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Elwell, Irving D., Canandaigua, was born on his present farm in Canandaigua, Feb- ruary 10, 1863, a son of Dyre and Harriet (Johnson) Elwell. Dyre Elwell was born near Bennington, Vt., September 16, 1822, was educated in the common schools, and when twenty-two years of age settled in Middlesex, Yates county, where he followed farming about ten years. In 1856 he moved to Phelps, where he spent two years, and then came to Canandaigua, buying a farm of ninety-eight acres near Cheshire. He was a man of more than usual ability, and was a leader in all good works. He married in 1846 Elinor Reynolds of Middlesex, by whom he had one child, who died February 14, 1878, thirty-one years of age. Mr. Elwell married again February 19, 1857, Harriet, daughter of Buskirk Johnson of Rockland county, and they had three children, but one of whom is living, Irving D. Dyre Elwell died January 16, 1890. Mrs. Elwell still lives on the old homestead. Irving D. was educated in the common schools, and is following farming on a scientific plan. His principal crops are hops and fruit, having now six acres of the former. He married in 1883 Iva, daughter of Oscar and Paulina (Mitchell) Phillips. They have one daughter, Ina Elizabeth, now in her ninth year.
Emerson, Benjamin K., Canandaigua, was born in Chester, Rockingham county, N. H., August 26, 1826. His father was born in New Hampshire in 1786, and resided there until 1852, when he moved into this State and settled in Tyrone, Schuyler coun- ty, dying there in February, 1862. He married Mary Porter, widow of David Emory, and they had six children, two of whom survive : William P. of New Hampshire, and Benjamin K. The early boyhood of our subject was spent in the town of his birth.
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He came to Steuben county when thirteen years of age, and working on a farm, studied medicine and became a practicing veterinary surgeon. He moved from Schuyler coun- ty to Yates, where he spent three years, and in 1870 moved to Ontario county, settled in Canandaigua, and bought the Harris Andrews farm of 102 acres, where he lived but three years, then bought the David Gardner farm of 100 acres, which now belongs to his son. He bought 100 acres on lot 61, and 108 acres on lot 84. He made his home on the Gardner farm until 1892, when he bought the farm of ninety acres, where he now makes his home. He also owns the Parmele farm of seventy-eight acres, making the total amount 476 acres. Besides attending to his farms Mr. Emerson con- tinned his practice as veterinary surgeon, in which he has been very successful, losing but few patients. He also conducts a milk route in Canandaigua, and for seven years was the milkman of Shortsville. While in Yates county Mr. Emerson was justice of the peace. In 1850 he married Adelia C. Prescott of Orange county, by whom he had five children, four now living : George M., who lives on the Gardner farm; Arnold J., who lives on the Couch farm ; Mary, wife of John Crook, who lives on the Parmele farm ; and Hattie L., who married Frank Steimbaugh and lives in Nebraska. Mrs. Emerson died in November, 1872, and he married second in 1873, Mary F. Sutton, widow of Thomas Sproul, and they have one child, Carrie H., now in her thirteenth year.
Eddy, M.D., Herbert M., Geneva, was born in Seneca county, November 22, 1845, and graduated from Hobart College in 1866. He graduated from Geneva Medical College and practiced in Seneca Falls eight months. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1870, then settled at Geneva. He is a member of the County Medical Society. In 1873 he married Hattie H. Higbie of Geneva, and has two children : Kathie M. and William H. Hiram L., father of our subject, was a native of Wayne county. He graduated from the Pittsfield (Mass.) Medical College and practiced twenty years in Seneca county. In 1858 he settled in Geneva and practiced until 1876. He died March 9, 1885. His wife was Hetty Peterson, and they had two children, Herbert M. and Lawrence P., the latter a lawyer at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Esty, John B., Seneca, was born in Seneca, December 15, 1827. He was educated in the public schools and has always followed farming. December 25, 1849, he mar- ried Rachael C. Brizzee of the town of Hopewell, and they had seven children : Charles, who died at the age of thirty-nine; Ida A., Frederick D., Ada, who died at the age of eight years; Frank J., Alexander and Elizabeth. Mr. Esty's father, Aaron B., was born in Seneca in 1802. He, too, was a farmer and married Mary Gilbert, formerly of the town of Benton, Yates county. They had eight children : John B., William P., Cynthia A., Norton, who died at the age of two years, Joseph, Sibley, Elizabeth and Edmund. His father died in September, 1882, and his mother February 12, 1892. His grandfather, William Esty, came to Seneca about 1795 from New England. Mrs. Esty's father, Cornelius Brizzee, was born in Columbia county, N. Y., in 1793, and married Sarah Van Benscoten of Ulster county. They had seven children : Peter S., Maria, Sarah A., Cornelius C., Rachel C., John and Andrew. Her father died in 1879 at the age of eighty-six years, and her mother died in 1879 at the age of eighty-three years.
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Ellis, Daniel, Victor, was born on the Ellis homestead, September 30, 1837. He was educated in the public schools and East Bloomfield Academy, and is a farmer. The house on the home farm was built in the year of 1826, fifty acres of land has been owned by the family since the same date. Mr. Ellis is a member of Milnor Lodge No. 139, F. & A. M. of Canandaigua. February 8, 1856, he married Alice Turner, who was born in Salem, Wis. She died March 8, 1892. Mr. Ellis's grandfather's brother, Dr. Eleazer Ellis, was born June 20, 1760, was the first physician in West Bloomfield, and his grandfather, Samuel Ellis, was born May 28, 1762. Mr. Ellis has in his possession a paper recommending his grandfather, Samuel, to any Masonic Lodge in the United States.
Foster, John G., Canandaigua, was born in Victory, Cayuga county, August 22, 1836, a son of George W. of that town. The family on both sides were natives of Rhode Island. George W. was born in that State in 1793, and married in Rhode Island, Maria Estes, daughter of a sea captain. Soon after his marriage he came to this State and engaged in mercantile business in and about Auburn, later conducting a farm in Cayuga, where he died in 1882. He had ten children, four of whom are living. John G. spent his boyhood on the farm, and when sixteen years of age he learned the trade of carriage making, in which he has always been engaged. He went to Buffalo when about eighteen and lived there until the breaking out of the war. December 16, 1863, he enlisted in the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, and saw service in seven of the greatest battles of the war: Spottsylvania, North Ann River, Weldon Railroad, Wilderness, Gaines Farm, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, etc. At Petersburg, June 18, 1865, he was severely wounded and spent eleven months in the hospital. He was mustered out June 20, 1865, and returned to Batavia, from whence he went to Le Roy where he spent seven years. In 1872 he came to Canandaigua and worked as a jour- neyman for seven years, and then established a business for himself, and has since been a manufacturer of carriages, wagons, sleighs, and does general repairing. Mr. Foster married, May 20, 1857, Cordelia Ryan of Buffalo, and they have four children : Charles H., a commercial traveler ; Bert M., one of the inventors and proprietors of the Foster Paint Company ; Jennie L., wife of D. F. Thurston, a commercial traveler of Chicago ; and John S. of Geneseo, a dealer in carriages.
Frautz, William H., Geneva, was born in Geneva, November 25, 1855. He was educated in the public schools and learned the trade of a mason. For some years he has been a contractor and builder, with his business enlarging continually. March 15, 1875, he married Amanda J. Tyler of Geneva, formerly of Lenox, Mass., and they have had six children. Charles died when three months old, five survive: N. Elizabeth, Nancy D., Mary A., William H., jr., and Catherine. Mr. Frautz's father, David, was born in Germany in the year of 1822, and came to the United States when a young man. IIe married Elizabeth Dove of Geneva, and they had three children : Charles, who resides in this village; William, who died when a month old; and William H. His father died in 1857, and his mother in 1869.
Freer, Hiram W., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, near Cheshire, August 20, 1860, the youngest son of Henry Freer. ITis present residence was bought by his
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father about twenty-five years ago, and is a fine farm of 100 acres on the west shore of Canandaigua Lake, considered one of the best in this section. Hiram was educated in the common schools, and his first business venture was in 1890, when he bought all that part of the homestead farm lying between the highway and Canandaigua Lake. Here he has set out fifteen acres of vineyard, five acres of pears, plums and quinces, and an acre of peaches. He has also erected a commodious horse barn and a summer cottage on the lake shore. Mr. Freer is a Republican, but not a politician, his interests being centered in his farm. He married, February 17, 1886, Emma, daughter of Will- iam H. Bennett, a native of Orleans county, by whom he had one child, Louis B., born September 14, 1887. Mrs. Freer is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church.
Francisco, Job, Canadice, was born in Canadice, November 21, 1831. His father, Jacob, was born in Manlius, Onondaga county, about 1808, and died at the age of seventy-seven. He came to this town when thirteen years old, and on arriving at Cayuga bridge, where the toll was located, a man invited him into his wagon, covering him with a blanket, thus passing the boy free. He returned to Onondaga county, and came again permanently when nineteen years of age. He was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at the business until disabled by infirmity. He married Lovisa Goodfellow, a native of Onondaga county, who bore him eight children : John, who died in Portage in 1891, aged sixty-four years; Sophronia, Cordelia, Solomon, Job, Emeline, Francis Marion, who enlisted in the late war and died in the Florence prison pen; Harrison Eugene was in the army and died in 1891 in Parma, Monroe county ; and Mary Persis, wife of Alonzo Holmes. Later in life Jacob purchased a sixty-six acre farm, which he worked. Job learned the blacksmith's trade. He married Maria Trowbridge, of West Bloomfield, whose grandfather, Cruger, came from Massachusetts. Of their four chil- dren, one son, Henry, died at the age of twenty-two. The others are Stella, wife of Charles Caldwell, of Richmond ; Nellie, wife of Harry Thomas, of Steuben county ; and Ida, who is also at home. Mr. Francisco has always lived in this town. He has sixty- five acres on the homestead and forty-six acres on the Lake Road. He has lived on his present place twenty-three years. In politics he is a Republican, as are also his sons. His great-grandfather emigrated to this country from France and settled in the East, and it is claimed that he lived to attain the great age of 133 years, as appears by a pamphlet published long ago.
Fox, Joseph, Geneva, was born in Troy, N. Y., in August, 1850. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of stove mounting. March 27, 1883, he married Catherine O'Connor, of Troy, and they have six children, four sons and two daughters : Joseph T., William and Mary K. (twins), John, Winefred A. and George. Mr. Fox's father, Joseph F., was born in County Caven, Ireland, in 1801, and came to the United States when a young man. He married Bridget McMahon, formerly of his native place, and they had two children, Joseph and Mary. His father's brother was killed by Indians in the West. Mrs. Fox's father, Thomas O'Connor, was born in Ros- common, Ireland, and married Margaret Tanney, of his native place. They had nine children ; five were born in Ireland.
Finley, Horace M., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua in 1839, a son of Marshall, a native of Vermont, born in 1815. He came to Ontario county and was a teacher for
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a number of years, then established a daguerreotype gallery in Canandaigua, which he conducted until his age prevented him from active business, and it has since been con- ducted by his son, Horace M. The latter was educated in common schools and at Canandaigua Academy, and on leaving school he went into his father's gallery to learn photography. In the early sixties he joined his father as a partner, and has ever since had an interest in the business. In 1888 he was joined in partnership by William N. Freeman, and their gallery is now located in the Finley block on Main street, where they are prepared to do first-class work either in photographs, crayons or out-door work. Mr. Finley married in 1866 Louisa H., daughter of Alfred B Field, a former merchant of this town, and they have one child, Mrs. M. C. Beard, of Canandaigua.
Freshour, George W., Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, N. Y., June 6, 1823, on the farm he now owns, a son of John, whose father was a native of Germany and came to America previous to the French and Indian war, in which he took part. He also par- ticipated in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Freshour had three sons and three daughters, and settled in Frederick, Md., 1789. He had a common school education in both Eng- lish and German, and in 1810 married Mary Angleberger, of Frederick county, Md. He settled in Hopewell and purchased 150 acres of the Phelps and Gorham purchase, and added to it until he owned about 500 acres. They had four sons and two daughters, two of whom are living, George W., and Alexander, a resident of Gorham. Mr. Fresh- our was a Whig, and a commissioner of highways. He died in 1859 and his wife in 1869. Subject was educated in common schools and in Canandaigua Academy, and in 1849 married Leonora, daughter of Abraham I. Failing, of Montgomery county, whose father was Captain Failing. To subject and wife was born one son Byron, who mar- ried Alice Warner, an adopted daughter of Milton Warner, of Hopewell. Mr. Freshour is a Democrat, and has been justice of peace twelve years, overseer of the poor six years, justice of sessions two terms, and in 1891 he was nominated for assemblyman. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 292 and of Hopewell Centre Grange No. 454.
Frankish, Dales F., was born in Gorham, October 12, 1863. His father was Thomas, a native of England, born October 11, 1830, who came to America about 1843 and in 1863 purchased a farm of 110 acres. He now owns 288 acres. In 1856 he married Rebecca Pearson, a native of England and a daughter of John Pearson, of England, who came to America in 1844. To Mr. Frankish and wife were born six children, two of whom are living, George, a farmer of Gorham, and Dales F. Mr. Frankish is a Re- publican and a member of Reed's Corners Grange. Mrs. Frankish died December 16, 1892. Dales F. was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy. December 18, 1889. he married Mary Smith, a native of Geneva, and daughter of Virgil and Fannie (Mitchell) Smith, he a native of Gorham and she of New Jersey. Subject and wife have one child, Maud.
Gooding, Spencer, Canandaigua, was born in Bristol, January 22, 1830, a son of Ephraim, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1793. He came to Ontario connty in 1819. , and taught school in Bristol several years. He married, about 1820, Corinthia Spencer, of Bristol, said to be the first white female child born in the town of Bristol; she was
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born in 1797. They had seven children, six of whom are living, all but one in this county. Spencer was the second son. His early days were spent working on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age. He was educated in the common schools, Canandaigua Academy and Lima Seminary. In 1853 he began the reading of law in the office of M. O. Wilder, at Bristol, and in the spring of 1855 he went into the office of Hon. E. G. Lapham and Judge J. C. Smith, with whom he remained until admitted to the bar in September, 1855. He was afterwards admitted to the United States and circuit courts. He has ever since practiced his profession in Canandaigua. Mr. Good- ing has always taken an active interest in politics, and has held several political offices. In 1858 he was elected county treasurer, and re-elected in 1861, and in 1880 he was elected police justice and re-elected in 1884. Mr. Gooding is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294, Excelsior Chapter 164, and Zenobia Commandery of Palmyra No. 42. He married in 1856 Ann Pitts, of Bristol, and they have two children : M. S. Gooding, a dentist of Le Roy, and Edith A., a teacher.
Gifford, Levi, Canandaigua, was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, December 22, 1818, a son of Nathaniel, a farmer of that county. The early life of Levi was spent in Pittstown, and he was educated in the common schools. After leaving school he taught about eleven years. When twenty-two years of age he came to Ontario county, teach- ing in Gorham until 1845, when he bought a farm there. This he sold in 1858 and bought the farm on the west shore of the lake where he has since made his home. Mr. Gifford never gave any attention to politics or anything that would detract from his interest in his farm. He died November 19, 1889. He was three times married, and by his first wife, Alida Van Dercook, had two children, but one now living, Mary Frances, wife of John Douglas, of Troy. Mrs. Gifford died September 29, 1849, and he married second Olive Weatherwax, of Schenectady county, who died December 21, 1853. His present wife, Mary Jane Weatherwax, he married February 1, 1855, and they have had eight children, seven of whom are living : O. Alida, wife of John P. San- ford, of Gorham ; Ella M., wife of O. J. Cooley, of Canandaigua; Minnie E., wife of S. G. Bates, of Syracuse ; Matilda, wife of E. D. Spangler, jeweler of Canandaigua; Puaala, wife of M. S. Elden, an electrician of Williamsport, Pa .; Nathaniel J., who con- ducts the home farm ; and David Dayton, an electrician of Syracuse. The Gifford farm consists of 120 acres, on which the principal products are fruit and grain. Nathaniel, manager of the farm, was born here March 29, 1867, and was educated at Canandaigua Academy under Prof. Clarke, and Cook Academy of Schuyler county. He married, March 13, 1890, Eva Gignac, of Troy, and they have two children, Ruth L. and Rachel.
Gregg, George, Bristol, was born in Bristol, May 24, 1842. He is a son of John Gregg, a son of George Gregg, whose father, John Gregg, was a native of Ireland, and the first of the family who came to America. John Gregg was born in Bristol in 1820, and married Lucy, daughter of Isaiah Case. They had two children: Betsey, wife of Edward Wilder, of Canandaigua, and George. Mr. Gregg lived on the farm owned by subject until 1881, when he went to Canandaigua, where he died in February, 1892. He and family attended the Universalist church. Subject of sketch was educated in Poughkeepsie Business College. He is a farmer and hop grower, and owns 280 acres
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of land in Bristol, and also a residence in Canandaigua. In 1863 he married Lovisa, daughter of Orestes Case. They have had six children : Minnie L. (deceased), John B., Lutie L. (deceased), George W., Orestes J., Oliver C. Mr. Gregg and son, John B., are members of the People's party. The family attends the Universalist church. John B. was born in 1870, and educated in Canandaigua Academy, from which he graduated in 1887. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and has been secretary of that organization. George W. was born May 15, 1876, and was educated in the Canan- daigua Academy. Orestes J. was born June 26, 1882. Oliver C. was born May 9, 1886.
Goodale, Charles S., Canandaigua, was born in Bristol, March 4, 1844, a son of Solo- mon, jr., and Samantha (Buckley) Goodale. Solomon was a native and farmer of Bris- tol, and was the father of three children : George S., of St. Louis, Mo .; Leonard C., a farmer and lumber merchant of Bristol; and Charles S. The boyhood of the latter was spent on the farm in Bristol, and he had an education in the common schools. He was but seventeen years of age when the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted in the Fourth N. Y. Heavy Artillery, February 10, 1864, serving in the Wilderness, Spott- sylvania, Cold Harbor, North Anna, before Petersburg, and many smaller engagements, being with the Second Corps in their service. He was mustered out September 7, 1865, and returned home. He engaged in farming in different places until 1871, when he bought a farm of 125 acres in Canandaigua, near Cheshire, since which he has added 265 acres, making now 390 acres, which is cultivated to grain and hay. Mr. Goodale also deals in sheep, for which he finds a market in New York city. He has been as- sessor six consecutive years, and is a supporter of the Union church of Cheshire. He married, December 15, 1868, Estella, daughter of Stephen and Samantha (Sawyer) Stiles, by whom he had one daughter, Lilian, a student of Granger Place School in Canandaigua.
Gunnison, George L., Canandaigua, was born on his present farm February 14, 1830. The ancestry of this family is Swedish. The grandfather, Nathaniel, was a native of New Hampshire, and was the father of six children, all now deceased. Levi B., the father of George, was born in Goshen, Sullivan county, N. H., February 22, 1800, where he lived until sixteen years of age. In 1816 he came to Ontario county, spending one year in Farmington, and then returned to New Hampshire where he remained a year, and then came to Canandaigua. He bought different farms in this town, owning at one time over 200 acres. He was always a leading spirit in the Methodist church, and died December 11, 1883. He married in 1827 Rhoda H. Hurd, of Lempster, N. H., and they had seven children, four now living : John O., a retired farmer of Jackson, Mich. ; Pliny H., a retired farmer of North Freedom, Sauk county, Wis .; Frances L., a gen- eral merchant of Marengo, Calhoun county, Mich. ; and George L. Mrs. Gunnison, mother of our subject, still lives in her eighty-sixth year. George L. was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and assisted on his father's farm until of age, then took up his residence on the farm north where he lived three years. He spent two years on the Tiffany farm, and in April, 1856, bought 100 acres adjoining the old homestead on the north side, where he lived until 1865, returning and spending three years on the home-
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stead, and then lived eight years in Canandaigua village, to give his children better school facilities. In 1876 he settled on the old homestead where he has ever since lived. Mr. Gunnison is a Republican, but has never been an aspirant for public office. He is a member and officer of the Methodist church. December 15, 1853, he married Jane Alvira, daughter of Emund Tiffany, and they have three sons: Frank N., shipping clerk in the New York Central freight office at Canandaigua : Alfred M., who conducts the homestead farm ; and George H., who is fitting for a teacher.
Green, Miles H., Canandaigua, was born in Jerusalem, Yates county, March 14, 1834, a son of Henry Green, a native of Rushville, born in 1797, who moved to Canandaigua and bought a farm on the Academy tract, where he lived until his death, March 28, 1836. He had seven children now living. Our subject is a twin, and he and his youngest brother are the youngest of the family. He has always made his home in this town, and was educated in the common schools and a select school in Naples. After leaving school he took up farming, and in 1880 bought his present farm of William S. Durand. This is a fine place of 135 acres, and Mr. Green has set out about thirty acres of grapes and twenty acres of peach and apple orchard. In politics he is an ardent Republican, but has never been an office seeker. He married in 1856 Louisa A., daugh_ ter of William S. Durand, of Canandaigua, and they have had six children, four now living : Henry, bookkeeper and overseer of one department of Eastman's Kodak Works at Rochester ; Frank, with the same company ; Charles, a farmer of Canandaigua; and William, who lives at home.
Gates, Preston L., West Bloomfield, son of Alfred, was born September 30, 1842. His grandfather, Daniel, who, with his brother Marvin, was a pioneer in that part of the town (then known as Smith's Mill's), came from Colchester, near New London, Conn., in May, 1789. He was the first comer by one year. The old homestead was built in 1802, and is one of the few ancient landmarks of the locality. Of his family Alfred was born January 25, 1807, and married Catharine Pratt of this town, by whom he had two children, Preston L. and Catharine, the latter dying at the age of twenty- one years. His wife died in 1844, and he married second Sarah Emeline Pratt, sister of his first wife, who now resides on the old homestead. Alfred died in April, 1890, at the age of eighty-six. Preston L. was educated at the district schools and has al- ways followed farming. For the past twenty years he has had charge of the old farm. He married in 1866 Helen R., daughter of George Davis, of Honeoye Falls, and they have two sons : Lewis E., born in 1867, married and resides on the old homestead ; and Alfred D., born in 1871, lives with his parents. Mr. Gates is a Prohibitionist in politics. He lives on the old place on which he has erected a fine modern house. He is increasing his dairy interests, introducing Jersey stock, and is the owner of many fine animals of that breed. He is also interested in the culture of bees and fancy poultry.
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