Burton D. Ham

1817 - 1902  (84 years)

• Name	Burton D. Ham
  Birth	8 Dec 1817	East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 May 1902	East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Burial	Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol, Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Notes	A man named Burton Ham, residing in Bristol, in this county, while riding on horseback one day last, was thrown from his horse. His foot caught in the stirrup, and his horse becoming frightened, ran, dragging him over the frozen ground for a distance of forty rods. Fortunately his coat was drawn backward, which protected his head and side and possibly saved his life. His foot was only extricated from its entanglement by being drawn out of the boot. Strange as it may seem, he escaped with only a few bruises -- so says the Ontario Times. (Geneva Courier, Geneva, Ontario County, New York, February 3, 1858) East Bloomfield, N. Y. On Saturday night at his home, two miles north of this village, Burton Ham died, at the age of 84 years. Mr. Ham was born December 8, 1817, near the old stone mill, and had lived here all his life with the exception of some seven or eight years spent in the towns of West Bloomfield and Bristol. He was one of the most companionable of men and reminiscent of the days when Bloomfield was the metropolis of Western New York and Rochester was a small hamlet. A few years ago he possessed a large collection of native and foreign coins, some of them 3,000 years old, almanacs from 1600 to the present time, Indian relics, and old books, all of which he delighted to exhibit to his friends. He leaves a wife, three daughters, Mrs. Myron Codding, and Mrs. Delia Hawey of West Bloomfield, and Georgia Ham, of this place; one brother, Moses Ham, of Newark, N. Y.; and two sisters, Mrs. Ira Leete, of Marion, N. Y., and Mrs. Aaron Orcutt of West Bloomfield. (Ontario County Chronicle, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, May 14, 1902) Burton D. Ham, East Bloomfield, was born in East Bloomfield, December 8, 1817, a son of Robert and Eunice Gyle Ham. The grandfather, Thomas, was a son of Gabriel, who came from Scotland and settled near Dartmouth College. Here Thomas, his son, was born, and he was the father of five daughters and eight sons, three of whom died in the war for independence. Robert, the fifth son of Thomas, the father of Burton D., was born near New Haven, Conn., and was a tailor by trade. He moved to New Hampshire, then in 1806 came to Canandaigua, remained two years, then returned and brought his family. In 1808 he settled in East Bloomfield. He was one of the organizers of the First Universalist Church and was truly a conscientious Christian. He owned a farm in Hopewell on which he lived three years, then returned to East Bloomfield and died there aged eighty three. He was twice married, first to a daughter of Governor Marsh, of Vermont, by whom he had two sons, Ida and Carlysle, and two daughters, Cilvy and Orell. He married second Eunice, a daughter of Stephen Gyle, a prominent man of his time, being general surveyor for the Army of the Revolution, and owner of nearly eight entire townships of land in Vermont and New Hampshire at the time of his death. Subject's father had nine children by his second wife, three sons and six daughters, two daughters and two sons are yet living. Moses F. Hamm, a prominent and successful businessman of Newark, Wayne county; Helen Leste, of Marion; Eunice Orcutt of West Bloomfield; and Burton D. Ham, of East Bloomfield. Rev. Robert Ham, brother of Burton and Moses, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Oberlin, O., and died in Cleveland in 1860. His mother died in Hopewell in 1852, aged sixty-one years. Burton received a common school education, then taught school several terms, the first term when only sixteen years of age. He has been a farmer over forty years, and for many years owned several hundred acres of land in East Bloomfield, but now only cares for about 200 acres. He was an active politician, first Whig then Republican, and for the last seven years a Prohibitionist. He has been a delegate to county conventions in all twenty two years, and was constable and collector eight years in succession in the town of Bristol. He has been a collector of coins, Indian relics, and rare old books for the last thirty years, and now has the best library of old books in Western New York. He was one of the organizers of the Historical Society and has been a frequent contributor on historical subjects to various journals. He married Evelina B. Spencer, daughter of George and Pamela P. Spencer, and they have had three children: Adelaide, wife of Myron Codding; Delia, wife of Jewitt Harvey; and Georgianna B. Ham. (History of Ontario County,compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich, edited by George S. Conover, Published 1893)
  Person ID	I41614	OurNorthernRoots
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Hamm,   b. 1774, New Hampshire, USA d. 26 Mar 1857, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Eunice Gyle,   b. 1787   d. 1843, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F1433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eveline Spencer,   b. 21 Aug 1820, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA d. 26 Dec 1905, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 85 years)
  Children	+ 1. Adelaide Ham,   b. Aug 1845, Ontario Co., New York, USA d. 1926, Bristol, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age ~ 80 years)   2. Delia Ham,   b. 1848, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA d. 2 Dec 1902, West Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 54 years)   3. Georgianna Ham,   b. Est 1850, Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Family ID	F14720	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 8 Dec 1817 - East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA Death - 10 May 1902 - East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., New York, USA Burial - - Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol, Ontario Co., New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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