Mason, and from of Waterburg, Town of Ulysses, and They Had Two Children, No. 572, of Trumansburgh, G. A. Time Becoming

200 LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY, and his death created a vacancy in the bar of this county which was hard to fill. He was a Mason, and from early manhood was prominently indentified with its affairs. He was one of the most companionable of men, a good husband and father. May 5, 1857, he married Mary E. Owen of Waterburg, town of Ulysses, and they had two children, Cora 0., and A. Belmont. Early in life he took much interest in the State militia and rose through the successive grades to the rank of colonel of the Fiftieth Regiment of the National Guard. During the war he was a Union man, a war Democrat, and was identified with such men as General Dix, Daniel S. Dickenson of New York, and others. He died February 25, 1892, and his wife survives him, residing at his late home on Elm street with his daughter. Sarsfield, Thomas, was born in Ireland in 1837, and came to the United States in 1848, locating in Trumansburgh. He is a moulder by trade. In 1859 he married Catharine Flynn of Ulysses, by whom he had eight children : Maurice, Julia, Thomas, jr., John, Mary, William, Michael and Catharine. Maurice is a cigar manufacturer, and married Margaret Ward, of Lodi, Seneca county. They had two sons, Maurice L. and Charles L. His wife died January 13, 1892. Julia married John Russell and lives in the West. Mary married George Gregg of Trumansburgh. Thomas Sarsfield was a gallant soldier of the late war, having enlisted August 22, 1861, in Co. A, 89th N. Y. Vols. He participated in eighteen general engagements, beginning at Hatteras, N. O, and ending before Petersburg, Va., where he was wounded in the lower part of his neck, the ball passing through his body. He was honoraMy discharged for disabil ity on, account of the above wound, in November, 1864. Mr. Sarsfield is a member of Treman Post No. 572, of Trumansburgh, G. A. R., and has held the office of officer of the day for several years. Streeter, Nelson R., was born in the town of Pitcher, Chenango county, October 7, 1838, a son of William and Elizabeth Streeter, and the youngest but one of tbeir shoemaker,- thirteen children. Nelson was apprenticed to a and in due time becoming a journeyman, but he worked most of his life either as a foreman or proprietor. His old size hammer and pincers are stick, treasured remembrances of his early life and gilded and in the parlor hang, elegantly framed, of their owner. When a ehild, Mr. Streeter's and parents removed family from Pitcher to Onondaga county and there the greater part of his life was passed. early At the age of eight years, his parents being both deceased, he was practically thrown upon his own resources, and his success in life has been due to his own efforts. In entirely 1869 he came to this town, and was thereafter connected with various partners and firms in the shoe business. While so engaged he invented an attachment to a last, a valuable appliance, but one which lost accumulations to him his develop. In 1876 he engaged in the manufacture of novel ties under the firm name of N. R. Streeter & and Co., though comparatively unknown outside this the village, firm is one of the largest business houses in the county. The firm deals in useful and valuable novelties of all kinds, many of them being the inven tion of Mr. Streeter himself; in fact he owns and controls no'less than forty different patents. In the prosecutions of his vast interests Mr. Streeter has traveled extensively and has cultivated a wide acquaintance with traveling and business men, being par interested in the "drummer," ticularly commercial traveler or and possessing literary FAMILY SKETCHES. 201 tastes, he has compiled a book of choice poems many of which are in circulation under Grip." the head of "Gems from an Old Drummer's In village affairs our subject also takes a deep interest, being a temperance man and a Republican. He has served on the Board of Trustees and also on the Board of Education. In 1860 he married Adelia Randolph of Chenango county, and they have four children. Shurter, Willis, was born in Ulster county, May 17, 1841, a son of Josiah, also born in Ulster county. At the age of twenty the latter was apprenticed to a wheelwright for three years, and then built a shop in Sampsonville, Ulster county, where he con ducted a business for eight years. In 1848 he moved to Tompkins county, where he followed his trade until within a few years of his death. He also built several large mills, Being a millwright also. In connection with his other enterprises he worked at farming for about fifteen years, and for some years prior to his death was a wagon maker. His death occurred August 5, 1877. His children were : Julia, Willis, Ellen, Harrison, Harriet, Filmore, and Mary Louisa ; Julia, Filmore and Mary being deceased. Willis remained at home till July, 1862, when he enlisted in Company A, 109th N. Y. Volunteers. While in service he contracted a cold, which with its attendant evils has followed him ever since, and which entitled him to the pension he receives. After re turning home he married Jennie, daughter of James Girman of Dryden, after which he started at milling, working for four years, tlien built a plaster mill, which he is still operating. He is now living with his second wife, Betsey Merald, by whom he has two children, Jennie and Jessie, who are just entering the High School. He is a mem ber of the G. A. R. and is a Republican. Scott, Jabez B., deceased, was born in Ithaca, January 27, 1837, was educated in Ithaca, and married Phoebe J., daughter of Orry Ostrander of Danby, by whom he had three children, a son and two daughters. Mr. Scott was at one time proprietor of the Farmer's Hotel, and afterward kept a wholesale and retail meat market in Ithaca. He was a Democrat and took an active interest in educational matters and the general events of the day. He was a well known citizen and a man of high standing in the neighbor. He purchased the Widow town, well educated, and a good friend and Townsend farm of eighty-five acres, lying two miles south of where his son now re sides. Mr. Scott died June 4, 1875. Shoemaker, Jacob, one of Lansing's prominent men, was born on the farm he now a native of born on the same owns, November 19, 1837, a son of Jacob, also Lansing, Ozmun of whom he farm, who married Christina, daughter of William Lansing, by Anson of Moravia reared five children : Anna, deceased wife of Wyckoff, ; Almira, Pa. deceased wife of Dennis widow of Oliver Breckinridge, of Slippery Rock, ; Sallie, of Randall of Cato. He died in De Kelley, of Lansing ; Jacob ; Emma, wife Smith, and eight months. His wife died in 1874. cember, 1890, at the age of ninety years common schools. At the age of Our subject was reared on this farm and attended the acres on lot where about thirty-four his father gave him the farm of 100 eighty-three, daughter of John and Electa he has since remained. In 1860 he married Louisa, children : one who died in (Searles) Bloom, of Lansing, and they have had two infancy, 1862. His wife died March and he and Elmer Ellsworth, born January 27, 11, 1877, 202 LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY. married second, Alice, daughter of Ambrose Parsons, of Ithaca, and they have one son, Frank, born April 27, 1879. Mr. Shoemaker was at one time a sergeant in the State militia, serving fourteen years, and received an honorable discharge in 1874. Smith, James, was born in the town of Franklin, Warren county, May 14, 1832, a son of John, who was a farmer. Our subject was educated in the common schools, years' after leaving which he served a three apprenticeship at carpentry. After ser ving three years as a journeyman carpenter, he entered the employ of the D. L. & W. R. R. in 1852, and for eighteen years was employed with this company, building bridges and tracks. In 1872 he removed to Ithaca to build the road between Ithaca and Geneva, and after its construction acted as its superintendent until its consolidation with the Lehigh Valley Road. He was then employed as roadmaster on the U. I. & E. R. R. between Elmira and Canastota, holding the position four years. He was then roadmaster and assistant superintendent on the Lehigh Valley Division running into Auburn, then known as the Midland, running ten years as conductor and superintend ent. He spent three years in the West at the same business, building 150 miles of track in Montana, and was then in Chicago for a year, employed on the Chicago and Northwestern Road. He next came to Elmira for three years, and in 1892, returned to Ithaca. March 23, 1893 he was appointed superintendent of streets for Ithaca. He has been instrumental in one of the best systems of gutters in constructing -any city, and is an authority on the sewage question. In 1854 he nfarried Caroline J. Carr, of Wyoming county, Pa., and they have had three children : A. C. Smith, conductor on the D. L. & W. R. R. ; Effie, who died June 13, 1892, aged thirty-one years; the other son is a graduate of the medical department of the University of Michigan.

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