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In 1887 was celebrated the marriage of George R. Coates and Miss Martha I. Howlett, a daughter of C. M. Howlett, of Rochester, and they have one son, Raymond H., who is now a high school student. Mr. Coates owns a handsome residence,
in which his family are pleasantly located amid the comforts and luxuries that wealth can secure and refined taste suggest.
Mr. Coates fraternally is connected with the Masons, belonging to Rochester lodge, No. 660, F. & A. M., and is also a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Brick (Pres- byterian) church, and in politics is a republican but has had little time for active political work, owing to the demands of a constantly increasing business. At an early age he was thrown upon his own resources and the care of his mother and sisters also devolved upon him. Neglectful of no duty, whether of business or home life, his close application and laudable ambition enabled him to work his way steadily upward until he is now prominent in commercial and industrial circles in Rochester, having the admiration of all and the entire respect of his business associates.
JAMES EUGENE HOY.
James Eugene Hoy, born in Penfield, Monroe county, December 9, 1857, has for many years figured prominently in connection with business development and upbuilding in Spencerport. He is a son of Nicholas H. and Lydia Ann (Balcom) Hoy, both of whom were natives of Penfield and have spent their entire lives in this county. The father was a valued soldier of the Civil war, serv- ing with Company L, Eighth New York Volun- teer Cavalry, and the mother is a descendant of Governor Peter Stuyvesant of New York. The maternal grandmother, Nancy Clark, was a native of Long Island and in early womanhood gave her hand in marriage to Leander Balcom, who jour- neyed from the east to Monroe county with an ox-team after the primitive manner of the times. Further mention of the family is made in con- nection with the sketch of Nicholas H. Hoy on another page of this volume.
James Eugene Hoy was a youth of twelve years when his parents removed to Ogden Center and he has since lived in the town of Ogden, being identi- fied in various ways with its growth and substan- tial improvement. From 1881 until 1885 he was engaged in general farming, after which he in- vented the Hoy potato digger and spent five years in perfecting and marketing this device, which was manufactured by the International Seed Com- pany of Rochester. While a partner in that con- cern Mr. Hoy entered the coal trade, in which he continued until 1896, when he turned his atten- tion to the milling business. In this he has since continued, being owner of a profitable feed mill, which has a capacity of a carload or five hundred
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bushels per day. Five years ago he purchased a farm of fifty acres, to which he has since added thirty acres, adjoining the corporation limits of Spencerport. He resides upon and operates this farm in connection with his milling interests and the dual business enterprise is proving very re- munerative.
On the 19th of March, 1885, Mr. Hoy was united in marriage to Miss Jennie C. Arnold, who was born September 5, 1866, and is a daughter of Aaron J. and Mary E. (McGrath) Arnold. The father was born in Ogden, April 3, 1843, and the mother's birth occurred June 30, 1844, in Cam- bridge, New York. The paternal grandfather was James Arnold, a native of the town of Ogden, and the family is therefore one of the oldest in this part of the county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hoy have been born two sons and two daughters: Florence M., born July 30, 1889; Irving J., July 6, 1891; Anna Stuyvesant, March 10, 1898; and Harold, Jannary 13, 1900.
Mr. Hoy is a republican but without aspiration for office. In business affairs he has been notably prompt, energetic and reliable and he is well and widely known in the town of Ogden, where he has lived for about thirty-eight years. He has indeed been an active factor in the workaday world and has been most faithful in the performance of the duties which each week brings.
CONRAD BAKER.
Conrad Baker is extensively and successfully engaged in horticultural pursuits on a farm of one hundred and thirteen acres, situated on the Stone road, near Barnard, Monroe county. He is a na- tive of Berlin, Germany, born October 15, 1848, and when a little lad of six years was brought to the United States by his parents, Ferdinand and Henrietta (Baner) Baker, who were likewise na- tives of the fatherland, born in Berlin. Both are now deceased, the father having passed away at the age of seventy-two years, while the mother was seventy-eight years of age at the time of her de- mise, and both lie buried in the cemetery at Floyd, New York, within a few feet of where the parents of Grover Cleveland were interred.
Conrad Baker is one of a family of twelve chil- dren, he being the eldest, and nine of the number still survive. The family home being established in Floyd, New York, the son was there reared and educated. At the age of eightcen years he entered business life in connection with his brother, Philip J. Baker, and they conducted a saw and grist mill, a box factory and a lumberyard. Four years later, Mr. Baker disposed of his interest in the
business to his brother and a brother-in-law but the former is now living retired in Floyd. Upon the disposal of his business interests in that city, Mr. Baker took up his abode in Utica, where he engaged in the manufacture of boxes and wood cases, which business he conducted with success until 1891, in which year he removed to Roches- ter. He next engaged in the grocery business on North street. Later he engaged in the real-estate business and in 1897 leased the Brown farm on Dewey avenue, conducting the same for one year. He then rented the Stone farm, which he still operates, and three years ago he purchased his present farm of one hundred and thirteen acres, situated in Greece township, and he is now oper- ating this tract in connection with the Stone prop- erty. Mr. Baker has set his farm out to fruit, raising all varieties of large and small fruits. He has made a close study of horticulture and his labors are bringing to him a gratifying source of income. In addition to his fruit-raising interests Mr. Baker is also engaged in growing peas and beans, which he sells to the canning factories. He furnishes employment to one hundred and eighty people and thus his extensive business interests contribute to the support of others as well as to individual prosperity.
Mr. Baker was married in 1871 to Miss Lydia Simon, a native of this state and of German par- entage. Their marriage has been blessed with four children : Albert H., who is married and has one child, and who assists his father in the man- agement of his property; Stolham S., who is a student in the Charlotte high school; Gertrude, the wife of George Went, of Greece township ; and Ida, still under the parental roof.
Mr. Baker gives his political support to the men and measures of the republican party and is a member of the Baptist church. Throughout his entire business career he has labored for the im- provement of each enterprise with which he has been connected, while his fidelity to his adopted country and her welfare is at all times manifest. His success is due entirely to his close application and well directed efforts and he is therefore de- serving of mention in this volume.
CLARENCE AUGUSTUS BARBOUR, D. D.
During seventeen years Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour has been pastor of the Lake Avenue Bap- tist church, and throughout this period he has ex- emplified in his life the true American patriotism which concerns itself with those affairs affecting the weal or woe of state or nation. In community interests in Rochester he has been an influencing factor for good, for development and for progress
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and at the same time has so guided the destinies of his congregation that the church has done ex- cellent work for the moral advancement of the community.
A native of Hartford, Connecticut, born April 21, 1867, and a descendant of a family noted for intellectual prowess, Dr. Barbour traces his an- cestry directly back to Thomas Barbour, who went by sloop up the Connecticut river to Windsor, just above Hartford, and cast in his lot with the first English settlers. Our subject's father, Judge He- man H. Barbour, was one of the most prominent citizens of the state during an active life time, and was for many years judge of the probate court of Hartford, Connecticut, beside holding other posi- tions of public trust in the city of Hartford. The mother of Dr. Barbour bore the maiden name of Myra A. Barker. Of their large family of chil- dren five sons are now living, namely: Hon. Jo- seph L. Barbour, of Hartford, Connecticut, at one time speaker of the house of representatives in that city ; Rev. Henry M. Barbour, D. D., rector of the Episcopal church of the Beloved Disciple, of New York city; Rev. Thomas S. Barbour, D. D., for- eign secretary of the American Baptist Mission- ary Union; Rev. John B. Barbour, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church, of Erie, Pennsylvania; and Rev. Clarence A. Barbour, of this review.
Provided in boyhood, youth and early manhood with excellent educational privileges, Dr. Barbour, of Rochester, was graduated from the Northeast grammar school of Hartford, Connecticut, with the class of 1880; from the Hartford high school in 1884, being on the honor roll for scholarship; from Brown University in 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and from the Rochester Theo- logical Seminary in 1891. Several months before he had completed his theological course he was unanimously called to the pastorate of the Lake Avenue Baptist church at Rochester, which for nearly three years had been under the pastoral charge of Dr. T. Harwood Pattison, then pro- fessor of homiletics in the seminary. Dr. Barbour was ordained to the ministry of the Lake Avenue church on the 15th of May, 1891, and has since been its pastor. This is one of the strongest con- gregations of the city, its membership more than doubling numerically during the period of his guidance until it now exceeds eleven hundred, while the bible school ranks among the largest in the city.
It would be tautological in this connection to enter into any series of statements as showing Dr. Barbour to be a man of broad scholarly attain- ments, for it has been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. He is widely known as a man of thorough scholarship, whose reading has been wide and varied, bringing him into close re- lations with mankind, so that he has studied the motives which govern human conduct and knows
how to meet the needs of the city for moral and religious progress. His deep human sympathy has brought him into close contact with many lives upon which he has left the impress of his strong individuality and helpful spirit. He has been very active in religious work among young people, and his vice presidency of the New York State Christian Endeavor Union in 1895 was followed by a call to the presidency of that organization in 1896. He has frequently delivered addresses be- fore the international convention of the Christian Endeavor Society, including those in New York city, Boston, Washington, Denver and Detroit. He has also been a speaker at the national conventions of the Baptist Young Peoples Union and the May anniversaries of the Baptist churches of the north. His labors have also been an effective force in the International Young Men's Christian Association and he has addressed large audiences upon subjects relating thereto in many cities. During a single winter he was invited to address the men's evan- gelistic mass meetings in twenty-one cities of the United States and Canada but was able to accept only a small number of these invitations because of manifold other duties and calls. His utter- ances have been listened to with attention in the pulpits of various colleges and universities, includ- ing Brown, Chicago, Williams, Rochester, Vas- sar, Stetson, McMaster and Syracuse. In 1903 he received a call to the pastorate of the Tremont Temple Baptist church in Boston as the successor of Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer, but declined to accept. At the commencement exercises of the University of Rochester in 1901, and upon the completion of a decade of service in the Lake Ave- nue church, Dr. Barbour received from that edu- cational institution the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Deeply interested in the public life of Roches- ter, in its bearing upon the lives of the citizens and with its far-reaching effect upon such a na- tional government. Dr. Barbour has labored earn- estly and effectively in opposition to misrule and in the support of all those measures which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He served as vice president of the Rochester Good Government Club from 1894 until it was dis- banded in 1902 and has done much for the public- school system of the city.
On the 28th of July, 1891, in Providence, Rhode Island, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Clar- ence A. Barbour and Miss Florence I. Newell. They now have four children, Eric Newell, Ethel Wilbur, Myra Seymour and Harold Robinson. In 1900 Dr. Barbour traveled extensively in Egypt, Palestine and Europe, being absent about four months and again went abroad in 1904, visiting various points of historic, modern and scenic in- terest in European countries. He has lectured widely upon his travels as well as upon other the-
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ories. A prominent member of the Masonic fra- ternity, he belongs to Corinthian Temple lodge, No. 805, F. & A. M., Hamilton chapter, No. 62, R. A. M .; Doric council, No. 19, R. & S. M .; Monroe commandery, No. 12, K. T .; and Roches- ter Consistory of the Scottish rite. In 1905 he was appointed Grand Chaplain of the Grand lodge of the state of New York by Grand Master Frank Hurd Robinson, and in 1906 was reappointed to the same office by Grand Master Townsend Scud- der. In September, 1906, he was elected by the Supreme Council of the northern jurisdiction of the Scottish rite to receive the honorary thirty- third and last degree conferred in Masonry. A distinguished scion of his race, using his talents for the benefit of his fellowmen, he stands today as a valued citizen of Rochester and of the state and as one of the most ahle ministers of the Bap- tist ministry.
JOSIAH K. LINCOLN.
Josiah K. Lincoln was born on the place which is his present home September 11, 1865, a son of Andrew W. Lincoln, who came from Cape Cod to Monroe county in 1816, and in 1820 settled in Perinton township and eventually became owner of five hundred acres of land, the town of Despatch now standing on what originally formed a part of his farm. He built the first mill on Irondequoit creek and also built the dam, and in 1821 built and conducted a large flouring mill, having in his employ four millers besides a number of sales- men on the road, his product being disposed of in New York and Boston. In 1838 he replaced his original frame mill with a stone structure and for a time conducted business with Samuel Rich as a partner but eventually purchased his partner's in- terest and carried on business alone until his death in 1866. He was one of the most prominent busi- ness men of this section of the state at that time, being identified with various commercial and in- dustrial enterprises. In addition to his flouring mill he also conducted a sawmill and tannery and was engaged in merchandising in Penfield. The New York Central Railroad was built through his farm. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Ann Kennedy and was born in 1801, in Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, a daugh- ter of Jacob Kennedy, one of the early settlers of Brighton. It was on the 31st of January, 1827, that she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Lin- coln, and after surviving him for more than sev- enteen years, she passed away in 1883.
Josiah K. Lincoln is one of a family of six children and his education was acquired in the Clover Street Seminary. At the early age of four-
teen years he started out to make his own way in the world, making his way to Boston, Massachu- setts, where he secured employment in a whole- sale flour house, being thus engaged for three years. At the end of that time he returned to the home farm, where he devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits and since coming into possession of the homestead property he has disposed of a considerable portion of it to the Vanderbilt Improvement Company, it now consti- tuting the enterprising town of Despatch. Mr. Lincoln has done much toward the development and improvement of this village and is ever in- terested in anything which tends toward the bet- terment of his home locality. The old mill which was formerly conducted by his father is now used for the power house of the Electric Lighting plant of East Rochester.
Mr. Lincoln was married in Palmyra, New York, July 1, 1895, to Miss Alice Ford, a resi- dent of Penfield, and their home has been blessed with a son and daughter, who are still living, Walter and Mildred, while one son died at the age of three years. The family occupy a beauti- ful home, which has recently been built, the house being surrounded by six acres of ground, which is kept in an attractive state.
Mr. Lincoln is a stanch advocate of the prin- ciples and policy of the republican party and for two terms has served as justice of the peace. He is a charter member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Fairport, New York. In the promotion of vari- ous movements in his locality Mr. Lincoln has taken a deep and active interest and is a worthy representative of one of the old and prominent pioneer families of Monroe county.
JAMES ARMSTRONG SALTER.
James Armstrong Salter, an architect of Roches- ter, who has designed over three hundred build- ings, various fine structures of this city standing as monuments to his skill, was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, April 23, 1874. The family in the paternal line is of Irish lineage, the grandfather, Robert Salter, having been a native of the green isle of Erin. He came to America sixty or sev- enty years ago and settled in Rochester, where he followed various occupations. He died in middle life, while his wife, Mrs. Grace Salter, nee King, died in the winter of 1905-6, when about eighty- eight years of age. Their family of four sons and three daughters included Richard Salter, who was born in the state of New York. When a young man he worked as a nurseryman in Rochester and afterward went to Wisconsin, settling in Chippewa
MRS. JOSIAH K. LINCOLN.
JOSIAH K. LINCOLN.
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county, where he followed farming. For the past ten or twelve years he has lived in this city. His wife, Mrs. Mary Salter, died in 1890, when about forty-two years of age. She was a member of the Episcopal church, of which Mr. Salter is also a communicant. Their family numbered seven chil- dren, of whom six are now living: James, Thomas, William, Joseph, Charles and Grace, while Robert died in childhood. The maternal grandfather was James Dukelow, native of Ire- land, who on coming to America, settled in the state of New York. He afterward went to Wis- consin, establishing his home at Chippewa, where he followed farming for some years and where he still resides. His wife was Sarah Daily, who died in 1906, when well advanced in years. They had a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters.
James A. Salter lived upon the home farm in Wisconsin until sixteen years of age and attended the public schools. He afterward returned to Rochester and for one year was a pupil in the public schools of this city. Entering business life, he learned the carpenter's trade and subsequently took up the study of architecture, opening an office in the spring of 1899 for the practice of his pro- fession. He has designed over three hundred buildings since he started in business and has been very successful, gaining an enviable position as a representative of the calling to which he now gives his time and energies.
On the 20th of January, 1904, Mr. Salter was married to Miss Bertha L. Legg, a daughter of Henry Warren and Julia Legg. Mr. and Mrs. Salter are members of the Episcopal church and are pleasantly located in a comfortable home at. 31 Frost avenue. His political endorsement is given to the republican party. Through his en- terprise he has won success in business and through his fidelity to upright principles he has com- manded the respect and confidence of his fellow- men.
HON. HARVEY F. REMINGTON.
Hon. Harvey F. Remington, whose thorough preliminary training constituted an excellent foun- dation upon which to build the superstructure of professional advancement and success, is now num- bered among the leading members of the Roches- ter bar. He was born on the 28th of June, 1863, at Henrietta, New York, his parents being Wil- liam T. and Sarah A. (Foote) Remington, who were also natives of the Empire state. The father was a farmer by occupation and both he and his wife are now deceased. The ancestry of the fam- ily can be traced back to an early period in the
colonization of the new world, for John Reming- ton, who emigrated from Yorkshire, England, took up his abode at Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1637. He was in turn descended from Richmond Rem- ington, of Raeskelfe, in the forest of Galtress, Yorkshire, England. Within a radius of one hun- dred miles of Lincoln, principally in Yorkshire, after the Norman invasion, the records of six centuries show that the Remington descendants were numerous and prominent. Various members of the family have filled leading positions in con- nection with public and business life in the new world.
Harvey F. Remington, reared in the usual man- ner of farm lads, was a public-school student to the age of fourteen years, when he was provided the better opportunities afforded by the Geneseo Normal School. His preparation for the bar was made as a student in Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1887. The same year he was admitted to practice in the New York courts and located in Rochester, where he has since remained. He became associated with the Hon. Alfred Ely, one of the prominent at- torneys of the state, and the connection was con- tinned until the latter's death in 1892. As a gen- eral practitioner he has shown himself well qual- ified to solve intricate and complex problems of jurisprudence.
Mr. Remington has figured prominently in po- litical circles for many years and in 1891 was chosen to represent the old sixteenth ward of the city on the board of supervisors. He was also a school commissioner for the fourteenth ward but resigned soon after his election to accept the ap- pointment as assistant city attorney. He acted in that capacity for two years and afterward was first assistant corporation counsel in 1894 and 1895. In the latter year he was elected judge of the mu- nicipal court and presided on the bench for two years. His time and energies have since been devoted to the general practice of law as a mem- ber of the Rochester bar and to agricultural pur- suits, for he owns and supervises a farm at Mum- ford.
On the 28th of May, 1889, Mr. Remington was married to Miss Agnes Brodie, a native of this county. They became the parents of seven chil- dren : William B., Thomas H., Agnes, Harvey F., John W., Harriet and Francis K.
While Mr. Remington devotes the greater part of his time and attention to the practice of law he has found opportunity to engage in outsido in- terests, especially in those which have for their object the welfare and upbuilding of the city. He is a member of several fraternities and he belongs to the Rochester Bar Association, the State Bar Association, the Rochester Historical Society, the New York Genealogical Association and Bio- graphical Society, the Baptist Home Society,
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of which he is secretary, and the New York State Baptist Convention, of which he is a trustee. He is particularly active and help- ful as a member of the First Baptist church of Rochester, has served upon its official board and for a number of years has been a member of the executive committee of the New York State Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. He is a man quick to discern the right and unfaltering in maintaining it. He is in vital sympathy with all that tends to make the world better, that induces an understanding of individual responsibility and obligation, that promotes civic virtue and advances patriotic devotion to the country at large.
WILLIAM J. KEWIN.
Although a native of the Isle of Man, William J. Kewin has spent the greater part of his life in Rochester. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, on the 5th of June, 1842, and the removal of the family to Rochester in his early boyhood enabled him to become a pupil in the public schools here. Passing through successive grades, he at length put aside his text-books to learn the more difficult lessons in the school of experience, and entering business life acquainted himself with the tinsmith's trade, entering the employ of Frank Tulley in April, 1857. He served an apprentice- ship of five years, becoming an expert workman and after being employed by others for a time he invested the capital which he had saved from his earnings in a business of his own, establishing a store in 1870, at No. 147 East avenue. From the beginning the new enterprise proved success- ful and he there continued for eighteen years, en- joying gratifying patronage. He then erected a business block at No. 155 East avenne, to which he removed in the spring of 1888. Here he has re- mained covering a period of nineteen years. He has figured in connection with the business life of Roch- ester for fifty years, and for thirty-seven years has been engaged in merchandising on his own ac- count. The efficiency which he gained in his trade in early manhood has enabled him to care- fully direct the labors of others and he has re- ceived that support in business which is always given in recognition of reliable methods of a house, fair dealing, and of earnest effort on the part of proprietors to please their patrons.
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