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EVENING STAR LODGE, 44.
Second and fourth Tuesday in each month. W. Brigden, Sec. ; W. W. Howell, M.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD-FELLOWS.
OASIS LODGE, 251.
Meets every Monday evening at Odd-Fellows' Hall, corner Main and Church Streets.
MANUFACTURES.
IFORNELLSVILLE TANNERY, William O'Conner, proprie- tor .- The large steam tannery of Mr. O'Conner was estab- lished in 1864. It is exelusively employed in the mann- facture of rough leather, of which 50,000 sides a year are tanned, giving employment to about 20 hands. The orig- inal part of the building was the old tannery built by Andy L. Smith, which has been enlarged, thoroughly repaired, and adapted to the extensive business carried on by the present proprietor.
Mr. O'Conner, from early boyhood, resided in Hartsville. He learned his trade in Le Roy, Genesee Co., and since his residence in Hornellsville has been closely identified with the business interests of the place.
THE FURNITURE-MANUFACTORY of Messrs. Deutsch, Tschachtli & Co. constitutes one of the leading manufac- turing interests of the village. In 1871 this firm pur- chased the building at the foot of Main Street, erected for a sash- and blind-factory by Mr. James Barelay, and con- verted it into a large steam cabinet- and furniture-factory, putting in a new 80 horse-power engine in 1873. They have two stores and a varnishing-room near the factory, but their principal warehouse is in the Canisteo Block, half of which is owned by the firm. They make all varieties of plain and the best upholstered furniture, their upholster- ing being all done at home in their own shops. They do a large business, and give employment to about 50 workmen.
THE BOOT- AND SHOE-MANUFACTORY of William Rich- ardson & Co. was established Jan. 1, 1872, the fine briek
building occupied by the firm having been erected by them in the fall of 1871. This building is four stories besides basement, and construeted with special reference to con- venience for the large manufacture of boots and shoes carried on by the firm.
Mr. Richardson belongs to a family noted for their enter- prise in this business, his brother having one of the largest shoe-factories in the State, at Elmira. Previous to locating their business in this village, the Messrs. Richardson had been engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes at Al- mond, Allegany Co., where their father had established the business in 1845. The members of this enterprising firm are William and Cass Richardson (half-brothers). They have another factory at Andover, Allegany Co., and a tan- mery connected with it. The business of their factory in this village amounts to 150 cases of boots and 15 to 20 cases of shoes per week, and they employ 150 hands.
MCCONNELL & Co., Planing-Mills, Dealers in Lumber, and Manufacturers of Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Pickets, ete .- This is a steam-power establishment, employ- ing some 50 to 60 hands, and doing a large and successful business. It was first established by Morris Smith about 1855. In the spring of 1867, Asa McConnell purchased the premises, which have since been enlarged more than four times their original capacity, and improved by the ad- dition of all kinds of modern machinery adapted to the business carried on. They dress and manufacture into their various products about 4,000,000 feet of lumber per annum. The interest of Mr. Asa McConnell was purchased by his son, Floyd T. McConnell, in 1877, who has now associated with him his brothers, Benton and Philo F. McConnell, under the firm-name of McConnell & Co.
Mr. Asa MeConnell is one of the oldest settlers now liv- ing in Steuben County.
George W. Terry's Flouring-Mill was built in 1856 by George and James Alley and William Bennett. In 1872, Mr. Terry bought the property. This mill has a capacity of 200 barrels per day, merchant and custom flour.
Rawson & Thacher are the proprietors of a large Foun- dry and Machine-Shops.
HOMEOPATIIY IN HORNELLSVILLE.
Homœopathy met with strong opposition in the western part of the county during the early years of its history, and consequently its earlier advocates met with indifferent success. The first employment of homoeopathic remedies in the treatment of the sick in Ilornellsville was by Mrs. O. Sheldon, who came from Madison County in the year 1851, where she had been in active practice for some time, and to her belongs the honor of the introduction of homce- opathy in this vicinity.
By her clear perception of discase and successful admin- istration of remedies she secured a large circle of patrons and friends, doing much to overcome the prejudice existing against the system, and paving the way for its future sue- cess. For more than twenty years, and until homoeopathy was well established, she held a good practice, and retired only by reason of deelining years.
The next pioneer was Dr. Gray, who settled here about the year 1852, but remained only a short time. Ile was
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CHARLES HARTSHORN
was born in Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1815. His father, Jacob Hartshorn, was a native of Litchfield, Conn., born Oct. 27, 1777, and removed to Madison County while a young man, about 1803, in which year, August 28, he married Jeru- sha Ransom, a native of Colchester, Conn., who was born July 15, 1779.
He resided on the farm, where he was one of the pioneer settlers of the town, until his death in 1850. His main occu- pation was farming, although, through his interest in the great political questions of his time, he was prominently identified in politics, and gained considerable distinction as an advocate in justices' courts under the name of " Pettifogger."
His children were Philander (deceased), Mary (Mrs. David Madale, deceased), Jane (Mrs. Orson Shelden, of Hornellsville), Dr. John R. (deceased), Charles, Minerva (Mrs. Bigelow Packer, deceased), Adelia (Mrs. Luke G. Maxson, Hornells- ville), and Ira D. (of Friendship, Allegany Co., N. Y.). The mother of these children died in 1855.
Mr. Charles Hartshorn spent his minority on the farm of his father, and received the advantages only of the common schools of his day for obtaining education from books, but his subse- quent history has fully developed his early business ability and sagacity.
His time from thirteen to fifteen years he spent with his eldest brother, who was then a merchant at Hornellsville, and at the age of twenty-three he came to the then small village of about seventy houses and three hundred and fifty inhabitants to take up his residence, and purchased a one-third interest in
his brother's farm of two hundred and forty-four acres (including a portion of the present site of Hornellsville), a grist-mill, and saw-mill. After two years he became the sole owner of the property, which he managed until 1850, the date of the com- pletion of the Erie Railway, when the growth of the village required that he should lay out a large part of his farm into village lots, which he did, and has since been largely interested in real estate transactions and building, both within the village" and in the adjoining country.
In the year 1845, March 2, Mr. Hartshorn married Cordelia, eldest daughter of Charles N. and Eliza (Allen) Hart, of Harts- ville, this county, but formerly of Saratoga County. Her father became a resident of this county in 1826. Mrs. Hartshorn was born in 1825.
They have an only son, Charles Hart Hartshorn. Mr. Hartshorn has led a strictly business life, although somewhat active formerly as a Whig, but now as a Republican, he has ever been interested in the matters of vital importance to the country. He has never been solicitous of public preferment, and has only been connected publicly as an excise commissioner under the old law, and for two terms trustee of the village.
About 1852 was the first organization of the Baptist Church and Society. Mr. Hartshorn, as a member of the latter, in 1856 was chairman of the building committee in the erection of the fine brick structure of that denomination in the village, and foremost in support for its construction, and has since not only contributed liberally for that, but all enterprises of a kindred nature in the village.
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followed by Dr. Noble, during the year 1856, who remained about two years, doing more, but it seems an unsatisfactory business, for he left for more promising fields.
Dr. Morgan came here in 1860, and secured quite a pat- ronage, which he held for several years, riding from Hor- nellsville into the adjoining towns. His wife was an car- nest advocate of the advantages of homeopathy, and be- came something of an adept in administering to the sick in the absence of her husband.
J. E. Seeley, M.D., located in Hornellsville in 1866. Having graduated at Philadelphia and spent a year or more in the service of the United States navy, he was well posted in his profession, and although young in practice, he did much to satisfy the public that homeopathy was more than a myth; that it was in fact founded in nature, scientific in character, successful in application, and entitled to the eandid consideration of an enlightened public. Dr. Seeley made many warm friends during the four years of his practice here. In 1871 he removed to Scottsville, N. Y.
Hiram le Quantos
Dr. H. C. Orcutt succeeded Dr. Seeley. Ile came from Vermont, where he had been practicing homoeopathy for the previous eighteen years. He was born in Moretown, Vermont, April 16, 1822, his father removing to Mont- pelier soon after, where he spent his boyhood days. He studied with Asa George, M.D., of East Calais, and grad- uated in medicine in October, 1845, at Dartmonth College, an allopathie institution.
In June, 1846, he married Helen M. George, daughter of his former preceptor.
On graduating he immediately began the practice of medicine in Troy, N. Y., following the system which he had been taught for the six succeeding years, during which time his observations of the success of' a homeopathic com- petitor led him to believe that there was real merit in the
new system of medicine, and a more thorough investigation convinced him of its decided superiority, when he aban- doned the old system and, removing to Orleans County, in 1852, began the practice of homoeopathy, which he followed successfully up to the time of his removal to Hornellsville, in 1878. The marriage of his only daughter to Dr. Z. G. Bullock, of Allegany, N. Y., induced him to make this change,-that the family might not be so widely separated.
During the nine years of his residence in Hornellsville Dr. Orcutt has had a full practice.
In 1873 he associated with him Dr. C. W. Brown, a graduate of the Homeopathie Medical College of Chicago. This partnership existed about a year, when Dr. Brown withdrew, continuing practice a year or more, when he re- moved to llammondsport, N. Y., and subsequently to Dansville.
Dr. Orcutt continued alone in practice until the spring of 1878, when he became associated with Dr. W. E. Hath- away, which partnership still continues.
Dr. Hathaway is a graduate of the Ilahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He came to Hornellsville the latter part of 1877, from Elkland. Pa., where he had been in active practice several years.
Dr. J. L. Gage, formerly of Scottsville, N. Y., came to Hornellsville some time during the year 1877, remained about a year, and removed to Baltimore, Md. IIe was succeeded by Dr. McPherson, a recent graduate of the Homeopathie College of Philadelphia.
During the whole period covered by the foregoing history there has been no homeopathic physician, other than those mentioned, located within a radius of twenty miles. Ilo- mœopathy rapidly gained favor during the past few years, has now its proportionate share of adherents, and its future prosperity is certain.
MILITARY RECORD OF HORNELLSVILLE.
Arnold, Stephen, 23d Regt.
Armstrong, James, 141st Regt .; taken pris, at Lookont Valley in Oct. 1803; exchanged ; discharged.
Armstrong, Jonathan, 16Ist Regt. ; discharged.
Arwin, Charles M., record not known.
Arghsinger, Moses, 1GIst Regt. ; discharged.
Aiken, Edwin, 179th Regt .; discharged.
Aiken, Alex. O. M., 179th Regt .; died in Feb. ISGG.
Arnold, Gustavus, 15th Cav. ; discharged.
Aelson, W'm. II., Adams, James D., Adams, Ed. L .; discharged.
Balton, Will. 11., 107th Regt. ; wounded at Dalton.
Babcock, Enoch 11., 107th Regt. ; pro. to corp. ; discharged.
Batharick, Charles, 107th Regt. ; discharged.
Barton, John, entered 141st Regt. as Ist lieut., Sept. 10, 1862; resigned May, 1803; re-entered as capt. in 179th Regt. in April, 1864; pro, to maj. ; killed
at mine explosion before Petersburg.
Bowen, Joseph 11., 141st Kegt. ; discharged.
Bishop, George, 14Ist Regt .; died in 1864.
Burris, Tommy, 141st Regt .; pro. to orderly sergt .; discharged.
Brown, J. W., 141st Regt. ; disch. Nov. 1862.
Brown, Chauncey, 23d Regt .; disch. for disability.
Bennett, John, 179th Regt .; discharged.
Bennett, Ira R., 86th Regt. ; pro. to. corp. ; discharged.
Bowen, David, I41st Regt. ; discharged.
Bush, Alfred W., 141st Regt. ; discharged.
Bradford, David D., - Vol. Cav. ; discharged.
Bucklin, George, - Vol. Cav. ; discharged. Barber, Perry S., 2d Cav .; discharged.
Bates, Gro. T., 86th Regt. ; discharged. Brown, James, 1Gth Heavy Art. ; discharged.
Benedict, Franklin, 86th Regt. ; discharged.
Babcock, George B., sergt., 23d Regiment.
Buker, Arthur S., pro, to 1st lient., 86th Regt .; assist, acting provost-marshal general.
Baker, Junior C., 5th llevavy Art. ; discharged.
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Burr, Phineas, 50th Engineers; discharged. Bingham, l'orter, 16th Heavy Art .; discharged. Brownell, David S., 107th Regt .; discharged. Babcock, David A., 6th Cav .; discharged. Beers, Hermon S., 6th Cav .; discharged. Brooks, Thomas 8., 6th Cav. ; discharged. Benjamin, Addison P., 107th Regt .; discharged. Patrick, John B., pro, to qm .- sergt; discharged. Brown, Thos. J., 179th Regt. ; discharged. Bedee, George W., 179th Regt. ; discharged. Brannan, Patrick, 179th Regt .; discharged. Brown, John, 179th Regt .; discharged. Bemus, Franklin, 9th Cav .; discharged. Brown, Will., 4th Cav .; discharged. Baker, Solomon, 189th Regt. ; discharged. Baker, Morgan, 189th Regt .; discharged. Bickford, George W., 50th Regt .; discharged. Baker, Olin, 15th Cav .; discharged. Burns, David, 15th Engineers ; discharged. Bruce, Philip H., 50th Engineers ; discharged. Boston, John, 10th Cav .; discharged. Bradley, Wm. ; discharged. Brown, Marcus E., Ist lieut., 161st Regt. ; discharged. Brooks, Wm. R., 16Ist Regt. ; died at l'ort lEndson.
Baker, Wm. 11., 23d Regiment. Bunn, John, 179th Regiment. Bellis, John H., 23d Regt. ; wounded at Antietam. Brigdon, John T., 23d Regt. ; served two years. Burnett, James II., 23d Regt. ; detached, June 25, 1862, in the 104th Pa. Battery. Bennett, Olin L., 23d Regt .; killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Brenner, Dennis, 23d Regt .; wounded at Antietam.
Bowman, Jesse J., 23d Regiment. Colony, Edwin, 23d Regt .; disch. Jan. 26, 1862. Chubbuck, John, 23d Regt. ; discharged. Clark, W. HI., 23d Regt. ; wounded at Antietam ; discharged.
Clark, Benah C., 23d Regt .; disch. Jan. 16, 1863.
Crossman, Alonzo M., 23d Regt .; taken prisoner at Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862; discharged.
Chilson, Stephen, 23d Regt. ; discharged.
Cranmer, Alfred S., 23d Regt .; wounded at Antietam ; disch. Jan. 16, 1863. Collins, Brower II., corp., 10th Cav .; taken prisoner at Bull Run ; discharged. Crane, Niram M., lieut .- col , 23d Regt .; discharged. Chidsey, Lucien B., q .- m. sergt., 107th Regt .; disch, for disability, Nov. 1862. Coe, Ephraim, 107th Regt .; discharged. Cone, George S., 107th Regt .; died at Hope Landing, Feb, 1863. Collins, Win. L, 179th Regt. ; resigned on account of ill health in Nov. 1862. Case, Heram, 141st Regt .; discharged. Crane, Frank D., 14Ist Regt .; disch. for disability, March, 1863. Corbit, John, 14Ist Regt. ; died at Shellmound, Tenn. Clark, Stephen, 141st Regt .; discharged. Cohern, George T., 141st Regt .; discharged. Cilley, D. Henry, Ist III. Cav .; discharged. Cole, Sidney, Ist Dragoons ; discharged. Cornish, David, IGth H. Art .; discharged. Cowles, Henry W., 50th Eng .; discharged. Cummings, Geo. W., 86th Regt .; discharged. Card, Truman P., discharged. Cone, Fra, Ist lient., 23d Regt. Carney, John B., 6th Cav.
Carr, Charles, 179th Regt .; pro. to lieut. ; discharged. Chandler, Senior, 50th Eng. ; discharged. Cattens, Julius F., 179th Regt .; discharged. Chapman, Martin H., 6th Cav .; discharged. Collins, Eustus, 179th Regt. ; discharged. Campbell, Ebin, 25th Cav. ; discharged. Corcoran, Michael, 4th Cav .; discharged. Curtis, Seth, 50th Eng .; discharged. Campbell, H. G., 189th Regt .; discharged. Cook, Franklin, Ioth Cav .; discharged. Collins, Madison M., 161st Itegt .; pro. to corp., Oct. 12, 1863; discharged. Dunlap, John R., 86th Regt. ; re-enlisted. Dewitt, Benjamin C., Gth Cav. ; pro. to sergt. ; wounded at Brandy Station. Doorly, Edward, 6th Cav. Doty, Levi, 141st Regt. ; pro. to corp. and sergt ; discharged. Derby, James A., 23d Regt. N. Y. S. Vols. ; wounded at Bull Run; taken pris- oner at Cortinsville; exchanged.
Doty, Franklin B., 23d Regt .; pro. to capt. of Co. G, 23d Regt., May 9, 1861 ; re- enl. May, 1864, in 179th Regt .; pro. tu lieut .- col. ; killed before Peters- burg, Va., April 2, 1865.
Doty, Martin Van Buren, 23d Regt .; discharged ; re-enl. in April, 1804, as hospital steward 179th Regt. ; was pro. to capt, in 179th Regt.
Duel, Lester L., 86th Regt. ; discharged. Davis, George W., 86th Regt .; re-enlisted. Dennis, Geo. W., Holst Regt .; discharged. Duffy, Michael, 10th Cav. ; discharged. Doon, Alfred, 85th Regt .; discharged. Daerly, Alfred, 6th Cav .; ro-enlisted; discharged.
Dix, Thomas, 14th II. Art .; discharged. Duffey, John, 6th II. Art .; discharged. Donnivon, Thomas, 15th U. S. Inf .; discharged.
Drew, John, 15th U. S. Inf. ; discharged. Derhy, Stephen C., 15th U. S. Inf .; discharged. Daily, Amos, Ist U. S. Inf .; discharged . Edwards, Alonzo, Ist Vol. Cav .; discharged. Ellsworth, David S., capt., 86th Regt .; killed at Chancellorsville.
Ellsworth, Liras A., Ist Vol. Cav .; discharged. Eakin, Samuel D., 179th Regt. ; discharged. Ellis, B. F., 4th Regt. ; discharged. Emery, Joseph W., 141st Regt .; discharged.
Evans, J. W., 189th Regt .; discharged. Emory, Charles, 187th Regt. ; discharged.
Evarts, Orrin, 15th U. S. Inf .; discharged.
Edminister, Wm. H., 23d Regt .; wounded at Antietam ; discharged.
Elliott, Geo., 23d Regt .; discharged.
Edwards, Ethan A., 23d Regt .; discharged. French, John F., 23d Regt. ; discharged.
Fleet, David, 23d Regt.
Force, Levi, 179thi Regt .; pro. to corp., sergt., and captain ; re-enlisted; dis- charged. Flion, John.
Farr, James E., 179th Regt .; pro. to lieu t.
Freeman, B. S., 1st Dragoons; discharged .
Finch, N. P. Tal., Ist lient., 179th Regt. ; pro. to q .- mi. ; discharged.
Farly, James, Ist Dragoons ; discharged.
Faster, W. Il., 23d Regt .; discharged.
Fanton, Joseph, 179th Regt. ; pro. to hospital steward ; discharged.
Foreman, Henry, 189th Regt. ; discharged.
Fairbanks, Gardiner, 50th Eng .; discharged.
Franklin, Martin II., 189th Regt .; discharged.
Folsuser, Isaac, 50th Eng.
Fander, Mirah T., 23d Regt,; died at Fredericksburg, Aug. 7, 1862.
Fulkerson, Joseph, Jr., 16th II. Art.
Funder, Samuel G., 23d Regt .; discharged.
Flint, Will L., 141st Regt.
Foster, Parker, 230 Regt.
Fristen, George W.
Foster, Henry, disch. for disability, May, 1863; re-en]. March, 1864 ; discharged. Goodrich, John M., Ist lieut. ; res. Jan. 13, 1863.
Gunn, Wyron, 107th Regt. ; discharged.
Granger, John M., 141st Regt. ; discharged.
Gilbert, Stephen F., 141-t Regt. ; discharged.
Green, Sylvester S., 15th Cav. ; discharged.
Green, Jason, Jr., 107th Regt .; discharged. Gardner, John B., 109th Regt. ; discharged. Grover, Abe, 4th HI. Art .; re-enl. ; discharged. Grow, Hiram, 85tl Regt. ; discharged.
Gregory, Livingston, 179th Regt. ; discharged.
Gregory, Daniel, 189th Regt. ; discharged.
Goodno, Hiram, 189th Regt .; discharged. Goud, Jolın, 188th Regt. ; discharged.
Gillow, Hugh, 188th Regt .; discharged. Greeno, Volney 11., 12th Cav. ; discharged. llathoway, L. D., 161st Regt .; pro. to lieut. and capt. ; discharged.
llead, Hubbard W. R., 189th Regt .; discharged.
Higgins, Russell, 189th Regt. ; discharged.
Ifiggins, Walter B., 189th Regt .; discharged.
Hill, Nathan R., 189th Regt .; discharged.
Helmer, Michael, 189th Regt. ; discharged.
Hizer, I., 111th Regt. ; discharged, Hadley, Henry, 179th Regt. ; discharged.
Haage, John, 3d Cav. ; discharged.
Hizer, Cassius M., 179th Regt, ; discharged.
Hogarty, Michael J., wounded at Resaca, Ga. ; discharged.
Hagadorn, James B .; discharged. Hagadorn, Thomas R., 179th Regt .; discharged.
Hickey, George H., wounded before Petersburg, Va .; disch .; died soon after of his wounds.
Hill, Austin, 179th Regt. ; wounded at Petersburg, April 2, 1861 ; discharged. Hill, Chester, wounded at Petersburg, April 2, 1861 ; discharged.
Hazleton, Eugene A., 23d Regt.
Higgins, Walter, 23d Regt .; disch, for disability.
Hallett, Elijah, 23d Regt. ; corp. ; wounded at Bull Run, Aug. 3, 1863. Hallett, Theodore, 23d Regt.
llallett, Marshal, 23d Regt. Hopkins, Enoch, Jr., 10th Cav. ; discharged.
Haugh, Joseph, 63d Regt. ; discharged. Hazleton, Leon, SGtlı Regt .; killed in 1864.
Hough, Augustus A., 23d Regt. ; disch. for disability.
Hovey, Jerome B., 50th Eng. ; discharged, Hutchins, Wmn. II., 14th H. Art .; killed in the Wilderness.
Hodge, Jacob E., Jr., 16th II. Art. ; discharged.
Harrison, Charles, Ist Vol. Cnv. ; discharged. Howard, Alonzo B., 23d Regt. ; pro, to lat lieut, and q .- m. ; discharged. Hunt, Charles M., 141st Regt .; discharged.
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Michale Grotty
MICHAEL CROTTY.
Michael Crotty was born in Gourhas, County Clare, Ireland, in 1829. His father, Michael, senior, was a well-to-do farmer of the same place, and was there born and died, being about sixty years of age. Of his three sons and three daughters, only the subject of this narra- tive came to America.
In the year 1848 he emigrated to this country, stop- ping first at Elmira for a while. He then moved to Canisteo, and from there to Alfred, finding employment with Professor Kenyon, of Alfred University, where he acquired a good common-school education. In 1853 hie settled in Hornellsville, and after a few years in the em- ploy of Mr. Osborne, he became the confidential clerk of Maurice Fitzgerald, by whom he was intrusted in- plicitly with the financial part of his business. In 1863 he purchased the location on Broad Street which he oc- cupied as a place of business until his death. It was in this place that he first went into business for himself, and where by judicious management he accumulated a comfortable fortune, the larger portion of which was made by operations in real-estate.
Mr. Crotty was connected with the best interests of the village during his residence here, and showed that characteristic industry and integrity worthy the emu- lation of others, and by his own exertion, from strug- gling with poverty, became one of the best financiers of Hornellsville. He is thus spoken of by the papers
of the village at the time of his death, which occurred Sept. 9, 1877 :
" When a man of wealth or influence passes away it is very easy to say good words for him in public, but all who were acquainted with Mr. Crotty well know that we speak only the truth when we say the highest praise that can be given to any one -- that he was an honest man. And more than that, while he probably had more inti- mate dealings with more poor people than any other man in town, no one can truthfully say that he ever in any way took advantage of that fact to advance his own interest by distressing them in any manner. Nay, more than that. When he knew a man to be worthy, but unfortunate, he did not even enforce his own just dues, bnt tided him over his difficulties by not merely passive, but active sympathy and aid. He was a man whose word was believed to have been as good as his bond. His people trusted him implicitly. The last act of his life was to make a will, bequeathing everything le owned to his wife, unreservedly and without restrictions of any kind, remarking that, as they had begun life together poor, and had toiled together in early days to gain their possessions, everything should go to her at his death."
He was married July 3, 1856, to Margaret O'Brien, a native of Ireland, and who came to America at the age of seventeen, settling first at Hornellsville. Their chil- dren living are Maggie and Nellie.
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Hathoway, Charles, 23d Regt .; died of wounds received at Antietam. Hartman, Michael, 141st Regt. ; discharged.
Hongh, Charles F., 23d Regt .; wounded in Wilderness. Harrison, William II., 141st Regt. ; discharged. Hough, Leroy S., 23d Regt. ; re-enl. in Oct. 1864 ; discharged. Harrison, John D., 141st Regt. ; discharged.
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