Armstrong, Charles W., Class of 1891, b. 1870 Port Byron, NY son of
Niram and Sarah Williams Armstrong; School Administration, Educator; Albany
Normal Col. Pd. B. '98; Prin. Jamesville Union Sch. Jamesville, NY '93;
Principal Sag Harbor Union/Pierson HS LI, NY '98-'08; Principal Cobleskill
Union School '09-'12; Principal, phys. ed. and District Supt Babylon HS Huntington, LI '13-'32;
President Port Byron Alumni Assoc. '94; VP and Pres. Suffolk Co. Teacher’s
Assoc. '23-'24; LDSHP Trainer Suffolk Co. Boy Scouts; d. unk., bur.
unk.
Armstrong, Frances B., Class of 1890, b. 1872 Port
Byron, NY dau of Niram and Sarah Williams Armstrong; Educator; rec’d $5
gold coin in school elocutionary contest ’90; census records reflect she attended
college 5th of subsequent year, location unknown; started her career in the one
room school houses locally at Haydenville and also Forshee School in
Throopsville, NY ’94-95; appointed by Arthur A. Gates as assistant teacher
Primary Dept of Port Byron High School ’98; teacher Detroit Home and Day School
which became the Liggett School Detroit. MI ’00-’30 and possibly to ’35; often returned
to Port Byron during summer vacations; attended the Chautauqua Institute with fellow teacher Miss Josephine Green ’15; resided with her sister Dr.
Margaret Guernsey at Bergenfield, NJ ’40 where she was employed as a teacher in
a private school at age 68; was alive in 1954, d. unknown, bur. unknown.
To learn more about one of the schools where she was a teacher, visit the link below:
Austin,
Sedgwick Elisha M.D., Class
of 1888; b. 1868 Sennett, NY son of Harvey and Margaret Wright Austin; Physician and Surgeon; Cornell University '88-'90; University of
Pennsylvania '93; Roentgenologist Auburn City Hospital 25 years Medical Assoc.
of Central NY; Cayuga County Medical Society; American Radiology Society; Auburn
City Medical Society; Sanitary, meat and milk inspector '94; Medical
Examiner Metropolitan Life Ins. Co 45 years; d. 1941, bur. Soule Cemetery,
Sennett, NY. |
| Dr. Clara Barrus Library of Congress LC-USZ62-103953 |
Berry, Charles Wilbert, Class of 1879, b. 1860 Port
Byron, NY son of Charles R. and Maria Hasseltine Berry; Lawyer US
Gov; 2nd Lieut. ’18-’20 US Army Train. Div, MTC Quartermaster
Corps; Interned with his father Charles R. Berry, Esq.; took oath Cayuga Co., NY Police Justice, Justice of the Peace and
Commissioner of Deeds ’81; served many years with the Interstate Commerce
Commission in Washington, DC; d. 1953 Martinsburg, WV, bur. Arlington National
Cem. Section 8, Site 6415 Arlington, VA.Bradt, Loyal D., Class of 1890, b. 1872 Throop, NY son of Pvt.
Nicolas and Katie Parmer Bradt; House Painter; member R R Stillwell Camp
Sons of Veterans #17 serving as Corporal of the Guard ’96; worked with his
father as painter before accepting position at Buffalo Shirt Factory; Head Cutter for Ideal
Shirt Factory Cincinnati, Ohio becoming Foreman; resumed painting in
Ohio and returned to Port Byron where he was among the 766 casualties of a heat wave that swept the Nation; died while painting a porch on a home owned by H.C.
Gutchess; d. 1931 Port Byron, NY, bur. Unknown. |
| fultonhistory.com |
Buckland, Benjamin Isaac Coman M.D., Class of 1878; b. 1858 near Weedsport, NY son of Col. Benjamin Isaac Smith and Celestia Coman Buckland; Cornell Univoversity '79-'81, University of Michigan '84; Physician Fleming, NY; Ins. Medical Examiner; served two terms as President of Cayuga County Medical Society; CNY Medical Assoc.; President Port Byron Alumni Assoc. '92; appointed '06 corresponding member Cayuga Co. Genealogical and Biographical Society, d. 1918, bur. Fort Hill Cem., Auburn, NY.
Buckland-Ackerman, Martha “Mattie”, Class of 1879; b. 1861 dau of Col. Benjamin Isaac Smith and Celestia Coman Buckland; School Administration; Oswego Normal Sch. ’85, classes at Syr. Univ., Yale Univ. and Univ. of Chicago; Assistant to the Principal Putnam Sch. '89-'92 Syr.; first Principal at William McKinley Sch-'04 and remained in that position until retirement in '26, served Syracuse education system 37 years; Syr. Teachers Assoc.; Council for Onondaga Acad. of Science, Botanical Dept., d. 1937, bur. rural cemetery, Weedsport, NY. 
Burns,
Clinton Sumner, Class
of 1889; b. 1871 Waverly, Iowa, son of Herman and Laura Root Burns; Civil Engineer, co-founder Burns & McDonnell Consulting
Engrs, Author; Cornell Univ. '90-'93; Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. A. B. (Civ. Eng.),
'97; asst. City Engr Niagara Falls, NY '92-'94; assist. Engr priv. office '95;
engr and construction supt. Burns and Banks contractors '96; leveler
engineer corps. NYS canals '97; assist. engr
waterworks construction Angelica, NY '97; assist. sewer construction Robert Gray & Co., Kansas City,
MO; assist. engr sewer construction Marshall, MO '98; relating to Kansas City,
MO: draftsman Tuttle & Pike; assist. engr Board of Park Comm.; co-founded
Burns & McDonnell '98; expert as public utilities appraiser; Am Inst.
Consulting Engrs Soc.; Am. Waterworks Assoc.; New England Waterworks
Assoc.; Cornell Assoc. of Engrs; Kansas Engr Soc.; d. 1924, bur. Forest Hill
Cem., Kansas City, Mo.
Caldwell, Andrew H,, Class of 1888, b. 1866 Oaklands, Town of Mentz
son of Andrew J and Laura Caldwell; Entrepreneur and Inventor; Auburn
Electroplating Co. ’91; Mapledale Poultry Farm ’06; founded A.H. Caldwell Mfg.
Co. ’19 Plumbing and Hardware Specialties Port Byron, NY $10,000 capital with shares
of $100 each, first Board of Directors A.H. Caldwell, son Laverne Caldwell and
Robert Takel Jr.; Patent filed #486,149 ’09 awarded #982,574 ’11 Hanger Tape; Patent
filed #679,634 ’12 awarded #1,123,844 ’15 Valve; Patent filed #778,526 ’13 awarded #1,142,235 ’15 Pipe Clamp; Cayuga
Chamber of Commerce; company stock sold to Watertown firm due to his death and
brass and copper shortages of WWII which reduced the sales for many wholesale brass fixture businesses, dissolved ’43; d. 1942 Port Byron, NY, bur. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Port Byron,
NY. |
| fultonhistory.com |
Carberry, James Francis., Class of 1893, b. 1875 likely Auburn, NY son
of William and Julia Deering Carberry; Lawyer; Managing Clerk Woods
& Woods Attorney’s Syracuse, NY ’98; became partner firm of Woods & Carberry,
also private practice Syracuse, NY; d. after 1940, wife buried at St. Mary’s
Cemetery Syracuse, NY. 
Chase, Helen
Bertha R. M.D., Class of
1890; b. 1871 likely at Montezuma, NY dau of Dr. Curry E and Maude Chase; Journalist. Reporter, Stenographer; Syracuse University College of Medicine; never practiced medicine due to poor vision, instead she became a children's story columnist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as Helen Chase; moved to Oriskany where she resided at the O.E.S. Home due to blindness of 18 years duration; d. 1942, bur. Oriskany Cemetery, Oriskany, NY. 
Clark, James Joseph, Class of 1898, b. 1881 Port Byron, NY son of
Pvt. John and Bridget Dwyer Clark; Lawyer, Corporate Exec.; Cornell
Univ. ’99-’03; LLB ’03; admitted to the bar ’03 Utica, NY; Firm of
Allis & Clark; Mgr Holley Telephone Co.; village clerk and attorney Holley,
NY; Assist. to President Louis K. Liggett (founder
of Rexell Drugs) and Director of
Personnel Liggett Drug Co. NYC while residing at Hollis, Long Island, NY;
Director of Advertising Club of NY and Treas. Cornell Club of NY ’39; d. 1967
Ocala, FL, bur. Belleview Cem. Belleview, FL. 
Devitt,
Theophilus S., D.D., Class of 1886, b. 1867 Montreal, Canada son of Rev. Frederick and
Eleanor Cassidy Devitt; Congregational Minister and School Administration; Syracuse University '86-'87;
Wesleyan University Bloomington, IL '90 Ph.B.; Allegheny College Prep School Meadville, PA '93; (Allegheny Ph. D. '94 unconfirmed); Washington College D.D. '94;
Ordained LeRaysville, PA '91; Pastorates: LeRaysville, PA '91-'93, Brandford,
CT '93-'09, First Church Winona, MN '09-'18, Central Church Fall River, MA '18-'22; Principal Smithville Union, Smithville Flatts, NY holding First
Grade Certificate '88; Supt. Public Schools Branford, CT; Board of Education
Winona, MN; Home Missionary Service Grace M.E. Church Butte, MT '90-'91;
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Religious Education
Association; d. 1922 Fall River, MA, bur. Old Branford Center Cemetery
Branford, CT.To learn more about the non-resident program at Wesleyan University, please visit the link:
 |
| Professor Dixon Educators of Michigan 1894 |
Photo: Educators of
Michigan: (Illustrated Reference Book) ; a
Choice Collection of Biographical Sketches and Portraits of the Teaching
Profession (Google eBook) Published by Wilton-Smith Company, 1894, page 146.
 |
| Men of Illinois Halliday Witherspoon 1902 |
Photo: Men of
Illinois (Google
eBook) Published by Halliday Witherspoon, 1902, page
288.
