David Cone married in Scotland, and was the father of seven sons and
        three daughters. He emigrated to Haddam, Conn., and with others
        purchased Thirty-mile Island for thirty coats. He was one of the first
        settlers, as was also his son Jared, father of five children.
        
Stephen Cone, first son of Jared, married Susannah Clark; father of
        six children. Settled in Bolton, Conn.
        
Zachariah Cone, Sr., third son of Stephen, married Mary Gilbert.
        Settled in Hebron, Conn.; father of seven sons and three daughters.
        
Four of the sons were among the first settlers of Unadilla, N. Y.,
        and remained there till their deaths, viz., Daniel and Gilbert Cone,
        farmers and manufacturers; Adanijah, physician for forty years; Gardner,
        farmer,--all deceased.
        
Gilbert was selected as a member of the legislature, and filled many
        important offices in town.
        
Samuel emigrated to Georgia in an early day, and died in Atlanta.
        
Zachariah, Jr., born in Andover, Conn., and settled in Hebron;
        married Wealthy Kingsbury; was the father of seven children, four of
        which are now living. A. G. emigrated to California in 1846. Is a
        speculator.
        
H. B. emigrated to Chicago, and was largely engaged as a lumber
        dealer. He died, leaving six children, five boys and one daughter.
        
N. K. was educated at the memorable "Old Brick schoolhouse"
        in Hebron, Conn., and Bacon Academy, Colchester. Was a merchant at
        Valley Forge, Pa. From thence emigrated about the year 1825, to Alabama,
        at the head of navigation on the Alabama river, and established a
        trading post with H. B.; leaving in 1837, and soon after engaged in
        farming, surveying, engineering, land agency, etc., managing a large and
        valuable real estate of the Hon. Geo. Law. He has one son, a celebrated
        attorney, graduate of Hobart College, both occupying the same office in
        the village of Batavia, where N. K. has resided most of the time since
        leaving the south. One daughter recently graduated at a celebrated
        college.
        
Harriet M. married Wm. R. Phelps, in business on Chestnut street,
        Philadelphia, Pa. Has two grown-up daughters, musicians. Eleven of the
        name graduated at Yale College previous to the year 1848; and all by the
        name of Cone, living or dead, so far as the writer is informed, are
        Episcopalians.
        
S. G. Cone was born in Hebron, Conn., and educated at the memorable
        "Old Brick school-house" in the same place, and Bacon academy,
        Colchester, after which he taught the high schools at East Hartford,
        Conn., and Middle Haddam; was also principal of the high school at Sag
        Harbor, L. I., from the year 1835 to the year 1840. By the
        recommendations of the Hon. John S. Peters, governor of the State of
        Connecticut, to the Hon. H. Clay, of Kentucky, he taught three years at
        New Castle, Henry county, Ky., teaching the highest English branches,
        mathematics and languages, etc. he came to Unadilla, N. Y., in 1843, and
        married the only daughter and descendant of Gardner and Sarah Cone;
        since which time has been one of the largest, if not the largest,
        farmers and stock-raisers in the town.
        
Mercy Ann, wife of S. G., died May 1, 1847, aged twenty-three years.
        
He married, March 19, 1862, Julia E. Fowler, third daughter of Hiram
        and Sarah Fowler, of English descent. They have two children, viz.,
        Sarah A., born July 21, 1867; and Salmon F. Jr., born Jan. 12, 1876.
        
About twenty years ago S. G. Cone, with great characteristic
        foresight, which has ever marked his business career, went to the State
        of Illinois, and invested largely in real estate, purchasing 2000 acres
        in Livingston county. Then it was a wild expanse of prairie, but he has
        transformed it to one of the finest agricultural regions of in the
        State.
        
Colonel North revisited this locality in 1874, and in speaking of Mr.
        Cone’s farm, says, "I rode with Mr. Cone over the entire of his
        2000 acres on one of his rounds of inspection, and wherever we went
        nature’s first great law was plainly discernible; order had wrought
        out its perfect work! Between landlord and tenants it was agreeable to
        see there were feelings of mutual friendship and reciprocity. The leases
        between them have been so carefully and explicitly drawn, that no
        doubtful questions arise about which to cavil; so that, from his remote
        home in Unadilla, Mr. Cone, like a veteran commander surveying the
        battlefield from a distant standpoint, can direct with particularity the
        operations on his broad acres in Illinois, with more satisfaction and
        better results than did the political generals of the last war the
        campaign of the Army of the Potomac from their quarters in Washington.
        
"From the particulars that I have written we can arrive at the
        conclusions, first, that he is a model farmer; and second, that he is,
        beyond all contingency, a very rich man. The realization of his fact has
        no effect in puffing him with pride or restraining him from labor, for
        each successive day finds him at his habitual work on one or the other
        of his Susquehanna valley farms, as example of industry and thrift
        worthy of imitations."
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