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Gift of
MISS SUSAN E. DAGGETT
1930

THE OL'D HOMESTEAD IN WINTER.

THE

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

MARRIAGE

JOHN J. AND SARAH A. KJSTOX.
OCTOBER 7, 1863.

FOE PRI^.,ATE CIKOULATION.

NEW YORK :
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH,
No. 770 BROADWAY.

C,32.

THE GOLDEI^ WEDDII^G.

The happy days of that golden week ! how shall we keep
their very presence ! — the beaming faces of the honored
pair who much more than renewed the youthful wedding
time; the thronging associations, the old-house reminis
cence among the children ; the lighted faces and excited
laugh of merry grandchildren ! If we could only get the
pictures of those changing hours, and bind them in a book,
and keep the picture-album to look at in all our homes,
and give now and then a friend or acquaintance the lib
erty of turning the leaves, that would be so much better
than to print the story told by the unskilful pen. But if
we can not have the eye and the hand of the artist, we
ourselves may at least try to catch the impressions of the
day and the week. The grandchildren's grandchildren
would rather have an inky drawing of the old homestead
than none at all ; and to us, who were present, glad mem
ory will soften and shade the crude outline till it seems
touched by art.
On Tuesday night the good folk came, except those who
had come before. Four of the five daughters had indeed
been at home, making preparations for the family gather
ing, and the son at ' the other house' had been building
and decorating the arbor for the more formal ceremony.
And, besides them, three or four early comers had found

4 THB GOLDEN WEDDING.
the other house ready to welcome them. But the grand
arrival was when the two great stage wagons were heard
coming through the gate, and when, in the darkness, the
well-known voices of the children were shouting their
greetings up across the lawn. The tea-serving, which,
after waiting patiently an hour or so, had reluctantly com
menced before the arrival, was quickly ' cut' by the young
folk for the piazza and the carriage-way. The lighter par
ticles of the kin flew off the big black masses before they
had come to a stop. And from the tall grave great-uncle
and the quiet meiTy-hearted great-auntie, to that small
grand-boy, Eobert, the multitude were unwrapped and
unloaded — except Eddie Anderson, who was passenger-
escort on the baggage-wagon, a mile or two behind.
Then came the greetings — and the surprises, as one after
another found some person whom he had not before seen.
The tea-serving went on. Plate and napkin were found.
The hour and a half pricked quickly by on the wheels
of nimble conversation. The ninetieth Psalm was read
by the elder of the two sons who had grown into the
sacred ministry, and who now thanked the great Father
for the union of an unbroken- family. The various
families were told where their lodging places were^ in the
neighboring houses ; and in private talk . and planning,
the weary travellers rested and waited for the Golden
Wedding Day.

It came, — ^not without clouds, not without coolness in
the air, but the sun gilded the east, and the day grew

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 5
into a mild and cheerful warmth. In groups and frag
ments, through the three rooms of the other house, break
fast leisurely took its way until the last late-comer got
his coffee and a volley of ready hits together. From the
Scriptures the one hundred and twelfth, the one hundred
and twenty-eighth, and the one hundred and thirty-third
Psalms were read. The first of the hymns written to
gratify the wishes of the father, was sung ; and the devo
tions were led by the younger minister.
THE HYMN.— fiaJroM.
BY W. B. K.
" Tlius far the Lord hatli led us on,
''Thus far his power prolongs our days;''
Let heart and voice in unison,
A tribute render to his praise.
Parents and children here we stand,
Spared through the swift revolving years,
A numerous and unbroken band,
"With liopes triumphant o'er our fears.
Sweet memories of days gone by,
Childhood and youth, with all their joys,
Bind us anew in friendship's tie,
Whose strength no time nor space destroys.
We bless our God for mercies past,
We'll trust Him for the years to come ;
And whereso'er our lot be cast,
May Heaven at length receive us liome !
It had been the request of the bride and groom that
there should be no exchange of golden gifts, but while
the family were together in the morning three tokens

6 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
were presented simply to represent and to fix the happy
time. It was in fulness of gladness, mingled with
sacred gratitude for the unbroken family that some eyes
overfiowed while the album, filled with the family faces,
was placed in the hands of the parents by their children ;
and not less was the pleasure when the wedding ring from
the granddaughters was placed by their representative on
the finger of the bride and the breast-pin was put into her
hand ; and when in words fitly spoken, the grandsons' rep
resentative came forward with the golden-headed staff for
the bridegroom of the day, all the secret wishes of the two
for each other could not have been more exactly met. And
equally well did the little pieces of needle work and smaller
gifts, wrought and given by children and grandchildren
and discovered during the day, succeed in gaining the cor
dial and expected response. The leaves of the album were
turned again and again, as the family gathered around,
the ring and the breast-pin were examined, the grand
father showed his cane until the last child's curiosity was
filled. Then the grandchildren got out to examine the
swings, the old haunts of play, and most of all the
arbor which was to take the place of the smaller apart
ments of the old mansion — except those of the small
people who gathered at the piano to sing a song, inspired
by the rising poetic genius of the family. If the rumor
was true, the muse had descended at early light and
touched the pen for the grandchildren's sake. The song
grew to be a decided favorite during the week, and was
sung again and again by the merry and excited grand
children ; and although it bears with it the evidence that

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 7
the muse had not her breakfast of ambrosia, the record
of the day would not be complete without it.
THE GRANDCHILDREN'S SONG.
We've come to the good old homestead,
Where live the good old folks,
Who always have good bowls of milk
And eggs with yellow yolks.
Then come to the wedding.
Come to the wedding,
Then haste to the wedding.
Or you'll miss a happy time.
And opposite the homestead
There stands the good old store.
A thousand things are in it
And never so many more.
Then come to the wedding, &c.
And just before the parlor,
Right down among the trees,
Is a swing with rings and ropes-es.
All made for little " we's."
Then come to the wedding, &c.
And- over in the orchard
Are apples red and ripe.
On the hills and in the valley
Where they laid the water-pipe.
Then come to the wedding, &c.
And out in the garden,
It's rather late in the fall,
But grapes are in the arbor
And pumpkins over the wall.
Then come to the wedding, &c.
And down in the cellar
Are potatoes, meat and fruit ;
When they come upon the table
They're always sure to suit.
Then come to the wedding, &c.

THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
We love the good old homestead.
We love the good old folks,
For they love to make us happy
And they never play us hoax.
Then come to the wedding.
Come to the wedding,
Then haste to the wedding,
Or you'll miss a happy time.

The part of a family yet lacking to make the number
who could be piesent complete, came over the hills from
Clinton during the forenoon.
The invited guests, who came to present their congrat
ulations, began to arrive as the morning passed into the
afternoon. Early friends and associates, a few of those
who were at the first wedding, kindred and business
acquaintances, townspeople and neighbors, merchants
who had been clerks at the old stand, matrons who had
been helpers in the old mansion, at length filled all the
rooms of the old house to overflowing ; and even when
the great parlor of the arbor was substituted for the smaller
parlor of the house, the company filled the spacious
room quite to its capacity. The grandchildren afterwards
had the satisfaction of knowing that the apples which they
had hung to the cherry-tree branches, thoroughly deceived
an expert in fruits into the belief that two apple-trees
were under the roof The grapes on the little arbor in
the corner made, no doubt, the same pleasing deception.
The arbor itself was on the old grounds, and just between
the two houses. As the large family of children and
grandchildren were gathered on either hand of the grand
parents, 'Brother Will.,' known to the wide world in

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 9
more dignjfied and stately style as the Eev. William E.
Knox, introduced the ceremonies of formal congratulation
in woMs like these :
" Others, more eloquent than ourselves, might have been
invited to speak on this pleasant occasion and to represent
fitly the thoughts here awakened. But we have chosen
the rather, however humbly we may perform our part,
to keep the guidance of these exercises in our own hands,
and thus to pay our respects to our honored parents. As
an appropriate opening to this happy anniversary, I will
invite the pastor of the church where for so many years
we have worshiped, to offer an introductory prayer."
Prayer was then offered by the Rev. Oelo Bartholo
mew. Then came

THE ADDRESS OF CONGEATULATIOlSr
rOB, THE CHILDREN,
BY
REV. WILLIAM E. KNOX.
Deem- and Honored Parents, — Tour children, grateful
to a kind Providence for the favors so abundantly granted
them to-day, desire to present you their congratulatory
address on this fiftieth anniversary of your marriage.
That memorable event was solemnized on the evening
of October 13, 1813, in this good town of Augusta, not
2

10 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
more than three miles from the place where we are now
assembled. Besides the youthful Bridegroom and Bride
(whose united years were but forty, the former" being
nearly twenty-two, and the latter eighteen years of age),
there were present, their parents, James and Nancy 'Knox
of Canajoharie, Montgomery county. General David and
Lucy Curtiss, at whose house the nuptial rite was per
formed ; your brothers, Hermon Knox, John G., Hiram,
Harry, and Harley Curtiss; the sisters, Elizabeth Knox
and Emily Curtiss ; the ofiiciating clergyman. Rev. David
Kendall, Pastor of the Congregational church ; together
with some thirty or forty invited guests.
Of that company, beside the two in honor of whose bri
dal they were met, very few are the survivors. Your
parents, four of your brothers and sisters, the worthy
Pastor and most of the guests, have passed away. There
still remain, so far as is known, to receive invitations
to this Anniversary, Miss Elizabeth Knox, now of Knox-
ville, Illinois, Mrs. Ruth Curtiss, of Canastota, widow of
John G. Curtiss, Hiram Curtiss, of Augusta, Harry Cur
tiss, of Deansville, Erastus Lewis, John Thompson and
Samuel Allen, of Augusta. Of this number there are to
day among your Golden Wedding guests, Miss Elizabeth
Knox, Mrs. Ruth Curtiss, Messrs. Lewis, Thompson and
Allen. The town had been first visited by New England emi
grants about twenty years before, and rapid advances had
already been made in its settlement. The forests had
fallen away on every hand before the axe of the pioneers ;
well-cleared farms and comfortable though rude dwellings

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 11
were visible throughout the township. The road running
south from this place to General Curtiss' house, by the
way of Benjamin Warren's, must still have been, to a con
siderable extent^ through the original wilderness. The
highway by the Centre was more open and traveled ;
and it was along this route, on the morning after the
wedding, that the first buggy wagon introduced into
Augusta, with its ' bran-new ' invention of wooden springs,
might have been seen conveying the young merchant and
his more youthful bride to this their future place of resi
dence. Our hamlet, it must be confessed, was not at that time
a pretentious one, consisting as it did of a single store, a
blacksmith shop, perhaps a school-house, and from six to
eight dwellings. The sagacious eye of its first tradesman,
however, had marked it as the practicable centre of an
extensive and lucrative business, and had two years pre
viously selected it as the field of his commercial opera
tions. His capital was not large, consisting mainly in an un
doubted capacity for business, a social and buoyant tem
perament which no obstacles or reverses could subdue, a
sterling integrity of character which no temptation of sor
did gain was bold enough even to assail, and, crowning
all the rest, his newly-obtained treasure in the person of
a prudent wife, which we know, on the authority of Scrip
ture, is "from the Lord."
If it was a day of small things with the new settlement,
this was but in keeping with matters throughout the
county. Utica was at that time but a fiourishing village.

13 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
Rome lacked several years of receiving its charter, and
with Clinton, Yernon, Waterville and other now pleasant
towns, was in its comparatively small beginnings. Ham
ilton College had been open just a year lacking fifteen
days, and was represented by the old Kirkland Academy
building, four professors and perhaps a half dozen stu
dents. Telegraphs, railroads, canals and post-coaches al
most, were as yet unfamiliar to the eyes, of our worthy
ancestors. The chief commercial connection of the little
settlement was with the State capital, whither its merchant
sent his processions of lumber wagons in the Spring and
Fall, and of sleighs in the Winter, loaded with grain and
potash, to be freighted homeward with dry goods and
groceries, and whatever else the purchaser might need for
the supply of his rapidly enlarging circle of customers.
It is appropriate to note too the wider circumstances of
the event which we to-day celebrate. The wedding took
place, as does this fiftieth anniversary, not in a time of
peace, but of war. The nation was engaged in its second
struggle with our amiable step-mother over the water, and
just a month within three days preceding the evening-
gathering at General Curtiss' house. Commodore Perry
indited his memorable dispatch to General Harrison, giv
ing the result of the great naval battle on Lake Erie : "We
have met the enemy and they are ours ; two ships, two
brigs, one schooner and one sloop." War, it seems, did not
then prevent the people from marrying and giving in mar
riage, any more than it now does their descendants from
commemorating such doings, or occasionally getting up
an original wedding on their own account. We are glad

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 13
also to record that the practice of gaining victories as well
as of getting wives, did not cease with the good old times
of 1813, as the glorious achievements of Dupont, Farrigut,
and Foote on the sea, and of Unconditional Surrender
Grant, Rosecranz, Banks and Burnside on the land, re
main to testify.
It is a change of scene, as if by magic, which the half-
century anniversary we observe to-day, witnesses. The
thick-standing forests which, especially on the slope rising
westerly from this spot, covered all that hillside quite down
to the infant hamlet, have long since been cut away, per
mitting the eye from this sightly place to roam over the
picturesque landscape of these rolling uplands. The rude
settlement has become a neat village, with a history which
does its name no dishonor.* The primitive store, which
even the older children can only remember as furnishing,
in its later days, a diminutive dwelling, near where Mr.
Jarvis Kendall's store now stands, has given place, as has
its more respectable successor (the residence now of Mr.
David Stilson) to the substantial and spacious edifice which
occupies the main business corner. The large stone school-
house has supplanted the old red building in which most
of your children received their primary education. A-
comely church, with its musical bell, better graces the
central lot on which it stands than did the barns of the
public-house in our days of childhood. The ample and

* Tlie settlement was first known as Cook's Corners, from an early and prom
inent resident. G-raduallj it came to be known as Knox Corners, and was so
named officially when the post office was first appointed. The day of the
Golden Wedding an official order arrived from Washington, changing the name
of the post office to Knmsboro,

14 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
shaded grounds about us are no longer an open common
with scarce a tree or shrub, unless it were this group of
sycamores, which was, in the early times, a favorite loung-
ing-place for the Stockbridge Indians during their trading
visits to the new settlement.
The town itself has become the home of a population
whose character for thrift, sobriety and general intelli
gence, will not compare unfavorably with the best New
England communities, from which, indeed, most of the
early settlers derived their origin. The academy at the
Centre, five church edifices in various parts of the town,
and school-houses in each district, testify of the hold which
education and religion have upon the hearts of the people.
The Congregational church, upon whose ordinances you
and your children have been for so considerable a portion
of their days regular attendants, numbers at the present
time two hundred and fifty communicants, and previous
to the colonization of the church at Oriskany Falls num
bered just four hundred members. It rejoices, too^ in a
pastorate of nearly thirty years' continuance ; a proof, at
the same time, of the moral worth of the beloved incum
bent and the stable piety and sterling sense of his parish
ioners. It should not be withheld from the credit of the
town how thoroughly loyal and republican it is in senti
ment, always by its votes sustaining the Administration
in its efforts to uphold the cause of the Republic, and giv
ing freely of its sons to fight the battles of civilization,
law and liberty, against barbarism, sedition and slavery.
Intemperance, let it be noted, has as little quarter given
it here as disloyalty, only one corner of the town having

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 15
room for a dram-shop. So that if all our communities re
sembled those of Augusta in this respect, the Temperance
Millennium would be already dawning. In respect to
all these particulars I need not remind those who know
the history of things here what potent infiuence for good
has gone out from the precise locality where we are as-.
sembled. Looking for a moment abroad over the county, we see
' Old Oneida' rising steadily to its high position among
the sister counties of the Empire State. Utica has become
a town of 23,000 inhabitants. Rome, Clinton, New Hart
ford, Whitesboro, Yernouj Waterville, are among our
finest villages. Hamilton College, on whose list of living
Trustees your name. Sir, stands first in order of election,
has become a power in the literary world. Many of the
youth of Augusta, including four of your own sons, are
among its graduates.
It is time however that we limit this survey to our
own domestic circle and concerns. It is a grateful office
indeed, which we perform in recognizing the good hand
of our God upon us this day. First of all, how kindly has
Providence dealt with you, beloved parents, in sparing
your lives, and health to this hour, and in permitting us
to hope that your three score years and ten may be made
four score years without fulfilling the Psalmist's predic
tion of bringing either labor or sorrow. In this house,
where you still live, were all your children born — save the
eldest — ten in number, equally divided in sex, and all to
day living and in the enjoyment of health. There have
been many happy meetings and greetings in the old home-

16 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
stead, many songs of praise and voices of prayer uplifted
there, hut never yet, during these fifty years, a death or fu
neral of any child or relative ! ' Not unto us, 0 Lord,
not unto us, but unto Thy name give praise for Thy merc;^
and for Thy truth's sake.'
Two only of the sons are absent from these festivities,
each holding a post under Government, from which in
these times of national exigency they could not be ex
cused even for the attractions of this golden celebration.
One of the sons-in-law is also absent, occupied with the
demands of his chartered vessel, about to bear her liberal
supply of provisions to our brave boys on Morris Island.
All of us but two have married. Twenty-eight chil
dren have been born to us, twenty-one of whom are living
and nineteen are present on this occasion. The whole
number of your descendants is therefore thirty-eight, of
whom thirty-one are alive. One only of our number has
been called to part with the companion of his youth,* a
native also of this town, with whom some of us had grown
up from childhood, and whose amiable excellencies and
endeared family associations will be held sacred in our
thoughts while life remains.
Two of your sons have entered the sacred ministry, a
third having been prevented by the failure of his health
during his theological studies. Nearly all are members
of the Presbyterian and Congregational church ; every
one, sons and sons-in-law, claim to be sober, industrious,
moral and loyal men in our several callings, legal, com-
* Mrs. Mary A. Knox, only daughter of Winthrop H. and Abigail Chandler.
She died at Watertown, June 22, 1845.

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 17
mercial and clerical ; and it is our desire and aim, as it
has often been your prayer, that ' the world may be the
better and not the worse, for our having lived in it.' We
are more sensible than words can express of our obliga
tions for what we are personally and for any infiuence
for good we may have exerted, to the power of your con
sistent example, wise instructions and earnest prayers,
and when we are permitted no longer to behold the one
or listen to the other, it will be left to us still to say, in
the words of the English poet,
' Our boast is not that we deduce our birth
Prom loins enthroned and rulers of the earth.
But higher far our proud pretensions rise,
Children of parents passed into the skies.'
We are met on an occasion such as we can never expect
to see again. The recollections of the past, the anticipa
tions of the future, how they throng on the mind at an
hour like this ! Amid these familiar scenes were spent
our childhood and youth. The old homestead stands the
same substantially as we knew it in our earliest years.
These venerable sycamores lift their benignant heads just
as when we sported beneath their branches. This quiet
neighborhood and its familiar dwellings, yonder radiant
hills with their autumn-colored forests, their meadows
and pasture-lands, their grazing flocks and pleasant farm
houses, the valley of the Shenandoah lying beneath in a
Sabbath repose — how delightful and impressive is all this
now as when our eyes in early childhood were familiar
3

18 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
with the scene, and our willing feet explored the whole
region in our youthful wanderings.
We are surrounded to-day by the faces and forms of
many dear relatives not of our immediate family circle,
by the companions of our parents' youth, by the friends
of our own early days, by many honored citizens of this
and of neighboring towns. Here are the venerable pastors
of the church in which we were baptized, here are our old
Sabbath-school and Bible-class teachers, our schoolmates
and college associates ; here are many whose goodness and
piety we have for long years known and respected, and
whose voices we have heard so often in fervent exhorta
tion, sacred song and uplifted prayer. Where but in this
place could we have gathered around us a company at
once so numerous, so memorable and beloved !
It is not the least among the causes of our congratula
tion, that there is no one of all these your townsmen and
acquaintances, who have known you longest and best,
whom you. Sir, cannot look in the face and, like the last
of the judges of Israel, boldly make your appeal and say,
" Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord
and before his anointed : whose ox have I taken ? or whom
have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose
hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes there
with?" On the contrary, you have ever regarded your
own welfare as identical with theirs, and prospering only
as theirs prospered with it. There is no interest of this
community, whether commercial, agricultural, educa-
. tional, moral or religious, which you have not been fore
most in promoting. For such a record we, your chil-

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 19
dren, to-day thank you as we thank God for his favor
toward you. And for the grateful appreciation and cor
dial confidence with which these, your friends and ours,
have ever responded to your just and generous course,
we render them our heart-felt acknowledgments.
And now, beloved Parents, may that Divine blessing
which has been so manifestly yours in years gone by, still
abide upon you. May the evening of your days be as se
rene as your morning has been bright and your noontide
benignant; and may this Golden Wedding be to parents and
children, relatives and honored guests, an earnest of that
assembly yet to be convened, when our Lord shall gather
His loving household home to His heavenly presence and
marriage-feast, each one prepared ' as a bride adorned for
her husband.'
Then followed the address to the grandparents from the
grandchildren.

THE ADDRESS OF CONGRATULATION
FOR THE GEANDCHItDEEN, BT
REV. CHARLES E. KNOX.
There are others than children in this family group to
present their congratulations on this happy occasion. To
you, who are our honored parents, we children give our
respect, our reverence and our gratitude ; and to you who
are the grandparents, another circle, larger than ours and

20 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
younger in years than we, bring their thanks and love and
confidence. It is my lot to stand between the grandparents
and the grandchildren. As the youngest son of the grand
parents and the youngest father of the grandchildren, it
is my pleasure, as it is the pleasure of the family, to ex
press the grandchildren's interest in the history of your
wedded life and in this glad celebration of the fifty years.
Certainly there could be no purer and deeper pleasure to
me, on such an occasion as this, than to speak to you,
whose integrity and purity, whose diligence, industry and
faithfulness, whose unconscious Christian character and
uniform religious influence, have had the growing admira
tion and respect of my maturer years; and to speak _/or
these grandchildren, whose loving thoughts of you, whose
ardent interest in the earlier and later years of your suc
cessful life, will increase just as years give appreciation to
all that is noble and good in domestic character. You
have already entered the borders of old age. They are
just beginning to pass- over the limits of youth, of child
hood and of infancy. We, the children, stand between
you both, knowing something of your experience, having
caught a little we trust of your sober wisdom, and feeling,
it may be, even more than you feel, the quick, warm, eager
pulsations of hope and desire in their immaturity. And
if this glad hour can be made to transmit to them some
thing of your wisdom and worth as the guide and security
for the future, they will, I am sure, long bless us as the
intervening link which binds them in a new and sacred
and happy attachment back to you.
The memories of these children of the second growth.

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 31
with ours, are associated with this good old home. And
although the grandchildren follow on in regular succes
sion, the oldest but just younger than the youngest of the
children, yet their associations do not go back so much
to the past as ours. All this change of fifty years, in its
wide relations of town and country and nation, of society
and character and education and religion, many of their
minds do not quickly grasp. But within a smaller hori
zon their minds are as quick as ours to recall the pleasant
things of the past. They do not forget, they will never for
get — the most of them — the happy hours in this old family
homestead, where the grandfather and the grandmother
lived far back past all their childish recollections. Many
things which have escaped your special notice have given
them happiness. Just as there has been going out from
this Christian household a uniform silent infiuence which
has made us children better and purer — just as we have
felt that, so surely as your lives were spared, morning and
evening the prayer would go up from the family altar that
God would care for us and bless us — so has there been a
silent, happy influence diffusing itself into all our families
and connecting this house and home with pleasant memo
ries in all our children's hearts. And if they have not
been able to appreciate fully the grander principles which
have been at the centre of your life and character, they
have seen and heard and felt here many things which fix
some of their happiest thoughts on you and your pursuits.
Little things, which perhaps you have little cherished,
have been sources of great happiness to them. This spa
cious yard, with its big sycamores and locusts and outside

22 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
row of maples; the orchard, with its apples and hills; the
garden, from lettuce and asparagus to hollyhocks and
blackberries ; the swing and the arbor in summer ; the
bins of golden pippins and the ride down the Brewery
hill in the winter ; the time of the haying and the har
vest ; the rides in the carriage to church ; the reverend
pastor, without words of ill against him ; the store, with
its goods and goodies, to some of which they were never
denied access — these may all seem little things to you, but
they are great things to children, and we thank God to
day that our children, from the oldest almost to the very
youngest, have their associations happily fixed in the midst
of so many healthful pleasures. They will remain in their
memories, as they do in ours, bright things, — rays of sun
light, broad beams of sunshine, sending their lines of gold
all through their m 'mories of grandfather's house.
I need hardly speak of graver influences, of the moral
lessons of honesty, fairness, temperance and truthful speech
which you have ever sustained each other in teaching,
and, especially, of that religious influence which it would
be your chief happiness to perpetuate in all your chil
dren's children.
You see these grandchildren gathered from their differ
ent homes, with happy faces and beating hearts, coming
up here to crown your golden wedding with a living
wreath. They have learned to love you, because you
have loved them and have done them good in wise and
good ways ; and their very presence is the highest expres
sion of thanks and congratulation.
Out of th^ twenty-eight grandchildren who have been

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 33
born, all but four have now seen this family home and
have known right here the good things of all the house.
One only of the living, and he the latest-born, has yet to
discover the good things which, we trust, will be long in
store for all the grandchildren. When we think that some
of the twenty-eight have died, we are reminded sadly
that a pang has struck sharp and deep into the hearts of
some of us, which you have never known, and which we
devoutly pray — while with equal fervor we pray for your
long unclouded life — it may be your happy lot to pass
through life and not feel. Bringing those whom a kind
Providence has kept for us and most of whom He has
blessed with health and lusty life, we come to say to you,
' Here are we and the children whom God hath given us,'
and to say to them, ' Here are the parents whose life has
helped us so far as we have given anything good to you.'
Two of them have grown to years- of mature strength and
of independent action. Fourteen of them range all along
the various stages of education, acquitting themselves in
their various degrees of merit. And five are still within
the limits of infancy and fast learning to seize and use the
gift of speech.
Three of the twenty -one live near the old scenes and re
peat here the sports of our childhood, while eighteen of
them, in village and city, far and near, are always glad to
breathe the fresh air which floats through these syca
mores, to sit at that table which is always loaded with
the best of good things, and to carry back with them
health and goodness and innocent pleasure from this af
fluent source.

24 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
Two of the grandsons, the oldest and the next the
youngest, bear. Sir, your honored name, one of whom
honors you and us by defending his country's honor and
by wiping out treason's dishonor at the gates of Charles
ton. For honorable conduct he is temporarily with us
to-day. Two of the grand daughters bear also, dear
mother, yoiir good name, and, we trust, will adorn your
virtues with their ripening years. All of them have re
produced in our homes those sweet and hallowed pleas
ures which sprung up in your own home during the earlier
half of your wedded life, and which a benign Providence
has intimately connected with the virtuous family.
I might speak of the eventful changes which have oc
curred during the years of your life which these grand
children have occupied ; of the fact that this period
reaches over just one-half of these fifty years ; of our na
tion at the beginning and at the end of that time ; of
Andrew Jackson standing at the opening years with the
dead viper of treason flung from his iron hand to the
earth, and Martin Yan Buren taking his seat in the Pres
idential chair ; and at this end of the years, a million of
men standing in arms to strike to the earth a full-grown
monster of the same venom. I might speak of the great
men who have preceded us within that time ; of the towns
in which the grandchildren live as they were at that time :
New-York just recovering from the great flre, building the
Crotou acqueduct, with her oldest daily newspaper but five
years old ; the Albany people climbing the graded rail
road to Schenectady, in cars drawn by a stationary engine ;
Oswego, a village of about 4,000 people ; Rome less than

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 35
one-half its present size, without railroad or telegraph, the
Erie canal following the original line through the swamp,
and Utica not larger than Rome now is ; Yernon, on the
great thoroughfare, in the height of its prosperity, with
sometimes a hundred and fiftj^ passengers in the overloaded
coaches; St. Paul, in the depth of the waste territory of
the United States.
You, Sir, were Colonel of the 6th regiment of the State
cavalry, and still selling merchandize in the old store, and
the present pastor of the church had been but two years
in his place ; your oldest son, a merchant in the village of
Clinton, and your second son, to whose words we have just
listened, a dignified member of the Junior class in Hamil
ton College.
Reminiscence of this kind, in full freedom, is more fit
ting in the family groups than in this gathering of invited
guests. And now these last twenty-five years have gone, and,
instead of one grandchild, you have more than the years
have numbered. We children come back gladly to
thank and to bless you. These grandchildren do some
thing more than catch their spirit of congratulation from
us. As we look upon your faces to-day and gather up the
history of half a century's wedded life, as we let the play
of reminiscence in our early home stir our humor, as we
permit the power of your united character to pour its flood
of light and love over us, the words of the wise Solomon
come to our lips, and we feel that among the virtuous
humble, as well as among the virtuous great, 'the glory of
children are their fathers.' As we turn again to the bright
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26 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
spring-time of life, reflected in the faces of these our chil
dren, as the fresh purity of our own domestic pleasure in
all its many happy hours, gushes anew through all the
chambers of our hearts, and in their active, sprightly
thoughts and words we see reflected the contrast of yonr
peaceful and quiet old age, the wise man's words again
speak the deep feeling of our hearts, when he says, 'chil
dren's children are the crown of old men.' Long may
they be your crown, more easy and more glorious than
diadem of brilliants, more sure, more constant than the
royal symbol of king and queen. Long may the golden-
headed staff of your grandchildren be the true index of
your strong comfort in them. Long may the jet and gold
borne on your bosom shine with the radiant luster of their
becoming lives. Long may the Golden Wedding Ring
betoken the purity, the preciousness, the enduring love of
your well-tested union. 'Behold that thus shall the man
be blessed who praiseth the Lord.' Behold thus shall it be
with ' the virtuous woman, whose price is above rubies, the
heart of whose husband doth safely trust in her, and whose
children rise up and call her blessed.'

As the youngest grandchild had not received baptism,
at the close of this address the rite was administered by
the two clergymen under whose pastorates the father of
the child and both the grandparents made profession of
their Christian faith.

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 37
The introductory prayer was by the Rev. Orlo Barthol
omew,* and the rite administered to
Maet Fake Knox;
and the concluding prayer was by the Rev. Ely Buechaed.
The early school-friend and room-mate of the bridegroom
being invited to speak, courteously responded to the invi
tation.
WORDS OF GREETING
FROM THE
HON. GERRIT SMITH.
Venerable and Beloved Pair, — I congratulate you that
you live to see this day, to enjoy your Golden Wedding,
or, as I might say, this Golden Celebration — ^tbr such it
emphatically is — of your wedding half a century ago. I
congratulate you that your children, all of them prosper
ous and happy, are still all spared to you, and that you
have so large a flock of grandchildren. And, dear chil
dren and grandchildren, I congratulate you that this aged
and precious pair, whom you love and whom we all love,
are still preserved to you.
* Since the pleasant day, to which he contributed so much, this good man,
venerated and respected and beloved for years by all the family, has gone to a
higher life. His funeral sermon was preached, at his own request, by Rev. Wil
liam E. Kuox, on May 10, 1864, the twenty-eighth anniversary of his first visit to
Augusta. He died at the age of sixty-two years. Lamented by large numbers of
people, beyond the limits of his own parish, whom he had befriended and
blessed by his self-denying labor ; carried to his grave by aged and devout men,
who expected thai he would lay them in their graves, and who made great
lamentation over him ; his mild and peaceful influence will continue to bless
the town as long as men survive to remember his gentle and pure example.

38 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
Let me say to the numerous friends whom this occasion
has brought together, that it is our duty to inquire into
the causes of the remarkable success of this family, to the
end that we may be instructed and may instruct others by
their example. The touching recitals to which we have
just listened, seem to bring out these causes. Let me add
a few facts of the same tendency.
It lacks but two or three months of fifty -four years since
I became acquainted with General Knox. We were at
that time members of Fairfield Academy, in the county of
Herkimer, and occupants of the same room. Our room
mates were Ezekiel and Harry Sanford, brothers, of Zanes-
ville, in Onondaga county ; Delamater and Bronson.
Ezekiel was a scholar, and took his place amongst the lit
erary men of Philadelphia. Harry was a fashionable and
elegant young man. Said a lady to me, far more than
forty years ago, ' How splendidly Harry enters a ball-room !
It is like the rising of the sun !' Ezekiel and Harry both
died before reaching middle age. Delamater, I believe,
died young. Edwin Bronson, brother of Hon. Alvin Bron
son, of Orange, removed to a western State more than
thirty years ago. It is quite probable that he also has
gone the way of all the earth.
I do not recollect that there was any remarkable bril
liancy or readiness of attainment in General Knox at that
period. He was a moral, sedate, studious youth, who
played no tricks and was guilty of no folly.
Soon afterward — perhaps not more than a year — I learn
ed that General Knox had pitched his tent in the town of
Augusta, near the spot where he now resides and where

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we are to-day so happy a company. It is to me a pleasant
fact that this spot is within the limits of the great tract of
land which my father obtained from the Oneida Indians.
He and all the other white men of this section who spoke
the Oneida language fluently. Judge Dean, Abraham Yan
Eps, Abraham Young and Daniel Petrie, have long since
passed away. Then, in a year or two more, the General
married into one of the old and respectable families of
Augusta. The Lord gave him his wife ; for the Good
Book says, that 'a prudent wife is from the Lord.' I for
get, my dear Madam, when I became acquainted with you.
It was before your marriage. Long before that your
brother, John G. Curtis, was my much-valued companion.
He was a bright, warm-hearted, winning boy. My mother
loved him, and in his manhood he would tell me of the
good pieces of pie and cakes he had received at her hands.
Time passed on, and General Knox became known as a
man of uncommon judgment, industry, energy and per
severance, and, what is far better, as a man not of a merely
sentimental but of a practical and working religion. Ere
long he was spoken of as a wealthy merchant. And now
we saw him giving freely and largely, not only of his time,
but also of his money, to the advancement of great and
good objects. Especially interested was he in Temperance,
the Sabbath-School and Education.
General Knox could not help getting rich. His quali
ties necessitated this result. And how pleasant it is to see
such a man get rich! — a man who uses his riches in giving
a good education to his children, and in promoting objects
that benefit and bless mankind.

30 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
And now, in the light of the characteristics of Gen
eral Knox and of his excellent wife — for, if they were not
originally alike, they, nevertheless, by force of their pursuit
of common objects and devotion to common interests, came
to be — we can see how to account for the achievement of
their great success. They have accumulated a large prop
erty'. They have used it wisely. Their ten children are
all living virtuous and useful lives. So also are their sons-
in-law and daughters-in-law. In a word, I know not where
we shall look for a family more truly honorable and happy.
Whence has come all this ? It has come, under God,
first, from the strong common sense and sound judgment of
this amiable pair ; secondly, from their untiring industry ;
thirdly, from the sober and practical type of their religion.
May all be and do like them !
Quite to the surprise of the family, at the conclusion of
Mr. Smith's address two other gentlemen, well known to
the children of the family, presented themselves, asking
permission to speak a few words.
ADDRESS OF MATTISON RICHMOND, Esq.,
FOE HIMSELF AND
JOSIAH COOK, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. Knox, — We too claim the privilege to
congratulate you. We belong to a family of business men
that have gone out from your employment. Twenty-eight
years ago I came to serve a clerkship with you ; and I well

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 31
remember, Mrs. Knox, dining with you on the twenty-
second anniversary-day of your wedding. My friend
Cook and I attempted last New Year's to make you a visit,
for the purpose of doing what we are happy to do to-day,
but circumstances prevented ; therefore you will allow us
to trespass on this interesting occasion, to do what we
intended to do then.
After clerking in your home store about one j'ear and a
half, you enlarged your then extensive business by taking
Targe canal contracts. In this new branch of your busi
ness you sent my then clerk-mate, Mr. Cook, to Clinton,
and myself to Little Falls. In these villages we still re
main. We have been prospered and successful in busi
ness. We have been honored by our villages and counties.
When we commenced business for ourselves, your letters
of credit were our capital, and to you. Sir, we owe our
thanks. Your advice and your counsel and, above all,
your example, has been a monitor to us thus far on our
journey of life, and well may your sons and daughters re
joice to-day that they have a father and mother still living.
Our fathers and mothers have long since gone to their rest.
Now, Sir, as a token of our high esteem, allow us to pre
sent you this valuable cane, with the wish that it be a
prop to you for many years; and when the balance of your
life is ended, it will be said that a 'good' and 'honest'
man has gone from earth to heaven.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, the family and the
wedding-guests congratulated the bride and groom on their
long and happy union.

33 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
The social festivity flowed on with the good cheer of the
well-spread table. The shadows were already falling
when the company began to be thinned, and the arbor
and the table at length were left alone, to represent the
occasion on which, to the last hour of their lives, blessing
will rest from grandpai-ents and children and grandchil
dren, made happy with the purest and the most delightful
of domestic pleasures.
Then to the good old house ! — the good old house, where
every child had passed his infancy, childhood and youth,
on which no shadow of death had ever yet fallen, through
the rooms of which more than one troop of grandchildren
had many a time made merry 1 It was filled in every cell.
Through the evening the family conversation went cheerily
on in the parlor — now and then interrupted by the little
people's sport — with more than one reference to the good
uncle whose face looked down from the wall on the un
usual gathering, and whose young heart had perpetuated
its freshness through the many years since he had passed
away. The whole company were called out too, to the
middle parlor to hear the song which only a part of the
people had heard in the morning. And then, too, were
read the pleasant words of regret sent by kind friends who
could not be present. And, at the close of the evening,
the devotions, the first in the old house, were again led
by ' brother Will. ' Due notice was given of the breakfast
hour 'at this house,' and of the 'reminiscences' which
were expected to follow the family worship in the
morning.

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 83
The last good-night was quickly followed by the first
good-morning, as the family gathered to the tables in the
same old dining-room, where the good things of the table
— ' always sure to suit ' — had often tempted the appetites
of others than the little ones. The grandchildren took
the places made vacant by the children, and at length fol
lowed their parents into the further parlor, when the
morning devotions were attended ; the early friend of the
father, William McElroy, Esq., of Albany, who, with his
lady, had consented to stay over night, leading the prayers.
THE 'S.Y'K'S.—St. Thomas.
BY W. E. K.
In childhood's happy days.
Within this place of prayer,
We poured our cheerful song of praise
And cast on God our care.
Scattered from hence — we come
At the parental call ;
One family, again at home,
One heart and hope in all.
Oh, bless the Lord ! our souls.
For His preserving grace ;
His hand our wand'ring path controls.
And brings us face to face.
While here we briefly stay,
And when again we part.
Still, gracious Lord, direct our way
And bind us to Thy heart.

34 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
And when no more below,
Parent and child, we meet.
That bliss divine, oh may we know,
A home at Jesus' feet.
The 'reminiscences' were then called for. And when
a wedding ode was offered as preliminary to the family
stories, the suggestive query was put whether the muse
had this time been wooed before her breakfast.

THE WEDDING ODE.
BT 0. E. K.
The ruddy russet robes the woods.
The golden sun looks down.
As fifty autumns they have done
Since Sarah wedded John.
The woodman's axe no longer rings
To clear the forest town ;
No Indians roam, as once they did.
When Sarah wedded John.
The merchant-boy, who saved his pence.
And hid them with his purse,
Who early learned the gains of trade
And found with gain no curse ;
The skillful girl, whose work made thrift
With wheel and wool and flax.
Who father's blessing, neighbors' praise.
Approved by worthy acts;

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 35
The healthful love which bound the twain
And made the two lives one.
Twine three-fold now their cord, as when
Young Sarah wedded John.
The buggy, with its wooden springs.
Has long gone to decay,
But happier they, who rode therein,
Than on their nuptial day.
The silver moon shed full its light
O'er all the landscape wide,
A long, long month upon the house
Where young John took his bride.
With growing years the homestead grew.
And children grew to bless ;
And children's children blessed tTieir sires.
And loved grandmaui's caress.
Young John and Sarah now are old.
And fifty years are gone :
But still the same the charm, as when
Young Sarah wedded John.
The sun must move adown its steep
When once its height is past,
But, gathering radiance with its hours.
Most golden are its last.
These golden years, O chain of love !
Their happy course have run ;
O long and peaceful be the rest —
Of Sarah and of John.
The reminiscences which followed told the story of the
early mio-ration of the Mother's father into the town at the

36 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
time of its early settlement ; of the log house, the tavern,
the great highway, the clearing and the opening roads; of
the new stores of Carrington and of the Chandlers at the
centre of the town, and of Knox on 'the hill;' of the first ride
in the cutter with the young stranger, the town talk about
him, the first sight of the ' clean face ' of the young man,
of the singing-schools and the church-choir. They told
the story, on the Father's side, of the three brothers who
came from the north of Ireland ; of the branches of the
family in Hartford and Schenectady ; of the location in
Canajoharie ; of the grandmother Yan Evera, and her es
cape in the stockade fort from the Indians, during the
Revolutionary war ; of the mari-iage and settlement of
James Knox on the Mapletown farm ; of the boyhood and
clerkship of John, his Academy days, his new home in
Albany and of the discovery of the ' great wheat county,'
which at length made the city clerk the merchant in the
new country before his twentieth year. They told the
story of the growing prosperity of the young merchant; of
the maidens fair and charming who looked with winning
eyes on the rising captain ; of the dance and the party to
which the daughter of the Justice of the Peace was taken ;
of the visits after betrothal ; of the hasty wedding, its aft
ernoon supper and its evening ceremony, the wedding
dress of the bride and the gloveless hands of the bride
groom. Whoever reads those chronicles may further find
the outline of the enlargement of business, the moral bat
tling against gaming, profanity, intemperance; of the
' treating ' system, the ' Brewery ' and the Total Abstinence

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 37
Reformation ; of the cavalry career in the State service,
from private to brigadier-general ; of the reception of La
fayette at Utica ; of the farms, the new store, the college
trusteeship, the canal-lock work and the bank ; of the post-
office, the plankroads, the mailcoach, and still more par
ticularly, the growth of the old homestead, the growth and
education of children and their marriage, the happier and
the sadder occasions in their families, the reunions which
took place now and then, ' at home,' even down to the
blessed days of the Golden Wedding.
It had been in the plan. that the grandchildren should
have a grand ride together in the afternoon, taking the old
roads as they were half-a-century ago, and visiting places
where the early immigrants first located, and the land
marks of the town for the last fifty years. The eager in
quiries of the children about the threatening clouds were
answered by the heavy showers and the muddy roads, and
reluctantly, after the dining hour had passed, the only
unsuccessful project of the week was given up. But the
children's attention was soon diverted to the arbor, which
was now being fitted up for their evening entertainment.
With the help of shawls the platform was turned into a
stage, a canvass partition made a small audience-room out
of a large one, the Chinese lanterns suspended from the
beams took the place of apples on the cherry trees, and
benches and chairs were arranged to fill the space. The
neighbors, with whom ' the different families had been the
guests, and the domestics, were invited to help make up
the audience. And so that nothing improper might occur

38 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
in so theatrical a performance, the two reverend gentle
men of the family themselves took charge of the curtain,
and their wives directed the scenes within. The perform
ance, which had no postponement on account of the
weather, was opened by the entire company of the grand
children, singing their song of welcome ; and the evening
was filled with riddles and charades, devised, revised and
extemporized. The entertainment was pronounced emi
nently satisfactory to the immense and select and discrim
inating audience, whose wit in guessing the charades and
riddles was highly creditable to the borough and the fam
ily. From the entertainment each family, gathering its
shawls and equipments, took their departure to their lodg
ings — the evening Scripture being read to the few who re
mained by sister Emma, and the evening prayer being
offered by father Knox.
On Friday morning, at the family devotions, after the
Scripture and one of the hymns, the same familiar voice
offered the common thanksgiving and petition. Those
pleasant half-hours of family worship, reviving all the
prayers of years morning and evening at the household
altar, we can never foi'get, especially when that voice,
now more trembling than it once was and full of sacred
feeling, breathed the thankful petition.
The morning was given, among the young people, to
recreation of their own devising, and by the older folk to
family talk, broken by calls to the new patent cider-press
(straws free) of the young home-mechanic, to the patent

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 39
swing, and to the jolly wagonful of small people, who
were having a gay ride, without horses or driver. The
store and ' the other house,' the old swing, the garden,
the orchard, received their due attention. Those most ac
ceptable photographs of the bride and groom were distrib
uted during the day, while the card-pictures of the different
families ^vere exchanged. The evening was given again
to merry-making : the children at first trying ' conse
quences ' by themselves and then getting the people of the
other parlor to join their games. In capping poetry, in
mourning the loss of that royal lady of Carthage who died
of violent gesticulation, in guessing the rhyming-word, in
telling ' what my thought is like,' and why — to all of which
merriment no one contributed more than the honored
great-uncle from the West — the evening swiftly went by,
the jovial sport at length giving way to the Scripture and
the prayer by the great-uncle William.
On the morning of Saturday all was preparation for de
parture. The best time must have an end. The parting
hymn must be sung, the parting prayer offered.
THE PARTING WiM^.—Ortomille.
BT W. E. K.
The golden band of wedded love.
The household company,
An earnest is of life above,
Of heaven's felicity.
And such the joys which we have known
Amid these festive days ;

40 THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
How swift the winged hours have flown !
How bright their genial rays!
We part — but may Thy blessing. Lord !
Upon us all abide ;
For where Thon dost Thy grace afford
What ill can e'er betide ?
And when Thon spread'st Thy marriage feast.
Our Father's house on high,
O ! may we, each a welcome guest.
Abide eternally !
Many were the words of satisfaction that our thoughts
had been so pleasantly expressed in the various doings of
the week ; and there was thankfulness in the heart of all
that a day bright with the light of pure domestic pleasures
had been placed in the journey of the years.
No formal vote of thanks was passed to the good brother
who had contributed so much in arbor-building and in the
pleasant arrangements, but it was on the lips of more than
one and in the hearts of all. Many, many times, all along
the blessed hours, the hearty regret was expressed for the
absence of those whose presence would have made the
family complete. The name of each — the two brothers,
the brother-in-law, the sister-in-law, the two little children
— came often to the lips, with the expression of their loss
in absence from all these glad hours. The kindness of
neighbors was remembered, too. Nor did we forget how
much the people of the kitchen contributed through all
the week to help on the general contentment. From that
most useful ' chief cook ' to all the cheerful, willing assis-

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 41
tants, the hard work went smoothly on, and the comfort
and pleasure of the many was much increased by the good-
humored faithfulness of the few.
After the luggage had been cared for, a pair of great-
uncles and a great-aunt were first packed within the big
wagon with the Albany family and a part of the Clinton
family; and, amid the repeated good-byes, the horses
whisked down the curve, and, once through the gate, turn
ed their heads towards Utica. The Rome family, the
Yernon family, the Oswego family, were packed, too, with
more skill, into the family carriage and the other wagon ;
kisses and good-byes fell like snow-fiakes, the spurring
wheels took the road to Rome, the waving handkerchiefs
of Johnnie and Bennie sending back still their greeting
till the last flourish was hidden by the hill. Later in the
day, 'Master Will.' escorted over the Brothertown hills the
rest of the Clinton family, leaving still the oldest daugh
ter and her children, and the good ' auntie ' whose very
name and smile were one of the fondest treasures of the
fifty years, to make less abrupt the departure by a week's
lingering among old friends and old scenes.
O happy days of a golden week! Come again, O
golden day ! come to some of us !

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