History of Ontario county, New York : with illustrations and family sketches of some of the prominent men and families, Part 77

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


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do so. He gave the land at Reed's Corners on which the Congregational church stands ; and attends and supports that church. He also gave seven and one-half acres of the World's Fair ground in Gorham to the association in 1853. Mr. Reed has always been a temperance man.


Van Dusen Nurseries, The .-- A history of the nursery business in Geneva would be incomplete withont mention of these nurseries, and of the man whose name they bear. With some changes of ownership, they are one of the oldest, if not the oldest. nursery house in the country. In 1839 J. J. Thomas, the eminent pomologist, now of Union Springs, started a small nursery business at Macedon, N. Y. With the ex- ception of a few years, when Wm. R. Smith of Macedon had an interest in the busi- ness, Mr. Thomas continued the business alone till 1856, having in the meantime largely increased his plantings at Macedon, and also having made considerable plant- ings at Union Springs. In 1856 Mr. Thomas sold a half interest in both the Mace- don and Union Springs business to Edward W. Herendeen of Macedon, and abont 1859 Mr. Herendeen purchased Mr. Thomas's interest and continued the entire business alone until 1867, when he bought the "Chellborg " farm, (now known as " The Van Dusen Nurseries "), on the pre-emption road, two miles west of Geneva, formed a partnership with Mr. J. B. Jones of New York city, and commenced the nursery busi- ness in Geneva. In 1869 Mr. Herendeen moved to Geneva, having closed out the Macedon and Union Springs interests. In January, 1872, Curtis L. Van Dusen of Macedon bought out the interest of Mr. Jones and formed with Mr. Herendeen the firm of Herendeen and Van Dusen. Mr. Van Dusen was born in Dutchess county, New York, in 1826. From early boyhood his efforts contributed largely to the support of his parents' family. As a young lad he built up a carrying or expressage business, making trips on canal boats, carrying small packages, making purchases and transacting business in Albany and other places for his employers at the various towns along the line of his route. In this business he evinced the sterling integrity and good judgment which characterized him through life. While still a young lad he was frequently en- trusted with valuable money packages to deliver, and important business matters to transact. He married Martha Willard in 1851, at Pittsford, N. Y., and removed to Canada, where he engaged in the lumber business, returning to New York State about 1855, engaging in farming and the agricultural implement business at Palmyra till 1865, when he removed to Macedon where, in connection with farming, he gradually engaged in the nursery business, finally resulting in his moving to Geneva and purchasing a half interest in the firm of Herendeen & Jones. Closely following this came the crash of 1873, causing disaster to a considerable portion of the nursery interests in Geneva, in- cluding Herendeen & Van Dusen. At a meeting of the creditors a proposal was made which contemplated the assuming of the entire business by Mr. Van Dusen on such a basis as, if carried out successfully, would save the interests both of the creditors and the firm. To the accomplishment of the plan finally agreed upon, he brought those qualities of character, the recognition of which had secured him the co-operation of the creditors of the firm-uncompromising integrity, excellent judgment, and an ability for hard work. The last ten years of his life brought to him both his greatest trials and disappointments of his business career, in the financial embarrassment of his firm, and


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also his greatest success, in the management of the business so as to extricate it from those embarrassments. In 1881, two years before his death, he had carried out the plan successfully, paid the last dollar of indebtedness, and was in possesion of a com- fortable fortune. Mr. Van Dusen's educational opportunities were extremely limited, but during his entire life he fully compensated for the lack of early opportunities by the great extent of his reading, which covered so wide a range of subjects that few men with a university education are so well posted, and on so wide a range of subjects as was he. To the habit of reading he united an excellent memory, a keen sense of humor, and such conversational powers as to make him a charming companion. Fol- lowing his death in 1883, the business was continued as the C. L. Van Dusen Nursery Company, under the management of his son, Everett L., and his son-in-law, W. L. MeKay, who has been connected with the business since 1882. Since the death of Mr. Everett Van Dusen, four years later, the business has continued under the management of Mr. McKay, and the industry of fruit growing has, under his management, been added to the nursery business.


Mason, J. Harvey, Canandaigua, was born in South Bloomfield, May 6, 1819, a son of Jesse, a native of Massachusetts, who came to this section in 1813. He was born in Bristol, Mass., in 1795 and married, when about twenty-three years of age, Mehitable, daughter of Amos Lee of South Bloomfield, and they had twelve children, seven of whom survive: Three sons are in Buffalo; one daughter in Fall River, Mass., and one in Canandaigua; a brother, Henry, is a merchant in East Bloomfield. Our sub- ject, J. H., was the oldest son. When about three years old his parents moved to Rochester and in 1829 to Canandaigua, where his father engaged in tanning. J. H. was educated in the district school (where their store is now located), also Canandai- gua. On leaving school he learned the tanning business, in which he has always been engaged, also dealing in hides, wool, tallow, etc. In 1891 they handled from 60,000 to 80,000 lbs. of wool alone. Mr. Mason has always taken an interest in politics, and has twice represented his town as supervisor. He has also been overseer of the poor several years. He is a director of the Canandaigua Lake Steamboat Company, of which he is vice-president. He is the oldest Mason of Canandaigua, having been a member since 1853. He married, July 2, 1840, Harriet, daughter of Allen Smith, a grocer of this town, and they have one son, Jesse H., a partner in the business.


Bowker, Simon K., Phelps, was born in Union, Broome county, in 1830. He was the only son of five children of Joseph and Hannah (Bardeen) Bowker. Joseph, the father, was born in Connecticut near Hartford, and came to New York State when a young man. Hannah Bardeen, the mother, was born in Vermont. Simon K. Bowker came to Geneva in 1844 and learned the trade of carriage maker. In 1853 he came to Phelps, where he has since remained. He engaged in carriage manufac- turing with John M. Nelson, who established it in 1836, in connection with undertak- ing. In 1859 he married Caroline A., daughter of John M. Nelson, and they have two children: Nelson J. Bowker, in the employ of the Petibone Cataract Paper Company as bookkeeper ; and Ellen H. (Mrs. Frank G. Walker of Texarkana, Texas). Since the death of Mr. Nelson, Mr. Bowker has carried on the business of undertaking.


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He is one of the enterprising citizens of the town, has been president of the village, and has been for fourteen years a member of the Board of Education; and is now president of the same.


Cone, Winfield S., Hopewell, was born December 12, 1846, in Hopewell, on the farm he now owns, a son of James L. and Edna C. (Beach) Cone. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy, and has followed farming. He inherited 100 acres of land from his grandfather, to which he has added sixty acres. Jannary 5, 1870, he married Josephine H. Mitchell, a native of New Jersey, born July 26, 1851. She is a daughter of Henry C. Mitchell of Gorham. To subject and wife were born two danghters, Mand B., born June 1, 1871, and educated in Canandaigua Union School, Hattie B., born May 2, 1874, attends school in Canandaigua. Mr. Cone is a Democrat and was town clerk eleven years in succession. The family attends the M. E. church at Hopewell Centre, of which Mrs. Cone and daughter Mand B., are members.


Richardson, Silas, Victor, was born on the farm on which he now lives, Angust 15, 1805, was educated in the district school which his grandfather helped build, has always been a farmer and to this day does all the garden work. He married twice, first, De- cember 18, 1826, Hannah Snediker of this town, and had two children: Charles S., who has been dead about thirty-eight years, and Mary, who married Stephen Lombart, and resides in Michigan. Mrs. Richardson died October 23, 1853, and he married second, on September 20, 1854, Adeline Ladd, and they had three children : Jeremiah C., who. died in 1876; Elias L., born May 31, 1863. He was educated in the public schools and Fort Plain Academy, and was a farmer having charge of the homestead farm. June 23, 1887, he married Carrie E., daughter of Andrew and Gertrude Ket- chum of Perrington, they have one son, Howard S. John M. was born September 16, 1866, was educated in the public schools, and is treasurer of the Electric Moter Man- ufacturing Company in Chicago, Ill. March 8, 1889, he married Kate M. Minor of Canandaigua, and they have one daughter, Lina C. Mr. Richardson's father, Jeremiah, was born in Hartland, Vt., May 10, 1778, and married Sally Seymour of the State of Connecticut. She was born November 25, 1789, and came to Mayfield, now Fulton county. His grandfather, Thomas, came to Victor in the year 1800, and his father, Jeremiah, in the year 1802. His grandfather, Thomas, when at work on his farm in Vermont heard the cannonading on Lake Champlain in the War of 1776, went to his home, took his wife and family to his father, made a small bundle, picked up his rifle and served three years until independence was declared. His birthday was the 4th of July, and up to the time of his dea h he invited his friends and celebrated the occasion in a fitting manner. Mr. Richardson's father sold his wheat one year in Canandaigua for twenty-five cents a bushel, at the same time traded eight bushels of wheat for one pound of tea, and when ahont to build a barn went to Albany and purchased nails for the same at eighteen cents per pound. Mr. Richardson has been justice of the peace twelve years, and is a member of the Universalist church, and his father was in the War of 1812 at the time Buffalo was burned.


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Davis, Edmund O., Gorham. In an early day three brothers, Philip, John and Will- iam came from Wales. One settled in Massachusetts, one in Pennsylvania, and one in South Carolina. Subject is a descendant of the one who settled in Pennsylvania. His father was Ezekiel, son of William, a son of Philip, who was a native of Pennsylvania and early came to Hopewell where he purchased land of the Indians. He here built flour-mills and afterwards exchanged the mills for land in Gorham. He died in Penn- sylvania. William Davis was a native of the latter town, where he died. His wife was Mary Shaw and they had eleven children. Ezekiel was born November 22, 1818, in Northumberland county, Pa. He married Elizabeth Thorp by whom he had three sons and three daughters. Mary E. Davis and Edmund O. Davis now on the old home- stead; Celia Davis Potter and James A. Potter, on north part of the land, have nine children ; Uriah L. Davis, row of Fairmont, Neb., his wife, Martha Foster, have two sons : William F. Davis married Anna Christie, have one son; Sarah E. Davis, died in 1863. In 1840 he came to Gorham and took possession of 300 acres of land left him by his father, adding to this 125 acres. He died in 1888, and his wife in 1865. Ed- mund O. married in 1873 Annie Spry a native of Hamilton county, Ontario, born Sep- tember 10, 1851. She is a daughter of George and Isabella (McNaughton) Spry, he a native of Devonshire, Eng., and she of Amsterdam. Mr. Spry and wife had five chil- dren. He died in 1863 and Mrs. Spry resides with her danghter. Edmond O. and wife have one child, Adella E. Mr. Davis is a Democrat and is now excise commissioner. He and family attend the Congregational church at Reed's Corners of which he has been trustee several years.


Smith, Franklin D., Phelps, was born in Manchester September 22, 1829, a son of Asa and Hannah (Poor) Smith. The father was born in Vermont near Mount Mansfield, and the mother near Haverhill, N. H. The ancestors on both sides were soldiers in the Revolutionary army, and were at the battle of Bunker Hill. Franklin D. Smith married, February 1, 1865, Mary Wilson of New Jersey, she being one of two children of Peter and Susan Lambertson. Samuel Lambertson, her ancestor, served as a soldier for seven years during the Revolutionary War. He subsequently drew his land in Virginia and was killed by an Indian while at work on his land. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have five children : Edmund W., George F., Alden R., Mary E., and Lura L. Smith. Mr. Smith owns two farms, one of 155 acres in Manchester, and the home farm in Phelps of 225 acres, which he has owned since 1878. It is one of the notable places of the town, the buildings having been erected by Mr. Smith at a cost of nearly $10,000.


Mott, Edwin M., Farmington, was born in Gorham, Ontario county June 5, 1846. He was educated in the public schools and Oneida Seminary and is a farmer. March 8, 1875, he married Mary A., only living daughter of David W. and Ann Sheldon of this town. They had one daughter, Emma, who died at the age of four years. Mr. Mott's father, Henry, was born in Washington, Dutchess counny, April 20, 1791, and married Catherine Mackey, who was born in Rensselaerville, Albany county, in 1807. They had eight children, five survive : Anson, Alvira, Lucius, Edwin M., and Dilwin, three died young. His father died October 26, 1883, and his mother, September 15, 1881. His mother's father, Benjamin E. Mackey, was a colonel in the War of 1812. Mrs.


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Mott's father, David W. Sheldon, was born in this town January 21, 1814. February 12, 1840, he married Ann Gue, and they had four children : Daniel, Hannah C., Emily. B., and Mary A. The other three are deceased. Her father died September 17, 1882, and her mother resides with them. In politics Mr. Mott is a Democrat.


Decker, Edwin M., Richmond, was born in Livingston county in 1843. His mother and grandmother were from Massachusetts. He came with his father and family when an infant to Canandaigua, where he was educated in the common schools, and he worked by the month until beginning farming on his own account. He married in 1871, Lydia Child, daughter of George H. Child, now of Victor, and they have six children : Albert E., George L., Fred W., Mary J., Alice J., and Howard W. Eight years ago Mr. Decker came to Richmond and purchased the Cobb farm of sixty-five acres in the eastern part of the town. He has three acres of hops, for which he has built a hop konse. The father of Mrs. Decker, George H. Child, was born in Bristol in 1826, and married Josephine Tiffany of Naples, and the parents of both came from Connecticut to this county. George H. Child's father, came from Rhode Island, and his mother came from Massachusetts.


Ashley, Frederick Leonard, Richmond, was born March 25, 1845, on the old home- stead. His grandfather, Noah Ist (son of William, who lived in Westfield, Mass.), was born in Sheffield, Mass., and went first to Vermont, where he was a merchant, then to Richmond in 1802. He took up 185 acres of land on lot 32, built first a log house on the east side of the road, and in 1816 built the enhstantial farm house now occupied by Frederick L., and resided there until his death in 184], aged nearly seventy- two years. Squire Ashley was for many years agent for the sale of the Phelps and Gorham lands in this town, and later was manager of a union store at the Center. He held the offices of supervisor and justice of the peace. His wife was Betsey Sheldon of Richmond, Mass. His brother William lived here many years and finally moved to Ashley, Mich., the place taking its name from the family. Noah Ist had ten children. Noah 2d was born on the homestead and was a farmer all his life. He married Mi- nerva Tisdale, daughter of Leonard Tisdale of Blodgett's Mills, Cortland county, in 1832, and their children were : Almira Jane, Mary Evelyn, Clinton S, Noah Tisdale, Frank 1., Frederick L., Ellen Minerva, and Augusta V. Frederick L. was educated at the district school, Lima Seminary, and at Eastman's Business College, and has been a farmer. He married in 1876, Fanny E. Briggs, daughter of John G. Briggs, and their children are Frederick Carleton, born August 17, 1878, and Evelyn Minevra, born De- cember 4, 1882.


Johnson, George, Richmond, was born on the spot where he now resides in 1823. His father, Sylvester, a native of Dighton, Mass., served as ship carpenter during the war of 1812, and afterwards came here with his wife, Ruth Chase, who died soon after, leaving three children : James, Hiram, and Abbey. Ile married second Beulah Bush of East Bloomfield, by whom he had two children : Louise (deceased) and George. The latter was educated at the district schools and at Allen's Hill under Professor Rice, and married in 1853 Emeline D. Bailey of Somerset, Niagara county, who was born . at Baptist Hill, in Bristol, in 1830. They have had four children : Frank B., born in


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1854, died in 1858; Carrie E., born in 1856, died in 1858; Jennie O., born April 11, 1859, wife of L. A. Mitchell; and Emma C., born September 22, 1860, wife of A. N. Stewart of Livonia. Mr. Johnson has a flock of three hundred Merino sheep and is engaged in mixed farming. For the past fifteen years he has bought large quantities of wool, and has been industrious and energetic.


Bacon, Orrin S., Victor, was born in the town of Canandaigua, March 29, 1837, and was educated in the public schools and Dundee Acadeiny. After his education was completed he engaged in a variety of occupations. For a number of years be conducted a meat market, and also has been a dealer in beef, cattle, horses and real estate. He was elected collector of the town of Victor and held the position ten years ; was ap- pointed under sheriff for three years, and was elected sheriff in the year of 1879. Jan- uary 1, 1880, he occupied the sheriff's quarters at Canandaigua, holding that position three years, and was afterward appointed deputy collector of internal revenue under H. S. Pierce for nearly four years. In April, 1887, he was employed by MeKechnie & Company as financial manager of their private bank at Canandaigua ; also of the estate of James McKechnie, which continues until the present time. September 14, 1856, he married Harriet E., oldest daughter of Albert and Electa (Hubbell) Simonds of Victor, and they have five children : Lillian M., Orrin S., jr., who married Minnie Gallup of Victor ; Albert S., who is a Presbyterian minister at Niagara Falls; Lizzie S., who married Edward Simmons, now of Canandaigua; and Jane O)., who resides with her parents. Mr. Bacon's father, Rev. Hiram Bacon, was born in Tioga county, Pa., in 1808, and came to this State when a boy. He married Mary Stebbens, formerly of Massachusetts, and had five children. The ancestry of the family on the paternal side is English, on the maternal side Scotch.


Gambee, William H., Geneva, was born in Varick, Seneca county, February 4, 1833. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from Lima Seminary. He has always been a produce dealer and farmer. January 4, 1860, he married S. Elizabeth Boyd, who was born on the place on which they reside, north of Geneva, her father's homestead. They have one daughter, Nellie E., who was married on February 5, 1893, to Edward Hooper of Newark, Wayne county. Mr. Gambee's father, William, was born in Pennsylvania about 1792, and married Agnes Armstrong. They had six chil- dren : John Y., Mary E., Isaac T., William H., Annie and Lavina Mrs. Gambee's father, David Boyd, was born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and married Ann Ringer, by whom he had eight children : John, Isabella, Robert, Sarah E., Elvira, Charles, Eliza- beth, and David. David Boyd served in the war of 1812, and Mr. Gambee's father, William, was also in that war. Mr. Gambee was a sutler in the army of the Potomac in the late war.


Hunt, William H., Phelps, was born in the city of Syracuse, October 25, 1857, the old- est of three children of William and Emma (Featherston) Hunt, both of whom were born in England. Mr. Hunt came to this country when about twenty five years of age to join his elder brothers, who were already established in Syracuse. The family moved to Phelps in the spring of 1858 and have since remained here. William H. was mar- ried January 4, 1882, to Carrie J., daughter of Andrew J. and Harriet (Wilcox) Humph-


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rey of Phelps. The grandfather was Hugh Humphrey of Phelps, and his father was Oliver Humphrey, one of the early settlers of this locality. They have one son, Harold Hunt. Mr. Hunt has been for ten years on the farm which he now occupies, which he uses largely as a grain farm.


Short, Daniel, Richmond, settled in Honeoye, where Dr. Wilbur now resides, in an early day, coming from Massachusetts. His son, Daniel 2d, and grandson, Daniel 3d, were born in Williamstown, Mass., and all came here. Daniel 3d was eighteen years of age when he moved here, and had been previously drafted into service in the war of 1812 for three months. He and his sister, Speedy, came here in a buggy and both entered into service with their uncles, William and Abel Short, who had come here a little earlier. Daniel 3d married Mary Doolittle, born in Bristol, whose ancestors came from Connecticut. Three of his children died young; the others were: Speedy, Har- riet, Daniel 4th, Clarissa, Lucy, Adaline, Spencer D., Nancy, and Emeline. Daniel 3d was commissioner of highways fourteen years. He died in 1867, and his wife in 1869. Daniel 4th was born in 1823. He was educated in the common and select schools, taught two winters after his majority, and worked by the month on his father's farm until twenty-seven years of age. He then married Persis E. Doolittle, whose father, Dr. Willard Doolittle, was a practicing physician here forty years. She had been a school teacher for several years and died in 1889. They had five children, two of whom died young ; the others are: Louis Daniel, born in 1864, graduated from Rochester University, class of 1888, and has been mostly employed since in newspaper work ; Mary D. was born in 1869, graduated from Lima Seminary and is now at home; and Willard Scott, now a student in Lima Seminary. Mr. Short was a revenue assessor two years, county superintendent of the poor in 1889, town assessor four years, and has been an auctioneer for thirty years, and a farmer all his life. He is a Republican and a member of the Congregational church here. His farm consists of 125 acres. Spencer D., son of Daniel 3d. was born in Livonia, July 31, 1832. He was educated in the schools of Honeoye, and his residence has been on the homestead, first taken up by Philip Short, a cousin of Daniel 2d, abont 1792, then owned by Philip 2d, then by Daniel, and now by Spencer D. The latter has been assessor, commissioner of high- ways, and supervisor 1869-70-71 and '72, and was chairman of the Board during the the latter two years. He is a Republican. In 1861 he married Lorinda A., daughter of Gideon Pitts, whose father, Gideon, was one of the founders of the town. Six chil- dren have been born to them : Abbie L. (Mrs. E. O. Terry of Nunda); Nellie E. (Mrs. James B. Bothwell of Missouri) ; Spencer Wells, a banker in Iowa; Florence N., lives at home ; Ralph Richmond and Gideon Pitts, both students at Lima Seminary. Mr. Short's farm consists of 160 acres. Ile makes a specialty of sheep, and for several years has been purchasing agent for large breeders of sheep in the South and West.


Gatchel Family, Origin and Descendants of the .- 1st, William Gatchel, grandfather and great-grandfather to the generation of descendants now living, was born April 13, 1733, birthplace not known, but lived in the town of Chazy, near Lake Champlain, in northern part of New York State. At an early date he married Eunice Graves, by whom he had the following children, to wit: William, Nancy, Don A., Harvey, Saph -


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ronia and Lamentta. William Gatchel died January 24, 1805. 2d, William Gatchel, father of the present living generation, was born in of Chazy, November 7, 1796. At an early age the family removed to Oneida county, this State, where he learned the clothier's trade, which he followed successfully for several years. In 1821 he left his parental home and came to Farmington, Ontario county. April 2, 1822, he married Huldah Herendeen, daughter of Welcome Herendeen, one of the first pioneer settlers in town (Farmington). By this marriage four children came to bless their home, namely : William H., Welcome D., Harriet A., and Arthur M. These children are all living and situated as follows: William H., now owns and lives on the homestead farm; Welcome D., now living in Louisville, Ky., a seller of photo stock supplies, married Frances Tripp of Walworth, Wayne county, N. Y., March 19, 1856. Four children were born to them, to wit : Mary, now married and living in West Virginia ; next came Albert D., now living at Birmingham, Ala .; Willie A. who died at the age of four; and Frank T., a recent graduate at Yale College. Harriet A. married Theodore E. Lawrence, formerly of Cayuga county, N. Y., March 24. 1875. They have one son, William. Mr. Lawrence died October 7. 1888. He had successfully followed farming for a business. Arthur M., unmarried, is now living on the old home farm with his elder brother and widowed sister and son. William Gatchel, the father. died Septem- ber 23, 1871. Huldah Gatchel, the wife, died November 7, 1868.




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