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Hicks, M.D., W. Scott, Bristol, is a native of Bristol, born September 18, 1827, and a son of Aaron, a son of Jabez, a son of Aaron, who was a native of Rehoboth, Mass., and who came to Bristol about 1800. Jabez Hicks was a native of Dighton, Mass., and
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there married Nancy Francis, born July 8, 1767. They came to New York in 1796, and settled at Bristol. He held various offices and was many years a deacon in the Baptist Church. Aaron was born December 12, 1788, in Dighton, Mass., and was eight years old when he came to Bristol. January 1, 1812, he married Hannah Cornell, a native of Dighton, Mass., born January 5, 1795, a daughter of Stephen Cornell, who traced his ancestry back to 1638, and who was a consin of Ezra Cornell of Cornell University. Mr. Cornell died March 1, 1809, and his wife January 21, 1854. Aaron Hicks had nine sons and a daughter. Mr. Hicks owned a farm in Bristol, where he died. He was a Whig and Republican and held the offices of assessor, highway com- missioner, supervisor and commissioner of deeds. He died April 9, 1872, and his wife April 2, 1874. Dr. W. Scott Hicks was reared on a farm until sixteen years of age, and then engaged as clerk at Honeoye, remaining until twenty-one. He then began the study of medicine with Dr. E. W. Simmons of Bristol, and attended a course of lectures at Geneva Medical College, and in 1851 graduated from the Medical Department of Buffalo University. He then located at Bristol, where he has since practiced his pro- fession. He is a member of New York State Medical Association, Central New York Medical Society and Ontario County Medical Society. October 13, 1853, Dr. Hicks married Eleanor A. Mason, a native of Bristol, and daughter of Francis Mason. Dr. Hicks has been a Republican since the organization of that party, and has held various offices. He was commissioner of loans for Ontario county, and was once a member of the Sons of Temperance, and a Good Templar. He signed the pledge under General Riley in 1844, and has always been active temperance worker. He and wife are mem- bers of the Universalist Church at Bristol, of which Dr. Hicks has been clerk many years. He is a also member of the First Universalist Society of Bristol, and clerk of that body. The Hicks family is of English descent and traces its ancestry to Robert Hicks who came from England on the Fortune November 11, 1621. He was a son of James, who was a descendant of Ellis Hicks, who was knighted by Edward the Black Prince on the battlefield of Poictiers, September 9, 1356, for bravery in capturing a set of colors from the French. The wife and children of Robert Hicks came one the ship Ann and arrived at Plymouth in July, 1622. The family settled in Duxbury, Mass., and two sons, John and Stephen, settled on Long Island about 1642.
Hicks, Charles M., Gorham, is a native of Macedon, Wayne county, born June, 1838 His father, Joshua, was a son of Simeon, a native of Long Island, who moved to Wayne county in an early day and there owned a large farm. His wife was a Miss Clifford, and they had two sons and one daughter. They died in Macedon. Joshua was a prom- inent citizen of that place, a manufacturer of fanning mills and a farmer, and a well informed man and a great reader. He was twice married; first to a Miss Frye, of Montgomery county, by whom he had two sons and one daughter ; and second to Ana- line (Mapes) Stearns, by whom he had one child, Charles M. Joshua Hicks was killed by a team of horses in 1833. Mrs. Hicks was a daughter of Israel Mapes, a native of Coxsackie. Mrs. Hicks died October 16, 1874. Charles M. was educated in Walworth Academy, has always been a great reader, and is a well informed man. He was first engaged for about six years in the nursery business with T. G. Yeomans, of Walworth. In 1861 he came to Gorham with his mother. He now owns a farm of 280 acres, known
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as the Stearns homestead, on which he has made many improvements, including forty acres of orchards. He has always given liberally to the public. He is a Republican in politics.
Hoppough, Lewis Frederick, Canadice, was born in Canadice, December 12, 1860. His father, Frederick D., was born in New Jersey in 1821, and his mother, Leal Coy- kendall, in 1825. They were married in 1843 and Frederick D. died in 1873, his wife surviving him, and making her home with her son, Lewis F. He was town clerk six- teen years, and was constable and collector. His father, Peter, came from New Jersey and settled at the ford on Canadice Lake. His wife was Margary Westbrook. Fred- erick D. and his wife had eight children : John P., Emery W., Margery J. (deceased), Mary E., Sarah M. (deceased), Adelaide B. (deceased), Adaline and Lewis F. The latter married, March 18, 1883, Adella N. Ingraham, daughter of Lorenzo, a prominent farmer of this town. They have three children; Leonia A., born April 6, 1884; L. L. Burdette, born January 14, 1889; and Bertha E. A., born April 27, 1891. Mr. Hop- pongh makes a specialty of raising hay, and also of market gardening. He makes cider and cider vinegar, raising a large quantity of apples. He resides at the head of Cana- dice Lake, where he has a boat livery, and has built on the bank of the lake a house of entertainment for boarders and picknickers.
Hill, Jerome, Victor, was barn on the home farm September 26, 1824, was educated in the public schools, and followed farming. January 22, 1846, he married Clarissa J., daughter of Cyrus and Polly Webster, of East Mendon, and they had six children : Emily S., who was married twice, first to Jerome Campbell, and had two children, Henry C. and Frank J., and her second husband was Palmer Cummings, and has no children; Sarah Elvina married Hiram French of Victor, now left a widow in Le Moure, North Dakota, and her five children, Howard G., Edward K., Aribelle, Olive L., and Addie L., all living; Mary Esther, who resides at home; Charles Gregory mar- ried Sarah Gougarty, has two children ; Gregory C. and Charles C .; Ella J. married Sidney Pımm, had three children : Millie L. died when six weeks old; Vel McDell, and Earl Jerome, living ; Mrs. Pimm died at the age of twenty-nine years; Homer J. married Francis Buckley of Victor. Mrs. Hill's father, Cyrus Webster, was born in Massachusetts, November 27, 1791, and married Polly Stiles of his county December 29, 1814. She was born April I, 1793. They came to Mendon the year they were married, and had nine children : John C .. Milo S., Trizah E., Henry M., Clarissa J., Julia S., Sarah A. and Mary Ette, who died when two years old; second Mary Ette now living.
Harris, John, Gorham, is a native of New York, born May 10, 1831. He is a son of John and Margaret Harris, who had two sons and one daughter. They lived on Lake Ontario a number of years. Mr. Harris died when John was seven years old, and the latter then lived with Ephraim Archer until twenty years of age. He next worked by the month and ran a threshing machine for some time, after which he purchased a farm of fifty acres (now owned by Mrs. Powell.) This he sold and purchased fifty acres of the old homestead, owned by the great-grandfather of Mrs. Harris. The house in which he resides was built by her grandfather, Gilbert Wood. January 22, 1868, he
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married Sylvia M., daughter of Joel Wood. To subject and wife were born three chil- dren : Albert J., Fred N., and Hattie E. Albert J. graduated from the Canandaigua Academy in 1891, and is now a teacher in Gorham. Mr. Harris is a Republican, and attends the Congregational Church at Reed's.
Hayes, Joseph Byron, Canandaigua, was born at Canandaigua in. 1834. His ances- tors were among the earliest settlers of Ontario county. He prepared for college at the Franklin Academy, Prattsburg, N. Y., and at the Canandaigua Academy, graduat- ing with the degree of A. B. from Williams College in 1854, and from the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of M. D. in 1860. He married Louisa A., daughter of Chester and Eliza R. Coleman, in 1861. He took a prominent part both in the County and Village Medical Societies, and was a deacon of the Congregational Church from early manhood until his death. Dr. Hayes died July 17, 1890. Three sons survive him: Edward G., George B. and Chester C. Hayes.
Hutchens, M.D., John, Canandaigua, was born on a farm on the west shore of Can- andaigua Lake, March 16, 1849, a son of Henry and Polly (Livermore) Hutchens. Here his boyhood was spent, and he was educated in the common schools. His clas- sical education was obtained at Canandaigua Academy under Prof. N. T. Clarke. In the fall of 1867 he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he spent one term, then entered the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, from which he graduated in February, 1871. He immediately began practice in Cheshire, which practice rapidly grew, and in connection with this he established in 1873 a drug store, which he conducted till 1888. Dr. Hutchens is a member of the Ontario Medi- cal Society, and in May, 1879, he was appointed postmaster of this village, which office he resigned in November, 1892. In 1870 he married Luella, daughter of James E. Chase of Canandaigua, and they had four children, two of whom are living : Fred, a student of the School of Pharmacy of Buffalo, and Julia L. Anna died in July, 1890, aged thirteen years, and Gordon, an infant, died in November, 1890. Mrs. Hutchens died November 22, 1889.
Haskell, Levi, Canandaigua, was born in Belchertown, Hampton county, Mass., Jan- uary IS, 1811. His father, the Rev. Eli Haskell, was born in the town of Dudley, the same county, in the year 1783. He removed with his family to Bristol, Ontario county, in 1816. He was a well educated man for his time, and was ordained to the ministry in 1823, and became pastor of the Baptist church of Bristol, which he served three years. He then removed to Canandaigua and was pastor of the First Baptist church for twenty-seven years. He died October 7, 1855. During his pastorate he preached 267 funeral sermons, baptized 143 persons and married 113 couples. He did a great work in what was then new country, enduring hardships as a pioneer, and preach- ing the gospel as a missionary in different towns of the county. He was married in his native State to Elizabeth Tower, by whom he had eight children : Abel, a Baptist minister, who died in Penfield, December 21, 1865; Levi, a farmer, who died December 16, 1889 ; Eli, a cabinet maker, who died in Wisconsin, August 16, 1866; Isaac and William (twins), both died in Michigan; Jeremiah, ticket agent N. Y. C. R. R. Co., died in Batavia in 1876; Achsah married Samuel Shaw now residing in Mason, Mich .; Nancy
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died April 9, 1844, aged sixteen. Levi, the second son, was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and taught school several terms. He married Catherine L. Wilcox, who was a native of Connecticut, and settled on the farm where he spent the remainder of his life. He always took a keen interest in public affairs, was a man of strong conviction and very determined in what he believed to be right. He was identified with the First Baptist church of Canandaigua. They had six children: Edson, who served three years in the army, died July 8, 1877, aged forty-one years; Sarah E. died October 31, 1852, aged fourteen ; Mary died April 4, 1886, aged forty-six ; Salem, who now resides on the farm owned by his father ; Abel, a resident of Canandaigua, and Gilbert E., the youngest, residing on a farm adjoining the old homestead. Salem attended school at Canandaigua Academy. He is a Republican, is interested in public affairs and is now one of the assessors of the town. He with his brother Gilbert now owns the old home- stead and the adjoining farm. He married May 26, 1880, Annette Green, daughter of Kelley W. Green of South Bristol. They have one child, Anna E., born November 2, 1883. Gilbert E. also was educated at Canandaigua Academy, and spent seven years as a teacher, and then located on the farm where he now resides. He is a Republi- can and interested in public affairs. He has always taken an active interest in Sab- bath school work, is a member of Academy Grange No. 62, is one of the directors of the executive committee of the company, and for two years was master of the Ontario County Grange. He married March 13, 1878, Carrie E., also daughter of Kelly W. Green. They have two children : Katherine A., born March 20, 1881, and Martin G., born January 4, 1890.
Housel, Joseph, Canandaigua, was born in New Jersey, May 13, 1807, and came to Gorham with his parents. His father, Jasper, had seven children, of whom Joseph was the oldest. He was educated in the common schools. His father bought a farm of seventy-five acres on the Academy Tract, which Joseph secured soon after and bought up land in this section, until at his death March 11, 1865, he owned 290 acres. He took an interest in public affairs and was assessor many years, commissioner of highways, school trustee, and a member of the Ontario County Agricultural Society. He was charitable and liberal to a fault, and had many friends. By Caroline, his wife, he had ten children, four survive him: Henry A., painter of Naples ; James M., a farmer of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Clara, wife of Lucius Goodnow, a commercial traveler of Coldwater, Mich .; and Francis B., who conducts the home farm. Mrs. Housel, the mother, was born in Albany county, May 11, 1816, and came to Ontario county when but four years old. He had ten children who reached maturity. Francis B. Housel was born on the home farm July 30, 1857, and now manages the same, on which is one of the most beautiful residences in the locality, built in 1885. He married in 1880 Inez S., daughter of James and Maria (Easton) Hind, natives of England, and they have two children: Charles F., born June 25, 1882; and Marion C., born September 19, 1886.
Johnson, John, Canandaigua, was born on his present farm in Canandaigua, August 19, 1823, a son of Robert, a native of Ireland, who came to this country 1817. He first located in Canada, where he spent a year, and then came to
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Canandaigua, where he bought a farm of fifty acres. He married, in Canandaigua, Lovina Thurston of Onondaga county, by whom he had one child, John. The whole life of our subject has been spent on this farm. He was educated in the common schools and has made a successful farmer, as well as one of the most popular men in the southern part of this town. After the death of his father in 1864, he took charge of the farm which he has since increased to 122 acres. He owns besides, a farm of eighty-five acres in Bristol. He built a very comfortable and pretty residence with barns and outbuildings. He has never taken an active interest in politics. He married April 4, 1842, Rachael Sanford of Canandaigua, by whom he had four children, three of whom survive: Lovina, wire of Williams Hicks of Bristol ; Lyman D. of Cheshire, a contractor and builder; and Herbert E., with a Rochester firm located in Naples. Mrs. Johnson died October 31, 1855, and he married second, April 2, 1856, Mary E., daughter of Chauncey Curtiss, a native of Connecticut. They have had three chil- dren : John A., who conducts a vineyard in Canandaigua; AAddie O., wife of Frank Foster, died September 12, 1889, aged twenty years; and Jennie A., wife of William Johnson of Cheshire.
Johnson, John A., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, March 11, 1859, a son of John and Mary (Curtiss) Johnson. The early life of John A. was spent on the farm, and he was educated in the school at Naples and at Glenwood Institute, Mattewan, N. J. He assisted his father on the farm and taught school winters until twenty-four years of age, when he bought fifty acres of land by the lake shore. At the time there were no buildings on the place and only a small portion was under cultivation, but Mr. Johnson has built a beautiful cottage, a substantial and convenient barn and other buildings. He has set out about 14,000 grape vines, divided among Concords, Dela- wares and Catawbas, and a few fancy vines. The vineyard is most favorably situated, as by its location he is able to ripen his grapes early. His Delawares are his most profitable variety. In 1892 he cut from his vines about fifty tons of grapes and found a market for the grapes in Boston. Mr. Johnson married, March 14, 1883, Ida A., danghter of George and Eliza (Ward) Curtiss of Cheshire, and they have one son, Stuart Le Roy Johnson, born December 25, 1883. Mr. Johnson has never taken a great interest in politics. He is a member of Canandaigua Grange.
Johnston, John, Geneva, was born in Scotland, April 11, 1791. He came to the United States in 1821, and after traveling about and visiting various localities, he purchased a farm of 112 acres on the east side of Seneca Lake, three miles from Geneva. To this place in 1822 Mr. Johnston brought his family, and on the same farm he continued to reside until 1877, when he came to Geneva. Mr. Johnston was deeply interested in every measure that tended to improve the condition or lighten the labors of the farming community of this country. He was the first man to use the tile drawing system for improving low or marsh lands, and although he was frequently ridiculed by his neighbors, who said he was burying his money, he nevertheless was the pioneer of a system that afterward came into generel use and proved of great benefit to the agriculturists of the whole country. For this and his general devotion he was presented in 1859 with a valuable and finely fashioned silver water service,
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consisting of a pitcher and two goblets. Mr. Johnston was the inventor of the iron scoop-shovel, and was the first in this region to use a threshing machine, one of which he constructed and used on his own farm. The first tile patterns were sent for and procured by him from Scotland. Mr. Johnston was a successful farmer, beginning with small means but increasing his lands as he was able to do through his earnings, until the homestead farm comprised 306 acres, all well stocked and in a fine state of cultivation, and he kept a flock of sheep, 1,000 in number, in Italy, Yates county, and brought them in the winter to his home farm. In 1877 Mr. Johnston and his daughters came to reside in Geneva, and here, in November, 1880, at the age of eighty-nine years, he died. His wife was killed by lightning in 1854.
Johnson, Charles R., Canandaigua, was born on the farm where he now resides, February 22, 1848. The earliest ancestor on the paternal side we find trace of is Ebenezer Johnson, who was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1734. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and had two sons also in that war, Ebenezer Butler and Rufus. Ebenezer married Deborah Seeley, daughter of Gideon Seeley, a native of Westchester county, N. Y., who emigrated to Onondaga county. Ebenezer B. was the father of three sons and a daughter : Isaac, Samuel, Rufus and Desin. Rufus was born in 1760, and died in 1822. He was the father of one son, Rensselaer, who was born May 18, 1797. He married Betsey Cramer, and had one son, Russell Butler, who was born May 18, 1794, and married, February 20, 1817, Betsey Seeley Elliott, and they had six children. Seymour Van Rensselaer, father of our subject, was the sec- ond son. He was born September 3, 1821. Russell B. was the first to live in this county, coming here from Onondaga county in 1824, and settling on a farm in East Bloomfield, and in 1829 moved on a farm in Canandaigua, and in 1842 he bought a farm of 150 acres near Centerfield, which has since been in the hands of the family. Russell B. was justice of the peace for twenty years, colonel of the State militia and temperance speaker. Seymour V. R. was a man of good education and held many offices in the town. He was justice of the peace for twenty years and a man who had the confidence of all the people. He married, May 12, 1844, Diana W., daughter of Japheth Stiles, a native and farmer of this town, and had three children : Harriet A., married Homer A. Davis, a farmer of Canandaigua ; Helen R. married Ralph M. Sim- mons, a farmer of this town ; and Charles; Seymour died September 16, 1865. The whole life of our subject has been spent on the old homestead. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy under Prof. N. T. Clarke. Mr. Johnson has always taken an active interest in the politics of his town, and has been the party leader of this sec- tion for many years. In 1885 he was elected assessor of his town, and has held the office continually since, now serving his third term. He married, January 7. 1873, Maggie Fitzmorris, daughter of John Fitzmorris, of East Bloomfield, and they are the parents of one daughter, Mary A. Johnson, now in her fifteenth year.
Johnson, William S., Canandaigua, was born on the old homestead, a mile south of Cheshire, September 3, 1862, the second son of John I. and Caroline (Gillette) John- son. His early life was spent on the farm and he was educated at Canandaigua Acad- emy. In 1885, at the death of his father, he succeeded to what was known as the
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Gelder farm of 266 acres, which he has since conducted. He married in 1890, Jennie, daughter of John Johnson, of Academy, and they have one child, Julia E., who is in her second year.
Jeffrey, Charles, Farmington, was born in Warwickshire, England, November 29, 1816, and came to the United States in 1833, sailing from Liverpool, May 14, landing in New York July G, remained in the city one year, coming to Farmington in 1834. February 1, 1843, he married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Mason of this town. She died in 1892. They had two children : Hannah, who married Henry Her- endeen, of Macedon ; he died in 1873; and Mary, who married James Carson of this town and have three children : C. Edward, Sidney J. and Henry H. This farm owned by Mr. Jeffrey was bought by Samuel Mason from Nathan Comstock, who purchased it of Phelps and Gorham in 1789. Samuel Mason was born in Swansea, R. I., in 1772, and married in 1797, Hannah Herendeen, at Adams, Mass. They came here in 1801.
Isenhour, Newman, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell in 1841, a son of Jacob, who was a son of Leonard, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Seneca in 1807. He built the Flint grist-mill, was a soldier in the Revolution, and was taken prisoner at Jersey City. He died in 1816. Jacob Isenhour, a native of Pennsylvania, was born October 28, 1796. His wife was Mary, daughter of Elisha Newman, an early settler of Seneca, and they had three sons and three daughters. He died in Hopewell, Septem- ber 26, 1875, and his wife August 3, 1882. Newman Isenhour has been a farmer, ex- cept ten years, during which he manufactured headings and staves. In 1864 he mar- ried Cornelia Brizzee, born in Seneca in 1845, a daughter of Cornelius and Susan (Thatcher) Brizzee, who had two sons and two daughters. The grandparents of Cor- nelia were Cornelius and Sarah (Van Benschoten) Brizzee, early settlers of Hopewell. Mr. Isenhour and wife have had two children : M. Newman, who resides in Elkhart, Ind. ; and Maud E., at home. Mr. Isenhour is a Republican.
Johnson, C. H., Gorham, is a native of Canandaigua, born October 8, 1847. When two years old he came to Gorham with his parents. His mother died when subject was seven years old, and he was reared by J. Wesley Arnold, of Gorham, until sixteen years old, when he enlisted in Company C, Fifteenth New York Cavalry, and served two years and six months. He was in the battles of New Market, Winchester, and Fisher's Hill, was wounded at the latter place and sent to a hospital, where he re- mained until his discharge in December, 1865. He returned to Canandaigua and learned the blacksmith's trade at which he worked for five years. He then went to Gorham and followed his trade until 1883, when he established a hardware business under the name of C. H. Johnson & Co. After four years he sold this. Since 1889 Mr. Johnson has been postmaster at Gorham. In 1875 he married Lillie, daughter of the late James M. Pulver. Mr. Johnson is a Republican, a member of the Rushville Lodge No. 377 F. & A. M., of the E. K. O. R., and of the G. A. R. at Gorham, and Sher- rell Post No. 313, and has been commander one year.
Johnson, Frank A., West Bloomfield, son of Leman A., was born in Cazenovia in 1839. He has resided in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Michigan, and came to Mil- ler's Corners in 1874, engaging in the mercantile business, and has kept a general store
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since. He has been postmaster sixteen years. He married in 1862 Cornelia Morey, of Fenner, Madison county, and has two children : Clinton M , born in 1864, in business with his father, and Myrtie A.
Johnson, Lewis M., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, May 1, 1856, a son of John L. The first ancestor of this family was Lewis, grandfather of Lewis M. He was a native of Monmouth county, N. J., and came to this county when about thirty-five years of age. He had six children, one of whom survives, Phoebe, widow of Seymour N. Gillette, of Canandaigua. John L., second son of Lewis, was born December 19, 1820, in Monmouth county, N. J., and came when a child with his parents to Gorham, where they settled on a farm. He was educated in the common schools and chose farming for a living. llis father first bought a farm about a mile south of Cheshire, where the family spent several years, and then for about fifteen years lived on a farm west of Canandaigna. In 1846 John L bought a farm below Cheshire, where he lived until 1876. In 1878 he moved to Cheshire and lived a retired life, dying here January 14, 1885. He was a very prominent farmer and took much interest in politics, though never an office seeker. His principal interest was in his home and his farm, and at his death he owned a large quantity of real estate. He married, November 19, 1844, Celestia C., daughter of Milton Gillette, of Canandaigua, who was a native of Connec- ticut. Mr. Johnson had four children : Helen S., the oldest, married Homer Chase, of Canandaigua, October 10, 1866, and died October 16, 1883; Julia E., married W. D. Crandall, of Canandaigua; William S. is a farmer of Canandaigua. The whole life of Lewis M. has been spent in this town. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, Geneseo Normal School, and Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie. He has de- voted part of his life to farming, and at the death of his father succeeded to the man- agement of the farm, residing on the homestead in Cheshire. October 4, 1888, he mar- ried Carrie E., daughter of L. M. Spaulding, a farmer of Canandaigua and a native of Gorham.
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