History of Fabius, (Onondaga County) New York United States of America

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Newton Lloyd Andrews, educator, was born at Fabius, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1841. He was prepared for college at the Newark, N.J., high school, and was graduated at Madison university in 1862, and from the Hamilton theological seminary in 1864. He became principal of the preparatory school of the university, and in 1868 was appointed professor of the Greek language and literature in the university. In 1872 he was one of the editors of the "Half-Century History of Colgate University." He spent the year 1879-'80 in study and travel in Europe; and on his return, by request of President Dodge, assumed, in addition to His professorship, the post of dean of the college faculty. He served as acting president of Colgate university, in 1890-95; resigned as dean in 1895, and spent a year in Europe. He retained his chair as professor of Greek, and became lecturer on the history of art in 1896. He married, Sept. 6, 1865, Cynthia S. Burchard, of Hamilton, N.Y., and on Dec. 27, 1888, Charlotte P. Harbach, of Newton Centre, Mass. He received the degree Ph.D. from Hamilton college in 1878, and LL.D, from Chicago University in 1883.

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

James Jerome Belden, representative, was born in Fabius, N.Y., Sept. 30, 1825, son of Royal Denison Belden, direct descendant of Richard Bayldon, of Yorkshire, England, who came to Wethersfield, Conn., in 1635. In 1850 he went to California, where he engaged in commercial affairs. In 1853 he returned to Syracuse, N.Y., where he married Anna, daughter of Robert Gere. Mr. Belden, in connection with his brother (A. Caldwell Belden), Robert Gere, and Dr. Henry .D. Denison, had large contracts in the construction of public works in the United States and Canada. His firm built the first street railways of Detroit, the Syracuse Northern railroad, and part of the West Shore railroad, the Groton reservoir, improved Hell Gate and the canals of the State of New York, and enlarged the Welland canal. He was elected Mayor of Syracuse in 1877, serving two terms. In 1886 he was elected as a representative to the 50th Congress, was re-elected to the 51st, 52d and 53d, declined a nomination to the 54th, and in 1896 was elected to the 55th Congress. In 1880 he, with his brother, founded the Robert Gere Bank in Syracuse. In New York city and Syracuse, N.Y., where he had large real-estate interests, he was well known for his quiet benevolence. He was trustee of the Syracuse university, charter member and officer of the order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and member of the Sons of the American revolution.

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

Frederick Augustus Castle, physician, was born in Fabius, N. Y., April 29, 1842; son of Orvin E. and Clarinda O. (Pratt) Castle. His American ancestors were William Castle, an early settler near Stratford, Conn.; Thomas Cadwell, one of the first settlers in Hartford, and Mathew Pratt, who appeared in Weymouth, Mass., in 1623. His great-grandfather, Selah Castle, was a captain; another great-grandfather, Phineas Cadwell, a corporal during the revolutionary war; and another great-grandfather, Mathew Pratt, of (Old) Braintree, was one of the "Boston tea-party." He studied medicine at the Albany medical college, and during 1862-63, was a medical cadet in the U. S. army, at the Carver hospital in Washington. He was acting assistant surgeon in the navy from 1863 to 1865, and, at the close of the war, entered the Bellevue hospital medical college, where he was graduated in 1866. He began general practice in New York City, and held various responsible positions in the Bellevue hospital medical college; among them, assistant demonstrator of anatomy; assistant to the professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, and lecturer on similar subjects and on pharmacology. He was editorially connected with the Medical Record (1872-76); was the editor of New Remedies, afterwards known as American Druggist (1873-92), and edited Wood's Household Practice of Medicine, Hygiene and Surgery (2 vols., 1880). He compiled the first and second decennial catalogues of trustees, officers and alumni of the Bellevue hospital medical college, and is the. author of many contributions to medical journals. He edited the American edition of Murrell's Manual of Pharmacology (1896), and was a member of the committees for revising the U. S. Pharmacopoeia after 1880; physician to the Presbyterian hospital; treasurer for the trustees, and trustee of, the New York academy of medicine (1883-96), and secretary of the Grolier club.

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