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Benjamin, William, was born in the town of Westmoreland, Oneida county, in 1800, a son of Benjamin Benjamin, who was a blacksmith, with limited means and a large family. William, together with two older brothers, worked and paid for eighty acres of land for their father. At the age of thirty-two years William married Nancy Shaver, and moved to Butler, Wayne county, on the farm he had previously bought. At this time the town was nearly an unbroken wilderness, only a small clearing around each log house. Selling this he moved to Rose, this county, where he continued to prosper, and at his death in his sixty-fourth year, had accumulated a large property. Both he and wife were devoted to charity and Christianity. Their son, Manley F., was born in Rose, this county, in 1837, and served his parents faithfully until his majority, when his father placed him in the position of financial manager of his business, which post he held until the latter's death. Soon afterwards he bought the entire estate, carrying it on up to 1875, when he sold the farm, and married Jennie Stewart, daughter of Wil- liam Stewart, of Clyde. They had two children : Roscoe, who died at the age of eight years; and Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Bemamin are interested in all religious and educa- tional matters.
Bradley, Judd B., was born in Lyons, August 8, 1852. His father, B. J., came to Wayne county with his parents in 1805 and settled on the farm now occupied by Judd B., who was educated in the common schools and finished at the Lyons Union School. Afterward he returned to his father's farm, which he bought in 1881, and which has been in the family since 1803, having two hundred and twenty-five acres, raising hay, grain and stock, making a specialty of Jersey stock. At the age of twenty-four he married Elda A., daughter of II. W. Palner, of Port Gibson. Our subject is one of the largest farmers in the town, identified in advancing its best interests. He is in pos- session of deeds transferring some of the land from the English government to his grandfather, Judd B. Bradley.
Burnett, William, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, January 20, 1824. His father, James, was a native of Little Britain, N. Y. The family originally came from Scotland and celebrated their one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1890, on the old farm. James Burnett and his father came to Phelps about 1800 and was a well known man and prominent farmer in that town. William was educated at Marion, Lyons and Clinton. and in 1848 entered in sophsmore class at Union College, Schenectady, and graduated
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in the classical course in 1851 ; after which he taught school nine years. In 1866 he came to Clyde, engaged in the mercantile business, continued five years, and since then has been engaged in surveying and civil engineering. At the age of thirty-eight he married Loretta, daughter of Henry Van Tassel, and they have one danghter, Kath- erine D., who is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and of New York Medical Col- lege and Hospital for Women. Dr. Burnett is a practicing physician in Brooklyn, N. Y. Our subject takes an active interest in educational matters.
Barrett, George D., was born in Hooksett, New Hampshire, January 9, 1846. His father, William H. Barrett, was a prominent contractor and builder of that town, pay- ing particular attention to railroad work. He was lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth New Hampshire Regiment, entering the service as captain, was promoted for bravery and meritorions conduct. He died in 1871, aged fifty-seven years. G. D. Barrett was educated in the high schools of Nashua, New Hampshire, entering Dartmouth Medical College in 1875, graduating in the class of 1828, and first opened an office in Boston. He then removed to North Abington, remaining until 1884, and the same year came to Marengo, remaining until 1893. He located in Clyde in November, 1894, and estab- lished a general practice. At the age of thirty-two he married Mary H., daughter of Alfred Randall, of Boston, and they have had two children : Grace M. and George C .; the latter died in childhood. Our subject was formerly a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, is now a member of the Wayne County Medical Society and health officer of the town of Galen. Dr. Barrett early developed a desire for travel. At six- teen years of age he took a three months' trip to the Bahama Islands and Gulf of Mex- ico; in 1867 visited Canada, stopping among the Canadians over six months; in 1869, a trip to Mexico by way of Isthmus of Panama; to Mazatlan, on west coast, nearly a year was devoted to that country, and five years to California and Nevada.
Blackburn, John A., was born in Iredell county, North Carolina, October 14, 1828, and was educated in the common schools, to which he has added by reading and close observation. Afterward he established the hardware business in Hillville, Carroll county, Va, continuing four years. In 1855 he came to Lyons and purchased the fan- ning mill factory of S. D. Van Wiekle, continuing the manufacture until 1863, when he established the agricultural implement business, which he continues up to the present time. At the age of thirty-two he married Margaret M., daughter of Jesse Smith, of Lyons, and they are the parents of three daughters : Mrs. Jesse Van Camp, Isabel and Grace. Our subjeet is one of the leading men in his town, taking an active interest in educational and religious matters,
Boekoven, II. S., was born in the town of Galen, in 1834. His father, Samuel, was one of the prominent farmers of the town of Galen. H. S. Bockoven was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-eight married Ada, daughter of Israel Roy, by whom he has two daughters : Edna R., and Gertrude A. He has ninetv-eight acres of some of the best land in Wayne county, and raises mint, fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is recognized as one of the representative men of his town, taking an active interest in school and church matters.
Bean, Amos, was born in England, in 1843. He was the youngest child of a family of six children born to Samuel and Mary Bean. natives of England. May 28, 1856, he came to Ontario and settled on the farm, where he died in 1877. aged seventy-seven . years. His wife died in 1894, aged eighty-nine years. Amos was thirteen years old when he came to Ontario, where he has since lived, and is engaged in general farming. Mr. Bean is an independent in politics. In 1870 he was married to Sarah Bean, widow of a brother, George Bean. By her first marriage she had two children, Mary and Willie (deceased). Of the second marriage five children children were born : Hattie, Clara Martha, Minnie and Eva.
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Bradley, Benjamin, was born April 1, 1828, in Lyons. His father, Thomas, was a successful farmer and prominent man in his town, and in business strictly honest, leav- ing at his death eight children, six boys and two girls, the oldest being seventeen, the mother having died several years before. The fact most worthy of mention was this : The six brothers grew up without contracting the habit of strong drink, tobacco or cards. The subject of this sketch received his education in the common schools, at- tending the Lima Academy for a short time. After spending a year in Wisconsin he returned to Lyons in 1853 and bought a small farm of forty-two acres from the Samuel D). Westfall estate. Afterwards, another part of the same estate, also three other ad- ditions from adjoining neighbors, possessing some of the best land in Wayne county, making a specialty of fruit and grain. At the age of twenty-seven he married Sarah M., daughter of William A. Teller, and they are the parents of three children, two of whom are living, Matie A. Eck, of Toledo, Ohio, and Clayton T., of Phelps. Our sub- ject is one of the self-made men of his town, taking an intelligent interest in educa- tional and religious matters, of sterling integrity and recognized worth.
Barber, William, carriagemaker, and dealer in wagons, sleighs, etc., at Red Creek, was a soldier of the late war, having served for two years without material injury. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the 138th N. Y. Vols., which was transferred to the 9th N. Y. Heavy Artillery. He was born at Victory, Cayuga county, May 23, 1839. He established his present business in 1865 and still ocenpies the same location. In 1871 he married Jean Barber, of Syracuse, and they have two sons, Edwin W., born 1872, a druggist in Syracuse, and Gay P., born 1873, who is engaged at wagon work with his father.
Barton, Archibald, was born in Haverstraw, Orange county, June 4, 1833. His father, William, was a native of Connecticut. Archibald was educated in the common schools. In 1855 he came to Lyons and engaged in farming six years, and in 1861 came to Galen. In 1866 he married Abbie N., daughter of Joseph C. Watson, and they have had five children : Dillwyn, Joseph W., Lynn, Olive V., and Nellie. In 1871 he bought a part of the James Angell and the Skinner property of eighty-seven acres, and in 1890 bonght what is known as the Philip Haugh farm of fifty-five acres, having 195 acres of some of the best land in Wayne county, raising fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject was highway commissioner three terms, re-elected in 1894, and takes an active interest in education.
Bates, Mary E., daughter of Edward and Lucinda Clark, of Red. Creek, is the widow of William Bates, late of Westbury. Her father came here from Columbia county in 1853, and is still located upon the farm then purchased, and is a much respected citizen. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Ezra Park, of Canaan, N. Y., was in many ways a man of note. Ile was ten years of age when Fulton's steamboat first plowed the waters of the Hudson, and was a witness of that seene. At his birth George Washington was still living, and the Burr-Hamilton duel was fought while he was a small boy. His Republicanism dated from the formation of the party, and he never missed an election from his majority until his death in 1892, reaching the nmusual age of ninety-five years. Mrs. Bates is a lady of culture and refinement, widowed in early womanhood, has two children, Edna L, and George C. William Bates enlisted as a soldier of his country in Company F, 3d Regiment New York Light Artillery. He re- ceived an honorable discharge, but while in the service contracted disease which re- sulted in his death May 4, 1891.
Button, William W., was born in Wayne county in 1856, and in 1882 married Minnie Penoyar, daughter of William H. Penoyar, of Lyons. Their children are : George Henry, William Edwin, Stanley Leroy, Clara Lonisa, and Howard. The latter moved from Lyons in 1888 to Palinyra. Both Mr. and Mrs. Button are natives of New York city, who came to this county in 1869 and located in the town of Sodus, moving to Peekskill, Westchester county, in 1889.
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Brandt, J. S., M.D,. was born in Ontario, February 15, 1856. He is the youngest child born to J. W. and Sarah J. (Eddy) Brandt, he a native of Schoharie county, born in 1823, and she a native of Williamson, born in 1818. The grandfather of J. S. Brandt was Joshna Brandt, a native of Maine, and among the early settlers of Ontario, where he lived and died. The maternal grandfather was Joseph Eddy, a settler of William- son, and justice of peace many years. He died at the age of forty -six. The father of J. S. Brandt was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools; was graduated from the Buffalo Medical College, and practiced four years in Michigan. He afterward came to Ontario, and practiced his profession until he retired, abont four years ago. Mrs. Brandt died in 1889. Dr. Brandt is a Democrat in politics, and was a surgeon in the war of the Rebellion. J. S. Brandt was reared on a farm, and received his early educa- tion in the common school. In 1873 he was graduated from the Rochester Collegiate Institute, and from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York in 1878. Since that he has successfully practiced his profession in his native town, and is a mem- ber of the western division of the New York State Medical Society. Dr. Brandt is a Democrat. He is a member of the Walworth Lodge, No. 154, F. & A. M., and Pal- myra Eagle Chapter, No. 79, R. A. M. Dr. Brandt was married in 1883 to Kittie G. Maher, a native of Macedon, and daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Maher, both natives of Canada. Four children were born to Dr. Brandt and wife : Eldred S ... Arthur W., Willard J., and Harold L. Dr. Brandt is one of the pension examining surgeons of Wayne county, appointed in 1893.
Brown, Charles, was born in Galen, May 30, 1840. His father, Silas Brown, was a native of Vermont and came to Wayne county. He died in 1885, aged seventy-six years. Charles Brown was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. At the age of twenty- one he married Alvira, daughter of Abram De Golia, and they have one child, Mrs. Emma Corrigan. In 1875 he purchased of his father fifty acres, where he now resides, and what was known as the Brush farm, raising fruit, hay, grain and stoek. Our subject is a liberal supporter of schools, and the M E. Church of Clyde.
Bennett, John P., was born in Williamson, July 10, 1824, and is the son of Josiah and Ruth Reeves Bennett, who came to America from England with his parents and settled in Hudson. Josiah Bennett was educated at Pittsfield, Mass., Medical College, and came to Williamson in 1815, and practiced his profession until his death in 1850. Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Marion Academy and Rochester Collegiate Institute. He engaged in farming, and in 1872 he began buying and selling grain, and at present is engaged in the liber business. He has a large lumber yard and does a large business in making boxes for packing evapo- rated apples and other fruit Mr. Bennett has been justice nine years, and was a mem- ber of the Assembly in 1854-55, and in 1890. He was elected supervisor 1879, and is now serving his sixteenth year. He was sheriff 1862-63-64 and 1868-69 and '70. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Pultenyville Lodge, No. 154, F & A. M., and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, In 1861 Mr. Bennett married Sarah M., daughter of William and Deliah Eddie Bradley, early settlers of Williamson, N. Y., and they have five children : William J., who married Mary Freeman, and has one daughter, Sarah P .; Albert B .; John D., died in infancy, R. May, and Sammel S.
Baker, George O., was born in West Monroe, which was then a part of Constantia. Oswego county, June 30, 1835. His father, Samuel P. Baker, was a native of Mar- cellus, Onondaga county, and removed to Oswego county at the age of twenty-one. where he engaged in the business of tanner and currier, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes. During the latter part of his life Mr. Baker devoted himself to farm- ing. He married Miss Mary H. Atherton, daughter of Samuel Atherton, and to them were born eight cluldren. Samuel Baker died in 1888, at the age of eighty-eight years. George O. Baker, the fourth son, studied law and was admitted to practice at
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Syracuse in 1859, and came to Clyde in August of the same year, where he engaged in general practice. He married Miss Ellen Gregory, daughter of Aaron Gregory, of Mexico, Oswego county, and they are the parents of five children, two of whom are now hving, William G. Baker, of Poughkeepsie, and Alice J. Baker.
Booth,. B. S., son of Norman and Paulina Booth, of Huron, Wayne county, N. Y., was born in 1829. He acquired a business education at Lyons High School and in 1852 engaged as merchant in Wolcott. He is now the senior member of the firm of Booth & Merrill, grocers and stationers, established in 1874. Mr. Booth was constable in 1857 and 1858, the first Republican postmaster of Wolcott under the administration of President Lincoln in 1861, deputy sheriff from 1871 to 1877, under sheriff from 1877 to 1880 and is now a notary. October 9, 1851, he married Margaret, daughter of James T. Wisner, and she died in 1857, and in 1858 Mr. Booth married Mary, daughter of Hiram Church, of Wolcott, and they have four children, of whom one son, William, is an engineer on the N. Y. C. & H. R. R.
Brownell, M. Alice, M. D., was born in Shelby, Orleans county. She was first educated in the public schools, then in the Select School at Medina, at the Howland Institute in Union Springs, at the Normal School of Brockport, and the Granger Place School at Canandaigua. For nine years she was a snecessful teacher, during which she studied medicine and later entered the medical department of the Michigan University of Ann Arbor, from which she graduated in 1885, and practiced in Rochester five years with success. Angust 1, 1891, she was appointed resident and attending physician of the . State Custodial Asylum for Feeble Minded Women, at Newark, by the Board of Managers of that institution, which position she now retains and has creditably filled for the past three years.
Bickford, Lyman, was born in East Bloomfield, November 1, 1820. Azarialı Bickford, his father, was a native of Maine. His grandfather, Rev. James P. Bickford, went to Rochester in the year 1812, being one of the first settlers at that time. He afterward removed to Michigan, where he died, at the age of 84. Azariah Bickford was a black- smith by trade and started business in East Bloomfield. In 1819 he married Philana Perkins, of the town of Victor, and their family consisted of nine children, Lyman B. being the eldest. Azariah Bickford died in 1886, aged 84. Lyman Bickford is a machinist and has carried on business since 1842. At present he is retired. April 28, 1842, he married Elvira Perkins and they are the parents of three children : Mary, who married Colonel Henry Underhill, dying in her 26th year, and two sons, deceased. Mr. Bickford is a member of the Masonie fraternity, Macedon Lodge 665. He is a member of the Universalist Church. In politics he is a Democrat and served as super- visor for five years. He was the founder of the Bickford & Huffman Company now doing business in Macedon village.
Beardsley, David S., M. D., was born in Trumbull, Fairfield county, Conn., April 8, 1810. He is the youngest of the five children of James and Ruth (Summers) Beardsley, natives of Trumbull, he born in 1758 and she in February, 1767. He was a Revolu- tionary soldier. The family is of English descent, Mr. Beardsley having come to America from Stratford-on-Avon, England, in 1635, at the age of thirty. He named the town of Stratford in Fairfield county, Conn., and one of his descendants came to Western New York and named the town of Avon. Dr. Beardsley is the seventh generation in America. Ile was educated in the common school and Cherry Valley Academy, studied medieine with Alonzo White, M. D., of Cherry Valley, Otsego county, and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1840. He practiced his profession at Middlefield Center from 1812 to 1819, and in November of the latter year he came to Williamson, and to Pultneyville m 1854, on April 1, where he has since had a snecessful practice. He at present leads a retired life. November 24, 1811, he married Laura F. Carr, a native of . Hartwick, born July 23, 1820, and a danghter of Ephraim and Sarah (Todd)
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Carr, natives of Connecticut, who died in Otsego county, where the grandfather of Mrs. Beardsley settled in 1790. Dr. Beardsley has been a life-long Democrat, and voted for Andrew Jackson in 1832. He is a member of the Pultneyville Lodge, No. 159, and was a member of I. O. O. F. for many years. He and his family are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church. The father of our subject. James Beardsley, was a member of the assembly for eight terms, and a relative of Dr. Beardsley, who named the town of Avon, N. Y.
Broekman, Lewis, a native of Germany, born June 8, 1853, is a son of Fred and Eliza Broekman, who came from Germany to America in 1881 with two daughters and settled in Rochester. They had a family of two sons and two daughters, all of whom came to America and all still survive. Mr. Broekman was a farmer, and in religion they are German Lutherans. Mrs. Brockman died in 1882, but he still lives in Roches- ter with a daughter, Sopha, wife of William Coward. Lewis Brockman came to America in 1874, having been educated in the common schools of Germany. He went to work as a farm hand, and was seven years employed by William Gould. In 1881 he purchased the farm of eighty acres where he has since resided, carrying on general farming and fruit growing, also evaporating fruit. In 1877 he married Hattie Kier, of Ontario, by whom he has had these children : Bertha, William, Fred, Charlie, George and Nora.
Breisch, F. L., was born in Hailbron, Wurtenberg, Germany, August 2, 1853. His father, Frederick, came to the United States in 1856 direct to Lyons, and settled on a farm at Alloway. He brought up a large family of ten sons and two daughters. F. L. Breisch was educated in the common schools to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. At the age of eight he was bound ont to a farmer, re- maining six years. At seventeen he learned the miller's trade at Alloway. and in 1874 came to the village of Logs and entered the employ of Cart. C Englehardt in the with P. T. Hartman re-established the business carried on by I. B. Schuyler & Co .. known as the New York Dry Goods Store. At the age of twenty-nine he married Helen W., daughter of Henry Smith, of Lyons, and they have one son, Earle F. Our subject is a Democrat in politics and was elected town elerk for two terms, and while leading an active business hfe has found time to take an interest in school and church matters, being a member of the Lutheran Church, also a member of Humanity F. & A. M. Lodge No. 406. Our subject is recognized as a man of conservative character. whose life has found his word to be as good as his bond.
Barnes, Harvey D., was born in Galen October 8, 1836, and was the son of Edward Barnes. His wife was Hannah Tindall and their children were: Charles H., Caroline E., wife of Peter Fisher, of Michigan; Horatio V., and Mary Ella. Our subject left home when eleven years of age and has always followed farming. In 1861 he enlisted in the 44th N. Y. Vol. Ellsworth Regiment, Company K, and served three years. The principal engagements in which he participated were siege of Yorktown, evacnation of Centerville, Fredericksburg, Antietam, South Mountain and Gettysburg. He was dis- abled March 11, 1862, and discharged at Johnson's Island, where he had been detailed to guard prisoners. Since the war he has been engaged in farming, and owns ninety- six acres. In 1864 he married Elizabeth, danghter of Robert Catchpole, of Huron. Mr. Barnes is a member of the G. A. R. John E. Sherman Post No. 410, of Rose Val- ley, and he and wife are members of the Clyde Grange, No. 33.
Burnett, A. C., was born in the town of Galen October 7, 1848. His father, W. H. Burnett, was a native of Junius, Seneca county, and was a prominent farmer of the
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town of Galen. He married Jane A. Collamer, of Ballston, Saratoga county, and died September 12, 1883, aged sixty-five years. A. C. Burnett was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. Ile re- turned to his father's farm in 1873, purchased one-half the homestead farm, and inher- ited the other portion in 1883, having 200 acres, raising fruit, grain and stock. His grandfather, Arch Burnett, was the first man to cultivate and distill mint in Wayne county, securing the first roots from the wild mint on the banks of the streams. A. C. Burnett married Alice, daughter of Spencer Vandemark, and they are the parents of one daughter, Jane A. Heis a member of Clyde Lodge No. 300, of Wayne Encamp- ment, Newark, Galen Canton No. 49, and major on General Shafer's staff of Patriarchs Militant.
Benton, William, was born in Columbia county August 11, 1827, and is the seventh of the eleven children of Jonathan and Kate MeIntyre Benton, he a native of Ver- mont, and she of Columbia county, N. Y. Both died in 1837. Our subject was reared a farmer, and came to Williamson in 1853, and now owns eighty acres of land and follows general farming. He is a Democrat. March 11, 1854, he married Angeline Clark, a native of Columbia county, and a daughter of John I. and Margaret Clark, now residing at Sodus Point. Mr. and Mrs. Benton have had eleven children : Arthur, Helena, Justina, Estella, Willie and Annie, deceased ; Charles, John, Margaret, de- ceased; Ada and Fred.
Brown, George A., son of Benjamin and Mary Brown, was born in the town of Ros- coemanor, Berks county. Pa., Jannary 3, 1848. There he learned the trade of harness- maker, and for a few years followed it as a journeyman, but in 1872 he came to Clyde, where he has since resided. The year of his arrival here, Mr. Brown opened a small harness shop-the nucleus of his present extensive mannfactory, and which has de- veloped into one of the largest industries of the kind between Syraense and Rochester. April 30, 1874, he married Hannah, daughter of Abraham Knight, of ('lyde. They have two children living, Ralph Robert and Aden George, and two deceased, Ella Panline and Lanra Hannah.
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