A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 103

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1102

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William P. Brooks was born in Watertown Oct. 30, 1834. His father, David P., son of Matthew Brooks, came in 1835 to Granger. The next year he settled in Hume on the farm now owned by E. H. Hodnett, and in 1841 removed to the present Andrew Caldwell farm. He died in 1884, 73 years old. His first wife was Sarah Nourse of Rockingham, Vt. William P. was their only child. His second wife was Hannah Sabin. William P. was raised a farmer, educated in the common schools and at Rushford Academy, taught school several terms, and married, in 1857, Mary P., daughter of Jay Farnsworth, an early settler in Hume. She died in 1874, leaving one child, Bertha S. (Mrs. C. E. Haines of Fillmore). By his second wife, Catha- rine F., daughter of James C. Smith of Fillmore, he has two daughters, Grace S. and Jessie. For some years Mr. Brooks was in the lumber and wood business in Allen and Granger, and in 1867 he bought of J. B. Whitbeck his mercantile business, and has kept a general store from that time, building in 1881 the large double store which he now occupies, in which John H. Howden was his partner from 1884 to 1894. He was elected supervisor on the Republican ticket in 1876, '81, '82, '83, '84, serving more terms than any of his predecessors except Dr. Seth Pratt who served the same length of time. He was postmaster at Fillmore from 1874 to 1894, except during Cleveland's first administration. He has been president of the State Bank of Fillmore since its organization in 1889. Mrs. Catharine F. Brooks died Sept. 7, 1895. Mr. Brooks is a self-made man. Unpretentious in manners, strictly honest in his dealings, he has attracted trade from long distances and held it. His mercantile career of 30 consecutive years is probably the longest of any in Northern Allegany and exceptionally successful.

fast in 1824. Robert H. Chamberlain, son of David and Mary (Kinney) Chamberlain, was born in Bel- Simon Chamberlain, his grandfather, settled in Angelica at an early day, from Massachusetts, where David married his wife. Children : Hepsabeth, Moses Van Campen (the first white male child born in Angelica), Elizabeth, Elisha, Prudence, Mary, David, Simon, Lucy and Robert H., who was brought up a farmer. In 1843 he married Sarah Allerton. Children : Joanna (married Frank Luther, an old soldier), Joseph M. (went to war with his father), Stephen (also a soldier, died in hospital near Washington), Robert, Edwin, Adam, Sarah, George and Philip P. All are dead but Sarah (Mrs. Wilson Kelley, who had one child, Bertie). Robert left one child, Gracie (Mrs. Charles Patterson). Mr. Chamberlain's second wife was Sindora Young, and his third wife, married in 1890, was Mrs. Frances C. (Laning) Noble of Rushford, whose three children were : Corydon L., Charles L. and Anna M Mr. Chamberlain was a soldier in Gen. Banks' expedition up the Red river. On the night of Jan. 14, 1863, while in line of battle at Camp Bisland, the men were so exhausted they laid down and slept in water that covered their bodies all but one shoulder and their head. After 19 months service he came back to Allen. In 1870 he removed to his farm in Hume, and in 1890 to Fillmore. His pension was raised in 1894 from $12 to $24 per month.

Hiram Clark is the grandson of Silas and Sarah Clark, who came from Massachusetts to Hume in 1832. Children : William and Lyman. Lyman married Elizabeth Haywood in 1839, and settled on his present farm of 127 acres. Children : Elizabeth (Mrs. Harlow Myers, has one child, Alfred). Hiram, born in 1844, married, first, Cynthia Hamer, second, Mary Moore. Children : Ray and Roy (twins), and Sarah, Ida (Mrs. Frank Hotchkiss, one child, Warner), and Milton. Hiram enlisted, in 1863, in 4th N. Y. H. A. He was in the battles of the Wil- derness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. He came home with broken health in 1865, and now has a pension of $17 per month.

Horton H. Clute, son of Noah and grandson of Frederick Clute, was born in Cohocton, Steuben county, in 1826. The children of Noah and Maria (Henry) Clute were William, Hor- ton H., and a daughter who died young. In 1832 Noah removed to Perry where Horton at- tained to manhood on a farm, and in 1854 he bought and settled on 109 acres of land in Hume.

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His first marriage was in 1849 to Juliette Wakeman who died in 1864. His second marriage, in 1866, was to Sarah A., daughter of John Engle of Angelica, whose grandfather and his brother came from Germany about 1750. Both fought in the French and English wars, and the former in the Revolutionary War. He was taken prisoner at Germantown and died soon after. John Engle was born at Germantown, Pa., in 1795. His father, Joseph Engle, removed about 1805 to the site of the village of Geneseo. In 1821 John married Sarah Alvord from Vermont, and in 1823, settled near Angelica where he was justice of the peace 25 years. In 1866 he went to Hartford, Mich., where his sons Cerius H., a lawyer, and Washington A., a physician and the author of two volumes of poetry, still reside. The children of Horton and Sarah (Engle) Clute are Julia May (Mrs. Eugene H. Ward) and Hattie (Mrs. Carl J. Howden), both of Fillmore, N. Y. Mr. Clute has been a merchant in Wiscoy since 1881, an assessor 9 years, and postmaster the past 7 years. Mrs. Clute has long been known as a newspaper correspondent, under nom de plume of " Lucile," at Wiscoy.

Loren Colburn comes of an English family which settled in Dedham, Mass., in 1639. One of a later generation was the author of " Colburn's Intellectual Arithmetic." Loren was born in Shrewsbury, Rutland county, Vt., in 1822, where his father, Phineas, and his grandfather, Moses Colburn, lived. Phineas married Abigail Wilder. Children : Loren, Almond, Demaris, Alma and Gardner W. He came with his family in 1847 to Hume, and bought 100 acres of land for $2,000. His wife died here in 1849, and he in 1854. Loren bought the homestead farm in 1850, and the same year married Emily, daughter of John Buel of Hume. Mary A., their first child, married Fay Bixby and died in 1876. Edna Browning Bixby, their only child, now lives with her grandfather Colburn. Ellen J. Colburn is Mrs. Fred Lyon of Pike. Charles C., the third child, is now a merchant in Oneonta, N. Y. (He married May White. Children : Ada, Mabel and Bruce), Cora E. (Mrs. Frank Morse of Fillmore), Harry B. (with his brother in Oneonta), Jessie, Hartley H., a traveling salesman, and Alfred are the remaining five of their eight children.

Nathan E. Colgrove, grandson of Eli and son of William A. Colgrove who was born in Brookfield, Madison Co., in 1808, married Olive Davidson, a school teacher, in 1828, came in 1839 to Castile, and settled in Gardeau, came in 1841 to Granger, and in 1842 to Hume where he was justice of the peace. Children : Julia L., (Mrs. Silas Stone, one child, Alonzo), Elizabeth (Mrs. John Safford, children : William and John), William H. H. (married Ellen, daughter of Samuel and Ellinor Flint of Pike, children : Edward and John) and Nathan E., who was born in 1851. William A. Colgrove, W. H. H. and Nathan E. bought their farm of 237 acres in 1877 at $60 per acre.

Calvin E. Couch is son of Loren J., and grandson of Jonathan who came from Massachu- setts to Pike about 1800, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in the hospital while in service. Loren J. was born in Massachusetts in 1797, grew to manhood on his father's farm in Pike, and, in 1824, married Sally Meacham of Orangeville. Children : Charlotte (Mrs. Isaac Failing of Cuba), Mary Jane (Mrs. John P. Failing ; she went from Hume to Illinois), and Calvin E., born in Hume Feb. 19, 1832, where his father had settled in the woods. At first they had to hang blankets in the empty doors and windows of their log house. Mr. Couch paid $4 per acre for the first 90 acres on which Calvin E. was reared, and where he still lives, owning now 130 acres. In 1853 hc married Marytta, daughter of Alanson Skiff of Hume. The children of Calvin E. and Marytta Couch have been : Lorrin A., Ruth (Mrs. Jumes A. Wilson of Caneadea, children, Annise and Volney), Mary J. (Mrs. C. W. Thayer of Hume, children, Helen P. and Dorris M.), Edmund S., Charles M. In political faith Mr. Couch was first a Democrat, but is now a Populist.

Alfred H. Coy is a son of Horatio Coy, born in Hume in 1834, whose mother was a daugh- ter of Joel Seaton, who owned at one time the site of the old Indian village of Caneadea, and lived in the famous Council House. Horatio, whose father, Russell Coy, was born in Scotland, married Adaline A., daughter of Edson Hammond of Hume. Alfred H., their only child now living, was born in Hume in 1862, and after his school days was clerk in George S. Hopper's drug store in Hume, and for the past 9 years has been in the employ of Wells Brothers in Hume village. He married, in 1888, Catharine, daughter of Edward Hoey of Belfast, a school teacher for 8 years in Hume village, and 3 years elsewhere.

Mary E. Crowley, daughter of Charles and Catharine (Raycraft) Crowley, was born in Ire- land. After the death of her husband Mrs. Crowley brought her two children, Mary E. and Dennis D., to Hume in 1863. They attended the common schools, and both went to the Gen- eseo Normal School. Mary E., now in her fifth year at Short Tract, has been a teacher since 1880. In 1893 she was a candidate for the office of school commissioner for the northern dis- trict of Allegany. Dennis D. Crowley chose the medical profession and graduated at two medical colleges in Chicago. He settled in Oakland, California, where he was health officer and city physician till his professional duties compelled him to resign. He has been twice to

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Europe to advance his medical researches, now making surgery a specialty. He married Alma, daughter of ex-Judge Moore of Oakland. They have two children, Pauline and Basil.

George W. d'Autremont is the grandson of Augustus Francis Cecile d'Autremont, who, in 1807, at the age of 16, came with his widowed mother to Angelica, where he became one of the earliest merchants. His son Augustus, father of Geo. W., was born in Angelica in 1822. He married Adeline Mather of Hume in 1853. Children : Francis (died at age of 21), George W., Julia (Mrs. William Colburn), and Lucien of Hume. Mrs. d'Autremont died in 1862, and he married second Mrs. Mary (Brown) Hubbard. Their two children were Adeline and Caro- line (Mrs. George Clark). He brought his family to Hume in 1857, where he died in 1889. George W. d'Autremont was born Nov. 3, 1856, in Hume. He attended the common schools, Rushford Academy, and the Wesleyan Seminary at Houghton. When 18 he taught his first school at Grindstone. The next 7 years he was a farmer and since 1887 he has been a teacher, for the past year at Fillmore. November 5, 1893, he married Mrs. Jennie (Alton) Skiff from Illinois. She has two children by her first husband, Pearl and Paul. Mr. d'Autremont was elected, in 1894, supervisor of Hume on the Republican ticket. (See page 420.)

Frank G. Dodge is son of Miles Dodge, born in Manchester, Vt., in 1819, one of 10 chil- dren whose father, Joseph Dodge, a machinist, brought his family in 1823 to Perry, and in 1825 settled in Castile. Miles was brought up a machinist in his father's shop in Castile where he married, in 1840, Sarah, daughter of Grinnell and Betsey (Eldridge) Stannard, and settled in Wiscoy in 1842, where he built the large agricultural machine shop still standing. During the oil excitement he made steam engines and boilers, employing 40 men. His children were : Clara, John, Marion, Fred. Frank G., Adele and Will. Mr. Dodge died in 1890. Frank G. was born in 1861 and learned the machinist trade in his father's shop. He married, in 1887, Libbie, daughter of B. F. Biglow of Caneadea. Children : Miles, Gilbert and Jessie. In 1894 he left the employ of the W. N. Y. & P. railroad and returned to Wiscoy where he is running the old foundry and machine shop.

William Doud is son of Orrin, whose father Edward Doud was married to Content Fuller in Connecticut, moved to Vermont, then to Otsego county, and came in 1815 to Hume and bought of the Holland Land Company 250 acres on lot No. 31. Their children were : John, Eben, Orrin, Benjamin and James. Mr. Doud died when 83 and his widow when 97. Orrin Doud was born in Otsego county, where he married Sally Phillips, and came to Hume and settled with his father. Children : William, Caroline (Mrs. Almond Whiting), Miles W., Louisa (Mrs. Bird Trall), Alonzo and Lucinda, who married Frank Ferris, both were teachers in a high school in Missouri. William was born Sept. 8, 1820, on the old homestead of his father and his grandfather, which is still his home. He married in 1846 Almira E., daughter of Squire Stone from Otsego county, who came to Hume in 1834 and died in 1884, 91 years old. They have one child, Orrin S., who married Ellen O. Bandfield of Hinsdale, N. Y. Children : Eleanor Blanche, Marjorie Almira and William Carlos. Mr. Doud, always a Republican, was assessor in war times,

Miles W. Doud, son of Orrin, son of Edward, who was a descendant from Henry Doud, who came in 1639 to Guilford, Conn., from Kent Co., England, was born in Hume in 1826. His father was commissioner of schools in Hume in 1822, supervisor in 1828 and 1830, and was a justice of the peace. Miles W. bought the first 50 acres of his present farm of 177 acres in 1847 at $12.50 per acre, and began keeping house in a board shanty 12 by 14 feet with roof slanting one way. He married Roseann Grover of Hume. Children, Monroe (dec.), Vernon W. (married Mary Canning; children, Edith and Miles W.), Charles M. (married Rose Scrib- ner: children, Alonzo and May), Willie E. (married Effie Johnston) and Hattie R. (Mrs. W. N. Stacy; children, Marie and John). Mrs. Doud died in 1863, and in 1864 he married Mrs. Helen (Phillips) Fitch, (daughter of Capt. John Phillips who settled in 1828 where Lewis Kane now lives, and died in 1837 when 29 years old). Mr. and Mrs. Doud have had two children, Nettie, died when ten years old and Miles, who died young.

Willard E. Dudley was the son of Alexander Dudley, who came from Vermont to Castile, where William E. was born in 1825. He was brought up a farmer, and, in 1850, married Melissa Stannard of Castile. About 1860 they removed to New York City, where he became a cattle-broker and commission dealer, handling the heavy shipments of Nelson Morris of Chicago. For some years he was a partner of S. G. Woodruff, now a banker in Livonia, and the firm of Dudley & Woodruff was among the best known cattle dealers in New York. In 1882 he came to Hume and paid $70 per acre for the farm still the home of Mrs. Dudley, where he died in 1888 at the age of 63. Their children were Edwin E. and Frank C. The latter prepared for college at Allington, Ct. He has traveled in every state in the Union, and has business inter- ests in the west.

Samuel Ara Farman. born in New Haven, Oswego county, Dec. 6, 1835, is a descendant in the 4th generation of John Farman, a soldier in the French War, who, after serving 7 years

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in the English Army, came through the forests from Canada to New England in 1763. and mar- ried and settled in Bath, N. H. John Farman was born near Annapolis, Md., Sept., 11, 1739, where his father and grandfather were born, the former Oct. 17, 1699. His great-grandfather was one of the early planters of that part of Maryland. On the side of his mother, Martha, daughter of Charles and Prudence (Wells) Dix, Mr. Farman is a descendant, in the seventh gen- eration, of Leonard Dix, an original settler of Wethersfield, Conn., and, in the 8th generation, of Thomas Wells, first colonial treasurer of Connecticut, and afterwards secretary, deputy gov- ernor and governor of that colony and for 24 years (1636-1660) a judge of the general court. Mr. Farman came to Wyoming county in 1854, and was engaged in a store at Perry, and after- wards at Hermitage. In 1857 he entered the store of J. B. Whitbeck at Fillmore as a clerk, and afterwards was a member of the firm of Whitbeck & Co. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster at Fillmore, and held the office until he entered the army. In August, 1862, he received from Gov. Morgan a recuiting commission and within ten days after its receipt he en- rolled 60 men, mostly from Hume and Centerville, and at once went into camp at Portage, where the 130th and 136th Regts. were being organized. Mr. Farman was commissioned first lieutenant in the 130th, with rank from Aug. 19, 1862, in Co. F, commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Hatch. This regiment was mustered into U. S. service Sept. 3, 1862, served as infantry until transferred to the cavalry service as the Ist N. Y. Dragoons. The 130th was stationed during the winter of 1862-1863 at Suffolk, Va., to aid in fortifying and holding this strategic point. In April, 1863, the Confederates made a futile, though determined, attempt to take the place by a siege of 23 days. In June, 1863, the regiment went to the Army of the Potomac. "Lieutenant Far- man served with efficiency as the acting regimental quartermaster from the later part of 1862 until he resigned, and was honorably discharged July 30, 1863." After leaving the army Lieut. Farman was long a merchant at Hermitage, N. Y., but now resides at Fillmore. He married, April 19, 1859, Sarah Andrina d'Autremont, youngest daughter of Augustus Francis Cecile d'Autremont (see page 420), who was one of Angelica's earliest merchants. He has one son, Henrv Samuel Farman, born April 26, 1871.

William Grant Flanegan, is son of James W., son of Samuel, son of James who came from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1792 to York, Pa., where he kept a hotel and had 12 children. His son Samuel, born in 1798, married Lydia Perkins and came to Hume, with a covered wagon and ox team about 1825 and bought 60 acres of the present farm, living in the wagon till the log house, in which public meetings were afterwards held, could be built. He died in 1878, his wife in 1884. James W., the only one of their children who lived to maturity, was born in 1830, and married Frances L. Cudworth. Children were William G. and Lillie B. He died in 1892, on the old farm he had increased to 452 acres. Mrs. Flanegan died Feb. 20, 1895, aged 47 years. William G. was born in 1870, Lillie in 1872. After attending the common schools and Pike Seminary, William G. became an active farmer, and, with his sister, occupies the old home- stead, which includes Flanegan pond named after the family, which is the largest natural body of still water in the county.

Julius E. Franklin, born in Brookfield, Madison Co., April 18, 1833, was the son of John, son of William Franklin, from Vermont. John married Betsy Miller. Children: Gurdin, Harriet, Sarah, Amarilla, Mary A., William M., Mortimer C., Spencer R., Julius E. and Julia E. (twins), Gurdin J. and Gertrude J. (twins). In 1844 John Franklin came to Allen and settled as a farmer. His wife died in 1863, and he in 1875. Julius E. learned the harness maker's trade in Madison Co., where he enlisted in Ist N. Y. Light Artillery which served throughout the war in guarding Washington and Pennsylvania from invasion, was very active, but was in no big battles. After his discharge Mr. Franklin bought the Smith farm of 115 acres in Allen on which the Barnes & Snyder cheese factory was built in 1868. Mr. Franklin married Delia B. Quinn in 1881, and together they made cheese in the Shongo, Fiske, Bert and Rush Creek factories until 1888 when they settled on their present farm of 50 acres, which they bought in 1884. They had one child, Earl J. Mr. Franklin has a pension of eight dollars per month. He has always been a Repub- lican. Gurdin J. enlisted from Allen in the 130th N. Y. was transferred to the 136th and killed at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864.

Lorenzo S. Gelser is son of Jacob C. Gelser, who was born in Germany and came to Grove, where he settled in the woods, paying $2.50 per acre for his land. In 1843 he married Eliza- beth Isaman. Children : Charles, Caroline, John, Michael, David and Lorenzo S. The latter was born in Grove in 1853, and was brought up on his father's farm. He attended school at Alfred University, and taught school a year in Illinois and two years in Western New York. He next went "on the road " four years, buying eggs for Charles Maker of Dalton. In 1879 he came to Fillmore, and was a clerk in W. P. Brooks' store four years. In 1883 he began business for himself as general produce-dealer, making a specialty of the egg trade. Then he opened a coal- yard, selling first less than fifty tons a year, but now 600 tons. He built his present storehouse in 1887, where he packs and ships an average of 100,000 dozen eggs per year. He also ships

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130 cars of potatoes, doing an annual business of $100,000. Mr. Gelser married, in 1879, Min- nie, daughter of Goodwin S. Hovey, of Dalton. They had 2 children, Hovey A. and Lucile. Mrs. Gelser died Dec. 2, 1894 and he married second, Ada M. Lowell of Fillmore, Dec. 11, 1895. Mr. Gelser's father died in 1890, his mother is still living.

William Gibbs is grandson of Lemuel Gibbs, a soldier in the War of 1812, of Bethel, Windham Co., Vt .. where his son Roswell was born in 1798, and married Polly Lathrop in 1818. They reached Hume after a 17 days' journey in March, 1818, bought 75 acres of land, and began life with one horse and 50 cents in money, using wooden pins for nails and greased paper for window glass in building their log house. To raise money Mr. Gibbs worked in Pike for $to a month, and his wife for 75 cents a week. Their children were : Roxana, William, Hannah M., Julia A., Oscar F., Cordelia A. and Orlando C. Mr. Gibbs and Mr. McKeen cut the road from Hume to Angelica. William was born in 1823, and married in 1850 Emeline Lyon who died in 1875. His second wife was Mrs. Jerusha (Grow) Washburn. who had one child Bertha, now Mrs. George Hull. Mr. Gibbs' farm adjoins the old homestead on which his brother Orlando C. lives.

John Gleason is the son of Jonathan and the grandson of John Gleason of Welch extraction who moved from Massachusetts to Seneca county, and from there to Steuben county, where he died. His son Jonathan was born in Massachusetts and married Mary Crawford of Seneca county. Children : Henrietta, Reading, Delila, Jane, Starkey, Alfred, Jones, John, Mary, Jona- than and William. He came in 1825 to Belfast, where he died in 1853. His son, John Gleason, was born in 1824, in Seneca county, and came with his family the next year to Belfast where he was brought up a farmer. He married, in 1853, Clara, daughter of William Brown of Belfast. William Brown was born in 1793 and died in 1880, a son of John Brown of Tioga county, Pa., who was a Revolutionary soldier and was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. The family were direct descendants of Anneke Jans, of Trinity church fame, William being in the eighth generation. The great-grandfather of Mrs. William Brown, who was Margaret Roberts, came to America with William Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason came from Belfast to their farm in Hume in 1867. They have adopted, reared and educated five children.

Edson A. Hammond is grandson of Jonathan Hammond a drummer in the War of 1812 who settled on lands deeded to him by the state of New York but which proved to be in Ver- mont after the boundary between the two states was finally settled, in compensation for which New York gave him a farm in Bainbridge, Chenango county, where Edson was born in 1813. Jonathan who was born in Rutland, Vt., the son of John Hammond, of Scotch descent, brought his family to Caneadea in 1831, and in 1832 to Hume to the farm still the home of his son Augustus Hammond. The children of Jonathan and Prudence (Slater) Hammond were Lucy, Sofia and Laura born in Vt., and Lois, John M., Edson, Maryette, Augustus, Orvill and Addison born in Bainbridge, Edson, a farmer married Jerusha Dean. Children : George, Theodore and Adaline. His second wife was Mary A., daughter of Guilford Meachan, married in 1847. Children : Edson A., Fred E., Wesley H., Mary E., Mabel and Nora. Edson A. Hammond was born in Hume, Jan. 21, 1849, on the farm now owned by Eugene McCarthy, which his father bought in 1833, cleared up and sold in 1867, going from Hume to Michigan where he died in 1893. He was highway commissioner five years and assessor 14 years in Hume. At the age of 16 Edson A. entered his father's store which was deeded to him in 1865. In 1870 Edson A. closed out his mercantile business, bought 94 acres of land and made small fruits a specialty. He married in 1871 Ella J. daughter of Quincy White of Rushford. Their children were : Naola E., and Clare W. Mrs. Hammond died in 1884. Mr. Hammond was one year master and several years sec- retary of Oriona Lodge F. & A. M., was town clerk in 1870 and 1871, and was justice of the peace from 1892 to his death in 1894.

Herbert H. Hammond is grandson of John Madison and Eliza (Gillett) Hammond, whose parents, Jonathan, a soldier in the War of 1812, son of John, of Scotch descent, and Prudence (Slater) Hammond came from Bainbridge, Chenango Co., to Caneadea in 1831, and to Hume in 1832. The children of John M. (born in 1811) were : Jane, Maryette, John D., John M. (killed in battle of Malvern Hill July 2, 1862), Isadore S., and Charles S. Mr. Hammond was an early merchant, tavern keeper and lumber dealer on the river road. He contracted for, and built 4 miles of the Genesee Valley canal from Fillmore south. was twice its superintendent, and was member of the legislature in 1858, of the constitutional convention in 1867, and so performed his duties that, to his death, March 8, 1887, he was justly and fondly known as " Honest John Hammond." He was the ablest and most noted citizen the town has ever had. His son, Jonas D., was born in Hume in 1836, and like his father has been an efficient jobber and contractor. During the construction of the Valley railroad he built its stone work for 20 miles through this county. He married in 1857 Helen, daughter of Rhyla and Betsey (Elmer) Thrall. Children : Herbert H., Ellen I. (Mrs. Frank E. Haines), John M., Bertha M., Helen M. (Mrs. Skiff), Belle J., and Mae L. Herbert H. Hammond was born Oct. 8, 1860, in Hume, and

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A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 103

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co. Number of Pages: 1102

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1102