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Donald McNaughton, of Scotch origin, was born in Mumford, in the town of Wheatland, Monroe county, March 29, 1830, and received his education in the public schools of his birthplace. From a clerk in early life he prepared himself for the legal profession. During the civil war he was indefatigable in raising and fitting troops, and in recognition of his successful efforts in filling the town's quotas the citizens of Wheatland presented him with a law library. He was admitted to the bar in 1865 and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in Rochester,
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For eight years he was sent by his Republican town to represent it in the board of supervisors, the chairmanship of which was conferred upon him when it was Republican in majority.
He was always a Democrat in politics and one of the hardest workers for the principles of that party. When first elected to the senate in 1886 he received a plurality of 429, although the district gave over 3,000 plurality for the Republican state ticket. When he was again returned in 1889 with a plurality of 371, notwithstanding that the dis- trict gave 4,000 plurality for the Republican state ticket, the news of triumph and the unmistakable evidence of his great popularity spread rapidly through the state and he was prominently mentioned as a pos- sible and highly eligible candidate for governor. As a legislator Sena- tor McNaughton achieved remarkable success in the number of bills he introduced and placed on the statute books. During his first term he served on the committees on cities, railroads, canals, and public build- ings, and was a member of the New York Aqueduct Investigation com- mittee. In 1889 he was appointed a member of the same committees and was one of the famous Senate Cities committee which investigated the municipal government of New York city. In the campaign of 1892 he was the nominee of his party for congress, and although the district went 4,000 for Harrison he was defeated by but 367 votes. He was ap- pointed by Governor Hill general director of the World's fair exhibit from this state. He was a trustee of the Central Union Storage and Transfer company, trustee of the Reynold's library, president of the Scottish society of Rochester, and secretary of the Wheatland Historical society. He died in 1893.
William H. Shuart was born September 21, 1852, at Honeoye Falls, N. Y., and is the son of ex-Surrogate Denton G. Shuart. He was educated at Genesee Wesleyan seminary and Syracuse university and received the degree of A.B. from the latter institution in Juue, 1875. After his graduation he studied law with his father and later with Judge John S. Morgan of Rochester. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and has since practiced his profession in this city. February 7, 1884, he married Nella Sumner Phillips of Springfield, Mass.
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ROLL OF THE ROCHESTER BAR.
1812-21. John Mastick, Hastings R. Bender, Roswell Babbitt, Joseph Spencer, Jesse Dane, Enos Pomeroy.
1821-27. Daniel D. Barnard, Rufus Beach, Selleck Boughton, Moses Chapin, Tim- othy Childs, Palmer Cleveland, John Dickson, Addison Gardiner, James H. Gregory, Ebenezer Griffin, Fletcher M. Haight, Isaac Hills, Anson House, Harvey Humphrey, Richard C. Jones, Charles M. Lee, Vincent Mathews, Richard N. Morrison, William W. Mumford, Charles Perkins, Ashley Sampson, Samuel L. Selden, Elisha B. Strong, Theodore F. Talbot, W. C. Van Ness, Ephraim B. Wheeler, Frederick Whittlesey.
1834. William S. Bishop, Patrick G. Buchan, D. K. Cartter, Isaac R. Elwood, Simeon Ford, Horace Gay, Theodore B. Hamilton, Orlando Hastings, E. Smith Lee, Thomas Lefferts, D. C. Marsh, Selah Mathews, Samuel Miller, William R. Montgom- ery, George H. Mumford, John C. Nash, Henry E. Rochester, E. Darwin Smith, Hestor L. Stevens, A. W. Stowe, Ariel Wentworth, S. T. Wilder.
1838. Graham H. Chapin, John C. Chumasero, Carlos Cobb, Mortimer F. Delano, James R. Doolittle, Joseph A. Eastman, Jasper W. Gilbert, Simon H. Grant, Sanford M. Green, Robert Haight, Alba Lathrop, Hiram Leonard, Abner Pratt, E. Peshine Smith.
1841. Charles Ayrault, S. W. Budlong, Charles Lee Clark, B. W. Clark, Samuel B. Chase, John B. Cooley, John W. Dwinelle, I. S. Fancher, Washington Gibbons, Joseph D. Husbands, Ethan A. Hopkins, Elisha Mather, James M. Schermerhorn, E. T. Schenck, Hiram A. Tucker, Delos Wentworth, Henry M. Ward.
1844. Leonard Adams, Joel B. Bennett, William Breck, Daniel Burroughs, jr., James C. Campbell, George F. Danforth, George Dutton, jr., Alfred Ely, Herman B. Ely, Lysander Farrar, Hiram Hatch, Thomas B. Husband, Henry Hunter, Nathan Huntington, Erastus Ide, Henry C. Ives, Hiram K. Jerome, Leonard W. Jerome, Alexander Mann, Belden R. McAlpine, Thomas C. Montgomery, Chauncey Nash, Martin S. Newton, John W. Osborn, Nicholas E. Paine, Stephen M. Shurtliff, L. Ward Smith, Sanford J. Smith, John R. Stone, William C. Storrs, John Thompson, jr., James S. Tryon, John C. Van Epps, Horatio G. Warner, David L. White, Daniel Wood.
1845. James Abrams, James L. Angle, Charles Billinghurst, Seymour Boughton, Rufus L. B. Clark, Frederick L. Durand, Samuel B. Dwinelle, Almon Gage, Chris- topher Jordan, George E. King, Daniel Marsh, Lewis H. Morgan, Hiram C. Smith, James E. Squire.
1849. Truman Abrams, Horace B. Adama, James Ames, Daniel B. Beach, Oliver M. Benedict, Samuel S. Bowne, Charles A. Bowne, James S. Bush, William P. Chase, Charles H. Clark, James C. Cochrane, William F. Cogswell, Zimri L. Davis, Fred- erick Delano, Alexander Ely, Lorenzo D. Ferry, Edward W. Fitzhugh, Thomas Frothingham, Truman Hastings, Luther H. Hovey, Calvin Huson, jr., D. Cameron Hyde, Kasimer P. Jervis, Byron D. McAlpine, Benjamin G. Marvin, Alfred G. Mudge, Thaddeus S. Newell, Chauncey Perry, Charles T. Porter, Edward A. Raymond, William A. Root, Henry Sargent, Henry R. Selden, Ebenezer B. Shearman, Anson Sherwood, Eliphaz Tummer, Chauncey Tucker.
1851. William L. Brock, Philander M. Crandall, John B. Curtiss, Charles R.
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Davis, Gideon Draper, jr., William A. Fitzhugh, Albert M. Hastings, Jarvis M. Hatch, James G. Hills, Henry T. Johns, William H. McClure, John H. Martindale, George W. Miller, James M. Miller, George G. Muuger, Sylvester H. Packard, jr., William J. Parker, Charles H. Pierce, John N. Pomeroy, John L. Requa, W. Dean Shuart, John W. Stebbins, Matthew G. Warner, jr., Frederick A. Whittlesey.
1853. John J. Bowen, Phederus Carter, Philip I. Clum, Charles P. Crosby, Caleb S. Crumb, George Ely, George Gardner, Issachar Grosscup, George H. Humphrey, Charles G. Loeber, John McConvill, George E. Mumford, George Murphy, Oliver H. Palmer, George W. Rawson, George P. Townsend, Henry E. White, Robert A. Wilson.
1855. George B. Brand, Isaac S. Hobbie, Charles W. Littles, D. W. Sherwood, Wells Taylor, Seth H. Terry, John Van Voorhis, Albert G. Wheeler.
1857. Theodore Bacon, Michael Canfield,, William R. Carpenter, Byron G. Chappell, Andrew J. Ensign Edward Harris, John H. Jeffres, George W. Johnson, Edgar Knickerbocker, E. S. Llewellyn, Alexander G. Melvin, William J. McPherson, George T. Parker, Charles J. Powers, Charles K. Smith, Vincent M. Smith, T. Hart Strong, Joseph A. Stull, Seymour G. Wilcox, Charles C. Willson.
1859. William H. Andrews, Daniel L. Angle, Almon B. Benedict, Henry C. Bloss, T. B. Clarkson, John Craig, Oscar Craig, S. C. Crittenden, George P. Draper, James S. Garlock, Pierson B. Hulett, Abram H. Jones, James W. Kerr, David Laing, Charles P. Landers, J. H. McDonald, John A. McGorry, B. G. Marvin, Henry S. Redfield, George E. Ripsom, William C. Rowley, T. D. Steele, John W. Tompkins, George Truesdale, Quincy Van Voorhis, John B. Vosburg, Homer H. Woodward.
1861. Charles S. Baker, Thomas K. Baker, Hiram S. Barker, James D. Brown, William S. Campbell, DeLancy Crittenden, Samuel J. Crooks, Joseph Deverell, Seth Eldridge, DeWitt C. Ellis, Henry B. Ensworth, Philip Hamilton, Byron M. Hanks, Frank W. Hastings, Harmon S. Hogoboom, Kneeland J. Macomber, Walter Hurd, William S. Ingraham, Henry B. James, Francis A. Macomber, Abel Meeker, William Powell, D. P. Richardson, William H. Rogers, Jesse Shepherd, Theron R. Strong, Andrew J. Wilkin.
1863. Charles P. Achilles, William H. Bowman, Charles H. Cherry, Martin W. Cooke, William Graebe, W. W. Hegeman, Francis J. Mather, William F. Peck, Charles F. Pond, James Rau, Archibald Servoss, W. S. Staples, George S. Tucker- man.
1865. William M. Bates, George W. Blackmore, Lyman W. Briggs, Sanford E. Church, James L. Clark, John M. Davy, Christopher C. Davison, Joseph Felix, C. Hopgood, A. C. Hogoboom, Ralph O. Ives, Joseph L. Luckey, John C. O'Brien, Samuel S. Partridge, Otis H. Robinson, Richard H. Schooley, William J. Sheridan, Othello H. Stevens, Homer Stull, Edward Webster, William H. Webster, Menzo Van Voorhis.
1866. C. W. Baker, Oliver M. Benedict, jr., M. Campbell, J. W. Kerr, H. H. Mason, William S. Oliver, E. S. Otis, Samuel Stevens, Joseph C. Wells, Henry Widner.
1867. W. G. Ashby, E. Burke Collins, G. S. Cutting, Dennis C. Feely, John M. Dunning, W. H. Fish, Frank B. Hutchinson, John W. Kelly, Donald McNaughton, Patrick McIntyre, George Raines,
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1868. Alvin L. Barton, Josiah H. Bissell, Milton H. Davis. Charles G. Hapgood, James S. Mathews, Sherman R. Robinson, William H. Shepard.
1869. John W. Deuel, Edward B. Fenner, Lewis J. Goddard, B. Frank Maxson, J. Buck Perkins, Edward Witherspoon.
1870. Charles M. Allen, John Clark, jr., Ephraim C. Fish, James E. Cheney, jr., John E. Roe, J. P. Varnum, John W. Wilson, Lodowick M. Wooden.
1871. Henry N. Allen, J. Sherlock Andrews, James M. Angle, William H. Crouchen, Charles F. Dean, Charles H. Gorham, Daniel L. Johnston, William H. Mitchell, Milton W. Noyes, John C. O'Regan, Jacob Spahn, Darrell D. Sully, Arthur D. Walbridge.
1872. William A. Combs, Joseph N. Crane. J. Rowe Fanning, James A. Jordan, John J. Palmer, James B. Pike, George W. Thomas, William K. Townsend, Thomas E. White, William H. Yerkes.
1873. Willliam E. Edmonds, George W. Fisher. John S. Morgan, George F. Jack- son, Charles J. McDowell, Edward F. Stilwell, George W. Sill, H. D. Tucker.
1874. Nathaniel Foote, jr., William S. James, Merritt G. Mckinney, Marcus Michaels, Eugene H. Satterlee.
1875. Walter W. Adams, Luther C. Benedict, Horace L. Bennett, George A. Benton, Sardius D. Bentley, Marsenus H. Briggs, Samuel J. Budlong, Paris G. Clark, Pomeroy P. Dickinson, Edward B. Fiske, Lorin H. Gillette, Richard H. Lansing, Edwin A. McMath, Thomas P. O'Kelly, William W. Webb, Richard E. White, Solomon Wile, Isaac A. Wile, Byron C. Williams, Charles M. Williams.
1876. George Armstrong, William H. Barker, William R. Carpenter, John A. Colwell, Henry R. Curtis, Frederick A. Hitchcock, Angus McDonald, W. Howard Olmsted, William H. St. John, John C. Simons, Henry J. Sullivan, Josiah Sullivan, Stephen Wheeler, George F. Yeoman.
1877. J. Aaron Adams, Joseph A. Addington, John N. Beckley, Walter Buell, Darius L. Covill, Edward O. Dowd, John H. Hopkins, Walter S. Hubbell, Thomas A. Hungerford, W. Martin Jones, J. Horace McGuire, Herman W. Morris, Michael F. O'Dea, Horace G. Pierce, William G. Raines, Thomas F. Stark, Samuel H. Tor- rey, George E. Warner, Thomas D. Wilkin, William H. Whiting.
1878. Louis A. Amsden, Frank M. Bottum, William L. Brock, George F. Bausum, Frederick L. Churchill, J. Ewing Durand, Frank W. Elwood, Frederick Hebard, Marcus Hirschfield, Robert Jarrard, D. Edgar Parsons, Arthur C. Smith, John T. Pingree, Ivan Powers, Henry J. Sampson, George B. Selden, William H. Shuart, Herbert L. Ward, Charles E. Yale.
1879. William Butler Crittenden, A. Norton Fitch, George W. Lamb, Edwin A. Medcalf, James H. Montgomery, William F. Rampe, Edward M. Redmond, Joseph Welling, William E. Werner.
1880. James Briggs, John A. Burgess, Isaac W. Butts, Philetus Chamberlain, jr., Fred H. Church, Walter S. Coffin, Adelbert Cronise, Henry G. Danforth, J. Des- mond, Frank W. Dickinson, George D. Forsyth, Frank M. Goff, George W. Hall, Henry J. Hetzel, Joseph S. Hann, William W. Jacobs, Bartholomew Keeler, Con- stantine D. Kiehel, Henry M. McDonald, Samuel P. Moore, James B. Nellis, Fred P. Nutting, Wilber F. Osborn, Thomas G. Outerbridge, Thomas Raines, Charles B. Rebasz, Samuel L. Selden, Allen R. Sheffer, John G. Snell, George C. Wolcott,
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1881. Adoniram J. Abbott, John B. Abbott, John H. Bishop, George M. Cone, William D. Ellwanger, Charles C. Herrick, John H. Keefe, Edmund Lyon, Spencer S. Markham, Frank W. Miller, William S. Servis, John M. Steele, Holmes B. Stevens, Edward F. Turk, Edward F. Wellington.
1882. Frederick H. Baker, Angus Cameron, Edward S. Clarke, William N. Cogs- well, Henry W. Conklin, William H. Davis, Edward W. Hall, William A. Hawthorn, David Hays, David Herron, Henry M. Hill, Frank J. Hone, James L. Hotchkiss, John D. Lynn, Edward W. Maurer, William A. Sternberg, Horace J. Tuttle, Roy C. Webster, Charles S. Wilbur, Casterline Williams, John W. Wilson.
1883. D. Clinton Barnum, John A. Bernhard, Myron T. Bly, Frank H. Bowlby, Selden S. Brown, Clarence J. Browning, Ralph Butler, Peter A. Costich, Raleigh Farrar, Seward French, William Johnson, Charles H. Kingsbury, George R. Losey, Lemuel B. Marcy, Henry L. Osgood, Earl B. Putnam, Arthur J. Shaw, G. Fort Slocum, George J. Trenaman, Roberts B. Wickes, Charles H. Wiltsie.
1884. Cassius C. Davy, Frank L. Gummer, Edwin McKnight, Nelson C. Watson, Milton A. Brown, Edward A. Martin, Anson S. McNab, Valentine J. Ruppert.
1885. Aldice G. Warren, James O'Grady, William H. Sullivan, William F, Chandler.
1886. Seth S. Terry, Frederick W. Sandborn. Henry Isbell, Frederick B. Hall, George A. Carnahan, James S. Havens, George M. W. Bills, John B. M. Stephens, Albert P. Gulbert, James M. Kerr.
1887. Arthur E. Sutherland, Albert A. Davis, Eugene Van Voorhis, Stephen C. Truesdale, James H. Kelso, J. Frank Morse, George A. Gillette, Frederick W. Smith.
1889. George F. Zimmer, Charles P. Lee, Ednor A. Marsh, Morris Bull, Joseph M. Allen (Brockport), Abraham Benedict, Martin Davis (Honeoye Falls), Erwin E. Shutt.
1890. John F. Mitchell, William DeGraff, Fred. C. Hanford, George E. Milliman, Herbert James Menzie, Herbert J. Stull, Richard Van Voorhis, Edwin E. Wyckoff. 1891. Herman Perry Blodgett, Darius A. Marsh, Andrew Ludolph, William L. Kiefer, William E. Carnochan, Edwin A. Woodward, Joseph H. Hill, Willis K. Gillette.
1892. Benjamin B. Chace, William E. Davis, Franklin S. Hutchinson, Otto J. Stull, Charles F. A. Young, Isaac Adler, Simon L. Adler, Kendall B. Castle, Edward A. Keenan, Norman A. Macpherson, Edwin C. Smith, jr., Stephen J. Warren (W. Henrietta), George M. Williams.
1893. Lovelle M. Grube, Everett O. Gibbs, H. Irving Gordon, Willis A. Matson (Brockport), Henry Bartholomay, jr., Charles A. Edgerton, William T. Plumb, Henry V. Woodward, Henry A. Walker (Fairport).
1894. John Keenan, Herbert S, Wilbur, Leslie E. Hulburt, Ira L. Ward (Pitts- ford), John H. Daily, Charles R. Kreidler, Clyde W. Knapp, William H. Driscoll, John B. O'Connor, George B. Draper, Fred M. Whitney, Edward R. Foreman, Will- iam J. Hawkins, James Roscoe Davy.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BAR IN 1895.
Charles M. Allen, Walter W. Adams, Joseph A. Adlington, J. Sherlock Andrews, Elbridge L. Adams, William W. Armstrong, Isaac Adler, Simon L. Adler, Robert
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Averill, Edwin P. Allen, Horace L. Bennett, Marsenus H. Briggs, Theodore Bacon, Charles S. Baker, Hiram L. Barker, William M. Bates, William H. Beach, Daniel B. Beach, Clarence J. Browning, John A. Bernhard, Myron T. Bly, Alvin Block, Abraham Benedict, J. P. Bowman, James E. Briggs, Morris Bull, John A. Barhite, George M. W. Bills, Ralph Butler, John N. Beckley, Luther C. Benedict, Sardius D. Bentley, Frederick H. Baker, George A. Benton, William H. Bowman, John A. Burgess, James Briggs, Selden S. Brown, H. T. Braman, Frank M. Bottum, Isaac W. Butts, Norris Bull, Charles J. Bissell, H. Perry Blodgett, Charles E. Bostwick, Willis H. Coon, Frederick L. Churchill, Paris G. Clark, Adelbert Cronise, Philetus Chamberlain, jr., William F. Chandler, Fred B. Crittenden, Peter A. Costich, Scott Cummings, Henry W. Conklin, William F. Cogswell, Frederick F. Church, Martin W. Cooke, Delancy Crittenden, W. Butler Crittenden, William N. Cogswell, George A. Carnahan, Darius L. Covill, J. Warrant Castleman, Frank Cummings, John H. Chadsey, John D. Coffey, Kendall B. Castle, Benjamin B. Chace, Martin Davis, William H. Davis, Christopher C. Davison, Charles F. Dean, Henry G. Danforth, George F. Danforth, Fred E. Drake, John F. Dorthy, John Desmond, George P. Draper, Pomeroy P. Dickinson, Frederick L. Durand, John E. Durand, Cassius C. Davy, George P. Decker, John H. Dailey, Frank W. Dickinson, William E. Davis, Eugene J. Dwyer, William H. Driscoll, George F. Danforth, Eugene C. Denton, James R. Davy, William DeGraff, George B. Draper, William E. Edmonds, Frank M. Ellery, Charles B. Ernst, Frank W. Elwood, William D. Ellwanger, Erastus U. Ely, Charles A. Edgerton, John R. Fanning, Dennis C. Feely, Edward B. Fenner, Nathaniel Foote, Edward R. Foreman, George D. Forsyth, Daniel W. Forsyth, Ed- ward B. Fiske, Raleigh Farrar, Porter M. French, George V. Fleckenstein, Seward French, Irving Gordon, James S. Garlock, Frank L. Gummer, George A. Gillette, James G. Greene, Willis K. Gillette, Lovelle M. Grube, Everett O. Gibbs, Amos H. Gardner, Henry M. Hill, Edward Harris, Albert H. Harris, Joseph H. Hill, Marcus Hirschfield, John H. Hopkins, Joseph S. Hunn, Walter S. Hubbell, David Hays, Frank J. Hone, Frederick B. Hall, Pierson B. Hulett, George H. Humphrey, Joseph D. Husbands, Franklin B. Hutchinson, James L. Hotchkiss, Hubert B. Hallock, William B. Hale, Walter H. Hill, George H. Harris, James S. Havens, Fred C. Hanford, George W. Hall, Franklin S. Hutchinson, Leslie E. Hulburt, William J. Hawkins, W. Martin Jones, William Johnson, Louis H. Jack, Bartholomew Keeler, Charles R. Kreidler, John H. Keef, Charles R. King, Martin H. Kennedy, Constan- tine D. Kiehel, John F. Kinney, Charles A. Keeler, John B. Kiley, William L. Kiefer, John S. Keenan, Edward A. Keenan, Clyde W. Knapp, H. S. Kline, J. L. Luckey, Edmund Lyon, John D. Lynn, William B. Lee, Emil Ludekens, George W. Lamb, R. H. Lansing, George R. Losey, Merton E. Lewis, Charles P. Lee, Andrew Ludolph, William J. McPherson, Charles I. McDowell, Horace McGuire, Patrick Mc- Intyre, Morrison H. McMath, Charles J. Madden, Anson S. McNab, William W. Mumford, John M. Murphy, Edwin A, Medcalf, James H. Montgomery, Thomas C. Montgomery, Heman W. Morris, Benjamin F. Maxon, Edward W. Maurer, Ednor A. Marsh, J. Frank Morse, Herbert J. Menzie, George E. Milliman, Edwin Mc- Knight, Francis S. Macomber, Frederick A. Mann, Darius A. Marsh, Charles F. Miller, Harold C. Mitchell, John J. Mitchell, Samuel P. Moore, Norman A. Macpher- son, Milton Noyes, Wilbur F. Osborn, James M. E. O'Grady, John C. O'Brien,
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Thomas G. Outerbridge, Howard L. Osgood, James P. O'Connor, James B. Perkins, George T. Parker, Earl B. Futnam, H. Nelson Peck, William T. Plumb, Irving Paine, Chauncey Perry, Force Parker, Horace G. Pierce, Ivan Powers, C. F. Pond, Robert V. Page, D. Edgar Parsons, Maurice F. Propping, Thomas Raines, George Raines, William F. Rampe, Henry S. Redfield, Valentine J, Rupert, Harvey F. Remington, Edward M. Redmond, Sherman R. Robinson, Charles Roe, Adolph J. Rodenbeck, George D. Reed, Derrick W. Ross, Rollin H. Reid, Charles H. Rebasz Henry J. Sullivan, William H. St. John, Frederick W. Smith, Arthur C. Smith, James C. Smith, Eugene Satterlee, William H. Sullivan, Edwin C. Smith, jr., Fred- erick J. Smyth, David N. Salisbury, W. Dean Shuart, Darrell D. Sully, Holmes B. Stevens, John W. Stebbins, Arthur E. Sutherland, George H. Smith, Jacob Spahn, Thomas Stark, Othello H. Stevens, Joseph A. Stull, Josiah Sullivan, William H. Shaffer, A. R. Sheffer, John M. Steele, G. Fort Slocum, Edward F. Stilwell, George B. Selden, William A. Sutherland, William H. Shuart, John B. M. Stephens, Erwin E. Shutt, Herbert J. Stull, Otho S.Stull, John M.Stull, George L. Smith, Charles M. Shaw, William H. Shaw, Clarence E. Schuster, Howard W. Sneck, Ernest Snook, George W. Thomas, Joseph Ward Taylor, Edward F. Turk, George J. Trenaman, George Trues- dale, Henry D. Tucker, Horace J. Tuttle, Joe L. Thistlethwaite, Zachary P. Taylor, Stephen C. Truesdale, James S. Thompson, John C. Toole, Menzo Van Voorhis, Quincy Van Voorhis, Eugene Van Voorhis, Charles Van Voorhis, Jonas P. Varnum, Peter H. Van Auken, Herbert L. Ward, Charles L. Williams, Thomas E. White, George E. Warner, Willllam W. Webb, Edward Webster, William H. Whiting, Robert B. Wickes, Edward F. Wellington, Charles A. Widener, Charles H. Wiltsie, Aldice G. Warren, George C. Wolcott, Richard E. White, Frederick A. Whittlesey, Solomon Wile, Ira L. Ward, Thomas D. Wilkin, Cass Williams, Lodowick M. Wooden, Homer H. Woodward, Roy C. Webster, John A. C. Wright, Christopher C. Werner, William E. Werner, Howard H. Widener, Elmer E. Wyckoff, Arthur Warren, George Wil- son, Hiram R. Wood, George D. Williams, Stephen J. Warren, Edwin A. Wood- ward, George M. Williams, Henry V. Woodward, Herbert S. Wilbur, Fred M. Whitney, Charles. E. Yale, George F. Yeoman, William H. Yerkes, Charles F. A. Young, George R. Zimmer.
From the County .- D. A. Adams, John Burns, T. S. Dean, John N. Drake, Daniel Holmes, W. A. Matson, H. J. Thomas, Brockport; Frederick D. H. Cobb, E. J. Fiske, K. L. Holmes, T. L. Hulburt, S. F. Randall, Henry A. Walker, Fairport; W. H. Dusenbury, C. A. Shuart, Honeoye Falls; Frank M. Goff, Spencerport; Hugh Mckay, Webster; W. M. Richmond, Charlotte.
PART II.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
WILLIAM J. BABCOCK.
WILLIAM J. BABCOCK was a lineal descendant of James Babcock, the founder of the Babcock family in the United States. The latter was born in Essex, England, about the year 1580. He was one of the Puritans, and in 1620 removed with his family to Leyden, in Holland to emigrate with the Pilgrims to America. He em- barked in the ship Anne early in 1623 and arrived in July at Plymouth, Mass., where he lived the residue of his life and died. James Babcock, at the time of his immi- gration, had four children: James, John, Job, and Mary, who were born in England between 1612 and 1620, and who were brought over with their father. He was mar- ried again in Plymouth, about 1650, and had one son, Joseph. James, the first child, Job, the third, and Mary, the fourth, remained with their father in Plymouth; Joseph, the fifth, removed to Connecticut, near Saybrooke, where he made a settle- ment.
John Babcock, the second son, removed with a number of others about the year 1648 into that part of Rhode Island now called Westerly township, where the com- pany began a settlement and named the place. Here he remained the residue of his life, dying July 19, 1719, aged over 100 years. He left ten children, whose descend- ants to the present time number more than 5,000. He was the first magistrate chosen in Westerly, and held the office a long time. He owned nearly all of the township and a part of South Kingston, and much of this land is now in the possession of his descendants, having been in the family nearly 200 years.
Nearly all the offices of the township within the gift of the people were filled by members of this family for many decades. Many of the descendants of the Babcock family, like their progenitors, were among the earliest pioneers of the West. They were the first settlers of several towns in different parts of the Western States, and also took an active part in the American Revolution, many of them laying down their lives on the battlefield. Henry Babcock, born April 26, 1736, was a colonel in the British service before the war, commanded a regiment in the French war, and was wounded at the battle of Ticonderoga. During the Revolutionary war he was commanding general of the State troops of Rhode Island, and distinguished himself on many occasions. Oliver Babcock, another member of this family, was a captain in the Revolutionary army, was at the siege of Fort Washington on the Hudson, and was so indignant at the surrender by the colonel that he broke his sword across a cannon, declaring that it should never be yielded to the British. James Babcock, of
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the fourth generation, married Sarah Vose, of Milton, which is seven miles from Boston. They had nine children, one of whom, Isaiah, sr., is the direct ancestor of the subject of this sketch. One of his lineal descendants was Gen. O. E. Babcock, a graduate of West Point and chief of engineers on General Grant's staff during the war of the Rebellion. Isaiah Babcock, sr., moved to Partridgefield, N. Y., about 1743, and married Elizabeth Plumb, of Stonington, Conn. They had eight children. Their first son, Isaac Babcock, born in Fairfield, Conn., in 1776, married Elizabeth Wilbur, of the town of North East, now called Milan, in Dutchess county, N. Y. They moved to Monroe county, N. Y., about 1836, from Albany county. Isaac Bab- cock died in Greece, April 21, 1853, aged seventy-six years and four months, and his widow in Rochester, November 28, 1880, aged ninety-seven years and three months. They had twelve children: Sarah, James Morris, Phoebe, Jeptha, George, Isaac, Eliza, Henry, Stephen, Mary, William and Mary. With the exception of three of these-Will iam and Mary, who died in infancy, and Stephen, who was drowned in the Genesee River when nineteen years old-all lived to a good old age; those who have died lived upright and prosperous lives and were respected by all who knew them. Those who are living are George Babcock, of Niles, Mich., a prosperous farmer, eighty-five years old; Mary Babcock, who married Cleveland Bradstreet, formerly mayor and still a resident of Rochester; and Phoebe Cornell, a widow, ninety years old, of Lockport, N.Y.
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