History of Martinsburg, (Lewis County) New York United States of America

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Guilford Dudley Bailey, soldier, was born at Martinsburg, N.Y., June 4, 1834. He was educated for the profession of arms, and after his graduation from West Point in 1856, was attached to the 2d artillery. After some frontier experience, he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth during the Kansas conflict in 1857-'59. When the state of Texas seceded in 1861, he was stationed at Fort Brown, and with his superior officer, Captain Stoneman, refused to surrender, when General Twiggs proposed to turn over the command to the Confederates. He reported for duty at Washington, was assigned to Hunt's battery and did gallant service at Fort Pickens Fla., 1861. He returned to New York, where he recruited the 1st N.Y. light artillery, and as colonel joined the army of the Potomac, September, 1861, and served in the Peninsular campaign as chief of artillery in General Casey's division. He was killed at the battle of Seven Pines, meeting death while directing the firing of his guns. His body was conveyed to the cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where a monument was raised to his memory. He died May 31, 1862.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Lewis Marion Dunton, educator, was born in Martinsburg, N.Y.. Sept. 22, 1848; son of Lorenzo Merritt and Mary (Seymour) Dunton. He was prepared for college at Cazenovia seminary, N.Y. and entered Syracuse university with the class of 1876, but was not graduated on account of failing health. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1874 and was stationed at Greenville, S.C., and later at Charleston, S.C. He was elected president of Clafiin university, Orangeburg, S.C., in 1884, as successor to the Rev. Dr. Edward Cook, and under his direction the progress of the education of the negro in the south was substantially illustrated, and the plans of the founder of the institution were vigorously carried forward.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Timothy Jenkins, representative, was born in Barre, Mass., Jan. 29, 1799; son of Timothy and Abigail (Perry) Jenkins; grandson of Benjamin and Mehitable Jenkins of Barnstable, Mass., and a descendant of Mrs. Alice Southworth, the second wife of Governor Bradford, who came from England in the ship Ann in 1623, and was married the same year to Governor Bradford. His parents were farmers. In 1815 his father died, and in 1817 he removed to Washington county, N.Y., and was educated at the village academies at Salem and White Creek. He taught school three years, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1825, settling in practice at Vernon, Oneida county, N.Y., in 1832. He was attorney for the Oneida Indians for ten years; district attorney for Oneida county, 1840-45; and a Democratic representative in the 29th, 30th and 32d congresses, 1845-49 and 1851-53. He supported the Wilmot proviso, opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and in 1856 was a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia June 17, which nominated Fremont and Dayton, and was thereafter a Republican. He was married first in 1822 to Florilla Tuttle, of Vernon, who died in 1823, and secondly in 1829 to Harriet, sister of his first wife, who survived him. He died at Martinsburg, N.Y., Dec. 24, 1859.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Franklin Benjamin Hough, author, was born in Martinsburg, N.Y., July 20, 1822; son of Dr. Horatio G. Hough, who removed from Southwick, Mass., to Lewis county, N.Y., where he was the first physician to settle in the county. The son was graduated at Union, A.B., 1843; A.M., 1846, and at Cleveland Medical college in 1848. He engaged in teaching, 1843-48, and practised medicine in Somerville, N.Y., 1848-52, and in Albany, N.Y., 1852-60. He was a surgeon in the U.S. army in 1862, and then settled in Lowville, N.Y., and occupied his time in scientific and historical studies. He superintended the state census in 1865 and prepared the pamphlet of instruction to census-takers. He was chief of the forestry division, department of agriculture, Washington, D.C. He received the degree of Ph.D. He was the editor or author of many works, including: A Catalogue of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties, N.Y. (1847); History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, N.Y. (1853); Plan for Seizing and Carrying to New York, William Goffe, the Regicide (1855);Papers Relating to Cromwell County, N.Y. (1856); Proceedings of the Commission of Indian Affairs (1861); Military and Hospital Camps (1862); History of Duryea's Campaign (1864); Washingtoniana (1865); The Siege of Charleston (1867); The Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests (1873); American Biographical Notes (1875); Report on Forestry (1878-80). See Bibliography, prepared by John H. Hickcox. He died in Lowville, N.Y., June 11, 1885.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor