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Uzal Marlatt, died March 9, 1865. 



Zina Calkins, died in the service and buiied in Virginia. 



Herkimer Shults, died at home. 



Isaac House, discharged on account of sickness ; died on his way home. 



Benjamin Welch, died in service. 



Eugene Tucker (188th Regt), died at homo. 



Billson, died in service ; buried in Virginia. 



Henry Squires, died in prison at Belle Isle. 



Morris Loucks (22d Nevir York Cav.), died in Andersonville i)rison. 



Wesley Davis, died soon after being released from Andersonville. 



Jeremiah Shaver, died at home. 



John Doud (prisoner at Andersonville), died at home. 



Le Itoy Tucker, died at Harper's Ferry, Va. 



Lafayette McCarthy (IGTth), died in Tennessee. 



Hezekiah Fox, died at Laurel, Md., Nov. 13, 1862, 



Edwin Avery, died Dec. 1, 1862. 



William Avery, died in service. 



Silas Vrooman, died in service, Oct. 5, 1865. 



R. Hooper (189th), died in service in Virginia. 



Stillman Robords, died at home. 



James Cook (141st), died in Tennessee. 



Jonas Emmons, Menzo Deyo, and Silas Shaver (161st), died from disease. 



Andrew J. Alden, (lieut. 189th), died at home. 



John E. Griswold, died at home. 



Fred Graves, died in service. 



William Everett, died from disease. 



Among those who were the most active (except those 

 who marched to the front) in the use of their time and 

 means in promoting the best interests of the government 

 during the Rebellion are Salmon H. Palmer, Henry liob- 

 ertson, Nathaniel B. Chase, Isaac Baldwin, Jacob H. Collier, 

 Orange Hilton, Leonard Wilson, George Fox, Joel Carring- 

 ton, Christopher Wheeler, Peleg Gorton, Abraham Vroo- 

 man, Joseph Mathewson, John W. Calkins, Oscar S. Smith, 

 and others whose names the writer has been unable to 

 learn. 



was married, Dec. 31, 1844, to Laura, daughter of John 

 and Mary Willys. He had two children — Valentine, through 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



HON. H. H. BOUTON. 



Henry H. Bouton was born in Windham, Conn., April 

 4, 1815, being the son of Russell and Mary Bouton. His 

 father was a tanner by trade, which occupation he followed 

 till he moved to Steuben County about the year 1819, and 

 settled in the town of Howard, now Avoca, still carrying on 

 the tanning business, in connection with farming, for a few 

 years, after which he devoted his whole time to farming. 



Henry is the oldest of a family of eight children, four of 

 whom are now living. He was reared on the farm, and en- 

 joyed only such privileges for an education as the district 

 school afforded, except one term at a select school ; but by 

 close application and continued perseverance he was enabled 

 to gain sufficient education to entitle him to teach, which 

 he followed several terms in his own county and in the State 

 of Ohio. He was in every way a representative man. He 

 was justice of the peace for several terms, supervisor for 

 several years, and clerk of the Board of Supervisors for about 

 twenty years, during which time he originated and issued 

 the first pamphlet containing the proceedings of the Board 

 of Supervisors for Steuben County. He represented his 

 district in the State Legislature in 1852-53, having been a 

 member of the Republican party from its organization. He 



whom this sketch and portrait is inserted, and Ada, wife of 



Charles Magee, of Bath. 



He died Nov. 3, 1876. 



• TIIOiVIAS COTTON 



was born in the town of Dansville, this county, April 6, 1831. 

 His father, Silas Cotton, Jr., was a native of Hartford, 

 Washington Co., N. Y., born Aug. 9, 1800 ; was a farmer 

 by occupation ; married Lydia, daughter of Peter and Lydia 

 Boyce, of Granville, Washington Co., 1826. She was born 

 Aug. 26, 1804. They removed to Steuben County in 1827, 

 and settled in the town of Dansville, where they remained 

 as farmers until 1865, when they removed to the town of 

 Avoca, where Mr. Cotton, Sr., died, Oct. 20, 1871. His 

 wife still survives, and resides with her only son. Their 

 children are Eliza (died young) and an only son, Thomas. 

 His grandfather, Silas Cotton, was a native of Rhode Island, 

 and became an early settler in Washington County. 



Mr. Cotton remained at home during his minority, and 

 received a fair education at the common school and at 

 Rogersville Academy. Jan. 17, 1859, he married Ann S., 

 daughter of Samuel H. Allen (2d), of the town of Howard. 

 Her grandfather, William Allen, was a pioneer settler of 

 that town, and came there in 1810 from Montgomery 

 County. Her mother, Ann Stevenson, was a native of 

 Howard, and her maternal grandfather, John Stevenson, 

 supposed to have been a native of Argyle, Washington 

 Co., as he came from that county with his family and 

 settled in Howard during the early settlement of that town. 

 Her mother died 1839 ; her father survives, and lives in the 

 town oF Avoca. Mrs. Cotton was born March, 1839. 



After his marriage, Mr. Cotton remained in the town of 

 Dansville, on the homestead, until 1865, when he disposed 



