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HISTORY OF
THE GENESEE COUNTRY
(Western New York)
Comprising the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates.
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VOLUME IV
1925 The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company Chicago
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Frederick Collin.
BIOGRAPHICAL
FREDERICK COLLIN.
Frederick Collin has resided in the city of Elmira, New York, since 1873. Admitted as an attorney and counsellor at law in 1876, he has since been engaged continuously in the active practice of his profession, except during the period of his service as an associate judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York- from October, 1910, to January 1, 1921. He was born August 2, 1850, in Benton, Yates county, New York, and his parents were Henry Clark and Maria Louisa (Park) Collin. His paternal grandparents, Henry and Nancy (McAlpine) Collin, migrated in 1814, a few months after their marriage, from Hillsdale, Columbia county, New York, to a tract of land and a log cabin in Benton, which had been acquired by Frederick Collin's great-grandfather, David Collin. In about 1818 Henry and Nancy (McAlpine) Collin built the original portion of the present Collin homestead in Benton, where Frederick Collin was born.
The first in the line of his ancestors in this country, bearing the Collin name, was Paul Collin, son of Jean and Judith (Vasleau) Collin, whose home was on the Isle of Re', opposite the city of Rochelle, on the western coast of France. The Collin family there were Protestants of the Huguenot denomination. In 1683 Paul Collin and his wife fled from their home in France to Dublin, Ireland, to escape the religious and political persecutions which culminated with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1686 they joined a company of Huguenot refugees, who migrated to Boston, Massachusetts, and thence to a tract of land near the northwest shore of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, which had been purchased by the Huguenot com- pany. Within the short period of four years the company was dispersed, because of molestations and persecutions by their English neighbors. The Paul Collin family removed to Milford, Connecticut. There the son, John Collin, married Hannah Mer- win. Their son, David Collin, was a lieutenant in the Colonial army, which helped the English to conquer the French in Canada in the middle of the eighteenth century. He afterward became a prosperous farmer in Amenia, Dutchess county, New York. His son, David, who married Lucy Bingham and settled in Hillsdale, and two succes- sive Henrys in Benton, all prosperous farmers, transmitted the family name to Frederick Collin. .
Frederick Collin's maternal grandparents, Avery and Betsy (Meech) Park, were born, and married, in New London county, Connecticut. In about 1810, a few years after their marriage, they migrated to Burlington, Otsego county, New York, where they died in 1876, ninety-four and ninety-three years of age, respectively. Their ancestry, in all lines, with scarcely an exception, goes back to the earliest English colonists in New England, prior to 1690, including Elder William Brewster, the religious leader of the Mayflower colony at Plymouth; and a goodly number of the first and second generations of Connecticut clergy.
All the lineal ancestors of Judge Collin's mother of the period from about 1690 to 1810, lived in New London county, Connecticut; were country people, with common school education; mostly independent farmers, owning the lands they cultivated. His mother's oldest brother, Rev. Roswell Park, D. D., graduated from Hamilton College and West Point Military Academy; was the founder and first president of Racine College at Racine, Wisconsin; and was the father of Roswell Park, M. D., LL. D., of Buffalo, New York, the distinguished surgeon and bacteriologist.
Evidently the value of an education, beyond that of the rural district schools, was beginning to be appreciated by farmers in the early years of the last century, for Judge Collin's grandfather, Henry Collin of Benton, who died in middle life (in 1835), made special provision in his will for such additional education of his chil-
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dren. In accordance with his will, his son, Henry Clark Collin, attended the academy at Fayetteville, New York, and the Homer Academy at Cortland, New York, and his daughter, Emeline Collin, attended Grove Hall, the leading young ladies' boarding school of New Haven, Connecticut. She married Dr. William W. Welch of Norfolk, Connecticut, and they were the parents of William Henry Welch, M. D., LL. D., dean of the Medical department of Johns Hopkins University, the distinguished bacteriologist, discoverer of the Welch bacillus, one of the leading administrators of the Rockefeller Foundation, and often referred to as the dean of the medical pro- fession in the United States. At about the same time, Judge Collin's mother, Maria Louisa Park, was attending Maplewood Institute, the young ladies' boarding school at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
It is not surprising, therefore, that of the eight children born to Henry Clark and Maria Louisa (Park) Collin, in Benton, during the years 1843-1859, inclusive, the six sons were graduated from Yale College, and the two daughters were graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn. Six of the eight children are still living: The oldest, Rev. Henry Park Collin (Yale '65), was a Presbyterian clergy- man in Oxford, New York, from 1873 to 1878, and in Coldwater, Michigan, for the remainder of his life, dying there on April 15, 1923, having nearly completed his eightieth year. The second son, Hon. Charles Avery Collin (Yale '66), was a practic- ing lawyer in Elmira, New York, seventeen years (1870-1887); one of the members of the first faculty of the Cornell University Law School (1887-1895); legal adviser of Governors Hill and Flower; a commissioner of Statutory Revision (1889-1895) ; since 1895 to the present time (1924), a practicing lawyer in New York city, first as a member of the firm of Sheehan & Collin, and for the past twenty years as senior member of the firm of Collin, Wells & Hughes, one of the leading law firms of New York. The fourth child and third son is Judge Frederick Collin (Yale '71). The fourth son, George Collin (Yale '75), engaged in the lumber business in Michigan, and died of typhoid fever, contracted in a Michigan lumber camp. The fifth son, William Welch Collin (Yale '77), has been engaged in the lumber business the greater part of his life since graduation, and is still engaged in that business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In college he was a leader in athletics, specializing in rowing, having been a member of the celebrated "Bob Cook Crew" in his sophomore and junior years, and captain of the university crew in his senior year. The sixth son, Hon. Frank McAlpine Collin ('80 Sheff.), has always resided on the Collin farm in Benton, has been many times the supervisor of the town, and a member of assembly from Yates county.
At Yale the two older brothers, Henry and Charles, were members of Phi Beta Kappa; and Charles was also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi. The three brothers, Frederick, George and William, were members of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Fred- erick and William were also members of the senior society, Skull and Bones. The brother Frank was a member of a prominent "Sheff" Society. Within a few years after reaching the age of twenty-one, Frederick Collin became and has continued a member of the democratic party. Upon his admission to the bar in 1876, he became a partner of Mr. John A. Reynolds of Elmira (in whose office he completed his term of law clerkship), under the name of Reynolds & Collin. In January, 1885, John B. Stanchfield became their partner, under the name of Reynolds, Stanchfield & Collin. Upon the death of Mr. Reynolds in 1900 Mr. Stanchfield and Mr. Collin continued partners under the same firm name, until October, 1910, when Mr. Collin was appointed a judge of the court of appeals and retired from the firm.
In 1886 Mr. Collin was appointed by the common council of Elmira a member of the board of education of Elmira. He remained continuously a member, under successive appointments, until 1894; and was the president of the board from 1890 to 1894. In 1894 he was elected mayor of Elmira, and served through the term of two years, at the expiration of which he was again elected and served for a like term. In 1898 he again became the president of the board of education, which position he held until his resignation in 1910. In October, 1910, he was appointed by Governor Charles Evans Hughes an associate judge of the court of appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Edward T. Bartlett, and immediately took his seat as a member of that court. In November, 1910, upon the nomination of each of the two great parties, he was elected an associate judge of the court of appeals for the term of fourteen years. On August 2, 1920, he became seventy years of age, and by reason of the age limit fixed by the constitution of the state, he retired from the court on December 31, 1920. Upon his retirement Judge Collin entered into partnership with the successors of his old firm under the present and new name of Stanchfield, Collin, Lovell & Sayles. The other members of the present firm are:
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Ross M. Lovell, Alexander D. Falck, Halsey Sayles, Philip E. Lonergan, Henry B. Collin, Raymond F. Nichols and William Flannery.
Since 1920, the time of his retirement from the court of appeals, Judge Collin has been a director of the Chemung Canal Trust Company, the successor of the Chemung Canal Bank, one of the pioneer banking institutions of the Genesee country. He has been the president of Arnot Art Gallery since its organization in 1911.
Judge Collin has been three times married. He has no child living. His first marriage was in 1877, to Miss Mary Palmer Yates, who died in 1887. His second marriage was in 1900, to Mrs. Alice Atwater Bacon, who died in April 1917. His third marriage was on July 7, 1918, to Mrs. Margaret Fell Hallock of Elmira.
G. W. HILL.
One of the long established and prosperous financial institutions of Dalton, Liv- ingston county, New York, is the Dalton Banking House, of which Guy W. Hill is cashier, and to his ability and sound judgment in financial matters much of its success may be justly attributed. He was born in Dalton, on July 17, 1880, the son of Dr. Hugh and Sylvia (Haight) Hill. The mother is living, but the father died in 1921. They were the parents of three sons.
G. W. Hill was educated in the Dalton grade and high schools, graduating from the latter in 1900, following which Mr. Hill spent about two years in the Dalton Banking House and another as cashier of the Bliss Banking Company, Bliss, New York. Entering the Maple City Business School of Hornell, New York, he completed a course there and then became an employe of the Wells Fargo Express Company, leaving a few months later to take the position of assistant paymaster with the Millard Construction Company of Philadelphia. In 1907 Mr. Hill returned to Dalton, was appointed cashier of the bank and has held the position since, except for a period of eighteen months during 1916-17. In 1917 he was appointed postmaster and continued in the office seven years. His connection with the Dalton Banking House requires a brief history of the institution and Mr. Hill's part in its fortunes:
The Dalton Banking House was established on May 1, 1900, by C. D. Whitmack, Charles E. Maker, M. J. Aylor, Alonzo D. Baker and Washington Moses. Mr. Moses was president, Mr. Baker vice president, Mr. Whitnack cashier, and Messrs. Maker and Aylor directors. A. D. Baker became the next president, buying out the other interests upon Mr. Whitnack's death in August, 1906. Mr. Baker conducted the bank alone until 1910, when G. W. Hill, E. W. Moses and G. E. Moses bought out Mr. Baker, G. E. Moses becoming president, E. W. Moses vice president, and Mr. Hill cashier. The bank is listed as a private institution.
Mr. Hill was married on January 16, 1907, to Minerva Scutt of Perry, New York. One daughter has been born to them, Rachael Mary Hill. Politically Mr. Hill is a democrat, and in his religious convictions he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order and is a past master of his lodge.
FREDERICK LENT.
Frederick Lent, president of Elmira College and well known as an educator, . theologian and author, was born in Freeport, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, June 10, 1872. His parents, Shippy and Euphemia (Moore) Lent, were also natives of the Dominion. They came to the States in 1875 and settled in Michigan. The father was a seafaring man and for many years was captain of a vessel. He was identified with the Masonic order and his life was governed by the teachings of the Baptist church, with which his wife was also affiliated. They had a family of six children, one of whom is deceased. Frederick was the fifth in order of birth.
After completing a course in an academy at Leicester, Massachusetts, Frederick Lent matriculated in Brown University, from which he received the A. B. degree in 1900, and that of M. A. in the following year. He was graduated from the Newton Theological Institute in 1900 with the B. D. degree, and in 1906 Yale University conferred upon him the degree of Ph. D. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1895, and from 1896 until 1898 was pastor of Calvary church at Salem, Massachu- setts. His next charge was at Oak Lawn, Rhode Island, where he remained until 1901, and during 1900 and 1901 he was instructor in biblical literature at Brown University.
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He also taught at Yale University from 1903 until 1907, and during 1909 and 1910. In 1903 he was called to New Haven, Connecticut, as minister of the First church, of which he had charge until 1918, and in September of that year assumed the duties of president of Elmira College. Doctor Lent is a capable executive and under his administration the institution has prospered from both a financial and educational standpoint. The college was founded in 1855 for the education of women and was the first institution of the kind to establish as high a standard as colleges for men. Doctor Lent usually delivers a sermon on Sunday and also devotes a portion of his time to literary pursuits. He is a contributor to various church and Sunday school journals and the author of "The Life of Simon Stylites", which was published in 1914.
In 1896 Doctor Lent was married to Miss Estelle Bolles of New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, and they have become the parents of three children: Henry Bolles, a graduate of Hamilton College at Clinton, New York; and Robert Wayland and Eliza- beth, both of whom are attending Elmira Academy. Doctor Lent is a trustee of the Newton Theological Institution and the American Baptist Home Mission Society. He belongs to the American Oriental Society and to the Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Phi fraternities. He is also a member of the Rotary Club and the Elmira Golf and Country Club, while his political support is given to the republican party. He is a logical thinker, an able writer, a clear and convincing speaker and a man of scholarly attainments and high ideals. He has been a strong moving force for moral and educa- tional progress and his course has at all times awakened admiration and respect.
HARMON HERSHEY.
Harmon Hershey, president and founder of the Genesee Bridge Company, has had long experience in the structural steel trade, and his activities in that line of business have been no small factor in Rochester's upbuilding during the last fifteen years.
Mr. Hershey was born at Canton, Ohio, March 22, 1871, a son of William H. and Mary M. (Kinney) Hershey. He received his more advanced education at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and aside from teaching school for a short time when a young man, Mr. Hershey's business career has been passed entirely in connection with important manufacturing interests. In 1909 he established the Genesee' Bridge Company in Rochester and has been its president ever since. This industry under the direction of Mr. Hershey has been developed into one of the most important ones in its line in the Genesee Country.
On December 24, 1893, Mr. Hershey was married to Miss Ada M. Dyer, and they have a son and daughter, Donald H. and Mary G. Donald H. Hershey was born July 1, 1896, and is associated with his father in the Genesee Bridge Company, being secretary of the corporation. He married Miss Katherine Wilson of this city and has a daughter Helen Tozier Hershey. The daughter, Mary G., is the wife of K. D. Rockwell of Rochester and has a son, Kenneth H.
Mr. Harmon Hershey is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church and also belongs to the Washington Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Builders Ex- change and the Brooklea Country Club. In political affairs his sympathies are with the republican party. He is regarded as a very able man in his line of business and is accorded a most creditable position among Rochester's best citizenship.
JAMES GREEN.
From early youth the life of James Green has been one of unceasing activity and at the age of seventy he is in full possession of his mental and physical powers, dis- charging with ability the duties of superintendent of the Livingston County Home for the poor. He was born October 7, 1853, in Montreal, Canada, and was a small boy when his parents, Thomas and Sarah (Armitage) Green, came to the United States. He attended the little red schoolhouse north of East Avon and at the age of thirteen began working on a farm in Livingston county, being thus engaged for seven years. On the expiration of that period he obtained a position in a plow factory at East Avon, where he was employed until 1875, when he resumed agricultural pursuits, operating a farm for five years. In 1880, in association with his father-in-law, Mr. Green took over the Excelsior Hotel at Conesus Lake, in Livingston county, and con-
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ducted this popular hostelry for a number of years. He next operated the Wallace Hotel at Geneseo for two years and then became proprietor of the St. George Hotel at Avon, which he managed successfully for seven years. From there he went to Lima, New York, where he engaged in the hotel business, and a year later returned to Geneseo, acquiring control of the American, now known as the Powers Hotel, which he conducted for seven years. He was a popular host, studying closely the wishes of his patrons and putting forth every effort to insure the comfort and well being of his guests. His broad experience in hotel management well qualified him for the position of superintendent of the Livingston County Home for the poor and he has secured a high degree of efficiency in the operation of the institution, gaining at the same time the goodwill of its inmates for his well directed efforts in their behalf.
On the 25th of February, 1875, Mr. Green was married to Miss Jennie Cole, and they have a son: Ludern P., who is assisting his father in the management of the county home. Mr. Green is identified with the Masonic order and casts his ballot for the candidates of the republican party, while his religious views are in accord with the doctrines of the Methodist church. He has a wide acquaintance in Livingston county and an industrious, useful and honorable life has earned for him the respect, esteem and confidence of his fellowmen.
WILLIAM WALLACE HIBBARD.
William Wallace Hibbard, senior member of the well-known stock brokerage house of Hibbard, Palmer & Kitchen, is an oustanding figure in security brokerage circles of Rochester. Mr. Hibbard's identification with the business interests of this city dates back more than forty years and for more than twenty-seven years he has had a continuous connection with the stock brokerage business in Rochester. He was born in Palmyra, New York, on the 4th of January, 1865, his parents being Ezra Amos and Frances (Pinckney) Hibbard, who were also natives of the Empire state. The father was a tinsmith and followed his trade at Palmyra and at Phelps, this state. He died in 1911, having for two years survived his wife, whose death occurred in 1909.
William Wallace Hibbard attended the public school of Phelps, New York, until sixteen years of age, when he entered upon his business career as a clerk in a drug store. He later learned telegraphy in the service of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Phelps, New York, and in 1883 came to Rochester as a telegrapher. In 1891 he became connected with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and in the following year entered the service of the Standard Electric Signal Company, with which he continued for three years. It was in 1897 that he turned his attention to the brokerage business, which has since claimed his time and energies. In 1900 he was taken in as a partner by the Spader-Perkins firm, with which he remained for four years. On the expiration of that period he became junior member of the firm of Bonbright & Hibbard, which in 1914 was succeeded by Hibbard, Kalbfleisch & Palmer. This firm became Hibbard, Palmer & Miller in 1917, while four years later the present style of Hibbard, Palmer & Kitchen was adopted. Mr. Bonbright is still connected with the business, although his name does not appear as a member of the firm. Hibbard, Palmer & Kitchen occupy a foremost position among Rochester brokerage houses and enjoy an extensive high-class clientele. Mr. Hibbard was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and has become widely recognized as one of the leading and successful representatives of the brokerage business in Rochester. Among his other business connections he is a director of the Rochester and Lake Ontario Water Company.
On the 3d of July, 1886, Mr. Hibbard was married to Miss Carolyn L. Short. Their only son, Karl William, died in June, 1911, at the age of twenty-one. Mr. Hibbard is a stanch republican in politics and has taken an active and helpful interest in public affairs. He served as president of the common council for two and a half years, is a member of the board of managers of the Community Chest and has occupied the presidency of the Rochester Exposition Association since 1917. He was appointed chairman of the municipal reception committee for the returned soldiers and sailors and was responsible for banqueting several thousand of the country's defenders, pre- siding over sixteen dinners, at each of which from eight to nine hundred young men were entertained.
Mr. Hibbard is a member of the Rochester Historical Society, the Rochester Academy of Science, the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and the United States
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Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Frank R. Lawrence Lodge, A. F. and A. M .; Hamilton Chapter, R. A. M .; Monroe Commandery No. 2, K. T .; Rochester Consistory, A. and A. S. R .; and Damascus Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is likewise connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In club circles he is well known and popular, having membership in the Rochester Country Club, the Oak Hill Country Club, of which he is a director; the Monroe Country Club, the Genesee Valley Club, the Rochester Yacht Club, the Rochester Auto Club, of which he is a director; the Rochester Athletic Club, the Washington Club, the Rochester Club, and the Rotary Club. A lifelong resident of the Genesee country and so long a prominent part of the business, civic and public life of Rochester, he enjoys a wide acquaintanceship throughout the city and many of his best friends are those who have known him the longest. The elements were happily blended in the rounding out of his nature, for he unites the refinements of life with the sterner qualities of manhood and his efforts are resultant factors in most of his undertakings.
ADONIRAM J. ABBOTT. BY L. B. PROCTOR.
Adoniram J. Abbott was a true son of Livingston county, which he loved and venerated for its brilliant history in the annals of the state of New York, for the in- telligence of its people, for the honored names that adorn its history, for the beauty and variety of its scenery, for the charming lakes and streams that embellish it, and for its proud record in all that tends to advance education, religion and a high degree of intellectual improvement. Those were his sentiments, repeated almost verbatim, whenever he spoke of Livingston county. It is pleasant for us to say that his life added much to the fame of his county. He was born in Moscow, Livingston county, October 28, 1819. He drew his first inspirations of life from the beautiful scenes that surrounded his birthplace. The Genesee, winding its way through a valley unequalled in beauty and perfect cultivation, and rich in historic memories of the homes and of the hunting ground of the natives of the soil, who have faded away. His next inspiration was drawn from books, from his devotion to mental cultivation and to the attainment of an education. His strong, native, vigorous and original mind enabled him to attain mental accomplishments with a facility that gave him an honorable place in those educated circles which he adorned in his future life, tempered by an unassuming demeanor, which, while it avoided pedantic pretension, gave lustre to his life and career. From the common school of his native village, he entered Moscow Academy, which, after pursuing a profitable course of study, he left to enter the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, from which he graduated, thoroughly pre- pared with classic endowments to enter upon the study of his chosen profession. But before entering upon his legal studies he engaged in the great work of teaching school for several years, with a success that placed him high among the educators of his time. Mr. Abbott pursued the occupation of teacher for several years, and finally, with some reluctance, abandoned his work to prepare for that profession which was to be his calling for life. He entered the office of John H. Martindale, then one of the distinguished lawyers of the Genesee bar, and we might say of western New York, even at that early age. After spending two years with Mr. Martindale, he entered the office of John Young, in Geneseo, New York, afterward governor, one of the most accomplished lawyers in western New York, peerless as a legal orator and unequalled as a parliamentary debater in the legislature of the state and on the floor of the house of Representatives at Washington. In the office of Governor Young, Mr. Abbott made the acquaintance of James Wood, afterward general, a young lawyer, the brilliance of whose career at the bar is identified with the legal history of western New York. Mr. Abbott also drew inspiration from his relation with Mr. Wood, which was valuable to him in his practice at the bar, and when they became friendly rivals their friendship seemed to increase until death ended it. Each regarded the other as a "foeman worthy of his steel." In October, 1848, Mr. Abbott was admitted to prac- tice law, and at once decided to unite his professional fortunes with the Livingston county bar.
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