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Robinson, Willis H., of Flint, Ontario county, was the third son of David A. and Melissa A. Robinson. He was born in Canandaigua, January 6, 1854. He was edu- cated in the public schools and in early life lived with his parents on a farm near Gor- ham village. At the age of fifteen he with his parents moved to what was then known as Flint Creek (now Flint), where he still continued farm work for three years. At the age of eighteen he began work with his father at the heading business. At the age of twenty-one he purchased a one-half interest in the business and became his father's partner, and continued in partnership with him until 1885, at which time he purchased his father's interest, and has since carried on the business alone. The busi- ness has steadily grown, and in 1891 it amounted to nearly $12,000. In 1892 the busi- ness was interrupted by a disastrous fire, and new buildings and machinery have taken the place of the old ones on a much improved plan. November 7, 1876, Mr. Robinson married Sarah A. Stewart of Seneca, and they have one son, Stewart A., born Decem- ber 22, 1884. Mrs. Robinson's father, John E. Stewart of Penn Yan, Yates county, married Esther La Furge of Seneca, to whom, while living in Penn Yan, was born the one daughter, Sarah A.
Wilson, Thomas B., Seneca, was born on the home farm, December 12, 1852. He was educated in the district schools and two years at Canandaigua Academy. His main occupation is farming. February 28, 1877, he married Margaret A. Scoon of Battle Creek, Mich , and they have three children : Charles S., John C., and Mary A. Mr. Wilson's father, John C., was born on the same farm, August 2, 1821. He was educated in the schools of his day, was also a practical farmer until he retired in 1885. He married Catherine A. Burrell of this town, and had three children : Thomas B. ; Margaret A., who married Joseph R. Fish; and Sherwood, who died in 1876. Mr. Wilson's grandfather, Thomas Wilson, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1791, and came to the United States about 1805 with his parents, locating at Hall's Corners. He married Elizabeth Crosier of the town of Seneca, and had five children -- two sons and three daughters. Mr. Wilson is one of the trustees of the Seneca Presbyterian church. Mrs. Wilson's father, Charles R. Scoon, was born in Newstead Mills, Scot- land, August 12, 1826, coming to the United States in 1850. He died May 18, 1893. He married Helen McKee, formerly of his native country, who died November 23, 1864, and they had a daughter, Margaret A., on the 18th of September, 1865. He married Lucina F. Smith. The ancestry of the family is English and Scotch.
Gage, Amasa, Gorham, was born in Wellstown in 1770, and in 1799 married Barbara Ann Overacker (born in 1782) of the same place, and moved to Johnstown, where he cleared a farm, upon which he resided until 1806, when he emigrated west and located
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in what is now the town of Gorham. ITis family consisted of himself, wife and three children : Cornelia, Elizabeth and Marvin. He purchased a farm of Phelps & Gorham, where he lived until his death in 1842. After removing to Gorham ten children were added to his family as follows : Michael, Nancy, Lorain, Datus E., Amasa, Catharine, Lorenzo D., Orrin D., IIester Ann, and Ira B. Datus E and Catharine died at one and two years respectively ; the others reached maturity. Amasa, sr., died at the age of sixty-eight and Barbara in 1846. When Amasa settled in Gorham it was a wilderness from Canandaigua to his place, a distance of seven miles; there were but two honses on the trail. Marvin Gage at the age of twenty-three married Hester Wager, and pur- chased eighty acres of land of Phelps & Gorham on the lake shore, adjoining his father's, on which he built a log house and where he lived until 1836, when he pur- chased another farm of Hezekiah Townsend, a little north of where he then resided, owned by one Cole at the time Amasa located his farm. Marvin resided upon this farm until 1843. then purchased of the heirs the old homestead, upon which he lived until the time of his death in 1872, having sold the homestead to the youngest son, Franklin B. Gage. Marvin and Hester raised a family of six children : Amasa, Byron, Anna B., Orrin D., Frank B., and Ida A., all of whom are living except Franklin B. Marvin during his life held the office of commissioner two terms, was twice elected assessor, was justice of the peace twenty-one years, and was twice elected supervisor. Cornelia, the eldest daughter, married John Overacker, lived in Yates county until about 1840, and then moved to Kalamazoo, Mich. Nancy Gage married John Garri- son, lived near the old homestead until about 1840, raised a large family, and then moved to Kalamazoo. Both of these daughters died at the age of sixty- eight. Michael, second son of Amasa, sr., married a Miss Wright for his first wife, and was a farmer in Yates county. He married his second wife about 1856, who bore him one son (deceased) ; she died and he married his third wife, who bore him two children. He died at the age of seventy-six. But three of his eleven children by his first wife sur- vive him. Amasa 2d, third son of the pioneer, married Harriet Wheeler of Catta- raugas county ; was a school teacher when a young man, and then engaged in farming ; he died at the age of forty-six, leaving no children of his own, but had raised an adopted son. Lorain Gage married C. Vanness of Monroe county, was a farmer in Gorham, and died at the age of sixty-eight; he left one son. Nancy Gage married John Saunders, who was a farmer in Yates county, and had two sons and four daughters; he died at the age of sixty-nine. Lorenzo D. Gage married Orphian Wager and raised three children : Marvin, Elizabeth, and Amasa. He has been an extensive farmer, owning at one time one thousand acres of land; has held the office of assessor and supervisor several terms. He purchased of Frank B. Gage the old homestead and sold it to his oldest son, Marvin, who has been assessor and supervisor. Elizabeth married Frank G. Gage, and is engaged in agriculture. Lorenzo D. lives retired from business with his youngest son, Amasa, being now seventy-six years of age. Amasa is farming about five hundred acres. Hester Ann Gage married Myron F. Washburn, a farmer, and had one son, Ira G. Washburn. His mother is now living, aged seventy-three. Orrin D. Gage died at the age of twenty while engaged in school teaching. Ira B. Gage married Abigail Fisher, moved to St. Joseph county, Mich., in 1845, and engaged
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in farming and shipping stock to the eastern markets; he was also a heavy dealer in peppermint oil ; he died at the age of forty-six without issue. Amasa, the eldest son of Marvin and Hester Gage, has been engaged in farming and in breeding fine wool sheep, shipping largely to the Western States; at present he is engaged in raising fruit. He was elected commissioner in 1853. He married Elizabeth F. Washburn in 1848, and had five children, three of whom are living : Richard M., Mary A., and Charles A. Richard M. married Mary E. Gage. Mary A. married Calvin Hall. Charles A. married Mary Morley ; all of whom are engaged in growing fruit and farming. Byron, second son of Marvin, married in 1855 Alida Washburn; he has been engaged in farming, shipping stock, teaching school, and has held the office of assessor two terms. Anna B. married R. M. Washburn, a farmer, in 1856; they have had two children : Emma and Frank B. (deceased). Orrin D., son of Marvin, married in 1863 Harriet Willson ; two sons and four daughters have been born to them : Adelbert, Marvin, Alida, Belle, Clara, and Elizabeth. The sons are both married and engaged in farming. Frank B. Gage, son of Marvin, married Jennie Roe in 1869, who died in 1873. He bought the homestead of his father, sold it to L. D. Gage and went into mercantile business. He married his second wife and died at the age of thirty, leaving one son. Ida, youngest daughter of Marvin and Hester Gage, married Irving Take in 1869, and they have three sons and four daughters, all engaged in agriculture and fruit culture.
Hutchinson, Jonathan, Seneca, was born in Cumberland county, England, January 18, 1821, and went to the West Indies in his sixteenth year to learn the sugar cane plant- ing business, where he remained eighteen years. He was overseer many years and manager of a sugar plantation six years. In 1854 he came to the United States and became a farmer. He resides with his brother, William, who was also born at the old home in England August 5, 1831, and came to the United States with his parents in 1838. He is a farmer with his brother Jonathan. February 28, 1870, he married Jenette Rude, of this town, and they have four children : Fannie J., Frank H., Celia and J. Eugene. Mr. Hutchinson's father, Ralph was born at the old home, and mar- ried Jane Falowfield, of his native place. They had eleven children and came to the United States in 1838. The family spent a year in Indiana, where he died of an epi- demic in that locality. Mrs. Hutchinson's father, Jonathan Rude, was born in Steuben county in 1809. He married Harriet C. Storg, of Gorham, this county, and they had eight children. Her father died in 1882 and her mother in 1883. The Hutchinsons are of English descent and birth. The Rudes descended from the Scotch.
Dunning, Wm. B., Geneva, was the founder of the New York Central Iron Works, one of the largest of the kind in the Empire State. He was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., in 1818, and spent his boyhood days in Auburn until 1833, when he took his departure for Dunkirk, where he learned the trade of an engineer and machinist. There he served an apprenticeship of four years and two months until he reached the age of twenty years. He was an earnest and faithful apprentice, bound to learn and be at the head in his business. From Dunkirk Mr. Dunning went to Syracuse, where he was employed in a large machine shop, and owing to his ability as a mechanic he was given the highest wages paid to journeymen in those days. It was in 1841 when Mr. Dun-
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ning came to Geneva through the advice of the late Thos. D. Burrell, and was given a position which he held with efficiency at a large salary for five years. In 1845 he entered the employ of John R. Johnson, the owner of the Seneca Lake Foundry and Engine Works and also the Seneca Lake steamers. There he took full charge of the immense business. Mr. Dunning placed the machinery in the old Kanadesaga and the famous Ben Loder, steamers that plied the waters of Seneca Lake years ago. He also put the machinery in the Maid of the Mist and ran her the first fall and did excellent service as an engineer. He built the first engine and boiler for the Woodbury Steam Engine Works of Rochester. The New York Central Iron Works, now owned by a stock company, of which Mr. Dunning is president, was built by him in 1853. He started on his own account with a cash capital of seventy-five dollars, and to-day he is among the wealthiest citizens in this beautiful and progressive village. Mr. Dunning is also manager of the Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Company, and through his efforts the steamers on Seneca Lake have been put in excellent order and the company is doing an increasing business each year. Mr. Dunning is highly regarded by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He has been in public life since 1867. He has been president of the village of Geneva several times, and is always interested in the welfare of the village, and no one is more deserving of a share of the credit for Geneva's " boom " to-day than is Mr. Dunning.
Smith, Solomon E, Geneva, of the J. W. Smith Dry Goods Co., was born in Geneva N. Y., November 5, 1826. His parents were John Smith, jr., and Rachel (Williams) Smith, both born in Gloucester, Mass. They moved to Geneva about 1824. Their children were: Elizabeth, who died in 1848; Rachel, now Mrs. J. Pierson, of Stanton , Mich. ; John W., who died December 2, 1878; and Solomon. Mr. Smith has always lived in Geneva. He engaged as clerk in the dry goods business with H. G. Hughes in 1840, and remained with him until about 1847. The business of Hughes was then succeeded by S. S. Cobb and J. W. Smith under the firm name of Cobb & Smith. Three years later, about 1850, the latter firm was succeeded by J. W. and S. E. Smith, under the firm name of J. W. Smith & Co. As stated above, J. W. Smith died in 1878, but the firm name was continued as J. W. Smith & Co. until July 1, 1892, at which time a stock company was formed with S. E. Smith as president, Wm. Wihtwell as secretary and treasurer, and L. Canfield, E. S. Spendlove and Joseph Wagner, directors, and now known as the J. W. Smith Dry Goods Co.
Whitney, Ami, Seneca, was born in Seneca, June 22, 1814, on the old homestead. He was educated in the common schools, by a private tutor in the family, and at Lima Seminary, and has always followed farming. Mr. Whitney has served as assessor of the town four years, is railroad commissioner for the town of Seneca, and was one of the twelve appointed to divide the old town of Seneca. He was one of the officers to hold the first town meeting in the new town of Seneca. He has married twice, first, September 19, 1843, to Ann Shearman, of the town of Catlin, Chemung county, and had six children : Charlotte E., J. Shearman, Anna (who died at the age of six years), Thomas D., Charles W. and Frank A. Mrs. Whitney died March 23, 1864. For his second wife he married, December 27, 1864, Rebecca C. Rippey, of this town, and they have one son, Eddy R., who was educated in the public schools, Canandaigua Academy,
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graduated from Clinton Grammar School, also from Hamilton College with the degree of A. B. and afterward with the degree of M. S. He taught one vear at Mexico Academy, and is now a professor of science in Binghamton High School. Mr. Ami Whitney's father, Ami, was born in Conway, Hampshire county, Mass., January 18, 1781. He married Anna Amsden, of Hampshire county, born in Connecticut. They had fifteen children : Theodore was killed by a gate falling on him; Jasper was a cripple, caused by a fever; Isaac A. died in 1876; William G. resides in Michigan ; a daughter who died in infancy ; Charles died at the age of fifteen ; Ezra died at the age of four; Ami; Jonathan, who died July 12, 1892 ; a pair of twin girls who died in infancy ; Esther A., who died in 1821; Elizabeth A., Esther G. and Anna H. His grandfather, Jonathan, was born August 4, 1737, was a good soldier in the French and Indian wars, was in the siege of Fort Ticonderoga, and came to Geneva in 1789. He stayed four months, then returned for his family and started back in February, 1790, arriving here in March of the same year. They were seventeen days on the way. He died at the Old Castle in 1792. The first known of this family, one John Whitney, aged thirty-five, embarked in 1635 from England on ship Elizabeth Ann, and died in 1673. Mrs. Whitney's father, William Rippey, was born November 10, 1793, and married Mary Hayes, October 20, 1821. They had nine children. There were two ministers in the family, William E. and John Newton.
Bush, Osband T., Canandaigua, was born in Barrington, Yates county, February 1, 1829. His father, Cornelius T., was a native of Ulster county, and when subject was but ten years of age his parents moved into Ontario county, locating in Canadice. Ile assisted on his father's farm until twenty-one years of age, when he took his father's farm to work on shares for a number of years. In 1857 he bought a farm in Canadice, and has since owned different farms. In 1867 he moved to Grass Lake, Jackson county, Mich., where he bought a farm of 140 acres, and conducted it for thirteen years. While there he was a trustee of the Methodist church. He returned to Ontario county in April, 1879, and bought his present farin in Canandaigua. He has since sold thirty acres, and the balance has set out to grapes, peaches and pears. In 1892 he shipped sixty six tons of grapes. The most of Mr. Bush's immense crop is shipped to Boston, although a market can be found in almost any city. He married in 1850 Phoebe Ann Jackman, of Canadice, and they had four children : Luva, wife of Scott Winfield, of Michigan; Esther, wife of Albert Lucas, of Canandaigua; Scott Bush, of Canandaigua; and Carrie, wife of Mcclellan Townsend, of Canandaigua. Mrs. Bu h died in 1872, and he afterwards married Lucy, daughter of Edward Low, of Yates county, and they have had two daughters, Janie E. and Sarah Addie, students in Lima Seminary.
Adams, Herbert H., Victor, was born in Perrinton, Monroe county, June 30, 1852. He came with his parents to the town of Victor when he was nine years old. He was educated in the common schools and followed farming. March 21, 1872, he mar- ried Florida I. Aldrich, of this town ; they had a son and daughter, Dora F. and Orrin F. Mrs. Adams died August 17, 1891, mourned by a bereaved family and many friends. Mr. Adams's father, William, was born at Barnstable, Mass., about the year
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1806, and came to this State at an early day. He married Matilda Austin, of Caze- novia, and they have seven children : David died at the age of nineteen years; Frances, Freeman E., William W., Sarah J., John A. and Herbert H. Mr. Adams's grandfather Adams was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather Austin left Canada in time of the war, espousing his native country's career, and all his property there was confiscated. Mr. Adams's late wife was the only daughter of Gilbert J. Aldrich, one of the oldest and much respected families of the town.
Ferguson, Robert B., Geneva, was born in Phelps, August 27, 1822, he being one of nine children of Robert and Mary (Baggerly) Ferguson, natives of Maryland. The grandfather, William, was of English descent. The father came to Phelps and settled in 1805. Robert B. married, December 5, 1855, Maria, daughter of Hiram and Mary (Knapp) Warner, of Phelps, and they have these children : Sumner J., Mrs. Mary. Belle Ottley, Alice May, who died in September, 1892; Margaret Clay, a teacher of botany in Wellesley College ; Clara Ann, wife of Marshall King; and Everett Warner. Mr. Ferguson has lived for fifty years upon his farm of 200 acres, where he is a large raiser of grain and has an apple orchard of about seventeen acres, producing about 500 barrels per year.
Davis, Homer A., Canandaigua, was born on a farm about three miles west of Can- andaigua village, August 26, 1849, a son of Cornelius and Sabrina (Hawley) Davis. The grandfather, Mathew, was a native of Connecticut, born at Somers, February 5, 1769, and married Salona Pixley, of Great Barrington, Mass., by whom he had eleven children, of whom Cornelius, father of our subject, was the second son. He was born June 19, 1799, in Sherburne, Chenango county, and came to this county when about twenty, locating first in Victor, where he lived a short time, then removed to Canan- daigua and married, March 16, 1826, Sabrina, daughter of Henry Hawley, a farmer of this town. They had eight children, two of whom survive : Henry M., a school teacher of Canandaigua, and Homer A. Cornelius was a man of good business management and accumulated a fair property. He died October 13, 1876. Mrs. Davis died October 1, 1856, and he married second in 1858 Asenath Ferry, widow of Jonathan Lee, of Erie county, by whom he had one son, Henry Lee, who served in the army and died in Canandaigua in 1875. Mrs. Davis died February 4, 1877. Homer A. was educated in Canandaigua Academy and became a farmer. In 1878 he bought the old Ackley farm of ninety acres, where he has since made his home. He has always taken an active interest in politics, and in 1885 was elected highway commissioner. He married in 1873 Hattie A., daughter of Seymour V. R. Johnson, of Centrefield, and they had one son, Lot G., now in his tenth year.
Bartholomew, Joseph A., Naples, son of John, was born in Naples, July 21, 1851, and prepared for college at the Naples Academy. In 1871 he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and remained two years. He taught school a few years in Michigan, then went into business with his father at farming and stock breeding in Hillside, Mich. On the death of his father in 1891, he returned to Naples, where he has since resided. His mother was Julia French, born in Naples, who died in 1890. Mr. Bartholomew married February 24, 1883, Alice Seacord, daughter of Absalom and
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Hannah Seacord, of Naples. In his business relations Mr. B. has always ranked " high," and was never asked, as he says, for an endorser till he began to deal with Presbyterians in Naples.
Short, Fayette D., Richmond, was born June 15, 1842. His father was Hiram, a son of Philip. Hiram was born in 1816 and died in 1883. His wife was Elizabeth Hap- pough, of Canadice, daughter of Peter Happough, and they were the parents of six children, as follows: Persis E., Fayette D., Peter A., John, Othello A., and Emma B. (Mrs. Othello H. Hamilton). He settled on the farm now owned by his son Othello A., and there his children were born. Fayette D. Short was educated at Lima Seminary. He married Adelaide E., daughter of Philip Reed 2d, and they have had these children : Myra B., born in 1866, wife of Arthur B. Newton, of Fairport; Clark Reed, born in 1869, a clerk in Livonia; Bessie E., born in 1870 (deceased) : and Richmond B., born in 1872, now at Lima Seminary. Wheeler Reed (brother of Philip 2d, father of Mrs. Fayette D. Short) was born in Vermont in 1788. He was twice married and had twenty children, fifteen of whom raised families, among whom are Mrs. Benjamin Coy, of Livonia, Mrs. Emily Longyear, of North Bloomfield, Fitch, of Kansas, and several in Michigan.
Oaks, Nathan, Phelps, one of two children of Thaddeus and Fanny (Dickinson) Oaks, was born in Phelps at Oaks Corners November 9, 1821. His father, Thaddeus, was born in Conway, Mass., and came to Phelps when a boy with his father, Jonathan Oaks, in 1790, and lived and died here. His mother, Fanny Dickinson, was also born in Con- way, Mass. Nathan Oaks married, October 18, 1848, Susan Hemingway, of Palmyra, Wayne county, daughter of Truman and Mary (Aldrich) Hemingway. They have four children : Thaddeus, William A., Nathan, jr., and Edward P. Oaks. The farm com- prising 170 acres is devoted to general farming products and seven acres of hops. Mr. Oaks has always been an enterprising and representative citizen.
Tichenor, Isaac M., Canandaigua, was born at Newark, N. J., February 23, 1789, a son of Moses Tichenor, of New Jersey. Isaac M. was one of two children. His sister Mary married a Mr. Sexton, who moved to Jamaica in the West Indies, and was never heard of afterward. The early life of our subject was spent in the town of his birth. He was of French descent and was educated by a French tutor. After a few years spent on a farm he went into the shoe. business in Newark, N. J., which he followed until about 1837, when, on account of ill-health, he was ordered by his physician to find a quiet home in the country. He was an ardent student of nature, and after in- specting the country all about, permanently located on the west shore of Canandaigua Lake, where he bought the farm now occupied by F. O. Chamberlain. He was there about twelve years, and then bought the farm where the rest of his life was spent. Tichenor's Point on the lake was named for him. He died August 17, 1863, and the church of which he was a member lost one of its firmest supporters. He was a strong Republican. He was also a soldier of the War of 1812, and at his death was one of the last survivors of this war. He married, when but seventeen years of age, Jemima Baldwin, of Newark, and they had eight children, three still living: Henrietta D., wife of S. C. White, of Augusta, Ga. ; Harriet P., wife of Rev. A. M. Stowe, of Canandaigua ;
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and Almira B. Tichenor, who conducts the old homestead farm, a beautiful place of 175 acres, which has become a very popular summer resort. Immediately in front of the old homestead is a camp of the Natural Science Club.
Cooley, Orion J., Canandaigua, was born at his present residence November 18, 1856. a son of John B. and Catherine T. (Benson) Cooley. His grandfather, John, a native of Massachusetts, was one of the first of the family to come here to this country. He had seven children, two sons and five daughters. John B., father of our subject, was the youngest son. He was born February 12, 1814, and always made his home in this town. He was educated at Lima Seminary, and when twenty-two years of age bought a farm of 200 acres on Lot 70 in Canandaigua, where he spent the balance of his life. In polities he was a Democrat. He was twice elected commissioner of highways, and was an influential member of the Methodist church. He died August 23, 1880. He was twice married; his first wife, Adelaide Cooley, was from Attica, and they had seven children, all but one now living : Francis M. and Lucian A., of Michigan ; Martha A. and Mary A., of Canandaigua; Frederick S., of Bloomfield ; and Lucina J. Morse, of Canandaigua. Mrs. Cooley died about 1851, and he married second a daughter of Joshua Benson, of Cayuga county, and they had four children ; three survive : Eleanor D., wife of William Crowley, of Canandaigua; Catherine E., wife of George W. Rob- inson, of Ogdensburg; and Orion J., our subject, who has always lived on this, the homestead farm. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and became a farmer. Mr. Cooley and family are members of the Methodist church, and he is a staunch Dem- ocrat, also a member of East Bloomfield Grange. He married, December 21, 1876, Ella M., daughter of Levi Gifford, of Canandaigua, and they are the parents of one child, John, now in his tenth year.
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