[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the valley of the Muscoot, His house is a large, sub-stantial, partly Gothic building, the diamond-shaped window-panes giving it more of the Gothic character than do the actual proportions of the building. A beautiful lawn extends in front to the highway, down a gentle descent. Inside, the appliances of taste and cultivation are everywhere apparent. Mr. Bedell comes from Yorktown. His great-grandfather, Eph-raim Beadle (as the name was then called), settled there, on the shore of Mohansic Lake, in 1750. After the Revolution, David Bedell and his brother William came across the Muscoot River and purchased the present farm of Pierre Van Cortlandt for $6.25 per acre. Together they built a log house, in a lot just southwest of the present residence, and felled the forest trees and fenced the land. David was the grand-father of James, and from him the present owner in-herited the property, the father of James having died before the grandfather and both being only children. James Bedell has been prominent in town affairs, hav-ing held the office of supervisor of the town, and, during the war, a military position under the enroll-ment department. He was also active in furnishing the quota of troops from here under the various calls of the government. He married a daughter of Eben-ezer White, M.D., and has one son and five daughters living. Mr. Bedell was the originator of Ivandell Cemetery, and carried the idea through to the incor-poration of the association, in 186(3.