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He married (first), April 4, 1815. Hannah Townsend, died March 12, 1835. daughter of Nathaniel Townsend, and sister of his partner, Judge Charles Townsend. He mar- ried (second) July 28. 1837, Mary Smith Atterbury, died February 14, 1840. daughter of Lewis Atterbury, of New York. He mar- ried (third) in 1841, Emmeline P., daughter of William Martin, of Providence, Rhode Isl- and. Children, all by first wife: I. Sarah Frances, born November II, 1816: married,
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October, 1837, Edward T. Winslow, who died January 12, 1850 ; children: Hannah C. and George. 2. Charles T., born February 14, 1819; married, April 3, 1846, Julia Eliza, daughter of Henry R. Seymour, of Buffalo; son, Charles F. 3. George, born March 22, 1821 ; married Catherine S. Ketchum, June 20, 1854; children: Kate, William Ketchum and Sarah Eliza. 4. Rev. John, born May 8, 1824, died January 23, 1863; graduate of Yale, 1844; studied theology at Andover, Massachusetts, then went abroad for two years, returning, was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church, and installed over the church in Albion, New York; in July, 1860, installed pastor of St. Peter's Church, Rochester, where he was in charge until his death. He married Martha J. Davis ; no issue. 5. Francis E., of whom further. 6. Nathaniel T., died aged six years. 7. Eliza Ripley, born June 23, 1832; married, October 5, 1853, Alexander W. Harvey, a lawyer, of Fort Washington, New York ; children, Eliza Coit and Alexander. 8. William B., died in in- fancy.
(VIII) Francis Edward, fifth child and fourth son of George and Hannah (Town- send) Coit, was born in Buffalo, New York, June 4, 1826, died there, 1885. He was edu- cated in Buffalo. He became heavily engaged in the lumber business, but ill health compelled his retirement from active business some twenty-five years prior to his death. He was a church member, and a Republican in poli- tics. He was interested in many of the social and business organizations of the city, and a man highly respected by all. He married Caroline E. Hamilton, died at East Aurora, New York, December, 1902, in her seventy- second year, daughter of Henry and Eliza B. Hamilton. Children : I. Henry Hamilton, born November 23, 1852; married Matilda Moffat, of Buffalo; children: Henry Hamil- ton (2), Frank E., Caroline H. and Jessie R. 2. George, of whom further. 3. Mary A., born April 2, 1862; married John C. Cham- pion, of California; child: John Gerald. 4. John Townsend, born September 27, 1865; married Mary S. Cushman; children living : Mary Cushman, born April 25, 1891, and Margaret Stuart, May 11, 1895. 5. Mabel Barton, born August 2, 1867.
(IX) George, son of Francis E. and Caro- line E. (Hamilton) Coit, was born in Buffalo, New York, October 24, 1854. He married
Carrie, daughter of Thompson and Annette C. Hersee, of Buffalo. Children: I. Carrie, died when eight years old. 2. Thompson Hersee, born May 27, 1886. 3. George (2), born March 11, 1889; married, November 9, 1911, Janet, daughter of Willis O. and Abby F. Chapin. 4. William Hersee, born Febru- ary 28, 1891. 5. Walter Hamilton, born May 13, 1892. 6. Annette Catherine, born March 3, 1895. 7. Henry Hopkins, born January 25. 1898.
Joseph B. Enos, great-grandfather ENOS of the present generation of the Enos family of Buffalo, was a farmer of Birdsall, Allegany county, New York, where he died. He was a prominent member of the Masonic order, holding the po- sition of grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge, State of New York, and was an authority on Masonic ritual and law. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church, and in politics a Republican. He married Hannah Patterson. Children: I. Lorenzo, of New York City, deceased. 2. Joseph, of Water- ford, New York. 3. Laurens, settled in Buf- falo; married Mary E. King, who survived him and married (second) Judge Charles Daniels. 4. Dr. Charles, removed to the state of Illinois, where he died; studied medicine and graduated M. D. at the age of fifty-five years. 5. George. 6. Ephraim P., of whom further. 7. Mary, married William Scott, of Neenah, Wisconsin. 8. Maria, married John Brown, of Batavia, New York. 9. Sarah, married William Crego, of Batavia, New York; one child, Cornelia. 10. Hannah, died young. II. Thankful Cordelia, married Wilson, of Buffalo, New York.
(II) Ephraim P., son of Joseph B. and Hannah (Patterson) Enos, was born at Bird- sall, New York, died at Lake Geneva, Wis- consin. Early in life he removed to Wiscon- sin, where he purchased a farm midway be- tween Elkhorn and Lake Geneva, where he lived and died. He attended the Baptist church at Elkhorn, and was a Republican in politics. He married Polly Dinsmore, of Lake Geneva. Children: 1. Joseph, died in infancy. 2. Lucy T., married Stuyvesant Gibson, of Waterford, New York ; children : i. Cornelia, married Howard Van Santvord, and has chil- dren, Margaret and Dorothy; ii. Anna, mar- ried Louis Breslin, of Waterford, and has children, Roscoe and Elizabeth; iii. Robert
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Stuyvesant, married Beulah Lewis. 3. Anna E., married Edward Wilgus, deceased ; chil- dren: Edward P., University of Michigan, class of 1912, and Laurens Enos Wilgus. 4. Laurens, of whom further. 5. George Ephraim, of whom further.
(III) Laurens, son of Ephraim P. and Polly (Dinsmore) Enos, was born at Lake Geneva, December 25, 1860. He attended the public schools until he was fifteen years of age, when his father died. In the same year, 1875, he came east to Batavia, New York, where he finished his education, living with an uncle. When he was eighteen years of age he became a clerk in his uncle's milling estab- lishment, continuing some four or five years, then removed to Buffalo, where he engaged in the furniture business, and still continues, member of the firm of Bricka & Enos. The firm is a successful one and conducts one of the best stores in Buffalo. He is also president of Dwelle, Kaiser & Company, jobbers of paints and glass, and is a director in the Casualty Trust Company. He is a Republican in poli- tics, and frequently a delegate to county and state conventions. He is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and of the York and Scottish Rite Masonic bodies in the city, holding all degrees up to and including the thirty-second. He is a member of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce; president of the Buffalo Auto Club, the largest club of its kind in the world; he was elected president of the same, December 20, 1909, and re-elected in 1910. His other clubs are the Acacia, of which he is treasurer; the Park (Masonic) ; Motor Boat, and the Launch. Mr. Enos is unmarried.
(III) George Ephraim, youngest son of Ephraim P. and Polly (Dinsmore) Enos, was born at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He was educated in Waterford, New York, where he lived until 1871, when he came to Buffalo, graduating in 1878 from Professor Bagg's School. After completing his studies he was employed with his uncle in the milling busi- ness for six years, then, until 1895, with Fowler & Sons, carriage hardware. In the latter year he organized the Enos, Sanderson Company, of which he is president. In 1902 Mr. Sanderson retired from the company and was succeeded by George Dudley Enos. The firm is a prosperous one, dealing in carriage hardware and supplies, marketing its goods in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr.
Enos is a member of the Westminster Pres- byterian Church, and holds all degrees in the Masonic order, including the thirty-third. He is a Republican in politics. His clubs are the Buffalo, Acacia and Auto.
He married, February 7, 1882, Helen J., daughter of Charles B. Underhill, of Lancas- ter, New York. Child: George Dudley, born in Buffalo, October 29, 1884; educated in the common and high schools of Buffalo, and now associated in business with his father. He is a member of the Masonic order, and of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. He married, June 22, 1910, Mary Caroline, daughter of Clarence L. Wheeler.
MOOT This family is of German ances- try, the name being originally Muth, the German word for
courage.
(I) The American ancestor came from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, was a school teacher, and earned his citizenship by service in the revolutionary war.
Since 1820, at least, when the family first came to New York state, the name has been, as now, spelled Moot. The earlier genera- tions were tillers of the soil, but with Adel- bert Moot, of the fourth generation, the law has become a family profession in this branch. All were, however, men of education. Not only was the progenitor a school teacher, but his grandson, Charles D. Moot, father of Adelbert, was a college man, having studied for some time in the college then at Lima, New York, although he never graduated. From him Adelbert got much instruction at home.
(II) John Moot was born in Hudson county, New Jersey, 1784, died 1868. He was a farmer of New Jersey, and about 1824 settled at Springwater, Livingston county, New York, where he engaged in the same business until his death. He was a Whig, later a Republican. He married Susannah Kunkel. His children were: I. George, mar- ried and had three children, George J., Mary Ann, both dead, and a son, Martin C., of Webster's Crossing, Livingston county, still living. 2. Matthias, who had a daughter, Amelia, deceased, married Henry Isaaman ; has issue living in Allegany county, New York. 3. Martin, never married. 4. Charles Dudar, of whom further. 5. John, never mar- ried. George was famous for his leadership
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in the contest of the so-called Poultney title to a considerable part of Livingston and Steuben counties. He was a great friend of the Indians. Matthias was one of the most eloquent speakers in the village of Belmont, Allegany county. Martin was for a quarter of a century one of the well-paid experts in the employ of Steinway & Company, piano manufacturers. John was for years a writing teacher of much repute.
(III) Charles Dudar, son of John Moot, was born in Livingston county, New York, 1822, died July, 1879, at Allen, Allegany county, New York. He was two years old when his parents settled in Livingston county, where he was educated and lived until 1850, when he settled on a farm in Allegany county. He followed agriculture all his life, and was a Lutheran in religion, a Whig, then a Repub- lican, in politics. He married, February 22, 1854, at Allen, New York, Mary Rutherford, born October 20, 1830, at Allen, died at Wells- ville, New York, May, 1903, daughter of An- drew Rutherford, born in England, coming from there direct to Allegany county, where he followed farming as a business. Children : I. Adelbert, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth, married Herbert Harvey, of Bradford, Penn- sylvania. They have two children, Eva and Harry A. 3. Ida, died aged twenty years. 4. Andrew, a farmer of Friendship, Allegany county ; married and has a daughter, Vada. 5. Charles, a farmer, of Black Creek, Alle- gany county ; married and has two sons, Allen and Raymond. 6. John, a farmer, deceased, leaving widow and two children, Belmont and Hannah, who reside at Belfast, Allegany county. 7. Mary A., married Frank Smalley ; resides in Friendship, Allegany county ; has five children: Richard, Lloyd, Ruth, Marion, Helen. 8. Harriet, born September, 1868; married Lafayette Starkweather. She was one of the victims of the Austin flood, Sep- tember 30, 1911, being overtaken by the rush- ing flood while in her home. No children. 9. Margaret, married Harvey Winship; re- sides at Fillmore, Allegany county ; has three children : Clare, Lois, Kenneth. 10. Char- lotte, married Raymond Duncan, of Buffalo, their home; no children.
(IV) Adelbert, eldest son of Charles Dudar Moot. was born at Allen, Allegany county, New York, November 22, 1854. He was edu- cated in the public schools, Nunda Academy, and the State Normal at Geneseo. Having
decided upon a profession, he entered Albany Law School, whence he was graduated LL.B., class of 1876, and on his twenty-second birthday, November 22, 1876, was admitted to the New York bar. A few months later he formed a partnership with George M. Os- goodby, of Nunda, New York, and one year later the firm of Osgoodby & Moot was lo- cated in the city of Buffalo. In 1879 Judge Titus was admitted to the firm, and for three years they continued as Osgoodby, Titus & Moot. The junior partner then withdrew to enter the law firm of Lewis, Moot & Lewis, a connection that existed twelve years. This firm was very successful. In 1894 he became a member of Sprague, Moot, Sprague & Brownell, which became Moot, Sprague, Brownell & Marcy in 1897, and so remains. He has conducted many important cases in both state and federal courts, from the lowest to the highest in the land ; also before the In- terstate Commerce Commission ; some of these cases like the coal trust cases, the Hay cases, the car stake cases, being leading, well-known cases. He is best known as an all-round law- yer, rather than a specialist. He has won prominence, also, outside his profession. He has been a lifelong, but independent, Repub- lican, though never seeking public office. He believes in patriotism first and partisanship afterward and acts accordingly. He is a strong advocate of an honest ballot, and when in 1892 the election frauds were so glaring in Buffalo, he was retained by the Citizens' As- sociation to prosecute the guilty parties. His service of five years on the board of statutory consolidation, appointed under the act of May 9, 1904, was valuable to the state. That act, passed at the instance of the New York State Bar Association, provided for the consolida- tion of the statutes of the state of New York, and named as the board: Adolph J. Roden- beck, Judge Charles Andrews, William B. Hornblower, John G. Milburn and Judge Jud- son S. Landon, nominees of the New York State Bar Association. Judge Andrews de- clining to serve on account of age, Governor Odell, at the request of the other members, . appointed in his stead Adelbert Moot. Shortly after the organization of the board Judge Landon died, and his place remained unfilled. Messrs. Rodenbeck, Moot, Hornblower and Milburn carried on the work imposed upon them by the legislative act until the general substantive statutes were consolidated. They
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prepared and recommended for enactment sixty-one consolidated laws, this term being used to distinguish the new statutes, into which all the general statutes of the state were consolidated, excepting only part of the code of civil procedure. All of these were passed by both houses, and all but two received the executive approval of Governor Charles E. Hughes. The two thus omitted were the rail- road law and public service commissions law, to which further additions were made, after which they too became part of the consoli- dated laws in 1910. Upon making their final report the board received the thanks of the legislature for their otherwise unpaid service. The results of their labors are known under the title of The Consolidated Laws and are the governing laws of the state. Mr. Moot also served as chairman of the unpaid commission of distinguished men and women appointed by Governor Hughes to investigate conges- tion of population in large cities, and to sug- gest more normal means of distribution of population and employment. As the result of their investigations and recommendations, at- tempts are now being made to provide normal remedies by legislation for congestion and lack of employment in one place, while labor cannot be had in another.
Mr. Moot is a member of the Erie County, New York State and American Bar associa- tions, and is connected with the legal depart- ment of the University of Buffalo. He was president of the Erie County Bar Association, 1900-OI ; president of the State Bar Associa- tion, 1909-10. He remains a student and an extensive reader, as his well chosen library of scientific, historical and professional works attests. He is a member of the Thursday Club (literary), the Buffalo Historical Society, the Society of Natural Sciences, and many other like bodies. His social club is the Saturn. In religious faith he is a Unitarian, belonging to the "Church of Our Father" (First Unitarian Church) ; also being president of the Unitar- ian Conference of the Middle States and Canada.
He married, July 22, 1882, at Cuba. New York, Carrie A., daughter of Enos Van Ness, of Cuba. Children: 1. Richmond Dana, born in Buffalo, May 6, 1883 ; graduate of Harvard University, 1905, A. B .; Buffalo Law School ( University of Buffalo) 1907, LL.B .: now connected with the legal department of the General Electric Company at Schenectady,
New York. He married Margaret Atwater, and has a son, Dana, born May, 19II. 2. Welles Van Ness, born in Buffalo, December 12, 1885; graduate of Harvard University, A. B., 1908; Harvard Law School, LL. B., 19II ; now practicing law in Buffalo with his father. 3. Seward Adelbert, born in Buffalo, August 28, 1887 ; graduate of Harvard Uni- versity, A. B., 1911 ; now studying agriculture at Cornell University. He is well known from his voyage to the West Indies in the schooner yacht "Adventuress" in 1910-11.
WRIGHT This name is well known in both England and the United States, and probably in no place in cither country is it as well known as at Niagara Falls, New York, where three gen- erations of the name have catered to the popu- lar taste for thrilling adventure, and safely piloted many thousands down the stairways, across the bridges, and behind the falls to the wonderful "Cave of the Winds."
(I) Joshua Wright was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1805, died at Guelph, Canada, 1857. He came when a young man, in 1833, to Canada, and followed his trade of tailor. He was a member of the Established Church of England. He married Mahala Garrett. Children: 1. George William, of whom fur- ther. 2. Joshua Garrett, born at Guelph, Can- ada, in 1837, died May 16, 1905, at London, Canada; he was in the employ of the Cana- dian government as railway mail clerk; he married Milly Batedo; children: Edith, Ger- trude and Alice ; a fourth died in infancy. 3. Mahala Pauline, deceased; married Jackson, proprietor of New Market Era, at New Market, Canada.
(II) George William, eldest son of Joshua Wright, was born in Yorkshire, England, March 25, 1830, died July 14, 1908, at Niag- ara Falls, New York. He was an infant in arms when his parents came to Canada, where he was educated and grew to manhood. He learned the cabinet maker's trade, serving a seven years' apprenticeship, and December 19, 1859, located at Niagara Falls, New York, where he was a contractor and builder, also an architect of considerable ability. He be- came well known and erected many buildings at Niagara. In 1867 he obtained a concession from the Porter family to conduct visitors down the cliff and under the falls at the now popular Cave of the Winds. He was em-
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ployed in building bridges connecting the Sis- ter Islands, and the idea of obtaining the con- cession came to him while engaged in this work. His wife was the first woman to cross the completed Sister Island bridges. He re- tained this concession as long as Goat Island was held by the Porters, and on July 15, 1885, when the state of New York took charge of the property as a state park, he received an annual lease of the privilege, which was re- newed each year until 1909. He was a Demo- crat in politics, and served not only as the last president of the village corporation of Niagara Falls, but as the first mayor under the charter creating it a city, in 1892. He was a foremost factor in procuring the city charter, was secretary of the charter commit- tee, and his son still has the records of that body. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and a man well known and highly respected. He was active and prominent in the Masonic order, holding all degrees up to and including the thirty-second degree, An- cient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He was worshipful master of Niagara Frontier Lodge No. 132, 1878-1880, and high priest of Niag- ara Chapter No. 200, Royal Arch Masons. He married, April 13, 1853, at Dundas, Canada, Christina Bastedo, sister of Milly, wife of his brother, Joshua G. They were daughters of John Bastedo, born in 1805, at Stamford, Canada, died at Brantford, Canada, 1872. He married McMicken. Children of George W. Wright: I. George Edward, of whom further. 2. Caroline, married Walter Mccullough, a civil engineer connected with the state of New York Waterways Commis- sion, with office at Niagara Falls: no issue. 3. Agnes, born 1858, died January 31, 1890.
(III) George Edward, only son of George William Wright, was born in Dundas, Can- ada, March 2, 1854. He was educated in the public schools of Niagara Falls, his parents settling there when he was five years of age. He followed his father's trade and profession, and became a leading contractor and builder. He developed a decided taste and talent for architecture, a profession in which he has gained prominence and with which he is yet intimately connected. He was associated with his father in the operation of the Cave of the Winds concession at intervals, but not as pro- prietor until the death of the latter in 1908. Prior to that date the concession had been operated under a yearly lease, which fact pre-
cluded all improvement except such buildings and appliances necessary to assure the safety of tourists. In 1909 Mr. Wright, who suc- ceeded his father as concessionary, obtained from the state a six years' lease, and at once erected the appropriately designed, comfort- able and commodious building on Goat Island, which has become the most popular point of that famous resort. Here visitors who de- sire to make the trip under the falls are fur- nished, in private dressing rooms, with suit- able clothing, and sent out in charge of ca- pable guides, while their waiting friends are comfortably entertained on the spacious verandahs surrounding the offices and dress- ing rooms. Mr. Wright has made the trip to the Cave of the Winds the crowning pleas- ure of a trip to Niagara, and his registers contain the names of many of the most fa- mous men and women of the United States and Europe. The registers, which date from 1867, are on exhibition in the office on Goat Island, and are a rare curiosity. In them may be found the names of George, then Duke of York, now King George of England ; Tyndall, the great English scientist; Mark Twain, President Roosevelt, and many other men of note. A souvenir, hanging framed in the office, is a duly attested and witnessed statement of the first party who ever made the trip behind the Falls and through the Cave of the Winds, dated July 15, 1834.
Mr. Wright is an Independent Republican, and a member of the board of education of Niagara Falls, elected in 1906. He is a Pres- byterian in religious faith, and a prominent member of the Masonic order. He is widely known, his pleasing, courteous manner win- ning for him a wide circle of friends. He married, October 10, 1883, Nettie, daughter of Osbourne and Betsey (Hathaway) Can- field, of Niagara Falls, New York. Children, of the fourth generation in the United States : I. Irene Christina ; graduate of Niagara Falls high school, 1905; married, September 22, 1909, Irvin K. Giles, a chemist, graduate of Cornell University, now with the Electric Chemical Company of Niagara Falls. 2. Har- old Osbourne, born March 26, 1887 ; he is as- sociated with his father in the management of the Cave of the Winds concession: is a member of the Masonic order: active in Young Men's Christian Association work; member of Presbyterian church. 3. Chester William, born September 30, 1889 ; graduate
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of Niagara Falls high school, 1907; now a student of architecture at University of Michi- gan, class of 1912; member of the Masonic order.
RICHMOND The family here described originated in Brittany, France, deriving their name from the two French words "riche" and "monde" or "monte," and being known at various times and places by the dif- ferent forms of the name, such as: Ryche- monde, Richemount, Richmonte, Richmond and Richmon. Roaldus Musard de Richmond, who came from France to England with Wil- liam the Conqueror, is said to have ridden at the side of his illustrious leader at Hastings Field, and is spoken of by Thackeray as being a direct descendant of King Edward I. The family settled early in Yorkshire, and the branch which located at Ashton-Keynes, county Wiltshire, are supposed to be descended from the Yorkshire Richmonds, the line of descent to the American family being as fol- lows: Roaldus Musard De Richmond (here- tofore mentioned), Hascalfus Musard De Richmond, Roaldus De Richmond "Le En- nase," Sir Alan De Richmond, Sir Roald De Richmond, Alan Richmond De Croft, Sir Roald Richmond De Croft, Eudo De Rich- mond, Elyas De Richmond, Elyas (2) De Richmond, Thomas De Richmond, William De Richmond (who married Alice, daughter and heiress of Thomas Webb, of Draycott, and for the next four generations the family assume the name of Webb) ; William Rich- mond, alias Webb: William (2) Richmond, alias Webb; Edmond Richmond, alias Webb ; Henry Richmond, alias Webb; John Rich- mond, supposed to be identical with John Richmond, of Taunton. The last named, ac- cording to a manuscript left by one of his family, took part in the civil wars in England. Their manor at Ashton-Keynes contained about four hundred acres of land, and they owned the entire village of that name.
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