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Henry C. Beeman was born in Canandaigua, October 8, 1847. His
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school education was received in Canandaigua Academy. For many years of his life he took a personal interest in farming, and for a few years was engaged in the brokerage business. He entered upon his career as a detective in 1872, when he filled the office of deputy sheriff and a few months later went to New York, where he was in the employ of the Pinker- ton agency until 1874. He then returned to Canandaigua and for some years was engaged in special detective work, again becoming deputy sheriff in 1877, an office he held until 1884. He became manager of the Canan- daigua Steam Boat Company in 1889, retaining this position for a period of six years. In 1896 he was appointed chief of police for the village of Canandaigua, an office he has filled since that time to the satisfaction of all concerned. His political affiliations have always been with the Repub- lican party. June 23, 1863, Mr. Beeman enlisted in Company C, Fif- teenth New York Cavalry, and was honorably discharged, August 23, 1865. He was in the Custer division of Sheridan's army for the greater part of this time, participating in all the notable engagements in the Shen- andoah valley, and was the youngest enlisted man who served in the ranks from Ontario county. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; the K. O. T. M .; and the Herendeen Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Shortsville.
Mr. Beeman married, December 24, 1874, Lucia, daughter of George Crane, a farmer of South Bristol, New York. Children: Seth T., born December 25, 1875; Roscoe, born August 7, 1877; Grace O., born May 29, 1883.
BEAHAN.
Dr. Albert L. Beahan, an eminent physician of Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York, has attained his present distinguished position by many years of patient and unremitting toil, united with inflexible and un- faltering courage in the face of apparently insurmountable difficulties. His noble efforts to relieve human suffering have earned for him the high esteem of his fellow citizens, and the universal good opinion of his pro- fessional brethren, this forming the best standard of judgment in such cases. His father was James Beahan, of Watkins, who died in 1907, and who had been engaged in the occupation of farming during all the active years of his life.
Dr. Albert L. Beahan was born at Watkins, New York, April 13, 1855. He was graduated from the Starkey Seminary, at Lakemont, New
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York, in 1875, then became a student at Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, New York, from which he was graduated in 1879. He established himself in the practice of the medical profession at Reading Center, New York, and at the expiration of about three years entered upon a post- graduate course of study in New York City during 1883-84. In the latter year he established himself as a physician in Canandaigua, New York, and in 1898 organized and incorporated what is now the well known Canandaigua Hospital of Physicians and Surgeons, of which Dr. Beahan is the president. The hospital is owned and controlled by physi- cians. Five years after its organization the hospital was increased in size, and now ( 1910) has a capacity of fifty beds. Its benefits are far reaching and fully appreciated by the large number of patients who have been treat- ed there since its inception. In spite of the manifold demands made upon his time by the numerous and responsible duties of his profession, Dr. Beahan has taken an active interest in the public affairs of the community.
Dr. Beahan married, March 21, 1889, Theodora Crosby, daughter of Mrs. Manetta Crosby Hopkins, of Canandaigua. They have no children.
BARNES.
It is a well demonstrated and often proved fact that the wealth and prosperity of a country depend in the highest measure on the success and extent of its agricultural products ; these in turn are dependent upon the characteristics of the people who are chiefly and most closely identified with the cultivation of the soil. There are a number of families who have been connected with this branch of industry and commerce for many generations, and among those who have been eminently successful in this line may be mentioned the Barnes family, of which D. Eddy Barnes is a representative in the present generation.
(I) James Barnes, grandfather of D. Eddy Barnes, was a farmer in Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Geneva, Ontario county, New York, in the earliest days of the settlement of that section of the country. He acquired a considerable tract of land, which by means of diligent and intelligent cultivation he converted from a wilderness to fine farm land and in this condition left it to his heirs.
(II) David, son of James Barnes, was an infant in his mother's arms when he came with his parents to Geneva in 1798, he being the youngest son of a large family of children. His early life was spent on the old
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homestead farm, and later on a farm now owned by his son, D. Eddy Barnes, engaged in its cultivation, and he died there, in 1871. He served for a time as a colonel in the New York State Militia.
(III) D. Eddy, son of David Barnes, was born August 10, 1856, in the house in which he is residing at the present time, and which was erect- ed in 1838, by David Barnes. He was educated in the public schools of Canandaigua and Geneva, New York, and during his earlier years assist- ed his father in the cultivation of the homestead farm, which later passed into his own possession. It is in a fine state of cultivation and consists of one hundred and fifty acres of land. The house is built of stone. Mr. Barnes is very progressive and up-to-date in his methods of cultivation, devoting his spare hours to reading publications treating of improved methods and scientific innovations in the field of agriculture. As soon as he has become convinced of the practicability of any of these innovations he is one of the first in that section to give it a fair and impartial trial, and if found of practical utility it is immediately adopted. This is the founda- tion of his uniformly excellent crops, often in spite of adverse weather conditions. His methods have been found so successful that they have been adopted by a number of his neighbors with a like amount of success. In politics he favors the Republican party, and he is a member of the Presbyterian church, and of the Grangers.
Mr. Barnes married (first ) Caroline Haslett, of Seneca, New York ; married (second) Harriet Phinney, of Bellona, New York; married (third) Anna M. Bond, of Geneva, New York. Children, by second wife: Carrie K., born 1894; Genevieve, 1895; Elsie, 1897, deceased; Doris E., born 1900.
ANDRUSS.
Cornelius Jay Andruss, for many years a dentist in Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York, traces his paternal line back to the early colonial settlers.
(I) John Andrus, immigrant ancestor, came from Essex county, England, and settled at Tunxis, later named Farmington, Connecticut, in 1640. A complete history of the family will be found in "Andrews Memorial," compiled by Alfred Andrews, of New Britain, Connecticut, and published by A. H. Andrews & Company, of Chicago, Illinois, in 1872. John Andrus married Mary -.
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(II) Joseph Andruss, fourth son of John and Mary Andrus, was born May 26, 1651.
(III) Dr. Joseph (2) Andruss, eldest son of Joseph ( I) Andruss, was born in 1678.
(IV) William, second son of Dr. Joseph (2) Andruss, was born at Wethersfield, Connecticut, May 24, 1710.
(V) Miles, eldest son of William Andruss, was born May 22, 1735.
(VI) Benajah, third son of Miles Andruss, was born at Newington, Connecticut, November 13, 1769; died at Bluff Point, New York, July 24, 1838. He married Abigail Nash, born February 20, 1776, and had a family of seven sons and four daughters.
(VII) Zebina C., third son of Benajah and Abigail (Nash) An- druss, was born at Butternuts, now Gilbertsville, New York, August 12, 1794. His occupation was that of farming. He took an active interest in political affairs, was at first a member of the Whig party, later of the Republican ; served as magistrate for many years and also as judge of Yates county court. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, September 20, 1818, Almira Garlick, born at Nor- wich, New York, February 10, 1799. Children: John Pellett, Miles Benajah, George, see forward, and Charles York.
(VIII) George, third son of Zebina C. and Almira (Garlick) An- druss, was born at Bluff Point, Jerusalem, New York, January 4, 1824; died at Canadice, New York, April 2, 1870. He was a farmer. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. As a member of the Repub- lican party, he served as justice of the peace for a period of sixteen years, and was supervisor of the town of Canadice for several years. He mar- ried, at Canadice, New York, July 11, 1844, Sarah, born in Barrington, New York, March 12, 1827, daughter of Cornelius and Esther ( Angel ) Ter Bush, the former born April 15, 1786, died October 21, 1870, the lat- ter born May 10, 1795, died January 2, 1872. Children : Cornelius Jay, see forward; Esther, born February 13, 1847; Almira, May 12, 1849; Frank Zebina, May 31, 1851, died October, 1875; Gertrude May, March 2, 1867.
(IX) Cornelius Jay, eldest child of George and Sarah (Ter Bush) Andruss, was born in Canadice, Ontario county, New York, October 7, 1845. His preparatory education was acquired at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and he then attended Cornell University, subsequently study- ing dentistry at the Philadelphia Dental College, from which he was graduated in 1877. Commencing in 1861 he taught for the larger por- tion of seven years in the district schools of Ontario and Livingston coun-
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ties, New York, and for two years was deputy county surveyor of Lee county, Illinois. He commenced the practice of dentistry in association with Dr. A. G. Coleman, November 1, 1870, and May 1, 1879, opened an office in the same location he has occupied since that date. His political opinions are those of the Republican party, and he served about three years as trustee of the first ward, and as president of the village of Canan- daigua in 1903-04. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and an attendant at the services of the Methodist Epis- copal church, of Canandaigua, New York, of which he has been president of the board of trustees continuously since about 1890.
Dr. Andruss married, at Canandaigua, New York, November 12, 1872, Maria M., born in Chili, New York, April 17, 1846, daughter of James and Mary Ann ( Barnes) Bailey, the former a mechanic and a soldier of the civil war. Children: I. Bertha Gertrude, born February 27, 1874, educated in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and the Rochester Business University ; married William E. Martin, and has had children : Henry A., Margaret E. and Evelyn Louise. 2. Jessie May, February 12, 1876, educated in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and made a specialty of music and literature; married Dr. William H. Marks, and has had children : Hazel, Dorothy and William A. 3. Maude Evelyn, August 2, 1878, educated in the Syracuse University and the Pratt Institute; mar- ried William W. Macon and has had children : Louise Olivia and Edith Marie.
STEPHENS.
John H. Stephens, postmaster of Clifton Springs, New York, was for many years prominently identified with educational matters in various capacities. The family originally came from Germany. His father, William L., who was the son of Abraham Stephens, a native of Germany, was born in Rockland county, New York. He removed to the city of New York, where, for many years he conducted the Westchester Pie Bakery, in West Nineteenth street, which was the foundation of the pres- ent American Pie Baking Company. He married Elizabeth Wood. Chil- dren : William W .; James O., deceased; John H., see forward; Mar- garet ; Ella, and Elizabeth.
John H., son of William L. and Elizabeth Wood, was born in New York City, January 8, 1847. He graduated from the public schools of his native city in 1864, and attended the Canandaigua Academy, 1865-66.
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From 1868 to 1871 he taught district schools of Manchester. For a time he filled the position of bookkeeper in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1871-72- 73, and then taught school again in Manchester until 1879. He occupied the position of principal of the Shortsville school from 1879 to 1881, and was school commissioner the next three years. From 1884 until 1895 he served as principal of the Clifton Springs school, and from 1896 until 1905 he again served as school commissioner, was reelected in 1905, and resigned the office in March, 1906, when he accepted the postmastership of Clifton Springs. To this position he was reappointed in March, 1910, and is holding the office at the present time. An example of the great confidence placed upon Mr. Stephens may be attested by the fact that he has been called upon as executor of many estates in his section of Ontario county, serving in that capacity for upwards of twenty-five years. He is at present a member of the board of education. His lodge and club affilia- tions are as follows: Sincerity Lodge, No. 200, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phelps ; Canandaigua Chapter, No. 164, Royal Arch Masons; Zenobia Commandery, No. 41, Knights Templar, of Palmyra, New York; Clifton Springs Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Clifton Springs Grange; Patrons of Husbandry ; Clifton Springs Masonic Club.
Mr. Stephens married, December 27, 1881, Elizabeth Johnson, of Naples, New York. Children : Ray O., born January 10, 1883, gradu- ated from the Wesleyan University and is now principal of Theresa Union School, of Jefferson county, New York; Floyd C., born July 25, 1886, graduated from Cornell University, is an electrical and mechanical engi- neer ; Jessie B., born October 14, 1889.
LOCKE.
Deacon William Locke, the immigrant ancestor, was born at Step- ney parish, London, England, December 13, 1628, and came to this coun- try in the ship "Planter," which sailed for New England, March 22, 1634- 35. At that time, he was only six years old, and it is supposed came over in the care of Nicholas Davies and his family. His father was probably William Locke, mariner, and his mother Elizabeth -, who died June 27, 1631. Where William Locke lived during his minority is un- known. He married, December 25, 1655, Mary, daughter of William and Margery Clarke, of Woburn, Massachusetts. She was born December 10, 1640, and died July 18, 1715. Her father, William Clarke, was a resi-
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dent of Watertown in 1640, and removed to Woburn in 1651. His name often appears as surveyor of highways and in other town offices. He was a weaver by trade, and died March 15, 1682. His wife Margery died Oc- tober II, 1694. William Locke early became owner of real estate and eventually a man of property. His first purchase was about 1650. In 1664 he had granted to him land in "Great Meadow" and Pond Meadow. In 1673-77-80 he received other grants, and at other dates purchased numerous other parcels of land. He took some part in the management of town affairs, and was frequently on important committees in relation to town lands, roads, etc. In 1671 he was one of a committee to settle the bounds and also to lay out land. In 1675-76-78 he was a surveyor of fences, and in 1677 was chosen constable. He was again constable in 1701, and selectman in 1686 and 1696, and grand juror to the supreme court in 1695. He was a member of the church of Woburn, and for many years a deacon and one of its chief pillars. The house occupied by him is still standing, and the garden and trees surrounding it are evidently very ancient. It is supposed that his grandson Samuel, to whom it descended, kept an inn here for many years. It remained in the family until 1741, when it was sold by the latter. William Locke died at Woburn, June 16, 1730. His will was made in 1703, and in it he appointed his son Ebenezer his executor and gave him all his property, except half of his personal estate, which he left to his wife. He required him, however, to pay to the other children certain sums and to provide for his mother, as directed in the will. Children, born in Woburn: William, December 27, 1657, died January 9, 1658; William, January 18, 1659; John, August 1, 1661; Joseph, March 8, 1664; Mary, October 16, 1666; Samuel, October 14, 1669; Ebenezer, January 8, 1674; James, November 14, 1677 ; Elizabeth, January 4, 1681-82.
(II) Ebenezer, son of William Locke, was born January 8, 1674, in Woburn, and married (first), October 18, 1697, Susannah, born March I, 1674, died June 13, 1699, daughter of Israel Walker. He married (second), October 14, 1701, Hannah Meads, born September 17, 1676, daughter of David and Hannah Meads, of Cambridge. She survived him, and died July 24, 1739. He lived with his father on the homestead, of which he had become owner by gift and purchase. He owned also other land and a house, previous to his father's death, and later became the possessor of several lots in Woburn and a large tract in what is now Townsend. He was frequently elected to town offices and was lieutenant, but was released from military duties on account of "bodily infirmities." He died December 24, 1723. Child of first wife: Ebenezer, born April
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28, 1699. Children of second wife: Samuel, born August 24, 1702; Josiah, March 15, 1705; Joshua, mentioned below; Nathan, March 20, 1713, died December, 1723; Hannah, April 11, 1716.
(III) Joshua, son of Ebenezer Locke, was born August 21, 1709, and married (first ) at Woburn, March, 1732, Hannah, born January 2, 1712, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Reed. He married (second) Tabitha, daughter of Dr. Isaac Bellows, of Southboro, buried at Boston, April, 1744. He lived in Woburn, Westboro, Boston ( ?) and Southboro, and was probably a carpenter by occupation. He sold land in the latter town to Isaac Amidon in 1753, and was on the alarm list of that town in 1757, and died there, in 1767. His second wife survived him. Chil- dren : Joshua, mentioned below ; Josiah, born February 6, 1735, at West- boro; Ebenezer, August 5, 1737, at Oxford (?).
(IV) Lieutenant Joshua Locke, son of Joshua Locke, was born at Woburn, July 22, 1733, and married Abigail Maynard, probably of Westboro. He lived first in Westboro, where most of his children were born. Later he removed to Sudbury, where his son Fortunatus was born. May, 1755, he was an ensign in the army under General Winslow, at Nova Scotia, and was doubtless the Lieutenant Locke who was in the army with General Braddock and was wounded at the time of Braddock's Defeat. He was also with Colonel Rogers, the famous ranger in New York, and was at one period one of the king's surveyors. Many of the towns of New Hampshire were surveyed by him, with instruments pre- sented him by King George III, for distinguished services. At the time of the revolution he was the only one of the name of Locke who was a loyalist or Tory, and when the British evacuated Boston, March 17, 1776, he left with the army. He was in one of the battles at Staten Island, where he met and recognized his sons, Frederick and Henry, in the Amer- ican army. Eventually he went to England and never returned. His youngest son, Fortunatus, also went to England some years later and nothing further is known of either. His wife remained in Westboro and died shortly after her husband had departed. Children, the first five born at Westboro, the youngest at Sudbury: Grace, May 19. 1754; Frederick, mentioned below; Betty, December 22, 1758; Nancy, October 26, 1762; Christian, April 30, 1764; Henry (birthplace not given), born before August 1, 1765 ; Fortunatus, September 26, 1779.
(V) Frederick, son of Lieutenant Joshua Locke, was born at West- boro, June 6, 1757, and married (first) in 1793, at Charlestown, New Hampshire, Anna Farwell, who died in 1804. He married (second), July 15, 1805, Lucy Graves, of Washington, New Hampshire. He pre-
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pared for college at Leicester Academy, but instead of going to college enlisted in the American army shortly after the revolution began, and remained in the army during most of the war. After the war was ended he is said to have often remarked that "he did not regret the decision he made, though he lost his pay and his health." He was a civil engineer and a surveyor by occupation, and lived at Acworth and Charlestown, New Hampshire. He died January 17, 1834. Children of first wife, born at Acworth: Henry, September 24, 1799; Melinda, March 9, 1804. Children of second wife, born at Charlestown : Frederick, May 9, 1807; William G., mentioned below ; Catherine J., February 28, 1810; Lucy G., May 2, 1811 ; Ann F., March 30, 1813 ; Sarah F., April 6, 1815; John H., March 31, 1817; Rachel W., April 24, 1819; Mary J., June 7, 1821 ; Benjamin F., November 13, 1823.
(VI) William G., son of Frederick Locke, was born at Charlestown, New Hampshire, October 26, 1808, and married Lovisa Williams, in 1831, at West Mendon, New York. She was born in 1812, and died in Rochester in 1896. He was a shoemaker by trade and a contractor, and lived in West Mendon. He died in 1883. Children, born in West Mendon : William M., mentioned below ; Manly F., February 23, 1836; Marion L., August 21, 1838.
(VIII) William Morton, son of William G. Locke, was born at West Mendon, New York, July 9, 1833, and died in July, 1880, at Wabash, Illinois. He had a common school education and was a tele- graph operator. He married Amy Moore, who died in 1907. Children, born at West Mendon: Frances, 1858, married Frank Whiting; Nellie, 1860, died in 1863; Fred M., mentioned below ; Henry, 1863, died un- married, in 1904; Dolly, 1865, died in 1875.
(VIII) Fred M., son of William Morton Locke, was born at West Mendon, in the village of Honeoye Falls, April 24, 1861. He attended the common schools. He learned the art of telegraphing and followed it from 1880 to 1887. In 1887 he was station agent and telegraph operator for the New York Central railroad. He was a skillful mechanic, with a tendency to invention, even in his youth. He was something of an artist and spent much time in painting. To eke out his income he used to make flies for the fishermen and was himself an expert angler. He was so much more fortunate than the others in winning prizes in the fishing con- tests in which he took part in Canandaigua, that he was finally ruled out altogether. His invention for improving the pin in electric insulators was laughed at when he first showed it and he lost the profit from it, another man, who appropriated the idea and patented it, reaping the reward that
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belonged to him. Naturally he came to study electricity while a telegraph operator, and he spent much of his spare hours in experiments. He con- structed a dynamo of his own invention, and it was used for furnishing electric lights in a mill in the vicinity. In the telegraph office he had often noticed the defects of the insulators during storms and he under- took to find a method of overcoming them. He sought a new form and material that would not allow the leakage caused by wetness of the insu- lators and poles and he discovered a mixture of clay and other sub- stances producing a porcelain that had the desired qualities. His first experiments were made in his kitchen, then he constructed a kiln and began to manufacture his insulators in 1898. At first he had but few hands but the demand for the insulators grew rapidly, and at the present time his factory employs two hundred men. The porcelain insulator has withstood the most trying tests. It is not porous like the ordinary porce- lain and absorbs no water; is stronger and less fragile than glass and is not affected by temperature. The moisture which collects on it, forms in globules and does not dissipate the electric current as it would on glass, on which rain makes a continuous wet surface. In the construction of the insulator, Mr. Locke uses a machine for threading the clay forms before they are baked. No manufacturer had previously been able to do this part of the work cheaply and rapidly. Locke's machine turns out from five to ten thousand properly threaded insulators in a day. The shape of the insulator is also a design of the inventor. The ingredients of the clay mixture are known only to the inventor. The mixture is screened and pumped into a press which squeezes out the excess liquid, and is thence conveyed to a pug mill in which the air is drawn out, and the mixture molded to a uniform and homogeneous consistency. The material is then molded into form in a machine called a giger. After being partly dried the molds are glazed and baked a day or more and then tested for electric conductivity. There is practically no leakage under ordinary weather conditions. One significant test of the value of the insulator was made in the equipment of the Bay Counties Power Company's long distance power transmission line, carrying a high tension current two hundred and fourteen miles, the longest in the world, and the loss from leakage is but five per cent. The voltage is 60,000 and the insulators for this purpose withstood a test of twice that tension. One hundred thousand insulators were used in that one contract. The busi- ness was incorporated in 1902 under the name of Locke Insulator Manu- facturing Company and has continued to grow. In 1904 Mr. Locke retired from active business, though he gives to the company the benefit
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