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and conducted by members of that fraternity, the services being rendered by M. W. G. M., Clinton F. PAIGE of Binghamton. He died
March 12th, 1868, aged 68, and Catharine S., his wife, April 3, 1845, aged 38.
C. Cameron Willard, M.D., son of Augustus Willard, M.D., was born Nov. 4th, 1828, and studied medicine with his father. He was
graduated at New York, and practiced here about three years preceding his death which occurred Sept. 24th, 1862.
“The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass,” page 687.
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[Sixth Generation.]
4618. v. Samuel Willard, M.D. (son of Rev. Dr. John Willard of Stafford, Ct., and Lydia Dwight), b. Dec. 26, 1766, grad. at Harvard in
1787, in. Aug. 1798, Abigail Perkins (dau. of Isaac Perkins of Ashford, Ct. and Tamiseu Chaplin). He was a physician at Stafford,
Ct., and was the proprietor of a mineral spring of some note in that place. He d. in Cincinnati, O., Feb. 10, 1820. She d. in Greene,
N. Y., Feb. 22, 1839.
[Seventh Generation.] Children :
4658. i. Augustus Willard, M.D., b. June 29, 1799, d. March 12, 1868.
4659. ii. John Willard, b. June 0, 1806, d. unmarried Nov. 9, 1847, at Barker, NY, ae. 41, a man of decided intellect and strong
character.
4660. iii. Martha Emilia Willard, b. Nov. 16, 1808, m. Frederic W. Meloy.
4658. i. Augustus Willard, M.D., b. 29 Jun 1799, grad. in his medical studies at Dartmouth. He m. 12 Dec 1827, Catharine Scaife
(Scarfe) Ringer, b. 15 Sep 1806 (d/o John Ringer of Geneva, NY, and Isabella Mullender). She d. 3 Apr 1845, and he m. for 2d wife,
19 Aug 1850, Laura Perry of Oxford, NY, b. 22 Oct 1813 (d/o John Perry and Mary Welch). He was a physician at Greene,
Chenango, NY, where he d. 12 Mar 1868. He was an efficient gatherer of facts for this work, in respect to his branch of the family.
[Eighth Generation.] Children, by first wife:
i. Charles Cameron Willard, M.D., b. 4 Nov 1828, pursued his medical studies at "The NY College of Physicians and Surgeons," in
New York. He m. 9 Mar 1853, Julia Ann Palmer, b. 10 May 1831 (dau. of Ira Palmer and Harriet Carter). He was a physician in
Greene, and d. there 24 Sep 1862, ae. 34. He had one child: Sarah Isabella Willard, b. 12 Jan 1854.
ii. Mary Isabella Willard; b. 11 Oct 1833.
iii. Samuel Augustus Willard; b. 9 Aug 1837
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Ref: William D. Purple:
CHENANGO UNION.
Vol. 30. Norwich, N. Y., Thursday, May 2, 1877. No. 33.
Joseph Smith The Originator of Mormonism.
Historical Reminiscences of the town of Afton.
BY W. D. PURPLE.
More than fifty years since, at the commencement of his professional career, the writer spent a year in the present village of Afton,
in this County. It was then called South Bainbridge, and was in striking contrast with the present village at the same place. It was a
mere hamlet, with one store and one tavern. The scenes and incidents of that early day are vividly engraven upon his memory, by
reason of his having written them when they occurred, and by reason of his public and private rehearsals of them in later years. He
will now present them as historical reminiscences of old Chenango, and as a precursor of the advent of that wonder of the age,
Mormonism.
In the year 1825 we often saw in that quiet hamlet, Joseph Smith, Jr., the author of the Golden Bible, or the Books of Mormon. He
was an inmate of the family of Deacon Isaiah [sic] Stowell, who resided some two miles below the village, on the Susquehanna. Mr.
Stowell was a man of much force of character, of indomitable will, and well fitted as a pioneer in the unbroken wilderness that this
country possessed at the close of the last century. He was one of the Vermont sufferers, who for defective titles, consequent on the
forming a new State from a part of Massachusetts, in 1791, received wild lands in Bainbridge. He had been educated in the spirit of
orthodox puritanism, and was officially connected with the first Presbyterian church of the town, organized by Rev. Mr. Chapin. He
was a very industrious, exemplary man, and by severe labor and frugality had acquired surroundings that excited the envy of many
of his less fortunate neighbors. He had at this time grown up sons and daughters to share his prosperity and the honors of his name.
About this time he took upon himself a monomaniacal impression to seek for hidden treasures that he believed were buried in the
earth. He hired help and repaired to Northern Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Lanesboro, to prosecute his search for untold wealth,
which he believed to be buried there. Whether it was the
"Ninety bare of gold
"And dollars many fold"
that Capt. Robert Kidd, the pirate of a preceding century, had despoiled the commerce of the world, we are not able to say, but that
he took his help and provisions from home, and camped out on the black hills of that region for weeks at a time, was freely admitted
by himself and family.
What success, if any, attended these excursions, is unknown, but his hallucination adhered to him like the fabled shirt of Nessus,
and had entire control over his mental character. The admonition of his neighbors, the members of his church, and the importunities
of his family, had no impression on his wayward spirit.
There had lived a few years previous to this date, in the vicinity of Great Bend, a poor man named Joseph Smith, who, with his
family, had removed to the western part of the State, and lived in squalid poverty near Palmyra, in Ontario County. Mr. Stowell, while
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