Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 81

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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in his native town. The mother of our subject was Alma M. Adsit ; she died in 1843, aged thirty-three. Of their six children, five survive. Martin, the youngest son, was educated in the public schools of Chenango county ; he followed farming till 1864. He then removed to Hornellsville and entered the store of M. Adsit & Co. as a clerk ; in 1868 he became a member of the firm of Adsit & Tuttle. The firm existed till 1874, then Mr. Tuttle withdrew to attend to his real estate business ; five years later the firm of M. A. Tuttle & Co. was formed, L. W. Rockwell being the Co. In 1883 Mr. Rockwell withdrew and Mr. Tuttle conducted the business alone until 1889, when the firm of Tuttle & Rockwell Brothers was formed. A year later H. H. Rockwell dropped out and the firm is now Tuttle & Rockwell. Mr. Tuttle has been actively interested in Hornellsville's growth and business, also has large real estate interests in the city and owns several farms as well as other property. In 1869 he married Malene, daughter of Charles N. Hart, and their children are Alma, Madelia, Gertrude, Charles N., Marion, Abbie, Edith, and Ruth, of whom Alma is a student at Vassar, Madelia at Emerson College, Boston, and Gertrude at Granger Place, Canandaigua.

Buvinger, H. Edward, was born in Hanover, York county, Pa., August 8, 1825. In 1835 his parents removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1847, when he left the parental home and came to the State of New York, residing at Rochester and New York city. In September, 1850, he came to Hornellsville, and subsequently became superintendent of the Thos. Snell Shoe Mfg. Co., where he re- mained until 1853; and then entered the employ of the Erie Railway Company in the machine shop, where he remained until 1856, when he was appointed ticket agent for the same company, which he held until May, 1862, when he was transferred to the freight department as chief clerk and cashier, which position he has now held for thirty-three years, and a continuous service of forty-two years at this station. Mr. Buvinger was married July 22, 1851, to Susan Kress, of Dundee, Yates county, N.Y., by whom he had three sons: Darwin C., of New York city; Ernest, who died March 23, 1874, aged nineteen years; and Mark H., who is now residing with him. Mr. Buvinger has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for forty-nine years. He was initiated in St. John's Lodge No. 13 in Dayton, Ohio, in 1846, and in 1850 affiliated with Evening Star Lodge No. 44, of Hornellsville, N. Y. In 1852 Evening Star Lodge surrendered its charter, and in 1853 organized Hornellsville Lodge No. 331, of which he was a charter member, and senior warden, and master in 1855 and 1858. In 1868 Evening Star Lodge was reorganized, of which he was master three years. He was high priest of Steuben Chapter, R. A. M., No. 101, in 1861, and in 1856 he joined De Molay Commandery No. 22, of Knights Templar, and was eminent com- mander in 1860 and 1861. He was married to Miss Susan Kress of Dundee, N. Y., on the 22d day of July, 1851. Three sons were born to them: Darwin C., who now resides in New York city; Emmet, who died on his nineteenth birthday; and Mark H., who is married and resides at home.

Collins, Clayton Naham, was born on a farm in the north part of Hornellsville December 4, 1850. The first of this family to come to this country was George Col- lins, the grandfather of Clayton, who emigrated to the country previous to 1830, as William Collins was born that year in Otsego county. A few years later he removed to Steuben county and bought a farm in the town of Fremont. He next removed to the town of Hornellsville where he bought 160 acres and lots 35, 36, 37 and 38.

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Seventy acres of the original purchase is still the property of the family, owned by Clayton. William Collins followed farming all his life. He removed to Jasper in 1854 where he made his home until the fall of 1861 when he returned to Pennsylvania Hill, and the following March, 1862, George Collins, the father of William Collins, died. William Collins died in Arkport April 3, 1889. The mother of Clayton was Electa McMichael, daughter of James McMichael of Hornellsville; she is still living at sixty-eight years of age. Clayton was educated in the common schools and his boyhood was spent on the farm in Jasper, and his first farming for himself was two years on the homestead and was three years on the Ferry farm. He also spent one year on a farm in Fremont. In 1877 he bought forty-five and one-half acres, and in 1881 he bought forty additional, which farm he sold in the spring of 1888 and bought the old homestead farm of 110 acres, where he is now located. He has made many valuable improvements to this property, clearing twenty-six acres of stumps, and has also cleared two acres of rough land. Has also erected new outbuildings and re- roofed the house. Mr. Collins has dealt in real estate quite extensively and has had some valuable city property. He was married June 24, 1871, to Miss Jennie Gates of Fremont. who died in February, 1880.

Davis, Lewis A., was born in Fremont, N. Y., April 25, 1851. His father, James Davis, was born in 1815, in the east, of English stock, and came to South Dansville, where he lived until about seventy-five years of age. He was a mason by trade, but followed farming and coopering some. He married Phoebe, daughter of William Osborn of Dansville, who was born in 1821, and died in 1864, by whom he had seven children: Thomas, Anson, Urvilla, Charles, Clarinda, Moses, and Lewis A. His second wife was Sarah Haines, who is still living, and in the west. Lewis A Davis has always followed farming. He is a member of Stephens Mills Grange, No. 308, and has held the office of collector for two years for the town of Fremont. Septem- ber 7, 1867, he married Jennie E. Mack, who was born December 17, 1852, daughter of Elisha Mack, who was a railroad man and was killed by lightning. They have two children: Elisha Fay, who was born February 5, 1870, and married Minnie Schaumberg, and is living in Hornellsville where he is clerking in a store; and Horace Mack, who was born May 19, 1881.

Jones, Emanuel, was born in Prattsburg, June 8, 1822, son of Samuel, who was born in New Burlington, N. J., and came to the State of New York in 1812. Samuel Jones was a soldier in the war of 1812. He settled first in Chemung county, then came to Prattsburg in 1816, remaining three years, then going to Bath, where he resided for four years. In 1845 he came to Howard, where he lived up to the time of his death in 1873, at the age of eighty-four years. He had acquired quite a prop- erty. He married Anna, daughter of Alexander Annis, by whom he had five chil- dren: Emanuel, Alexander, Lucy, James and Mary. The first has been engaged in farming, having lived on his present place consisting of 132 acres for over fifty years. Mr. Jones married Marion, daughter of Dewitt Halsey, one of the first settlers of Howard.

Sanderson, Robert, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1846. James Sander- son, father of Robert, owned a farm in Ireland, which he conducted. He married Mary Ann Williams, by whom he had eight children: Margaret, of Pulteney; John,

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of Yates county; William, deceased; Robert, as above; George, of Seneca county; James, of Ireland: Joseph of Yates county; and Edward, of Scotland. Robert re- ceived a common school education, and in 1862, when sixteen years of age, he came to the United States, coming direct to Bath, N. Y., where he engaged in farming for a year, and the following four years was spent in a woolen factory in Bath. He then engaged in vineyard work in Yates county, and two years later, in partnership with his brother, purchased a vineyard. He later sold his interest to his brother and pur- chased two other places, and in 1875 he purchased a half interest of the Rev. J. W. Brown twelve acre fruit farm in Pulteney. Mr. Brown having died, in 1889 Mr. Sanderson purchased the balance of the fruit farm, and in addition to this farm he owns twenty-three acres of fruit, principally grapes, in Yates county. Mr. Sander- son began in America a poor boy, and, being endowed with thorough business prin- ciples, he has developed himself into one of the leading and most thorough fruit culturists in Steuben county, and established for himself an enviable reputation in Buffalo and New York, where his product always commands advanced prices, and which is often sold before it leaves his packing house. Mr. Sanderson is a member of the I. O. O. F., Pulteney Lodge, No. 573. In 1870 he married Ann Hadden, who was born in Mitchellville, N. Y., daughter of G. P. and Hettie (Brown) Hadden, by whom he had one child, Walter, who is now a student in Lima College, preparing for the ministry. Mrs. Sanderson died in 1889, and he married for his second wife, Mrs. Eva (Bailey) Brush.

Sly, Robert J., was born in what is now the 5th ward, Corning, in 1817, son of John and Betsey (Jennings) Sly. John Sly was a native of Virginia, and came to Chemung county when nineteen years of age. He married there and in 1812-13 located within the present limits of the Fifth ward. He was a farmer and lumberman, and filled various local official positions and died in 1869, aged seventy-nine years. Mrs. Sly died in 1864, aged seventy-five years. They were the parents of two sons: Robert J., and George, who died in 1887, aged seventy-two years. Robert J. Sly has been a farmer and lumberman all his life, and is interested in Fifth ward real estate. In 1848 he married Mary C. Creamer of Monroe county, who died in 1886, aged fifty- nine years, by whom he had two sons: George S., a resident of the Fifth ward, and Amariah H. of Hornellsville. His brother George left two children: Cynthia, wife of Lyman Ferenbaugh, and Robert O., both of the town of Hornby.

Skinner, Dr. G. M., was born in Richmond, Ontario county, N. Y., December 7, 1853. His grandfather, Nelson Skinner, was a native of North Ireland. William A. Skinner, father of G. M., was born in Massachusetts, and died in Canadice, N. Y., February 11, 1895, aged seventy-one years. He was well-known as a music teacher in Ontario county, also as a veterinary surgeon. He married Mary Morgan, of French descent, who was born in Vermont, by whom he had eight children, three boys and five girls: Frank, who was born in Richmond, aud died in infancy; Elihu, who was born in Richmond, and died at nineteen years of age; G. M., as above; Emma, who married Jackson Bray, and resides in Richmond. They have three children: Bertha, Fanny and Kitty; Mary, who married George Branch, and resides in Canadice, N. Y .; Eva, who married Edward Nobles, and resides in Indian Terri- tory. They have one child, Everett; Hattie, who married Samuel Noble, and resides in Indian Territory; and Alta, who married Wirt Cole, and resides in Conesus. N. Y.

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The five sisters were all teachers and were educated at Lima and Geneseo, N. Y. G. M. Skinner finished a primary course of instruction with D. B. Wait, a lawyer of Canadice, who advised him to study medicine. which he did with Dr. I. J. Worden, at Springwater, N. Y., for two years, after which he attended the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., one year. In 1884 he attended the University of Buffalo, after which on the recommendations of Doctors Connor, Bigelow and Boon, he returned to Baltimore where he took special degrees on surgery with Dr. Coskerey, diseases of women with Dr. Errick, clinical diseases of throat and lungs, and the general practice of medicine, and was graduated from that institution. He sent his diploma to the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York city, accord- ing to the laws of New York State, where it was endorsed by Austin Flint. The diploma is recorded in Ontario county. He is now practicing in Wayland, where he has been since 1888. Mr. Skinner is a member of Eagle Lodge, No. 619, F. & A. M. He was appointed health officer of Wayland in 1894 and reappointed in 1895. At Wayland in 1890, he married Henrietta Bill, born in Dansville, N. Y., in 1871, by whom he has one child, Hallie W., born May 29, 1891.

Pratt, Jared, was born in the town of Campbell in 1839, came to Corning in 1866, and entered the employ of the Erie Railroad as brakeman, and after two years took charge of a train and continued as conductor on the road until 1883. In 1886 he opened a livery stable on Market street and in 1890 built his present barn on Chest- nut street, which is of brick, sixty-two by eighty-four, and has a capacity for thirty- two horses. He was deputy sheriff for two years, under Stratton. His father was Aden J. Pratt of Campbelltown, and was one of the early settlers. He was post- master and town clerk of the town for twenty-five or more years. He married Permiley Stevens; she died in 1844 and he lived until the year 1865. Both lived in Campbell on the same farm until they died.

Brasted, Dr. Charles M., was born in Howard, Steuben county, N. Y., January 13, 1850. He was the tenth in a family of eleven children born to Edmund and Rebecca Allen Brasted. His father was a farmer, with whom he remained until his majority. His primary education was obtained in the common sohools of his native town, aca- demic at Woodhull and Canisteo Academies and at the Brockport State Normal. He engaged in teaching during several years in Canisteo and Avoca graded schools. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Riddell of Canisteo, continuing with Dr. Baker of Hornellsville. He was graduated from the medical department of the Uni- versity of Buffalo in 1881, remaining with Dr. Baker till June, 1, 1883, when he en- gaged in practice alone in this city. Dr. Brasted is a member of the County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1891, and delegate to the State Medical Society in 1895. He is also a member of the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association and of the Erie Railway Medical Association and physician for the company. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Hornellsville, also of Hornellsville Lodge No. 331, F. & A. M., and George Washington Lodge No. 132, A. O. U. W. of this city. He was married, December 10, 1884, to Alida L. Beebe of Canisteo, by whom he has one son, Howard Spencer, now in his eighth year. His office and res- idence is No. 11 Church street, this city.

Withey, Sylvester, was born in the town of Bradford, Pa., September 5, 1820. He

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was educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming, which has been his life work. He was employed with other farmers until he was twenty-four years of age, about that time buying a small farm in Almond, where he remained for three years. In 1848 he bought a small place of twelve acres near his present residence, cleared the land of wood and stumps, and added to it by different purchases, until now he has sixty acres of as nice a farm as may be found in this part of the town. His home residence he erected in 1861, and all the improvements are the work of his hands. He is also the owner of a fine farm of fifty-three acres in the town of Ward. Mr. Withey has never taken any interest in politics, but is prominently iden- tified with religious work, was twenty eight years with the Methodist Protestant, eleven years as a class leader, and seven years a delegate to ministerial conference. He is a member of Arkport Grange, No. 179. June 18, 1845, he married Naomi, daughter of Silas Moore, of Pennsylvania, by, whom he had three children: Judson, born March 9, 1846, and died July 30, 1894, who was a farmer, and gave promise of being one of the good men of the town; Alanson, born May 12, 1850, who was also a farmer, and died January 25, 1894, leaving two sons, Ray and Sylvester; and Al- phenus, born January 8, 1855, who assists in the management of the farm, is married and has two children, Mabel and Edith.

Boardman, Louis S., was born at Canoga, in the town of town of Fayette, Seneca county, N. Y., January 27, 1838. The great-grandfather of Louis, Benajah Boardman, was the first of the family to locate in New York State, coming from Weathersfield, Conn., about 1795, and bought a large tract of land in the vicinity of Canoga, where three generations were born. Samuel, the grandfather wasalso a farmer, and Levi, the father of Louis, was a carriage maker. He died at Oakland, Cal., in 1891. He was educated in the common school and also at Cayuga village and at Seneca Falls Academy. At fifteen years of age he went south and was engaged in oyster trade at St. Louis where he spent two years, and his next employment was with his father, at carriage making. In 1860 he went to Auburn and was engaged in carriage painting. In 1862 he entered the employ of Henry Loomis at Bath and three years later went to the oil country to remain but a short time, and April 20, 1865, he located in Hornellsville with Conderman Brothers and was employed with Caleb Conderman until 1878 and that year entered the employ of the Erie R. R. Company, and has been most of the time since engaged with that company. He was for seven years fore- man of the shop. Mr. Boardman was for two years in mercantile business on Can- isteo street. He was married December 6, 1885, to Elizabeth L. Read of Bath, daughter of Judge Lazarus Read. They have been the parents of eight children, four now living; Anna, the wife of Lester Rice, a farmer of Hornellsville; Florence, now in her twelfth year: Frances, now in her ninth year; and James Albert Board- man, five years old. Mrs. Boardman died November 26, 1894, and a family of true loving ones are left to mourn her loss.

Brown, Joseph B., was born in Springfield, Bradford county, Pa., July 8, 1840, son of Benjamin and Didamia Crandall, natives of New Hampshire, who went to Penn- sylvania in 1840, settling in Springfield, where they died, the father April 10, 1885, and the mother May 10, 1888. He was a cooper by trade, and also a farmer. He was a Republican and held several town offices. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Methodist church. Joseph B. was reared on a farm and educated in the com-

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mon schools. He engaged in farming and resided in Springfield, Pa., until 1876, when he came to Woodhull and settled on a farm of 160 acres, which he now owns. In 1885 he came to the village of of Woodhull where he has lived a retired life. In politics he is a Republican and was commissioner of highways two years, and in 1889 was appointed postmaster, which office he held four and one-half years. He is a member of Restoration Lodge, No, 777, F. & A. M. October 11, 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, U. S. Sarp Shooters, and served until July 11, 1865. In November, 1861, he was promoted to eighth corporal, and in August, 1862, to sergeant and detailed to carry the colors until October, 1863, when he was promoted to orderly sergeant, and Jan. 1, 1864, was made first lieutenant and apppointed adjutant of the regiment, and Oct. 26, 1864, was promoted to captain and served in that capacity until the close of the war. February 18, 1865, the regiment disbanded and consolidated with the State troops, putting Mr. Brown in the 105th Pa. Vol. Infantry. He was in the fol- lowing battles: Falmouth, Va., Rappahannock, Gainesville, Bull Run, South Moun- tain, Little Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, Kelly's Ford, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Ann River, Petersburg, Weldon Road, capture of picket line at Jerusalem Plank Road, Boydton Pland Road, Raid on Weldon Railroad, and Lee's Surrender. Joseph B. Brown organized the J. N. Warner Post No. 565,G. A. R., of which he has been commander six years. February 7, 1864, he married Rosetta, daughter of Moses and Jane Rumsey Soper, of Columbia Flats, Pa., and they have five children; Ray- mand E., who was educated in Alfred, and Albany Normal School, and is now prin- cipal of Granville schools: Rupert, a graduate of Lima Seminary, who isa lumberman in Pennsylvania; Lillie, educated in Woodhull Union School, wife of Mervin Locy, a student of Albany Law School, and they have one child, Marguerite; Ora B., edu- cated at Alford, who is a teacher at Adrian, N. Y .; and Earnest W., who died at the age six months. Mrs. Brown died January 10, 1885. For his second wife he mar- ried Susie A., daughter of John J. and Julia A. Van Wee, natives of Montgomery county, who came to Howard in 1847. In 1855 they went to Illinois, and thence to Wisconsin, and now reside at Elgin, Il1. Mrs. Brown's first husband was John W. Thomas, a soldier in the late war, by whom one child was born, Carrie B., wife of R. W. Sweatland, principal of Cook Academy, and they have one child, Mark W. Mr. Thomas died May 8, 1885.

Barton, Jeremiah C., was born September 5, 1851, on the homestead farm, which was settled by his grandfather, Jeremiah Barton, in 1810 who came from Vermont, and who married Eleanor Sinclair. He died in 1848, leaving a family of eight chil- dren. Leonard, the father of Jeremiah C., married Caroline, daughter of Samuel M. Bateman, by whom he had eleven children, eight of whom are now living: Mrs. Ida M. Davis, Samuel F., Jeremiah C., Harlow S., William J., Allen H., Albert W .. and Andrew J., and through life was identified as a farmer, dying in 1874, aged fifty- eight years. Jeremiah C. married Caroline, daughter of Samuel and Lucy Foster, in 1874, and is one of the practical and successful farmers of his town.

Tomer, Charles J., was born in Bath, January 2, 1864. His father, P. A. Tomer, and grandfather, John, was born in the town of Pulteney, and his great-grandfather, Joel, was a native of New Jersey. The family were of German descent and took an active part in the Revolutionary war. John Tomer married Roxy, daughter of Al-

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exander Parker. He was a farmer and lumberman, and took an active part in relig- ious matters. He died in 1884 in his seventy-third year. P. A. Tomer married Jen- nett, daughter of Robert Townsend. Charles J. was educated at Watkins and Hav- erling academies and was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York in 1887, locating at Cooper's Plains, and in 1890 came to Savona and engaged in general practice. In 1887 he married Mary E., daughter of George Feagles, and are the parents of one son, John W.

Aldrich, Stephen, was born in Rhode Island, January 22, 1812, son of Stephen Aldrich, sr., who was a native of the same State. The family were of Welsh de- scent, and emigrated to the United States in 1650. Stephen Aldrich, sr., married Mercy, daughter of Moses Smith, and came to Steuben county in 1825 and settled in the town of Cameron, buying ten thousand acres of land. He was a prominent man of that town, and died in 1846, in his sixty-seventh year. Stephen was educated in the common schools. In 1839 he married Elizabeth L., daughter of Samuel Pugsley, and they are the parents of six children: Samuel, Stephen, Jerome, Elizabeth M. Royce, Lavina A. Wilson, Jane C. Owen, and Esther A. Moore. In 1888 Mr. Aldrich came to the town of Bath and is one of the representative men of the town, and has held several positions of honor and trust. His life has ever proven his word as good as his bond.

Pixley, Dr. Emery C., was born in Howard, June 22, 1862. He was educated at Canisteo Academy and was graduated from the Medical Department University of Buffalo in 1891 and began practice in Steuben Sanitarium. In the spring of 1892 he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Soldier's Home in Bath. He is one of the progressive men of his profession, and is a member of Steuben County Medical As - sociation.

Bowlby, John A., was born in Tompkins county, February 6, 1829. James Bowlby, his father, was a native of New Jersey, and married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Maybury, and they came to Steuben county in 1839. He was a self-made and self- educated man, of good judgment and sterling integrity, and died September 14, 1862. His wife died September 14, 1867. John A. Bowlby was educated in the com- mon school and in 1854 married Lydia R., daughter of P. Hunter, by whom he had four children: Frank H., John H., Helen C., and Carrie L. Mr. Bowlby is one of the representative farmers of his town, living on the homestead, which has been in the family nearly sixty years, and serving his town as assessor for twelve years.

Bacon, Rev. John S., the eldest child of Rev. Hiram and Mary Stebbins Bacon, deceased, was born in the town of Potter, Yates connty, N. Y., July 12, 1833. The seminary at Lima and the old Dundee Academy were the schools wherein his pre- paratory training was obtained. He spent several years in teaching, for two years having charge of the village school in Pulteney. In 1858 he was married to Sarah H., daughter of the late John A. and Thankful H. Prentiss of Pulteney. In 1859 he entered Auburn Theological Seminary as a student for the Presbyterian ministry, graduating in 1862. He was licensed to preach April 10, 1861; by the Presbytery of Lyons, and ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry September 10, 1862, by the same Presbytery. Mr. Bacon's first parish was Amboy, Onondaga county, N. Y., near Syracuse, where he spent eight years, from 1862 to 1870. In 1870 he was called

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Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 81

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