Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 66

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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Gorton of Corning. In January, 1886, he came to Hornellsville and bought the Truesdell drug store on Main street, where he has since been engaged. He has made many improvements in the store; with a discarding of all the old stock and thoroughly filling the store with late pharmaceutical products, Pierson's Pharmacy is to-day the headquarters of everything generally carried in a first-class drug store. December 1, 1893, he bought the drug store at 144 Canisteo street, which he has fitted up, and made the pride of the people of the south side. Mr. Pierson has been one of the benefactors of Hornellsville by investing in building and improvements in the residence portion of the city. His social interests are with the First Presbyterian church.

Higgins, Justin V. R., was born on a farm in the town of Hornellsville, December 29, 1854. Russell Higgins, the father of our subject, was a native of Otsego county. When he came to Steuben county he located in the town of Howard and made his home there until about 1850. He then located on a farm cn Penn Hill, where he spent the balance of his days, and died there in 1855. Justin was the youngest of a family of seven children, all living to-day. He was given a common school educa- tion, and remained with his mother on the old homestead farm until 1860. Mr. Higgins then bought the Ward farm of twenty acres, and later bought additional land and has increased the farm to 115 acres, on which he raises principally potatoes and grains. Mrs. Higgins died the spring of 1891. Justin was married in 1879 to Miss Mary Ellis, daughter of Albert Ellis of South Dansville. They have one child, Florence E., now in her fifteenth year. A son of his brother, John Ellis, Roy, forms a part of Mr. Higgins's family.

Woodruff, John B., was born in the town of Allegany, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., October 10, 1838. Charles C. W., the father of John, was a native of Orange county, born near Graycourt, May 24, 1802, and learned the shoemaker's trade; after he was of age he came to East Bloomfield, where he married Caroline Reynolds of Spring- water. They went from there to Cleveland, O., and from there came to Cattaraugus county, where he died, August 16, 1879. Mrs. Woodruff died November 6, 1879. They were the parents of six children. The three living are Clinton D., a farmer and mechanic of Cattaraugus county ; Mrs. Mary Pierce of Cattaraugus county, and John B., our subject. He was educated in the common schools and his first occupa- tion was lumbering and farming, which he followed until the breaking out of the war. August 21, 1861, he enlisted in the 5th N. Y. Cavalry and served until Decem- ber 16, 1863, then re-enlisted in the same regiment, serving until July 19, 1865. This regiment was in 171 engagements, and was with the Army of the Potomac. At the close of the war he returned to the home of his parents, and November 12, 1865, he removed to the town of Hornellsville and was employed in working a farm on shares until April 25, 1872, when he bought the William McMichael farm of fifty acres, to which he has added twenty acres, now having a fine farm of seventy acres. He was married March 27 1864, to Miss Louisa A. Weatherby, daughter of Richard Weatherby, a farmer and pump manufacturer of Wirt. Mrs. Woodruff died Sep- tember 23, 1894, at fifty-two years of age, leaving four children: Miles S. Woodruff, a farmer; Miss Minerva E., Laura C., and Charles F., who assist in the conducting of the homestead farm.

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Parker, Prof. Z. L., was born February 10, 1819, in Charlemont, Franklin county, Mass. Capt. James Parker, his father, was a farmer. He married Lucretia Fales, daughter of Jeremiah Fales, and died at eighty-seven. Zenas L. was the youngest of a family of six boys and four girls. He was educated in the common schools and academy of Massachusetts, and after teaching in his native State for eleven years, he came to Ithaca, N. Y., and taught five years in the public school. In 1856 he came to Corning, where he remained as principal of the public schools until 1865, when he came to Bath and had charge of the public school for four years. The Corning and Bath schools became union schools during his administration. He then engaged in fire and life insurance and built up a good business. He was school com- missioner of the First District of Steuben county from 1870 to 1873. In 1888 he was elected to the responsible office of treasurer of Steuben county for three years, and re-elected to the same office, and upon his retirement in 1894, complimentary reso- lutions were passed by the Board of Supervisors in recognition of his long, honest and efficient service to the county. In 1852 he was married to Nancy J. Warfield, daughter of Job Warfield, by whom he had two sons, George H. and Eugene F. Mr. Parker has attained prominence as a poet. In 1892 he was the unanimous choice of the literary committee to deliver the poem at the Centennial Celebration of the foundation of the village of Bath, and for many years he has written a poetical resume of the events of the ending year, which have always been received with favor. Many are the events and occasions, the history of which he has reduced to verse, long to be remembered by the present generation and which will make his name lasting to the generations to come. In early life Mr. Parker became active in church work, and from 1857 to the present time has been an elder in the Presbyterian church, first in Corning and for the last twenty-five years in Bath, where his religious character and his able advocacy of temperance, morality and religion, have given him a wide and lasting influence.

Jack, Allan T., was born March 15, 1831, and is a son of William and Hannah (Giffe) Jack, who came to Thurston from Maryland in 1820. They were the parents of nine children: James, William, John, Harvey, Allan T., Christie, Mary Barrett, Rachel Rumsey, and Harriet Martin. William Jack in early life was a cooper, but he afterwards became a farmer. Allan T. married Loranah, a daughter of George W. Lane, by whom he has four children: Harvey, who graduated from Baltimore Medical College and practices in Canisteo; George N., a graduate of the Buffalo Medical College, practicing in Depew, N. Y .; Griffe W., a farmer; and Lucile, de- ceased. Allan T. is engaged in farming and owns about 100 acres of land. In early life he followed lumbering and railroading.

Schutz, William, was born January 1, 1842. Daniel Schutz, father of William, was born in Germany in 1802. In Germany, March 1, 1838, he married Catherine Leibenguth, who was born in Germany, in 1807, and they emigrated to America in the same year and settled in Wayland on the place where his son now resides. He was a glazier by trade but followed farming in Wayland. They had four children: Daniel, who was born January 3, 1839; Margaret, who was born July 25, 1840, wife of Frederick Wagner, and resides in Ossian. They have eight children: Peter, Catherine (deceased), William, John, Fred, Daniel, Margaret, and Emma; William, as above; and Jacob, who was born April 15, 1844, and resides in Naples. William

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Schutz received a common school education and has been a great reader of current literature. He engaged in farming until 1863, when he enlisted in Co. B (Captain Parsons), 97th Regt. N. Y. Vols. (Col. Charles C. Whelock, of Oneida county). He took part in the following battles: Wilderness and all the battles of Army of Potomac to Lee's surrender, siege of Petersburg, and Appomattox, where Lee sur- rendered. Mr. Schutz has held several town offices, and has held the office of justice of the peace fourteen years, elected the fourth term. He is a member of Wayland Lodge No. 176, I.O.O.F,, also a member of Theodore Schlick Post, G.A.R., No. 314. February 6, 1868, at Wayland, N. Y., he married Louisa Folts, who was born in Way- land, May 10, 1847, by whom he had eight children: Katie, born December 3, 1868, and married William J. Brown, jr., they have one child, Pearl; William, born May 22, 1870; Lizzie, born January 1, 1872; John, born September 28, 1873; Louisa, born March 26, 1875; Daniel, born June 14, 1878; Herman, born April 4, 1881; and Amelia, born April 23, 1885.

Bardeen, Jennie, was born September 17, 1846. Her father, Simeon Clark, was born in Genoa, Cayuga county, in 1820. He moved to Ohio, then returned east and settled in Howard, where he died June 21, 1873. He married Adaline Davy, who was born September 3, 1825. Jennie Bardeen was educated in Hornellsville, and July 30, 1865, she married George Bardeen, who was born at Prattsburg, August 11, 1834, and died February 1, 1892. He was a carpenter by trade, but fol- lowed farming as a business, and had a farm of 100 acres, located on Big Creek. His father, Lybbyna Bardeen, was born in Otsego county, and came to Prattsburg, thence to Kanona, and from there he located on a farm at Big Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Bardeen had eight children: Minnie B., born November 26, 1866; Addie, born May 12, 1868; Myrtle born July 17, 1869, and died Januaay 8, 1870; Lybbyna, born August 26, 1873; Earl, born April 14, 1875, and died June 12, 1876; Deatton, born July 13, 1879; Leon, born September 25, 1881; and Glenn, born April 21, 1885. Mr. Bardeen's first wife was Eliza Leonard, by whom he had one child, William, who was born in Howard.

Nold, George, was born in the province of Fulda, Germany, January 19, 1850, where he attended the schools for seven years. At eighteen years of age he emi- grated to this country and settled in Perkinsville, town of Wayland, where he worked at shoemaking for John Ritz for four years, having previously worked at the trade for four years in the old country. In 1872 he rented the Zimmerman store on Naples street, employed two men, and carried on business there for two years. In 1874 he bought the store on East Naples street, which he now occupies, of Ira Bush, for $1,000, and employed from two to four men for nine years, when the building burned, and he erected the first brick building in Wayland, and carried on the boot and shoe business. In 1884-85 he held the office of town clerk, was again elected in 1893, and again in 1894 for a term of two years. He has been one of the trustees of the Way- land Union School for three years, is a member of the C. M. B. A., Branch No. 101, and has been president of the Wayland Dime Saving & Loan Association, which was incorporated March, 1888, with assets of $80,000, for seven years. At Perkins- ville, June 4, 1871, he married Mary Ritz, who was born June 4, 1853, in Perkinsville, y whom he had these children: Anna, who was born May 1, 1873; Maggie, who was born November 20, 1874; Joseph, who was born January 16, 1876; Katie, who

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was born July 3, 1878; Ida, who was born April 3, 1881; Lena, who was born May 21, 1883; and Edward who was born September 1, 1885. Joseph works at the trade with his father Mrs. Nold died July 10, 1893, and he married second Frances E. Bick, born September 6, 1852, daughter of Valentine and Mary Bick. Her parents kept the Bick House and for some time the Exchange Hotel. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Nold was employed at the Jackson Sanitarium, Dansville.

Northrup, Alfred, was born in Newton, Sussex county, N. J., January 2, 1826. He was a son of Joseph Northrup, born near Newton in 1801, and grandson of Moses Northrup, who was born in Connecticut and came to New Jersey where he died. Joseph Northrup married Alice Van Sands, of Connecticut, coming to Rathbone in 1826. The journey was made in a heavy two horse wagon, taking fifteen days; when they reached the Canisteo river, at a place called Sanders, there they took off half the load and with a man at each wheel with a hand-spike to hold the wheels so the horses could rest every few minutes, and the mother walking and carrying the child Alfred, they started up the hill. After going about six miles over terrible rough and muddy roads, they arrived at the door of the only house on the hill, where lived a Mr. Finch. The house was of logs, the floor was of split logs, but there was a glow- ing fire on the hearth, and warm hearts and loving hands to minister to the needs of the now fainting mother. Here they remained until they could put up a house for themselves. The next year Thomas Allen, wife and four children, Elexander Camp- bell, wife and four children, John Hull, wife and two children, also, two hired men, came from New Jersey, and in Mr. Northrup's house of two rooms they all lived for more than three weeks, while they built for themselves homes in the wilderness. It was twenty miles to the nearest flouring mills, and the forests abounded in deer, bear, wolves, wild-cats and rattle-snakes. The children of to-day can scarcely realize what privations and hardships their ancestors had to endure in order to leave them homes of comfort and even luxury. Joseph Northrup remained for ten years, then returned to New Jersey, where he died thirty-two years later, after accumulating a handsome property. He sold his farm in Rathbone to his brother, Benjamin, of New Jersey. Alfred was ten years old when he returned to New Jersey with his father, but when twenty-six years old returned to Rathbone and settled on the farm now owned by his widow, consisting of 212 acres. Here Mr. Northrup died September 28, 1891. De- cember 12, 1852, he married Lucy J., daughter of Zachariah and Anna (Wadsworth) Cutting, natives of Onondaga county, N. Y. Mr. Cutting came to Cameron in 1846, where he died. His wife died in Rathbone in 1877. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Northrup; Joseph, of Cameron; Clara D., wife of Willard Talbot, of Rath- bone; Alice V., wife of Willie A. Allen, of Cameron; Annie W., at home; Benjamin A., at home; Lucy J., at home; and three who died in infancy.

Dean, William G., was born in Pulteney in 1868. Dr. William N. Dean, his grand- father, was a native of Dutchess county, and came to Pulteney when a yonng man, where he practiced medicine until his death. He married Polly Terry, by whom he had five children. George R. Dean, father of William G., was born in Pulteney in 1832, and in 1853 journeyed to California, via the Isthmus of Panama, and spent thirteen years in the gold regions of the western coast, and after his return he en- gaged in farming until 1887, when he moved to the village of Prattsburg, where he served in many official capacities. He married Jennie Godfrey, by whom he had

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five children. William G. was educated in Franklin Academy, from which institution he graduated in .887. At fourteen years of age he left home to live with his grand- father, Harry Godfrey, whom he assisted in his bookkeeping and the management of his business, and in a few years became general manager. Sine the death of his grandfather in 1887 he has had the entire charge of his large estate. He has served several years as police justice in Prattsburg, being twice elected. He is a member of the Odd Fellows of Prattsburg, of which he is a past-master. In August, 1894, he married Grace Conine of Bath.

Flaherty, James, was born in the town of Prattsburg, June 10, 1868. His father, John O., was a farmer and twenty years of his early life were spent on the farm and attending school alternately. In 1888 he graduated from Franklin Academy, Pratts- burg, N. Y., and then took up the study of law. In 1871 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at Cornell University, and in January, 1892, was admitted to the bar. In the Cleveland and Harrison campaign he was in the employ of the Demo- cratic campaign committee, and made an extensive stumping tour through the State, demonstrating himself a strong and effective speaker. In 1893 he opened an office at Prattsburg where he has since practiced his profession. In August, 1893, he was appointed postmaster at Prattsburg and is the present incumbent of the office.

Graves, Hart D., was born in Prattsburg, N. Y., January 22, 1843. Israel Graves, his grandfather, was born in Massachusetts, January 17, 1785, and came to Pratts- burg about 1810, where he settled in the forest, cleared him a farm, and engaged in farming and lumbering. He married Zama Nims, who was born in Massachusetts, in March, 1788, by whom he had eight children. Israel Dwight Graves, father of Hart D., was born in Massachusetts, September 21, 1807, and grew to manhood in Prattsburg, where he spent his life farming and lumbering. He married Samantha Curtis of Massachusetts, by whom he had two children, Charles D. and Joel C. His first wife died, and in March, 1839, he married for his second wife, Clarissa Weld, a native of Delaware county, by whom he had nine children: Ada, Hart D., Adelia, Weld and Willard (twins), Hannah, Bradley, Isadore, and Ithel. He died in 1867, and his wife May 10, 1895. Hart D. Graves began life as a farmer, and at twenty- one years of age started for himself, and in connection with his farming has for many years dealt extensively in stock, and since 1875 has added to his other interests the breeding from Lexington stock thoroughbred race horses. He and his wife now own three large farms, and in 1880 he moved with his family to the village of Pratts- burg, where he purchased a residence and retired from his more active life, attend- ing to his business interests in the village. In 1865 he married Mary, daughter of Josiah and Mary E. (Williams) Putnam, by whom he had five children: Carrie L., wife of Geo. W. Howe of Prattsburg, Lina C., Mrs. Odella Cook, of Prattsburg, Dwight W., and H. Dana.

Clark, John J., was born in Wheeler, in July, 1837. John Clark, his grandfather, was a native of Massachusetts, and came to Wheeler in 1806 and settled on a tract of 200 acres of land, for which he paid in part by cutting a road six miles through the forest, and later he cleared this land. He reared a family of six children, and died at seventy-five years of age. John Clark, his father, was born in Wheeler, on the homestead, in 1809, where he devoted his whole life to farming, and accumulated

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some property. He was eccentric, but kind and generous to the poor and needy. He was a member of the State militia, and was openly opposed to secret societies. He married Phoebe Upthegoes, by whom he had two children: Anna, deceased, and John J. He died in 1884, and his wife in 1847. John J. began life as a farmer on the farm on which both he and his father were born, which he conducted for twenty years, and also had charge of farms in Wheeler and Prattsburg, and in 1886 he moved to his Prattsburg farm. He has for many years been interested in the breeding of horses, and still owns the homestead farm. He is a member of the Masonic fratern- ity, Prattsburg Lodge, No. 583. In 1858 he married Persis, daughter of Darwin and Mary (Archibald) Cheeney, by whom he had one child, Anna. Mrs. Clark was a member of the Star Masons, in which she took an active interest. She died in 1891.

Hopkins, Mark H., was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county, N. Y., in March, 1855. His great-grandfather, Capt. Consider Hopkins, was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1723. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and died in 1795. He was a descendant of one of two brothers by name of Hopkins, who came from England. His grandfather, Mark Hopkins, was also born in Hartford, and removed to Oneida county, thence to Prattsburg in 1806, and settled on the farm which is still owned by the family, where he built a log house, and in 1814 erected the frame house which is now occupied by Mark H. and his mother. He was one of the founders of the Franklin Academy and one of the trustees for many years. He married Lydia Merrill, by whom he had two children: Elisha and Lydia. Mrs. Hopkins died in 1794, and in February, 1802, he married for his second wife, Sarah Kellogg, by whom he had seven children: Ralph, Erastus, Eliza C., Emily M., Ralph W., Joseph Mark, and Hiram. He died in 1843, and his wife in 1852. Joseph Mark Hopkins, father to Mark H., was also born on this farm in Prattsburg, April 19, 1815. He received a fair education in the common schools and at Franklin Academy where he taught one term, and for many years after reaching his majority, on account of ill health, he spent but little time on the farm. He was early identified with the society of Odd Fellows, and was district deputy grand master in 1853-54, and visited officially the various lodges of the county, and prior to that time had represented the society in the Grand Lodge of Northern New York several times. March 30, 18:4, he married Laura A., daughter of Henry G. and Laura (Hopkins) Linsley of Prattsburg, who was born October 26, 1831, and by whom he had three children: Mark H., Charles E., of Syracuse, and Harriet E. In July, 1860, he became a member of the Masonic fraternity in Prattsburg, and for ten years following the death of his father he was trustee of Franklin Academy, and took much interest in educational matters. He was prominently identified with the Prattsburg Grange Lodge from time to time since its organization in 1874, was for several years elected master, and was worthy master of Steuben County Council. In January, 1879, also in 1880 he was elected president of the Steuben County Agri- cultural Society, and a few years later he was elected an honorable. He died Feb- ruary 10, 1893. Mark H. Hopkins continued to conduct the large farm of over 200 acres, where he has spent his life, with the exception of some little time spent in traveling in the Southern and Western States. He is one of the charter members of the Prattsburg Grange, of which he was for ten years secretary, and is past-master, and in 1888 was vice-president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society.

Drake, M. L., was born in Jasper December 23, 1852, son of Allen and Lucinda

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(Andrew) Drake, he a native of New Jersey, born March 3, 1810, and she of Steuben county. The grandfather, Peter Drake, came to Jasper in 1829, where he died in 1862, aged sixty-five years. Allen Drake, father of M. L., was a farmer and owned 700 acres of land, and was an extensive wool dealer. He died February 27, 188+, and his wife survives and resides with her son. M. L. Drake was reared on a farm, ed- ucated in the common schools and Woodhull Academy, after which he engaged in farming. He now owns 200 acres of land, a part of the old homestead, and follows general farming. He is a member of Jasper Tent No. 100, K. O. T. M. December 31, 1873, he married Emma Wycoff of Jasper, by whom he had three children: Eddie A., Blanche, and Farley W.

Dennis, Andrew F., was born in Jasper, N. Y., March 21, 1847, son of Franklin and Martha (Lamson) Dennis. Andrew F. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Hammondsport Academy. He followed farming and lum- bering, but is now engaged in farming, and owns 500 acres of land. He makes a specialty of stock raising and hay and has about 120 sheep. He is a member of the Banner Lodge of North Jasper, No. 539. In 1870 he married Clara Crossman of Cameron, N. Y., by whom he had three children: Clarabell, born October 28, 1871; Anna Dell, born November 28, 1872; and Oscar Ray, born May 15, 1882.

Dearlove, Charles Wilber, was born in Italy, Yates county, N. Y., in 1845, son of William Dearlove, a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 1789, who came to the United States in 1816 and settled in Geneva. In 1847 he located in Steuben county, where he spent his last days. He was a Republican and Abolitionist and interested in the underground railway. His wife was Sarah, daughter of William Swales, of England who came to the United States and settled on what is now the " Experi- mental" farm at Geneva, N. Y. Their children were William, George, Mary, John, Charles, and Annie. He died in 1888, aged 90, and his wife in 1891, aged 80. Will- iam and Charles are the only surviving members of this family. Mr. Dearlove's first occupation was as a fireman in a saw mill, and two years later he engaged in farm- ing, to which he has since devoted his time. He now owns his father's homestead and the farm on which he resides, and he makes a specialty of a large variety of pota- toes, on which he has established a State reputation, taking the first premiums at many of the fairs on both quality and variety. He is a Prohibitionist, and in 1893 was appointed county statistician, which office he now holds. In 1866 he married Erva, daughter of George Barnes, and their children are: John, Leona, Erva, George, and Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. Dearlove are members of the Prattsburg P. of H., No. 112, of which he has been master for several years. He is also a member of the I. O. G. T. Their son John has taught school during the winter terms for the past eight years, is an active worker in the temperance cause, and is county chief of the I. O. G. T.

Orcutt, James D., senior partner of the drug firm of Orcutt & Loomis, was born in the town of Erwin, July 24, 1853. His father, Daniel Orcutt, established the drug business in Painted Post in the year 1856, and was doing a thriving business at the time of his death, under the name of D. Orcutt & Son. James D. continued the business after the death of his father, and in 1883 admitted Mr. Fred H. Loomis in partnership, since which time the firin has been known under the name Orcutt &

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 66

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