History of Ontario county, New York : with illustrations and family sketches of some of the prominent men and families, Part 57

Author: Aldrich, Lewis Cass, comp; Conover, George S. (George Stillwell), b. 1824, ed
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1002


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Frazer, John P., Victor, was born in Newton, Sussex county, N. J., February 28, 1828, where he was educated in the district schools. October 17, 1845, at the age of seventeen years he came to Canandaigua, and learned to be a tinsmith with his brother, B. P. Frazer. In 1849 he came to Victor and worked as a journeyman at his trade with A. P. Dickinson and others. In 1851 he began business on his own account, man- ufacturing and selling tinware, afterwards he added the hardware business, and has conducted it since. November 28, 1849, he married Abby J. Kenfield of Naples, Onta- rio county, and they have one adopted son, Charles. Mr. Frazer's father, John, was al-o born in New Jersey in 1788 and married Sarah Predmore of New Jersey, who was born November 21, 1786. They had seven children : Horatio N., Benjamin P., Mary A., Joseph P., William A., Sarah E. and John P. His grandfather, John Frazer, was born in Inverness, Scotland, and came to the United States when he was sixteen years old ; he was obliged to seek shelter here on account of playing Yankee Doodle on his bagpipe. Mrs. Frazer's father, John Kenfield, was born in Massachusetts in 1800, and married Ruth Bump of his native State. They had nine children, eight grew to matur- ity : Mary A., Salmon, Harriet, Lorenzo D., Abbby J., John, Wesley and Lucina E. They came to Naples in 1842. Mr. Kenfield died February 1, 1881. Mr. Frazer has been overseer of the poor of the town four years, also superintendent of the county poor six years, has been president of the village two years, member of the board of edu- cation six years, trustee of the M. E. Church for thirty years, and he and his wife are members of the same.


Greenleaf, Horace D., Hopewell, was born in Lafargeville, Jefferson county, May 11, 1845, a son of John D. Greenleaf, who was born in Guilford, Vt., December 8, 1803,


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and settled in Jefferson county. His wife was Julia Truesdale, a native of Quebec, whose parents came from France to Quebec where they died of cholera in 1832. Mr. Greenleaf and wife had two sons and four daughters, all now living. Mrs. Greenleaf died in 1881 and Mr. Greenleaf resides at Hall's Corners. In early life he was a sailor on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Horace D. married, December 29, 1870, Ella F., daughter of John and Lucina Dixon, early settlers of Seneca, where both died. Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have two children : John D. and Lucy J. Mr. Greenleaf learned the carpenter's trade in 1863 which he followed until 1887, when he was badly injured by a fall. In 1874 he came to Hopewell and purchased the Nathan Brundage farm, on which he has erected fine buildings at a cost of $5,000. He has been station agent at Lewis since 1890. He also deals in produce and coal, and has been in the mercantile business since 1888. He is a Democrat and has been justice of the peace four years. He is a member of Ark Lodge No. 33, F. and A. M. at Geneva, and became a Mason in 1868.


Gardner, Elisha W., Canandaigna, was born in Farmington, November 26, 1826, a son of Elisha W. Gardner, a farmer of that town, born in Rhode Island and resided for a few years in Albany county, N. Y., where he married Sarah, daughter of General Patterson, of Revolutionary fame, and came to Ontario county in 1810 and settled in Farmington. They had twelve children, three of them now living: Rev. Sunderland P. Gardner of Farmington, Mrs. Miriam Sheldon of Barry, Orleans county, and Elisha W., our subject. The early life of our subject was spent on the homestead farm. He was educated at Macedon Academy, and taught in district schools and Macedon Acad- emy, preparing for college at Lima Seminary. On the formation of Genesee College he spent one year there. He practiced civil engineering for a few years and then en- tered the New York State and National Law University at Ballston Springs, graduat- ing with the degree of LL.B. in the fall of 1851. Chancellor Walworth was president of the University at that time. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court that same fall, and immediately opened an office in Canandaigua and has continued in prac- tice here ever since. In 1854 he was admitted to the United States District and Circuit Courts, in which his practice has been quite extensive, and has argued a large number of causes at the General Term and in the New York Court of Appeals, and he has been a very successful lawyer. Mr. Gardner has been an active partisan of the Republican party since its formation in 1856, but has never been an aspirant to political office. In 1856 and 1860 he made many speeches throughout the State in the interests of the new party. Mr. Gardner married in 1852 Sarah A., daughter of William Pound, of Farm- ington. Mrs. Pound was a sister of Rev. Dr. Goodell, well known as the Turkish mis- sionary. Mr. Gardner has three children : Mary J., Helen A., and Edwin P., of On- tario County Journal.


Gooding Family, The. George Gooding, whose parents were natives of Massachu- setts, was born in 1770, and came to this country about 1800. He married Naomi Wilder, a native of Connecticut, by whom he had twelve children : George, who mar- ried Achsah Reed, died in 1883, and left seven children ; Lovisa, married Allen Brown ; Erastus, married and had one child, who was drowned when a lad ; Russell was born


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in 1809, and married in 1839 Betsey, daughter of Samuel Thurber, of New Hampshire, who lived in this town. They had four children : llorace, born in 1840, served in the One Hundred and Sixtieth N. Y. Vols., and died at Washington Hospital in January 1863 ; Sarah married in 1865 Spencer Martin, a lawyer of Saginaw, Mich., who died November 13, 1871, leaving two children, Russell and Wells; Edwin, of East Bloom- field, who lives on the home farm ; and Ella, who married Roswell Lee, of East Bloom- field. Again taking up George Gooding's family : Ann married Elizur Booth, and they had four children : Roxana, married Seymour Reed ; Naomi, married Samuel Taylor ; Chester, married Laura Booth, of Canandaigua ; Timothy, married Polly Hicks, of Can- andaigua, and died January 15, 1883, aged seventy-five years ; Wells, born in 1821, never married and died in 1881; and the youngest, Angeline, died in 1880, aged fifty years. One child died in infancy. Timothy and Wells Gooding accumulated large properties.


Green, Dr. Lewis E., Richmond, was born in South Dansville, Steuben county, January 13, 1850. His father, Philip, who was a native of Germany, came to this country when a young man, dying ir. 1891 at the age of seventy-five. He was a miller by trade in the old country and followed it in this country for many years. In later life he was also a farmer, owning between 400 and 500 acres and a grist-inill. He married Mary Woolfarger. They had ten children, of whom seven survive: Frederick, in the West; Alexander, of Conesus ; Dr. Lewis E. ; Mary E .; William H., who lives on the home- stead ; Charles C., a physician in Hornellsville ; and Benjamin W., of Hammondsport. Dr. Lewis E. was educated in Rogersville Union Seminary, studied medicine with Dr. L. B. Healy, of Cohocton, N. Y., attended the Medical school in Buffalo, and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1874. He practiced medicine in Hemlock one year and came to Honeoye in 1875, since which he has gained an ex- tensive practice. He married in 1887 Carrie E., daughter of David A. Pierpont, and they have one son, Pierpont Lewis. Dr. Green has held the office of town clerk several terms and has been postmaster four years.


Greene, Dr. Frank A., Geneva, was born in Virgil, Cortland county, December 12, 1855. He was educated in the public schools, and resided in Ithaca until nineteen years old. He studied dentistry with Dr. E. D. Carr, of De Ruyter, Madison county, and began practising dentistry in 1877, locating in Geneva in 1881. October 1, 1879, he married Mary E., second daughter of Andrew and Eliza Crawford, of Ithaca. They have one daughter, Edna Crozier. The doctor is a member of Ark Lodge No. 33 F. & A. M. ; of the Knights of Pythias; of the Seventh District Dental Society of the State of New York ; and also of the New York State Dental Society and American Dental Association. His father, Truman P. Greene, enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.


Garratt, William, Canandaigua, was born in Stanley, Seneca county, March 7, 1854, a son of Charles, a farmer of that town, who came to this country from England in 1850. He had ten children, of whom William was the fifth son. The latter's boyhood was spent in Seneca county, and he was educated in the common schools of Seneca and Ontario counties. His father moved into Gorham in 1865, where he died August 26, 1889, at seventy-three years of age. Our subject lived on the farm until he was


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twenty-one years of age, and then engaged in the manufacture of carriage and wagon spokes, which business he has since followed. In the fall of 1880 he moved into Can- andaigua, where he bought out the small spoke factory of his brother John, and in- creased the capacity of the mill by the addition of new machinery, and enlarging the building. Mr. Garratt is also a dealer in all kinds of hard wood lumber and kindling wood. The spokes manufactured by Mr. Garratt are shipped all through New York and the Eastern States. Mr. Garratt also conducts farms in this vicinity aggregating 269 acres. He married in 1888 Carrie E., daughter of O. E. Brocklebank, a carpenter of Canandaigua, and they have one child, Charles A., now in his third year. The mill is located at the foot of Main street, and his residence is near on the Lake Road. The mother of our subject, Hannah (Hibbell) Garratt, is a resident of Canandaigua, now in her seventy-sixth year.


Gauss, Ashman B., East Bloomfield, was born on the farm where he now resides, February 24, 1831, a son of Thayer and Electa (Beebe) Gauss. The grandfather, Ben- jamin, came to Bloomfield and married Sarah Codding of Bristol, (the first white woman married on the Phelps and Gorham purchase), and in 1789 left Berkshire, Mass., and settled on 320 acres of land where subject resides, where he lived until his death, Oeto- ber 5, 1854, aged eighty-nine years. He served through the Revolutionary war, and lost his toes by being frozen. His wife died January 22, 1847, aged seventy-nine years. They had six children : Benjamin, jr., Thayer, Sally, Phoebe, Mary and Abbie. Ilis son Thayer was born April 27, 1797, in the house where subject now resides. He was the owner of considerable real estate, and during the War of 1812 he traded in Buffalo. He was one of the trustees of the Congregational Church for over forty vears, and contributed liberally to public improvements. He died December 19, 1879, and his wife February 11, 1883, aged seventy-eight years. She was the daughter of Ashman Beebe, an old settler of East Bloomfield. Thayer Ganss and wife had five children : Eliza and Electa (twins). Lurinda, and Ashman B., besides one who died in infancy. Our subject has remodeled his father's and grandfather's home (which has been in the family since 1793), and oecupies 160 acres of the half section taken by his grandfather. He married, October 21, 1858, Mary L., daughter of Lewis and Mary (Talmadge) Goodwin, who came from Plymouth, Conn., to Gates, Monroe county. Mr. and Mrs. Gauss have had three children : Lewis T., Lucy H., and Charles T. Mr. Mrs. Gauss is a member of the Episcopal Church.


Gorman, Hugh, Farmington, was born in County Down, Ireland, May 18, 1820. He was educated in the schools of his day, and came to the United States in April, 1844. June 27, 1851, he married Rose A. Keenan, formerly of his native county. The eere- mony took place in New York city. They had these children: Edward, who married Hannah Daylor, and have one son ; Harry J., Henry and Mary, reside with their par- ents, and Rose, who married Garrett Burns, who is a hotel keeper in Snortsville; they have one daughter, Mary. Mr. Gorman located in Farmington in 1855, and has been a resident of this country forty- nine years.


Gerow, Thomas H., Phelps, only son of six children of Oliver and Lucy (Howard) Gerow, was born in Phelps, March 26, 1832. Oliver, the father, was born in West- chester county, and came to Phelps in early life. Lucy Howard. the mother, was born


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in Dutchess county. Thomas H. married Harriet A. Pardee of Phelps, daughter of Israel and Phirza (Crosby) Pardee, and they have three children : Gertrude (Mrs. Al- bert Williams), Hattie H., and Milton P. Mr. Gerow's farm of 100 acres is used prin- cipally for grain. He is a representative citizen, and has served the town as road com- missioner continuously for eight years.


Gillis, Enos, Victor, was born in Argyle, Washington county, June 12, 1815, and came with his parents to Victor in 1826. He was educated in the district schools and has always been a farmer. He married twice, first on December 31, 1840, Eliza Snedeker, formerly of New Jersey. They had two children, both deceased; one died in infancy and the other lived to be twenty-seven years of age. Mrs. Gillis died June 9, 1847, and he married second Catherine Wells, of Victor. They had one daughter, Jennie, who married Frank S. Gallup of this town, February 23, 1882. They had four children : Enos G., George M., Martha D., and Rose A. Mr. Gillis's father, John D. was born in Hebron, Washington county, was a blacksmith for a number of years, and afterwards a farmer. He married Mary A. Smith, and they had six children : Margaret, Robert R., Enos, Martha, John S., and Rosena. Mrs. Gillis died November 27, 1892, and his father about 1873, aged ninety-six years. His grandfather, Robert, and four brothers were in the Revolutionary .War, all killed but himself and Joseph. Mr. Gillis has resided on the same location sixty-seven years.


Goodwin, Russell B., East Bloomfield, was born in Hartford, Conn., December 18, 1810, a son of John and Anna (Belden) Goodwin, a shoemaker and shoe dealer in Hart- ford and a descendant of Deacon John Goodwin, who came from England and was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn. Russell B. was one of seven sons. He received a common school education, learned the tailor's trade, which he followed a short time, and was engaged nearly ten years in St. Louis. October 12, 1859, he married Eliza Steele, born in East Bloomfield June 6, 1823, a daughter of William and Eliza (Pitkin) Steele. Her grandfather Elisha Steele, lived and died at Bethlehem Corners. His wife was Susannah Strong, by whom he had these children ; Joel, Samuel, Rev. Nathaniel, Elisha, William, Rev. Julius, Joseph, Olive Hawley, Anna Sprague, Betsy, who mar- ried a Dr. Humphrey and died in Canaan, Conn .; Lucy Kassan and Margaret Mckean. William Steele was born September 10, 1781, and died April 7, 1858, aged seventy- seven years. He came to East Bloomfield when a young man where he engaged in farming until his death. His wife died May 30, 1886, aged eighty-eight. She was born May 13, 1797, in East Hartford, a daughter of Levi and Abigail (Belden) Pitkin, who had three children, Eliza, Nathan S. and Abigail. The children of William and Eliza Steele were; Eliza, William, Joseph, Henry G. and Edward, the latter deceased. Russell B. Goodwin died in 1884, leaving a widow. Mrs. Goodwin was a prime mover in the organization of the Historical Society, of which she is secretary. She springs from Deacon John Steele, who came from Suffolk county, England, and was a pioneer of Hartford.


Greenow, Thomas, Gorham, a native of England, was born October 17, 1829, a son of David and Ann Greenow, of England, to whom were born two sons and three daugh- ters. David died in 1880 and his wife in 1892. Thomas came in 1852 to America where he worked by the month for some time and then worked rented land for sixteen


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years. In 1871 he purchased and improved 100 acres in Gorham where he has since resided. In 1853 Mr. Greenow married Mary A. Greenow, a native of England, who when seve ) years old came to America with her parents, William and Eleanor Greenow, who settled in Gorham and there died. They had three daughters and five sons. Mr. Wm. Greenow died in 1864 and his wife in 1880. The children of subject are: David L., of Ionia county, Michigan, who married Eunice Squires and has two daughters Jessie and Olive M .; Leonia, who died in 1884 ; Hattie A., wife of Charles Glew, died January 24, 1883 ; J. Frank, who married Emma E. Bender, resides in Gorham. Mr. Greenow is a Republican but has never been an aspirant to office.


Gartland, jr., John, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua October 25, 1859, a son of John, a native of Ireland, who came to this country in 1849 and located in Canandaigua. John, jr., was educated in the common schools and early in life engaged in butchering, which he has always followed. October 26, 1887. he, in company with William Boyle, established a market in Canandaigua which they conducted together until August, 1892, when Mr. Gartland bought out the interest of Mr. Boyle and has since conducted the market alone. He has a commodious market at 153 Main street, where he carries a large stock of fresh and salt meats, game and poultry, and in the rear condnets a sausage manufactory. Mr. Gartland married, June 30, 1885, Jennie E., daughter of Terrence Clarke, and they are the parents of three children : Willie C., Annie M., John Leo Ed- ward. Mr. and Mrs. Gartland are members of the Catholic Church.


Gunnison, Charles C., Farmington, was born at Milwaukee, Wis., June 20, 1856. He was educated in the public schools and spent two years at Canandaigua Academy. He is a wholesale produce dealer and commission merchant, as well as a farmer, at. Mertensia. In April, 1892, he married Ellen J., second daughter of Joseph P. and Ellen A. Hathway, of Farmington, one of a family whose ancestors settled in the town in the seventeenth century. Henry, father of Charles C. Gunnison, was born in Claremont, N. H., about 1826, and came to this State with his parents when young. He married Esther L. Smith of Farmington, and they had four children : Louie, who died in in- fancy ; Charles C., Florence and Ellen V. S., who married Dr. Arthur L. Benedict, now a physician in Buffalo. Mr. Gunnison's home was built in 1800; the saw-mill in 1792 : and the grist-mill in 1794, by his mother's people.


Gates, Curtis C., West Bloomfield, was born August 3, 1809. His father, Marvin, was born in 1757 and came from Colchester, Conn., a year later than his brother Daniel. In 1799 he built the house, now the prop rty of Curtis, and occupied by Charles Hop- kins of North Bloomfield. Marvin was a farmer, and in company with his brother Daniel was interested in a saw-mill at that place, also making brick there, early in the present century. January 16, 1798, Marvin married Rachel Coe of Granville, Mass., born in 1768. Their children were Orpha, Melancton, Marvin, Reynold and Curtis Coe. With Daniel and Marvin came their father, Captain Josiah Gates, a Revolutionary sol- dier, who was, however, too aged to enter into active work. Orpha, the oldest child, married John Lloyd of this place in 1819, by whom she had ten children, of whom Eunice now makes her home with her Uncle Curtis, both parents being deceased. Cur- tis C. has been three times married. His first wife was Mercy Malvina Leach, whom he married in 1838 and by whom he had one son, Robert Lewis, his only child, born


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in 1839. He was in the Seventh Ohio Infantry in the late war and was killed at the battle of Port Republic, Md., June 9, 1862. An interesting relic in the shape of an old Bible, brought by Mrs. Marvin Gates from Massachusetts, bears date of 1754, Edin- burgh. Mrs. Gates was a descendant in the seventh generation of Robert "Cooe " of Milford, Suffolkshire, England, who, with his wife Anna and three sons, sailed from Ipswich April 10, 1634.


Green, Isaac Baker, Richmond, was born June 29, 1837, in Rush, Monroe county. His father, Isaiah, was born in 1802 and died in 1872. He was a native of Half Moon, Saratoga county, and when ten years of age came with his father, Jonathan, to Rush. Isaiah married Sophronia Baker, daughter of William, and they had four children : Mary Jane, deceased ; Isaac B, David W., and Marcus B., deceased. His wife died in 1870. . Isaiah was a farmer, and came to Richmond in 1855 and bought the Barton Stout farm. Isaac B. was educated at Lima Seminary, and married in 1871 Margery A., born in 1845, daughter of John Reed and granddaughter of Wheeler Reed. They had three children : John R., born in 1872; Frank L., born in 1874; Isaac M., born in 1884. In 1867 Mr. Green bought the Jesse Stout farm, formerly a part of the Baker farm, containing 132 acres. He has seventeen acres of hops, and a fine flock of pure blood Merino sheep.


Greene, Henry, Farmington, was born in Rochester, Monroe county, January 21, 1841, and moved with his parents to Macedon, Wayne county, in 1846. He was edu- cated in the public schools and Macedon Academy, and for some years was a carpenter and joiner, and now a farmer. He has been highway commissioner twelve years, col- lector one year, and filled a vacancy for supervisor part of a term. December 17, 1873, he married Cynthia A., only child of Isaac L. and Sarah D. Carpenter, at Macedon Centre. They have had three children : Carrie E., who died at the age of twenty months; George W., and Joseph, who reside with their parents. Mr. Greene's father, Joseph, was born in the State of Rhode Island, on the Island of Canonicut in James- town, January 28, 1806, and came with his parents to Cayuga county, this State, when he was four years okl, and resided there until 1827, when he went to Rochester. June 2, 1831, he married Rosanna Bunker, formerly of Ghent, Columbia county, who was born August 26, 1812. They had five children: Sarah A., Edwin, Henry, William, and Charles A. The ancestry of the family is English. One, John Greene, came to the United States, and was associated with Roger Williams in the Providence purchase in 1636. Mrs. Greene's father. Isaac L. Carpenter, was born in Dutchess county, Feb- rnary 22, 1812, and was educated in the common schools. November 16, 1836, he married Sarah D. Cornwell, of Henrietta, formerly of Westchester county, and had one daughter. The ancestry of the family is English, Welsh and French.


Gardner, Sunderland, P., was born in Rensselaer, Albany county, N. Y., July 4, 1802, and was the oldest of twelve children, two of whom, Mrs. Marium Sheldon of Barre, Orleans county, and E. W. Gardner, esq., of Canandaigua, survive him. His father, Elisha W. Gardner, was born in Rhode Island May 8, 1779. and on April 19, 1801 ; married Sarah Patterson, daughter of Sutherland Patterson, a soldier in Washington's Army, and one of those who accompanied the latter on his expedition to Trenton on Christmas Eve, 1776. The Gardners were of English ancestry who settled in Rhode


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Island and Nantucket prior to 1620. The subject of this sketch came in 1814 with his parents to Farmington where he resided until his death, February 13, 1893. Having no opportunity of schooling save those common to a new country, but being a lover of learning and possessed of a superior mind he became a self-educated scholar. As a young man he taught, and was at one time commissioner of schools; but at about the age of thirty he was called to the ministry and eventually became a leader in the society of Friends of which he was a birth-right member. He was for sixty years a faithful standard-bearer in the church, for which he traveled extensively in the United States and Canada, and had, besides other gospel work, been called to attend more than two thousand funerals, many of them hundreds of miles from home and among various classes of people. He loved to study and teach the beautiful lessons in the Bible, of which he was a diligent student, and was able " to give a reason for the faith that was in him." Being of a peace loving disposition he desired not controversy for its own sake, yet when attacked on doctrinal points by those who failed to understand the real principles of Quakerism he was ready and able to explain, and if need be, to defend what he preached. The sermons of Mr. Gardner during his long ministry were delivered extempore, but many were taken down by stenographers and a few have been published ; he also made contributions to science which were received with favor by scholars, and have entered into standard works. He labored for the gospel without pecuniary re- ward, believing with the old-time Quakers the words of Christ, "Freely ye have re- ceived, freely give," until a few years before his death, when certain members of the so 'iety of Friends were impressed with the conviction that his burdens were too heavy to be borne alone, and nobly returned a part of the large amount he had so willingly expended in the cause of truth. Thus was fulfilled the promise, Ps. 41 :1-3. Mr. Gard- ner was married three times ; first to Mary Willets who survived but a few years, leav- ing with him a daughter, who married Nath. Powell of Mendon; his second wife was Lament, youngest daughter of William and Eunice Gatchel of this town; his third wife was Annette H., daughter of William and Sarah (Lord) Bell of Crawford county, Peun. They had three sons, Sunderland P., Oscar B., and Anson L., all now living on the home farm. We make the following extracts from the Ont. County Journal, pub- lished February 17, 1893 : " It is not easy to find words to express an adequate meas- ure of the good and the great in the life that has ceased to throw its direct influence upon the world. The life itself is that life's best enlogy. Loved by his intimates for his kind and genial personal traits, admired by casual acquaintances for his rugged simplicity, reverenced by his parishioners for his nobility and charity of mind, esteemed by the community for the lessons of peace which his life embodied, his epitaph will find most thoughtful expression engraved upon the hearts of all who ever came within the human circle of his personality." Also from the same paper we take the following statement: " In early life Mr. Gardner became a member of the Masonic order. In 1826 his religious objection to warfare compelling him to protest against rendering any military support, he was arrested and incarcerated in the county jail for failure to pay what was called the " training fine." During his confinement there those charged with the abduction of Morgan, the noted exposer of Masonic secrets, were brought to the jail and also imprisoned. Among them were the iate Nathaniel W Chesebro and Sheriff




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