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MRS. ELIZA OLNEY is a daughter of John H. and Sarah Hollister, who came from New Marlborough, Mass., in 1816, and took up sixty-eight acres of lot 19, where Mr. Hollister is still living, at eighty-four. His first house in Perry was constructed of slabs. It was soon superseded by a log struc- ture. Miss Eliza Hollister was married at the age of twenty-four to Daniel Richards, a wagon maker, who came from New Hampshire in 1841 and soon afterward engaged in the clothing business. By this marriage Mra. Olney has had two children, one of whom (Mrs. 8. Phillips, of Perry) is living. Mr. Riobards died in 1868, at the age of twenty-eight. In 1866 his widow married Frederick T. Olney, of La Grange, a farmer, who died in 1870, at the age of seventy-sovco.
HENRY N. PAGE, banker, was born in Hartland, Vt., July 18th, 1828, and came from New York to Perry October 1st, 1848. October 7th. 1850, be mar- ried Eliza Dolbeer, of Perry. He was one of the projectors of the Silver Lake Railroad, and has been treasurer of the company since its organisation. He was supervisor of Perry in 1876-79.
GEORGE F. PECK was born in Vermont, in 1602. In 1834 be married Elisa Page, of Sweden, Monroe county, by whom he had five children, four of whom are living. His second wife, who, es bis widow, survives him, was Miss Philinda Hamlin, whose parents came from Vermont to Warmew in 1814. By this marriage one daughter was born to him. Mr. Peck was the owner of a farm of ninety acres in Castile, where became in 1841, from 8we- den, Monroe county, and died in 1861. He early identified himself with the Methodist church, of whiob his widow is a devout member.
LYMAN PHILLIPS was born in Perry, on the farm where be now lives, in 1822. His father. Nabum Phillips, was born in New England, in 1708. Ln 1816 he walked from Duver, Vt .. to bis future home in Perry, carrying his bag- gage in a pack strapped to bis back. He cleared a farm, and died on it in 1867. His wife was Polly Nevins, of Danville, Vt. They had five children, of whom the above named is the only one living. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were both members of the Baptist church.
J. D. POLLARD, farmer, was born in Batavia, Genesee county, in 1882. H. removed from there to Wales. Erie county ; from Wales to Wyoming, and from Wyoming to Perry in 1866. He was married in 1879 to Amelia Goodell, daughter of Charles and Minerva Burt. His father. Sidney Pollard, was born in Clinton, Oneida county, in 1791. After living in different places be settled in Wyoming. He was one of the first settlers in Wales, Erie county, where be located in 1818. He was drafted nine times during the war of 1812-14, and was present at the battle of Black Rock. In 1815 be married Barab Dustin, by whom be bad nine children, of whom J. D. Pollard was the eighth born. Mrs. Pollard's father served three years during the Revolu- tionary war, and was present at the battle of Trentoa, N. J.
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HISTORY OF WYOMING COUNTY. NEW YORK.
MARTIN POST. cabinet maker, son of Jacob and Jane Post, was born in Fleming. Cayuga county, in 1818, and came to Perry from Auburn, Cayuga county, in 1886. In 1888 be married Della E., daughter of Thomas and Sally Eagerly. of Perry. They have one son, Thomas Post, now of New York city, who served in the late war. He enlisted at Auburn in Company A, 19th N. Y. volunteers (afterward &d light artillery), and was discharged at Auburn in 1863. .
RALPH B. PRATT, owner of a farm of eighty-five acres, was born in Perry, in 1841. In 1868 he married Harriet E., daughter of John and Ruth Bush- bell. He contributed toward the prosecution of the late war. His father, Jabesh Pratt, was born in Manchester, Vt., in 1707, and removed from there to Perry, where he purchased a farm and became prominent in public affairs, serving several years es supervisor, assessor and highway commie- sioner, and doing much toward the development of the town. Mrs. Pratt's father. John Bushnell, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1800, and moved to Arcade, and from there to Perry. He married Buth Hill, by whom be had four children, all of whom are living,and of whom Mrs. Pratt was the third.
JOHN RICHMOND was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1821. He came to America in 1841, and for three years was engaged in milling at Oswego. Baldwinsville and Syracuse, N. Y. In 1846 he married Mary, daughter of John and Busan Payne, of Worcestershire, England, by whom be bas three children, his marriage having occurred after his return to England in 1844. He came to America a second time in 1888, locating in Oswego, N. Y. In 1807 be purchased the Genesee grist and flouring mills at Perry, of which he is proprietor and manager.
MIRANDA G. RICHARDSON, daughter of Hector M. Goodall, married J. Clarke Richardson, of Connecticut, in 1887. Mr. Richardson was a Congre- gational clergyman, and labored in Kentucky and at Oramel, Allegany county. He died in Livingston county in 1865, leaving three children, Hector G., born in 189; Amelia M., born in 1861, and Riley Clarke, born in 1864. Mrs. Richardson's father, Hector M. Goodall, married Eliza Silver, who came to Perry with her father in 1818. On his arrival in the town Mr. Goodall took up some wild land, on which be erected a log bouse and which he cleared. He was a quiet, unobtrusive man, muob respected by all who knew him. He died in 1869 ; his widow, August, 31st. 1877. They had three daughters, Han- nah, born in 1887 : Miranda, born in 1850, and Mary, born in 1884. Miranda is a member of the Congregational oburob of Perry Center; her two sisters are Methodists.
CHARLES 8. READ, GOD of Moses and Harriet Bead, was born in Seneca. Ontario county, September 24th, 1884. May 7th, 1878, be married Martha, daughter of Jobs and Esther Martin. of Perry, by whom he has two sons. Mr. Head came to Perry from Seneca, Ontario county, in 1868. and engaged in the hardware trade. In 1878 be removed to Lincoln, Neb., where he was in the grocery trade until 1874, when be returned to Perry. In 1875 be pur- obased a farm in the north part of the town, and in 1879 again came to Perry village and engaged in the hardware business. He has served the town as collector of taxes.
NATHANIEL C. HORTHSON was born in Baratoga county, August 5th, 1797, and married Roxa Mendell, of Massachusetts, in 1826. He moved from Sar- atoga county to Allegany county ; thence to Perry, in 1820, wben be pur- chased his present farm, seventy acres of which was improved. Poleg Rob- inson, his father, was born in Massachusetts, in 1771. At the age of twenty- Ave be removed to Saratoga county, where he was an early settler and Uved in a log house of his own construction. His wife, formerly Kepey Coffin, was born in Maine, in 1771. The Robinson family are of English de- sosnt. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were Quakers. Nathaniel C. Robinson has bed nine children, seven of whom are living. Of these may be mentioned William, Randolph, Jonathan, Hannah and Elise.
LYDLA AINNE SAFFORD was born in Manchester, Bennington Co. V., in 1818. and married Amos B. Safford, who was born in Connecticut in 1814. Her fatber, Moses Johnson Sperry, was born in Connecticut, and came to PerTy in 1887. His wife was Martha Odell, of Vermont. He removed from Perry to Ohio, where he died in 1888. Mrs. Safford's children are as follows : Laura B., born in 1639; Sperry, born in 1840; Lydia E., born in 1846; Carlton A., born in 1847; Antha D., born in 1844, and William Craydon, born in 1880.
ANDREW SHELDON was born in Perry, in 1836, In 1807 he married Mary Jane Olta, daughter of Paris and Sophia Olin, of Perry. Mr. Sheldon, who is a well-known farmer, was born in the bouse in which he lives, and bas been a life-long resident of the town. He contributed (400 toward the sup- pression of the Rebellion. Horace Sheldon, father of the above mentioned, was born in Massachusetts, in 1786, and found a woodland home in Perry many years ago. He Alled the office of sobool inspector, and was a member of and a descon in the Congregational church. He was an ardent advocate of temperance, es is his son, and circulated the first temperance pledge ever offered for signatures in Perry. His wife was Philene Ward, a native of Massachusetts. They had seven children, of whom Andrew Sheldon was the fourth born.
MARCUS D. SMITH, son of Septimusand Clarissa Smith, was born in Wells, Butland county, Vt., in 1817, and came to Perry in infancy with his parents. He was married in 1811. to Caroline O. Graham, of Perry, formerly of New York ofty, by whom he had four oblidren, three of whom are living. Mr. Saith built the first botel at Silver Lake (now a part of N. Saxton's botel), in 1809, and managed it two years, 1860-64 he was in the employ of the New York Central Railroad Company, as conductor and timekeeper in their shops. He has been a produce dealer and general speculator, but has never septred to bold any oflos.
MARVIN SMITH, brother of the above mentioned, was born in Perry, in 1887. In 1849 be married Minerva Andrus, of Castile. who died in 1861. In 1854 he married Miranda Millspaugh, of Perry, by whom he has four children. Mr. Smith has aiways regarded Perry as his bome. though be has been absent some years in business. He is a blacksmith and machinist, and was for five years master incobanic in the shop of Hudnut Metcalf. of Geneseo. Mr. Smith and his wife are members of the Universalist church of Perry. Septimus Smith, father of Marcus D. and Marvin Smith, was born in Pultney, Vt., In 1704. He married Clarisas Goodspeed, of Wells, Rutland county, Vt., by whom he had tea children, six of whom are living. In 1817 he came with a team, in company with Ira Wilson, from Vermont to Perry village, where be located. The journey consumed eighteen days. He worked until the fall of 1818 at the carpenter's trade, and then returned to Vermont and brought back his family, arriving in November. He died in 1835, at the age of forty-two; his wife in 1878. They were members of the Universalist church. .
JABEE SOWERSY was born in the city of Hull, England, November 18th. 1818, and came to America in 1838, locating at Canandaigua, N. Y .; theoos to Perry in 1857. He bought sixty-two nores of land two miles west of West Perry. When a boy. in England, he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. July 4th, 1810, be married Jane, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Blanchard, of Perry, by whom be bad two sons and four daughters. He died April 15th, 1875. Mrs. Bowerby was born in England, December &d, 1818, and came to America with her parents in 1881.
ROBERT STAINTON was born in Castile, April 28th, 1897. January let. 1808. be married Martha Green, of Mount Morris, Livingston county. October 28th. 1878, he married M. Ella Smallwood, of Warsaw. Mr. Stainton is a dry goods merobant, and came to Perry in 1888, from the homestead of bis father, Rev. John Stainton, in Castile. Mr. and Mrs. Stainton are members. and the former is steward, of the Methodist church of Perry. John Stainton was born in Yorkshire, Bogland, in 1796. His mother died there in 1807. and in 1819 he came to America with his father and only oister, in company with William Smallwood, landing at Alexandria, Virginia, where the party re- mained a month; wben, purchasing a horse and cart, they started for the Genesee country, where a friend from England named Watson had located about two years previously. They were four weeks making the journey from Alexandria to Perry, Miss Stainton occupying the cart while the mea walked. On bis arrival Mr. Stainton purobased an improvement of afty sores two miles southeast of Perry, in Castile. This improvement consisted in the " girdling" of about baif an acre. To this tract he afterward added eighty acres, on which he made his bome forty-four years. He was married in 1830, to Miss Lydia Grisewood, of Castile (wbose parents had come from England in 1804 to Geneva. Ontario county, and to Castile in 1818), by whom he has had ten children, four of whom are living. In 1826 Mr. Stainton united with the Methodist church, and a few years later was ordained to the ministry, to the duties of which he devoted much of his time in after life. Mr. and Mrs. Stainton are living in Perry village, surrounded by friends. ripe in years, and awaiting the call from the earthly life.
AMBROSE H. STOUT, son of Charles E. and Ure Stout, was born in Amity, Allegany county, in 1844, and came to Perry in 1875. He was married June 9tb. 1878. to Susan Winslow, daughter of Hezekiah and Marium Winslow. of Potsdam, St. Lawrence county.
MARTIN SWERT. SOD of Rufus and Ann Sweet, was born in Shaftsbury. Vt., in 1818. He came from his native place in company with his uncle. Simeon Wright, to Leicester, Livingston county, in 1884 ; thence in 1885 to Perry. In the fall of 1884 his father's family came to Leicester, and after a short time to Perry, where Mr. Sweet, sen., purobased of Tresman Williame ninety acres of land on the Allegany road, which was the family home for many years. In 1844 Martin Sweet married Miss Aurelis Lacy, daughter of Einatban and Nancy Lacy, of Perry, by whom he had two children, and who died in 1809. - In 1870 be married Electa, daughter of Daniel and Polly Lady, also of Perry. Mr. Sweet ie a farmer.
GERMAN SWEET, son of Rufus and Ann Sweet, and brother of Martin Sweet, was born in Shaftebury, Vt., in 1818, and came to Perry with hle pe- rents. Mr. Sweet is a fire, life and sooident insurance agent, and a dealer in planos. organs and other musical instruments. He established bis business in Perry in 1861. Much of bis time bes been devoted to tesoking musto. In 1802 be married Emily W .. daughter of Harvey and Polly Riggs, of Ferry Center, by whom he has three children. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet are mecabers of the Baptist church, of which he has been clerk twenty years, He has odlo- iated as leader of the choir thirty years.
HIRAK TAYLOR was born in Perry, in 1808, and has been a life-long resident of the town, where be is a well known farmer. In 1845 be married Kiss C. D. R., daughter of Ebeneser Witter. Mr. Taylor served the town nine years as assessor, and contributed liberally of bis time and means toward the sup- pression of the Rebellion. The family are members of the Baptist church at La Grange, of which be bas for some years been one of the trustees. Job Taylor, his father, was born in Receselser county, in 1794, and settled in Cov- ington fifty years ago and purobased and cleared wild land. He died at the ago of eighty-three.
REUBEN A. TAYLOR was born in Washington county, in 1887, and when be was old enough began to work by the month, and continued until twelve years ago, when be purobased a farm of seventy-dve acres. He came to Perry from Sbeldon. During the late war he was drafted, bat paid $800 for a substitute. His father, Joba R. Taylor, was born in 170, and married Barab Oatman, of Vermont. Mr. Taylor was married in 100% to Julie & Kinney, daughter of Asber Kinney, who was born in Oneida county, in 100%. and married Anne Armstrong, of that county, in 1888.
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ELNATHAN LACY.
MRS. ELNATHAN LACY.
FARM RESIDENCE OF ALANSON LACY, ONE MILE EAST OF PERRY VILLAGE, N. Y.
MARTIN P. ANDREWS ..
WALTER GILLESPIE.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, TOWN OF PERRY.
JOHN H. TERRY is a son of John Terry. He was five years proprietor of the Perry drug store, since which time he has been engaged in the news- paper bustnens either as reporter or editor. He was an apprentice in the Wyoming Times offos during the Silver lake snake excitement. In 1800 be was editor of the Adrian, Mich., Journal ; since that has been local editor of the Ottumwa, Ia., Democrat, the Brockport Democrat and Perry Herald, and is now manager of the Perry department of the Wyoming County Times, and special correspondent of the Roobester daily Democrat and Chronicle. Syracuse daily Standard, Eimira dally Gasette, New York Mercury, Olean Times, Nunda News, Hornellsville Times, and Castilian, of Castile. Mr. Terry was born April 15th, 1844, and ranks as a thorough newspaper man. John Terry, his father, was born in Dutobess county, July &d, 1706. For many years be was a resident of Perry, where he was engaged in banking. He married Catharine M. Johnson, of Perry, and died in that place July 30th, 1844.
HON. 8. W TEWKSBURY was born in Leicester, Genesee county, July 23d. 1830. He came to Perry in 1834, and December 2nd, 1842, married Mary, only daughter of Hon. Truman Benedict, of Perry. Mr. Tewksbury. who is a well known farmer, represented his district in the Assembly of 1874-75; bes been superintendent of schools eleven years, justice of the peace about twenty years and assistant assessor two years.
JOHN 8. THOMPSON, son of John G. and Mary Thompson, was born in Onondaga, Onondaga county, in 1815, and came with his parents to Perry in 1817. He is a farmer and the owner of nearly five hundred sores of land. He was married in 1889 to Hannah, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Martha Howard, of Covington. For nine years be served as justice of the peace. Captain John 8. Thompson was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1700, and married Miss Mary A. Turner about 1810 or 1811, by whom be bad seven children. five of whom are living. In the spring of 1817 be brought his fam- fly and some necessary portable property from Onondaga county to Pavilion by means of an ox team and a wagon. Unable to get the wagon to Perry, be conveved his effects to the latter place by means of the oft-de- scribed " drag " of pioneer days. He had previously purobased one hundred and fifty acres and made a small clearing. Here be rolled up a rude log cabin. floorless and roofed with elm bark, and the family were soon house- keeping. In the fall he fald a floor of basewood slabs. Captain Thompson and wife were members of the Baptist church at La Grange from its organ- ization to their deaths, which occurred in 1884 and 1864 respectively; the former living to be forty-four and the latter seventy-three.
JOSEPH R. TOAL was born in Covington, in 1866. In 1877 be married Lydia A. Peonock, daughter of Ira and Jane (Campbell) Pennook, and came to Perry, where he is a farmer and a member of the Presbyterian oburob. His father. David Toal, was born in Ireland, in 1829. He came to Covington in 1860, married Mary Anne Noble, and still resides there. Mr. Toal's grand- father on his mother's side came to Wyoming county in 1815 from Vermont, making the journey with an ox-team and being twenty-one days on the road. He was one of the early settlers in his neighborhood, lived in a log cabin, and helped open the roads through the woods. Ira P. Pennnok, Mrs. Toal's fatber, was born in Perry, in 1836, and after a time removed to Can- ada, where he lives. In 1896 be married Jane Campbell, who was born in Dublin, Ireland. in 1838.
AUSTIN W .. son of Thomas and Betsey TOAN. was born in Soliplo, Cayuga county, March 29th. 1822. He came to Perry in 1836, and December 8th, 1868. married Elizabeth, daughter of Reuben and Sarah Compton, of Perry, by whom he has had two children, one of whom, Charles H., is living. In 1864 Mr. Toan bought the farm on which he now lives. He is a trustee of the Methodist church of Perry, and for the past five years be bas been a director of the Silver Lake Railroad Company. Thomas Toan was born in New Jer- sey, in 1798. In 1826 be came to Perry, and reated the farm now owned by Daniel Stowell, of West Perry. In 1887 he bought one hundred sores of lot 88. In 1821 be married Betsy Harney, by wbom be bad five children, four of whom are living. Mr. Toan, wbo served his country in the war of 1812-14, died June 18th. 1809, aged sixty-nine ; his wife November &d, 1872, aged sov- enty-Dve.
GEORGE TOMLINSON, son of George and Hepsibab Tomlinson, was born in Le Roy. Genesee county, in 1822. In 1845 be married Marion B., daughter of James and Martha Sprague, of Pavilion, Genesee county He came to Perry in 1870. He served as justice of the peace in Genesee county eighteen years. and as sobool commissioner fourteen years. In 1861 be built a flouring mill at Port Washington, Wis., where he remained but a short time. Returning to his native town he engaged in cloth dressing and the manufacture of woolen goods, at which be carly served on apprenticeship. He next co- gaged in trade in company with Bamuel J. Lewis, and later with J. 8. Noble. In 1861 their store was burned, and Mr. Tomlinson turned his attention to farming until 1870, when George Tomlinson & Son became proprietors of the Bliver Lake Flouring Kills.
G. RYERSON TRAVER, M. D., son of Frederick Traver, was born in West- minster, Middlesex county. Ontario, Canada West. in 1814. In 1809 be gradu- ated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of New York city. Returning to Canada be became a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and practiced bis profession four years at &t. Catharine's. Later be was associated for a time with Dr. H. M. Dayfoot, of Mount Morris, Livingston county, and came from that place to Perry, where he enjoys the confidence and respect of the public. In 1676 he married Rose, daughter of William H. and Frances Beanett, of Canandaigua, N. Y.
RICHARD T. TUTTLE was born in Seneos, Ontario county, September 18th, 1800, and in December, 1864, came to Perry, and is a member of the arm of Wyckoff. Tuttie & Olin, manufacturers of reapers and dealers in hardware. He formerly resided in Canandaigua. Ontario county, and in April, 1866, married Emma H. Wyckoff, of Hopewell, that county.
SIMON UTTER, son of Abrabam and Marilda Utter, was born in Hartford, N. Y .. in 1811. He removed to Castile in 1830; to Leicester, Livingston county, in 1812, and to Perry in 1865, wbere be purobased one hundred acres two miles northeast of the village. In 1885 he married Angeline, daughter of John and Saphira Wilcox, of Warsaw, by wbom be has had three children, all of whom are dead.
SAMUEL WALDO was born in Rome, Oneida county, in 1706. At the age of four be removed with his parents to Verona: subsequently returned to Rome; removed to Shaftsbury, Vermont; thence to Perry, where he has lived sixty-three years. He has been five times married, his present wife having been Maria T. (formerly Shaw), widow of William Crooker. Mr. Waldo hes been sobool commissioner and inspector and assessor. He is a member and the clerk of the Baptist oburch ; Mrs. Waldo is identided with the Congregational churob. Mr. Waldo's father was born in Connecticut, in 1767, and care to Perry in 182%, where be lived until he died. Mrs. Waldo's father was born in Connecticut, in 1774: removed from there to Chenango county, and thence to Naples. Ontario county, where be purchased a farm in the south part of the town. Her father and mother were members of the Baptist church at Naples.
ARTEMAS B., son of Billings and Hannab WALKER, was born in Windsor county, Vt., in 1818. In 1841 be married Adeline Willey, of Castile. In 1878 be built Walker's Hotel at Silver Lake, and fitted up the grounds for the re- ception of visitors, and he has since been the proprietor of that favorite resort.
DEACON JOHN S. WESTLAKE, SOD of Adam and Elizabeth Westlake, was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1811, and married Louis, daughter of Thomes Hancock, of his native piace. He came to America in 1887, and loca- ed at Skaneateles. Onondaga county, where he remained one year, removing thence to Venice, Cayuga county, and thence to Perry in 1617. He is a tallor by trade, but is now a dealer in ready-made clothing. He is a member and for ten years has been deacon of the Baptist church, with which his wife is also identified. In 1866 his dwelling was burned, but by his own efforts and friendly aid be was soon the possessor of a new one.
DANIEL C., son of Norman and Tabitha WHITE, was born in Aurelius. Cayuga county, in 1828. He is a retired farmer and produce dealer. He came to Perry in childhood. In 1846 be married Barab Gale Butler, daughter of William and Laura Butler, of Perry. Norman White was born in Con- necticut, and came to Perry from Aurelius. Cayuga county, in 1824, locating on fifty sores of land a mile east of Perry village, where he died in 1867, at the age of sixty-two. He was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of Daniel and Tabitha Calkins, of Aurelius, Cayuga county, by whom be bad two obfidren. His second wife was Laura Simmons, of Connecticut, by whom he had one child.
LUTHER C., son of Cyrus and Melissa Willard, was born in Piùse, in 1847. In 1878 be married Hattie, daughter of Samuel and Buth Allen, of Gaines- ville. In 1878 bo came to Perry, where be is engaged in business as a bar- Dess maker and dealer in harnesses, robes, 'blankets, whips, etc.
MOSES C. WILLIAMS was born in Perry, in 1829. He is a merchant taflor and dealer in dry goods. In 1800 he married Helen A. Bullard, daughter of 8. C. and Helen D. Bullard, of Perry. His parents were Freeman and Anna Williams, who came from Chenango county to Covington with an ox team in the spring of 1828, and in the following February to Perry, loonting a mile and a half northeast of the village, where be had purchased forty sores of land. He purobased seventy sores on the creek road, to which he re- moved about 1889. In 1868 be retired from active life and removed to Perry village, where he died at the age of seventy-two. His widow survives him. The family have long been identified with the Universalist church, of which the late Freeman Williams was long a trustee, and his widow and Mr. and Mrs. Moses C. Williams are members.
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