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Mr. McNamara married, April 29, 1903, Josephine Lonergan, and they have one son, Francis MeNamara. Mr. McNamara takes an active and intelligent interest in local affairs and is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Knights of Columbus.
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HERMAN E. LOBECK .- Incumbent of the office of assistant su- perintendent of the Pleasant Valley Wine Cellar at Rheims, New York, Mr. Lobeck is numbered among the highly esteemed citizens and representative business men of Steuben county, and his standing in the community is such as to well entitle him to recognition in this publication.
Herman E. Lobeck takes a due measure of satisfaction in ad- verting to the historic Old Dominion commonwealth as the place of his nativity. He was born at Harrisonburg, Rockingham county, Virginia, on the 14th of July, 1849, and is of stanch German lineage on both the paternal and maternal sides. He is a son of Herman and Margaret (Greiss) Lobeck, both of whom were born in the kingdom of Saxony, Germany. Herman Lobeck was reared and educated in his native land, whence he came to America when a young man. He whose name initiates this sketch is the only child of Herman and Margarct (Greiss) Lobeck. The mother ultimately contracted a second marriage, having been united to Frederick Ar- land, and she passed the closing years of her life at Hammondsport, where she died in 1864, at the age of forty-five years. Her second husband died at Ovid, New York, having survived her by a num- ber of years. Of the second marriage were born three sons and two daughters: Frederick O. is now deceased and his widow re- sides in Hammondsport, Steuben county ; William F. is a resident of Urbana township, this county ; Charles R. operates a vineyard in Urbana township; Emma is the widow of Charles Vanderlip and resides at Penn Yan, New York; and Nellie is the wife of Charles Merrill, a resident of Bath, New York.
Herman E. Lobeck was reared to maturity at Rheims, New York, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the public schools. After leaving school he entered the employ of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, and he has continued to be actively associated with the affairs of this corporation during the long intervening period of nearly half a century. He identified him- self with the company in 1865 and he has proved a valued and effective factor in connection with the upbuilding of its extensive enterprise. He has been assistant superintendent of the company's wine cellar for the past thirty-five years, and in an individual way he also owns a farm and a well improved vineyard. Mr. Lobeck is loyal to all civic duties and takes an earnest interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city and county. He is a Republi- can in his political allegiance, and both he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Presbyterian church. He is affiliated with Pleasant Valley Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he served as master for two years, and he is also identified with the Hammondsport organization of the Improved Order of Red Men. He is well known in Steuben county and has a secure place in popular confidence and esteem, the while he has gained a due measure of success and is one of the substantial citizens of the county.
In the year 1870 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lobeck to Miss Jane Osterhout, who was born at Mitchellsville, Steuben
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county, on the 26th of January, 1851, and who is a daughter of the late Abram and Rachel (Warner) Osterhout. Concerning the chil- dren of this union the following brief record is entered in conclu- sion of this review: Charles C., who is superintendent of Borden's Condensed Milk factory in Algonquin, Illinois, married Miss Sadie McKee, and they have no children; Mignonette is the widow of Louis E. Durham, resides at Rheims, New York, and has one child, Lobeck Durham; Herman E., Jr., a carpenter by trade and voca- tion and residing at Fairport, Monroe county, New York, married Miss Gertrude Austin, and they have no children; William L., who remains at the parental home, is a bookkeeper and Ernest O., who has charge of his own and the vineyard owned by his father, married Miss Josephine Calkins, of Woodhull, New York, and they have one child, Edward Jesse.
FRANK J. NELSON .- The present mayor of the City of Hornell is one of the representative members of the bar of Steuben county and is a citizen whose loyalty and public spirit are uniformly rec- ognized. Mr. Nelson was born at Titusville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of December, 1867, and is a son of Cap- tain Alanson H. and Electa (Strong) Nelson, both of Chautauqua county, New York. Captain Nelson served with distinction as a soldier in the Civil war, a member of Company K, Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was in active service for three years and four months and in command of his regiment as acting colonel some months before receiving his honorable discharge. Prior to the war he had been engaged in farming and also identified with lumbering operations. After the close of his military career he became concerned with oil operations in Pennsylvania, in which state he continued to reside until 1884, when he removed to the state of Minnesota, where he has since maintained his home. For nearly twenty years he was editor and proprietor of the Northeast Argus, a weekly newspaper, in the city of Minneapolis, and now at the venerable age of eighty-three years is actively engaged in his work. Captain Nelson and his wife became the parents of five sons and four daughters, all of whom attained to years of maturity ex- cept one daughter, and of the number four sons and two daughters are now living.
Frank J. Nelson passed his boyhood days on his father's farm in Oil ('reek township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and his early education was secured in the district schools. Through his own efforts he secured the funds that enabled him to pursue a course of study in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Edin- boro, Erie county. Upon leaving this institution he came to Hor- nell, New York. He was graduated in the Hornellsville Business College and later became a student in Alfred University. In 1892 he began the study of law, under effective preceptorship, and in October, 1895, was admitted to the bar. He at once engaged in the practice of his profession in Hornell. In March, 1895, Mr. Nelson
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was elected justice of the peace, and in 1898 he was elected to the office of police judge, in which position he continued incumbent until 1900, when he was chosen chief executive of the city of Hor- nell. That year his party placed him in nomination for Represen- tative in Congress and though defeated it was by a greatly reduced majority. He was elected mayor as his own successor in 1902, and after voluntarily retiring was again elected to that office in 1909. His present term will expire January 1, 1912. In politics Mr. Nelson is a progressive Democrat. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which latter he has held important official positions, including that of District Deputy Grand Master, etc.
On the 4th of June, 1901, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Miss Irene M. Clark, daughter of Thomas C. and Mary (Leach) Clark, of Hornell.
HENRY C. OLNEY, JR .- The great industry of agriculture in Steuben county has an able representative in the person of Henry C. Olney, Jr., who is the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred and sixteen acres in Prattsburg township and who also owns real estate in the village of Prattsburg, where he maintains his home. He is at the present time incumbent of the office of township clerk, and this preferment indicates the unequivocally high esteem in which he is held in the community. Henry C. Olney, Jr., was born in Naples township, Ontario county, New York, on the 25th of December, 1876, and is a son of Henry C. and Sarah (Hill) Olney, both of whom now reside in the village of Naples, that county. Both were born and reared in this state, and the active career of the father has been principally in connection with the vocation of a farmer. He whose name initiates this review was afforded the ad- vantages of the excellent public schools of the village of Naples and supplemented this training by a course in Starkey Seminary. He continued to reside in his native county until 1904, when he removed to Steuben county and purchased his present well improved farm in Prattsburg township. He is known as an energetic and enter- prising citizen, and his sterling attributes of character have gained to him unqualified confidence and esteem in the community in which he has elected to maintain his home. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party and he has the distinction of being the first representative of this party to be elected clerk of Prattsburg township in many years. He is affiliated with Prattsburg Lodge, No. 598, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is serving as warden at the time of this writing, 1910, and both he and his wife are zealous and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church in the village of Prattsburg, in which he is a member of the board of trustees.
In the year 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Olney to Miss Alida Rippey, of Prattsburg, and they have one son, Hildreth C., who was born on the 18th of May, 1906.
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DR. JOHN F. DWYER belongs to the younger ranks of the medical profession in Corning, New York, with which he identified himself about four years ago. A brief sketch of his life gives the following facts :
John F. Dwyer was born May 13, 1880, at Painted Post, Steu- ben county, New York. He received his early education in the com- mon schools, later attended Mansfield Normal School and Niagara University, Niagara Falls, and made special preparation for his life work at Columbus, Ohio, where in 1901 he entered the Ohio Medical University, of which he is a graduate with the class of 1905. The year following his graduation he began the practice of his profes- sion in Corning. Soon, however, an opportunity for a broader ex- perience presented itself and he went to Buffalo Hospital, Sisters of Charity, where he remained a year and a half, returning at the end of that time to Corning to take up and continue his practice here, where he has met with success and where he now occupies the posi- tion of city physician.
Dr. Dwyer is a member of the Corning Medical Association and the Steuben County Medical Society. Politically he is a Democrat, fraternally an Elk and religiously a Catholic. He is unmarried.
WILLIAM N. HALLOCK .- One of the old and substantial financial institutions of Steuben county is the George W. Hallock Bank, founded in January, 1849, in the city of Bath, and the same has had a record covering a period of more than sixty years of con- secutive success, and that under the active control and management of members of the Hallock family. He whose name initiates this paragraph is now an executive of the Hallock Bank.
William N. Hallock was born in Bath, Steuben county, on the 19th day of July, 1886, and is a son of William H. Hallock and Louise Nowlen Hallock, the former of whom was born in Bath, New York, in the year 1856, and the latter of whom was born in Avon, New York, in the year 1855. William N. Hallock is a great- grandson of Hon. William S. Hubbell, who was long a prominent and influential citizen of Steuben county, a founder of the George W. Hallock Bank and who served as a member of Congress. George W. Hallock, grandfather of him whose name introduces this article, was born in Dutchess county, New York, in 1819. In 1834 he re- moved with his family to Steuben county and settled in Bath, which was then a straggling village. Here he established a flour mill and a saw mill, and one of these early mills was located on the present site of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home. He be- came one of the leading business men and most influential and honored citizens of the county, and the prestige of the name has been admirably sustained by his son, William H. Hallock, and his grandson, William N., who, as liberal, upright and progressive citi- zens, have contributed much to the material and civic advancement of this favored section of the old Empire state.
William H. Hallock, the only son of George W. Hallock and Mary (Hubbell) Hallock, was indebted to the public schools of his
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native place for his early educational discipline, which was effectively supplemented by a course in Trenton College, Trenton, New Jersey, in which institution he was graduated. After the completion of his collegiate course Mr. Hallock became identified with the bank of which his father had been the founder so many years ago, and until the time of his death, April 17, 1908, he continued with this in- stitution, through his effective association with which he gained pre- cedence as one of the representative financiers and substantial capi- talists of his native county, where his course was such as to gain and retain to him the inviolable confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. He showed a deep interest in all that touched the welfare of his home city and county, and while he was never ambitious for public office he served two terms as mayor of Bath, giving a most careful and acceptable administration of municipal affairs. The Hallock family is the owner of much valuable real estate in their native county, including both city and farm property.
William N. Hallock, the present head of the George W. Hallock Bank is a graduate first of the Haverling High School, class of 1904, and then of Cornell University, class of 1907, receiving degree of L.L. B. He is a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity, also of the Phi Delta Phi and numerous college clubs and societies. He was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one, and at the death of his father, W. H. Hallock, he, as the third generation, assumed charge of the George W. Hallock Bank. Like his father he has never en- tered into politics, but he is one of the trustees of Bath. He is a member of Steuben Lodge, No. 112, F. & A. M., and of Bath Chapter, No. 95, R. A. M., and of the Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution. He is a director of the Wheeler-Holden Company of Buffalo, one of the largest and most successful railroad tie companies in the country, vice-president of the Bath Harness Company and president of the Roualet Wine Company of Hammondsport, New York. On the 19th day of October, 1910, in the city of Washington, D. C., was solemnized the marriage of W. N. Hallock to Miss Shelby Lee Robinson, daughter of the late John Hancock Robinson and Frances Lyn (Scraggs) Robinson, and a granddaughter of Archibald Magill Robinson of Louisville, Kentucky.
WALTER S. MCCARTY .- A man of broad capabilities and in- domitable energy and perseverance, Walter S. McCarty is numbered among the more active and valued citizens of Corning, where he is carrying on a general insurance business. He was born December 26, 1879, in Blossburg, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, a son of J. J. and Mary (Ryan) McCarty.
Brought up in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Walter S. McCarty was educated in the public schools of that place, remaining there until twenty years of age. Coming to Corning, Steuben county, New York, in 1899, he was in the employ of the T. H. Wheeler Company as a salesman for four years, during the ensuing three years being
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corresponding clerk for the First National Bank of Corning. Gain- ing business experience, self-confidence and self-reliance while em- ployed in those positions, Mr. McCarty in 1906 established himself in the insurance business, in which he has since been extensively and profitably engaged, being a leader in his line of industry.
Mr. McCarty is prominent in fraternal organizations, being a member of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. O. E., of the Knights of Columbus, and also of the Corning Club.
CLARENCE A. DUNNING .- Incumbent of the office of bookkeeper for the Urbana Wine Company, with headquarters in the village of Urbana, Mr. Dunning is numbered among the popular young busi- ness men of Steuben county and is a representative of one of the honored pioncer families of this section of the old Empire State. He was born at Bluff Point, Yates county, New York, on the 30th of July, 1881, and is the only child of Hiram O. and Elizabeth C. (Chase) Dunning, the former of whom was likewise born at Bluff Point and the latter of whom was born at Penn Yan, Yates county, being a daughter of Elias Chase, a prominent citizen of that county. Hiram O. Dunning devoted the major part of his active career to agricultural pursuits and to the raising of grapes, and he died at Penn Yan, Yates county, on the 8th of April, 1905, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a son of Alanson J. and Eliza (Cole) Dunning and his father was one of the pioneers and successful agri- culturists of Yates county. Hiram O. Dunning was afforded good educational advantages in his youth and for a time he was engaged in teaching in the public schools of his native county. There he later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and grape-growing, and there he continued to reside until 1890, when he located in Wayne township, Steuben county, where he continued to give his attention to the supervision of a vineyard until three years prior to his death, when he removed to the city of Penn Yan, where he lived virtually retired until he was summoned to the life eternal. His widow still resides in Penn Yan and is fifty-nine years of age at the time of this writing, in 1910.
Clarence A. Dunning is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, which was sup- plemented by courses of study in Keuka College and the Rochester Business Institute. After leaving the latter institution he was em- ployed for a time by the Bath & Hammondsport Railroad Company and by the Lake Keuka Navigation Company for a period of five years, holding the position of assistant auditor and maintaining his headquarters at Hammondsport, Steuben county. In 1905 he as- sumed his present position of bookkeeper for the Urbana Wine Com- pany and he is one of the efficient and valued office executives of this important corporation. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Hammondsport, where he is also affiliated with Hammondsport Lodge, No. 459, Free & Accepted Masons, and where his wife holds membership in the Chapter of the
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Order of the Eastern Star. In politics his allegiance is given to the Republican party. In the year 1903 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunning to Miss Susan C. Casterline, who was born at Bluff Point, Yates county, on the 15th of September, 1882, and who is a daughter of John V. and Sarah (Fulkson) Casterline, who now re- side at Hammondsport, Steuben county, where Mr. Casterline is living retired after having been for many years identified with the industry of viticulture. Mr. and Mrs. Dunning have no children.
JOHN N. FLEISHMAN is one of the worthy citizens of Cohocton, whose change and progress he has witnessed through a residence last- ing over fifty years. He is German in nationality, but in the half century has served his adopted country in both peace and war, having been among those who took up arms in the cause of the Union. Mr. Fleishman was born in Germany, April 15, 1835, his parents being David and Rosine Fleishman. He was only about nineteen years old when his parents decided to take advantage of the greater oppor- tunities presented by America, which has been well termed "the land of promise." Of their five children only two are living, Mr. Fleish- man and a sister, Mrs. C. Mulhenbacher. Two of these died before the removal from Germany and one, Godfred, died in 1904 in Co- hoeton.
Mr. Fleishman availed himself of the educational advantages presented by the district and worked during his younger years at various vocations, these being all of an agricultural nature. In 1860 he became an independent land owner by his purchase of his present farm of eighty acres in Cohocton township. Besides this estate he owns a house and two lots in Cohocton village, where he now resides. Mr. Fleishman's enlistment in the cause of the Union was made in 1863, when he was enrolled as a member of Company C, Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry. He was trans- ferred to Company H, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Volunteer Infantry, and later to Company F, Ninety-first New York Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the battle of the Wilderness, the seige of Petersburg, the battle of Hatch's Run and other fighting of minor importance. He served for two years and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. Mr. Fleishman is a consistent member of St. Paul's Lutheran church, where for sixteen years he has served in the capacity of elder.
Mr. Fleishman has been twice married, his first union having been in 1857 with Miss Caroline Mastin. born October 15. 1835, and she died June 2, 1877. To this marriage were born thirteen children, twelve of whom grew to maturity. They are as follows. Rosanna, born February 19, 1859; Odelia, born August 25, 1860; Joel M., born September 8, 1861 ; David G., born February 6, 1863; John G., born June 16, 1864; Jacob L., born April 9, 1866 (de- ceased) ; Johanna M., born September 14, 1867; Frederick G. H., born September 1, 1869; Mayette, born February 16, 1871; Herman
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J., born April 30, 1872; Helen C., born March 21, 1874; Caspar N., born May 25, 1875; and George M., born May 22, 1876 (deceased). The second wife was before her marriage Miss Clara Ahrans, born in Germany, February 26, 1854. The date of their union was April 9, 1888. Two sons have been born, Frederick W., and Ernest P.
MILNER KEMP, of Corning, New York, is at the head of the largest shoe business in Steuben county-the Lester Shoe Store. He furnishes an example of the self-made man. At the age of twenty- three, with five dollars in his pocket and a change of clothes in his grip, he landed on American soil and worked his way to the success he now enjoys. A sketch of his life is of interest in this connection, and is as follows :
Milner Kemp was born in England, March 1, 1856, son of John and Elizabeth (Blackebrough) Kemp, both natives of Yorkshire, England, where they passed their lives. John Kemp was born in 1830, the same year in which his wife was born, and both died in 1906. They were the parents of eleven children, two of whom died in infancy, and the remainder are all living at this writing, six being residents of England. The father was a shoemaker by trade, which he followed the greater part of his life. When well advanced in years he turned his attention to gardening for health, recreation and business.
In his father's shop Milner Kemp learned the shoemaker's trade. He remained a member of the home circle until he reached the age of twenty-two, when he came to America, Halifax, Nova Scotia, his objective point and where he landed in April, 1879. As he had only five dollars when he stepped ashore it was necessary for him to seek work immediately. He worked and traveled through the southern part of Canada to Toronto, stopping at all the im- portant towns. Arrived at Toronto he entered the employ of a shoe- maker by the name of Jackson, on Queen street, with whom he re- mained three months, at the end of that time, with a companion, he crossed over to Buffalo, and from there walking to Sterling Run, Pennsylvania, the journey requiring five days' time. There he went to work as section hand on the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, and was thus employed six months, afterward working on the construc- tion of a road. There, on Thanksgiving Day, he married, and the following January, 1880, accompanied by his wife, he went to Wil- liamsport, Pennsylvania ; thence, in April, to Waverly, New York. At the latter place for two years he was in the employ of John Mahoney, a shoemaker, leaving him to enter the service of Andrew Hilderbrand, of the same place, and was with Mr. Hilderbrand for a period of twelve years, doing custom work and also clerking. In September, 1894, he began work for the Lester Shoe Company, and in January, 1895, became a partner in the business and was placed in charge of a branch store at Owego. They sold out in February, and in March of the same year Mr. Kemp took charge of a shoe store owned by the Lester Shoe Company at Corning, while he sub-
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sequently bought a share in the business and in 1903 purchased Mr. Kenney's interest, since which time the business has been conducted under the name of Milner Kemp & Company. In addition to the Corning store Mr. Kemp, with Mr. Smith, had a branch store at Hornell, Steuben county, which they sold in 1903, after conducting it five years.
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