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Marsh, Horatio H., Bristol, was born in Bristol. September 18, 1820, and is a son of Parley Marsh, a son of Elisha Marsh, a native of Vermont. Parley Marsh was born in Vermont in 1791, and about 1815 came to Bristol and here married Betsey Hicks, born in 1798, daughter of Jabez Hicks. They had two children: Thadeus, who died at the age of two years, and Horatio H. Horatio H. was reared on a farm and was but two years of age when his father died in 1822. Mrs. Marsh then married Sylvester Wheeler, by whom she had five children. Two are living : Sylvester H. and Mrs. Orville Bentley. When subject was thirteen years old his stepfather died, and he was obliged to help support the family, working by the month on a farm. He early in life took charge of his father's farm of eighty acres, and after many years honght out the heirs. Here he lived until 1889, in which year his mother died, when he moved to a small place east of Bristol Hill. In 1871 Mr. Marsh married Mary L. Jones, of Bristol, daughter of Elijah Jones. Mr. Marsh is a Republican, and he has been assessor six years. He and family attend the Universalist church.
Nellis, John W., Geneva, was born in Oppenheim, Fulton county, May 4, 1857, and was educated in the common schools and Rochester Commercial College. He resided in Montgomery county seven years, and later came to Western New York, locating in Geneva, where he is a farmer and dairyman. March 13, 1883, he married Ettie D. Fonda, of Montgomery county, and they have one son, Edward Gny. born March 11, 1884. Mr Nellis's father was born at the old home in 1809, and married Eva Wilson, of his native place. They had nire children, of whom seven survive : Eleanor, Mar- garet, Lena, James W., Emily, Martha and John W. Mrs. Nellis's father, Dow H. Fonda, was born at Fonda, Montgomery county. in 1809. In 1832 he married Ann Veeder, who belonged to one of the representative families of his native town, and had
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seven children. Mr. Fonda was a son of General Fonda, a soldier of the War of 1812. Fonda, the county seat of Montgomery county, was named in honor of this family. They owned slaves at an early day, and when a son or daughter married it was a cus- tom to give them a slave.
Sackett, Charles C., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, January 17, 1859, a son of Frederick A. Sackett, a farmer of this town. The grandfathers, both paternal and maternal, were natives of Connecticut. Charles C. was educated in the academy, with a course at Poughkeepsie Business College, and his father having several farms, Charles acted as manager of these. When, in 1887, the subject was ag tated of building the Canandiagua Street Railway, Mr. Sackett, in company with Mr. Clement, Mr. Cooley and Mr. Milliken, was among the first to take hold of it, and Mr. Sackett was the gen- eral manager and constructor of the line, with F. O. Chamberlain as president. In July, 1892, Mr. Sackett, as trustee, became the owner of the road, and he is now president, the company having $30,000 capital stock. Mr. Sackett served as super- visor during the years of 1890-91-92, being a staunch and active Republican. He married in 1884 Charlotte Houghten, of this town, sister of Judge Houghten, of Sara- toga county.
Hudson, Henry C., Farmington, was born in Stockport, England, June 18, 1837, and came with his grandfather to the United States when he was about thirteen years old, and located in Oneida county. December 3, 1872, he married Caroline A., daughter of Jeremiah B. and Louisa A. Cooper, of Little Falls. His father, Thomas, was born at. the old home, and married Mary Ann Cheetham, of his native place. They had five children : Sarah, who died young ; Henry C., Joel, Sarah 2d, and Martha. Mrs. Hudson's father, Jeremiah B. Cooper, was born in Herkimer county, and married Louisa A. Hall, of his native place. They had these children : Mary A., Sally, Caroline A., Eleanor, Roselia Benton and Coradori. Mrs. Iludson's great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Hudson's mother, at the death of his father, came to her son in 1857. She died in 1862.
Heaton, John, Geneva, was born in Liverpool, England, was a miner by occupation. . He has followed gardening and farming for some time. He married twice, first Mrs. Ellen Purdy, of Staffordshire, England, and they had five children : Lucy, Leon, Sarah, Alice and Emma. Mrs. Heaton died March 13, 1886, and he married second, March 21, 1893, Fannie E. Whedon, of Geneva. Mrs. Heaton's father, Alphonson Whedon, was born on the old homestead near Crownwell's Hollow, April 30, 1797, was educated in the schools of that early day, and was a farmer by occupation. May 29, 1828, he married Fannie Parke, of the town of Seneca, and they had five children : James L., Eber, Sarah A., Fannie E. and John L. Mrs. Heaton's grandfather, Marsena Whedon, was born in Berkshire county, Ma-s., and with two brothers bought a large tract of land in the town of Seneca. This family is one of the oldest, and were among the early pioneers. Mrs. Heaton's great-grandfather was impressed in the king's service in colonial times.
Cone, James L., Hopewell. The Cone family has been represented in America for seven generations. Daniel Cone, the founder of the family, came to this country about
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1650, and died in 1676. Next came Caleb 3d, Caleb 4th, Ozias 5th, Ozias 6tlı, Warren, and 7th James L. Ozias, grandfather of subject, was born in Connecticut, May 2, 1774, and when a young man came to Hopewell, and there married Mercy, daughter of Daniel Warren, one of the first settlers of Hopewell. Mr. Cone died here in 1805, Warren Cone was born in Hopewell, October 2, 1800. He married Sally A., daughter of John Case, and they had four children : James L., Mary A., Caroline and Lydia. Mary A. married E. S. Snow; Caroline married George Jones, and Lydia married Charles W. Beach. The wife of Warren Cone died in 1835, and Mr. Cone married Pamelia Hawes, by whom he had four children. His sons, William H. and George W., are both locomotive engineers. His daughter Julia married Samuel Friedlander. Mercy married a Mr. Rodgers, and resides in Minnesota. Mr. Cone was in early life a farmer, but later became engineer. He spent many years on Lake Erie. His death occurred at Toronto, Canada, in 1863. James L. was born in Hopewell, December 15, 1822. When he was thirteen years old his mother died, and he began working on a farm. He received a common school education, and in 1845 he married Edna C. Beach, a native of Hopewell, born on the old Beach homestead, May 16, 1822. Her parents were David W. and Eliza (Murray) Beach, the former a native of Massachusetts, and the latter of Canandaigua. Mr. Beach came to Hopewell in 1819 and there lived until his death, April 6, 1889. He had three daughters: Lucy A., who married Hiram Depne; Laviah, who married James W. Case; and Edna C. Mr. Cone and wife have had five children : Winfield S., Electa B. (married and lives in Clinton, Ia.), Alice B. (deceased), and James S. (deceased). David W. resides with his parents. He has been twice married, first to Kate A. Arnold, and second to Sarah Huntsman, by whom he has one child, William M. Mr. Cone is a Democrat, and has been justice of the peace for four terms, assessor three years, and highway commissioner one term. He attends the M. E. church at Hopewell Centre. Wife of subject died December 6, 1890.
Bilsborrow, George, Geneva, was born in Walsingham, in the county of Norfolk England, January 15, 1807. His boyhood days were spent near Bolton, and he came to the United States when a young man, in 1832, locating in Geneva. He married Agnes Wilkie, of Geneva, who was born in Newton Stewart, Scotland, August 24, 1812, and came to the United States when five years old. They had five children : Robert, who married Margaret Buchanan, of Leroy, N. Y. ; Elizabeth A., who married J. O. Rupert, of Penn Yan; George W., who married Elizabeth Monagle, of Gorham ; Agnes; and Janette, who married Oliver J. Monagle, of Gorham. Mrs. Bilsborrow's father, George, was born at the old home at Newton Stewart, Scotland, and came to the United States in 1817. He married Janette McKane, of Newton Stewart, and they had ten children. The ancestry of this family is Scotch and English. Mrs. Bilsborrow and her daughter Agnes reside on the old homestead.
Backenstose, Dwight B., Geneva, son of Frederick T. and Leah (Kipp) Backenstose, was born in Benton, Yates county, December 24, 1846 Ile attended the public schools of Geneva, and in 1868 graduated from the law department of the University of Mich- igan at Ann Arbor, and has practiced his profession here since that time. He is one of the leading lawyers of Ontario county, and was elected member of assembly in 1877.
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He is a Republican, and takes an active part in political affairs. In 1876 he married Lillie C, daughter of Arthur W. Foote, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Brooks, J. A., Clifton Springs, was born in Broome county, N. Y., February 15, 1859. He received a good education in the schools of that vicinity and Cortland Normal School. Is also a graduate of Lowell's Business College, Binghamton. He was engaged in mer- cantile work after this for four years; then was identified with Y. M. C. A. work for two or three years as general secretary. Mr. Brooks then became identified with the Clifton Springs Manufacturing Company, of which he is the superintendent and a trustee. He married Miss A. M. Place of Broome county, and they have one child, a boy. Mr. Brooks is a member of the Methodist Church and is a member of The Amer- ican Association of Inventors and Manufacturers.
Barnes, D. Eddy, Geneva, was born on the old homestead in the southern part of Geneva August 10, 1856. He was educated in the public schools, Canandaigua and Geneva Academies, and has always followed farming. He has married twice ; first on October 17, 1878, Caroline, second daughter of Henry and Mary Haslett of Seneca. Mrs. Barnes died April 29, 1891. For his second wife on December 7, 1892, he married Harriet, only daughter of Silas and Isabella Phinney, of Bellona, formerly of Friend- ship, Allegany county. Mr. Barnes's father, David, was born in Pennsylvania in 1798, and came with his parents here when an infant. He was one of the oldest pioneers, with all that the term implies and he, too, was a farmer. H - married twice ; first Mar- tha Spencer of Yates county, by whom he had a son and a daughter, both deceased. For his second wife he married Lucy A. Dorman of Seneca They had two children : D. Eddy and Ella D., who married George Kelsey and had one daughter, Lucy, who is still living. Mrs. Kelsey died April 8, 1890. David Barnes, father of our subject, was a colonel in the State mihtia, and died April 9, 1871.
Barnes, William T., Geneva, was born in Seneca (now Geneva) Angust 15, 1817. He was educated in the schools of his day and owns the farm on which he wa : born. He is now a retired farmer. May 9, 1858, he married Mary J., daughter of George and Dolly Barden of Benton, Yates county, and they have four children : Grace E., who married Edward Black of Bellona, and has a daughter, Maud J .; Albert W., who married Mary E. Sloan of Yates county and has four children : Le Roy F., Mary L., Karl and Alexander ; Arthur L. who married Gertrude Turner of Yates county, they have one daughter, Bessie E .; and Fred C., who married Helen M. Scott of Geneva. Mr. Barnes's father, Thomas, was born in Ireland in 1777 and came to the United States with his father when six years old. He married Elizabeth Goundry, and had ten chil- dren who grew to maturity. Mrs. Barnes's father, George Barden, was born in Massa- chusetts in 1788, and came to this State with his parents when nine years old, where he married Dolly Witter of Pennsylvania, and had thirteen children. Mr. Barnes's father was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Barnes's grandfather, Thomas Barden, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Mr. Barnes's brother George served in the late war three years. Mrs. Barnes's brother Tilson also served in the second Mich- gan Cavalry three years.
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Borgman, Barney, jr, Geneva, son of Barney, was born in Rochester, September 16, 1853. He carried on the furniture business in Penn Yan for eight years, and in 1887 came to Geneva and engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, also upholstery. He married Mary Frear of Dundee, and has one child, Stephen. The family are mem- bers of the Catholic Church.
Berry, Michael, Canandaigua, was born in County Cork, Ireland, August 8, 1835, and came to this country in 1854, first locating at Lindsay, Canada, where he learned the trade of harnessinaker. In 1866 he came to Canandaigua, and the next spring started a harness shop in Bull's bloek on Main street. He was a partner of M. J. Moran until October, 1891, when he moved into his present location in the McKeelmie block on Main street, where he carries a full line of harnesses, saddlery, blankets, etc. Mr. Berry has always taken an active interest in politics, and is a Democrat. He has held the office of assessor, and is promment in the politics of the town. He is a member of the Catholic Church of Canandaigua. Mr. Berry married in 1870 Lizzie Higgins of Canan- daigua, who died two years later.
Covert, M.D., Nelson B., Geneva, was born in the town of Ovid, Seneca county, Jan- uary 22, 1840. He received his early education at the Seneca Collegiate Institute pre- paratory to the study of medicine. He graduated from the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College in the spring of 1862. He first began practice in Fentonville, Mich . and in September, 1864. came to Geneva where he entered into partnership with Dr. H. L. Eddy, which continued for two years. Since that period he has continued busi- ness for himself at his present location. He is a member of the Ontario County Homo- opathic Medical Society, the State State Homeopathie Medical Society, which at its annual meeting in Albany in February, 1891, conferred an honorary degree upon him, called the "Regent's Degree." He is also a member of the National Society, The Amer- ican Institute of Homeopathy and Ophthalmological and Otological Society. He has held the office of coroner for two terms, and healthi officer of the village for several years, and was instrumental in having the sewerage commission appointed whose du y it is to provide survey plans and maps for a complete system of sewerage for the village of Geneva. He is also president of the People's Building and Loan Association of this village, one of the largest doing business in this State. He with his family attends the Baptist Church and have been closely identified with every advance the church has made during the past twenty-five years.
Chapin, Robert Simons, West Bloomfield, son of Rev. Asa Chapin, was born in 1830, was educated in the district schools, and worked on his father's farm. In 1862 he bought a farm adjoining the homestead of sixty acres, which he sold to his brother in 1872, then buying 105 acres where he now resides, also adjoining the homestead. In 1872 he married Elizabeth A., daughter of Rev. David Millard, a former pastor of the Christian Church in the village, who traveled extensively in the East and published a book, " Millard's Arabia, Petria and the Holy Land." Mrs. Chapin died Angust 7, 1886, and he married second in 1887 Sarah Kyle, of this town, born in 1861, and they have had three children : Robert A., Reynold S., and Elizabeth Ann. Mr. Chapi is a staunch Republican. August 10, 1888, he raised the first campaign pole in the county, 110 feet,
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to a crowd of 1,500 pepple, the largest political gathering in the town in fifty years, and also assisted in raising fifteen other poles the same season, singing eighty-six times in public during the campaign.
Calman, Menzo, Hopewell, was born in Little Falls, April 21, 1841. His grand- parents were early settlers of Herkimer county, where they lived and died. His father, John Calman, was born in Herkimer county in 1806. His father died when John was a mere child, and the latter was bound out on a farm until sixteen years of age, when he learned the carpenter trade. He purchased a farm in Herkimer county, and some years later purchased another, making 400 acres. He was one of the leading dairymen of the county. Mr. Calman was a strictly temperance man, having never tasted liquor in his life. The wife of Mr. Calman was Kate Maria Sluyter, born in Greenbush, Rensselaer county, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. Mr. Calman died in 1868, and his wife in 1884. At the age of twenty-one Menzo engaged in farming, which he has since followed. In 1866 he married Mary E. Countryman, a native of Minden, and a daughter of George and Nancy Countryman, early settlers of Fort Plain. For many years Mr. Countryman was a dealer in boots and shoes in Fort Plain. He and his wife both died in Stark. Subject and wife have one son, Edward E In 1869 Mr. Calman purchased a farm in Hopewell and has since improved it at a cost of $6 000. He is now one of the leading farmers of the town. He is a Republi- can, but has never aspired to public office.
Cooley, A. Eugene, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua. October 21, 1844, a son of Albert B. Cooley, a native of this town, and a son of Lyman, born in this town in 1792 of old New England stock. He had seven sons. Albert Cooley was born in 1814, and married Achsah Griswold, by whom he had eight children, all now living. A. Eugene is the oldest son, and was educated in Canandaigua Academy. In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth N. Y. Vols. They refused to muster him in this regiment on account of his age, and the next August he went to Rochester and enlisted in the Fourth N. Y. Heavy Artillery, serving all through the war. He was wounded in 1864 at Spottsylvania, was in the hospital nine months, and was then transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in which he served at Point Lookout, Md., until the close of the war, mustered out June 29, 1865. He returned here, finished his education, and then came into the store, becoming a partner in 1883. He was a di- rector of the Canandaigua Street Railway, sanitary inspector for the Board of Health, and while serving in this capacity was efficient in making a change in the management of affairs that was very beneficial to the tax payers. Mr. Cooley married in 1875 Mary, daughter of William K. Foster, former shoe merchant of this town. Mr. Cooley is a member of Albert M. Murray Post G. A. R. No. 162, and has been adjutant for two years. He has been deacon of the Congregational church for four years, and was sec- retary of the Ontario District Y. P. S. C. E. for the two years past.
Chapin, Charles, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, March 11, 1817, a son of George, who was a son of Israch. George was a native of Connecticut, and when young came to Canandaigua. He received a college education and was heir to a large amount of real estate in Ontario and Young counties. He married Dollie Catlin, a native of Con-
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necticut, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. He and his wife both died in Hopewell. Charles Chapin married Hannah Lincoln, a native of Hopewell, born in 1813. Her father was Artemas Lincoln, who came with his parents, Otis and Hannah Lincoln from Massachusetts, and settled in New York. Artemas married Sarah Hunt, a native of Wyoming, Pa., by whom he had two sons and two daughters: Eliza, wife of George Moss of Canandaigua, and Florence, wife of Byron Childs of Hopewell. Mr. Chapin also had an adopted son, Charles, who died in the late war. Mr. Chapin lives on the farm of eighty acres which he now owns, and which is part of the Lincoln homestead. He is a Democrat, and has been assessor a number of years. Mr. Chapin is a member of the Presbyterian church at Canandaigua, and the family attend and support the same.
Cammet, Smith H., Hopewell, was born in Canandaigua, June 15, 1827, a son of Jonathan Cammet, a native of New Hampshire, born July 19, 1791. In 1816 Jonathan came to Canandaigua. In 1817 he married Elizabeth Osgood, a native of New Hamp- shire, born May 21, 1791, and they have three sons. Mr. Cammet followed black- smithing sixteen years in Canandaigua ; he then purchased a farm of 112 acres, all of which subject now owns, and here spent the remainder of his days. His death occurred in Hopewell, February 17, 1871, and that of his wife April 28, 1853. Since three years of age subject has lived on the old homestead. He is a farmer and owns 156 acres. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy. July 2, 1867, he married Frances M. Barhite, a native of Caynga county, N. Y., born September 15, 1845. Their children are : Watson S., Edward, Frank and Nellie. Mr. Cammet is a Democrat in politics. He has been inspector of elections.
Collins, Cholett, East Bloomfield, a native of East Bloomfield, was born September 22, 1830. He is a son of Guy, whose father, Cyprian, was a native of Connecticut, who came early to East Bloomfield, where he died. He was a farmer and contractor of the building of the Erie canal. Guy was born in East Bloomfield in 1804, and mar- ried Maria Ellis, a native of Schoharie county, by whom he had four sons and a dangh- ter. Mr. Collins is a prominent man of his town. He owned 225 acres of land, and for many years was an extensive dealer in stock and wool. In politics he was a Whig, but is now a Democrat. He was supervisor two years and assessor several years. Mr. Collins now resides with subject at the age of eighty-nine years. Cholett Collins was reared on a farm and received an academic education. He is a farmer and owns 110 acres of land. He makes a specialty of breeding American Merino sheep, and is now serving his second term as vice-president of the American Merino Sheep Associatian. Mr. Collins has been twice married, first in 1856, to Lucinda B. Brace, by whom he had two daughters: Elizabeth and Mary. His second wife was Anna V. McUmber, to whom he was married in 1871. Mr. Collins is a Democrat, and has been supervisor three years. He and family attend the Presbyterian church of East Bloomfield.
Davidson, James, Canandaigua, a native of Scotland, was born in 1851. He came to this country in 1871 and located in Canandaigua, where he engaged in his trade of shoemaking until 1881, when he, in company with James D. l'ark, established a shoe
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store at No. 1 Tillotson Block, a fine large store, where they carry a full line of boots, shoes and rubbers, and conduct a custom department in connection. This company has been extremely successful here, a fact which they owe to their close attention to busi- ness, and strict integrity in their dealings. Neither Mr. Davidson nor Mr. Park have ever aspired to political office, although they are ardent Republicans. Mr. Davidson married in 1877 Ann McKinzie, a native of Scotland; they have four children: Alice, Alexander McKinzie, Jennie C. and Annie. Mr. Davidson and family are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Park is a native of Scotland also, coming to this country with Mr. Davidson. He married in 1882 Sarah E. Hughes of South Tren- ton, N. Y.
Foster, H. Ward, Geneva, was born in Elmira, Chemung county, September 21, 1856. His father was Prof. L. C. Foster, for twenty-five years principal of Public School No. 1 at Elmira, and now superintendent of schools at Ithaca, N. Y. He was educated in the public schools and Elmira Academy, graduating in 1873, when he received the county scholarship for Cornell University, and at once entered that institution, graduating in 1877. For some time he taught school ; afterwards he studied law with the Hon. Mar- cus Lyon, of Ithaca, and was admitted to the bar in Ithaca in 1880. Soon afterward in Allegan, Mich., he entered into partnership with Hon. W. B. Williams, then railroad com- missioner of that State, and later with the law firm of Padgham & Padgham. The Hon. Philip Padgham now holds the position of circuit judge, and John Padgham was formerly probate judge of that county. These partnerships continued three years. Mr. Foster was then made assignee of a hardware establishment, and in due time settled the business in an honorable manner to all parties concerned. In the spring of 1886 he came to Geneva, and is now in the nursery business with W. L. McKay, under the firm name of H. W. Foster & Co. They are doing a good business, and the well known character of these gentlemen is a guarantee that the public are receiving first class and reliable stock from every department of their nurseries. November 17, 1880, he mar- ried Lyra R., second daughter of the late Jasper C. and Mary E. (Snow) Peck, of West Bloomfield, and they had five children : Carlotta S., who died aged nine years ; Marion Edith, who died aged three years ; Dwight ; G. Elaine, and H. Alden. Mrs. Foster's father, Jasper C. Peck, was the second child and oldest son of Clark and Caroline (Hall) Peck, born on the old homestead east of West Bloomfield village. He was educated in the common schools of his day and was a farmer and dealer. March 12, 1844, he mar- ried Mary E. Snow, of Worcester, Mass., who had been teaching in the old academy of West Bloomfield. Their children were : Cassius M., Elsene M., Lyra R., and Florence H. Jasper C. Peck remained on the old homestead until within a few years of his death. He was a thrifty farmer, was forward in all public affairs, benevolent and active in church and educational work ; a man whose word was as good as his bond, upon whose judgment reliance could be placed in public and private enterprise. He began early in life to bear responsibilities and continued to do so until within a few years of his death. His wife was a woman of keen intellect, a fine conversalist, and had a habit of setting apart two hours each day for reading. She was a thoughtful woman of a delicate, sensitive nature and of unusual refinement. Mr. Peck was once sent as dele- gate to a presidential nominating convention of the Whigs at Baltimore. Late in life
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