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Remsen Kinne was the son of Silas and Matilda (Meserole) Kinne. He was born at Ovid in 1838 and died in 1918. The founder of the Kinne family (Kine) was Henry Kinne, who came to this
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country from Holland in 1636. He had a family of eighteen children.
George Remsen Kinne is a graduate of Penn Yan Academy, class of 1918. In that year he enlisted for service during the World War and served in the United States Army until the close of the war. He then entered the Dental School of the University of Buffalo, from which he received a degree in 1923. He then established his present practice at Penn Yan in September, with offices at 1111/2 Main Street. He is a member of the New York State Dental Association, Seventh District.
On August 18, 1923, Dr. Kinne was united in marriage with Miss Barbara Tobey, the daughter of William Tobey, of Naples, New York. She is a graduate of Beaver (Pennsylvania) College, and before her marriage was a teacher of Home Economics in the public schools of Elmira. Doctor and Mrs. Kinne have a daugh- ter, Nancy Jane, born December 2, 1924.
Politically, Doctor Kinne is a Republican. He holds member- ship in the Presbyterian Church, Ni Psi Phi fraternity, Barret- tonian Society, and American Legion. He and his family reside at 319 Clinton Street, Penn Yan.
Walter Bowman Tower, who is successfully engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Penn Yan, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born at Factoryville, Wyoming County, March 2, 1871, the son of Rev. Charles Miller and Mary Ellen (Sainter) Tower.
Rev. Charles Miller Tower was a minister of the Baptist Church. He was born at West Lennox, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1844, and died September 9, 1913. On March 12, 1864, he married Miss Mary Ellen Sainter, the daugh- ter of William J. and Polly Sainter, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of eight children. Charles Miller Tower was the son of Rev. Rial Tower, who was a prominent minister of the Baptist Church in Pennsylvania. He was identified with the
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West Lennox parish as pastor for many years and personally donated the land upon which the present Tower Baptist Church is located. Another gift is the cemetery, which bears his name, at West Lennox. He died in 1878. His father was Capt. Nathaniel Tower who served throughout the Revolutionary War. He was a farmer and died at West Lennox in 1839. He is also buried in Tower Cemetery.
Walter Bowman Tower acquired his education in the public schools of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, and also attended the pri- vate school of Prof. John Kline at Dundee. He began his business career as a clerk in a general store at Dundee, and in 1891 located at Penn Yan where he spent four years in the Lown Dry Goods Company. He then went to Elmira in 1895 and after three years with Sheehan, Dean & Company he returned to Penn Yan in 1898 as general agent for the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Tower also engaged in the clothing business in this city for nine years and in 1902 was elected supervisor of the town of Milo, which office he held for eight years, being chairman of the board during two years. Since 1910 Mr. Tower has been interested in the real estate and insur- ance business with offices at 109 Main Street. He is a represen- tative of the Cooperative Insurance Companies of New York.
On June 14, 1899, Mr. Tower was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Shearman, the daughter of Abram C. Shearman, of Penn Yan. They have no children.
Mr. Tower is a member of the Penn Yan Chamber of Com- merce, of which he served as president from 1920 until 1925. Dur- ing that time the local membership was increased from fifty to 385 members. Numerous manufacturing plants were also induced to locate in Penn Yan, and at this time the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital also became a reality.
Mr. Tower is a Republican, a member of the Masonic Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, B. P. O. Elks, Order of Red Men, Maccabees, Rotary Club, and Lakeside Country Club. He is also active in Boy Scout work in the community and for two years was president of the Finger Lakes Council.
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Orville F. Randolph is a native of Yates County and a well known lawyer of Penn Yan, where he has also been Justice of the Peace since 1916. He was born at Torrey, August 22, 1855, the son of Jeptha F. and Melissa (Kress) Randolph.
Jeptha F. Randolph was born at Torrey in 1835. He was a farmer and merchant and lived most of his life at Dundee and Penn Yan. During the Civil War, Mr. Randolph served as post- master of Himrod, New York. He died February 10, 1925, and is buried at Dundee. On November 20, 1854, Mr. Randolph mar- ried Miss Melissa Kress, the daughter of Isaac Kress, of Yates County. They had three children, of whom Orville F., subject of this sketch, was the oldest.
Jeptha F. Randolph was the son of David F. Randolph, who was born in Orange County, New York, July 7, 1800. At the age of nine years the latter came to Yates County with his parents. His father was Jeptha F. Randolph, a native of New Jersey, born in 1769.
Orville F. Randolph received his early education in the district schools and in 1873 was graduated from Starkey Seminary. He then entered Oberlin College but the following year left school to read law in the offices of Spicer & Baker, of Dundee, New York. Later he was connected with the firm of Briggs & Knox, of Penn Yan, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1877. Mr. Randolph then established a private practice at Dundee, but after a short time he became identified with James Spicer. He located at Penn Yan in 1882 and remained here in practice until 1900, being asso- ciated during 1885-6-7 with Calvin J. Huson. In 1900 Mr. Ran- dolph went to Buffalo and later to Newton, Iowa. He spent three years in the latter city, four years at Seattle, Washington, and four years at St. Louis, Missouri. He then returned to Penn Yan and since 1914 has engaged in practice here. During 1885-86 he served as clerk of the board of supervisors of Yates County. Dur- ing his residence at Dundee he was also justice of the peace there.
On April 3, 1882, Mr. Randolph married Miss Hattie Sherman, the daughter of Charles Sherman. Their daughter, Helen, born at Penn Yan, February 4, 1886, is a graduate of the public schools of Penn Yan and Newton, Iowa. She married Rev. Cameron S.
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Morrison, a minister of the Episcopal Church, who died August 2, 1922, at Seattle, Washington. They had a son, Cameron S., Jr. Mrs. Morrison married (second) Harold F. Tuthill, and lives at Rochester, New York.
Mr. Randolph is a Republican, an active member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with Milo Lodge, F. and A. M., past master; Penn Yan Chapter, R. A. M., past high priest; he was appointed in 1889 representative of the Grand Chapter of the State of California, near the Grand Chapter of the State of New York; Jerusalem Commandery, K. T., past commander; and Corn- ing Consistory, 32nd degree. He also belongs to the Yates County Bar Association and Yates County Agricultural Society, having served as secretary of the latter organization.
Frank Edward Monnin .- Well known among the representa- tive young business men of Penn Yan is Frank Edward Monnin, who is president of the Keuka Ice Company, and a member of the firm of Fiero & Monnin, coal dealers. He was born at Buffalo, New York, June 16, 1894, the son of Paul and Elizabeth (Stadt- miller) Monnin.
Paul Monnin was born at Frenchtown, Pennsylvania, in 1860. He spent many years in the employ of the New York Central Railroad Company as a locomotive engineer and now lives retired in Buffalo. He was married in 1882 to Miss Elizabeth Stadtmiller, of Titusville, Pennsylvania. They had five children, of whom Frank Edward was the youngest.
After his graduation from Buffalo High School in 1911, Frank Edward Monnin entered the offices of the Mutual Transit Com- pany as a clerk in the Buffalo offices. After three years he be- came associated with the Great Lakes Transit Company, and as- sisted in the organization of the freight traffic department, being in charge of divisional rates, etc. He remained in the latter posi- tion until 1917 and in that year enlisted for service in the World War. He served in the United States Navy and throughout the World War period was assigned to duty in aviation operations
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with headquarters at Washington, D. C. After the close of the war he was assigned to the naval reserves and received his final discharge in 1921. Upon his return to Buffalo Mr. Monnin be- came assistant commissioner of the Industrial Aid Bureau, and after a year located with the Standard Foundry Company and Frontier Iron Works as traffic manager. Mr. Monnin organized the traffic department of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Company of Buffalo, and was in charge of the department for eight months. He came to Penn Yan in 1921 as production manager of the Niag- ara Wallboard Company, and in the following year became asso- ciated with John A. Fiero, who for many years had been a lead- ing wholesale and retail coal dealer at Penn Yan. The partner- ship continued until the death of Mr. Fiero in 1928, at which time Mr. Monnin acquired full control of the business, although he retained the firm name. In 1930 he assumed the controlling in- terest in the Keuka Ice Company and on January 1, 1931, was elected president.
On October 12, 1921, Mr. Monnin married Miss Florence M. Fiero, the daughter of John Aspell Fiero. They have two chil- dren: Harry Fiero, born March 3, 1923. 2. Virginia Ann, born June 13, 1925. Mrs. Monnin is a graduate of the Mechanics Insti- tute at Rochester, New York. Her father, who died June 11, 1928, was a descendant of Christian Fiero, who was a soldier dur- ing the American Revolution. The family had come to America from Italy in 1708, making the voyage with a company of Dutch colonists. Christian Fiero was buried at Saugerties, New York. He was the father of Abram Post Fiero, who came to Ontario County, New York, in 1820 and settled on a farm south of Flint. The latter's son was John Christian Fiero, who became widely known throughout New York as a breeder of sheep. He is buried at Milo Center, Yates County, New York. His son, John A. Fiero, mentioned above, was the father of Florence M. Monnin. He spent more than a quarter of a century in the coal business at Penn Yan and for many years had served as superintendent of highways in Yates County.
Mr. Monnin is a Republican, a member of St. Michael's Cath- olic Church, and belongs to the Knights of Columbus, and Lake-
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side Country Club. He was one of the organizers of the Exchange Club, of which he served as president for two terms. In 1928 he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Coal Merchants Association, and in the following year be- came a member of the executive committee. He has also been a director of the Coal Merchants Mutual Insurance Company of New York, and in 1931 was appointed a member of the National Transportation Commission of American Coal Merchants Asso- ciation. In the latter capacity he represented the association before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr. Monnin is active in the affairs of the American Legion and has served as Yates County commissioner for Veterans' Relief.
Mrs. Monnin holds membership in the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution.
N. Lansing Zabriskie .- For more than half a century one of Aurora's most influential and public spirited citizens was N. Lan- sing Zabriskie, lawyer and banker. He died in this city, Novem- ber 12, 1926. Mr. Zabriskie was born at Flatbush, Long Island, February 18, 1838, the son of Dr. John Barrea and Abbie (Lott) Zabriskie.
Dr. John Barrea Zabriskie was an eminent physician and sur- geon during the early history of Brooklyn, New York, where he is buried. He was of Dutch descent.
N. Lansing Zabriskie received his early education at Erasmus Hall Academy and in 1857 was graduated from Union College with Phi Beta Kappa honors and in 1916 he was awarded the degree of L. H. D. from the same institution. Mr. Zabriskie stud- ied law at Columbia University and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, New York, in 1861. Six years later he established a private practice at Aurora, with which he was successfully identi- fied until the time of his death. For a number of years Mr. Zabris- kie was actively associated with the affairs of Wells College in Aurora, of which he was president of the Board of Trustees, and he was a trustee of Cayuga Lake Academy. The latter was united
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with the local public school system a number of years ago. Mr. Zabriskie was president of the Aurora National Bank for many years, and was also president of the Park Company, of New York City, and a director of the Southern States Lumber Company.
Mr. Zabriskie married (first) Miss Louise F. Morgan, of Aurora, who died in 1906. Their children were: Alonzo Morgan; and Robert Lansing. He married (second) in 1911 Miss Phoebe Munn, daughter of Thompson C. and Sarah J. (Smith) Munn, who were natives of East Orange, New Jersey. They are deceased and are buried at Orange, New Jersey. To N. Lansing and Phoebe (Munn) Zabriskie was born a son, John Lansing.
As trustee and elder of the Presbyterian Church of Aurora, Mr. Zabriskie was also a church leader in his community for many years.
Harry Brayton Townsend, M. D .- One of the experienced physicians and surgeons of Yates County, Dr. Harry B. Town- send has successfully engaged in practice at Penn Yan since 1919, and is an active member of the Yates County, New York State, and American Medical Association. He was born at Sibleyville, New York, May 23, 1870, the son of Alonzo Watson and Helen Gould (Brown) Townsend.
Alonzo Watson Townsend was born at Sibleyville, New York, February 5, 1839, and died at Livonia, Livingston County, New York, February 7, 1916. During his life he had extensive lumber interests and owned mills throughout Central New York. In 1867 Mr. Townsend married Miss Helen Gould Brown, the daughter of Austin G. Brown, of Sibleyville. They had three children, of whom Harry B., the subject of this sketch, was the oldest. Mrs. Townsend died August 5, 1916, and is buried at Honeoye Falls.
When Doctor Townsend was eighteen months old his parents moved to Richmond Mills, New York. He attended Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York. In 1898 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, New York City, and immediately engaged in private prac- tice at Dresden, New York. After twenty years in that location
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Doctor Townsend established his practice at Penn Yan, with offices at 25 Main Street.
On November 23, 1904, Doctor Townsend married Miss Edith M. Casterlaine, the daughter of Samuel and Gertrude Rappale Casterlaine, of Elmira.
To Doctor and Mrs. Townsend have been born two children: 1. Brayton Watson, born February 7, 1909, a graduate of Penn Yan High School and Hobart College, class of 1932, Bachelor of Arts. 2. Helen Gertrude, born June 18, 1911, a graduate of Penn Yan High School and Bryant & Stratton School of Commerce at Buffalo, class of 1932.
Doctor Townsend is an independent Republican. He is affili- ated with the Masonic Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Chamber of Commerce. His wife holds membership in the Penn Yan Presbyterian Church. Doctor Townsend is a member of Yates County and New York State Medical societies and the American Medical Association.
The Townsend family lives at 351 Elm Street, and also has a summer home at Indian Pines on Lake Keuka.
George Erwin Welker, M. D .- Among the leading physicians and surgeons of Yates County is Doctor George E. Welker, who has engaged in general practice at Dresden continuously since 1903. He was born at Bennington, Wyoming County, New York, August 16, 1875, the son of John B. and Margaret (Schneider) Welker.
John B. Welker was a native of Germany, born at Heidelberg, in 1835. About 1847 he emigrated to America and located in On- tario, Canada. He later settled in New York in 1855 and became a successful dairy farmer. Mr. Welker died in 1908 and is buried at Bennington. He was married in 1870 to Miss Margaret Schnei- der, a native of Ontario, and of German descent. They were the parents of four children.
The early education of George Erwin Welker was received in the public schools of Attica and in 1900 he received the degree of
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Doctor of Medicine at the University of Buffalo. He then began his professional career at Geneva, New York, and in 1903 located at Dresden. He has served as health officer of the towns of Tor- rey and Benton.
On March 2, 1902, Doctor Welker was united in marriage with Miss Ophelia Horton, the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Horton, of Fenwick, Ontario. They are the parents of three children: Elsie, born in 1903, a graduate of Penn Yan High School and Syracuse University, class of 1925, Bachelor of Arts. For seven years she specialized in the study of sociology, and during that time held a position with the New York State Department of Social Welfare, being located at Rochester. She married Wayne Thomas and re- sides at Dresden. 2. Erwin J., born in 1905, a graduate of Penn Yan Academy, is superintendent of highways at Torrey, Yates County. He married Miss Augusta Nielsen, and they have a son, Raymond. They live at Dresden. 3. Leland A., born in 1907, a graduate of Penn Yan Academy, later studied electrical engineer- ing at Bliss Electrical School, Washington, D. C., and is now assis- tant superintendent of the Penn Yan Municipal Electric Light & Power Company, at Penn Yan. He married Miss Dorothy King, and they have a son, Robin. They live at Penn Yan.
Doctor Welker has always been a Republican. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been Sunday school superintendent for more than twenty years, as well as a member of the official board. He belongs to Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, and is identified with the Yates County Medical Society and New York State Medical Society.
Lewis Cass Williams .- Among the most progressive and suc- cessful farmers of Yates County is Lewis Cass Williams, owner and manager of Hickory Grove Farms, near Middlesex, New York. He was born at Middlesex, July 27, 1858, the son of Oliver S. and Marion (Foote) Williams.
Oliver S. Williams was born in the town of Middlesex, Yates County, in 1824. He was a farmer throughout his life and died
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in the town of Middlesex in 1892. Mr. Williams was married in 1857 to Miss Marion Foote, the daughter of Eli Foote, merchant, of Middlesex. She was born May, 1836, and resides at Middlesex, New York. To them were born four children, of whom Lewis C., the subject of this sketch, was the oldest.
Lewis Cass Williams is a graduate of the district schools of Middlesex and Penn Yan Academy. From 1879 until 1888 he operated a farm south of Middlesex, and in the latter year pur- chased Hickory Grove Farm, located two and one-half miles north of the village. He is now associated with his son, Oliver S. Wil- liams, and they rank among the representative farmers and stock- men in this section.
On March 27, 1880, Mr. Williams married Miss Carrie Foster, who died in May, 1932. She was the daughter of William Foster, of East Hill, near Middlesex. They were the parents of three chil- dren: 1. Marion C., born in 1885, a graduate of Syracuse Univer- sity, was a teacher in the public schools of Cazenovia and Lima, New York. She married Arthur T. Jolly, a teacher of elocution in the public schools of White Plains, New York. They have a daughter, Harriet. 2. Marie, born in 1887, married Walter Beck- ett, lives at Middlesex. 3. Oliver S., born in 1899, a graduate of Lima College and New York State College of Agriculture, at Can- ton, New York, class of 1920. He is at present associated with his father's farming interests, as mentioned above.
Mr. Williams is a Democrat. He served as supervisor of the town of Middlesex during 1888-89, and for twenty-five years has been a member of Rushville Grange, being its first Master for a period of two years and lecturer for eight years. He also served eight years as lecturer of Pomona Grange, and is now chaplain. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for forty years Mr. Williams has been Sunday school teacher and ten years of that time as superintendent. Mr. Wil- liams served as postmaster of Middlesex, New York, being ap- pointed by President Cleveland. Mr. Williams was secretary of the town of Middlesex and destroyed the last bond of $1,800 of its $50,000 railroad bond issued, on February 22, 1932. He was chair- man of the Washington birthday celebrations.
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Edwin Carlton Foster, M. D .- Numbered among Yates Coun- ty's able physicians and surgeons is Dr. Edwin C. Foster, who is associated with the Foster-Hatch medical group, at Penn Yan, with offices at 165 Main Street. He is a native of Hammondsport, New York, born September 26, 1881, the son of Edwin S. and Ellen R. (Rupert) Foster.
Edwin M. Foster was born at Hammondsport, September 9, 1845. Throughout his life he was interested in the growing of grapes in Central New York. He died August 27, 1927, and is buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Hammondsport. He was married in 1869 to Miss Ellen R. Rupert, the daughter of Barnett and Elizabeth Rupert, of Pulteney, New York. They had three children, of whom Edwin Carlton, subject of this sketch, was the youngest. Mrs. Foster died June 30, 1895, and is buried in Pleas- ant Valley Cemetery, Hammondsport.
The early education of Edwin Carlton Foster was acquired in the district schools of Hammondsport, and he was graduated from high school in 1901. He then entered the Medical School of the University of Buffalo, and received the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine at that institution in 1905. He then spent a year as interne in the Massachusetts General Hospital and was located for one year in the New York State Hospital, at Ogdensburg, and Central Islip State Hospital on Long Island. After two years as assistant surgeon at the Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, at Bath, New York, Doctor Foster took graduate work at Lying-In Hospital, New York City. In 1908 Doctor Foster established a general practice at Penn Yan, where he has continued to the present time, being widely known as a surgeon. He has visited clinics in London, Paris, Edinburgh, Scotland, Dublin, and Switzerland, as well as New York City and Chicago.
In 1917 Doctor Foster was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, and sent to Camp Upton, Long Island, New York, in the Base Hospital. After his arrival in France he was put in charge of fractural work of Base Hospital No. 52 at Rheimcourt, an institution with 10,000 patients. At the time of his discharge from the service Doctor Foster held the rank of captain. Upon his return to Penn Yan he was active in
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the formation of a medical group, which consists of four physi- cians and operating as the Foster-Hatch Medical Group. It is a complete clinic and is recognized as one of the finest in Central New York. In 1918 Doctor Foster was also one of the organizers of the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital at Penn Yan, and is a member of the staff.
On September 8, 1909, Doctor Foster was united in marriage with Miss Pearl Austin Wixom, of Hammondsport, New York, and they had two children: 1. Grace Pauline, born October 9, 1910, a graduate of Penn Yan Academy and Boston School of Physical Education, class of 1931. She is now a student at the Russell Sage College, at Troy, New York. 2. Rupert Edwin, born October 19, 1913, died June 23, 1930. He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan, New York.
Doctor Foster is a Republican, a trustee of the First Presby- terian Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, Rotary Club, Omega Upsilon Phi fraternity; American Legion, Johnson- Costello Post, No. 355, and Dr. Foster was the first county chair- man of Yates County, and organized three posts in the county. He has always been an active member of the New York State Medical Society, American Medical Association, and Yates County Medical Society, of which he has been president. He also served as president of the Seventh District Branch of the New York State Medical Society. In 1923 he was made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Elmo Milliken Royce, funeral director, located at Watkins Glen, is numbered among the dependable business men of Schuyler County. He was born at Parish, Oswego County, New York, March 12, 1882, the son of William W. and Ida A. (Rhodes) Royce.
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