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ville, and they have one son, Roy D. Mr. Hutchison is an active member of the Rochester Whist Club and Corinthian Temple No. 805, F. & A. M.
Hoyt, David, was born in Rochester, and has had an experience in the banking business from his youth up. He first became connected with the Monroe County Savings Bank in 1865 as bookkeeper, and rose to the position of secretary and treasurer in 1883, a position he has held ever since. He was at one time a director of the Safe Deposit Company, and took an active part in obtaining a new charter. He is a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce, and has always been active in pro- moting the commerce and development of Rochester. He is also one of the gov- ernors of the Rochester Homœopathic Hospital, and was for a time its secretary. Mr. Hoyt has always taken an active interest in athletic sports, has long been a member of the Bowling and other popular clubs, and is widely known and much esteemed as one of the progressive spirits among the young business men of Roch- ester. The Monroe County Savings Bank, of which he is secretary and treasurer, commenced business June 3, 1850, in the office of the Rochester Bank, on Exchange street. The first board of trustees consisted of Levi Ward, Everard Peck, Freeman Clarke, Nehemiah Osburn, Ephraim Moore, Daniel H. Barton, George W. Parsons, William W. Ely, William N. Sage, Alvah Strong, Martin Briggs, Thomas Harvey, Lewis Selye, Moses Chapin, Ebenezer Ely, Daniel E. Lewis, Amon Bronson, Joel P. Milliner, Charles W. Dundas, George Ellwanger and Theodore B. Hamilton. Everard Peck was the first president, and Freeman Clarke the first treasurer. In 1854 the bank was moved to the building on Buffalo street known as the "City Hall Building," and in 1858 removed to the Masonic Hall block, corner of Exchange and Buffalo streets. In 1862 the premises on State street now occupied were purchased, and a handsome, substantial building was erected. In 1867 additional ground was secured and the building greatly enlarged and improved.
Edington, I. C., D.D.S., son of Abram P. Edington, was born in Parma, Monroe county, N. Y., February 11, 1864, and received his preliminary education in the schools of his native town. In the fall of 1886 he commenced the study of dentistry in the office of Dr. Charles A. Davis, in Rochester. He was afterwards, for three years, with the late Dr. G. U. Gleason, of this city, and in the fall of 1888 entered the dental department of the Howard University of Washington, D. C., from which in- stitution he graduated with high honor in 1890, being president of his class. The same year he resumed the practice of his profession in Rochester, N. Y., where he has since resided. He is a member of the Seventh District Dental Association and president of the Rochester Dental Association, which position he has held for two terms.
Crossman Brothers .- Charles W. Crossman, the senior member of this well-known seed firm, was born in Rochester, January 13, 1847, while his brother, George F. Crossman, was born July 14, 1851. Their father, Charles F., born November 3, 1802, came to Monroe county from Vermont about 1838. He had at one time the largest market gardening business in this vicinity, and in 1840 founded what is now the great seed establishment of Crossman Brothers. He also conducted a nursery, and was one of the foremost citizens of the time. Upon his death in 1865 his two sons succeeded to the entire business, from which they soon sold off the nursery and garden- ing departments. Since then they have devoted their attention wholly to the pro-
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duction, handling and selling of all kinds of seeds, developing one of the most ex- tensive concerns of the kind in America, enjoying a trade to which foreign lands contribute, and having retail stores in South Clinton street, and wholesale and gen- eral office headquarters on Monroe avenue. They also have two large houses in Canada, one being in Coburg and the other at Wellington. They have under culti- vation, of their own or on contract, about 6,000 acres of land, keep fifty traveling men on the road, and employ during the busy season from 350 to 400 people, main- taining a business which extends all over the world. Keeping pace with the times and their extensive trade, they have put in all new and improved appliances, and are now making and pasting many millions of seed paper bags and envelopes by ma- chinery. The firm is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Charles W. Cross- man is a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Rochester Lodge and Monroe Commandery and intermediate bodies, and is also president of the Ameri- can Seedsmen's Protective Association, of which he was one of the organizers. He is a member of the American Seed Trade Association, and a life member of the New York State and Western New York Agricultural Societies February 6, 1884, he married a daughter of the late Capt. Charles W. Godard, of Brooklyn, at one time captain of the Port of New York. They have two children: Lillie Louise and Helen Josephine. George F. Crossman is also a thirty-second degree Mason, being a mem- ber of Frank R. Lawrence Lodge No. 797, F. & A. M., Hamilton Chapter, R. A. M., Doric Council, Monroe Commandery, K. T., Mystic Shrine, and Veiled Prophets, and Master of the Lodge of Perfection of the Scottish Rite bodies. He is a member of the Rochester Club, and a life member of the New York State and Western New York Agricultural Societies. In 1879 he married a daughter of Ira Todd, of Brighton, and they have two children: Clara M. and Beatrice E.
Belding, Dr. Homer, was born at Careyville, N, Y., in January, 1833, and is a son of Dr. Almond V. Belding, of Medina, Orleans county, one of the oldest practicing dentists in Western New York. He attended the district schools and finished his education at the old Millville Academy. Leaving home at the age of thirteen he fol- lowed the occupation of a wholesale drug clerk in Chicago and New York city for fifteen years, and then studied dentistry with his father, with whom he subsequently formed a partnership. He practiced alone for a time, and in 1865 came to Rochester, where he has ever since followed his profession. While in Medina he was a member of the Western New York Dental Society and also a delegate to the American Den- tal Association. November 6, 1861, Dr. Belding married Miss Amelia F. Sherwood, daughter of Guy Sherwood, one of the pioneers of Orleans county and ex-president of the Orleans County Pioneer Association. They have three children; Bertha, Dr. F. Sherwood, and Florence. "Dr. Belding has had an experience as varied and successful as any dentist in the country, and his work as a practitioner of the dental art has always received the highest approval of a discriminating public."
Brickner, Max, born in Welbhausen, Bavaria, Germany, May 4, 1842, was edu- cated in his native country, and at the age of seventeen came to America and located in Alabama, where he remained until the breaking out of the civil war. July 2, 1861, he came to Rochester and entered a wholesale hat and cap store as salesman. In the fall of 1862 he engaged in the manufacture of clothing as a member of the firm of G. & J. Wile, Cauffman & Co., with which he has ever since been connected, and
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which is now styled, the Wile & Brickner Company, Mr. Brickner being its president and treasurer. This is one of the largest clothing manufacturing concerns in West- ern New York and is known throughout the country, and its almost unparalleled success is largely due to Mr. Brickner's management and enterprise. He is a busi- ness man of wide influence and one of the best representatives of the clothing in- dustry in the United States. He is president of the Rochester Clothiers' Exchange, which includes every clothing manufacturer in the city. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1892-93, and is now vice-president of the Rochester & Irondequoit and the Rochester & Lake Ontario Railroad Companies, president of the Photo Materials Company, a director in the Post-Express Printing Company, and the Rochester Safe & Trust Deposit Company, and a member of the Board of Health of the city.
Brown Brothers Company .- This concern was originally established in January, 1885, under the firm name of Brown Brothers, comprising Charles J. and Robert C. Brown, natives of Rochester and sons of John S. Brown, who came here with his father, Robert, when a boy, from near Boston, Mass., settling in the eastern part of the city. In 1890 the business having assumed extensive proportions, the present company was incorporated under the laws of the State, with a paid up capital of $100,000, and with Charles J. Brown, president; Robert C. Brown, treasurer; and Edward C. Morris, secretary, all of whom still hold their respective positions. They conduct one of the largest and most successful nursery establishments in the country, and have branch offices in Chicago, Ill., and Toronto, Canada, with headquarters in Rochester. 'Their American nurseries, comprising several hundred acres, are located in the town of Irondequoit, Monroe county, while the Canadian nurseries, containing between 200 and 300 acres, are situated in Ridgeville, Ontario. Their name and stock have reached the remotest parts of this country and even foreign lands. The company is also interested in the Herrick Seed Company, which was incorporated in 1894, and which had been operated for several years by Rufus L. Herrick, the present president.
Bartholomay, William, was born in Rochester, and represents the fourth genera- tion of a family of brewers. His great-grandfather and father were manufacturers of lager, and he not only studied in his father's brewery, but also in Chicago and Milwaukee. Returning to Rochester in 1874, he was made head brewer, but subse- quently supplemented the knowledge he had obtained by a course of practical studies in German breweries. Returning again to this city he became the brewer of the Bartholomay plant, and in 1889 was made general manager. The Bartholomay brewery, the largest concern of the kind in Western New York, was founded by Henry Bartholomay and Philip Will in 1852, the latter soon withdrew, but became a member of the Bartholomay Brewing Company upon its incorporation May 1, 1894. He died in 1887. On May 29, 1889, a company was incorporated with a capital of $5,000,000, and three breweries were consolidated under one general management, viz .: The Bartholomay, the Rochester (established in September, 1878), and the Genesee (established in June, 1878). The directors managing these vast interests are Frederick Cook, president; William Bartholomay, vice-president and general man- ager; Philip Bartholomay, treasurer; Frederick Goetzman, secretary; and Mathias Kondolf, Jacob Gerling, E. H. Satterlee and Russel H. Monro. The combined capacity of the three breweries is over 600,000 barrels of beer annually.
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Aldridge, George Washington, was born in Michigan City, Ind., December 28, 1856, and is the oldest son of George W. and Virginia (De Orsey) Aldridge, natives respectively of Chazy, N. Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished his education at Cary Collegiate Seminary at Oakfield, N. Y., and the De Graff Military Institute in Rochester, and was associated with his father, a noted contracter and builder, until the latter's death in 1877, when he continued the business on his own account. In politics he has been especially active and prominent, and has filled many of the more responsible positions within the gift of his party, the Republican. He was four times elected to the executive board, the first time in 1883, and in March, 1894, was chosen mayor of the city, which he resigned on January 22, 1895, to accept the appointment by Governor Morton of state superintendent of public works. He has been an active member of the Republican State Committee since 1887, and is also a member of the National Fire Association (of which he was for two terms vice-president), the Exempt Firemen's Association of Rochester (of which he has been president five years), the Rochester Club, the Rochester Whist Club, the Rochester Athletic Asso- ciation, the Rochester Historical Society, and the new Manhattan Club of New York city. He is a trustee of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and of the Firemen's Home at Hudson, and was a leading candidate for lieutenant-governor at the Sara- toga Convention in 1894.
Gardiner, Richard F., was born in Rochester, N. Y., November 6, 1867. He was educated in the common schools, finishing at No. 6, and then learned the shoe- maker's trade. In the spring election of 1892 he was elected school commissioner and at the same time was appointed city overseer of the poor by the Common Coun- cil, resigning as school commissioner. He is now serving his second term.
Langslow, Fowler & Co .- This firm consists of H. A. Langslow, P. A. Fowler, and S. C. Langslow, and was established in 1886 for the business of manufacturing all kinds of rocking chairs. In 1887 they utilized 700,000 feet of hardwood lumber; since then they have used as high as 2,000 000 feet, and now employ about 200 hands. The firm, whose trade extends throughout the United States, is one of the most ex- tensive manufacturers in this State, and is a member of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Its members are all furniture men of long practical experience. H. A. Langslow has been continuously the financial manager, while the other partners are the traveling representatives. Mr. Langslow was born in England and has been engaged in the furniture business for twenty years. His father. Capt. Richard Langslow, made a journey through the Genesee country in 1817, and kept a journal of this and other trips in various parts of the United States. Mr. Langslow came to Rochester in 1860 from New York city, where he had lived eleven years.
Roth, George F., was born in Rochester, N. Y., September 7, 1856, and is a son of Frederick and Frederica Roth. He received his education in this city, where he has been prominently identified with business and other matters. He is a director of the Rochester Carting Company, a corporation doing the most extensive business of its character in this city. Mr. Roth is a member of the Monroe Club, the Rochester Whist Club, the Rod and Gun Club, the Masonic order, and the Chamber of Commerce.
Brown, Henry B., was born in Austerlitz, Columbia county, N. Y., July 14, 1841, was educated in the public schools, and came with his parents to Rochester, N. Y. For many years he was a farmer and market gardener, and for the past six years has
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been foremen of the men who are working on the new Seneca Park. January 24, 1865, he married Elizabeth A. Thomas, of Rochester, and they have seven children: Henry T., Mary M., Ida E., Burt D., Lottie E., Elizabeth A., and Branch S. Mr. Brown's father, Gilbert, was born at the old home in 1815, and he married Malinda Spencer, of his native place, and they had four children: Henry B., Anson G., George D., and Lottie M. Mr. Brown died in 1881, and his wife, in 1891. Mrs. Brown's father, John W. Thomas, was born in Devonshire, England, and he married Mary Cox, by whom he had eleven children: John R., Samuel W., William C., Joseph W., Henry W., David W., Charles W., Mary J. George W., Elizabeth A., and Robert W. The family came to the United States and located in Rochester in 1834. The ances- try of the family is English, Welsh, and Scotch.
Potter, Everett O., was born on a farm in the town of Le Ray, Jefferson county, N. Y., April 15, 1856. His grandfather, John Potter, settled there very early in this century, where Orris J., son of John, and father of Everett O., was born in 1826. The Potter family in that section subsequently became prominent and influential in various parts of the United States, and many of its members are noted as wealthy, enterprising citizens. Everett O. Potter received a classical education at the Potts- dam (N. Y.) State Normal School, and after leaving that institution taught district school for two years. Reared on a farm he acquired not only a strong constitution, but habits of thrift and frugality which have characterized his life. In 1881 he came to Rochester without money, but with energy, perseverance and enterprise, and for one year was a clerk in a physician's office. Following this he was for five years chief bookkeeper for Michael Doyle & Co., and afterward for about two years acted as salesman for H. F. Drake & Co., coal dealers. In May, 1892, he associated him- self with the Miller Brewing Company, and six months later was elected its secre- tary, which position he has since held. In the fall of 1894 he was also made a mem- ber of the Board of Directors. He has been very successful; starting without a dollar, he has accumulated a competency. In the spring of 1894 he was elected sec- retary of the Ale Brewers Association of Rochester, a position he still holds. He is a member of Yonondio Lodge, No. 163, F. & A. M., and of Hamilton Chapter, R. A. M. November 3, 1886, he married Clara E. Hancock, of Rochester, by whom he has two daughters: Fannie B. and Hazel G ..
Perrin, William H., was born on the old homestead, April 21, 1835. He was edu- cated in the district schools, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y., and two years at their college. He is engaged in farming, surveying, and carries on a nur- sery. June 13, 1865, he married Marion J. Bailey, of Ludlow, Vt. She was a school teacher in the public schools of Rochester, N. Y. They have had five children: Car- rie, Norman, Roy, Jessie, and William, who died in infancy. Mr. Perrin is superin- tendent of the Irondequoit Central Sunday school. His father, Ransford, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., in 1798 and came to Western New York with his parents when a child, settling in Palmyra, Wayne county, where they died. He was then bound out and lived in Brighton for a while. He was educated in the schools of the day, afterward teaching school for several terms, then engaged in farming. He married Harriet Dinsmore, a daughter of one of the first settlers of the town, by whom he had eleven children: Gertrude, Abel, Maryetta, Mary A., Ransford, Esther, William H., Russell, Harriet, Edward, and Winfield. Mr. Perrin died July 23, 1892, and his
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wife in September, 1873. Mrs. William H. Perrin's father, Ira Bailey, was born in Ludlow, Vt., September 25, 1806. He was educated in the district schools and en- gaged in teaching for several terms, afterwards followed farming. He married Julia A. Martin, of Baltimore, Vt., by whom he had two children: Marion J and Louisa A., who died in St. Paul, Minn., May 16, 1894. Mr. Bailey died May 30, 1870, and his wife February 24, 1885. The ancestry of the family is Scotch and English.
Livingston, Henry C., was born near the homestead, May 14, 1846. His education was obtained in the public schools and he has since been engaged in gardening and farming. March 27, 1865, he enlisted in Co. G, 8th Cavalry, N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. August 12, 1868, he married Malinda Burnett, of the town of Webster. Mr. Livingston's father, Henry, was born on Navy Island, Canada, in 1809. He married Emily Dinsmore of this town. She was a member of one of the oldest families in the town. They had six children: Aurelia Monroe, Betsey A., Harriet, Silas, and Henry C. The latter died in 1846 and his wife December 18, 1891. Mrs. H. C. Livingston's father, Robert Burnett, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., in 1814. He was educated in the schools of his day and was a farmer. He married Caroline Mesick, of Utica, N. Y., by whom he had ten children, five of whom grew to maturity. Eliza, Samuel, Bradley A., Malinda, and Mary E. Mr. Burnett died in 1887 and his wife in 1882. Mr. Livingston is a member of Thomas Farr Post No. : 75, G. A. R., department of New York. He is of Scotch and Dutch descent.
Miller, Ransom, was born in Brighton, on the land where the county house now stands, in 1819. He is a son of Eli Miller, who came from Connecticut in 1812 and had four sons. Ransom married at the age of twenty-one and settled in Gates, where he was engaged in farming until 1891, when he retired from active business and moved to Rochester. By his energy and perseverance he has accumulated a large fortune, owning farms in Riga, Chili, and Gates. He has six sons, five of whom are living on farms their father has given to them.
Harris, Selah M., is the only son of the late Prof. Joseph Harris, and the grandson of James Harris who came from England to Gates in 1849, and settled on the farm where S. M. Harris now lives. He had three sons: Edward, Joseph and Thomas. Joseph Harris graduated from Cornell University, and was widely known as a writer. For several years he was editor of the Genesee Farmer, and also associate editor of the American Agriculturist.
Renouf, William, was born in Gates, in 1842, son of Benjamin B. Renouf, who came from Troy, N. Y., and settled on the farm where his son now lives. He died, leaving one son, William, who married Hattie Luttindton, and they have three sons. Benjamin, William J., and Edward; also five daughters: Caroline E., Martha, Hat- tie, Grace and Alice.
Robinson, William L., was born in Morristown, St. Lawrence county, June 16, 1832. He was educated in the common schools, then learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade, which he followed until 1871. January 28, 1854, he married Annie Harris, by whom he has five children: Willette B., who married Eva Gale, of Erie county, by whom he has three children: Pearl, Gale, and Alice; Benjamin L., who married Mary Hyland, of Buffalo, by whom he has six children: William, Thomas,
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Edward, Joseph, Benjamin, and -; Dowaine E., who married Lottie Greshmier, of Chicago; Thomas J., who married Jennie Jiles, of Batavia, by whom he has two children : Anna L. and Francis A. ; and Annette, who resides at home. Mr. Robin- son came to Charlotte in 1871, where he is engaged in contracting. His father, James, was born near Little Falls, Herkimer county, and married Lucy Goodwin, of Morristown, by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom are now living: James, Lydia, Gardiner, William L., Benjamin, and Reuben. Mr. James Robinson died in 1874. Mrs. Robinson's father, Thomas Harris, was born in Ireland in 1804, and married Bedelia McKehoe, by whom he had seven children. The family came to the United States in 1846. He died in 1883 and his wife in 1882.
Porter, Chauncy, was born in the town of Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., December 9, 1858, and came to the town of Irondequoit, with his parents, in 1859. He was educated in the district schools, and in early life learned to be a market gardener. He married Susie E. Fisher, of Parma, by whom he has two children: Charles F. and Aura M. William Porter, father of Chauncy, was born in Cambridgeshire, Eng- land, July 3, 1837, and came to the United States, with his parents, when sixteen years of age. He married Phoebe Howard, of this town, formerly of England, by whom he had seven children: Chauncy, as above, Sarah, Mary, Charles, Hattie, Alfred, and Phoebe. Mr. Porter has ten acres of garden in a thorough state of cul- tivation. He is a member of Garden Tent, No. 365, K. O. T. M. Mrs. Porter's father, John Fisher, was born in England, in 1836, and came to the United States when a young man, locating in the town of Greece. He married Mary Burling, of Greece, by whom he had five children: Susie E., as above, Clara L., Anna M., Will- iam J., and Raymond.
Penney, Benjamin F., was born in Ellisburg, Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1822, and came with his parents to Rochester when he was ten years of age. He was educated in the public schools and for forty years has been engaged in various occupations, chiefly in the wood and coal business. He is now retired, residing in this town, near Sea Breeze. In 1842 he married Alvira, daughter of Henry Ordway, by whom he had five children: Francis A., Sanford A., Wilber G., George S., and Mary. Mrs. Pen- ney died in the fall of 1864, and for his second wife he married Emeritta, sister of his first wife, by whom he had one son, Irving A. His two older sons were soldiers in the late war, and the youngest of the two was wounded in the battle of Shiloh and was honorably discharged by General Grant when he was sixteen years old. Mr. Penney's father, Edward, was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1794. He was an inventor by occupation, and was in the battle of Sackett's Harbor, in the war of 1812. He married Amanda Spencer of his native county, by whom he had nine children: Harriet, Daniel, Benjamin, Oliva, De Loss, Helen, Mary, Laura, and Caroline, Mr. Penney died in 1836 and his wife in 1856. Mrs. Penney's father, Henry Ordway, was born in the town of Bow, New Hampshire, in 1790. He married Harriet Walker, by whom he had nine children: Almira S., Mary J., Caroline, Lavina, William W., Emeline, Emeritta, Cornelia, and one baby, who was not named. Both parents are dead. The family came to New York State and to Batavia in 1821.
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