son, (Cortland village,) on the south, and from Skaneateles on the west, to Cazenovia on the east. This area then contained less than 3,000 white settlers whose population is now over 200,000 people. In 1802, he returned to Massachusetts and married Miss Dolly Clapp, of Chesterfield, daughter of Col. Amasa Clapp, of Chesterfield, a soldier of the Revolution. On his return to Pompey, crossing the Hudson river at Albany in a sleigh, the ice broke, letting sleigh, horses, baggage, wife and all into the water. They narrowly escaped drowning. They were rescued by citizens of Albany, who by chance saw them in their danger. This accident compelled them to remain in Albany a day or more. Nothing unusual occurred during the remainder of their journey. In 1803 their first child and only son, Dr. Elijah Park was born. In the war of 1812, Dr. Silas Park went as a surgeon with the soldiers who were called from this section to Smith's Mills and Sackett's Harbor. There he met surgeons of the regular army, and he took a high position among them as a skillful physician and surgeon. He died in 1824. His wife survived him, living at the old home till she reached the age of 95 years, and died in the year 1867. When we ask what can be said of her, the answer is, "Anything and all that is good.”

Their only son, Dr. Elijah Park was born in Pompey, now LaFayette, April 1st, 1803, and he studied with his father, and also with Doctors Beach and Davis of Marcellus, and his uncle Dr. Elijah Park, of Otisco, He graduated at the Berkshire Medical Institute, December 26, 1826. He was at the time he graduated and has continued to be a practicing Physician up to the time of his death, his home being in LaFayette village. He was married twice, the first time August 24, 1824, to Miss Catharine Parent, of Otisco. By her he had ten children, four sons and six daughters; seven of them, two sons and five daughters are married and living within three hours ride of the old home. One married a carpenter and joiner, the others are farmers or farmers' wives. He was married a second time, April 14, 1843,

to Betsey Parent, his first wife's sister, by whom he had two children, both of whom are dead. Both his wives are also dead, Catharine died September 20, 1842, and Betsey December 4, 1867. Dr. Park held the office of Supervisor of the town of LaFayette, three years 1861-2 and 3, and was a Justice of the Peace one, 1869. His medical practice extended over the county of Onondaga, and often in the neighboring counties. For nearly fifty years he rode over the hills and through the valleys of his native county, kindly administering to the wants and necessities of the afflicted. His life was too busy in dispensing the healing art, to allow him time to make collections, and like Dr. Wm. Taylor, of Manlius, although he did a business that would have yielded a large fortune, he died June 17, 1873, leaving but a moderate share of worldly possessions, but rich in the kind wishes of his many friends, and richer still in the smiles of his beneficent Redeemer.

The following notice of his death appeared in a Syracuse paper, the day after his decease.

DEATH OF DR. ELIJAH PARK OF LAFAYETTE.-Dr. Elijah Park, one of the oldest and most respected residents of this county, died at his residence in LaFayette, on Tuesday morning, aged 71 years. Dr. Park was born in the town of LaFayette, and was the son of Silas Park, an eminent physician, who resided in that town. The son followed the footsteps of his father, attended medical lectures at Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1827, and became one of the most popular physicians in this section of the State. He had a very extensive practice in his immediate neighborhood, and was frequently called as counsel to other localities. The deceased was always an active politician and popular citizen, and represented his town for several terms in the Board of Supervisors, and held other responsible town offices. He was elected Justice of the Peace three terms in succession at a period when the party with which he acted was in a large minority in the town, but his well known integrity and capacity carried him over party

lines and elected him to the office. He was always among the foremost in village or town enterprises, and his judgment, sagacity, and proved integrity and honesty, placed him in the front rank among his fellow citizens on all occasions where intelligence, prudence, and sagacity, were needed to direct the councils of the people. He had a wide circle of relatives and acquaintances, and his loss will be sincerely mourned by all who knew him. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, under the direction of the order of Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a prominent member, and of the order of Free and Accepted Masons of which he was also a member.

LEMAN HARMON PITCHER.

COMPILED BY LEMAM BAKER PITCHER.

Leman H. Pitcher was born in Rutland, Vermont, November 26th, 1781; he was the son of Reuben, the son of Ebenezer, the son of Samuel, Jr., the son of Samuel, Sr., the son of Andrew, who came of Somerset County, England,in 1633, and settled in Dorcester, Mass., where he died in 1660.

Leman H. Pitcher went to school about six months before he was eight years old, and about three more between the age of twelve and thirteen. From eight to twelve he lived with his uncle Harmon, who was too poor to send him to school, yet rich enough to send his own son of like age, summer and winter. At one time he asked his uncle if he might go to school, and the reply was "that it cost money," and "that it was not expected that everybody would go." This caused him to cry, for which he was called a "booby," and ordered off to bed. In later years, he has often told his children, that this circumstance caused him to form a resolution, "that he would know something if he had to steal it." While young Oliver, his cousin, played and slept, Leman H., as opportunities offered, read his books, and at twelve he was the better scholar. The next year he lived with his mother, and the two succeeding years worked out

for $50 and $65 per year. In 1796, he and the family moved to Pompey, and settled where Adison H. Clapp now resides. In the winter of 1797 or 1798, he and John Sprague studied arithmetic during the evenings with an old surveyor, who lived near Watervale, to whom they gave a bushel of oats, then of the value of fifteen cents, for each evening.

In November, 1798, his right foot was nearly severed just below the ankle joint. When climbing a well post to assist in adjusting the well sweep, his step-father Starkweather, attempted to strike the axe in the post, to assist him in climbing, but his foot slipping just as the axe fell, received the full force of the blow, and his foot was held only by the skin of the heel. A council of Doctors was held, and all advised amputation; one said, "it might possibly get well;" to this he replied, "I am without education, trade or money, and I had rather go to the grave with my foot, than to live a poor cripple all my life;" "do the best you can, I am resolved to live or die with my foot." During the following year while the wound was healing, he studied hard to prepare himself for teaching schoool and for business. In 1800 he taught his first school in a school house that stood near the corners about a mile north-westerly from the Hill towards Jamesville. In 1801 and afterwards he taught on the Hill as related by Mrs. Miller in her paper, June 29, 1871. He continued to teach five or six years, winters, and sometimes summers. Between 1801 and 1808 he was constable and deputy sheriff, and about this time he became a free mason. In the Spring of 1808 he married Hannah Baker, aunt of Dea. Samuel Baker, of Pompey Hill, and moved to Camillus, N. Y.

Leman B. Pitcher was in Camillus January 30th, 1809. Mr. Pitcher was engaged in the fall of 1810, and the winter and summer following in preparing and rafting hewn timber for the Montreal market. Going down the Oswego river he ventured too near the falls and was carried over with a broken raft with two other men one of whom was drowned. All he had (about $4,000) and something more, was embarked

in the business.

After some loss of timbers and many delays he sailed from Oswego with his re-collected raft and was again damaged in running the rapids of the St. Lawrence river, and finally when about fifty miles above Montreal the news of the declaration of war reached him. This news was unexpected. Two days later his timber in Montreal was worth only half price, and the next only a third and no cash at that, and to make bad worse he was notified to take the oath of allegiance or leave in three days. If he left his timber, it would be confiscated. He therefore sold it for dry goods, being the best he could do, and as non-intercourse was declared, his only chance was to smuggle the goods home. This he attempted, but when near Ogdensburgh, his goods were seized and he arrested. His excuse was that the circumstances compelled him to do as he had done, and through the influence of his masonic brothers he was allowed or enabled to escape. He reached Oswego with sixteen cents and a roll of coarse cloth. All else was gone. When he left home he expected to return in five or six weeks with $6,000 or $7,000. He was gone from June to January, and came back with almost nothing. In the Spring of 1812, he took a farm on the ridge road two miles east of Lewiston on the Niagara frontier, where he raised vegetables which he sold to the soldiers stationed at Lewiston. He also bought of others and sold. In this way he accumulated over $2,000, before the 19th of December, 1813. Then the British and Indians who had crossed the river about three miles below the night previous, surrounded his house and took him and his family prisoners, plundered them of every thing they thought worth carrying away, and burned the remainder with the buildings. Mr. Pitcher was taken by one party who had charge of the men prisoners destined for Halifax. On the road half way to the river, this party was attacked by the Tuscarora friendly Indians, and while the skirmish was going on he escaped. The mother and her three children, Leman B., Sally and Nancy were stripped of every garment that could tempt the cupidity of a savage. The last gar