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He married Eleanor(or Ellen) (CATOR) BARTLE, who was a widow when she married Samuel. They had son, DeWitt C. SKEEL b.<br />

1825 in the town <strong>of</strong> Greene, Chenango Co.<br />

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cassb/CASS/i0000421.htm<br />

Aaron Carter was born in Kent, Litchfield, CT 10 Aug 1791. Aaron died 4 May 1875 in Felton, Kent, DE, at 83 years <strong>of</strong> age. He<br />

married Achsa Sadd in Greene, Chenango, NY, 15 Feb 1813. Achsa was the daughter <strong>of</strong> Elisha Sadd <strong>and</strong> Hepsibah Osburn.<br />

Aaron was owner <strong>and</strong> captain <strong>of</strong> a canal boat. Elisha SADD, b. ca 1754, one <strong>of</strong> the first settlers in the town, was an early merchant<br />

at Genegantslet. He died in Greene in 1827, aged 73. The first postmaster was probably Dr. Levi FARR. He held the <strong>of</strong>fice several<br />

years, till his removal to the village <strong>of</strong> Greene in 1825. He was probably succeeded by Elisha SADD.<br />

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000853<br />

MONELL, Robert, a Representative from <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>; born in Columbia County, NY, in 1786; pursued classical studies; studied law;<br />

was admitted to the bar in 1809 <strong>and</strong> commenced practice at Binghamton, NY; moved to Greene, Chenango County, in 1811 <strong>and</strong><br />

continued the practice <strong>of</strong> his pr<strong>of</strong>ession; member <strong>of</strong> the state assembly in 1814 <strong>and</strong> 1815; elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth<br />

Congress (4 Mar 1819-3 Mar 1821); again a member <strong>of</strong> the state assembly in 1825, 1826, <strong>and</strong> 1828; district attorney <strong>of</strong> Chenango<br />

County in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress, <strong>and</strong> served from 4 Mar 1829, until 21 Feb 1831, when he<br />

resigned; circuit judge <strong>of</strong> the sixth circuit 1831-1845; clerk <strong>of</strong> the state supreme court in 1846; resumed the practice <strong>of</strong> law; died in<br />

Greene, Chenango, NY, 29 Nov 1860; interment in Hornby Cemetery. In 1837 he was promoted as a ‘brigade major <strong>and</strong> inspector.’<br />

A daughter, Catherine D, married Nathan R<strong>and</strong>all <strong>of</strong> Greene, 12 May 1831; they removed to <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. Another daughter,<br />

Jannett P., died 31 Oct 1831 at Great Bend, PA, age 15.<br />

http://www.yatescounty.org/upload/12/historian/may71.htm<br />

18 May 1871 - Died in this village (Yates County) on Thursday the 11th inst., George P. Monell, at the age <strong>of</strong> 51 years. Mr. Monell<br />

has long been a resident <strong>of</strong> this town, <strong>and</strong> well known to the people. He was born in Greene, Chenango Co., <strong>and</strong> was a son <strong>of</strong><br />

Judge Robert Monell, an eminent jurist under the Constitution <strong>of</strong> 1821. He married Henrietta, the youngest <strong>of</strong> the children <strong>of</strong> the<br />

late Abraham Wagener, Esq., <strong>and</strong> has since been a citizen <strong>of</strong> this town….His residence for a few years past has been on a farm in<br />

South Milo, <strong>and</strong> recently in this village….<br />

Monell, James s/o Robert Monell <strong>of</strong> Greene, NY, died at Mobile, Ala. age 23 years.<br />

Monell, Joseph D. s/o Robert Monell, died at Greene, NY 10 Mar 1843 age 20 years.<br />

http://www.lostvalleys.com/chenango/history/greene.html<br />

Levi FARR, M.D., was born in Pittsfield, MA, 8 Jul 1787, <strong>and</strong> removed to this town from Montgomery county in 1807. He settled first<br />

at Genegantslet, where he married Mercy Fanny, daughter <strong>of</strong> David BRADLEY, an early settler in that locality. He entered at once<br />

upon the active duties <strong>of</strong> his pr<strong>of</strong>ession, <strong>and</strong> pursued them with untiring zeal <strong>and</strong> devotion to the interests <strong>of</strong> his patrons, who were<br />

widely scattered over a large section <strong>of</strong> sparsely settled country, mingling with his pr<strong>of</strong>essional services kindly counsel <strong>and</strong> advice,<br />

which were as eagerly sought <strong>and</strong> for which he was not less highly respected. He "filled a large space in the public mind, <strong>and</strong> is<br />

gratefully remembered by his contemporaries." He removed to this village in 1825, <strong>and</strong> died here 22 Jul 1859. From his youth he<br />

was troubled with imperfect vision, <strong>and</strong> about 1840 became entirely blind. He accumulated a very h<strong>and</strong>some property, <strong>and</strong> gave by<br />

his will $4,000 as a permanent fund for the benefit <strong>of</strong> the common school in this village. He enjoyed in a large degree the confidence<br />

<strong>of</strong> his fellow-townsmen, who <strong>of</strong>ten elected him to positions <strong>of</strong> trust <strong>and</strong> responsibility. He was a Magistrate in the town for a number<br />

<strong>of</strong> years.<br />

October 11, 1831, at a meeting <strong>of</strong> Chenango County Medical Society, Dr. Farr read a dissertation on the character, symptoms,<br />

treatment, <strong>and</strong> probable origin <strong>of</strong> small-pox as it presented itself in the county the previous season.<br />

http://www.artmakers.com/chenango/history/greene.html<br />

Amos GRAY <strong>and</strong> Samuel WHEELER settled in 1794, the former one-half mile below Brisbin, <strong>and</strong> the latter on the site <strong>of</strong> the village,<br />

on the east side <strong>of</strong> the river, where he died. Gray, who was blind, was a brother <strong>of</strong> Elder Jeduthan Gray, who organized at<br />

Genegantslet, in 1807, the Second Baptist Church Society <strong>of</strong> Greene, <strong>of</strong> which he was for twenty-five years the pastor. The Grays<br />

were from Berkshire county, Mass. Amos died where he settled. His children were: Jeduthan, 2d., who, after attaining his majority,<br />

about 1807, removed to Greene village, where he kept the hotel on the site <strong>of</strong> the Chenango House, <strong>and</strong> removed West about 1810<br />

or 1812; Enoch, who kept at Brisbin, in 1796, the second school house in town, teaching some ten winters in succession, <strong>and</strong> lived<br />

<strong>and</strong> died in Greene village; <strong>and</strong> Amos, who lived on the homestead till well advanced in years, when he removed to Greene village,<br />

where he died 9 May 1868, aged 77. Warren <strong>and</strong> Bethuel were sons <strong>of</strong> Elder Jeduthan Gray, who settled on a farm between<br />

Greene <strong>and</strong> Genegantslet in 1807, <strong>and</strong> removed about 1825 to northern Pennsylvania, where he died, in 1830, at an advanced age.<br />

Warren possessed a highly intellectual <strong>and</strong> judicial mind. He enjoyed a large share <strong>of</strong> personal popularity, <strong>and</strong> held various town<br />

<strong>of</strong>fices, among them that <strong>of</strong> Magistrate for fifty consecutive years. He was b. ca 1785 <strong>and</strong> died in Dec 1868, aged 83. Bethuel died 4<br />

Feb 1866, aged 79, <strong>and</strong> Cornelia, his wife, 7 Jul 1869, aged 75. Asa WHITNEY, William PORTER <strong>and</strong> Warren GRAY commenced<br />

business under the name <strong>of</strong> Whitney, Porter & Gray about 1822, <strong>and</strong> continued about a year.<br />

History <strong>of</strong> Greene<br />

http://www.artmakers.com/chenango/history/greene.html<br />

Augustus WILLARD, M.D., was born in 1800, <strong>and</strong> was the eldest son <strong>of</strong> Samuel Willard, M.D., <strong>of</strong> Stafford, CT, who was graduated<br />

at Harvard college in 1787. He received a good common school <strong>and</strong> academic education <strong>and</strong> entered upon the study <strong>of</strong> medicine<br />

with Dr. THOMAS <strong>of</strong> Cooperstown. In 1821 he entered the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Dr. Charles JOSLYN, <strong>of</strong> Greene, <strong>and</strong> there, <strong>and</strong> at Harvard<br />

Medical college, where he was graduated in 1823, completed his preparatory medical studies. He was graduated with a class <strong>of</strong><br />

about forty <strong>and</strong> received the prize for the best Medical thesis. In 1824, at the written solicitation <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> its citizens, he<br />

located in the village <strong>of</strong> Greene, where his strong intellectual powers, studious habits, critical research, <strong>and</strong> undivided application to<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essional duties soon gave him prominence among his contemporary practitioners. His long <strong>and</strong> exemplary pr<strong>of</strong>essional career<br />

fully merited the generous confidence reposed in him by the entire community as an honest, upright <strong>and</strong> skillful physician. In his<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essional associations the County, State <strong>and</strong> National associations felt the influence <strong>of</strong> his talents <strong>and</strong> his ardent devotion to their<br />

interests. He was elected President <strong>of</strong> the State Medical Society, at the semi-centennial anniversary <strong>of</strong> that organization in Feb.,<br />

1857, <strong>and</strong> in 1858, he delivered the annual address before that Society, in the Assembly Chamber. Dr. Willard was a conspicuous<br />

<strong>and</strong> devoted member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Masonic</strong> fraternity <strong>and</strong> was rewarded with its highest honors. His obsequies were numerously attended<br />

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