Mary Pool

Notes:

of Bristol,NY in 1851

Mary married Abiel Hathaway about 1806 in Ontario County, New York. Abiel (son of Seth Hathaway and Barsheba Gooding) was born on 1 Mar 1786 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 5 Nov 1843 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Codding Cemetery, Bristol, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A. Chandler Hathaway, Bristol, a native of Bristol, was born February 23, 1822, and is a son of Abial, a son of Seth, a native of Vermont, who came to Bristol about 1804. His wife was Bathsheba Gooding, and they reared seven sons and four daughters. He settled on a farm (part of which subject now owns). He was an Anti-Federalist and was the first justice of the peace in Bristol, appointed by the governor. Abial was born March 1, 1786, and came to Bristol when a young man. He married Mary, a daughter of Isaac (born June 26, 1752) and Ann (born December 30, 1756) Pool, of Dighton, Mass. Abial had three sons and four daughters. He was engaged mostly in manufacturing woolen cloth at Bristol. He was a Democrat and was justice of peace many years and was a prominent Free Mason. He died November 5, 1843, and his wife June 12, 1859. Subject was reared as a wool carder and when sixteen years of age came with his parents to the farm he now owns and has here since resided. He learned the cooper's trade and followed it a number of years, but farming has been his principal occupation. He married H. Augusta Cornell of Bristol, a daughter of Isaiah S., who was a son of Stephen Cornell, and was born in Dighton, Mass., May 7, 1802, and married Eliza Gregg of Bristol, a daughter of George and Betsy (Gooding) Gregg, natives of Massachusetts. Mr. Cornell and wife had four sons and three daughters. The youngest son, Mervin E., was killed at the battle of Antietam at the age of twenty years. Mr. Cornell died in 1853, and his wife on May 14, 1843. To subject and wife were born two children: M. Agnes, who graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and is now a teacher; and James M., formerly a teacher, but now a farmer. Mr. Hathaway has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and family are members of the Universalist Church, and he has been chorister for fifty years. He and Billings T. Case formed the committee to raise money to build the church and carried it on very successfully, having the church paid for when built, also the parsonage. Mr. Hathaway missed but one meeting for twenty years in succession, and that was at the death of his mother.
(HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893)

Abiel married Hannah Augusta Cornell on 7 Dec 1862 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York. Hannah (daughter of Isaiah Stephen Cornell and Elizabeth Gregg) was born on 24 Jan 1837 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York; died on 24 Aug 1893 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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ary Agnes Hathaway was born December 2, 1863, in Bristol, New York, the daughter of A. [Abiel] Chandler Hathaway and H. [Hannah] Augusta Cornell, all of good family. Both grandparents and parents were earnest Universalists. Her paternal grandfather, her uncle and her great-grandfather were founders of the Universalist Society. Her maternal grandfather and aunt were the first to be baptized. She was educated in a very simple country school until eighteen years of age, and studied music with a very good Oberlin professor.

When almost twenty years of age, she went to Genesee Wesley University, Lima, New York, but stayed out two or three terms on account of poor health and for teaching. She graduated in 1888 at the head of her class. After that she taught public school in Lima [for] three years, then one term in a country school and one year in Newark, New York high school, from which position she was obliged to resign on account of her mother's death. After that she taught two terms in the Newark Valley primary school. Then she went to Lebanon Normal School for eight months. She had to give this up before graduating because of lack of money. In the autumn she took a position as a grammar school teacher in Chester, Illinois. There she taught four years.

Then she went to Lombard College to be Dean of Women and teacher of academic studies. Three years later she became teacher of history, and studied to get a diploma, graduating in 1905 with Stanley and Frank Adams, as an honor student.

In May, 1905, she came to Japan, and with the exception of a very few years on furlough, she has been connected with the Mission ever since. She did, however, resign at the age of sixty, and went home, speaking far and wide for Japan and against the Exclusion Act. But in 1928, the Women's Board needed someone to send to Japan, and she came back for an intended period of three years.

She had one brother who died leaving no children, so she is the last member of her branch of the Hathaway tree, though there are some cousins on the mother's side still living.
(The Christian Leader, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Saturday, April 22. 1939, Page 399)