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Dansville. His second wife was Lucinda R., a daughter of Zina Tripp. In 1873 he purchased the Avery homestead near the D. L. and W. depot, where he still resides. He is a member of the G. A. R. Post, and also of the I. O. O. F., Lodge 176, in Way- land. Four of the Avery brothers enlisted in the United States service in our late Civil war. Chauncey S. and Simon were in the last year and took part in a number of hard fought battles; assisted in tearing up the Weldon Railroad, and were pres- ent at General Lee's surrender and witnessed the stacking of the Rebel arms. Gil- bert enlisted in 1862, was in General Bank's division in Louisiana. Charles F. en- listed in the beginning of the war and was a soldier until its close. He received a bad wound in the face, the ball entering just below the left eye and coming out just below the ear, destroying the sight and hearing of that eye and ear. Besides a com- mon school education he graduated from the Poughkeepsie Commercial College since the war. He went to Florida and was twice elected by the Republicans to the Legislature of that State. He died of consumption March 8, 1895. Zina Tripp, born April 3, 1789, in Washington county, N. Y. He married Ruth Baudish. She died in June, 1820. They had five children; none of them ever lived in this county. His second wife was Parthiana, a daughter of Nathaniel Bennett, of Waterloo, N.Y. Their two oldest children died in infancy; names of the other five were Harriet Eliza, born April 26, 1825, died in 1848; Lucinda Ruth, born December 21, 1828, married C. S. Avery; Catherine M. died in Wayland, September 7, 1884. Nathaniel Bonnell, born. November 9, 1833, was lost in the woods May 8, and found dead May 11, 1837. Christopher Columbus, born April 19, 1836, married Rachel Pierce; they were married in March and he enlisted in the United States service the next Sep- tember, 1862. He was in General Banks's division and in his expedition up Red River in Louisiana was in two hard fought battles when our army lost near four thousand and the enemy nearly as many. On the retreat down Red River Admiral Porter's fleet got stuck and could not get down over the falls at Alexandria and Grand Ecore when our boys had to work building dams to raise the water. Christo- pher was among the number working in the water up to their waists and often up to their necks. After the gunboats were off and safe he had to march on a forced march from two o'clock in the morning until two o'clock the next morning. This broke his constitution and he was sick after it as long as he lived. He was home on furlough at the time of his death, which occurred September 20, 1864. His captain said he was a brave and faithful soldier. He was converted before the war and his chaplain said he was a faithful soldier of the Cross. Zina Tripp and his wife were both converted years ago, but they never united with any church, but their wives were like the Quakers, not believing in a water baptism or vocal prayer, but in a life hid with Christ in God. He died September 27, 1859; his wife died August 30, 1870.
Sherer, Sylvester .- In the year 1826, Robert Sherer and his wife, Elizabeth Smith, having then only one child, Louisa, a year and a half old, found their way westward through the then almost unknown wilderness, to the place now known as Sherer's Corners, though then miles from any road. Here they cleared a spot, constructed a cabin and established a home, which they occupied till removed by death. In the years that followed there were born to them seven other children: Mary, Sarah, who died in infancy, Lewisa, Daniel, Robert and Betsey (twins), and Sylvester. Soon
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after the birth of the last child the wife and mother died, but the father lived to see the seven children grown to manhood and womanhood, himself surrounded by grandchildren, the wilderness turned into orchard and garden, and " made to blos- som as the rose." At present there are only three of the immediate famlly living- Louisa, Robert, and Sylvester, who owns and occupies the homestead, he having married Mary Jane Irvin, after serving his country nearly three years, during the Civil war. He enlisted in the 141st Regt. N. Y. State Vols., and was with them in each of the fifteen actions in which they were engaged. Some of the most noted were Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Culp's Farm, and Peach Tree Creek, in which he was wounded on July 20, 1864. On July 20, 1895, a reunion was given to the surviving members of Co. H, of the 141st Regt. of which Mr. Sherer was a mem- ber, by himself and family consisting of his wife and daughter, Bettie, they having buried their son Irvin in the year 1878, at the age of eleven years. Mr. Sherer is a Republican in politics, a member of the G. A. R. Abram Allen Post No. 194 Ca- nisteo, N. Y., and with the family belongs to the M. E. church. In the winter of 1860-61 a religious revival swept this part of the country with the result of the form- ing of the 2d M. E. Society of the town and the erecting of a church edifice, which in 1890, was remodeled and enlarged. It stands upon ground contributed to the society by Robert Sherer who also paid largely toward the first erection, and is connected with fine cemetery grounds also donated by him to the society and where his remains now rest.
Rider, Myron H., was born in Fremont, N. Y., May 18, 1848. His grandfather was born in Massachusetts in 1766, and moved to Dutchess county, N. Y., thence to Saratoga county, N. Y., and in 1811 he came to what is now Fremont, where he was one of the oldest settlers. He died in 1863. The father of our subject was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., and came to Fremont with his father in 1811. He was a mechanic, but his principal occupation was farming. He has a good common school education, and has held the office of assessor of the town. He was also member of the Presbyterian church at Howard. He married Eliza Mosher, by whom he had three children: Harriet A., who was born in September, 1831; Orrin L., who was born in 1833; and Samuel E., who was born in 1836. His wife died in 1836, and in 1838, he married Elizabeth Connor, who was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1811, by whom he had one child, Myron H., as above, who received a common school edu- cation, after which he engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of 126 acres near Haskinsville. At Howard, N. Y., April 26, 1869, he married Eliza J. Cornue, who was born October 11, 1845, in Prattsburg, by whom he had three children: Archie C., who was born May 24, 1878; Derry S., who was born April 5, 1882: and Carrie S., who was born July 26, 1884. Samuel E. Rider, brother of our subject, served in the Rebellion, in the 141st N. Y. Vols., and died in the service.
Patchin, Ira, was born in 1812. His grandfather, Walter Patchin, was born at Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, N. Y., and settled in Wayland about 1814. He pur- chased a tract of land at Patchinsville. He was a Revolutionary soldier and pen- sioner. He died in 1855 aged ninety years, and is buried at East Wayland. Warren Patchin, father of Ira, was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, in 1785, was in the War of 1812, and settled in East Wayland in 1817, and died in 1872. He was the most noted doctor in this locality, having a ride of over fifty miles. He owned 700
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acres of land at one time. In 1803 he married Ruth Cartwright, who was born at Catskill, Greene county, N. Y., in 1783, and died in 1853, by whom he had six chil- dren: Warren, who was born in 1804, and died in 1879; Jabez, who was born in 1806, and died in 1825; Harriet, who was born in 1808; Ira, as above; Cameron, who was born in 1820; and Minerva, who was born in 1826. Ira Patchin was educated in the common schools and attended the Prattsburg Academy. He was a clerk in the store of J. Hess & Co., of Dansville, for six years, and previously clerked in the store of J. L. Monier, of Patchinsville for six years. In 1855 he purchased the farm where he now resides. At Penn Yan, N. Y., in 1952, he married Elizabeth M. Ellis, who was born in Madison county, N. Y., in 1825, by whom he had two children: Carrie Elizabeth, who was born in 1858, wife of Eugene Wilhelm, and resides in Michigan. They have two children: Eugene B., who was born in 1886, and Philip, who was born in 1890; and Sprague Ellis, who was born in 1861; and married Amelia C. Hurzler, who was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1867, by whom he had two children . Merton H., who was born in 1890, and Ira J., who was born in 1893.
Day, Paul E., and Polly Blodgett, his wife, moved from Bennington, Vt., in the winter of 1814, to Genesee county, two and one-half miles west of Le Roy; in the spring of 1819 moved to Seneca county; left there the following year for Cohocton, Steuben county, now Patchinsville; in the spring of 1824 moved to the farm now owned by Charles F. Day. The children of Paul E. Day were Franklin E., born in 1810; Washington W., born 1812; William P., 1814; Jackson J., born 1816; Cal- phurnia, born 1819; Mary J., born 1821; Jonas B., born 1823; Laura L., born 1825; Riley, 1828. Franklin E. Day married Matilda Chase, daughter of Thomas Chase of Cohocton, January 2, 1836, and came into possession of the property at Patchins- ville in the spring of 1838, where he resided until the spring of 1868, when he moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he now resides. His family consisted of two children, Orleans W., born October 30, 1838, died March 21, 1887; Mary M., born February 5, 1841; she married David M. Stuart, a Presbyterian clergyman, and resides at Na- tional City, Cal .; Orleans W. married Julia A. Mather, who was born at Geneseo, N. Y., January 28, 1836; he was engaged in mercantile business several years, sub- sequently moved on to the farm where our subject resides taking charge of it and the saw-mill. The first clothing mill was built by Paul E. Day in 1826, and rebuilt by Franklin E. Day in 1833; first saw mill built by him in 1841, rebuilt in 1853. Or- leans Day's children were Charles Franklin, born January 2, 1862; William W., born July 31, 1869, and resides in Rochester, being corresponding clerk for Eastman's Kodak Works; Mary E., born May 12, 1872, wife of William Faulkner of Wayland; Harry W., born April 29, 1876, who is a student in the Medical College, Buffalo; Amelia M., born August 25, 1879, a student at Rochester Free Academy. Charles Y. Day married Addie H. Nichols, daughter of Edward Nichols of Batavia, Decem- ber 11, 1884, He is the present owner of the farm and is engaged in farming and the lumber business.
Hedges, Benjamin Y., was born in Bradford, N. Y., July 15, 1843, and is the eighth of ten children born to Caleb S. and Nancy (McDowell) Hedges, who came from Barrington to Cameron in 1830, and in 1838 came to Bradford, where they en- gaged in farming. He died December 19, 1884, and his wife in May, 1883. The grandfather, Isaac Hedges, was a blacksmith, and lived and died in Yates county.
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Benjamin Y. has always followed farming and lumbering; he cleared sixty acres of land where he now lives. He has been a hard working man; in clearing up his land he has burned log heaps all night and for many nights till past midnight. He now owns 152 acres of land. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been assessor of Bradford for six years. In 1864 he married Eliza J., daughter of Isaac Sutfin of Tyrone, by whom he had three children: Mary A., who died in infancy; Cora, who married David Whitehead, a farmer of Bradford; and Hila, who married N. Van Curen, a farmer of Schuyler county, N. Y.
Schoeffler, Henry, was born in Deidesheim Rhein Baiern, Germany, in 1840. Martin Schoeffler, father of Henry, was born in October, 1799. He was a soldier for six years in the Bavarian army. He married Susan Glasser, who was born in 1805, and died in 1880, by whom he had four children, Martin, Thomas, Henry and Thekla. Henry Schoeffler came to America in 1867, landing in New York on New Years' day, with but three cents in his pocket. He borrowed twenty dollars and went to Chicago, Ill., where he worked two months at gardening, thence to Urbana where he spent three years in a vineyard, thence to Indiana, where he engaged in farming three years, after which he returned to Urbana and spent three years more in a vineyard. In 1874 he purchased his present tract of thirty nine acres, seventeen of which he cleared of timber and of all the stumps and stones and made twenty-five acres of it a vineyard, and has erected large, first-class buildings. In 1870 he mar- ried Johannah Poelhuis, who was born in St. James, Ind., in 1855, daughter of John B. and Mary (Tevogt) Poelhuis, both of Holland, by whom he had seven children: Anna Mary, Helena, Susanna, Martin A., George H., Randolph J., and J. Apolonia. Dr. Schoeffler is a member of the C. M. B. A. of Hornellsville.
Lattimer, John C., was born in Pike county, Pa., July 15, 1823, son of John and Dorothy (Van Ettan) Lattimer, who came to Woodhull in 1826, where they lived and died, he in 1858, and she in 1844. He was a farmer, and also kept a hotel in early life. John C. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has since followed farming and now lives on the homestead farm of 120 acres. January 1, 1847, he married Charlotte, daughter of Edward L. and Almira (Gurnsey) Stroud, he born in New Jersey, and she in Connecticut, and they came to Woodhull about 1820, where he died May 18, 1873, and his wife in 1885. He was a Republican in politics, and held minor offices.
Gilmer, Joseph B., was born in the town of Bath, N. Y., October 9, 1828, son of William and Eunice (Benedict) Gilmer, he a native of North Hector, born in 1803, and she of the town of Lodi, N. Y., born in 1804. The paternal grandfather, James Gilmer, was a farmer in North Hector, where he died September 15, 1830, aged sixty- seven years. William Gilmer settled in Bath, three miles east of Savona, in 1825, and lived there until the time of his death in 1877, and Mrs. Gilmer died in 1865. He was a deacon in the Baptist church for a great many years. Joseph B. was reared on a farm and for six years taught school winters and farmed summers. In 1851 he married Melinda, daughter of Rev. J. D. Carr, of Bradford, by whom he had three children: Rose; Charles W. ,a farmer and vineyardist on the old homestead in Bath ; and Ray C., a farmer in the town of Bradford. In 1864 Mr. Gilmer settled on the farm of 100 acres, where he still resides. Mrs. Gilmer died January 2, 1895,
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Rogers, Frederick S., was born in Rochester, N. Y., May 21, 1847, and is a son of Henry T. Rogers, who came to this city from London, England, at an early day, and died here in 1878, his trade being that of a carpenter and builder. Frederick S. was educated in private schools. At the age of sixteen he entered the establishment of the Evening Express, where he remained about six years, having charge of the inail- ing department. About 1868 he entered the hardware store of his father and his brother, James H., which was known as Rogers & Son, and later he was associated with Pollock & Weaver in the same business. In 1877 he became bookkeeper and financial man for the late John Siddons, manufacturer of and dealer in roofing mate- rials and general iron work. In 1889 the John Siddons Company was incorporated, with John Siddons as president and treasurer; Charles Vogel, vice-president; John O. Vogel, superintendent; and Mr. Rogers, secretary. Upon the death of Mr. Sid- dons in 1890 the officers were Charles Vogel, president; John C. Vogel, vice-president and superintendent; and Frederick S. Rogers, secretary and treasurer. In 1895 they were changed to Charles Vogel, president and superintendent; Frederick S. Rogers, vice-president, secretary and treasurer; and T. J. Vogel, assistant superintendent. Mr. Rogers is a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce, of which the firm is a member, and he is also a member of Valley Lodge, F. & A. M., of Hamilton Chaper, R. A. M., of Doric Council, R. & S. M., of Monroe Commandery No. 12, K. T .; also Monroe Commandery Drill Corps, of Lalla Rookh Grotto, and of Damascus Temple, Mystic Shrine
Van Keuren, James, was born May 14, 1856. His grandfather, Philip Van Keuren, was born near Newburg, N. Y., and went to Groton, Tompkins county, thence to Smith Valley, Schuyler county, and finally located in Fremont, Steuben county, where he died in 1862. Tcherick P. Van Keuren, father of James, was born near Newburg, N. Y., in 1815, and died February 11, 1883. He came to Fremont in 1856 and located on a farm one-half mile north of Big Creek post-office, where he engaged in farming and teaching school. He taught school twenty-five years, and held the office of justice of the peace sixteen years. He was a member of the P. of H., No. 324. In 1852 he married Elenore B. Spaulding, who was born in 1825, and died August 29, 1893. By this union he had five children: Mary F., born September 6, 1854, and married George R. Burdett, December 31, 1878; James, as above; George S., born August 4, 1858; Frank G., born June 1, 1860, and died December 5, 1884; and Fred, born March 26, 1865. James Van Keuren received a liberal education at Howard public school, and located on and owns the old homestead of 150 acres, where he is engaged in farming. He is a member of the P. of H., No. 324, Big Creek. March 20, 1891, he married Alice, daughter of Harrison Russel. George S. Van Keuren owns a farm of ninety-six acres adjoining the old homestead. He was edu- cated at Canisteo Academy, and has taught school ten terms; and has also held the office of supervisor two terms. He is a member of the P. of H., No. 324. December 24, 1892, he married Minnie, daughter of Eli T. Weld, by whom he has one child, Fremont W., born October 29, 1893. Fred Van Keuren owns a farm of seventy-five acres one-half mile south of Big Creek post-office. He was educated at Canisteo Academy, and is engaged in farming and teaching school. He is also a member of the P. of H., No. 324, Big Creek.
Marlette, P. W., was born at Girard, Pa., in 1833. The family are of French 1
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descent. His father, William J. Marlette, was born in Schoharie county, and died in Schenectady May 4, 1870, aged seventy-four years. He was a contractor on public works, railroad, canal, etc. He married Lucy Ann Balch, who was born in Connec- ticut, and died in Iowa in 1865, aged 67 years. They had eight children: Maria Birchard, deceased; James J., deceased; Seneca H .; Lucy A. Chamberlain; and P. W., as above, who received a common school education, and afterwards attended the Pittsfield, Mass., Gymnasium for some time. When twenty-one years of age he was a brakeman on the Williamsport & Elmira R. R., where he remained for six years, and was then conductor on the same road and on the A. & G. W. R. R. six years, after which he engaged in the lumber business, as bookkeeper for Hunt's Run Lumber Co., at Cameron, Pa., for fourteen years. In 1877 he bought the farm at East Wayland, where he now resides. At Bradford county, Pa., in 1864, he mar- ried Julia B. Glines, born in that county November 29, 1835. Her father, Winthrop G. Glines, was born in Massachusetts in 1803, and died April 23, 1870. He married Harriet M. Beeman, who was born in Connecticut in 1809, and died in January, 1864, by whom he had these children: Merritt, born in January, 1830; Harriet M., born in December, 1832, and married Dr. Patchin; Julia B., wife of P. W. Marlette; Winthrop Y., jr., born in January, 1836; and Zina, born in September, 1840.
Sanford, William R., was born in Dryden, Tompkins county, N. Y., March 18, 1831, son of Peter and Mary L. Gray Sanford, she a native of Lansing, Tompkins county, and he of Vermont. Peter Sanford came to Cameron in 1842, where he resided the greater part of his life, and later moved to Addison, where he died May 8, 1888. Mrs. Sanford died in December, 1890. William R. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and has followed farming as an occupation, and owns two hundred acres of land in Cameron aud Woodhull. November 6, 1894, he came to Hedgesville, where he lives a retired life. He is a Republican, and has been assessor of Cameron for nine years in succession. July 19, 1854, he married Sarah Morgan, a native of Tompkins county, and daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Ozman. Morgan Sanford's grandfather, Evan Morgan, came to Lansing, Tompkins county, at an early date, where he died. To Mr. and Mrs. Sanford have been born three children: Charles, who died in infancy; Morgan R., born February 12, 1862, edu- cated in Addison Union School, from which he was graduated in 1884, and was graduated from Syracuse University in 1888, and is at present a teacher of natural science in Wilbraham, at the Wesleyan Academy; he married Orinda Sexsmith, of Syracuse; and Edwin, born February 12, 1864, who was educated in Addison Union School, from which he was graduated in 1883, and was also graduated from Syracuse University in 1889. He is now a teacher of Latin, elocution, and English at Cayuga Lake Military Academy.
Houck, Alonzo, was born in Orange county, N. Y., August 1, 1849, son of Henry and Belinda Houck. He has always resided on the homestead, of which he now owns seventy acres, and carries on general farming and grape growing. He is a very successful vineyardist, and has about thirteen acres of grapes. In 1881 he married Margaret Louise, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Dunn, by whom he had two children: Harry A., who was born January 16, 1887; and Ethel M., who was born July 21, 1895. Mr. Houck is a member of the Baptist church, and his wife of the Episcopal church.
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Lilly, Willis S., was born in Hornby, where he now resides, in 1843, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Wolever Lilly, natives of Pennsylvania. They located on Mr. Lilly's present farm in 1820. The parents died in 1882 and 1865, aged eighty-nine and sixty-five. In September, 1864, he enlisted in Co. F, 188th N. Y. Vols., serving till the close of the war. In 1866 he married Cynthia Buck, a native of Schuyler county, and they have two children: Cassin G., and Roy O. He is serving a second term as justice of the peace, and has also filled the office of assessor.
Shauger, Andrew, was born in Sussex county, N, J., March 4, 1832, son of George W. and Mary (Dobbins) Shauger, she a native of Haverstraw, N. Y., and he of Morris county, N. J., and who died in Sussex county, N. J. The grandfather of our subject, Leopold Shauger, lived and died in New Jersey. His father was a native of Germany. The maternal grandfather, George Dobbins, was of Irish descent, and lived and died in Morris county, N. J. Andrew Shauger was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and worked with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, at farming and burning charcoal. In 1858 he came to Thurston and began working by the month. August 14, 1861, he enlisted in Co. B, 86th N. Y. Vols., and served until June 4, 1864. He was at second battle of Bull Run, Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg, and he lost his left leg below the knee, at the battle of Gettysburg. May 6, 1867, he married Hannah (Sutton) Yost, by whom he had one son, George P., who married Lelia M. Jessup, and they have one daughter, Georgia L. He is a farmer and resides with his parents. He is a member of Loga Post No. 469, G. A. R. Andrew Shauger is a Republican in politics, and has been collector five years and highway commissioner for one year. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
Shults, Conrad D., was born July 22, 1860. John Shults, his grandfather, was born in Germany, June 24, 1799, emigrated to America in 1849, and purchased the farm of 90 acres where Conrad was born and where he now resides. He died in 1881, aged 83 years. Peter Shults, father of Conrad D., was born in Germany, December 4, 1829, and married Elizabeth Graff, who was born in Germany and died April 9, 1892, aged sixty-five years. They had six children: John F., Maggie L., wife of Nicholas Hogg; Conrad D., born July 22, 1860; Andrew L., Peter, deceased; and Mary, wife of Martin Kimmel, jr. Conrad D. Shults was educated in the common schools and at- tended the German school of Perkinsville for two years, after which he engaged in farming. He is a member of Wayland Champion Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. He married Elizabeth Pirrung, who was born in Germany, December 7, 1865, by whom he had four children: Fronia E., born November 10, 1889; Peter J., born February 10, 1892; Anna K., born September 20, 1893; and William C., born No- vember 15, 1894.
Walling, Edgar L., was born in Bradford, August 12, 1853, the youngest of five children born to Asa and Sarah Walling. The other children were Thomas, Daniel, Charles A., and Della. Asa Walling came to Bradford in 1845 and took up about 200 acres. Edgar L. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He now owns 100 acres of land and follows general farming. September 23, 1883, he married Melissa, daughter of Stephen and Catherine Jacoby, of Schuyler county, now deceased, he dying in 1883, and she in 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Walling have one
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