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Dr. Emery M. Cheney, son of Nelson E. and Hannah (Merrill) Cheney, was born on his father's homestead near Kennedy, Chautauqua county, N. Y., March 21, 1832. He was educated in Warren Academy, Warren, Pa .; Randolph Institute, Randolph, N. Y., and the Uni- versity of Buffalo, from which last named institution he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine in 1873. He has since practiced his profession in Frewsburg, East Randolph and Poland Center, and is one of the oldest physicians in point of service in the county. His professional work has included consider- able surgery, and for ten years he was examining sur- geon for the Pension Bureau of the United States. Dr. Cheney is a member of numerous medical associations and societies, including those of Cattaraugus and Chau- tauqua counties. He is a Republican in political faith, and has steadfastly supported the party of his choice. Further it is a remarkable and quite unusual record for a family to hold that his father and he have lived through the terms of every president of the United States during the tenure of office up to this writing. He married, at Levant, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1862, Amanda Tracy, and there were two sons of this marriage : Wayne N., of whom further ; and Frederick, born March 30, 1874, a business man and farmer of Falconer, married S. M. De Bell.
Wayne Nelson Cheney, son of Dr. Emery M. and Amanda (Tracy) Cheney, was born at Poland, Chau- tanqua county, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1867. During his youth he attended Jamestown Academy, and upon the com- pletion of his education took up the active work of life.
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He has owned the farming property on which he now lives for a number of years, having managed this for his father many years prior to coming into its posses- sion. He has dealt largely in lumber, and in this line and in agriculture has spent his active years. Mr. Cheney is widely known in Chautauqua, is a member of the local grange, and, like his father, a staunch Re- publican.
Wayne Nelson Cheney married, at Poland Center, July 3. 1802, Lottie B. Johnson, born Sept. 29, 1863, daughter of Hugh and Cordelia (Sprague) Johnson. They have one daughter, Florence, born at the home- stead. Nov. 22, 1893, educated in the district schools and Jamestown High School, and for a number of years a school teacher. She married J. Edward Carr, born in Hall, Ontario county, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney are attendants of the Seventh Day Ad- ventist Church of Jamestown, and interested partici- pants in community affairs.
WARREN BEEDLE LOOK-New York has ac- quired a well deserved reputation for the large number of keen. progressive business men she has sent out in all directions, not a few of whom have come to the con- clusion that Jamestown and Chautauqua county offers in many respects, advantages not to be found in some of the larger cities in the State. Warren B. Look has be- come known in the highest circles of the business world as a man to be implicitly trusted and one with whom it is a satisfaction to transact business. He was born in Collinsville, Ill., Jan. 2, 1884, the son of Arthur War- ren and Josephine Arvilla (Logan) Look, prominent residents of that city.
He obtained his early education in the public schools of Collinsville, and in 1903 was graduated from the St. Louis Manual Training School at St. Louis, Mo. After completing his course he entered the employ of the Art Metal Construction Company at St. Louis. In 100%. when the St. Louis branch was consolidated with the Jamestown, N. Y., factory, he was transferred to Jamestown as assistant superintendent, and in 1910 was made general superintendent. In 1917, he resigned and went actively into oil production, in which business he was largely interested for some time, and became the treasurer of the Empire State Oil Company.
Mr. Look is a great lover of nature, has traveled ex- ten-ively and gets much enjoyment from plant, bird and animal life, and enjoys all out-doors at all times of the year. He owns and manages successfully one of the largest and best equipped and stocked farms in Chau- 'nuqua county. Mr. Look is a Republican and votes for the men and principles that the thinks to the best in- terest of the people. Fraternally, he is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145. Free and Accepted Masons, and Western Sun Chapter, No. 67, Royal Arch Masons. He is al o a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Buffalo Consistory, and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. IIc is a member of the Moon Brook Country Club, Rotary Club, and i eligible to membership in the Sons of the Revo- lution and the Sons of Veterans. In religious affilia- tior . Mr. Look and his family are members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Jamestown, and are active in all of i's business, as well as social affairs.
On Dec. 31, 1907, at Jacksonville, Ill., Mr. Look was united in marriage with Agnes E. Thornborrow, a daughter of John A. and Eliza A. Thornborrow. To this union have been born two sons, Warren Travis, Dec. 2, 1908, and John A. Logan, July 8, 1915.
Mr. Look is a business man of discerning judgment and keen foresight. His business dealings bring him in contact with hundreds of persons, and nothing but the strictest adherence to the principles of honor and integrity has ever been attributed to him.
ALBERT DeFOREST YOUNG, well known resi- dent and physician of Mayville, N. Y., at present chief of staff in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Department of the Hudson Street Hospital of the United States Public Health Service in New York City, is one of the prominent members of his profession in Chautauqua county. He is a son of James and Mary (Messenger) Young, long time residents of Corry, Pa., where Albert DeForest Young was born, April 18, 1873. James Young, now deceased, was a veteran of the Civil War, having served throughout it in many important battles.
Albert DeForest Young was educated in the public schools of his native city, and in 1895 graduated from the Cleveland Medical College, now the Homoeopathic Department of Ohio State University. He came to Chautauqua county, N. Y., and located in Panama, in the year of his graduation, and practiced for eight years, subsequently removing to Jamestown, where he prae- tieed until coming to Mayville in 1907. While in Pan- ama, he was health officer for the village and for the township of Harmony for eight years. During the summer of 1903, he took a post-graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. Dr. Young practiced continuously in Mayville with much success from 1907 until 1918. He was health officer in Mayville from 1907 until he resigned in 1915, and presi- dent of the town Board of Education, 1917-18. He is a member of various medical organizations, including Chautauqua County Medical Society. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Shrine; member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of the Maccabees, Woodmen of the World, and William L. Travis Post, No. 493, American Legion.
Dr. Young enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States army in 1918 and was commissioned captain; he trained at Camp Greenleaf, Ga,, and went overseas during the latter part of 1918 with Evacuation Hospital Unit, No. 28, of the 88th Division. This unit saw service at Belfort and Nantes, France. He was returned to the United States, in April, 1919, on account of ill health, and was honorably discharged from United States Army General Hospital, No. 24, Pitts- burgh, Pa., July 5, 1919. In September, 1919, he went to New York City and took a course, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat in Manhattan Hospital. On completing this course, he was appointed chief of staff in the Hudson Street Hospital, which he continues to the present (1921) but retains his family residence in Mayville.
Dr. Young married, in Panama, Chantanqua county, N. Y .. Jan. 27, 1807, Eleanor Cook, daughter of Deforest and Adelia (Ilawkins) Cook, lifelong residents of the
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town. To Dr. and Mrs. Young were born the following children : I. Donald C., born June 2, 1898; educated in the Jamestown and Mayville public and high schools and in the University of Michigan; enlisted in the S. A. T. C. of the University, where he served until the close of the war; married Ann Christenson, of Detroit, Mich. 2. Stanley D., born Oct. 30, 1900; edu- cated in Jamestown and Mayville public and high schools. 3. Florence E., born Jan. 11, 1902; educated in Jamestown and Mayville schools. 4. James L., born May 29, 1903; educated in Mayville schools. 5. Paul A., born Dec. 3, 1913, now attending school in May- ville.
COLONEL WILLIAM FRIES ENDRESS- This distinguished family is of extremely ancient line- age. Im Hof, a baronial race, spreading out into many branches, is still flourishing in the principal lines, namely, the Swabian, the Franconian and the Italian, with many subdivisions. In the records of the twelfth century it is frequently found under the name of "de Curia" or "in Curia." As early as the thirteenth century it di- vided itself into two principal branches, which assumed different arms. The elder branch remained at the original seat of the race, in the city of Laningen, in Swabia (now Bavaria) where a village called Imhoff may yet be found.
(I) Johann Im Hof, called Johann (2), who died A. D. 1341, is the progenitor from whom all the race is descended. He dwelt upon his estates at Laningen, and procured through his wife, Anne Von Gross, citi- zenship in Nuremburg. He was adopted among the families capable of holding the office of senator. He had issue.
(II) Konrad, married and had issue.
(III) Konrad (2), died in 1419. He had issue.
(IV) Johann (3), born in 1419, died in 1499. He had issue.
(V) Johann (4), born in 1461, died in 1526. He was burgomaster of Nuremburg; married and had issue.
(VI) Andreas, otherwise called Endres, was born about 1490, and was a member of the senate, or Rath, of Nuremburg, in the year 1530. As senator he at- tended the Diet of Augsburg and is styled "Herr En- dress im Hoff" by Saubertheim in his History of the Augsburg Diet, written in 1631. He married and had issue.
(VII) Endress, born about 1513, married and had issue.
(VIII) Nicholas Endress, removed from Nuremburg to Wertheim, on the north bank of the Mayn river, about 1560.
(IX) Peter Endress, son of Nicholas Endress, born about 1569, was judge of the Criminal Court of the district.
(X) Nicholas (2) Endress, son of Peter Endress, was born in 1603. He married and had issue.
(XI) Andress Endress, son of Nicholas (2) En- dress, born in 1634, married and had issue.
(XII) Philip Jacob Endress, son of Andress Endress, born in 1682, died in 1762.
(XIII) John Zacharias Endress, son of Philip Jacob Endress, was born in 1726, and was educated in the University of Tübingen, now the University of Wirtem-
burg. He was an extensive traveler; was captured in the Mediterranean sea by Corsairs of Algiers, the famous sea pirates of that day, and sold into captivity in Algiers. Subsequently a Neapolitan merchant (a Roman Christian) redeemed him into freedom, took him to Italy and furnished him wth means to return to his native land. In 1766 he came to America and located in Philadelphia, Pa., where he accumulated considerable property near the corner of Vine and Third streets: He was an officer in the Continental army in the War for Independence, was captain in the Philadelphia Guards, and as a result of his action in the Federal cause his buildings were burned to the ground when the British occupied the city. He died in 1810, and was buried at Easton, Pa. He married, Sept. 13, 1768, Mrs. Maria (Henrici) Sansfelt, a widow of French Huguenot extraction. They had a child, Christian Frederick Lewis, mentioned below.
(XIV) Christian Frederick Lewis Endress, D. D., son of John Zacharias Endress, was born in Philadel- phia, March 12, 1775. He was graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, which institution honored him with the title of Doctor of Theology in 1820. Through- out most of his lifetime he was connected with Trinity Lutheran Church, pastor from 1815 to 1827 at Lancas- ter, Pa., succeeding Dr. Henry M. Muhlenberg, founder of the Lutheran church in America. About 1814, with his friend, Col. Nathaniel Rochester, he removed to Dansville, N. Y., in the far-famed Genesee Valley, where they purchased large tracts of land. Subsequently Colonel Rochester went further on to the Falls of the Genesee and established the city which bears his name. Dr. Endress did not remain in Dansville, but returned to Pennsylvania, locating at Easton, where he died Sept. 27, 1827. In 1801, he married Margaretha Fries. They had a son, Isaac Lewis, mentioned below.
(XV) Judge Isaac Lewis Endress, son of Dr. Chris- tian F. L. Endress, was born in Easton, Pa., Sept. 14, 1810, died in 1870. He was educated in Dickinson Col- lege, Carlisle, Pa. When his family left Pennsylvania for Western New York, he entered the law office of Judge Ewing, of Trenton, N. J., where he remained about one year. He then went to Rochester and en- tered the law offices of Messrs. Rochester & Ford, and later was in the offices of Messrs. Barnard & Hill. Eventually he was admitted to the bar at Rochester, where he initiated the practice of his profession, and whence he removed to Dansville in 1832. He continued to reside at Dansville during the remainder of his life. and as a lawyer obtained an enviable reputation and lucrative practice. For some thirteen years he was as- sociated with Judge John A. Van Derlip in the practice of law, under the style of Endress & Van Derlip. He was an old line Whig as a young man, and after the formation of the Republican party, transferred his al- legiance to that organization. He was appointed to the office of judge in 1840 by Governor William H. Seward ; was presidential elector in 1856; was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention, 1868; was a delegate to the National Republican nominating con- vention of 1868; and was several times a member of the Republican State Committee. He was president of the board of trustees of Dansville Seminary, and for a number of years was one of the town railroad commis-
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town. To Dr. and Mrs. Young were born the following children : 1. Donald C., born June 2, 1898; educated in the Jamestown and Mayville public and high schools and in the University of Michigan; enlisted in the S. A. T. C. of the University, where he served until the close of the war; married Ann Christenson, of Detroit, Mich. 2. Stanley D., born Oct. 30, 1900; edu- cated in Jamestown and Mayville public and high schools. 3. Florence E., born Jan. 11, 1902; educated in Jamestown and Mayville schools. 4. James L., born May 29, 1903; educated in Mayville schools. 5. Paul A., born Dec. 3, 1913, now attending school in May- ville.
COLONEL WILLIAM FRIES ENDRESS-
This distinguished family is of extremely ancient line- age. Im Hof, a baronial race, spreading out into many branches, is still flourishing in the principal lines, namely, the Swabian, the Franconian and the Italian, with many subdivisions. In the records of the twelfth century it is frequently found under the name of "de Curia" or "in Curia." As early as the thirteenth century it di- vided itself into two principal branches, which assumed different arms. The elder branch remained at the original seat of the race, in the city of Laningen, in Swabia (now Bavaria) where a village called Imhoff may yet be found.
(I) Johann Im Hof, called Johann (2), who died A. D. 1341, is the progenitor from whom all the race is descended. He dwelt upon his estates at Laningen, and procured through his wife, Anne Von Gross, citi- zenship in Nuremburg. He was adopted among the families capable of holding the office of senator. He had issue.
(II) Konrad, married and had issue.
(III) Konrad (2), died in 1449. He had issue.
(IV) Johann (3), born in 1419, died in 1499. He had issue.
(V) Johann (4), born in 1461, died in 1526. He was burgomaster of Nuremburg; married and had issue.
(VI) Andreas, otherwise called Endres, was born about 1490, and was a member of the senate, or Rath, of Nuremburg, in the year 1530. As senator he at- tended the Diet of Augsburg and is styled "Herr En- dress im Hoff" by Saubertheim in his History of the Augsburg Diet, written in 1631. He married and had issue.
(VII) Endress, born about 1513, married and had issue.
(VIII) Nicholas Endress, removed from Nuremburg to Wertheim, on the north bank of the Mayn river, about 1560.
(IX) Peter Endress, son of Nicholas Endress, born about 1569, was judge of the Criminal Court of the district.
(X) Nicholas (2) Endress, son of Peter Endress, was born in 1603. He married and had issue.
(XI) Andress Endress, son of Nicholas (2) En- dress, born in 1634, married and had issue.
(XII) Philip Jacob Endress, son of Andress Endress, born in 1682, died in 1762.
(XIII) John Zacharias Endress, son of Philip Jacob Endress, was born in 1726, and was educated in the University of Tübingen, now the University of Wirtem-
burg. He was an extensive traveler; was captured in the Mediterranean sea by Corsairs of Algiers, the famous sea pirates of that day, and sold into captivity in Algiers. Subsequently a Neapolitan merchant (a Roman Christian) redeemed him into freedom, took him to Italy and furnished him wth means to return to his native land. In 1766 he came to America and located in Philadelphia, Pa., where he accumulated considerable property near the corner of Vine and Third streets. He was an officer in the Continental army in the War for Independence, was captain in the Philadelphia Guards, and as a result of his action in the Federal cause his buildings were burned to the ground when the British occupied the city. He died in 1810, and was buried at Easton, Pa. He married, Sept. 13, 1768, Mrs. Maria (Henrici) Sansfelt, a widow of French Huguenot extraction. They had a child, Christian Frederick Lewis, mentioned below.
(XIV) Christian Frederick Lewis Endress, D. D., son of John Zacharias Endress, was born in Philadel- phia, March 12, 1775. He was graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, which institution honored him with the title of Doctor of Theology in 1820. Through- out most of his lifetime he was connected with Trinity Lutheran Church, pastor from 1815 to 1827 at Lancas- ter, Pa., succeeding Dr. Henry M. Muhlenberg, founder of the Lutheran church in America. About 1814, with his friend, Col. Nathaniel Rochester, he removed to Dansville, N. Y., in the far-famed Genesee Valley, where they purchased large tracts of land. Subsequently Colonel Rochester went further on to the Falls of the Genesee and established the city which bears his name. Dr. Endress did not remain in Dansville, but returned to Pennsylvania, locating at Easton, where he died Sept. 27, 1827. In 1801, he married Margaretha Fries. They had a son, Isaac Lewis, mentioned below.
(XV) Judge Isaac Lewis Endress, son of Dr. Chris- tian F. L. Endress, was born in Easton, Pa., Sept. 14, 1810, died in 1870. He was educated in Dickinson Col- lege, Carlisle, Pa. When his family left Pennsylvania for Western New York, he entered the law office of Judge Ewing, of Trenton, N. J., where he remained about one year. He then went to Rochester and en- tered the law offices of Messrs. Rochester & Ford, and later was in the offices of Messrs. Barnard & Hill. Eventually he was admitted to the bar at Rochester, where he initiated the practice of his profession, and whence he removed to Dansville in 1832. He continued to reside at Dansville during the remainder of his life, and as a lawyer obtained an enviable reputation and lucrative practice. For some thirteen years he was as- sociated with Judge John A. Van Derlip in the practice of law, under the style of Endress & Van Derlip. He was an old line Whig as a young man, and after the formation of the Republican party, transferred his al- legiance to that organization. He was appointed to the office of judge in 1840 by Governor William H. Seward : was presidential elector in 1856; was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention, 1868; was a delegate to the National Republican nominating con- vention of 1868; and was several times a member of the Republican State Committee. He was president of the board of trustees of Dansville Seminary, and for a number of years was one of the town railroad commis-
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sioners. He was one of the founders and a member of the vestry of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a brilliant lawyer and business man, always fair and square-minded in his dealings with his fellowmen, and was ever held in the highest esteem by all with whom he came in contact.
He married. Oct. 29, 1849, Helen Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of William and Maria ( Fitzhugh) Edwards, the former of whom was a direct descendant of Pier- pont Edwards, a brother of Jonathan Edwards, the dis- tinguished Puritan divine. Maria Fitzhugh was a daughter of Colonel Perregrine and Elizabeth Crowley (Chew) Fitzhugh, the former of whom was an aide to General Washington. Colonel Fitzhugh was a son of the distinguished Col. William Fitzhugh, born Jan. 16, 1721, died Feb. 11, 1798; at one time commander of all the British forces in America; the progenitor of the Fitzhugh family of Virginia. Children born to Judge and Mrs. Isaac L. Endress: 1. Anna Maria, born Sept. 26, 1850; married James M. Edwards, a prominent banker at Dansville: they reside at the old Endress homestead and have two children, Helen McCurdy, now Mrs. Edward J. Fairchild; and Katharine Elizabeth. 2. Elizabeth Chew, born Oct. 11, 1852. 3. William Fries, mentioned below.
(XVI) Col. William Fries Endress, son of Isaac Lewis and Helen Elizabeth (Edwards) Endress, was born Aug. 2. 1855, at Dansville, N. Y. He received his early education at the Dansville Seminary, and in 1872 entered the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester, Pa., in preparation for the United States naval service. The following year he secured his commission as cadet midshipman and entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., where he remained until December, 1875, when continued ill health obliged him to resign, while still in full standing in his class. For the following year he gave his attention almost entirely to the recovery of his health, merely occupying a part of his time as instructor and commandant of the mili- tary battalion at Dansville Seminary.
In the fall of 1876, he entered the sophomore class of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y., and was graduated in June, 1879, with the degree of Civil En- gineer, being the fourth in the direct line of his family ancestry who have heen college-bred men. Deciding upon a business career, he removed to Jamestown soon after his marriage in 1879, and purchased the old es- tablished coal and building supply business of J. Bald- win. Jr., with which line of enterprise he has continued to be identified during the long intervening years to the present time (1921). In the early eighties he owned and operated a soft coal mine at Hilliards, Butler county, Pa., and for some years was a jobber and wholesaler of soft coal.
As chairman of the railway committee in 1886, he was in 'rumental in bringing the Chautauqua Lake Rail- road to Jame town. In 1886, when natural gas was piped into Jamestown, thu, destroying temporarily the coal business, he devoted his attention to the develop- ment of electric lighting, then in its infancy, organiz- ing and building the plant of the Jamestown Electric Light and Power Company. In 1888, he disposed of his intere 1 in the electric business at Jamestown and was induced to vi it the island of Cuba in the interest of the
Thompson-Houston Electric Company, as president of the Spanish Electric Company of Havana, made up of New York and Havana capitalists. He succeeded in introducing the "luz electrica," and was instrumental in lighting up the cities of Havana, Matanzas, Cardenas, Puerto Principe, and many of the great sugar planta- tions. After a two years' residence in Havana, he re- turned to Jamestown, finding his coal business much improved by the decreased consumption of gas.
His two years residence in Cuba enabled Colonel Endress to become familiar with the Spanish language and customs, and being so fortunate as to recover from an attack of yellow fever and thus rendered immune, found himself most favorably conditioned when the Spanish-American War began in 1898. At the outburst of that conflict, he at once volunteered his services and received from Governor Black a lieutenant-colonel's commission, with staff appointment. Throughout the five months of war, including the campaign in Porto Rico, he served as aide to Brigadier-General Guy V. Henry, U. S. Army, and has many gratifying evidences of the latter's appreciation of his soldierly services.
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