At age five in 1860 in this tintype photograph in an ornate copper-foil frame.
Harvey James Dudley
Born:11 Aug 1855 in Constable, New York
Died: 23 Feb 1943 in Malone, New York
At age five in 1860 in this tintype photograph in an ornate copper-foil
frame.
Harvey James, son of James Smith Dudley, was
born in Constable, New York, Aug. 11, 1855. He was educated there in the public
schools and in Franklin Academy. He worked for his father in his general store
at Constable, and later carried on the business for twenty-five years on his
own account, and also conducted the potato starch business established by his
father. He was postmaster of Constable for eighteen years and town clerk for
a long time. From March, 1901 to Jan. 1903, he was supervisor of the town, and
he took a leading position in the board of supervisors of the county. He has
been county clerk since Jan. 1, 1904, being re-elected in 1906 for a full term,
his term expiring Dec. 31, 1909. He is one of the best known men in public life
in this section of the state, and is an active and influential Republican. He
is a member of Nashoba Lodge. No. 78, Odd Fellows; of Northern Constellation
Lodge of Free Masons. No. 291; of Northern Constellation Chapter, No. 28, Royal
Arch Masons; of Franklin Commandery, No. 60, Knights Templar; and of Karnak
Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Montreal. He is interested in local history and genealogy,
and is a member of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Harvey J. Dudley was descendant from James Harwood, a private in the First New
Hampshire Regiment in the revolution, through his daughter Lydia, who married
Jedediah Hutchins, and granddaughter of Cynthia Hutchins, who married Joseph
Hastings. The latter was his mother's father.
He married, Dec. 14, 1881, Carrie M. Harmon, born Sept. 22, 1856, daughter
of Benjamin Harmon, of Constable.
Children:
1. Benjamin Harmon, born Jan. 31, 1885, graduate
of Franklin Academy and of Dartmouth College, class of 1909; also took a post-graduate
course in the Thayer School of Civil Engineering (Dartmouth College), given
degree of C. E., April 27, 1910; he began his career in the Division Engineer's
Department of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company at Albany,
N.Y.; was a member of the Northern Constellation Lodge of Free Masons. He retired
from the New York Central Raiload in 1952 and moved from Bergenfield, New Jersey
to Rochester, New York.
2. Gertrude M., born Aug. 24, 1888; graduate of Franklin Academy in 1909, and
Smith College, Northampton, MA in the class of 1913. She returned to Malone,
New York and taught history at Franklin Academy.
In religion the family are Presbyterians.
(The above information is from NORTHERN NEW YORK -- Genealogical and Family
History of Northern New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in
the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 1, published
by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company in 1910. {Note
by P.B.D. — Some of the information above for Benjamin and Gertrude was
in the present tense in the 1910 original and was obsolete. I updated it slightly
for this page.}
The complete Dudley family history has been transcribed on the following
Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/dudley.html)
The image above is an 1874 tintype taken when he was 19. It has been enhanced, as the original is very dark.
Pictures
of Harvey James and his family
Photo taken about 1907.
At work in his office as Franklin County (New York) Clerk in Malone, NY. — 1908
Photo taken in the rose garden of his home at 76 Park Street, Malone, NY in
July 1928.
At his home in Malone on his 85th birthday, August 11, 1940.