A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 105

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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Roswell Minard, was born in Buckingham, Windham Co., Vermont in 1811, the son of Isaac and Lucy (Wait) Minard. Their children were : John, George, Betsy, Lucy, Isaac, Luke, Russell. In 1834 he married Hannah Warner. Children : Helen (Mrs. James Jackson), and Eugene. In 1848 he bought 90 acres of land in Caneadea for $1,620 which he sold in 1854 for $9,000, and bought a tavern in Caneadea village and kept it 20 years. In 1876 he bought for $2,000 the hotel in Fillmore known as the Minard House, and kept it till 1882. His son Eugene then kept it until 1892, when it was sold to the present proprietor, Thomas Duffy. Mrs. Minard died in 1894. Eugene Minard married Marian, daughter of Miles Dodge, from Ver- mont. Their children are Wallace R., born in Hume in 1873, and Charles. Wallace is a graduate of the Bryant and Stratton Business University of Buffalo and is now a Pullman car conductor.

Reuben D. Moore is son of Welcome Moore, born in Connecticut, who settled in Wales, Erie county, in 1810, where Reuben was born Nov. 1, 1818. Welcome Moore was a soldier at Fort Erie, was a musician and played the fife at the execution of the 3 Thayers at Buffalo in 1825, and was at Buffalo at the time when it was burned. His wife was Susannah Robinson, daughter of a Quaker. Children : Louisa, Elmira, Waterman, Joshua, Welcome, Lucy, Sarah, Reuben D., Caroline, Susannah, Vienna and Alice. Welcome died in 1831, Susannah in 1858. Reuben D., born in 1818 in Wales, became a farmer, lumberman and drover, buying cattle and sheep and driving them to New York, one drove of sheep numbering 3,300. He married, in 1860, Ellen, daughter of Andrew McBride (from Scotland) and Hannah E. Brown, whose father was a Revolutionary soldier, and was held a prisoner by the Indians for 2 years. In 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Moore came to Mills Mills, and in 1873 bought and settled on their present farm of 1 50 acres. Their children have been : Warner E. (married Clara McElwain, children, Kenneth W. and Morgia of Caneadea), Orson R. of W. Va., Donna F. (Mrs. Howard Blakely of Harri- man, Tenn.), Alta H. and Alice E. (twins, the latter is Mrs. Dr. A. B. Harding of Castile, have one child, Agnes D.), Lulu L., William J., both of Chicago, Norah E., Ruby J. (Mrs. Willie Dewitt of Hume), and Floyd E. All but two of this family belong to the Baptist church of which Mr. Moore has been a member 52 years.

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Andrew J. Nisdell is the son of Andrew Nisdell 2d, who was born in Cavan county, Ire- land, in 1803. He came to Hume and worked on the construction of the Genesee Valley canal before 1850. He married Mary Bagney. Children : Nancy, (Mrs. James Shields of Eldred, Pa., one child, Anna), Daniel, Hugh, and Andrew J., the last two occupy the old homestead in Hume, containing 60 acres. Their father died in 1889, and their mother in 1895. They find it profitable to pass a part of each winter hauling logs in the lumber woods of Pennsylvania.

Lysander L. Nourse, son of Allen Nourse, was born in Rockingham, Vt., Feb. 6, 1817. His grandfather, Peter Nourse, was born in Massachusetts. Allen Nourse was born in Jaffrey, N. H, April 10, 1788, and married Persis Willard. Children : Lysander L., Samantha A., Lorenzo P., and Willard A. His second wife was Lettice C. Moore, by whom he had 3 chil- dren, and his third wife was Mrs. Julia M. Carpenter of Mt. Morris. He was a farmer and brickmaker in Vermont and came to Hume in 1831, where, besides farming, he made bricks to supply a limited demand, on the present Grover farm, and also on his own farm after occupying it. He died in 1870. Lysander attended the common schools and two terms of a select school at Pike. In 1840 he bought land adjoining his father's, and in 1842 married Emma N., daughter of Deacon Russell Handy of Hume. Children : Persis A., Sarah C., Henry N., Susan S., (Mrs. John G. Cooper), and Gerritt Smith. Mrs. Nourse died in 1867, and his second wife was Adeline, daughter of Gurdon and Betsey (Howdon) Mansell. Mr. Nourse was an early Aboli- tionist, and is now a Prohibitionist.

Edwin W. O'Hara, editor and proprietor of the Hume Enterprise, was born in Angelica in 1864, the son of Arthur and Sarah E. (Newton) O'Hara. His father was of Irish, and his mother (born in Thetford, Vt., in 1826) of English descent, she tracing her line of ancestry to Sir Isaac Newton. Their children were : James, Charles and Edwin W. Edwin W. worked on the Allegany County Republican 4 years and in other county newspaper offices. Later he worked in Rochester, Olean and Chicago. He bought the Enterprise in 1892, a 4-page weekly, independent newspaper, started by Henry C. Scott (now of Pike) in 1885. A newspaper of the same name was owned and conducted by Charles W. Scott (also now of Pike) 4 or 5 years later, his father, H. C., moving the printing material that he had charge of elsewhere. There were newspapers in Hume before the Enterprise. One of them, The Bee, was published in 1860 and after.

Homer Peck, of Wiscoy, is son of Allen, and the grandson of Daniel Peck one of the early settlers of Hume, who came from Delaware county in 1820, and paid $300 for the first 60 acres of the old homestead, now 250 acres, on which he passed the rest of his life. He married Thusa Cooley in Delaware county. Children : Elias, Allen, Tompkins, Luman, Orrin, Gilbert, Philancy, Julia A., Jeannette, Syrepta and Angelette. Allen Peck was born in 1816 in Dela- ware county and married Minerva Titchenor. Children : Lewis and Homer. Lewis married Lucretia Washburn. Children : Ninetta, Hattie, Warren, Harley, Hermon and Minerva. Lewis died in 1893. Homer Peck was born on the old farm, which he still owns, in 1845, and at the age of 19 took the old homestead, and married Lucretia, daughter of Reuben Mad- ison, a soldier who died in the army. They have one child, Loies, now a student of Pike Seminary.

Nelson A. Pettee, contractor and builder at Wiscoy, is son of Ebenezer Pettee of Pike, who married Sally, daughter of Joshua Whitney of Pike, a Revolutionary soldier from New Hampshire. Of their children Joshua, Nelson A. and William H., only Nelson A., who was born in Pike Sept. 14, 1835, survives. He learned the carpenter's trade, and married, April 15, 1855, Catharine Olin of Pike, daughter of Christopher Olin. She died in 1857. His second wife was Julia Burnell of Pike, daughter of William Burnell. Their children are Frank, now book-keeper in the Bank of Fillmore, Lulu (Mrs. Melvin Yorks), and William, at Pike Acade- my. Mrs. Pettee died in 1887. and his present wife was Mrs. Clara Kingsley, daughter of Miles Dodge. The death in 1883 of Fred Van Dyke, who had lived from infancy as an adopted son in Mr. Pettee's family, was a sad one. An active poison was given him by mistake for a trifling ailment. The terrible error was discovered too late for a saving antidote. In 1862 Mr. Pettee enlisted in Co. A, 150th N. Y., which joined the army of the Potomac. Soon after the battle of Blackwater, Nelson's health failed and he secured his discharge in about a year. He is a mem- ber of Burnside Post, G. A. R., and of the Republican party. His father, who was supervisor and justice of the peace in Eagle, died Feb. 22, 1858.

Frank A. Phipps, furniture dealer and undertaker at Fillmore, was born in Avon, Living- ston county, in 1857, where his parents Charles and Angeline (Stafford) Phipps lived 32 years, and in 1882, came to Short Tract. Their children are, Anna (Mrs. Jane Hunter), Henry, Frank A., Fred and Cora. Frank A. was raised on a farm and received his education at the dis- trict schools. In 1883 he began to keep bees, increasing his swarms till they numbered 100, and he has 50 swarms now. He learned the furniture business with A. W. Butterway in Geneseo village, and bought his present business of R. G. Berry estate in 1893.

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Perus Palmer Preston was born in York, Livingston county, Aug. 18, 1816, in which year Asel Preston, his farther, brought his family from Vermont, afterwards settling in Java where he died. He married Betsey Cunningham. Children, Hiram, Sally, Ely, Roxy, Betsey and Perus P. In 1839 Perus went to Batavia and learned the builders' trade. In 1842 he married Jemima Crandall of Castile and lived several years at St. Helena and at Castile, where he was constable and deputy sheriff. For 16 years he had charge of Hon. William P. Letchworth's improvements of grounds and buildings at Glen Iris. In 1841 he helped build the old lattice bridge over the Genesee in the south part of Hume. In 1870 he moved to Belfast. His first wife died in 1877. They had two children. Nelson (dec.) and Susan (Mrs. William Rearwin of Hume). In 1878 he married Mary A. Johnson of Castile. In 1882 he removed from Belfast to Fillmore his present residence. His chief business has been that of builder and contractor.

William Rearwin of Hume is son of William Rearwin, who was born in Prussia, came to America in 1835, and settled in Greenbush, near Albany, where he married Catharine Croll. Children, William, John, Sophia, Levi and Eli. Mr. Rearwin moved to Buffalo in 1847, and to Angelica in 1881, where he was a farmer, and died in 1890 and his widow in 1891. William was born in Greenbush in 1844, and 1868 married Susan Preston of Castile. They settled in Belfast on a farm, coming to Hume in 1878 where Mr. Rearwin paid $105 an acre for his pres- ent farm of 100 acres. Their children have been Wilbur, now a machinist in Buffalo, Fred, James and Henry.

Henry A. Relya, is son of Michael of Oneida county, whose father, Nicholas Relya, came from France. Michael married Chloe A. Alcott of English descent. Children, John, Lucinda, Henry H., Sally, Edwin, George and Alfred D. Edwin and George enlisted in Warsaw and served in the Civil War, Edwin dying in Andersonville prison. Mr. Relya died in 1854. Henry H. was born in 1840, went to Warsaw in 1859, attended Rushford Academy and was married in 1863 to Minnie Van Dresser. He was railroad carpenter six years at Portage, where he read law with Emulous Townsend, and was admitted to the bar in 1874 in Buffalo. In 1874 he came to Hume village where he remains in practice of his profession, and has been justice of the peace 14 years. Mr. and Mrs. Relya have five children. Charles (who married May Bard- well, has one child, Melnee). Ella, (Mrs. George Saxton, one child, Clyde), Flora, Fred and Edwin.

Harvey W. Rice is son of Stephen, and grandson of Eber Rice, who lived in Rutland, Vt., where Stephen was born in 1805. About 1810 the family located as farmers at Florence, Oneida county. Stephen married, in 1833, Eunice, daughter of Elijah Gaylord from Connecticut. Children, Candace (Mrs. Henry Clark) of Caneadea, Harvey W., James and Gerritt S. now of Hume. In 1833 he brought his wife and household goods in a wagon drawn by an ox team all the way to Caneadea, and settled near the old lattice bridge. In 1855 he bought the farm still the property and home of Harvey W. in Hume, where he died in 1870. Mrs. Rice died in 1893. Harvey W. was born in Caneadea, May 26, 1840, and has always been a farmer. He married, in 1866, Lydia C., daughter of Burton Butler of Rushford, who came from Wilkes- barre, Pa. He was grandson of Col. Zebulon Butler of Wyoming massacre fame, and died in Caneadea in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have one child, Mary, a teacher, teaching her eleventh term. Their adopted son, Edwin E. Rice, married Nina Alger. They have one child, Leon H. Mr. Rice, in 1864, enlisted in the Ist N. Y. Veteran Cavalry, which served in Virginia till the close of the war.

Charles Ricker is son of Henry P. Ricker who was born in Waterboro. Me., in 1831. He came to Cuba where he married Sarah A., daughter of Major L. J. Reynolds, a popular hotel keeper for many years in that village. Their children were Eugene now in Scranton, Pa., Charles, Clarence and Edith (Mrs. Frank Hicks of Cuba). Mr. Ricker located at Black Creek about 1853, engaged in merchandising, and resided there until 1875 when he removed to Cuba and was associated with his brother-in-law, F. C. Reynolds, in the hardware business. In 1881 he returned to Black Creek, resumed charge of the general store, and is still resident there. Charles Ricker was born at Black Creek, town of New Hudson, in 1861, stayed at Black Creek summers, and, as he grew older clerked in the store, attending school at Cuba winters until he was 16 when he went to Dallas City, Pa., and for four years had charge of Ricker & Reynold's hardware store, which was then removed to Richburg. In 1883 he came to Fillmore and es- tablished the hardware business which he still conducts. In 1893 Charles Ricker was appointed the successor of Daniel D. Gardner (dec.) as treasurer of Allegany county, to which office he was elected the same year, and still holds, He married, in 1883, Cora L. Norton of Friendship. They have one child, Bessie.

Mahlon L. Ross, from whom the railroad station Rossburg took its name, was born in Seneca, Ontario Co., Aug. 9, 1807, where his father, John Ross, from New Jersey, had settled in an almost unbroken wilderness. New York was then a slave state, and Mahlon's nurse was a slave from whose breast he drew the nourishment of life, and whose tender care made him

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ever after a friend of the negro race, and a pronounced abolitionist. In 1822 he removed to Clarkson Corners near the site of Brockport, which then was not. Here Mahlon grew to man- hood and first worked for William Hildreth & Co., whose business manager in the country store and ashery business was Marvin Minard, a partner, and the postmaster at Johnson's Creek, where the business was located. The next year Mahlon ran a canal boat to Albany for James M. Clark, then became a member of firm Avery & Ross grocers at Clarkson Corners, and then of the firm of Ross & Knox, at Parma Centre. In 1832 Mr. Ross married Mary J., daughter of Daniel Gager, of an old and highly respected English family. Mr. Ross next ran a gristmill one year, was a farmer two years, then moved to Lockport and ran an ashery, was burned out, re- built and lost all in panic of 1837. In 1839 he got contract for building two locks on the Gen- esee Valley canal at Tuscarora, whither he moved, but could do nothing, as the state that year stopped all public works for want of funds. In 1840 he was appointed justice of the peace to fill a vacancy ; was then elected to a full term, failing of election to a second term because of his views against granting licenses. In 1846 he moved to Oramel, and in 1847 to Wiscoy where he built the canal feeder. Besides being in the insurance business he was for five years a member of the firm of H. B. Stone & Co., merchants at Wiscoy, then a farmer two years when he bought the Rossburg property, built a store and sold goods till within five years of his death in 1893. He was a man of high character and intelligence, broad information and active enterprise. His mother belonged to the Tappan family of New York City, noted as reformers, leading abolition- ists and Christian business men of talent and enterprise. Mr. Ross' children were : Julia E. (Mrs. T. A. Davidson), Mary J. (Mrs. George D. Gillett), Martha E., Lewis P., Cornelia A., and Helen (Mrs. D. R. Clark). Lewis P. was born in Tuscarora in 1843. In 1860 he entered the wholesale boot and shoe store of G. P. Grant in Rochester, and became a partner in 1864. Since 1873 he has conducted the same business alone, and is a partner in the manufacturing firms of P. A. Field & Co., Beverly, Mass., and Ross Lewis, & Pifer, Rochester. He married in 1866 Avona C., daughter of William N. Conklin of Olean.

Frederick Schuknecht, son of John and Mary (Spankow) Schuknecht, was born in Mechlen- burg, Germany, in 1827, and came in 1854 to Rochester, N. Y., where he married Frederika, daughter of Christian and Sophia (Kruger) Schmidt of Mecklenburg, Germany. In 1855 they came to Hume, and in 1856 settled near Fillmore on their present farm of 200 acres, which was then wild wood land, and cost him from $14 to $20 per acre. Their children have been There- sa (Mrs. Julian Wells, Pike), Henrietta (Mrs. Frank Patterson, Kilbourn City, Wis.), Louisa (Mrs. Henry Zimmer of Rochester), Sophia of Rochester, Emma (Mrs. Judson Gillette, Fill- more), Mary (Mrs. George Beardsley, Hume), Fred, who married Mary, daughter of John Schuknecht of Caneadea, and remained with his father on the home farm, George of Center- ville, and Albert, who married Florence, daughter of Alphonzo Beardsley of Hume, and now lives in Centerville.

Sherman S. Scott, proprietor of the Prospect House in Fillmore, is son of Charles T., and grandson of David, whose father, John Scott, lived in Vermont. David Scott was a soldier in the War of 1812, and settled in Allegany county about 1815. He married in Vermont, Sally Marsh. Children, David, Abel M., Charles T., Dewitt C., Edwin, John C., Olive C., Clemen- tine, Laura, Mary J., Catharine, Joanna and Cordelia, all grew to maturity, 8 are now living. David was a blacksmith, moved to Cuba, and died in 1860. Charles T. was born in Ossian in 1823, and has always been a farmer and dairyman. He was one of the first managers of the Fillmore stock cheese factory, and brought down the cost of making from $1.50 to $1. 10 per pound. He lived some years on Mt. Monroe, in New Hudson, where he was assessor several terms. He married in 1848 Lovisa, daughter of George Gould of New Hudson. Children, Marcia (Mrs. Frank Crane), Winfield, Minerva (Mrs. Burt Hammond), Afton D., Ruth (Mrs. John Howden), Rose, Sherman S., Charles, Arthur D., Robert D., Gould. Sherman S. Scott was born in 1863, and attended common schools and Nunda Academy. When 18 he went to Olean and learned the harness trade, and, in 1884, bought the harness business of S. W. Lowell in Fillmore and conducted it 4 years. Then he was 2 years in the harness trade in Centerville and 3 years in a hotel. He bought the Prospect House in 1892. He married in 1885, Jennie M., daughter of Charles Van Dusen of Centerville. Children, Ruth L., Forrest L. and Manley C.

John W. Shay, son of Daniel and Ellen (Hickey) Shay, was born in Hume April 24, 1860. He received but a common school education and when 17 years of age he left home and went into the oil regions near Bradford, where for several years he did whatever work he found to do, making nothing more than good day wages as a laborer. When the Sistersville, W. Va., field was opened, he turned his attention thitherward, and with the knowledge which his experience had given him, he engaged in leasing territory and putting down wells. After using all his ear- nings and taxing his credit to its full extent, he was successful and soon accumulated a hand- some fortune which he is continually increasing and investing largely in real estate securities.

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He married Miss Mary Ryan in Coudersport, Pa. They have one living child, Fred. He resides in Washington, Pa.

Simeon Short is son of Simeon and Nancy (Madison) Short, from Rhode Island, who bought in 1826, 130 acres at $2.50 per acre, the farm on which their son Simeon still lives. There were born to Simeon and Nancy Short 12 children, Betsy, Polly, Phoebe, Parley, Celia. Elsie, Simeon, Almira, Betsy Jane, Louisa, Sarah and Emily. Simeon was born in 1812, and has always been a farmer. He married in 1856, Sarah A., daughter of Ebenezer Ayer, from Madi- son county, a soldier of the War of 1812, who settled in Hume in 1826. There were born to Simeon and Sarah A. Short two children, Simeon (married in 1880 Nora Obrian. There were born to them three children, Charles E., Anna L, and Mary), and Anna L. (married in 1882, W. S. Voorhees, no children). When Mr. Short settled here his nearest neighbors were Chauncey G. Ingham at Cold Creek, John Parker up the river and John Torry four miles down the river.

Joseph B. Skiff is the son of Joshua, son of Stephen, and great-grandson of Benja- min Skiff, who came from Skiff Mountain in Connecticut before the Revolutionary war, and settled in Wyoming and was there at the time of the Wyoming massacre. His son Stephen was a Revolutionary soldier. A squad of Indians under command of Bill Terry quartered themselves at his log house one night, sleeping on the floor. Mrs. Skiff sat up all night tending the burning logs in the big fire place and keeping the snapping coals from setting fire to the sleepers' clothing. The family left Wyoming for safety and went to Schoharie county, and then to Hartwick, Otsego Co., where they setted. Joshua Skiff was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1782, and married in 1808, Lucina, a sister of Henry C. Wright, the anti resistance reform lecturer, and came in 1809 to Hume, settling on a farm still belonging to the family. Children: Milton W., Joseph B., Elizabeth M. and Harvey J. Mrs. Skiff died in 1841. His second wife was Elizabeth Whiting. Mr. Skiff was a prominent citizen, was the first supervisor of Hume in 1822, and had for two years held that same office in Pike. He died in 1846. His son, Joseph B., was born in Hume in 1816, attended Wyoming Academy, and was married in 1858 to Lydia B., daughter of Chester and Clarissa (Morse) Fitch of Otsego county. Children : John M., a soldier enlisted in Iowa, was killed in battle of Shiloh; Stephen M. enlisted from Pike, killed at Franklin, Va., by a sharpshooter ; Chester F., undertaker at Hume; Joshua, Clarissa L., Vira (Mrs. James B. Morrow of Idaho, and has children : Bayard S., Beryl L., Hazel M. and Mc- Keen F.), Harvey J., Lucina (Mrs. H. H. Cochran of Idaho), Addie H. (Mrs. Elmer Thomas, has one child, Mildred). Mrs. Skiff died in 1889, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are on the old homestead with Mr. Skiff. He was originally a Democrat, but is now a Prohibitionist.

Roger M. Skiff, son of Alanson, son of Edmund, son of Stephen, son of Benjamin, was born in Hume in 1840, Edmund Skiff came from Hartwick, Otsego Co., where his son Alan- son was born, in 1808, to Hume in 1810, and settled on lot 24. Alanson married Martha B., daughter of Roger Mills ; children : Marytta, Harlene, Roger M. and Emma. He had a shoe shop where Brown's harness shop stands and a tannery, and was afterwards partner in a store with Edmund C. Skiff, and a farmer. Roger married, in 1866, Fidelia, daughter of William H. Claus, who came from Little Falls to Hume in 1841. Children : Mattie and Mary, the latter a school teacher. Mr. Skiff bought first a part of his father's farm, and in 1876, his present farm of 165 acres in Hume village. He is a Prohibitionist.

Albert W. Smith is son of James C. Smith of Fillmore, who was born in Gainesville in 1820, where his father, James, born in Herkimer Co., and his grandfather, James Smith, who lived in New York city when a young man, came from Delaware Co. in 1809. James married Annie Gillette, Children : Lucy, Sophronia, George W., James C., Dewitt C., Sarah A. and Gracenia. James C. married in 1845 Cynthia Cole from Vermont. Their children were : Cath- arine (Mrs. W. P. Brooks) and Albert W., who was born in Hume in 1860. He has always been a farmer, now owning 300 acres on the Genesee river. He married, in 1885, Emily, daugh- ter of Quincy White of Rushford. Children : James Q. and Bernice C.

Perrie C. Soule, M. D., was born in Schenectady. "His father Absalom Soule was a graduate of the medical college and University of Schenectady, and his mother, Sarah (Clement) Soule, was a lineal descendant of the Papal Clements XIII and XIV of Rome. She was one of the historic committee of Quaker women who, in 1862, called on President Lincoln and urged the immediate emancipation of the slaves." His parents' children were : Martha J., Charles W .. Nelson, Sarah A., Catharine, Julia, Lucy D., Absalom D., Lewis H., Emeline A., Perrie C. and Melissa M. On the breaking out of the Rebellion Perrie, then 13 years old, enlisted in Co. B, 18th N. Y., and after serving his term of enlistment, enlisted in the 5th N. Y. Cav., and served till hostilities ended. He was in over 170 engagements, and carries scars of ball, bayonet and saber from which his left leg is crippled and his right arm nearly useless. Few soldiers can show bayonet or saber wounds, but he was seriously stabbed by a bayonet while charging up South Mountain, Md., in 1862. He was a mounted scout for Gen. Sheridan in 1864, and was in the memorable Seven Days Fight on the Peninsula. After the war Mr. Soule engaged in

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the patent business and in manufacturing, finally read medicine, and attended lectures in New York and Cincinnati, receiving a diploma from the American Medical College of Cincinnati. Dr. Soule has practiced in Binghamton, Rochester, and, in 1880, came to Rossburg, his present home. He has issued various publications and extensively lectured in the interests of universal liberty and equality, especially woman's political equality. He was the unanimous choice of the Allegany County G. A. R. Veterans' Association for Senior Vice Commander of the New York State Department of the G. A. R., and was elected to that office at Rochester in February, 1894. Before he was 20 Dr. Soule invented and patented several useful inventions that are now in universal application. He married, in 1873, Clara E. Barber of Downsville, N. Y. Children : Fred F., Lena M., Frank P. and Mabel C.

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A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 105

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