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Morrell, William N., Geneva, was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England, February 17, 1850. He was educated in the Grammar School of that place, and was a carriage man- ufacturer. He learned his trade with his father, and came to the United States in 1869, locating in Rochester, where he entered the employ of the Cunningham Carriage Co. He visited England in 1875, and returned to the United States and to Rochester in 1879. In 1881 he became a partner in the Waterloo Wagon Co. In 1889 he became associated with Charles A. Eddy, of Seneca Falls, in the constructing and patenting of an iron arch for the cnt under wagons. Mr. Morrell was president of this company.
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April 23, 1891, they sold to the Geneva Carriage Co., they having a capital of $50,000. Since that time, in December, 1891, Messrs. Morrell and Eddy have patented a coach gear, or fore carriage, which is used exclusively by this company. November 26, 1886, he married Miss E. A. Johnson, of Waterloo.
McTeggan, James, Canandaigua, was born in Beauharnois, Canada, March 20, 1829. When six years of age his parents moved to Ogdensburg, where his father, George, en- gaged in farming. He afterwards moved to Waterloo, and in 1844 went into the employment of the Auburn and Rochester R. R. Company, making his home in Water- loo. In 1848 he moved to Geneva, where he died in February, 1873, in his seventieth year. He left four children : Ann Jane, widow of John T. Scoon, of Geneva ; George, an engineer on the N. Y. C. R R. Co .; Mary, wife of Cornelius A. Hemiup, of Geneva ; and James. James was educated in the common schools and academies at Seneca Falls and Waterloo. After leaving school he engaged in farming in Waterloo for five years. In 1847 he entered the employ of the Auburn and Rochester R. R. as baggage master and mail carrier. From Geneva he went to Newark, N. Y., where he was station agent for the N. Y. C. for two years, and in 1855 came to Canandaigua as station agent, remaining nine years, then went to Suspension Bridge as freight agent for the same company, where he was located until 1880. That year he moved to Buf- falo, where he acted as general western freight agent for the N. Y. C. & H. R. R., a position he held for twelve years, returning to Canandaigua in 1892, where he bought his present farm and beautiful residence. This is a fine fruit farm of forty-seven acres, formerly owned by Cong Lanefort, on which forty years ago Abner Antis built the beautiful stone mansion, considered one of the finest in the town. On this farm in 1887 an attempt was made to reach natural gas, which was partially successful. Mr. Mc- Teggan now has the use of gas from this well for heating and cooking. Mr. McTeggan married in 1852 Elizabeth Le Gard, by whom he had two children, one now living, Mrs. John Burke, of Niagara Falls. Mrs. McTeggan died in 1860, and he married second in 1862, Anna Wilson, of Canandaigua. They have one child living, John S., a clerk for the N. Y. C. R. R. at Buffalo. One child, Lizzie, died May 3, 1878, in her eleventh year.
Monagle, William, Gorham, a native of Gorham, was born in 1814, a son of John, who was a native of Maryland and came to Gorham in an early day. He married Susan Armstrong, by whom he had five children. William was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1844 he married Elizabeth Marks, a native of Rockland county, born July 29, 1828. Her parents were Jacob and Elizabeth Marks, who reared four daughters and two sons, and lived and died in Rockland county. Mr. Monagle has a farm of 148 acres, which he has greatly improved. He is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson. He and wife are members of the Presby- terian church at Seneca. They have had six children, only two of whom survive : Oliver, who married Nettie Billborough, and has two children, George and Robert ; and Eugene W., who married Marietta Dillenbeck, and has three children, Emma D., Ward and Leland.
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MacKay, John, Geneva, was born in 1813 in the South of Scotland, and in 1838 came to America, landing in Geneva with but twenty-five cents in his pocket. For two years he worked on a farm and saved about $300, then went into a drug store in Geneva as clerk for several years. He spent five years in a drug store in Penn Yan, then returned to Geneva and was salesman in a lumber yard for a few years. In 1861 he in company with Dr. Conger, bought the lumber yard and there carried on busi- ness until 1878, when he bought Mr. Conger's interest and carried on business until 1885, when he retired. In 1844 he was united in marriage with Emily Hayes of this town, and they had one child, Janette Sophia. His wife died October 26, 1883. The family are members of the Presbyterian church, in which Mr. MacKay has been an elder over a quarter of a century, and has done much towards building up the society.
Morse, Edward II., Canandaigua, was born on a farm in Canandaigua, October 16, 1816. His grandfather, Isaac, was born near New Haven, Connecticut, April 1, 1757, and in 1809 bought a farm of fifty acres in Canandaigua, which has ever since been in the hands of this family. Isaac married Charlotte Grant, also of New England, and they had seven children, of whom Orlando was the oldest son. He was born in Con- necticut December 21, 1790. He was orderly sergeant in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He married January 26, 1816, Sarah, daughter of Moses Hawley, a farmer of Canandaigua, and they had four children who reached adult age : John, a merchant, who died May 20, 1864; Catherine S., and Martha A., who lives in Canandaigua; and Edward. The latter was educated in the common schools, and on reaching his majority worked his father's farm on shares one year, and the next year took one adjoining. In 1848 he bought a farm in East Bloomfield, which he conducted five years, then returned to the old homestead, where he remained until Christmas 1870, when the old home was destroyed by fire. In 1871 he bought his present farm of 130 acres, where the next year he built a beautiful residence. Mr. Morse has always been a staunch Republican, but never an aspirant for public office. He married in 1838 Lurana M. Buck of East Bloomfield, and they had three children : Albert H., who lives on his father's farm; Ellen Augusta, who died March 15, 1892; and John E., who lives on the old homestead. Mrs. Morse died April 9, 1853, and Mr. Morse married again June 7, 1855, Jane E., daughter of Asa Hawley, a farmer of Canandaigua, and they have had two children: Jane, who died in January, 1874, in her eighteenth year ; and Edmund Henry, a clerk in a jobbing house in New York city.
Mowry, Royal H., East Bloomfield, a native of Madison county, born March 12, 1823, is a son of Augustus, a son of Sylvanus, a native of Connecticut and an early settler of Madison county, where he died. Augustus was born in Connecticut in 1783, and came to Madison county when young. He married Polly Hazelton of Madison county, by whom he had seven sons and two daughters. Mr. Mowry died May 13, 1843. Hoyal H. was educated in the common schools, and married Polly, daughter of Joseph and Polly (Jones) Stafford, pioneers of Madison county, and to Mr. Mowry and wife were born three children: Cornelia, who married T. A. John- son of West Bloomfield; Clinton D., born June 7, 1848, who was twice married. First to Eliza Frost, and second to Ella, daughter of Randolph McMickel, by whom
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he has two children : Mabel and Roy. He is a farmer, and for the last twenty-six years has resided in East Bloomfield. The third child of subject was Alice A., who married Lorin Webster, and had one son. Mrs. Webster died in 1886. In 1888 Clinton D. and father came to the farm they now own, and have since greatly improved it. Subject is a Republican, but not an aspirant to office.
McCarthy, Mrs. Carrie A. U., Victor. Mrs. McCarthy's late father, Josiah Upton, was born on the old Upton farm north of the village, and occupied now by Jeremiah W. Hawkins. He was educated in the public schools and Lima Seminary, and was a farmer and produce dealer by occupation. In September, 1836, he married Sophia Roe, formerly of Massachusetts, and they had three children : Maria P., William R., and Carrie A., who married John McCarthy, and had three children : George E., John N., and Ralph E., residing a home with their mother. Mr. McCarthy died October 31, 1885. Mrs. McCarthy's grandfather, James Upton, came from Charlemont, Mass., and located on the farm, purchasing it for $12 per acre. He was the first poormaster in the town of Victor. He married Olive Boughton, and had thirteen children : Olive, Achsah, Josiah, William W., James, Edward, Uri, Caroline, Mary, Charles, Alvira and Maria, one died in infancy. Mr. McCarthy's brother, William R., was a soldier in the late war in the Fifth Ohio Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.
Metcalf, J. Henry, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua June 25, 1857, a son of Jabez H., a lawyer of that town, admitted to the bar in 1843. The whole life of our subject has been spent in this village, where he was educated in the Canandaigua Acad- emy. When he was eighteen years of age he began to read law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1878, passing his examination in June, about a week before reaching his majority. He opened an office in this village, and has ever since enjoyed a lucrative practice. January 2, 1890, Mr. Metcalf was appointed by Governor Hill county judge of Ontario, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Secretary of State Rice. The following fall he was elected to the position over Dwight C. Backen- stose of Geneva, his term expiring in 1896. He is a director of the Canandaigua Na- tional Bank.
McCarthy, M.D., C. D., Geneva, son of Charles T. and Catherine (Mc'Kean) McCar- thy, was born December 24, 1860, in Canandaigua, where he was educated at the academy. He graduated in 1882 from the Genesee Normal School, and in 1888 grad- uated from the University of Buffalo. He practiced one year in Kansas City, and then settled in Geneva, and December 30, 1891, married May E., daughter of John O'Neill of East Bloomfield. Dr. McCarthy is a member of the County Medical So- ciety.
Murray, Thomas, Canadice, was born in Killeighy, County Down, Ireland, May 3, 1834, and came with his grandmother to this county in 1844, on the sailing ship Ger- rick, landing in New York after twenty-four days. They came to South Bristol, where he hved until the age of seventeen, then went to Bristol and married in 1853 Sarah, daughter of Samuel Gracey, also a native of County Down. They have six children : Robert of Dakota; Edward, who married and lives in Bristol; Susan, wife of Dennis Riordan of Bristol; William, married and lives in Bristol; Frank, married and lives in
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Canadice Corners; and Eliza, wife of John Savage of Richmond. In September, 1862, Mr. Murray enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-eighth N. Y. Vols., and was discharged in August, 1865. He was in several engagements, the principal of which was at Cold Harbor, where he was wounded. After his recovery he was in detached service in Washington as wardmaster and hospital steward in Finlay General Hospital. He was also detailed to take the census of the colored population in three counties in Virginia, and later in the engineer department as overseer under a civil engineer in the building of fortifications, part of the time having 380 contrabands under him. He is a member of the G. A. R., Hazen Post, No. 518, of Springwater. After the war he returned to Bristol and engaged in farming, coming to Canadice in 1882 and now living at the Corners, where he has a farm of sixteen acres, three of which are in hops. He is a Mason, and for five years has been master of Eagle Lodge No. 619, F. & A. M., of Honeoye. He has been assessor eight years, and is justice of the peace. He has always been a Republican.
McKnutt, the late Isaac, was born in the town of Manchester April 27, 1833. He was educated in the common schools and followed farming. March 14, 1859, he mar- ried Eliza, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Miller, formerly of St. Lawrence county. She came here with her mother when she was seven years old. They had four chil- dren, one died in infancy, three survive : Isaac F., who manages the farm for his mother and the family ; Susie A., who married Nelson C. Reeves of East Henrietta, Monroe county, and Louie M., who resides at home. Isaac MeKnutt died May 8, 1892. Mr. McKnutt's father, Robert, was born in 1805, in the town of Manchester, and mar- ried Angeline Stafford of his native town. They had seven children : Pauline J., Phoebe A., Isaac, Belinda E., Emily M., Augusta A., and Augustus R. Robert Mc- Knutt died December 8, 1883. Mrs. McKnutt's father, Martin Miller, was born in Scotland about the year of 1804. Her father married Elizabeth Cabalon, and had five children : Joseph, Annie, Mary H., Jennie and Eliza.
Meath, Bernard, Canandaigua, was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1826, and came to this country in 1847. He first located on the west shore of Canandaigua Lake, then spent six years with Theodore Pomeroy in Farmington for $156 per year. Fie kept a small store in Cheshire for eight years, and in 1861 bought the Stiles farm of 110 acres, and the following year bought the Simmons farm of seventy five acres, making one large farm of 185 acres, on which he has made many improvements. In 1874 he built one of the finest residences on the Middle Road, and since then he has built barns and other outbuildings, until now he has one of the finest homes in Canandaigua. The principal products of the farm are grain, and hay, and stock. He married in 1849 Ann Coney, who died in 1874, and he took for his second wife Mary Cougevan of Canandaigua, by whom he had seven children : Bernard, Mary, Nora, James, Ann, Mathew and John. Mr. Meath has always taken an active inter- est in politics, in which he has worked for the success of the Democratic party.
Munson, Frederick, East Bloomfield, was born July 27, 1809, a son of Anson and Hulda (Dowd) Munson. Anson was born in Goshen, Conn., in 1774, and in 1799 came to East Bloomfield and purchased six acres of land, built a tannery, and there lived
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the remainder of his life, dying in 1849. His wife died in August, 1861. Their chil- dren were : Harlow, born October 31, 1799; Mary, born March 11, 1801; Betsey, born May 27, 1803; Henry, born May 8, 1805; Luther, born September 23, 1807; Fred- erick, born July 27, 1809 ; Ruth E., born April 27, 1811; Hiram, born May 30. 1814; William, born May 22, 1816; Edwin, born April 28, 1818; Emily J., born August 17, 1820, died aged twenty-three. Frederick received a district school education and at the age of twenty-one began life for himself in the tannery with his brother, Luther. After two years he bought 114 acres of land, afterwards sold fifteen acres, and later bought the old homestead, making 223 acres in all. In 1849 he sold out and moved to the village, and in 1852 engaged with R. F. Adams in the mercantile business, remain- ing five years. He served as supervisor from 1861 to 1866 and is a Republican. He has been twice married, first to Ohve, daughter of Timothy and Lucy (Rice) Buell. They had four children : Lansing and George of Brooklyn; Buell, who enlisted in the Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers in August, 1861, was wounded at Fredericksburg, and died in January, 1863, at Lincoln Hospital, Washington ; and Frank. Mrs. Mun- son died May 26, 1884, and he married second Florinda Hobart. They are members of the Congregational church.
Nelson, Omri, Victor, was born in Rupert, Vt., November 27, 1814, and came with his parents to Henrietta, Monroe county, when less than two years old. Sometime after- ward they moved to Centrefield, in the town of Canandaigua, where he was educated in the district schools, but has always been a farmer until the year of 1885, when he retired. He has married twice, first on December 6, 1838, Jemima Boughton of the town of Victor. They had six children : Irene, Harriet, Julia, Ruth, Ann, and Wilbur. His first wife died May 2, 1884, and he married second, April 30, 1885, Mrs. Mary (Cronk) Benson of Victor. She has two children, both daughters : Mrs. Ella Rawson and Carrie E. Benson. Mr. Benson was killed in the late war. Mr. Nelson's father, Calvin, was also born at Rupert, Vt., and married Ruth Remington, sister to the orig- inal inventor of the famous Remington rifle, and they had nine children : Ruth, Lester, Calvin, Sally, Diantha, Melton, George, Thomas and Annie. Mr. Nelson has been an active member of the Methodist church since he was fourteen years old, and of the Methodist church of Victor since 1838, class reader and steward as long as he was able to attend to the duties. His first wife was a member until she died, so is also his pres- ent wife. In politics he is a Republican.
North, Robinson D., Canandaigua, was born in Goshen, Conn., August 14, 1818, a son of Israel, who came to Ontario county in 1820 and settled on a farm in East Bloomfield, where he died in 1843. He had eight children, four of whom survive: Nelson H., a retired merchant of Syracuse ; John D., a manufacturer of Denver, Col .; Eliza J., wife of Charles Higby of Syracuse; and Robinson D. The early life of the latter was spent in East Bloomfield. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy, and after leaving school he followed farming until 1880, when he established the manufacture of grape boxes, which business he now conducts. The factory is located in lower Main street, where it at one time employed a number of hands, but the innovation of grape baskets has caused a falling off of the trade in boxes.
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Mr. North is a prominent figure of the business men of this town, and it is said of him he has many friends and few enemies. He has been a member of the Canandaigua Board of Health and has always taken an active interest in church work, and is now an elder in the Presbyterian church of Canandaigua. While in Bloomfield he was a trustee of the Congregational church. Mr. North married in 1839, Ora, daughter of Josiah Chatfield, a native of Massachusetts, who followed farming at Auburn, N. Y. They have two children: Charlotte Elizabeth, widow of Philip Vandenburg of Canan- daigua, and Lydia M., wife of David S. Willyr of Canandaigua. At his death in 1878 Philip Vandenburg left two daughters : Ora H., a student of Detroit Normal School ; and Mabel L.
Outhouse, Orrin, Canandaigua, was born at Peekskill, on the Hudson, April 15, 1832. The grandfather was one of the most extensive land owners of West Chester county, and had a large family. William, his son, was born at Peekskill, September 4, 1798. In 1834 he came to Ontario county, locating near Cheshire, where he lived but a year, then bought a farm of 186 acres on lot twenty-eight in Canandaigua, where he died, William Outhouse was married in 1818 to Rebecca Fields of Peekskill, by whom he had eleven children, eight of whom survive. Orrin moved with his parents to Canan- daigua, where he has always lived. He assisted his father on the farm until nineteen years of age, when he started in life for himself, and farmed in different places until 1863, when he bought a farm of 100 acres on lot thirty in Canandaigua. After about two years there removed to the old homestead, where he lived until 1880, when he bought his present farm of eighty-seven acres. He married in 1865 Melvina Debow, daughter of Ansel and A. Melvina (Stanley) Debow, and they have three children : Franc M., wife of Mark Gourley, a farmer of Farmington ; Nellie J., wife of James Steele, a farmer of East Bloomfield ; and Clara A., wife of W. Charles Dryer, a farmer of Victor. Mr. Outhouse has never taken great interest in public affairs, devoting lis time and energy to his farm.
O'Leary, Patrick, West Bloomfield, was born February 17, 1845, in County Cork, Ireland, a son of Humphrey and Mary (O'Neil) O'Leary. He came with his parents to this country in 1849, locating first in Richmond and later in Victor, where his father died in 1881. They had, besides Patrick, six children : Joanna, wife of James Appleton ; Ellen, wife of Daniel Webster ; and Humphrey, all now in Michigan; Mary, wife of Polk O'Neil; Catharine, widow of Thomas McNamara; and Margaret, wife of Philip Scully. Patrick was educated at the common schools, and worked at home and by the month until of age, when he worked a farm at Victor three years. In 1872 he with his father purchased a farm in the latter town, and in 1874 removed to Miller's Corners where he has since been engaged more or less in the produce business and in farming. He was elected on the Republican ticket supervisor for the years 1890-91. He married, June 12, 1845, Eliza Toomey, of this town. They have no children.
Ottley, Samuel P., Seneca, was born on the old homestead, Seneca Castle. He was educated in the schools of his day, and has been a good farmer. May 15, 1847, he married Sarah M. Williams, of Seneca Castle, and they have had six children : Franklin, Charles, Edna Arvilla, Elsie L., Frederick S., Albert C., Nina M. who died in infancy.
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Franklin married Mary E. Spangle, of Hopewell, and they have eight children : George H., Sarah E., F. Maude, Elsie M., Samuel A., Charles F., Hattie B. and Edwin C. Elsie L. married Joseph Brizzee, of the town of Hopewell, where they reside. Frederick G. married Mary C. Wilson, of this town, and had one son, Albert W. Mrs. Ottley is de- ceased. Albert C. married Bertha L. Vangelder, of this town, and have had two chil- dren, Mildred and Marie. Mr. Ottley's father, Thomas, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1788, and came with his parents and brother to the United States in 1805, locating in the woods in Seneca Castle when there were no crossroads or bridges. He married Lucinda Porter, of Seneca, and had fourteen children : William, Deborah, Lucinda, Thomas, Joshua P., Samuel P., Jane P., Arvilla B., Edwin and a twin of his who died in infancy, Charles and Mary, and twins who died in infancy. Mr. Ottley's father, Thomas, was member of assembly in year of 1831, also was superintendent of Ontario county thirty years, and was surveyor of land, administrator in settlement of estates, and wrote deeds, mortgages and other writings in sale and purchase of land; was in public office most of his life. Mrs. Ottley's father, Valentine Williams, was born in the town of Pompey, Onondaga county, February 14, 1797, and married Elsie Hewitt, of Waterbury, Conn., January 1, 1818, and had four children : Mortimer, who died in in- fancy ; Mortimer 2d, Sarah M. and Charles V. Her father died January 20, 1867; her mother June 25, 1876. Her brother Charles was a soldier in the late war and was in fifteen general battles.
Osborne, David H., Victor, was born in the town of Austerlitz, Columbia county, November 11, 1819. He received a common and academic education. He came to Victor at the age of sixteen years and was a clerk in a general store for a while, return- ing to finish his studies. Afterwards he came to Rochester, where he entered the mer- cantile business until 1845, when he came to Victor where for a short time he conducted a general store, retiring from business to take charge of the real estate interests of the family, with this exception living a retired life. January 5, 1847, he married Lavina A., daughter of William and Lavina Bushnell, of this town. They reside on the home- stead. They have had four children : William B., who married Lanra V. McDonald, of Rochester; Cora B. resides at home with her parents ; Carrie B. married Mark T. Powell, an attorney of Canandaigua; and Henry B., who died when nearly three years old. Mr. Osborne's father, David, was born in East Hampton, L. I., and went to Co- lumbia county when a young man. He married Polly Wright, of that county, and had five children : Samuel W., Mary M., John W., David H. and Harriet A. Mr. Osborne is a member of the Presbyterian church, holds the position of deacon and elder, and is interested in all good work.
Primps, Joseph, Geneva, was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 3, 1823, was educated in the public schools of that country, and came to the United States about 1852. He first located in Rome, Oneida county, for two years, and then came to Geneva. In early life he was a farmer. In Geneva he was sexton of the First Pres- byterian church, also of the Dutch Reformed church, and sexton of the cemetery. August 9, 1854, he married Barbara Frederica Dorr, formerly of Wirtemburg, Germany, later of Geneva. They had seven children: Joseph, who died in infancy ; Joseph 2d,
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John, Mary, Frank, Margaret and Otto, all deceased except Joseph 2d and Mary. The former married Amelia Buckholtz, formerly of Germany, and they have seven children : Lillian A., Augusta C., Nellie A., Emma B., Arthur J., Annie and Leah E. The sur- viving daughter, Mary, married Frank C. De Mun, of Geneva, and they had one daugh- ter, Leah B., who died in infancy. Mr. De Mun was born in Waterburg, Tompkins county, February 4, 1856. His father was a grain speculator, and he grew up in the same business; he also became an auctioneer. Eight years ago he came to Geneva, and is now proprietor of a crockery and house furnishing store, being also a popular auctioneer.
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