Roberts, Edward Coleridge, Class of 1895; b. 1878 Port Byron, NY son of
George V. and Mary Sherry Roberts; Educator; Cornell Univ. '97-'01 A.B. ’01; answering
the call for teachers in the Philippines, in 1901 he was on board US Army
Transporter “Thomas” which left San Francisco arriving in Manila nearly a
month later; assigned to teach at Vintar, Ilocos Norte, Island of Luzon for 3 years. Desirous to travel the Suez Canal, he made his return trip a sightseeing adventure; contracted smallpox and died Bombay, India 1903, burial Bombay.
Roberts Jr.,
George V., Class of 1898,
b. 1881 Town of Mentz, NY son of George V and Mary Sherry Roberts; Farmer;
Short Course Cornell Univ. Agriculture ’08; Dairy Farmer Town of Mentz, NY
until 1927, feed and implement business Fulton, NY; Patent #682,431 ’13 awarded
1,074,206 Milking Apparatus ’13; Prohibition Party Candidate for Coroner 1909; retired
1938; d. 1961 Easley?, South Carolina (listed as Eafly in obit), bur. Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Port Byron, NY.  |
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| Men of New York 1898 |
Photo: The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the
Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life
during the last decade of the nineteenth century (Google eBook), published by G.E. Matthews & Co., 1898, page 381.
Root, Helen
Isabelle “Belle”, Class of 1890; b. 1873 Port Byron, NY dau of Lt. William Harrison and Helen Hadger Root; Missionary; Cornell University '92-'96, A.B. '96; Minister & Missionary of Ceylon, India; Secretary
of State Loyal Temperance Legion; Author-Free Methodist Publishing Co.; d. 1945
Winona Lake, Indiana, buried Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Port Byron, NY.
Root, Joseph Harrison., Class of 1886; b. 1867 Port Byron, NY son of Lt. William Harrison and Helen Hadger Root; Educator; Cornell
University '86-'90, BS Mathematics '90; Cornell Scholarship; Spanish American War Veteran; Instr. of Mathematics PA
State College '90-'92, Instr. of Mathematics University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, North Dakota '92-'94; returned to Port Byron due to typhoid
(departure due to illness confirmed with the University), d. 1953 California,
bur. Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA. 
Root, Louis Brown, Class of 1872; b. 1853 Port Byron, NY son of Samuel "Harrison" and Mary Brown Root; School Administrator, Civil Engineer; first graduate
of the Port Byron Free Academy; Cornell University '72-'74; Principal Cayuga Union School '74-'75; Supt. Middlebury School, Middlebury, IN; County Surveyor Elkhart Co., IN; Supt. of Parks Kansas City, MO.; worked under George Kessler in surveying of Swope Park; 1st Supt. of Mt. Washington
Cemetery, d. 1909, bur Mt. Washington Cemetery Independence, Missouri. |
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Sweet, Joseph Ferris,
Class of 1882; b. 1863 Throop, NY son of Vaughn and Julia Ferris Sweet; Educator; Cornell University '82-'86, Ph. B. '86; Latin teacher
for 40 years North West Division High School which was renamed Murray F. Tuley High
School, Chicago, Illinois; retired in 1925 as Head of the Latin Dept.; d. 1944 Rochester,
NH, buried Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, NH.
Tanner,
Leslie Lyman, Class
of 1894, b. 1874 Waverly, NY son of John Jay and Sarah Elthina Olmstead Tanner;
Laborer; better known as “Dad" Tanner to many; attended
Albany Business College; Stenographer for Printing House Brooklyn, NY ’00-‘10;
Insurance Agent Hackensack, NJ ’19; Laborer Mott Lumber Co. affiliated with Grange
Silo Co. Red Creek and Cato, NY; d. 1948 Westbury, NY, bur. Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery Port Byron, NY. 
