Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 52

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

USA > New York > Steuben County > Landmarks of Steuben County, New York > Part 52

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

Hartshorn, Charles H., was born in the city of Hornellsville, August 11, 1858. His father was a native of Madison county, born in Lebanon and came to Steuben county about 1838. He engaged in farming and lumbering and was one of the leading men of the western part of the town. He was a Republican in politics and occupied the f

LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY.

office of trustee of the village, a member of the School Board, and president of the Citizens' National Bank for a number of years. He died August 20, 1887, at seventy- two years of age. Cordelia Hart, his mother, was a native of Saratoga county. She is still living, now in her seventieth year. Charles H. was the only child. He was educated in the city schools and his first occupation was with his father on the farm, and he is now conducting a farm of 400 acres one mile west of the city, where he does quite extensive gardening and farming, and for a number of years the principal source of supply for the city residents. In the spring of 1893 Mr. Hartshorn bought out the firm of W. H. Belknap & Co., dealers in coal and wood, and he has added to it the dealing in agricultural implements, lime, cement, hay, etc., the annual output being about five or six thousand tons per year, the firm name being Hartshorn & Dudley. The output of coal is about 3,500 tons per year. Mr. Hartshorn is a partner in the Hornellsville Ice Company, and is the president of the Rural Cemetery Association, also one of the directors of the Citizens' Bank of Hornellsville. He is a member of Arkport Grange No. 179. June 10, 1885, he married Laura Belknap, of this city.

Hinds, O. W., was born at Exeter, N. Y., August 9, 1812. Lemuel Hinds, his father, was identified through life in Otsego county as a farmer, and married Olivia Henry, by whom he had twelve children, five of whom are now living. O. W., the oldest son, married Ruth, daughter of Elijah and Lucy Babcock, and in 1840 came to Steuben county and settled in the town of Cameron, where he bought 100 acres of land, of which he cleared up seventy acres, and in 1869 he moved to the village of Bath. Mr. and Mrs. Hinds have four children: Almond, Freeman, Mrs. Marietta Gardiner, Mrs. Annette Negus. Mr. Hinds is one of the representative men of his town, serving as supervisor in 1862-63-64, also highway commissioner for the town of Cameron.

Hoffman, Rev. Edwin S., was born at New Franklin, a village near Chambers- burg, Franklin county, Pa. His father died when he was a child between three and four years of age and his only sister when he was seven, she being five. His childhood and youth were spent in Quincy, another village in the same county. He went into one of the village stores, when thirteen, for a few weeks or until the regu- lar clerk, who was ill, should return, but where he remained for more than four years. His father having been a merchant, his purpose was to follow the same busi- ness, and when fifteen his employer made a proposition to him, that, if he would remain with him until he was twenty-one, he would make him a partner. But the death of his mother in 1876 changed his plans. However, his experience as clerk was an excellent business training. He inherited some property from his mother, and in 1878 entered the preparatory department of the Carthage College, Carthage, Ill., an English Lutheran institution. He entered the freshman class of 1879, grad- uating Bachelor of Arts in 1883. He entered college to prepare for the study of medicine, but during his junior year determined to enter the English Lutheran min- istry. He taught as tutor in his college the year after his graduation, also doing some study preparatory to entering the theological seminary. He entered the theological department of Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1884, graduating as Bachelor of Divinity in 1885. His first pastorate was in Mount Morris, Ill., where he remained a year and a half, marrying while there, He then took a country

FAMILY SKETCHES.

charge in Ohio, west of Toledo. He found himself out of sympathy with the teach- ing and church government of the Lutheran denomination, and in 1887 he became a postulant for holy orders in the Episcopal church, under Bishop Bedell. In Septem- ber, 1887, he removed his family to Gambier, Ohio, where he was appointed tutor in Greek in Kenyon College, and where he pursued theological studies in Bexley Hall preparatory to his canonical examinations, which he took in the spring of 1888. He went to Youngstown, Ohio, as assistant minister to the Rev. Frederick B. Avery, immediately following the close of college in June, and was ordained deacon by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Peterkin, of West Virginia, in August, and three months later, No- vember 25, 1888, two days after his twenty-ninth birthday anniversary, he was ordained priest by the Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D., bishop of Pittsburg. March 1, 1890, he became rector of Christ Episcopal church, Hornellsville, N.Y., where he has remained to the present time.

Hurlbut, William S., was born in the village of Arkport, February 4, 1820. The ancestry of this family dates back to English origin. Thomas Hurlbut was the founder of the family in this country. Thomas came to this country from England about 1630 and settled in Connecticut. His successor was Samuel, then Stephen and John the senior, John, junior, who was the father of Christopher, the first of the family to locate in Steuben county. Christopher was born at Groton, Conn., May 30, 1757. Served in the Revolutionary war. After the war he settled in Wyoming Valley and remained there until 1797, when he located at Arkport at the old home- stead, which is still in the hands of the family. John, the son of Christopher, was born in Wyoming Valley October 21, 1784, therefore was in his thirteenth year when they came to this town. He always followed farming and was a man who gave his whole attention to his personal interest and was never prominently identified with political and public affairs. He was lieutenant in a military company and served on the Canada line in the war of 1812. He married, September 13, 1814, Priscilla Sharp, a daughter of William Sharp, a native of Staten Island, who came here in 1812. They were the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters. Only two sons of the family are living. William, the second son, was educated in the common schools of this town and has always followed farming as the leading in- dustry of his life. At twenty-one years of age he began teaching and for seven years followed it, in the winter season only. His whole life has been spent in this town, and he has been identified with its growth and prosperity. In the winter of 1893 he was elected supervisor and re-elected in 1894, and is now serving his third year as a member of the Board of Supervisors. He was married in 1849 to Miss Susan Cary, daughter of Johnson Cary, of this village. Of their six children, one died in infancy. Cary died at the age of fourteen. Caroline E. died at the age of eighteen, and Mrs. Martha H. Sewell, their oldest daughter, died May 1, 1890, at thirty-five years of age. Charles H. Hurlbut is a resident of New Whatcom, Wash- ington, and is engaged in the practice of law in the law firm of Harris & Hurlbut; and Fanny Bell is the wife of A. H. Huntley, a farmer of this town. Mrs. Hurlbut, the beloved wife of William, was a woman of great excellence of character; she died April 2, 1891, aged sixty-nine years.

Hurlbut, John, was born in Arkport, October 1, 1821. He was educated in the common schools. He remained on the farm with his parents and taught school win-

LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY.

ters from eighteen years of age for about five years. About 1885 he added to his farm duties the dealing in farming implements, lumber, coal, lime and salt, which business is under the management of his son, William M. He was married in 1851 to Miss Mary Major daughter of Col. Thomas Major, one of the early settlers of this town. They are the parents of three children: William M. Hurlbut, one of Arkport's most enterprising men; John E., died in 1890 at thirty years of age; and Mary, wife of E. D. Snow of Rutland, Vt. Mr. Hurlbut has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church of Arkport for forty years, and superintendent of its Sun- day school continuously for the same period. He was the leading spirit in the organization of the " Hornellsville Farmers' Club." Has always been on the Board of Directors and served as president three years.

Hamilton, W. L., was born in Campbell, April 14, 1860. John D. Hamilton, his father, was born in the town of Dix, Schuyler county, and came to the town of Campbell in 1836. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in 1855 established the Curtis tannery. He sold this business, and built a tannery in Campbell in 1857. At pres- ent the Campbell tannery is abandoned, and W. L. Hamilton is manager of the Curtis tannery for the United States Leather Company, whose office is in New York city. John D. Hamilton married Harriet Lowell, by whom he had two children: W. L., and Sarah, wife of Frank Pope, of Pittsburg, Pa. W. L. Hamilton was the owner of the Curtis & Emporium tannery up to 1893, also the owner of an acid fac- tory and lumber interest located in Pennsylvania. He married Mary E., daughter of C. F. Platt of Painted Post, by whom he had one daughter, Harriet. In politics he is a Republican.

Hubbard, Chauncey G., M.D., was born in Cameron, this county, October 16, 1845, a son of Chauncey P., of Pittsfield, Mass., who was born in 1803, and came to Steuben county in 1828. He died April 10, 1804, at Fredonia, N. Y. His wife sur- vives, in her eighty-ninth year. Of their nine children seven survive, of whom Chauncey G. was educated in Alfred University and Corning Academy. In 1869 he commenced the study of medicine, and entered the University of Ann Arbor, Mich., where he attended lectures one year, and in 1870 entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, graduating therefrom in 1871. He was appointed physician at Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum, remaining one year. In 1872 he located at Hornellsville, where he has ever since enjoyed an extensive prac- tice. He was coroner six years, member of the Board of Health seven years, and in 1893 was appointed surgeon for the Erie Railroad. He is a member of the New York State Medical Association, of the Steuben County Medical Association, and was one of the founders of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association, of which he was the first secretary. He has been a manager of the Hornellsville Li- brary for twenty years, an elder of the Prsebyterian church, a member of the Y. M. C. A., and of various temperance organizations. In 1880 he married Florence N., daughter of the late Henry Prentice of Jasper, and they have two sons, Chauncey P. and Harold C. Before his death, the father of our subject, with his wife, cele- brated the sixty-second anniversary of their marriage.

Hargrave, Prof. James B., was born in Ontario county, N. Y., March 16, 1845. George Hargrave, his father, was a native of England, and came up the Hudson

FAMILY SKETCHES.

River and settled in Ontario county, and in 1854 came to the town of Cameron, Steuben county, and settled on land which was left his wife and engaged in farm- ing, and died in 1886, aged eighty-six years. He married Sophia Balcomb, by whom he had eleven children-nine of whom are living. Professor Hargrave's pre- liminary education was obtained at Woodhull Academy, and in 1868 he was chosen from that institution to go to Bath, Steuben county, for examination for the State scholarship, and in September of that year was appointed, and entered Cornell Uni- versity, where he remained until 1872, being the first one from Steuben county. He has been a teacher most of his life, and in 1875 he entered the law department of Union University at Albany, and in 1876 graduated and taught one year, and in 1877 came to Canisteo, were the law firm of Sole & Hargrave was formed. He however was induced to take charge of the school in that village, where he has re- mained most of his time since, and at present is principal of the same school. In 1878 he married a teacher in the same school, Mary A. Forrest of Livingston county, who died May 2, 1894. They have one adopted son Edward W. Hargrave. Mr. Hargrave was candidate for member of assembly in 1892. Mrs. Hargrave received the largest number of votes cast for the free ticket, offered by the New York Press, to the World's Fair. Mr. Hargrave is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., and the Encampment.

Hicks, Alfred E., was born in the town of Litchfield, Bradford county, Pa., March 25, 1849, the second son of Alfred Hicks, who is a now a resident of Osage, Iowa. He remained with his father on the farm until sixteen years of age, and secured an education in the common schools. From sixteen till twenty years of age he followed carpenter work, and in 1869 he went prospecting through Iowa returning in the fall of 1870. The spring of 1871 he entered the employ of the Erie Railroad Company: starting as a brakeman in 1876, he was promoted to the position of conductor, which position he occupied for twelve years, running on the Susquehanna Division. Dur- ing this time he was visited by the smaller accidents and ups and downs of all railroad men. From June, 1871, until August, 1889, he never lost a day's work by suspen- sion or discharge. The spring of 1890 he went to work for the Pullman Company as conductor, which position he resigned in July of the same year. May, 1890, he bought a half interest in the Ford & Kingkade Coal yard on River street, and in July bought Mr. Kingkade's interest and has since been the proprietor of this busi- ness. He' was married in 1873 to Miss Franc Ferry. They have three children, Charles, employed at the Fabric Globe Works; Harry, employed as cutter in the Perry Knitting Mills, Perry, N. Y .: and Fred G. is a student in Columbia School.

Harden, T. E .- One of the material landmarks of Addison village is the old Amer- ican Hotel, erected by James Van Vleck, almost half a century ago, and to-day the leading hotelof the place. Its present proprietor, T. E. Harden, purchased it in 1877. It was then somewhat dilapidated, morally and materially, but has been. completely renovated and rehabilitated by the genial host and his accomplished wife, forming a rendezvous for Addison's best people, and for the stranger within their gates. Mr. Harden's experience as a traveling salesman for ten years, and as clerk of the Globe Hotel at Syracuse, well fitted him for the position he now fills. He was born at Sandy Hill, N. Y., in 1842, the son of Abner Harden, a farmer whose death in 1854 threw him upon his own resources at the age of twelve years, and his success may

LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY.

justly be ascribed to inherent ability. In 1866 he married Minnie M., daughter of U. G. Bennett, the Rushford miller, by whom he had one son, A. G. Harden, born in 1869, and who is now located at Ontonagon, Mich., associated with the Diamond Match Company as inspector. Mr. Harden is personally very popular in Addison and elsewhere. He is one of the supporters of the Presbyterian church, of which his wife and son are members. Among the Masonic fraternity he ranks high, having climbed the ladder from Blue Lodge to Consistory, and is a noble of the Mystic Shrine of the Damascus Temple of Rochester.

Hinman, John, was born in Schuyler county, in 1837, son of Guy C. Hinman, who was a prominent farmer and politician. In 1831 he married Phebe Sherwood, of Fairfield, Conn., and they have been the parents of six children. In politics he was a Democrat, and was one of the three commissioners to form the county, and has been county superintendent of the poor. He died in 1874, aged sixty-eight years. John Hinman left home when but nineteen years of age, going to Minnesota, where he taught school for about two years. At the outbreak of the late war he was a law student at Wellsboro, and promptly enlisted at the first call in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, where he soon received thecommission of first lieutenant. His health was greatly impaired while in the service. Until 1874 he was associated with the Fall Brook Coal Company as bookkeeper and paymaster attheir mines, at which date he removed to Raleigh, N. C., where he spent six years as a real estate factor. In 1880 he came to Addison and in 1894 received his appointment as postmaster. In 1865 he married Ada S. Gibson, of Wellsboro, and six children have been born to them, Guy O. Hinman being deputy postmaster.

Hayt, Hon. Stephen T., son of Dr. John C. Hayt, was born in Patterson, Putnam county, N. Y., June 25, 1823. In 1833 he came with his parents to Corning, and has since resided here, being extensively engaged in mercantile and lumbering interests, and since 1869 has been in the milling business, being owner of the Southern Tier Mills having a capacity of 175 barrels per day. He has filled various town and county offices, and in 1863 and 1865 was elected to the Senate. From 1866 he served three years as canal commissioner, and was a delegate to the National Republican Conven- tions that nominated Lincoln, Grant, Blaine and Harrison.

Hill, Henry Franklin, was born in Geneseo, Livingston county, N. Y., March 17, 1846, moved to Corning in 1860, and settled in this town in 1866. He is the son of Henry F. and Clarissa Lindsley Hill, and they were the parents of seven children beside him: Henrietta (deceased); Sarah (deceased), Harriet, W. Harlow, Arthur A. (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), and Charles P. Henry F. married Ada, daughter of William and Georgianna Burr, residents of this county. They have one daughter, Doris, and one adopted daughter, Ella May. Mr. Hill is a successful merchant of Lindley.

Hitchcock, George, was born in Morris, Otsego county, in 1822. He was educated in the common schools of his native county, and in 1854 came to Bath where he was engaged in the hardware trade. In 1859 he came to Corning and engaged in the mer- cantile business, which he followed for eleven years. He was president of the village in 1869, and has held the office of justice of the peace since 1872, and was police jus-

FAMILY SKETCHES.

tice from 1872 until the adoption of the city charter, and has been connected with the Board of Education as trustee and secretary of the board from 1868 to the preset time.

Joy, Lewis B., was born in Buffalo, N. Y., November 28, 1833. Walter Joy, his father, who moved to Buffalo in 1825 and was prominently identified with the growth of that city, was a native of Onondaga county, and it was his grandfather, Captain Thaddeus Joy, who built and conducted the first canal boat through the Erie canal; his son, Walter, succeeding in canal and lake transportation. Lewis B. was educated in Buffalo, and in 1858 erected the first oil refinery in that city, being associated with William T. Wardwell, now treasurer of the Standard Oil Company. The firm after- ward engaged in the same business in New York, disposing of their plant to the Standard Oil Company in 1864, when Mr. Joy returned to Buffalo, engaging in the steamboat and railroad transportation business until 1880, when he came to Bath and purchased the Steuben mills. In 1874 he married Caroline, daughter of William H. Bull, by whom he had one daughter, Mary; Walter, Mrs. Jennie Meeker and Kate P., are children by a first marriage. Mr. Joy is one of the representative busi- ness men of this county, identified in advancing its best interests and in the leading events of the day.

Jimerson, Hibbert T., is a native of Orange, Schuyler county, formerly Bradford, Steuben county, born in 1847, son of Abram and Sally Ann Rolfe Jimerson. The parents lived and died in Schuyler county, and Mr. Jimerson was raised on a farm, and in 1871 married Bertha Hendrick and located on his present farm of one hundred and eighty acres. He follows general farming, dairying, and sheep husbandry. He was highway commissioner in 1889.

Jewett, Amos, was born where he resides in Hornby, in 1833, son of Thomas and Sylvia Haradon Jewett, natives of Vermont and Massachusetts. The father came to Steuben county in 1818 locating first within the present limits of the town of Campbell, moving two years later to Hornby and on Mr. Jewett's farm about 1820. The mother came with her parents about 1822; they died in 1873 and 1877 aged seventy-nine and seventy-seven, respectively. Mr. Jewett is one of a family of seven children, six of whom were raised to maturity. In 1863 he went to the Pacific coast, prospecting and mining there till 1867, when he returned home and spent about four years here. He then spent a couple of years traveling through the South and then located permanently. In 1868 he married Sarah L., daughter of Rufus Platt, a native of the town of Campbell. They have three children: Lizzie, Laura L., and Thomas P. He has one hundred and fifty acres of land, it being a part of the old homestead. He was the candidate of his party for the State Legislature in 1890; was president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society in 1890 and 1891; has represented his county in some half dozen political and agricultural State Con- ventions, and has held various other positions of honor and trust.

Kimball, William A., was born at Methuen, Mass., July 28, 1827. He was edu- cated in the common schools and remained with his father on the farm until eight- een years of age. In 1843 he engaged in railroading for eleven months on the track of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and then engaged as fireman, a position which he occupied only twenty-two months. In the spring of 1849 he was made engineer of the Great Falls and Steamboat train running from Bangor to Boston, and re-

LANDMARKS OF STEUBEN COUNTY.

mained with that company till January 1, 1851. January 15 of the same year he came to Hornellsville on a prospecting tour of the Erie Railroad. He was given a position as engineer with the company, and returning, sold his Massachusetts prop- erty and brought his family to this city. He took the first train out of Hornellsville February 6, 1851, on the Western Division, and continued until May 14, and May 15 he run one of the first trains over the Dunkirk Division, with such passengers as President Fillmore, Daniel Webster and Homer Ramsdell, then president of the railroad. He continued as engineer with this company until July 1, 1863, when he was promoted to passenger conductor, which position he held until January 7, 1888. He was engineer of the train that hauled the iron and woodwork for the first bridge at Portage. He has been employed under thirteen different superintendents of the Western Division. The second day that train No. 3 was put on the road, May 21, 1851, a switchman threw the switch under his train at Allegany station, and Mr. Kimball and his fireman received slight injuries. He has a most remarkable record of keeping clear of accidents and never had a letter of reprimand, but many congrat- ulatory and complimentary letters. He was one of the founders of the old United States Insurance of railway conductors in Boston. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1864, and a Knight Templar since 1869. In 1848 he married Nancy A. Morrill of Wilmington, Mass., and they have two sons, William Frank, now running a locomotive on the Dunkirk, Allegany & Pittsburg Railroad, and George L., now employed in the Erie Railroad shops in this city.

Klock, James N., was born in the town of Manheim, Herkimer county, N. Y., March 2, 1840. Peter A. Klock, his father, came to Steuben county in 1866, and set- tled at Coss' Corners. He married Catharine, daughter of Peter Woolever, and was identified through life as a farmer, and died in 1874, aged seventy-one years. James N. was educated in the common schools. He has made a study of the weather and its changes since 1859, and since 1890 he has been giving special attention to the science of Electro-Planetary-Meteorology. The basis of his theory is in the position of the inferior and superior planets relatively to the earth and its satellite and the sun, of which there are over 260 different positions taken into consideration. At the present time he is able to make an accurate forecast of the coming changes of the weather. In 1860 he married Irena, daughter of John Strough, by whom he had four children : John P., N. Julian, Melvin L., and Mrs. Olive C. Conine.

Koyle, Frank H., M.D., C.M., L. R. C. P. & S., M. C. P. & S., was born in Athens, Ontario, Canada, April 6, 1864, a son of Hon. Turner Koyle, inspector of public works of Ontario. The grandfather Koyle was a physician and a judge, a soldier and an officer of the Continental army in the war of 1812. The maternal ancestry is Scotch, the name being Purvis. The great-grandfather was aid-de-camp to Sir Isaac Brook, commander of the king's forces in Canada. On his death the grand- father of our subject was adopted by Lord Simcoe, governor-general of Canada, and lived with him until he was of age, and until Simcoe left for England. At this time hs owned abont one-half of what is now the city of Toronto. He died in 1891. The father of our subject died January 29, 1895, Frank H. was educated in Athens, Cobourg Collegiate Institute, Brockville Collegiate Institute, then spent two years in the art course in Queen's University, Canada, where he took up the study of medi- cine in 1884, graduating with honors in 1888. He began practice in Lowell, where

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 52

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