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JAMES married Sarah Jane King. They had six children: James Willis, Elizabeth, Walter, and three died infants.
WILLIAM married Ellen Glazier. Their children are: Alice, who married John Gregg, and lives in Castile; William, Frank, Jennie.
SAMUEL married Margaret Parker, of Lima, and has a daughter, Margaret. They reside in Lima.
MARIA married Linus Warner, and has three children : Marion, who married Sarah Nash; Romaine, and Willard.
ELIZABETH married Thomas Sourby, and has two children, George and Clark.
GEORGE married Miss Madison, and has two children, Madison and Mary.
LUTHIER FOSTER was born in Southampton, Long Island, Sept. 1, 1770; and was married to Ruth Hedges, in 1791. They lived successively in Montagne, N. J., in Owego, and Danby, N. Y. He came with his family to Warsaw in 1823, and settled on a part of Lot 59, in the west part of the town, where his son Enther now resides. He died Nov. 16, 1846. Mrs. Foster died March 7, 1860. They were, as were most of their children, members of the Presbyterian church. They had ten children, as follows, besides three, d. inf.
SILAS HI. married Fanny Smith before their removal to Warsaw. Their children were, 1. Harriet, who married Dr. Rowley Morris, and removed to Wisconsin. She died with- out children. 2. Esther, who married Lucien Putnam, of this this town. She died in Freeport, Illinois. [See Family of Edward Putnam.] 3. Celinda, who died at the age of 26, unmarried. 4. Alfred J., is married, and resides in Cherry Valley, Ill. 5. Mary, who graduated at Mt. Holyoke Semi- nary, Mass., and has been for many years a teacher in Ohio.
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6. Laura, who married Wm. B. Manley, of Hebron, III. 7. Elizabeth. S. Helen, who married George G. Wheeler, of Flora, Ill. 9. Susan, who married Maynard M. Howe, of Cherry Valley, Ill.
Mr. Foster died in Warsaw, Dec. 1, 1846, aged 53. Mrs. Foster resides in Cherry Valley, Ill.
JOSIAH H. married, first, Hannah Maria Barbara; for his second wife, Sarah Skeer.
ELIZABETH MARY married Ira Gilmore, and removed to Wethersfield in 1826, or 1827. They had four children.
HETTY, second wife of Robert Barnett. [Sce Barnett Family.]
JABEZ died in Rochester, many years ago, of cholera.
JULIUS gradnated at Hamilton College in 1833, and Prince- ton Theological Seminary in 1836 or 1837. In Nov., 1837. he became pastor of the Presbyterian church, Towanda, Pa., which office he held until his death, Jan. 16, 1865. He mar- ried Priscilla Brunette, Oct. 19, 1840.
LUTHIER married Lamira Maria Lyon, by whom he had two children, Casson A., and Roxie. Mrs. Foster having died, Mr. F. married Calista Smith, by whom he had nine children: Lamira Maria, who died July 27, 1854, in her 18th year; Sanmel, Josiah H., Sydney, Charles H., Eliza Jane, Mary D., Fanny Parthenia, and Hetty Sophronia. Mr. Foster and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of which he is also an elder.
SoLON resides in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory; is married, and has several children.
RUTH married Zera Tanner, who died Nov. 27, 1836. They had a son, Zera. [See Sketch.] Mrs. Tanner married for her second husband, Deacon John Munger; and for her third, Oliver Cleveland, with whom she now resides, in this village.
PHEBE married Dr. Ethan E. Bartlett. [See Sketch of Dr. Bartlett.]
DR. AUGUSTUS FRANK was born in Canaan, Conn., Jan. 12, 1792. He was eight years of age when his father died. In early life the family emigrated to Granville, in this state, where he completed his education. He studied medi- cine at Dorset, Vt., and after the completion of his course, he removed to Victor, Ontario county, where he practiced in his profession three years. In 1817, he came to this village, and formed a partnership with Dr. Sheldon in professional prac- tice, and soon after in the mercantile business. The latter being to him the more congenial, its chief supervision was consigned to him. In 1822, the partnership having been dis-
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solved, he commenced business in his new store on the west side of Main street, on or near the site of the new brick store of his sons, Augustus and George W. Frank. He continued in the mercantile business, either single or in partnership, until the time of his death, not only in this town but in other towns. He was also, during the greater part of this time, engaged in other branches of business. He was interested in building, alone and in partnership, saw-mills, grist-mills, fac- tories, and furnaces, and was concerned in several other manufacturing or mechanical establishments. He bought village lots and erected buildings on them for sale or to rent. In this variety of business he gave employment to a large number of mechanics and laborers. Probably so large an amount of village property has passed through the hands of no other citizen; nor has any other rented to occupants so many stores, shops, and dwellings. He took an active part in measures designed to promote the prosperity of the town, and the moral and intellectual improvement of its citizens. He possessed a vigorous mind, and was firm alike in his prin- ciples and his purposes. He pursned an object with unwearied assiduity until it was attained, or its attainment was found impracticable. His efforts in the cause of temperance were unremitted to the last, and contributed largely to its advance- ment. He was also among the first to enlist in the antislavery cause, and aided in the formation of the society in this town. He was one of the five delegates (elsewhere mentioned,) from this town to the first annual meeting of the New York State Antislavery Society, held at Utica in the fall of 1835. Al- though not indifferent to the good opinion of others, his conduct was uninfluenced by a desire for popular applause. In public as well as in private discussion, he spoke his senti- ments frankly and fearlessly; and although they often conflicted with those of the majority, he ever retained the respect of those with whom he differed.
In 1842, he was appointed an Associate Judge of Wyom- ing county, which office he held until the office was abolished by the constitution of 1846. He was a member of the Pres- byterian church, which shared in large measure his fostering care. But his charities were not circumscribed by its interests. He contributed liberally, by personal effort and pecuniary means, to the support of religions and benevolent institutions in general. We may add, he was happy in his domestic rela- tions. His first wife, though possessing a feeble constitution, was a lady of deep-toned piety. To the excellence of his second, many in this community will bear testimony. His family furnishes a striking instance of parental faithfulness
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and care, requited by filial obedience and esteem. In few families has the observance of the duties enjoined in the fifth commandment been more happily exemplified.
We subjoin the following extract from a letter written soon after his death, by an intimate acquaintance of him and his family, to us well known:
" It was not until 1827 that he became the subject of renew- ing grace, so as to be satisfied that he had passed from death unto life. Then did he see in the light of their preciousness and divine consistency, the truth of those doctrines in which he had been early instructed; and the services of religion became so agreeable and increasingly important in his esteem, that he turned to them with unwonted satisfaction, walking in the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. The genu- ineness of the work in him became apparent, not only in his life and the public profession of his faith, but also in the in- struction of his household. The morning and evening knew their appointed services almost as uniformly as 'the sun knoweth his going down.' The Bible and Shorter Catechism were familiar to all the members; the first book in their acquaintance and not the last in their esteem. * * * The idea of frankness was so associated with his person, that every one felt that he was rightly named. If it made him some enemies, it gained him many friends. His fimeral was attended by a large concourse of people."
Dr. Augustus Frank was married to Jerusha II. Baldwin, at Dorset, Vt., Sept. 12, 1816. She died March 15, 1825. They had three children : Henriett, and two who died in infancy.
HENRIETT was born Sept. 12, 1817; married Edward A. McKay, a lawyer in Naples, Ontario county, and since 1864 connected with the National Bank Department in Washing- ton. They have three children : Jennie Frank, Alida, and Angustns Frank. Jennie F. and Alida are married.
Dr. Frank married Jane Patterson, of Londonderry, N. H., at the residence of her brother, William Patterson, in War- saw, Ang. 25, 1825. She was born in Londonderry, Aug. 30, 1795. They had seven children:
AUGUSTUS. [See Sketch.]
ELIZABETHI WV. married Rev. Joseph E. Nassau. [ See Sketch.]
GEORGE WASHINGTON. [See Sketch.]
JENNIE P. was born March 1, 1833, and married Edward K. Greene, a wholesale merchant in Montreal, Canada. They have three children: Eleanor O., Jennie F. and Edward K.
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MARY A. was born Sept. 9, 1835, and married Philo D. Brown, a banker in Montreal, Canada. They have three children: Augustus Frank, Frederic, and Evelyn H.
Dr. Frank died Jan. 26, 1851, aged 59 years. Mrs. Jane Frank died Feb. 19, 1867, aged 71 years.
JANE FRANK, the youngest daughter of Dea. Thomas Patterson, of Londonderry, N. H., was born Aug. 30, 1795. She was in early life surrounded by those influences which tend to ennoble and refine, and by which she was prepared for the sphere she was afterwards called to fill. It was her good fortune to have a mother who not only instructed her daughters well in house-keeping, but taught them that life had higher and nobler ends. To her they were largely in- debted for those qualities which fitted them so well to render their own homes happy, and to make themselves a blessing to the world. Mrs. Frank, though not one of those usually termed "the old settlers," was an early inhabitant of War- saw. During a sojourn with her brother William in this town, in 1825, she was married to Dr. Augustus Frank. From that time until her death, she resided in this village. Here the greater part of her life was spent; and it is believed that among the great number who, during this long period, made her acquaintance, there are none who do not delight to cher- ish her memory. Possessing a highly social nature and a mild and cheerful temper, her presence was welcome in every social gathering. No trait in her character was more conspicuous than her large-hearted benevolence. Her generous deeds are yet fresh in the recollections of those who witnessed them, and of those upon whom her gifts were bestowed by her own hands. But the most numerous recipients of her charities knew not by whom they were bestowed. Many a young heart in the " Home of the Friendless " has been gladdened by the labor of her hands and by her liberal purse. Many a missionary in the "Far West " will never know to whose sympathizing heart and assiduous efforts he was indebted for all his winter comforts. Nor did she wait for appeals for aid from the suf- fering in person. She sought out the worthy objects of her charity. It was to her a pleasure to "visit the widow and the fatherless in their affliction," as well as to administer to their necessities. More than once has she had the pleasure of rejoicing the hearts of young men, by the " material aid " she rendered them in their preparatory course for the ministry. She had learned by experience what too few ever learn, that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." But she had been too well instructed in the truths of revelation to consider
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true religion as consisting wholly in generous deeds. She had been taught that it comprised a knowledge of the Divine char- acter and a living faith in an atoning Savior, from which faith all truly good works proceed. She rejoiced at the prosperity of the Church universal, and felt a special interest in that branch with which she was connected, and contributed liber- ally to its support. She was happy in her family relations, and had the satisfaction, before her departure, of having seen all her children making a public profession of their faith. She terminated her earthly labors on the 19th of February, 1867.
AUGUSTUS FRANK, son of Dr. Augustus Frank, was born in Warsaw, July 17, 1826. At an early age he entered his father's store, and soon took an active part in the manage- ment of the mercantile and the various other branches of his father's extensive business. In 1847, having attained his ma- jority, he commenced the mercantile business for himself. Aided by his energy, persevering industry, and native cour- tesy, he prosecuted his business with unusual success; acquir- ing in a few years a large and prosperous trade. While his business was pursned with assiduity, he took a deep interest and an active part in matters of public concern, and gave a ready support to measures designed to promote the general good. His practical knowledge of business brought him carly into favorable notice. He was chosen to aid in the organization and management of several chartered business associations, one of which was the " Buffalo and New York City Railroad Company," of which he was a Director and Vice-President. In 1856, he was chosen a Delegate to the first National Con- vention of the Republican party, held in Philadelphia. In 1858, he was elected to Congress from the District then com- prising the counties of Allegany, Wyoming, and Genesee- the first political office he ever held. Having, however, for many years directed his attention to questions of state and national policy, he was not unprepared for the responsible trust assigned him; and he soon attained an influential posi- tion in the House. In 1860, he was returned to the 37th Congress by a majority of nearly eight thousand. In 1862, he was elected to the 3Sth Congress, the District being then composed of the counties of Wyoming, Genesee, and Niagara. He closed his third term in March, 1865. His Congressional career was an honorable one. Though he never made him- self prominent as a speaker, his readiness of utterance and the candor of his statements, secured a degree of attention which many of the leaders in debate failed to receive.
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His propositions commended themselves to the judgment of the House, and were generally adopted. He was in Congress previous to and during the whole period of the civil war, taking an active part on all financial qnes- tions, and giving a hearty and unwavering support to every measure for suppressing the rebellion. He participated in all the legislation relating to the abolition of slavery in the Dis- trict of Columbia and the Slave States, faithfully representing the strong antislavery sentiment of his district. On no ques- tion did he render more important service than that of the constitutional amendment forever prohibiting slavery in the United States. The efficiency of his efforts ou that occasion were conceded by the press throughout the country. In 1867. he was elected on the State ticket as one of the thirty-two delegates at large to the convention for revising the Constitu- tion of the State of New York. At home he has co-operated with his fellow-citizens in measures for promoting public im- provements and the moral and intellectual elevation of society. Himself and wife are member of the Presbyterian church; and while he contributes largely, by personal effort and pecuniary means, to its varions objects, he renders a like support to educational, benevolent, and reformatory institu- tions generally. He married Agnes, daughter of Wmn. W. McNair, of Groveland, Livingston Co., New York.
GEORGE W. FRANK, son of Dr. Augustus Frank, was born Nov. 29, 1830, and has always been a resident of this town. He was engaged in his father's store and in other business until the death of his father in 1851. He soon after engaged with his brother, and in 1854 became a partner in the Dry Goods trade, the firm taking the name of A. & G. W. Frank, under which the business is still continued on an en- tensive scale. He is also a partner in the Patterson Mann- facturing Co., of this village. IIe is an energetic business man, and is active in promoting the interests of the village. Ilis influence is also exerted in advancing the moral enter- prises of the day. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He married Phebe T., daughter of William W. McNair, of Groveland. They have had four children : Sarah, died an infant, Augustus, Jennie, and George W.
BRADLEY S. GALLETT was born in Saratoga Co., Sept. S, 1815. He married Emma Peck, in 1837, and re- moved to Warsaw the same year. He is a farmer, and resides west of the village, near the Railroad Station. He has three children:
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ANNA, who married Franklin Willard, and resides in Iowa. BRADLEY N., and WALLACE O.
HENRY GARRETSEE was born in Niskayuna, Sche- nectady Co., N. Y., June 1, 1818. After a brief residence in several towns in Western New York, he removed to Le Roy at the age of 14 years. In 1843, he came to Warsaw, and formed a partnership with Seth M. Gates in the Hardware business, in which he has continued, in company and single, until the present time. His business has been during this time conducted on an extensive scale, embracing, in addition to the ordinary Hardware business, the casting of stoves and other wares. [See Hardware Merchants.] He married in this town, Sept., 1847, Elizabeth Orr, by whom he had four children: Henry, Elizabeth, John, and Walter, all living.
DEA. SETH GATES became a resident of Warsaw in the Spring of 1834. He was born in Preston, Conn., March 7, 1775, and married Abigail Merrill, Jan. 1, 1800. In March, 1806, he removed to Sheldon, in this county, his being the third house built in that town. In 1808, he made open pro- fession of religion; was active in organizing the Baptist church in Sheldon, and was soon elected one of its Deacons. HIe was always active in sustaining the Gospel, schools, and all benevolent and charitable enterprises. Dea. Gates com- manded a company of Light Infantry on the frontiers in the war of 1812, until the battle of Queenston had so thinned its ranks, that it was annexed to another company. IIe died Nov. 9. 1847. Mrs. Gates survived him about 4 years. They left 4 children, Seth M., Chauncey C., Calista, and Delia.
SETH M. [See sketch of Seth M. Gates.]
CHAUNCEY C. was born June 16, 1810, in Sheldon, and removed to Warsaw. in 1836, where he was a clerk, and then a partner of Isaac C. Bronson, in the Dry Goods trade. In 1843, he sold out his interest to A. G. Hammond. From that time to this, he has been, either as a partner or as a clerk, en- gaged in the Hardware and Stove business, carried on under the firms of Gates & Garretsee, and C. C. Gates & Co., and others. He married Mary Elizabeth Butler, a niece of Joshua HI. Darling. Their children are, William Walter, Willard, Harriet, and Julia.
CALISTA married Isaac C. Bronson. [See sketch.]
DELIA married Rev. A. H. Stowell, and has four children, Harriet, Eliza, Henry, and Emma.
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SETH M. GATES was born in Winfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Oct. 16, 1800. He came to Sheldon in 1806; worked on a farm until 1820; was then three years in Middlebury Acad- emy, teaching school winters, his first trial at teaching being in South Warsaw, in 1821. He commenced the study of Law with Hon. Heman J. Redfield, of Le Roy, in 1823, and was admitted to practice in 1827, and formed a partnership with Hon. A. P. Hascall, in the practice of law, which was con- tinned eleven years. During his clerkship he was Inspector of Common Schools, and Deputy Sheriff. In 1830, he was Supervisor of Le Roy, and in 1832, Member of Assembly from the county of Genesee, elected by the Anti-Masonic party. By the efforts of Mr. Gates and his colleagues, the act authorizing the construction of the Tonawanda Railroad, from Rochester to Attica, was passed at that session, this being the first railroad in Western New York. In 1838, he purchased the Le Roy Gazette, and for nine months was its editor. In Nov. 1838, he was elected to Congress as an Anti- slavery Whig, and re-elected in 1840, serving four years. His letter to Gerrit Smith, written just before taking his seat in Congress in 1839, defending the Antislavery Whigs in ad- hering to their party against the attacks of Mr. Smith, found great favor with the party, and was published by Whig Jour- nals throughout the North. During his four years service in Congress, he co-operated actively with Messrs. Adams, Gid- dings, and Slade in the memorable struggle for the right of petition and freedom of speech, and did much to arouse public attention to the plans and efforts of the South to extend and strengthen slavery. By transmitting the Address of the World's Convention held in London in 1840, under his frank, to the Governors of the Southern States, he so exasperated the slaveholders that no less than five of the Governors mentioned the fact in their next messages; and a rich planter in Savan- nah offered a reward of $500 for the delivery of the offend- ing Member of Congress, dead or alive, in that city. At the close of the 27th Congress, at the request of Mr. Adams, he drew up a Protest against the annexation of Texas, proving that it was a project of the slaveholders to extend the area of slavery. The paper was signed by many of the members of Congress. At the close of his service in Congress, in 1843, having formed a law partnership with F. C. D. McKay, he removed to Warsaw, where has since resided. Having become interested in the Hardware trade with Mr. Garretsee, he gave up his practice. He afterwards engaged in the Dry Goods and Lumber trade, continuing it until the loss of his planing mill the second time by fire, in 1865. In May, 1861,
Seth MG ates. Taken 1843.
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he was appointed Postmaster by Mr. Lincoln; and in May, 1866, was reappointed by Mr. Johnson. In 1848, he was the Free Soil candidate for Lieutenant-Governor on the ticket with Gen. John A. Dix for Governor. For about forty years he has been a temperance man, and has been active, with his voice and his pen, in opposing the traffic in all that can in- toxicate, as well as its use as a beverage. In 1834, he joined the Presbyterian church in Le Roy. In Warsaw he united with the Congregational church, and was for thirteen years in succession the Superintendent of its Sunday School, and has been for many years its church clerk. Mr. Gates was married to Eliza Keyes, of Le Roy, in 1827, by whom he had seven children:
HENRY K., who was born Sept. 16, 1828, married Miss Johnson, of Fredonia, and is a broker in New York.
MARY E., who married Seymour G. Bronson, of Warsaw, now a Hardware merchant in Rockford, Ill.
FRANCES A., who resides with her sister in Rockford.
HARRIET C., born June 3, 1834, died Nov. 1, 1850.
JOIN A., born Aug. 9, 1836, is unmarried.
SETH M. and ELIZA K., (twins,) both died in infancy.
Mr. Gates married, in Sept., 1841, for his second wife, Fanny Jennett Parsons, of Lisle, Broome Co., N. Y. By her he had five children:
SARAH N., who died in May, 1865, at the age of 22, when ready to graduate at Ingham University.
ELIZA JENNETT was born in Warsaw, Nov. 1, 1845.
MERRILL E., born April 6, 1848, is now in College.
ERASTUS PARSONS was born April 16, 1850.
LEWIS EDDY was born March 23, 1860.
Mr. Gates' second wife died June S, 1866; and July 11, 1867, he married Mrs. A. C. Bishop, widow of the late Hon. William S. Bishop, of Rochester, and daughter of the late Col. Nathaniel Rochester.
SIMEON GIBSON was born in Poultney, Vt., May 18, 1779. IIe married for his first wife, Sally Morris, of Hamp- ton. They had two children:
WILLIAM, who married Clarinda Park. Their children were: 1. Nelson, who died at 19. 2. Lora, who died at 18. 3. Sarah, who married George Robinson, of Michigan. 4. Ara- bella, who died at S. 5. Clara P. 6. Marens E. William Gibson died Oct. 21, 1860.
SALLY married Chauncey Z. Cutting. [See Jonas Cut- ting.]
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Simeon Gibson married for his second wife, Miriam Mun- ger, by whom he had six children:
JOIN S., who married Caroline Awmuck. They removed to Batavia, Ill. They had four children: Porter, Charles, Ar- thur, Ellen. Mr. Gibson died a few years since.
DANIEL H. married Laura Morris. They had nine chil- dren: Sullivan W., George C., Clayton K., died an infant; Wilber HI., John F., Adelia E., Lora, and Cora, d. inf.
MARCUS married Catharine Butterfield, and had three chil- dren: Helen, Elbridge, and Frederick. Mr. Gibson was killed accidentally by a gun in his own hands.
SIMEON K. is married, and resides in Southern Illinois.
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