NORTHERN NEW YORK
Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.



GARLOCK



Transcribed by Coralynn Brown



John Christian Garlock was born in Germany in the Palatine on the Rhine, and came with the 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 1822, son of John Christian Garlock. He lived in what is now Montgomery county, formerly Tryon county. He was a soldier in the revolution and had land bounty rights. His brothers, William and George, were in the revoltuion also and William was in the same company, Captain Copeman's First regiment. He was also a private in Captain House's company, Colonel Klock's regiment (page 378 Roster of State Troops of New York).
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, N.Y.
He married Elsie Ann, daughter of Elisha Cramer. They had a son Nelson, mentioned below, and seven other children.

(V) Nelson, son of John Garlock, was born in Manheim, Herkimer county, N.Y., June 8, 1835. He was a farmer.
He married, June 7, 1854, Catherine Yoran, born Feb. 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 (see New York in the Revolution, page 190). Jacob Yoran, father of Catherine, was supervisor of Manheim for several terms. Catherine (Snell) Yoran was a daughter of Joseph Snell, a solider in the revolution, killed at the battle of Oriskany with three of four sons, who were there with him (see Hardin's Hist. of Herk. Co., pages 329-29). 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, who was a lieutenant in the revolution in a Tryon county military regiment (New York in Revolution, page 187), 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 & Timmerman patent. Conrad Timmerman once killed an Indian with his long-range rifle when the savage supposed himself out of range (see Simm's Frontiersmen of New York). Conrad Timmerman was an ensign in the revolution in Colonel Klock's regiment of Tryon county militia (see New York in Revolution, page 187). Conrad married Mary Magdalen Snell, when she was but sixteen years old. He made her acquaintance 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 College Institute at Adams, N.Y., graduating 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, 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 1892. He is a member of the American Medical Association; the Clinical Society of St. Luke's Hospital of Utica, N.Y.; 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, Nov. 22, 1881, Mary Gertrude Bidleman, of Manheim, daughter of Major Morgan and Ann (Windecker) Bidleman, granddaughter of Peter Bidleman.
Children:
1. Morgan Biddleman Garlock, a lawyer in active practice in Utica and Little Falls, N.Y.; married, Sept. 12, 1897, Jessie, daughter of G. F. and Georgianna (Sprague) Girvan, and they have a son, Sprague Girvan, born Sept. 21, 1908.
2. Louise Garlock.
3. Gertrude K. Garlock.

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