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EDWARD B. HARRISON was born in Perry, March 7th. 1832, and was mar- ried January 1st. 1851, to Caroline Howcraft, whose father and mother wore named George and Sarah. They have had four children ; two are living. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are members of the Baptist church of Perry. Ed- ward B. Harrison's father, Robert Harrison, was born in England, in 1789. His parents were John and Rachel Harrison. He came to America and set- tled at Perry about 1880, in which year be married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Abigail Welds, who had emigrated from England in 1804. He had been previously married in England, but his first wife died soon after bis arrival bere. By his second marriage he had two children, one of whom is living. He died August 28th, 1863. His widow, now about ninety. lives with ber son.
SAMUEL A. HATOH, son of Samuel and Matilda Hatch, was born in Perry, in 1868. He has served one term on the board of village trustees of Perry village. where, as a member of the firm of Hatch & Cole, at the corner of Main and Covington streets, be is a dealer in groceries and provisions.
WILLIAM HENRY HERRINGTON was born at Hoosac, Rensselaer county, in 1886. In 1800 be married AJobe F., daughter of Darid and Sylvia Case. They have had siz children, born as follows: Bertha F., 1861; Arthur C., 1884; Grace, 1871: infant son, 1872; Frank B., 1874, and Lucie E., 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Herrington suffered a severe loss, which they bore with Christian fortitude, in the death, by malignant diphtheria, of three children, Arthur C., Grace and Frank B., in 1877 : the infant son mentioned also dying in that year. They are members of the Baptist church st La Grange. Mr. Herring- ton came to Perry from White Creek, Washington county.
MRS. ABIGAIL B. HIGGINS, formerly Mies Abigail Bailey, daughter of Enoch and Susan Bailey, was born in Hardwick, Caledonia county, Vt., in 1806. At the age of eighteen sabe began teaching school, and continued in that avocation six years. In 1896 sbe accompanied her brother, Charles Bafley, from Vermont to Perry, and engaged in teaching at Perry Center. In 1841 sbe married Mason G. Smith, M. D., who practiced medicine from 1820 until his death, in 1837. He served twenty-two years as school com- missioner and several years as justice of the peace. After a widowbood of about five years Mrs. Smith married Henry Higgins, a native of Cayuga county, who located in Perry at an early date and died there in 1872, at the age of seventy-eight. He was a member and for a time a deacon of the Presbyterian church, with which his widow is connected. Mason C. Smith, a son of Dr. Mason G. Smith, then in Hamilton College, enlisted in 1882 in the northern army. He was taken prisoner in North Carolina, and died in the prison pen at Andersonville in 1864.
JOHN H., son of Benjamin and Sarah HOLLISTER, was born in New Marl- boro, Mass., April 7th, 1815. December 81st, 1816, be married Polly, daughter of Solomon and Jerusba Hart, of his native place. He arrived in Perry from Massachusetts March 1st, 1816, locating in the woods on lot 19. Mrs. Hollister died August 20th, 1809, at the age of seventy-three. Mr. and Mrs. Hollister had seven children, six of whom are living.
BENJAMIN H. HOLLISTER, son of the above mentioned, was born in Perry, in 1889. on the farm where he has since lived. He served in the 24th N.Y. bat- tery from September. 1882, until the close of the war. He was captured at Plymouth, N. C., in April. 1801, and was confined in rebel prisons at Ander- sonville and Charleston. He was married in 1867 to Alice Macken, daughter of Joseph and Olive Macken, of Wellsville, Allegany county. They have one child.
ELIZA A. HOSTORD was born in Wallingford. Vt., in 1821. Her father was Micajab Kells. a native of Bolton, Mass., who was born in 1786. He was mar- ried in 1819 to Betsy Gifford, and they removed to Perry in 1831. after Living in several other places. Mr. Kells is still living. Miss Kells was married in 1844 to Almer B. Hosford, a native of Perry, who was born on the farm on which Mrs. Hosford lives. He was a member of the Baptist church, with
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which his widow is identified. They had two children-Mary L., born in 1848, and Sarah Elizabeth, born in 1862. Amos Hosford, Mr. Husford's father, was born in Massachusetts, in 1787; moved from there to Richmond, Ontario county, and thence to Perry, where be bought of Mr. Granger part of the Phelps purchase. With the assistance of his father be cleared the land and erected a log bouse. He wes in the war of 1812-14, and participated in sev- eral battles. He is living.
JAMES HUNT was born in Gorham, Ontario county, February 17th, 1806. In 1881 be married Harriet, daughter of Joseph and Mary Havens, of Ben- ton, Yates county. Jn 1882 be came to Perry from Gorham, Ontario county, and purobased the Franklin House, which he managed three years. He died at his residence in Perry in 1866. Mrs. Hunt married Edward Richards, a native of Massachusetts, who came to Perry in 1800 and took up eighty sores of land near West Perry, and who died in 1876. Mrs. Richards has two sons by ber first marriage living-James W. Hunt, of Terre Haute, Ind., and Frank G. Hunt. of Buffalo. Another son, George D. Hunt, enlisted at Perry in 1861, in Company G., 27th N. Y. volunteers, and died that year at Mill Creek, Va. Sergeant Mayratt Hunt enlisted at Brockport, Monroe county, in 180%, in the 140th N. Y. volunteers, and died that year in the hospital at Washing- ton, D. C. He was in the engagement at Fredericksburg.
LUMAN W. HUNT. M. D., was born in Herkimer county. in 1836. In the spring of 1861 he went to California, where he remained seven years. He returned to Gainesville, and in 1870 married Miss Chloe Stone, of that place. He removed to Perry in 1872.
CHARLES B. HUNTINGTON Was born December 28d. 1820. in Greensboro, Vt. He came to Perry in company with Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn, making the journey in a wagon, to live with his sister, Mrs. C. Hatch, and learn the barnees-mak- er's trade. Whatever education he possesses he has obtained by his own ex- ortions, having attended school only three or four months, in the old yellow school-house in Perry. The barness-maker who employed him sold out bis business about 1887, and young Huntington was withouta job; but soon found work at his trade, at which he continued abouta year. after which he was as- soolated in business for two years with A. T. Alpin. Since 1842 he has been a farmer. He has been twice married. His arst wife was Lucy Jane Olin, who died May 6th, 1842. November 19th, 1846, be married Mary Buell, and soon afterward began housekeeping in an old log house near his present comfortable bome, which he has won by industry and economy. Mr. Hunt- ington states that be has always avoided the use of whiskey and tobacon, and he has never sought nor accepted office, being content with his bome life and the company of his wife, whom he emphatically pronounces bis " better balf." He has reared a family of six children. His second daughter is a graduate of the Geneseo Normal School. Mr. Huntington's father, a farmer at Greensboro, Vt., was a man honored for bis intelligence and social worth, bis temperate and industrious habits, and his overflowing benevo- lence. He died October 1st, 1840.
W. H. JENKINS was born in Warsaw, in 1847, and came from Covington to Perry in 1866. In 1878 he married Aristene, daughter of Thomas and He- becca Dodson. Mrs. Jenkins is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wyoming.
JAMES C. KARIGER, son of Peter and Mary Kariger, was born October 18th, 1819, in Scbobarie county. Ho worked on bis father's farm until 1883, when he went to Cattaraugus county. In 1889 be removed to Livingston county, and began to work at his trade (that of a cooper) in 1846. In 1862 he came to Perry, where be has since lived. He was married in 1819 to Clarice, daughter of Joseph and Amanda Thompson, of Bethany, Genesee county. Mr. and Mrs. Kariger are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Perry. They have two children. Mrs. Kariger's father was originally from Vermont : ber mother from Whiteball, N. Y.
ABRAM B., son of Lewis and Mary KING, was born in Greenville, Greene county, in 1824. In 1846 he married Catharine Jaquett, of Fleming, Cayuga county. Four children have been boru to them. Mr. King came to Perry from Scipio, Cayuga county, in 1861, and has been a farmer most of the time since. In 1871, under the supervision of Hon. William P. Letchworth, be had charge of the removal of the Cancades council-house from the Caneades res- ervation, and the re-crection of the same at Glen Iris. He also had super- vision, under Mr. Letobworth's direction. of the burial of the remains of Mary Jemison in their final resting place. Mr. and Mrs. King are members of the Presbyterian church.
ELLAS, son of Vall and Esther KINGSLEY, was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, in 1806. He was married November 24th, 1822, to Nancy, daughter of Baxter and Florina How, by whom be had fourteen children, five of whom are living, two at home. Mrs. Kingsley died March 2nd, 1879, and Mr. Kingsley married ber sister. Electa Bishop, widow of the late Simon Bishop, of Perry, November 4th following.
GEORGE W., son of Elias and Nancy KINGSLEY, was born in Perry, in 1888. He married Clarissa, daughter of George H. and Mercy Wright, of Perry, October 17th. 1806. They have had four children. three of whom were born at the following dates : Gerty M., February 18th, 186; Willie W., December 18th, 1870, and Edna A., March 18th, 1878" Mr. Kingsley is a farmer and dealer in agricultural implements.
JOMAR W. KINGSLEY. son of William and Esther Kingsley, was born in Owego. Tioga county, in 1797. In 1815 be married Eliza, daughter of John Burrows, of Aurelius, Cayuga county, by whom he had six children, three of whom are living. His second marriage was to Miss Sally Clark, of Perry. He came to Perry in 1816 from Scipio, Cayuga county, and is a retired farmer and owner of one hundred and ninety-three acres. His frst purchase was
one bundred acres (twenty-five acres cleared) of Thomas Burrows. It was in section 84 and there was a log house on it. The balance of his tract was a later purobase. He retired from active life in 1370, and removed to Perry village. He is a member of the Universalist church, his wife of the Pres- byterian.
GEORGE L. KEENEY. M. D., was a son of Josiah and Phebe Keeney. He was born in 1809 and died in 1867. His parents were natives of Connecticut, and located in Wyoming county, Pa., in the latter part of the 18th century. The doctor graduated at Yale College in 1812, and during that year entered upon the practice of his profession in Perry, where, in 1835, be married Anna, daughter of William and Hannah Dolbeer. who survives him.
WILLIAM, son of Thomas and Maria KERTON, was born in Lincolnshire. England, in 1811. In 1818 he married Fanny, daughter of Charles and Mary Bryant, of Huntington, England, by whom be has had serun children. one of whom is dead. He came to Castile in 1844, and to Perry village in 1886. where be lives retired. He was notary public for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Keeton are of the Baptist faith.
ROBERT KERSHAW WAS born September 4th, 1833. in Le Boy. Genesee county, and was married in August, 1879, to Libbie M. Knimo, of Perry, where he has been in business for the past four years as a jeweler and ro- pairer of clocks and watches. He formerly lived in Custile village, and served as town clerk of Castile. August 6th. 1802, he enlisted in Company A, Ist N. Y. dragouns, and was in the battles of Suffolk and Culpepper Court-bouse, and in all of the other engagements in which the regiment par- tioipated. He was discharged at Cloud's Mills, Va., in 1005.
ALANSON LACY, son of Elnathan and Nancy Lacy, was born in Manlius. Onondaga county, September 1st, 1810, and his beon a resident of Porry since 1817, and a lifelong farmer. He was married May 29th, la3, to Sarah Ann Knowiton, daughter of John and Esther Knowiton. of Portage. They have had two children. one of whom is living. James M. Lacy, their oldest son, enlisted in Company K, 1st N. Y. mounted rifles, und died in the bus- pital at Williamsburg. Va., February 19th, 1863, at the age of twenty-four. Elnathan Lacy, son of Samuel Lacy, was born in Connecticut. June 10th, 1778, and in 1780 accompanied his parents to Milton, Saratoga county. March 17th, 1817, be came with his father from Manlius. Onondaga county. to Perry. and located on lot 21, a mile northeast of the village. the place be afterward cleared and always occupied. He kept a public house twenty- three years. He was married in 1800 to Nancy, daughter of Ebeneser Horton, of Connecticut, and in 1833 to Zilpha Frost, who died November 18th. 1877. aged ninety-two. Mr. Lacy died June 17th, 1832; Samuel Lacy, his father, January 8th, 1820, aged seventy-eight. By his first wife Einatban Lacy bad nine children. six of whom grew up, viz .: Hannab, who married Sullivan Burt; Edward, who died at the age of twenty-four ; Martha, who married N. 8. Benton; Clarence, the only one now living, and who occupies the old homestead ; Aurelia, who married Martin Sweet, and Alvab.
DAVID, son of David and Polly LACY, was born April 3d. 1811. in Columbus, N. Y., and came to Perry in 1818. He is a farmer. January 9th. 1840. be mar- riod Miss L. D. Lapham, who died May 30th, 1819. Two oblidron by that marriage are living. October 10th, 1848. be married Susan, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Bullard. They bave one child living. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy are members of the Baptist church.
WILLIAM A. LACY, farmer, is a son of David and Polly Lacy, and was born In 1809, at Columbus. Chenango county. He has been a resident of Perry since 1818. In 1882 he married Eliza X. Cleveland, by whom be bad three children, one of whom is living. Mrs. Lacy died at the age of forty- four, in 1868. In 1867 Mr. Lucy married Mary Jane Eggleston, daughter of Moses and Clarinda Eggleston, of Avon, Livingston county. They bare one child. Both are Baptists. David Lacy was born in Connecticut. September 31st, 178; came to Perry in 1818, and died August 18th, 188. His wife was born January 22nd, 1787, and died February 24th, 1874.
J. B. LAMB was born in Covington, in 1847, and married Mary Frances Jenkins, of Gainesville, in 1864. They have one child-Melville Alverson. born in 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Lamb's father, Hiram Lamb, was born in Massachusetts, in 1800, and was an early settler in Covington, where be cleared land and erected & log house, which was destroyed by fire and replaced by a frame dwelling. Mrs. Lamb's father, John B. Jenkins, was born in 1810. He was a Methodist presober twenty years. He married Sophia Kendall. Mr. Lamb's mother was a native of Pennsylvania. Early in life she removed to Ontario onunty. At the age of twenty-one she married David Alverson. Several years after his death sbe married Hiram Lamb, and is living, at eighty-three. Her mother died at eighty-four. Mr. Lamb's grandfather and grandmother were respectively eighty-six and eighty-four at their death.
SIDNEY LAPHAM, son of Thomas and Thankful Lapham, was born in Ledyard, Cayuga county, in 1802, and died in Perry in 1851. In 1835 he mar- Fiod Miss Jane Macomber, daughter of Zebidee and Rebecca Maonmber. of. Ledyard, Cayuga county, and came to Perry in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Lapham had two children. Mr. Lapham was a farmer. He was a practical supporter of the Baptist church : politically he was a believer in the principles eu- dorsed at a later day by the Republican party. Mrs. Lapham is a Pres- byterian.
Mas. CATHARINE M. LENT is the widow of Abram Lent, who enlisted ta the 124th N. Y. battery in 1802: was taken prisoner at Plymouth, and died in Andersonville prison in 1861. He was a lawyer by profession, and a Democrat politically. He was for several years postmaster at the village of Perry.
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ALLEY MACOMBER WAS born in Kinderbook, N. Y.,.in 1807. He married Estber Howe, of Castile, in 1821, and in 1815 came from Saratoga county to Perry, where be bes served three years es assessor, and owns one hundred and fifty seven acres of land.
EDWARD G. MATTHEWS was born in Leicester, Livingston county, in 1834. He came to Perry from Centreville. Allegany county, in 1862, and during that year married Miss Mary L. Lapham. Mr. Matthews to superio- tendent, manager and conductor of the Perry & Buver Lake Railroad. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. His father was John Mat- thews, a native of Wales, and was brought by his parents to America in childhood. He married Susannah Taber, daughter of Gideon Taber, a na- tive of Vermont and one of the early settlers of Perry. He bad nine chil- dren, five of whom are living. He came from Pittsford, Monroe county, to Leicester. Livingston county, and took up eighty acres of land on the Gar- deau reservation, in 1822 : four or five years later be located on the Allegany road, north of Perry village, and in 1840 removed tu Allegany county, where be died in 1882.
THOMAS MCCALL, farmer, was born in Washington county. December 15th, 1827, and came to Perry with his parents. In 1857 be married Pbolina, daughter of Nathen and Bunice Nolton. He is a member and for twelve years has been trustee of the Congregational church. His father, John Mo- Call, was born in Monaghan county, Ireland, in 1777. He came to America and located for a time in Washington county. About 1800 he came to Wyo- ming county. where be died in 1837. Nathan Nolton was born in 1792, and married Eunice Handali. He was a cabinet maker by trade.
MARTIN A. MCINTIRE, farmer, was born in Perry, June Ist, 1888, and mar- ried Emily, daughter of Oliver C. and Maria Chapman, March 24th, 1864, by whom he has three children. John McIntire, his father, was born February 12th, 1797, at Augusta, Maine, and came to Perry in 1806, locating on the Warsaw road, midway between Perry and Warsaw. In August, 1836, be marrind Keziah Wheat, daughter of Bamuel and Isabel Wheat. They had nine children ; six are living. Calvin H. Molutire, their second son, enlisted in an Iowa regiment, as lieutenant. He was taken dok and died in the south, and his remains were brought to Perry Center for burial. Mr. John McIntire died December 31st, 1872 ; Mrs. MeIntire June Mind, 1806.
ICHABOD MINOR. farmer, was born in Sandgate, Vt., in 1801, and came to Perry in 1817. In 1829 he married Miss L. Cooley, daughter of Noah and Sabrey (formerly Wells) Cooley, of Perry Center. They have two children -Caroline, born in 1880, and Mary, born in 1883. Josiah Minor, father of the above mentioned, was born in Roxbury, Conn .. in 1708. After living in Ver- mont and Oneida county, he came to Perry in 1817, and bought wild land, cleared it and built a log bouse thereon, which he occupied during the pioneer period of the town's history. He was a member of the Congrega- tional church. His wife was Keziah Sherman.
RUSSEL C. MORDOFT, son of James and Lois Mordoff, was born in Che- mango county, in 1816. His father was a settler, in 1818, on the west bank of Silver lake, in Castile. In 1841 Mr. Mordoff married Mies Amanda Lord, of Le Roy, Genesee county. by whom be bas one daughter. He has beld the office of town clerk many years, and for the past nine years that of justice of the peace. He is a self-made man, his father, a native of Scotland, bar- ing died when he was five years old. He learned the hatter's trade, and worked at it fifteen years. Gradually be engaged in mercantile pursuits, and is now sole proprietor of one of the finest stores in Perry village, and a leading merchant and produce dealer. His first wife died in 1846, and in 1848 he married Mies Olive MoBride, of Castile. Mr. and Mrs. Mordoff are members of the Presbyterian church.
CHAUNCEY NASH, son of Shubal and Sibyl Nasb, was born in North Adams, Mass., July 17th, 1796. In 1824 be removed to Pendleton, Niagara county. and in 1846 to Perry, Jocating two miles west of West Perry. In 1824 be married Ann Young, who died November Ist, 1880, at the age of thirty-five. June 20th, 1831, be married Dorotha Patterson. wbo bore him eight children, four of whom are living, and died January 6th, 1845, aged forty-two. June 23d. 1845, be married Sarah M. Board, who bore him two children. Mr. Nash died February 21st. 1876, aged seventy-eight. He was a member of the Free- Will Baptist church
WILLIAM S., son of Chauncey and Barah NABE, was born in Perry, in 1849. and has been a farmer since he was old enough to work. January 30th, 1874. be married Ellen Adela Jenks, daughter of Johnson and Sabrina Jonks, of Perry. They have one child.
MRS. EVELINE E. NEVINS, daughter of Cornelius R. and Amanda (Strong) Nevins, was born in Oneida county, and came to Perry with her parents, who are residents of the town, in 1839. In 1848 sbe married Dr. Jacob Nevins, of Perry, by whom she had two childron, one of whom is living. Dr. Nevins died at his residence in Perry, in 1872.
WILLIAM ORSON NEWCOMB was born in Bridgewater, Oneida county. Feb- ruary 14th, 1880. Losing his father by death when he was a little more than two years old. he became a member of the family of his uncle. William Newcomb, and lived with these friends till he was sixteen. September 9th, 1840, he married Eliza P. Batbrick, of Perry. He lived in East Gainesville and Castile. and became a resident of Perry in 1850. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He owns a good farm at Perry Cen- ter, and is known as an industrious, honest and wortby man.
LUCTUS STEPHEN, son of W. O. NEWCOMB, enlisted as a bugler. being too young for the ranks. in the 24th N. Y. independent battery. In 1964 be re- enlisted as a veteran. and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant January 10th, 188, and ist lieutenant in July following. In the four-dayn' fight at Plymouth, N.C., he was captured and sent to Andersonville prison. He was also confined
in the prisons at Charleston and Florence, and was in the hands of the rebels ten months and six days. He was in many engagements, several times voi- unteered for dangerous special service, and on various occasions manifested much coolness and bravery.
WILLIAM NOZON, GOD of Bobert and Letitia Nozon, was born in Boek- man, Dutobees county, in 1791, and in 1818 -married Ruth, daughter of 8am- uel and Mary Brownell, of his native place. He removed from Dutobess county to Fleming, Cayuga county, and from there to Castile in 1848, where he purobased one hundred and twenty sores of land, and died in 1867. He bold the office of superintendent of the State prison at Auburn six years, was many years a magistrate, and was known as a neeful, energetic business man. His widow removed to Perry village in 1829.
PHILIP, son of Philip and Clarises OLIN, was born in Canada, in 1867. His father died when he was young, and he was adopted by his uncle. He has been a resident of Perry since 1886. In 1837 he married Maria, daughter of Willard and Lucretia Guld, of Leicester, Livingston county, by whom be had five children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Olin died in 1808. and dur- ing that year Mr. Olin married Hattie, daughter of Truman and Mary Ann Madison, of Castile, who bes borne him two children ; one is living.
THOMAS OLIN, son of Paris and Sophia Olin, was born in Perry, January 9th, 1888. In 1835 be married Mies Emeline Compton, who bore him a son, and died in 1809, at the age of thirty-three. His present wife was Miss Cath- arine B. McEntee, daughter of Patrick and Mary MoEntee, of Perry. Dur- ing the year of his birth Mr. Olin's father moved to Leicester, Livingston county, where the latter resided until 1871, when be removed to Castile. locating just outside the corporate limits of Perry. He owns one hundred and fifty acres of land, nineteen of which is in Castile and the balance in Leicester, Livingston county. Mr. and Mrs. Olin are Presbyterians, and Mr. Olin has been church clerk for a number of years. Patrick MoEntee, Mrs. Olin's father, was a native of Ireland. He came with his parents to Perry in 1814, and his father took up eighty acres of lot 8.
TRUMAN OLIN was born in Shaftsbury, Bennington county, Vt., in 1810, and came to Perry from Rutland, Vt., in 1824, with his father. Bara Olin, and his brothers, Faris and Heman, making the journey with a team, and lucating ou land taken up by his brother Philip, who was a settler in 1822. Mr. Olin had left his wife and four children to follow him to Perry, They proceeded to Rochester by canal, and walked from Roobester to Perry, ex- cept six miles of the distance. Mrs. Olin was at that time fifty, but abe preferred to make the journey in this manner rather than wait for a team to come from Pers. In 1826 Mr. Olin, son., purobased one bundred and five acres from Mr. Bates, on the Perry Center road. A year later be exchanged this farm for one belonging to his son Philip, further east on the same road, where he died in 1868, at the age of eighty-six. Truman Olin was married in 1834 to Betay, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Hoyt. of Perry, by wbom be bas two sons. He is a farmer and the owner of one hundred and ninety-one acres of land.
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