Dr. Brooks Walton MCCUEN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York

Family/Spouse: Reba WISEMAN. Reba was born on 24 Jul 1886 in New York; died on 10 Aug 1973 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John E. MCCUEN was born about 1917 in New York.
2. Ralph Wiseman MCCUEN was born on 3 Jun 1921 in Syracuse,Oonondaga Co., New York; died on 4 May 1923 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of John Patterson McCuen and Elizabeth Walton
• Census: 1880, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1900, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1910, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York

Notes:

Name:
PLATTSBURGH SENTINEL
TUES. MAY 6, 1919
DIED
McCUEN?At Chazy, N. Y., May 3,1919,- John H. McCuen, in his seventy fourth year.

PLATTSBURGH DAILY PRESS FRI MAY 30,1919
IN MEMORIAM
On May 3, 1919 in Chazy, NY John H. McCuen at the age of 73 years passed away after three months illness. He was born in Troy N.Y.on October 15th 1845.the oldest son of Elizabeth Walton and John Patterson McCuen and when about eleven years of age he came here with his parents to Chazy the home of his father. In 1863, when his father enlisted in the 118th Volunteer Regiment of New York it became necessary for him to give up his ambitions of further schooling and to assist in the support of his mother and younger brothers and sisters. For a year or more he carried the U.S. Mails by horseback between Chazy and Rouses Point. At the close of the Civil War his fathers death , which was the result of over a year's confinement to the Confederate prisons in Saulsbury, Andersville, permanently played upon his young shoulders the cares and responsibilities of the head of the family and for the next few years he was a clerk in the general store of Mr George Severance under whose honest and kindly guildance he acquired a sound business education as a practical merchant.This career, with great zeal and based upon principals of generosity and fair dealing he succussfully followed in his own store from about the year 1870 until 1912 when he retired ans was succeeded by his eldest son John Ralph McCuen.
Mr McCuen was twice married. His first wife was Caroline E. Brown the only daughter of Captain George Brown. She died in 1879 having bore him two daughters. Caroline who died early in childhood and Elizabeth who survives her father and now resides in Jamestown New York, the wife of a surgeon Dr. F.H. Nichols, in 1881 Mr McCuen married Mary Jane Nichols, who survives him, the daughter of Edmund B. Nichols, by whom he had five sons and one daughter. Of these children he is survived by John Ralph who suceeded his father in business. Leslie E. a lawyer in New York City, Brooks W. a physician and surgeon of Syracuse,New York who as a first Lieutentant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army recently returned from France and Hartie, the wife of Roy B. Pike cashier of First National Bank of Canton, New York. Me McCuen is also survived by his brother, Walter Otis McCuen of Jean, Nevada.
During his long life in Chazy he always tried to do his part for the welfare of the town and was often identified with a place as the town clerk ,for the office of the public school grammer at election board and he had also acted as Treasuer of the Chazy Central School, he was ever devoted to the Presbyterian Church where he worshipped having been one of its trustees for many years and the Treasuer of the Church for a period of twenty two years.
His home life was ideal. His first thoughts were for his children and close cooperation with his wife no sacrifice was too great to him when they were concerned. Not only did he early counsel and trust them to be honorable men and women never afraid of work but he joined with his wife to instill in them a desire to equip. themselves for the future with a through education and to that end he assisted them through schools and colleges as generously his modest means could afford. This task before completion meant much self denial and heard work but it was one of love for he knew he was giving them something that a money legacy could never buy.

John married Mary Jane NICHOLS in 1881. Mary (daughter of Edmund Brown NICHOLS and Mary GATES) was born in Mar 1853 in New York; died in 1936 in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living with mother in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York