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Edward, third child of Edward R. Porter, was married 

 to Sarah M. Watkins, June 13, 1867. Mrs. Sarah Porter 

 died Sept. 4, 1869, aged twentj-two years. Edward was 

 again married, to Sophia A. McLoud, Dec. 13, 1871. He 

 resides at Plum Point, on Seneca Lake. 



Robert L., fourth child of Judge Porter, graduated at 

 Hamilton College, in 1833. He completed the course of 

 study at Auburn Theological Seminary, and became pastor 

 of the Presbyterian Church at Branchport, N. Y., where 

 he labored for five months, when sickness arrested him in 

 his hopeful career, and death terminated his labors at the 

 very commencement of his course of usefulness. He died 

 May, 1838, aged twenty-nine years. 



Mary A., youngest child of Judge Porter, was married, 

 in 1836, to Rev. David Malin (now D.D. of Philadelphia). 

 She died May 24, 1842, aged twenty-seven years. She left 

 two daughters, — Sophia H. and Elizabeth R. Sophia was 

 married to Mr. Sargent, of Philadelphia, October, 1864. 

 She died in 1871, leaving two daughters, Mary and Sophia. 



Elizabeth, second daughter of Mrs. Mary Malin, died 

 Jan. 28, 1867. 



HON. CHARLES G. IIIGBY 



was born in the town of Brutus, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Sept. 

 23, 1812. His grandfather, John Higby, came from Lee, 

 Mass., and settled in Ballston, Saratoga Co., prior to the 

 Revolutionary war. He married Mindwell Lewis, of which 

 union were born four sons and nine daughters, — Lucy, John, 

 Mindwell, Sarah, Submit, Ansta, Electa, Lewis, Electard, 

 Sampson, Hannah, Jeduthun, and Rut]i. The father died 

 at Ballston, at over ninety years of age. The mother also 

 died at an advanced age at Ballston. Lewis was a soldier in 

 the war for Independence ; was captured by the Indians 

 and Tories and carried a prisoner to Canada, where he re- 

 mained for nearly two years. The mother and smaller chil- 

 dren were also captured by the Indians, and rescued. Four 

 of the sons-in-law, Wilcox, Israel Phelps, Ebenezer Phelps, 

 and John Parsons were also soldiers of the war. 



Jeduthun Higby, father of the subject of this sketch, 

 was born Oct. 15, 1775, at Ballston, N. Y., and married 

 Sylvia Strong, Jan. 4, 1801. Their children were Livy S., 

 John L., Myron T., Marcus T. C, Charles G., and an 

 adopted daughter, Sophronia Kelly. Of this large family 

 of children, only Charles G., the youngest son, is living. 



Jeduthun was a soldier in the war of 1812-14, ranking 

 as lieutenant, and after the burning of Buffalo held a cap- 

 tain's commission in command of a company. Soon after 

 his marriage he settled in Brutus, Cayuga Co., where he 

 carried on farming, and in the spring of 1818 removed to 

 Prattsburgh, Steuben Co., and settled about two miles west 

 of the village. He was one of the vestrymen upon the 

 organization of the First Episcopal Church, at Auburn, 

 N. Y., while a resident of Cayuga County, and attended 

 the Presbyterian Church, at Prattsburgh, after coming to 

 this county. He, with two others, was killed in the town 

 of Pulteney, by a tree falling across their wagon, Oct. 11, 

 1820. 



His wife died at the age of eighty-two, Nov. 18, 1863, 

 at the residence of her son, Charles G., in Prattsburgh. 



Charles G. Higby was only eight years of age when his 

 father died. He received a good English education at the 

 common school and at the Franklin Academy, and at the 

 ase of sixteen became a teacher. He was a teacher for 

 some six terms during the winter season, and summers 

 worked on a farm of fifty acres, which he had purchased, 



about four miles from the village, and where he resided with 

 his mother. His early life was one of self-exertion, economy, 

 and care ; and unassisted pecuniarily he began life. 



At the age of twenty-four he married Phebe Jane, 

 daughter of John and Rhoda C. Bramble, of Prattsburgh, 

 and settled at once on his farm. To this purchase he had 

 also added one hundred and fifty acres of timber land near 

 by. In the year 1841 he removed to the place where he now 

 resides, near the village, and engaged in milling and lum- 

 bering in connection with farming, and the latter interest 

 he carries on at the present time. 



Mr. Higby has been a strong supporter of Democratic 

 principles, yet supported President Lincoln and the Union 

 cause during the war, and was ever opposed to the exten- 

 sion of slavery. He has been the representative of the 

 school interest of the town for many years as school super- 

 intendent under the old law, and has always taken a deep 

 interest in the progress of education. 



In 1851 he represented his Assembly district in the State 

 Legislature, and advocated the passage of the free-school 

 law. 



Mr. Higby and his wife are members of the Presbyterian 

 Church of Prattsburgh, and for many years he has been a 

 trustee and elder of the church. 



He was a trustee of Franklin Academy for many years, 

 and was a member of the first board of trustees, upon the 

 organization of the Union Free School in connection with 



