transcribed by Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net>

   From Biographical Review - The Leading Citizens of Broome County,
   New York Boston - Biographical Review Publishing Company - 1894

   Source: pages 454-455.

       THOMAS R. LAKEY has been a resident of Chenango Forks, town of
   Barker, Broome County, for thirty-six years, and has there been engaged
   as a dealer in general merchandise for a quarter of a century. He
   has an established reputation for honesty and uprightness, his
   every transaction with the people being marked with characteristic
   fairness. He was born in Westchester County, town of Bedford, in
   1814. His father, John Lakey, who was a native of England, came to
   this country in 1811, and was married to Abigail Reynolds daughter of
   Jonathan and Sarah (Sension) Reynolds, and grand-daughter of Captain
   Moses Reynolds, well known in that county as a brave soldier in
   Colonial times.

       He purchased a farm at Providence, Luzerne County, N. Y., [sic,
   should be PA] where he died in the prime of life, leaving a widow and
   three children, namely: Thomas, the subject of this sketch; Lucinda,
   widow of Samuel Pardee, who sojourns in different cities in the East
   and West; and Charlotte, wife of James Riggs, of Westchester County,
   who died in 1858, leaving two sons and two daughters. Mrs. Abigail
   Reynolds Lakey died in Bedford at the age of forty years.

       Mr. Thomas R. Lakey began work at the shoemaker's trade in the town
   of South Salem, county of Westchester, which occupation he followed
   until 1858. There he was married to Lucinda Berry, a daughter
   of Cornelius and Lydia (Paddock) Berry, of Putnam County. Nine
   children were born to them, six daughters and three sons, all
   of whom grew to adult life except Thomas, who died at the age of
   twenty-two months. The living children are: Mary, wife of Joshua
   Lewis, a carpenter of this county, who has five children; Sarah,
   wife of Oliver Walton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., having two daughters;
   Abigail, wife of Leroy Terwilliger, living in Kings County, having
   three children; Josephine, wife of Clark E. Whitbeck, a patrolman of
   New York City, having four children; Cornelia, wife of Gaylord Dunn,
   living in Merced County, California, having one son and one daughter,
   and Zana G., wife of Newell Hemenway, having one daughter.

       Politically, Mr. Lakey is a stanch Democrat, having believed
   for years that the principles advocated by that organization were
   calculated to advance the best interests of the country and secure to
   the people the greatest measure of prosperity. He has contributed in
   no small degree to the advancement of enterprises looking toward the
   benefit of the community in which he lives, a useful and respected
   citizen.