Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....James, Philip December 12, 1832 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

James, Philip, Russia, was born in South Wales, December 12, 1832, a son of 
Levi James, a native of Wales, born in 1802. The wife of Levi was Mary Evans, 
born in Wales in 1804, and by whom he had nine sons and four daughters. In 1840
Mr. James came to Russia and settled at Prospect. He resided in Oneida county 
until his death, September 28, 1884. Philip was eight years old when his 
parents came to Oneida county.   For fourteen years he was engaged in the 
mercantile business at Grant. In 1859 he married Harriet Flansburg, a native 
of Ohio, N. Y., by whom he had two daughters, Minnie and Harriet. Mrs. James 
died September 28, 1865, and Mr. James married in 1881 Cynthia M. (Rust) 
Stone. Her first husband was George Stone, a native of Oneida county. He 
enlisted in the 117th N. Y.  Infantry, Company H. and was killed at the battle 
before Richmond, September 29,1864. Mr. Stone and wife had two children: 
Clarence, who is a farmer in Russia, and Jessie who resides on her farm in 
Russia. Mrs. James was a daughter of Hiram Rust, whose father. Abel Rust, was 
born in 1759, in Connecticut. He had eight children. Mr. Rust served seven 
years in the Revolutionary war. Abel Rust came to Russia in 1818 and settled 
on the farm now owned by Jessie Stone. He died in 1842, at the age of ninety-
three. Hiram Rust was born July 4, 1794, in Kent, Conn. October 11, 1822, he 
married Mary Taylor, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. Hiram Rust 
was a farmer and geologist. He died February 3, 1886. He married Mary, 
daughter of Samuel and Cynthia Taylor, early settlers in Russia. Mrs. Rust died
October 11, 1888. William P. Rust, the son of Hiram, was born in 1827 and was a
brother-in-law of Charles Wolcott, of the U. S. Geological department at 
Washington. He was also a geologist himself, having procured several of the 
best individual cabinets in Central New York. He sold a fine collection of 
fossils to the State and has sent a great many specimens to Washington. In 
politics he was a Republican. He was identified with all movements for the 
church and was a liberal and earnest Christian. Mr. Rust never married, but 
his niece, Miss Jessie Stone, has been mistress of his home for several years.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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