(Corning Journal; Corning, NY. Thursday, March 14, 1889, page unknown.)
The Elmira Advertiser announces the death of Joseph Burritt, aged 93, a retired jeweler. He moved to Ithaca from Connecticut in 1816 and started the first jewelry shop there. Ithaca then consisted of about a dozen houses. Mr. Burritt outlived all his business contemporaries. He never used spectacles or had an artificial tooth, and he enjoyed good health until his last illness, which was brief and the only illness of his life.
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(Ithaca Daily Journal. Ithaca, NY. Monday, March 11, 1889, page 3.)
Joseph Burritt
Joseph Burritt, whose death on Saturday night it is our sad duty to chronicle, was born at Stratford, Conn., on the 21st day of August, 1795. He was therefore 93 years, 6 months and 15 days old at the time of his death. His existence continued 6 ½ years would have rounded out his life to a full, even century. His father died aged 72 and his mother at 85; but his elder brother David, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Mary J. Gauntlett, of this city, achieved 95 although the latter years of his life were passed in helpless invalidism.
It is interesting to the local public to know that to the close of his days Mr. Burritt retained, but lightly if any impaired, every natural faculty; and that his brief illness, the first serious one ever experienced by him, was attended by no evidence of pain or suffering, physical or mental.
In his ripe, old age he returned one evening to his home from his favorite resort, the store of his son, expecting the next day to repeat the trip, as had been his custom for so many years, when his exhaustion developed the fact that the most vital piece of machinery had indeed worn out and refused longer to fulfil its function. The heart which had day and night for 93 ½ years steadily and regularly pumped life fluid through his circulating system was wearied and refused longer to perform its task. The best of medical talent and nursing could but prolong the measure of life by stimulants and watchful care. And this was done to the very limit. It is a coincidence that as the sun was setting (5:59) and the old clock made by his own hand was striking six, his weary spirit took its departure from its worn out frame.
The deceased out lived every contemporaneous business and social associate of Ithaca's earlier times. There are some time honored names and venerable figures remaining on our business thoroughfares and residence streets; but they belong not to his day and age. They are of later generations.
We possess a few yellow and tattered but valued specimens of the Seneca Republican (now Ithaca Journal) bearing date in the earlier years of this century, notably one of March 2, 1816, a year before the erection of Tompkins county and half a year prior to Mr. Burritt's arrival in his one horse wagon as the end of a two week's drive from Stratford. At that early period we learn that Lewis Birdsall was sheriff, James Bandfield junior his deputy, David Woodcock, Charles Bingham and Drake and Clarke practicing attorneys. Coming down a decade and a little later we find among the leading men in those ancient days of our Ithaca:
Charles Humphrey, Judge Andrew D.W. Bruyn, Ben Johnson, Daniel Bishop, T.S. Williams, David D. Spencer, George Whiton, Stephen Munger, Daniel Pratt, Henry Hibbard, Henry Ackley, Julius Ackley, Luther Gere, Jacob M. McCormick, Isaac Beers, David Quigg, David Hanmer, Jesse Grant, Jeremiah S. Beebe, Ezra Cornell, Ira Tillotson, Henry Moore, Thomas Downing, Benjamin Drake, William Andrus, James Nichols, Otis Eddy, William R. Collins, Levi Leonard, Horace Mack, Ebenezer Mack, Newton Gunn, James Plumb, David Ayers, Dr. Joshua S. Lee, Ithiel Potter, Stephen B. Munn, Frederick Deming, Chas. E. Hardy, Daniel T. Wood, Stephen Mack, James F. Thomson, Samuel Love, Daniel T. Tillotson, George McCormick, Amasa Dana, George D. Beers, C.L. Grant, S.B. Cushing, William P. Luce, Miles Finch, James Ridgeway, Joseph Ridgeway, E.G. Pelton, Joseph Esty, Daniel Bates, Edward Jackson, T.D. Wilcox, Wm. P. Wisner, David Coon, Peleg Cheesebrough.
It is said that Benjamin Pew of Pewtown, has attained an age more advanced than Mr. Burritt's but that Mr. Pew's residence has not been a fixed one here. Messrs. B.G. Ferris, S.B. Beers, E.H. Watkins, S.D. Thompson, E. Sydney, Clark K. Norton and J.V.R. Schuyler belong to an early epoch but are younger by years than the deceased. It is possible that there may be one or two ladies in the city as yet spared, who might lay claim to greater age but of this we possess not certain data. The organ of the jeweler's trade in 1883 claimed for Mr. Burritt that he was the oldest living jeweler in the United States.
The funeral services are to take place to-morrow (Tuesday) at 2 P.M. at the late residence and are to be conducted by Rev. G.W. Chandler, pastor of that church society with which the deceased had been actively associated for nearly three-quarters of a century.
As a manifestation of respect for their venerable craftsman all the jewelers of this city have made known their intention of closing their places of business from 2 until 4 o'clock on Tuesday.
In a history recently issued by John W. Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut, it is stated that the large family of Burritts in this country had a common ancestor in William Burritt, of Glamorganshire, Wales, who with his wife Elizabeth, emigrated to and located in Stratford, Conn., they being of the very earliest settlers of that beautiful hamlet. William died early in the year 1651. The inventory of his estate is dated May 28, 1651, and amounted to L140. His relict Elizabeth survived him until 1681 and the history makes mention of her three children, Stephen, John and Mary. The descendants of these pioneers number down to Nathan (No. 81) and to Sarah (No. 97.)
On the map of early Stratford the plantation of William Burritt is No. 7, which would indicate in connection with his estate that he was in comparatively easy circumstances for those times. The plantation No. 7 is one of the most fertile and desirable sections of town then and now. His residence lot was on the west side of Main street, at the southern end of the village.
By his above named two sons and one daughter the family name and line have been perpetuated. Their descendants may be found in every state of the union. It is claimed that the lineage of every Burritt in this country can be traced back in an unbroken line to the William of whom we have above learned meagre details. A complete record of the earlier branches of the genealogical tree is a valued possession of Mr. Joseph C. Burritt of this city.
It is probable that the pride of this extensive family center to a greater extent in the name and achievements of Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith" of New Britain, Conn., than any other of their number.
The Elmira Advertiser announces the death of Joseph Burritt, aged 93, a retired jeweler. He moved to Ithaca from Connecticut in 1816 and started the first jewelry shop there. Ithaca then consisted of about a dozen houses. Mr. Burritt outlived all his business contemporaries. He never used spectacles or had an artificial tooth, and he enjoyed good health until his last illness, which was brief and the only illness of his life.
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(Ithaca Daily Journal. Ithaca, NY. Monday, March 11, 1889, page 3.)
Joseph Burritt
Joseph Burritt, whose death on Saturday night it is our sad duty to chronicle, was born at Stratford, Conn., on the 21st day of August, 1795. He was therefore 93 years, 6 months and 15 days old at the time of his death. His existence continued 6 ½ years would have rounded out his life to a full, even century. His father died aged 72 and his mother at 85; but his elder brother David, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Mary J. Gauntlett, of this city, achieved 95 although the latter years of his life were passed in helpless invalidism.
It is interesting to the local public to know that to the close of his days Mr. Burritt retained, but lightly if any impaired, every natural faculty; and that his brief illness, the first serious one ever experienced by him, was attended by no evidence of pain or suffering, physical or mental.
In his ripe, old age he returned one evening to his home from his favorite resort, the store of his son, expecting the next day to repeat the trip, as had been his custom for so many years, when his exhaustion developed the fact that the most vital piece of machinery had indeed worn out and refused longer to fulfil its function. The heart which had day and night for 93 ½ years steadily and regularly pumped life fluid through his circulating system was wearied and refused longer to perform its task. The best of medical talent and nursing could but prolong the measure of life by stimulants and watchful care. And this was done to the very limit. It is a coincidence that as the sun was setting (5:59) and the old clock made by his own hand was striking six, his weary spirit took its departure from its worn out frame.
The deceased out lived every contemporaneous business and social associate of Ithaca's earlier times. There are some time honored names and venerable figures remaining on our business thoroughfares and residence streets; but they belong not to his day and age. They are of later generations.
We possess a few yellow and tattered but valued specimens of the Seneca Republican (now Ithaca Journal) bearing date in the earlier years of this century, notably one of March 2, 1816, a year before the erection of Tompkins county and half a year prior to Mr. Burritt's arrival in his one horse wagon as the end of a two week's drive from Stratford. At that early period we learn that Lewis Birdsall was sheriff, James Bandfield junior his deputy, David Woodcock, Charles Bingham and Drake and Clarke practicing attorneys. Coming down a decade and a little later we find among the leading men in those ancient days of our Ithaca:
Charles Humphrey, Judge Andrew D.W. Bruyn, Ben Johnson, Daniel Bishop, T.S. Williams, David D. Spencer, George Whiton, Stephen Munger, Daniel Pratt, Henry Hibbard, Henry Ackley, Julius Ackley, Luther Gere, Jacob M. McCormick, Isaac Beers, David Quigg, David Hanmer, Jesse Grant, Jeremiah S. Beebe, Ezra Cornell, Ira Tillotson, Henry Moore, Thomas Downing, Benjamin Drake, William Andrus, James Nichols, Otis Eddy, William R. Collins, Levi Leonard, Horace Mack, Ebenezer Mack, Newton Gunn, James Plumb, David Ayers, Dr. Joshua S. Lee, Ithiel Potter, Stephen B. Munn, Frederick Deming, Chas. E. Hardy, Daniel T. Wood, Stephen Mack, James F. Thomson, Samuel Love, Daniel T. Tillotson, George McCormick, Amasa Dana, George D. Beers, C.L. Grant, S.B. Cushing, William P. Luce, Miles Finch, James Ridgeway, Joseph Ridgeway, E.G. Pelton, Joseph Esty, Daniel Bates, Edward Jackson, T.D. Wilcox, Wm. P. Wisner, David Coon, Peleg Cheesebrough.
It is said that Benjamin Pew of Pewtown, has attained an age more advanced than Mr. Burritt's but that Mr. Pew's residence has not been a fixed one here. Messrs. B.G. Ferris, S.B. Beers, E.H. Watkins, S.D. Thompson, E. Sydney, Clark K. Norton and J.V.R. Schuyler belong to an early epoch but are younger by years than the deceased. It is possible that there may be one or two ladies in the city as yet spared, who might lay claim to greater age but of this we possess not certain data. The organ of the jeweler's trade in 1883 claimed for Mr. Burritt that he was the oldest living jeweler in the United States.
The funeral services are to take place to-morrow (Tuesday) at 2 P.M. at the late residence and are to be conducted by Rev. G.W. Chandler, pastor of that church society with which the deceased had been actively associated for nearly three-quarters of a century.
As a manifestation of respect for their venerable craftsman all the jewelers of this city have made known their intention of closing their places of business from 2 until 4 o'clock on Tuesday.
In a history recently issued by John W. Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut, it is stated that the large family of Burritts in this country had a common ancestor in William Burritt, of Glamorganshire, Wales, who with his wife Elizabeth, emigrated to and located in Stratford, Conn., they being of the very earliest settlers of that beautiful hamlet. William died early in the year 1651. The inventory of his estate is dated May 28, 1651, and amounted to L140. His relict Elizabeth survived him until 1681 and the history makes mention of her three children, Stephen, John and Mary. The descendants of these pioneers number down to Nathan (No. 81) and to Sarah (No. 97.)
On the map of early Stratford the plantation of William Burritt is No. 7, which would indicate in connection with his estate that he was in comparatively easy circumstances for those times. The plantation No. 7 is one of the most fertile and desirable sections of town then and now. His residence lot was on the west side of Main street, at the southern end of the village.
By his above named two sons and one daughter the family name and line have been perpetuated. Their descendants may be found in every state of the union. It is claimed that the lineage of every Burritt in this country can be traced back in an unbroken line to the William of whom we have above learned meagre details. A complete record of the earlier branches of the genealogical tree is a valued possession of Mr. Joseph C. Burritt of this city.
It is probable that the pride of this extensive family center to a greater extent in the name and achievements of Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith" of New Britain, Conn., than any other of their number.
(Corning Journal; Corning, NY. Thursday, March 14, 1889, page unknown.)
The Elmira Advertiser announces the death of Joseph Burritt, aged 93, a retired jeweler. He moved to Ithaca from Connecticut in 1816 and started the first jewelry shop there. Ithaca then consisted of about a dozen houses. Mr. Burritt outlived all his business contemporaries. He never used spectacles or had an artificial tooth, and he enjoyed good health until his last illness, which was brief and the only illness of his life.
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(Ithaca Daily Journal. Ithaca, NY. Monday, March 11, 1889, page 3.)
Joseph Burritt
Joseph Burritt, whose death on Saturday night it is our sad duty to chronicle, was born at Stratford, Conn., on the 21st day of August, 1795. He was therefore 93 years, 6 months and 15 days old at the time of his death. His existence continued 6 ½ years would have rounded out his life to a full, even century. His father died aged 72 and his mother at 85; but his elder brother David, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Mary J. Gauntlett, of this city, achieved 95 although the latter years of his life were passed in helpless invalidism.
It is interesting to the local public to know that to the close of his days Mr. Burritt retained, but lightly if any impaired, every natural faculty; and that his brief illness, the first serious one ever experienced by him, was attended by no evidence of pain or suffering, physical or mental.
In his ripe, old age he returned one evening to his home from his favorite resort, the store of his son, expecting the next day to repeat the trip, as had been his custom for so many years, when his exhaustion developed the fact that the most vital piece of machinery had indeed worn out and refused longer to fulfil its function. The heart which had day and night for 93 ½ years steadily and regularly pumped life fluid through his circulating system was wearied and refused longer to perform its task. The best of medical talent and nursing could but prolong the measure of life by stimulants and watchful care. And this was done to the very limit. It is a coincidence that as the sun was setting (5:59) and the old clock made by his own hand was striking six, his weary spirit took its departure from its worn out frame.
The deceased out lived every contemporaneous business and social associate of Ithaca's earlier times. There are some time honored names and venerable figures remaining on our business thoroughfares and residence streets; but they belong not to his day and age. They are of later generations.
We possess a few yellow and tattered but valued specimens of the Seneca Republican (now Ithaca Journal) bearing date in the earlier years of this century, notably one of March 2, 1816, a year before the erection of Tompkins county and half a year prior to Mr. Burritt's arrival in his one horse wagon as the end of a two week's drive from Stratford. At that early period we learn that Lewis Birdsall was sheriff, James Bandfield junior his deputy, David Woodcock, Charles Bingham and Drake and Clarke practicing attorneys. Coming down a decade and a little later we find among the leading men in those ancient days of our Ithaca:
Charles Humphrey, Judge Andrew D.W. Bruyn, Ben Johnson, Daniel Bishop, T.S. Williams, David D. Spencer, George Whiton, Stephen Munger, Daniel Pratt, Henry Hibbard, Henry Ackley, Julius Ackley, Luther Gere, Jacob M. McCormick, Isaac Beers, David Quigg, David Hanmer, Jesse Grant, Jeremiah S. Beebe, Ezra Cornell, Ira Tillotson, Henry Moore, Thomas Downing, Benjamin Drake, William Andrus, James Nichols, Otis Eddy, William R. Collins, Levi Leonard, Horace Mack, Ebenezer Mack, Newton Gunn, James Plumb, David Ayers, Dr. Joshua S. Lee, Ithiel Potter, Stephen B. Munn, Frederick Deming, Chas. E. Hardy, Daniel T. Wood, Stephen Mack, James F. Thomson, Samuel Love, Daniel T. Tillotson, George McCormick, Amasa Dana, George D. Beers, C.L. Grant, S.B. Cushing, William P. Luce, Miles Finch, James Ridgeway, Joseph Ridgeway, E.G. Pelton, Joseph Esty, Daniel Bates, Edward Jackson, T.D. Wilcox, Wm. P. Wisner, David Coon, Peleg Cheesebrough.
It is said that Benjamin Pew of Pewtown, has attained an age more advanced than Mr. Burritt's but that Mr. Pew's residence has not been a fixed one here. Messrs. B.G. Ferris, S.B. Beers, E.H. Watkins, S.D. Thompson, E. Sydney, Clark K. Norton and J.V.R. Schuyler belong to an early epoch but are younger by years than the deceased. It is possible that there may be one or two ladies in the city as yet spared, who might lay claim to greater age but of this we possess not certain data. The organ of the jeweler's trade in 1883 claimed for Mr. Burritt that he was the oldest living jeweler in the United States.
The funeral services are to take place to-morrow (Tuesday) at 2 P.M. at the late residence and are to be conducted by Rev. G.W. Chandler, pastor of that church society with which the deceased had been actively associated for nearly three-quarters of a century.
As a manifestation of respect for their venerable craftsman all the jewelers of this city have made known their intention of closing their places of business from 2 until 4 o'clock on Tuesday.
In a history recently issued by John W. Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut, it is stated that the large family of Burritts in this country had a common ancestor in William Burritt, of Glamorganshire, Wales, who with his wife Elizabeth, emigrated to and located in Stratford, Conn., they being of the very earliest settlers of that beautiful hamlet. William died early in the year 1651. The inventory of his estate is dated May 28, 1651, and amounted to L140. His relict Elizabeth survived him until 1681 and the history makes mention of her three children, Stephen, John and Mary. The descendants of these pioneers number down to Nathan (No. 81) and to Sarah (No. 97.)
On the map of early Stratford the plantation of William Burritt is No. 7, which would indicate in connection with his estate that he was in comparatively easy circumstances for those times. The plantation No. 7 is one of the most fertile and desirable sections of town then and now. His residence lot was on the west side of Main street, at the southern end of the village.
By his above named two sons and one daughter the family name and line have been perpetuated. Their descendants may be found in every state of the union. It is claimed that the lineage of every Burritt in this country can be traced back in an unbroken line to the William of whom we have above learned meagre details. A complete record of the earlier branches of the genealogical tree is a valued possession of Mr. Joseph C. Burritt of this city.
It is probable that the pride of this extensive family center to a greater extent in the name and achievements of Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith" of New Britain, Conn., than any other of their number.
The Elmira Advertiser announces the death of Joseph Burritt, aged 93, a retired jeweler. He moved to Ithaca from Connecticut in 1816 and started the first jewelry shop there. Ithaca then consisted of about a dozen houses. Mr. Burritt outlived all his business contemporaries. He never used spectacles or had an artificial tooth, and he enjoyed good health until his last illness, which was brief and the only illness of his life.
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(Ithaca Daily Journal. Ithaca, NY. Monday, March 11, 1889, page 3.)
Joseph Burritt
Joseph Burritt, whose death on Saturday night it is our sad duty to chronicle, was born at Stratford, Conn., on the 21st day of August, 1795. He was therefore 93 years, 6 months and 15 days old at the time of his death. His existence continued 6 ½ years would have rounded out his life to a full, even century. His father died aged 72 and his mother at 85; but his elder brother David, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Mary J. Gauntlett, of this city, achieved 95 although the latter years of his life were passed in helpless invalidism.
It is interesting to the local public to know that to the close of his days Mr. Burritt retained, but lightly if any impaired, every natural faculty; and that his brief illness, the first serious one ever experienced by him, was attended by no evidence of pain or suffering, physical or mental.
In his ripe, old age he returned one evening to his home from his favorite resort, the store of his son, expecting the next day to repeat the trip, as had been his custom for so many years, when his exhaustion developed the fact that the most vital piece of machinery had indeed worn out and refused longer to fulfil its function. The heart which had day and night for 93 ½ years steadily and regularly pumped life fluid through his circulating system was wearied and refused longer to perform its task. The best of medical talent and nursing could but prolong the measure of life by stimulants and watchful care. And this was done to the very limit. It is a coincidence that as the sun was setting (5:59) and the old clock made by his own hand was striking six, his weary spirit took its departure from its worn out frame.
The deceased out lived every contemporaneous business and social associate of Ithaca's earlier times. There are some time honored names and venerable figures remaining on our business thoroughfares and residence streets; but they belong not to his day and age. They are of later generations.
We possess a few yellow and tattered but valued specimens of the Seneca Republican (now Ithaca Journal) bearing date in the earlier years of this century, notably one of March 2, 1816, a year before the erection of Tompkins county and half a year prior to Mr. Burritt's arrival in his one horse wagon as the end of a two week's drive from Stratford. At that early period we learn that Lewis Birdsall was sheriff, James Bandfield junior his deputy, David Woodcock, Charles Bingham and Drake and Clarke practicing attorneys. Coming down a decade and a little later we find among the leading men in those ancient days of our Ithaca:
Charles Humphrey, Judge Andrew D.W. Bruyn, Ben Johnson, Daniel Bishop, T.S. Williams, David D. Spencer, George Whiton, Stephen Munger, Daniel Pratt, Henry Hibbard, Henry Ackley, Julius Ackley, Luther Gere, Jacob M. McCormick, Isaac Beers, David Quigg, David Hanmer, Jesse Grant, Jeremiah S. Beebe, Ezra Cornell, Ira Tillotson, Henry Moore, Thomas Downing, Benjamin Drake, William Andrus, James Nichols, Otis Eddy, William R. Collins, Levi Leonard, Horace Mack, Ebenezer Mack, Newton Gunn, James Plumb, David Ayers, Dr. Joshua S. Lee, Ithiel Potter, Stephen B. Munn, Frederick Deming, Chas. E. Hardy, Daniel T. Wood, Stephen Mack, James F. Thomson, Samuel Love, Daniel T. Tillotson, George McCormick, Amasa Dana, George D. Beers, C.L. Grant, S.B. Cushing, William P. Luce, Miles Finch, James Ridgeway, Joseph Ridgeway, E.G. Pelton, Joseph Esty, Daniel Bates, Edward Jackson, T.D. Wilcox, Wm. P. Wisner, David Coon, Peleg Cheesebrough.
It is said that Benjamin Pew of Pewtown, has attained an age more advanced than Mr. Burritt's but that Mr. Pew's residence has not been a fixed one here. Messrs. B.G. Ferris, S.B. Beers, E.H. Watkins, S.D. Thompson, E. Sydney, Clark K. Norton and J.V.R. Schuyler belong to an early epoch but are younger by years than the deceased. It is possible that there may be one or two ladies in the city as yet spared, who might lay claim to greater age but of this we possess not certain data. The organ of the jeweler's trade in 1883 claimed for Mr. Burritt that he was the oldest living jeweler in the United States.
The funeral services are to take place to-morrow (Tuesday) at 2 P.M. at the late residence and are to be conducted by Rev. G.W. Chandler, pastor of that church society with which the deceased had been actively associated for nearly three-quarters of a century.
As a manifestation of respect for their venerable craftsman all the jewelers of this city have made known their intention of closing their places of business from 2 until 4 o'clock on Tuesday.
In a history recently issued by John W. Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut, it is stated that the large family of Burritts in this country had a common ancestor in William Burritt, of Glamorganshire, Wales, who with his wife Elizabeth, emigrated to and located in Stratford, Conn., they being of the very earliest settlers of that beautiful hamlet. William died early in the year 1651. The inventory of his estate is dated May 28, 1651, and amounted to L140. His relict Elizabeth survived him until 1681 and the history makes mention of her three children, Stephen, John and Mary. The descendants of these pioneers number down to Nathan (No. 81) and to Sarah (No. 97.)
On the map of early Stratford the plantation of William Burritt is No. 7, which would indicate in connection with his estate that he was in comparatively easy circumstances for those times. The plantation No. 7 is one of the most fertile and desirable sections of town then and now. His residence lot was on the west side of Main street, at the southern end of the village.
By his above named two sons and one daughter the family name and line have been perpetuated. Their descendants may be found in every state of the union. It is claimed that the lineage of every Burritt in this country can be traced back in an unbroken line to the William of whom we have above learned meagre details. A complete record of the earlier branches of the genealogical tree is a valued possession of Mr. Joseph C. Burritt of this city.
It is probable that the pride of this extensive family center to a greater extent in the name and achievements of Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith" of New Britain, Conn., than any other of their number.
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