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Buell, Charles, East Bloomfield, was born where he now resides, June 14, 1829. His father was Timothy, son of Timothy, who came from Goshen, Conn., in 1792, and died here in 1849, aged over ninety-two years. His first wife was Olive Norton, by whom he had these children : Jonathan, Timothy, Eben, Theron, Lucy and Unice. He mar- ried, second, Charity Norton, by whom he had no children. The father of our subject was born in Connecticut in 1792, came to Bloomfield, and died in January, 1873. He was a Republican, and served as assemblyman and supervisor. He was a director of the Ontario and Livingston Insurance Company, and was a progressive and enterprising citizen. He married Lucy, daughter of Daniel and Aurelia (Dowd) Rice, and they had these children: Frederick, Augustus, Charles, John (who enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York Volunteers; he was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N. C., in 1864, and died in Andersonville prison September 7, 1864; he was a sergeant), Olive, Caroline, Alice and Ellen. Charles received a district school and academic education, and at the age of twenty-one began life for himself. He has always lived on the homestead, and owns 143 acres. He is a Republican in politics. His wife was Anna Dunn, born in Attica, by whom he has four children: Kezzie, wife of Dr. John H. Jewett; John L., Harry C. and Florence. Subject's mother died two weeks after her husband. .
Black, Archibald, Geneva, father of John Black and sisters, living one and one-half miles north of Geneva, was born in Johnstown, Fulton connty, N. Y., March 9, 1800. In 1801 his father with his family moved to Geneva, where they made their home. Here Archibald and his brother John were educated in the common school. He was a farmer. On the 13th of October, 1825, he married Eleanor Wooden, whose father, James Wooden, was one of the early settlers. They had eight children : John, Janet, Mary, Elizabeth, Harriet A., E. Caroline, Louise and Frances. Their grandfather, John Black, was born in Wigtown, Scotland, about 1755. He married Janet Narrin, of Wigtown, came to America, and served all through the Revolutionary War. They
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had eight children : Elizabeth, Jane, Polly, John, Barbara, Archibald, James, and one who died in infancy. His brother William was drafted by the English. At the battle of Saratoga they were in the opposing armies, but William deserted soon after. Their great-grandfather was killed in Scotland by an English press gang while fighting against being deprived of his liberty. He was a Covenanter, and his parents were among that grand company who fled for their lives before, to them, that synonym of cruelty, John Graham of Claverhouse.
Black, Dexter J., East Bloomfield, a native of Smithfield, Madison county, was born April 5, 1842. He is a son of Loring Black, whose father, John, was a native of Con- necticut, and early came to Smithfield, where he lived and died. Loring was born in Connecticut in September, 1800, and came with his parents to New York when a child. He married Polly Dewey, a native of Vernon, Oneida county, and a daughter of Thomas Dewey, many years a resident of Madison county, where he died. Loring had eight sons and two daughters. He once owned 100 acres of land in Madison county, but sold this and purchased another farm in East Bloomfield, where he spent the last twenty-seven years of his life. He assisted in building the Baptist church at Canan- daigua. The death of Mr. Black occurred June 11, 1891, and that of his wife in 1855. Dexter J. received an academic education, and when a young man came with his parents to East Bloomfield, where, in 1877, he married Emma A. Crandall, a native of Naples, and a daughter of C. Lorenzo Crandall, a native of South Bristol. The latter was a son of John, a native of Connecticut, who with his wife, Catherine Sweet, and ten children, came to South Bristol. Here his wife died in 1854, and he in 1880. C. Lorenzo Crandall was born in South Bristol in 1816, and married Elvira Herrick, a native of Naples, and daughter of Eben and Lois (Hammond) Herrick, and they had two sons and four daughters. In 1855 he came to East Bloomfield and bought 100 acres of land, where subject now resides. Mr. Crandall died in 1881, and his wife in 1883. Dexter J. Black and wife had five children: Milton L., Burton L, Ada E., Frank H. and Emma P. Milton L. married Annie Dalton, of Rochester. He is an electrician, and resides in Canandaigua. Mr. Black is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church at Canandaigua.
Baldwin, George, Gorham, was born in Italy, Yates county, September 10, 1825, a son of Daniel, who was a son of Jacob Baldwin, a native of Boston, Mass. The latter in youth was apprenticed to a tanner and currier. Not liking the business, at sixteen 'he enlisted in the Revolutionary War, where he rose to the rank of captain. In an early day Mr. Baldwin came to Saratoga county, and there married Hannah, daughter of Lifelet Hull, and had three sons and four daughters, Daniel being the eldest son. In 1804 he came to Benton, Yates county, and settled on a farm, which has been in the family ever since. Here he lived and died. Daniel was born May 3, 1792, in Saratoga connty. He married Annie Wilson, a native of Benton, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. Mr. Baldwin was in the War of 1812. He died in Italy, Yates county, in 1849, and his wife in 1852. George Baldwin married, February 20, 1850, Mary Taylor, of Italy, born May 5, 1821. Mr. Baldwin has always been a farmer, and since 1866 has resided in Gorham. He is a Republican, and has been assessor nine
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years, and has held other town offices. The parents of Mrs. Baldwin were Stephen Taylor, a native of Benton, born 1797, and Electa Hewitt, a native of Oppenheim, born 1802. They had six children. He died in Allegany county, December 11, 1858, and his wife January 20, 1888. The father of Electa Hewitt was Randal Hewitt, who, during the Revolutionary War, was captured by the Indians.
Beal, Embery J., Clifton Springs, was born in Manchester, December 19, 1834. His grandfather, Caleb Beal, and grandmother, Rachel Redfield Beal emigrated to this State in the winter of 1813 from Massachusetts on a sleigh drawn by horses, an unusual oc- curence (oxen being the common mean of conveyance in those days). They stopped at Lemuel Bannister's in Phelps, whose wife was Caleb Bea"'s sister. There they re- mained until April, when they moved on a tract of land on ' Hog Back Hill," in the town of Palmyra. After a number of years they erected a large farm-house, which still stands. Caleb Beal during his eventful life was a man of strong personality and powerful frame. He was for a time in the early days of the county intimately associ- ated with six different tribes of Indians, who loved and respected him for his sterling worth, and with whom he exerted great influence. Washington Beal, son of Caleb Beal, and father of Embery J. Beal, was born in town of Conway, Mass., September 13, 1803. He married Eliza H. Holmes, daughter of Nathaniel Holmes, of Manchester, and settled on a farm in said town, where he lived until his death. He was a man of positive likes and dislikes, ever sustaining his views of right against all opposition. He was an efficient exhorter of the M. E. Church, being much respected and esteemed. He died in Manchester, where he first settled, after a long and useful life, on the 24th of February, 1889, at the age of eighty-five years, five months, eleven days. Embery J. Beal received a fair education at the public schools and at an academy in Macedon Cen- ter, Wayne county. He married Frances J. Tiffany, of Walworth, after which he lived with his father a few years, then settled on the farm known as the John P. Salor farm, which he owns at this date. They have two daughters: Josephine E., who has com- pleted a course at the Commercial College at Elmira; and Calla E., who is attending the Brockport Normal School, fitting herself for a teacher's life. Embery J. has fol- lowed agricultural pursnit until six years since (1886) when he retired, renting his farm to a tenant, removing first to Palmyra, and three years ago to Clifton Springs. Mr. Beal is a man much beloved and respected. He is of a generous and upright character, a strong Prohibitionist in his convictions, and a faithful and loving father to his intelli- gent family.
Blair, Walter, was born on his present farm in Canandaigua, November 24, 1833. His grandfather, James, was a son of William and Agres (Mar) Blair. Agnes Mar was a daughter of James Mar, only son of the Earl of Mar, of Scotland. James Mar came to this country at the time of the Scotch rebellion. James Blair was born in Massachu- setts, June 1. 1755, and died February 16, 1855. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and came to Madison county in 1784, where he made his home for fifty years. He married Mary Dick, of Massachusetts, and they had eight children, of whom James, the father of our subject, was the third son. He was born in Warren, Mass., October 19, 1792. He was eight years old when his parents moved to Madison county,
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where he lived until twenty. He then started for himself, locating first at East Bloom- field, then in Victor, where he conducted a mill and distillery, and in 1829 bought a farm of 136 acres in Canandaigua. Here he died February 7, 1875. He was an Epis- copalian, and a man of great firmness and character. He married, October 3, 1822, Sabra Lyon, a native of this county, and they had eight children, five of whom survive : Mary E., lives on the homestead ; Burton H., an insurance agent of Rochester; Sophia, wife of Hiram Case, of Canandaigua; Alice A., and Walter. The latter was educated in the common school, and became a farmer. He has always taken an active interest in the success of the Republican party.
Brown, C. P., Shortsville, was born at Nassau, Rensselaer county, in 1824. He re- ceived an excellent education in the schools of that vicinity, and early became identi- fied with the Empire Drill Company of Shortsville. He is now the largest stockholder of this concern. Mr. Brown has held the office of trustee of the village since its in- corporation. His wife was Cornelia E. Drummond, and they have four children living.
Blanchard Bros-William and George, Canandaigua, were born in Seneca, and when but boys their father moved to Canandaigua, where he engaged in butcher business, which he followed until his death. He had five children, all now living. They were educated in the common schools, and early in life began working at their father's busi- ness.
In 1869 they opened a market in Canandaigua, where they have ever since been the leaders in the meat trade in this village. In addition to their regular trade, they handle in its season all kinds of game and green produce. They and their families are of the Presbyterian Church. William married in 1876 Matilda Lapage, of Canandaigua, and they have three children : Grace, Jessie, and James. George A. married Ellen Schellinger, of Canandaigua, and they are the parents of four children : Georgia, Mabel, Mary, and William.
Bellinger, Christopher, East Bloomfield, a native of Little Falls, was born December 17, 1827, a son of John C., a native of Little Falls, whose parents were among the earliest settlers here, and whose father was killed at Little Falls while working in a stone quarry. John C. was born in 1797, and was reared by David Richmyre, a black- smith, with whom he learned that trade. He also kept a hotel and followed farming, having fallen heir to a farın from his father. He used to go on foot to Albany to purchase iron to bring back on flat boats up the Mohawk. He married Mary Feeter, a native of Manheim, and daughter of Col. William Feeter, of Revolutionary fame. He was an intimate friend of General Herkimer, and maintained the mail service from Newport to Albany. The government afterwards employed him to carry the mail, and for many years some one of the family acted as mail carrier. He was a friend of Sir William Johnson, and was one of forty men known as " Tryon county bull dogs," Mr. Feeter was born February 12, 1756, and his wife, Elizabeth, March 23, 1764. They were the parents of twelve children. John C. Bellinger and wife had seven sons and two daughters. He died in 1881, and his wife in 1871. Christopher received a com- mon school education, and has always been a farmer. In 1849 he married Christina Walrath, a native of Herkimer county, born November 14, 1828. She is one of eight
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children of Moses and Margaret (Whitmasher) Walrath. The father of Moses Walrath was Jacob, one of the earliest settlers of the county. Christopher and wife have had seven children : Margaret, Hiram, Moses, Jerome (deceased), Christina, Gertrude, and Hattie. Mr. Bellinger formerly owned ninety-seven acres of land in the town of Co- lumbia, which he sold, and purchased 100 acres and a saw-mill in Danube. Here he kept a large dairy and did an extensive business in hop growing. In 1866 he came to East Bloomfield and bought the Colonel Rochester farm of 304 acres, which he has greatly improved. He is an active Democrat, and has been assessor and excise com- missioner.
Benham, D. C., was born in Hopewell on the farm he now owns, August 22, 1825, a son of Thomas Benham, a native of Dutchess county, who came when a young man to Hopewell, and here married Eliza Coe, a native of Rockland county, who came to Hope- well with her parents, Isaac and Nancy Coe. Mr. Benham has on his farm an Indian well built with brick brought from France. Some of these bricks will be at the World's Fair at Chicago. Their family consists of one son and three daughters. He died in 1876, and his wife in 1885. Subject was reared on a farm, and on January 24, 1854, married Mary A., daughter of John and Amy (Smith) Crane, who reared seven chil- dren. Mr. Crane was in the War of 1812. He and wife settled in Canandaigua, where both died, he November 3, 1873, and his wife March 18, 1887. Mr. Benham and wife have two sons, Charles D., who has charge of his father's fruit farm in Gorham; and James E., who resides at home. His wife is Hattie Wadsworth, a native of Hopewell. Mr. Benham was under sheriff of Ontario county from 1876 to 1880, and on September 6, 1878, hung Chas. Eighmy, this being the first execution in Ontario county. Mr. Ben- ham is a Democrat, and a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294 F. & A. M., and Ex- celsior Chapter No. 164 R. A. M. Mr. Benham has been senior deacon and scribe for a number of years. He represented his lodge at the annual convocation at Albany, Feb- ruary 2 and 3, 1892.
Booth, W. C., Geneva, furnishes the following concerning himself and family : Born in Cheshire, England, removed to America with his parents when three years old. My parents located at Wappinger's Creek, where my father was a blear her in the print works there. Removed to Trenton, N. J, and finally came to Pleasant Valley, near Oriskany, N. Y., where my father and my two sisters worked in Dexter's Woolen Mill for eight or nine years. Removed to Little Falls, where I was apprenticed to the machinist trade ; company failed in a year and a half and then mother bought out a bakery, where I learned something of the baker's trade. Failed in the great panic, 1857; the following spring went to England and tried to finish my trade as a ma- chinist, but on account of the union I could not secure a place without being bound for seven years; gave up the idea of being an iron worker and turned to what knowledge I had in baking to help me out; advertised for a place for improvement, hired out with Joseph Hawcroft, of Barnsley, Yorkshire, stayed my year out, left him, worked in York, Scarborough, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, and other small places as a journeyman baker. Came back from England about 1866, worked in New York for Willson & Company, in Cherry street, as a baker or mixer in fancy goods ; the
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following year removed to Seneca Falls, where I hired out to the Goulds Manufac- turing Company to learn the moulding trade ; stayed with them about nine years; got married to Miss Frances E. Holmes; the result of this union was William C., Lewis G., and Mand Frances Booth. While at Seneca Falls removed to a bakery in Water- loo, sold out, went to Ithaca, removed to Utica, worked at both trades while there. Removed to Ilion, worked for the Remingtons as a moulder, removed to Leonards- ville, took charge of a shop for Mr. Babcock on general work; returned to Utica, worked at baking; came back to Waterloo and worked for John O. Spencer in mould- ing department ; got up an oven while here, fot things ready and commenced baking again in Waterloo, and removed to Geneva in 1891, and started a bakery on Exchange street. While in Utica I lost my oldest boy, William ; brought him to Seneca Falls to be buried, interred him in our lot that we have there. Father and mother both died in Utica and were buried there; also wife's parents are also dead Mother died in Colburn Harbor, Canada ; father died in Seneca Falls and was buried there.
Brown, Francis L., Shortsville, was born in Newark, town of Arcadia. Wayne county, N. Y., November 12, 1841. He was educated in the schools of Wayne county and Nassau, Rensselaer county. In 1861, April 22. he enlisted in the Thirty- third Regiment New York Infantry, Company D. Mr. Brown remained in this regi- ment until 1863, when he received his discharge on the 2d of June from Company G, to which he had been transferred. He returned to Ontario county and raised a cavalry company, of which he was appointed captain, and which was mustered into the United States service January 19, 1864, as Company L, Twenty-fourth Regiment New York Cavalry. Captain Brown was severely wounded at Bethesda Church June 1, 1864, the beginning of the three days' fight at Cold Harbor. Captain Brown remained in service when he had to walk with a crutch and when on horseback carry his crutch in his hand. He was with Grant and Sheridan at Appomattox, and was finally mustered out at the close of the war as senior captain of his regiment. Cap- tain Brown then returned to Shortsville and entered the employ of H. L. and C. P. Brown, manufacturers of grain drills. In the spring of 1867 he commenced the study of law in the office of Folger & Mason at Geneva, and took a two years' law course at Ann Arbor, Mich. He was admitted to the bar at the General Term in June, 1869, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Captain Brown is a prominent member of the G. A. R .. is a trustee of the Manchester Cent- etery Association, and also of the llerendeen Post Soldiers' Monument Association, and mainly through his efforts an imposing soldiers' monument has been erected at Shortsville. He never held any political office. In 1879 he was the Republican can- didate for member of assembly in the First Assembly District of Ontario county, but was beaten because the district was strongly Democratic. He carried his own town by a majority of 198, which was at that time the largest majority that the town had ever given any candidate for a contested position. In January, 1870, he was united in marriage to Miss Flora E. Wilcox, of Geneva, and they have a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters.
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Boughton, Walter, Vietor, was born on the old homestead, June 16, 1826, was educated in the district schools, and was a farmer. He married twice; first to Caroline Hart, of Victor, and they have had five children : Emma, who died at the age of six years; Herman, who married Lella C. Rawson, and have two children : Bertha and Ruth ; Amelia, who married Albert C. Albridge, of Victor, and they have two children : Caroline J. and Gilbert W .; Alma, who married John R. Wool- sey, and has one son, Homer W .; and Myron, who married Eliza Ett Tiffany, of East Bloomfield. Mrs. Boughton died July 30, 1891. September 28, 1882, he mar- ried Harriet, daughter of Omri and Jemima Nelson, of Victor. Mr. Boughton's father, Caleb, was born in New Cannan, Conn., February 7, 1799, and came with his parents to Victor when a year old. He, too, was a farmer, and married Irene Boughton, of Victor. They had four children: Walter, William, who married Ellen A. Ketchum, of Victor ; Jane A., who married Melancthon Lewis, jr., and James, who married Frances Pardee. Mr. Boughton's grandfather, Eleazer, was born at New Canaan, Conn., and married Deborah Benedict, and moved to Victor with his wife and five children. Their marriage took place January 22, 1786. The origin of the family name by tradition was as follows : One Nicholas, who was a chorister in Burgundy, France, warded off the assassin's dagger with his baton, saving the life of the Duke of Burgundy ; for this act he was decorated with a button, after a while he was banished and fled to North of Wales, England, where he died leaving two sons. The oldest one returned to France, took possession of the estates, and became Marshal of France. The date given is 1516. The youngest son, John, came to Boston, Mass., and the name Button was changed to Bouton and afterwards to the present form of the name Boughton. From him the numerous and sturdy race of Boughtons in the United States has sprung, and become a power in the land, and in Victor in par- ticular.
Burge, Silas, Bristol, was born in Athens, O., in 1818. His father, Joseph, spent his life as a farmer in Ohio, and Silas was educated in the common schools. His parents died when he was a boy and he was bound out to a Mr. Jones, with whom he went to Buffalo when nine years of age. At the age of twelve he started in life for himself. He went to Bristol and there for a number of years worked by the month, and then bought the farm now owned by James Reed. Mr. Burge followed farming until 1873, when he went to Bristol Centre, and has since lived retired. He has been four times married ; first to Ann, daughter of John Taylor, by whom he had four children : E. Whitefield, Victoria L., Ida A., and Lillian M. Mrs. Burge died May 6, 1858, and he married second Jane (Reed) Benedict, of Canandaigua, and had one child, Jennie L. The third wife of Mr. Burge was Ann M. Grovin, and the fourth Nellie M. Rodgers of Canandaigua. Mr. Burge is a Republican and voted for Will- iam Henry Harrison and also for his grandson, Benjamin. Mr. Burge is a member of the M. E. Church, of which he was class leader and chorister many years. E. White- field Burge was born in Bristol, June 7, 1845. December, 1863, he enlisted in Com- pany H., Fourth New York Heavy Artillery, and served until September 26, 1865. He was in the following engagements : Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River,
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Po River, Tolopotomy Creek, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Hatcher's Run, Peeble's Farm, Southside Railroad, Five Forks, Clover Hill, Sullivan's Station, and Lee's Sur- render, and was wounded at Petersburg. He graduated from Canandaigua Academy in 1872, and then followed teaching and the mercantile business until 1881. He then discontinued teaching and became a pension attorney. In 1876 he married Lillian, one of four children of Joseph A. and Charlott (Wilcox) Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Burge have four children : Allen R., Francis T., Carlton S., and Bessie. Mr. Burge is a Populist in politics, and has been justice of the peace fifteen years, town clerk two years, and justice of sessions one year.
Church, Walter S. and John B. John B., Geneva, was born at Angelica, Allegany county, February 15, 1834. He was educated in New Haven, Conn., at General W. H. Russell's Collegiate Institute. Subsequently he entered the Sheffield Scientific School, a department of Yale College. By profession he is a civil and mining engineer. He was engaged on the original surveys of the Erie railroad, now known as the New York, Lake Erie and Western ; also on the New York and New Haven Railroad, and on other enterprises of the day. He was in charge of iron mines for Messrs. Cooper & Hewitt and was for many years general manager of the Alliance Coal Mining Company of Pottsville, Schuylkill county. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He has been twice married. First in 1867 to Julia M. Chester, of Detroit, Mich., who died in 1868, leaving one son, John B., who died in infancy, January 19, 1891. He married his present wife, Mary White Morris, of Philadelphia, the financier of the Revolution. They have had three children, a son and a daughter who died in infancy, and a surviving son, Philip Schuyler. In 1884 he retired from the Alliance Coal Mining Company and made Geneva his home.
Church, Walter S., was born at Angelica, Allegany county, August 31, 1832. Edu- cated at General Russell's and the Hopkins Grammar schools, New Haven, Conn. Entered Yale College class of '54, but fell ill and by physician's advice joined the party the Professors Silliman and made the tour of Europe. Regaining his health, entered Dartmouth College, N. H., and was graduated there in 1856 with a second brother (Benjamin S.). Choosing the profession of engineering, he began upon railroad sur- veys in Illinois. Then was engaged upon the hydraulic surveys of Croton Watershed, New York, and upon the reservoirs and distribution in the city. In 1861 he was pro- moted to the charge of the Old Croton Aqueduct Line and, just before the outbreak of the war, accepted an appointment as engineer to the Peruvian government, whom he served for four years. He projected various water works, bridges and harbor improve- ments on the coast, and traveled extensively in the interior, part of the time with the distinguished antiquarian, E. George Squier, and the eminent naturalist and physicist, Sr. Don Antonio Raimondi, examining and measuring the old incarial temples, for- tresses and aqueducts about Arequipa, Puno, Cuzo, and Lake Titicaca. From 1866 to 1869 he was in charge of gold mines, water supplies and irrigation in California. Re- turning east, he was engaged on the sewerage of Washington, D.C, and had ten years' practice in the mining of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania. He was then on municipal work in New York as a topographical engineer in the department of Parks and as
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