IPJLATH IBtta ABRAHAM VAN DO RE/A. JANE VAN DOREN: ABRAHAM VAN DOBEN. since resided, working his ancestral farm, and another, purchased by him, adjacent. He shot a deer on Lot in in and a wild goose Abraham Van Doren (the original of the above portrait) was born 19, Ovid, 1814, on the in the State of in when in his eightieth March 7, 1795, at Middlebush, Somerset County, New Jersey. His wing, Illinois, 1874, year, both with the same musket which his father carried in the father, Abraham Van Doren, Sr,, was born in New Jersey, January 30, Revolutionary years' war. his residence in the town he has held various 1743; served in the war of the Revolution; married Mary Covert in During seventy town and in his eighty-second is with his 1788; and on the day of the great eclipse of the sun, June 16, 1806, offices, now, year, residing daughter and her Lewis on the same farm and near where started with his family, consisting of his wife, five daughters, and two husband, BoDine, Country," he settled with his father in still a comfortable degree of sons, Jacob and Abraham, for the "Lake as this region was 1806, enjoying health and strength. then called. They, with their household goods, came in two wagons, by Jane Van his was born near Somerset way of Paterson, Cherry Valley, Schenectady, Skaneateles, Hardenbrook's Nest, wife, Somerville, County, New was a of Peter and Phebe Corners (now Auburn), to the foot of Owasco Lake, where Jacob, a brother Jersey, January 14, 1804. She daughter Van Nest was one of a of six two brothers and four of Abraham, Sr., lived, having accomplished this journey in eleven days. ; family children, sisters. One of her Catharine Van Nest was the mother Shortly thereafter they came to Ovid, by way of Cayuga Bridge, and sisters, Talmage, of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. Her father in and her mother arrived on the 4th of July, while the first celebration of that anniversary dying 1813, was being held in the then infant village of Ovid, where the frame of the several years thereafter having married Captain Joseph Stull, of Ovid, she first court-house had just been raised. A few days thereafter, Abraham, removed to that town, and was married to Abraham Van Doren in 1821. born with his father, went to where the city of Rochester now stands, where They have had four children: Ann, now wife of Lewis BoDine, there was then but one house. They forded the river above the falls, stayed June 7, 1822; Abraham V. N. Van Doren, born April 13, 1828; Mary at night at Hanford's Landing, some three miles below, where there was a Eleanor, afterwards wife of Edward Maxwell, of Beardstown, Illinois, born born tavern. After proceeding some ten miles farther west, they were com March 25, 1834 (now deceased); and Gustavus A. Van Doren, pelled to turn back for want of provisions. They returned to the town of February 27, .1844. Ovid ; the father bought a farm on Lots 28 and 18, where they settled. She died April 15, 1870, loved and lamented by her family and the The elder Van Doren died in 1813 ; his wife surviving till April 22, 18-19, entire neighborhood, with whom she was a general favorite.. When the when she died, aged eighty-one years and six months. Angel of Life came to their homes, there she had been to welcome the The son, Abraham Van Doren, learned the carpenter's trade, at which little stranger; and there she had ministered when the Angel of Death he worked a few years ; served on the Canada frontier in the war of 1812 ; was taking their loved ones. None went hungry away from her door, no one in or the is one of the two surviving pensioners of that war in the town; married trouble suffering ever failed to receive the kindly counsel, Jane," Jane Van Nest in 1821, and built his house on Lot 18, where he has ever aid, and sympathy of "Aunt as they all loved to call her. HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK 103 Coshun, Stephen, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 6, 1862. Hartigan, Harrison, enlisted in April, 1861. of Wounded Died at Union Mills, Virginia, February 6, 1863, smallpox. Hadley, Alfred, enlisted in 108th Regiment, July 28, 1862. July Covert, Abram C, enlisted -in Company F, 50th Regiment, August 28, 1862. 3, 1863, at Gettysburg. Discharged June 28, 1865. Dxe, Charles, enlisted in Company H, 3d Light Artillery, September 3, 1864. Covert, Rynear Beech, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, Detailed. Discharged July, 1865. 1862. Discharged June 3, 1865. Jeffrey, James, enlisted in 50th Regiment, September 3, 1864. Detailed at Covert, William Henry, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 5, Elmira. Discharged May 18, 1865. 1862. Discharged June 3, 1865. Judd, Walter, enlisted in 1st New York Independent Battery December 18, Close, Sidney C, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, August 22, 1862. 1863. Discharged June 23, 1865. Discharged. June 22, 1865. Jamerson, David Hulsey, enlisted in Company D, 50th Regiment, August 29, Covert, Abram V., enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, July, 1862. 1862. Discharged June 28, 1865. Corey, Andrew J., date of enlistment and number of regiment unknown. Jump, George V., enlisted September 3, 1864. Corvet, Lyman, enlisted August 10, 1862, and was taken prisoner at Harper's Johnson, Mather, enlisted September 19, 1864. Ferry. Jones, Jacob E., enlisted in April, 1861. Close, Edwin, enlisted in April, 1861. Jones, Elijah, enlisted in April, 1861. August 1862. Croix, St. De Louis Philippe, enlisted in April, 1861. Krug, George, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, 31, wounds received in battle Dickens, Jacob, drafted July, 1863, and joined Company I, 97th Regiment. Died in hospital, at Philadelphia, July 18, 1864, from Discharged November, 1864. of Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864. enlisted in 3d September Dondle, Patrick, Jr., enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 27, Kinch, Washington Irving, Company M, Artillery, 3, 1862. Discharged June 22, 1865, at Richmond, Va. 1864. Discharged June 26, 1865. enlisted 1865. Darling, Alfred, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 8, 1862. King, John, January 9, Light October 1861. Discharged June 4, 1865. Lewis, John G, enlisted in Company H, 1st Artillery, 26, Discharged June 1865. Dart, Jonathan, enlisted in Company H, 33d Regiment, August 30, 1862. 11, enlisted in 126th Discharged May 25, 1865. Lounsbury, Thomas R., Company C, Regiment, July 28, 1862. Discharged June 1865. Daley, Owen, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, August 31, 1862. 16, enlisted in 50th December 31, 1864. Discharged June 22, 1865. Lyon, Alonzo, Company A, Regiment, Discharged June 1865. Demond, Isaac, enlisted in Company E, 26th Regiment, February 18, 1864. 30, enlisted in SOth December 25, 1863. Discharged August 28, 1865. Lyons, Eugene, Company K, Regiment, Discharged June 1865. Dumont, Elbert, enlisted in Company I, 111th Regiment, March 4, 1864. 30, enlisted in 3d New York Artillery, Septem Discharged November 15, 1865. Lindsley, Joseph, Company K, in* ber 1864. Discharged June 1865. Donelly, James, enlisted Company G, 148th Regiment, August 31, 1864. 3, 15, 1862. enlisted in 148th Regiment, August 25, Discharged June 29, 1865. Mack, Daniel, Company E, Discharged June 1865. Denning, Charles A., enlisted in December, 1863. 22, Thirty-third August Andrew, enlisted in Company C, Regiment, Derliam, George, enlisted in 1st New York Battery December, 1863. McLaughlin, 31,1862. Discharged June 16, 1865. Decker, Moses, enlisted in 111th Regiment, January, 1864. Light September Francis, enlisted in Company D, 3d Artillery, 1, Davis, Alfred, enlisted in 1864. McDonald, 1864. Discharged 15, 1865. Elisha enlisted October 25, 1861. July Dean, H., 164th December McDonald, Owen, enlisted in Company I, Regiment, 23, Davis, Eugene W., enlisted in April, 1861. 1863. Discharged November 20, 1864. Calvin enlisted in 33d Regiment, August 30, Everts, Damon, Company H, August 1862. Samuel, enlisted in Company C, 126th Regiment, 5, 1862. Discharged June 15, 1865. Manderville, Discharged June 16, 1865. enlisted in 164th Regiment, December 26, Finnegan, Stephen, Company I, 1864. enlisted in 39th Regiment February 18, 1863. Discharged 1865. Middleton, Augustus, July 15, 164th December 1863. 1864. McCann, John, enlisted in Company I, Regiment, 25, Flimn, Peter, enlisted in Company I, 164th Regiment, January 12, Killed at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864. 1865. Discharged June 17, 1864. enlisted in 164th June 20, August 1864. McArdle, Peter, Company I, Regiment, Feeghan, John, enlisted in Company E, 148th Regiment, 25, Discharged 1865. 1865. July 15, Discharged June '22, 50th Decem Horace enlisted in Company K, Regiment, was killed at the battle of Mathews, Smith, Finnegan, Michael, enlisted August 24, 1862, and ber 1863. Discharged June 25, 1865. August 1862. 25, Cold Harbor, 24, 3d August 1864. McKinnie, Andrew, enlisted in Company B, Artillery, 28, Joseph enlisted in April, 1861. Foster, M., 1865. 148th September Discharged July, Gilchrist, Alexander, Jr., enlisted in Company E, Regiment, August George Whiteman, enlisted in Company B, 3d ArtiUery, 5, 1862. Discharged June 1865. Mathews, 4, 30, 1865. August 1862. 1864. Discharged July, enlisted in 148th 27, Gorman, George, Company E, Regiment, 148th December 1863. Alfred, enlisted in Company G, Regiment, 18, Discharged June 1865. Martin, 30, August 1865. joined 94th Discharged 28, Garnett, George Adam, drafted July 24, 1863, and Company D, 8th Pennsylvania Henry, drafted, and joined Company G, Regiment, hospital 1865. Murray, Regiment. Discharged from June 20, 1865. in 1863. Discharged November 10, Regiment. July, Griffen, James, enlisted in. 50th 50th August 1862. enlisted, in Company F, Regiment, 28, New York Mason, Robert, William enlisted in Company D, 3d Artillery, Sep Galloup, A., Discharged June 1865.