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Helse, Daniel M., Canandaigua, was born in Goshen. Orange county. September 20, 1830. His father, William Y .. was a native of Orange county. who moved into Yates county and settled in Jerusalem, where he died in the sixty-ifthe year of Lis age. He married Lucretia Millspaugh for his Erst wife. who died when Daniel was &c infan: He married a second time Maris Mil'spaugh, daughter of Adam Millspaugh. He Lad two daughters by his second wife. H. Elizabeth, wife of Her. F. O. Chamberlain, and Cornelia, wife of George Tuttle, a farmer of Branchport. Yates county. Daniel wass educated in the common schools of Yates county, and assisted on his father's isem until nearly of age, then went into the store of F. H. Briggs &t Penn Yan. In 1859 he went into business for himself at Penn Yan. the store be conducted being burned out in 1861. Daniel was one of the Erst to answer the call fer volunteers at the outbreak of the war, and in August. ISO1. he enisted in Company A. Fiftieth New York Ec- gineers. Captain Ford commanding. He served with this regiment three yesss and four months, and was in the great battles of Fredericksburg. Chickshem ny. Wilderness. Spottsylvania, White Oak Church, Antietam, etc. Mr. Hu'se enlisted as s private and
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was promoted first in Washington to orderly sergeant, December 11, 1862; at the first Fredericksburg fight he was made second lieutenant, and made first lieutenant after the battle of the Wilderness. He served as aid- de-camp on the staff of General Benham, and was appointed quartermaster of his old regiment, which position he held until mustered out of service. He returned to Penn Yan, and after spending one year as an oil speculator in Oil City, Pa., he came to Canandaigua, and for a year conducted the Rushville stage route, then went into the hotel business, afterward the grocery business, and in June, 1879, he went into the post-office as clerk under F. O. Chamber- lain. In 1880 he was made deputy postmaster, and has held that office continuously ever since. He is serving his third year as commander of Albert H. Murray Post G. A. R., No. 162, is trustee of the village, and member of Canandaigua Lodge, No. 294, F. & A. M. ; also a member of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Hulse married in 1860, Marietta Hopkins, of Penn Yan, and they have four children : Ferdinand G., a telegraph oper- ator ; Harry E., an operator; M. Mae, and William Youngs, a student. Mr. Hulse is a Democrat. He has served five years as a fireman, a part of the time assistant fore- man of Steamer Company No. 1, and was sergeant of the Twenty-fifth Separate Com- pany for five years, receiving an honorable discharge.
Hollister, Dr. Edwin O., East Bloomfield, was born in Batavia, April 4, 1845, a son of Nathan E. and Margaretta (Wortendyke) Hollister, of Batavia and Hopewell, re- spectively. They had four children : Cornelia, Edwin O., and Eugenia ; the other died in infancy. Subject was reared on the farm and had a district school education, sup- plemented by an academic course at Alexandria. He taught school in early days, and also spent a year in a store at Batavia. In the latter town he read medicine with Dr. Clark, then attended a course of lectures at Buffalo, and graduated from Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College, New York. In the fall of 1874 he located at East Bloomfield, where he practiced all his life, and was a skillful surgeon. He served in county and town offices, and was a Democrat and a Mason. He died October 8, 1887. He was a trustee of the Congregational Church, was one of the Board of Education for seven years. June 5, 1878, he married Sarah A., daughter of Henry W. and Sibyll (Sears) Hamlin, but had no children. He spent the last year of his life in the bank. The doc- tor was a member of County, State and National Medical Associations, and served as president of the County Society.
Hill, Charles G., Victor, was born in the old homestead August 2, 1854, was edu- cated in the public school, and is a farmer. March 8, 1885, he married Sarah Gougerty of Victor, and they have two children : Gregory C., and a son not named. (For the balance of the Hill family see Mrs. Jerome Hill's sketch.)
Herendeen, Charles H., Farmington, was born on the farm which he owns, and on which he resides, June 13, 1840. He was educated in the public schools and Macedon Academy, and is a farmer. In politics he is a Democrat, and was elected supervisor of the town in the spring of 1892, the first Democrat in thirteen years, and has been re- elected. December 18, 1862, he married Julia M., daughter of Proctor and Mary L. Newton of the town of Manchester. Mr. Herendeen's father, W. Wilkinson, was born on the old homestead July 10, 1810, was educated in the common schools, and was a
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farmer. January 12, 1832, he married Caroline L. Arnold of this town, and had two children : William R., died in infancy, and Charles H. Mr. Herendeen's grandfather, Welcome Herendeen, was born in Berkshire county, Mass., April 18, 1768. He mar- ried twice, first in 1794, Elizabeth, daughter of Gideon and Anna Durfer, of Palmyra. May 18, 1806, he married second Mercey Gardner, and they had three children. The Herendeen family of the old stock belonged to the Friends. Mrs. Herendeen's father, Proctor Newton, was born in Suffield, Conn., June 16, 1799. May 4, 1823, he married Mary Larned, who was born March 16, 1801, and came to the town of Hopewell in the year of 1830. They had seven children. The family are all Baptists. Mr. Heren- deen's father died December 16, 1892, and his mother May 8, 1887. Mrs. Herendeen's father died May 15, 1878, and her mother July 13, 1884. The Herendeen family en- tered their new log house in this town March 15, 1790.
Harris, Charles, Gorham, was born in Gorham in 1831 on the farm settled by his grandfather Isaac. The latter married Jane Freier, and they came from Ulster county in an early day. The father of Charles was Francis, born in Ulster county in 1797, who came with his parents to Gorham. He married Harriet Johnson, and had seven sons and four daughters. Charles Harris married in 1856 Irene Metcalf, born in Naples, February 18, 1826, a daughter of Lemuel Metcalf, a native of Massachusetts, who came with his father, Jabez, to Naples and married Almira Parish, by whom he had nine children. He died in 1866 and his wife in 1867. Charles Harris has five children : Clara, born in 1859, died in 1873; Hattie, born in 1861; H. Stanley, born in 1862; A. Metcalf, born in 1862; Mary E., born in 1867. H. Stanley was educated in Canandai- gna Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Martha Caward, born in Seneca, a daughter of William and Martha Caward of that town, and they have one son, Raymond C. A. Metcalf Harris was born in 1862, and educated in Canandaigua Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Rosina B., daughter of Rob- ert and Ann Lightfoot, natives of England, who reside in Gorham. A. M. Harris and wife have two children : Nellie M. and Howard R. The Harris family are Methodists, and H. S. Harris and father are both holding offices in the church. Three of Francis Harris's sons were ministers : Hiram, a Presbyterian minister, and Horace and Isaac, Methodist ministers.
Hawkes, Thomas, Manchester, was born in England, February 7, 1835. He received a liberal education in the public schools, and in 1854 came to this country and engaged in the business of market gardening. This branch of industry he has since been exten- sively connected with, owning market gardens both here and in the south. About three years ago he sold his southern interests, and has since devoted himself exclusively to his home trade. Mr. Hawkes married an English lady, Ann Harvey, and they have had nine children, some of whose bright intellects are recognized both in this country and far off Burmah, where a daughter of the subject has withstood the hardships of that climate for the past four years, engaged in teaching and missionary work.
Hamlin, John S., East Bloomfield, was born in Bloomfield, July 14, 1842, a son of Henry W., a son of Elijah, who was born in Great Barrington, Mass .. and came to Bloomfield prior to 1800, and settled on 220 acres near the village. He had eleven
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children : Adolphus, John, Elijah, Calvin, Philo, Henry, Caroline, Esther, Lydia, Mary and Olive. Henry W. was born October 20, 1807, and died November 30, 1891. He was a farmer and speculator, and always lived in Bloomfield, where he accumulated a large property, owning over 1,000 acres. He served as supervisor and was a Republi- can. He married Sibyll B. Sears, daughter of Dr. John Sears, of Sharon, Conn., and she died in 1870. They reared six children : John S., Agnes D., Frank H., Anna B., Sarah A., George W. (deceased). John was reared in Bloomfield, and received a dis- trict school and academic education. At the age of twenty he began life for himself, first working a farm on shares for two years, when his father purchased 177 acres in East Bloomfield, where he lived about eight years. In 1874 he moved to the village, where he and his brother conducted a meat market several years, also a coal and lum- ber yard For three years he has been engaged in the bank which was started by his father and Charles Steele in 1879. He now owns and operates several farms, compris- ing about 1,000 acres. He is a Republican and served three terms as supervisor. He has been twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Holcomb and Eliza White, and by her had two sons: William H. and Frederic H. His wife died in December, 1879, and he married second Minnie, daughter of George and Jane (Scott) Howell, of Steuben county, by whom he had two children . Marion H. and Sarah H.
Howe, M.D., William A., Phelps, was born in Phelps, September I1, 1862, one of seven children of John Q. and Nancy A. (Griffith) Howe. John Q., the father, was born in Arcadia, Wayne county, in 1818; came to Phelps when a boy and spent his life in the town, engaging for more than forty- five years in the active practice of medicine. Thomas Howe, the grandfather, was born in Vermont, and came to this State and set- tled about the beginning of the century, his ancestors coming to Vermont from Eng- land early in the seventceth century. William A. married, May 17, 1892, Elizabeth M., daughter of Samuel S. and Frances (Bellamy) Partridge, of Phelps. They have one child, Margaret Partridge, born April 5, 1893. He graduated from the Phelps Union and Classical School in 1882; entered Hobart College in the fall of the same year, and graduated there in 1885. He then entered Columbia Medical College, New York, grad- uating in 1888, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Phelps.
Ham, Burton D., East Bloomfield, was born in East Bloomfield, December 8, 1817, a son of Robert and Eunice Gyle Ham. The grandfather, Thomas, was a son of Gabriel, who came from Scotland and settled near Dartmouth College. Here Thomas, his son, was born, and he was the father of five daughters and eight sons, three of whom died in the war for independence. Robert, the fifth son of Thomas, the father of Burton D., was born near New Haven, Conn., and was a tailor by trade. He moved to New Hampshire, then in 1806 came to Canandaigua, remained two years, then returned and brought his family. In 1808 he settled in East Bloomfield. He was one of the organ- izers of the First Universalist Church and was truly a conscientious Christian. He owned a farm in Hopewell on which he lived three years, then returned to East Bloom- field and died there aged eighty-three. He was twice married, first to a daughter of Governor Marsh, of Vermont, by whom he had two sons, Ida and Carlysle, and two daughters, Cilvy and Orell. He married second Eunice, a daughter of Stephen Gyle, a
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prominent man of his time, being general purveyor for the Army of the Revolution, and owner of nearly eight entire townships of land in Vermont and New Hampshire at the time of his death. Subject's father had nine children by his second wife, three sons and six daughters, two daughters and two sons are yet living. Moses F. Hamm, a prominent and successful business man of Newark, Wayne county ; Helen Leste, of Marion ; Eunice Orcutt of West Bloomfield ; and Burton D. Ham, of East Bloomfield. Rev. Robert Ham, brother of Burton and Moses, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Oberlin, O., and died in Cleveland in 1860. His mother died in Hopewell in 1852, aged sixty-one years. Burton received a common school education, then taught school several terms, the first term when only sixteen years of age. He has been a farmer over forty years, and for many years owned several hundred acres of land in East Bloomfield, but now only cares for about two hundred acres. He was an active politician, first Whig then Republican, and for the last seven years a Prohibitionist. He has been a delegate to county conventions in all twenty-two years, and was constable and collector eight years in succession in the town of Bristol. He has been a collector of coins, Indian relics, and rare old books for the last thirty years, and now has the best library of old books in Western New York. He was one of the organizers of the Historical Society, and has been a frequent contributor on historical subjects to various journals. He mar- ried Evelina B. Spencer, daughter of George and Pamelia P. Spencer, and they have had three children : Adelaide, wife of Myron Codding; Delia, wife of Jewitt Harvey ; and Georgianna B. Ham.
Harkness, Deroy J., Canandaigua, was born in Potter, Yates county, February 3, 1835, a son of Hiram, a farmer of that town. When three years of age his father, Hiram Harkness, moved to the town of Gorham, Ontario county. Deroy J. was edu- cated at the Rushville Academy, and after leaving school followed farming until 1862. Angust 22 of that year he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Forty-eighth N. Y. Vols., and saw service with the Army of the James, serving under General Butler. In 1864 a connection was formed with the Army of the Potomac, and his regiment was at the battles of Drury's Bluff, Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor, in front of Petersburg, and many other engagements. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Fair Oaks, October 27, 1864, and was kept in hospital prison until February G, 1865, when he was exchanged, after which he was mustered out in May of that year. Returning home he engaged in farming. In 1884 Mr. Harkness was elected supervisor of the town of Gorham on the Republican ticket and re-elected in 1885 and 1886 by increased majorities. The fall election of 1891 he was elected county clerk over George Shepard, of Phelps, by a majority of nearly 700. Mr. Harkness married in September, 1865, Eliza, daughter of John Dunton, of Naples, who died in October, 1881. He has five children : Hiram, a farmer ; John, of the county clerk's office; Fred, a farmer ; Fanny and Adelaide.
Harkness, Daniel B., Gorham, was born in Potter, August 26, 1831, and was six years old when he came to Gorham with his parents. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy, and farming has always been his occupation. October 12, 1854, he married Mary Whitman, a native of Gorham, born May 21, 1832. She is a daughter of Henry G. and Emeline (Stearns) Whitman, of Gorham, who had
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three daughters and one son. To Mr. Harkness and wife were born six children : Charles W., Albert H. (deceased), Ellen M., Anna L., Isabel C. and Frank H. Mr. Harkness is a Republican and has been justice of the peace for twelve years and assessor Six years. Mrs. Harkness's mother was a daughter of Ariel Stearns, a native of Massa- chusetts, and one of the first settlers here. His wife was Analine Mapes, by whom he had three sons and four daughters. The father of Daniel B. Harkness is Hiram, born in Potter, Yates county, January 2, 1809. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and an early settler of Yates county. His first wife was Miss Foster, and to them were born four children. His second wife was Fannie Larned, by whom he had four children. He was a physician and had an extensive practice. He died in 1819. Hiram Harkness married Eliza, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Sallie White, natives of Massachusetts, who had two sons and four danghters. Mr. Harkness was supervisor six, and assessor several years. For the last twenty years he has lived a retired life, and at present re- sides with his daughter Emma. He is now eiglity- four years old, and has never missed an election, being a Republican. He has two sons and two daughters.
Horton, Isaiah, Victor, was born in Springwater, Livingston county, August 27, 1831, was educated in the district schools, and has always been a farmer. February 21, 1856, he married Miss R. E. Adams, of Springwater, who was born August 28, 1830. They had six children : Hiram C., who married Ella Sanderson and has two children, Ruth and Genevieve; Coe C., who is a railroad man and married Lillie Harrington, of Victor ; Amarilla, who married Alfred N. Crandall; Arabelle A. is not married, and is a teacher ; Joseph M. is also a teacher; and Manly A., who died at the age of six years. All the children except Coe are graduates of Geneseo Normal School in the higher grades, and and are holding positions of trust and honor. Mr. Horton settled in the town of Victor in the year 1865. His father, Isaiah, was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, July 26, 1796 and married Charlotte Chatfield, of his native county. They had ten children : Ama- rilla, Elisha, Miranda, Eliza, Hiram, Esther, Lucinda, Isaiah, Mary and Lewis. Three died when quite young. Mr. Horton was a member of the Republican party until 1872, when he identified himself with the Prohibition party ; in fact he was one of its earliest promoters in this vicinity ; he voted all alone in Victor township for this party for ten years. Mr. Horton's father was a soldier in the War of 1812. The ancestry of this family is English and Dutch.
Halladay, Elmer, Manchester, was born in Michigan, April 4, 1856, where he was educated and lived until 1883. He then moved to this State, where he has since fol- lowed agricultural pursuits on a farm inherited from his grandfather, Thomas Howland. His wife was Lilla Crane, and they have one daughter.
Herendeen, Wilkinson A., Farmington, was born Jan. 29, 1835. He was educated in the public schools, and has followed farming. February 10, 1858, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Alanson and Elizabeth Goodnow, of Ontario, Wayne county. They have had four children : Edward J., who died in his twenty-first year; Charles W., who married Mary A. Tuttle, of this town, and had four children : Elizabeth, Mabel, Edward W. and Ruth C .; Harriet E. and Florence E. are residing at home with their parents. Mr. Herendeen's father, Edward, was born in the southeast part of the town February
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10, 1785, and was a farmer. He was county superintendent of the poor seventeen years. March 8, 1821, he married Harriet Cudworth, of the town of Bristol. They had eleven children : G. Maria, Lydia S., Nathaniel C., Mary E., Huldah A., Wilkinson, who died young, Wilkinson A., Welcome D., Gideon D., Edward F., and Henry M., who died in infancy ; Mary also died when she was thirteen years old. Mr. Heren- deen's grandfather, Welcome, was born in the town of Smithfield, R. I., and went with his father to Adams, Mass., in 1769, then to Farmington in 1790. He married Eliza- beth Durphy, of Palmyra, and had five children: Edward, Gideon, Anna, Huldah and Durphy. His great-grandfather, Nathan, was born in the town of Cumberland, R. I .. in 1741. He was the father of Welcome, who went with him to Massachusetts, and he traded his property in the above place for 1,000 acres in Farmington, and came with his family here in 1790. Mrs. Herendeen's father, Alanson Goodnow, was born May 24, 1796. May 8, 1822, he married Elizabeth Stewart, of Niagara, Upper Canada- They had ten children : Miranda, Charles, Alanson, jr., William, Willis, Andrew J., Elizabeth E., Truman W., Josephus and Lucins. Mrs. Herendeen's grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812. The ancestry of the family is Danish.
Higinbotham, William A., Victor, was born in Williamsburg, N. Y., November 20, 1852, and came with his parents to East Bloomfield when he was about two years old. He was educated in the common schools and East Bloomfield Academy, and when a young man was clerk in his father's store. In the year 1875 he became a partner in the firm of F. Munson & Co., general merchants, continuing the business until 1882. In 1883 he removed to Victor, N. Y., and became junior member of the banking firm of Parmele, . Hamlin & Co. In 1888 the above firm was dissolved, and was succeeded by Higinbotham and Wilbur, who now conduct the business. October 2, 1878, Mr. Higinbotham married Anna B., daughter of Henry W. and Sybil S. Hamlin, of East Bh omfield. They have had five children : Jessie, who died at the age of seven years, Robert G., Agnes, Annie and George. Mr. Higinbotham's father, George, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and came to the United States when a young man, locating in New York city. Was a clerk in the office of the Evening Post for some years when Wm. C. Bryant had editorial charge of it. He afterwards moved to East Bloom- field, where he was a respected merchant until he died in 1887. He was identified with every measure that helped to elevate mankind. He was twice married, first to Catherine Adsit, of Valatie, Columbia county, by whom he had four children : George, William A., Frederick and Annie. Mrs. Higinbotham died in 1886. His second wife was Magdalena Mast, of East Bloomfield, by whom he had one daughter, Jennie M.
Hathaway, Joseph P., Farmington, was born on the old Hathaway homestead in Farmington, August 31, 1833. He was educated in the district schools and in the Canandaigua Academy, and is now a farmer. February 20, 1861, he married Ellen A., second daughter of Arnold A. and Maria Bristol, of Macedon, Wayne county, and they have three children, as follows : Elizabeth, who married Andrew J. Hamm, of Macedon, Wayne county ; Arnold B., a farmer with his father; and Ellen, who married Charles C. Gunnison. Mrs. Hathaway died June 12, 1874, and he married second, September 25, 1878, Mrs. Helena Beach, of Victor. Perez, father of Joseph P. Hathaway, was born on the old homestead July 12, 1805. He was educated in the district schools,
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and March 7, 1822, married Hannah Lapham, by whom he had four children: Eliza- beth C., who died in her eleventh year; Joseph P., Ann M., who married George Collins, and Rebecca J., who died in 1873. Mr. Hathaway's grandfather, Isaac, was the pioneer of the family in this town. He was born in Rhode Island, October 28, 1755, and in 1784 married Jemima Comstock, of Rhode Island, by whom he had two children, Isaac and Otis. Soon after their marriage his wife rode horseback from there here, and used a poplar sprout as a whip; on arriving home she planted the whip by their log house, which has since grown into a large tree. She died in 1793. For his second wife he married, May 4, 1794, Elizabeth Richmond, formerly, of Connecticut, and they had four children : Sylvester R., Charles, Phoebe and Perez. The family were of the Friends' faith. The fifth generation is now residing on the farm, a granddaughter of Joseph P. Hathaway. The first settler of the family bought 600 acres on these four corners, about 240 acres of which is still in possession of the descendants of the family.
Hathaway, A. Chandler, Bristol, a native of Bristol, was born February 23, 1822, and is a son of Abial, a son of Seth, a native of Vermont, who came to Bristol about 1804. His wife was Bathsheba Gooding, and they reared seven sons and four daugh- ters. He settled on a farm (part of which subject now owns). He was an Anti-Fed- eralist and was the first justice of the peace in Bristol, appointed by the governor. Abial was born March 1, 1786, and came to Bristol when a young man. He married Mary, a daughter of Isaac (born June 26, 1752) and Ann (born December 30, 1756) Pool, of Dighton, Mass. Abial had three sons and four daughters. He was engaged mostly in manufacturing woolen cloth at Bristol. He was a Democrat and was justice of peace many years and was a prominent Free Mason. He died November 5, 1843, and his wife June 12, 1859. Subject was reared as a wool carder and when sixteen years of age came with his parents to the farm he now owns, and has here since re- sided. He learned the cooper's trade and followed it a number of years, but farming has been his principal occupation. He married H. Augusta Cornell of Bristol, a daugh- ter of Isaiah S., who was a son of Stephen Cornell, and was born in Dighton, Mass., May 7, 1802, and married Eliza Gregg of Bristol, a daughter of George and Betsey (Gooding) Gregg, natives of Massachusetts. Mr. Cornell and wife had four sons and three daughters. The youngest son, Mervin E., was killed at the battle of Antietam at the age of twenty years. Mr. Cornell died in 1853, and his wife on May 14, 1843. To subject and wife were born two children : M. Agnes, who graduated from Gen- esee Wesleyan Seminary, and is now a teacher ; and James M., formerly a teacher, but now a farmer. Mr. Hathaway has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and family are members of the Universalist Church, and he has been chor- ister for fifty years. He and Billings T. Case formed the committee to raise money to build the church and carried it on very successfully, having the church paid for when built, also the parsonage. Mr. Hathaway missed but one meeting for twenty years in succession, and that was at the death of his mother.
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