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His numerous descendants have always
been worthy citizens, wherever found.
(II) Daniel Shattuck was born in Mas-
sachusetts, and lived many years in St.
Louis. Tradition says that he was at
one time editor of the New Orleans "Pica-
yune." He married Anise (or Anastacia)
(Crooks) Roane, born in Sheffield, England,
who had previously married, about
1849, Lieutenant Roane, of the navy. Mr.
Shattuck, too, had been married previously,
and was the father of a daughter
by his first wife. This daughter is now
living in Lynn, Massachusetts. Mr. Shat-
tuck died in 1884, in New York City.
(III) Charles Albert Shattuck, son of
Daniel and Anise (or Anastacia)
(Crooks-Roane) Shattuck, was born,
about 1855, in St. Louis, and as a child
was brought by his parents to New York
City, where he attended the public
schools. After leaving school he was em-
ployed as a messenger by James Fiske,
the financier. He married Elizabeth Van-
der Poorten, born December 2, 1864, in
New York City, daughter of Abraham
and Rozetta (Vanden Berg) Vander
Poorten, both natives of Holland. At the
time of his death, which occurred about
June 5-12, 1886, in New York City, Mr.
Shattuck was in the service of the Second
Avenue Elevated Railroad Company.
(IV) Effie Agnes Eugenia Shattuck,
daughter of Charles Albert and Elizabeth
(Vander Poorten) Shattuck, was born
September 8, 1883, in New York City, educated
in the public and high schools of
the metropolis, and became the wife of
Walter Granger, as stated above.
MATTHEWS, Sidney A.,
Agriculturist.
A prominent resident of Springdale,
Connecticut, where he is engaged in busi-
ness as a civil engineer and also carries
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on extensive agricultural operations, is
Sidney A. Matthews, a native of Mount
Pleasant, Westchester county, New York,
where his birth occurred June 24, 1854.
He is a son of Isaiah Solis, Jr., and Hannah
M. (Angevine) Matthews, and comes
of a family that has long been identified
with that region.
Isaiah Solis Matthews, Sr., grandfather
of Sidney A. Matthews, was a resident of
Mount Pleasant, where he was engaged
in business as a farmer and drover. His
operations in buying and selling cattle
extended over a wide area, and he would
take long trips in which he collected large
droves, which he took to New York City
and disposed of in the markets there. He
married Mrs. Susan (Miller) Fisher, a
member of the old Miller family of Westchester
county, a brief account of which
is appended hereto. One of their children
was Isaiah Solis Matthews, Jr., who
is mentioned below.
Isaiah Solis Matthews, Jr., was born at
Mount Pleasant, New York, March 14,
1827, and died January 21, 1919. As a
youth he learned the trade of shoemaker,
and worked at that craft in the intervals
of caring for his farm. He was an expert
agriculturist, and eventually gave up
shoemaking to specialize in tree grafting
and budding, a work for which he had a
natural aptitude. At that period the art
of grafting had not received so much sci-
entific study as has since been devoted to
it. and Mr. Matthews' skill came from his
own keen perceptions and love of the
work, together with a long experience in
its details, but he was so unvaryingly suc-
cessful in his attempts that he gained a
wide reputation throughout the region
as an expert propagator. In following
his specialty, however, in which he was
consistently employed, by the agricuU
turists of the district, he did not neglect
his own farm, but continued to raise gen-