“The names of such places as Lacona, Adams, Copenhagen, Martinsburg, Turin, Constableville, Leyden, Boonville and Three Falls are quite familiar to me. We lived at Adams from 1872 to 1877. Mother was a Rich of Copenhagen. A. D. Rich was her father. Her brother was Horace Rich. My grandmother was Betsey Hannah Hubbard. She married Rev. Harvey Hitchcock Barnes, who died about 1879 of a heart-failure while on the way to a Methodist Conference. His last residence was at Lacona or Sandy Creek.

“Robert Hubbard was born about 1755 and I have not learned of his wife’s name, but think it was Seba. Before me lies a promissory note to Eber Hubbard dated Oct. 28, 1809, signed by Joseph Baker, by his ‘Mark,’ with Robert and Seba Hubbard as witnesses. This note was among my grandmother’s belongings.

“Robert’s children, included Seely, the oldest son, married Louise Wilcox and lived in Martinsburg and had a daughter, Clarissa, who married a Hitchcock and died in 1913 at Lowville, aged 93. Also Levi, who lived at Constableville, Joel, Dyer and John and Eber, who married Abigail Rumble. There was Ruth, very small and never married and Theba, who may have been the Seeba (sic), before mentioned. She married William Reed and located in Boonville; Sally, who married Abram Rowlen and lived in Turin and Liddie who married Benj. Markham, also of Turin.

“Eber was a carpenter and a Methodist Exhorter and a member of the Methodist church at Leyden. He married Abigail Rumble and both are buried seven miles from Alexandria Bay. In the mid-west was an Eber who invented the paper pail, and other articles and lived in Elkhart, Ind.

“My father was a Presbyterian minister, at one time located in Adams, going from there to Ottawa, Ill. I graduated from the University of Chicago in 1898, taught school, was county superintendent of schools for four years. My wife is a niece of U. S. Senator McCumber.”

Daniel Hubbard, the pioneer in the Kelsey Bridge section of Theresa, was born June 28, 1796, probably in Connecticut, and died March 21, 1877, and is buried at Kelsey Bridge, Theresa. The wife, Amanda Tousley Hubbard, born Dec. 17, 1799, at Dorset, Vt., and Aug. 29, 1878 died in Theresa.

The lands he took up as a pioneer here border the Indian river at Kelsey Bridge, and passed on to his son, Henry Hubbard and after the passing of members of the family, the land went into other hands, and is now owned by Assemblyman Orin S. Wilcox of Theresa.