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Paine, William Harold, of Nashville, Tenn., born at Farmington, N. Y., May 12, 1836. His youth was spent in hard work upon his father's farm. He took up the study of algebra and grammar at the age of thirteen years, and unassisted went through these and other studies. At the age of sixteen he entered Macedon Academy, then under the direction of the Rev. Samuel Senter, and studied there nearly two years. In the spring and summer of 1854 he spent three months at the New York Conference Seminary at Charlottesville. He began teaching in the district schools of Ontario county in his eighteenth year. On October 2, 1856, he married Evaline Sarah Fort, and for a year and a half he and his wife taught the village school at Victor. In 1858 he moved to Michigan, and in his twenty-third year became principal of the Union School at Three Rivers, Mich., his wife assisting part of the time. He re- mained here six years. In 1864 he was elected superintendent of the public schools at Niles, Mich. In 1866 he was invited to take charge of the Ypsilanti Seminary, at that time the most popular public school in the State. In 1869 he accepted the position of superintendent of the Adrian public schools, which position he held ten years. From 1864 to 1870 he edited and published the Michigan Teacher. He received in 1872, from the University of Michigan, the degree of A.M., and in June, 1888, the degree of LL.D. He was twice elected president of the Michigan State Teachers' Association. In June, 1879, he was elected to the chair of the Science and Art of Teaching in the University of Michigan, which position he held nine years. This was the first chair of pedagogy established in an American university. He was inaugurated October 5, 1887, chancel-
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lor of the University of Nashville, and president of the Peabody Normal College. He is the author of " The Relation between the University and our High School ; " " Chap- ters on School Supervision ; " " Historical Sketch of the Public Schools of the City of Adrian ; " " Outlines of Educational Doctrine; " "Contributions to the Science of Edu- cation ; " editor of "Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching; " translator of "Com- payré's Histoire de la Pedagogie ; " " Elements of Psychology ; " " Psychology Applied to Education ; " " Lectures on Teaching ; " "Rousseau's Emile." Genealogical .-- He
married, October 2, 1856, Sarah Evaline Fort, born August 28, 1835, daughter of Daniel L. and Sarah (Van Ness) Fort, he, Daniel, born at Schaghticoke, N. Y., August 6, 1781, son of Lewis; she born May 12, 1795, died October 7, 1862, daughter of Peter Van Ness, son of Cornelius of Albany ; son of Gideon Riley Payne, born at Farming- ton, N. Y., September 18, 1813, died at Ann Arbor, Mich., March 8, 1888, married December 4, 1834, Mary Brown Smith, born November 23, 1815, daughter of William Smith, born September 19, 1787, son of Stephen, son of Jonathan, son of Gershom, son John Smith, who came from England in 1652 to Dartmouth, Mass .; Wmn. Smith mar- ried Lydia Brown, born at Adams, Mass., December 9, 1788, died May 21, 1890, at Adrian, Mich., aged nearly 102 years, daughter of David, born June 16, 1741, son of Stephen, born February 3, 1714, at Cumberland, R. I., son of Joseph and Sarah (Pray) Brown ; Gideon Riley Payne had six children (viz .: Wm. H., above, Selinda, born July 5, 1838, Chauncey S., born January 14, 1840, Lydia M., born January 12, 1842, Cynthia Orlena, born August 20, 1845, and Frank Riley, born November 30, 1850) ; son of Gideon Payne of Farmington, N. Y., born at Adams, Mass., January 10, 1765, died at Farmington, 1848, a wealthy farmer (married February 18, 1793, Phebe Hill, born January 12, 1771, daughter of Caleb and Mary), had nine children, viz .: Electa, born January 12, 1795, died January 17, 1795, Zimroda, born March 14, 1796, (married Nathan Stoddard), Mary, born September 23, 1798, died November 29, 1880, (married Sylvester R. Hathaway), Selinda, born October 6, 1800, (married Nathan Power), Cal- vin, born July 30, 1802, died November 27, 1859, Reuben, born July 4, 1805, died March 23, 1854, William, born March 24, 1807, George, born September 28, 1809, Gideon Riley above, born September 18, 1813; Gideon Payne was son of William Payne of Pittsfield and Adams, Mass., born in Rhode Island, farmer, (married Sarah Hawkins, who died in 1822, aged eighty-four), had nine children, viz : Gideon, born January 10, 1765, Patty (married a Mason), Lydia (married a Howe), Mollie (married first Elijah Smith, he died in 1793 from the falling of a tree, his death was the first in Farmington, she married second Elihu Parker, he committed suicide by jumping in a well), John, died February 18, 1821, William, Joseph, died Angust 18, 1862, aged eighty-eight, Zimroda, born 1770, died in February, 1838, (married Abiathar Power, born 1770, died 1848), Lucinda (married Jacob) Smith) ; son of Gideon of Rhode Island, born at Swanzey, Mass., in 1703, died in Rhode Island in 1756, freeman at Smithfield, R. I., in 1739, (married Rebecca Corser) ; son of John Payne, born at Rehoboth, Mass., April 3, 1658, died at Providence, R. I., September 28, 1718, was of Swanzey, Mass., in 1683, surveyor of highways 1686, had large property at Swanzey, Bristol, Provi- dence, etc., (married first, February 3, 1680, Elizabeth Belcher, married second, Martha) ; son of Stephen Payne, born in England about 1629, died at Rehoboth, 1679, (married
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Ann Chickering) ; son of Stephen Payne, who came with others from Great Elling- ham, Eng., in the ship Diligent, 1638, and settled at Hingham, Mass., moved to Reho- both 1643, had large estates, representative to General Court, died August, 1679. William H. Payne and Evaline Saralı Fort have five children, viz .: Mary Payne, born December 26, 1860 ; William Riley Payne, born September 24, 1864, married Septem- ber 17, 1885, to Estella Frances Vail; Eva Payne, born October 30, 1865, married Feb- rnary 8, 1893, to Abram Tillman Jones of Nashville, Tenn .; Emma Payne, born July 8, 1867 ; Clara Louise Payne, born October 30, 1876.
Phillips, Lebbeus, Gorham, was born in Gorham July 2, 1819, a son of Isaac, whose father, Abraham, was a native of New Hampshire, born October 16, 1757, and died in Saratoga in 1799. He participated in the Revolutionary War. Isaac was born in New Hampshire November 3, 1782. He married Anna Gamble, a native of Saratoga county, and daughter of James Gamble, born February 9, 1783, and they have five sons and five daughters. In 1807 they came to Gorham. He was supervisor and also justice of the peace for twelve years, and was born a Quaker, though he gave liberally to all denom- inations. He died February 8, 1871, and his wife died May 5, 1853. Lebbeus was educated in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. With the exception of two years spent in a mill, he has followed farming, and in 1867 purchased the old homestead. Decem- ber 24, 1845, he married Ann D., daughter of William Mead of Gorham, and they have five sons : William O., Charles F., James E., George L., and Alvin M. Mr. Phillips is a Democrat and has been assessor six years, commissioner of highways three years, and supervisor one term. He is now notary public, which position he has held twenty years. He is a member of Stanley Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 434.
Purdy, Alex. M., Manchester, was born in Wayne county May 31, 1835. He re- ceived a good education in the schools of the vicinity and at the Friends' Boarding School. Mr. Purdy has been engaged in horticultural pursuits and the nursery business for the greater portion of his life. He is also editor of the Fruit Recorder and Evap- orator, a publication devoted to these special branches of horticulture. Mr. Purdy possesses a fine farm of 112 acres in close proximity to Palmyra, upon which he has au evaporating plant, and in which he uses large quantities of apples. Alex. M. Purdy married first Mary Reynolds, by whom he had five children, and some time after her decease he married Phoebe J. Dorland, by whom he had four children, seven living and two deceased.
Parmelee G. Herbert, Phelps, was born in Addison, Steuben county, July 27, 1854, one of three children of Rev. Anson Hall and Mary E. (Whiting) Parmelee. Rev. An- son Hall Parmelee was born in Bristol, Vt., September 14, 1810, was a graduate of Middlebury College in 1839, entered Andover Theological Seminary the same year, was licensed to preach in September, 1842. After three years' service as general agent of the American Tract Society for the establishment of colportage in North and South Carolina and Georgia, he entered upon pastoral duties in the State of New York where he labored about thirty years in the towns of Addison, Livonia and Seneca Castle. The Vermont Parmelees were originally from Connecticut. G. IIerbert Parmelee married, November 23, 1881, Lillian May Pond of Phelps, daughter of George and Ann (Hurd)
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Pond ; they have four children : George P., John B., Grace L., and Louis Whiting Parmelee. At the decease of George Pond in 1889, the L. P. Thompson Plow Com- pany's property in Phelps came into his possession, which has been noted as producing the first iron beam and first chilled plow manufactured in the State. Mr. Parmelee has developed the plant until it now produces thirteen different styles of plows which. are considered first class.
Packard, William G., Bristol, was born January 23, 1816, in Bristol. His father was Gooding, son of Gooding of Dighton, Mass., who came to East Bloomfield in 1804. His son Gooding was born in Dighton in 1787, and was seventeen years old when he came to Bloomfield with his parents. He married Adaline, daughter of Job Gooding of Dighton, Mass., by whom he had nine children, four of whom are living. Gooding came to Bristol when a young man and settled on the farm now owned by George Packard. He died in 1864. William G. was reared on a farm and educated in East Bloomfield Academy. At twenty years of age he engaged in teaching and taught six- teen terms, spent one year in Illinois, and taught at Lockport, Ill. In 1848 he married Cynthia, daughter of Ephrain Gooding of Bristol. Mr. Packard and wife have two children : William S., of Paoli, Wis., who married Mary, daughter of John Elsworth formerly of Ontario county, and they have three sons and a daughter. Gooding was educated in Genesee Normal School. He married Mary, daughter of Erastus Allen, and had one daughter, Mary. William G. had 260 acres of land and is a general farmer and hop grower. He is a Republican and was supervisor two years, also was at one time school inspector.
Power, George P., Farmington, was born in Farmington June 20, 1848, was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy, and follows farming. December 28, 1869, he married Mary A., daughter of Henry and Lydia Rose, and they had two children, Frank C. and Lulu M. Mrs. Power died July 23, 1884, and he married second, March 17, 1886, Carrie D., only daughter of Henry J. and Frances D. Redfield. An- drew T., father of George P., was born in Farmington June 10, 1819. November 17, 1840, he married Eunice Eddy of his native town, and they had six children : R. Bruce, who died at the age of twenty-eight years ; Emmer A., Truman, George P., Metta E., and William C. Mr. Power's grandfather, William P., was born on the old homestead March 4, 1795, and married Dorcas Arnold of this town, by whom he had eight chil- dren. His great-grandfather on his mother's side, Abiather Arnold, was born in Adams, Mass., in 1770 and came to Farmington when a young man.
Preston, William, Gorham, was born in Yorkshire, England, May 21, 1843. He is a son of Richard and Sarah (Robinson) Preston, of Yorkshire, England, where they died They had six children. William was reared by his grandfather, Thomas Robinson, a capenter and farmer of England. Wm. Preston & Co. owned a factory at Lyons, Wayne county, where Mr. JJohnson is at present engaged in the manufacture of tile. In 1874 William sold his interest in the firm and and came to Gorham, where he pur- chased the David Wilkie Tile Factory, which he now owns, and also 100 acres of land upon which he erected a fine dwelling. He averages 600,000 tile annually. In 1873 he married Mary Worthington, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Townsend) Worth-
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ington of England, who have three sons and three daughters. They came to Lyons in 1857 and here the father died. Mr. Preston and wife have six children : Edward T., Fannie E. (deceased), Charlie H., George W., Frederick W., and one who died young. Mr. Preston is a Democrat. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Stanley Lodge No. 434.
Powell, Thomas J., Naples, oldest son of Shotwell and Sarah G. Powell, was born July 23, 1837, in the town of Clinton, Dutchess county. He, with his parents, moved to South Bristol, Ontario county, in 1844. His education was obtained mostly at the district school and at home. He taught several terms, four in his own district, and did surveying occasionally for a few years, but quit soon after he settled on the farm. He enlisted to help put down the Rebellion, but was discharged after six months' service ; was soon after drafted, but rejected on account of disability. March 26, 1864, he and Emily Ewer, oldest daughter of Isaac G. and Lydia Ann Ewer of Mendon Center, Mon- roe county, were married. They established their home on a farm in the adjoning town of Naples soon after their marriage, where they have since lived. They have had two children : Albert I., who is now married and lives with them ; and Isaac S., who died September 24, 1892, soon after he had graduated, loved and respected by a large circle of friends. Mr. Powell has prospered as a farmer and has obtained several patents on hay cars, one of which especially has had a wide sale. He is much interested in various reforms, particularly Prohibition, and has been for many years an active Prohibitionist, being the candidate of the party in 1877 for member of assembly for Ontario county, since which he has been elected a delegate to the State Convention and nominated for town and county offices several times by the party. He has been a vegeterian for some twenty-five years, not using even tea or coffee, and with Mrs. Powell it has been almost the same. In their over twenty-nine years of married life they have enjoyed excellent health and no physician to doctor them or their children, except when the one died. His wife has been a faithful and able helper to him, cordially co-operating in temper- ance and other reform work. They are birthright members of the Society of Friends.
Pomeroy, Andrew B., East Bloomfield, is a native of Bristol, born August 18, 1854. llis father, Luther, was a son of Luther, a native of Amherst, Mass., born in 1788, who married Sybil Tower, and had seven daughters and a son. In 1815 he came to Bristol and settled on a farm where he remained until advanced in years, when he removed to Bath, O., and died December 20, 1883. Mrs. Pomeroy died in Bristol. Luther Pom- eroy, jr., was born in Bristol July 21, 1822, and married Bethania, daughter of Caleb Bliss, a native of Massachusetts, who married Zilpha Gerry and had a son and four daughters. Mrs. Pomeroy died August 19, 1882. Mr. Pomeroy and wife had a son and three daughters. He spent his life in Bristol as a farmer, and during his last twenty- three years was an extensive wool dealer. He was a Republican and was assessor sev- eral years. He married second Mary A. Cobb, April 18, 1888; he died January 10, 1892. Andrew B. was educated in the public schools, and February 20, 1879, married Jennie Case, a native of Bristol, and one of six children of Oliver and Judith A. (Gof- ford) Case, the former a native of Bristol, and the latter of Columbia. In 1879 Mr. Pomeroy came to East Bloomfield, and bought 100 acres of land known as the Edward Bronson farm where he carries on general farming. He is a Republican but not an as-
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pirant to office. He is a member of A. O. U. W. of East Bloomfield, and he and wife are members of the M. E. Church. The sisters of subject are: Mary, wife of Jason Evans of Bristol ; Namah L., wife S. W. Crouch, a contractor and builder of Rochester ; and Frances C., who resides with her sister, Mrs. Crouch, in Rochester.
Pratt, Reuben T., Gorham, was born in Gorham September 29, 1829. His father was Elisha, son of Elisha, who resided in Rochester, Mass., in 1708, and had the follow- ing children : Nathan, Jonathan, James, Elisha, Lucy, Sally, Dorcas and Polly. The history of Nathan and Jonathan is unknown. James had four sons and three daughters. Lucy married Banks Bennett and had six children. Sallie married Moses Larned and had eleven children. Dorcas married Nathan Loomis. Polly married John Webb and had six children. Elisha, father of Reuben T., was born in 1778, and in 1801 came to Gorham and purchased a farm. In 1806 Mr. Pratt married Elizabeth Saunders, a na- tive of Rhode Island, born April 24, 1788. They had four sons and six daughters, of whom Reuben was the youngest. Mr. Pratt for some time taught school. He was also justice of the peace for twenty years and was a great hunter. He died in 1846 and his wife in 1871. Reuben was educated in the common schools. In 1856 he married So- phia Wormley, a native of Hopewell, born November 6, 1835. She was a daughter of Jacob and Samantha (Thatcher) Wormley, who had eight children. Mr. Pratt and wife have one son, Hubert A., born April 26, 1859, who married Mary Ellison, a native of Seneca county, born at Farmersville, June 4, 1854. She was a daughter of Melvin and Isabella (Johnson) Ellison of Woodville. Hubert and wife have a daughter, Helen G., born August 12, 1892. Mrs. Hubert Pratt was educated in the Union School and Farm- ersville Seminary. Reuben is a Republican in politics and a member of Reed's Corners Grange. He owns 110 acres of land, and his wife is a member of the M. E. Church at Rushville.
Payne, the late George, Farmington, was born in Farmington, east of the homestead, September 28, 1809. He was educated in the district schools and was a farmer. July 2, 1834, he married Nancy Jane, daughter of William and Martha Brown of his native town, and had seven children : Gideon, who died March 2, 1880; Andrew G., who married Cynthia Christie, of Mayfield, Fulton county, and is a farmer ; Martha L., who married David Padgham ; Phebe L., who married John Corrigan, and resides in Can- ada ; Hannah L., who married Walter D. Norton, of Victor ; one died in infancy ; and Florence L., who resides with her mother at the homestead. Mr. Payne died July 22, 1847. His father, Gideon, was born January 10, 1765, in Berkshire, Mass. February 18, 1793, he married Phebe Hill of his native place, and at once came to Farmington, one of the first settlers in the town. His ancestry has been traced back to 1590, and some of the family to 1060. The name originated in Normandy, and the first ances- tor, Hugh de Payen, was a son of the page who went to England with William the Conqueror. Elizabeth Payne, the mother of Oliver Cromwell, was a daughter of one of the ancestors. Hugh de Payen was one of the leaders of the first crusade. He es- tablished the Order of Templars in England in A. D. 1118. This order was the most powerful and wealthy in Europe for three centuries. Mrs. Payne's father, William Brown, was born February 28, 1778, in Cumberland, R. I., and came to this place at an carly day. He married Martha IIill, of Swansea, R. I., in Farmington, October 27,
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1805, and had four children : Chloe, Hannah M., Nancy Jane, and Levi A. Chloe died wlien she was six years old. William Brown was killed in a friendly wrestling match with a neighbor, April 28, 1814, and his wife died March 11, 1825. William Brown's father, Ichabod, was born in Cumberland, R. I. He married Hannah Ballou of that place, and they were among the early settlers here. He was an officer in the Revolu- tionary War.
Parker, J. W., Manchester, was born in the village of Pike, Wyoming county, Jan- uary 23, 1835. He received an academic education, after which he taught school for several years. In 1860 he came to Port Gibson, where he taught school for one year, which he gave up to enter into the mercantile trade, which he has since most success- fully conducted; also conducted the Crystal Springs Creamery. Mr. Parker was ap- pointed postmaster under Grant, which office he has since held, with the exception of the Cleveland administration. He has been justice of the peace twenty-two years, and justice of session four terms. He married Emma, daughter of Hon. H. Schutt; they have one child, a daughter, Ada B. Parker, Ph. B., member of the faculty of the State Normal School, Mansfield, Pa.
Perhamus, Charles C., Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, June 6, 1853, was educated at the common schools, and afterwards learned the carpenter's trade. He is a proficient engineer and at present is engaged in that business. He is a Democrat. In 1879 he married Mary E. Welcher, daughter of Charles and Maline (Stevenson) Welcher, who early came to Hopewell. Charles C. Perhamus was a son of William C., a son of John, who was a native of Ulster county, and died in 1832. William C. was born October 13, 1809, in Ulster county. He married Harriet Couch, a native of Connecticut, by whom he had two sons and four daughters. Mr. Perhamus is a Democrat, and has held the offices of constable for twenty years and collector seven years. One of his sons, William S., who resides with his father, was born in Hopewell, August 16, 1835. He followed the shoemaker's and the carpenter's trades, and October 1, 1881, accepted a position as station agent at Ennerdale, where he has since been employed. He has also been postmaster at Benlah six years. In 1890 he engaged in the poultry business at Lewis Station, and now makes a specialty of breeding Leghorn and Plymouth Rock fowls. He is a member of Stanley Grange and Ark Lodge No. 33 of Geneva F. & A. M.
Powell, Shotwell, South Bristol, son of James and Martha (Townsend) Powell, was born in Clinton, Dutchess county, October 3, 1808. He spent some time with his uncle Hugh Townsend, in Plainfield, N. J., and at the age of fifteen returned to Clinton and lived with his mother. He was educated at the district school and at Westown School, Pennsylvania, working on a farm during the summer and attending school in winter. In the summer of 1832 he was in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., at the Infirmary dur- ing the cholera. The physician was a Thompsonian, and Mr. Powell experimented in the theory of that practice, and became satisfied of its practicability and utility, and has relied upon it since when requiring medicine, but has generally adopted Napoleon's plan, i. e., when ill to abstain from food three days or longer, and has followed that suc- cessfully for more than fifty years. In 1832 he went to Michigan (then a territory and
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wilderness), and purchased eighty acre lots at $100 each. In 1833 he returned to Dutchess county, and purchased a part of the old homestead and commenced farming ; where he remained until 1844. He then sold the homestead and exchanged liis Michi- gan land for his fine farin in South Bristol. Mr. Powell was elected to the Legislature in 1858-9, was active in the performance of his duties, and introduced the bill to prevent slave hunting, also for the repeal of capital punishment. He opposed the corruptions of the Legislature in the city railroads, ferry bills, and other schemes of plunder. Mr. Powell has never sought for office. Under the administration of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe he was a Republican, and under Jackson's administration was a Democrat until 1840, when the Democratic party became the slave power, then lie joined the Whigs till they adopted the same policy, and subsequently became a Republican, and when they adopted the sixteenth resolution in platform he withdrew from them and joined the Prohibition party. In 1835 he married Sarah G. Clapp, and they have three children : Thomas J., a farmer in Naples; Israel M., born in 1839, now the owner of the homestead ; Lydia Ann, born in 1841, wife of William E. Lincoln of South Bristol. Mr. Powell has a valuable farm in Virginia, where he visits often, and has generally spent the winters. He is hale and hearty in his eighty-fifth year, and reads without glasses, having never used them.
Preston, Gerrit S., East Bloomfield, is a native of Victor, born June 24, 1848, a son of Orrin, a native of Orleans county, born June 27, 1810, who went to Victor and there married first Louisa Felt, and second Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah Cronk, an early settler of Victor, who had five daughters and three sons. Orrin and wife had four sons and two danghters. He was a carpenter and went to Indiana, and after several years went to Victor, where he worked at his trade for some time. In 1848 he came to East Bloomfield and bought, ninety acres. At his death he owned 280 acres. He was assessor several years. About a year before his death (in 1875) he returned to Victor, where his wife died in July,'1882. Gerrit S. came to East Bloomfield when a child, was reared on a farm and received an academic education. In 1876 he married Sarah O. Dewey, a native of Manchester, and a daughter of Howard and Mary (Arnold) Dewey, the former a native of Suffield, Conn., and an early settler of Manchester, and the latter a native of Farmington and a daughter of Pardon Arnold, of Southfield, R. I. Mr. and Mrs. Preston have four children : Mary E., Howard D., Alice I., and Grace C. Mr. Preston has for several years been a breeder of American Merino sheep. He is a Republican and was school commissioner of the Second District of Ontario county for six years. He is a member of East Bloomfield Grange, of which he has been mas- ter one year.
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