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Buchanan, Morell, private, 161st Inf., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year; disch. 



July 31, 1865. 

 Buchanan, William, private, 161st Inf., Co. K; enl. Sept. 15, 1804, one year ; 



still in the service. 

 Niver, Ettleburt Burgoides, private, 179th Inf., Co. D; enl. Sept. 5,1864, one 



year; wounded April 2, 1865 ; disch. June 7, 1865. 

 Rhodes, Silas Riley, private 141st Regt., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year ; 



disch. June 26, 1865. 

 Rhodes, Thomas Henry, private, 141st Regt., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one 



year. 

 Cram, Dutey Shipper, private, 12th Cav., Co. D ; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year ; 



disch. June 19, 1865. 

 Starner, Daniel, private, 12th Cav., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year; died 



July 14, 1865. 

 Mcintosh, Schuyler Henry, corporal, 179th Inf., Co. D ; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one 



year; disch. June 16, 1865. 

 Cook, Benjamin, private, 13th H. Art., Co. D; enl. Sept. 19, 1864, one year; 



disch. June 23, 1865. 

 Thurber, Joseph Nelson, private, 15th Eng., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year ; 



disch. June 15, 1865. 

 Gillett, George, private, 188th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 20, 1864, one year; disch. 



July 1, 1865. 

 Wolcott, Lewis Alexander, corporal, 179th Inf., Co. A ; enl, Sept. 5, 1864, one 



year; disch. June 8, 1865. 

 Bates, Amasiah Augustus, private, 14th H. Art., Co. E ; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one 



year. 

 Niver, Everett Deyo, private, 141st Regt., Co. F; enl. Sept. 17, 1864, one year; 



disch. Juno 26, 1865. 

 Piney, Henry Augustus, private, 141st Regt., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 16, 1864, one 



year; disch. June 25, 1865. 

 Wilkins, Robison, private, 17ijth Inf., Co. A; enl. Mar. 21, 1863, three years; 

 taken prisoner, July 30, 1864, at Petersburg; paroled Feb. 19, 1865 ; disch. 

 June 2, 1865. 

 Holmes, James Smith, private, 188th Regt., Co. F; enl. Sept. 20, 1864, one year; 



disch. July 12, 1865. 

 Niver, Weller, private, 12th N. Y. Cav., Co. H; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one year; 

 taken prisoner Mar. 8, 1865, at Kingston, N. C. ; paroled Mar. 25 ; disch. 

 June 25, 1865. 

 Miller, William Brown, private, 141st laf,, Co. F; enl. Sspt. 14, 1864, one year ; 



disch. June 26, 1865. 

 Gridley, Wesley Prince, musician, 12th Cav. ; enl. Sept. 14,'1864, one year. 

 Hill, Joseph Gillett, private, 141st Inf., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year ; disch. 



June 26, 1865. 

 Wolcott, William Maynerd, private, 141st Regt., Co. F ; enl Sept. 14, 1864, one 



year. 

 Wescott, Bailey Saveril, private, 188th Inf., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 20, 1863, one year. 

 West, Albert, private, 12th Cav., Co. L ; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year. 

 Hill, Joseph G., drafted July 17, 1863 ; commuted. 

 Whitney, Oliver W , drafted July 17, 1863 ; commuted. 

 Wolcott, Timothy S., drafted July 17, 1863 ; commuted. 

 Shephard, A. Cleveland, drafted July 17, 1863 ; put in a substitute. 

 Smith, Charles, private ; enl. Aug. 17, 1862, three years. 

 Ferren, Romanzo, private, 50th Eng., Co. H ; enl. Aug., 1861, three years. 



NAVAL SERVICE RECORD. 

 Wescott, Bailey Saveril, private; enl. Sept. 20, 1864, one year. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



PHILIP HUBBARD, 



son of Wm. and Martha Hubbard, was born in Norfolk, 

 England, May 12, 1827. He is one of a family of twelve 

 children, ten of whom lived to be men and women. Of 

 this large family, the five eldest were natives of England, 

 and came to America about 1828 or 1829, settled at Utica, 

 Oneida Co., remained there some two years, and then came 

 to Caton, Steuben Co., N. Y., in June, 1831, and settled on 

 the farm now owned by their son Philip, and which con- 

 tinues to be the home of Mrs. Hubbard. Mr. Wm. Hub- 

 bard was a farmer by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard 

 were among the first Methodists in the town, and Mr. Hub- 

 bard established the first Sunday-school in Caton, of which 

 he was superintendent. He was instantly killed by the fall- 

 ing of a tree, while in the woods, March 10, 1840, thus 

 leaving a family of ten children to the care of Mrs. Hub- 



bard and the older members of the family. By careful 

 management, and strict attention to business, this family 

 was kept together, and received a good education, some of 

 whom have been to the higher institutions of learning. 



It was among these early scenes that Philip grew to man- 

 hood, and at the early age of sixteen he was called to take 

 charge of the family, having spent one year previous at 

 Utica, working on a farm. At the age of eighteen he com- 

 menced to buy out the heirs of his father's estate. In 1851 

 he purchased fifty acres on the north of the "Old Home," 

 and some twenty-five acres since, thus making a fine farm 

 of one hundred and fifteen acres of good improved land, on 

 which is one of the best farm-houses in the town, a view 

 of which may be seen elsewhere in this work, with portraits 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard above. 



He was married to Miss Susan M. Mulks, a native of 

 Tompkins Co., N. Y., Feb. 22, 1854. Of this union, two 

 sons, Wm. and John J. Saxe, were born. In politics, Mr. 

 Hubbard affiliates with the Republican party. Mrs. Hub- 

 bard is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 

 Mr. Hubbard is one of the liberal supporters of the same. 

 Mr. Hubbard has greatly assisted his brothers and sisters in 

 getting their education, besides making for himself his pres- 

 ent comfortable home. 



BENONI AND LUCIUS JOHNSON. 



Benoni Johnson was born in Harwinton, Litchfield Co., 

 Conn., and married Miss Rhoda Gilbert, daughter of Jabez 

 Grilbert, of the same place. They had the following-named 

 children, viz. : Lucius, Lester L., and Rhoda C. The two 

 first were born in Connecticut, and Miss Rhoda C. in 

 Cayuga Co., N. Y. Benoni Johnson was a farmer by 

 occupation. Lucius was born April 11, 1812, and re- 

 moved to Cayuga County with his parents about 1815 and 

 there remained some five years, then went to Chenango 

 County, town of Guilford, and remained till August, 1823, 

 when he settled in Caton with his parents. Benoni John- 

 son, however, came the spring before and worked for Elias 

 Babcock, of Caton, and made the purchase of his small 

 farm. After residing some five years at Caton Centre he 

 settled on his farm, and continued to reside there till a short 

 time before his death, when he removed to the Centre and 

 remained with his son the rest of his life. He died Nov. 

 3, 1870, and his wife died March 29, 1850. Mr. Johnson 

 was a magistrate for several years, and was assessor for one 

 or two years. He and his wife were members of the Pres- 

 byterian Church, but Mrs. Johnson united with the Metho- 

 dist Episcopal Church a few years before her death. 



Lucius Johnson was reared among the hardships of a 

 pioneer life, and early imbibed those principle^ of industry 

 and economy which are the cardinal elements of every suc- 

 cessful man's life. He worked on the farm in his younger 

 days, but for more than thirty years he has worked at the 

 wagon -making and carpenter's trades. He left his farm 

 some twenty-five years ago and located in the village. He 

 married Miss Margaret Butcher, of Pennsylvania, in De- 

 cember, 1830. Of this union five children were born, two 

 of whom are dead. 



