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Case, Orestes, Bristol, was born in Bristol, March 27, 1817, and is a son of Jonathan J. Case, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Orestes Case received a common school education and has made farming his occupation. He owns seventy-five acres, one third of which is in hops. Mr. Case was one of the first hop. growers in the county, having been engaged in that business thirty-five years. October 7, 1841, he married Lucretia C. Fisher, of Bristol, daughter of Nathaniel Fisher. The children of Mr. Case and wife are : Lovice F, Herbert L., Henry O., Phoebe L., Frank O. and Oliver. April 1, 1874, Mrs. Case died, and December 25, 1875, he married Mrs. Anna Rouse, by whom he has one daughter, Essie L. Mr. Case is a member of the People's Party. He has been assessor five years in succession, and was once a member of the Good Templars, also of the Grange at Bristol. He is now a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He was reared a Baptist, but at present he and family attend the Universalist church at Bristol, which they assisted in building.
Haskell, Rev. Eli, was born in Dudley, Mass., in 1783. He married in his native State, Elizabeth Tower, by whom he had eight children : Abel, a Baptist minister, died in Penfield, Monroe county, in 1860; Levi, a farmer, died in 1889 ; Eli, a cabinet- maker, died in Wisconsin in 1866; Isaac and William, twins, both died in Michigan ; Jeremiah, ticket agent for the N. Y. C. R. R. Co., died in Batavia, 1870 ; Achsah mar- ried Samuel Shaw, row of Mason, Mich., and Nancy died in 1844, aged sixteen years.
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Rev. Eli removed to Bristol in 1816, and was ordained to the ministry June 1, 1824, and served the Bristol church three years, then he moved to Canandaigua and was pas- tor of the First Baptist church twenty-eight years. During his pastorate he preached 267 funeral sermons, baptized 145 persons, and married 113 couples. He was a well educated man for his time and did a great work in what was then a new country, act- ing as a missionary in the towns of Naples, South Bristol and Bristol. He died in Canandaigua in 1855. Levi, the second son, was born in Belchertown, Mass., in 1811, and moved with his father to this State when but eight years old. He was educated at Canandaigua Academy and tanght school several terms. He married, September 17, 1835, Catherine L. Wilcox, a native of Connecticut, who was born July 17, 1809, by whom he had six children : Edson, born August 11, 1836, he served three years in the army during the Rebellion, died July 8, 1877, aged forty-one; Sarah E., born Au- gust 15, 1838, died October 31, 1852, aged fourteen years ; Mary, born May 30, 1840, died April 4, 1886, aged forty-six ; Salem, born April 9, 1842; Abel, born March "16, 1845 ; Gilbert E., born January 18, 1849. Levi, who always took an interest in public affairs, was identified with the First Baptist church of Canandaigua. He was a man of strong conviction and very decided in what he believed to be right. He died Decem- ber 16, 1889. Salem, the second son, attended school at Canandaigua Academy. He with his brother Gilbert S., now owns the old homestead and an adjoining farm. He is a Republican and interested in public affairs, and is now one of the assessors of the town. He married, May 26, 1880, Annett G, daughter of Kelly W. Green of South Bristol, and they have one child, Anna E., born November 2, 1883. Gilbert E. was also educated at Canandaigua Academy ; spent seven years as a teacher. He has always been active in Sunday-school work, is a member of Academy Grange No. 62, a member of the executive committee, is one of the directors of the Patrons' Fire Re- lief Association of Ontario county, and was for five years master of Ontario County Pomona Grange. He married, March 13, 1878, Carrie E., daughter of Kelly W. Green, formerly of South Bristol, and they have two children: Katherine A., born March 20, 1881, and Martin G., born January 4, 1890.
Smith, Youngs W., Bristol, was born in Hopewell, March 20, 1839, one of the seventh generation of this family in America, the first being Rev. John Smith, a son of John, who, tradition say, was a son of Captain John Smith of Pocahontas fame. Rev. John Smith was the oldest of seven sons, and was born in Milford, England, June 18, 1664, and settled in Milford, Conn., named by him after his home in England. Here he lived and died. Dr. Ebenezer, his son, was born in Milford, England, in 1682, and died in 1744. Dr. Ebenezer Smith 2d was born March 2, 1719, and died September 9, 1796. Dr. Ebenezer Smith 3d was born October 3, 1761, and died April 3, 1844. His wife was Elizabeth Bostwick, born March 19, 1770, died June 1, 1849. They had nine chil- dren. Rev. Benjamin B. Smith was born in Milford, Conn., February 3, 1792. He studied medicine, but soon gave up its practice and took a theological course at Yale College. He was ordained a minister of the Congregational church by the Rev. Ly- man Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher. He married Colisla Terrell, born in Milford, Conn., April 15, 1795, a daughter of Judge Terrell of Milford, Conn., and they
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had three sons and three daughters. His wife died June 30, 1830, and he married sec- ond Martha Babbitt of Pultney, born March 3, 1861, died February 3, 1836. They had two sons. Dr. Smith married third Maria G. Vincent of Bristol, born June 17, 1799, died November 1, 1862. She was a daughter of Dr. Thomas Vincent, son of Absalom Vincent of Orient, born in 1742, died in 1786, who married Hannah Youngs, daughter of Judge Thomas Youngs, and they had four sons and two daughters. Dr. Thomas Vincent was born in Orient, L. I., in 1753. His father died when he was thirteen years of age, and he was reared by Judge Thomas Youngs of Orient. He studied medicine and went to Caldwell, N. J., to practice his profession, and there married Johanna, daughter of Ebenezer Grover. Dr. Ebenezer Smith and third wife had three children : Maria V., born April 7, 1837, at Pultney, who married Chauncey O. Taylor, a farmer of Bristol, and they have an adopted daughter, the wife of H. W. Sears of Bristol; Youngs W. and Quincy A., born in Bristol, March 26, 1843. He owns a farm of 114 acres. Quincy Smith married, January 28, 1874, Florence Rood of Ellicottville, N. Y., and they have one daughter, Guernie. Youngs W. Smith, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm and educated in East Bloomfield Academy and Iron City Commercial College of Pittsburg, Pa. He engaged in farm- ing, and since 1867 has made a specialty of hop growing, starting with five acres, and to-day is second largest grower in New York, having 115 acres. He has also been an extensive hop dealer, and was a member of the firm of Youngs W. Smith & Company, Pearl street, New York. Mr. Smith is one of the largest farmers of the town, having 400 acres in Bristol Valley. He was a Democrat until 1892, since which time he has been identified with the People's Party. He was supervisor in 1888, and was nominated by the Democratic party for member of assembly in 1888, but the county being Republican, he was defeated. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge, No. 294, F. & A. M., also is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He and family attend the Congregational church of Bristol. November 19, 1867, Mr. Smith married Amelia Lee, born September 27, 1843, in Bristol, a daughter of Lester P. Lee, a son of Ben- jamin, an early settler of Ontario county. Mr. Smith and wife have one child, Lee B., who was educated in Canandaigua and East Bloomfield Academies, and is a graduate of Rochester Business University, and assists his father on the farm.
Phillips, Benjamin F., Bristol, was born in Bristol, February 22, 1857. He is a son of Benjamin F. Phillips, a son of Jonathan Phillips. Benjamin F. Phillips, father of the subject, was born in Bristol, January 9, 1818. He married Louisa Gooding, September 21, 1840, born August 19, 1820. They had three sons and two daughters. Mr. Phillips lived on the farm now owned by his son, Benjamin F., for about seventy years, but died on Baptist Hill in 1892. He was a deacon in the Baptist church. Elnathan G. Phillips, son of Benjamin F., was born November 6, 1841, educated in Canandaigua Academy, and graduated from the classical course of Madison University in 1872, and from the theological course of the same university in 1875. He married Ella V. Howes of Hamilton, Madison county, and accompanied by his wife went to Assam, India, as a missionary for the Baptist church, where he remained for ten years. He returned home and at the end of eighteen months returned to India, where he re- mained until the fall of 1891, when he again returned home, and has since been engaged
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in translating the Bible into the Garo language, to be used with the people he labored among. He will return to India in 1893. The subject of our sketch, Benjamin Phil- lips, jr., was reared on the farm he owns, educated in the common schools and Colgate Academy. October 9, 1876, he married Carrie Ogden of Richmond, daughter of Nel- son Ogden. They have had four children: Milton J., Elnathan G., Walter G., and Rolland O., who died in infancy. Mr. Phillips owns 160 acres of land in Bristol and eighty acres in Richmond, and follows general farming. He is a Democrat. He and family are Baptist, but attend the M. E. church.
Carpenter, Platt, Victor, was born in Dutchess county, August 10, 1802, and came with his parents to Victor in 1811. He was educated in the district schools and fol- lowed farming. In 1832 he married Jane Ellis of Victor, and they had four children : Mary J., Betsey, George W., and Fannie, who died in 1852, aged seventeen years. Mary J. married David Rainsford, a produce dealer, and had six children : Edgar, Frances, Platt, Norman, Julia and Herbert. Betsey married William Camp of this town; George W. married Jennett Ellis, and died in 1875. Mrs. Rainsford's grand- father, Increase Carpenter, was born July 14, 1766. He married Mary Kinny, and had nine children : Merritt, Rosewell, Henry, David, Platt, Willett, Smith, Jane and Ann. At this writing, January 11, 1893, Mr. Carpenter is the oldest man in the town, being in his ninety-first year.
Gooding, Chester A., Bristol Centre, was born in Canandaigua, February 22, 1840. At the age of ten years he moved with his parents to Bloomfield, where he lived un- til 1861, when in October of that year he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York Volunteers, and served with them two years. He had been with them a short time when he was attacked with typhoid fever, and from that to rheumatism, until he was unfit for service, and was mustered out in August, 1863. He returned to Can- andaigua and engaged in farming, and has since followed that occupation. On Novem- ber 15, 1888, he married Emilie Kaufman of South Bristol.
Ladd, Hiram, Victor, was born in Victor, in the northeastern part, January 9, 1823. He receivied a common school and academic education, and has always been a farmer. October 1, 1846, he married Mary J., daughter of John and Sally Riddell of this town, and they had two children: John M., who married, September 20, 1875, Mary E., daughter of Philo B. and A. Maria (Henry) Chapman of Hopewell, and they have had four children : Howard, who died at the age of three and a half years ; Inez C., Jean P., and Fannie survive. The second son, Smith R., was well edu- cated, like his brother John M., and married Alida Carpenter of Titusville, Pa., and had two sons: Sylvester C. and Smith R., jr. Their father died December 27, 1881. Hiram Ladd's father, John, was born in Massachusetts, June 6, 1786, and came to this place in 1816. He married Betsey Olney, and had nine children who grew to to maturity : Alvira, Mahala, Cassandana, William, Hiram, Calista, Adeline E., Smith and Jannette. Mr. Ladd has always been an active temperance leader, and fearless writer of prohibition sentiment since the party organization in the State and United States. Mr. Ladd was honored by the Prohibition party of the State in being elected delegate to the National Convention at Pittsburg in 1884, and his
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district nominated him for member of assembly the same year. In 1886 he received the nomination of member of Congress from his district. He also was delegate to the National Convention of the Prohibition party at. Indianapolis in 1888. Mrs. John M. Ladd's father, Philo B. Chapman, was born in Hopewell, Ontario county, Jann- ary 28, 1825, and was educated in the public school and Phelps Union School. In 1850 he married A. Maria Henry of that town, and had one daughter, Mary E. Mr. John M. Ladd is an active farmer of Victor, he is also a noted Shropshiredown sheep breeder in company with W. B. Osborne, since about the year 1887. Their sales extend all over the country.
Atwater, Joseph, Canandaigua, was born in Russel, Mass., August 3, 1820, a son of Joel, a native of Cheshire, Conn. The early life of Joseph was spent in the Eastern States. He was educated in the common schools and Westfield Academy, and his first occupation was as commercial trustee, which he followed about twenty years. In 1858 he went to Springfield, Texas, where he took 220 acres of land and conducted a stock farm for three years. He then returned North and located in Canandaigua in 1861, buying a small farm. In 1862 he was willed by Mrs. Maria Atwater, widow of Dr. Jeremiah Atwater, for money loaned by him to his friends, considerable property, and December 29, 1868, they purchased part of the Thomas B. Lyon farm, west of the Sucker Brook, making them a fine farm of ninety-two acres. In 1879 Mr. Atwater erected on his farm a beautiful residence, which stands on the west shore of Canan- daigua Lake. Mr. Atwater has always been an ardent supporter of the Republican party, but has never been an office seeker. Mr. and Mrs. Atwater are members of the Presbyterian church. He married, March 14, 1858, at Willington, Loraine county, O .. Almira M., daughter of Timothy Tiffany, a native of Connecticut. She was then resid- ing with her step-father, Capt. Henry Allen. They were married by Prof. Henry E. Peck, of Oberlin College, Ohio. They are the parents of four children : Lydia J., an artist; Emma B., a teacher of Victor; Anna L., teacher of the Union School of Can- andaigua; and George L., a commercial traveler with an Auburn firm.
Reed, Charles B., Bristol, a native of Bristol, was born September 12, 1847. His father was William A., son of William, a native of Taunton, Mass., who came to Bristol in an early day. He was a shipbuilder, and had two sons and a daughter. William A. Reed was born March 22, 1822. His father died when he was eight years old, and William A. was left to make his own way. He first worked eight months for three dollars per month. He managed to get a common school education, and for several terms taught school. He was a great reader and a man well informed. He married Mary A., daughter of Gooding Packard, and had two sons and a daughter: Charles B., William A. (deceased), M. Helen, deceased wife of Samuel Moranda, of Bristol. She left two children : Howard and Thurston. During the last fifteen years of Mr. Reed's life he was engaged in mercantile business at Bristol Centre, and was very successful. He was justice of the peace one term, supervisor five years, and was notary public for many years, and did an extensive business. He died March 29, 1888, and his wife re- sides in Bristol. Charles B. was reared in Bristol Centre, and educated in the common schools. He clerked in Canandaigua for John S. McClure, and afterwards clerked for his father fourteen years. Mr. Recd is a natural artist, and although has but little
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time to give to that kind of work, has ornamented his home with very beautiful pictures. Mr. Reed is at present engaged in farming and hop growing, and has been a breeder of Shropshire sheep. He is a Republican, but not an aspirant to office. He is a member of the Rod and Gun Club of Canandaigua, and Lakeside Gun Club of Geneva, N. Y. October 22, 1876, Mr. Reed married Ella B. Brown, born in Oneida county, December 17, 1852, daughter of Allen and Delilah (Mantors) Brown, of Oneida county, both de- ceased ; they had also one son, Harrison, who died April 13, 1881, leaving two children : Nelly B. and Sada. Mr. Reed and wife have three children : Clara M., Cora A. (de- ceased), and William A.
Remington, Thadious B., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, near Centerfield, January 11, 1819. The first ancestor of this family was the grandfather of subject, Thadious Remington, who came to this section from Vermont about 1792. He settled on a farm on what is called Remington Hill, near Centerfield. He was a very prominent man in the town, and was colonel of the militia regiment here and an active man in politics. He was also a prominent Mason. He married before coming here, Betsey Root, and they had eight children who reached adult age. The father of subject was the oldest son. His name was also Thadious, and he was born in 1794. He married in 1818 Rhoda, daughter of Roswell Root, a county judge who came to this section from Connecticut, and brought his parents with him ; his father, Abram Root, being one of the oldest men buried in the town. He and his son were both in the Revolution. Thadious Remington 2d had six sons, two now living: Thomas, of Michigan. and Thadious B. The whole life of the latter has been spent in this town. He was edu- cated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. He married in 1852 Maria Mack, and they had three children, two of whom are living : Alice C., wife of Bradford Hickox ; and Lydia M. Mrs. Remington died in 1862, and he married second Anna M. Henry, of Chester, Morris county, N. J., whose family dates back to Dr. Robert Henry, of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Remington is still living at the age seventy- three years. Mr. Remington is one of the prominent men of this town, but has never taken an active interest in political life.
Berry, John C., Farmington, was born in Ireland, October 25, 1840. He was edu- cated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy, and was a farmer. January 31, 1866, he married C. Maria, daughter of Jacob and Sophia Bower, of Victor. They have two sons: Carlton J. and Leon R. September 4, 1862, Mr. Berry enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-eighth N. Y. S. Vols .. was in sixteen general engagements: Clover Hill, May 8, 1864; Swift Creek, May 12, 1864 ; Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864; Port Walthall, May 26, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864; Rowlto House, June 15, 1864; Petersburg, June 18, 1864; Mine Explosion, near Petersburg, July 30, 1864; Siege of Petersburg, for several weeks up to August 25, 1864; Fort Harrison, September 29, 1864; Fort Gilmore, September 30, 1864 ; Fair Oaks, October 27, 1864 ; Hatcher's Run, March 31, 1865; Fort Greig, April 2, 1865; Rice's Station, April 6, 1865; Appomattox, April 9, 1865. He was honorably discharged June 22, 1865. He received a wound by a fragment of shell at the battle of Fort Harrison, and at the battle of Fair Oaks he was the only one that escaped ont of forty from being taken prisoner.
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Lewis, James W., Gorham, a native of Gorham, was born October 10, 1852. His father, Eugene, was a son of Sylvester, a native of Northumberland, who married Catharine Dubois, by whom he had ten children. He served in the War of 1812, and was one of the first settlers of Gorham, where he died in 1873, and his wife in 1881. Eugene was born in Gorham, April 19, 1823. In 1849 he married Rebecca Wilson, a native of Gorham and daughter of James and Hannah Wilson, of Gorham. They had two sons and a daughter, James W. being the only one living. Eugene was a Repub- lican, and a member of Rushville Lodge No. 377 F. & A. M. He died August 12, 1891, and his wife survives him. James W. was educated in Rushville Union Schools. He and his mother own 160 acres of land. In 1875 he married Sarah Tuttle, of Canan- daigua, a daughter of Henry N. and Mary A. Tuttle, who had ten children. Mr. Tuttle was a soldier in the late war, and died August 23, 1891, and Mrs. Tuttle resides in Canandaigua. James W. and wife have one child, Harriet P. Mr. Lewis is a Repub- lican in politics.
Hill, Wallace A., Victor, was born in Victor. He was educated in the public schools, Lima Seminary, and Poughkeepsie Business University, and is a farmer. He married Cassie Stull, of Victor, and they have two children : Maude L. and Lysander H. Mrs. Hill's father, Homer Stull, was born at Rouch Junction, Monroe county, in 1833. He married twice, first June 6, 1860, Hattie Murray, and had two children: Jessie, who died in infancy, and Cassie. In 1868 he married second, Mary Otto, of Rochester, and they had four children: Belle, Minna, Myra A. and Lelia E. Mr. Stull died at Mountain Home, Idaho, February 4, 1890. Mrs. Stull and part of the family reside in Kansas city. Mr. Hill's father, Lysander, was born on the old homestead in Victor November 3, 1832, and was educated in the public schools. March 25, 1861, he mar- ried Louisa Benson, of the town of Mendon, and they had three children : Willis G., Wallace A. (twins), and Maude L., who died February 9, 1875. Willis G. married Margaret Cline, and they have one daughter, Ruth W. Mr. Hill is a Republican in politics.
Edmonston, John A., Farmington, father of Erastus H., was born in Maryland, April 23, 1795, and came with his parents to Manchester when ten years old. In 1818 he married Rebecca P. Baggarly, of that town, by whom he had six children : Erastus H., Hezekiah B., Eliza A., Mary J., Charlotte A. and William H. Hezekiah B. married Susan A. Warner, of the town of Orleans, and they had two daughters, Jessie F. and Lillie B. Eliza A. married Benjamin Parker, of Manchester, and they have three children : John C., Mary A. and Julia A. Mary J. married Hiram Knapp, of Walworth, Wayne county, and they have had two children : William H., and Edmonston H. who died aged twenty. Charlotte A. married Alexander Shekell, of Washington, D. C., and they had eight children : Eddie, R. P., Harriet A., Lee J., Daisey M., Percy, Clyde and Amy, and one who died in infancy. William H. married Alice A., only daughter of Aldin and Eliza Cole, of Antwerp, Jefferson county, and they have had three children, two of whom died in infancy, and one, R. Howard, survives. Erastus H. was born March 7, 1819, in Manchester, and was educated in the public schools, and has always been a farmer. Hle met with an accident fifty-one years ago which has nearly deprived
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him of the use of one foot. He is one of Farmington's representative citizens, and has resided here sixty-one years. He has never married.
Warner, Milton, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, November 21, 1824. His father was Oliver, son of Elijah, a native of Conway, Mass., who had seven sons and one daughter. About 1800 he came to Phelps, where he spent the remainder of his life. Oliver Warner was born in Massachusetts, December 28, 1782. When a young man he came to Hopewell and located on 300 acres of land, where he lived and died. His wife was Lucinda Rice, a native of Conway, Mass., born October 7, 1783. To them were born seven sons and two daughters. Mr. Warner was drafted in the War of 1812. His death was caused by a stroke of lightning while on a visit to his native place. Milton Warner was four years old when his father died and he resided with his mother until twenty-four, when he married, after which his mother resided with him until her death in 1869. Mr. Warner was educated in common schools and Canandaigua Acad- emy. His wife is Margaret Knapp, a native of Hopewell, and daughter of Halstead Knapp, whose father, David Knapp, came from Harveston, Rockland county, and settled in Hopewell. Mr. Warner is a Democrat, and has been assessor one term, and inspector of elections. He is a member of Hopewell Grange No. 79.
Woodruff, Oliver M., Naples, was born in Starkey, Yates county, February 20, 1848, a son of Rev. William G. Woodruff, a Wesleyan Methodist clergyman. His parents removed to Watkins, Schuyler county, when Oliver was a child, and he attended the Commercial School there, and at Hammondsport, moving from the latter town when seventeen years of age, to Alpine, Schuyler county. He attended school two years. From there to Moreland, where he remained two years, and in the fall of 1870 engaged in a mill, remaining till 1881, when, health failing, he worked on a farm at Blood's two years. Then two years in Veteran, Steuben county, when he returned to Naples to the same mill, remaining three years. He then came to the Ontario mill in the spring of 1888, where he is still located, having purchased the property. Mr. Wood- ruff married in July, 1873, Helen M. Simons of Naples, and they have two children living : Lena H., and Robert J.
Newman, Algernon S., Canandaigua, was born in Bloomfield, May 1, 1837, a son of Willis, a native of New York, born at New Paltz on the Hudson, January 18, 1798. When he was about ten years of age his father, Elijah, moved to Gorham. Willis lived a number of years on the farm, and conducted a woolen mill until 1834, when he moved to East Bloomfield. He married in 1822 Sarah Sawtelle of Gorham, and they had four children ; Sidney A., a retired merchant of Rochester, and our subject being the only ones living. Willis died in 1876. The early life of Algernon was spent in East Bloomfield, where he lived on the farm till nineteen years of age. He spent one year in a dry goods store in Canandaigua, and two years in his brother's drug store in Rochester. December 2, 1859, he established a drug store in this town, which he has ever since conducted. This is, with one exception, the oldest drug store in Canan- daigua. Mr. Newman has never taken an active interest in politics, but has held a membership in the village council. He married in 1860 Augusta R. Denton of Havana, Schuyler county, and they had six children, five of whom survive ; Willis D., manager
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