History of Ontario Co., New York, Part 90

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. Fiftieth Engineers .- Henry C. Simmons, Company K. Enlisted from Eighty- fifth Infantry December 31, 1863; discharged June 13, 1865.

John Cornell. Enlisted January 12, 1864.

Edward F. Munson. Enlisted January 4, 1864; discharged June 13, 1865, at Fort Berry, Virginia, with the regiment.

James McKelvey. Enlisted January 1, 1864.

Richard H. Warfield. Enlisted January 4, 1864.

Charles W. Wheeler. Enlisted January 4, 1864.

First Mounted Rifles, Company K .- Willard Doolittle, Jr. Enlisted July 29, 1862 ; promoted quartermaster-sergeant; mustered out June 10, 1865.

William P. Smith. Enlisted July 30, 1862; discharged June 12, 1865. Samuel Kinyon. Enlisted July 31, 1862; discharged August 12, 1865. Almeron Reed. Enlisted July 31, 1862; discharged June 12, 1865.

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Niel S. Goold. Enlisted July 30, 1862; discharged from hospital on account. of heart-disease, May 16, 1865.

George S. Gaines. Enlisted August 7, 1862 ; discharged June 12, 1865. Orrin Purcell. Enlisted August 5, 1862 ; discharged May 18, 1865, by general order No. 83.

Harrison Babcock. Mustered August 23, 1862; re-enlisted. Gilbert Doty. Enlisted August 7, 1862 ; discharged June 12, 1865. William J. MoNinch.

Mortimer Slight. Enlisted August 4, 1862; promoted corporal November 17, 1862; sergeant, May 9, 1864; discharged July 7, 1865.

William W. Symonds. Enlisted August, 1862; died November 10, 1862. Wilbur Purlee. Enlisted August 1, 1862; discharged August 30, 1864; re- enlisted.

Bishop Truman. Enlisted July 30, 1862; discharged June 12, 1865. William Garthen, Company D, Twentieth Colored Infantry. Enlisted September 9, 1864 ; discharged September 9, 1865. George Clark. Enlisted January 4, 1864.

Jno. W. Garthen. Enlisted September 1, 1864; died at Fort Columbus, Ken- tucky, winter of 1865.

William H. Shelton (Vet. Vol.), First Heavy Artillery. Mustered in Jan. 4, 1864.

George McMichael. Enlisted Ang. 10, 1864, in First Light Artillery, Battery C; discharged June 17, 1865 ; services no longer required. .

Isaac A. Wright. Enlisted Dec. 28, 1863; promoted corporal, May 4, 1864 ; sergeant, March 1, 1865 ; discharged June 19, 1865; was a veteran volunteer.

Fourth Heavy Artillery .- Adam Kennedy, Battery H. Enlisted January 19, 1864; taken prisoner Aug. 25, 1864, at Reams' Station ; confined in prison at Belle Island, Richmond, Va. ; paroled Oct. 8, 1864.

Isaac Green, Battery C. Enlisted Ang. 12, 1862; discharged June 2, 1865. Thomas De Pue. Enlisted Jan. 4, 1864. Vincent Decker. Enlisted January 4, 1864.

. Edward C. Martin. Enlisted Jan. 14, 1864.

James O'Neill. Enlisted Dec. 24, 1863. Henry Rothear. Enlisted Jan. 4, 1864; re-enlisted. Henry 8. Struble. Enlisted Feb. 19, 1864; discharged Sept. 26, 1865. Merian Worthy. Enlisted Aug. 20, 1862; promoted to sergeant Oct. 10, 1863. Valentine Washburn .. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1864 ; wounded at battle of Spottsyl- vania; returned to duty ; discharged Sept. 26, 1865. .

Eighth Heavy Artillery .- John S. Clarke. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864.

Joseph F. Harris. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864. Daniel Kerrigan. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864.

James Keegan. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864.

Frederick Robinson. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864.

George Welch. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864. Milford C. Wirnett. Enlisted Feb. 11, 1864.

John Williams. Enlisted Feb. 13, 1864.

. Walter Wilcox. Enlisted April 9, 1863, in Eleventh Heavy Artillery; re enlisted Jan. 7, 1864, in Eighth Artillery ; arrested for desertion, and returned to his regiment, which was consolidated with Fourth Artillery ; discharged Oct. 5, 1865.

Sixteenth Heavy Artillery .- Fayette C. Batchelor, Battery C. Enlisted Jan. 4, 1864; promoted sergeant March 15, 1864; discharged August 28, 1865; was a veteran volunteer.

Francis J. Anderson, Battery H. Enlisted Jan. 2, 1864; wounded Sept. 29, 1864; sent to Hampton hospital; discharged Sept. 6, 1865.

William Giddings. Enlisted Dec. 19, 1863; discharged Aug. 28, 1865.

Ichabod Carpenter. Enlisted Dec. 30, 1863; discharged Aug. 28, 1865.

William B. Thompson. Enlisted Jan. 4, 1864; promoted corporal March 31, 1864 ; discharged Ang. 21, 1865.

Hiram P. Whitney, Battery D. Enlisted Jan. 2, 1864; died at Yorktown, Va., March 19, 1864; was a veteran volunteer.

Wesley P. Batchellor, Battery A, Sixth Michigan Artillery. Enlisted Feb. 24, 1864; discharged Ang 20, 1865.

William West. Enlisted Dec. 29, 1863, in Fifth Cavalry.

Charles Hodge. Enlisted Dec. 29, 1863, in Fifth Cavalry.

George Watrous. Enlisted Sept. 17, 1863, in Co. L, Twentieth New York Cavalry; discharged July 31, 1863.

C. F. Hyde. Enlisted Sept. 8, 1864, in Twenty-first Cavalry ; discharged May 23, 1865.

James Long. Enlisted in Twenty-fourth Cavalry ; died in service.

Franklin Moore. Mustered Jan. 19, 1864, in Twenty-fourth Cavalry.

Robert Whisker, native of Ireland, resident of Richmond. Entered the service, but in what regiment is unknown.

Jerry Wilson. Enlisted from Richmond, in Harris Light Guards.

NAVAL.

There were three seamen in the naval service credited to this town, who served as substitutes for S. D. Short, Wesley Ray, and Daniel Short. The sub- stitute for the former was Thomas Wannall, a native of Germany; entered service September, 1864; the second was James Kane, and the third is unknown.

We have given above as full and complete record of the officers, soldiers, and seamen who went from the town of Richmond as can be obtained. Besides those mentioned, there were seventeen substitutes, non-residents of the town. In all, soldiers; seamen, and substitutes, this town furnished one hundred and fifty-three men.

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PERSONAL SKETCHES.

JOHN PENNELL.

John Pennell, Sr., was born in Colerain, Franklin county, Massachusetts, in 1773. He married Martha Tinney (born in 1776), of Colerain, in 1795. They had a family of three girls and eight boys, four of whom are yet living; John and Abram in this town. In 1807 he moved to Cortland county, and to the present town of Richmond in 1813, when both he and his wife passed away aged eighty-four and seventy-nine years, respectively.

John Pennell, the subject of this sketch, was born in Colerain, Massachusetts, April 14, 1796. He remained with his father until twenty-one years of age, when he worked six months for Abram Wiley, at fourteen dollars per month. He afterwards returned to his father's farm, and, subsequently, together with his brother, purchased eight hundred and sixty acres of land, paying therefor the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, which through years of hard labor they had accumulated. Mr. Pennell was married, May 6, 1827, to Sarah, daughter of Moses Green, who had moved to this town from Vermont in 1817; she was born March 8, 1805. They have had five girls and three boys, viz .: Francis G., born May 22, 1828; married Sarah Blackmer, June 19, 1862, and resides in the town. John W., born April 21, 1832; married Celia D. Hazen, born March 27, 1855, and resides at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Harriet N., born January 21, 1834; married Myron H. Blackman, September 14, 1854; lives on the homestead. Fanny W., born April 17, 1836, and died March 20, 1841. Emeline C., born April 20, 1838; died October 20, 1838. Caroline A., born April 20, 1838; died October 30, 1838. George W., born April 19, 1840, and married twice,-second wife, Millie McGinnis; resides in Atchison, Kansas. Elmira S., born January'9, 1844; married Thomas R. Reed, March 28, 1865, and resides in this town. There are now living five children and twenty grandchildren.

In politics Mr. Pennell was a Federalist, is now a Republican; was an anti- Musou, and has held the office of justice of the peace eight years. He was one of the first members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Honeoye in 1832, and gave liberally to aid in the construction of the edifice .. He is now a member of the Congregational church. Mr. Pennell began the battle of life poor, and now is the owner of about five hundred and forty acres of valuable land, the result of a career of honesty, industry, and a strict attention to his own affairs.

JOSHUA PHILLIPS

was born January 5, 1782, at Dighton, Massachusetts. He was of Puritan de- scent. His father, Joshua, was born in 1751, and was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war. He married Elizabeth Fish, who was born November 8, 1757, and eight children-four boys and four girls-were the fruit of that union. The subject of this sketch was the eldest. His advantages for education were very limited, and at the age of sixteen he went to the Dismal Swamp, in North Caro- lina, and assisted Captain Janes in the manufacture of cedar shingles.

In 1798 he came to Livonia, where he remained one season in the employ of Philip Short, and returned to Dighton, and soon after came to Richmond with a team for John Mason, grandfather of Hon. F. O. Mason, the present county judge. In 1803 he again went to Massachusetts, and settled his father's estate, he having died August 19, 1799. September 1, 1803, he married Olive Paull, daughter of William Paull. She was born June 20, 1784. Accompanied by his wife, mother, brothers, and sisters, ten persons in all, he started for the western country, arriving here on the twenty-seventh day after their departure. His first purchase was sixty-five acres of land of Benjamin Wheeler, paying three dollars and fifty cents per acre. Soon after, sixty-five acres more were added to the original purchase. The following children were born to them, viz .: Cyrene, born July 4, 1804; married Abria Adams, September 1, 1825, and died June 8, 1828. William Paull, born January 9, 1806; died September 18, 1835. John Edwin, born May 10, 1819; married Mary E. Pool, October 6, 1845, and died June 24, 1869; his widow resides in Honeoye. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 17, 1823; married David A. Pierpont, September 28, 1843. Mr. Phillips served

in Captain Clark's company during the war of 1812, and received a captain's commission May 8, 1815. He was at the capture of Queenstown, and from an elevated position waved the flag of truce, while the enemy's bullets were falling about him on every side. He shared the fate of his companions; was taken prisoner and sent to Halifax. At the close of the struggle, he settled on the old homestead, where he remained until 1829, when he located on the farm now owned by his son-in-law, David A. Pierpont. He died September 27, 1865, and his es- timable companion passed away November 8, 1871. Captain Phillips was a zeal- ous man in religious affairs, and a constant attendant of the Universalist church. He was also a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity prior to the Morgan excitement. Honorable, benevolent, and kind, he won the esteem of all, and passed away mourned by a large circle of friends and kindred.

DAVID A. PIERPONT.

David Pierpont, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1788. He married Sally Palmer, September 13, 1812; she was born on the 25th of May, 1791. In the year 1816 be removed to the town of Richmond, and engaged in the cabinet-making business at Allen's Hill, where he died April 3, 1862. Mrs. Pierpont died March 31, 1860. They had four children, viz. : David A., born at Middlebury, Vermont, November 19, 1815; Frances A., born at Allen's Hill, October 17, 1818; Caroline A., born June 11, 1821; and Ogden E., born April 8, 1824. Frances A. married Marcius Willson, -a noted historian, residing at Vineland, New Jersey,-October 17, 1838; and Caroline A. married George P. Townsend, in October, 1845, and died September 1, 1849.

David A. Pierpont, whose name appcars at the head of this sketch, assisted his father some time in the business of cabinet-making, and after acquiring a good education at the common schools and the Canandaigua Academy, he entered the store of James Dixon as clerk, at the age of fourteen, where he remained one year, and returned to the shop of his father. At nineteen years of age he clerked in the store of Hiram Merriman, at Allen's Hill, and subsequently was employed as clerk at Canandaigua, by Nathaniel Gorham. Here he remained one year, and returned to Allen's Hill, where, in company with James Henry, he began mer- chandising. At the expiration of two years Henry disposed of his interest to Hon. Robert L. Rose, now of Hagerstown, Maryland, who conducted the business with Mr. P. until the latter retired, soon after, to engage in agricultural pursuits.

September 28, 1843, Mr. Pierpont married Sarah E., daughter of Cuptain Joshua Phillips. He subsequently engaged in milling and merchandising at Honeoye, and in 1852 located on the farm where they now reside. They have had three children, two of whom are living. Mr. Pierpont is a man in character similar to his father-in-law, Joshua Phillips. The poor never turn from his door empty-handed, and the needy find in him a man ever ready to render them assist- ance. He is liberal in education and religious matters, and an attendant of the Universalist church.

Mr. Pierpont early manifested a deep interest in political matters, and while yet young in years he was thoroughly conversant with the political history of his country, and successfully coped with such men as Robert L. Rose. He was super- visor of the town in 1848-49, being the only man elected on the Democratic ticket; and has also served as district delegate to the State convention, and was present at the National convention that nominated Martin Van Buren. Several times he has been the nominee of his party for member of Assembly, and two years ago received the nomination for Congress, running in opposition to Hon. Elbridge G. Lapham, of Canandaigua; and in nearly every town in the entire Congressional district, embracing Ontario, Livingston, and Yates, he led his ticket. He is calm and deliberate, a sound party adviser, and in every way an estimable citizen, well entitled to the popularity acquired through a life-long career of honor and integrity.

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DAVID L. HAMILTON.

Every condition in life has some advantages. The attention must be fixed upon a single character to render one distinct among thousands. In this instance the subject is David L. Hamilton. While the life of the individual is central, the ancestry is not disregarded. The father of Mr. Hamilton, Hugh Hamilton, was born in Massachusetts, October 31, 1770. On March 24, 1794, he married Isabel Knox, whose birth dates December 25, 1772. For sixteen years the couple lived in the old Bay State, and then, desirous of bettering his fortune, he Bet out in 1810, on horseback, to find a home in the west. "His destination was Ohio, and he had advanced as far as Erie, Pennsylvania, unsatisfied, and having a remembrance of attractive lands in Ontario County, returned thither, and bought a half-interest in the Phelps saw- and grist-mill, on Mill creek, and one hundred acres from the south side of the Phelps farm, in Richmond, where A. Pennell now lives. Hamilton operated the grist-mill until December, when he returned to Massachusetts. He brought out his family during January, 1811. The journey was made in horse sleighs, and sledding was passable to Cayuga lake; thence on it was poor, with slush and mud most of the way. He remained four years in charge of the mill, dug a new race-way, made frequent repairs, especially 'after high waters, and finally resold his interest to Mr. Crooks, and built a log house on the land which he had purchased. Moving into this house, he continued the work of clearing the land between the road and the old lake landing. The title of this tract was in dispute, and he sold his improvements and bought a small farm, where his youngest son, David L. Hamilton, now resides. Upon this farm he became a permanent settler, and there died, March 1, 1851, at the age of eighty years. His means, limited at the start, were increased as years went by, and at his decease his farm was enlarged in bounds, and enhanced in value by im- provements. His widow died October 5, 1856, nearly eighty-four years of age. He had six children, Justin, Polly, Charlotte, William, Lucinda, and David L. Justin went to Hardin county, Kentucky, in the spring of 1818; removed in 1823 to Mercer county, Ohio, and there remained till his death, in 1863. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature for some years, and held several offices. Polly and Charlotte both died in Richmond while young women. Lucinda be- came the first wife of Abraham Pennell, and died in 1835. William emigrated to Mercer county, Ohio, where he resides. He has been an acting justice of the peace for over forty years. David L. Hamilton was chosen to remain on the homestead, and take care of his parents, as they began to feel the encroachments of age and have premonitions of change. He was born in the town of Bland- ford, Massachusetts, on February 6, 1809, and was consequently but an infant when his parents transferred their residence to the town of Richmond, Ontario County. The family was large, and both firmness of heart and steadiness of reso- lution were required to enable them to surmount the ills of poverty. All learned the priceless quality of frugality, and the sweat of honest, toilsome labor was no stranger to their faces. The time usually set apart for obtaining the knowledge taught in schools was devoted to learning how best to wield the axe and guide the plow. When Justin and William came of age they went out, as we have noted, to seek a home for themselves ; but for David L. Hamilton was left to make the most of the farm. It was as if he had dreamed that he saw a cataract pouring over a precipice, with sound of thunder and rush of foamy waters, and the channel becoming dry; then, glancing between the hills to a rivulet flow- ing along the valley, he saw a constant stream, and traced it from the spring to a wide and brimming lake, for he grew in wealth not rapidly, but by years of persevering industry. The small farm, descended as a heritage, has extended to include six hundred and seventy-five acres of good farm lands. He has been courteous in demeanor, and liberal to worthy schemes of benevolence. The va- rious town offices have been bestowed upon him, and as supervisor has shown him- self capable, efficient, and worthy of the trust. He has a family of five children living,-all residents of Richmond,-three sons and two daughters. They who are desirous of knowing to what extent prosperity has attended Mr. Hamilton, and the means employed to secure his present comfort and independence, will have found that industry and frugality know no limit, and the possession of wealth is no bar to usefulness and moral worth.

PETER P. BARNARD.

Chauncey Barnard, son of Samuel Barnard and Cynthia Foles, of English de- soent, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1784. At the age of twenty years .he came on foot to the town of Livonia, where he worked by the mouth for Mrs. Nancy Benton, whom he married about one year later. She was born Sep- tember 18, 1774, and was a daughter of Captain Peter Pitts, the first settler in

Richmond; and her husband, David Benton, erected the first frame house in Li- vonia, in which the first religious meetings and the first Presbyterian church in Livonia were held. Five sons were born to them, the two youngest being twins. Mr. Benton died April 5, 1834, and his wife passed away on the 22d of Febru- ary, 1847. He was a trusted officer in the war of 1812, and was at the burning of Buffalo. The sash worn by him at that time is now owned by his son, Peter Pitts Barnard, the subject of this sketch, who was born January 20, 1812, in the first frame house built in Livonia. He acquired a common school education, and at the age of twelve years went to reside with his uncle at Litchfield, Connecti- cut, where he remained three years and returned to his native county. October 19, 1837, he united in marriage with Fannie, daughter of John F. and Cynthia Reed, of Richmond, who was born May 7, 1818. Soon after marriage they lo- cated at Conesus, and in 1839 settled in Richmond. Beginning here in . log cabin, he and his estimable wife, through honesty, industry, and economy, have succeeded in acquiring a competency of this world's goods, and are now en- joying the down-hill of life surrounded by all the attributes of a happy rural home. (A view of their residence may be seen in this work.) Their children are Ellen A., born February 18, 1840; married Mark H. Ray, of Springwater, and resides in Concord, Jackson county, Michigan. Mr. Ray has served his county as school commissioner and treasurer. Elizabeth M., born February 11, 1842; married John P. Ray, and lives in Richmond. He is a farmer, a leading sheep-breeder, and stock correspondent of the agricultural press. Mrs. Ray died December 28, 1872. Frances, born September 23, 1846; married Richmond C. Beach, a farmer of Richmond. Fitch R., born January 1, 1852, lives with his father. P. Pitts, a namesake of Captain Peter Pitts, born November 13, 1859, also lives with his father. Mrs. Barnard died June 5, 1871, and her loss was severely felt by husband and children, to whom she had been a faithful helpmeet and devoted mother. She was a member of the Congregational church at Hone- oye. Mr. Barnard was married November 26, 1872, to Abbey Jane Gray, daughter of David Olney, and mother of Maxwell and wife of the late George F. Gray, who died March 18, 1869. She was born in the county of Monroe, March 14, 1823. Mrs. Barnard is a member of the Baptist church, at Lima, and her hus- band of the Congregational, at Honeoye. Mr. Barnard was an anti-Mason and is now a Republican. He served eight years as captain of the company com- manded by his futher at the burning of Buffalo. He is a strong temperance man, a liberal supporter of the gospel, kind and benevolent, and ever ready to advance the interests of friends and neighbors.

NOAH ASHLEY

emigrated to this town from Rutland, Vermont, but was previously a resident of Sheffield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, that being his native place. In the fall of 1802 he came to view the "goodly land," making the journey on horse- back, and was so well pleased with the prospect that he purchased a farm of one hundred and eighty-five acres, lot No. 32, located near the centre of the town, on which was a small clearing and a log house occupied by a man named Fuller. The price paid for the land was five dollars per acre. His son, Noah Ashley, Jr., now resides on the old homestead. Early in 1803 he moved with his family, consisting of his wife and two young children, Eliza and Hiram. Although educated to other pursuits, having left his home in Sheffield, Massachusetts, for Vermont, at the age of seventeen, to act as salesman in the store of a relative, in which capacity he served both in Vermont and in his native State for a number of years, also as a teacher in the town where he was born, Squire Ashley, as he was called in his new home, soon made his farm of one hundred and eighty-five acres a source of liberal income. Possessing an indomitable will and fixedness of purpose (in which traits of character his faithful wife largely shared), he soon rendered himself exceedingly valuable to his fellow-pioneers, entering zealously into all public enterprises, as well as lending a helping hand by wise and judicious counsel, and practically by means of his sound business capacity. As the necessity presented itself, he was administrator, assignee, lawyer, and magistrate for the early settlers, positions for which his education peculiarly fitted him. He was supervisor for many years, and held other town offices.

Noah Ashley, Jr., was born August 24, 1806. June 3, 1832, he married Minerva Tisdale, of Cortland; and nine children, four sons and five daughters, were born of this union. Three of the daughters are dead, and the remainder are married and reside in the town of Richmond. Noah Ashley and wife are members of the Congregational church at Honeoye.

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LUTHER STANLEY

was born in Vermont, February 8, 1782. He came to this country in 1805, and. after remaining a short time, returned to his native State and married Lydia Bennett, who was born in Vermont, July 12, 1788. They had eight children, viz. : Hiram, Daniel S., John, Lucinda, Elmira, Eunice, Marietta, and Mary. All are living except John, who died in 1836. Mrs. Stanley died in 1852. Mr. Stanley came to this country with only five hundred dollars, but by industry, per- severance, and an indomitable will, succeeded in acquiring five hundred acres of valuable land. He was an csteemed citizen, and his memory is cherished by nu- merous friends and relatives.

GEORGE JOHNSON.

Biography is read with interest, and its lessons are practically applied to the purposes of life. Romance opens a wide field for invention, and the fertility of thought presents sudden vicissitudes, desirable but unattainable. The events of history are beyond our application, and the difference is small between downright falsehood and useless truth. The advantage of a biography on a level with the general surface of life is, that it does not indicate a road to greatness, but shows how a life has been made long, useful, and happy. In accord with these thoughts is presented a brief record of George Johnson, son of Sylvester Johnson.

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