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Subject: [GARLOCK] Garlocks of Northern New York
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Surnames: Garlock, Gerlach, Gaerlach, Goerlach, Gurlogh, Beatty, Cramer,
Yoran,
Timmerman, Zimmerman, Snell, Bidleman Sprague, Girvan, Windecker,
Morgan
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John Christian Garlock was born in Germany in the Palatinate on the
Rhine, and
came with with Palatine pioneers to the Schoharie Valley and
thence to the Mohawk Valley, New York. He was the head of what was called
Garlock's Dorf in Schoharie. The name is variously spelled Gerlach,
Gaerlach, Goerlach and Gurlogh.
(II) Adam born in 1733, died in 1882, son of John Christian Garlock. He
lived in
what is now Montgomery, formerly Tryon county. He was a soldier in
the revolution and had land bounty rights. His brothers, William and
George, were in the revolution also and William was in the same company,
Captain Copeman's First regiment. He was also a captain in House's
company, Colonel Klock's regiment. According to the census of 1790 Adam
had three males over sixteen, one under sixteen and five females in his
family, in Montgomery county.
(III) John, son of Adam Garlock, was born in what was then Montgomery
county. He
married Mary Beatty. Among their children was John, mentioned
below.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Garlock, was born in what was then
Montgomery
county. He lived in Manheim, New York, now a part of Herkimer
county, New York. He married Elsie Ann, daughter of Elisha Cramer. They
had a son Nelson, mmentioned below, and seven other children.
(V) Nelson, son of John Garlock, was born in Manheim, Herkimer county,
New York,
June 8, 1835. He was a farmer. He married, June 7, 1854,
Catherine Yoran, born February 26, 1831, daughter of Jacob Yoran and Mary
Timmerman or Zimmerman, as it is sometimes spelled, granddaughter of Jacob
and Catherine (Snell) Yoran, and great-granddaughter of Jacob Yoran, who
came when he was a young child from Germany with his step-father. He was a
soldier in the revolution. Jacob Yoran, father of Catherine, was
supervisor of Manhein for several terms. Catherine (Snell) Yoran was a
daughter of Joseph Snell, a soldier in the revolution, killed at the
battle of Oriskany with three of four sons, who were there with him.
Johann Jost Snell, father of Joseph Snell, was one of the original
patentees of the Snell and Timmerman grant in the town of Manheim. Mary
Timmerman, wife of Jacob Yoran, was a daughter of John Timmerman, and
granddaughter of Henry Timmerman, who was a lieut!
enant in the revolution in a Tryon county militia regiment, and the
father of Henry was Jacob Timmerman, of the Snell and Timmerman patent.
The grandmother of Catherine (Yoran) Garlock was Margaret Timmerman,
daughter of Conrad or Conrath Timmerman, as it was sometimes spelled, of
the Snell and Timmerman patent. Conrad Timmerman once killed an Indian
with his long-range rifle when the savage supposed himself out of range.
Conrad Timmerman was an ensign in the revvolution in Colonel Klock's
regiment of Tryon county militia. Conrad married Mary Magdalen Snell, when
she was but sixteen years old. He made her aquaintance while assisting
her in putting out a fire started by the Indians in her home. She was a
cousin to Catherine Snell, who married Jacob Yoran. According to family
traditions handed down, seven of the eight great-great-grandfathers of
William D. Garlock were in the battle of Oriskany. There were no Tories.
(VI) Dr. William D., son of Nelson Garlock, was born in Manheim, April
2, 1855.
He attended the public schools there; entered the Little Falls
Academy in 1870, and afterward took a three-year course in Hungerford
Collegiate Institute at Adams, New York, graduatung in 1874. He then
assisted his father in farm work on the homestead for two years. In 1876
he entered Cornell University, taking a special course for two years, and
in 1878 entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,
graduating with the degree of M.D. in the class of 1881. He began to
practice at Little Falls, New York, in 1881, and has continued to the
present time, winning distinction as a physician and also as a useful,
intelligent and progressive citizen. He was president of the Herkimer
County Medical Society in 1890; president of the First Branch of the New
York State Medical Association in 1892. He is a member of the American
Medical Association; the Clinical Society of St!
. Luke's Hospital of Utica, New York; secretary of the fifth
Branch of
the Medical Society of the State of New York, 1909- 10. In religion he is
a
Presbyterian. He belongs to various social and benevolent societies. He
married, November 22, 1881, Mary Gertrude Bidleman, of Manheim, daughter of
Major Morgan and Ann (Windecker) Bidleman, granddaughter of Peter
Bidleman. Children: 1. Morgan Bidleman Gorlock, a lawyer in active
practice in Utica and Little Falls, New York; married September 12, 1897,
Jessie, daughter of G. F. and Georgianna (Sprague) Girvan, and they have a
son Sprague Girvan, born September 21, 1908. 2. Louise Garlock. 3.
Gertrude K. Garlock.
>From Genealogical and family history of northern New York; New York:
Lewis
Historical Pub. Co., 1910, pg. 610.