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Crothers, Oliver G., Phelps, was born in Phelps, January 12, 1819. His father, William, was born in Orange county, and came to Phelps when fourteen years of age, where he lived and died. His wife, Eunice (Dunham) Crother, was born in Massa- chusetts. Oliver G. married December 11, 1861, Mary Ridley of Phelps, and they had three children : William L. (Mrs. Dr. J. H. Haslett) and Mary (Mrs. William K. Mc- Coy). The mother died in July, 1870. In 1873 he married Eunice Nye of Newark, N. Y., and they have one child, Nellie E. Mr. Crothers has been in the malting busi- ness for over twenty-five years and has been very successful. He is one of the intlu- ential men of the town, has served several terms as president of the corporation, and also as trustee. In 1883 he built the Crothers block, which is a credit to the village.
Chapman, Charles G., Gorham, was born in Windsor, Mass., June 20, 1820. His father was Ezra, son of Ezra, who lived and died in Massachusetts. Ezra, jr., was born in Massachusetts and reared on a farm. He married Bessie Taft, and had ten children. Mr. Chapman died in Massachusetts in 1804. Charles G. was educated in the common schools, and married Selinda Pierce, by whom he had three sons and one daughter : George W., who married Miss Dinister and had one child ; Edward at home; and Frank P. in Rochester. In 1860 Mr. Chapman came to Gorham and bought a farm of 144 acres to which he afterwards added twenty-five acres. He is a Republican and has been highway commissioner, and is a member of the Congregational church at Rushville.
Davidson, Alexander, Canandaigua, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1846, and came to this country in 1870. He located in Canandaigua, and with the exception of one year has always made this his home. He was for two years on a farm, and then engaged with J. L. Sherwood in his lumber yard, remaining with him six years, then formed a partnership with his son, S. A. Sherwood, and made the firm of Sherwood & Davidson. In 1882 Mr. Sherwood died and Mr. Davidson became the sole proprietor. In 1888 he bought his present property. He has added to the lumber business the dealing in hardware, sash, doors and blinds, and everything used in building, and has also added the handling of coal, which has grown to be quite extensive. He has the best accommodations for the handling of coal and lumber of any yard in this section, and sells about 3,200 tons of Plymouth coal per year. Mr. Davidson married in 1886 Catherine Mckenzie of Aberdeen, and they have two children. Mr. Davidson is a member of the Chapter and Commandery F. & A. M. In 1884 and 1885 he was master of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294. He and family are members of the Presbyterian church.
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Doubleday, Harvey M., Farmington, was born in the town of Kingsley, Washington county, April 10, 1822. He was educated in the common schools, has been a clerk, general merchant, commercial traveler, and now a farmer in Farmington. He married twice, first on May 21, 1850, Mary G. Carey of Stillwater, Saratoga county, and had four children : William C., Florence, Carey, and Ruth E. For his second wife he married Mrs. Melvina (Humphrey) Wright, formerly of Delaware county, on May 15, 1884. He has resided in this town since 1866. The Doubledays can be traced from one Elisha Doubleday, who came from England in 1676, locating in Massachusetts. Mr. Doubleday had seven great uncles in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Doubleday has married three times, first on May 28, 1849, Cyrus Baldridge of Seneca county, and had four children : Alexander, Anna, Cyrus, and William. Mr. Baldridge died in 1866. January 9, 1878, she married second Charles Humphrey of Phelps, who died in 1879, and third Mr. Doubleday. Her father, the late Augustus Wright, was born in the town of Danbury, Conn., in January, 1786, and came to this State with his mother and stepfather when he was two years old. In 1810 he married Margaret Fowler, formerly of Schoharie county, and had eleven children ; eight survived: Aaron, Olivia, Mary, John, Martin, Hulda, Melvina, and Harvey. Mrs. Doubleday's mother's father was a colonel in the Revolutionary War.
Denton, George H., Canandaigua, was born on his present farm in May, 1851, a son of Michael, a native of this State, who was born in Orange county in 1809, and came here about 1850. He then bought the farm now occupied by George H., where he lived and died in 1883. Of his four children three are living: Emily J., wife of Byron G. Mapes of Canandaigua; Ann E. of Rochester, widow of Egbert Denton, a manu- facturer of Fitchburg, Mass., and George H. The latter has always lived on this farm and was educated in the common schools and in Canandaigua Academy under Prof. U. N. Clarke. He married in 1877 Hattie C. Miles of Hopewell, and after his marriage took charge of the farm on his own behalf. Since then he had added many improve- ments in new buildings, etc., and has set out about twenty acres of fruit, comprising peaches, grapes, apples, pears, etc. He has two children : Edith A. and Lois. Mr. Denton is a member of Canandaigua Grange No. 138. He has never taken an active interest in politics, but devotes his time and energy to farming.
De Zeng History, The. Frederick Augustus, Baron De Zeng, the ancestor of the only family of this name in America, was a Saxon nobleman, born in Dresden, the capi- tal of Saxony, in 1756. He was the second son of Baron De Zeng of Ruckerswalde- Wolkenstein, near Marienberg, in Saxony, lord chamberlain to the Duchess of Saxe- Weissenfels, and high forest-officer to the king of Saxony, by his wife, Lady Johanna Phillipina von Ponickau, of Altenberg. He received a military education, and at the age of eighteen (February 11, 1774) was commissioned as " Lieutenant of the Guard" in service of the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. He was a close and intimate friend of the celebrated Baron de Steuben, a friendship which lasted until the death of the latter, after both had become American citizens. The latter, a Prussian, was much the elder of the two, and had held at one time the command of the " Regiment Von Salmuth," afterwards styled " Hesse-Cassel." At this period, however, De Steuben was in the
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service of the Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. De Zeng was a captain'in the regi- ment of the "Hereditary Prince." This was one of the regiments ordered to America by the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassell, under the convention entered into by the British government with him, the Duke of Brunswick, and two or three other minor German princes, for troops to aid in suppressing the American Revolution. He, however, did not come to America until quite late in the war, at the close of 1780. He exchanged from this regiment into that of the " Regiment du Corps," his commission in which bears date January 30, 1781. Stationed in the city of New York and its neighborhood, it was his lot never to have been engaged in conflict with the Americans; in fact after his arrival active hostilities were comparatively limited north of the Chesapeake. Baron De Zeng was exceedingly pleased with America and Americans, owing perhaps to his having fallen in love with a charming Quakeress of Long Island, and determined at the close of the war to make America his home. He found some difficulty in getting his resignation accepted, but finally succeeded, and on the Sth of November, 1783, re- ceived, at his own request, an honorable discharge from the German service. In the following year, 1784, he was married in Trinity church, New York, to Mary, daughter of Caleb Lawrence and Sarah Burling, his wife, of Flushing, L. I. She was a lady gifted with extraordinary beauty and grace, united with a commanding presence and great good sense and decision of character. After their marriage they lived at Red Hook, Dutchess county, where the baron purchased an estate. He became a joint owner with his neighbor and friend, Chancellor Livingston, of a very large tract of land in Ulster county. On the 3d of November, 1789, he was naturalized as an American citizen, and dropped the use of his hereditary title, simply signing himself Frederick A. de Zeng. Of an active, enterprising spirit, Major de Zeng was one of the earliest pro- moters of internal improvements in this State. He was connected with General Schuyler in establishing and carrying on the " Western Inland Lock Navigation Com- pany," subscribing largely for the stock and taking a personal interest in the construc- tion of the works. He resided for many years at Kingston, Ulster county, and subse- quently at Bainbridge, Chenango county. His long, active life closed at Clyde, Wayne county, where two of his married children resided, on the 26th of April, 1838, at the age of eighty-two years, and he was buried at that place, his wife having died about two years previously, at Oswego, N. Y., where she is interred. The fine natural abil- ities of Baron de Zeng were highly cultivated. He had in his youth all the advantages that rank and wealth could give, and profited well by them. He was noted for the elegance and manly beauty of his person, and his graceful manner and mien. The po- liteness and suavity of his address were remarked by all with whom he came in con- tact. In society, of which he was fond, he was noted for his agreeableness and his grace in dancing, and he was a great favorite with both sexes. His children were as follows : I. George Scriba, who married Eliza Smith, and died at Grand Gulf, Miss., leaving no issue ; II. Ernestine, who married James Houghtaling, M. D., of Kingston, Ulster county, and left issue; III. Richard Lawrence, of Skaneateles, who married Sarah Lawrence, his first cousin, daughter of Richard Lawrence, of New York. He died at Oswego, N. Y., leaving two children, first, Rev. Edward de Zeng, of Oswego, an Episcopal clergyman, the present head of the family, who married Mary Russell, of Middleton, Conn., and has one son, Richard Lawrence; and second, Emmeline, who
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married James Stokes, captain United States army ; IV. Philip Mark, who married Lucretia Sears, of Bainbridge, N. Y., and died at Clyde in 1861, leaving issue : Charles, Lawrence, John C., Clark, Philip, Eliza, Mary ; V. William Steuben, who married Caro- line C. Rees, daughter of Major James Rees, of Philadelphia, afterwards of Geneva, and had issue: James Rees, of New York ; Josephine Matilda, married Edward F. De- Lancey, of New York, died June 5, 1865, leaving issue : William, died at Panama in 1849, unmarried ; Caroline, married Clarence A. Seward, of New York; Henry Law - rence, of Geneva, married Olivia Peyton ; Edward Cutbush, of New York ; Mary Anne, of Geneva, unmarried ; Evelina Throop, of Geneva, unmarried; VI. Arthur Noble, married, but left no issue ; he died in 1829; VII. Sarah M., married Richard L. Law- rence, of New York, and has issue ; VIII. Amelia Clarissa, married Addison Griswold, of Syracuse, and has issue; IX. Maria, who married William S. Stow, of Clyde, and has issue.
Douglass, Fred G., Canandaigua, was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, February 14, 1853, the oldest son of Samuel and Waity (Gifford) Douglass. He moved with his parents to Gorham on the east shore of the lake, and in 1858 they bought a farm on the west shore of the lake in this town, where the boyhood of our subject was spent. In 1867 they moved to the farm in the north part of the town where Mr. Douglass still resides. Fred was educated at Canandaigua Academy, and when he left school at twenty took up teaching, which he followed two years in Farmington, one winter in the fifteenth district, and three winters in district No. 8, Canandaigua. He married in March, 1879, and conducted his father's farm until April, 1889, when he bought the old Kelsey farm of 100 acres in Canandaigua. Mr. Douglass does a general farming, mak- ing hay the principal product. He is also agent for the American Road Machine Com- pany, and the Lester Phosphate Company. He has always taken an active interest in politics and is a Democrat. He was selected in 1888 commissioner of highways, serv- ing three years. His wife, Sarah R., was the daughter of George C. Mather, of Canan- daigua. They have six children : Emma M., born February 3, 1880 ; Samuel M., Sep- tember 11, 1881 ; Ray, September 9, 1883; Waity R., September 18, 1884; Fred M., March 21, 1886; Ira P. Cribb Douglass, December 26, 1890.
Davis, Fred H., Gorham, was born in Thurston, Steuben county, in 1867. His father was II. C. Davis, a native of Little Falls, who married a Miss Moffitt, of Utica. They had two sons and four daughters. The father of H. C. was Josiah H., a native of Norway, Herkimer county, born July 18, 1807, and he was a son of Joseph, a native of Long Island, born in 1774, who married Betsey Halleck, and had seven sons and seven daughters. He came to Norway in 1800, and in 1859 moved to Cortland, where he died in 1867. He was drafted in the War of 1812. Josiah H. Davis married, August 29, 1832, Hopeful Jefferds, a native of Ohio, N. Y., born October 2, 1811. Her father was Obadiah, who married Rebecca Fox and had three sons and four daughters. Mr. Jefferds was in the War of 1812, and died in Ohio. Josiah H. and wife had twelve children, of whom ten survive. In 1868 he came to Gorham. He is a Republican, and for many years has been a deacon in the Congregational churchi at Reed's Corners. Fred H. Davis is a young man of more than ordinary ability. IIe was reared on a farm, and when a boy attended the district schools. He has been very industrious and
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given himself a thorough education, first taking a course in Canandaigua Academy, and graduating from Hamilton College in June, 1891. He is now assistant principal of the school at Lyons, Wayne county.
Dixon., Mrs. J. B., Geneva, married first, June 2, 1853, William C. Tyler, of Geneva. He was born in Berkshire county, Mass., in 1831. and came to this country at an early day. They had three daughters : Mary, who died aged four years and six months ; Amanda J., wife of William H. Frautz of this place; and Nellie, who married John H. Beard, of Geneva. Mr. Tyler was mustered into Company D, One Hundred and Forty - eighth N. Y. Vols., September 14, 1862. This regiment was in many important bat- tles. Mr. Tyler was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. For her second husband on July 3, 1867, she married John B. Dixon, who was born in Yorkshire, England, and came to the United States in 1851, locating in Geneva. They had four children : John B., who died aged thirteen months; Catherine E., A. Clark, and James B., all living at home. Mr. Dixon died March 4, 1890. He was a veteran tile manu- facturer. Mrs. Dixon's father, Sidney Slarrow, was born in Dutchess county, and came here when a young man. He married Ann Taylor, of Seneca, and they had two chil- dren : Abram, who resides in the West, and Nancy S. Mr. Slarrow died in 1841, and Mrs. Slarrow in 1851.
Dannahe, William B., Geneva, was born in Geneva, January 31, 1867. He was ed- ucated in the public schools, and in early life was a farmer. Being of a mechanical frame of mind he learned the blacksmith's trade until he became a first-class mechanic. He began business on his own account at Billsborough in April, 1891, and is doing a successful business among the intelligent farmers and business men of that entire local- ity. Mr. Dannahe's father, Daniel, was born in the old country about 1830, came to the United States in 1852, and married Catherine McCune of Geneva. They have seven living children : John, James, Daniel, jr., William B., Catherine, Jeremiah and Mary.
Dewey, John J., Clifton Springs, was born in the town of Manchester, December 1, 1832. He received a liberal education in the schools of Ontario county, and at Clinton, Oneida county, after which he taught school for two years. Then after being engaged in agricultural pursuits for a few years, he accepted a position as cashier of the Sanita- rium, which position he has held for over twenty years. Mr. Dewey was appointed postmaster of Clifton Springs, by President Harrison about three years ago. At pres- ent he is most acceptably filling both offices. He married Mary Butler, and they have three children, all girls. Mr. Dewey is identified with the Masonic brotherhood, K. of P., and other benevolent and social institutions ; and is a prominent member of the Methodist church here.
Deyo, George C., Naples, is a son of Ira Deyo, a descendant of the Huguenots who first settled on the Hudson River, having left France during the religious wars and persecutions of the sixteenth century. He died in 1836, leaving six sons, of whom George C. is the third. They were a remarkable family, celebrated for their musical ability as well as for their patriotism, Four of them were in the war of the Rebellion,
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two of whom died from the effects of the service. S. L., the oldest of the brothers, was graduated from the Geneva (now Hobart) College, and edited the Naples Record many years. Their mother was Betsey Lyon, daughter of Simeon Lyon, one of the original settlers of Naples. George C. was educated at the select school of Naples, and married in 1870 Emily J. Dunham, of Philadelphia. Mr. Deyo was in the dry goods business in New York about twenty years, but returned to Naples in 1881, and has conducted a general store in the village since.
Dewey, Col. Edmund B., Clifton Springs, was born at Clifton Springs June 2, 1801. His father participated in the War of 1812, and his grandfathers on both sides went to the Revolution. Colonel Dewey, has passed his life in agricultural pursuits. His first wife whom he married in 1821 was Sarah Cooper, and they had twelve children, four of whom are living. His second wife was Fanny Vanderhoof. They have no family. Colonel Dewey commanded an independent rifle company prior to the late war. He has served as assessor, commissioner of highways and in other town offices. He is one of the oldest Masons in New York State; and the oldest member of the Universalist church of Clifton Springs. Colonel Dewey has worn the white flower of a blameless life and has worn it well, and enjoys the respect and esteem of the entire community.
Dimock, E. O., Phelps, was born in Phelps March 17, 1843, one of three children of William P. and Lydia (Ottley) Dimock. The others being William O. and F. J. The grandfather was Rev. Solomon Dimock, a Baptist clergyman of Ohio. The grandfather on the mother's side was William Ottley, born in Yorkshire, England, who came to this country when a young man and was one of the early settlers here. G. O. Dimock, married January 18, 1865, Mary H. Holbrook, of Phelps, daughter of Lewis and Christine (Hartman) Holbrook, and they have two daughters, Kate (Mrs. E. S. Kreg- loh), and Annie (Mrs. Chas. C. Pardee). Mr. Dimock was born and brought up on a farm, but for many years has given much time and attention to conducting public sales, in which he has been uniformly successful, not only in New York but several of the Western States.
Davis, Fayette W., Gorham, was born in Little Falls June 4, 1852, son of J. H. Davis , mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools and Canandaigua Academy. At the age of seventeen he came to Ontario county with his parents. His wife is Eliza Lookup, a native of Marion, Wayne county, born June 5, 1837. Their children are : Clara H., Arthur G., Josiah H., Ethel M., and Myrtle H. Mr. Davis was traveling salesman for nursery stock and also for the Singer Sewing Machine Company for several years. In 1886 he purchased the farm he now owns and of later years lias been a farmer. He is a Republican in politics and is a Free Mason. The parents of Mrs. Davis were William and Eliza (Garlock) Look- up, natives of Marion, Wayne county, who had two sons and two daughters. Mr. Lookup was a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Lookup died in 1857.
Douglass, Bainbridge, Gorham, was born in Gorham January 4, 1841, a son of Henry, son of Caleb, a native of Connecticut. When a young man Caleb went to Whitesborough, and married Sarah Roberts, by whom he had six sons and three daughters, He was one of the founders of the First Baptist church at Whitesborough,
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and was its first minister. In 1824 he came to Gorham where he died in 1836. Henry was born in Whitesborough in 1808, and came to Gorham with his parents. He was thrice married, first to Amanda Blodgett by whom he had two children; second to Angeline Bainbridge of Romulus born in 1810, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Douglass died March 15, 1861, and he married Mrs. Martha Newman. In 1857 he moved to Penn Yan where he resided six years, then went to Southern Kansas. He was a deacon in the Baptist church at Gorham for forty years. Bain- bridge Douglass was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and followed teaching for some time, and then attended Eastman's Business College, graduating in 1861. Octo- ber of the same year he enlisted in Company G, Eighth N. Y. Cavalry, and was in the following engagements: The retreat of Banks from Winchester to Harper's Ferry ; battle of Harper's Ferry ; and of Antietam. He was injured by being thrown from a horse at Barber's Cross Roads, when he was conveyed to the regimental hospital and afterwards to the hospital at Washington. Here he remained a few days and was taken to Philadelphia where he remained two months, and received a furlough for thirty days. On his return to join the regiment he was taken sick at Elmira, and was discharged February 19, 1863. In 1864 he married Caroline Stone, a native of Phelps, born June, 1841, and a daughter of Harvey, son of Harvey H. Stone, a native of Con- necticut, who came to Gorham in 1809. Harvey H. married Dolly Lake by whom he had three sons and two daughters. He died in 1856, and his wife in 1851. Harvey Stone was born in Gorham in 1811 on the farm he now owns. June 20, 1838, he mar- ried Caroline Ottley, born in Phelps October 6, 1818. Her father was William Ottley who emigrated from England to Phelps in 1806, and married Lydia Peck by whom he had five daughters and three sons. Mr. Harvey Stone and wife have had six daughters. Mr. Douglass and wife have had two daughters : Alice A., wife of Fortis Gates of Gorham ; and Lilian L., who married Levi Lincoln, and had one daughter, Gertrude N., who died aged twenty-two months. Mr. Lincoln died September 3, 1891.
Elton, Jabez, West Bloomfield, came from Bristol, Conn., to Canandaigua about 1816. He was a farmer, and married in Connecticut Olive Holcomb. Their children were: Sarah, James, Norah, Eliza, Luther, Lovina, Nathaniel, Hiram, Nancy and John. Na- thaniel moved to Richmond about 1833. He married in 1871, Mary J. Paul. They subsequently lived in Farmington and Perrington, and came to this town in 1854. Nathaniel was a farmer and produce dealer. Their children were : John P., who mar- ried Jennie C. Leach and died in 1890; James, and Mary E., wife of John M. Baker, of Bristol. Nathaniel died April 1, 1883. James was born October 27, 1845. He is a farmer and hay dealer and was supervisor of the town in 1886. His fine farm is on the State road midway between the village and East Bloomfield line, and his residence is among the best in town. He married in 1877, Alida E. Shepard, and they have three children : Raymond J., Carlotta A., and Leila J. Mr. Elton was formerly a Democrat, but some years ago he was a member of the grand jury when seventy-seven were found indicted, over seventy of which were liquor cases. He and some others of the jury have since this been Prohibitionists. Mrs. Nathaniel Elton now makes her home with her son. Her father and grandfather were both named William Paul and came from Massachusetts at an early day to this town. Her father returned to Massachu-
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setts and married in 1811, Prudence Case. They lived in the south part of the town on the line of Richmond, and had seven children.
Elwell, Gilbert W., Gorham, was born in Middlesex, November 28, 1852. His father, Stewart, was a son of Luther, a son of Jabe, who was a native of Massachu- setts, and in an early day went to Vermont, where he died. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was at the battle of Bennington, Vt. His wife was Rosanna Moss, a native of Hoosick, N. Y., and they had nine children. The family came to Middle- sex, and there he and his wife died. He was a farmer by occupation. Stewart was born in Bennington, Vt., and at twenty-one came to Yates county. He married Han- nah Wood of Gorham, born June 25, 1818, a daughter of Gilbert Wood, son of James, who was born in Massachusetts, and came to Gorham in 1789. Gilbert Wood was born in Massachusetts in 1788, and came with his parents to Gorham and settled at Reed's Corners. The wife of Gilbert Wood was Peggie Colf, by whom he had one son and nine daughters. He died January 4, 1841, and his wife July 31, 1848. Mr. Elwell and wife have three children : Gilbert W .; Helen, wife of Thomas Conklin of Gorham ; and Mary, wife of Adelbert Powell. In 1866 Mr. Elwell canie to Gorham. He is a Democrat in politics. Gilbert W. was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy. November 26, 1878, he married Mary Humphrey, and they have one child, Marion. November 25, 1883, Mrs. Elwell died, and in 1886 he mar- ried Mary J. Mathort of Berrytown. He is a Democrat and at present is justice of the peace. Mrs. Elwell is an Episcopalian.
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