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Williams, Alfred, corp., 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year; 



pro. to Corp., Oct. 10, 1864; discli. July 11, 1865. 

 Sanford, Peter Thomas, private, 2d Vet. Cav., Co. G; enl. Dec. 21, 1863, three 



years ; died at Motganzia, La., Oct. 15, 1864, of chronic diarrhoea. 

 Yorke, Elias, 1st Pennsylvania Rifles or Buck-tail. 

 Eves, James, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. 1861. 

 Quick, Richard, private, 2d Pennsylvania Cav., Co. L ; enl. July 4, 1862, three 



3'ears; prisoner of war about thirteen months at Belle Isle, Anderson- 



ville, and Charleston and Florence, S. C 

 Horn, John Carpenter, private, 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, Co. E; enl. 1861, three 



years; disabled by sunstroke, May 7, 1862; disch. Sept. 15, 1863. 

 Bartoo, Eli William, private, 85th N. Y.Inf., Co. A ; enl. Sept. 25, 1864, one year; 



disch. July 17, 1865. 

 Bartoo, Smith, private, 85th N. Y. Inf., Co. A; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; 



disch. July 17, 1865. 

 Vanskiver, Jonathan Peter, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 8, 1864, 



one 3'ear. 

 Broughton, Charles, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. G; enl. Jan. 21, 1864, three 



years; wounded in thigh in the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; disch. June 27, 



1865. 

 Johnson, Daniel Rufus, corp., 141st N. Y. Inf., Co. K; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one 



year; served in 34th N. Y. Inf. about sixteen months; trans, to 60th 



N. Y. Regt. ; disch. July, 1865. 

 Dennis, George Washington, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. I, three years; died 



at New Orleans, La., Sept. 4, 1864, of remittent fever. 

 Springer, Eli Barnard, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. C: enl. Jan. 13,1864, three 



years ; trans, to Battalion A about Sept. 20, 1865, at Fort Jeff'er.son, Fla. 

 Van Orsdale, Allen Augustus, 2d sergt., 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, Co. A ; enl. May 



30, 1861, three years; disch. June 1, 1862. 

 McMindes, Charles, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; enl. Oct. 16, 1861, three 



years ; disch. Oct. 17, 1864. 

 Hardy, George Adrian, private, 9th N. Y. H. Art., Co. E; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one 



year ; must, out July 20, 1865. 

 Marsh, Edward William, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co.H; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one 



year; died Feb. 1, 1865, at New Orleans, La., of chronic diarrhoea. 

 Stewart, Homer, private, 179th N. Y. Inf., three years; disch. for disability, 



Sept. 1864. 

 Hamill, George Washington, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. July 19,1862, 



three years; disch. June 14, 1865. 

 Spencer, Asa, corp., 136th Pennsylvania Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 5, 1862, nine 



months; must, out at Harrisburg, Ta. 

 Phillips, James Hiram, private, 51st N. Y. Inf., Co. A; enl. Sept. 3, 1863, three 



years; first entered the 109th N. Y. Inf.; trans, to 51st N. Y. Inf.; 



wounded in front of Petersburg, June 17, 1864 ; disch. Aug. 1865. 

 Phillips, George F., private, 109th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 9, 1862, three 



years; disch. June 8,1865. 

 Rawson, Andrew Hubbard, private, 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. G ; enl. July 23, 1863, 



three years; pro. to q. m.-sergt., March 1, 1864. 

 Rawson, Edgar Samuel, private, 2d'N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. G; enl. Aug. 25, 1863, 



three years. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 



DEA. THOMAS WHITING 

 was born in Lyndeboro', N. H., April 30, 1802. He was 

 the fifth in a family of eight children of Oliver and Hannah 

 Whiting, who arrived at maturity. Thomas was about 

 thirteen years of age when his father died. His mother 

 remained on the homestead, and carried on the farm until 

 her death, at the age of sixty. Of their children only one 

 son is living,— Oliver, now a resident of the town of 

 Jasper. 



Mr. Whiting remained at home with his mother until 

 he reached his majority, except a year or two, when he 

 worked out. In 1826 he came with others to the town of 

 Jasper, Steuben Co., looking for a place to settle, and before 

 returning purchased one hundred and sixty acres of tim- 

 bered land in Jasper, which property he subsequently cleared 

 and lived upon until his decease. 



Returning to New Hampshire he married, Oct. 16, 1828, 

 Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Cram, both 

 natives of Lyndeboro', N. H. Sarah Cram's mother died 

 when she was only thirteen months old, and she resided 

 with her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Woodward, until her mar- 



riage. She was born June 12, 1804. Immediately after 

 their marriage they removed to Jasper, traveling with 

 horses and carriage the entire distance and being fourteen 

 days on the way, reaching their new home in Steuben 

 County late in the fall of 1828. 



At this time there were only a few scattering settlers in 

 the town, and no school-houses nor churches. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Whiting were closely identified with all the local im- 

 provements of the town. Most of his land he cleared and 

 prepared for. cultivation and erected buildings fi3r farming 

 purposes. 



He was a man of reading, and well informed in the 

 events of his time. For some three years he was school 

 commissioner of the town, and, although often soliHted to 

 accept public ofiices in the town, he preferred the quiet of 

 business and its independence to political honors. Ho 

 was formerly a member of the Whig party, and an active 

 exponent of its principles ; was strongly opposed to human 

 bondage, and was one of three in the town who first voted 

 the xintiSlavery ticket. After the formation of the 

 Republican party he became a supporter of its platform. 

 Mr. Whiting and his wife were attendants of the Presby- 

 terian Church before leaving New Hampshire, and Mrs. 

 Whiting was a member of the same, and she was among 

 the organizers of the Presbyterian Church at Jasper, and 

 Mr. Whiting became a member of the same in 1832, and 

 was ordained one of its ruling elders, Sept. 12, 1847. His 

 real worth and close relations with the church endeared 

 him to all its members. As a friend and neighbor he had 

 but few equals ; was constant, kind, and a man of correct 

 moral habits and strict integrity in all his business relations. 

 He died Oct. 31, 1878. His wife still survives. 



They reared a family of six children, three of whom 

 are living: Mrs. William Schanck ; Oliver, who married 

 Martha A. Prentice, of Jasper ; and Cynthia. 



