Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 69

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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Baldwin Family, The .- The family of Baldwinsis descended from Henry Baldwin, who came from Buckingham, England, about 1627. He settled in Woburn, Mass. His son, Benjamin, the youngest of twelve children, moved to Canterbury, Conn., about 1700. Rufus Baldwin, father of James and Henry Baldwin of Addison, was born in Canterbury, Conn., in 1795. In 1812 he was connected with the Light Guards and gained the title of major. In 1821 he came to Tioga county, Pa., purchased some 1,000 acres of timber land on the Cowanesque River, and engaged extensively in the manufacture of lumber. In 1825 he married Pamelia Wombough, daughter of Wm. Wombough, one of the pioneer settlers of Addison. In 1834 he removed to Addison and settled upon a farm about one mile east of the village, where he lived until 1851, in which year he moved into the village of Addison and retired from the active duties of life. He was one of the pioneer movers in the founding and erection of the Addison Academy in 1848. Through his efforts the first sash and blind factory was built in Addison. He was one of the projectors and stockholders of the plank road from Addison to Elkland. Major Baldwin was chosen to several important places of trust by the citizens of Addison. He was interested in every enterprise that had for its object the improvement of his town or the benefit of society. He was a man of strict business integrity, and was genial and sociable. He died in 1883; his wife died in 1866.

Baldwin, Henry, son of Rufus Baldwin, was born in 1831; admitted to the bar in 1853, and was supervisor of Addison from 1859 to 1861. In 1861 he raised a company and as captain joined the 34th Regt. N. Y. Vols. He was in the battles of Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. He was chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 1876; was elected colonel of the 106th Regt. N. Y. S. militia in 1869; was elected sheriff of Steuben county in 1885. He was married in 1856 to Bella Bliss of Hornellsville; she died in 1863. Henry Baldwin has always been identified with the improvements of Addison. Through his efforts the Addison and Northern Pennsylvania Railroad was constructed. At present he is largely interested in farming.

Baldwin, James, son of Rufus Baldwin, was born in 1834. After leaving Lima Seminary in 1853, he settled upon a farm about two miles west of Addison, where he engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods and farming. In 1855 he married Emma L. Cowley In 1857, having sold his farm and timber lands to Hon. F. C. Dininny, he moved to Woodhull, where he built a steam grist and saw mill, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1866 he returned to Addison, and soon after commenced the banking business, in which he is still engaged. He has been from the organization of the party a prohibitionist; has been a candidate on the State ticket for treasurer, and also for congressman in his district. He has one son, born in 1857, who is a farmer and stock raiser, living about two miles from Addison.

Carter, jr., George W., was born May 30, 1872. George W. Carter, his father, was born in the town of Greenwood, January 24, 1833. His grandfather was a native of Vermont, and was born October 19, 1787, and married Rachel Tetter of Tompkins county. Anthony Carter was the next youngest son to settle in Greenwood in 1830,

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where he resided for nine years, then came to Canisteo, to what is known as Ben- nett's Creek, and purchased 1,033 acres of land, which is most all in the hands of some of the family yet. George W. married Cynthia, daughter of James Cross, of Canis- teo, by whom he had five children: Cassica A., Mary A., Lura T., Flora G., and George W., jr., who is working a part of the homestead farm, which was given him by his father.

Waldorf, William E., was born in the town of Richmondville, Schoharie county, N. Y., March 20, 1860. He was educated in the common schools and Utica Business College. His first occupation after leaving school was bookkeeper for Bacon & Pillmore, of Rome, N. Y., which position was held by him for several years. In 1885 he became one of the proprietors of a general store in the village of New York Mills, under the firm name of Wilson & Waldorf. After conducting this business for two years, he sold out his interest and entered the employ of the Pullman Palace Car Com- pany, where he remained one year. After leaving the Pullman Company he ac- cepted a position as cashier for the Wells, Fargo Express Company, at Hornellsville, N. Y. The spring of 1891 he resigned, to accept a position as bookkeeper with the Hornellsville Water Company. In June, 1893, he was elected a member of the board of directors, and made superintendent, which positions he now holds. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1890, Hornellsville Lodge 331, F. & A. M .; Steuben Chapter 101, R. A. M .; Hornellsville Council 35, R. and S. M .; DeMolay Commardery 22, Knights Templar; and has for the past four years acted as organist for all the Masonic lodges in the city of Hornellsville; also is recorder of Hornells- ville Council 35, R. and S. M., and DeMolay Commandery 22, Knights Templar; a member of Orient Tent 21, K. O. T. M. ; Samuel Campbell Council 1090, Royal Ar- canum; and Park Methodist Church. February 10, 1886, he married Lizzie J. Hughes, of New York Mills, by whom he has three children: William Edward, jr., Walter H., and Mable Edna.

Page, Ebenezer, was born in the town of Scio, Allegany county, N. Y , December 19, 1847, the oldest son of Charles and Matilda Mayeron Page, a farmer and now a resident of Hornellsville. Ebenezer was given a common school education, and be- came a farmer by occupation. In his twenty-second year he bought the old home- stead farm in West Almond, and conducted that until January, 1879, when he ex- changed it for one half of the old McBurney farm of 165 acres, and has added to this by the purchase of the John Santee farm of 100 acres, and also owns 100 acres pur- chased of the Hartshone estate in the fall of 1894. In June, 1889, he bought sixty- two acres of the Jeff McGee farm on lot 10, and also owns 100 acres on Crosby Creek, purchased of the Oliver Cleveland estate. Mr. Page has always conducted a dairy farm, and now has fifty-eight head of stock, besides nine horses. He conducts a milk route in Hornellsville. Mr. Page was married three times, first, to Clara, a daughter of Oliver Cleveland, who died in May, 1876. His second wife was Elethra Cleveland, sister of his first wife, and her death occurred March 26, 1892. The pres- ent Mrs. Page was Mary L. Orvis, daughter of Daniel H. Orvis, of this town. He has two children: Clara A., a student of Hornellsville Academy, and Frederick, a student of Bryant School.

Durnian, Richard, was born in Tyrone, Ireland, April 13, 1835, and came to the

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United States in 1850 and settled in the town of Bath. In 1860 he married Elizabeth L., daughter of James T. Stewart, by whom he had two children, A. C., and Adelle. In 1857 he bought the Dunsmore lot, in 1861 the Amos Tanner lot, and in 1878 the Jesse S. Aber farm, having 155 acres of farm land, and making a specialty of raising stock, and buying, feeding, and shipping same to New York. Mrs. Durnian died in 1890, and for his second wife he married Rosamond M., daughter of Isaac Ross.

Fancett, Samuel R., was born in Bath, September 15, 1856. His father, Richard, was born December 8, 1809, in County Mayo, Ireland, and came to Bath in 1838. He married Fannie, daughter of Robert S. Fancett, December 29, 1842. He was a farmer by occupation and greatly respected by all who knew him. He died August 3, 1888, aged seventy-nine years. September 29, 1886, Samuel R. married Emma, daughter of John Hall, by whom he has two daughters. Florence D. and Mabel B. Mr. Fan- cett is one of the leading farmers of the town.

Rosa, Andrew Yates, was born Schenectady, N. Y., in 1828, son of John Rosa, born in 1808, a contractor, who built considerable of the Erie Canal. He built the old basin at Schenectady and assisted in building the New York Central Railroad. He married Mary Eliza, daughter of Andrew Yates, of Glenville, Schenectady county, and their children were Andrew, Deborah, Harriet (deceased), J. E. and John Rosa. He died in 1841, and his wife in 1866. Andrew's grandfather, James Rosa, a native of Schenectady, was a stage superintendent, and in later years became assistant superintendent of the Albany and Schenectady horse railroad. He took charge of buying the horses and hiring the men. Andrew has led an active life, having been for twenty-eight years a locomotive and steamboat engineer, and engineer in Sacra- mento valley in California. At the age of seventeen he entered the Thomas Rogers locomotive works, at Paterson, N. J., where he served his apprenticeship, since which time he has served in the shops of the New York Central Railroad, also as engineer, and later as engineer on the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Rail- roads, and numerous other roads. During 1865-66 he was engineer on the steam propeller, James McBride Davison, which plied between Wilmington and Fort Fisher and Cape Ann River for the government. In 1867 Mr. Rosa journeyed to California via Panama, where he engineered and served for a time as foreman of railroad shops stationed at Wadsworth, Nevada. In 1869 he returned to Schenectady as engineer on the New York Central, and in 1871 came to Prattsburg and located on his present farm, but was called to engineer on the Midland River Railway, where he spent three years, thence to Missouri for a time. He then returned to Prattsburg where he has devoted his attention to general farming, and the breeding of Jersey cattle and fine driving horses. In 1862-63 he owned boats on the Erie Canal. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in New Albany, Ind. In 1870 he married Mary Jane Brown, of Schenectady.

Stephens, Joshua Chapman, was born in Canisteo, May 30, 1816. Nathan Stephens, his father, was born December 8, 1783, and May 11, 1790, came with his father, Jedediah Stephens, to Canisteo and settled on a farm of 400 acres. He married Rachael, daughter of Elisha Gilbert of Addison, by whom he had five children, Elisha G., Jedediah, H. M., Ebenezer C., and Franklin. He lived on a farm, known as lot No. 10, 1st division, until his death, which occurred April 4, 1862. August 3,

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1845, Joshua C. married Hannah, daughter of Harris Abbe of Canisteo, by whom he had seven children: Ira G., James A., Harris M., Nathan J., Rachel J., Emma H., and Mary M. Three of the sons are carpenters and joiners, and James A. is at home on the farm. A fact worthy of notice is that not one of the sons weighs less than 200 1bs., and is said to be the strongest and most robust family in the town. Mr. Stephens has held the office of supervisor and other minor offices, and is a mem- ber of Morning Star Lodge of Masons, No. 65, also of Steuben Chapter.

Hall, Alexander, was born in Campbellford, Ontario, June 21, 1862, the son of James Hall, a farmer of that town. Alexander was educated in the public schools of his native town, and after spending a short time on the farm and as a maker of cheese, he took up the study of dentistry in the fall of 1889 in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, at Cincinnati, graduating from there with the degree of D. D. S. March 9, 1892. He first began the practice of his profession at his home in Ontario, where he remained until May 5, 1893, on which date he located in Hornellsville where he established an office at 59 Main street, where he has made rapid advance- ment in the good will of the people and a rapidly increasing practice proves his ability as an honored member of the profession. He was married, December 21, 1892, to Miss Nettie McCann. They have one child, Mary Lewella Hall in her sec- ond year. The winter of 1893-94 Dr. Hall spent at the Ohio Medical University as general demonstrator on operative and posthetic dentistry.

Mackie, Frank G., was born in the town of Avoca, July 15, 1855, son of Robert Mackie, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to the United States in 1820, and first settled with his father, William Mackie, in Paterson, N. J., and in 1824 came to Avoca, Steuben county, where he has since resided on a farm of 320 acres, his principal crops being potatoes, barley, rye, and oats. Robert married Jane Howard, and they have two children: Sophia and Frank G. The latter was edu- cated in the town of Avoca, and is a farmer by occupation. He married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Eells, of Avoca. Mr. Mackie has filled the office of assessor for one term.

Cram, Mrs. Permelia .- The late Simon B. Cram was a native of Chenango county, son of Isaiah Cram, and was raised on a farm in Caton. He served three years in the 50th New York Regt. In 1870 he married Permelia Whitmore, a native of the town of Hornby. He died in 1886, leaving five children: May, Jennette, Roscoe, Preston, and Bertrand. They have a well improved farm of 126 acres.

Davis, Daniel, one of West Caton's well known and oldest citizens, was born in Massa- chusetts in 1816, and in 1838 went to New Orleans, locating in Southern Mississippi, where he followed the trades of carpenter and builder. He then came to Steuben county, locating on his present place, known as the Pail Factory place, where he has since resided. Dexter Davis, a brother, had come here a year before to manufacture lumber and wooden pails, purchasing lots number 1 and 24; another brother, Norris, came with Daniel in 1843, and the three continued the business of manufacturing pails for five or six years, when Mr. Davis succeeded to the ownership of the entire place, which he still possesses, excepting forty-five acres. In 1844 he married Ruth Bates, of Massachusetts, and they have three children: Edwin F., Lucy E., and Mary E. Mr. Davis was justice of the peace previous to 1880 for sixteen years.

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Lawrence, F. H., M. D., son of Hiram Lawrence, who was a native of Rochester and one of the first merchants of Hornellsville, was born in Arkport, April 14, 1858. His father, Hiram, married Jane, daughter of James Hill of Bradford county, Pa., removed to Arkport and died in 1867 in his fifty second year. F. H. Lawrence was educated at Rogersville Seminary, was graduated from Alfred University in 1878, and studied medicine with Dr. J. E. Walker, of Arkport N. Y. In 1881 he was grad- uated from Cincinnati Medical College and located in Kanona, N. Y., making a specialty of hernia. In 1892 he married Jessie, daughter of John Bonney. Dr. Law- rence has held the office of postmaster, and is at present a member of the United States Pension Board located at Bath, N. Y.

Wilkes, Harriet M .- Robert B. Wilkes was born in Ireland in 1830, and came to the United States in the following year with his parents, Bartholomew and Ann, who settled in Bath. Robert was educated in Bath, and in 1860 married Harriet M., daughter of General F. E. Erwin, by whom he had eight children: Sophia, Mrs. Anna Hunter, Robert B., H. Jane, Francis E., James S., Mary E., and Samuel E. Robert B. was one of the representative farmers of his town, identified in promoting its best intersts and the welfare of the people, and was elected president of the Steu- ben County Agricultural Society. He died in 1876.

Burrell, Allen M., was born in Lansing, Tompkins county, N. Y., April 8, 1828. He spent his early life on a farm in Greenwood, Steuben county, but later engaged in carriage building with his brother in the village of Greenwood, which business they conducted for seven years; during this time he read law witlı Hon. Martin Grover and Lewis Simons, who at that time were practicing law at Angelica, Alle- gany county, and in the fall of 1854 he came to Hornellsville in the office of Hon. John K. Hale, who was then practicing at that place, and in December of the same year was admitted to the bar at Rochester. In June, 1855, Mr. Burrell married Mary A. McClay, whose father conducted a large dairy in West Greenwood, and on May 10, 1860, moved to Canisteo, where he still practices his profession. Mr. and Mrs. Burrell have had seven children, two of whom died when small, and five are now living: Glen, a hardware merchant; Harry, a farmer; Ella, their only daughter, married Fred C. Goff, who is now a stockholder and general manager of a shoe fac- tory at Racine, Wis. : William is engaged in said factory, and Charles is now study- ing law with his father.

Stone, James D., was born on the farm he now owns and on which he resides in 1826. James Stone, his grandfather, was a volunteer in the Revolutionary war, and took part in a battle in which the Tories were routed, and during which conflict he was wounded in the hand by a bayonet. Before the war he was a farmer by occu- pation, residing in Montgomery county, and later located in Northumberland county, Pa., and in 1804 removed to Yates county, N. Y., and in 1810 settled in Pulte- ney, where he and his sons cleared a farm of 160 acres. His wife was Tamer Davis, and they reared six sons and two daughters. Mr. Stone died in 1832, aged seventy-eight, and Mrs. Stone in 1833. Thomas Stone, the father of James, was born in Montgomery county in 1790, and came to Pulteney with his father. He served in the War of 1812, and fought at the battle of Queenstown. For some time, while a young man, he cut wood for the salt works at Liverpool, Onondaga county,

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and finally settled on the farm now owned by James D., which was then a wilder- ness. For many years he was a deacon in the Freewill Baptist church. In 1820 he married Betsey, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Stewart, who were pioneers in Pulteney. He died in 1870, and his wife in 1881. James D. has always devoted his time to farming, and has made many improvements on the homestead, and also owns another farm and vineyard of several acres, and for several years was inter- ested extensively in breeding and dealing in sheep. January 24, 1850, he was united in marriage to Jane, daughter of John and Martha Harwood, of Prattsburg, and their children are George, of Syracuse, who is in the steam fitting business, Emmet, a farmer in Pulteney; Flora, wife of Charles Hill of Pulteney; and Satie, wife of John McConnell of Pulteney. They are members of the Freewill Baptist church, of which Mr. Stone is deacon, and Mrs. Stone is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society, of which she is secretary and treasurer. In politics Mr. Stone is a Democrat and has served his town as a member of the board of supervisors, constable, collector, and overseer of the poor.

Bradley, Thomas, was born in Hammondsport in 1850. He learned the stone and brick mason's trade with his father and located in Corning in 1885. Among the many prominent buildings which he has built may be mentioned the new City Hall, Episcopal church, the Drake block of Corning, and Col. John Magee's residence at Watkins. Since 1890 he has also had all the stone and bridge work of the Fall Brook Railroad. Patrick Bradley, his father, was a native of Ireland, and located in Steu- ben county in 1844 at Hammondsport, and died in 1890.

Barney, Richard W., was born in Mount Morris, Livingston county, August 24, 1834. George W. Barney, his father, a direct descendant of Commodore Barney, of Revolutionary fame, was a native of Herkimer county, and came to Livingston county about 1830 and established a mercantile business in Mount Morris which he conducted a great many years. The later years of his life he held the office of post- master, made such by Lincoln and served under Johnson. He was for twelve years superintendent of the poor and insane of Livingston county. He died in June, 1884, at seventy-six years of age. Mary Peterson, the mother of our subject, was of Holland descent and a native of Cayuga county, was born in Scipio, February 28, 1814, and is still living in Mount Morris. Of the six children that reached adult age from this union Richard was the oldest son. He was educated in the common schools and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, now known as the Lima Univer- sity. After finishing his education he spent two years in his father's store, and then was engaged in the same business in the wholesale department in New York city for five years, after which he returned to Mount Morris, where he spent two years as a law student in the office of Hastings & Bingham as a means of recreation. The early days of the war he was with Scott's Band in the Army of the Potomac, and in 1862 became a regularly enlisted member of Co. I of the 136th N. Y. Vols., going as quartermaster-sergeant. He was transferred to the 17th Vet. Reserves in 1864, and served at headquarters with Col. A. J. Warner till the close of the war, when he was discharged under general orders. Returning to his native town he remained only a short time and then went to Ottawa, Kansas, where he engaged in real estate dealing until 1873, when he returned to New York State and took up the study of dentistry with Dr. Daboll of Buffalo, N. Y. In 1876 he began the practice of the

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the profession at Owasco, N. Y., and in the spring of 1878 he located in Hornells- ville, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of the profession with continued success and a constantly increasing practice. He is the inventor of an automatic dental vulcanizer which is a great improvement in the vulcanizing of den- tal plates. He is also interested in farming in Mount Morris, N.Y. In 1867 he mar- ried Fannie Thomas of Rockland, Me., who lived but two years after marriage. His present wife was Clara M. Bacon of Princeton, Ills.

Peet, Rev. Wilbur O., traces his ancestry back for two generations. His paternal grandfather was Hiram Peet, who lived for many years in Penfield, Monroe county, N. Y., where he died. He married Eunice Mason, of Penfield, by whom he had three children: Sophronia, wife of Norman C. Peet, now ling in Penfield; Deborah, wife of H. W. Sherburne, of Rochester, N. Y .; and Silas C., father of Wilbur O., who was born in Penfield in 1821 and died January 4, 1891. He lived and died on the same farm. He was one of the founders of the West Webster M. E. church, of which he was a member and officer for many years. He married Eliza Jane Sim- kins, who was born in Eastern New York, and still lives in West Webster, N. Y. Their children were Prof. Hiram L., born March 10, 1848, superintendent of the city schools of Yankton, South Dakota; Rev. Wilbur O., born in Webster, N. Y., Septem- ber 9, 1850; R. A., M.D., born in West Webster, N. Y., January 23, 1853, died March 30, 1882; J. C., business manager of Green's Fruit Grower, a horticultural magazine, published in Rochester, N. Y., born February 25, 1855; and Mrs. E. G. Dickinson, born November 19, 1858, of East Saginaw, Mich. Wilbur O. spent three years in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, where he prepared for college. He spent three years in Genesee College, Lima, N.Y., the fourth year being spent in Evanston, Ill., at Northwestern University, from which he was graduated in 1872. He graduated from the theological seminary known as Garrett's Biblical Institute, same place, in 1874. He joined the Genesee Conference and in October, 1876, was ordained deacon in Rochester by Bishop Ames. Two years later he was ordained elder by Bishop Merrill in Jacksonville, Ill. Aside from three years between 1877 and 1880, when he was a member of the Illinois Conference Mr. Peet has always been a member of the Genesee conference. During the three years spent in Illinois while pastor of the M. E. church of Petersburgh, he met and married E. Jenny Frackelton, who was born in Petersburgh, October 9, 1853. They have three children: James Clinton, born November 25, 1880; Mary, born January 28, 1889; and Robert Leslie, born March 5, 1891.

Rauber, Jacob N., was born in Wayland, N. Y., November 22, 1856. His father, Mathias Rauber, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1816, emigrated to the United States in 1852, and settled in Wayland. He is a farmer by occupation, and in 1841 he married Margaret Brick, who was born in Prussia, by whom he has these chil- dren: Catherine, born December 14, 1843, and married Philip Conrad, deceased; Nicholas, born March 5, 1845; Mariah, born August 20, 1847, and married Cris. Klein of Wayland; Lizzie, born February 25, 1850; Peter, born January 28, 1852; Jacob N., born November 22, 1856; and Margaret, born May 1, 1859, and married Nicholas Schu, jr., and resides in Wayland. Jacob N. was educated in the common schools of Wayland, after which he engaged in the hotel business, and run the Way- land House for three years. In April, 1890, he bought the old Chase property,

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situated on East Naples street, where he erected the building which he now occupies. In connection with the hotel business he also runs a bottling business. He has been a member of the Wayland Hook and Ladder Company for ten years, and is now an honorary member. At Perkinsville, May 25, 1886, he married Elizabeth Gross, who was born in Wayland, February 15 1868.

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 69

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