Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 72

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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a great many sheep. He has served as commissioner of highways, and many other minor offices. In December, 1847, he married Eliza, daughter of Henry Ackerson, of Pulteney, by whom he had one child, Lydia Ann, wife of Henry Miller.

Alderman, J. M., was born in Schuyler county, N. Y., January 28, 1847, son of O. P. and Martha M. Conklin, a distant relative of Roscoe Conklin, he a native of . Connecticut, and she of New Jersey. They both came to Schuyler county in 1830, and were married at Altay, where J. M. was born. He came to Thurston in 1850, where he has since lived. His father has been a member of the Christian church, and organized and built the Merchantville church, of which he was pastor for a num- ber of years. He was a member of the Blue Lodge in Risingville, and Bath Chapter, R. A. M. He and his wife are now living on a farm in Thurston, aged seventy-six and seventy-five, respectively. Our subject was educated in the common schools, Sonora Academy, and Starkey Seminary, and at the age of fifteen enlisted in Capt. William H. McLain's company, 5th United States Cavalry. On account of his age his father had him withdrawn, but at the age of sixteen he enlisted again in Co. K, 4th New York Artillery, and served two years and six months. He was in the battle of the Wilderness and under fire until the battle of Spottsylvania, where he was severely wounded in his right elbow, and was then placed in the Veteran Reserve Corps, being unfit for field duty, and was then detached as orderly for Gen. Thomas H. Neill, who was president of the board of examiners. Mr. Alderman has been in the insurance business at Merchantville for some years, and was general agent in Pennsylvania for a Philadelphia company in 1870 and 1871. He was in the mercan- tile business at Hedgesville four years, and manager of a lumber company near Canisteo for four years, and has held his present position five years. He was also in the employ of a lumber company in Texas for three years. He is a Republican and has represented Woodhull and Thurston in county conventions and was census enumerator in 1890. He is a member of Loga Post No. 469, G. A. R., and Subor- dinate Union No. 272, E. A. U. October 20, 1868, he married Mary L. Masters, daughter of Lewis Masters of Thurston, and they have had one child, Burr W., who died at the age of seven months. Mr. Alderman has been assistant postmaster at Merchantville for about four years. Is now a merchant at Thurston, N. Y.

Burdin, T. D .- Hisgrandfather, James Burdin, was born in Madison county, N. Y., and came to the town of Howard, where he located and followed farming. He died October 11, 1848, aged sixty-nine years, and his wife Mary died January 23, 1860. The father of our subject was John Burdin, who was born in Madison county, N. Y., in 1805, and died December 5, 1861. His wife Betsey A. died December 30, 1882, aged seventy-four years. While he lived in Madison county he was a section boss on the Cherry Valley Turnpike, but he located on a farm when he came to Hornells- ville in 1835. They also kept a temperance hotel on Big Creek, four miles east of Hornellsville. Mr. and Mrs. Burdin were members of the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of four children: Daniel S., who died in 1860, James Henry, Timothy Dwight, and Julia Ann, died October 3, 1847. T. D. Burdin was born in the town of Hornellsville, May 13, 1838, and was educated in the common schools. He drove on the stage route between Bath and Hornellsville for five years, and has since followed farming. He was elected assessor two terms, and was poormaster three terms, He is a member of the United Workmen No. 249, also of Big Creek

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Grange No. 324. August 25, 1861, he married Mary, daughter of Cornelius Fisher of the town of Fremont, and they have two children: Julia May, born December 22, 1862, wife of Charles A. Stillman, who works his father-in-law's farm, and is a pattern maker by trade; and Oris E., born June 21, 1867, and died at the age of twenty-two years.

Brush, Horton L., was born in this town, March 4, 1853. Thomas Brush, his grandfather, was a shoemaker who came to Pulteney in 1819, and later purchased a tract of timber land, which he and his sons cleared. He was the son of Jacob and Anna Green Brush, whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Albert, the father of Horton L .. was born in Pulteney, in July, 1820, and has devoted his time to farming since he became thirteen years of age, and when eighteen he worked out and earned the last one hundred dollars which finished paying for his father's farm; his time was then given him and he began for himself, purchased his first farm when twenty-two and now owns 105 acres. In politics he is a Republican and served as assessor two terms, and is a deacon in the Baptist church. His wife was Lydia Horton, who was born in Pulteney, and their children were Harmon M., Thomas, who died in 1846, and William, died in 1879, who was a soldier in the late war and fought in the battle of Appomattox, and Marion S. Horton L. was the youngest son, was educated in the common schools, and while a young boy engaged as engineer in a saw mill, and when fifteen years of age took charge of a vineyard, which position he kept until he was seventeen years of age, when he spent two win- ters in Michigan as engineer in a mill. He then engaged in buying fruit, spent three seasons in a commission house in New York city and spent one year each in the em- ployment of the Adams and United States Express Companies on Lake Keuka. He has studied electricity for several years, and since 1891, in connection with his fruit growing and commission business, he has dealt in telephones, constructing them himself. In 1881 he married Lilly I., second daughter of William E. and Nancy Bancroft Horton, who was born in the town of Cameron. She is a member of and teacher of the Baptist Sunday school, and they are both members of the Baptist church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Prattsburg Lodge No. 583, of which he has been chaplain and junior deacon. He is now treasurer of the Yates Baptist Association, having been elected for three years.

Hoag, Perry C., was born June 2, 1838. His father, Nathan Hoag, was born in Wayland, and died in 1842, from injury received in a flour mill in Dansville. He married Susan Bowdish, who was born in Wayland, and died in 1882, aged sixty-five years. They had six children : Martha Warring; Margaret, deceased; Susan Wells; Perry C., as above; Nathan; and Harriet Roberts. Perry C. Hoag has followed farming for many years. When four years of age his father was killed and his mother lived with her children among the Shakers at Mount Morris, Livingston county, and she finally married Ira Sherman, of Naples, N. Y. Perry C. enlisted in Co. D, 188th N. Y. Vols., October 5, 1864. He took part in nine battles, and was dis- charged in July, 1865. He is a pensioner. He is a member of Theodore Schlick Post, G.A. R., of Wayland. At Springwater, October 27, 1861, he married Emeline Haight, who was born in Springwater, November 6, 1844, by whom he has four chil- dren: Herman, born September 18, 1862; Arthur, born January 8, 1865, and died December 27, 1891; Idella Warring, born January 7, 1867; and Addie Marvin, born March 14, 1871.

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Lake, Charles G .- His grandfather was Robert Lake, who died at sixty years of age. Israel Lake, father of Charles G., was born in Hector, Schuyler county, N. Y., in 1818, and died at seventy-three years of age. He has always followed farming, and was a member of Big Creek Grange No. 324. He married first Clarissa White, by whom he had these children: Martin (deceased), Mary, Martha, Miranda, Maria, Estella, Hubbard M., and Melvin. He married second Christian N., daughter of John Wanner, of the town of Sparta, and had one son, Charles G., who attended school at Hornellsville, after which he engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of ninety-one acres on Big Creek. He is a member of Big Creek Grange No. 324. His mother's first husband was William Magee, and with this union there were six chil- dren: Worden, born June 15, 1851; Sheldon, born July 11, 1852, who was killed by a train at Groveland, November 1, 1890; Frank, born October 17, 1853, and died at Stockton, Cal .; Sarah, born June 26, 1856; Maggie, born June 28, 1860; and Idell, born June 12, 1862. Mr. Magee was a soldier in the late Rebellion, enlisted in the 161st N. Y. Vols., Co. C, and died at Baton Rouge, La., June 1, 1863.

Retan, Nelson, was born in the town of Pulteney in July, 1837. His grandfather, Barnett Retan, was born in March, 1790, and he married Sallie Drew, who was born in November, 1789, and their children were John, born June 23, 1809; Almeron, born in September, 1811; Gilbert, born in October, 1813; Hannah, born in Novem- ber, 1815; Susan, born in January, 1818; Rachel, born in February, 1820; Barnett, born in December, 1822; Ebenezer, born in January, 1825; David, born in March, 1827; Sally Ann, born in July, 1829; and Eliza, born in January, 1830. They were farmers and came to Pulteney with their family in 1818, cleared a farm, on which they spent their remaining days. John, father of Nelson, was a farmer by occupa- tion. In politics he was a Democrat and served several years as a commissioner of highways. He married Rachel Smart, who was born September 11, 1811, and their children are Susan, born in September, 1831; Jeptha, born in July, 1835; Nelson, as above; Sylvester, born in July, 1840; Anson, born in April, 1842, killed in the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; Sylvina, born in March, 1844; Olney, born in February, 1846; and Cynthia, born in October, 1849. Their deaths occurred April 29, 1870, and February 17, 1884, respectively. Nelson was educated in the district schools, and began life for himself as a farmer. In August, 1864, he enlisted in Co. A, 161st N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, having participated in the sieges of Mobile and Blakely. In 1866 he purchased his first farm, and in 1884 he engaged in manufacturing lumber, boxes, and grape baskets in the village of Pulteney, this being the largest establishment of the kind in the county. In 1886 he purchased a resi- dence in the village, where he removed. In 1892 his mill and factory were burned, but the same year he rebuilt on a larger scale, which buildings were burned in June, 1895. He again rebuilt and commenced work in August of the same year. In addi- tion to the manufacturing interests, Mr. Retan owns several small farms, to which he attends. In 1860 he married Esther S., daughter of Nelson and Julia Pinkerton Ball, and their children are Alice, born in August, 1863, wife of Clarence Fox of Pulteney ; Nellie, born in June, 1867, died in January, 1871; and Anna May, born in May, 1880. Mrs. Retan died July 13, 1889. For his second wife he married Helen Ball, in De- cember, 1890. Her father, Nelson Ball, was born in Pulteney in 1815, and died in 1871, and was a blacksmith by trade. Mr. Retan is a member of the Odd Fellows

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Lodge of Pulteney, the Pleasant Valley Grange of Urbana, and of the Henry C. Lyon G. A. R. Post No. 535 of Pulteney.

Rex, Charles N., was born in Wayne county, N. Y., December 11, 1845. Jacob Rex, his father, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1817, and moved to the town of Way- land in 1850, and settled on the farm now known as the Saxton farm. He is still living in the town of Cohocton. In 1838 he married Olive Hall, who was born in Savannah, Wayne county, N. Y., in 1813, and died in April, 1895. They had three sons: William H., born in Wayne county, March 22, 1843; Charles N., born in Wayne county, December 11, 1845; and John W., born in Wayne county, November 9, 1848. Charles N. was brought up on a farm and has always followed that busi- ness. In 1875 he purchased the farm where he now resides. At Conesus, N. Y., March 17, 1869, he married Weltha A. Heath, who was born in Conesus, N. Y., De- cember 2, 1846, by whom he had two children: Myron E., born September 28, 1873, and graduated at the Hornellsville Business and Shorthand College in March, 1893, and Bertha M., born October 4, 1875.

Schwingle, John A., was born in Germany, in the Rhine province, in 1829, and at eighteen years of age emigrated to America, and settled in Buffalo with his uncle, Frederick Schwingle, where he remained for three months working for him. He then went to Dansville, where he worked by the month for two years, thence to Wayland, where he worked by the month until 1852, when he purchased a house and a lot of fifteen acres, his first home in America. In 1850 he married Louisa Schwingle, who died in 1851, aged twenty-five years. They had one child, Louise, who was born June 28, 1851, and who is now the wife of Fred Sorge, and resides at Dansville. They have five children: William, Inez, Edward, Rosa and Clarence. In 1855 Mr. Schwingle married Mary Miller, who was born in Illinois, August 29, 1836, by whom he had these children: H. Franklin, born January 18, 1856; Frederick William, born December 26, 1857; George J., born February 3, 1860; Mary B., born January 24, 1863, died April 9, 1887; Amanda S., born November 21, 1867, died March 23, 1869; Edward C., born July 13, 1865; John A., born October 3, 1869; Ida A., born Decem- ber 29, 1871; William M., born June 13, 1874; Albert E., born August 19, 1876; and Emma C. E., born March 26, 1879. These children are all well educated, two of whom are teachers. Mr. Schwingle has owned 152 acres of land, and in 1893 sold 105 acres to his son. He has held the office of assessor three years, and is now over- seer of the poor. He was a member of Dansville Lodge, No. 123, I. O. O. F., and is now a member of Wayland Lodge, No. 176, joined by permit from the Dansville Lodge. Mr. Schwingle's married children are as follows: Frank, who married Laura Hilts, lives in East Sparta, and has one son, Philip; Frederick W., who married Maggie Lander, and resides on a farm near Loon Lake; George J., who married Sophrona Totten, and has two children, Jay and Emma, and resides in Wayland village; Edward C., who married Mary Kramer, who has one daughter, Margaret, and resides in Dansville, where he owns and runs a hardware store, and is the in- ventor of the Schwingle Potato Hiller, Coverer and Furrower.

Wallace, Dr. Edwin E., was born in Hartsville, N. Y., August 7, 1852, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Davis) Wallace, both natives of Livingston county, N. Y. The grandfather, Abner Wallace, spent most of his days in Livingston county.

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Nathaniel Wallace, father of Edwin E., first came to Canisteo, where he remained a year, thence to Hartsville in 1840, where he engaged in farming. He finally removed to Hornellsville. He died March 3, 1887, and his widow resides in the town of Cone- sus, Livingston county. Edwin E. Wallace was reared on a farm and educated in Canisteo Academy. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Picket of Canisteo and Dr. Joseph W. Robinson of Hornellsville, and graduated from the medical de- partment of the University of New York City in 1879, and made his own way through college, teaching for several terms, and was awarded the prize for the best examina- tion in materia medica, and therapeutics. In April, 1879, he came to Jasper, where he has since had a very successful practice. In 1887 Dr. Wallace took a post- graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate School. He is a member of the Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, F. & A. M. He is also a member of the New York State Medical Society. January 5, 1881, he married Myra Metcalf, of Jasper, by whom he had two children: Allen M. and Maud E.

Zimmerman, Sylvanus A., was born in Bradford, June 20, 1831, and is the fifth of seven children born to John and Elizabeth Stocum Zimmerman. John, who was a native of Austria, was taken from his bed at midnight by the Austrian army and pressed into service, and being taken prisoner by the French army, he fought under Napoleon. He was afterward taken prison by the English and sent to Canada to serve in the British army, and in 1812 he was sent out to look for a deserter, and he came to the United States. At Buffalo he received a pass to Canandaigua from General Brown, and from there he made his way to Bartle Hollow, now Bradford, and engaged with Mr. Bartle in the distilling business. He soon went to Lancaster, Pa., and engaged in the same business, being very successful. He finally returned to Bradford where he built and run a distillery. He died in 1862, aged eighty-two years, and Mrs. Zimmerman died in 1880. Sylvanus was educated in the common schools and the Dundee Academy, and in music at Reading, Mass., and has been a music teacher the most of his life. In 1878 he married Maggie Houck, by whom he has three children . Mary E., Sylvanus A., jr., and Hattie. August 29, 1862, Mr. Zimmerman enlisted in Co. G, 23d N. Y. Vols., and served until May, 1863, when he was transferred to Co. B, 80th N. Y. Vols., and sent to provost-general's headquar- ters, where he had charge of the commissary department under Capt. H. P. Clinton, where he remained until the close of the war. He is a member of Lamoka Lodge, F. & A. M. In politics he is a Democrat and has been justice of the peace for eight years and is now notary public, and in 1892 was elected supervisor, which office he still holds.

Hall, Jeremiah, was born in Urbana, April 22, 1842. Thomas Hall, his father, was born at Williamsport, Pa., August 1, 1813. He was a farmer and came to Urbana about 1834, and later came to Bath, where he lived until his death, which occurred in October, 1893. He married Emily Douglass of Steuben county, by whom he had these children: Mary, Almira, Jeremiah, Ary, Ann, and Frank. Jeremiah was first engaged in farming, after which he worked at the blacksmith trade, which business he followed for twelve years. He was postmaster of Avoca under Harrison for four and a half years, and since 1893 has been in the clothing business in the village. He enlisted in the 107th N. Y. Vols., in August, 1862, and served for a term of three years, returned unharmed in poor health. He owned and conducted a hardware

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business in Avoca from 1882 to 1891. Mr. Hall was supervisor one term. He is a member of Avoca Lodge of Masons, No. 673, also of Morey Post, 507.

Hardenbrook, George H., was born in Lodi, Seneca county, N. Y., May 15, 1837. Richard Hardenbrook, his father, was a native of Hunterdon county, N. J., and mar- ried Catherine, daughter of Nathan Smith, of Georgetown, Queen Anne county, Md., and was a manufacturer of boots and shoes in Seneca county until 1844, when he came to the town of Bath and engaged in farming. In 1850 he moved into the vil- lage of Bath, as superintendent of the Whiting & McCass foundry, and afterwards purchased the business, being associated with William Sedgwick. In 1857 the plant was destroyed by fire, and Richard Hardenbrook & Sons purchased the old Steuben county foundry of Biles & Owens, which is now run by his son, George H., making a specialty of agricultural implements, mill machinery, and building and repairing engines. In 1862, with Captain Mowers, he raised Co. F, 78th N Y. Vols., and took part in the battles of Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, and numerous others, receiving an honorable discharge in 1865, with rank of acting captain, and in the same year married Mary A., daughter of John Mckenzie, of Baton Rouge, La., by whom he had two children, Katherine and M. Aldine.

Olmsted, John E., was born in the town of Avoca, August 27, 1853, son of Erastus Olmsted, who was born in the town of Avoca, March 6, 1830, and grandson of John Olmsted, who was born in Montgomery county and settled in this town where he bought land and cleared a farm of 100 acres. October 27, 1852, Erastus married Margaret, daughter of William P. Bellenger, of Montgomery county, who was among the first settlers of this county. They have one son, John E., who was educated in the town of Avoca. He was in the mercantile and produce business from 1876 to 1888 in the village of Wallace, since which time he has devoted his time to farming and to the sale of agricultural implements. He married Estella M. Tripp, of Cohoc- ton, and they have one daughter, Bulah M. Mr. Olmsted has filled the offices of assessor and highway commissioner. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Avoca, No. 673, and Wallace Lodge, No, 519, I. O. O. F.

Peck, George W., was born in Lansdown, February 18, 1854. Rev. J. B. Peck, his father, was a native of England and settled in Jefferson county in 1840, and for thirty-five years has been engaged in the ministry of the M. E. church, the larger portion of his work being in Steuben county. George W. began, at the age of four- teen, to learn the hardware business, entering the employ of Powers & Wagoner in 1870. In 1875 he formed the partnership of Wagoner & Peck, and in 1876 purchased Mr. Wagoner's interest, and in 1880 he removed to Prattsburg and purchased the hardware stock of George H. Look. In 1883 he established a branch store at Pulte- ney, and in 1886 purchased the Harris stock at Cohocton. In 1888 he purchased the stock of Hodgman & McNamara of Bath, and in 1893 established a branch store at Bradford, N. Y., and in 1894 the business was put into a stock company, under the name of the George W. Peck Hardware Co., starting in 1875 with yearly sales of $4,000, in 1894 the aggregate amount was $150,000. In 1884 he married Flora, daughter of B. Griswold, by whom he had four children, George G., J. Arthur, War- ren B., and Flora M.

Raymond, Joel, and his only son Orville were among the early settlers of the town

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of Wheeler, clearing and occupying a farm near Wheeler Center until their deaths, now owned by Elder J. W. Raymond, eldest son of Orville. Joel Raymond died of an injury received by accident at town meeting February 12, 1850, in his seventy- seventh year. His wife, Lydia, died August 28, 1854, in her eighty-third year. To them were born three children: Hannah, Orville and Tryphena. Hannah married Jacob Thompson of Wheeler, January 1, 1823. To them were born six children: Lydia, Calvin, Catherine, Orville, Joel, and John, all of whom are now living except- ing Calvin and Crville, Calvin having died December 5, 1863, in his thirty seventh year, and Orville, April 30, 1895, in his sixty-fifth year. Jacob Thompson died May 9, 1868, aged seventy-four years. Hannah, his wife, died July 20, 1880, aged eighty- seven years. Orville Raymond, son of Joel, married Caroline Smith of Nelson, Madison county, February 17, 1834. To them were born five children: John W., Nehemiah S., Harriet, Mary, and Amasa C., all of whom are living except Mary, who died April 3, 1851, in her eleventh year. Orville Raymond died July 19, 1880, in his eightieth year. Caroline, his wife, died November 25, 1885, in her eighty- fourth year. Tryphena, daughter of Joel Raymond, died October 26, 1876, aged seventy-one years. John W. married Sarah Jayne of Barrington, Cook county, Ill., by whom he had these children: Mary C., Silas C., and Hattie O. (twins), and Daniel A. Silas C. married Carrie Kelley, by whom he has two children, John W. and Emma L. Mary C. married Dixie Martin of Kanona, Steuben county. Nehemiah S. married Ophelia Lanphear of Nile, Allegany county, and is a farmer in Wheeler. Harriet married Michael Jones, who is also a farmer in Wheeler. Amasa C. mar- ried Emma Robinson of Pulaski, Oswego county, and is a farmer of South Richland, Oswego county. John W. is engaged in the work of the ministry, being a member of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. He was a member of the Pennsyl- vania Conference of said order for fourteen years, and president of the conference for the last five years of his connection therewith. January 1, 1893, he was trans- ferred to the New York Conference of said denomination, of which he is now a mem- ber and minister.

Avery, Chauncy, was one of the pioneers of Steuben county. He was born June 28, 1798, in the State of Connecticut. He came to New York and married Emaline, a daughter of William Van Brunt of Byron. They were the parents of thirteen children. He died May 18, 1876; his wife died October 19, 1870. They were pio- neers in the Christian church of which they were members. Their children were Chauncy Stillman, born May 7, 1825: Gilbert Franklin, born January 15, 1828; Cla- rissa M., born October 29, 1832; she married Warren Northrop; he was killed in the Wayland tragedy January, 1871, by Mrs. Mary Hess; Simon G., born December 12, 1834, died March 20, 1893; Rose C., married Horace Avery, lives in Pennsylvania ; William H., born December 13, 1837, died October 7, 1877, leaving a wife and four children in Florida; Nancy M., born April, 1840, died May, 1848; Charles F., born November 24, 1842, died March 20, 1895; John H., born March 2, 1849, married Anna Hayward; they have three sons and a daughter. The others all died in infancy. Chauncy S. married Mary Jane, a daughter of Augustus Mathers, who was one of the old pioneers of Cohocton (now Wayland); she died August 4, 1866. They had three daughters: Maryette, now Mrs. Abram Van Riper, of Cohocton; Frank M., now Mrs. Robert Cole of Hornellsville; and Harriet A., now Mrs. George Pierce of South

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 72

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