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of his skill and experience as consulting engineer. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a communicant of Trinity Church.
He married, March 6, 1884, Mercy Peer, born February 26, 1866, daughter of Andrew and Ellen (Splaine) Peer. Children: Morton F., born January 12, 1885; Louis P., January 4, 1887; Fred J., November 29, 1889; Peer A., June 28, 1893 ; James L., January 18, 1898.
ALDRIDGE.
In 1790 we find three families of the surname Aldridge living in Newburg and Rochester, Ulster county, New York, Robert, Daniel and Gilbert Aldridge being the names of the fathers. Gilbert had three females in his family. Aldridge in some cases is identical with Eldridge, in others with Aldrich.
(I) Gilbert Aldridge was born, it is said in Orange county, New York, and died in 1864, at Brockport, New York. He is buried in the Brockport cemetery. Among his children was Gilbert T., mentioned below.
(II) Gilbert T., son of Gilbert Aldridge, was born at Victor, New York, March 4, 1819. He learned the trade of blacksmith and followed it many years. He had an iron foundry and manufactured wagons in the town of Victor. He cast the first iron beam plows used in Victor, manu- facturing being his principal business for a short time. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a steward, trustee, and superintendent of the Sunday school for thirty years. He was always an active worker in the church and a man of exemplary character. He died July 16, 1899. He married (first) Nancy Cline, born in 1825, at Victor, died April 7, 1855. He married (second), February, 1860, Julia ( Allen) Maples, born in 1828, married (first) in 1851, Dr. Charles Henry Maples who was born in Connecticut, in 1825, a physician at Hartford, Connecticut, died aged twenty-seven years. Children of Gilbert T. Aldridge by his first wife: Albert C., born March 13, 1849, mentioned below ; Angeline, born June 10, 1851, married George R. Bumpus, living in Victor, a farmer; child, died in infancy. Child of the second wife: Arthur Gilbert, November 24, 1861 ; mentioned below.
(III) Albert C., son of Gilbert T. Aldridge, was born in Victor. March 13, 1849. He attended the public schools of his native town and
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Brockport, the Collegiate Institute at Brockport, the Rochester Business University, taking special courses in law and laboratory work. For ten years he was engaged in teaching school, two years in the public schools, one year in Canandaigua Academy, and six years in the Genesee Wes- leyan Seminary at Lima, New York. In 1884 he was elected school commissioner of the second district of Ontario county, and was reelected from term to term until he had served for a period of twenty-one years. Though he devoted most of his time to the schools, he also conducted his farm during that time. He has held many positions of trust and has had charge of the settlement of many estates. His farm consists of eighty- four acres of excellent land located just north of the village of Victor. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Methodist, and he has been trustee, steward, and superintendent of the Sunday school of the Victor Methodist Episcopal church for over twenty-five years.
He married, June 16, 1880, Amelia Boughton, born November 23, 1857, daughter of Walter and Caroline (Hart) Boughton, both of whom are deceased. Her father was a farmer in Victor. Children: Caroline J., Gilbert W., Albert H., Harvey C. The three eldest are graduates of the Victor high school. Mr. Aldridge died March 9, 191I.
(III) Arthur Gilbert, son of Gilbert T. Aldridge, was born Novem- ber 24, 1861. He received his early education in the public schools of Victor and Lima, New York. During his boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and at the age of nineteen took charge of the homestead. When his father died he bought the shares of the other heirs and became the owner of the homestead. He now owns one hundred and twenty acres of land in Victor. In 1891 he made a specialty of raising seed- potatoes in a small way. and from year to year has increased his business until it has reached large proportions. He finds a demand for his pota- toes in all parts of the United States and Canada and in various other countries. He conducts the business exclusively as a mail order business and sells direct to the farmers. In politics he is a Republican. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Victor. He is interested in municipal affairs and has served the town three years as assessor.
He married, December 22, 1887, Sarah Catherine Briggs, born Jan- uary 17, 1861, daughter of Ichabod White and Sarah Catherine (Case) Briggs. Her father was born March 24, 1809, and died in August, 1892 ; he resided in the town of Macedon, where he followed farming many years and was the originator of the magazine club idea; was for many years postmaster of West Macedon. Sarah Catherine Case was born
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March 12, 1821, died September 21, 1901. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs : Albert Hawks Briggs, born in 1841, resides at Macedon : Char- lotte Miller Briggs, born in 1843, married R. A. McLeod, resides in Mace- don; Mary Jane Briggs, born in 1845, married E. G. Allen; Jeremiah B., lives in Macedon; Dr. Charles Menzies Briggs, a practicing physician at Fairport, New York, born in 1855, and Sarah Catherine, mentioned above. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge: I. Terry Briggs, born Oc- tober 13, 1888, graduate of Victor high school and the East high school of Rochester, New York. 2. LeRoy Edward, born June 2, 1890, educated in the Victor high school, the Rochester Business Institute and at Cornell University in which he took a special course; now engaged in farming. 3. Ellery Gilbert, born December 8, 1892. 4. Arthur Mckinley, March 8, 1896. 5. Leslie J. (twin), born July 16, 1897. 6. Lucile K., twin of Leslie J., died August 28, 1897. 7. Charlotte Mary, born December 18, 1902.
TUTTLE.
The word Tuthill, meaning a conical hill, is a common place name in England, of remote antiquity. From one or more places named Tut- hill the surname Tuthill or Tuttle is derived, after a prevalent custom in the twelfth century and later when surnames came into use in England. The family had been especially prominent in Devonshire, England.
There came to America in 1635, in the ship "Planter," three families of this name from the parish of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. John, William, and Richard Tuttle, the heads of these families, were doubtless brothers. John Tuttle, mercer, aged thirty-nine, according to the passenger list, in 1635, settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts; was in Ire- land in 1654, and probably fell sick there, for his wife went to Carrick- fergus, Ireland, and wrote April 6, 1657, that he died there, December 30, 1656. Richard Tuttle, aged forty-two, settled in Boston, where he died May 8, 1640. Henry Tuttle was in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635, coming with his brother John ; Henry removed to Southold, Long Island, John returned to England, and settled at Weybread, Suffolk county. Still another John Tuttle came in the ship "Angel Gabriel" and settled in Dover, New Hampshire.
(I) William Tuttle, immigrant ancestor, came from St. Albans parish, Hertfordshire, England, on the ship "Planter," in April, 1635, with his brothers John and Richard and their families. He stated his age
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as twenty-six. His wife Elizabeth, aged twenty-three, and children,- John, aged three and a half, and Thomas, aged three months,-came at the same time. His occupation was given as husbandman. His wife joined the church at Boston, August 14, 1636. As early as 1635 he was granted liberty to build a windmill at Charlestown, and was a proprietor of that town in 1636., His wife was dismissed to the church in Ipswich, September 8, 1639, and they doubtless lived there for a time. He was part owner of the ketch "Zebulon," of Ipswich, and was associated to some extent in business with John Tuttle, of Ipswich. He and John owned land deeded them by George Griggs for debt, and the same George Griggs gave him a mortgage of house and land on Beacon street, Boston, October 8, 1650, after Tuttle had moved to New Haven. About 1639 Tuttle moved to Quinnipiac, later called New Haven. In 1641 he was the owner of the home lot of Edward Hopkins, who had removed to Hart- ford. This lot was on the square bounded by Grove, State, Elm and Church streets. In 1656 Tuttle bought of Joshua Atwater his original allotment, mansion house and barn, with other lands. He made his home there until his death, and his widow after him until her death, a period of twenty-eight years. At the time of his death it was appraised at £120. He shared in the division of common lands in 1640 and after- ward. William Tuttle and Mr. Gregson were the first owners of land at East Haven, Connecticut, and Mr. Tuttle surveyed and laid out the road from the ferry at Red Rock to Stony River. His land there was bounded by a line running from the old ferry (where the new bridge over the Quinnipiac now is) eastward to a spring where issues the small stream called Tuttle's Brook, thence south along this brook to Gregson's land at Solitary Cove, thence west to a point on the New Haven Harbor near the chemical works and Fort Hale, thence north along the harbor to the point of beginning. It included Tuttle's Hill. In 1659 he became owner of land at North Haven. He sold or conveyed to his children most of his property before he died. Judging from the seat he was assigned in the meeting house, he was among the foremost men of New Haven as early as 1646-47. He was interested in the projected settlement from New Haven on the Delaware, which failed on account of the opposition of the Dutch in New Netherlands. He filled many positions of trust and respon- sibility in the colony; was commissioner to decide on an equivalent to those who received inferior meadow lands in the first allotment; was fence viewer in 1644; road commissioner in 1646; commissioner to settle the dispute as to boundary between New Haven and Branford in 1669, and to fix the bounds of New Haven, Milford, Branford. and Walling-
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ford in 1672. He was often a juror and arbitrator; was constable in 1666-67. He died early in June, 1673. His inventory was dated June 6, 1673. His wife died December 30, 1684, aged seventy-two years. She had been living with her youngest son, Nathaniel, who presented her will, but the other children objected and it was not allowed. The inventory of her estate is dated February 3, 1685. Her gravestone was removed with the others in 1821 from the Old Green to the Gove street cemetery, and it now stands in a row along the north wall of the cemetery, but part of the inscription is gone. Children : John, born in England, 1631 ; Hannah, born in England, 1632-33 ; Thomas, born in England, 1634-35 ; Jonathan, baptized in Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 7, 1658; David, baptized in Charlestown, April 7, 1659; Joseph, baptized in New Haven, Novem- ber 22, 1640; Sarah, baptized April, 1642; Elizabeth, November 9, 1645 ; Simon, March 28, 1647; Benjamin, October 29, 1648; Mercy, April 27, 1650; Nathaniel, February 29, 1652.
(II) Joseph, son of William Tuttle, was baptized in New Haven, November 22, 1640, and died in September, 1690. In 1685 he was excused from watching on account of lameness, and the same year declined to serve as constable for the same reason. He married, May 2, 1667, Hannah Munson, born June II, 1648, died November 30, 1695, daughter of Captain Thomas Munson. She married (second), August 21, 1694, Nathan Bradley, of Guilford, Connecticut. Children: Joseph, mentioned below; Samuel, born July 15, 1670-71 ; Stephen, May 20, 1673; Joanna, December 30, 1676; Timothy, September 30, 1678; Su- sanna, February 20, 1679; Elizabeth, July 12, 1683; Hannah, May 14, 1685 ; died young ; Hannah, baptized February 26, 1689.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) Tuttle, was born March 18, 1668, and was a cordwainer by trade. He married, in Milford, Con- necticut, November 10, 1691, Elizabeth Sanford, born 1671, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Paine) Sanford. He lived in East Haven and was prominent in town affairs. Children: Joseph, mentioned below ; Noah, born December 12, 1694; Katharine, November 25, 1699; Eliza- beth, July 27, 1705 ; Thankful, September 3, 1709; child.
(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Tuttle, was born November IO, 1692. He was captain of the train band at East Haven. In 1742 he was confirmed by the general assembly as quartermaster of the Second Regiment. In 1745-46 he was moderator, and served several years on the school committee. He married Mercy, daughter of John and Mercy (Mansfield) Thompson. She was born February 21, 1696, and died Sep- tember 6, 1743. He married (second) Sarah Washburn, widow. He
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was of Derby in 1751. In 1743-53 he bought lands in Litchfield county, Connecticut. He died January 16, 1761. He left a will and estate was valued at £2,722, much of it real estate. Children: Joel, born October 18, 1718; Mary, December 22, 1720; Amy, 1726, died young; Mercy, September 17, 1730; Comfort, 1732; Joseph, 1734; Samuel, 1741; Joseph, married Hannah Twitchell; Amy married Benjamin Hargar ; Benjamin, mentioned below.
(V) Benjamin, son of Joseph (3) Tuttle, was born at East Haven, Connecticut, or vicinity. He settled in Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York. In 1790 he was the only head of family of this name in On- tario county, and he had two males over sixteen, one under that age, and four females in his family. He was overseer of highways at Seneca, Ontario county, in 1793.
(VI) Joseph (4), son of Benjamin Tuttle, came with his father to Seneca, Ontario county, before 1793. He helped to clear the land and build a home for the family. He was one of the sturdy pioneers who laid the foundations of civilization in this section. He married and had chil- dren : Richard T., Elizabeth, Catherine, Reed and Anson S.
(VII) Anson S., son of Joseph (4) Tuttle, was born in Seneca, August 9, 1822, and died in 1902. He was educated in the district schools, and after his father sold his farm he followed the trade of car- penter and woodworker. He was pattern maker and woodworker for some years in the railroad shops at Canandaigua, New York. He mar- ried, October 7, 1856, Amanda M. Smith, who was born on the Smith homestead, now owned by Richard A. Tuttle, mentioned below. Her father, Wilmarth Smith, was born on the same farm, April 13, 1792. Wilmarth Smith married, in 1812, Saloma Eddy, of Northampton, Massachusetts, and they had eleven children. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Jonathan Smith, father of Wilmarth, was born at North Addison, Vermont, in 1770, married Lydia Wilmarth, of that town, and had Wilmarth, Asa, Orrin and Amanda Smith. Children of Wilmarth and Saloma Smith : Dolly, Daniel P., Chloe P., Abel W., Annie H., Lydia E., Nancy H., Amanda M., mentioned above, Mary M., Darius C. and Orrin M. B. Smith. Children of Anson S. and Amanda M. (Smith) Tuttle : I. Caroline A., married Carl C. Herendeen, of Macedon. 2. Annie I., married Edward W. Stephenson, of Farmington. 3. Mary A., married Charles W. Herendeen. 4. Joseph W., mentioned below. 5. Richard A., mentioned below. 6. Nettie E., died December 17, 1882.
(VIII) Joseph W., son of Anson S. Tuttle, was born in the town of
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Farmington, New York, January 9, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the Canandaigua Academy, and sup- plemented his schooling by constant reading and study. He was from early youth active on his father's farm, gifted with energy, and strong purposes and a capacity for hard work. As a man he has followed farming with uniform success. His farm consists of sixty-eight acres of land, thoroughly underdrained and very productive. In politics he is a Republican, and he has taken an active part in public affairs and has been honored with many positions of trust and responsibility. For four years he was town clerk, and by virtue of his office an efficient member of the town board. Afterward he served three terms as supervisor of the town, and was for six years a member of the town board and county board of supervisors, a member of important committees, and influential and prominent throughout the country. He is a member of Farmington Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Society of Friends. He mar- ried, November 26, 1879, Elizabeth C. Padgham, born in Farmington, November 6, 1860, daughter of Joseph Padgham. Children: I. Mary E., born October 23, 1882; married William H. White; resides in Con- necticut. 2. Joseph E., born May 7, 1890; married Maggie Cooper, No- vember 6, 1910; he was educated in the schools of Victor and Cornell, New York ; now engaged in farming.
(VIII) Richard A., son of Anson S. Tuttle, was born at Farming- ton, November 28, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. During his boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and at the age of nineteen he succeeded to the farm. In 1897 he sold it to his brother, Joseph W. Tuttle, and bought out the other heirs of his mother's farm, the Smith homestead, consisting of ninety-three acres, and since then has followed farming on this place. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Orthodox Friends Society, and active in church work. He married, December 8, 1897, Lucy Whipple, born in Farming- ton, November 22, 1876, only child of Franklin and Carrie (Cotton) Whipple. Her father, Franklin Whipple, was born at Farmington, in 1852; was a decorator and painter, a Republican in politics, and a mem- ber of the Orthodox Friends Society ; married, in 1874, Carrie Cotton, who was born February 28, 1852. F. H. Cotton, father of Carrie Cotton, was born in Farmington, in 1820, and died in 1903 ; was a Republican, a member of the Orthodox Friends; owned a farm of one hundred and forty-five acres at Farmington. The great-grandmother of Mrs. Tuttle on the maternal side was Jane Cheeseborough, born in Genesee county,
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in June, 1826, and died January 29, 1894. Isaac Cotton, father of F. H. Cotton, married Charity Bennett, and died in 1862. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle : Anson H., born at Farmington, July 24, 1894; Richard F., February 25, 1902.
RIGNEY.
Martin Rigney was born in county Kings, Ireland, and came in 1851, when a young man, to this country, landing at New York City. He followed his trade as a baker in that city for three years and in 1855 came to Bloomfield, New York, where he was employed at first as a farm laborer. He bought a farm there in 1870 and conducted it the remainder of his life. He died there in 1880. His widow continued on the home- stead and carried it on until her death in 1887. He married Mary McGory, also a native of county Kings, Ireland. Children : Maria, John, James, Martin, Keiran, Sarah, Edward E., mentioned below.
Edward E., son of Martin Rigney, was born at West Bloomfield, New York, November 28, 1865. He worked on his father's farm when a boy and attended the district school. He began to follow farming on his own account at the age of twenty on the homestead in partnership with his brother James. Two years later he spent a winter in Florida in the orange groves. Upon his return he purchased of his brother Martin a general store at West Bloomfield and he conducted the business very successfully for many years. He still owns an interest in this business. In May, 1893, he opened what is known as Rigney's Department Store in the village of Holcomb, Ontario county, New York, and has built up a large and prosperous business. Since 1902 he has had a farm at Hol- comb and since then he has acquired and conducts three other farms. He is a prominent Democrat. During President Cleveland's administration he was postmaster of West Bloomfield. He is at present supervisor of the town of East Bloomfield and he is an influential member of the board of supervisors of Ontario county. He has shown much public spirit in work- ing for the welfare and development of the county. He made a vigorous and successful fight for the establishment of the State Tuberculosis Hos- pital in this county. This institution is located at Oak Mount, East Bloomfield. Mr. Rigney has been chairman of the Democratic county committee and is now a member of the Democratic state committee. He is a member and a generous supporter of the Catholic church. He mar-
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ried, in June, 1905, Marguerite, daughter of Cornelius and Marguerite O'Neil, both natives of Ireland, who came to this country and settled on a farm at East Bloomfield. They have one child, Edward E., born October 5, 1908.
LOOMIS.
Leslie George Loomis, senior partner in the firm of L. G. Loomis & Son, is descended from some of the earliest settlers in the New England colonies. Joseph Loomis, of Braintree, England, came to this country in 1638, and settled at Windsor, Connecticut, in the following year. The tract of land on which he settled has been in the uninterrupted possession of the Loomis family since that time, and is now the property of the "Loomis Family Association." A complete history of the family, the association and the institute which it is proposed to erect on this land, may be found in "The Loomis Family in America," compiled and issued by Professor Elias Loomis, of Yale University, and this work has been enlarged and re-issued by Elisha S. Loomis. The line of descent of the subject of this sketch is as follows :
(I) George Loomis, the first of the line here under consideration.
(II) George (2), son of George (1) Loomis, born in Windsor, Connecticut, was a farmer and a member of the Republican party. He married Aurelia Palmer. Children: Eunice, George, see forward, and Charlotte.
(III) George (3), only son of George (2) and Aurelia ( Palmer) Loomis, was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, December 7, 1818, and died in Farmington, New York, August 13, 1895. His business occupation was that of farming, and he was a member of the Universalist church. Until 1872 he was an adherent of the Republican party, but at that time commenced inclining toward Democratic principles. He served as super- visor and member of the town highway commission for the town of Farmington, New York. He married, in Victor, New York, October 15, 1842, Hannah Maria, born in Schaghticoke, New York, January 4, 1827, daughter of Benjamin and Lavina Ann (Snedeker) Ketcham. Children : Aurelia Palmer, born March 27, 1845; Benjamin Henry, January 2, 1847; Ida Maria, April 5, 1853; Georgiana, March 10, 1855 ;. Leslie George, see forward; Charles Philip, January 27, 1860.
(IV) Leslie George, second son and fifth child of George (3) and Hannah Maria (Ketcham) Loomis, was born in Farmington, Ontario
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county, New York, April 9, 1857. His school education was a thorough one and he was graduated from the Canandaigua Academy. He com- menced his business career as a bookkeeper in October, 1876, and in 1878 became a member of the firm of E. S. Norton, wholesale produce dealers. Four years later he formed a partnership with W. C. Woodworth, in the same line of business, the firm being Loomis & Woodworth, with offices at Victor, New York. The business was conducted in a flourishing man- ner until August 1, 1907, when Mr. Woodworth retired, and Mr. Loomis admitted his son, L. G., Jr., to membership in the firm, the style being changed to its present form, L. G. Loomis & Son. Mr. Loomis has always been a staunch supporter of the Democratic party, and was commis- sioned postmaster of Victor, New York, by President Grover Cleveland, serving in this office four years from 1895. He and his family are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church at Victor.
Mr. Loomis married, in Newark, Wayne county, New York, June 4, 1884, Della Mary, born in Marion, New York, February 16, 1859, daughter of Theodore and Clarinda ( Wallace) Hunt, the former a farmer, and sister of William Henry Hunt. Children: Leslie George, Jr., born July 5, 1885, was graduated from the Victor high school in 1902, and from Williams College in 1906, and is now a member of the firm of L. G. Loomis & Son; Harry Hunt, born May 16, 1889, was grad- uated from the Victor high school in 1907, and is now a member of the class of 1912 of Williams College; Dorothy Peters, born January 27, 1894, is at present a student at the Victor high school.
HOUSTON.
Robert Houston, son of Robert and -- - ( Melvin ) Houston, was born in 1821, in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in 1856, in Farmington, New York. His father and mother lived and died in Scotland. His brother James was a merchant in England, and afterward in California. Robert Houston was educated in the common schools of his native land and learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed until 1845, when he came to this country. He stayed for a short time in New York City, and then made his home in Canandaigua, New York, where he was employed first by See & Lekland and later by Mr. Tozer, of the same town. He removed to Manchester, New York, and started in business on his own account as a shoe manufacturer, continuing to the time of his
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