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Wayland, March 24, 1877; Helen F., who was born March 22, 1878; Frederick Wil- helm, who was born April 24, 1880; William, who was born July 12, 1881; Joseph Anton, who was born July 29, 1883; and Anna Louise, who was born April 5, 1886.
Yocum, Nicholas, was born in Germany, March 1. 1825, son of John Yocum, who was born in Germany in 1800, emigrated to America in 1851, and settled in Way- land, where he purchased a farm at East Wayland and there died in April, 1882. He married Margaret Shults, who was born in Germany in 1802, and who died in 1870. They had eight children: John, who resides in Indiana; Nicholas, who was born in Germany, March 1, 1825; Christian; Barbara, wife of Anthony Marks; . John, who resides at Dansville; Catherine, wife of Cris Crine; Peter, who resides at Dansville; Matthew, who followed lumbering for fifteen years, then purchased a farm and followed farming. In 1854 Nicholas married Lena Holzer, by whom he had four children: Barbara, Frank, Nicholas, and Lena.
Comstock, Charles, was born in Allegany county, N. Y. May 13, 1854, and was the son of Martin Luther Comstock, who was born in Otsego county, N. Y. He came to Allegany county in 1835, where he followed his trade of wagon and carriage builder. He married Naomi Adams of Vermont and they had ten children: Luisa, Thomas, James, Lillian, Frank, Nancy, Etta and Charles. Charles Comstock is a blacksmith by trade, and at present is the owner of two farms in the town of Hartsville. He married Charity E., daughter of John Oaks of Hartsville, who was one of the first settlers in that town. They had two children: Clara and Daniel. In politics Mr. Comstock is a Republican.
Burdin, James Henry, was born in Madison county, N. Y., October 13, 1834, son of John Burdin, who was born in one of the Eastern States, and came to the town of Hornellsville in 1835. He was a farmer and dealt in cattle. He married Betsey, daughter of Daniel Ackley, of Connecticut, one of the pioneer settlers of the county, and they had four children: Spencer D., James Henry, Timothy D., and Julia A. Spencer and Julia are deceased. James H. is a farmer, owns a farm of ninety acres, He married Sallie A., daughter of Abel H. Baldwin, of Howard, one of the first settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin lived to be nearly 100 years old. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Burdin were the parents of three children; Scott K., John A., and Ida M. Scott K. married Charlotte Rankin, of Canada; John A. married Emma Bennett; and Ida married H. E. Brown, of Howard. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Howard, and of the A. O. U. W. In politics he is a Democrat.
Van Wie, Alonzo, was born in the town of Palatine, Montgomery county, Novem- ber 30, 1837. His father, John Van Wie, was a farmer by occupation, and a native of the same county. For more than twenty years he had occupied the same farm upon which Alonzo was born. His wife, Susanna, was the daughter of Henry Nehre, and to them were born fourteen children, seven of whom are still living: John, Catherine, Nancy Gertrude, Elizabeth, Alonzo and Henry. Thinking that he could better his condition by moving westward, he sold his farm in Montgomery county, and moved to Howard, Steuben county, where he bought a farm of 200 acres, located a short distance south of the village of Howard, where he resided until his death, which occurred February 3, 1892. The last twenty years of his life were
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spent with his son Alonzo on a portion of the old homestead, one-half of which is now owned by his son Henry. Alonzo attended the district schools, taught school several terms, and in 1860 was graduated from Franklin Academy. He enlisted in the 189th N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, and was never off duty for a day during his army service. In May, 1862, he married Sarah E., daughter of Elias Wygant, a native of Orange county, but who moved to Prattsburg, Steuben county, in 1835. She has in her possession statistics of her ancestors as far back as 1754, when her great-grandfather, Thomas Wygant, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Van Wie have one son, Frank E., who was born December 29, 1868, and who is at present a member of the senior class in Hamilton College. Mr. Van Wie is a Republican and has always taken a keen interest in politics, and for three consecutive terms was elected to the office of supervisor of the town. For thirty-four years he has been a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is one of the ruling elders.
Roberts, Joseph, was born in Sparta, N. Y., January 26, 1838. His grandfather, John Roberts, was born in Sparta, Livingston county, N. Y., and died in 1852, aged seventy years. He had three children: Daniel, Elias, and Rufus, Rufus Roberts, father of Joseph, married Elmira - -, who was born in Sparta, N. Y., and died in 1867, aged fifty-three years. They had these children: Joseph, as above; Amanda, widow of Mr. Wiley; Lyman, deceased, aged fifty-three years; Jane, wife of Lafayette Carney; James; and Benjamin, who died aged about thirty years. Joseph Roberts attended the public schools of Springwater, after which he engaged in farm- ing, which he has always followed. In 1878 he bought the farm of fifty acres, where he now resides. He was a member of Phoenix Lodge No. 115, F. & A. M., of Dans- ville, N. Y. At Dansville, N. Y., he married Sophia, daughter of Valentine and Mar- garet (Cremp) Beck. Mr. Beck died May 16, 1883, aged eighty-six years, and Mrs. Beck died July 1, 1893, aged ninety years. They had eight children, six of whom are living: Mary Wolf, Maria Jacobs, Margaret Young, Sophia, who was born August 12, 1838; Catherine Hoffman, and Helen Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have eight children: Henry, born March 26, 1859; Mary Shaver, born January 8, 1861; Jacob, born June 1, 1864, and married Florence Glover; Rosa Flashman, born December 12, 1866; Maggie, born August 11, 1869; Fannie Shaver, born April 9, 1872; Melvin, born January 17, 1874; and Charles, born June 5, 1879.
Morsch, John P., was born in Germany in 1847. His father, Peter Morsch, was born in Prussia, Germany, emigrated to this country in 1850, and settled in Perkins- ville, where he died in 1880, aged fifty-six years. His wife Mary died at Perkinsville in 1870, aged thirty-eight years. They had two children: John P., as above; and Michael, who was born in 1849, and resides in Perkinsville. John P. emigrated to this country with his parents when three years of age. He was educated in the common schools of Perkinsville, also attended the Catholic school, where he learned English and German. At fourteen years of age he started for himself by working in the flouring mill, where he remained for two years, thence to Hemlock Lake, where he engaged in the same business for one year. He then went to Honeoye, where he worked over five years, after which he went to Patchinsville, where, in company with Joseph Tompkins, they run a mill one year, thence to Perkinsville, where they rented a mill, which they run ten years, after which they dissolved partnership and Mr. Morsch run the mill for two years. In 1897 he bought the Patchinsville mill, which
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was the first flouring mill in the county, erected by Dr. Warren Patchin, one of the first settlers, moved there, and run the same until 1889, when it burned. He moved back to Perkinsville and run that mill in partnership with E. M. Fowler for one year, after which he built a new mill at Patchinsville, which he has run to the present time. It is now a roller mill. In 1886 Mr. Morsch was elected supervisor of the town of Wayland, on the Republican ticket, and was re-elected in 1887. In 1894 he was elected to the same office for a term of two years. In 1881 he married Mary Bricks, of Perkinsville, where she was born in 1854, by whom he has six children: Katie, John S., Lizzie, Stephen, Anna, and Mary.
Goff, Lucian H., was born in the town of Howard, October 18, 1840, son of Jacob M. Goff, also a native of Howard and now living in Canisteo. Asa Goff, his father, was one of the pioneers of the town of Howard. Lucian was the oldest of a family consisting of four daughters and two sons. He was given a common school educa- tion until he was fifteen years of age but his real education has been derived from the hard school of practical experience. At the age of twenty-eight he was married, and the same year he bought a farm of 145 acres in the town of Jasper, where he made his home for seven years and then spent four years farming on the eastern shore of Maryland. Returning he bought his old farm and two years later bought the Alexander H. Stephens farm in Greenwood of 150 acres, which he conducted five years. In the spring of 1891 he sold and bought the Judge Thatcher farm of 140 acres on lot 3 in the town of Hornellsville, where he has since devoted his time and attention to the production of vegetables, poultry and dairy products. In politics Mr. Goff has always supported the cause of temperance and is now a worker of the Prohibition party. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. two years with Oasis Lodge No. 251. He was married in 1868 to Irene Coston of Canisteo; and they have five children: Adele, John H., Lessie, L. Preston, and Robert C.
St. John, Dr. Northrup N., was born in Webster, Monroe county, N. Y., Novem- ber 26, 1829. His grandfather, Northrup St. John, was born in Danbury, Fairfield county, Conn., and died in Webster, Monroe county, N. Y. Niram St. John, father of Northrup N., was born in Danbury, Conn., October 18, 1804, and died in Spring- water, August 2, 1882. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Hannah M. Stratton, who was born in Catskill, N. Y., April 2, 1805, and died February 25, 1895. They had three children: Rosalia J., who was born December 14, 1825, and died June 14, 1846; Northrup N., as above; and Huldah A., who was born February 27, 1833. Northrup N. attended the common district schools of Webster, and afterwards moved to Springwater, N. Y., where he attended school for a time. He studied medicine with Dr. Hiram Hess, in Wayland, for one year, when he took a medical course at Buffalo Medical College, and commenced the practice of medicine at Spring- water, N. Y., where he remained about ten years. He practiced in Atlanta, N. Y., for six years, after which he moved to Wayland, where he has practiced his profes- sion continuously for twenty years. At Springwater, in 1848, he married Ann Howell, who was born November 22, 1828, by whom he had one child, Ella R., who was born July 8, 1854, married Austin Salter, and resides in Springwater; they have one child, Minnie L. March 16, 1866, Mr. St. John married for his second wife, Lucretia Ashley, who was born July 23, 1848, by whom he had three children: Verne A., who was born April 25, 1871; Byrd E., who was born April 25, 1875; and Clare
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A., who was born March 21, 1881. Verne A, and Byrd E. are teachers, now attend- ing the Geneseo Normal School, of Geneseo, N. Y. Mr. St. John has been president of Wayland eight years, and trustee two years.
Millard, Morgan R., was born in the town of Cameron, November 2, 1824. Reuben W. Millard, his father, was a native of Onondaga county, N. Y., and came to Steu- ben county in 1804. He married Sallie A. Hooker, of Providence, R. I., by whom he had five children. Morgan R. is a lumberman and farmer, owner of a saw mill and manufacturer of lumber and shingles; has been justice of the peace twenty years in his town, and practices law to some extent. He married Mary J. Fulton, of Can- isteo, by whom he had two children: John H., who died at twenty-four years of age, and Mrs. A. E. Waight, of Jasper. Mr. Millard is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons No. 65, and is and always was an abolition protectionist. In 1888 his wife, Mary J., died, and in 1893 he was married to Mrs. Shell, then a widow.
Northup, Norman, was born in Franklin, Sussex county, N. J., son of Benjamin D. and Sarah (Perry) Northup, both natives of New Jersey, who came to Rathbone in 1835, settling on the farm his brother had cleared ten years previously. Here he lived and died. He was one of the founders of the East Cameron Baptist church. He died June 10, 1874, and Mrs. Northup September 7, 1877. The grandfather, Moses Northup, lived and died in Sussex county, N. J. Norman was ten years of age when he came to Rathbone with his father and helped to clear the old home, which he owned and worked until 1892, when he sold fifty acres and retired from active business. In 1852 he married Marilla, daughter of John and Martha H. Har- wood, of Woodhull, by whom he has five children: Walter, a machinist in Utica; Amelia, wife of Burr Willard, a druggist of Campbell; Hattie, widow of Dr. Garret, formerly of Woodhull, but died in Alaska, Mich .; Alma, wife of R. O. Demun, a farmer of Rathbone; and Arthur, a farmer of Rathbone, who married in 1892, Lou Sanford, and has one child, Isabella. Mr. Northup has been assessor and was super- visor of Rathbone for five years.
Reynolds, Chauncey E., was born in Troupsburg, February 2, 1853, and is the third of nine children born to William and Ruth (Metz) Reynolds, he a native of Troupsburg, and she of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents were Frederick S. and Betsey Reynolds; Frederick R. came from Massachusetts with his parents, Squire and Patty (Rice) Reynolds, to Troupsburg at an early day, and here the old people lived and died. Squire Reynolds was born in Middlebury, Mass , February 21, 1761. Frederick Reynolds followed farming in Troupsburg, and spent his last days in Jasper, where he died in 1876. Mrs. Reynolds died in 1863. William Rey- nolds, father of Chauncey E., was reared on the farm, and always followed farming. He died in July, 1892. Chauncey E. Reynolds was reared on the farm and for eight- een years followed farming. In 1893 he entered in partnership with Mr. Fitch in the mercantile business at Troupsburg, under the firm name of Fitch and Reynolds. In 1875 Mr. Reynolds married Ella, daughter of John and Minerva Fitch, of Brookfield, Pa., by whom he had six children: Olive, Fitch, Verna, infant, Harry, and Chauncy. Verna died at the age of ten months; infant at two months.
Marvin, Albert C., can trace the genealogy of the Marvins back to 1636, when Rey- nold Marvin settled at Lynn, Conn., the family being of English origin. Mathew,
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his grandfather, was the eighth son of Thomas, who was born at Salisbury, Conn. June 7, 1854, and married Mary Weed, of New Canaan, Conn., by whom he had six children: Abigail, born August 5, 1785, died at Lansingburg, N. Y., March 4, 1788; Joseph, born May 1, 1787, at Lansingburg, died at Hamden, N. Y., in 1820; Jared, Thomas, William W., and Lewis. In 1819 Joseph Marvin married Polly Tiffany, who was born December 17, 1801, at Walton, N. Y., and they had one child, Albert C., as above, who was born February 4, 1820. He was educated in the common schools and Delhi Academy, and afterward taught school in Hamden and Meredith, and for the past thirty years has been engaged in farming and lumbering. He has held the office of assessor for three terms, and was a member of the I. O.O. F. In 1849 Mr. Marvin married Amarilla C. Stetson, of Wayland, and they are the parents of five children: Melvin Knox, born March 8, 1850; Anna Amanda, born March 21, 1851; died March 19, 1852; Curtis F., born February 25, 1853, died April 12, 1854; Eleanor Augusta, born March 20, 1856; and Francis E., born December 4, 1864, who resides in Howard. Melvin Knox married Mary C. Vogle, who was born January 1, 1851, by whom he had the following children: Genevieve, born March 14, 1872; Albert Curtis, born September 18, 1873, died April 24, 1874; Anna Augusta, born February 12, 1875, died February 6, 1876; Nettie Adell, born August 24, 1876, died July 19, 1881; Katie, born June 15, 1878; Archibald Knox, born June 24, 1880; Lorinda, born March 20, 1882; Clarence, born January 14, 1884; Bell, born January 25, 1887; Lizzie, born December 30, 1888; and Flossie Helen, born July 15, 1894. Eleanor Augusta married Jacob Mehlenbach, of Salamanca, and they have three children: Nellie, Ethel, and Iva. Francis E. married Ada Hoag and have one child, Edith.
Gottschalk, Christian Lewis, married Mary Elizabeth Shafer; both were born in Prussia. Mr. Gottschalk was a foreman in a coal mine there, and came to America in 1833, moved to Pennsylvania and stayed one year, and then came to Dansville and bought a farm on Sandy Hill in 1834, but was obliged to forego a settlement there until the next year on account of cholera, which was raging there at that time. Mr. Gottschalk died April 1, 1849, aged sixty years. Family Record of Christian Lewis Gottschalk: Lewis, Conrad, William, Louisa Losey, Mary Foltz, Valentine, John, Frederick, Elizabeth Zoldoske, August, all deceased. Henry lives in Missouri ; and Christian resides on the Sandy Hill farm in the town of Wayland. Christian Gottschalk was born in 1832 and married Maria E. Weber February 2, 1862. Maria E. was born in 1839. Christian Gottschalk's Family Record: William, born Novem- ber 13, 1863, and died September 10, 1892; Mary Wenz, born September 26, 1865; Lewis C., born November 2, 1867; Rose Amelia, born April 26, 1869; and Henry Alonzo, born June 13, 1864.
Smith, Charles R., was born in Starkey, Yates county, N. Y., September 3, 1829, son of Tolman and Eliza Ann Hathaway Smith, he a native of Niagara county, N. Y., and she a native of Newtown (now Elmira). Charles's grandfather, Russel Smith, lived and died in Niagara county. When a small boy, Tolman was bound out to John Bordman, by whom he was cruelly treated, and at the age of seventeen he left Mr. Bordman and learned the shoemaker's trade. He afterward learned and worked at the carpenter's trade. In religion he was a Methodist. He died in 1867, and Mrs. Smith in 1893. The maternal grandparents were David and Elizabeth Demeress
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Hathaway. Charles R. Smith followed the carpenter's trade until 1891, when he engaged in small fruit growing, and has been located in the town of Wayne since 1850. In 1854 Mr. Smith married Sarah J., daughter of Moses and Sarah Crooslon, and to them have been born six children: Amasa C., William H., died April 22, 1874, aged seventeen years; Horace, died January 29, 1875, aged ten years; Moses T., Sarah Ann, wife of Henry Slater, and Charles F. In religion they are Methodists. Mrs. Smith died December 2, 1878.
Northup, Asher S., was born in the town of Barrington, Yates county, N. Y., March 7, 1827, son of Eli and Phoebe Osborn Northup, who came to Cameron, this county, in 1830. He died in Bath, in April, 1878, and his wife, September 3, 1873, in Yates county. Asher S. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He spent one year in the oil regions, and lived in Cameron until 1855, when he bought the farm he now owns. September 3, 1849, he married Catherine E. Allen, who was born in Howard, February 8, 1823, daughter of Samuel and Char- lotte Shoals Allen. Mr. Allen was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1813 he came from Amsterdam, N. Y,, to Howard on foot with a change of clothes and an ax. He died in Avoca, aged eighty-eight years, and his wife, aged sixty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Northup have two children : Alice J., wife of Peter B. Rumsey of Cameron, and they have three children: Edith E., Claude B., and Laura P. ; and Byron A., who was graduated from the school at Bath and Poughkeepsie Business College, and first clerked in Elmira and was then engaged for three years as clerk at $1,000 a year in the government Arsenal at St. Louis, and afterwards in the mercantile business at Rockford, Ill., and was also with a Chicago Brush Company for three years, and for four years has represented the firm of Strong, Cobb & Co., of Cleveland, at a salary of $17,000. He married Laura Warner of Rockford, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Asher Northup are members of the First Christian church of Cameron, N. Y.
Pean, William D., was born in Tyrone, Schuyler county, N. Y., August 19, 1829, son of Horace and Euphemia (Doty) Dean. The maternal grandparents came from the East and settled in Seneca county, where they died. Horace Dean, father of William D., was reared in Tyrone and followed shoemaking. In politics he was first a Democrat afterward a Republican, and was assessor many years. He was a member of Tyrone F. & A. M. He died in 1879, and his wife in 1876. William D. was reared in Tyrone, and commenced for himself as a carpenter, which business he followed fifteen years. He came to Wayne in 1865 and settled on the farm of 100 acres he now owns, where he carries on general farming. In 1852 he married Anna M., daughter of Rev. Jonathan Ketchum of Barrington, Yates county, by whom he had four children: Carrie, who died at nine years of age; Fred C., editor and pro- prietor of the "Portland Enterprise," Portland, Pa. ; Stella, wife of F. A. Loveridge, a vineyardist and liveryman of Cuba, Allegany county, N. Y .; and Grace, who re- sides at home. In politics Mr. Dean is a Democrat, and is a member of Pleasant Valley Grange.
Huganir, Charles, was born May 11, 1846. His father, Adam Huganir, located on the Brayton farm in the town of Howard, and which is now owned by his son, to which he has added until he now owns 258 acres, January 29, 1826, he married Catherine Voorhees, a native of Herkimer county, N. Y., by whom he had ten chil-
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dren: David, born January 12, 1828; Jane Ann, born November 18, 1829; Voorhees, born August 4, 1831; Barbara, born July 26, 1833; Maria, born June 9, 1835; Han- nah, born April 21, 1837; Elizabeth, born August 10, 1839; Leonard, born Septem- ber 3, 1841; Pamelia, born March 1, 1843; and Charles, as above, who was educated at Rogersville Seminary, and has always followed farming. At Howard, N. Y., May 2, 1882, he married Etta Saxton, who died January 11, 1894, by whom he had two children: Lena L., born November 9, 1886, and Guy C., born March 12, 1889.
Olcott, Marvin, dealer in real estate, was born at Corning in 1858, and graduated from Yale College in 1881. At the death of his father, Alexander Olcott, in 1887, he took up his real estate business which he conducted successfully for several years. He was one of the first police commissioners, and has been for two years president of the fire department. He married Fanny F. Cook of Albany. His father came from Albany to Corning in 1848, and was in the Assembly for two terms.
Osborn, A. D., was born December 1, 1835. His father, Lewis Osborn, was born in Scipio, N. Y., and in 1837 he came to Dansville and settled on a farm of 150 acres. He was a mason by trade. He married Samantha Gates, who was born May 20, 1812, and died in July, 1866, by whom he had two children: A. D., as above; and L. M., who was born August 31, 1837. A. D. Osborn received a common school educa- tion, and has always been a farmer, and owns a farm of eighty-nine acres. He is a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308. He has visited a number of the West- ern States, and at one time lived in Hartsville. January 3, 1858, he married Caro- line, daughter of John Ingles, who was born in New Hampshire, October 3, 1832, by whom he had five children: Frances V., who was born January 1, 1859, and died October 20, 1869; Willis L., who was born December 24, 1863, and died October 31, 1869; Albert A., who was born January 21, 1872; and Clara, who was born May 29, 1873.
Overhiser, Andrew Peck, was born in Wheeler, August 14, 1822. Conrad Over- hiser, his grandfather, was a farmer and came with his wife Mary from Chittenango, Onondaga county, to Wheeler, about 1832, where he died in 1840, and his wife in 1843. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and reared nine children, all of whom grew to maturity and ranged in age at their deaths from sixty to ninety-five years. John C. Overhiser, father of Andrew Peck, was born in Montgomery county, April 1, 1782. He was a farmer, and came to Wheeler about 1816, and settled on a tract of 150 acres of land on West Creek, which was then covered with forest, and after many years of hard toil, with the assistance of his sons, he cleared the entire farm, cutting the timber and burning it. He was twice married. By his first wife he had three children, two of whom grew to maturity, a son who lived to be seventy years of age, and a daughter who lived to be ninety-seven years of age, and one died in infancy. He married for his second wife Ruth French, by whom he had eighteen children, fourteen of whom are still living. He died May 13, 1871, aged ninety years, and his wife in 1855, in the sixtieth year of her age. Andrew Peck Overhiser was born August 14, 1822, and remained with his father until he was twenty-six years of age, when he purchased a farm of ninety acres with no buildings and little improved, and to which he has added forty acres, paid for the whole farm, erected suitable build- ings, and made many other necessary improvements. For some years he has raised
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