History of Ontario county, New York : with illustrations and family sketches of some of the prominent men and families, Part 82

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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of the drug store; Louisa, a distinguished musician of this town ; Horace B., an assist- ant in the drug store ; Frank S, and Gracia A. They are members of the Congrega- tional church. Mrs. Augusta Newman died January 17, 1893. After her death her husband, who had been ill since early in the fall of 1892, began to decline, and died April 2, 1893. Both died intestate. Horace B. Newman and O. S. Bacon were ap- pointed administrators of the estate of Augusta R. Newman, and Louise M. Newman and Edward O. Smith were appointed administrators of the estate of Algernon S. New- man. Both estates are in process of settlement. Horace B. Newman, on the 31st of July, entered the employ of James Hawl y of Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y., where he has charge of a drug and grocery store, as his employer is a traveling man.


Noble, Levi, Richmond, was born where he now lives, on the west side of the lake, April 17, 1828. His father, Levi, was born in Blanford, Mass., in 1792, and came with his father, Medad, first to Pompey, N. Y., and in 1804 to this town. Medad died before his grandson Levi was born. He was a shoemaker, while his son Levi was a carpenter, but he early engaged in farming. The children of Medad were : Mercy D., Harriet, Pamelia, Levi, Clarissa, Bohan, Phinneas, Loren, and Jonathan F. Levi was educated in the district schools, and married in 1865 Harriet Batchellor, daughter of Perrin Batchellor. She died in 1891. Their children were : Horace, Lydia, John, Levi, Mary, George, and Harriet. Mr. Noble has been a farmer all his life, and has now about 420 acres, part of which is in Canadice. His grandfather, Medad, was a Revolutionary soldier for seven years.


Simmons, Ralph M., Canandaigua, was born in West Bloomfield, February 9, 1868, was educated in the common and Union schools of East Bloomfield, and at Canandaigua Academy under Prof. George R. Smith. He assisted on his father's farm until reach- ing his majority, when he bought his present residence on lot eighty-three in the town of Canandaigua. Mr. Simmons is an ardent Republican, but has been no office seeker. February 29, 1888, he married Helen R., daughter of Seymour V. R. Johnson of Can- andaigua. They have one daughter, Esther Adeliza.


Loomis, George, Farmington, was born in the town of Bloomfield, Hartford county, Conn., December 7, 1818, and came with his parents to Onondaga county when a child. At about the age of six years he came to Farmington. He was educated in the district schools, has always followed farming, and has been identified with the pros- perity of the town, of which he is one of the oldest inhabitants. Mr. Loomis has been supervisor of the town one term, and also highway commissioner. October 19, 1842, he married Hannah M., daughter of Benjamin and Lavina A. Ketchum of Farmington, and they had six children: Aurelia L., who married Le Grand L. Morse, who is a farmer and school commissioner ; Benjamin H., who is a farmer in Mertensia; Ida M., who married George E. Lapham ; Georgiana, who died at the age of eighteen years; Leslie G., a produce dealer of Victor ; and Charles P., who died of scarlet fever, only five days apart from his sister, who died of the same malady. Mrs. Loomis died suddenly Au- gust 25, 1892. Mr. Loomis's father, George, was born in Connecticut in 1784, and married Aurelia Palmer. They had four children: Eunice, Charlotte, George, and Jerome. One of his ancestors, Captain John Loomis, was a soldier in the Revolution-


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ary War. The Loomis family came from England at an early day with the Rev. John Wareham, locating in the east.


Mallison, Polly, Victor, was born in the town of Perrinton, Monroe county, October ,


22, 1809. She has married twice, first to William H. Compton of Victor, and had two children : William and Julia A., both deceased. Mr. Compton is also deceased. For her second husband she married Amos Mallison of Akron, O. They had no children. Mrs. Mallison's father, Alexander Cameron, was a Scotchman, and was born on the ocean on their way to the United States. He married Betsey Jackson, and had nine children : David, William, John, Catherine, Nancy, Polly, Ruth, Sally, and Rachael. Mrs. Mallison's grandson, Theodore Sidell, was brought up by Mrs. Mallison, and is now in charge of the farm. After her death it reverts to him, and to his children after him. He was born in Akron, O., June 24, 1845. He was educated in the public schools, and came to this State in the fall of the year Mr. and Mrs. Mallison came here, viz., 1870. He married twice, first on January 11, 1871, Mary E. Conover, and had one daughter, Jennie M. Mrs. Sidell died in July, 1876, and he married second on July 5, 1878, Mrs. Mary W. (Risley) Budington of Kingston, Ulster county ; they have four children : Jessie I., George A., Ward E., and Amos F. They all reside on the home- stead farm that are living. Mr. Mallison died January 25, 1877. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Polly Mallison died May 1, 1893.


Van Voorhies, Henry, Victor, father of Stephen, was born in the town of Allsburg, Grand Isle county, Vt., August 15, 1805, and moved with his parents to Dutchess county in the year of 1812. He was educated in the district schools of his day. After a residence of four years there he moved with his parents to Otsego county. Decem- ber 24, 1831, he married Margaret Daley of Decatur, of that county. They had seven children, five sons and two daughters : Menzo, Milton, Herman, Mary, Lyman, Stephen, and Alice. Milton married Angie Beeman of Livonia, Livingston county, and they bad three children : Calista, who died in January, 1892 ; Homer, who died March, 1873; and Stella. Herman married Kate Holmes of Marion, Wayne county. They have seven children; four sons and one daughter are living : Herman and Henry (twins), Mary, Bert and Stephen. They now reside in the town of Hopewell. Mary married Rev. James H. Du Bois, one of the preachers of the M. E. church, now of Steuben county. They have one daughter, Alice. Lyman married Libbie Field of Galesburg, Mich., and they have three children : George, Viola, and Howard. Stephen Van Voorhies was born January 16, 1846, was educated in the public schools and Lima Seminary, and is a farmer. October 18, 1876, he married Carrie, daughter of Gilbert and Diana (Goff) Porter of East Mendon, Monroe county. They have three children : Madge, Menzo and Mabel. Mrs. Van Voohies's father, Gilbert Porter, was born at the old home in East Mendon, March 16, 1818. He married Diana Doff of his native town, and they have had five children, two died in infancy, three survive: Smith J., Eliza- beth, and Carrie I. Alice Van Voorhies married Horace Tillitson of Mendon. Henry Van Voorhies's father, Keort, was born in Vermont about the year 1769, and married Margaret Nelson. His grandfather, John, was a hotel-keeper in Dutchess county. Mrs. Henry Van Voorhies died September 9, 1876.


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Cobb, Russell B, Phelps, only child of Nahum and Emeline (Bennett) Cobb, was born in Phelps, September 10, 1841. Nahum, the father, was born in Massachusetts, his father, George, moving to this State when his son was a boy. The great-grandfather of Russell B. was also named George Cobb. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and his ancestors were Cape Cod people. Russell B. married, in January, 1862, Mary, daughter of Oliver and Lucy (Howard) Gerow of Phelps, and they have two children : George Gerow and Lula. Mr. Cobb is one of the representative citizens of the town. He has served as road commissioner for the past nine years.


Young, James C., Gorham, was born in Orleans county, February 18, 1850, a son of Will- iam Young, whose father was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lived and died. William Young was born in Edinburgh in 1813, and was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and education. When young he came to Orleans county, N. Y., where he lived for a number of years. He married Elizabeth Ross, of Edinburgh, and they had three sons and three daughters. In 1858 Mr. Young and family came to Seneca, where he was justice of the peace three years, and died in 1888. James C. was reared as miller and worked with his father until 1874, when he came on the farm where he now lives. June 24, 1874, he married Nettie Fiero, daughter of Peter P. Fiero, who was born in Ulster county in 1809. The wife of Peter P. was Rachael Van Riper, by whom he had two daughters, Emeline, who died aged five years ; and wife of subject. Peter P. Fiero died in 1878, and his wife in 1887. He was a son of John C. and Mariah (Post) Fiero, who settled the farm where Mr. Young now resides. Here for a number of years he kept a tavern. He was in the War of 1812. James C. Young and wife have two chil- dren : Mabel A., and Oscar D .; these children being the fourth generation now living on this farm. Mr. Young is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of Seneca Grange No. 284, also of Seneca Presbyterian church.


Edmonston, William C., Phelps, one of four children of Milton and Joanna (Konkle) Edmonston, was born in the town of Phelps, January 15, 1862. His grandfather, Elijah Edmonston, was born in Maryland and came here and settled about the year of 1796 where he lived and died. He was a soldier of the War of 1812. William C. married, September 19, 1883, Flora M., daughter of Joseph and Mary J. (Curtis) Spier, of Phelps. Mr. Edmonston was clerk in a grocery store for eleven years, when in 1890 he bought ont the business and has since been engaged in the grocery and general merchandise business. He has served as foreman of the Redfield Hook and Ladder Company, has served as member of the Board of Education, and in March, 1892, was elected super- visor of the town, and was re-elected in March, 1893.


Hocroft, Morris R., Gorham, was born in Sodus, March 10, 1862, one of two sons and a daughter of George and Lucy (Lund) Hocroft, he a native of Leeds, England, and she of Sodus. Mr. Hocroft has retired from active life. His father was Robert, a native of Leeds, England, who came to America in 1823 and settled at Lyons, Wayne county. He had five daughters and two sons and died in 1873, Subject was reared on a farm and educated in Sodus Academy. For some time he followed carpentry in Rochester. In 1877 he began evaporating apples in Wayne county, and followed that business un- til 1886, when he came to Gorham and purchased a farm of 130 acres, and continued in


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the same business, evaporating 10,000 bushels yearly. The concern has a capacity of 300 bushels per day. In 1886 Mr. Hocroft married Sarah Welburn, a native of Sodus, born 1865, and a daughter of George and Mary Welburn, of Sodus. Mr. Hocroft is a Republican, and his wife is a member of the Episcopal church.


Bently, Orville, Bristol, was born in Richmond, Ontario county, July 24, 1830. He is the youngest son of Isaac Bently, a son of George Bently, a son of Tillinghast Bently, whose father, James Bently, was the first of the family in America. Isaac Bently, father of the subject, was born in Dutchess county in 1788, and went to Saratoga county with his parents. His wife was Hannah Dubois who bore him seven sons and five daughters. Mr. Bently served in the War of 1812. In 1816 he came to Richmond, and purchased sixty acres of land. He held minor town offices, and with his fam- ily attended the Universalist church. Mr. Bently died in 1863, and his wife in 1855. Orville Bently was reared on a farm, and January 1, 1850, married in Bristol Marcia S. Wheeler, born in Livonia, Livingston county, born October 31, 1831, daughter of Syl- vester Wheeler. They have had three children : Sidney A., born September 20, 1851, and educated in East Bloomfield and Canandaigua Academies, and died in 1869 ; Mur- ray S., born July 13, 1873, married May Wickham, daughter of William and Jenett (Francis) Wickham, of Bristol, and is a farmer; Nettie M., born December 23, 1874, is the wife of Fred Buell. They have one son. Orville Bently, in 1856, came to Bristol and purchased 100 acres of land, where he has since resided and carried on general farming. He is a Republican, a member of Bristol Grange, and he and family attend the Universalist church.


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. He 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 Prof. 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 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 300 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.


Wilbur, Cyrus H., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, September 3, 1832, a son of Hiram Wilbur. Jeptha, the great-grandfather, was a resident of Dutchess county, and had ten children. Samuel married Elizabeth Hicks, and had eight children : Ephraim, Hiram, George, Benjamin, Cynthia, Mary, Jeptha, and Phœbe. Four of their children are still living : Ephraim, a farmer of Naples ; Benjamin, of Dutchess county ; Phoebe, widow of Dr. Losey, of Dutchess county, and Hiram, of Buffalo, who was born in Dutchess county, October 3, 1808, and came to Ontario county. He married in Dutchess county, Margaret Couse, and had six children, four of whom are living :


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Samuel J., of Naples; Norman R., a hotel-keeper of Pleasantville, Pa .; Marietta, wife of William H. Green, of Buffalo; and Cyrus H. The early life of the latter was spent on the farm. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and in 1855 he moved to Cheshire, where he bought a small farm and kept a hotel. In 1862 he started a gen- eral store in Cheshire in which he has since been engaged. In 1892 he erected a new building for his business and has now a very fine store. Mr. Wilbur takes an active interest in politics and has been commissioner of highways. He married in 1853 Hortensia M., daughter of Thomas J. Lucas, of Canandaigua, and they have one son, Hiram Melvin, a clerk in his father's store.


Davie, John, Geneva, was born at the old homestead in Geneva, November 14, 1839, was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. In October, 1863, he en- listed in Company E, First Veteran Cavalry N. Y. Vols., and was in the following en- gagements : New Market, Piedmont, Martinsburg, and was with the regiment taking fifteen hundred prisoners from Staunton across the mountains to Beverly, West Vir- ginia. He afterwards was in the battle of Monocacy Junction, where the Rebels were held twenty-four hours, thereby saving the city of Washington from capture by General Early. The regiment was on that occasion commanded by the intrepid General Milligan, of Lexington fame. Mr. Davie was in all the engagements that his company and regiment was in, and was always ready for duty. He was honorably mustered out July 20, 1865, and discharged at Rochester about August 3 of that year. After his return home he was a truckman in the village of Geneva fourteen years, and is now a farmer. October 14, 1863, he married Rosanna Hicks, of Geneva, and they have had six children : Mary C., George T., (John W., Elizabeth E., and James W., deceased), Robert A. George T. is chief clerk with the Skilton Bros. hardware concern in the village; Mary C. is a dressmaker at home ; and Robert A. is a farmer with his father. Mr. Davie's father, George, was born in Suffolk, England, and came to the United States when a young man. He married Mary Sliney of this town and they had six children : John, Thomas, Catherine, William, George and James. Their father died in 1866, and their mother November 2, 1888.


Cammann, Oswald John, was born in New York in 1803. While yet a lad he found employment in the Merchants' Bank of that city, and by progressive steps was pro- moted until he became cashier of the bank, which position he held many years and retained until 1860, when he resigned and removed to Geneva, where he continued to reside until his death in 1873. The cashiership of so important a bank as was the old Merchants' was a very prominent position, its board of directors being composed of well known and prominent merchants, A. T. Stewart for a long time being chairman of the board. Mr. Cammann became one of the leading financiers of the city, and his management of the affairs of the bank was entirely satisfactory to the directors and won for him their esteem and hearty commendation. He married Catherine Navarre Macomb, May 1), 1829. She was a great-granddaughter of Philip Livingston. They had four children : Edward, married and died in 1867, leaving no children ; Frances T. married Robert S. Rose, who was the son of Robert L. Rose, of Allen's Hill, in the town of Richmond, and a member of Congress 1847-51. They had six sons and one


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daughter. Mrs. Rose survives her husband and continues to reside on the old home- stead farm near Branchport, Yates county. One of her sons, O. J. C. Rose, is a prom- inent citizen of Geneva, has been a member of the village board of trustees, and for three consecutive years was elected a supervisor of the town; is of the firm of Dor- chester & Rose, prominent hardware merchants, and identified with other prominent business enterprises. The two other children of Mr. Cammann, Misses Elizabeth O. and C. Mary, continue to reside in Geneva, and are well known and dearly beloved for the many quiet and unostentatious acts of benevolence and charity in which they abound.


Allen, M.D., Alexander D., Gorham, is a native of Gorham, born May 12, 1856. His father, James H. Allen, M.D., is a son of John, a native of Montgomery county, who came to Steuben county and there lived and died. James H. was born in Montgomery county, March 3, 1830, was educated in Albany Medical College, and in 1853 came to Gorham, where he has since had a very successful practice. Dr. Allen married in Steuben county, Phoebe E., daughter of David Stevenson. Dr. Allen and wife had two children, Alexander D., and Margaret E., wife of Lewis T. Rnf, a Presbyterian minister of Pittsford, Monroe county. Dr. Allen is a member of the Ontario Medical Society and New York State Medical Society. Dr. Alexander D. Allen was educated in Canandaigua Academy and in Syracuse Medical College, graduating from the latter in 1880, since which time he has practiced his profession in Gorham. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been supervisor of Gorham five years in succession, and was chair- man of the board in 1891-2. He is a member of Ontario County Medical Society, and is a member of E. K. O. R. In 1883 Dr. Allen married Annie T., daughter of H. L. Suydam, an artist of Geneva. The children of Dr. Allen are: James S., Elizabeth H., William A. and Hiram L.


Adams, George H., Canandaigua, was born in Henrietta, Munroe county, October 28, 1836. His grandfather, George, was born in Connecticut about 1773, and had two sons and two daughters. He died in Victor, June 10, 1862. George A., the oldest son, was born in Connecticut January 4, 1803, and came to this State when about twenty- five years of age. He first settled in Henrietta, remaining until about 1845. He lived four years in Parma and Ogden, and in 1850 bought a farm in Victor, where he died October 20, 1875. He married in Connecticut February 26, 1824, Ruth Loomis, by whom he had eleven children. Mrs. Adams died January 21, 1864, and he married second Asenath Todd, who died July 15, 1873. He again married in 1874 Catherine Weiborn, who survives him. Of the eleven children of George A., six are still living : Ansel, a farmer of Victor; Hannah, widow of William Mcfluron, of Honeoye Falls ; Harriet, wife of Henry Bement, of Victor; Myron O., a railroad man of Rochester ; Alvira, wife of Andrew Lane, of Michigan ; and George H. The boyhood of the latter was spent in Monroe county. He was educated in the common schools, and for his first business venture he bought a farm in Victor in 1861, which he conducted three years, then traded in 1864 for a farın of 115 acres in Farmington, where he lived two years, and then for eight years conducted a plaster mill in Victor, where he lived until 1875 ; he then bought 115 acres in Canandaigua on Lot 77, where he has ever since


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lived. He has here a beautiful residence, good outbuildings, and all modern improve- ments. He married, December 10, 1863, Juniata, daughter of William Tucker, of Cleveland, O. They have one daughter, Nellie May. Mr. Adams is a Republican, but has never been aspirant for political honors.


Adams, Benjamin F., East Bloomfield, was born in Richmond, September 19, 1823, a son of Ephraim and Lavinia (Morey) Adams. The grandfather, John, was a native of Dutchess county, where he died. He was raised by General Livingston, and his chil- dren were; John, Bela, Richard, Sarah, James, Abigail, David, Noah, Thomas, Miriam, Elizabeth, Simeon, Ephraim, Abial, Miles. Ephraim was born at Seven Pines, Dutchess county, March 29, 1793, was drafted and went as far as Niagara Falls in the War of 1812, when the war closed. He came to Fabius, Onondaga county, where he married in 1820, then settled in Ontario county, where he followed his trade ten years and then took up farming. About 1833 he moved to Livonia, where he purchased one of the first settled farms of the region, and died January 16, 1879. He was a Republican and was justice of the peace. He married a daughter of Samuel Morey. She was born July 31, 1797, and died May 26, 1884. Their children were as follows: Mary, Thomas, B. F., Jane, Lucy, James B., Oscar M. who enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, and was made second lieutenant at Cold Harbor, where he led his company and was three times wounded, in the mouth, right arm and left shoulder ; he was a brave and fearless soldier, and died in hospital at Washington; he was born in June, 1832; Ephrain, Samuel M. At the age of eight years Benjamin F. went on a farm, and received a common school education, supplemented by a course at Lima Seminary. At the age of twenty one he entered a store at East Bloomfield, where he remained nine years, then engaged in business for himself for four years. In 1855 he bonght 198 acres where he now resides. He has been an active Republican, and a lead- ing member of the Congregational church for thirty years. October 5, 1852, he married Lurinda, daughter of Taylor and Electa (Beebe) Gauss, and they have five children : Eva L., wife of E. D. Gibbs, of Michigan ; Jane A., wife of Dr. E. L. Pardee; Clara L., wife of Charles Stoddard, of Michigan; Mary E., wife of Heber E. Wheeler; and Frank M.


Arnold, Lovel, Gorham, was born in Gorham, October 4, 1829, a son of Isaac A., a son of Abram, born August 6, 1767, who was an early settler of Montgomery county, also of Gorham, coming there about 1814. His wife was Lorain Sipperly, born June 15, 1775, in Montgomery county. Her father, a Revolutionary soldier, was killed by the Indians while on his way to join his regiment. Abram Arnold had seven sons and five daughters, and died May 24, 1825. His wife died in September, 1859. Isaac A. was born January 15, 1795. He came to Gorham at the age of nineteen, and married Sallie Hutchinson, whose father was one of the earliest settlers of the place. Isaac A. and wife had six sons and two daughters. He first settled in Yates county, then in Gorham. In 1829 he settled on the farm now occupied by his son Lovel, and here lived till 1865. He was a deacon in the Baptist church many years. In 1865 he moved to Reed's Corners, where he died January 15, 1866. Lovel Arnold was educated in Madison University and at Rochester. Ilis health failing, he engaged in farming, which


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has since been his occupation. He makes a specialty of breeding Shropshiredown sheep, Durham cattle and Clydesdale horses. January 6, 1854, he married Caroline A., daughter of George and Ann Eliza (Hocum) Clark, natives of Potter, and they have one son, Frank G. Arnold, who resides with his parents. Mr. Arnold is one of the largest real estate owners in Gorham, also owning land in Yates county. Since 1872 he has been a Democrat.


Archer, Dr. W. W., Clifton Springs, was born in Hopewell, Ontario county, May 24, 1846. He received an academic education and eventually graduated from the Geneva Medical College, January 27, 1867. He commenced practice in Phelps in connection with Dr. Carpenter. After two years there he removed to Clifton Springs, where he has since resided and been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Dr. Archer is surgeon in the U. S. Pension Board, and is coroner of the county. His wife was Miss Hattie Younglove.




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