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MEMORIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
OF
ERIE COUNTY
NEW YORK
VOLUME II
BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK - BUFFALO THE GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 1906-8
- THE WINTHROP PRESS 419-421 LAFAYETTE STREET NEW YORK
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Abell, Charles Lee
82
Adams, Samuel Cary
331
Andrews, William H.
22
Allen, Daniel
77
Allen, Daniel W.
76
Armstrong, Charles Bennett
257
Babcock, Louis Locke
9
Baethig, Henry
215
Bailey, Virgil E.
169
Bass, Lyman K.
39
Bass, Lyman M.
41
Baynes, William
216
Becker, Alfred Leroy
57
Becker, Edward G.
45
Becker Family, The
54
Becker, Storm A.
55
Becker, Tracy Chatfield
55
Bentley, John R.
354
Best, Joseph W.
263
Betz, John Caspar
95
Bickford, Richmond Henderson
206
Bissell, Thomas A.
335
Blocher, John
242
Bloomer, William Mills
227
Bork, William Henry
345
Bommer, Philip, Sr.
323
Brady, Bernard
237
Brainard, William C.
319
Brayley, James
373
Brinker, John M.
267
Broezel, John
314
Brown, George Levi
64
Buffum, William Wallace
390
Bunting, Thomas Lathrop
197
Burgess, James
234
Burrus, Lancelot Graves
156
Butts, Stephen B.
343
Byers, James N.
105
Byers, James W.
70
Caldwell, Seth
183
Caldwell, Stephen D.
231
Carmichael, James Henry
374
Close, Emory P.
179
Collins, Edward Mcknight
389
Coon, John
301
Cooper, Franklin Newton
401
Cottle, Edmund Petrie
48
Cotile Family, The
47
Cottle, Octavius O.
48
Crooker, Ballard I.
203
Cunneen, John
127
Daggett, Byron Hiram
305
Denton, Robert
195
Derrigan, John W.
363
Diehl, John P.
69
Dickman, George
279
Doherty, William D.
99
Dorr, Samuel Griswold
133
Doty, Leonidas
240
Drummer, Henry G.
355
Eagan, Sylvester Francis
316
Eckley, David
291
Elwood, Henry S.
375
Elmendorf, Henry Livingston
247
Ely, W. Caryl
58
English, Henry
290
Farnham, Charles
Cyrus
106
Feist, Charles G.
212
Feist, Joseph J.
211
Feist, John
209
Fish, Willis P.
369
Fix, Chas. J.
96
Folwell, Mahlon Bainbridge
193
Fosbinder, Harris
313
Francis, William C.
196
French, Thomas Benjamin
288
Fronczak, Francis E.
71
Gaertner, William
29
Gollwitzer, Charles
387
Greiner, Charles
333
Greiner, Fred
2
Griffin, John Jerome
113
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Haberstro, Joseph
236
Hager, August
398
Hall, Edward Augustus
176
Hall, Nathaniel 175
Hall, Nathaniel P.
177
Hasselbach, Anton
368
Hamlin, Daniel Ranney.
192
Hammond, Clarence Winfield
365
Hawley, Elias Sill
327
Heerwagen, Frederick W. M.
338
Hickman, Arthur Washington
143
Holden, Andrew J.
250
Hingston, William Edward
239
Holland, Nelson
130
Hoyt, Orson Cary
201
Hoyt, William B. 37
Hughes, Richard J.
382
Husted, Allan D.
27
Ingham, Clark Leonard
88
Irish, George
356
Jackson, Willis K.
138
Jackson, William Schuyler
85
Jacus, Willis Charles
224
Jones, John F.
386
Joyce, William A.
14
Kasting, William F.
30
Keating, Francis Root
371
Kendall, Frederick Willard
160
Kendall, Frederick
158
Kennedy, George H.
7
Kennedy, George Jewett 255
Kennedy, Salem Griswold
253
Killeen, Henry Walter
91
Kineh, William Henry
11
Koelsch, William Daniel
265
Koons, Edward L.
214
Koons, Henry
213
Koons, Jacob H.
212
Kreinheder Family, The
293
Kreinheder, Arthur W.
296
Kreinheder, Edwin J.
296
Kreinheder, Henry John
229
Kreinheder, Henry W.
294
Kreinheder, Herbert P.
297
Kreinheder, Herman J.
321
Kreinheder, Jobst Henry
293
Kreinheder, Oliver W.
297
Kreinheder, Robert F.
295
Lansill, William
153
Lanb Family, The
221
Laub, Albert F.
223
Laub, Charles J. 224
Laub, George
221
Laub, George, Jr.
222
Lanh, George C.
223
Lautz, Charles
118
Lautz, Frederick Christopher
Martin
123
Lautz, J. Adamı
121
Lautz, Martin Frederick
126
Lee, James H.
358
Le Fevre, De Witt Chauneey 170
Lewis, Angelo Corello
275
Lothrop, Thomas
151
Lytlı, Alfred
163
McEachron, Neil
62
McManus, John
361
Macbeth, James
255
Macniel, Dugald
200
Maichoss, Frank
377
Manning, John Oley
148
Meeeh, John Hendrickson
190
Mansfield, Charles Columbus
167
Meisburger, William C. L.
299
Meldrum, Robert Owen
396
Miller, E. G. S. 1
Millring, Henry J.
367
Mischka, Joseph
141
Moest, Henry
394
Morgan, William J. 184
Morse, Henry
233
Murphy, Daniel Vincent
111
Mosier, Charles
116
Nellany, Michael
173
North, Charles J.
43
O'Brien, Thomas G.
329
O'Connor, John
347
O'Neil, Hugh Francis
344
Palmer, Everard
360
Palmer, George
360
Parsons, Samuel V.
308
Perew, Frank
399
Penfold, William
245
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Persch, Frederick
226
Summers, William
Pierce, George Norman 20
Porter, Cyrus K., Jr. 138
Porter, Cyrus Kinne
136
Potter, Russell H.
73
Ramsperger, Samuel J.
5
Ransom, Norman Worth
310
Reinecke, Ottomar
32
Riley, George Cummings
15
Roesser, Henry Franck
307
Roskopf, Jacob
318
Ruckel, John B. 261
Ruckel, Jolın H.
259
Rupp, George
287
Russ, John
103
Ryan, James
324
Ryan, William Henry 79
Ryan, Vincent Daniel
326
Weeks, James Brackett
277
Webb, Charles Sidney
283
Wells, William Hamilton
219
Webster, Charles Henry
285
White, George Clinton
348
White, Isaac D.
274
Sheridan, Thomas Daniel
385
Sloan, Charles Taggart 351
Smith, Griffin
402
Southwick, Alfred Porter
272
Standart, Frank Wesley
100
Stephenson, John Curtis
270
Stewart, James
172
Stewart, John Thomson
181
Strebel, Edward David
89
Taylor, W. Perry
93
Tiffany, Nelson O.
35
Teiper, Casper
339
Tifft Family, The
380
Tifft, Maxon Wrilson
382
Tifft, Wrilson S.
380
Voght, Harry H.
352
Wadsworth, George
188
Wadsworth, Henry Cowles
187
Waters, Irving Emmet
146
Weppner, Jacob
205
Werner, Henry Paul
269
Satterfield, John M.
53
Satterfield, John
51
Satterfield Family, The 51
Seaver, Joseph V.
25
Shamp, George W.
404
Whitmier, Charles M.
378
White, Pendennis
161
Witmer, Tobias, Jr.
261
Wood, James Pannell
281
Woods, Arthur
303
Zeller, Henry C.
18
Zesch, Frank Henry
155
Ziegele, Albert
178
67
Sweet, Charles A. 297
EDWIN G. S . MILLER
MEMORIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY.
EDWIN G. S. MILLER, President of the German-American Bank and President of the Gerhard Lang Brewery, belongs to that class of men who have made Buffalo's industries and finan- cial institutions a power in the world of business. Mr. Miller is a man of distinctive progressiveness and exceptionally large experience. He has at different times been identified with many enterprises, but his purposes have always been directed to definite ends, and his career is a harmonious and consistent whole. He is a man of sound principles and high moral aims, and no Buffalonian more deservedly enjoys the respect and confidence of his fellow townsmen.
Mr. Miller was born in Buffalo March 9, 1854, and has lived all his life in his native city. After receiving his education in the public schools, he took up the occupation of bookkeeping and entered the office of George Urban & Son, proprietors of the Roller Flour Mills. Here he showed a capacity for business which the firm were quick to recognize, and in 1874 he was admitted to partnership. Ten years later he became manager of the Gerhard Lang Brewery. His conduct of this enterprise resulted in a large increase in the output of the establishment, with which he has continued ever since, and of which he is now the official head. In addition, he has carried on extensive busi- ness operations in several fields. In the field of banking he has become an important factor, and is President of the German- American Bank. In every financial institution with which he has been identified Mr. Miller's personality has been felt as a force for conservatism and good management, and his adminis-
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tration as President of the German-American Bank has won high commendation from depositors and from all business inter- ests with which the bank has relations. Any sketch of Mr. Miller would be incomplete which omitted to make mention of the part he has had in street railway development in Buffalo. When the movement for enlarged street-car facilities was inaugurated, Mr. Miller was one of the first to actively interest himself in the matter, to enlist capital and to offer practical plans, and he was chosen President of the company organized to build the new street railroad line.
Though always closely devoted to business, Mr. Miller has never permitted himself to lose sight of his duties as a citizen. He is a Democrat, and while he has on no occasion been a candi- date for office, he wields a strong influence in his party. At the Democratic State Convention of 1892 he was chosen one of the Presidential electors, and in the Electoral College he cast his vote for Mr. Cleveland.
A man of marked reform tendencies, Mr. Miller has taken a leading part in the movement to improve the conditions of the liquor business and has been an especially prominent figure in connection with the recent efforts of the Buffalo Brewers' Asso- ciation to that end. He and his fellow members of the Associa- tion have waged a determined fight against saloons of question- able character, have enlisted the co-operation of outside brew- eries, and have effected the closing of nearly a hundred resorts within a year and a half. It is a valuable work, and has done a great deal to place the sale of malt and other liquors within the limits where Mr. Miller believes it should properly be con- fined, namely those of legitimate commerce, carried on under proper conditions and with right surroundings.
Mr. Miller is a member of St. Louis' Church, and is a liberal contributor to its philanthropies. He is a member of the Buffalo and Ellicott clubs, but his instincts are those of a home man, and his chief pleasure is the society of his family and his circle of trusted and intimate friends. He is a man of courteous
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and unassuming manners, and carries on his large business interests with the quiet poise of one to whom executive quali- ties are a second nature.
FRED GREINER, lawyer, Postmaster of the City of Buffalo, and leader of the Republican party in Buffalo and Western New York, is one of the best-known men of the city where he resides, and in personal popularity and reputation for conducting a responsible office in an efficient manner, stands second to no public official in the State. Mr. Greiner has been a member of the legal profession for over thirty years, and has a large prac- tice at the bar. He is a man who in every relation of life inspires esteem and trust, and his prominence both in civic and private capacities is the result of the well-grounded confi- dence of his fellow-citi- zens, which rests its foundations on long ex- perience of Mr. Greiner's character and capability.
Mr. Greiner comes of German stock, his grand- father, John Greiner, hav- 1 ing been a native of Col- mar, Alsace, who came to America with his wife and children in 1833. Later he published a paper in FRED GREINER. Buffalo, finally engaging in the brewery business. His sons, John, Charles, Barney, Michael and Frederick, were all residents of Buffalo and are now deceased. Frederick Greiner, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ger- many in 1832. After coming to Buffalo he established a bakery
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business, and his death occurred in that city in 1886. His chil- dren were: Charles, Sophia, Elizabeth and Frederick, all of whom reside in Buffalo.
Fred Greiner was born in Buffalo September 25, 1854, and was educated in the public schools. On leaving school he entered the law office of Wadsworth & White, being admitted to the bar in 1876, ever since which time he has been engaged in general practice.
From the date of attaining his majority, Mr. Greiner has been identified with the Republican party, in which his position soon became one of distinguished prominence. He served for ten years as County Committeeman, winning a place as one of the most trusted advisers and managers of his party, though up to the time of his appointment to the Postmastership he had never held. any public office. Endowed with exceptional tact and a natural gift of organization, Mr. Greiner has led the Republi- cans of Buffalo and Erie County to victory in many a well-con- tested campaign. He is one of the most successful Republican leaders in the country today, and stands high in the party and as a citizen. Both as member of the Republican General Com- mittee and as Chairman of the Erie County Committee, his work has been characterized by fairness, ability and resolute adher- ence to sound methods and sterling principles.
In 1901 Mr. Greiner's zealous and able services were recog- nized in his appointment by President Mckinley to the office of Postmaster of Buffalo, which position he has filled ever since. His administration has been characterized by thorough system, by economy and by liberal-minded appreciation of the postal needs of the territory and prompt fulfillment of all require- ments.
Mr. Greiner was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of General Managers of the New York State Building at the Pan-American Exposition. He is a member of the Buffalo and Ellicott clubs, and of other social and fraternal organizations.
In 18- Mr. Greiner married Helen A. Bond.
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To the professional and executive qualities that have ensured him success at the bar, in political leadership and official functions, Mr. Greiner adds the genial traits of social life. Courteous, ready of access, his instincts are those of American equality, and his principles those of the sterling citizenship that in public duties recognizes a trust imposed for the good of all.
SAMUEL J. RAMSPERGER, Senator from the 49th District, is one of Buffalo's foremost Democrats and a prominent figure in public life. Senator Ramsperger is now serv- ing his fourth term in the State Senate. Though best-known in public con- nections, the Senator is a substantial and success- ful business man. He belongs to many organi- zations and takes a promi- nent part in the social life of Buffalo.
Senator Ramsperger comes of sterling Ger- man stock, his father, Conrad Ramsperger, hav- ing been a native of Wur- temburg, while his mother was born in Alsace. The elder Ramsperger came SAMUEL J. RAMSPERGER. to America about fifty years ago and settled in Buffalo, where he died in 1869. After his arrival in this country he married . Anna Maria Reppert, who died in 1903. The surviving children of the marriage are: Samuel J .; Maria (Mrs. John Schusler); Kunigunda (Mrs. Martin Wick); and Miss Barbara Ramsperger, all of whom are residents of Buffalo.
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Samuel Joseph Ramsperger was born in Buffalo April 25, 1862. He attended St. Anne's Parochial School, and was for three years a student at Canisius College. When fourteen years old he began learning the printing business with the firm of Haas, Neubert & Kline, but soon entered the employ of John Schusler, then proprietor of the brewing establishment which afterward became the William Simon Brewery. With this con- cern Mr. Ramsperger has been connected in various capacities ever since, and has contributed largely to the firm's prosperity.
Senator Ramsperger has been a Democrat all his life, and when only twenty-two years old was elected Alderman from the old 5th Ward of Buffalo, and although the ward was Republican he was reelected three times. At the end of his fourth term he was a candidate for Assessor against N. J. Mock, and though defeated, ran 3,000 votes ahead of the Democratic general ticket. In the fall of 1898 Mr. Ramsperger received the Demo- cratic nomination for State Senator from the 48th District, and was elected over his opponent, Simon Seibert, by nearly 4,000 plurality. Two years later he ran for the same office against William Metzler, and was elected by 1,900 plurality in a Presi- dential year. In 1902 he ran for Senator against William Schneider and was elected by 2,550 plurality. Two years after- ward he was again a candidate, but was defeated by Louis Fechter by 115 votes, the district going 2,600 Republican for Roosevelt. In 1906 Mr. Ramsperger. was nominated for Senator by the Democracy of the new 49th District, also receiving the indorsement of the Independence League, and was elected over his adversary, Emil Rubenstein, Republican, by 5,540 plurality. Senator Ramsperger is one of the leading Democrats of the Senate. His parliamentary career has been signalized by inde- fatigable industry, sound practical ability and conscientious safeguarding of the public interests. In the Legislature of 1907 he served on the committees of Finance, Cities and Canals. He has always worked hard for the canal improvement bills and other legislation for the advancement of Erie County, and has accomplished valuable results.
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Senator Ramsperger is a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association and the Knights of St. John, and in the last-named organization has served as Lieutenant on the staff of Col. J. L. Schwartz. He is a life member of the Catholic Institute, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the German Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. He is a member of the Sacred Heart Parish of the Catholic Church. The Senator is also prominent in German- American fraternal and social circles, being a member of Teu- tonia Liederkranz, the Wurtemburg Benevolent Association, the Harugari Frohsinn, Harugari Balder Lodge and the United German Societies. He is affiliated with the Elks, the Red Men and the Foresters of America.
November 20, 1889, Senator Ramsperger was married to Anna Siebert, daughter of Nicholas Siebert of Buffalo.
GEORGE H. KENNEDY is one of Buffalo's able lawyers and a successful practitioner at the bar. He is also well known in public life and is now serving his second term as County Attorney of Erie County. He is a professional man of solid attainments, noted for care in the preparation of his cases and skill in conducting them. As an official he has a first-class record for conscientiousness and efficiency, having won a high reputation in several positions of a civic character. He takes an active interest in educational matters and State charities, is socially prominent and has a large circle of friends.
Like many other successful Americans, Mr. Kennedy is of Irish ancestry, being a son of John and Mary (Powers) Kennedy, who were born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and came to New England in 1846, settling in Connecticut.
George H. Kennedy was born in Seymour, Conn., on the 15th of August, 1868. After gaining the elements of education in his native State, he entered Niagara University, from which insti- tution he was graduated in 1889. During the early part of his career Mr. Kennedy had considerable experience as a teacher,
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serving for three years as Assistant Principal of the High School at Naugatuck, Conn., and he has always retained a prac- tical interest in educationl subjects. But in choosing a life work, the legal profession proved a superior attraction, and coming to Buffalo in 1892 he entered the Buffalo Law School, from which he was graduated in 1893, shortly afterward being admitted to the bar.
Immediately after becoming an attorney Mr. Kennedy engaged in the practice of his profession in Buffalo. He entered upon the difficult undertaking of building up a practice in a large city without associating himself with any other lawyer, gained a gratifying success, and has always practiced by him- self. He has a large civil business of a general character, and in addition to office work has an extensive court practice, being very successful as a trial lawyer and in the argument of cases before appellate tribunals. He is attorney for the National Association of Marine Firemen and represents many other important organized and private interests.
During the years 1900-1903 Mr. Kennedy served as a member of the Board of School Examiners and did energetic and effi- cacious work in that connection. His appointment by the late Governor Higgins as member of the present Board of Managers of the State Hospital was received with approval by men of all parties, as was evidenced by the tone of press comment at the time. Mr. Kennedy was appointed County Attorney of Erie County for the year 1906 by the Board of Supervisors and was reappointed by the present Board. As legal adviser and repre- sentative of the county his labors have been characterized by energy and efficiency of a signal kind. The legal affairs of the County have been brought under systematized guidance and results in a marked degree beneficial have accrued.
Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Erie County Bar Associa- tion and the Lawyers' Club. He is prominently identified with the Knights of Columbus, and belongs to the Ellicott Club. In his general relations with the community he is a citizen of public
Luis L. Butwork .
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spirit, heartily in accord with the sterling institutions and higher aims of our day and always willing to give his aid to worthy movements and objects.
In 1898 Mr. Kennedy was married to Katherine G. Gragan of Meriden, Conn. They have three sons : George H., Jr., Edward K., and Robert Kennedy.
LOUIS LOCKE BABCOCK, of the law firm of Rogers, Locke & Babcock, is one of the leading members of the Buffalo bar, a fact which derives additional weight from the circumstance that Maj. Babcock is still a young man, hardly in the prime of middle life. His career is a notable exception to the rule that distinction in the legal profession is an honor of slow growth and late maturity. The explanation of Maj. Babcock's success may be found in the concentration of purpose which character- izes him as a man and a legal practitioner. Few lawyers have so deeply borne in mind the maxim that the law is a jealous mistress. His energies have been consistently devoted to his profession, though not wholly to the exclusion of outside inter- ests. He has a creditable record as a National Guardsman, is active in the furtherance of Buffalo's welfare, and is prominent in social life.
Maj. Babcock is a son of Dr. Horace Babcock of Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., where the subject of this sketch was born December 14, 1868. He attended the public schools of his native town, and Gowanda Academy, later pursuing a three years' course in Prof. Horace Briggs' Classical School in Buffalo. When eighteen years old he entered the law office of Torrance & Blackmon at Gowanda. Two years afterward, in March, 1889, he came to Buffalo, where he finished his law clerkship in the office of Rogers, Locke & Milburn, being admitted to the bar in March, 1890. He immediately engaged in practice in Buffalo, being at first associated with the firm of Rogers, Locke & Milburn as managing clerk. With Mr. John G. Milburn, especially, his business relations assumed a close and
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confidential character, and up to the time of Mr. Milburn's removal to New York City Mr. Babcock was his junior counsel, preparing all his cases and assisting in the trials of them. Upon the withdrawal of Mr. Milburn Mr. Babcock became a member of the firm, whose name was changed to the present style of Rogers, Locke & Babcock. As a lawyer, Maj. Babcock is a man of solid acquirements, both theoretic and practical. He has enjoyed marked success as an advocate and is a safe and con- servative office counselor. Though broadly speaking he is a general practitioner rather than a specialtist, he has specialized his studies in the department of negligence law, wherein he has had an exceptional amount of experience in the investigation, trial or adjustment of accident cases. As lecturer on negligence, at the Buffalo Law School, his treatment of the subject has been characterized by clear analysis and effective illustration. The law firm of which Maj. Babcock is a member is one of the most noted in the State, and throughout his professional career it has been his lot to deal with important and diversified inter- ests. His development as a capable all-around legal practi- tioner may be regarded as a logical result of his environment and of the kind of business which he has had in hand.
Next to the duties of his profession, the affairs wherein Maj. Babcock has been most actively concerned are those of the National Guard, of which he is a prominent member. He entered the service in January, 1890, as a private in Company G, 65th Regiment, N. G. N. Y. The following June he was made a Corporal, and in November of the same year was commis- sioned Second Lieutenant of Company D, serving as such until March 1, 1893, when he was promoted to First Lieutenant. He offered his services on the first call for volunteers in the Spanish-American War, and raised Company K, which was added to the 65th Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was commissioned Captain of Company K, which he commanded through the entire period of its enlistment, from May 17 to November 17, 1898. A strict disciplinarian, yet attentive to the
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