Freemasons of New York State in the Civil War

“The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America,” by Ebenezer Mack Treman, Murray Edward Poole, page 236.

TREMPER, JOHN.— Age, 27 years. Enrolled, July 30, 1862, at Auburn, to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant, Co. B, August 15, 1862 ; discharged, February 28, 1863. Commissioned second lieutenant, September 9, 1862, with rank from August 15, 1862.

John Tremper, born about 1835 at Port Byron, Cayuga Co, NY and died 9 June 1883 in Wayne Co. He is buried in Clyde, Wayne Co. He married Margaret (Maggie) Smith (1840-1926). They had children Edith and George S. Tremper.

John had a sister Ella, born about 1853, died in 1872 in Clyde/Galen, Wayne Co, NY who is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery there.

Other siblings are James, born about 1842; Kate E., born about 1848 and died 1882 at Clyde/Galen, Wayne Co., NY.

b. 25 Apr 1838; d. 28 Jun 1892; bur. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, NY, with D. Sickels Trotter, his wife (?).

Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Like many men from New York, he entered a New York Militia regiment upon the outbreak of the Civil War, serving as a Private in the 7th New York Militia for three months. He then was commissioned into the 102nd New York Volunteer Infantry, rising to Major of the unit. Wounded in battle and unable to serve in the field, he entered the 1st Veterans Reserve Corps as its Lieutenant Colonel. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "gallant and meritorious services during the war". He remained in the United States Regular Army after the end of the conflict, rising to Major before dying in Tacoma, Washington in 1892 while on active duty.

Trotter, Frederick Eugene, soldier, was born in New York. In 1801 he was captain in the 102nd regiment New York infantry; and in 1805 he was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general of volunteers. He died June 28, 1892.

Trotter, Frederick E. Born in NY. Appointed from NY; member of the 7th New York State Militia; captain 102d N. Y. Volunteers April, 1861; in the defenses of Washington, DC; engaged at the actions of Bolivar and Maryland Heights and Banks' Shenandoah Valley campaign; major 102 N. Y. Volunteers July, 1862; engaged at the battle of Cedar Mountain (wounded in foot and arm); must, out March, 1863, by reason of disability arising from wounds received; captain Vet. Res. Corps June, 1863; in the provost-marshal's Bureau, Washington, DC, and superintendent War Department building to November, 1864; major 1st Regiment Vet. Res. Corps March, 1864; comdg. Draft Rendezvous, camp of rebel prisoners, provisional brigade, and provost-marshal of troops, Elmira, NY; lieutenant-colonel 1st Regiment Vet. Res. Corps March, 1865; bvt. colonel and brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers; major 44th U. S. Inf. October, 1866; appointment revoked December, 1866; captain 45th U. S. Infantry, to date from July, 1866; brevet major and lieutenant-colonel U. S. Army for faithful and meritorious services during the war; trans. to 14th Infantry July 22, 1869.

HEADQUARTERS DEPOT PRISONERS OF WAR,

Elmira, N. Y., February 25, 18V5.
Respectfully returned to the Commissary-General of Prisoners with the following extracts from the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Trotter, in charge of the detachment, as to transportation:

The train left Elmira at 5 p. m. February 13 and reached 'Baltimore, via Northern Central Railroad, at 10 a. m. February 15, after many delays. During the night of February 14 neither water nor lights were provided for any car upon the train, as required by the terms of the contract, and three of the prisoners died from the con- tinned exposure. The train consisted of seventeen cars, with only one brakeman for the entire number, to which ten or more cattle cars were added when the train left Williamsport. * * * I would beg leave to call attention to the indifference of the officials of the Northern Central Railroad, who paid not the least attention to repeated applications for lights for the cars, which I was finally compelled to purchase myself. Neither did they supply any water or fuel after the train left Elmira. " * * The surgeon was strictly charged to send no one unable to endure the journey. It requires a pretty strong man, however, to endure a railroad journey of forty-one hours during such weather as prevailed at the time this party of prisoners was forwarded.

B. F. TRACY,

Colonel 127th U. S. Colored Troops, Commanding Depot.

APPOINTMENT AS PAYMASTER.-Captain George Truesdell, late of the 12th regiment N. Y. V., has been appointed to a Paymastership by the Secretary of War. It is a handsome compliment, and is most worthily bestowed. We congratulate Capt. Truesdell. (Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 1868)

In 1887, Eckington (Onondaga) was bought by George Truesdell and his wife (Martha) Frances Prindle, who subdivided the property, improved it substantially for habitation, sold lots, and built several houses. Truesdell undertook extensive grading operations to level the landscape of his 87 acre Eckington subdivision. He laid down water and sewer pipes, paved streets in asphalt and concrete, and erected a stand pipe near the old Gales house. A steam pump brought water to the stand pipe, which distributed water throughout the new neighborhood. Truesdell erected five “pretty cottages” which, according to an 1888 newspaper account, were “all fitted up as city houses,” with steam heat and hot and cold running water. Eckington was wired for electricity in 1889, two years before electricity was installed in the White House. In three years Truesdell spent $500,000 improving the subdivision.

The contractor for Truesdell’s houses was John H. Lane, who moved from Dupont Circle into one of those houses at 1725 Third Street. From 1889 to 1897, Lane developed nearly twenty properties in Eckington. None of Truesdell’s original five houses exists today, although several detached houses from the late 1800s, by Lane and others, dot the streetscape of Eckington. . . .

Truesdell placed restrictive covenants in the deeds of Eckington’s residential properties which required that each house cost at least $2,000 and be set back 15 feet (4.6 m) from the building line. There was to be no manufacturing, “nor shall spirituous liquors be sold therein. The Union Army veteran did not place racial restrictions in the deeds, although as late as 1930 there were no African American families living in Eckington.

Tucker, R. A., x, Randolph, 359

.Tuffts, A. B., x, Ilion, 591

.Tuller, Rollin B., x, Cuba, 306

d. Aug. 12, 1915 ae 74y; Grove Cemetery, Town of Ulysses, Tompkins Co., NY

Co E-148th Reg NY Vol
Turner, H. E., (Col.), Lowville, 134

Henry E. Turner, b. 1 Apr 1830, Winchester, NH.

Robert, son of Captain William H. Turner, was born at Glastonbury, 1804. He was educated in the common schools. and began when a boy to follow the seas. When he was twenty-three years old he went to Winchester, New Hampshire, to enter the employ of his elder brothers, who were engaged in the manufacturing of woolen goods in that town. In 1841 he removed to New York state and located in the town of Vienna, Oneida county, and for three years manufactured woolens there. He then removed to Stockbridge, Madison county, New York, and continued in the same line of business until 1865. Then he located at Dexter, Michigan, and carried on woolen manufacture until 1874, when he retired. He then made his home at Saginaw, Michigan, where he resided the remainder of his life.

His death in May, 1893, was caused by an accident. He married, Coraline, born at Orange, Franklin county, Mass., 1808, daughter of Seth and Susanna (Cheney) Ellis. The Cheney family has been prominent in New England from the first settlement.

While serving his term as judge the civil war appealed to his patriotism and he decided to go to the front. He aided in raising the First New York Light Artillery Regiment and was chosen lieutenant-colonel. He sent his resignation of the office of county judge to the governor of the state and it was refused. Judge Turner was given, instead, a leave of absence from the army in order to hold court during the next term. He had had military training as a private in the Lowville Company of the National Guard, in which he enlisted in 1858, becoming captain in 1860. He was with his regiment in the winter of 1861-62 in Washington and Maryland. In March 1862, he was given command of the reserve and light artillery depot for the Army and of the Potomac near Washington, and for his efficient service received the special commendation of General Barry, chief of artillery, Army of the Potomac. On account of continued ill health he resigned his commission in the army, April 30, 1862, and his illness lasted during the entire summer following. In the winter of 1864 he again entered the service as captain of Company H. Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry. In April, 1865, he was ordered to hold his command in readiness to join General Sheridan in Texas, but subsequently was ordered to Madison barracks, where he and his command were mustered out July 10, 1865. On the recommendation of General John A. Dix, under whom Judge Turner had served, he was tendered a captain's commission in the regular army, but he declined.

After the war he resumed the practice of law in Lowville. In 1870, though he declined to be a candidate, he was nominated and elected district attorney. During the term of office he tried more cases than any predecessor in the same period of time.

During his second winter at Albany he introduced and carried through a bill to appropriate $300,000 to equip the National Guard of the state with overcoats, knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, blankets and tentage. His interest in military affairs did not cease with the close of the war. He was appointed inspector with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on the staff of the major general commanding the Fourth division; was promoted in 1871 to the rank of colonel, serving as assistant adjutant general. In 1881 he was elected a member of the board of regents of the State University, serving until April, 1904, when he declined to become a candidate for re-election. In 1886 he was again elected county judge of Lewis county and he continued on the bench until Jan. 1, 1903. In June, 1901, the degree of L.L.D. was conferred upon Judge Turner by Alfred University.

In September, 1882, he joined the Grand Army of the Republic and was elected commander of Post No. 200, of Lowville, and with the single exception of the year 1889 he has served in this office by annual re-election to the present time. He was adjutant general of the Department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic. He has been a member of Lowville Lodge, No. 134, Free and Accepted Masons, since 1859; of Lowville Chapter, No. 293, Royal Arch Masons, since May 1868. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Judge Turner's law partner is Frank Bowman and the present firm name is Turner & Bowman.

He married in January 1857, Amadna L., born 1838, daughter of W. W. Hill and grand-daughter of Ebenezer Hill, one of the first settlers of Lowville. Mrs. Turner was an amiable and gifted woman, an artist of rare ability. She died May 25, 1894. Children:

1. William Henry Allison, b. Dec. 1858, died May 25, 1900; educated at Lowville Academy, Hungerford Institute at Adams and at the Albany Medical College; practiced medicine at Denmark, Lewis county, for a time; removed to Wisconsin, where he practiced successfully until his death.

2. Edith L., b. Sept. 15, 1861; married Daniel J. Dorance, of Camden, New York, cashier of the First National Bank; children: John Gordon, Neil H. and Henry T. Dorance.

3. Cornelia A., b. May 12, 1865; resides at home with her father.

4. Louise, b. Sept. 7, 1872; married Edgar A. Barrell, of New Bedford, Mass.: child, Edgar A. Barrell. Jr.

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'WAR, WAR, WAR:

Company A

Commanded by Capt. H. G. Tuthill of Nunda and Lieut. L. C. Skinner, the first Company organized and in first class Regiment.
The Wadsworth Guards
Are now in camp at Camp Union, Geneseo and are to be attached to Gen. Wadsworth's Brigade.
This Company is now organized and nearly full, consequently only a few more volunteers wanted.
Pay $13 to $23 Per Month: and $100 bounty at close of the War; or time of discharge and all other enrollments received by any other Regiment. Pay rations and Uniforms furnished from date of enlistment.
Volunteers may enlist and be forwarded to the camp by applying to S. A. Ellis, 78 State Street, Rochester or at our tent on the camp ground where are now quartered at Camp Union, Geneseo, Livingston County, New York.

Capt. H. G. Tuthill

Excerpt from: Raymond G Barber and Gary E Swinson (ed.), The Civil War Letters of Charles Barber, Private, 104th New York Volunteer Infantry, privately published by Gary E Swinson, 20705 Wood Ave, Torrance CA 90503, 1991.

"Camp Wadsworth near Washington D C Apr 3rd - 1862 ..... I am well and hearty our camp is on high dry ground we have good water better than I expected I think it is a healthy camp ground here our regt is healthy excepting about two hundred of our men and boys that have got diseases from abandoned women there is 175 been to our surgeon to get cured they gor cold on the march and had a hard time of it some of them are married men."

And a little later: "one of our men is in the guard house for threatening to shoot our Captain. He is being Court martialed to day it may go hard with him he has a wife and two children." But from a later letter of Apr 13th 1862: "The man who was under arrest for threatning [sic] to kill Captain Tuthill has had his trial he was condemed [sic] and then pardoned when I get home I can tell thousands of stories that I cannot write."

John TUTHILL, was born on Long Island, Sept. 8, 1742; his son, Samuel TUTHILL, was born May 17, 1768; and his son, Samuel TUTHILL, Jr., was born in Windham county, Vt., May 29, 1797. He married, Oct. 17, 1822. Previous to his marriage Mr. TUTHILL had been to East Otto, selected a farm, and cleared a small piece of land; after his marriage he, with his wife, started for their wilderness home, where they arrived Jan. 23, 1823. About two years later he located on the farm later owned by Harvey TUTHILL, where he resided till his death. Mr. TUTHILL was for many years a prominent citizen of the town, holding several offices of trust and

responsibility. He and his wife were constituent members of the Baptist church, of which he was chosen one of its first deacons in 1825. He left a family of two sons and two daughters. Col. Henry G. TUTHILL raised a company in Nunda in 1861, joined the 104th N. Y. Vol. Inf., and was a brave and efficient officer through the war. He was wounded at Antietam, and at Gettysburg was shot through the groin and still carries the ball in his body. He is an architect in Corning.