The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

FAMILY 356.
4005. Albert' Humphrey, [2382] (Archibald,^ Ru/us,^ Thomas,^ Ensign Samue/,^ Lieul.
Samuel,- Michael^) was born 3 May, 1830. He married Margaret A. Quick. He and his family
resided (1884) Battle Creek, Mich.
Children :
4006. I. Elmer,® b. about 1852; in 18S4 was unmarried.
4007. n. Clellie,® b. about 1862; in 1884 was unmarried.
4008. HI. Cassie Bell,^ b. about 1870.
FAMILY 357.
4009. Hon. William Thomas' Humphrey, m. d., [2389] (james vm,^ Hon.
Tlwmas,^ TJiomas,* Ensign Samuel' Lieul. Samuel,^ Michael,^) was born 22 Dec, 1824, Bain-
bridge, N. Y. He married (i) 11 May, 1848, Mary Pettis (dau. of Heman and Cynthia) Kelsey,
of Bainbridge, born there 16 Nov., 1824; d. 3 Mch., 1883. Dr. Humphrey married (2) 12 Mch.,
1884, Mary Barker, of Osceola, Pa., born there 30 June, 1845; 's a graduate of the seminary at
Kingston, Pa.
William Thomas' Humphrey lived at home and attended district school and worked on
the farm until 18 Apr., 1842, when, seventeen years of age, he left home and worked by the
month on a farm in Steuben County, N. Y., for seven dollars per month. The following autumn
he taught a winter school in the same county, and attended the Franklin Academy at Prattsburg,
in said county, two terms, during the following spring and summer. He taught again the next
winter, in the same district, when he returned home to Bainbridge, and entered the office of Dr.
B. S. Sill, of B., as a medical student. He continued his studies and taught school two winters,
when, in April, 1848, he finished his medical course in the Albany Medical College. In May
following he married and located in Addison, N. Y., where he practiced his profession until
January, 1849, when he removed to Elkland, Pa. (one and one-half miles from Osceola), where
he remained until 1857, when he finally settled in the town where he now lives.
In April, 1861, he was mustered in the "Buck Tail" Regt. as Assistant Surgeon; promoted
12 Sept., 1862, to Surgeon of the 149th Regt., Pa. Vols. In the spring of 1863 he was
appointed Surgeon-in-Chief of the Brigade, and two months after was assigned to the Third
Division of the First Army Corps, as Surgeon-in-Chief of said Division; was mustered out in Jan.,
1865, after serving with distinction for nearly four years.
In the fall of 1865 he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and again
in 1S66; also again in 1874 and 1875. Since then he has continued in the practice of his pro-
fession, and in looking after his farming interests. Res. (1884) Osceola, Tioga Co., Pa.
Children:
4010. I. Gertrude M.\rv,* b. 14 Nov., 1849. in Elkland, Tioga Co., Pa.; married in Osceola,
Pa., 13 Oct., 1869, Chester White (son of William and F'unice) Corbin, of
Afton (now Bainbridge), N. Y., born there about 1844. Farmer. Res. (18S4)
on his father's homestead, in Bainbridge, N. Y. ; P. O. address, Bennettsville,
Chenango Co., N. Y. Child:
401 1. i. Mabel,' b. 12 Nov., 1883.
4012 II. WiLJiOT Grow,^ b. 21 Dec, 1856, at Elkland, Tioga Co., Pa.; married 24 Sept.,
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1879, Sarah E. (dau. of Volcut Carlton and Diantha C. Smith) Phelps, born at
Osceola, Pa., 31 May, 1859. In June, 1877, he graduated at the State Normal
School, at Mansfield, Pa., and immediately was tendered and accepted the position
of Pnncipal of the High School at Osceola, Pa,, which he held for one school