Craft Masonry in Albany County, New York - Onondaga and Oswego ...

May 1884, was appointed assistant state dairy commissioner, at the time of the creation of the department. The title of his office has
since been changed to that of assistant commissioner of agriculture, an office which he has retained under every commissioner
appointed. Mr. Flanders was one of the first to advocate the creation of the department. He is a member of Ancient City Lodge
[No. 452], F&AM, and of the Royal Arcanum. In April, 1885, he married Catharine Southwick, daughter of Wilham Keeler, of Albany,
and they have two daughters : Lillian Lovell and Marian Southwick.
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Albert C. Goodwin is descended from Ozias Goodwin, who came with his brother. Elder William, in the ship Lion, from Braintree,
England, arriving at Boston, Sep 1632, with his wife, Mary Woodward. He settled in Cambridge, MA, and later in Hartford, CT. The
line is (1) Ozias; (2) William; (3) Deacon Nathaniel; (4) Isaac; (5) Uriah, of Ashfield, MA, member of the committee of safety 1778, of
the committee to raise troops, 1780, and array supplies, 1781, and selectmen and assessor, 1781; (6) Eldad Francis, 1761-1827,
born in Hartford, CT, and was the millwright in the town of his birth for many years, moved to Watervliet, Albany county, and kept
hotel, and after the death of his first wife, Lucy Scott, came to Albany; (7) Albert, born in Ashfield, MA, 3 Sep 1803, died 10 Feb
1869, in Albany, where he was alderman, city assessor and mason and builder; (8) Thomas Laing: and (9) Albert C. Albert (7)
married, 13 Oct 1828, Jane Laing, who died May 31, 1835. Of their seven children, Thomas Laing Goodwin, born in Albany, 24 Jan
1835, married 23 May 1860, Pamelia Batchelder Clark, born 7 Aug 1841, daughter of Daniel Parsons and Catharine (Russ) Clark.
He died in Nov 1888; he had three children; Albert C, born 14 Feb 1861, and two who died young. Educated in the Boys' Academy
and learning the lithographic trade with Harry Pease, he formed in 1860 a co-partnership with George W. Lewis, which was
succeeded by Murray & Goodwin; about 1872 he became sole owner and in 1882 admitted his son, Albert C. under the firm name of
Thomas L. Goodwin & Son. Thomas L. was an active, prominent Democrat, foreman of the Volunteer Tivoli Hose Company,
member of the Old Guard of the Burgesses Corps and the Fourth Presbyterian church, and a trustee of the Home Savings Bank In
1886 Mr. Goodwin retired and since then Albert C. has conducted the genera] lithographic and engraving establishment alone,
largely increasing the business, which is the only one of the kind between New York and Buffalo.
Albert C. was educated in the Boys' Academy, has passed through the chairs and is the present Master of Ancient City Lodge No.
452, F&AM, a member of Temple Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M., and Temple Commandery, No. 2, K. T. He was secretary and
superintendent of the old Menand Mission from 1880 to 1885, and with Rev. Charles Wood organized the Viaduct Mission in 1886,
of which he was superintendent several years. He was a trustee of the Fourth Presbyterian church for eight years, until his removal
to Menands in 1895, and has been secretary, treasurer, trustee and president of the Albany County Sunday School Teachers'
Association, and director of the South End Bank. In 1839 he married Sarah Alice Higgs, of Brooklyn, daughter of George Henry, and
the late Frances (Fisher) Higgs, and their children are Alice Lloyd and Albert C, jr.
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Dr. Frederick R. Greene, son of Warren S. and Celia (Randall) Greene, was born 8 Jun 1863, in Petersburgh, NY. He was
educated at the district school in Petersburgh and at Hoosick Falls Academy, and after reading medicine one year with Dr. L. B.
Newton, of North Bennington, VT, entered the Albany Medical College in the fall of 1881, graduating in 1884 with the degree of M.
D. He practiced in Petersburgh, NY, for a year and a half, and in the fall of 1885 located in Albany, where he is now practicing. Dr.
Greene is a member of the Acacia Club, Ancient City Lodge No. 452, F&AM, Mountaineer Lodge, I. O. O. F., New York
Encampment No. 1, K. P., and the Albany County Medical Society. October 6, 1886, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas R.
Blackburn, of Albany, and they have one son, Frederick R., jr.
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Charles H Herrick, 87, a native Roman who had been a Mason for about 60 years, died this morning in the Masonic Hospital, Utica. He had resided in the
Masonic Home for about a year. Mr Herrick, the last memebr of his family, leaves a niece, Mrs Myra Jones, Oneida, and a nephew Clarence Herrick, RD 2,
Clinton. Born in the Town of Rome on 5 Feb 1865; d. 5 Apr 1952, a son of Archibald and Almira Pratt Herrick, he married in Rome Feb 15, 1907 Elizabeth
Carr, who died 20 May 1942.
Mr. Herrick had followed several occupations. At the age of 9 he worked on the Erie Canal, continuing for eight years. He worked as a locomotive works
machinist from 1887-92, spent a period in the New York Central Railroad shop in Albany, and came back to Rome in 1896 to enter the meat business. Later he
farmed in Westmoreland. Several stories, of a 16 pound turnip, potatoes two and a half to three pounds and of digging a bushel of potatoes from 12 hills when it
normally requires 30, bore testimony to his success. An enthusiastic Mason, he was a member of Ancient City Lodge 452 [No. 452], Albany, F&AM. He helped
lay the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple in that city in 1900. Mr. Herrick was also a life member of Rome Grange, having joined in 1892. Prior to taking up
residence in the Masonic Home, he lived with Mr and Mrs Robert Payne and their daughter, Patricia Anne, 112 E Bloomfield St.
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Martin Eaton Nangle, born in East Waterford, Perry county. PA, 31 Dec 1848, is a son of Martin and Isabella Bensha (Sturgess)
Nangle. Martin, a native of London, England, settled in Philadelphia about 1830 as a silversmith, and died in East Waterford in 1855,
aged 65, leaving these children: Edward J., of Nebraska, who served one year in the Civil war; Joseph R., Julia S. (Mrs Van
Schaack) of Albany; Mary Emma (Mrs. Cunningham) of Nebraska; Martin E. of Albany, and one deceased. Joseph R. enlisted in
Sep 1861, in Co. A, 49th Pa. Vols., and served until October, 1864. He settled in Albany in 1867 as foreman of the car department
of what is now the D. & H. C. R. R., and since 1880 has been engaged in the coal business. In 1867 he married Elizabeth B.,
daughter of J. D. Howell, a major in the war of the Rebellion, of Juniata county. Pa. Mrs. Isabella B. (Sturgess) Nangle, a member of
two old Albany families, Sturgess and Bensha, was born in the Captain Schuyler mansion at the head of Schuyler street.
Martin E. Nangle enlisted in 2 Sep 1864, in Co. B, 202d Pa. Vols. [mustered out 3 Aug 1865], and after the war engaged in
railroading, settling in Albany in 1866. In 1876 he became associated with William E. Griffin, an undertaker of Greenbush, and in
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