David Hempstead Hotchkiss was born on 17 Feb 1832 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY, the eldest of six children born to the marriage of Harry Hotchkiss and Amanda Hempstead. He was the great grandson of David Hotchkiss the founder of Windsor, Broome Co, NY, for whom he was named.
He married Miss Anna E. Jacobus on 15 Apr 1855 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY.
David and Anna had three children: Jane "Jennie" Amanda, Henry "Harry" Thomas and Ada Maude.
He served his country in the Civil War enlisting in Co G, 89th Regiment NYS Volunteers.
He he was a miller by trade and served his community as town Supervisor and Postmaster for Windsor.
David died suddenly on Tuesday morning 06 Jun 1882 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY, aged 50 Years 3 Months 18 Days.
OBITUARY
The Windsor Standard
A LEADING CITIZEN DEAD
The death of David H. Hotchkiss, which occurred early last Tuesday morning, following a stroke of apoplexy the previous evening, has left a great vacancy in Windsor. It was not realized how large a place he occupied in the confidence and respect of the people until death has revealed the vacancy. He was not ostentatious, nor ambitious to seek responsibilities -- but as tried and trusted, responsibilities sought the man who was worthy to bear them. As supervisor of this town the present year, and Postmaster for several years; as Trustee of the society, office bearer and stated Clerk of the church of which he was a member, and also Superintendent of the Sabbath school for a number of years, are all the testimony needed to show the public confidence in his real worth. The death of no other citizen in the town would be felt as an equal loss.
He was born in Windsor 50 years ago last February, and has spent most of his life in the town, always taking a deep interest in whatever concerned the public welfare of the place. He had a kindly heart, and the afflicted always found in him one ready to sympathize and help when help was needed. Few families were more happy in their home circle or with their kindred, and this both embitters and sweetens the sudden separation. The whole community sympathizes with them as partakers of their great loss. He leaves a wife, son, and two daughters, three sisters and an aged mother, to whom he has been all that a son and brother -- all that a husband and father, could well be to make his life a great blessing and his death a great loss, but Heaven has gained.
The funeral held at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday afternoon, was very largely attended. The sermon by Rev. Mr. Pattengill was a fitting tribute to a noble man, and forcibly illustrated "The Power of Christian Faithfulness."
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OBITUARY
Binghamton Press
07 June 1882
A SERIOUS LOSS
DEATH OF D. H. HOTCHKISS, ESQ., OF WINDSOR
The startling intelligence reached this city at an early hour yesterday, that David H. Hotchkiss, Esq., of Windsor, died at his home in that village at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. He was as well as usual on Monday, at least until late in the afternoon. About 8 o'clock Monday evening he called upon a neighbor and had scarcely taken a seat when he fell into an apoplectic fit. Assistance was immediately called and he was carried to his home. Under effective remedies he seemed to improve until about midnight, when he was seized with a chill, became unconscious and died a few hours afterwords. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and four children.
Mr. Hotchkiss was well and widely known in this county, and had been for years, one of the leading men of his town.
At the time of his death he was Supervisor of Windsor and serving his second term as postmaster at that village. In disposition, life and character he was singularly exemplary and fortunate. In manner he was quiet and unassuming, prudent in action and speech, wise in counsel, loyal to every duty, and possessed and unflinching integrity, which won the confidence and regard of all who knew him.
As a public spirited citizen, as a kind husband and father, as the support of a widowed mother, as a loving and loyal brother and friend, as an active member of the church and a laborer in every good work, as a public officer -- in all these relations it is not too much to say of him that no duty was left undone. Principle was never sacrificed for expediency; convictions were never surrendered for self interest; and yet he had such regard for the feelings and opinions of others that his own were never made offensive. The death of such a man is an irreparable loss to the community in which he lives, though it still retains the heritage of his example.
The funeral of Mr. Hotchkiss will take place at Windsor at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
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Henry White Callahan, in his "Memories of Windsor" wrote regarding David Hotchkiss -
"There was one man in Windsor who was known to very, very few of those with whom he associated. It was said that he could not express himself; that perhaps his ideas were good enough, but he lacked the English to express them. My friend, the fault was ours. He was a philosopher in thought; his expression was poetic. Believe me; I am now using the language of a critic, not prompted by ardor as a friend. It has been my good fortune to delve somewhat in letters, and to have been associated with a few who lead the thought of our generation; and when I say that this man, in some lines, was as true a philosopher as many who have made a name in our time, I know whereof I speak. I have seen manuscripts and letters of his which would have done credit to Charles Lamb or Oliver Wendell Holmes. He saw life in an original perspective. In metaphysics he reached conclusions by his own unaided reasoning which now adorns the pages of a Porter and a McCosh. He was a Franklinite in his aphorisms and in the proverbial turn of his thought. Laughing one day at a fellow with a loud suit, a cigar, a silk hat and heavy watch chain, he replied, "Mr. Callahan, that suit, cigar, chain and hat, each, is to his mind the difference between his personality and his ideal; he advertises what he lacks." It was my privilege to talk with him during his first reading of several standards in English literature, and I am indebted to him for a knowledge of those masterpieces which otherwise would never have been mine. Joined to these intellectual qualities there was a refined delicacy of appreciation of all that is sweetest and best in life, together with a whole-souled charity which labored for all. Modest and retiring to a fault, his light was under a bushel, and few of us ever knew the power of that man -- David Hotchkiss."
He married Miss Anna E. Jacobus on 15 Apr 1855 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY.
David and Anna had three children: Jane "Jennie" Amanda, Henry "Harry" Thomas and Ada Maude.
He served his country in the Civil War enlisting in Co G, 89th Regiment NYS Volunteers.
He he was a miller by trade and served his community as town Supervisor and Postmaster for Windsor.
David died suddenly on Tuesday morning 06 Jun 1882 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY, aged 50 Years 3 Months 18 Days.
OBITUARY
The Windsor Standard
A LEADING CITIZEN DEAD
The death of David H. Hotchkiss, which occurred early last Tuesday morning, following a stroke of apoplexy the previous evening, has left a great vacancy in Windsor. It was not realized how large a place he occupied in the confidence and respect of the people until death has revealed the vacancy. He was not ostentatious, nor ambitious to seek responsibilities -- but as tried and trusted, responsibilities sought the man who was worthy to bear them. As supervisor of this town the present year, and Postmaster for several years; as Trustee of the society, office bearer and stated Clerk of the church of which he was a member, and also Superintendent of the Sabbath school for a number of years, are all the testimony needed to show the public confidence in his real worth. The death of no other citizen in the town would be felt as an equal loss.
He was born in Windsor 50 years ago last February, and has spent most of his life in the town, always taking a deep interest in whatever concerned the public welfare of the place. He had a kindly heart, and the afflicted always found in him one ready to sympathize and help when help was needed. Few families were more happy in their home circle or with their kindred, and this both embitters and sweetens the sudden separation. The whole community sympathizes with them as partakers of their great loss. He leaves a wife, son, and two daughters, three sisters and an aged mother, to whom he has been all that a son and brother -- all that a husband and father, could well be to make his life a great blessing and his death a great loss, but Heaven has gained.
The funeral held at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday afternoon, was very largely attended. The sermon by Rev. Mr. Pattengill was a fitting tribute to a noble man, and forcibly illustrated "The Power of Christian Faithfulness."
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OBITUARY
Binghamton Press
07 June 1882
A SERIOUS LOSS
DEATH OF D. H. HOTCHKISS, ESQ., OF WINDSOR
The startling intelligence reached this city at an early hour yesterday, that David H. Hotchkiss, Esq., of Windsor, died at his home in that village at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. He was as well as usual on Monday, at least until late in the afternoon. About 8 o'clock Monday evening he called upon a neighbor and had scarcely taken a seat when he fell into an apoplectic fit. Assistance was immediately called and he was carried to his home. Under effective remedies he seemed to improve until about midnight, when he was seized with a chill, became unconscious and died a few hours afterwords. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and four children.
Mr. Hotchkiss was well and widely known in this county, and had been for years, one of the leading men of his town.
At the time of his death he was Supervisor of Windsor and serving his second term as postmaster at that village. In disposition, life and character he was singularly exemplary and fortunate. In manner he was quiet and unassuming, prudent in action and speech, wise in counsel, loyal to every duty, and possessed and unflinching integrity, which won the confidence and regard of all who knew him.
As a public spirited citizen, as a kind husband and father, as the support of a widowed mother, as a loving and loyal brother and friend, as an active member of the church and a laborer in every good work, as a public officer -- in all these relations it is not too much to say of him that no duty was left undone. Principle was never sacrificed for expediency; convictions were never surrendered for self interest; and yet he had such regard for the feelings and opinions of others that his own were never made offensive. The death of such a man is an irreparable loss to the community in which he lives, though it still retains the heritage of his example.
The funeral of Mr. Hotchkiss will take place at Windsor at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
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Henry White Callahan, in his "Memories of Windsor" wrote regarding David Hotchkiss -
"There was one man in Windsor who was known to very, very few of those with whom he associated. It was said that he could not express himself; that perhaps his ideas were good enough, but he lacked the English to express them. My friend, the fault was ours. He was a philosopher in thought; his expression was poetic. Believe me; I am now using the language of a critic, not prompted by ardor as a friend. It has been my good fortune to delve somewhat in letters, and to have been associated with a few who lead the thought of our generation; and when I say that this man, in some lines, was as true a philosopher as many who have made a name in our time, I know whereof I speak. I have seen manuscripts and letters of his which would have done credit to Charles Lamb or Oliver Wendell Holmes. He saw life in an original perspective. In metaphysics he reached conclusions by his own unaided reasoning which now adorns the pages of a Porter and a McCosh. He was a Franklinite in his aphorisms and in the proverbial turn of his thought. Laughing one day at a fellow with a loud suit, a cigar, a silk hat and heavy watch chain, he replied, "Mr. Callahan, that suit, cigar, chain and hat, each, is to his mind the difference between his personality and his ideal; he advertises what he lacks." It was my privilege to talk with him during his first reading of several standards in English literature, and I am indebted to him for a knowledge of those masterpieces which otherwise would never have been mine. Joined to these intellectual qualities there was a refined delicacy of appreciation of all that is sweetest and best in life, together with a whole-souled charity which labored for all. Modest and retiring to a fault, his light was under a bushel, and few of us ever knew the power of that man -- David Hotchkiss."
David Hempstead Hotchkiss was born on 17 Feb 1832 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY, the eldest of six children born to the marriage of Harry Hotchkiss and Amanda Hempstead. He was the great grandson of David Hotchkiss the founder of Windsor, Broome Co, NY, for whom he was named.
He married Miss Anna E. Jacobus on 15 Apr 1855 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY.
David and Anna had three children: Jane "Jennie" Amanda, Henry "Harry" Thomas and Ada Maude.
He served his country in the Civil War enlisting in Co G, 89th Regiment NYS Volunteers.
He he was a miller by trade and served his community as town Supervisor and Postmaster for Windsor.
David died suddenly on Tuesday morning 06 Jun 1882 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY, aged 50 Years 3 Months 18 Days.
OBITUARY
The Windsor Standard
A LEADING CITIZEN DEAD
The death of David H. Hotchkiss, which occurred early last Tuesday morning, following a stroke of apoplexy the previous evening, has left a great vacancy in Windsor. It was not realized how large a place he occupied in the confidence and respect of the people until death has revealed the vacancy. He was not ostentatious, nor ambitious to seek responsibilities -- but as tried and trusted, responsibilities sought the man who was worthy to bear them. As supervisor of this town the present year, and Postmaster for several years; as Trustee of the society, office bearer and stated Clerk of the church of which he was a member, and also Superintendent of the Sabbath school for a number of years, are all the testimony needed to show the public confidence in his real worth. The death of no other citizen in the town would be felt as an equal loss.
He was born in Windsor 50 years ago last February, and has spent most of his life in the town, always taking a deep interest in whatever concerned the public welfare of the place. He had a kindly heart, and the afflicted always found in him one ready to sympathize and help when help was needed. Few families were more happy in their home circle or with their kindred, and this both embitters and sweetens the sudden separation. The whole community sympathizes with them as partakers of their great loss. He leaves a wife, son, and two daughters, three sisters and an aged mother, to whom he has been all that a son and brother -- all that a husband and father, could well be to make his life a great blessing and his death a great loss, but Heaven has gained.
The funeral held at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday afternoon, was very largely attended. The sermon by Rev. Mr. Pattengill was a fitting tribute to a noble man, and forcibly illustrated "The Power of Christian Faithfulness."
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OBITUARY
Binghamton Press
07 June 1882
A SERIOUS LOSS
DEATH OF D. H. HOTCHKISS, ESQ., OF WINDSOR
The startling intelligence reached this city at an early hour yesterday, that David H. Hotchkiss, Esq., of Windsor, died at his home in that village at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. He was as well as usual on Monday, at least until late in the afternoon. About 8 o'clock Monday evening he called upon a neighbor and had scarcely taken a seat when he fell into an apoplectic fit. Assistance was immediately called and he was carried to his home. Under effective remedies he seemed to improve until about midnight, when he was seized with a chill, became unconscious and died a few hours afterwords. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and four children.
Mr. Hotchkiss was well and widely known in this county, and had been for years, one of the leading men of his town.
At the time of his death he was Supervisor of Windsor and serving his second term as postmaster at that village. In disposition, life and character he was singularly exemplary and fortunate. In manner he was quiet and unassuming, prudent in action and speech, wise in counsel, loyal to every duty, and possessed and unflinching integrity, which won the confidence and regard of all who knew him.
As a public spirited citizen, as a kind husband and father, as the support of a widowed mother, as a loving and loyal brother and friend, as an active member of the church and a laborer in every good work, as a public officer -- in all these relations it is not too much to say of him that no duty was left undone. Principle was never sacrificed for expediency; convictions were never surrendered for self interest; and yet he had such regard for the feelings and opinions of others that his own were never made offensive. The death of such a man is an irreparable loss to the community in which he lives, though it still retains the heritage of his example.
The funeral of Mr. Hotchkiss will take place at Windsor at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
_____
Henry White Callahan, in his "Memories of Windsor" wrote regarding David Hotchkiss -
"There was one man in Windsor who was known to very, very few of those with whom he associated. It was said that he could not express himself; that perhaps his ideas were good enough, but he lacked the English to express them. My friend, the fault was ours. He was a philosopher in thought; his expression was poetic. Believe me; I am now using the language of a critic, not prompted by ardor as a friend. It has been my good fortune to delve somewhat in letters, and to have been associated with a few who lead the thought of our generation; and when I say that this man, in some lines, was as true a philosopher as many who have made a name in our time, I know whereof I speak. I have seen manuscripts and letters of his which would have done credit to Charles Lamb or Oliver Wendell Holmes. He saw life in an original perspective. In metaphysics he reached conclusions by his own unaided reasoning which now adorns the pages of a Porter and a McCosh. He was a Franklinite in his aphorisms and in the proverbial turn of his thought. Laughing one day at a fellow with a loud suit, a cigar, a silk hat and heavy watch chain, he replied, "Mr. Callahan, that suit, cigar, chain and hat, each, is to his mind the difference between his personality and his ideal; he advertises what he lacks." It was my privilege to talk with him during his first reading of several standards in English literature, and I am indebted to him for a knowledge of those masterpieces which otherwise would never have been mine. Joined to these intellectual qualities there was a refined delicacy of appreciation of all that is sweetest and best in life, together with a whole-souled charity which labored for all. Modest and retiring to a fault, his light was under a bushel, and few of us ever knew the power of that man -- David Hotchkiss."
He married Miss Anna E. Jacobus on 15 Apr 1855 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY.
David and Anna had three children: Jane "Jennie" Amanda, Henry "Harry" Thomas and Ada Maude.
He served his country in the Civil War enlisting in Co G, 89th Regiment NYS Volunteers.
He he was a miller by trade and served his community as town Supervisor and Postmaster for Windsor.
David died suddenly on Tuesday morning 06 Jun 1882 in Windsor, Broome Co, NY, aged 50 Years 3 Months 18 Days.
OBITUARY
The Windsor Standard
A LEADING CITIZEN DEAD
The death of David H. Hotchkiss, which occurred early last Tuesday morning, following a stroke of apoplexy the previous evening, has left a great vacancy in Windsor. It was not realized how large a place he occupied in the confidence and respect of the people until death has revealed the vacancy. He was not ostentatious, nor ambitious to seek responsibilities -- but as tried and trusted, responsibilities sought the man who was worthy to bear them. As supervisor of this town the present year, and Postmaster for several years; as Trustee of the society, office bearer and stated Clerk of the church of which he was a member, and also Superintendent of the Sabbath school for a number of years, are all the testimony needed to show the public confidence in his real worth. The death of no other citizen in the town would be felt as an equal loss.
He was born in Windsor 50 years ago last February, and has spent most of his life in the town, always taking a deep interest in whatever concerned the public welfare of the place. He had a kindly heart, and the afflicted always found in him one ready to sympathize and help when help was needed. Few families were more happy in their home circle or with their kindred, and this both embitters and sweetens the sudden separation. The whole community sympathizes with them as partakers of their great loss. He leaves a wife, son, and two daughters, three sisters and an aged mother, to whom he has been all that a son and brother -- all that a husband and father, could well be to make his life a great blessing and his death a great loss, but Heaven has gained.
The funeral held at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday afternoon, was very largely attended. The sermon by Rev. Mr. Pattengill was a fitting tribute to a noble man, and forcibly illustrated "The Power of Christian Faithfulness."
_____
OBITUARY
Binghamton Press
07 June 1882
A SERIOUS LOSS
DEATH OF D. H. HOTCHKISS, ESQ., OF WINDSOR
The startling intelligence reached this city at an early hour yesterday, that David H. Hotchkiss, Esq., of Windsor, died at his home in that village at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. He was as well as usual on Monday, at least until late in the afternoon. About 8 o'clock Monday evening he called upon a neighbor and had scarcely taken a seat when he fell into an apoplectic fit. Assistance was immediately called and he was carried to his home. Under effective remedies he seemed to improve until about midnight, when he was seized with a chill, became unconscious and died a few hours afterwords. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and four children.
Mr. Hotchkiss was well and widely known in this county, and had been for years, one of the leading men of his town.
At the time of his death he was Supervisor of Windsor and serving his second term as postmaster at that village. In disposition, life and character he was singularly exemplary and fortunate. In manner he was quiet and unassuming, prudent in action and speech, wise in counsel, loyal to every duty, and possessed and unflinching integrity, which won the confidence and regard of all who knew him.
As a public spirited citizen, as a kind husband and father, as the support of a widowed mother, as a loving and loyal brother and friend, as an active member of the church and a laborer in every good work, as a public officer -- in all these relations it is not too much to say of him that no duty was left undone. Principle was never sacrificed for expediency; convictions were never surrendered for self interest; and yet he had such regard for the feelings and opinions of others that his own were never made offensive. The death of such a man is an irreparable loss to the community in which he lives, though it still retains the heritage of his example.
The funeral of Mr. Hotchkiss will take place at Windsor at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
_____
Henry White Callahan, in his "Memories of Windsor" wrote regarding David Hotchkiss -
"There was one man in Windsor who was known to very, very few of those with whom he associated. It was said that he could not express himself; that perhaps his ideas were good enough, but he lacked the English to express them. My friend, the fault was ours. He was a philosopher in thought; his expression was poetic. Believe me; I am now using the language of a critic, not prompted by ardor as a friend. It has been my good fortune to delve somewhat in letters, and to have been associated with a few who lead the thought of our generation; and when I say that this man, in some lines, was as true a philosopher as many who have made a name in our time, I know whereof I speak. I have seen manuscripts and letters of his which would have done credit to Charles Lamb or Oliver Wendell Holmes. He saw life in an original perspective. In metaphysics he reached conclusions by his own unaided reasoning which now adorns the pages of a Porter and a McCosh. He was a Franklinite in his aphorisms and in the proverbial turn of his thought. Laughing one day at a fellow with a loud suit, a cigar, a silk hat and heavy watch chain, he replied, "Mr. Callahan, that suit, cigar, chain and hat, each, is to his mind the difference between his personality and his ideal; he advertises what he lacks." It was my privilege to talk with him during his first reading of several standards in English literature, and I am indebted to him for a knowledge of those masterpieces which otherwise would never have been mine. Joined to these intellectual qualities there was a refined delicacy of appreciation of all that is sweetest and best in life, together with a whole-souled charity which labored for all. Modest and retiring to a fault, his light was under a bushel, and few of us ever knew the power of that man -- David Hotchkiss."
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