Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 67

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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Loomis. Since early manhood Mr. Orcutt has been identified with all the move- ments for the advance of the affairs of the town and village, holding from time to time various offices of honor and responsibility.

Harris, Joseph, of the firm of J. Harris & Sons, composed of Joseph, Marcus, and H. T. Harris. J. Harris came to Hornellsville in 1869. He is a native of Krakau, Austria, and came to this country in 1852 when thirty-one years of age. He was first located in New Orleans, from there going to Corning, N. Y., where he, together with B. Erlich, established a dry goods store under the firm name of Harris & Erlich, and in 1868 they removed to Elmira in the same business. In 1869 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Harris coming to Hornellsville and establishing a store at the location now occupied by F. B. Alley for café. The business was continued at this location until February, 1890, when it was moved to the brick and brown-stone block on the south side of Main street, which was built specially for the firm's occupancy, and which is at present the largest and finest store building in the city. In 1858 Joseph Harris was married to Eliza Erlich, by whom he had nine children. On the other two members of the firm the management of the business now largely devolves. Both are members of Fraternal Societies; Mr. H. T. Harris being present master of Evening Star Lodge No. 44 F. & A. M., one of the oldest in the State.

Brown, William H .- John H. Brown was born in the town of Wheatland, Monroe county, March 8, 1823. James W. Brown, his father, was a native of Tyrone, Ire- land, and came to the United States in the memorable year of 1812, and was an eye- witness of the battle between the Constitution and Guerriere. He first settled in Monroe county, where he worked at his trade as a miller, which business he followed all his life, and where he died in 1834 at the age of fifty-five years. He married Jane Hughey of Cavan county, Ireland, by whom he had seven children: Susan, Will- iam, John, Mary, James, Robert, and Joseph. John H. Brown is a farmer and lum- berman, and married Anna E., sister of Dr. Jamison of Hornellsville, by whom he had six children, Marianna, John D., Minnie, William H., Jennie, and Laura. Will- iam H. is the owner of the homestead, and married Annetta Farnham, by whom he had six children: Goldy, Rebecca, Ira, Anna, Ruth, and Harry. John H. Brown has filled the office of supervisor for two terms, and served several terms as highway commissioner and justice of the peace.

Olmsted, Hiram, was born in Masonville, Delaware county, N. Y., March 29, 1827, and is the seventh of twelve children born to William R. and Elizabeth (Holmes) Olmsted; he a native of Sidney, Delaware county, N. Y., and she of Chenango county. William R. was a farmer and lumberman and settled in Addison in 1831, and in Troupsburg in 1838, where he died in March, 1867, and his wife in March, 1813. Hiram Olmsted was reared on the farm and assisted his father in the lumber business while young, but has always made farming his principal occupation, hav- ing made a specialty of sheep raising and dairy farming. In 1862 he married Laura, daughter of William and Olive M. (Bartoo) Tenbroeck, both of Chenango county, who came to Troupsburg in 1840 where they engaged in farming. Later they re- moved to Moreland, Schuyler county, where Mrs. Tenbroeck died in 1881. Mr. Ten- broeck now resides in Corning, N. Y. By patient industry and prudent living Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted have made a success of their chosen occupation, and are now well-

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to-do and very highly respected by all who know them. Mr. Olmsted's great-great- grandfather fought in the war of the Revolution, and was made a commissioned officer because of the valiant service he rendered his country. Mr. Olmsted comes naturally by a strong national spirit, having inherited it from his ancestors who par- ticipated in the struggle for national freedom. He has always been a strong believer in the principles of the Republican party, and was supervisor of his town in 1889-90, filling this as well as other positions of trust with entire credit to himself. Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted have two children: Albert H., who is in business in Rochester, N. Y., and Mary, who is a successful teacher. Albert H. was married in 1894 to Sarah Grace, daughter of Marcus Marcellus and Sarah Adelia (Hurd) Cass of Wat- kins, Schuyler county, N. Y.

Gorton, William, son of Silas, was born in the town of Corning, in 1822. The grandfather, Peleg Gorton, was one of the original six purchasers of the town; he resided in Rensselaer county and was killed by a runaway team before he could move here. William has always been a farmer, and since 1881 has owned and re- sides on what is known as the old Gibson farm. In 1863 he married Helen Thomp- son, also a native of Steuben county, and they have had five children: William H. Clay, who died in 1880, aged sixteen years; Robert L .; Silas; Wesley; and Agnes.

Walker, J. E., M.D., only surviving son of H. L. Walker, formerly farmer and brick-maker of Nunda, N. Y. Received a common school education, subsequently attended State Normal School at Geneseo. Commenced teaching at sixteen, en- tered the office of Dr. A V. Walkins as medical student at eighteen years of age. Graduated from Cincinnati Medical College in 1876. Commenced practice in Ark- port immediately after. Spent the winter of 1883 and 1884 in New York in post- graduate work. Did an extensive 'general practice until 1892, when he sold out his drug store and business and went to Buffalo. Was physician at the Sterlingworth Sanitarium for a year. Went abroad for special work in 1893. Took courses in bacteriology and microscopy in King's College, London, also worked in the Bromp- ton Hospital, for diseases of the chest, for some time. Visited the hospitals of Paris and Cologne. Spent a short time in Berlin, going from there to Vienna, where he remained some months doing special work. Was made a member of the Interna- tional Medical Congress at Rome in 1894. Returning home he made a tour of the United States, going through nearly every State in the Union and visiting all the health resorts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, studying the climatology of each. He is now superintendent of the Steuben Sanitarium of Hornellsville. He is a member of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association, Steuben County Medical Society, New York State Medical Association, also the American Medical Associa- tion, a member of Hornellsville Lodge F. and A. M., Steuben Chapter, Demolay Commandery, and a noble of Ismalia Temple, Buffalo.

Hill, H. B., was born in the town of Fleming, April 20, 1837, and is the third of seven children born to Cyrus B. and Candace (Bierce) Hill; she of Delaware and he of Cayuga county, N. Y. The grandparents, James and Phœbe (Spencer) Hill, came from Cayuga county to Troupsburg when the county was new. He spent his last days in Canisteo where he died in 1871; shs died in Troupsburg in 1859. He was a soldier in 1812. The great-grandfather, Eleazer Hill, came from the east and was a

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pioneer of Cayuga county. Cyrus B. Hill, father of H. B., came to Troupsburg in 1843, and settled on a farm, He spent his last days with his son, where he died in September, 1889. Mrs. Hill died in 1875. H. B. Hill has always followed farming, and now owns a farm of fifty-one and one-half acres. In 1846 he married Mary, daughter of Ambrose and Caroline E. (Bonney) Conkey, by whom he had one daugh- ter, Armie M. The grandfather, Luke Bonney, was one of the first settlers of Bon- ney Hill which was named for him. Ambrose Conkey was a physician and notion peddler. Mr. Hill enlisted April 29, 1861, in Company I, 19th N. Y. Vols., which regiment was transferred to the 3d N. Y. Artillery, June 2, 1863. He was at Wash- ington, Williamsport, Harper's Ferry, and Fredericksburg, taking part in the en- gagements at Fort Macon, Goldsboro, Whitehall, and many other skirmishes. He is a member of Post Bailey, No. 351, G. A. R.

Dillenbeck, Stephen, was born in the town of Stark, Herkimer county, March 2, 1830. Jonas M., his grandfather, a farmer, whose parents were from Holland, reared six sons and four daughters: Isaac, Jacob, Abraham, Jonas, Moses and Solo- mon, Betsey, Mary, Susan, and Laura. Isaac, his father, was born in Herkimer county, and came to the town of Wheeler in 1841, where he purchased a partly cleared farm, on which he lived the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Lutheran church. He married Anna, daughter of Peter House, who was a soldier in the Revolution, and their children were Alexander, Mary, Aaron, Peter, Stephen, Catherine, Lana Ann, Cornelius and Isaac. He died in 1880, aged eighty-two, and his wife, in 1866, aged sixty-six years. Stephen engaged in farm work when eight- een years old, which he followed for several years, and in 1860 he purchased his present farm of eighty acres, which at that time was thickly covered with heavy timber, but which he has since cleared and cultivated. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. I, 161st New York Vols., and served until the close of the war, having partici- pated in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Cane River, and several minor engagements, and during the siege of Port Hudson he was doing detail duty at Ba- ton Rouge. He lay sick with the typhoid fever in the United States hospital at New York for three months, and suffered with other ailments while in the South. After his return from the war he devoted his attention to farming, and since 1886 has raised many fine grade Jersey cattle. He is a member of Marcy G. A. R. Post, at Avoca, of which he has been chaplain six years. He is now a member of the Avoca Methodist church, but for thirty years or more has been an official member of Wheeler church. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry J. Eckles, a native of Herkimer county, January 22, 1856, and their children are George F., who was a teacher in the country and village school but is now a farmer; Rose Ellen; Henry I., a widower, having one son and two daughters; Bertha J. ; Charles G. ; and John C. Mrs. Dillenbeck is also an active member of the Methodist church.

Cole, Hiram L., was born in Greenwood, in July, 1856, son of David D. Cole of Howard, who came to Greenwood in 1853, where he resided until 1894. He mar- ried Harriet Bunker of Tompkins county, in 1852, who died in 1892, by whom he had four children. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Barbar, widow of John Barbar of Fremont, and now resides at Fremont on a farm of 100 acres. He also owns 188 acres in Greenwood. Hiram L. Cole has always been engaged in farming and deal- ing in fast horses, and has owned Lemington, Lady Proctor, Nina, and many others.

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In 1880 he married Cora Case, who died in 1887, by whom he had one daughter, Hattie. He married for his second wife Octavia Cole of Wellsville by whom he had one son, Lloyd, born June 4, 1889. Mr. Cole is a Democrat.

Cameron, Rev. Duncan Cameron, the present pastor of the Presbyterian church of Canisteo, was born Pictou county, Nova Scotia, November 30, 1855. He was edu- cated at Pictou Academy, N. S., Wabash College, Indiana, Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., and Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y., where he grad- uated in 1884. After his graduation he spent three years in missionary service in South America. On his return in 1878 he settled in Canisteo. In February, 1888, he was married to Frances A., daughter of the well-known Prof. Mortimer L. Brown of Auburn, who founded and conducted the Young Ladies' Institute of that city for over thirty years.

Webster, George M., was born in Owego, Tioga county, N. Y., October 3, 1855, and is the youngest of five children born to M. L. and Elizabeth A (Johnson) Webster: Charles L. who was a member of Co. K, 52d Mass. Vol. Militia, F. S. Greenleaf, commanding officer, and died at Baton Rouge July 19, 1863; Mary E., Sarah M., Odell G., and George M. M. L. Webster was a contractor and builder in Owego, N. Y; was born in Vermont, February 28, 1802; died March 26, 1881. Eliza- beth A. was born in the city of New York, August 31, 1816. George M. was reared in Owego, N. Y., obtained his education in the Owego Academy, and here com- menced his business career as assistant bookkeeper in the hardware store of Houk, Dougherty & Trùesdell, after which he was bookkeeper for Keeler & Houk, contrac- tors and builders. He was then in the Tioga county clerk's office for six years, then for eighteen months in the china store of Sweet & Wilson, representing Mr. Wilson in settling up the business. He was next bookkeeper for the wholesale house of Thompson & Parkhurst of Elmira, N. Y., for which firm he traveled for two years. In May, 1886, he bought out G. D. Woodward of Greenwood and has since been en- engaged in general mercantile business. Is also interested in farming. Mr. W. is a member of Sentinel Lodge, F. & A. M. No. 151, also of Tent No. 110, K. O. T. M. On January 7, 1886, he married Mary A., oldest daughter of John and Laura A. (Osborn) Davis. John Davis was born in Dryden, N. Y., October 10, 1824. Laura A. was born in Owego, N. Y., November 13, 1830, died July 26, 1889. He came to Green- wood with his father, Levi, in 1825, when he grew up and became the foremost man of the town. He was a Democrat and though in a Republican town, he was super- visor for eleven years and in 1870 was elected member of assembly, He died October 25, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have two children: George D., born March 28, 1889, and Clarence L., born June 19, 1890.

Huber, Rev. Aloysius L., born in Zeilarn, Bavaria, Germany, May 9, 1862. He studied a classical course at Passau for seven years, in a Koenigl. Studienanstalt, a royal institution of the city of Passau, where he remained until 1883. At twenty-one years of age he emigrated to America and finished his theological studies in St. Vin- cent's Seminary, Westmoreland county, Pa. In 1889, when he was ordained priest. he acted as assistant priest for one year and three months in St. Boniface church, Buffalo, N. Y., and was rector of three different missions: Strykersville one year, Bennington Center and East Bennington for one year. January 14, 1893, he was

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appointed by the bishop as rector of the Sacred Heart church of Perkinsville, N. Y. This village is named after Mr. Perkins, the first settler of the place, which is hoped to be progressing on account of the new Portland Cement Works.

Park, John M., was born in Broome county, February 7, 1826, son of Henry and . Ann (Holden) Park, he a native of Dutchess county, and she of England. Mr. and Mrs. Park both died in Broome county, aged sixty-one and fifty-five respectively. The grandfather, Rufus Park, was a native of Dutchess county, but died in Broome county. Henry Park was a farmer by occupation. John M. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was engaged in lumbering for ten years, but for the last ten years has lived in Woodhull. He lived in Addison and Rathbone before coming to Woodhull. In 1855 Mr. Park married Sarah A., daughter of Jacob and Arvilia (Nichols) Cole, he a native of Washington county, and she of Oneida. They came to Addison at an early date and died in 1873 and 1867 respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Park have two children: Emma, a stenographer of Harrisburg, Pa .; and Henry, who married Mary Youngs, of Rathbone, by whom he has one son, Harry.

Brasted, Orlando W., was born in the town of Howard on the farm he now owns and occupies, January 30, 1853, son of Levi W. Brasted, who was born in the town Howard on the farm owned by his father, John C. Brasted, one of the pioneer settlers of the town. John C. Brasted, born in 1801, came from the State of New Jersey to Tompkins county when ten years of age, where he resided until he was twenty-one. He married Julia, daughter of James M. Armstrong of that county. They came to the town of Howard with the parents of John C. Brasted in 1822, where they lived on adjoining farms. They were the parents of ten children: Cordelia, Lewis, a Baptist minister, deceased; Nicholas, a farmer; Levi W., a farmer; John, a farmer, de- ceased; Bethuel, a Baptist minister in Minneapolis, and a college graduate; Madison, a farmer; William, also a farmer, who occupied the homestead for years with his father, who lived to be eighty-eight years of age; Juliaette, wife of Alex Pruttsman of Troupsburg; and Maryette, wife of George Shell of Howard. Levi W. married Lucinda Kimball of Chemung county, and they were the parents of four children : P. O. Brasted, Orlando W., Nancy, and H. K. Brasted, a physician in Colorado. Mr. Brasted married the second time, Lydia A. Kimball, a cousin of his first wife, from Chemung county, and their children are: Ulysses G., Mina and Clio May. Orlando W. was a harnessmaker for ten years, and was in the grocery business for several years, but for the past eight years has devoted his time to farming. He owns a farm of about 160 acres. He married Edith E., daughter of Daniel Hamilton, who died in the late war. His mother was the daughter of Daniel Bennett, better known as General Daniel Bennett of Howard. They have one son, Daniel L., who is on the farm with his father. Orlando W. Brasted and family are members of the Bap- tist church, and Orlando W. of the Grange.

Pepper, George, was born in Germany and came to New York city with his father, Jacob Pepper (spelled Feffer in German), a sister, Margaret, and two brothers, John and Valentine, when about five years of age. He left his father in New York and came to Lindley when about eleven years of age. George Pepper lived with Joseph Rorabaugh until twenty-one years of age, when he married Mary E., daughter of Jared and Hannah (Marks) Upham of this county. They had four children: John J.,

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Gertrude Manley, William H., and George M. Mr. Pepper was engaged in lumber- ing with Fox, Weston & Co. for thirty-five years He is now engaged in farming and owns 335 acres of land, seventy-five of which is improved.

Scott, John, was born in the town of Sempronius, N. Y., March 20, 1832, and is the sixth of thirteen children born to Samuel and Parmelia (Clark) Scott, he a native of Pompey Hill, N. Y., born June 3, 1791, and she a native of Sempronius, born March 10, 1800. The grandfather, Joseph Scott, came from Ireland and settled in Pompey, being a pioneer of the town, where he engaged in farming and where he died. The maternal grandfather, Cyrus Clark, settled in Sempronius and from there went to Indiana, where he died. He was also a farmer. Samuel Scott, father of John, and his brothers, John and Jonathan, settled in what has been since called Scott, Cort- land county, where they were the first settlers and built the first machine in the town. Samuel was a lumberman and farmer, and died February 6, 1878 and his wife March 31, 1871. John Scott was reared on the farm and helped his father in the saw mill, but farming has always been his occupation. March 13, 1859, he married Martha McCray, who was born April 16, 1834, daughter of George and Sarah McCray, natives of Oil Creek, Pa., by whom he had four children: William A., a farmer of Troupsburg ; Dorr, also a farmer of Troupsburg; Minnie, wife of John Paul, jr., of Troupsburg; and Ella M., teacher, who was educated at Canisteo, N. Y. Mr. McCrary was a farmer and died in 1862, aged fifty-eight years, and his wife Febru- ary 6, 1885, aged seventy-five years. Mr. Scott enlisted in Co. H, 16th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, in December, 1863, was in service until the close of the war, and was in active service all the time. He has been poormaster of the town for seven years, and is a member of McClellan Lodge No. 649, F. & A. M., also Post Bailey No. 351, G. A. R., of Troupsburg.

Brozitsky, E., was born in Poland, along the German line, August 15, 1857, and came to the United States in 1872, and first settled in Prattsburg, where he remained one year, and since 1874 has been in the town of Avoca. At present he is a farmer and stock dealer, and owns a farm of eighty-eight acres. He married Christianna, daughter of James Holland, by whom he had two children: Anna, and Iola. Mr. Brozitsky is a member of Avoca Lodge No. 673, also of the Royal Arcanum.

Hutchinson, C. G., was born in Francistown, Hillsboro county, N. H., June 24, 1834, son of Osgood and Abigail S. Pratt Hutchinson, natives of New Hampshire, who came to Greenwood in 1846, and soon after to Jasper, and several years after went to Ohio, and died there. His first wife died in New Hampshire, and he mar- ried for his second wife Harriet M. Knapp. He was a carpenter. His grandfather, Osgood Hutchinson, lived in New Hampshire until 1857, when he came to Jasper and afterwards went to Kansas and died there, aged ninety seven years. C. G. Hutchin- son was reared in Peterboro, and Nashua City, N. H., until thirteen years of age, when he came to Steuben county, where he has practically resided ever since. In 1856 he married Lucy Olin of Woodhull, by whom he had one child, who died in infancy. His wife died in 1858, and he married for his second wife Helen C. Van Orsdale of Jasper, by whom he had three children, namely: Luella H., AbelW., who married Bertha Drake and had two children, Eva and Flossie. He is a blacksmith by trade, and has been constable; Harlow W., who married Nellie Osterhoudt and

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had one child, Blanche. He is a blacksmith by trade, and is a motorman on the electric street railway at Olean. Mr. Hutchinson learned the blacksmith trade in Corning. Since living in Jasper he has been constable seven years in succession, collector at the close of the war, and overseer of the poor for several years. In 1886 he was elected superintendent of the poor of Steuben county, and again in 1887 was re-elected and held the office six years. He has been a member of the I.O O.F. and Sons of Temperance, and for several years has been trustee and treasurer of the Jasper Cemetery Association. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church for several years and treasurer of the society and one of the ruling elders since 1882. He received his education in the common schools and is at present one of the assessors of his town. Mrs. Hutchinson died April 9, 1891.

Feenaughty, William O., was born in Howard, May 5, 1864, son of James Fee- naughty, who was born in Ireland, May 24, 1833. He came to this country in 1847, and at fourteen years of age was employed as principal of a Boston city school, a position for which he was fully competent This seems strange, but for the knowl- edge of the fact that he was educated for the priesthood and that only boys of rare intellect and ability are given that opportunity. Later he became a lumber dealer in the towns of Canisteo and Howard, where he married Mary J. Alger in 1852. He died July 22, 1874, at the premature age of forty-one years, leaving five sons and one daugliter, the latter now deceased. William O. was the second younger of the sons, and was educated at Canisteo Academy, where he graduated as president and valedictorian of the class of 1884. He engaged in farming, teaching school the winter terms. He was married September 15, 1887, to Mary, daughter of William Jamison of Canisteo. He came to Addison in May, 1889, and purchased his present grocery business, making specialties of potatoes and eggs. Mrs. Feenaughty is past grand of the Odd Fellows, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a supporter of the Baptist church.

Stewart, George W .- John Stewart, his wife Cynthia and family, came to the town of Cameron from Yates county about 1835. Their children were Lydia Jack- son, Rev. Jacob Stewart, Nancy, Girden Mary Dyke, Zeri, John Stout, Rebecca Andrus, and Abraham, all deceased with the exception of Abraham. Girden first married Catherine, daughter of Elisha Leach, by whom he had two children: Melissa Thomas and Amos. He afterwards married Sarah, a daughter of Nehemiah Winship, by whom he had these children: John (deceased), George W., Henry (deceased). Norman, James, Catherine Walton, Amelia (deceased), Samuel, Dewitt, Mory, and Lucilla Wambald. Amos, George, and Henry enlisted in Co. G, 141st Regt. N. Y. Vols. George was transferred to Hancock's Veteran Reserve Corps, 145th Independent Co. Amos died at Bridgeport, Ala., and Henry at Yorktown, of camp fever. Norman enlisted in Co. A, 189th Regt. N. Y. Vols. George W. mar- ried Jane S., a daughter of Richard Wood, by whom he had four children: Annie Day, Jennie Jackson, Clarence, and George H. (deceased). Mr. Stewart afterward married Hannah, a daughter of James and Mary Tailor, by whom he had four chil- ren: Sarah J., George T., Lizzie C., and James G. George W. is a farmer and owns about eighty acres of land. In early life he worked at carpentry. He has been a member of the M. E. church for twenty-five years and is past junior vice in the Cameron Post. Girden Stewart was very active in church work and was a local preacher,

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 67

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