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has always been a farmer and jobber. He married, in 1883, Anna M., daughter of Erastus Noble of Rushford. Children : Jennie, Franc and Herbert J. He is now serving his second term as highway commissioner, in the administration of which he has expended near $10,000, building new steel bridges at Wiscoy and at Fillmore, these years were the most expensive years Hume has had since the great floods of 1889.
Augustus W. Henry, proprietor of the Ingham House in the village of Hume, established in 1823 by Chauncey G. Ingham, the first tavern kept in town, is the son of Curtis L., son of Philetus, son of Eben Henry. Curtis L. was born in Oneida county in 1825, and went with his father to Cleveland, N. Y., where he married Rosetta Brown. Children : Augustus W. and Ida E. Augustus W. bought the Ingham House in May, 1886, and has been its landlord since. In January, 1886, he married Hattie, daughter of Joseph W. Ayer of Hume. Their children are Ward B. and Curtis P. Mr. Henry was one of the victims and the only survivor of the most memorable disaster in the history of Hume. June 9, 1892, a cloudburst in Centerville changed Sixth-Town Creek to a torrent, and raised Cold Creek to a rushing river. A crowd of people stood on either bank of the mad stream watching its wild plunge over the falls, little dreaming that the terrible current was swiftly cutting the earth from under their feet. Without warning at 6:30 P. M. the bank fell precipitating 5 men into the flood, George Meech and his son Hartley, Elias Craft, A. W. Henry, and his brother-in-law Burdett Ayer. The latter two grasped each other, went over the falls together and were not separated till near the whirlpool. Mr. Henry's arm caught between two rocks, crushing his hand and the bones of his right arm. Burdett was hurried down the stream and rescued near Fillmore in an unconscious condition. He died Saturday evening from injuries to his head. After the seething waters had torn Mr. Henry from between the rocks, he was carried several times around the whirlpool and then shot down the stream to an island a hundred rods below where he managed to crawl to a place of safety. A great crowd gathered, but it was 4 hours before the stream lowered enough to allow a man to reach the island on a powerful horse, by which means he was rescued. His recovery was painful and slow, and his hand and arm are still crippled.
J. W. Hildreth was born in Acton, Vermont, in 1837 and was one of a family of 8 children. His father, Alanson Hildreth moved to Scio, Allegany county in 1851, and in 1852 settled in Hume where he died in 1885. James W. was brought up on a farm and educated at the com- mon schools and Rushford Academy. Enlisted in 1862 in Co. F, 4th N. Y. H. A., served in the defense of Washington and with the army of the Potomac, the regiment taking part in all the battles from the Wilderness to the surrender at Appomattox. Mr. Hildreth was promoted to 2d Lieutenant for bravery in action June 18, 1864, when he was wounded in the right hand ; and was also recommended for Ist Lieutenant and Captain for the part taken by him at the battle of Reams' Station Aug. 25th, but being prostrated by sickness was mustered out of the service Jan. 20, 1865. He is a charter member of Burnside Post 237, G. A. R. and has been 6 years its Commander. He has served his town 9 years as assessor and two terms as super- visor.
James R. Hodnett is son of John, who came from Ireland to America in 1817 and settled in Hume, where he is now a farmer. He married Anna Ryan. Children, James R., Mary A., Maggie, Katie and Frank. James R. was born in Hume in 1855, lived with his father on the farm till 1878, when he conducted a meat market trade for six years. In 1884 he was elected constable, and, by successive re-elections, still holds that office to which he devotes his entire time. For the past six years he has been deputy-sheriff in which capacity he has done excellent detective work. In 1892 Antonio Delillo stabbed and killed a fellow Italian at Houghton. Mr. Hodnett captured him the next morning at Purdy's Crossing in Hume. The murderer had hid in Charles Leet's straw-stack where Leet's dog scented him early in the morning. Before he could again hide Mr. Hodnett discovered and captured him. He was armed with a deadly knife, eight inches long, the one with which he stabbed Antonio. He is now serving a 20-years sentence in Auburn. Mr. Hodnett went twice in 1893 to Maryland, capturing his man each trip, and has never failed to find any man for whom he has had a warrant. He married in 1879 Maria Rock of Belfast. Children, Willie R. and Eddie L. Mr. Hodnett is a strong Re- publican in politics. Jan. 1, 1895, he was appointed by George H. Swift, sheriff, under sheriff of Allegany county and moved with his family to Belmont and took charge of the new jail, a position he still holds.
Michael Holland is the son of Edmund, son of Michael, all of County Cork, Ireland. Michael married Elizabeth Kingston. Children, Johanna (Mrs. C. Hickey). Edmund, Michael, Thomas, Mary (Mrs. John Lanning), Ellen (Mrs. George. Keeler), Catharine (Mrs. Eugene McCarthy), Elizabeth (Mrs. Cornelius Hickey) and Ann (Mrs. Joseph Lanning). Edmund when 21, in 1837 came to Hamilton, Canada, in 1839 to New York, and worked on the Genesee val- ley canal. In 1840 he married Catharine Hickey who came from County Cork, in 1835, and settled in Fillmore. His first care was to bring his family to this country. In 1846 he went to
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Quebec and met his parents and brothers and sisters. Thomas, Catharine and Elizabeth set- tled in Hume. In 1865 he bought 95 acres where Mr. Gerritt Rice lives, and there passed his remaining years, dying in 1880. Their union was blessed with 10 children, three surviving. His widow survives him with unusual vigor of body and mind. Their children were Elizabeth (Mrs. Fred Lapp), Michael, Mary (Mrs. Gerritt Rice), Ellen (Mrs. James Ratchford, deceased Jan. 19, 1895). Michael was born Dec. 10, 1843, in Hume, and has ever been a farmer, buying his home farm of 96 acres in 1866 at $30 per acre. He married Nov. 2, 1867, Catharine Pen- dergast. Children, Thomas W., Joseph M. and Edmund F.
Mrs. Emma Kingsley is daughter of Jeremiah Weaver of Grove, whose father, Daniel Weaver, came from Pennsylvania. She married, in 1871, Ebenezer Kingsley of Hume. They had one child, Ebenezer, born in 1874, who attended Belfast Academy and Rochester Business University. Ebenezer was the son of Ephraim and Lydia Kingsley, who settled in Nunda in 1807 from Vermont, removed to Hunt's in 1816, and to Hume in 1820. He was born in 1814, was raised on a farm, but turned his attention to the Genesee Valley canal then being built, and became foreman of a state scow in 1851 under John M. Hammond. When Mead & Bangs of Syracuse had the contract to keep the Genesee Valley canal in repair they appointed him super- intendent. After that Dunn & Kingsley had the repair contract on the division from Oramel to Olean, and just after the war he became general superintendent for about two years. He was a member of the firm of Dunn & Co., and had contracts with John and Peter Dunn in the Che- mung canal extension. He possessed executive ability, and was connected with canal affairs till the canal was abandoned. He then returned to his valuable farm near Rossburg where he died in 1888. Mrs. Kingsley and her son Ebenezer reside on the old homestead.
George H. Lewis was born in Philadelphia Jan. 20, 1840. He came with his father's family to Fillmore in 1848 ; remained with his people at Fillmore and Caneadea until 1857, when he went to New Orleans ; he came back in 1859 and removed to Nunda, Livingston county. In 1877 he became a resident of Buffalo where he is engaged extensively in business, being the executive man of the Bell, Lewis & Yates coal firm, the largest in the world. His wife is a sister of his partner Bell. He built several years since, and still owns, the popular Niagara Hotel on Porter avenue, Buffalo.
Peleg Manchester, son of James, son of Peleg, from Rhode Island, of English descent, was born in Butternuts, Otsego county, in 1826. James Manchester married Esther Holmes, chil- dren : John, Mary, Lydia, Sophia and Peleg. He came to Hume in 1832 and bought the farm of 130 acres, now the property of his son Peleg. His first wife died in 1830, and his second wife was Mary Balcom. Peleg was raised a farmer and married, in 1847, Acidena, daughter of Dr. Seth H. Pratt, the second resident physician in Hume, children : James P. and Mary A. (Mrs. Duane Sweet). Mrs. Manchester died in 1882. James P. Manchester, son of Peleg, was born in Hume in 1849, educated in Hume village and Rushford Academy, became a clerk and in 1875 bought the mercantile business of J. M. Hammond & Co. which he ran on the cash basis two years. He also established a banking business in which he was engaged when he was appointed in 1886 assistant treasurer at St. George's Island, Alaska, by the Cleveland administration, which position he held some years, when he returned to Hume and was the first cashier of the State Bank of Fillmore. He was always a Democrat, serving as supervisor of Hume in 1878. He married Viola, daughter of David W. Sweet of Hume, and died in 1890, leaving one child, Lewis W.
George Warner Marvin is son of Henry Marvin who lived in East Bloomfield, Ontario Co. By his first wife, Almira A. Keyes, he had two children, Laura and Almira. The latter married William Brownson. Maria Brownson, their youngest child, lives with her uncle, G. W. Marvin, in Hume. Henry Marvin's second wife was Abigail, oldest daughter of Roger Mills of Hume. Their children were Thomas and Maryette. His third wife was Ducilla Mills, daughter of Roger Mills, the pioneer, by his second wife whose name was Griswold. Their children were Abbie and George W. whose mother died one hour after his birth, May 12, 1821. When 8 months old he was brought to Hume and lived in Roger Mills' family. The nearest "new milk's " cow was a mile away. The infan't food at 6 cents per quart was paid for by spinning flax. When 7 years old George W. was adopted by Mary Mills (Mrs. Seth Robinson) with whom he lived till he was 21 on a farm which afterwards he bought and still owns. After her husband's death Mrs. Robinson lived with Mr. Marvin the last 20 years of her life. In 1842 William R. Skiff, salesman in a drygoods store in New York, opened a general store in the present Stapleton meat-market building, and hired Mr. Marvin at $150 a year and board and washing. Mr. Skiff put him on a peddler's wagon with two horses, with a stock of silks, shawls, watches and jewelry, which he ran 5 years, doing a large trade. In 1848 he married Rebecca Alger, and settled on the Seth Robinson farm. Mr. Marvin also dealt in agricultural tools, selling 40 Howard mowing machines yearly. Then for many years he bought live stock, mak- ing heavy purchases for Jacob Velie, a wealthy drover of Poughkeepsie. He also became an
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extensive merchant, establishing stores at Hume, Wiscoy, Centerville and Birdsall. The former he sold to Evans & Bean, and the latter to Martin Mills. The other two he still owns. In 1868 Mr. Marvin moved to his present home in Hume village, bought of Roger B. Mills. His wife died in 1878. He has been an upright and a successful man. He is a Republican and has served the town as assessor and highway commissioner.
Eugene McCarthy is son of Charles and Johanna (Goggin) McCarthy, who lived in Parish Schull, County Cork, Ireland, where Eugene the second of II children was born in 1827. In 1849 he came to America, passed the first year in New Jersey, coming in 1851 to Portage where he worked on the big bridge till it was done, and was on the first train that crossed it. Coming thence to Hume he ran a shingle mill for Mortimer McPherson, and in 1854 bought of him 50 acres of wood land at $rI per acre, on which he built a house and lived 20 years. He married in 1853 Catharine, daughter of Michael Holland of Hume. Children : Charles, Mary, Anna, Michael (married Gertrude Alger, has one child Anastatia), Catharine (Mrs. Eugene Russell, children, Charles and Henry), Ellen (Mrs. Henry Smith, one child Christopher), Thomas, John, Johanna, James E. and George. In 1883 Mr. McCarthy revisited his native land, crossing and returning in the steamer Arizona, costing for the ocean travel $75 for the round trip, and taking between seven and eight days each way. About 1875 he traded for the farm of 180 acres that has since been his home. Mr. McCarthy has been an assessor 3 years, is a prominent member of St. Patrick's church, and one of the trustees of Holy Cross Cemetery.
The Mills family, the pioneers of Hume, were of Dutch descent. The old Holland ances- tor's name was Peter Van Dermeulen, which was changed by the legislature of Connecticut to Mills. Three brothers, Roger, Elihu and Frederick, lived at or near Hartford, Conn., and one or more of them were butchers. Roger's first wife was a Webster, cousin to Noah Webster. She died at the birth of their only child, Roger, Jr. His second wife was a Griswold. Their children were : Peltiah, born in 1776; Elisha, born 1778; George, 1781 ; Rufus, 1783 ; Abigail, 1785; Betsey, 1787 ; Drucilla, 1793; Mary, 1797. Roger Mills left Connecticut and settled in Montgomery Co., N. Y., which was the home whence he came, in 1806, to the forests of the Upper Genesee Valley, made the pioneer clearing, erected buildings and put therein machinery for sawing lumber and grinding grain, in the locality that is still known, and will probably carry his name to the latest posterity as Mills' Mills. He returned to his home in Montgomery in 1811, where his useful career was closed by death. Fortunately for the family and for the new settlement he had a worthy successor in the person of his son Roger, Jr., who came the same year and took up the work where his father had left it. Roger Mills, Jr. was born in Bloom- field, Conn., in 1768, and came to Montgomery Co., N. Y., with his uncle Elihu who brought him up. He married Abigail Bidwell. Their thirteen children were as follows : Abigail, born April 9, 1792, became the first wife of Henry Marvin, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y., Roger Bidwell, born July 6, 1793, Jonathan, born July 14, 1795, died July 18, 1796, Jonathan, 2d, born March 11, 1797; died Nov. 14, 1798, William Webster, born Nov. 22, 1798, Mary W., born March 11, 1801 (Mrs. Seth Robinson), Nathaniel E., born Dec. 31, 1802, Charles Morris, born April 22, 1805, Emeline, born April 22, 1807 (Mrs. Henry Mills), Martha B., born June 22, 1809 (Mrs. Alonson Skiff), Samuel Goodwin, born Nov. 22, 1811, Philo, born March 21, 1813, died 1892, and Marvin, born May 30, 1817, who is the only one of this large family now alive. Mar- vin Mills, the youngest of the 13 children of Roger and Abigail (Bidwell) Mills, and the only one now alive, was born in Hume at Mills' Mill, May 30, 1817. He was raised and has always been a farmer. He married Sarah, daughter of William Somers of Waterford, Vt., and settled on what is now the Chester Mills farm. Their children were : Charles D. F., Kelsey L. and Wil- liam S. Charles D. F. Mills was born Dec. 24, 1842, and married S. Celestia Kingsley Nov. 22, 1864. Children : Lillian A. born March 24, 1867, married George F. Palmer, M. D., since deceased, and Herbert A. born Dec. 26, 1871. His wife died Aug. 20, 1883, and his second marriage was with Blanche E. Dailey Jan. 30, 1889. They had three children : DeForrest A., born June 22, 1890, and Edith B., born March 13, 1893. Mr. Mills is a farmer near Wiscoy, N. Y. Kelsey L. Mills, the second son of Marvin Mills, was born Dec. 23, 1847. He married Josephine Akers June 1, 1875. (Their children are three : J. Charles, born Nov. 12, 1877 (dec.), Warner M., born Dec. 8, 1887 (dec.), and Harry A. now about one year old.) Mr. Mills is a jeweler in Kansas City, Mo. Marvin Mills sold his farm in 1883 and moved to Wiscoy village, where his wife died in June, 1892, at the age of 70 years. William S. Mills, the youngest child of Marvin and Sarah (Somers) Mills, was born in Hume, May 24, 1858. At the age of 16 he went to Kansas City, Mo., where he attended school and learned the jeweler' s trade with his brother Kelsey L. In 1878 he returned and in 1880 established the jeweler business in the vil- lage of Hume. In 1885 he removed to Fillmore where he is now located. He married Feb. 23, 1882, Ella R., daughter of George D. Gillett of Hume. Their two children are : M. Lena, born Aug. 4, 1883, and Bessie E., born May 31, 1887.
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Webster Mills, son of William Webster Mills, who was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery county, in 1798, and came with his father, Roger Mills. to Mills' Mills in 1811. William W. learned the carding and fulling mill business which his father and Bailey Clough had established in 1816, which he afterwards bought, and added cloth manufacturing, running the factory till about 1880. He married, in 1825, Maria, daughter of Philip Griggs of Pike. Their children were, Elasif L. (born in 1826, married Dr. A. B. Stewart), Webster, Volney (born in 1831, married Sarah Fuller), Dorliska (Mrs. George Copeland), Balfour (born in 1840), Stanley (born Nov. 2, 1842, married Lucina Fuller). Mr. Mills died in 1884, his wife in '75. Webster Mills was born at Mills' Mills, June 11, 1882, where he received common school ad- vantages, and for a time attended Professor Smith's select school at Castile. At the age of 19 he went into his father's gristmill, remaining in the business 20 years. In '68 he bought his present farm of 158 acres at $45 per acre. Mr. Mills' first marriage was in '49 with Lucinda, daughter of Benjamin Fuller of Hume, and his present wife was Mrs. Lucina (Quackenbush) Alger. Politically a Republican, he has been supervisor of Hume three terms.
Balfour Mills, son of William Webster Mills, was born Dec. 24, 1840, in Hume. William Webster was born in Canajoharie in 1798 and came with his father, Roger Mills in 1811. He worked from boyhood in the carding mill and added cloth making to the business, which he conducted till near his death in 1884, making cloth only 7 years. He was first a Whig, then a Republican, and never missed a spring or fall election. William W. Mills married Maria, daughter of Philip Griggs. Children, Elasif L. (Mrs. A. B. Stewart of Hume), Webster, Volney, Dorliska (Mrs. George Copeland), Balfour and Stanley. Balfour was educated in the common schools and Pike Academy, and has always been a farmer. His first wife was Adelaide, daughter of Luman Peck of Hume. Their children were Dorliska (Mrs. Loren Smith of Hume) Arthur R. and Ethel Mills. His second wife was Mrs. Sarah (Fuller) Mills, widow of Volney Mills, by whom she had two children, Robert S. of Akron, N. Y., and Charley V. of Hume. Mr. Mills' second wife died in 1892. He has been a life-long Republican, serving two terms as assessor.
John Powers Mills is the only child of Charles M. and Julia (Powers) Mills. His father, born in 1805, was the seventh child of Roger Mills, son of the pioneer. His mother was daughter of John and Lavinia (Stone) Powers of Pleasant Valley, Steuben county, where she was born in 1819. Jacob Powers, father of John, came from Germany, was a soldier in the French War and a captain in the colonial army of the Revolution. For his services he held a military grant of 400 acres of land now in the city of Saratoga. Mrs. Mills' grandfather, Amos Stone, of English extraction, a Revolutionary soldier, was a cousin of Nathan Hale. Tra- dition says his ancestors came over in the Mayflower. His wife's name was Holliday whose mother was Irish. When 23 Julia Powers began reading Homeopathy, which she practiced twelve years, two in Buffalo. Her marriage to Charles Mills occurred in 1857. Mr. Mills was a farmer and a dealer in cattle and sheep. He served his town as assessor and as supervisor. He died in 1887 on the farm now the home of his widow and son, a part of the first purchase of Roger the first. John Powers Mills was born in Hume in 1858. With a natural love for math- ematics he turned his attention to civil engineering, which he studied several years and became a land surveyor. He is still a student farmer, and takes keen delight in his fine collection of standard scientific works.
William R. Mills is the son of Roger Bidwell Mills who was born in Bloomfield, Ct., in 1793, and came to Hume in 1811, and became a miller in his father's mill. He married Alice Robinson of Pike. Children : William R., Sarah A. (Mrs. William Baker), and Martin M., of Birdsall. William R. was born May 21, 1818, and worked in his father's carding and fulling mill, which the latter sold about 1845, bought a farm and died in 1885. In 1841 William R. married Phebe Rich of Hume. Children : Albert A., married Rachael Cudworth : children, Fred A., Helen A. and Anna R. Helen V., married Chester F. Skiff a furniture dealer at Hume and commercial traveler. Children : William M., Mary (Mrs. L. R. Slussor, one child Lou), Fannie, Alice, John M., and Minerva. Julius of Hume and Luella A. (Mrs. Frank A. Burnell, of Denver, Col.). Mr. Mills left his farm in 1885 and settled in Hume village where his wife died in 1886. Since then he has visited his daughter in Denver six times, traveling extensively in the west. He has always been a zealous Republican, has served his town five years as high- way commissioner. In religious matters he is a radical free thinker, admires Bob Ingersoll, and has taken the Boston Investigator over 42 years.
George Minard, son of Isaac and Lucy Minard, was born in Rockingham, Vt., in 1803. He had the limited advantages of the common schools of that day, and when 21 years of age he went to Lowell, Mass., and was employed in blasting and removing rock for the foundation of the extensive cotton mills there. In 1828 with his hard earned wages he came to Allegany and settled on lot No. 53 of the ,Caneadea reservation, buying out Isaac and Chester Gibbs. He married, first, Irene Blanchard, and second, Maria Stearns, of Rockingham, Vt. Mr. Minard
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was supervisor of Hume 3 times, an active politician and was largely influential in the councils of the Whigs ot the county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Minard were Universalists. He died in April, 1863, and his wife in 1875. "He was a man of large heart, great force of character and liberal ideas, scrupulously honest in business transactions, and foremost in all material improvements of the town."
John S. Minard, son of George and Maria (Stearns) Minard, was born on the Caneadea Indian reservation in Hume, Jan. 31, 1834. His schooling began in the log schoolhouse era, and his education was received at the common schools, Hume union school, the Castile Scientific and Mathematical Institute conducted by Prof. Davis W. Smith, a teacher of much eminence, from 1840 to 1855 and at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. April 1, 1853, his father died, leav- ing him barely past 19 years of age. the oldest of a family of four children, and so his school days were abruptly ended. Remaining on the farm till 1871, he disposed of his part of the homestead and in 1873 with Hon. John M. Hammond and Geo. W. Marvin engaged in mer- chandising at Hume as J. M. Hammond & Co. for about three years. In the fall of 1876 he again engaged in trade in the old " Mechanics Hall," and in 1878 built the large store on Main street where he conducted business until December, 1885, when he sold his stock and goodwill to Wellls & Minard. October 18, 1858, he married Mary A. Nye of Hume. Not being blessed with children they adopted two orphans, brother and sister ; Edwin Forrest Minard, who died in 1887, and Julia Elizabeth Minard, now Mrs. F. W. Hark of Fillmore. While engaged in an extensive lucrative mercantile business, Mr. Minard, about 1880, bought with a partner a large tract of timber land and engaged largely in lumbering. This resulted most disastrously from cir- cumstances beyond his control in large losses and pecuniary embarrassment. Mr. Minard's integ- rity and fair dealing were not compromised by these operations and he made new friends by his stand in relation to them. He has been a practical surveyor since 1853 and has in this vocation become thoroughly acquainted with much of northern Allegany and his services are often demanded as an expert on lines and boundaries. He has been supervisor of Hume, town agent in 1873 on town railroad bond matters, justice of the peace, etc. He is an enthusiast in Indian history, antiquarian matters and local history. He has written much for publication in newspapers, etc., is the author and publisher of the valuable " Life of Maj. Moses Van Campen," has been president of Allegany County Historical Society from organization, and by his suggestion and in a very large degree his labors, was the Allegany County Centennial Celebration conceived and brought to success- ful completion. Mr. Minard has often been called upon to prepare papers and addresses on historical and other subjects, and they universally receive flattering criticism. He is the author of the general history in this volume and of a number of the town histories.
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