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Bevier, Fred, was born at Niles, Cayuga county, May 18, 1863. His father, Simon Bevier, was a man of prominence at that place, and died in 1877, at the age of fifty. Fred received a good academic edneation at Munroe Collegiate Institute at Elbridge, N. Y. Ile adopted undertaking as his chosen profession, and began his business life by association with N. G. Anderson of Syracuse. In 1892 he came to Wolcott, and established the business at No. 30 Main street, making a specialty of arterial embalm- ing, beside carrying a large stock of furniture. November 14, 1888, he married Cora, danghter of William Tanner, of Niles. Mrs. Bevier graduated from the State Normal School at Cortland, N. Y., in 1883, after which she spent several years in teaching.
Benton, John W., was born on the old homestead, upon which he now resides, Janu- ary 21, 1823. He was educated in the public schools of Newark and at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y. November 21, 1850, he married Harriet, second daughter of Anstin and Sarah Roe, and they have two daughters, Frances Roe and Harriet. Frances R. married Arthur N. Hull of Greenfield, Mass., and they have two children, Lillian Preston and Roger Benton. Harriet married Rev. Francis Bellamy, now of Boston, and they have two sons, John Benton and David. Mr. Benton's father, Rev. Roger Benton, was born in Litchfield county, Conn., in 1770. He was a clergyman and belonged to the Baltimore conference, and traveled in Central New York as one of the pioneer Methodist ministers. He preached and travelled over large eirenits until his voice failed him entirely, when to occupy his time he taught school in Canandaigua, hoping to regain his voice, but not recovering it, he decided to locate and found his way through the wilderness from Canandaigua to this locality by blazed uces with the aid of a pocket compass. He contracted for his farm in 1805, and built
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himself a log house on the spot where the subject of this notice now resides, making one of the rooms in it especially large to accommodate religions meetings, where the early settlers congregated regularly for seven years for public preaching and social meetings. After which he built a church on his own farm, where the cemetery now is, " the neighboring settlers aiding as they could by bees and labor." There was no vil- lage where Newark now is, nor any central point. There was a saw mill at Marble- town, and Geneva was the place where most of the business was done. Roger Benton married twice ; first Sally Jenks, of Seneca, on Geneva Lake, and they had one son, Lewis J. His second marriage was to Mrs. Frances (Beal) Oaks, formerly of Oaks Corners, Ontario county. They had one son, the above John W. Roger Benton died in 1846, and his wife in 1854. The ancestry of the Bentons were English and Scotch. Mrs. Benton's father, Hon. Anstin Roe, was born in Litchfield county, Conn., in 1802, and came to Wayne county with his parents when eighteen years old. He was a farmer by occupation and married Sarah Wisner, formerly of Orange county, and they had eight children : Deborah A., Charles, Harriet, Charlotte M., Austin L., Rebecca, Sarah and Albert II. He died in 1866, aged sixty-four years. His wife still survives him, aged ninety-two. The Roes are of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Benton are mem- bers of the M. E. church. He is one of the trustees, and has held many of the offices of the church. He was superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school for thirty years.
Burghdorf, Joseph, whose great-grandfather came when a lad from Germany, is the oldest son of Jacob J. and Miranda Burgdorf, who were life-long residents of Wayne county. They reared a family of nine children, of whom six are now living. Joseph was born at Auburn, October 28, 1836, and has been engaged in farming the most of his life. October 27, 1859, he married Mary E., daughter of George Doolittle, of But- ler, who died October 19, 1874, leaving a family of four children : Harriet, wife of San- ger Case, a merchant at Sodus Point; Addie, wife of E. D. Ebray, of Sodus; Spencer, who married Sarah Stothard, and is a farmer of Victory, Cayuga county, N. Y .; and Allan, who died when eight years of age. In 1875 he married Laura A., daughter of William H. Nichols, of Huron. Two children have been born to them : Paul M., who is now at home, and Otto, who died in infancy.
Britton, John, son of Richard and Ann Britton, was born in Williamson, August 18, 1831. Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He has always followed farming and now owns eighty acres of land, which he settled on when twenty-six years of age. He resided there thirty-six years, and then sold and came to Williamson in 1891, where he now leads a retired life. He is a Republican in politics, and was excise commissioner for three years. Mr. Britton and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. January 18, 1857, he married Sarah D. Thomas, a native of Marion, born in 1831. Mr. Britton has one adopted daughter, Daisy, the wife of George Wamesfelder, of Ontario, and they have one daughter, Rath. Mrs. Britton's mother lived with her daughter until her death, ten years before she died, January 13, 1888, at the age of eighty-one.
Brant, Hamilton, the third of seven children of Joshua and Susannah Brant, was born in Schoharie county, August 3, 1809. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He taught school and took great interest in publie questions, and was a good debater. He came to Wayne county about 1840 and bought the farm now owned by the family, where he died in 1868. Formerly a Democrat he became a Re- publican about 1856. He married in 1844 Frances B. White, a native of Saratoga county, who was born March 24, 1824, and daughter of Stephen and Sarah White, and they had ten children. Mr. White and wife came to Penfield, Monroe county, in 1831, and emigrated to Michigan, where he died in 1872, and his wife in 1869. Mr. Brant and wife have had four children : Mason, Amasa, Jennie, and William. Mason mar- ried Jane Church, of Ontario, by whom he has seven children : Sarah J., Hattie R.,
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Amasa, Amelia J., George, William H., and Edith. Amasa married Florence Sweed, of Penfield, and has two children : J. Hamilton and Leon. William married Carrie Ott, of Walworth, and has one child, Homer Hamilton. Jennie, William, and their mother reside on the homestead of 108 acres, and follow general farming, and are members of Ontario Center Grange 122.
Barnard, Walter, was born in Schenectady county, February 26, 1847, was educated in the common schools and at Ballston Spa Academy. In 1871 he engaged in railway work, entering the employ of the Delaware and Hudson Company as freight brakeman, and later as passenger conductor. In 1886 he entered the employ of the West Shore Railroad Company as yard master at Newark, which position he has filled with ability since. October 19, 1876, he married Rosamond Griswold, of Castleman, Vt., and they have had two children: Nellie, who died young, and Lillian. Mr. Barnard's father, Morgan L., was born at Lowville, Lewis county, in 1812, and was a hotel keeper all his life. He married Catharine E. Hermanse, of Rensselaer county. and of their ten chil- dren five survive : Walter, Anna, Helen, Emily, and Bella. He died in 1888, and his widow survives him. Mr. Barnard is a Mason of Lebanon Unity No. 9.
Clark, James O., son of Dennis Clark and Amanda Reeves Clark, was born in Pal- myra, January 19, 1832. He married in 1856 Alinda, a daughter of James T. Wisner, who died in 1859. In 1862 he married Anna M. Reeves, daughter of Anstin Reeves, and their children are: Emerson D., who died aged thirteen years, and Hattie A. James O. Clark's farm consists of 150 acres, and was purchased in 1860 of Newton Foster, a son of one the pioneers of the town. It was formerly a noted wheat farm, but dairying is now its leading interest. Mr. Clark taught school a few terms in his younger days, has been highway commissioner three years, and supervisor of Palmyra four years. In politics he is a Republican.
Corrin, E. Q., was born on the Isle of Man, Janury 21, 1857, came to the United States, and located in Clyde in 1870, being then thirteen years of age. Ile lived with his uncle, Philip Grimsha, who was a farmer in the town of Galen. E. Q. Corrin was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. He was appointed superintendent of the Gas Company in 1880; in 1885 went into the grocery business with E. Sands, continuing that connection two years; in 1889 associated with E. N. Hughson and established his present business; in 1892 purchased his partner's interest, and is now carrying a large stock of stoves, ranges, hardware and cutlery. At the age of twenty four he married Laura, daughter of Edwin Sands, and they are the parents of thee children: John G .. Louise, and Robena S. Subject was a member of the Republican County Committee four years, a trustee of the school district four years, a leader of the Presbyterian church choir, and one of the charter members of the Saxton Band.
Carver, P. K., came into the town of Savannah in 1836, the house was then on lot 99. The Montezuma turnpike road had cut off' about two acres of land, which had been sold to some former owner of lot 12 in T'yre. The house was moved over the line in the fall of 1836, near the east bounds of lot 99, was an old Indian camping ground, numerous relics were found there in 1837. Some of the first settlers were buried on the lot, the ground being now used for farming purposes. The north line of Seneca county was surveyed by Joseph Annin in 1791. marked a tree near the marsh : TownshipNo 26 Lot 12. Amin surveyed Wayne county in 199 making long and Tzes conta of the -ikweet corner of lot -9. The heat stere of the (now) town of Savannah came by the way of May . Point, and had to go that way to get to mills in Cayuga and Seneca counties. After the turnpike was made across Crusoe Island from Montezuma to Armitage, most of the farmers
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went to Port Byron and Troopsville to mill. There was a tollgate at the east end of the Seneca River bridge, farmers commuting and paying the toll by working on the road. P. K. Carver was married in 1855 to Sophia J. Burnett, of Lyons. Their family consisted of four children: Helen, Mary, Gardner (now deceased), and Elmer, who resides with his parents on their farm.
Creager, John, was born in Lyons, August 6, 1825. His father, William, was a native of Frederick county, Md., and came to Lyons in 1802 with his father, Henry, who exchanged his farm in Maryland for a section of 640 acres in the town of Galen, now known as Creager's Bridge Jolm was educated in the district school, which was on the Creager estate. His father died when he was twelve years of age, and he had to take the management, with the aid of his mother, of his father's farm. At the age of twenty-five he married Rachael' A., daughter of John Levans, of Galen, and they were the parents of one daughter, Sarah J., who died in August, 1892. In 1860 he bought the Cole Roy property of 123 acres, raising large amounts of hay, grain and stock, in 1867 removed to Alloway, and in 1887 bought his present residence on Broad street in Lyons. He is a Democrat in politics, and has held the office of assessor six years, justice of the peace four years, and trustee of the school.
Cone, Walter L., jr., was born in Lenox, Madison county, March 13, 1832, the fourth child of a family of six, born to Walter L., sr., and Caroline C. (Curtis) Cone, the father having been born in Oneida county in 1798, and the mother in East Haddam, Conn., in 1803. They were married December 2, 1821. Mr. Cone died December 12, 1888, and his wife, December 5, 1885. Walter L., sr., settled on the farm owned by our subject in 1837, cleared it, and there spent the remainder of his days. He was a Republican, and was captain in the State militia. Walter L., jr., our subject, was reared on the farm, educated in the common schools of Ontario, and engaged in farming, now owning 115 acres of land. Ile is a Republican, and has served as assessor three terms. November 11, 1858, he married Nellie Bennett, of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Cone have had two children : Glen C., who married Allen Cattien, and has one child, Ada B. ; and Kittie, wife of Floyd Gates, of Ontario. They have three children : Glen, Roscoe, and Elma M. Glen C. is a fruit raiser and farmer. He has served as clerk of the Board of Supervisors for three years. The grandfather of our subject was Walter R. Cone, of East Iladdam, Coun., born November 26, 1764, who married Dorothy Palmer, March 26, 1789. He died November 22, 1829, and his wife in 1847. The father of Walter R. was Sylvanus Cone, of East Haddam, Conn., born January 21, 1731, who married, November 13, 1755, Hannah Ackley, born March 18, 1742. He died in Millington, Conn., May 3, 1812, and his wife, June 24, 1789. His second wife was Mary E. Graves, whom he married October 6, 1790. She was born in 1746, and died January 23, 1807. His third wife was Eunice Spencer, whom he married November 1, 1809. She was born in 1736, and died October 11, 1819. The father of Sylvanus was James Cone, who married Elizabeth Warner. He was born in East Haddam, August 24, 1698, and died December 7, 1767. Ile served as representative in 1747. He was married previously to this to Grace Spencer who died in 1727. James was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hungerford) Cone, the former dying in 1731, and the latter in 1753. Nathaniel was the son of Daniel, the first of the family to come to America. He was born in 1626, and died in 1706.
Craven, D. P., was born in Sodus, Wayne county, N. Y., October 17, 1841. He was the oldest son of James and Hannah Craven, who were natives of Yorkshire. England, and came to America about the year 1835, settling in Ontario county, N. Y. Three years after they moved to Sodus; they moved to Ontario, in 1853, where they lived till the year 1867 ; leaving New York they settled in Jasper county, Iowa, where they resided until their death, which occurred in 1886 and 1884. Our subject was reared on the farm und educated in Sodus and Walworth Academies. He married Julia Bennett in On- turio, N. Y., November 8, 1865, daughter of John and June ( Mason) Bennett, natives of
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New York and New Jersey. In April he took the advice of the sage Horace Greeley and went west and settling in Jasper county, Iowa, where he now owns 600 acres of as productive land as is in the United States. Mr, Craven is a Democrat in politics, as are also his five sons. He is agnostic in religion. He has held the office of supervisor for a number of years in the State of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Craven are the parents of eight children, five sons and three danghters, all living. J. Edwin, born September 6, 1866; D. Homer, July 10, 1869: John R., September 29, 1871 ; Thurman P., August 10, 1875; Galen R., June 22, 1877; B. Gabrielle, January 24, 1879; M. Genevieve, Angust 24, 1881, and M. Guinevere, May 22, 1884. After an absence of twenty-seven years Mr. Craven moved back to Ontario, N. Y., where he now lives and owns the McConnell farm, situated midway between Ontario and Ontario Centre villages, leaving his three older sons to manage his western farm.
Crandle, R. S., was born October 9, 1825, at the place where his home is now situated. His parents, Seth and Rebecca, came from Mentz, Cayuga county. They had eight children, of whom four now survive. Seth died September 21, 1871, and his wife Jan- nary 16, 1855. Onr subject began farming when twenty-five and purchased the farm now his own in 1860. He married, January 14, 1864, Mary A., danghter of Loammini Beadle of Savannah, by whom he had four children : Elton, born Jannary 8, 1867, who died aged fifteen, a youth of uncommon moral worth and studious habits; Everett, born January 12, 1869, who married Bertha Titus and lives in Savannah ; Martha, born June 1, 1872, and Mary born September 25, 1874.
Clark, Samuel, of English stock, located in Palmyra abont 1794, having three sons: Samnel, jr., who removed to Michigan about 1840; Benjamin and Oliver, the two latter, buying land together across the creek from East Palmyra. . This farm was afterwards divided, Benjamin taking the north and Oliver the south part. Here Benjamin died, and also his daughters, one remaining granddaughter removing to the west about 1838. Oliver was born February 14, 1767, and died January 21, 1843. He came with the early settlers from Long Island, and was a tailor, as well as fariner. He had three sisters, one of whom became the wife of Gabriel Rogers, and later removed to Sodus. She was the mother of B. R. and James of Lyons, and Erastus of Sodus. Another sister married Solomon Franklin, and after his death, Luther Sandford. The other married Samuel Soverhill of Arcadia. Her children were Joel and Hiram, and Mrs. Henry Cronise. In 1796 Oliver married Sarah Jessup, who died Jannary, 1823. Their children were Maltby, born March 31, 1798; Matilda, born June 3, 1800, died April 2, 1827; Jerry, born September 16, 1802; Dennis, born March 21, 1805; Nelson, born May 7, 1827; Betsey J., born December 5, 1810; Hannah, born February 14, 1812, and Hiram, born April 29, 1814, died January 11, 1835. Jerry, Nelson, Betsey, J. and Hannah settled in Carlton, Orleans connty. The mother of these children died Jannary 8, 1823, and in 1828, Oliver married Susan Romyen of Galen, who died in 1857. Maltby, the oldest of the famlly, in 1821 married Maria Mason, who died the next year. In May, 1825, he married Jerusha Jagger, by whom he had eight children : Henry M., born March 6, 1826; Maria M., born January 25, 1829; Abigail J., November 3, 1831; Harriet E, August 8, 1834; Nelson, March 23, 1837 ; Lucins II., December 8, 1840; Oliver M., January 31, 1846, and Mary E,, January 28, 1850. Malty served in various town offices, was coroner six years, and county superintendent of the poor three terms. He died in June 1875. Henry M. re- sided with his parents until April 3, 1850, when he married Frances A. Foster. Their children are Edwin HI., born January 3, 1852, who resides near his father; George W., born July 26, 1853, died September 30, 1875; and Julia F., born Angust 14, 1856, who married Edwin F. White. The first four years of Henry M.'s married life were passed on a part of his grandfather's home farm, which he afterwards sold, and bought the place where his son now resides. He was member of assembly in 1874, supervisor in 1880 and '81, and has been stated clerk of the Presbytery of Lyons for the last twenty-four years.
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Carman, Truman, is a native of Monroe county, born in 1830, who came when a child, with his parents to Wayne county. He followed farming until about thirty-five years of age, then engaged in the real estate and stock trade in Rochester, Monroe county, for five years. He then returned to Wayne county and to Palmyra in 1884. In 1855 he married Emeline Miller, of this county, born in 1835, and they have three children : James, Jennie and Lee. The parents of our subject were Peter and Mary (Arınstrong) Carman, were natives of Dutchess county, who moved to Wayne county about 1835, and died in Walworth. Mrs. Carman's father, Sylvester L. Miller, was born in Herkimer county in 1804 and was a merchant at West Walworth for fifty years and there he died in 1879. He married Charlotte Chase, who was born in 1807 in Oneida county, and died in 1877.
Clarke, F. Wake, M. D., was born in the town of Ontario, Wayne county, N. Y., June 1, 1850, the only son of John and Matilda Wake, his mother dying when he was an infant. He was adopted by his uncle and annt, John and Mary Wake Clark, from whom he received the name of Clark. Dr. Clark was reared upon a farm and educated at the Marion Collegiate Institute and Walworth Academy. In the early part of the year 1877, he engaged in mercantile business in Williamson, first in partnership with Lewis R. Rogers, now of Albion, N. Y., umtil the spring of 1880, when he purchased Mr. Rogers' interest and conducted the business alone until January 1, 1886, when he sold out his business to Lofthouse and Norton. In the spring of 1887 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Peer, of Ontario, and in the fall of the same year he en- tered the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, from which he grad- uated with honor, receiving his degree of M. D. April 11, 1890, and in the same year located in Williamson, where he has since had a very successful practice. Dr. Clark is a member of the New York State Homeopathie Medical Association, the Western New York Medical Association, and is past master of Pultneyville Lodge, No. 159, F. and A. M. On February 18, 1874, he was united in marriage to Mary A., a daughter of Mason L., and Lydia P. Rogers, of Marion, N. Y. Dr. Clark and wife have had two children : Roger Wake, born December 6, 1874, a graduate of Marion Collegiate Insti- tute, class of '94, and Inez M., born Angust 21, 1879.
Conklin, Clarence, is a son of William, born in the town of Niles, Cayuga county, October 15, 1827, was educated in the common schools, and his life was spent on a farm till 1882. February 2, 1852, he married Maria Brinkhoof, and their children were: Clarence, Laura, Mary, Ida, Ralph, William and Edward. In 1880 he moved to the town of Bristol, and four years later to Newark, where he established a hiber business and a box factory, making custom work a specialty The basiness was in a very prosperons condition when, in 1892, occurred the fire by which the firm were heavy losers, it then being William Conklin & Son. After the fire he sold his interest to his son, Clarence ; the latter married Alice Sheldon, of Caynga county, and they have three children : Frank A., Neva M. and C. Leslie. The ancestry of the family on both sides can be traced to Holland. Jacob, father of William Conklin, was born in Dutchess county, and the grandfather, John, came to Cayuga county in 1810. Mrs. Conklin died May 20, 1875, and two daughters are also deceased, Laura and Mary.
Chase, Dr. H. L., was born in Wayne county, January 16, 1853, educated in the Walworth Academy and studied medicine with Drs. Rose, of Walworth, and Ingraham, of Palmyra, later entering the office of Professor Hines, of Cleveland, O. He gradn- ated from the Union University, in Albany in 1875, and began practice at Macedon, which he continued till 1890, since which time he has practiced in Palmyra. Lyman, father of Dr. Chase, came to Walworth, driving from Plattsburg in 1819, with his father and brothers. He was a cooper by trade, and married Martha Andrew, a na- tive of Massachusetts. Lyman died in 18644, and his wife in 1880.
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Edward Curtis was born in Madison, Madison county, July 17, 1825. His father, Eli Curtis, was born in Stratford, Conn., in 1781, and died in 1861. His mother, Hulda (Tyler) Curtis, was also a native of Stratford, and was born in 1790, and died in 1866. They were among the early settlers of Madison, and the street where they set- tled was named Stratford street, from the name of their native place in Connecticut, from where the first settlers had emigrated. Eight children were born to Eli and Hulda Curtis, of which Edward is the youngest living. Of the eight children only one sister besides now survives. Edward was educated in the common schools and at An- gusta Academy. He was favored in bemg a pupil of David P. Page, first principal of the State Normal School, at Albany, and heard the lectures: "Theory and Practice of Teaching," afterwardwards published in a book. David P. Page was one of the ablest instructors in the State, and no educational work on school-teaching has ever super- seded his " Theory and Practice of Teaching." To the spirit inculcated and the lessons taught, in this book, E. Curtis credits largely the success of his forty years of teaching in the common and union schools. He commenced teaching at the age of seventeen, soon after receiving a State certificate. His best life energies were given to only five different schools, save acting as vice-principal of Marion Collegiate Institute. In 1845 Mr. Curtis was married to Lura A. Dudley, of Augusta, N. Y., who was born June 21, 1824. She was the daughter of Rev. Ira J. and Laura (Hurd) Dudley, natives of Hart- ford, Conn., and early settlers of Oneida county. Mr. Dudley died in Madison, Mad- ison county, January 25, 1881, where his wife now resides, aged ninety years. Mrs. E. Curtis died suddenly, October 24, 1893. She was well educated, was thoughtful and disereet, and graced the home sphere as few can. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. E. Curtis: Genevieve, who married Charles E. Allen, in 1875, and died August 18, 1889; Evangeline, who survives her husband, C. Frank Radder, with two sons, Carl C. and Ray R .; George, who died in Madison county, in infancy, and Rollo D., who was edneated in Yates Polytechnic Institute, and married to Alice M. Platner, of Savan- nah, in 1885. This family was in the Marion Collegiate Institute four years, excepting Rollo D., who was publisher of the Jordan Intelligencer, at Jordan, N. Y. In 1880 Rollo D. Curtis sold the Jordan Intelligencer, and in September 24, 1880, assisted by his father, Edward Curtis, established the Marion Enterprise. This business was pro- jected that the family might be together. It was not thought to be continued, but so well has it thrived, latterly, under the firm name of E. Curtis & Son, that to-day it is considered one of the leading journals of Wayne county. It has a building of its own and a well equipped office. The Enterprise Building is now almost a land-mark in the town of Marion. In 1881 the telephone line was built to Marion, chiefly by the ef- forts of Edward Curtis, and the telephone office opened in the Enterprise Building continues under his management.
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