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Schwing, William E., Clifton Springs, was born in Germany in 1862. He came to this country in 1883. Mr. Schwing established a bakery and confectionery at Clifton Springs in 1889, which he sold to his brother soon afterward. He then went West, where he remained until 1892, when he returned, and is about to establish a new bak- ery enterprise at Phelps. He is at present with his brother at Clifton Springs. Mr. Schwing is a member of the K. of P., etc.
Spangle, Simon, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, June 29, 1833. His life occupa- tion has been farming. October 14, 1856, he married Harriet, daughter of Christopher Fosher, an early settler of Seneca. His wife was Mary Hammond, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. He was a captain in the State militia, and died in 1884, and his wife in 1889. Mertie, an adopted daughter of Simon Spangle and wife of Charles Gardner of Hopewell, died in March, 1885. In politics Mr. Spangle has has always been a Democrat, but has never aspired to public office. He and wife are members of the M. E. church at Hopewell Centre. Philip, a twin brother of Simon, now owns the homestead. He was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. October 14, 1856, he married Mary E., daughter of Thomas and Lucinda (Porter) Ottley, who had fourteen children. Mr. Ottley was a native of England, and when eighteen years of age came to America, where he was a surveyor. He was supervisor of Hopewell a number of years and also justice of the peace. He was superintendent of county poor for twenty-five years, and was at one time a member of the assembly. He died in 1856, and his wife in 1853.
Sears, Simeon H., East Bloomfield, was born in Sharon, Conn., September 6, 1816, a son of John, son of Stephen, a sea captain, who was lost at sea. His wife was Sybil Hunt, who died in Connecticut about 1825, aged about ninety-four years. They had a son and four daughters. Subject's grandfather was three times married. John Sears was born in Sharon, and came to East Bloomfield in 1856, where he died in 1860, aged seventy six. His wife died at the age of eighty-three years. He was a phy- sician, and their children were : Sybil, Mary, Simeon, John, Vincent, Albert, Sarah and Fannie. Albert died of yellow fever in Mississippi, and Mary and Fannie died young. Simeon B. had a district and academic education, and at the age of twenty-two years started for himself on a farm of his own of 100 acres. This he sold and located on 150 acres, where he now lives in East Bloomfield. He was a trader in sheep and wool for several years, and is a Republican in politics. January 18, 1839, he married Mary J. Roberts, who was born on the adjoining farm to her husband in Connecticut, No- vember 19, 1816, She was a daughter of Samuel and Pamelia (Patchen) Roberts. Her grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Sears have had five chil- dren : Mary, wife of Charles E. Eastman ; Albert R .; Amanda C., wife of Henry C. Brown; Louisa M., wife of George Parmalee; and Almira, wife of Francis Ellis.
Seager, Edwin, Phelps, was born in the town of Phelps, December 4, 1821. He was a son of Levi Seager, who was born in Connecticut, near the city of Hartford, who came to Phelps and settled in 1812. The grandfather, Micah Seager, was also a Con- necticut man. The great-grandfather was Joseph Seager, whose birthplace is not at this time definitely known. The mother of Edwin Seager was Sophia Streeter, who
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was born in the town of Phelps. Edwin Seager married, September 4, 1850, Mary Jane Pritchard, one of six children of Benjamin and Jane Ann (Stoughtenburg) Pritchard of Phelps. The grandfather, James Pritchard, was born in London, Eng- land, and came to this country and settled at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., about the period of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Seager have four children : Charles S., Hattie Sophia George C., and Edwin J. George C. is a stirring newspaper man of Rochester, is court reporter, and also identified with various important enterprises. The Seager farm is a farm of seventy acres largely devoted to grape culture.
Schu, Franklin N., Naples, was born in Wayland, Steuben county, August 5, 1861. He attended a German school for eleven years at Perkinsville and the Wayland dis- trict school three years. At the age of twenty-four he began traveling for a Phila- delphia house, which he continued for three years, then returned to Wayland and re- mained several years. August 24, 1886, he married Gettie, daughter of R. L. Stone of Avoca, Steuben county. He kept a saloon in Wayland for two years, then went to Swains, Allegany county, and was in a hotel for one year ; was one year in a factory at Avoca, then conducted a fruit store in Corning. He was in Fall Brook for about a year, also in the railroad shops six months, and from there moved to Naples, where he engaged with Capt. E. A. Griswold as collector, etc., in his fruit basket manu- factory.
Smith, Edward, Manchester, was born in Manchester, December 12, 1825. His an- cestors were from Connecticut, and they participated in the War of 1812 and the Revo- lution. In 1852 Mr. Smith purchased his fine property, which he has since been im- proving and adding to, until now it is a very valuable farm. His wife was Alice E. Harmon, and they have two sons. Mr. Smith has held the offices of constable, path- master, etc., and is a man of more than ordinary ability and integrity.
Stark, Charles W., Gorham, was born in Canandaigua, August 25, 1837, a son of Jedediah, a son of John, a native of Connecticut. Jedediah was born in Salisbury, Conn., September 15, 1808. In early life he moved with his mother to Canandaigua, where he kept a hotel and lumber yard. September 4, 1838, he married Annie Fowler, born April 21, 1807, at Gorham, on the farm now occupied by Charles W. Her father, Reuben W. Fowler, was born August 2, 1778, in Connecticut, and died September 17, 1856. He married Cecil Sawyer February 24, 1806. She was born May 25, 1782. They had three sons and one daughter. His wife died at the age of seventy-five years. Jedediah Stark had seven sons and three daughters. He died September 1, 1889, and his wife in September, 1881. Charles W. was educated in the common schools and graded schools of Penn Yan. August 30, 1862, he enlisted in Company F. One Hun- dred and Forty-eighth N. Y. Vols., and served until March 16, 1865, when he was wounded and taken to the hospital at Fort Darling, remaining until his recovery, when he was honorably discharged. From April 15 to May 16 he was in skirmishes and battles before Petersburg. Mr. Stark has been twice married, first in 1865 to Frances Sawyer, a native of Middlesex, who died in 1869. He married second Mary Welfare, December 31, 1874. She was born in England in 1850, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Welfare, who came to Philadelphia in 1854, and afterwards to Hopewell
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where they now reside. They have four children. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stark are : Edward B., Charles L., Celia M., Nellie E., Lansford B., Mabel L., Thomas W., Oscar S. Mr. Stark is a Republican, and a member of Scott Post G. A. R. No. 319, at Rushville. He has been in the mercantile business at Rushville and Rochester and has also kept hotel at Canandaigua, He is now a farmer in Gorham.
Smith, Virgil, Gorham, is a native of Gorham, born February 7, 1839. His father, Nathaniel, was a son of Enos and Phoebe Smith, natives of Orange county, N. Y. March 4, 1819, he married Mary T. Yeckley, born May 17, 1796, and a daughter of John and Esther Yeckley. Mr. Smith and wife had four sons and four daughters. In 1820 he came to Gorham and settled on a farm of 160 acres, and there spent the re- mainder of his days. He was one of the organizers and also president of the Gorham Agricultural Society. Mrs. Smith died in 1868, aged seventy-two years. Mr. Smith married second Rachel Hood, July 21, 1868. Mr. Smith died August 25, 1886, aged ninety-three years. Virgil Smith married, December 5, 1865, Fanny Mitchel, a native of New Jersey, born July 26, 1844. She is a daughter of Henry C., a son of John Mitchel, a native of New Jersey. In 1864 Henry C. came to Gorham, where he at present resides. His wife died in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had two children : Mary, wife of Dales Frankish, and Albert M., born April 27, 1870. The latter married January 10, 1893, Ella M. Shaw, of Gorham. Subject is a carpenter by trade, and has followed that business for twenty years. He is a Democrat, and has been trustee, justice of the peace, and treasurer of Gorham Agricultural Society three years. He is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 236 I. O. O. F.
Thompson, George T., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua January 8, 1854, a son of Thomas, a carpenter of this town. He was educated in the common schools and the academy under Professors Clarke and Halsey, and his first business venture was in 1870, when he engaged with S. S. Bergher, and in 1876 he went in partnership with him in the manufacture of sash, blinds and doors. This partnership lasted until the spring of 1885, when he bought out the interest of Mr. Bergher, and has since con- ducted the business alone. In 1890 he added the handling and dealing in lumber, buy- ing out the yard of E. O. Wader. In 1890-91 he was one of the village trustees. He married in 1879 Louise M., daughter of Edward Parrish, of Canandaigua, and their union has been blessed by two sons, Arthur E. and Carl G. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of St. John's Episcopal church, of which he is a vestryman.
Turner, the late Thomas C., was born on the homestead April 22, 1817, was educated in the public schools, and was a farmer. December 31, 1845, he married Nancy M. Ellis, of Victor, and they had five children : Henry E., Isabel C., Jennie S., Emmett B. who died at the age of sixteen years, and William H. was born May 2, 1862, was edu- cated in the public schools, and is one of Victor's enterprising farmers. He married Lizzie E. North, of Canandaigua, and they have one son, L. Ellis, born November 14, 1885. His wife died March 28, 1886. Thomas C. died February 27, 1874. Horace, father of Thomas C., was a soldier in the War of 1812.
Trickey, Cyrus, Canandaigua, was born on the homestead in Academy, May 6, 1860, the only son of Jeremiah Trickey. He was educated in the common schools and at
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Canandaigua Academy under Prof. N. T. Clarke, and assisted on his father's farm until he was twenty-five. In 1884 he was appointed postmaster for the Academy office, and the next year built a store here which he has since conducted. He carries a general line of merchandise of all kinds, and controls the trade of Southern Canandaigua, and of Bristol and South Bristol. He has always taken an active interest in the Repub- lican party, but has never been an aspirant for office. He married, November 28, 1883, Anna L., daughter of Harrison Phillips, of Canandaigua, and they have three chil- dren : Hazel L., born February 2, 1886 ; Katie A., born November 28, 1888 ; and Alma, born July 6, 1892. In addition to his store Mr. Trickey conducts a farm of 123 acres in Canandaigua, and also owns a residence and lot of seven acres near Academy school-house.
Taylor, George, Geneva, was born in Norfolk, England, March 3, 1830. He came to the United States with his parents when five years old, locating in Geneva ; was edu- cated in the public schools and learned the bakery and confectionery business. He was in the employ of Hiram L. Suydam eighteen years, and began business for himself in 1867, which has been continued with success. March 3, 1852, he married Mary P. Evered, of Honeoye Falls. She was born in Suffolk, England, and came to the United States in 1850. They have had four children : William E .; Franklin P., who died in infancy ; Charles E. (died August 19, 1882) ; and Ida B. Charles E. married Laura J. Jones, of Clyde, and they have two daughters : Daisy I., and Edna M. Ida B. married Philip R. Kirk, formerly of Bridgeport, Conn., and they have one daughter, Edith M. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Old Castle Lodge No. 299 I. O. O. F., and has held all the offices of that organization.
Tompkins, Vinson E., Geneva, the owner and proprietor of the well known Tomp- kins House in Geneva, was the son of Ira G. Tompkins, a native of Dutchess county, and a landlord of good reputation in Ontario county and vicinity, he having kept public house in Naples, and also at Spencer's Corners before coming to Geneva. In 1825 Ira G. Tompkins came to Geneva and was foreman in H. L. Lumb's shoe shop, but in 1844 he became proprietor of the old Geneva House, which he kept for nearly four years. The latter is prominently located near the depots, and has always been made the head- quarters for the New York Central and Lehigh Valley officials, and among the many railway magnates who have enjoyed the hospitality of this house we may recall the name of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Ira G. Tompkins opened this house in 1848 and maintained it until about the time of his death December 29, 1888, being succeeded in the proprietorship by his son, Vinson E. Tompkins, who is now its owner ; and we may say without exaggeration that the son is the worthy successor of his father, for the excellence of cuisine at the Tompkins House is well known throughout Central New York.
Taylor, William, Geneva, was born in Norfolk county, England. He married Mary Becket, and they came to America in 1836, settling in Geneva. He was a wagonmaker by trade and they had six children. He died in July, 1888, and his wife in 1836. George, son of William, was six years of age when his parents came to Geneva. At the age of fifteen years he went to learn the baker's trade, and in 1867 established a
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bakery at Geneva, which he has carried on ever since. He married Mary Everett, and has one child, Ida B., wife of P. R. Kirk, who resides in Geneva. The family are mem- bers of the M. E. church.
Treat, Fred E., of 72 Bristol street, Canandaigua, was born in South Bristol, June 27, 1857, a son of Richard S., who has made his home in Bristol for forty years. He is a native of Vermont, and has always followed the carpenter trade. He has three chil- dren : Richard S., jr., a carpenter of Canandaigua ; Flora A., of South Bristol; and Fred E. Until 1878 the latter made his home in South Bristol. He was educated in the common schools and Naples Academy, and on leaving school took up the trade of his father. In 1878 he came to Canandaigua, where he was employed by Contractor King six years, and followed various other employments until October, 1889, when he took his first contract, and since then has built some of the best residences and public build- ings in this section. During 1892 he built a saloon and residence in Canandaigua, the Dwyer block, one of the finest in the town, the Quigley block, and four residences, be- sides repair work. He is a Mason and also a Republican. He married in 1884 Cora M., daughter of Calvin Crane, a farmer of Hopewell.
Thatcher, Lester, Hopewell, was born in Canandaigua, October 14, 1842, a son of Alonzo Thatcher, who removed to Hillsdale county, Mich., where Lester was edu- cated. In 1864 he returned to Hopewell, and in 1865 married Lorada Freshour, born in Hopewell in 1840, a daughter of William, son of John Freshour. Her father was born in Hopewell in 1813, and married Mahetable Penn, a distant relative of William Penn. Mr. Freshour and wife had three daughters : Mary (deceased) wife of Augustus T. Smith ; Hester A., wife of Edward Wright, of Canandaigua ; and Lorada. Mr. Fres- hour was one of the leading farmers of Hopewell, and was assessor several years. He died in 1891 and his wife in 1856. Lester Thatcher and wife have had three children : Hettie E., wife of Charles H. Rockfeller, a farmer of Gorham, Angie L. (de- ceased) ; and Sylvia E., at home. Mr. Thatcher is a Republican in politics, and has been highway commissioner three years. He is a member of Hopewell Grange No. 454.
Thatcher, Alonzo, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell, Ontario county, July, 1816, is a son of Israel Thatcher, of Massachusetts, who came to Hopewell in 1808, and here spent the remainder of his days. His wife was Delight Litchfield, by whom he had five sons and five daughters. He died in February, 1866, and his wife in 1856. Alonzo Thatcher was reared on a farm, and married in 1840 Hannah E. Purdy, a native of Yates county, born in 1822. Her parents were Francis and Annie (Griffith) Purdy, who had one son and four daughters. Mr. Purdy was an early settler of Canan - daigua. Mr. Thatcher and wife have had three sons and two daughters, two of whom are living : Lester, and Annie J., wife of Asa F. Miles, a son of Amasa, who was a son of Thomas Miles, born in Massachusetts, who settled in Hopewell in 1802, and died September 12, 1842. Amasa Miles was born in Hopewell in 1812. His wife was Fi_ delia Root, by whom he had twelve children. He died in July, 1888, and his wife died in May of that year. Mr. Miles and wife have one child, Mary J. He is a mem- ber of Canandaigua Grange No. 138; of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294 F. & A. M., and
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Excelsior Chapter No. 166 R. A. M. He has been Master of Ceremony in the Blue Lodge, and Master of Third Vail in the Chapter. Alonzo Thatcher is a Republican, and a member of Canandaigua Grange No. 158. In 1845 he moved to Hillsdale county, Mich., and there lived nineteen years, then returning to Hopewell, where he has since resided.
Taylor, Loren A., West Bloomfield, was born in Honeoye Falls in 1839. His father Chester W., came to West Bloomfield in 1830, and married Emily Sawdy, of Marathon, Cortland county, and had four children : Loren A .; Clinton E., a farmer of this town and a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, who was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry ; Alfred L., of Fairport ; and one who died in infancy. Mary Jane Taylor, an adopted daughter, now lives with Loren A. Chester W. Taylor died in October, 1890. Loren A. was educated in the common schools and at East Bloomfield Academy, also at Lima Seminary, and has been engaged in farm produce business for many years. He has been justice of the peace for four years. He was a private in the One Hun- dred and Forty-eighth N. Y. Vols. in the late war and was discharged for disability. He married, in 1864, Mary E. Parmelee, of East Bloomfield.
Torrey. Henry H., Naples, son of Larned Torry, was born in Middlesex, Yates county, January 7, 1820. He was educated at the common schools of that town, and moved to Marion, Wayne county, in 1868, remaining about six years. In 1877 he removed to Naples and married Delia Metcalf, who died January 4, 1890, and in July of that year he married Mary J. Brayton, daughter of Israel Blood, of Rushville. Mr. Torrey has been an active business man and has taken much interest in politics. He was highway commissioner one year, constable one year in Middlesex, etc.
Tozier, James H., Naples, was born in the city of New York, April 16, 1863, and came to Canandaigua in 1865, lived there until 1877, and then removed to Naples, Ontario county, where he has resided since. He was educated at the public schools in Canandaigua. When he first came to Naples he worked on a farm, and commenced the retail furniture and undertaking business in 1884. Mr. Tozier was married April 26, 1887, to Mary Byington, of Naples. He was elected supervisor of the town of Naples in 1891 and re-elected in 1892.
Tozier, George W., Gorham, was born in Hopewell July 13, 1826, a son of John Tozier, an early settler of Hopewell, whose first wife was Charlotte Hubbell, by whom he had five daughters and a son George W. His second wife was Joanna Osburn by whom he had two children. Mr. Tozier was twice afterwards married. He came to Gorham and lived a number of years, then went to Clifton and afterwards to Canan- daigua where he died aged seventy-three years. He was a wagonmaker by trade, and a Democrat and was an active politician. He was well read in law and at one time did quite an extensive business as a pettifogger. George W. worked with his father until the latter sold his property in Gorham and has for the last forty years manufactured carriages and wagons at Reed's Corners, in which he has been very successful. He is a Democrat and a member of I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 236 at Canandaigua.
Thompson, sr., William, Gorham, was born in Murrayshire, Scotland, April 16, 1818, a son of John and Janette (Milne) Thompson also natives of Murrayshire, who had
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eight sons and three daughters. John was a farmer and died in Scotland in 1860, and his wife December 22, 1883, aged ninety years. William Thompson was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He married Mary, a daughter of John and Mary (Sontherland) Frazer, natives of Scotland, who had ten children. The children of Mr. Thompson are : Jessie, wife of Joel Bishop, and has four children ; John, married Sophia Hartman and resides in Auburn ; William, married Isabelle Robson ; Mary, a teacher at Clifton Springs ; Jean T., married M. H. Nelson and has two children ; and George who works his father's farm. In 1858 Mr. Thompson came to Canada and spent one year. He next spent one year in Wisconsin, and then came east and fol- lowed the milling business nine years in East Palmyra, Macedon, and Manchester Cen- tre. In 1868 he purchased the farm he now owns in Gorham. In 1881 he built a fine house and has made many improvements. He is a Republican. Mr. Thompson has three brothers in America and one in Scotland.
Uttley, William, Canandaigua, was born in Williamson, Wayne county, March 3, 1813. His father (also named William) was born in Maryland in 1776. He conducted a mill in Maryland, and when he came to this State first located in Steuben county. William Uttley, sr., died in 1840. He married Hannah, daughter of Mathew Martin of Virginia, who afterwards located in Chapinville. They had nine children, all deceased but William, our subject. When the latter was fourteen years of age he came to Can- andaigua, and spent five years with Judge Howell, and was nine years in the employ of Jared Wilson. He worked John Gregg's farm nine years, and in the spring of 1858 bought sixty-six acres of the Gregg farm in Hopewell, and in the fall of 1869 moved to East Bloomfield where he conducted a farm for eighteen months, and then went to Lima, Livingston county. Returning in 1872 he bought a farm of ninety-nine acres in Canandaigua, where he has ever since made his home. Mr. Uttley is a Republican. He married in 1837 Betsey, daughter of Lewis Wicks, of Middlesex, Yates county, and they had eight children, three of whom are living: Jared Wilson, and John Mosher, who conducts the homestead farm, and Margaret, who also lives at home. Mrs. Uttley died August 15, 1888 aged seventy-one years.
Van Auken, Horatio, Phelps, the oldest of nine children living of George W. and Margaret (Van Etten) Van Auken, was born in the town of Phelps April 4, 1843. George WV., the father, was born in Phelps in 1822 and died at the age of seventy years. The grandfather was David Van Auken, and his father, John, was the pioneer who came to Phelps and settled in 1793. He was a soldier of the War of 1812. The mother, Margaret Van Etten, was born in Wayne county, a daughter of Cornelia Van Etten. Horatio Van Auken married March 13, 1867, Laura S., daughter of William and Delia (Burgess) Aldrich, of Phelps. Her grandfather was Ziba Aldrich. Mr. Van Anken has occupied his present farm for seventeen years, he being the third occupant of it. It is devoted to general products and carries about seventeen head of stock.
Vanderhoof, Frederick D., Phelps, was born in Manchester April 28, 1843, one of six children (four now living) of Peter and Margaret (Doxtater) Vanderhoof. Jacob, the grandfather, was born in New Jersey, coming to Manchester and settling in early life. Frederick D. married in 1864 Armeda, daughter of John R. and Hannah C. Hyde of
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Newark, N. Y. They have four children : Ina H., Fred, Neva W., and Bertrand G. Mr. Vanderhoof was educated at the schools at Clifton, read medicine with Dr. Pome- roy, of Newark, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city in March 1864. He entered the service as assistant surgeon until the close of the war. In February, 1867, he came to Phelps and engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, where he has since remained.
Woods, James, Seneca, was born in Seneca, Ontario county, May 25, 1825. He was educated in the district school, has always followed farming. June 14, 1864, he mar- ried Mrs. Margaret (Dodge) Thatcher. Mr. Woods's father, James, was born in New Jersey in 1793 and came to Pennsylvania with his parents when he was six years old, and came to this old homestead at Flint Creek in 1823. He too was a farmer. In 1821 he married Elizabeth McKnight formerly of Pennsylvania, and they had six chil- dren : Margaret, James, John, Elizabeth, Robert and Harriet N. Mr. Woods died September 1, 1880, and his wife May 24, 1873. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. . Mrs. Woods's father, Joseph Thatcher, was born in Conway, Mass., March 16, 1793, and came here when he was sixteen years old. He married Anna Le Fevre, and had ten children : Rebecca, Julia A., Ebenezer, Margaret, Sarah, Susan, Emeline, Jesse, Eliza- beth J., and a baby not named. Mrs. Woods married for her first husband John Dodge, who died December 1, 1862. Joseph Thatcher was also a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. and Mrs. Woods attend and support the Methodist church at Flint Creek. His father was a class leader in the old church a great many years.
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