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tics. He married Adaline, daughter of Joseph W. and Nancy (Loomis) Hopson. His father was one of the organizers of Bloomfield Academy.
Keeley Institute, Canandaigua. This is a branch of the original Keeley Institute of Dwight, Ill. When Dr. Keeley's remedies for the drinking and morphine habit were acknowledged, the town of Dwight was found to be too small for the accommodation of crowds that flocked there for its benefits, and it was found necessary to estab- lish branches of that institution throughout the country for the accommodation of these patients. Five of these branches are located in New York State: White Plains, Babylon, Binghamton, Westfield, and Canandaigua. This branch was opened in April, 1892, in Geneseo, and was removed to Canandaigua October 1, 1892, on account of the poor railroad facilities of that town. Since its removal they have had about thirty- five patients, and since the establishment of the branch it has had about ninety. It is under the charge of R. N. Tannabill, who is superintendent, and Stanley C. Bab- cock, M. D.
Coe, William W., Canandaigua, was born in Galen, Wayne county, February 28, 1841, a son of William W., a farmer of that town, and a native of Berkshire county, Mass., where he was born April 30, 1810. He moved into New York State while a young man and located in Galen, where he followed farming until his death, November 9, 1840. He married Catherine Vosburgh (who survives him, aged eighty-three years), and five children, four of whom still live. William W. spent his early life in the town of his birth. He was educated in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, and his first occupa- tion was as clerk in J. C. Atkins's grocery at Clyde. He was with him three years, then spent three years with P. G. Dennison in his dry goods store. January 1, 1862, Mr. Coe came to Canandaigua and engaged in the insurance business, which has been very successful by dint of hard work, and careful attention. He represented three of the best companies in the country in fire insurance, besides his life and accident company. He is also notary public and agent for steamship tickets. Mr. Coe married March 23, 1865, Emma P. Clarke, of Clyde, who lived but five months. He married second in November, 1869, Caroline, daughter of Albert Sheldon, the merchant, and they have two children : Iva May, and Charles Albert, now in his fifteenth year. Mr. Coe is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294, of which he is junior deacon.
Crandall, W. D., Canandaigua, was born in West Bloomfield, March 10, 1845, a son of Nelson, formerly a mechanic of that town, now of Delaware county. Nelson was born in 1809, and at the age of twenty-one moved into Ontario county. He married Melissa A. Wood, of this county, by whom he had six children, four of whom are liv- ing : Mrs. Rush Crandall, of Delaware county ; Sheridan, of the Eighty-fifth Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, who was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, taken prisoner, and died in prison; C. E. Crandall, a lawyer of Muncie, Ind .; Fred D. Crandall, of Crandall Bros. W. D. Crandall was educated at West Bloomfield and at Lima Seminary, and after leaving school came to Canandaigua, where he went into the photographing es- tablishment of Marshal M. Finley & Son to learn the art. He was with them for fif- teen years. Ile spent two years in Jamestown, then returned to Canandaigua and bought a half interest in the Finley gallery, which he retained about three years, and
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then, in partnership with his brother Fred, opened an establishment, for himself. Their gallery is now located in the Hubbell block, where they make a specialty of crayon work. He married in 1887 Julia E. Johnson, of Canandaigua. Mr. and Mrs. Crandall are attendants of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Crandall was in 1988 elected as one of the village council.
Clement, Maynard N., Canandaigua, was born in Bristol, Ontario county, October 12, 1856, a son of Isaac, a farmer of Bristol. The grandfather, Garrett, came from Scho- harie county among the first settlers. The early life of our subject was spent on the farm where he worked for seven years by the month. His first education was in the common schools, and from there he came to Canandaigua Academy, after leaving which he taught school for three years. In 1877 he entered the law office of Hon. Ed- win Hicks, of Canandaigua, where he read law until admitted to practice at the bar in January, 1880. He first bought a law library and continued an office in Victor until the fall of the same year, when he removed the library to Canandaigua, where he has since conducted an office. In November, 1887, he was elected on the Republican ticket to the office of district attorney, and during his term had three very important murder cases, all of which were convicted. First the People vs. John Kelly, second People vs. Frank Lamont, and People vs. Frank Fish. In the latter case Mr. Clement was opposed to some of the most able counsel of the county. He was re-elected in 1890 by a ma- jority of about 1,200, leading his party ticket by about 200. His second term his most important case has been the People vs. Cameron, a Geneva murder trial. He was chair- man of the Republican County Committee in 1885-86, and has always taken an active interest in the Republican party. Mr. Clement married in 1883 Clara Fitch, of Canan- daigua, and they have five children : Clara Tony, Emory Fitch, Holden Metcalf, Louise Field, and Mary Florence.
Carmody, John, Geneva, was born in Penn Yan, May 7, 1855, and attended the common schools and Penn Yan Academy. He graduated from the New York Vet- erinary College in 1878, and practiced in Yates county until 1886, when he settled in Geneva, and now has a large practice. In 1886 he married Jennie Romaine, and has two children, John and Mary.
Cochran, James, Bristol, was born in County Down, Ireland, July 17, 1826, one of nine children of James and Ann (McClure) Cochran, natives of County Down, Ireland, where James Cochran, sr., died. Mrs. Cochran came to America, and died in the town of Canandaigua in 1855. The subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of Ireland. At the age of twenty-two he came to America, and starting in life working by the month, is to-day one of the leading farmers of Bristol. In 1870 he came to Bristol and purchased a farm of 118 acres, where he has since resided. In 1851 he married in Vermont Bridget Denver, a native of County Down, Ireland, and daughter of William and Margaret (McMillen) Denver. Mr. Cochran and wife have had the fol- lowing children : John, a farmer of Bristol, who married Mary A. Gracy, by whom he had nine children ; William (deceased) ; his wife was Ann Murphy, of Ireland, by whom he had three children : Nettie (deceased), Margaret, wife of James Bohon. She died, leaving one child, Mary, who resides with her grandparents. Mr. Cochran has always been a Republican. Mrs. Cochran is a member of the Catholic church.
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Coyle, Charles M., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, December 11, 1847, where he has always lived, except three years (1865- 68) spent in Rochester. In 1870 he en- gaged in the grocery and liquor business here under the firm name of C. & P. Coyle, the latter being a cousin, who in 1877 withdrew from the firm, and Charles conducted the business alone for three years. He was then joined by Thomas P., making the firm Coyle Bros., which it still remains. In 1887 they added to their business the wholesale and retail dealing in tobacco and smokers' articles. In 1877 Mr. Coyle was elected village treasurer, and in 1890 trustee, which office he still holds.
Cain, William, East Bloomfield, is a native of Ontario county, born April 19, 1845, and a son of Gideon, whose father, Thomas, was a captain in the War of 1812. Gideon was a native of Canajoharie, born January 24, 1819. He was young when his father died and was obliged to assist in supporting his mother, starting in life for himself at the early age of twelve. When a young man he settled in Camden, Oneida county, and after twenty years went to Orleans county. His present home is in Genesee county. He married Wealthy Tiffany, a native of Montgomery county, and they have had a son and a daughter. Mr. Cain is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the M. E. church of East Bloomfield. William was reared as a farmer and sawyer. He was edu- cated in the common and select schools, and at the age of eighteen started in life for himself, working first in a saw-mill and afterwards at farming. For eight years he kept a general store at Miller's Corners, West Bloomfield. He went to Orleans county when a young man, and afterwards to Genesee county, where he remained until 1881, then went to West Bloomfield, Ontario county, and in 1890 came to East Bloomfield, where he has since resided. In 1892 he bought the V. G. Sears farm of forty acres, and has since repaired buildings and made other improvements. Mr. Cain has been twice married, first, November, 1869, to Hannah Smith, of Shelby, Orleans county, a daughter of William Smith. They had one son, Glenn, a student of East Bloomfield. November 1, 1891, Mrs. Cain died, and in 1892 Mr. Cain married Emily (Mason) Mur- rel, widow of Charles P. Murrel, and they have had two daughters, Grace and Edith. Grace is the wife of W. H. Whittemer, a cigar packer of Binghamton, N. Y. Edith is a student of East Bloomfield. Mr. Cain is a Prohibitionist, but not an aspirant to office. He and wife are members of East Bloomfield Grange No. 94, also of Monu- mental Lodge No. 109, I. O. G. T.
Chapin, Thaddeus, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, January 21, 1803, a son of Thaddeus, a native of Worcester, Mass, where he was born September 6, 1761. He was a son of General Israel Chapin, the first Indian agent appointed by General Wash- ington for the Six Nations. He was a general in the War of the Revolution. He was the father of four sons and three daughters. About the time of the Phelps and Gorham purchase General Chapin and his four sons: Thaddeus, Israel, Henry, and George, came to this town and took up land. Thaddeus, father of our subject, held a patent for 600 acres where the village of Canandaigua west of Main street is now built. In 1821 he erected the large dwelling which has ever been the homestead of this family. Mr. Chapin remembers the Indian chief, Red Jacket, and he and Farmer's Brother, the white man's friend, often visited his father's house. Thaddeus Chapin street, where stands the residence of our subject, was laid out by Thaddeus Chapin about
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1815 on his own property, and named in his honor at the incorporation of the village. Thaddeus Chapin, sr., had seven children, of whom two are now living: Eliza Chapin, of this village, and Thaddeus, our subject. The latter was educated at Canandaigua Academy, and in 1830 he was elected trustee of the academy, and at the death of Judge Phelps was elected president, which position he has held until 1891, when he resigned. Mr. Chapin has never taken any active interest in politics, but in early life was a sup- porter of the Federalist party and of late years has been a Democrat. He married in 1832 Rebecca, daughter of James D. Bemis, one of the early settlers of this town, and they had six children, three of whom are living : Anna M., widow of Capt. T. E. Mun- son, who fought in the Rebellion and died in 1884 ; Laura B., wife of Frank G. Clark, a merchant of Oxford, Chenango county ; and George B., a bookkeeper of Canandaigua. There is but one grandchild of this family, Walter C. Munson, now in his seventeenth year, a student of Canandaigua Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin celebrated their golden wedding in 1882, and Mrs. Chapin died December 27, 1888.
Cassort, James, Canandaigua, was born on a farm in Canandaigua, May 26, 1820, the eldest son of David and Sarah (Phelps) Cassort. The early life of James was spent in this town. He was educated in the academy under Prof. Henry Howe, and assisted on his father's farm until twenty-five years of age. He then bought a farm of 100 acres in the west part of Hopewell, where he lived until 1876. In this time he increased the size of the farm by purchase until it now comprises 166 acres. He still ownes and conducts this place, but considers he has done his share of the active farm- ing and now makes his home on Washington street in the village. He married in 1843 Emily Jane, daughter of Ishmael Gardner, a farmer of Canandaigua, and they have had one daughter, Julia P., who married Dr. Watson W. Archer of Clifton Springs. She died in August, 1869. Mr. Cassort has never taken any active interest in politics, but his ambition has been to become a successful farmer.
Catchpole, George, Geneva, was born in England in 1804, and learned the cabinet- maker's trade. In 1834 he came to America and located at Geneva, where he worked at carpentry. He was a skilled workman and was employed on special work. He built the columns in the old Presbyterian church, and was the inventor of a clover seed sheller and separator, which is still in use, and he made improvements in grain thresh- ers. In 1842 he received a silver medal from the American Institute for a corn stalk cutter which had a large sale and is still in use. He was the inventor of many other machines, and died January 2, 1889. His wife was Mary A. Hinkelton, and they had six children, four of whom are now living. Alfred, son of George and Martha Catch- pole, was born in England in 1829, and when five years old his parents came to America and settled in Geneva. He learned the machinist's trade and went to Waterloo and worked in a machine shop and assisted in the invention of stove machinery. He next went to Syracuse and helped put in the machinery in a large stove mill, then went to Susquehanna and was employed in the railroad shops there for several years. Then he went to Rochester and was employed in the N. Y. C. R. R. six years. In 1860 he re- turned to Geneva and established a small machine shop, which he carried on for a time. In 1864 he entered the navy as engineer and was there until the close of the
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war. He participated in several engagements. Returning to Geneva he commenced the manufacture of boilers and other machinery, and in 1884 invented the celebrated Florida boiler, and his inventions and improvements have thoroughly revolutionized the system of steam heating. In 1887 a stock company was formed witlı Pierce, But- ler & Pierce Manufacturing Company, and Mr. Catchpole as manager, which position he filled for five years. His inventions led to the establishment of one of the largest manufactories in Geneva. He has several new inventions which will soon be on the market.
Codding, Myron Hart, West Bloomfield, was born in Bristol, February 29, 1837. His great-grandfather, George, came from Dighton, Mass., and was one of the first settlers in Bristol. The grandfather, William Thayer Codding, was twelve years of age when his father came to Bristol. He married successively two sisters, by whom he had five sons and five daughters, of whom William Grover Codding, the father of Myron H., was the oldest, and was born in 1803. He was a farmer and spent his life in Bris- tol. In 1830 he married Orpha Gillett, of Connecticut ancestry. She died in 1850 and he in 1871. Myron H. obtained his early education at the district schools. When twenty- two years of age he engaged in farming in Illinois, but after five years returned to Bristol and came to this town in 1865, and on Christmas Day of that year married Adelaide, daughter of Burton Ham. Her grandfather came from New Hampshire and her grandmother from Massachusetts, and settled in East Bloomfield in an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Codding have five children : Burton Ham, William Grover, Ellen Emeline, Moses F. H., and Edith G.
Chisholm, Colin D., Canandaigua, was born in Nova Scotia, August 5, 1842, and came to Ontario county in 1868, locating first at Victor, where he followed mining for plaster stone for a year. He then came to Canandaigua, where he has ever since been a con- tractor for building and repairing sidewalk, putting in sewers and drain pipes, etc. In 1890 Mr. Chisholm was elected street superintendent, and re-elected in 1891. He usually employs from eighteen to twenty men. Though a Republican Mr. Chisholm has never been an aspirant for political office, save the one he holds, and which he fills in an experienced and able manner. The substantial stone sidewalks of the village have been almost entirely laid by Mr. Chisholm. He married in 1872 Nora Mahoney, of Victor, by whom he has four children : Frederick E., Jennie May, Ada Belle and Colin Blaine. They are members of the Catholic church here.
Church, Gillman, Geneva, was born in Lower Canada, June 24, 1826, and came with his parents to this country when six years old, where he was educated in the common schools. He was a farmer, and was twice married, first in November, 1847, to Electa Woodin, of Geneva, by whom he had two children : Henrietta, who died in infancy, and Warren B., who married Mary Soule, of Waterloo, and has two children, Roscoe A. and Kittie E. Mrs. Church died in 1853, and Mr. Church married second, September 24, 1854, Mrs. Sarah J. Clice, of Phelps. She was married first to George Clice on February 5, 1848. He died November 9, 1851. Mr. Church's father, James, was horn in Connecticut and came to this State in 1839. He married Ruth Bliss, and they had three children ; Eben D., Gillman and James C. Mrs. Church's father, Edward Mc-
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Dowell, was born in Orange county, August 10, 1788, and came here with his parents when thirteen years old. He married Margaret Cook, of Phelps, and they had three children, two sons and a daughter : Francis C., David and Sarah J. Mrs. Church's grandfather, James McDowell, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Coursey, Patrick, Geneva, was born in Ireland, about twenty miles from Dublin, in 1815 In 1847 he emigrated to this country and settled at Geneva, where he engaged in the produce business and afterward in the grocery business. In 1864 he built a large tannery on Exchange street and carried on that business until his death, February 24, . 1879. He married Mary Laughran, and they had six children, of whom but two are living : Thomas and Stephen. The latter was born September 28, 1846, and attended the village school. He graduated from the Walnut Hill School, then engaged in busi- ness with his father. He built the Geneva Flouring Mills in 1877 and has operated them ever since. He deals largely in wool, buying as high as 200,000 lbs. per year. He has been village and town assessor, is a Democrat, and takes an active part in political affairs. He is owner of the celebrated Geneva Spring.
Conroy, James J., Canandaigua, was born in Ireland in July, 1848, and came to this country in 1867. He first located in New York city, and in 1875 came to Canandaigua, where he engaged as cutter for D. Shafer & Co., of this town, remaining until 1880, when he established a business for himself on Niagara street. In 1890 he was joined in partnership by Joseph B. O'Brien, who was with him about a year. At that time he moved into his present fine store in the new Flannigan block, where he carries a fine stock of clothes for his merchant tailoring department, and a fine stock of men's fur- nishing goods. The merchant tailoring department in the rear of the store employs from four to six hands. He married in 1882 Mary E. Harrigan, of East Bloomfield. Mr. Conroy and wife are members of the Catholic church. Of the merchant tailors of this town none is more prominent or bears a reputation for better work than Mr. Con- roy. He was for a year and a half in Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
Crawford, Joseph S., Canandaigua, was born in Yates county in 1842, a son of Cap- tain Samuel, a native of Massachusetts, where he was born in 1808. He followed the sea for a number of years, then married Rachel Plaisted, of English descent, and they settled first in New York, where they remained a few years, then came to Yates county, where Mr. Crawford died in 1850, leaving five children, of whom Joseph S. was the only son. His early life was spent in Yates county, where he was educated in a private school under Prof. Robert Murray, and his first occupation was as clerk in a shoe store in Penn Yan. In 1863 he came to Canandaigua and was a clerk in the War Office, provost marshal's department, until the close of the war. He then spent two years as bookkeeper in the Canandaigua First National Bank, after which he purchased an inter- est in the clothing business, forming a partnership with D. Shafer, which lasted until 1886, when Mr. Shafer retired and Mr. Crawford became sole proprietor. The store has been located at No. 4 Bank block ever since the erection of the block in 1858. Mr. Crawford married in 1865 Mary K., daughter of John S. Gibson. Mrs. Crawford died in February, 1866. Mr. Crawford is a Republican, and a member of St. John's Epis- copal church.
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Couch, Charles, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, January 10, 1834, a son of George Couch, who was born in Connecticut, February 24, 1793, a native of Connecticut, who came in 1815 to Hopewell, where he died. He went to Ovid, Seneca county, when a young man. He owned a boat on Cayuga Lake at one time, transporting goods to var- ious towns along the lake and Mohawk River. In the War of 1812 he was a volunteer, afterwards serving as a substitute in the artillery. At the close of the war he took a boat load of salt on the Oswego River and Great Lakes to Grand River, Mich., trans- porting in wagons around Niagara Falls. The Indians took his cargo up the Grand River, where he disposed of it and returned to Ovid. Returning to Michigan the next summer, he was taken ill and was cured by a squaw, who told him if he would accom- pany her to Pennsylvania she would show him a silver mine there. This he refused to do, but afterwards found that such a mine did really exist. Mr. Couch married Mahala Nichols, of Ballston, Dutchess county, by whom he had these children : Lucinda, born August 15, 1818; Stephen, born October 19, 1819; Amanda, born November 1, 1821; George, born December 21, 1823 ; Eliza, born October 23, 1829; Maria, born March 6, 1831, died October 18, 1888; and Charles, born June 10, 1834. In 1819 Mr. Couch came to Hopewell. He was a carpenter by trade, following same most of his life. He gave the land on which the church at Emery Chapel was built. He died July 23, 1880, and his wife April 27, 1873. Charles Couch married, March 4, 1867, Harriet Woods, born at Flint Creek, Seneca county, by whom he had two daughters, Lulu M., born December 18, 1868, died March 24, 1886, and Carrie E., born May 15, 1870. His wife died April 20, 1877, and he married second Annie (Case) Shoemaker, daughter of Nel- son S. and Sarah (Chapin) Case, of Canandaigua. Mrs. Couch has one son, Ray C., by her first husband. Mr. Couch is a Democrat.
Childs, Elijah A., Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, September 24, 1816, a son of Enos, who was a son of Lebbeus, a native of Conway, Mass., who came to Seneca in 1812. His wife was Sarah Childs, and they had three sons and five daughters. Enos Childs was born in Conway, Mass., in 1789, and when a young man came to Seneca. He married Dimmis Allis of Hopewell. Her father died when she was very young, and she was reared by her grandfather, Lucius Allis, a prominent man of his time, and once a member of the Legislature. Mr. Childs had three sons and two daughters. He was a successful business man and a prominent farmer, owning 250 acres. He was a poormaster and school commissioner a number of years. Subject was educated in Canandaigua Academy and has always been a farmer, early taking charge of his father's business. In 1845 he married Mary A. Pollock, a native of Arcadia, Wayne county, born November 26, 1824. Her father, James Pollock, was a native of Scot- land, and came to Wayne in 1816. His wife, Mary Riggs, was a native of New Jer- sey. Subject has three daughters : Dimmis A., wife of Lyman E. R. Rockwell, M. D., of Amemo; Sarah L., wife of Charles Post, of Seneca, she died November 28, 1892 ; and Mary E., who resides at home. Mr. Childs is a Republican and has been assessor nine years in succession, also poormaster. He is a member of Stanley Grange.
Cottrell, Wiliam N., West Bloomfield, was born in 1832. His father, George, rame to this town from Rhode Island about 1817, and married Betsey Shepard, also of West Bloomfield. Of their four children only George Henry, born in 1829, and William N.
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are living. George H. married Mary A. Plympton, whose father, Moses, was born in Medway, Mass., in 1786, and came here with his wife and ten children in 1812, and was fife-major in the war of that time. William N. was educated at Lima Seminary and has followed farming. He was born where his brother George now resides, and mar- ried in 1861 Ruth N. Millington, who died nine years later, leaving two children, Nellie S. and George D. Mr. Cottrell married again in 1872 Maria E. Chapin, daughter of Rev. Asa Chapin. He is a Republican.
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