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(IV) G. Lynn, son of George W. Ottley, was born in Phelps, August 27, 1882, and was educated there in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he was employed in the milk business by J. W. Don- nelly, and afterward was clerk in a grocery store until 1909, when he bought the Snyder farm in Phelps, and since then he has followed farming there. For eight years he was a member of the Redfield Hook and Ladder Company and is now a member of the Exempt Firemen's Society. He is a member of the Maccabees and of Wideawake Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He married, February 10, 1904, Jennie M., daughter of David and Wilhelmina ( Anderson) Le Roy, of Man- chester.
REED.
Joshua Reed was father of Vincent Reed, mentioned below.
(II) Vincent, son of Joshua Reed, was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1811, died in 1878. His calling was that of a farmer. He was captain of the militia. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and one of the elders of that church. He married Bethiah Reed, and they lived near Geneva, New York, where their children were educated. Children : Calista M., Elvira, Elizabeth, Charles, Joshua, Nathan, Vincent, men- tioned below.
(III) Vincent (2), son of Vincent (1) Reed, was born near
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Geneva, New York, October 21, 1846. He was educated in the public schools of Geneva, and at the age of nineteen years moved with his parents to a farm in the town of Phelps, New York, where he has since been engaged in farming. He is a member of the Presbyterian church at Oaks Corners, and has been elder and trustee for years. On January 19, 1870, he married Alice, daughter of Henry and Louise Church. Children: Alice, born December 11, 1872; Nelson C., Feb- ruary 18, 1875 ; Philip, January 22, 1877; Margaret, January 26, 1879; James S., April 26, 1881 ; Henry, July 4, 1883.
HORNBECK.
The Hornbeck family is of Dutch ancestry. Warnour Hornbeck was an early settler in Ulster county, New York. He married (first) Anna, daughter of Matthaus and Eva Abertse ( Bradt) de Hooges. He married (second) Grietze Tyssen. By his two wives he had eigh- teen children and their descendants have been very numerous. Doubt- less all of the name in New York are from this pioneer family. Lodwick Hornbeck, of this family, married, July 9, 1696, Maritze, eleventh child of Cornelis Cornissen Vernvoy and his wife Annatje Cornelis, daughter of Cornelis Barentsen Van de Cuyl and Lysbeth Arents. Lodwick and Cornelis Hornbeck were witnesses of the will of Cornelis Swyts, dated April 13, 1735, at Rochester, a town in Ulster county. In the Ulster county wills we find early mention of Cornelis, Gerardus, Isaac, Jacob, Jacob Jr., Johannes, Lodewyck, Philipa and Petrus Hornbeck.
James Hornbeck, doubtless a descendant of the Ulster county family, was born in Orange county, New York, where some of the descendants settled. He came to the town of Phelps, in Ontario county, New York, when a young man, and took up a plot of five hundred acres of forest land. He was a progressive and successful farmer. He married Mar- garet Burnett, born in Orange county, New York, Children: Wells, Charles, Bessie, Mary, Alvira, Ann, Jane, James B., mentioned below.
James B., son of James Hornbeck, was born in the town of Phelps, New York, July 15, 1827, and was educated in the district schools of his native town. During his long and useful life he has followed farming for an occupation and his business has proved highly suc- cessful. He commands the confidence and esteem of the community
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and is conspicuous for his public spirit. He is a member of Eureka Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was one of the founders. In politics he is a Democrat. He married, 1853, Phila M. Peck, born in Phelps, daughter of Hiram Peck. Children, born in Phelps: 1. Clara A., married John Jennings. 2. Ida P., married Anson Lay.
SMITH.
Edmund Smith, son of Asa and Hannah ( Poor) Smith, was born in the town of Manchester, New York, December 12, 1825, and was educated there in the public schools. He went west when a young man and was in Michigan three years. He left there in 1849 to cross the plains when gold was discovered in California, and was successful in gold mining. After two years in the gold fields, however, he re- turned to his native place and bought a large farm in partnership with his brother Franklin, whose interests he bought two years afterward. Here he has followed farming ever since. His experience in California was fraught with hardship and danger. The mines where he located at Butte Creek were in an Indian country. On his return trip he had a narrow escape from drowning. The vessel in which he sailed from San Francisco sprang a leak soon after leaving port and all the passengers were called to help the crew at the pumps. Soon after landing at Panama the passengers saw the vessel sink. In politics he is a Demo- crat, in religion a Methodist.
He married Alice E., daughter of Harvey and Eunice Harmon. Children : George E., Asa, Irwin.
CONNOLLY.
Andrew Connolly, founder of the family, was born in Portar- lington, county Kings, Ireland, June 10, 1814, died August 31, 1899, in Phelps, Ontario county, New York. He emigrated to Geneva, New York, in 1852, and found work as a maltster. Later he became an engineer on the lake for a number of years. He was a member of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Francis, at Phelps. He married Julia Dunn, who was born at Portarlington, county Kings. Ireland, born
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April 14, 1814, died May 20, 1885. Children: Hugh, born September 5, 1842, a government inspector of mines in Australia ; John, born March 5, 1844, died October 1, 1893; Anna, born May 28, 1846, deceased; Ellen, born December 1I, 1850; Robert Emmet, referred to below.
Robert Emmet, son of Andrew and Julia (Dunn) Connolly, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, New York, April 1, 1860, and is now living in that town. Until he was twelve years of age he attended the public schools, and then he went to work in a grocery store. Three years later he took a position in a dry-goods store which he held for four years, and then started with a partner, Mr. Ryan, independently to conduct a dry-goods and grocery store, under the firm name of Ryan & Connolly. Six years later, in 1886, he purchased his partner's interest in the business and since then has been managing it for himself. He is vice-president of the Lawrence Bostwick Manufacturing Com- pany and treasurer of the Crown Manufacturing Company. He was appointed postmaster of Phelps, by President Grover Cleveland, and held the position for five years. He has been president of the village for five years, and during his administration inaugurated many improve- ments, among which were the present system of cement walks, five miles being laid. He is a trustee of St. Francis Church. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, a member of the Phelps Board of Trade, a member of the White Hose Company, and was a charter member of the Redfield Hose Company. He married, June 8, 1886, Mary A., daughter of Daniel Sommers, of Hopewell, New York. Children: John E. born October 12, 1887; Marie, March 5, 1891.
HOENING.
David Hoening lived in Schenectady, New York, whence he re- moved to Phelps, Ontario county. He lived to be more than a hundred years old. According to the first federal census of 1790 a John Hening was living in Rensselaerwyck, now Troy, in Albany county. He appears to be the only one in the state at that time and is presumed to be the father of David. He was of German ancestry. He married and among his children was John, see forward.
(II) John, son of David Hoening, was born in Schenectady, New York, where he attended the public schools. He learned the trade of Carpenter, and when a young man removed with his parents to the
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town of Phelps, Ontario county, New York, where he afterward fol- lowed farming for his main vocation. He was a successful and repre- sentative citizen, and an influential and prominent member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church of Phelps. He married Angeline See, born in Schenectady, New York, daughter of Garret and Ann See. Children : Margaret, Mercy, Spencer, Burdett, Nettie, Ambrose V., mentioned below.
(III) Ambrose V., son of John Hoening, was born in the town of Phelps, New York, November 19, 1842, and was educated there in the public schools. He has always followed farming for his occupation. He is one of the charter members of Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Phelps. Since 1863 he has been a faithful and consistent member of the Phelps Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has for twenty years been a trustee, for twenty-two years member of the official board and for ten years class leader. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. He married, March 21, 1871, Louise Hosford, born in Phelps, May 10, 1842, daughter of Ashbel and Emeline Hosford, of Saratoga Springs; her mother was born at Phelps. Children: 1. Nettie T., born March 25. 1872, married Burton Hughston and had children: Carl and Hazel Louise Hughston. 2. Frank A., born May 22, 1880, educated in the public schools of Phelps and now associated with his father in the man- agement of the homestead ; married Carrie Hicks, daughter of Edward and Carrie Hicks ; child, Marion Frances, born December 16, 1907. L
VANDERHOOF.
Jacob Vanderhoof, or Vanderhoef, and his brother Cornelius came from Holland and settled in Orange county, New York. Cornelius married Temperance Wisner, who married (second) Calvin Shepherd. Cornelius had children, Cornelius, John Wisner, born 1787, Jacob and James, and the family located near the town of Florida, Orange county. Jacob married Mary Wisner, sister of Temperance, daughter of John Wisner, who was born in 1737, married (first) Mary Thompson and (second) Sarah Dill, having eight children by his first wife and six by the second. John Wisner, father of John Wisner, was a captain, born about 1720, died in 1778, married Anne -
-. Henrick Wisner, father of John Wisner Sr., was born in 1698, died in 1767, married Mary Shaw. Johannes Wisner, the immigrant, was born in Holland
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in 1676, married Elizabeth --- , and came to this country in 1714: he served in Queen Anne's war, and died in 1744.
(II) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (I) Vanderhoof, was born in Orange county, New York. In 1790 we find the following heads of families of the name in Orange county: Thomas with two sons under sixteen and three females; Jacob with two females; Cornelius with two males over sixteen, four under that age and one female; Jacob Jr. with two males over sixteen, one under sixteen and two females. There was also a Cornelius and Peter Venderhoof, of New York, both doubtless descended from the pioneers, Jacob or Cornelius.
(III) Abram, son of Jacob (2) Vanderhoof, was born in the town of Manchester, Ontario county, New York, where his father settled. He died there in May, 1887. He was always a farmer, and a prominent citizen. He was a noted singer in his day and a member of various church choirs. He was one of the early members of the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He married Johanna Van Dusen, who died in 1867, daughter of Martin and Gertrude Van Dusen. Children : Jacob W., mentioned below ; Levi, born 1838, died in 1910.
(IV) Jacob W., son of Abram Vanderhoof, was born in the town of Manchester, New York, September 23, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Macedon Seminary. He began his business career as salesman for the Boston Lightning Rod Company. In 1858 he became bookkeeper and buyer of wheat for his uncle who had a flour mill at Gypsum, New York, and remained there for two years. In 1861 he became bookkeeper and salesman in a store at Canandaigua. He resigned this position and returned to the home- stead two years later and since then has been engaged in farming. He is one of the most successful and prominent farmers of this section. For nineteen years he has been on the board of election inspectors of the town. He has been active in the fire department and marshal upon various occasions such as county musters of firemen and military organizations. He married, November 23. 1857, Elmira M., born 1833, daughter of Daniel W. and Irene Bissell, of Allenshill, New York.
CLARK.
Lawrence Clark, who resides in the old colonial mansion in Geneva, Ontario county, New York, on the west shore of Seneca lake, which was owned and occupied by his family for upward of sixty years, is
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one of those men who take possession of the public heart and hold it after they have departed, not by flashes of genius or brilliant services, but by kindness and the force of personal character, and by steady and per- sistent good conduct in all the situations and under all the trials of life. They are in sympathy with all that is useful and good in the community in which they dwell, and the community on its part cheerfully responds by extending to them respectful admiration and sincere affection.
William N. Clark, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in the city of New York in 1794, and died in Geneva, New York, in 1867. For many years he was in business as a druggist in his native city, and prominent in various business enterprises. He removed to Geneva in 1836, retiring from active participation in business life at this period. but retained his connection with a number of undertakings in the finan- cial world. At one time he filled the office of president of the Farmers' Bank of Geneva. The interest he took in religious affairs was an earnest and beneficial one, and he served as deacon of the Dutch church for many years, and as elder in the same institution for more than thirty years and until his death. He was held in high esteem by all with whom he came in contact, and frequently personally investigated cases which he thought worthy of assistance. In this manner he became acquainted with all classes of society, and his death caused a vacancy which was felt far and wide. He married Mary Theresa Sheiffelin, born in New York City, 1807, died in Geneva, New York, 1886. She was a most worthy helpmeet to her husband, and was also largely in- terested in church and charitable matters. Among their children were : Lawrence, see forward; two daughters, who live in Geneva; and a son, who resides in New York.
Lawrence, son of William and Mary Theresa (Sheiffelin) Clark, was born in Geneva, Ontario county, New York, 1845. His education, which was an excellent one, was acquired at Walnut Hill School, of his native city, and at Hobart College, from which he was graduated with honor. This has been supplemented by private study in later years, and intercourse with men of the highest intelligence and culture. In early manhood he went to New York City, where he entered the wholesale drug house of Schieffelin & Company, and there his faithful attention to the details of the business and the ability he displayed enabled him to rise from grade to grade and continue his association with this firm for a period of twenty years. In 1887 he returned to Geneva, where his quiet and retired disposition led him to abandon business activities, and he has since that time led a retired life in the old family mansion. He
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has very strong ideas on all matters of public importance, but having the courage of his conviction he does not give his undivided support to either Democratic or Republican party, preferring to give his vote to the man he thinks best fitted for the office he has been nominated to fill. He has never married. and his religious affiliations are with Trinity Church. He is undemonstrative and unassuming in his nature, yet in a quiet but forcible manner he is a power in the society of the community in which he lives. His moral attributes are of so high an order that he has carved out for himself friends, affluence and position. His mind is generally occupied with ideas which are for the betterment of the city of his birth, and his unselfish and honorable nature lead him to further all plans which tend to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow men. His circle of friends is a large one, and the hours which are not spent in social and harmonious intercourse with them are devoted to wide and diversified reading.
MEAD.
William Mead, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England about 1600. It is said that he, with his brother Gabriel, sailed from Lydd, county Kent, England, with their families, in the ship "Elizabeth," Cap- tain Stagg, April, 1635. They arrived in the summer of that year in the Massachusetts colony. He seems to have settled first at Wethersfield, Connecticut, but when the exodus from there took place and a company of planters settled in Stamford in 1641, he was assigned a home lot and five acres of land there. He married about 1625, and died in Stamford, Connecticut, about 1663. His wife died September 19, 1657. Children : Joseph, born 1630; Martha, born 1632; John, mentioned below.
(II) John, son of William Mead, was born about 1634. He married Hannah Potter, of Stamford, daughter of William Potter, probably in 1657. He died February 5, 1699. He was the ancestor of the Green- wich Meads. After having lived in Stamford, and in Hempstead, Long Island, he finally located permanently at Horseneck, Connecticut. Chil- dren : John, born in Greenwich, October 7, 1658; Joseph, born May 2, 1660; Hannah, born about 1661; Ebenezer, born in 1663; Jonathan; David, mentioned below; Benjamin, born May, 1666; Nathaniel, born about 1669; Samuel, born about 1673 ; Abigail, born about 1675; Mary, born about 1678.
(III) David, son of John Mead, was born about 1665, and mar-
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ried, December 16, 1707, Abigail Leane. He died in February, 1727. He settled early in the town of Bedford, New York, and was one of the resident proprietors there in 1692. Children : David, born September I. 1708, reported to have been killed in the revolution; Charity, born 1710; Rachel, born 1712; Nathaniel, born October 9, 1714; William, men- tioned below ; Betsey, born 1719; Anna, born 1722.
(IV) William (2), son of David Mead, was born in 1716. Chil- dren : John L., born about 1743 : Gilbert, born about 1745: Nathaniel. mentioned below ; William, born about 1749; Charity, born about 1751 ; Hannah, born about 1753; Mary, born about 1756.
(V) Nathaniel, son of William (2) Mead, was born at Green- wich, in 1747, and was a soldier in the revolution, from Connecticut, in 1776, a sergeant in Captain Abraham Mead's company.
(VI) Richard Titus, son of Nathaniel Mead, was born February 22, 1787, died December 12, 1836; he settled in Dutchess county, New York. He married Phebe Gurney, October 24, 1811, died November 17, 1871.
(VII) John G., son of Richard Titus Mead, was born in Dutchess county, New York, March 16, 1824, and settled at Macedon Center, New York, where he died in April, 1909, aged eighty-five years. He was a farmer all his active life. He married Emma B. Cookingham, who was also born in Dutchess county, and removed when young to Macedon Center. She is living at Victor, at the advanced age of eighty- four years. Children: Alfred M., mentioned below; Edgar L., born April 6, 1851, resides at Rochester, New York; Louise, born May 5. 1860, married Dr. C. M. Briggs, of Fairport, New York, where she died in 1881.
(VIII) Dr. Alfred M. Mead, son of John G. Mead, was born in Macedon Center, New York, November 21, 1856. He attended the public schools of his native town and Madison Academy, from which he was graduated in 1876. He then entered Buffalo Medical College, from which he graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in the class of 1880. In the same year he located at Victor, New York, and began to practice his profession. Since then he has been in active practice, and as a physician and surgeon has achieved high rank in his profession. He is one of the board of directors of the Memorial Hospital of Canandaigua ; member of the Canandaigua County Medical Society, the Central New York Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He has held the office of president of the County Medical Society, and has served
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two terms as coroner of the county. In politics he is a Republican. For several years he was a trustee of the incorporated village, and he is at the present time president of the board of education. In religion he is a Methodist, and he is one of the trustees of the church, and since 1880 had been on the board of that church. He married, April 6, 1881, Hattie A. Brown, who was born at Union Hill, New York, October 20, 1856, a daughter of Robert K. Brown. Children, born at Victor : Edgar R., born July 8, 1884; Dora E., December 13, 1887; M. Evelyn, May 11, 1892. Their daughter Dora is a member of Iroquois Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, of Rochester.
RICE.
Terrence W. Rice, nurseryman of Geneva, New York, belongs to that class of citizens who, although undemonstrative in their natures, nevertheless form the character and mold the society of the communi- ties in which they live. This class it is that develops our great manu- facturing interests, spreads our commerce, and furthers enterprises of all kinds. They, above all others, develop our cities and towns, and they alone deserve the credit for it.
John Rice, father of Terrence W. Rice, was born in Dundalk, Ireland, in 1845, and came to this country about the year 1868. He was industrious and painstaking, and was a foreman in the Washington street nursery for a period of about twenty years. He married. in Ireland, Catherine Rafferty, born in that country in 1849, died in America, June 22, 1902. She was a lovable woman and devoted to her home and family. Children: 1. John P., born in 1870, married, in February, 1892, Anna S. Dailor, and has had children: John F., born in 1904: Timothy R., 1905 ; Marie, 1907; Helen, 1908. 2. Terrence W., mentioned forward.
Terrence W., son of John and Catherine (Rafferty) Rice, was born August 4, 1872, and owes his present high standing in the finan- cial and social world to his own unaided efforts and energy. His educa- tion was the usual one acquired by a boy in moderate circumstances. but this has been largely supplemented by later study and keen powers of observation, together with the desire to make progressive advance- ment in the calling he adopted, and for which he seems to be so emi- nently fitted. He commenced at the bottom of the ladder and in this
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manner has become thoroughly acquainted in a practical manner with even the smallest details in his business. Now he is at the head of one of the large wholesale and retail nurseries, and the business is increas- ing annually at a very satisfactory rate. Mr. Rice has about one hundred acres of land under cultivation, employs from thirty to fifty men constantly, and his annual sales amount to from $65,000 to $75,000. He has dealings with all parts of the United States and Canada, and bears a well deserved reputation for the quality of the goods which he delivers, which consist of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs of all kinds, and all other plants generally to be found in nurseries. He is a member of the Catholic church, and in politics entertains independent views. His social affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus, and the Grange. The industry and energy of Mr. Rice are exemplified in his career, and his courage and fidelity to principle are worthy of emulation. Scrupulously honorable in all his dealings, he bears a reputation for public and private integrity second to that of no man in the land. Mr. Rice married, February 7, 1910, Helen A., daughter of James Mooney.
HERENDEEN.
The surname Herendeen is identical with Herenden, Harandine, Harnden, Harrenden, Harraden, Haraden and Harrington, and there are various other variations in spelling. A Richard Harnden settled in Reading, Massachusetts. He was born in 1640. Edward Harnden settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1650, and afterward removed to Gloucester ; was over fifty years old in 1677. There was a Benjamin Harndale or Harnden in Lynn in 1647.
Benjamin Herendeen or Hearnden, the immigrant ancestor of all the early Rhode Island families of this surname, was born probably in England and settled at Providence, Rhode Island. He married Eliza- beth White, who died about 1701, daughter of William and Elizabeth White. After Herendeen's death in 1687, she married ( second) in 1688, Richard Pray. Herendeen bought of William and Elizabeth White, of Boston, for twenty pounds, a house and lot of twenty-five acres in Providence, October 16, 1662, and in the same year he sold rights to certain lands to Zachariah Rhodes. He drew lot 86, Feb- ruary 19, 1665, and in 1684 he had sixty acres laid out to him. He
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and his wife deeded land to their son Benjamin, April 20, 1685; and to their son Joseph sixty-seven acres, March 3, 1686. His will was presented April 4, 1688, but it has been lost. The widow, then wife of Richard Pray, deeded to son Isaac the homestead given her for life by her late husband, October 20, 1688. But on December 13, 1701, the dwelling house formerly her father's, she deeded again, Isaac having conveyed it to her again.
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