History of Ontario county, New York : with illustrations and family sketches of some of the prominent men and families, Part 84

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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Barron, William J., Geneva, son of William and Ellen (Booth) Barron, was born in Caledonia, May 6, 1856. He received a common school education, and at the age of sixteen years came to Geneva and learned the blacksmith's trade. He carried on this business four years in Caledonia, four years in Geneva, and in the spring of 1890 bought the public sheds in Geneva. In 1877 he married Ann Thornton, of Geneva, and they have one son, David, born in 1878. Mr. Barron takes an active part in politics and is a staunch Republican.


Booth, George S., Canandaigua, chief of police, was born in Farmington, March 31, 1840, a son of John, who died in 1843. The boyhood of our subject was spent in Farmington, where he lived until twelve years old, when his mother moved into Can- andaigua, where he was educated in the common school ; after leaving which he followed varied occupations until 1864, when he bought a farm, which he conducted for seven years, and in 1872 moved into the village, where he has ever since lived. In 1878 he was elected constable of the town, and in 1882, at the organization of the village police, Mr. Booth was appointed to the force, and was made chief of police. Mr. Booth mar- ricd in 1863, Jane, daughter of B. F. Waring, a farmer of Bloomfield, and they have two children : Effie, wife of William Bridgman, of Canandaigua, and Mary.


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Becker, John Franklin, Canadice, was born in 1830 in Richmond. His father, John, born in 1800, died in 1850, and was a native of Scoharie county, thence coming to Canadice, and from there to Richmond. In 1820 he married Lurana Allen, and of their nine children, W. D. and Allen live in Richmond, and John F. in Canadice. He was always a farmer. John F. married in 1851 Mary Adaline, daughter of Daniel Short 2d, of Richmond, and settled in Canadice on the Middle Road in 1864. He had eight chil- dren : Clara E., Marion J., Hattie M., Lana L., Speedy S., Fremont H., Spencer U. and Adda M., all deceased except Spencer U. and Marion J. He married second in 1877 Lucinda Jane Butler, daughter of William Butler, of Canadice, and they have had eight children, six now living: Herbert E., born in 1879; May A., born in 1880; Grove F., born in 1882 ; Jay F., born in 1883; Belle, born in 1888; Reid H., born in 1892. Mr. Becker has always been a farmer, and is a Republican in politics.


Blaine, M.D., Myron De Pue, Geneva, is a son of James Blaine who was born in Northumberland county, Pa. His father died when he was four years of age, and five years later his mother moved to the town of Romulus, where he now resides, one of the leading farmers in Seneca county. Our subject was born August 6, 1859. He attended the common and select schools of Romulus, and in 1874 graduated from the State Normal School of Valparaiso, Ind., and the same year began the study of medi- cine with Dr. Evarts, of Romulus. He spent three years at the Detroit Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1883. He was for six years one of the staff of the Willard Asylum, and in 1889 located at Geneva, where he has a large practice, making a specialty of nervous diseases; was president of the Seneca County Medical Society two years. In 1889 he married Zoa May Covert, of Ovid, N. Y.


Butler, W. K., Geneva, son of William M., was born in Covert, Seneca county, June 26, 1850. He received a common school education, and when fifteen years old went to learn the carpenter's trade. In 1878 he commenced contracting and building, drawing his own plans. He now employs twenty-five hands, and has a sash and blind and plan- ing factory. He built the Western Hose Company's building, and has done some of the building at Willard Asylum. He has taught sixteen terms of school. In 1872 he married Cornelia, daughter of Theodore Swan, and has four children.


Burtis, Charles B., Phelps, was born in New York city, February 17, 1825, a son of Arthur and Elizabeth (Palmer) Burtis. The grandfather was John Burtis of Long Island. He was for twelve years superintendent at Bellevue Hospital, and drew the plans and superintended the work on the first building on Black well's Island. Charles B. married, October 6, 1846, Catharine Grange, sister of General Gordon Grange. They had four children : Arthur B., Emma J., Henry B., and Clara T., wife of Rev. C. F. Por- ter. Henry B. was born at Oaks' Corners, July 29, 1860. He is the managing partner of the A. B. Curtis & Bro. fruit and stock farm at Oaks' Corners. The buildings were erected in 1887, and are a credit to the town as well as to the proprietors. They have about thirty head of horses and colts, and their enterprise is in a flourishing con- dition.


Barlow, Jesse, Phelps, was born at Amenia, Dutchess county, January 19, 1832, was a son of Elisha and Lucy (Darrow) Barlow, natives of Dutchess county. The grand-


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father, Hon. Elisha Barlow, was a native of Sandwich, Mass., who came with his father, Moses, and his grandfather, Peleg Barlow, to Poughkeepsie in 1756, when a boy. The Hon. Elisha Barlow was a member of assembly during 1800 and 1802, and was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1821. The ancestors were Cape Cod fisherman for several generations. Jesse Barlow married, March 9, 1869, Lavinia, daughter of Newton Carter, of Connecticut. They have one son, Howard Carter. In 1858 Mr. Barlow bought a half interest in the Swift Mills in Phelps, and in 1870 bought out the remaining interest, and has been sole proprietor since that time; it going under the name of the Barlow Roller Mills, having a capacity of fifty barrels of flour per day. The house of Deacon Moses Barlow, in which Jesse was born, was built prior to the Revolutionary War.


Bostwick, Daniel R., East Bloomfield, is a native of East Bloomfield, born March 16, 1816. His father, Major Elijah Bostwick, a soldier in the War of 1812, was a son of Elijah, an Episcopal minister of Great Barrington, Mass., who founded many churches in that State and Eastern New York. The father of subject was born in Great Bar- rington, Mass., October 28, 1786, and came to East Bloomfield when about ten years of age, and was reared by a Mr. Sprague. He held the office of assessor, collector and justice of the peace, and married Diantha Rice, born July 4, 1791, a daughter of Daniel of East Bloomfield. They had five sons and five daughters, seven of whom grew to maturity. He died August 28, 1870. Daniel R. was educated in Canandaigua Acad- emy and when twenty-one years of age went to Michigan and spent one year. Re- turning home he purchased a farm, which he now owns, and afterwards owned 100 acres in Bristol, and seventy acres in West Bloomfield. March 16, 1858, he married Amanda Reed of Richmond, a daughter of Major John Reed of the War of 1812, and one of the early settlers in Richmond. Subject and wife have had three children : John, a hardware merchant of Clifton Springs; H. Wheeler, a farmer, who was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and married, December 21, 1887, Christina, daughter of Chris- topher Bellinger, and had one child, Christine A., who was born March 25, 1892. The third child of subject is Annie A., who resides with her brother at Clifton Springs. Daniel R. for the last thirty-five years has been a Democrat. He was the first super- intendent of the West Bloomfield schools, and served four years. He was also justice of the peace there for four years, and held the same office in East Bloomfield for sixteen successive years. He was supervisor one year and justice of sessions one term. He was twice candidate for assemblyman, but the county being largely Republican he was defeated. Mr. Bostwick is a member of the East Bloomfield Grange. He was form- erly a member of the Congregational church of East Bloomfield.


Bean, John E., Geneva .- This widely known and esteemed attorney was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1824. At the age of twelve he came to this country and became a resident of Sodus, in Wayne county. There he lived for four years, and in 1841 was in the Union School at Geneva. In 1846 he graduated from the Geneva College. He read law with B. Slosson, and was admitted to all New York State courts in 1849, and has practiced at Geneva since. In 1864 he was admitted to practice in the United States District and Circuit courts. Hc has held the office of justice of the peace several terms and acted as police justice in Geneva. In 1846 he joined the Geneva fire depart-


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ment. In 1851 he received his commission as captain from Governor Hunt in the Fifty-fifth Regiment of the New York militia, and in 1853 another commission from Governor Seymour. In 1856 he was elected major of Fifty-ninth Regiment, Seventh Division of the New York State militia, receiving his commission from Governor Clark. At the beginning of the war he was inspector of troops at Geneva. In his early life he taught school several terms under a State certificate. In 1849 he married Miss Van Vorhis. Shunning the life of a politician, he has devoted himself with great suc- cess to his profession.


Baldwin, Charles H., Canandaigua, was born in Sanford, Dutchess county, October 2, 1853, and was educated in the common schools and Pelham Institute at Poughkeepsie, and has since been enaaged in farming. In 1885 he came to Ontario county, where he remained but a short time, when he moved into Yates county and bought a farm, en- gaging in the cultivation of grapes, from which he has raised for over two years over fifteen tons per year. He also leased a farm adjoining, from which he raised about the same quantity. Mr. Baldwin has been for the last four years a dealer in coal, and in 1892 opened a yard and office in Canandaigua, where he is prepared to furnish any quantity the trade demands. Mr. Baldwin married in 1874 Frances, daughter of Mer- ritt'Mallory, a farmer groceryman of this town, and they have four children : Charles I., George E., Willis H., and Franklin S. Mr and Mrs. Baldwin are members of the Vine Valley M. E. church, of which he is trustee. He is also a member of Canandai- gua Lodge, No. 294, F. & A. M.


Bland, the late George J., Geneva, was born in Geneva in 1818. He was educated in the public schools and by occupation a kalsominer. March 18, 1845, he married Mary J. Adams, who was born in Troy. They have an adopted daughter, Mary A., who was born in Geneva. She married, February 17, 1887, George W. Watkins, who was born in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Bland died September 15, 1886. He was a member of the Baptist church and the present family are members of Trinity church. Mrs. Bland was a coworker with Frederick Douglass in the anti-slavery cause, and is much interested in the elevation of her people, the colored race.


Burrell, Edward, Seneca, was born on his grandfather's homestead, upon which he resides, near Hall's Corners, April 29, 1825. He was educated in the schools of his day and has followed farming. June 7, 1869, he married Elizabeth Parker of Oswego, Kendall county, Ill., and they have two sons: Edward P. and Thomas W., both well educated and farmers with their father. Mr. Burrell's father, Thomas, was born in Northumberland, England, in 1796, and came to the United States with his father when he was four years old, locating here in September, 1800. His mother was dead. He was educated in the schools of that early day, was a farmer, and married Mary Hall, formerly of England, coming here in 1801. They had seven children, five now living: Elizabeth, who married Alexander Turnbull; Edward, Catherine A., who mar- John C. Wilson ; Margaret, died; Roger H., who married Barbara Kennedy and resides in Monroe county ; and Thomas D., who married Violet A. Dixon, also resides in Mon- roe county, and Mary Jane, dead. Mr. Burrell's grandfather, Edward, was born at the old homestead in England, September 15, 1763. He has married twice, first Elizabeth


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Dixon, by whom he had two children, Thomas and Margaret. She died in England and he married second, Deborah Wood of Hall's Corners, and had three children : Jane, Dorothy and Catherine. Mr. Burrell's father was one of the elders in the Presbyterian church at Seneca. Both himself and wife are members of the same church.


Church, E. Chapin, Canandaigua, was born in Antwerp, Jefferson county, August 15, 1848. The boyhood of our subject was spent on the farm at Antwerp, where he received an education in the seminary. When he was nineteen he went to New Hamp- shire where he learned the machinist's trade, when, his father dying, he returned to his home. He spent two and one half years in New York in the mercantile business, and in the spring of 1873 came to Canandaigua, where he engaged in the insurance and real estate business, and is now the leading insurance man of the town. He has always been prominently identified with the Republican party here and was president of the Young Men's Club in 1884-85. In 1885 he was elected county treasurer by a majority of over 800, and in 1888 was re-elected, his term expiring January 1, 1892. Mr. Church was president of the Mosher Hook & Ladder Company from 1876 to 1881, and a director of the Canandaigua Gaslight Company for the last five years. He is also president of the Western Improvement Company of Dubuque, Ia. He married, November 18, 1875, Mary A., daughter of Captain George Chalmers of Oswego, and they have one son and one daughter, E. Raymond and Julia C. Mr. Church is a supporter of the Congregational church, of which his family are members, and he is also a member of Canandaigua Lodge F. & A. M., No. 264.


Cleggett, Benjamin F., Geneva, was born in Dutchess county, July 30, 1828, and came to Rochester with his parents when but a child. In 1836 they went to Canada, where Mr. Cleggett was educated. The family returned to Rochester in 1847. Mr. Cleggett has nearly always followed the trade of barber, and has been a resident of Geneva thirty-five years. He enlisted in the navy in 1864 and was honorably dis- charged in 1865, when Charles J. Folger was secretary of the treasury at Washington. Mr. Cleggett was messenger there, returning home at the death of Mr. Folger. He was married twice, first in Rochester on September 5, 1849, Frances Nell, whose brother was assistant editor of the North Star, under the management of Hon. Frederick Douglass. They had eleven children, six of whom are living: Benjamin F., jr., who resides in Boston ; Fannie J., who married Stephen F. Jasper of Boston; Mary, who married William F. Kinney of Geneva ; Ira (residence not known), and Lucretia, who married John Jones of Le Roy, N. Y. ; Mrs. Cleggett died March 27, 1875. For his second wife, on November 27, 1877, he married Letitia A. Haley of Canandaigua, and they have had two daughters : Alice L., and Laura B., who died in infancy. Mr. Cleggett's father, David, was born in Maryland a slave. He escaped and gained his liberty. Mrs. Cleggett's father, Aldred Haley, was born in Martinsburg, Va., a slave. He, too, escaped, but he returned, was recaptured, and again remanded to slavery for a short time. He again came to Canandaigua and married Elizabeth Brooks, by whom he had seven children: Emily, Letitia A., Alice J., Laura A., Charles A., and Helen L.


Creighton, James, Geneva, was born in County Fermenaugh, Ireland, about 1835, and came to the United States in 1872, locating in Geneva, December 7, 1857, he


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married Mrs. Mary (Wiggins) Reynolds. They had six children : Eliza, Elizabeth A., James, Susan, Mary E. and Jennie. Mrs. Creighton had three children by her first marriage: John, Margaret and Thomas. Elizabeth married Edward Pendle, of Geneva, and they have one daughter, Mersible L. Susan married Charles H. Pendle, of Geneva.


Curlin, Mrs. Nancy T. P., Geneva, was born in Geneva, where she was educated in the public schools and taught with the Rev. H. H. Garnet, D.D., two years. She was the second daughter of Aaron Lucas and was married in 1854 to Robert H. Curlin, a classical teacher. She taught school in the West Indies twenty-five years, and returned to the United States in 1878. Mrs. Curlin's father was born a slave in Virginia. He gained his freedom by the underground railway in 1825, and married Flora Duncan, of the Mohawk Valley, who was a New York State slave. They had three children : Esther, who married John Grant; Nancy T. P., and Charles R. who died at the age of twenty-five years. Her father died in 1884 and her mother in 1850, both in Geneva.


Colmey, John, Canandaigua, was born in Stillwater, Saratoga county, August 2, 1858, and when very young moved with his parents to Victor. He attended Victor Union School, after leaving which he taught school for several terms, and in 1877 went into the law office of E. L. Morse and H. O. Chesebro at Canandaigua, where he read law and was admitted to the bar in October, 1881. He acted as clerk for Mr. Morse while he was in New York city for one year, and the next year opened a law office for him- self. The same year he was elected on the Democratic ticket justice of peace, and at the expiration of his term in 1887 he was re-elected without opposition. In 1889 he was elected supervisor, and re-elected the next year by an increased majority. January 19, 1892, he was appointed by Governor Flower to the office of surrogate of Ontario county, to fill the vacancy by the death of A. C. Armstrong. In 1886 Mr. Colmey was justice of sessions for the county. He has been secretary of the Democratic committee several years and is now chairman. He married in August, 1889, Mary B. Widman, of Canandaigua, and they had two sons, Augustine and John.


Cooley, H. Seymour, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, December 25, 1862, a son of Albert B., a farmer of this town, who was the first to introduce the Hampshire- down sheep in this country, which were imported from England. The whole life of our subject has been spent in this town. He was educated in the Canandaigua Acad- emy, and on leaving school in November, 1879, entered the store of his uncle, James S. Cooley, where he has ever since remained. In 1892 Mr. Cooley was elected trustee of the village. He is a member of the Mutual Hook and Ladder Company, and of Can- andaigua Lodge No. 245, Knights of Pythias, of which he was one of the organizers and a charter member. Mr. Cooley married in 1883 Carrie A., daughter of W. S. Townsend, of Canandaigua. He is a supporter and Mrs. Cooley is a member of the Methodist church.


Crowley, Daniel, Manchester, was born in Ireland, September 10, 1843. He came to this country in 1855. After a time, through hard work and economical efforts, he was enabled to purchase the farm upon which he now lives. Mr. Crowley married Mar- garet Chancey, and they have eight children. Mr. Crowley has served as pathmaster, and is a staunch Democrat.


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Catchpole, Daniel, Geneva, son of George and Martha Catchpole, was born October 27, 1833, in England. His parents came to America when he was young, and he re- ceived a common school education. When a mere boy he worked in his father's machine shop and learned the machinist's trade. At the age of sixteen he entered the lumber yard of P. H. Fields, where he remained, also with their successors, Conger and Mac- Kay, and was foreman of the yard for twenty-one years. He did much towards build_ ing up their business. In 1870 he was employed by T. Smith & Co., and was their superintendent three years. He has been a member of the firm since 1867. He mar- ried Lucy A., daughter of L. Bodle, and they have three children: Lizzie S., Edward A. and Llewellyn G. The sons are now partners with their father. Mr. Catchpole was connected with the Geneva Fire Department thirty-nine years, retiring in 1889. The family are members of St. Peter's Episcopal church.


Cotton, Edward J., Farmington, is a son of Jeremiah B., who was born August 17, 1814, in Farmington. He was educated in the common schools of his day and was a farmer until he retired. His son, Edward J., now has charge of the farm. February 19, 1845, he married Sally M. Cheeseboro, of this town. They had ten children, of whom seven survive: Mary J., William, Edward J. and Edwin B. (twins), Eliza A. and Louisa (twins), and Charles T. Almira, Jeremiah and a son who died in infancy. Mr. Cotton's father, Isaac, was born in New Jersey about the year of 1785, and married Charity B. Bennett, of his native State, and came to this State about the year 1811. They had seven children : Nathaniel, Susan, Jeremiah B., Ann, Matilda, Isaac, Leonard. Edward J. was born on the old homestead January 8, 1845. He was educated in the common schools and Macedon Academy, January 17, 1863, he enlisted in Company M, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery N. Y. S. Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. Jeremiah B. Cotton will be seventy-nine years old if he lives until August 17, 1893. His wife died March 12, 1881. His grandfather, Jeremiah Bennett, on the maternal side, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Edward J. Cotton's great- grandfather on the paternal side came from England.


Carson, George, Gorham, a native of Gorham, was born January 8, 1850. His father, William A., is a son of Robert, a native of Ireland, who came to America when twelve years of age. He died at the home of his son Robert. William A. was born in Seneca in 1813, and married Margaret E. Disbrow, a native of New Jersey, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. In 1847 he came to Gorham and purchased the farm now owned by subject. He died October, 1888, and his wife a month later. George Carson was educated in Rushville Union Schools. He is a farmer and has bought and sold wool and produce for eighteen years. He also represents Bowks Fertilizer Com- pany of Boston. December 4, 1873, Mr. Carson married Annie Fountain, born Decem- ber 3, 1850, in Middlesex, a daughter of Levi and Harriet Fountain, of Hamilton county, and she of Middlesex respectively. Mr. Fountain and wife have had two sons and one daughter. Mr. Fountain is a farmer and grape grower and resides in Middlesex. Mrs. Fountain died in 1877. Subject and wife have had four children : Nellie E. (deceased), Theodore R., Emma (deceased), and G. Alonzo. Mr. Carson is a Republican and is a member of Stanley Lodge No. 434 T. O. O. F.


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Caskey, Willard Doolittle, Canadice, was born in Richmond, May 12, 1843. His father, Henry, was born in Starkey, Yates county, in 1813, and died in 1874. His father, Joseph, came from New Jersey. Henry married Margaret Cratsley in 1837. She was born in 1818, and died in 1885. They had seven children, one of whom died young. The others were: Alva J., Willard D., John H., Mary Elizabeth, Catharine A., and Sarah A. He died in Canadice in 1874. Willard D. was educated in the district schools. He enlisted in 1864 in the First N. Y. Mounted Rifles, and was on detached service much of the time as sharpshooter under a roving commission. He was dis- charged at the close of the war. In 1868 he married Clara Knowles, who died in 1876, leaving a daughter, Minnie, born in January, 1869. He married second, Theodosia, sister of his first wife (in 1878) and they have one son, Floyd H., born in 1885. For three years after marriage he resided in Richmond as a farmer, and since then lived in Canadice. Since 1879 he has lived on the Knowles homestead. Mrs Knowles's grand- father, Seth Knowles, was the first settler in the town of Springwater, and named that town. He came from Massachusetts. His son, Daniel, born in 1793, died in 1824, came with his father and married Sally Ann Spring, by whom he had four children . Sally Ann, Daniel, jr., Phoebe and Henry. Daniel, jr., was born in 1818 in this town, and married Cynthia, daughter of Nathan and Matilda (Spencer) Beers, of this town. He had five children : Franklin G., a retired farmer of Michigan ; Ezra S., a farmer and speculator of Michigan; Horace S. (deceased) ; Sarah Theodisia, and Clara, first wife of Mr. Caskey. Samuel Spencer, Mrs. Beers's father, was an early settler in the town. Mr. Caskey is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Christian church.


Connelly, the late John H., Victor, was born in County Kerry, Ireland, June 25, 1842, and came with his aunt to the United States to his parents who had preceded him here. This event took place when he was nine years old ; he was a produce dealer and commission merchant. March 10, 1869, he married Sarah J. Murphy, of Fishers, and they had three children : Ida M., Adeline B., who married George P. Fowler, of Fish- ers; and Frederick J. The oldest daughter and the son reside at home with their mother. Mr. Connelly died November 30, 1887. from injuries received on the New York Central & Hudson River Railway. Mrs. Connelly carries on the old business in a thriving intelligent inanner. She is also the postmistress at Fishers.


Chapin, Harry G., East Bloomfield, was born where he now resides July 18, 1849, a son of Oliver C. and Frances W. (Smith) Chapin. The grandfather, Heman, son of Charles, came from Salisbury, Conn., to Bloomfield in 1796, and settled north of the village, where he owned and improved 400 acres. His brother Oliver came in 1790 and located where the subject now resides. Heman was assemblyman one term. He married Electa Humphrey, and had three sons and five daughters. Oliver C. was born in 1811 (April 26) in Bloomfield, and died April 3, 1881. He was the owner of an orchard of 135 acres, and has taken from it as high as 10,000 barrels, and his father was the originator of the Northern Spy apple and the Early Joe. He had four chil- dren : Frank S., Harry G., Julia E., and Charles. Harry G. was educated in the dis- trict schools in early youth, and graduated at Yale College, class of '72. He has been serving his second te m as justice, and his first as supervisor, being a Republican in poli-




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