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Kent, John, Bristol, a native of Bristol, born December 6, 1835, is a son of Phineas Kent. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and has made farming his life oc- cupation. He owns 180 acres, carries on general farming, and for thirty years has been engaged in hop growing. In March, 1865, Mr. Kent married Celesta M. Mason, a na- tive of Bristol, and daughter of Frances Mason. To Mr. Kent and wife was born one son, Frank H., who was educated in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and is now a farmer. He married Sarah G. Pennell, a native of Richmond. Subject is independent in poli- tics. He has been assessor of Bristol thirteen years. He and family attend the Uni- versalist church at Bristol.
Kent, Oliver P., Bristol, is a native of Bristol, born August 2, 1833, and a son of Phineas, son of Captain John Kent, of Vermont, who came to Bristol about 1790. Here he married a Miss Sears, and had four sons and two daughters. His second wife was Sally Pitts, and they had two children. Phineas was born in Bristol, October 4, 1804, and married Laura A. Gooding, of Bristol, a daughter of Zephaniah W. and Polly (Gregg) Gooding, natives of Dighton, Mass., who had two sons and three daughters. Mr. Gooding was in the War of 1812, and died in Bristol in 1856. Phineas and wife had two sons and two daughters. He was a noted auctioneer for many years. He was a drover also and a partner of John W. Taylor, the first man in the country to ship cattle by rail. He was justice of the peace thirty years, constable, collector, deputy sheriff, highway commissioner, and under sheriff thirty years, overseer of the poor, and served one term as sheriff. He was one of the delegates to the convention that nom- nated Tilden for governor, and was the only delegate from Ontario county who voted
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for him. He died January 2, 1891, and his wife January 22, 1888, at the age of eighty- two years. Oliver P. attended Canandaigua Academy, and graduated from Bryant, Stratton, and Lusk's Business College of Buffalo. He was first engaged in the mercan- tile business at Bristol for two years, and then went to Alton Ill., where he was book- keeper for Wendt & Pickard and William R. Parker. After four years he engaged in the wholesale liquor traffic, which he followed twelve years. He then went to St. Louis, Mo., and engaged in the commission business. At the same time he was inter- ested in a distillery and flour mill at Elsah, Ill. In 1873 he returned to Bristol since which time he has resided on the old homestead, and followed farming. In politics he is a Democrat.
Ketchum, George W., Victor, was born in Victor, August 10, 1858. He was edu- cated in the public schools, Eastman's Business College at Rochester, and is a farmer. February 14, 1884, he married Louise, daughter of Nathan and Hannah Rose of this town. They have two children : Arthur N., and Eugene H. Mr. Ketchum's father, Nelson, was born in Victor, March 14, 1816, was educated in the public schools, and was also a farmer. September 18, 1847, he married Nancy, daughter of George and Mary Blaney, formerly of Licking county, Ohio, and they had five children : Amelia S., Adelia, George W., Charles N., and Marion, who died at the age of thirteen.
King, Herbert N., Manchester, was born on the old farm April 12, 1863. He re- ceived an excellent education in the schools of Manchester and finished at Canandaigua Academy. His father, Lorenzo F. King, purchased the farm in 1859 of A. J. Hannan. It contains 120 acres of very fine land. Mr. King is a staunch Democrat and a gentle- man of considerable ability and energy, and has a host of friends in this county.
Lucas, Zebina, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, April 24, 1843, a son of H. C. Lucas. His early life was spent on the farm, and he received his education in the com- mon schools and at Canandaigua Academy. After leaving school he entered the law office of Smith & Williams in Canandaigua, where he was at the outbreak of the war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth N. Y. Vols., with whom he was at Suffolk, Portsmouth and other places. In the spring of 1863 he was assigned on detached service and went on duty as clerk in the provost marshal's office in Norfolk, Va., remaining about two years. Returning, he spent a year in New York and then returned to his home in Canandaigua, where he has since been employed in the American Express office as deputy for his father, H. C. Lucas. In 1880 he married E. M. Norton of this town, and they have one son, Fred Z.
Lamport, Clarence C., Canandaigua, was born in Geneva in 1854, a son of Bishop, who was born in Troy in 1823, and came to this country when ten years of age. He was a tinsmith by trade. He died in 1891 leaving two children : E. Harry, a dentist of New York city ; and Clarence C. The latter was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and after leaving school went into the plumbing establishment of Greely & Davenport to learn the trade, which he has ever since followed. In 1887 Mr. Lamport began his present business in Canandaigua, which is located in the Atwater block. He has now the control of the best work of the village, and has just completed the plumbing and steam heating of the new Dwyer block, and also the heating apparatus of the Canan-
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daigua Hotel. He carries a complete stock of everything needed in plumbing, steam, and hot water heating, and is always prepared to do new or repair work on shortest notice. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294 F. & A. M. In 1891 Mr. Lamport was appointed sanitary inspector on the Board of Health in this village.
Lane, Harland H., Canandaigua, was born in Tioga county May 15, 1863, and was educated in Candor Academy. His first occupation after leaving school was as a clerk for the D. L. & W. R. R. Co. at Candor. He remained there until 1882, then spent one year at Hornellsville with the United States Express Company, and in 1883 came to Canandaigua to open an office for the United States Company. He was the cashier for them until 1886, when their office was closed here, and Mr. Lane had charge of the electric light for the Excelsior Company of Brooklyn until they sold their interests, and then he was engaged as secretary of the Canandaigua Water Works Company, which office he still holds. January, 1891, he was elected village treasurer, and re-elected in 1892 without opposition. He is also the secretary and treasurer for the Canandaigua Fire Department. He was president of the Merrill Hose Company for two years and secretary for three years. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge F. & A. M. No. 294 K. of P .; and of Rochester Lodge B. P. O. Elks No. 24. Mr. Lane married in 1885 Minnie Howard, of Canandaigua, and they have two children : William Howard, and Mary.
Lucas, Holmes C., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, August 15, 1818, a son of Zebina Lucas, who came to this town from Vermont in 1815, among the earliest set- tlers of the town. He owned a farm about five miles south of the village, and was a man of prominence in his town, having held the office of justice of the peace nineteen years. He was supervisor from 1840 to 1846. He married Laura Ingram, daughter of Benjamin Ingrain, who settled on the lake shore at Monteith's Point, then known as Truman's Point, earlier than Mr. Lucas. Zebina had two children. The youngest, Alonzo, died in October, 1892, aged seventy-one. Our subject, H. C., has always been a farmer, but in 1858 he moved into the village, where he established a business for dealing in grain, wool, hops, etc. He is doing a very successful business, handling some years as high as 800,000 to 1,000,000 pounds of wool. He is still in active business, but does not exert himself to drive it as he did years ago. In 1867 Mr. Lucas secured sub- scription for enough stock to have the Merchants' Union Express Company open an of- fice here. This was merged into the American Express Company after a few years, and Mr. Lucas has ever since been the representative of the company in the town. Mr. Lucas was the builder of the Canandaigua elevator, and was for many years the owner of the Lucas block. He conducts a farm of 130 acres in Gorham besides attending to his other interests. In 1840 he married Sylva Penoyer, by whom he had two children one of whom, Laura, died aged twenty. The other child, Zebina, is the assistant agent in the express office. Mrs. Lucas died in 1844, and he married second, in 1847, Fanny S., daughter of Squire Pratt, of Gorham, and they have one daughter. Mr. Lucas was chairman of the School Board when it was decided to build the new Union School building, and the town was bonded for $40,000 to erect the building. Mr. Lucas ne- gotiated these bonds and sold them at a premium, and paid them up within the specified time.
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Lapham, George E., Farmington, was born in Farmington, October 11, 1848. He was educated in the public schools, Macedon and Belville Academies, and is a farmer, also makes a specialty of the milk business for the city of Rochester. September 20, 1870, he married Ida M., daughter of George and Hannah M. Loomis of his native town. They have four children : Dircie M., Mary B., Leslie D., and George E., jr. Mr. Lap- ham's father, Elias H., was born in this town in 1808. He was educated in the pub- lic schools and Canandaigua Academy, and was a farmer. He married Dircie A. Brown of this town, and they had three children : Helen D., died in infancy ; David B., born July 2, 1837, and died May 16, 1889; and George E. His mother died May 2, 1859, aged forty-six years. His grandfather, Isaac Lapham, was born in Berkshire county, Mass., in 1777. He came here and located north of the Friend's meeting-house. He married Mary, sister of Jared Smith, and they had eight children : Epephras, Elias H., Anson S., Ambrose S., Isaac S., Jared S., Lucina S., and Mary E. His great-grandfather, David Lapham, was a native of Massachusetts, and his great-grandmother, Judith, died in 1846 aged eighty-eight years.
Long, Leonard, Farmington, was born in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, Germany, Sep- tember 17, 1833, and was educated in the common schools. In 1859 he married Cath- erine Schmidt of his native place, and came to the United States in September, 1860, and soon after located in Farmington. They had two children : Rose, who died when she was four and one-half years old ; and Leonard, jr., born October 8, 1876, is a bright farmer, and is now a student in the Friends' College at Union Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Long own a splendid home and farm, the result of sobriety, energy, good judgment and industry. Mr. Long is a Democrat.
Lutze, Dr. F. H., Canandaigua, was born in Bevergern, Province of Westphalia, Prussia, and came to this country, where he enlisted in the First New York Vol. Eng. Corps, November 16, 1861. He was discharged November 16, 1864 at Varina, Va. He is a graduate of the New York Homeopathic Medical College of New York. He has the clinic for nervous diseases and the diseases of children in the Brooklyn Homœo- pathic Hospital on Cumberland street, and the clinic of digestive, renal and nervous diseases in the Brooklyn Eastern District Homoeopathic Dispensary, 194 South 3d street, between Driggs and Roebling streets. He translated Hahnemann's essay on the " Rep- etition of the Homeopathic Remedy " from the German into English ; also " Antipsonic Remedies "; " Intercurrent Remedies for Chronic Diseases "; and " Remedies for Dis- turbances of the Antipsonic Cure " from the German of Dr. C. von Boenninghausen. These were all published in the Homeopathic Physician, a journal edited by Dr. E. J. Lee and W. M. James, 1889, Vol. 9, Philadelphia. In the same journal he published in 1890 an article entitled " Duration of Action and Antidotes of the Principal Homo- pathic Remedies." This was afterwards also published in pamphlet form and had a large circulation. In 1891 it was translated into the Italian by Dr. G. Pampili and pub- lished in his journal Rivista Omiopatica, Roma, Maggio, 1891, a copy of which was sent to him. He has also contributed articles to the following medical magazines and jour- nals: The United States Medical Investigator, The Medical Current, The Journal of Homeopathics, The Homeopathic Physician, and The Medical Advance.
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Lee, Father Patrick, Clifton Springs, was born in Ireland March 6, 1818. He was liberally educated in the High schools of Ireland, and at the University of Worcester, Mass., and St. Joseph College, Buffalo, N. Y. He was ordained June 30, 1856. Father Lee has been stationed at East and West Bloomfield and his first mission was at Vic- tor. He was stationed here in 1862, having now had charge of the Clifton Springs church and mission for over thirty years. Father Lee is a gentleman of broad and liberal views and of sound judgment.
Lobdell, Burton H., Victor, was born on the old homestead three miles southeast of the village March 18, 1846. He was educated in the public schools and Eastman's Commercial College, Rochester, and is a farmer. March 17, 1873, he married Amelia Ketchum, of Victor, and they have two children : Neison L., and Marion F. Mr. Lobdell's father, Jacob L., was also born on the old homestead in 1819. In 1845 he married Joanna Farr, formerly of Canandaigua, and they have four children : Burton H., Byron J., Oliver L., and Frances M. Byron J. is in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Lobdell's grandfather was born in Stockbridge, Mass., March 14, 1771, and came to this town at an early day. He was the first white man that wintered in the town, and was the first supervisor of Victor, was justice of the peace several years, and was a man of good judgment. He married Hannah Boughton, who was born April G, 1775, and had fourteen children. He died November 12, 1847, and his wife April 6, 1846.
Lindner, Frank, Clifton Springs, October 8, 1856. He is engaged in a meat market, having succeeded his father who inaugurated the business here many years ago. Mr. Lindner is erecting a new block at Clifton Springs at present, into which he will soon move his business. He married Annie Harbor, and they have one daughter. Mr. Lindner has served as inspector of elections, trustee of the fire company, etc., and is a staunch Democrat. Edward Lindner was born at Clifton Springs, August 20, 1885. IIe is associated with his brother in the business, conducting the upper market. His wife was Barbara Nicket, of Rochester, and they have two children. Mrs. Lindner died in February, 1892.
Lincoln, Lewis C., Gorham, was born in Gorham, June 8, 1866, a son of Flavius L., a son of Henry, a son of Otis who settled on the farm on which subject resides and which has been in the family since 1804. Henry was born in Otsego county, and when a boy came to Gorham. Ifis wife was Louisa Wood and they had nine children. Fla- vius L. was born in Gorham. His wife was Mary A. Hubbell, of Canandaigua, born December 25, 1833. IIer parents, Elisha and Nancy Hubbell, were natives of Berkshire Co., Mass., and came to Canandaigua about 1812. They have three sons and seven daughters. Mr. Hubbell was a lieutenant in the War of 1812, and died in 1865 aged eighty-seven. His wife died in 1873 aged eighty-four. To Mr. Lincoln and wife were born two sons, Lewis C., and Burr W. He died in Gorham March 25, 1885. Lewis C. was educated in Canandaigua Academy and in 1888 he married Lillian L., daughter of S. B. Douglas, and they had one child, Gertrude M., who died aged two years. Mrs. Lincoln died September 3, 1891. Mr. Lincoln is a Republican and is justice of peace. Burr W. Lincoln was born April 26, 1868, and educated in Canandaigua Academy. He resided on the old homestead until his death September, 1887.
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Leonard, Charles D., Geneva, was born in London, Canada, June 18, 1867, and came to the United States with his parents when less than a year old. They located in Roch- chester, where Charles D. was educated in the public schools and in Williams's Com- mercial College. Soon after the completion of his education he became interested in the nursery business. He has been a resident of Geneva four years and is secretary of the Rupert stock farm nurseries of the town of Seneca, having an office on Seneca street, Geneva. These nurseries are celebrated for the best fruits. Mr. Leonard has entire control and charge of the large force of salesmen traveling in the United States and Canada. Mr. Leonard has recently returned from an extensive trip in Europe, where he visited the largest and best horticultural gardens in England and France, among others the famous Kew, the greatest in the world. He has given the nursery business his closest study and attention both in Rochester and Geneva. The nursery has 450 acres.
Lane, the late Jacob, father of Ellen M., was born in the town of Charlestown, Va., June 25, 1797, and moved with his parents to Canada sometime before the war of 1812. The family espoused the cause of the Americans. In consequence of this event their property was confiscated. The family came to the United States, locating in the town of Victor. Jacob, her father, enlisted in the American army, and was honorably dis- charged at its close. He married, and had six children : Andrew J., George W., Ellen M., who is a noted school teacher ; Charles L., Isaac B., and Ambrose T. Mr. Lane died December 24, 1889. Ellen M. resides on the old homestead in the town of Farmington. Her grandfather, Thomas, married and had nine children : Peter, Jacob, John, Eleanor, Hannah, Catharine, Margaret, Betsey and Mary. Miss Lane has taught school eight years and was the first assistant in the Union School of Canandaigua, but recently re- signed to care for an invalid at home. Mrs. Jacob Lane died October 24, 1889.
Loomis, Henry H., Geneva, was born in Geneva on the old homestead near the ex- periment station, January 14, 1817, and was educated in the district schools of that day and Geneva Lyceum. He is a farmer and real estate operator, owning many thousand acres of land in the Western States. In 1836 he purchased from the government in Michigan at $1.25 per acre, also in 1844 from the Michigan Central Railway scrip at thirty-eight cents on the dollar for many acres. In 1849 he began to buy the bounty land warrants of the Mexican war, continuing doing so for many years. In 1852 he began to purchase in Western Texas bounty land warrants, locating them in Michigan. Mr. Loomis's father, Jerome, was born at Lebanon, Conn., in 1756, and came to this State June 1, 1788. In 1798 he married Elizabeth Tippetts of this State, and they had twelve children : Jerome, Martha, Irene, William, Anson C., Elizabeth, Homer, Stephen T., Henry H., Mary J. (who died in infancy), Mary J. 2d, and Cordelia C. The first home was built where Mr. Loomis and sisters reside, near the experiment station on the pre-emption road in 1793. Mr. Loomis's father, Jerome, was a soldier in the. Revolutionary war, under General Stark, and helped to capture General Burgoyne. He died in April, 1840, and his wife in 1857. Henry H. Loomis has never married.
Marsh, Enoch O., Phelps, one of six children of Samuel and Milanthe (Hall) Marsh. was born in Phelps, March 3, 1846. Samuel, the father, was also born in Phelps,
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where he died in 1877 at eighty years of age. Hosea, the grandfather, was born in Guilford in 1876 and came to Phelps in 1804, where he built a log house. He spent the remainder of his life here, dying at the age of eighty-three years. The great-grand- father, William Marsh, was born in Vermont, his ancestors coming from England and settling there at an early date. Milanthe Hall, the mother, was a daughter of John Hall. Her grandfather was a soldier and was killed during the Revolutionary war. Enoch O. married in December, 1867, Emma Loveredge of Phelps, daughter of William and Mary Burnett of Schoharie county. Mr. Marsh is a representative citizen, and has served as justice of the peace for eight years. His farm of nearly 100 acres is used largely for grain.
Martin, Jacob, Hopewell, was born in Rush, Monroe county, November 3, 1820. IIis father was John, a native of Maryland, who came with his parents to Monroe county, and there lived and died. His wife was Mary Moyers, and they reared six children. Jacob Martin was raised on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one went to Henrietta and engaged in the manufacture of carriages, which he followed until 1861, when he came to Chapinville and soon afterward began the manufacture of spokes, hubs, etc. He is at present in business with Albert S. Glass & Son, carriage wheel manufacturers. They employ 150 men, and have a greater output than any other fac- tory in the State. October 24, 1847, Mr. Martin married Emeline Dennis, a native of Kennebec county, Me., born in 1826. Her parents, Jacob and Nancy (Longfellow) Dennis, came to Henrietta in 1847 and in 1849 went to Canandaigua. The father of Mrs. Dennis, Stephen Longfellow, was a cousin of Henry W. Longfellow. Mr. Dennis and wife had seven children, five of whom are living. The children of Mr. Martin are : Mary I. (deceased), Isabella, Edward D., and Emma D. Mr. Martin is a Republican. Mrs. Martin and daughters are members of the Universalist church at Clifton Springs.
Merrill, F. B., Canandaigua, is a native of Belknap county, N. H., and came to On- tario county in 1887 from New York, where he had been a dealer in malt, hops and bar- ley. He established a market of the same products in this town, in which he is still engaged. In 1891 Mr. Merrill purchased the old road bed of the Geneva and South- western Railroad from Geneva to Naples, and in the early part of 1892 the Middlesex Valley Railroad Company was incorporated, and the work of construction was com- menced in June, 1892. The road from Stanley to Naples was completed and opened to the public August 29, 1892. Mr. Merrill is president of the construction company that built the road and resident director of the railroad company ; he is also president of the Central City Water Works of Syracuse.
McArthur, James, Canandaigua, superintendent and manager of the Vanderbilt Sash Balance Co. (incorporated in Canandaigua in 1872), is a native of Canandaigua, where he was born in 1853. After leaving school he engaged in the furniture business, which he has always been interested in up till 1888. In 1886 he got out a patent for a sash balance, which he sold, and it is now manufactured at Rochester by the Pullman Sash Balance Co. In January, 1890, he was the patentee of the Perfection Sash Balance, which is also manufactured at Rochester. The same year he made an improvement on the Pullman patent, which he sold to the company. In 1891 he patented a spring fruit
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grate for shipping fruit, which avoids all jarring in shipping the fruit. This is manufac- tured in Rochester. His next device in 1892 was a car brake and truck which he sold, and it is a success. In 1892 Mr. McArthur devised and patented the Vanderbilt Sash Balance, and after selling to the company in Canandaigua, he was employed to come here and act as superintendent of the manufacture, he retaining a large interest in the work.
Mather, Charles R., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, February 8, 1863. He is a son of George C., a farmer of this town, born in Middlesex, Yates county, June 16, 1835, who came to Canandaigua in 1850, when he bought the farm now occupied by Charles R. He married in 1850 Malvira A., daughter of John Adams of Middlesex, by whom he has five children : John L., a mechanic of Shortsville; Rebecca J., wife of Thomas M. Weatherwax of Carrol county, Ill .; Sarah R., wife of Frederick Douglass of Canandaigua; Alice N., wife of C. F. Robertson of Canandaigua, and Charles R. Mr. Mather has always taken an active interest in politics and has been excise commissioner twelve years. Charles R. is recognized as one of the leading Republicans of his district, and has twice been selected member of the County Executive Committee. He married in 1884 Louisa, daughter of George Stearns, a merchant of Rushville, by whom he has two children : Leah and Helen. The old homestead contains 142 acres, the principal crops being grain and fruit. They are also breeders of horses.
Moody, Robert, Seneca, was born on his father's homestead in this town in 1829. He was educated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. He was assessor of the town three years and was elected supervisor in 1876, serving six years. In 1887 he was elected member of assembly, serving two years. November 15, 1854, he married Mary A. Stokoe, of this town, and they have had five children; only one son survives, Edward L., who is a farmer in this town. Mr. Moody's father, Benjamin, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1775, and came to the United States in 1795, first locating near Sing Sing, where he remained nine years. He came to Ontario county in 1804 and received title to his homestead from James Wadsworth in 1806. He married twice ; first we have no record; she died early. For his second wife he married Mrs. Ann (Millspaugh) Ferguson, and they had four children : Ann M., Mary J., Harriet D. and Robert. Mr. Moody's father died in 1847 and his mother in 1874. Mrs. Moody's father, William Stokoe, was born in England about 1797, came to the United States with his parents in 1801, and married Jane Martin of this State. They had six children : Thomas, John, Edward, William, Elizabeth and Mary. Her father and mother are both deceased.
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