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EDGAR A. DAY, son of Abner O. snd Almira Day, who came to Wyoming county in 1834, was born in Gainesville, June 10th, 1842. August 6th, 1802, be enlisted in Company A., 180th N. Y. volunteers. He was afterward trans- ferred to a cavalry regiment, and served three years. He was the fourth child born of his father's family, and was by occupation a farmer until 1878. when he was elected sheriff of Wyoming county. He removed to Warsaw in January, 1879. He was married June 4th, 1806. to Elima P., daughter of Wheeler and Sarah Bishop, of Genesee Falls. They have one child, Satie F. Mr. Day beld the office of highway commissioner eight years in Gainesville.
WILLIAM H. DEXTER, Son of Rev. R. H. and Mary J. Dexter, was born March 4th. 1868, at Corfu, Genesee county. In 1868 he came to Wyoming village with his parents. In 1874 be entered the University at Rochester, and graduated from there in 1878. In September, 1678, he came to Warsaw as as- distant in the academic department of the union school. He was married April 2nd, 1876, to Miss Kitty Cuningham, daughter of Mrs. Mary Mathers. of Roobester. By this marriage they have one child, Mary E., born August 22nd, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Dexter are members of the Presbyterian church.
ORACE W. EMERY is a son of Jonathan and Abigail Emery, natives of Vermont, who came to Wyoming county in 1818 and settled in Pike, where Orace W. was born April 8th, 1884. Until April 8d. 1867, be remained in Pike. In 1803 he began reading law, and continued two years, during which time be was acting justice of the peace. Previous to this and from the age of nine- teen be taught sobool winters till 1867, when he came to Warsaw and was in the employ of T. 8. Grover until February 27th, 1878, when the arm of T. 8. Grover & Co. was formed, Mr. Emery being one of the partners. He was married September &d, 1809, to Kate, daughter of James Kellogg, of Pike. They have two children.
EDWARD B. EVERINGHAM is a son of John Everingham, who was born in England. April 2nd. 1828, and came to America in 1838, and who since 187% has been a member of the Warsaw Furnace Company. The former was born in Warsaw, November 1st, 1868, and has been a life-long resident of that place. He is in the employ of the Warsaw Furnace Company. He was mar- Fied December 31st, 1878, to Fannie P., daughter of Luther and Callsta Fos- ter, of Warmw.
REV. J. B. EWILL, son of Henry B. Ewell, the oldest Baptist pastor in the State (baving held one pulpit forty-one years), was born in Genesee county. March 29th, 1868. He is a graduate of Cornell University. Ithaca, and com- pleted his studies in Rochester. He came to Warsaw in 1877, and began his labors with the Baptist church as its pastor. Hewas married March 18th, 1878, to Florine Mallory, of Wyoming.
BENJAMIN F. FARGO, son of David and Pbebe Fargo, was born in Warsaw, in 1817. In 1995 he learned the wool-carding and clotb-dressing trade in the woolen factory of Howard & Kimball, and worked for them at bis trade four years. In 1889 be went to Springville, Erie county, and engaged in the same business, forming a partnership with Mr. E. W. Cook, under the firm name of E. W. Cook & Co., and remained there ten years. In the fall of 1846 be returned to Warsaw and engaged in the dry goods trade with his brother, under the arm name of F. F. Fargo & Co. The style of the firm was changed in 1861 to B. F. Fargo & Co. He continued in this busiders na- til 1857, when be engaged in the produce trade and continued in it four years. In 1870 be built on Main street what is known as the Fargo block, ta which is the store be now occupies. In 1876 be opened a grocery store, and bas since been engaged in that line of business. Mr. Fargo is an sotive worker in the Republican party, and has held the office of town clerk dix years. He is secretary and treasurer of the Warsaw Citizens' Gaslight Com- pany, and of the Warsaw Water Works Company. In 1841 Mr. Fargo mar- ried Marian Bloomfield, of Springville, Erie county, by whom be bad three children, two of whom are living. Mrs. Fargo died in 1887. In 1819 Mr. Fargo married Mrs. Calista Blowers, of Warsaw.
PALMER FARGO, son of Nehemiah and Mary Fargo, was born in Connecti- cut, June 10tb. 1796. In 1804 be came to the forest site of what is now the village of Warsaw, where his father built the first log bouse large enough for the accommodation of strangers, opposite to the site of the Baptist church. Here strangers always found a welcome until they were able to pro- vide a shelter for themselves. In 1818 he took up eighty sores of unimproved land on lot 20. He cleared this place with his own hands, and lived at bis Originei location longer than any other man in town. He was a public spirited man and wasalways willing to help along any interest that promised to in any way benefit his fellow man. He was a strong anti-slavery man. He was assessor and highway commissioner many years. He was married January 10th, 1818, to Caroline, daughter of Hesekinh and Amy Scovel, of
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Warsaw, by whom be bad twelve children. seven of whom are living. Mr. Fargo died May 21st. 1878, at the age of seventy-seven ; Mrs. Fargo Novem- ber, 20th, 1849, aged forty-seven.
PALMER C. FARGO, son of Palmer and Caroline Fargo, was born January 81st, 1885, in the town of Warsaw, and has always lived on the bome farm. He has been inspector of elections thirteen years. He was married Septem- ber 16th, 1862, to Sarab M. Coburn, daughter of William and Caroline Co- burn, by whom he has had two children, one of whom, Ida C., is living. Mr. and Mrs. Fargo are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Warsaw.
ELKERT ELI. FARMAN, United States Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, was born at New Haven, Oewego county, N. Y .. April 280, 1881. In the early part of the eighteenth century a planter named Farman resided near Annapolis, Md. In 1765 bis son, John, wbo bad been a soldier under Wolfe at the storming of Quebec, went to the colony of New Hampshire, and settled on the Connecticut river in the township of Bath. Here be mar- ried and bad eight sons, from whom are descended all persons bearing the family name of Farman in the northern States. He died in 1702. His oldest son, Roswell, bad eight children, among them a son Zadok, born in 1791. Bos- well Farman removed with his family in 1866 from New Hampebtre to Oneida county, N. Y.4 and a year later settled in the adjoining county of Oswego. Zadok Farman married Marthe Dix, who was born in Wethersdeld, Conn., wbere ber family and that of her kinsman, the late General John A. Dix, long resided. They had aix children, of whom the fifth is the subject of this sketch.
At the age of seventeen be left home for the residence of an older brother in Gainesville, N. Y. After teaching a district sobool one winter be entered Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y., where be pursued bis preparatory studies, and in July, 1861, entered Genesee College, then under the presidency of B. F. Tefft, LL. D. At the beginning of junior year be entered Amberst College,of which Edward Hitchcock, LL. D., was then pres- ident, and there took his first degree in 1855. He received the honors of an "oration " at commencement, and an election to Phi Beta Kappa. Soon after leaving college Mr. Farman married Lois Parker, of Gainesville, N. Y .. a niece of the late Joel Parker, D. D., of New York city, and becarde a law student in the office of F. C. D. Mckay, then district attorney of Wyoming county. In the Fremont campaign of 1866 be addressed fifty political meet- ings in Northern New York, and on the bustings developed oratorical powers which contributed to his success before juries. On bis admission to the bar in 1858 be accepted Mr. Mckay's offer of a partnership, and entered at once upon a desirable practice. His labors, however, were not engrossed by his profession. From 1850 to 1861 Mr. Farman and Augustus Harrington, also an alumnus of Amberst, now a lawyer at Warsaw, were the proprietors of the Western New Yorker, a newspaper published at Warsaw, of which Mr. Harrington was editor. As one of its publisbers Mr. Farman superintended the business department of the paper, besides attending to his law practice. Under this management it quadrupled its circulation, and soon became. as it since has been, the leading Republican journal in its section of the State.
Mr. Mckay removed to Iowa in 1860. During the next five years Mr. Far- man devoted himself to his profession, and extended bis practice until it be- came exceptionally lucrative and successful. . Determined to enlarge his field of observation, and extend his studies beyond his opportunities, either in college or at a rural county seat, be mailed for Europe in 1866, where be speat two years in travel and study. He attended the universities of Heldel- berg in summer and Berlin in winter, and beard lectures on criminal, inter- national and civil law. He also acquired Freoch and German. He then traveled through Italy, Holland and Switzerland, and contributed to the Western New Yorker accounts of the lands and peoples be visited, which the New York Observer and the Ution Herald copied and commended.
January, 1808, Governor Fenton appointed him district attorney of Wy- oming county to fill a vacancy. The following autumn be was nominated by the Republicans and elected for three years. At the expiration of this term be was elected for another. The fact that during the seven years of his official service no indictment drawn by him was quashed, attests his pro- fesional fidelity and careful learning.
March 27th, 1876, Mr. Farman was confirmed agent and consul-general of the United States at Catro, Egypt, and on the 18th of April be salled. He bas since attended to his duties at Catro, finding opportunity, however, for trips up the Nile, to Binal, and through Palestine. In the summers of 1878 and 1879 be visited the United States, returning each year about the middle of October. The duties of his position are chiedly diplomatio. He has received the approval of the home government and also of the Americans who reside in or have visited Cairo. His personal relations with the Khedive and the members of his government have been friendly. During his absence in the autumn of 1878 an American, who then beld a high position in Egypt, wrote of bim in the following terms: "Every American bere hopes Mr. Farman will return. He understands this country and its people. Always emotet in protecting every interest confided to his care, be has done great service to his countrymen bers." The New York Times, August 11th, 1878, referred to Mr. Farman in flattering terme. Its correspondent at Catro maid : " It will be gratifying to all Americans to know that so competent and excellent an offoer as Mr. Farman is in the service of his country." Among the ne- rotiations successfully conducted by Mr. Farman are those for the increase of the number of American judges in the International Tribunal of Egypt, by and through which the United States were permitted to send a third judge. Mr. Jarman naturally took a prominent part in the reception of General Grant at Cairo. He presented the general to the Kbedive, and acted as interpreter of their speeches. He also gave a reception and state dinner on that occasion. His felicitous speech as host at the dinner was published
in this country. Mr. Farman's ability to speak French is a qualification for bis position at a court where that is the language of oficial intercourse. Few of our representatives in Egypt have been more fortunate in their con- duct of state affairs than the present consul-general. Mr. Farman's oficial reports, published at Washington, show that be has taken an active interest in the welfare of the people of the country to which be få accredited. His conviction of the divine equality of all men in privilege drew him into the Fremont campaign and leads him to help the oppressed in Egypt. Right claves have been freed through his efforts. The first was a negro boy brought by a slave trader from Soudan. The slave was brutally treated, and an American lady brought him to the notice of the consul-treneral. He at once interested himself in the case, and in June, 1877, seoured an order from the Egyptian government freeing the slave. He obtained another order freeing three slave girls. The most meager sketch would be incom- plete without mention of Mr. Farman's services in securing' the obelisk known as Cledpatra's Needle, which was erected in Heliopolis about aix toon osaturies before Christ, and brought to Alexandria B. C. 22. The city of New York is greatly indebted to Mr. Farman for this interesting monument of one of the oldest civilisations. He has been complimented by the Beore- tary of State upon his success in this delicate matter. Mr. Farman's profes- sional training is an important qualification for his present position, as the Consular Court over which be presides is the only tribunal in Egypt author- ised to try an American citizen for crime committed in that country. Mirzan, an Armenian, naturalised in Boston, nessesinated Daban Bey, a legal adviser of the Kbedive, in Alexandria, July 17th, 1879. He was ar- rested by the Egyptian officers, and turned over to our authorities for pun- ishment. He can only be tried by the U. S. Consular Court of Egypt, with the consul-general as presiding judge. This court has also jurisdiction in .other cases not infrequently arising there.
ELBERT E. FARMAN, 2nd, is a son of Charles D. and Lydia Farman, who set- tied in Gainesville, where he was born August 20th, 1848. He remained with his parents until he attained his majority ; then went to Missouri and taught sobool one winter. He returned to Alexander, Genesee county, in 1870, where be was married to Barab J., daughter of Darius N. Spring, April 6th, 1870. He worked Mr. Spring's farm until February, 1874, when he came to. Warsaw and began to read law with Judge Healy. He attended the Albany Law Sobool, from which be graduated in May, 1875, and was admitted to the bar. Returning to Warsaw he began the practice of his profession. He was appointed justice of the pesce to fill a vaosney in December, 1877 ; elected in February, 1678. for a short term, and in February, 1879, re-elected for a long term.
ALBERT P. GAGE is a son of Plattand Adeluide Gage, natives of Vermont. Mrs. Gage came to Eagle in 1814, and until 1876 lived on the farm where abe first located. 8be is now living with ber son. Platt Gage died April 19th, 1800. They had a family of five children, of whom Albert P. was the fourth born (March 17th, 1888). He lived at home until August 7th, 1802, when be enlisted in Company 4, 180th N. Y. volunteers, and served until discharged, March 8th, 1805. He returned to Bagle and followed farming till January, 1876, when he came to Warsaw as sheriff of Wyoming county. He is now under-sheriff. He was married April 7th, 1806, to Mary, daughter of Philip and Betsy Baker, of Bagle. They have two children-Bert and Cora Belle. He was supervisor of Bagle two years, nescesor two years, and is now trustee of the village of Warsaw.
DR. EDWARD D. GARDINER, son of Charles and Malvina Gardiner, was born at Hamilton, Madison county, in 1861. He graduated at the Madison University in 1678, and came to Warsaw in 1874 and succeeded W. C. Barrett in the practice of dentistry.
CHARLES J. GARDNER, son of Patrick R. and Janet E. Gardner, was born in Attics, May 18th, 1812, and lived there until the war. when be enlisted as a soldier, August 6th, 1802, and served under Sheridan two years and one month, when he was wounded at the battle of Newtown, in the Bbenandoah valley. He was discharged April 20th, 1888, when he returned to Attics, wbere be remained until January Ist, 1874. When in the hospital after being wounded, and unknown to himself, Mr. Gardner was elected collector of the town of Attica. Likewise in 1886 be was appointed to take the census of the town of Attica. In 1805 be was appointed assistant assessor of internal revenue for five towns. In April, 1870, be was appointed postal clerk be- tween Hornellsville and Attion. He beld the position til 1874, when he was elected county clerk of Wyoming county. He was married July 80th, 1865. to Miss Annette R., daughter of William M. and Orinda A. Terry, of Bata- via, N. Y. They have three children.
ALBERT HATOR, 900 of Walter M. and Sally Hatch, was born in Warsaw, April 30th, 1848. He attended the union sobool of Warmw uptil be was twenty. Since then be has Itved at home with his parents, and is at present engaged in managing his father's farm.
LYMAN HATCH, SOD of Walter M. and Bally Hatch, was born May Hith, 1808, in Warsaw. When a young man be lived at home and worked on his father's farm. At the age of twenty-five be became destrous of seeing some- thing of the country, and took an extensive western trip, in which be spent about three years. In 1863 be purchased a tract of land in Kanene, which be cold in 1861. Returning to Warsaw be engaged in the produce trade, and continued in that business until 1870, when he engaged in farming where be DOW lives. He was married Noveraber 17th, 1870, to Busan Pierce, widow of the late Allen Pierce, of Warsaw. She died September 9th, 1800. By this marriage he has one child-Munson L., born Marob 37th, 1876.
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WALTER HATCH, GOD of Waiter M. and Sally Hatch, was born in Warsaw, November 15th, 1889. He lived at home and worked on his father's farm until 1864. In the fall of 1868 he bought a farm of Erastus Day just east of his father's place. He was married March 24th, 1864, to Lots Bently, daugh- ter of Johnson and Clarinda Bently, of Orangeville. By this marriage they have three children-Eddy W., Ernest J. and Lulu B.
WALTER M. HATCH, son of William C. and Jerusha Hatob, was born Au- gust 10th, 1802, at Glastonbury, Hartford county, Conn. In February, 1814. he came to Warsaw with his parents, who bought one hundred and fifty acres of land, thirty acres of which were cleared. A log house was built on lot 55. Mr. Hatch's father came the previous year and bought two hundred and fifty acres of unimproved land just west of this farm, and returned to Connecticut in the winter for his family. After Mr. Hatob attained his majority be worked a part of his father's farm on shares. In 1827 his father deeded to him one hundred acres in lot 57, just east of where'he now lives, and which forms a part of his present farm. Mr. Hatch bes beld the offices of commissioner of highwaysand assessor. He was married November 15th, 1883, to Sally Sberwin, daughter of Bissell and Experience Sherwin, of War- www. formerly from Vermont. They have seven children.
LLOYD A. HAYWARD, son of Aloin and Mellcent P. Hayward, natives of Maine, and now residents of York, Livingston county, at the ages respect- ively of ninety and eighty-six, was born in Maine, December 6th, 1816, and settled in Perry in 1841. In 1883 Lloyd A. Hayward began studying law at Amberst College, Massachusetts, where he graduated, and in 1845 was ad- mitted to the bar at Rochester, N. Y. He began the practice of his profes- don in Perry, and in 1868 came to Warsaw. where he has since realded. He was married October 8th, 1844, to Mary I., daughter of Edward and Martha Dudley, of Perry. Mrs. Hayward died March 9th. 1878. His family consisted of a daughter, Melicent, the eldest, who died in 1865, and Edward D. and Mary Kate, now living. Mr. Hayward bas filled the office of treasurer two terms, and for several years bas held the omce of president of the board of trustees for the institute for the blind at Batavia. For many years be was president of the board of education of Warsaw, and he served as president of the Wyoming County National Bank in 1809 and 1870.
JOHN HANIGAN, son of John and Elizabeth Hanigan, natives of Ireland, was born June 15th, 1840. In 1860 be came to America and located in Buffalo, where be remained six years, learning the marble cutter's trade and work- ing at the same. He then went to Ohio and remained two years : thence to Pennsylvania, remaining one year. In 1800 be came to Warsaw and estab- lished himself as a marble dealer. He enlisted in the Wadsworth guard in 1881, and served six months. He keeps constantly on hand and makes to order American and foreign marble and granite monuments of all kinds at his establishment on Main street, Warsaw. He is overseer of the poor. He was married May 15th, 1808, to Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Diven, of Eagle. They have six children.
How. BYRON HEALY, county judge, is a son of Joshua and Lucy Healy. natives of Vermont, who settled at an early period in Dansville, Steuben county, when nothing but a vast forest surrounded their home, and came to Warsaw. January 10th, 1830, Byron Healy was born, and, save the time spent in school, remained with his parents until he attained his majority. He was educated in the common schools, and spent a short time in the National Law School at Ballston Springs. Saratoga county, from which bo graduated in 1868. with the degree of LL. B. He wasadmitted to the bar in 1808, and in the fall of 18% began the practice of law at Arcade, where be re- mained until October, 1807, when he came to Warsaw and formed & partner- ship with H. L. Comstock, then county judge, which existed until 1886. Mr. Healy was a member of Assembly in 1868 and 1864. In the former year be was chairman of the committee on railroads and was a member of the judiciary committee. In 1834 be wes chatrman of the committee on insurance and a member of the ways and means committee. In the fall of 1886 be was elected district attorney and served one term. In 1807 he was elected county judge, and re-elected in 1871 and 1817. He was married April 8th, 1866, to Mary C., daughter of Timothy H. and Julia Burton, of Warmw. They have two children. I. May, born May 18th, 1808, and Maud, June 18th, 1878.
SMITH HIGGINS, son of Dwight and Rebecca Higgins, residents of Genesee county, was born in Middlebury, May 7th, 184, and except during five years Lived with his parents until his marriage, April 28th, 1849, to Sarah Bump, who died February 18th, 1864. February 7th. 1868, be married Adell E., daughter of Sidney 8. and Harriet Monroe, of Middlebury. He has one obild by his first marriage and two by his second. He worked at his trade. that of carpenter and joiner, until 1808. He built and managed the Monroe House, near the depot, five years. In 1874 he moved to the village of Warsaw. and was connected with N. Ottinger in the clothing business over two years. He owns a farm of eighty sores and two village lots, and is identified with the general produce trade.
HORACE HOLLISTER, son of Ashbel and Mary Hollister, natives of Con- Deotiout, was born January 10th, 1786, and came to Wyoming (then Genesee county) in 18M, locating in Warsaw village. He was the fifth-born of a family of nine children, and by trade a wagon-maker. He opened the first wagon shop in Warsaw village. In 1880 be removed to Chautauqua county, where he remained twenty-five years. In 1868 be returned to Warsaw, where be died. He was married November 2th, 1824, and September 17th, 1883, the last time to I. Caroline, daughter of Samuel MoWhorter, of Chautau- que county, by whom be bad six children, five of whom are living. He also bad five children by the first marriage, one of whom is living. The fifth child by the second marriage, Mary B., now lives with her mother, and is a member of the Congregational church.
WILLIAM W. HOLMES (son of Thomas and Mary Holmes, natives of Eng- land, who came to America in 1851) was born in York, England, March 17th. 1829, and came to America in 1860, locating in Warsaw. He is by trade a tailor, and except five years, while employed by A. W. Frank, has been in business as a merchant tailor. He was married May 1st, 1856, to Mrs. Eliza- beth E., daughter of John and Jane Coddington, of Ithaca, N. Y. They bave one child, Miss Annie E. Holmes, born June 20th, 1860. "They are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church.
JOHN HOLTON, son of Joseph and Rhoda Holton, was born at Piscataway, N. J., March 10th, 1784. and learned the blacksmith's trade. He came to Attica in 1848. He was married in 1806 to Isabella Runyon. daughter of Renne and Anna Runyon, of Piscataway, N. J. By that marriage there were twelve children, five of whom are living. He died December 8d, 1880. His son, Deacon Simeon Holton, was born at Piscataway, N. J., in 1810. He moved to Le Roy in 1830, to Attios in 1842, and to Warsaw in 1848. At the age of twenty be began to work at the trade of mason and brick layer. In 1848 be had charge of the erection of the brick hotel, and in 1873 be built the union sobool-house. He has also superintended the erection of many other of the prominent business blocks and private residences of the village. He joined the Baptist church in 1838, and has ever since been an active member. serving as deacon twenty-five years. Mr. Holton was married June 17tb, 1834, to Mias Olive Spring, daughter of Mr. A. Spring. of Le Roy, Genesee county. Mr. and Mrs. Holton have had ten children, six of whom are Living.
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