DURKEE. CHARLES RIX, formerly Clerk and afterwards Treasurer of Erie County, was born in Randolph, Vermont, December 12, 1821. He is a son of the late Ziba Durkee, and
Hannah Arlotta Baylies, the latter being a daughter of Dr. Timothy Baylies, the first practicing physician in Randolph, Vermont.
Ziba Durkee moved to York, Pennsylvania, in 1828, where for four years the subject of our sketch attended the York
Academy, his father being extensively engaged in staging between Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Hagerstown, and Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In 1832 Mr. Durkee's interests required him to remove to Philadelphia, where his son was placed in Prof. Lake's private school at the corner of Fifth and Arcli Streets. He remained in this school for two years, and spent the two following at the Bedford, (Pennsylvania), Military Institute, which completed his education.
In November, 1836, James Watson Webb, of the New York Oowrier and Inquirer, in order to obtain the proceedings of Congress in advance of any other paper, conceived the idea of establishing a horse express to run between Washington and Philadelphia, during the session of Congress.
He entered into a contract with Ziba Durkee to carry out this scheme, which was to place a horse and a boy every ten
miles between Washington and Philadelphia, this express to connect with the Camden and Amboy Railroad, as during the winter season navigation between Philadelphia and Baltimore was closed.
Charles Durkee, who was then only fifteen years of age, took charge of this express from Washington to Havre de Grace. The next two years he was engaged as clerk in the old United States Hotel in Philadelphia. In 1840, at the age of nineteen years, in connection with his father, he entered into the manufacture and sale of mill machinery in which he continued until 1861, having in 1843 removed the
business to Buffalo, where he became prominently
identified with the politics of Erie County.
In 1847 he removed to Alden, Erie County, New York, where lie lias continued to reside up to the present time, and where on December 10, 1851, he was married to Helen Bass, a daughter of Samuel Bass and Abigail Baylies, of Randolph, Massachusetts. In 1861 Mr. Durkee was elected Clerk of Erie
County by the Republican party, in winch position lie served three years. In 1866 he was elected County Treasurer on the union ticket of Johnson Republicans and Democrats, and in this office also he served three years.
Since that time he has acted with the Democratic party, having been many years a member, first of the Republican and afterwards of the Democratic County Committees. Mr.
Durkee is greatly esteemed wherever known for his sterling qualities of head and heart, and has a host of appreciative personal friends.
Source: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY OF
NEW YORK. VOL. VI. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS ON STEEL.
NEW YORK :ATLANTIC PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY. 1890.
Hannah Arlotta Baylies, the latter being a daughter of Dr. Timothy Baylies, the first practicing physician in Randolph, Vermont.
Ziba Durkee moved to York, Pennsylvania, in 1828, where for four years the subject of our sketch attended the York
Academy, his father being extensively engaged in staging between Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Hagerstown, and Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In 1832 Mr. Durkee's interests required him to remove to Philadelphia, where his son was placed in Prof. Lake's private school at the corner of Fifth and Arcli Streets. He remained in this school for two years, and spent the two following at the Bedford, (Pennsylvania), Military Institute, which completed his education.
In November, 1836, James Watson Webb, of the New York Oowrier and Inquirer, in order to obtain the proceedings of Congress in advance of any other paper, conceived the idea of establishing a horse express to run between Washington and Philadelphia, during the session of Congress.
He entered into a contract with Ziba Durkee to carry out this scheme, which was to place a horse and a boy every ten
miles between Washington and Philadelphia, this express to connect with the Camden and Amboy Railroad, as during the winter season navigation between Philadelphia and Baltimore was closed.
Charles Durkee, who was then only fifteen years of age, took charge of this express from Washington to Havre de Grace. The next two years he was engaged as clerk in the old United States Hotel in Philadelphia. In 1840, at the age of nineteen years, in connection with his father, he entered into the manufacture and sale of mill machinery in which he continued until 1861, having in 1843 removed the
business to Buffalo, where he became prominently
identified with the politics of Erie County.
In 1847 he removed to Alden, Erie County, New York, where lie lias continued to reside up to the present time, and where on December 10, 1851, he was married to Helen Bass, a daughter of Samuel Bass and Abigail Baylies, of Randolph, Massachusetts. In 1861 Mr. Durkee was elected Clerk of Erie
County by the Republican party, in winch position lie served three years. In 1866 he was elected County Treasurer on the union ticket of Johnson Republicans and Democrats, and in this office also he served three years.
Since that time he has acted with the Democratic party, having been many years a member, first of the Republican and afterwards of the Democratic County Committees. Mr.
Durkee is greatly esteemed wherever known for his sterling qualities of head and heart, and has a host of appreciative personal friends.
Source: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY OF
NEW YORK. VOL. VI. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS ON STEEL.
NEW YORK :ATLANTIC PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY. 1890.
DURKEE. CHARLES RIX, formerly Clerk and afterwards Treasurer of Erie County, was born in Randolph, Vermont, December 12, 1821. He is a son of the late Ziba Durkee, and
Hannah Arlotta Baylies, the latter being a daughter of Dr. Timothy Baylies, the first practicing physician in Randolph, Vermont.
Ziba Durkee moved to York, Pennsylvania, in 1828, where for four years the subject of our sketch attended the York
Academy, his father being extensively engaged in staging between Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Hagerstown, and Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In 1832 Mr. Durkee's interests required him to remove to Philadelphia, where his son was placed in Prof. Lake's private school at the corner of Fifth and Arcli Streets. He remained in this school for two years, and spent the two following at the Bedford, (Pennsylvania), Military Institute, which completed his education.
In November, 1836, James Watson Webb, of the New York Oowrier and Inquirer, in order to obtain the proceedings of Congress in advance of any other paper, conceived the idea of establishing a horse express to run between Washington and Philadelphia, during the session of Congress.
He entered into a contract with Ziba Durkee to carry out this scheme, which was to place a horse and a boy every ten
miles between Washington and Philadelphia, this express to connect with the Camden and Amboy Railroad, as during the winter season navigation between Philadelphia and Baltimore was closed.
Charles Durkee, who was then only fifteen years of age, took charge of this express from Washington to Havre de Grace. The next two years he was engaged as clerk in the old United States Hotel in Philadelphia. In 1840, at the age of nineteen years, in connection with his father, he entered into the manufacture and sale of mill machinery in which he continued until 1861, having in 1843 removed the
business to Buffalo, where he became prominently
identified with the politics of Erie County.
In 1847 he removed to Alden, Erie County, New York, where lie lias continued to reside up to the present time, and where on December 10, 1851, he was married to Helen Bass, a daughter of Samuel Bass and Abigail Baylies, of Randolph, Massachusetts. In 1861 Mr. Durkee was elected Clerk of Erie
County by the Republican party, in winch position lie served three years. In 1866 he was elected County Treasurer on the union ticket of Johnson Republicans and Democrats, and in this office also he served three years.
Since that time he has acted with the Democratic party, having been many years a member, first of the Republican and afterwards of the Democratic County Committees. Mr.
Durkee is greatly esteemed wherever known for his sterling qualities of head and heart, and has a host of appreciative personal friends.
Source: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY OF
NEW YORK. VOL. VI. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS ON STEEL.
NEW YORK :ATLANTIC PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY. 1890.
Hannah Arlotta Baylies, the latter being a daughter of Dr. Timothy Baylies, the first practicing physician in Randolph, Vermont.
Ziba Durkee moved to York, Pennsylvania, in 1828, where for four years the subject of our sketch attended the York
Academy, his father being extensively engaged in staging between Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Hagerstown, and Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In 1832 Mr. Durkee's interests required him to remove to Philadelphia, where his son was placed in Prof. Lake's private school at the corner of Fifth and Arcli Streets. He remained in this school for two years, and spent the two following at the Bedford, (Pennsylvania), Military Institute, which completed his education.
In November, 1836, James Watson Webb, of the New York Oowrier and Inquirer, in order to obtain the proceedings of Congress in advance of any other paper, conceived the idea of establishing a horse express to run between Washington and Philadelphia, during the session of Congress.
He entered into a contract with Ziba Durkee to carry out this scheme, which was to place a horse and a boy every ten
miles between Washington and Philadelphia, this express to connect with the Camden and Amboy Railroad, as during the winter season navigation between Philadelphia and Baltimore was closed.
Charles Durkee, who was then only fifteen years of age, took charge of this express from Washington to Havre de Grace. The next two years he was engaged as clerk in the old United States Hotel in Philadelphia. In 1840, at the age of nineteen years, in connection with his father, he entered into the manufacture and sale of mill machinery in which he continued until 1861, having in 1843 removed the
business to Buffalo, where he became prominently
identified with the politics of Erie County.
In 1847 he removed to Alden, Erie County, New York, where lie lias continued to reside up to the present time, and where on December 10, 1851, he was married to Helen Bass, a daughter of Samuel Bass and Abigail Baylies, of Randolph, Massachusetts. In 1861 Mr. Durkee was elected Clerk of Erie
County by the Republican party, in winch position lie served three years. In 1866 he was elected County Treasurer on the union ticket of Johnson Republicans and Democrats, and in this office also he served three years.
Since that time he has acted with the Democratic party, having been many years a member, first of the Republican and afterwards of the Democratic County Committees. Mr.
Durkee is greatly esteemed wherever known for his sterling qualities of head and heart, and has a host of appreciative personal friends.
Source: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY OF
NEW YORK. VOL. VI. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS ON STEEL.
NEW YORK :ATLANTIC PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY. 1890.
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