USA > New York > Steuben County > A history of Steuben County, New York, and its people, Vol. II > Part 31
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47
Lucius A. Waldo has achieved success in the profession which was honored and dignified by the services of his father, and his early educational training was secured in Franklin Academy of his native place, where he remained until he was fifteen years of age, when he removed to Bath in the same county, where he continued to maintain his home until 1897. At Bath he studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1891, in the city of Rochester. Thereafter he was en- gaged in the practice of his profession at Bath, until 1897, when he removed to New York city and engaged in the general practice of his profession, in which his success has been on a parity with his recognized ability. He has been attorney for the Excise Reinsur- ance Association since 1908. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and he manifests his continued interest in his native county by his membership in Steuben County Society of the national metropolis. Mr. Waldo has been an active and effective factor in connection with political affairs, is a stanch adherent of the Republican party and has been called upon to serve in various local offices, besides which he was stenographer of the state senate in 1894-5.
In the year 1907 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waldo to Miss Mabel Allen, of Paterson, New Jersey.
REV. CARLTON H. NORRIS, PH. D .- The able and honored pas- tor of the Methodist Episcopal church in the village of Wayland is one of the well known representatives of this religious denomina- tion in the Genesee Conference, and in his various pastorates he has labored with all of zeal and devotion in the guiding and uplifting of his fellow-men. The more interest attaches to his services in his present incumbency from the fact that he is a native son of Steuben county and also on account of the fact that his paternal grandfather was a pioneer minister and "circuit rider" of this section of the state.
Rev. Carlton Henry Norris was born on the old Norris home- stead, in Bath township, Steuben county, on the 27th of February, 1852. His father, Case Norris, was born in Middlesex township, Chenango county, New York, on the 26th of January, 1820. He was a son of Rev. Peter and Fedilia (Case) Norris, the former of whom was born at Catskill, Green county, this state, on the 28th of February, 1796, and the latter of whom was born in Canandaigua, New York, on the 14th of November, 1804. Both passed the closing
815
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
years of their lives in Steuben county, where the father died on the 3d of July, 1881, and the mother on the 4th of May, 1886. Rev. Peter Norris came to Steuben county in an early day and settled on what is now known as the Wheeler homestead in Bath township. There he secured one hundred and fifty acres of land and developed a productive farm, upon which he continued to reside until his death. He was a clergyman of the Wesleyan Methodist church and in his carlier life endured the vicissitudes and hardships which came to the circuit rider in his ministerial work.
Case Norris accompanied his parents on their removal to Steu- ben county, and after his school days he. continued to be associated in the work and management of the home farm until his marriage, at the age of nineteen years. He then settled one mile east of the parental home, and his original domicile was a log house of the primitive type. In addition to working his own farm he also had charge of the operation of the old Wheeler homestead for two years. He became one of the successful agriculturists of Bath township, was a man of insuperable integrity and honor in all the relations of life and he continued to reside on his old homestead until his death, which occurred on the 16th of January, 1899, at which time he was seventy-nine years of age. He was for fully half a century a zealous and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he served as steward and trustee. His name is held in reverent memory by all who came within the sphere of his influence, and the same is true concerning his cherished and devoted wife. On the 4th of December, 1839, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Samantha Wheeler, who was born in Bath township, this county, July 9, 1820, and who was a daughter of Jeremiah and Sally (Glover) Wheeler, the former of whom was born on the 11th of March, 1797, and the latter in the year 1799, at Salem, Washington county, New York. The wife of Case Norris survived him by only four days, and thus in death they were not divided. She was sum- moned to the life eternal on the 20th of January, 1899. Besides the subject of this review they are survived by two sons and one daughter-Bertha Aldrich, of the city of Chicago; Wheeler Nor- ris is likewise a resident of the great western metropolis; and Rev. Myron Lee Norris, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, is at the present time (1910) incumbent of a pastoral charge at Chicago.
Rev. Carlton Henry Norris gained his early educational train- ing in the public schools of Steuben county, and this discipline in- cluded a course in the high school at Bath. In this institution he was graduated when sixteen years of age, and in 1876 he was gradu- ated at Lima, New York. He prosecuted his higher academic studies at Alfred University, New York, in which he was graduated in the class of 1888 and from which he received his degree of Bache- lor of Arts. In 1891 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1893 he received from Syracuse University the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His ecclesiastical course was
816
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
taken at Evanston, Illinois, Garrett Biblical Institute. He joined the Genesee Conference in 1882 and was ordained an elder of the same conference in 1881. Mr. Norris began his pastoral career prior to his graduation at Alfred University, and his first charge was at Clarence, Erie county, New York, where he began his labors in 1882 and where he remained for three years. His other pastorates are here briefly noted in successive order, with respective periods of service: Fort Allegany, three years; Friendship, Allegany county, three years; Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, five years; Akron, Erie county, five years; Brockport, Monroe county, five years; and Oak- field, Genesce county, one year. From Oakfield Mr. Norris was assigned by his conference to the pastorate of the church at Way- land, in 1907, and he has found special satisfaction in his pastoral work in his native county. He has administered the temporal and spiritual affairs of the church at Wayland with marked discrimina- tion and zeal, and all departments of the church work have been vitalized and advanced under his effective regime.
Mr. Norris takes a deep interest in matters of public import and keeps himself well informed concerning the questions and issues of the hour, the while he gives his allegiance to the Republican party. He is an appreciative member of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations are with Monroe Lodge No. 173, F. & A. M., at Rochester ; with Daniel Holmes Chapter No. 294, R. A. M., at Brockport; with Mintral Commandery, Knights Tem- plars, in the city of Rochester; and Damascus Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in the same city.
In 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Norris to Miss Hattie A. Morton, of Angelica, Allegany county, New York. She was born at West Alınan, this state, on the 28th of December, 1856, and is a daughter of George and Harriet (Powers) Morton, the father deceased, but the mother is yet living, aged ninety years. Mrs. Norris, like her husband, was afforded the advantages of Alford University, in which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Norris have one daughter, Olive Bertha. She was born in Clarence, New York, on the 23d of September, 1884, and is now the wife of Roy R. Brockett. Mr. and Mrs. Brockett have two children, Gertrude La Rene and Olive Zoe. Roy R: Brock- ett, M. E., is a son of Ransom J. and Elvira (Bliss) Brockett, of Angelica, New York. He is now living in Buffalo, New York, and is an insurance engineer. He received his degree from Syracuse University, class of 1905.
CHARLES P. ROBINSON .- Again it is a privilege to accord recog- nition in this work to another of the native sons of Steuben county who have gained prestige as a member of the bar of New York city, and Mr. Robinson is successfully established in the practice of his profession, with offices at 2 Rector street.
Mr. Robinson was born at Hornell, Steuben county, on the 17th of October, 1879, and is a son of Frank Hurd Robinson, concerning whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work, so
817
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
that further reference to the family history is not demanded in the present connection. Charles P. Robinson gained his early educa- tional discipline in the public schools and supplemented this by a course in Canisteo Academy, in his native county. Thereafter he continued as a student in Hamilton College until 1897, when he entered historic old Yale University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900 and from which he received the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts. After his graduation he studied law in the office of his father at Hornell for one year and at the expiration of this period he was matriculated in the New York Law School, from which he was graduated with honors in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. For the following eighteen months he was engaged in professional work in the office of Edward H. Fallows, attorney for the state comptroller, at 170 Broadway, New York city, and in 1905 he established himself in the general practice of his profession in New York city, where he has shown such energy and ability as to gain to him definite and pronounced success. He is at present a member of the firm of Kindleberger & Robinson, Mr. Kindleberger having been an assistant corporation counsel of New York city and an assistant in the district attorney's office under Hon. William Travers Jerome. Mr. Robinson is a member of the Yale Club and the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn. He was a corporal in the Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard. Mr. Robinson has been an enthusiastic worker in behalf of the cause of the Republican party and has been influential in its councils. He was elected a member of the New York County Committee and is the secretary of the district committee of the twenty-fifth assembly district. He also holds membership in the Madison Square Repub- lican Club, besides which he is affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity.
GROVER C. SHEPARD .-- Mr. Shepard is numbered among the popular and progressive young business men of Steuben county and is incumbent of the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Wayland. He was born at Chaumont, Jefferson county, New York, on the 19th of June, 1884, and is a son of A. James and Fannie (Waite) Shepard. The father was born at Cape Vincent, Jefferson county, in 1849, and he died at Chanmont, that county, in 1909. As a mere boy he became a skilled engineer, and later he became a marine engineer, in which capacity he was employed on the Great Lakes for several years. He finally located at Chaumont, in his native county, where he was successfully engaged in the grocery and bakery business for thirty years, during a considerable portion of which period his sons were associated with him in the enterprise. He was a stalwart supporter of the principles and pol- icies of the Democratic party, and that he was a great admirer of Grover Cleveland, one of the great exponents of the cause of that party, needs no further voucher than the fact that he named one of his sons, the immediate subject of this review, in honor of that
Vol II-17
818
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
distinguished former president of the United States. He was in- fluential in the local work of his party and was one of the well known and highly honored citizens of his native county. He was an ap- preciative member of the Masonic fraternity, with which he was identified for many years prior to his death, and he passed the official chairs in both his lodge and chapter. He served for many years as township supervisor and he was liberal and progressive as a citizen. In Jefferson county was solemnized the marriage of A. James Shepard to Miss Fannie Waite, who was born and reared in that county and who still maintains her home at Chaumont. She is a daughter of the late Horace and Eliza (Smith) Waite, who passed the closing years of their lives in Chautauqua county, Kansas, where the father long served in the office of the justice of the peace. The children of Mr. and Mrs. A. James Shepard are: Grover Cleveland Shepard, whose name initiates this review ; Fannie, who remains with her widowed mother at the old homestead in Chaumont; Charles E. is employed as a marine engineer on the Great Lakes; William N. is engaged in a mercantile business and remains at the maternal home; and Louis W. and Horace J. are likewise engaged in business in their native town.
Grover Cleveland Shepard was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Chaumont and supplemented this discipline by a course in a business college at Watertown, New York, where he pur- sued his studies for eighteen months. For some time thereafter he was incumbent of clerical positions in offices in his native town and finally he became identified with his father's business. On the 10th of February, 1910, he came to Wayland and assumed the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank, in which he has proved a careful and efficient executive, gaining the confidence and esteem of the stockholders and directors of the institution.
Mr. Shepard has never repudiated the principles for which his Christian name stands significant and is aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party. He is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church, in whose faith he was reared, and he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fraternity.
On the 1st of January, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shepard to Miss Lulu Silver, who was born at Chaumont, Jeffer- son county, on the 1st of August, 1886, and who is a daughter of Chester and Clista (Hogeboom) Silver, who still reside in that coun- ty, where the father is a prosperous farmer. Mrs. Shepard has one sister, Pearl, who remains at the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Shep- ard are popular in connection with the best social activities of their home town and both hold membership in the local Methodist Episco- pal church.
GEORGE R. SUTHERLAND has gained prestige as one of the suc- cessful financiers and progressive business men of the national me- tropolis and his banking house is located at 49 Wall street. He was
819
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
formerly an influential factor in connection with business inter- ests in Steuben county and has been prominently identified with the Steuben County Society of New York city, of which he has served as president. Mr. Sutherland has also served with marked distinction as a member of the legislature of his native state and is well equipped for leadership in this field, but found it expedient to decline further political honors in order to devote his attention to his large and important capitalistic interests.
George R. Sutherland was born at Candor, Tioga county, New York, on the 21st of October, 1848, and is a son of Leander and Eliza Sutherland, both of whom were representatives of sterling Revolu- tionary families. The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Sutherland was George Robertson, who was a commissioned officer in the Con- tinental army during the great struggle that gained the boon of in- dependence to the nation. Mr. Sutherland availed himself of the advantages of the schools of the locality in which he was born and as a young man he removed to Steuben county and established his home in the town of Campbell. He represented this town as a member of the county board of supervisors for a number of years and during the latter part of his services in this connection he was chairman of the board. In 1878 he was elected to represent the Second assembly district of Steuben county in the state legislature and he was chosen as his own successor in 1879. During his term in the general assembly he was a member of the ways and means com- mittee and was assigned to other important duties, besides which he was an active and valued factor in the deliberations of both the floor and the committee room. Concerning his services in the leg- islature the following statements have been made: "He took an active interest in all legislation relating to educational matters and state charities. The urgency of business demands obliged him to decline further political honors, disappointing his many friends who still desired him to represent them in the legislature."
In the year 1878, soon after establishing his home in Steuben county, Mr. Sutherland there founded the Bank of Campbell, which has continued to maintain high prestige during the long intervening years and with which he is still actively concerned. In 1888 Mr. Suth- erland removed to New York city, where he has since been actively and successfully engaged in the banking business, conducting a private banking house at 49 Wall street. For several years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Soldiers & Sailors' Home, at Bath, Steuben county, and for three years he was treasurer of the Steuben County Society in New York city. He holds membership in the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and was a member of the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission. He has served as trustee and executor of several large estates and as coun- selor is often sought by those desiring to invest capital with a view to the best possible returns consistent with absolute safety. Mr. Sutherland during the past several years has been actively concerned with building and loan associations and through this medium has
820
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
done much to further the material and civic progress in New York city and other parts of the state. He is a stanch Republican in his political allegiance and is identified with various civic and fraternal organizations aside from those already mentioned.
LEON G. GODLEY .- It is pleasing to give evidence through va- rious personal sketches appearing in this volume of the fact that a goodly quota of the native sons of Steuben county have had the am- bition and ability to gain a secure place among the substantial mem- bers of the bar of New York city and in this category is to be classified Mr. Godley, who is there engaged in successful practice. He is serving as assistant corporation counsel of Greater New York and this fact indicates his professional ability, as well as his personal popularity. Leon G. Godley was born in the village of Curtis, Steu- ben county, on the 5th of April, 1877, and is a son of David and Mary (Chapin) Godley, the former of whom was likewise born in Steuben county, where he continued to maintain his home until his death in 1908, and the mother still resides in that county, which has been her home from the time of her nativity. Of the six children three are now living and Leon G. is the elder of the two sons.
Mr. Godley gained his early educational discipline in the public schools of his native county and later continued his studies in a business college. He initiated his business career as an employe in the offices of the firm of Herendeen & Mandeville, of Elmira, New York, and in 1895 he removed to New York city, where, in 1897, he became private secretary to Edward M. Shepard, one of the leaders of the bar of the city. He retained this incumbency about twelve years and in the meanwhile began the study of law, in connection with which he finally entered the law department of St. Lawrence University at Brooklyn, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1908. He was forthwith admitted to the bar and he has since continued in the active work of his profession in New York city, where he has also been incumbent of the office of assistant corporation counsel of the city since 1910. He has been a close and appreciative student of his profession and his knowledge of the science of jurisprudence is broad and exact, a fact which has received distinctive recognition as he is now serving as a member of the faculty of the law department of his Alma Mater, St. Lawrence University. In politics Mr. Godley is a stanch adherent of the Demo- cratic party and he has given yeoman service in behalf of its cause. He is an appreciative member of the Steuben Society of New York city ; he is past master of Orion Lodge, No. 717, Free & Accepted Masons, in the city of Brooklyn, where he maintains his home, and there he also holds membership in the Crescent Club. He is also affiliated with the Theta Phi law fraternity.
RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL .- At 261 Broadway, New York city, are located the law offices of Mr. Ingersoll, who has gained a place as one of the well fortified members of the bar of the national metropolis and who likewise has been a resourceful factor in connection with
821
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
political affairs in his native state, especially in Greater New York. He maintains his home in Brooklyn, New York, and there he served for some time as municipal judge. Mr. Ingersoll was born at Corning, Steuben county, on the 3d of April, 1875, and is a son of Andrew J. and Ellen (Vail) Ingersoll, the former of whom was likewise a native of Steuben county, where the family was founded in the pioneer days and the latter of whom was born in New Jersey. Andrew J. Ingersoll owned and conducted for many years a health resort, known as Pinewood Sanitarium, in his native county and he was an honored and influential citizen who ever showed a loyal interest in all that touched the welfare of the com- munity. He died at the age of seventy-five years and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-eight years. Of their seven children Ray- mond V. was the sixth in order of birth and of the number four are now living.
Raymond V. Ingersoll availed himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native county, including the local academy, and he then entered Amherst College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897, and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For one year thereafter he was employed as a teacher in a high school at Duluth, Minnesota, and he then began the work of preparing himself for his chosen profes- sion. He returned to his native state and entered the New York Law. School, in the city of New York, in which he completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated in the class of 1900, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Since that time he has been actively engaged in general practice in the national metropolis. In politics he has been a zealous worker in the interests of the independent Democratic contingent in various city campaigns of Greater New York and in 1901 he was elected city magistrate of the borough of Brooklyn, where he maintains his home. He also served as a member of the commission appointed by the appellate court to examine can- didates seeking admission to the bar of the state, this preferment having come to him in 1903, and in 1906 and 1907 he served as counsel to the Register of Kings county. He also assisted in the organization of the celebrated "committee of one hundred," which assumed leadership in the New York city campaign of 1909 and he was made chairman of both the campaign and executive committees of this body. Mr. Ingersoll is a member of the Steuben County Society of New York city, is a member of the directorate of the Legal Aid Society and he is one of the directors of the United Neighborhood Guild, which has charge of the work of three effective social settlements in Brooklyn, where it also does a large amount of general philanthropical work. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn League and in addition to his professional associations he has various business interests.
On the 29th of September, 1908, Mr. Ingersoll was united in marriage to Miss Marion Crary, of Warren, Pennsylvania. They have no children.
822
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY
MAYNARD H. ROSENKRANS .- One of the prosperous business men and highly esteemed citizens of Wayland, where he controls a successful enterprise as a painter and decorator and where he has also given considerable attention to dealing in real estate, is Mr. Rosenkrans, who is a native of Steuben county, which has represented his home from the time of his nativity. He was born in Wayland township on the 16th of July, 1863, and is a son of Hamilton S. and Helen M. (Davis) Rosenkrans, both of whom continued to re- side in this county until the death of the father, and the mother still lives here. Here the father devoted the major portion of his active career to farming and real estate operations and he ever commanded a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Of the children Maynard H. was the oldest in order of birth and concerning the other surviving children the following brief data are given: Laverne is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Merton J. is a resident of Wayland ; Jennie J. is the wife of Herbert Goodenow, who resides in the city of Rochester, New York, and who is a printer by vocation and Hattie is the wife of Hugh Mckay, who is a farmer and gardener in the vicinity of Drewry's Bluff, Southampton county, Virginia.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.