Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 102

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1180

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Jones, Wilson J., was born in Rushville, March 31, 1861. Samuel Jones, his father, was a native of the same town, and Samuel Jones, the grandfather, was one of the pioneer settlers. Samuel J. Jones married Edith Wilson, daughter of James K.

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Wilson, and was a well known druggist. Wilson J. Jones was educated at Rushville and the Military Academy at Peekskill, after which he entered the drug business at Trumansburg. In 1886 he came to Bath and established his present business, carry- ing a large line of imported and domestic drugs. Mr. Jones is one of the enterpris- ing men of his town, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious insti- tutions, and has ever received and merited the respect of his associates.

Freidell, Joseph Conrad, was born in the village of Hammondsport, N. Y., August 17, 1-62. His father, Matthew Freidell, is a native of Germany, and a grape grower of this town. Joseph Conrad is the oldest son of a family of four children. He was educated in the Hammondsport Union School, and his first occupation was in his father's vineyard. At fifteen years of age he engaged as clerk in the store now con- ducted by George H. Keeler, where he remained for eleven years. In 1888 he formed a co-partnership with L. D. Masson, and established a hardware store on Water street, where we now find him located. In 1893 he married Laura L. Brown, of Penn Yan.

Cook, Ezekiel, was born in Thurston, N. Y., July 12, 1847, son of Seth and Sabrina (Herington) Cook, natives of Rhode Island. They came to Thurston in 1836, after- ward moving to Rathbone, where they died, aged ninety-three and eighty-nine re- spectively. Ezekiel was educated in the common schools, then engaged in farming and lumbering. He owns 100 acres in Rathbone and eleven acres in Cameron. In 1879 Mr. Cook married Amoretta, daughter of George and Sarah A. (Darley) Bates, natives of Oxford, Conn., and Otsego county, N. Y. They came to Cameron in 1826 and have since lived in Cameron and Rathbone. Mr. and Mrs. Cook had two children : George W. and Martha E. Mrs. Cook died in 1889. The parents of George Bates were Andrew and Eunice (Clark) Bates, who lived and died in Cameron.

Healy, Llewelyn Clark, was born in the town of Dansville, Steuben county, N. Y. His grandfather Healy was a native of Vermont, born at Shoreham. He was the father of seven sons and three daughters. William Wilson Healy, the father of Llewelyn, was the second son; he was born in Dansville and has always made his home in that town. Clark was given a good common school education and also at- tended Rogersville Seminary, living on the farm. He has always taken an interest in the mercantile business and was engaged with his father until 1882. That year he came to Arkport and built a mill storehouse, coal sheds, and office, and has since devoted his attention to the dealing in grain, seeds, potatoes, coal, plaster, feeds of all kinds, etc. He was married in 1875 to Miss Ida Graves of Howard. They have one child, Frank L., a student at Arkport.

Hathaway, Dr. William E., was born in Tioga county, Pa., April 5, 1848, the sec- ond son of the late James A. Hathaway, a farmer of that town, who died the spring of 1895. He was given a good education and began the study of medicine while still in his 'teens. He was for a number of years a teacher of Tioga Academy, and in 1876 graduated from Hahnemann College, Philadelphia, with the degree of M. D. He began the practice of his profession in Tioga, and spent also three years in Elk- land. In 1878 he came to Hornellsville, and is to-day the leading homeopathist of this city. He was a partner with Dr. Olcutt for two years and has since been alone. The doctor has also been identified with the Buffalo Fence Wire Company, with a

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factory at Canisteo. He is a member of the New York State Homeopathic Society, Southern Tier Homeopathic Society, and in one of the associate staff of Lexington Heights Hospital of Buffalo. In 1868 he married Janette S., daughter of Col. H. S. Johnson of Tioga, by whom he had two children: Edgar, a representative inventor and manufacturer of this city, and Augusta Lucille. Mrs. Hathaway is also a prac- ticing physician of this city, and a graduate of Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, class of 1888.

Houck, Peter P., was born in the town of New Scotland, Albany county, Novem- ber 25, 1821. The Houck family are descendants of the old Holland stock and were among the early Mohawk settlers. The maternal ancestors, named Bradt, were also of Dutch descent. Peter J., father of Peter P., was born in 1795, and followed farm- ing in his early days, then became proprietor of a hotel in Bethlehem until 1832. He was then located in Cobbleskill until 1840, when he moved to Steuben county, locat- ing in Corning, where he remained but a short time, and then for two years on what is now known as the Magee farm. In 1843 he became the proprietor of the Hornells- ville tavern and stage house. In 1845 he removed to Burns, where he kept hotel and was on a farm near there until 1854. In'1856 he removed to Minnesota where he was engaged in farming the balance of his days, dying at the age of seventy-five years. He was the father of nine children, of whom Peter was the third. He was educated in the common schools until thirteen years of age, then went with his uncle, John Hilton, a grocer of Albany, with whom he remained three years. He was then for two years employed in an eating house. At the age of twenty, in company with his cousin, he bought out an eating house at the corner of State and Pearl streets in Albany, where he conducted a successful business for nine years. In 1851 he re- moved to this county, locating on a farm at Burns until 1854. With his father, he engaged in the meat and poultry business, and in 1855 bought a general store in Hornellsville, where he remained for three years, then bought a farm three miles south of the city, where he made many improvements. Two and one-half years later he took the store of his brother-in-law, Marcus E. Brown, and conducted it until 1868 and then sold out. The summer of 1870 he spent in the West, and in 1871 bought the wood and coal business at the corner of Canisteo and Taylor streets. In 1877 he sold out, but in less than two years took the business back and was proprie- tor until 1885, when he sold to Simons & Howell, and has since lived retired. Mr. Houck has held several minor town offices and was a member of the Board of Educa- tion for three years. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1868. In 1845 Mr. Houck married Hester Ann Van Antwerp, of Albany county, by whom he has two daughters: Mrs. Frank A. Simmons and Mrs. William F. Sherwood.

Hagadorn, Hiram, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1814. He was a de- scendant of one of the early Holland families and one of the Anneke Jans claimants. His father was a deacon of the Presbyterian church and removed to New York when Hiram was quite young. He was given a good common school education, and was engaged in mechanical pursuits in New York and Binghamton until 1838. That year he came to Steuben county and was engaged in the Mckay House for a short time. In 1839 he married Lydia Cameron, daughter of Dugald Cameron, and after was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred August 8, 1891. He was the father of six children. Mrs. Gregory, Mrs. Tubbs and Emmett Hagadorn of Grand

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Rapids, Michigan; Ira, a wagon manufacturer of Arkport; Charles, in the same business in Troy, Pa., and Jane, widow of George Loveridge, of Hornellsville.

Hayt, Dr. Charles W., son of Hon. Stephen T. Hayt, graduated from the medical department of Columbia College in 1889. He was engaged in hospital practice in New York city until 1892, ann has since practiced his chosen profession in Corning.

Haischer, Fred, was born in Germany and came to Corning in 1852, and since 1868 has been conducting his present business as brewer and bottler. In 1878 he erected his present brewery and the bottling works, in 1892 manufacturing 1,800 barrels per year. He has an interest in the Buffalo Land Improvement Co., and has served two terms as alderman in Corning.

Hadley, Jefferson, was born in Canisteo, September 9, 1823. Thomas G. Hadley, his father, was also a native of the same town. His grandfather, James Hadley, was one of the pioneer settlers, coming from Wyoming in a canoe, and settled on a farm of 200 acres, which is now owned by Jefferson, who has since added 100 acres. James Hadley was in the massacre at Wyoming, also in the Revolutionary War. Thomas G. Hadley married Mary Hallett of Canisteo, by whom he had nine chil- dren. Jefferson is a farmer and lumberman, and married Emily R., daughter of Reuben Millard, by whom he had one daughter, Mrs. Jamison. Mr. Hadley has held the office of assessor and highway commissioner, and is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65.

Jamison, William, jr., was born in Canisteo, January 12, 1837, son of William, who was also born in Canisteo, January 10, 1803, on the farm where William, jr., now lives. John Jamison, the grandfather, was born in Bucks county, Pa., and was one of the twelve original settlers of Canisteo. William Jamison married Permelia Ben- nett, a descendant of one of the old settlers, by whom he had four children: Hugh, Mary, Martha and William, jr. William, jr., owns a farm of thirty acres and is part owner of a farm of seventy-five acres. In 1865 he married Allace Brosted, of How- ard, Steuben county, by whom he had nine children: Mary, Elisha, Ira, Sarah, Al- lace, Martha, Jessie, Bell and Walter.

Huston, John S., was born in Sparta, Sussex county, N. J., November 25, 1846. His father, John, married Ellen Stewart, and came to Steuben county in 1844 and settled in the town of Bath, where he has been identified as a contractor and builder. John S. Huston was educated at Haverling Academy, and in 1879 married Amanda Dygart. In 1890 he opened a store, dealing in general merchandise and agricultural implements. In 1893 he was appointed postmaster, which position he now holds; also served as deputy under Sheriff Baldwin.

Hardenbrook, Frank, was born in Seneca county, March 7, 1831. Richard Hard- enbrook, his father, came to Bath April 1, 1845, and was identified as a farmer, and later in life as the owner of the Hardenbrook foundry. Frank Hardenbrook was educated at Haverling Academy, after which he taught school, and in 1856 married Mary J., daughter of John McElwee, by whom he had one child, Mary L. Mr. Hardenbrook is one of the representative farmers of the town, serving as justice of the peace for twenty-seven years.

Joint, William E., was born at Jamesport, L. I., November 11, 1862. His father,

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Thomas Joint, was a native of North Ireland, who came to the United States in 1860 and settled on Long Island. Mr. Joint married Marcia Erskine. William E. was educated in the common schools and came to Steuben county, in 1868, where he be- gan to learn the hardware business at the age of fourteen years. In 1887 he formed a partnership with George Moore and afterwards with William Tucker. In 1891 he purchased their interests, and now carries one of the largest stocks of hardware, wagons and agricultural implements in Steuben county. October 24, 1888, Mr. Joint married Hattie, daughter of Stephen Jessup. Mr. Joint was appointed post- master in 1893.

Kiefer, Charles, was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 28, 1841, and came to America in 1867, and first settled in Rochester, where he was engaged in the leather business until 1876, when he came to Cohocton and took charge of the tannery of Richard Trelemon, where he remained until 1885, when he purchased the property, and has since carried on a grist mill. He also carries on a harness shop and feed store. He is a member of St. Pius R. C. church and the C. M. B. A., and was for four years president of that organization. In 1872 he married Lena Wakeman, by whom he had ten children: Lena, Emma, Charles, Annie, Mary, Otto, George, Irene, Amelia and Helen.

Knapp, Marsena V., was born in Milo Center, Yates county, N. Y., November 16, 1827, and is the oldest of eight children born to James A. and Margaret Hiltipidal Knapp, and grandson of Gen. James Knapp, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. General Knapp was a resident of Herkimer county, a farmer and millwright by occupation, and came to Milo, where James A. was born. He removed to Bar- rington, where he died in 1831. His wife, Margaret (Worden), died in 1830. James A. was a painter by trade and resided at Penn Yan, afterward removing to Barrington. Marsena V. commenced working on the Erie Canal at the age of thirteen years, on which he worked ten years. In 1854 he engaged in farming, at which he has since been employed with the exception of five years spent in Penn Yan in the grocery business. He has a farm of 106 acres and a vineyard of fifteen acres. In 1846 he married Sarah E., daughter of John and Sarah Haight of Penn Yan, and they have three sons: Marsena A., a farmer on the homestead, who married Mary Sanford, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, living-Emily, John S., Oliver C. and George G .; Manford H., died at the age of five months, and John, died in infancy. Mr. Knapp is a Democrat and has been assessor for a number of years, and served twenty years as district clerk.

King, Philip, was born in the town of Howard, Steuben county, November 11, 1846. Daniel King, his father, was born in Ireland and came to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, and afterwards in Howard, Steuben county. Philip was educated in the district schools, and owns a farm of 225 acres, of which 160 is under cultivation. He first began working in a saw mill, later purchased a large tract of timber land, which he cut and converted into lumber, and is at present the owner of about 300 acres of hemlock and hardwood timber. He married Mary J. Hadley of Canisteo, by whom he had nine children-Jefferson, Addie, Maud, Madeline, Daniel L., Philip, Lee, Raymond and Harold. Jefferson is in Detroit, Mich. Mr. King has held the office of assessor and other minor offices, and is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65.

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Kinne, James B., was born in the town of Rathbone, Steuben county, N. Y., Feb- ruary 27, 1861. George P. Kinne, the father of James, is a native of Otsego county, and came to Steuben about 1848 or 1850. He was a butcher by trade and a dealer in stock during the war. He removed to New York city in 1867 and is now engaged in real estate business. James B. was the second son of a family of seven children. He was given a good common school education and his first occupation was in the railroad service. At eighteen years of age he entered the employ of the Erie Com- pany, first as a brakeman for ten years, the last four years of the time being as extra conductor. In 1889 he was promoted regular conductor and has since held the position. He is now on train 78. He has never had serious accidents and has never been obliged to lay off. Mr. Kinne was married in 1891 to Miss Evangeline K. Prentiss, danghter of Aaron Prentiss, a conductor on the Erie. They have two children: Katherine P. and Walter P.

Kershner, Mrs. Maria, is the widow of the late Henry A. Kershner, who was born in Dansville, N. Y., March 26, 1820, and died August 24, 1892. He moved on the farm where his widow now resides when he was sixteen years of age. He was a man of strict integrity, a model farmer, and had the respect of his neighbors and towns- men. He received a common school education and improved his opportunities until he was called one of the best posted men in the locality. He held the office of jus- tice of the peace for twenty-two years consecutively, and resigned the office on ac- count of poor health. As a magistrate he did a large amount of business. He mar- ried his first wife, Eliza Osborn, who was born February 18, 1880, and died in Feb- ruary, 1848, by whom he had two children: William, born May 15, 1843, and died in March, 1877; and Frances Amanda, born July 7, 1845, and died February 5, 1863. October 24, 1850, Mr. Kershner married for his second wife Maria A. Shutt, born August 26, 1825, by whom he had two children: Elizabeth Alvaretta, born Decem- ber 22, 1851, and married Frank Whalen and resides in Lima. They have three children: Fannie E., Robert H., and Annie Livingston; and Robert Campbell, born April 22, 1857, and married Carrie Robinson, of Dansville, N. Y., by whom he had one child, Flossie Marie. Mrs. Kershner's parents were born in Moore township, Pa. Her father was John Shutt, who died in February, 1873, aged seventy-three years; and her mother was Christie Ann Weldie, who died March 28, 1877, aged seventy-five years.

Kreidler, Addison E .- Mrs. Edward Kreidler is the widow of the late Edward Kreidler, born in Columbia county, Pa., near Easton, in 1812, and died in Dansville, N. Y., June 11, 1894. He came with his parents when a lad and settled on the farm which he owned at his death. He was president of the board of trus- tees of Rogersville Seminary for twelve years, and has held many town offices, com- missioner of highways, assessor, etc. His father, Frederick, Kreidler, was born in Germany, and died on Oak Hill, in 1862, aged seventy-four years. He married Susannah Ehrett, who died in 1862, by whom he had eight children: Simon, de- ceased; Sophia Eveland; Edward, born in 1812, and died in 1894; Elizabeth Hen- shaw; Daniel, John; Susanna Robinson, deceased; and Catherine Swick, deceased. In 1837 Edward Kreidler married Lucretia A., daughter of Cyril and Philura (Hall) Buck, by whom he had eight children: Frederick M., born October 14, 1838, and re- sides in Milo City, Mont .; Philura Willey, born December 2, 1839, and resides in

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Dansville, N. Y .; Edward A., born April 18, 1842, and resides in Washington, D. C., and held a clerkship in the Interior Department; Amanda M. Swink, born April 29, 1844; Hiram F., born August 24, 1846, and died November 4, 1860; Clifford C., born August 21, 1851, and resides in Montana; Adrian S., born June 4, 1857, and died October 25, 1860; and Addison E., born July 1, 1861.

Levers, G. Frank, was born on the place where he row resides, September 18, 1849. The family are of English origin. His father, John Levers, was born in Northampton county, Pa., October 13, 1802, and settled in Dansville, N. Y., in 1838, and purchased 176 acres of land and has since devoted his time to farming. He was formerly a tanner. He married Ruffina Heckman, born in Northampton county, Pa., November 15, 1813, and died January 26, 1892, by whom he had six children: Thomas, born January 11, 1835, and resides in Chicago; Mary E. Curry, born July 2, 1836; Samuel A., born April 9, 1838; Susan C. Wilson, born September 16, 1844; John E., born April 29, 1846; and Frank G., as above, who received a common school education, and has since followed farming. At Dansville, N. Y., he married Anna Rivett, born in England, September 15, 1862, aud died March 20, 1884, by whom he had two children: Thomas E., born May 27, 1882; and Anna R., born March 9, 1884, and died April 7, 1887.

Lander, Frederick, was born in Dansville, N. Y., September 19, 1842. His grand- father, Christian Lander, was born in Prussia, and emigrated to this country in 1832, and settled on Sandy Hill, Dansville. He married Margaret Kouch, by whom he had these children: Fred, Christian, Peter, Augustus, Jacob, Catherine Wagoner, and Margaret Miller, all deceased, Christian Lander, father of Frederick, was born in 1809, and died November 19, 1882. He married Sophia Wagoner, born in Prussia, in 1816, and died in 1875, by whom he had these children: Frederick, as above; Jacob, born in 1844, deceased; Christian, born in 1846; Lewis, born in 1848; and Louisa, born in 1850, and married George Conrad, of Wayland. Frederick Lander worked on the farm until 1861, when he went to learn the wagonmaker's trade with H. S. Stone, of Dansville, N. Y., where he remained three years, after which he worked one year for James Lindsley, thence to Scottsburg and worked for John Shutt one year, thence to Cohocton, where he carried on the same business for six years. He also worked four years at house building in Dansville. In 1883 he purchased the wagon shop in Rogersville, and has since been engaged in the same business. He has held the office of overseer of the poor three years. At Dansville, N. Y., in 1864, he married Mary Hoffman, born in 1840, by whom he had eight children: William, born January 26, 1865, and married Ida Millamen by whom he had one child, Vernie ; Elizabeth, born May 23, 1866, and married William Small, of Kanona, and they have four children; Lewis, Fred, May, and Edith; Frederick, born May 27, 1868; Peter, born April 19, 1870; Anna, born June 9, 1872; Benjamin, born August 15, 1874; George, born February 22, 1876; and Alexander, born June 12, 1881.

Lewis, George W., was born in the town of Wheeler, in November, 1838. Her- man Lewis, his father, was born in Rensselaer county, in 1787, of Holland parents, and came to the town of Wheeler in 1828, where he spent the remainder of his life, with the exception of three years in Yates county, and a few years in Avoca and Bath. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 for a short time. He married Margaret

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Thompson, who was born in July, 1797, a daughter of Daniel Thompson, who came to Wheeler in 1840, by whom he had these children: Daniel D., John M., Jacob H., Lemuel, George W., Jane, Catherine, Margaret, Emeline, and Mary. He died in January, 1873, and his wife in July, 1860. George W., at the early age of twelve years, began to care for himself, doing farm work by the day and month for many years. In 1871 he married Mary F., daughter of George and Catherine (Wheeler) Miller, by whom he had three children: Delbert, Ray M., and Ethel M. He then began farming for himself on rented land, and in 1887 purchased his present farm of 120 acres, on which he has conducted a regular farming business. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, 161st N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, and participated in the siege of Port Hudson, the battles of Sabine Cross-roads, Pleasant Hill, siege of Fort Blakely, and was on the Red River campaign, and dur- ing all this time he never missed a day's duty. He has been elected to fill the offices of town clerk, assessor, commissioner of highways, and other minor offices.

Lewis, Lemuel H., was born in the town of Wheeler in 1833. Herman Lewis, his father, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1787, of Holland parents. He was a farmer and came to the town of Wheeler in 1828, where he spent the remainder of his life, with the exception of three years in Yates county, and a few years in the towns of Avoca and Bath. He served a short time in the war of 1812, and was elected to fill several of the town offices. He married Margaret Thompson, who was born in July, 1797, daughter of Daniel Thompson, who came to Wheeler in 1840, by whom he had ten children : Daniel D., John M., Jacob H., Lemuel H., George W., Jane, Catherine, Margaret, Emeline, and Mary. He died in January, 1873, and his wife in July, 1860. Lemuel H. remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, although he did farm work for others by the day and month, after which he rented a farm and conducted it for five years, when he purchased a farm in the town of Wheeler and operated it two years, when he sold it and bought another. From 1883 to 1888 he conducted a livery business in the village of Avoca, and in 1888 purchased his present farm of fifty acres. From 1860 to 1865 he dealt largely in sheep, buying some times in Vermont and shipping to the Western and Middle States, and also bred the fine wool merino sheep, and since that time has dealt to a considerable extent in horses. He was elected supervisor two terms, commissioner of highways two terms, collector two terms, assessor and poormaster several years. In 1855 he married Lydia Sophia, daughter of Willard and Mary Ann (Ackerson) Stormes of Wheeler, by whom he had these children: Della, wife of Leroy Castor of Wheeler ; Frank, and Charlie. During his early life in Wheeler he used to work a day for a bushel of corn, and would then carry the corn on his back through the woods to mill, several miles distant. and bring the meal home at night. He and his wife have seen days when they had nothing to eat but potatoes and salt.

Lewis, Benjamin, was born in Troupsburg, N. Y., April 23, 1836, is the youngest of eleven children born to Abram and Hannah Lewis. He followed farming until 1887 when he retired and has since resided in Greenwood. In 1867 he married Mar- garet, daughter of John L. and Elinore (Ferguson) Brooks, by whom he had one son, John S., who is civil engineer and real estate dealer in Chicago. Mr. Brooks was a farmer and lumber dealer in Clearfield county, Pa., and came to Troupsburg where he engaged in farming until 1862 when he enlisted. He died of yellow fever at Key

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 102

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co. Number of Pages: 1180

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1180