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Mead, Alfred M., Victor, was born at Macedon Centre, Wayne county, Noven ber 21, 1856. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated from the Macedon Academy. He studied medicine in, and graduated from, the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, practicing successfully in the town of Victor since 1880. April 6, 1881, he married Hattie A., daughter of Robert K. and Mary Brown, of Union Hall, Wayne County. They have three children : Edgar R., Dora E. and M. Evelyn. The father of Alfred, John G., was born in Dutchess county, and was a farmer. He married Emma Cookingham, of his native county, and they had three children : Edgar, who married Alice Smith, and had two children : Louie and Alvin; Alfred M., and E. Louise, who married Dr. Charles Briggs, of Fairport. She died in March, 1881. Dr. Mead is a member of the Ontario County Medical Society, and of the Methodist church, and was coroner of Ontario county two terms.
Morrison, A. B., Geneva, contractor and builder.
Mitchel, Dr. Charles T., Canandaigua, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Jan- uary 30, 1836, a son of Charles and Betsey E. (Drake) Mitchel. His father was born in 1806 in Madison county, N. Y., and followed carriage making. He was a son of Elijah Mitchel, and one of fourteen children, but one of whom is now living, William E. Charles, the father of our subject, married in 1834 Betsey E., daughter of Theo- dore S. Drake, of Leroy, Genesee county, to whom were born six children, three daughters and three sons, of whom Charles T. was the oldest. His early life was spent in Paris, County Brant, Ontario, whither his parents had removed, where he at- tended the grammar school in that village until nineteen, then spent one year in War- saw (N. Y.) Academy, and the following year in the hardware store of Morris Buxton & Co., at Warsaw. He returned home and went into partnership with his uncle, James E. Mitchel, in the manufacture of fanning mills, remaining with him three years, when he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. S. W. Cooke, of Paris. He spent the summer of 1862 in an army hospital in Washington, D. C., and graduated from the University of Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, in 1863, after which he went into practice at Ionia, Mich., where he remained three years, then came to Geneva Hygienic Institute, where he remained three years, and began the study and practice
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of homeopathy. In the fall of 1870 he went to Le Roy, N. Y., where he practiced for three years. The winter of 1874-75 he spent at the Homcopatic Hospital College at Cleveland, O., graduating at the elose of the session, and immediately located in Can- andaigua, where he is now engaged in active practice. He is a member of the Homœo- pathic Medical Society of Ontario county, and present secretary and treasurer. He married in 1865 Cordelia Cooper, of Waterloo, and they had one child, Florence G., who was born in 1867, and died in 1878. Dr. Mitchel and wife are members of the First Congregational Church, of which the doctor is treasurer. He was high priest of Excelsior Chapter, No. 164, R. A. M., four years, and is the present secretary, and also master of Canandaigua Lodge, No. 294, F. & A. M., two years. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Canandaigua Anglers' Association, and a fre- quent contributor to angling literature, both in poetry and prose. He is one of the original members, and has been secretary and treasurer of Canandaigua Microscopical Society for ten years past. He occupies a pleasant home at No. 2 Park Place.
Mead, James, Gorham, a native of Gorham, was born April 30, 1836. He is a son of William, a son of Amasiah, who was a son of Thaddeus. The latter was an early settler of Westehester county, where Amasiah was born February 14, 1770. He mar- ried Abigail Jessup, born March 20, 1769, a daughter of Sylvanus Jessup, and they had four sons and two daughters. He died June 7, 1844, and his wife January 13, 1858. William was born in Westchester county, October 15, 1795. In 1821 he came to Gorham and finally bought the farm of 155 acres where subject now resides. Mr. Mead was twice married, first, January 24, 1821, to Sallie Baker, by whom he had two children. She died September 6, 1829, and October 19, 1831, he married Mabel Sterling, a native of Lima, and they had two sons and four daughters. She was born November 3, 1810. Her parents were James and Mabel (Chester) Sterling, who had seven sone and two daughters. The father of James was Samuel Sterling, of Connecticut. William Mead died in 1858 and his wife in 1861. James Mead was educated in Spencertown Academy, Columbia county, and Canandaigua Academy. Febuary 18, 1864, he married Mary A. Dickerson, a native of Gorham, born January 21, 1842. She was a daughter of Selah Dickerson, a son of David Dickerson, of Pennsylvania, who early came to Gorham. Selah Dickerson was born in Gorham, August 27, 1806, and married Lucy A. Holton, of Gorham, born July 10, 1811, a daugh- ter of Francis Holton, born June 9, 1781. Mr. Dickerson and wife had three sons and a daughter. He was assessor and highway commissioner, and died September 16, 1869. His wife died February 1, 1888. The children of James Mead and wife are William M., Lucy I., Jennie L, and Mabel S. Mr. Mead is a Republican, and has been assessor one term. He has been vice-president and director of Gorham Agricultural Society, and is a member of Stanley Grange, No. 284, and is a very prominent member of the Presbyterian Church.
Menteth, James Stuart, Canandaigua, was born at Menteth's Point, town of Canan- daigua, July 29, 18411, a son of Thomas Longhnan Stuart Menteth, who came to this country from Dumfries, Scotland, in 1832. Thomas was a son of Sir Charles Menteth, who was the father of seven sons and two daughters. The oldest son, James Start
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Menteth, inherited the title at the death of Sir Charles Menteth in 1852. Thomas Menteth died in 1854, leaving three sons and two daughters. At the death of Sir James in 1870 the title reverted to James Stuart, our subject. Thomas L. was an Eng- lish army officer, and served from 1818 to 1830 in the service in India, retiring with the office of captain. He returned in 1830 to Scotland, where he remained till 1832, when he came to America and located on the west shore of Canandaigua Lake, about six miles from Canandaigua village. He purchased here an estate of over 400 acres, and built a flouring mill, which he conducted in connection with general farming. He lived to fifty-eight years of age, and died an honored and respected citizen. His chil- dren living are : Alice, wife of George Finley, of Canandaigua, and James Stuart. The boyhood of our subject was spent on the farm of his birth. He was educated in Can- andaigua Academy, Dr. Reed's Walnut Hill School at Geneva, Lima Seminary, and two years under Hon. John Raines as private tutor. In 1859 he went to California, where he was engaged in stock ranching for four and a half years and mining over two years, returning to Canandaigua in 1866, where he has ever since made his home, and has added to the original estate many improvements, being now an extensive grower of fruit, hops, grain, etc. IIe married in 1872 Helen G., daughter of Darwin E. Fay, Oswego county, and they are the parents of two children : Philadelphia Stuart Menteth, and Isabella Stuart Menteth, students of Granger Place School.
McMillan, Norton, Canandaigua, the first son of Peter and Lusena (Towner) McMillan, was born on the old Granger farm in this town September 2, 1843. He was eighteen years old when the war broke out, but enlisted July 22, 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth N. Y. Vols., and participated in the battles of Harper's Ferry, Get- tysburg, Bristow Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and many others. December 25, 1864, at the consolidation of the regiment, which caused the discharge of part of the non-commissioned officers. Norton returned to Canandaigua, and engaged in farming in different places in the West and in New York. In 1878 he bought a farm of 105 acres in Canandaigua, which he conducted for four years, then sold, and rented the old Wilder farm, which he bought in 1885. This is a fine place of 115 acres. He married, March 16, 1870, Anna, daughter of James Curran, of Livonia, Livingston county, and they have two sons : Peter A., born May 30, 1871, and Roy H., born December 4, 1876. Peter A. is a school teacher; Roy H. is a student of the Union School of Canandaigua.
McCredy, Alonzo, Canandaigua, was born in Warren, February 22, 1822. His grandfather, Robert McCredy, came to this country the latter part of the eighteenth century, settling in Florida, Montgomery county, where Thomas, father of Alonzo, was born in 1795. When about twenty he moved to Herkimer county, at that time a wilderness, and bought a farm of about 100 acres, which he made into a good grain farm. He married Hannah Blatchly, of Peekskill, and they had twelve children, five of whom are living: James, a farmer of Michigan ; Eliza, widow of James T. Yule, of Herkimer county ; Robert, of Olean; Hanford, a retired farmer of Warren, Herkimer county, and Alonzo. The latter was given a common school education, and in 1856 moved to Minnesota, where he spent four years, and then moved to Illinois, where he lived three years, and in 1863 returned to New York State, locating in this county.
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He bought a farm of 140 acres in this town, where he has ever since made his home. Mr. McCredy has never taken an active part in politics. He is content to be known as an honest, upright citizen and a successful farmer. He married in 1853 Louisa, daughter of Peter Rankin, of Herkimer county, and they have two sons : Elliott, an employee of the Sanitarium at Clifton Springs, and Dimmock, who lives at home.
Munger, M. Dwight, Canandaigua, was born in Connecticut, March 7, 1850. While he was very young his parents moved to Byron, near Rochester, and in 1837 they moved to Canandaigua. Our subject was educated in Canandaigua Academy under Prof. N. T. Clarke. His first business venture was as a clerk and afterward a merchant in hardware at Penn Yann. He was there six years, from 1846 to 1852, and then re- turned here and spent one year in Senator Lapham's law office. He then went to Chicago, where he spent four years, and in 1857 returned here. From 1857 to 1864 he conducted a brokerage business here. In 1864 the First National Bank of Canandaigua was organized by Mr. Munger with a capital of $75,000, and he was cashier for the first few years and subsequently president. In the fall of 1887 the bank went into volun- tary liquidation, going out of business. For the last seventeen years Mr. Munger has been manager and president of the Canandaigua Gas Company. In 1888 he bought out the branch of the Excelsior Electric Light Company at Canandaigua, and is general manager and president of the company, which is now the Canandaigua Electric Light Company. Mr. Munger was for three years president of the Steamboat and Navigation Company, and he is also president of the Board of Trade. He married in 1860 Mary S., daughter of Assemblyman Z. Barton Stout, of Richmond, who is prominent in poli- tics, and a man of considerable literary ability. They have two children : Jane C. and Christine.
McCrossen, John Willard, Richmond, was born on the farm where he now lives March 20, 1816. His father, James McCrossen, son of David, was born in 1780 in Dungerry, County Tyrone, Ireland. David was a Scotchman, his mother being also Scotch. James came to this country when eighteen years of age, settling first in Phila- delphia, and eight years later came to Richmond. He had been a distiller. He bought at first seven acres on which was water power. Here he operated a distillery in 1806, which he continued until his death in 1820. He married Deborah, daughter of Alden Adams. She was born in Vermont in 1789, and died at the age of eighty-six. Of their five children, David died in Grand Rapids, Mich., aged eighty-three years ; Jane, wife of William l'ursell, died in Springwater, aged eighty-three; Susan, wife of J. D. Hazen, died in Grand Rapids, aged seventy ; John W., and James who died young. John W. was educated at the common schools, and in 1835 married Alida Westbrook, by whom he had these children : Erzilla, Mrs. Lyman Bowles, of Cohocton ; Alida, wife of James Capron, of Springwater. His second wife was Lucina Adams, whom he married in 1844. She was a daughter of Isaac Adams, a pioneer of the town, who came with Philip Reed in 1795. Their children are: Birdie A., who lives at home ; Deborah, Mrs. J. M. Miller; Sylvia, Mrs. W. J. Short, of Michigan. Mr. McCrossen has 426 acres in his home farm, and 148 acres in Canadice.
Mariner, Myron, East Bloomfield, a native of Sharon, Litchfield county, Conn., was born July 7, 1820, a son of Buell, a native of Connecticut, born January 6, 1775, and
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the fourth of a family of six children. He married Esther Lord, a native of the same place, born August 10, 1784, and a daughter of John Lord of Connecticut. Mr. Mari- ner and wife had eight sons, four of whom are living. In 1823 he came to Yates county and spent a year, then went to Benton and bought a farm of 200 acres, on which he resided until his death January 6, 1852. His wife died in 1877. His farm is now owned by his youngest son. Myron Mariner was educated in the common schools and taught for a short time, and then turned his attention to farming. In 1848 he purchased 100 acres in East Bloomfield, which he now owns. He has added many improvements to land and buildings. For twenty years he was a breeder of American Merino sheep, for eleven of which he paid $2,500. Mr. Mariner has been twice married. First, in 1847, to Ann M. Moody, a native of Seneca, and daughter of Benjamin Moody of that place. To Mr. Mariner and wife was born one daughter, who died in infancy. Mrs. Mariner died in 1849, and in 1852 Mr. Mariner married Abbie P. Marsh, a native of Litchfield county, Conn., and one of seven children of Horace and Electa (Beebe) Marsh, the former of Litchfield, Conn., and the latter of Canaan, Conn. Mr. Marsh died in 1844, at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. Mariner has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He was highway commissioner twelve years, and was su- pervisor in 1887-88. His wife is a member of the Congregational church at East Bloomfield.
Moore, Robert Bruce, Victor, was born in Victor May 21, 1819. He was educated in the district schools and in early life was a carpenter ard builder, was also a farmer. He married twice, first to Almira Fisher, and they had one daughter, Mary, who mar- ried J. M. Hitchcock of Chicago, Ill. He married second, August 25, 1855, Rachel Williams of Lincoln county, Ontario, Canada. They have three children : Alice, who married Gardner Thomas, now of Livonia, Livingston county ; Charles A., who married Libbie Craft of Victor, and William B., who resides at home. Mr. Moore's father, Ashel Moore, was born in Massachusetts, and came to this State when a young man. He was a farmer and married Lucinda Williams. They had fourteen children : Gustavus A., Theodore W., Caroline H, Eunice, William, Angeline, Robert B., Mary J., Lucy A., George B., Emily M., Julia M., Eliza and James W. Mrs. Moore's father, Nathan Will- iams, was born in Victor September 9, 1805, went to Canada when quite young and married Rachel Wilcox of Canada, and had nine children, three survive: Spencer, Albert, and Rachel. Mr. Moore's grandfather, Abijah Williams, was in the Revolution- ary War. His father died January 9, 1855, and his mother February 6, 1860. Mrs. Moore's father died October 29, 1881, and her mother March 8, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the Presbyterian church.
Miller, Luman Phelps, Victor, was born in the town of Augusta (now Oriskany Falls), Oneida county, November 9, 1818. On March 4, 1819, his father came with Jonas M. Wheeler, and located southwest of Victor on the land now occupied by subject, and immediately returned for their families, including the subject of this sketch, then only six months old. He was educated in the public schools and was a farmer. October 5, 1859, he married Mrs. M. (Humphrey) Smith of Victor. They have had three children : Charles B., Orrin H., and Eugene H., who died at the age of nineteen; Orrin H., at the
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age of twenty months. Charles B. received his education in Canandaigua Academy, afterward graduated from the Rochester Business College, and is now a resident of South Norwalk, Conn., superintendent of J. J. Asche's Fur Cutting Factory. Mr. Mil- ler's father, Orrin, was born at Cooperstown, Otsego county, April 27, 1793, and came with his parents to Miller's Corners when a child. He too was a farmer, and married Abigail Thompson, formerly of Massachusetts. They had three sons and a daughter : Alonzo W., who died in Toronto, Canada, in 1891; Luman Phelps, Arthur HI., and Sarah A., who married Hiram Humphrey of this town. Mrs. Miller's father, Rufus Humphrey, was born in Goshen, Conn., October 2, 1795, and came to Ontario county in 1818. He married Lurania Smith, formerly of North Carolina. Mr. Humphrey was a machinist and invented the first threshing machine used in Western New York; he was one of the first to encourage the public school system and a strong anti-slavery man, and was interested in all matters of public concern. His death was sincerely re- gretted by the whole community. Mr. Miller's father, Orrin, died March 6, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Universalist church, and Mr. Miller is one of the deacons. He has been superintendent of the poor three terms, poormaster of the town several years, was deputy sheriff during Sheriff Hildreth's term. His father was in the War of 1812. The ancestry of the family is English and Scotch.
Middaugh, Albert, Gorham, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, April 13, 1834, a son of Eli, who was a son of Jasper, a native of Pennsylvania and one of the early settlers of Phelps, where he died. Eli was born in Phelps May 10, 1799. His wife was Mariah McCarty, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. Mr. Middaugh was a man of extensive reading and good judgment. He was a farmer and died in Phelps October 8, 1882, and his wife October 20. 1866. He was highway commissioner a number of years. Albert married in 1866 Eunice Burnett, by whom he had one child, Orson W., born March 15, 1871. He was educated in the Phelps Union School and the Elmira School of Commerce, graduating from the latter in 1890. He after- wards engaged as manager for G. W. Krowl of Elmira. January 12, 1874, Mrs. Mid- daugh died, and June 6, 1875, Mr. Middaugh married Persis Humphrey, who died June 9, 1879. April 30, 1884, he married Margaret Manzer, born in Otsego county January 11, 1854. They have had one son, Albert B., born June 9, 1885. Mr. Middangh's early life was spent in Phelps, but for many years he has resided in Gorham. He is a Democrat and has been poormaster three terms. He is a member of the Grange at Reed's Corners. Mrs. Middaugh is a daughter of Albert and Rosetta (Cummings) Man- zer of Otsego county. Mr. Manzer served eleven months in the war in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-fourth N. Y. Vols.
Marks, Walter, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell in September, 1819, a son of William Marks, who was son of Ebenezer Marks, who came from Otsego county and settled in 1800 in the town of Eaton, now Hopewell. His wife was a Miss French, and they had four sons and six daughters. William was born in 1780, and married Betsey Knapp of Otsego county, and they had one son and four daughters. Her father was Ezra, and her grandfather was named Ebenezer. Mr. William Marks died in Hopewell in 1840, and his wife in 1855. Walter Marks was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. In 1840 he married Sena Benham, a native of Hope-
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well, and a daughter of Brazil and Electa Benham, early settlers of Hopewell, who had nine children. The children of Mr. Marks and wife are: William R. (deceased) ; Eugenia, wife of Gardner L. Archer, of Hopewell ; and W. Franklin, who resides on the farm purchased by his father in 1840. He married Isabella Butler, and his chil- dren are: Jessie E., Ethel F., and Walter H. Walter Marks is a Republican, has been commissioner of highways; justice of peace twenty years; supervisor eight years, and county clerk. Mr. Marks owns a farm of eighty acres in Hopewell, which farm is separated from the farm taken by his grandfather in 1800 by a highway.
McClure, Darwin, Hopewell, was born in Onondaga county, November 9, 1842, of Scotch Irish descent. The father of Darwin was Hiram, son of James, a native of Vermont, who came to Onondaga county in 1791, and there lived until his death in 1852. Hiram was born on the old homestead in October, 1800. In 1822 he married a Miss Maker, and they had eight children, seven of whom grew to maturity. Mr. McClure died in 1857. Darwin McClure was reared on a farm, and educated in the common schools and Friendship Academy. In 1864 Georgietta Miles became his wife, and they had one child, Georgietta. Mr. McClure is a farmer, and in politics until 1872 was a Republican; he has since been a Democrat. In 1865 he came to Hopewell and purchased a farm of 110 acres, on which an old Indian village and bury- ing ground was located, and has there since resided. He was one of the organizers in 1877 of the Ontario County Patrons' Fire Relief Association, was treasurer until 1886, since which he has been secretary of the association. He has held several town offices, and is a member of Hopewell Grange No. 472.
Macomber, Cyrenins, Manchester, was born in Farmington, August 30, 1817. He received his schooling in the district schools of the town, and in 1847 purchased his farm of ninety-six acres in this town. Early in life he married Caroline M. Harmon, by whom he has had four children. Cyrenius Macomber has lived always an upright and conscientious life, known and beloved by a host of friends and neighbors and and acquaintances. And now in his declining years he may rest assured that all know that he has worn the white flower of a blameless life, and worn it well, without osten- tation or display. He is a staunch Republican in politics, and has held some local town offices.
McLouth, Marshall, Farmington, was born in Farmington, August 30, 1815. He was educated in the public schools, and was a farmer until he retired. December 31, 1838, he married Margaret, daughter of Ebenezer and Margaret (Spear) Pratt of the town of Manchester. They have liad seven children, five survive: Lucy, who married Charles Converse, now of Michigan, and have eight children : Milton, Edward, Charles, Howard, LeRoy, Allison, Roscoe and Margaret; Mary, who resides at home with her parents ; Lonis H., who married Celia Thayer, and have three children : Wells, Hannah, and Marshall; Gustavus A., who married Mary Bloodgood, and have five children : Eva, Harriet, Jessie, Carlton, and Sarah. Jessie married Edwin A. Adams. Mr. McLouth's father, Peter, was born in Taunton, Mass., in 1761, was a brick manufacturer and school teacher by occupation. He came to Farmington in 1800. He married twice, first Lavina Wells, of Williamstown, Mass., and had one son, William W. For his
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second wife he married Lydia Osgood, formerly of the State of Vermont. They had eleven children, eight grew to maturity : Walter, Lonson, Thomas, jr., Cyrus, Harriet, Lyman, Peter and Marshall. His father, Peter, and four of his brothers served in the Revolutionary war. Mr. MeLouth served two years as supervisor of his town in 1864-65, and was a right loyal man during the late war. His grandfather was edu- cated in the Maynooth College, and after coming to the United States taught a gram- mar school in Massachusetts. John Hancock was one of his pupils. Mrs. McLouth's father, Ebenezer Pratt, was born in Berkshire county, Mass., came to this county in the year 1795, and married Margaret Spear, formerly of Keene, N. H., and had seven children, six grew to maturity : Electa, Dighton, Achsah, Ebenezer, Meritt and Mar- garet.
Millard, Rev. Benjamin F., Naples, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Naples, was born in Cayuga county November 1, 1820, a son of Jesse and Lucinda (Loomis) Mil- lard, both from New England. The ancestors of the family were French Huguenots, Welsh and Scotch, and they trace their lineage to the Mayflower. Jesse Millard was a merchant and a prominent man in the neighborhood. He was for many years a jns- tice of the peace and postmaster, and a deacon of the Presbyterian church. His wife was a relative of Professor Loomis, of Yale College. Our subject was educated at the Western Reserve College of Ohio and at Yale College, Theological Department, and was ordained abont 1847. He was the first pastor of the church at Lansing, Mich., when the place had less than 1,000 people. He came to Naples when a young man, as pastor. After a few years, on account of failing health, he resigned his pastorate and studied law, and practiced successfully for several years. He was also editor of The Tribune for some time in Chicago. During the Civil War he became business agent of the New York Christian Commission, and associate pastor of the New York So- ciety's Mariners' Church, and afterwards was again called to Naples as pastor of the church there. He is a man greatly esteemed by the community. He was first married in 1847 to Francis Mann (who died in 1879), by whom he had two sons: Franklin Mann and Chalmers S., both deceased. September 12, 1881, he married Mrs. Margaret (Andrews) Monier, widow of the late James L. Monier, a merchant and real estate dealer, who died April 3, 1870.
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