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in 1852. In that year he married Caroline Springer of that place, and went to Addi- son, Mich., later to Hillsdale, Mich., and from there to Logansport, Ind., where he did business for a year on his own account. From there he went to Monticello, the same State, and carried on business until 1856. In 1866 he came to this city, and began at his trade. In 1867 he began business on his own account, which continued till 1884, when he took partners into the concern, which became the Richard Brown Manufacturing Company, doing a large trade in tinware. Mr. Brown has three children: Josephine A., wife of Willis J. Smith of Philadelphia; Frank A., wife of William Uhl, now of Monticello, Ind., and Clarence R., who married Annie Myer, of this city. He is a music teacher in the State Normal School in Greensboro, N. C.
Shuart, Denton G., was born in 1805, at Plattekill, Ulster county, N. Y., and in 1807 came with his parents to Mendon, Monroe county, one mile from Honeoye Falls. His father, Abraham Shuart, was one of the pioneers of this section of the county. Denton G. received an academic education and in 1825 he returned to Ulster county for the purpose of studying law. In 1832 he was admitted to the bar in New York city, and shortly after began practicing at Honeoye Falls. From 1852-1856 he was surrogate of Monroe county, and for nearly a half century was one of the prominent members of the county bar. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of Stephen Barrett of Honeoye Falls. He had four children; Denton Barrett, who died in 1866, and William H., of Rochester, N. Y., Clarence A., of Honeoye Falls, N. Y., and Irving J., of Chicago, Ill. He died at his home in Honeoye Falls, N. Y., August 29, 1892.
Shuart, William H., 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 June, 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.
De Floo, Jacob, was born in Holland, November 6, 1847, emigrated when eleven years of age, being accompanied by an uncle with whom he settled near Brighton. By perseverance and industry he has achieved independence and success, and built a pleasant home at Brighton, being engaged in gardening. Mr. De Floo is a staunch Republican, and now serving his second term as village commissioner of streets. In 1872 he married Nellie Wage, and their son, Henry, is employed by the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Ross-Lewin, George W., has been engaged in the wall paper business in Rochester, since 1879, when he succeeded the firm of Tower and Herrick. He deals in all grades of American, French, and English wall papers, special interior decorations, window shades, picture and room mouldings, Japanese grilles, etc., and executes fresco and general painting, solid and plastic relief ornamentation, etc. The concern, located in Liberty Building, 11 East Avenue, corner Main street, is the largest of the kind in the city, and ranks among the leaders in Western New York.
Brooks, Frank J., was born in Penfield in 1855, son of Hiram Brooks, who, with his father, Elias Brooks, came from Vermont and settled in Penfield about 1803.
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Hiram Brooks married a daughter of Thomas Wiltse, of Pittsford, by whom he had ten children. Frank J. married Sarah Saunders, and they have one son, Burton. Mr. Brooks settled on the farm where he now lives in 1880, where he is engaged in farming and gardening.
Lee, John Mallory, M. D., was born in Cameron, N. Y., September 29, 1852, and is a descendant of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee. Dr. Lee received his rudimentary education at Pultney, Steuben county, N. Y., and at the Penn Yan Academy. His father dying when he was a child, he was thrown on his own resources, and at the age of seventeen he became a clerk in the leading drug store of Palo, Mich., where he remained three years, during which time he also received private instructions and prepared himself for the Homoeopathic department of the University of Michigan, where he passed a successful entrance examination September 28, 1876, and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1879. He returned to his native State and be- gan the practice of his profession in Rochester, and in 1888 took a postgraduate course at the Polyclinic College Hospital of New York, for the purpose of completing his surgical studies; he also studied in the Postgraduate School of New York in 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1894; and since 1889 has confined himself solely to surgical practice, being surgeon-in-chief and vice-president of the medical and surgical staff of the Rochester Homœopathic Hospital. He is also State examiner in surgery for the Homeopathic School, and is one of the most prominent surgeonsin the Empire State. He is ex-president of the Monroe County, the Western New York, and the New York State Homeopathic Medical Societies; ex-vice-president of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society; a lecturer on surgery to the Rochester Training School for Nurses, of which he was an incorporator; honorary member of the Hom- œopathic Medical Society of Michigan; member of the American Institute of Hom- œopathy; president of the Alumni Association of the Homoeopathic Department of the University of Michigan ; and was for several years associate editor of the Physi- cians' and Surgeons' Investigator. He is now one of the corps of writers on the Homoeopathic Text-Book of Surgery. Many of Dr. Lee's valuable papers are found in the "Transactions" of these various societies and in the magazines of his school.
Petten, John J., was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 30, 1832, and was educated there and in the United States. At the age of sixteen he came to this country, located at Charlotte, and followed the lakes for several years in various po- sitions, and was captain for many years. He has been village trustee eight years, school trustee three years, and now holds the position of overseer of the poor. He is a member of Genesee Falls Lodge, No. 504, F. & A. M., also member of Monroe Tent, No. 147, K. O. T. M. He has been married twice, first in 1854 to Eliza Loper, of Charlotte, and they had two children: Frances and Mary. Frances married Rich- ard P. Herrick, of Rochester, N. Y., and Mary is now Mrs. Van Hamburg, of Pitts- ford, N. Y. Mrs. Petten died September 4, 1872. His second wife was Emeline Hannahs, whom he married in 1873, and she died January 19, 1891. Mr. Petten's father, William, was born at the old home in Newfoundland in 1786. He married Christiana Woods of his native place, and they had eight children. Mr. Petten died of cholera in 1855, and his wife some years later. The ancestry of this family is French and English
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Teare, Mrs. Eliza J., is the widow of Thomas Arthur Teare, who died April 7, 1878, at thirty-six years of age. Mr. Teare was born in New York city, and in early life was owner of a lime kiln business at Newark, N. J., of which he disposed in 1868 and purchased the Brighton farm. He married, at Newark in 1862, Eliza J., daugh- ter of Robert Gelling. late a Rochester miller. Three children were born to them: William, Chester and Carrie. Mr. Teare served, with credit, in Company F, 27th New Jersey Volunteers, under General Burnside.
Guenther, Frederick .- One of the self-made men of Brighton is John F. Guenther, the well-known Park Avenue florist and gardener, whose business has now passed into the hands of his son Frederick. The elder Guenther was born in Germany in 1829, and was then apprenticed to the business which has been his life work, and the results of which speak well for that method of instruction. He came to America in 1852, going directly to Rochester, where he entered the employ of Ellwanger & Barry. During his connection with this firm he traveled widely in their interest, at one time paying a visit to the old city of Mexico. In 1881 he established himself in business at Park Avenue, ten years later locating on Blossom street, Brighton, where his ex- tensive greenhouses are flanked by a handsome modern residence. In 1868 he mar- ried Helena Hanson, who became the mother of Frederick, and three years later of the only daughter, Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Alfred R. Clapper of Rochester. Frederick Guenther is a stirring business man and will without doubt achieve success in the line so ably mapped out by his father. In 1884 he married Lillian Houser of Rochester, and they have one daughter, Mattie, born March 14, 1892.
Butterfield, Clarence E., son of Edwin and Sarah (Hanks) Butterfield, was born in Centerville, Allegany county, N. Y., July 4, 1868, and moved with his parents to Brighton in 1883. He was educated in the district schools of his native town and at the Rochester Free Academy, and was graduated from the Rochester Business University in 1890. His parents were New Englanders. His father died in Sep- tember, 1891. Upon his graduation in 1890 Mr. Butterfield formed a partnership with Charles B. Down, under the firm name of Down & Butterfield, and engaged in the grocery and provision business in the village of Brighton. December 4, 1893, this firm was dissolved, and since then Mr. Butterfield has conducted the business alone, materially increasing it, adding dry goods, boots and shoes, crockery, etc. A meat market is also connected, making the business now one of general merchan- dise. He is a member of the I. O. of R. M., and prominently identified with the welfare and advancement of the village and town. December 25, 1891, he married Miss Lena A., daughter of Norman Peet, of Penfield, and they have one child, Ruth, born December 24, 1893.
Bohachek, Edward, was born in Bohemia in 1852, and came with his parents to America in 1865. He received a public school education in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, married Miss Gertrude Stewart, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and came to Roches· ter in 1881 and connected himself with the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York as general agent for Monroe, Orleans and Livingston counties, which position he efficiently fills at the present date. Mr. Bohachek is a member of the I. O. O. F., and deputy grand chief of the A. O. F. of A. of the State of New York.
Elwood, Frank Worcester, was born in Rochester, N. Y., April 4, 1850. His father,
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Isaac R Elwood, was a law partner of Judge Henry Selden in Rochester for many years and clerk of the State Senate two terms, about 1847-48; was one of the founders of the Western Union Telegraph Company and its secretary and treasurer at the time of his death in 1863. The family is of German origin, one branch settling in England many generations ago. To this branch belonged Thomas Ellwood, a Quaker, and a friend of and for a time a reader to the blind poet, Milton. Mr. Elwood's paternal great-grandfather, a mason by trade, came to America in 1748 and settled in the Mohawk valley. His old stone house near St. Johnsville, N. Y., still stands to attest his handiwork. The spelling of the family name under- went the variations of Ellwoode, Ellwood, and Elwood. The history of John R. Elwood's maternal ancestors in America is tragic. In 1728, during the "Old French War," the commandant of Fort Herkimer issued a call to the settlers to gather at the fort. Mrs. Bell, his grandmother, was accidentally left unwarned. Her family was surprised by the Indians and her husband and three children killed, one, an infant, having its brains dashed out in her presence. She was struck down, scalped, her nose nearly cut off, and left for dead. She was enciente, and for many weeks lay at the point of death. Her then unborn child was in process of time a mother, and her child was Mr. Elwood's mother. F. W. Elwood was educated in private schools. At the age of fourteen he went abroad and spent two years in studying Italian, French, and German. Returning to America he continued his studies under various eminent teachers, entered Hobart College at the age of nineteen, and left at the end of his sophomore year to enter Harvard College, from which he was graduated as A.B. in 1874. During his student life he was a member of a number of college societies. - He received the degree of LL. B. from Columbia College in 1877, was ad- mitted to the bar the same year, and practiced law in the office of Judge Danforth in Rochester till 1879, when he erected the Elwood Memorial building as a memorial to his father. He was engaged in the stock brokerage business under the firm name of Frank W. Elwood & Co. from 1881 to 1884, inclusive, when he resumed the practice of his profession and the care of his real estate, which he has since continued. Mr. Elwood was formerly president of the Rochester Club, and is now vice-president of the Rochester Historical Society, a member of the board of managers of the Genesee Valley Club, vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal church, trustee of the Riverside Cemetery Association and of the Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Board of Park Commissioners. In 1835 he married Frederica H., daughter of Frederick Pumpelly, of Owego, Tioga county, and they have one daughter, Dorothy.
Graham, Merritt E., M. D., son of Gilbert, was born in Italy, Yates county, N. Y., September 21, 1855, was graduated from the Seminary at Lima, N.Y., in 1874, and entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, grad- uating as the head of his class in 1878. He began the practice of his profession at Clifton, Monroe county, but soon located in Brockport, where he remained twelve years. Desiring a larger and more congenial field of labor he removed to Rochester in 1890, where for the past five years he has been surgeon to the Hahnemann Hos- pital. He has been eminently successful both as surgeon and physician. For six years he has served as coroner of Monroe county. He is also a member of many of Rochester's more prominent social and fraternal organizations and examiner for several insurance companies. In 1877 he was married to Miss Fannie Carden, of Ann Arbor, Mich,
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Grant, Rolla C., M. D., was born in 1854 in Rome, N. Y., where he received his early education. At the age of nine he removed with his parents to Auburn, N. Y., where he attended the High School, and where he studied medicine in the office of Dr. Charles E. Swift. He was graduated from the New York Homoeopathic College and Hospital in 1879, took a post-graduate course at the medical department of the University of Boston, and commenced the practice of his profession in Portsmouth, N. H. After four years of active work there he removed to Rochester, where he has practiced successfully. In 1881 Dr. Grant married Miss Isabel Roberts, of Ports- mouth. He is a member of the International Hahnemann Association, the Central New York Homoeopathic Society, of which he was president one year (1893-4) and vice-president two years, the Rochester Hahnemann Society, and of the staff of the Rochester Hahnemann Hospital, and has been physician to Windsor Lodge, Sons of St. George, since its organization in 1886.
Eastman, George, was born at Waterville. Oneida county, N.Y., July 12, 1854, and moved with his parents to Rochester in 1861. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age, when he entered the insurance office of Cornelins Waydell. He was afterwards employed in the insurance office of Messrs. Buell & Brewster and later Buell & Hayden and in 1877 entered the Rochester Savings Bank as book- keeper, where he remained until 1881. While in the banking business Mr. Eastman spent all his leisure experimenting in photographic processes and finally began the manufacture of dry plates in the Martin block on State street. This was in 1880. Since then the business has extended to a general line of photographic goods and has steadily grown until it is probably the largest of its kind in the world. It is now carried on by the Eastman Kodak Company, a corporation of which Mr. Eastman is treasurer and general manager. The general offices are located at the corner of Voght and State streets in this city and the works at Kodak Park, in the town of Greece. Mr. Eastman is the pioneer of the photographic business in this section; he is the originator of the phrase, "You press the button, we do the rest," and in- ventor of the kodak and other photographic apparatus and processes.
Padiera, Dr. George W., was born in Prussia, September 28, 1837, and, after pass- ing successfully through all the branches of the common schools of his native coun- try he became a student in the medical department of the University of Breslau, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1863. After passing the State examinations he began the practice of his profession in Germany. Later he entered the Prussian army and acted as surgeon in the Austrian and Prussian war, where he remained until the close of that conflict in 1866. He then practiced in Breslau until 1870, when he came to America and took up his residence in Rochester, where he has since resided. He is a member of the Monroe County Medical Society, and one of the leading physicians of the city.
Allen, Frederic P., was born in Rochester, N. Y., and has been identified with the banking interests of this city for twenty-five years. He held the position of teller in the Traders National Bank for more than ten years, and since 1888 has been cashier of the German American Bank. He is also treasurer of the Rochester Railroad Company, the Rochester and Irondequoit Railroad Company, the Rochester Savings and Loan Association, and the Rochester State Hospital, commissioner of the Sink-
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ing Fund of the city of Rochester, and one of the managers of the Genesee Valley and Country clubs. In 1874 he married Miss Caroline Clarke, daughter of the late Hon. Freeman Clarke, of Rochester.
Everest, Charles Marvin, was born in Wisconsin, December 25, 1852, and received his first schooling in South Cleveland, Ohio. He removed with his father to Roch- ester in May, 1865, where he attended No. 13 school and Free Academy, also re- ceiving a partial course in the University of Rochester. In 1868 he first entered the employ of the Vacuum Oil Company and has been vice-president and treasurer since 1879. His father, Hiram B., was born in Wyoming county, N. Y., in 1830, and was graduated from Middlebury Academy. He then went to Wisconsin, where he en- gaged in the nursery business, remaining until 1856, when he removed to Cleveland, Ohio. There he purchased a tract of woodland, built a saw mill, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1865 he came to Rochester, his father, Joseph Everest, coming from Wyoming county about the same time; he became interested in the experiments of Mr. Ewing, which led to the organization of the Vacuum Oil Company in 1866. In 1878 Mr. Everest, sr., leased a large tract of land in Wyoming county, which in- cluded the farm and birthplace of his father, and drilled for oil. Instead of oil he discovered salt, the large salt industry of Western New York resulting. He retired from active business in 1879, and removed to Denver, Col., afterwards removing to Riverside, Cal., at which place he planted and is now cultivating the largest grove of navel oranges in the world, known as the "Everest Ranch," consisting of 100 acres. In 1894 he picked 27,000 boxes, or ninety car-loads, of fruit. His father, Joseph Everest, was born at Salisbury, Conn., emigrated to this State when quite young, and was one of the early settlers of Western New York. Mr. Everest is a descendant of Andrew Everest, of York, Maine, about 1650.
Paine, L. C .- The Paine Drug Company, the oldest drug house in Rochester, was founded in 1820 by William Pitkin, who was succeeded by L. B. Swan. Messrs. Lane & Paine became the proprietors in 1852, and in 1878 the style of the firm was changed to C. F. Paine & Co. In 1873 the concern removed to its present location, 24 and 26 East Main street, and early in 1895 the Paine Drug Company was organ- ized, being composed of Messrs. L. C. Paine, C. D. Van Zandt, and W. R. Barnum. The premises occupied by this leading establishment are worthy of its fame, compris- ing the spacious four-story and basement brick and stone building, with stone front, 30 by 100 feet. The establishment is thoroughly stocked on every floor with a com- plete line of goods pertaining to the drug trade.
Ludolph, Andrew, was born in Rochester, N. Y., May 16, 1864. When a few months old his father died and Mr. Ludolph was adopted by the late Colonel Klinck, with whom and with other members of the family he lived until seventeen years of age. He attended No. 15 school, and in 1887 began the study of law in the office of Satterlee & Yeoman. He was admitted to the bar at the Rochester General Term in October, 1891. In the spring of that year he was appointed managing clerk in the city attorney's office and filled that position' for two years, when he entered into partnership with Arthur Warren, under the firm name of Ludolph & Warren, for the general practice of law, with offices in the Granite building. He is a member of Yonondio Lodge, No. 163, F. & A. M., and for several years was prominently con- nected with the Rochester Athletic Club.
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Allen, Charles M., was born in Rochester, N. Y., October 9, 1845, and was gradu- ated from the Rochester High School in 1863, at which time he entered the Univers- ity of Rochester, from which he was graduated with high honors in 1867. He then attended the Law School of Philadelphia for one year, when he commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. William Farrer, of Rochester. He was admitted to the bar at the Rochester General Term in December, 1868, and immediately be- gan the practice of his profession. He has since been in constant and successful practice in this city, and has been attorney for the Genesee National Savings and Loan Association since March, 1892. This association was incorporated in March, 1891, and considering its age has developed into one of the most extensive and suc- cessful fiduciary organizations in the State, representing a subscribed capital stock of $2,000,000. Mr. Allen has passed all the chairs in the I. O. O. F., is a member of the Rochester Whist Club and the Bar Association, and has been treasurer of Ideal Union, No. 592, E. A. U., since its inception in 1887. He is the son of the late Newel Allen, D. D. S., the oldest dentist, at the time of his death in 1878, in Western New York.
Forsyth, Daniel W., was born in Caledonia, September 22, 1856. He received his early education in his native town and later became a student at the Genesee Normal School, after which he entered the Bennett Medical College, where, in 1880, he re- ceived the degree of M. D. He practiced medicine at Hammond, Indiana, where he was coroner of Lake county in 1878-9, and afterwards at Dowagiac, Mich., where he was elected city treasurer. He then began the study of law, was in 1884 admitted to the bar in Michigan, and two years afterwards, upon examination, became an at- torney and counselor-at-law in New York State, located in Rochester, where he has since practiced his profession. He is a member of the law firm of Forsyth Brothers, who have a wide reputation as attorneys. In 1887 he was appointed assistant dis- trict attorney of Monroe county, under George A. Benton, district attorney ; in 1891 he was nominated and elected school commissioner of the Eighth ward, which office he held until the passage of the Twentieth Ward Bill by the Legislature in 1892, which terminated his service as school commissioner. In the spring of that year he was elected alderman of the Nineteenth ward and served one term. Owing to the inability of his brother, George D. Forsyth, district attorney, he was appointed special district attorney, and acted from January to July, 1895. During that period he had charge of two noted murder trials, that of Gavin, who was charged with the murder of young Abbott at Charlotte, and that of Gallo, the Italian murderer, who was convicted and afterwards sentenced to death.
Atwood, H. Franklin, was born in 1850 in Boston, where he attended the public schools for a number of years. He then went to Chicago and entered the insurance business and was rapidly promoted until in 1879 he became general agent in the West for the German Fire Insurance Company, of Rochester, and later was advanced to general adjuster. In 1883 he was elected secretary, which position he still retains. Mr. Atwood is a member of the Monroe Commandery and Hamilton Chapter, Fel- low of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, England, was two terms president of the Rochester Academy of Science, is vice-president of the Rochester Club, and a member of various other organizations of this city. In 1873 he married Nellie Rob-
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