Obituary: CLAYTON, March 15---Leon J. Dano, 63, former farmer on Grindstone Island and justice of the peace died at midnight last night in Rochester where he had lived five years. Death was attributed to a heart attack.
The funeral will be in Rochester.
Mr. Dano is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cecile Taylor Dano, Rochester; a son, John T., Rochester; a daughter, Mrs. Allen (Elizabeth) Moody, Tampa, Fla.; three grandchildren; two brothers, Melzer N., and Rawdon G., Clayton; and seven
sisters, Mrs. Aaron (Mildred) Cummings and Mrs. Leon (Marjorie) Rusho, both of Clayton, Mrs. Floyd (Florence) Russell, Binghamton, Mrs. Irving (Jessie) Brooks, and Mrs. Caroline Archambault, both of Rochester, Mrs. John A. (Lillian) Butler, 148
Francis St., Watertown, and Mrs. Myrtle Mix, Phoenix, Ariz.Mr. Dano was born Jan. 3, 1898 on Grindstone Island, a son of Ambrose and Ordelia Graham Dano and attended schools on the island.
He farmed on Grindstone Island until five years ago and was a justice of the peace in the Clayton area twelve years.
He married Miss Cecile Taylor Aug. 15, 1925, in Rochester.
After moving to Rochester five years ago, Mr. Dano was employed by American Airlines.
He was a former member of the Odd Fellows in Clayton and the Methodist Church on Grindstone Island.
Mr. Dano was seriously injured April 28, 1955, when a team of horses bolted while he was doing farm work on his Grindstone Island farm. The horses threw or dragged him from the wagon and Mr. Dano was admitted to the House of the Good
Samaritan, Watertown, with scalp lacerations, concussion, and contusions of the arms, hands, and body.
1 CMNT Nurse diphtheria victims on Grindstone in the 30's
Obituary (from newspaper of Friday, 4 Aug. 1989): GRINDSTONE ISLAND---Cecile Taylor Dano, 93, of 3913 Wyoming Ave., Tampa, Fla., formerly of Grindstone Island, died July 27 in a Tampa nursing facility.A memorial service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 20 at the Grindstone Methodist Church. Burial will be in Clayton Cemetery.
She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Moody, Tampa, and a son, John Dano, Lakeside, Ore.
Born in Florence, Colo., on Feb. 10, 1896, daughter of William and Mary Taylor, she received a registered nursing degree in Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Dano administered assistance to diphtheria victims of Grindstone in the 1930s, and was a
midwife for many children born on the island.She married Leon James Dano on Aug. 11, 1925 in Rochester.
1 CMNT Died In Boiler Explosion.
Obituary (from newspaper of 18 Dec. 1945): GRINDSTONE ISLAND---Harold Dano, 50, formerly of Grindstone Island, died Saturday evening in the Memorial Hospital at Waterloo following an accident at his work as engineer at the Sampson Naval
Station, according to information received by friends here. It is understood that a boiler exploded and a piece of the iron hit him in the head.The body is expected to be brought for burial on Grindstone or Wellesley Island.
Mr. Dano formerly operated the mail boat between Clayton and Wellesley Island and sold out his route to Emmett Calhoun three years ago to serve as engineer during the war. He is known to have been an engineer on a diesel engine boat which
was in a convoy to the Mediterranean during the war in which two ships of the convoy were sunk by submarines.His wife is the former Miss Eunice Waterson.
1 CMNT Died In Boiler Explosion.
Obituary (from newspaper of 18 Dec. 1945): GRINDSTONE ISLAND---Harold Dano, 50, formerly of Grindstone Island, died Saturday evening in the Memorial Hospital at Waterloo following an accident at his work as engineer at the Sampson Naval
Station, according to information received by friends here. It is understood that a boiler exploded and a piece of the iron hit him in the head.The body is expected to be brought for burial on Grindstone or Wellesley Island.
Mr. Dano formerly operated the mail boat between Clayton and Wellesley Island and sold out his route to Emmett Calhoun three years ago to serve as engineer during the war. He is known to have been an engineer on a diesel engine boat which
was in a convoy to the Mediterranean during the war in which two ships of the convoy were sunk by submarines.His wife is the former Miss Eunice Waterson.
1 CMNT Died In Boiler Explosion.
Obituary (from newspaper of 18 Dec. 1945): GRINDSTONE ISLAND---Harold Dano, 50, formerly of Grindstone Island, died Saturday evening in the Memorial Hospital at Waterloo following an accident at his work as engineer at the Sampson Naval
Station, according to information received by friends here. It is understood that a boiler exploded and a piece of the iron hit him in the head.The body is expected to be brought for burial on Grindstone or Wellesley Island.
Mr. Dano formerly operated the mail boat between Clayton and Wellesley Island and sold out his route to Emmett Calhoun three years ago to serve as engineer during the war. He is known to have been an engineer on a diesel engine boat which
was in a convoy to the Mediterranean during the war in which two ships of the convoy were sunk by submarines.His wife is the former Miss Eunice Waterson.
Obituary: CLAYTON, July 19.---Lyman D. Ladd, 71, former village street commissioner and at one time the proprietor of livery stables and hotels at LaFargeville, Hammond, Rossie, and Theresa, died at his home, 853 James St., at 8:45 this
morning. He had been ill two months.Half a century ago he was one of the leading baseball players of this section and was said to have been the first man in this section of the state who could pitch a curve.
Born at Theresa, Sept. 15, 1861, he was the son of Daniel and Maria Stearns Ladd. His early life was spent at Theresa and in 1886 he went to LaFargeville where he ran a livery and stage line from LaFargeville to Omar and Fishers Landing.
He removed to Hammond in 1890 and ran a hotel there. Two years later he went to Rossie where he was engaged in the hotel business until 1895 when he moved to Theresa and engaged in running a livery stable.
Two years later he came here and started a livery stable business. He continued it until 1904 when he bought the Charlebois farm on the Clayton-Cape Vincent Road. He remained on the farm until 1910. He became street commissioner here,
an office which he held until 1930. Since then he had owned and run a gasoline station at his home.He was twice married. His first wife was the late Mrs. Mary R. Shoulette Ladd, a native of the town of Alexandria, to whom he was married June 5, 1880, at Philadelphia. She died Aug. 13, 1928 here. Mr. Ladd was married to Mrs. Lillian
Marie Jennings of Cortland June 26, 1931.Mr. Ladd was a member of Clayton Lodge, F. & A.M., No. 296; Clayton Lodge, No. 539, I.O.O.F.; the Clayton Grange, the Brotherhood of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the church.
He is survived by his wife, who is now ill in the Cortland Hospital; one son, Fred E. Ladd, Watertown; two daughters, Mrs. Eva Graves, Cape Vincent; Mrs. Ethel Farr, Clayton. Three other children born of his first marriage are dead. They
were: Mrs. Edith Misslin; a son and daughter who died in infancy, Elmer Ladd, and Miss Lena Ladd.