Gertrude Holdridge [17539]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in her life were:

• No Name, 1850, Conewango, Cattaraugus County, New York. ¹²⁶⁵ Gertrude Holdridge appeared on the census of 1850 in the
household of Enoch Holdridge and Sarah Maybee Conewango,
Cattaraugus County, New York

• No Name, 1893, East Randolph, Cattaraugus County, New York. ¹²⁶⁴ Hon. Enoch Holdridge, eldest son of Rev. Price and Lydia
(Robinson) Holdridge, was born in Nelson, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1818.
His father, a pioneer preacher of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, settled in Napoli in 1832. He traveled hundreds of
miles through forests, storms, and sunshine. Enoch came to East
Randolph in 1838, and worked for Capt. Amos Hall one year at
$12 per month, and continued with him about fifteen years,
transacting a large amount of business along the Allegheny,
Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. He has been engaged on his own
account in lumbering, farming, and merchandizing, and now owns
with his son Ernest D. the "upper grist-mill" in East Randolph,
located on the site of the first grist-mill of the place
erected by Philemon Hall in 1824. Mr. Holdridge also has a
half-interest in the Randolph Mills in East Randolph Village.
He married Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Maybee. She is
the mother of his three children: Josie, born Feb. 22, 1846,
wife of Rev. W. W. Woodworth; Gertrude, born April 26, 1849,
died Dec. 27, 1852; and Ernest D., born May 20, 1856. The
latter was educated in Chamberlain Institute, engaged in
teaching, and began the study of law, but was obliged to
abandon it on account of ill-health. Enoch Holdridge was first
a Whig and joined the Republican Party at its organization. He
has received many political honors. He has served the town of
Conewango as justice of the peace twenty-one years, supervisor
eight years, and in 1872 was member of Assembly. In 1861 he was
appointed postmaster of East Randolph, and voluntarily resigned
in 1865 in favor of the veteran soldier, A. A. Hall, who lost a
leg in battle. He has served as a trustee of Randolph Academy
and at the organization of Chamberlain Institute was elected
trustee, which position he still holds. He has been an
efficient, honorable, and upright man and officer.