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ISAAC CHASE was born in Orangeville, May 13th, 1811, and came to Mid- dlebury from Attios in 1865. He is a farmer, and has served the town as justice of the peace and highway commissioner, and the Free-Will Baptist church as trustee. He was married March 28th. 1868, to Sally Benham, of Attica, who died December 27th, 1886. December 16th, 1886, be married Mrs. Miranda Ellis, of Parma. He bas eight children living, seven of whom are the issue of his first marriage.
OSCAR CHASE was born in Attics, October 31st. 1838, and was married Oo- tober 5th, 1870, to Miss Mary A. Benchley, of Middlebury. He came to the town in January, 1866, and is a school teacher, station agent and telegraph operator. He has served as collector two years and has been elected town clerk.
SAMUEL A. Cox was born February 11th, 1888, in Middlebury. He was married May 19th, 1869, to Amanda Owen, of Middlebury. They have six children. He has been a blacksmith and carpenter, and for twenty years a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Coz are members of the Baptist church, and Mrs. Cox has long been a Sabbath-school tesober.
HENRY CRONERITE was born December Sist, 1838, in Middlebury. He was married September 9th, 1806, to Jenny L. Barrett, of this town. He served as a soldier in the late war, and is now a farmer. He has been chosen to the offices of inspector of elections and excise commissioner, and is a trustee of Middlebury Academy. He is a member of the Baptist church. His father. A. H. Crookhite was born in Rensselaer county. November 1st. 1804, and came to Middlebury, of which town be was the first supervisor. in 1831. The maiden name of Mr. Cronkhite's mother was Matilda Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Crookbite were Baptists. Dyer Barrett, Mra. Cronkhite's father, was born in Rutland, Vt., December 10th, 1814. He was supervisor of Middle-
bury when it formed a part of Genesee. Her mother, formerly Louise Clark, was born May 6th, 1823.
HORACE G. CUSHING was born in Wyoming, January 29th. 1882. He was married January 12th. 180), to Miss Mary Miller, of his native piace, who is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Cushing is a member of the Arm of Cushing Brothers, dealers in drugs. medicines, books, stationery. groceries, etc., at Wyoming. The records show that he has serred the town as clerk. He is a member of the Masonio fraternity, and belongs to Warsaw Lodge, No. 549. He states that the Brothers of the Mystic Tie beld communications in Middlebury at an early day. Hezekiah Miller, Mrs. Cushing's father, was born in Massachusetts in 1797.
THOMAS 8. CUSHING, senior member of the firm of Cushing Brothers, was born January 5th. 1829, in Wyoming, and married Mies Lavinia Pratt. of Syracuse, in 1869. Mr. Cushing was appointed postmaster by President Pierce, and beld the office nine years. He is now notary public. He owns sixteen acres of land in the village of Wyoming. The Cushing brick block is one of the finest in the section. Mr. and Mrs. Cushing, who have four children, are members of the Presbyterian churob, of which the former is clerk, and toward the building of the house of worship Mr. Cushing was a liberal contributor. Seth Cushing, father of Thomas S. and Horace G. Cushing, was born in Hingham. Mass., in 1795. He came to Wyoming some time previous to 1820, and was the first classical teacher in Middlebury Academy, and continued bis services in that capacity for twenty years. In consideration of his valuable services his children were educated at the academy free of expense. He died in February. 1837. His wife, formerly Persis Stanton, sister to General Phineas Stanton, was born In Woodstock, Vr. She died August 29th, 1878.
MATTHEW DODDS was born in Yorkshire, England, May 1st, 1843. February 27th, 1878, he married Harriet D. Warren, of Warsaw, by whom be bas bad two children. He came to America from Yorkshire, England, in the fall of 1865, and is one of the most successful bee keepers in western New York, keeping fifty swarms. Russell Warren. Mrs. Dodd's father. was born in Washington county, October 28th, 1808, and settled in Wyoming county in 1826. Emily Thompson, afterward Mrs. Russell Warren, was also a native of Washington county. She came to Wyoming county in 1824, traveling with an ox team and consuming twenty-two days in the journey. She died March 21st. 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Warren had nine children. The latter was a member of the Methodist church thirty-five years.
ERNEST A. DURFEE was born in Massachusetts, July 29th, 1838, and came to Middlebury in 1881. He is a leading farmer, owns three hundred and twenty acres of land and has been prominently identided with the best in- terests of the town. His father, Thomas Durfee, was born in 1804, and brought his family to the town at the date above given. He owned at one time nearly four hundred acres of land in the States of New York and Michigan. He was supervisor and beld other town offices. Mr. Durfee's grandmother lived in Rhode Island during the Revolutionary war. One day, when she was about twelve years old, some British officers entered the bouse, and in a scufile which ensued she was thrown on ber face and ber nose was broken by the concussion.
LEANDER EASTMAN Was born in Genesee county, October 9th, 1815, and . has been twice married ; the last time. September 14th. 1865, to Harriet Cox, of Middlebury, who was born July 28d. 1830. By his first wife be bas two children ; by his second, one. Nathaniel Eastman, his father, came to Mid- dlebury in 1817, and lived for fifty years on the farm be then took up. Mr. Eastman is a teacher and farmer. and Mrs. Bestman is a member of the Methodist church and has been a teacher of common and Sunday-schools.
MIN M. P. EWELL was born in Middlebury, May 12th, 1818. She was edu- cated at the Middlebury Academy, under the Instruction of Joseph Elliott, and has been a teacher in the common sobools. She manifests a great inter- est in Sunday-schools and Bible classes, and has long been a teacher of the mame. She is a member of the Middlebury Baptist church. Her bome is with ber brother. Hiram Ewell. Her mother taught, in a log school-house, the first school in the neighborhood of Wyoming. She was a woman of great religious influence, and was known as a Christian guide at an early day.
WILLIAM H. EWELL was born in Middlebury, December 1st, 1830. October 20th, 1858, be married Miss Emerancy J. Miller, of Middlebury, by whom be has eight children. He is a farmer. and owns one hundred and forty-six acres of land. He has served as assessor. Mra. Ewell is a member of the Presbyterian church.
ELISEA GAY was born in Middlebury, December 15th, 1886. May 26th, 1867. be married Harriet Smith, of Middlebury. Mr. Gay built a cheese fao- tory, which has been in successful operation for ten years. He gave $500 toward the endowment fund of Pike Seminary. His father was born in 1790, and came to Wyoming county from Oneida county penniless, but in time became the owner of seven hundred acres of land. His grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier.
SIMEON HOWARD was born in Attics, January 25th, 1887, and came to Mid- dlebury in 1864. He is a farmer, and for the past ten years bas denit in produce. He bas helped to lay out roads, and interested himself in pub- lic affairs. He.is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmed. At present be bolds the office of assessor. He was married January &d, 1867, to Ellen Dodson, and March 18th, 1870, to Loess Taber, both of Middle- bury.
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ORTAVILLE R. HOWEs was born September 14th, 1844, in Middlebury. Jan- pary 20th, 1806, be married Miss Mary J. Dodson, of Friendship, Allegany county. He is a farmer, and bas been chosen assessor. He is a member of the Free-Will Baptist church, and of Warsaw Lodge, No. 547. F. & A. M. Mrs. Howes is a member of the Baptist church. William Howes, his father. served in the war of 1812-14. He came on foot from Massaobusetts to Mid- diebury, his total wealth consisting of eighteen Spanish dollars. Bubee- quently he amassed a fine property. The father of William Howes and grandfather of Ortaville R. Howes was a Revolutionary soldier. Elmer Dodson, Mrs. Howes's brother, was a soldier in the late war. and died in Andersonville prison.
HIMAN HUNT was born in Newstend, Erie county, and married Hattie Coz, of Middlebury, and came from Erie county to this town, where be is & farmer, March 26th, 1866. David Cox, Mrs. Hunt's father, was born in Ver- mont, in 1814. He came to Middlebury empty-handed, and by the exercise of perseverance und industry paid for over seven hundred sores of land. He was formerly a teacher to the common schools, and for two terms served the town as supervisor. He died April 10th. 1874. He married Aurelia Dow (born February 1st, 1818,) in 1846. Her father came from Vermont in 1840 and is living, at the age of ninety-two.
NELSON W. HUNTINGTON was born in New Haven, Vt., October 28d, 1821. and came from there to Middlebury in 1884. November 18th, 1849, be was married to Mary Conklin, and February 26th, 1861, be married Rosanna Wil- son. The present Mra. Huntington's father was an early settler in the town, and among other pioneer experiences often related that of the loss of his only porker by the bold descent of a bear upon his sty. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt- ington are members of the Free-Will Baptist church.
OTIS H. KEITH was born in Easton, Mars., in 1842, and married Miss Tay- Jor, of Perry, December 25th, 1861. He bas since 1844 been a resident of Wyoming, where he is aleading dealer in dry goods, groceries, bats and caps, boots and shoes and general merchandise. He has been town clerk two years. Mr. and Mrs. Keith bave for fourteen years been members of the Presbyterian church, and Mrs. Keith renders efficient service in the Sunday- school. Mr. Keith's father, Otis G. Keith, was born in Easton, Maes.
GEORGE M. MILLER was born in Middlebury, August 28d, 1884, and mar- ried Mary Bradley, of Middlebury, by whom be bas a son and a daughter. He is afarmer, and bas assisted in laying out roads in the town. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are Baptists, and in the erection of the Wyoming Baptist church be rendered valuable ald.
HENDERSON MILLER was born August 80, 1834. in Middlebury, January Ist, 1861, be married Laura E. Decker, of Ohio, who was born August 18th, 1886. Mr. and Mrs: Miller are prominent in the Presbyterian church, which they assisted in rebuilding. They have five children. Mr. Miller bas belped to lay out roads in the town. He is a farmer and owns two hundred and fifty acres. The tree in which Shattuck caught his foot grew upon H. Mil- Jer's farm. He caved his life by severing the foot at the ankle joint with a jack knife.
HEERKLAR MILLER was born in Williamsburgh, Maes., March 26th, 1796, and arrived in Middlebury February 13th, 1814, having journeyed from bis native town on foot in fourteen days. He is a farmer, and has served the town as commissioner of highways six years, assessor six years, and as over- weer of the poor aix or eight years, and was trustee of the Middlebury Academy. Mr. Miller bas belped to build all of the churches in Middlebury, and is a liberal contributor toward the erection of the now unfinished Bap- tist church of Wyoming. Charles F. Miller, bis son, served in the late war, and was for a time a prisoner of war at Belle Isle. Mr. Miller has been twios married-the first time May 8ist, 1802, to Roua L. Newton, of Iowa. by whom be had four children. His present wife, Lucy, had been previously married and bad four children. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been members of the Baptist church forty and forty-five years respectively. The former bas been trustee.
JOHN 8. MILLER was born May 12th, 1819, in Middlebury, and was married November 18th, 1849, to Sarah G. Smith, of Middlebury. He is a farmer, and has been instrumental in laying out roads and building school-houses and churches. His father, Aaron Miller, was born in Williamsburgh, Mars., Feb- ruary 8th, 1782, and came with an ox team (the journey consuming three weeks) to Middlebury in 1812, and cleared the farm where John 8. Miller now lives. In the pioneer days the nearest store was at Batavia, and Mr. . Miller was obliged to go twenty miles to mill. Seth Smith, Mrs. Miller's father, saw service in the war of 1812, and received a land warrant from the government. Mr. Miller's grandmother died at the age of ninety-seven ; Mra. Miller's at one hundred and two.
SIDNEY S. MONROE, farmer and owner of one hundred and seventy-five acres, was born in Hoosec, N.Y., January 80th, 1804, and was married October 18th, 1832, to Harriet Kemp, who was born September 10th, 1811,and wbo bas borne bim six children. He came to Middlebury in 1842 from Genesee county. He served as constable in Onondaga county eight years, and for the same length of time in Genesee county. Mr. Mouroe's father, Samuel Monroe. was a soldier in the last war with England, and died of an epidemic soon after the battle of Queenston Heights. Mrs. Monroe's father. John Kemp. was a machinist, and by industry amassed a competency. He owned at one time one hundred and eighty acres of land, and served the town as highway, com m tesioner.
AMBROSE P. MOSEER was born in Schobarie county, February 8th, 1834. and came to Middlebury in 1846, having married, July 3d of that year, Mabais
Cronkhite, of Otsego county. Mr. Mosber has been a blacksmith and a mer- chant and is now a farmer. Mrs. Mosber's father belped to baul the materials for Middlebury Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Mosber are members and the former a trustee of the Baptist church.
ZADOC NICHOLS was born in Attica, March 16th, 1824, and married Julia Hinman, of Warsaw, October 34, 1850. Mr. Nicbois's birthplace was over the town line, in Attice, but in the school district in which be lives. He is a farmer, and owns one hundred and ninety-eight and one-half sores. His father, Zadoc, sen., was an early settler. His only means of obtaining the Decesseries of life was by the manufacture and sale of potash, which be was obliged to baul to Rochester to market with an ox team. His pioneer ex- periennes were many. Mr. and Mrs. Niobois are members of the Free-Will Baptist churob. Mr. Nichols is president of the new cemetery association.
JOSEPH NEWELL was born April 9th. 1807, in Rensselaer county, and came to Middlebury with his parents. He married Anna Warren, of Geneseo, Livingston county, June 30th, 1886. His father, Bilas Newell, came to Wy- oming county in 1809 from Rensselaer county with a team, requiring about seventeen days to perform the journey. He purchased four bundred acres of land, on which the village of Wyoming is located. He kept the first hotel there, which stood in the center of the road in front of the present town ball. It was a double log bouse with a frame addition. He next put up a barn on the site of the present hotel. At that time the nearest neighbors were a mile distant each way. He next built and opened a store. His next enterprise was a clothiers, which was operated by a man by the name of Carmible. Later be built the old Mansion House, on the site of the town hall, which was burned about eight years ago. In 1817 be built Middlebury Academy and also the first grist-mill, employing that year about fifty men. Joseph's motber bought the bell for the academy, which was the first ever bung west of the Genesee river. Joseph was the oldest son, and was a farmer from the age of fourteen up to thirty-one. From that time be bas been the proprietor of Newell's Hotel. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church forty-five years and his wife forty-two years. Mr. Newell bas always manifested a lively interest in the elevation of society, and bas been a consistent and ardent advocate of temperance.
CHARLES F. NEWTON was born in Covington, August 8th, 1862. Orville H. Newton, his father, was born in Jefferson county, in 1836, and came to Perry in 1887. He returned to Jefferson county and enlisted as a soldier in the late war. While in the service he was afflicted with eryalpelas and it was necessary to amputate bis leg three times. He survived the last operation only two days. At the time of his death he had been two years in the ser- vice. Mr. Newton's mother (formerly Chloe Carlisle) was born in Warmw, January 19th. 1828, and was married to Mr. Newton July 24th, 1851. They bad five children. Mr. Charles F. Newton's grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812 and died in the service. His great grandfather on his mother's side was on duty in the Revolutionary war.
ZENAS H. OWEN was born in Middlebury, February 28d. 1810, and was married January 29th, 1838, to Miss C. Ludden. of Bennington. They have twelve living children. The family are Baptists. He has served the public as constable, sobool inspector and trustee of Middlebury Academy. Mr. Owen's father, Elipbalet Owen, was born in Windham, Conn, May 9th, 1784. and came to Middlebury in June. 1806, settling on the farm now owned by his son. He was viewing this place with an idea of locating bere at the time of the great eclipse of that year. Zenas Owen bad two sons in the late war. After his settlement the nearest grist-mill was twenty-five miles away, and be was often obliged to crack his grain with a stump and pole mortar and pestle. He was many years a deacon in the Baptist church. One of his sons is a Baptist preacher. Mrs. Owen's parents were natives of Easthampton, Mars., and located in Bennington in 1806, where Mr. Ludden built the first framed house. They were two. weeks on the journey, traveling with an ox sled. He was a member and for forty years clerk of the Baptist church, with which his wife was also connected. He was for years a teacher of vocal music.
SOLON PAGE was born in Addison county, Vt., November 17th, 1801. Sop- tember 5th, 1821, be married Nancy Garfield. of Schroon, Essex county, where his father, Timothy Page (who died in 1810), was a well known physician; and came to Middlebury in 1844, where he has been a carpenter. a mill-wright, and for thirty-five years a farmer. His sons, Selieucius and James W. Page, enlisted in Company B. Sod Iowa volunteers. The former was a color bearer and died with his country's flag in bis band, while participating in a gallant charge on Fort Donelson, under command of General Grant. James W. corred bis term of three years ; was discharged and re-enlisted, and served until the close of the war. Mrs. Page's brother. Caleb C. Garfield, was a soldier in the war of 1812-14, and took part in the battle of Plattsburgh.
TIMOTHY PAGE was born in Vermont. May 24th, 1797, and came to Middle- bury in July. 1830. January 29th, 1885, be married Lydia Wilson, of Middle- bury, by wbom be bas a son and a daughter. He is a farmer. Coming to Wyoming at a comparatively carly day, Mr. Page bas seen the village grow up, and bas himself erected some of the best buildings there. Merritt C. Page, son of Timothy Page, was a graduate of Yale College. He was ap- pointed attorney-general of Montana by President Grant, and died while fording a river in 1877. Ira Wilson, Mrs. Pages's father, was born in Ver- mont. in 1789, and came to Middlebury in 1808. He served in the war of 1812- 14, and beld a colonel's commission. He was justice of the peace a number of terms. His death occurred in 1875.
JOHN RIDGE was born in Devonshire, England, June 22nd. 1819. At the age of seveneteen he came to America and located in Le Roy. Genesee county;
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and three years later came to Middlebury, where for thirty years be was successfully engaged in blacksmithing and the manufacture of carriages. During his long business career be was never sued and never sued but one man, and never sold a customer's note. At one time be owned three hundred acres of land, but retains only his home farm of fifty acres. May 18th, 1848, be married Miss Nanoy Perkins, of Middlebury, daughter of Philip Perkins, a native of' Rutland, Vt., who came to the town at an early day ; by ber be had four children. He beld the office of highway commissioner. Mrs. Ridge's mother. formerly Cynthia Woodworth, was born in Canada, In 1799. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins were familier with the bardships and vicissitudes of pioneer life. Mr. Ridge has served nine years as assessor, and is trustee of the Presbyterian uburob, of which Mrs. Ridge is also a member.
JOB SHERMAN was born February 13th, 1796, in Lanesborough. Mass , and came to Middlebury in 1818, locating where his son, Ethiel C. Sberman, DOW lives. He was superintendent of the poor in Generee county before Wyoming was organised ; was one of the commissioners to locate the site for the Wyoming county almsbouse; laid out the "Gulf road " from Wy- oming to Dale; assisted in building the Presbyterian oburob, and at his death (October 7th, 1803) left a legacy of $1,000 to that church, in which while living be had been a trustee and elder. Ethiel C. Sberman was born October 11th, 1818, the year of his father's advent in Middlebury, and was married Marob 8th, 1844, to Elizabeth B. Fargo, of Stafford, Genesee county, a native of Montville, Conn. He has served as commissioner of the R. and 8. L. Railroad ; was one of the building commitee of the. Presbyterian church, and assisted in the erection of the town hall and the depot.
ANNA SMITH was born in Ireland, where her father died. and came to Middlebury with ber motber in 1845. 8be married Orlando 8. Smith, of Mid- dlebury, May 17th, 1872, who died March 30th, 1876. Mr. Smith was a soldier during the war for the Union, and was in the battle of Bull Run and other engagements.
EDWIN 8. SMITH was born in China, N.Y., April 25th, 1835. Hawley Smith, his father, came tu Attics while yet a youth, from Otsego county, and for a time was captain of a militia company. Mr. Smith. wbo has been a carpenter and joiner. teacher and fermer. was married April 2dd, 1866, to Elisabeth Perry, of Middlebury. He has served as ccbool commissioner six years, Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Free-Will Baptist church. The latter has been superintendent and teacher in Sabbatb-sobools.
FRANK B. SMITH, editor and proprietor of the Wyoming Valley Era and job printing office, was born in Warsaw, February 6th, 1854, and married Mies Belle Wisner, of Mount Morris, Livingston county, September 10th. 1878, and came to Wyoming the following month. He is a member of the Letchworth Rifles Band,and is identified with the Warsaw Episcopal church.
J. MONROE SMITH was born in Attics, February 12th, 1831. and came to Middlebury in 1847. In 1814 Henry Smith, father of J. Monroe Smith, came to Middlebury, where be was highway commissioner. He also beld com- missions as lieutenant and captain of militia. Mr. Smith was married to Frances Johnson, of Bennington, September 5th, 1866. He bas beld the of- fices of assessor and inspector of elections, and is prominently identided with the Free-Will Baptist church.
WILLIAM H. SMITH WAS born in Henrietta, N. Y .. October 31st. 1804. He is a farmer, owning one hundred and four acres of land, and bas been a res- ident of Middlebury since the spring of 1848. Henry W. Smith, his father, was born in Montgomery county, in 1786, and removed early to western New York, and in 1831 to Warsaw. He was a member of the Dutch Re- formed church. and beid the officer of assessor and overseer of the poor. His motber. Clarinda Smith, was born in Connecticut, in 1786; was a member of the Methodist church, and died in 1868. Mr. Smith has two sisters-Mary A., a Congregationalist, and Miranda, a Methodist.
HENRY S. STRONG was born in Middlebury, August 18th, 1834. He is elder. tesober, treasurer and secretary in the Presbyterian church and Sunday-
school, a member of the Wyoming County Sabbath-school Association, and of the executive committee. Heis identified with Batuvia Lodge. No. 475, F. & A. M. His father, Joshua Strong, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Marob 17th, 1809, Mr. Strong married Mies M. Francens Bond, born July 10th, 1896, in Cattaraugus county; then of MoKeun county, where ber farber was one of the first to recognize the possibilities of the subsequent great coal developments. Mr. Strong served honorably in the Rebellion, in Company A., 9th N. Y. cavalry.
NATHAN B. STRONG was born June 2nd, 1823, in Pavilion, and was mar- ried September 11th. 1854, to Amanda Taggart. Thomas Taggart, her father. was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Livingston county when about six years old. Heserved in the war of 1812-14, and was taken prisoner and con- Aned at Halifax. He was a comparatively early settler in Covington. and died in Wisconsin. Mr. Strong wus a resident of Middlebury from 1831 until his death, May 12th, 1876. He was and Mrs. Strong is connected with the Presbyterian churob. His widow and his con, William T. Strong, live on the homestead, a farm of one hundred and eight sores.
CHARLES D. THOMSON was born in Middlebury, February 18th. 1837. Jan- uary 6th, 1869, he married Miss A. E. Spring, of Attics. They have two children-Edward E., born in October, 1819 (who married Imabel Miller. In November, 18.7). and a daughter. Athai Thomson, father of Charles D. Thomson, was born in Oneida county. in 1806, and ourhe to Middlebury. where the son is a leading farmer and dairyman, in December, 1836. He was the first postmaster at West Middlebury.
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