
an elaborately illustrated Catalogue of
Exhibit, with the Exposition's Gold medal as
the result. Afterwards he wrote the State's
report, a handsome volume, copiously
illustrated, and of about five hundred
pages, published in 1910.
He was
elected to honorary membership in the
American Scenic and Historic Preservation
society in 1908, and in the New York State
Historical Association in 1909. He is also
a member of the National Geographic Society,
American Historical Association and of the
American Copyright League. He has resided
all his life in Albany.
He married,
at the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, N.
Y., Dean Wilford L. Robbins officiating,
September 24, 1891, Janet Gray Gould. She
was born in Albany, July 22, 1871, and was
educated at the Albany Female Academy. Her
father was Captain Charles Gold, born in
Albany, October 28, 1848, died in Albany,
July 4, 1896, who was the son of William
Gould (b. in Caldwell, N. J., Nov. 26, 1814,
d. in Albany, June 27, 1880), and Sarah
Margaret Hartness, (b, in Albany, Sept. 24,
1821, d, there, December 12, 1884), and
married, in Albany, September 12, 1842. Her
mother was Janet Gray, born in Albany,
Setpemer 20, 1850; married, Albany, October
4, 1870, died at Montclair, N. J., April 6,
1910, who was the daughter of Daniel
Alexander Gray, (b. in New York City, in
1817, d. in Albany, Nov. 19, 1880), and
Catherine Meyers (born in Hanover, Ger.,
Aug. 2, 1816, died Albany, Apr. 1, 1880).
They had: 1. Kenneth Gray, b. in Albany, N.
Y., Sept. 17, 1892, educated at the Albany
Academy, and St. Paul's School, Concord, N.
H.
Dexter
Reynolds had also by his wife Catherine
Maley Cuyler: 2. Marcus Tullius, born at
Great Barrington, Mass., August 20, 1869;
prepared for college at St. Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire, 1882-86; entered
Williams college, 1886, sigma Phi
fraternity, and was graduated July 2, 1890.
He studied architecture in the School of
Mines, Columbia University, and was
graduated, 1893, with the degree of PH. B.
He is an author of "Housing of the Poor in
American Cities," the prize essay of the
American Economic Society for 1893, and
received therefor the degree of M.A.,
Williams College, 1893. He studied
architecture in Paris, Athens, etc., and
returning to America in October, 1895, began
practicing architecture in Albany, N. Y.,
and has there continued. His specialty is
the designing of banks, of which he has been
the architect of sixteen.
He has
collected and compiled the earlier and
collateral data presented in the above
genealogical tables, supplementing the work
begun by his father, Dexter Reynolds, who
began with the descendants of James, the son
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