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David, William Glenn (deceased), was born in Amherst, N. H., June 12, 1831, was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, entering Williams College in 1848, and graduated in 1852. Seleeting the profession of medicine, he graduated from Harvard Medical Col- ge in 1854, and then removed to Dubnque, Ia. In October, 1855, he married Sarah M., daughter of Newell Taft, of Lyons, and they are the parents of four sons, three of whom are now living: William G. and John. of New York, and Edward T., of Glenrock, Wyoming In less be removed to Lyons from Dubuque and entered into partnership with Dr. E. W. Bothume. In 1861 he entered the United States army, receiving the commission of surgeon to the 98th Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, and took part in the
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campaign in Virginia, the battle of the Wilderness, Richmond, White Oak Swamp, and numerous other engagements. He was promoted to brigade surgeon at the capture of Port Hudson, and afterwards was post surgeon at that place. Returning to Lyons in 1865, at the close of the war, he resumed the practice of his profession. In 1867 he was appointed examining surgeon in the United States pension cases, holding this position at the time of his death, August 17, 1877.
Dutcher, John, one of the oldest residents of Red Creek, came to this vicinity in 1830, He was born at Lysander, Onondaga county, in 1819. He is the son of Daniel Dutcher. who, in 1830, bought 270 acres of land, and with the assistance of his two sons, John and Daniel W., grappled with the primeval forest and reclaimed over 100 acres of ara- ble land, meantime rearing a family of nine children. Mr. Dutcher now owns and oc- cupies 120 acres of the original tract.
Davis, Barnet II., was born in Fonda, Montgomery county, January 27, 1836. He is a member of the firm of B. H. Davis & Co., dealers in drugs and groceries, having occu- pied his present location for the past thirty years. Ile is now a member of the State Committee, and occupied a seat in the Legislature during the years 1886-87-88. In 1860 Mr. Davis married Alida Agnes Van Edena, a native of Spraker's Basin, and they have one daughter.
Davis, Rev. Daniel D., of Savannah, was born in Butler, August 24, 1824. Paul H. Davis, born in Rhode Island in 1791, and Polina Westcott, his wife, born in Richfield, Otsego county, in 1798 (the parents of Daniel D.), moved to Butler, Wayne county, N. Y., about the year 1815, and in the wilderness purchased a farm, upon which they erected a log house and commenced life, consequently were among the first settlers in Wayne county, N. Y. To this heroic couple were born six children, who grew to man and womanhood, namely : William V., Lucy A., Oliver C., Daniel D., Jerome B., and John Wesley Davis. Grappling with the realities of frontier life, these parents were only able to give their children little more than a district school education. Reli- giously the parents were Episcopal Methodists, and, sooner or later, the children were all converted and became members of the church of their honored parents. The father died in 1845, and the mother in 1846. November 10, 1845, Daniel D. Davis married Laura Henderson, of Butler, an estimable Christian lady. To them were born two daughters: Pauline S., born July 10, 1847, who married Rev. C. L. Connell, of James- ville, Onondaga county, N. Y., Pauline S. died at Rosevalley, July 25, 1878; Carrie, V. Davis, born October 4, 1855, married in 1881 John Mong, of Euclid, Onondaga county, N. Y., who now resides in Englewood, Ill. Daniel D. Davis followed farming nntil 1861, when at the call of the master, he left all (like the fisherman of Gallilee) to preach the Gospel, and for thirty-one consecutive years has been an honored member of the Central New York Conference (Methodist Episcopal Church). In 1892 Mrs. Davis's health partially failed, and Mr. Davis took a supernumerary edition to the Con- ference, and for the past two years has engaged in Evangelistic work, for which he evinces decided talents.
Deuchler, Louis, was born in Alsace, Germany, August 25, 1834, came to the United States in 1852, and settled in Syracuse. In 1856 he removed to Lyons, in 1861 estab- lished the grocery business on Water street, and in 1863 sold out and went to New York, remaining for two years. In 1865 he returned to Lyons and bought the National Hotel, continuing the business up to 1885, then engaged in the insurance business, making a specialty of fire insurance and is agent for several lines of foreign steamships. In 1887 he was elected justice of the peace and in 1891 was re-elected to the same office, which he now holds. In 1888-89 was elected trustee of the village. At the age of twenty-four he married Magdalena, daughter of George Seligman, of Lyons, and they are the parents of one danghter, Mrs. Bertha Klippel. Our subject takes an
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active interest in educational and religious matters, having been trustee in the First German church for eight years.
Daboll, Homer, was born in Canaan, Litchfield county, Corn., July 18, 1827. His father, Jonathan Daboll, was a native of Windsor, Conn., and in 1810 made his home in Canaan, where Homer, the youngest of five children, had such advantages as private and common schools afforded until at the age of sixteen, when his parents moved to Center Groton, Conn., where he received instruction in surveying and navigation at the celebrated Nautical School of that place, then ander the supe vision of Nathan Daboll and his son, David A., authors of Daboll's Arithmetic and other mathematical works. Professor Potter, of Mystic, Conn., was his next instructor, after which he engaged for a number of years in teaching. In 1853 he married Jane R. Shear, of Junius, N. Y., and as a farmer settled near Cayuga village, where they resided four- teen years. Here their children were born, De Lancey, who died in 1873; Phoebe, now Mrs. A. D. Bacon, of Rochester; Homer F., now manager of the farm, and Sheridan, of Rochester. In 1867 he purchased the farm of 150 acres on which he lives and where to date he has enjoyed the friendship of a numerous acquaintance.
De Zutter, Cornelius, was born in Holland, May 16, 1841, son of Edward and Susan (Van Dixon) De Zutter, natives of Holland, where Mr. De Zutter died in 1847, and his wife and two children, Cornelius and Leonard, came to Sullivan county in 1848. Mrs. De Zutter married Cormer Devoe, came to Williamson in 1853 and resided here until her death in August, 1888. Mr. Devoe died June, 1891. The great-grandfather of our subject, Cornelius, was a native of France, and grandfather was a native of Holland, and died there in 1848. Our subject was reared on a farm until fourteen years of age, when he went to Rochester and engaged as clerk for John Vandenburg in a fancy store, where he remained three years, and worked one year in a cotton factory. There he and his brother became partners in the manufacture of willow ware. In the spring of 1866 they returned to Williamson and continned in the willow ware business until 1871, when it was destroyed by fire, without any insurance. They again commenced in business, but after one year was dissolved. In 1872 our subject engaged in buying and selling produce, and continued in business until 1876, when he was employed by H. J. Miller and Sprague, and in 1877, with Mr. Gordon, established a general store, the firm being known as De Zutter & Gordon, and in 189] our subject, Cornelius, retired, when the firm became De Zutter Bros. & Engleson. They also have a clothing store on the opposite side of the street in what is known as the Rogers block. Mr. De Zutter is a member of the Pultneyville Lodge, No. 159, F. and A. M., also a member of A. O. U. W. Mr. De Zutter married, December 29, 1864, Larinia Decker, of Rochester, a daughter of Abram Decker, a native of Holland, who in 1850 came to Williamson. He died in Rochester in' 1877, and his wife in 1875. Our subject and wife had five children : Edward A. and Charles (now members of the firm) ; Jennie E., who died aged twenty-two years; Ida M., who assists in her father's store; and Delia, who lives at home. Our subject and family are members of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. De Zutter has been a Republican since the organization of the party and an active worker in the party for the past twenty-five years. Leonard De Zutter was born in Holland, February 2, 18444, and came to Sullivan connty with his mother and brother when three years of age; he came to Williamson in 1853. Hle and brother, Cornelius, engaged in the manufacture of willow and rattan ware, and were in partnership in 1872, when they dissolved. He engaged in mercantile business in 1877. He is a member of A. O. U. W. and Select Knights. Mr. De Zutter married in 1867 Susan Van Zandt, a native of Holland, and a daughter of Peter and Lueinda Van Zandt. They had four children : Lucy S., wife of Carl Fuller, of Wallington; Edward L., who died, aged twenty-two; Peter, who is employed in a clothing store, and Lizzie, who died, aged eighteen months.
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Denison, Porter G. (deceased), was born at North Stephentown, Rensselaer county, February 19, 1825. His father, George T., was a native of Stonington, Conn. The family are lineal descendants of the titled families of English and Scotch extraction. In 1840 he removed to North Berlin and in 1850 came to Clyde and engaged in the mercantile business, which he continued up to the time of his death, March 21, 1890. September 30, 1852, he married Mary E., daughter of James II. Nichols, who was a native of Bainbridge, Chenango county, and they had three children; Carrie A., Porter G., and Charles E. Our subject was one of the leading inen of his town, identi- fied in every publie enterprise, benevolent and charitable.
Denney, Loren, was born in Onondaga county September 24, 1835, the second child of a family of four children born to John and Almira Denney, natives of Dutchess county. They came to Wayne county in 1843 and settled in Williamson. The father died in Ontario in 1875, where the mother new resides, aged seventy-nine years. Onr subjeet was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He has always been a farmer, owns forty acres of land, and follows general farming and fruit raising. He enlisted in 1862 in Company B, 9th Heavy Artillery, participated in the battles of Cold Harbor, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and served until the close of the war. He mar- ried, December 31, 1861, Mary Sanders, a native of Wilhamson, and daughter of Joseph and Thursey (Stowell) Sanders, he a native of Nova Scotia, and she a native of Oneida county. They came to town when young, where he died January 1, 1883, and she March 11, 1893. Our subject and wife have had two children : Nora A., wife of Fred. Smonton, and has one child ; Merton E., at home. Mr. Denney is a Republican, is a member of the A. O. U. W., Ontario Lodge, and G. A. R., Myron M. Fish Post No. 406 and Ontario Grange.
Devereanx, Albert F., was born in Rensselaer county October 29, 1832. Ilis great- grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, coming to America with La Fayette's French troops, and soon after the close of the war settled on the Van Rensselaer " Pat- ent." The son, and then the grandson, Stephen Devereaux (father of Albert F.), oc- enpied the same lands, in succession, improving the land, but being subject to annually paying the rents, which though not excessive were generally considered illegal, giving rise to very much bitter feeling, culminating in the anti-rent war, in which the Dever- cauxs and relatives were divided, some donning the Indian suits of the anti-renters and others supporting the continnanee of the patroon estates. The childhood and youth of Albert F. was spent in this somewhat fettered and unsatisfactory farming, a phase of monopoly. But m 1839 Stephen Devereaux moved to Wayne county, south of Clyde, with his family, a wife and nine cluldren, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eldest. The Reuben Smith farm, now owned by M. B. Syron, adjoining Al- bert F.'s present farm, was purchased. At the age of twenty-one Albert F. went to Michigan to make his fortune, having received a common school education and assisted his father faithfully during the years of minority. With $60.12, his total capital, he went to Battle Creek, Mich., and there engaged in work in building the Michigan C'en- tral Railroad, afterwards taking up wild land near Grand Rapids and immediately after another lot of land, partly improved and containing a cranberry marsh in Oakland county. This he sold to his father, indneing all the famdy to move to Michigan. In looking up and locating land Albert F. traversed much of the then wilds of central Michigan afoot and by boat, and was on the grounds of Lansing, Ionia, Marshall, Owasso, and other cities when they were merely straggling settlements. After a time he embarked in buying Michigan cranberries and shipping to Albany, N. Y. Then re- maining in the vicinity of Albany a short time he came to Galen in 1850 and married Mary E., daughter of Stephen Hull. They have two sons, Willard 1 .. and Stephen 11. In 1862 he bought the Stephen Hull property of 108 acres. In 1880 he bought the ad- joining property of 100 acres of Jeremiah Mead, and in 1885 fifty acres of woodland in lot 74 along Clyde river. In 1852 he was the foremost of three planters in Galen, per-
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haps the first in Wayne county to engage in tobacco growing. This he continued in for thirteen years. So little was known about the " weed " that one of the three, Mr. Harvey Streeter, exhibited growing plants at the Galen Fair, receiving the first premium. These very plants and the whole of his seeding that year proved to be nothing but mullin plants. Albert F. was the earliest extensive planter of wie grapes and mann- facturer of wines and brandy in New York State. Beginning in 1856, before the Pleasant Valley, Hudson River and Chautauqua grape and wine districts were founded, he began producing wines for medicinal and sacramental purposes, of warranted purity, and has established a name continuing with his trade to this day for these goods, known in most of the States of the Union. He was the first grower and seller of Niagara grapes in Wayne county. Mr. Devereaux is, withal, a devoted agriculturist, never for even a year relinquishing his attachment to farming, always anning to grow the finest crops and ardently taking up the many and varied tasks of land improvement. His home fann holds a large sum of costly farm land engineering in the removal of every rock, stones and obstructions, the laying of miles of tile drainage, stone walls, and other feneing. Large areas have been filled in and sharp knolls graded down, clay soils mixed with sand and gravel and large cuttings made for the outlet of water into the river. A number of handsome farm buildings have also been erected. Mr. Devereaux has been a landmarker and has made his farm a landmark in the town. He was president of the Galen Agricultural Society for three years. Mr. Devereaux was also one of the organ- izers of the present Baptist Church, of Clyde, was elected trustee then and has been re-elected at the expiration of each term nntil the present time.
Edgett, the late Ezra A., was born in Greene county, November 21, 1828. His parents came to Oneida county when he was twelve years old, where he was educated in the publie and select .schools. The family came to this county in March, 1865. Mr. Edgett was an excellent business man. He was at the head of the company in con- ducting the Wayne County Preserving Company. At his death his wife succeeded him in the business in company with E. K. Burnham. December 16, 1856, he married Harriet C. Marvin, of Camden, Oneida county, and they had four children : James C., who was well educated, and was brought up in the business with his father. He mar- ried Anna L. Wilcox, of Port Gibson, Ontario county, and they have one son, Oliver ; Edith M. married Wilham R. Conover, and resides in Boston, they have one daughter, HIalla; Mary L. resides with her mother; and George, who died in infancy. Mr. Edgett died January 30, 1889, mourned by a bereaved wife and children, and many friends.
Eldridge, Lewis, was born in Penfield, Monroe county, in 1837, where he lived till the age of twenty-five, then, m 1862, married Betsey A_ Goodwin, of Penfield, a native of England, born in 1840, who came to this country at about the age of twelve with her parents, Eli and Mary, who located in Monroe county, and afterwards in Walworth, where the mother died, and where the father still lives. Mr. Eldridge settled on a farm in Penfield, purchased by his father in 1816. The grandfather of our subject, William Eldridge, was with Washington as his aide-de-camp all during the Revolution. He was born near Salem, N. Y., and died at Penfield. Erastus, the father of Lewis, was born in Washington county, and died at Penfield in 1863. His wife was Anna (Watson) Eldridge, a native of Maine, who also died at Penfield. Lewis resided on the home farm about three years after his marriage. He resided in Marion four years also, then located on the farm, where he now resides, in Palmyra. This place consists of 118 acres, and he also owns 101 acres near by. He married Betsey A. Goodwin, and their children are : Charles A., and Carrie A. (twins), who now reside in Monroe county ; Perinton, now Mrs. J. Crane, of Marion ; Fred D., of Palmyra ; Anna E., now Anna E. Miller, of Marion ; Smith E., who died in childhood; Edward E .; Arthur L. ; and May I.
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Edgerton, W. W., supervisor of Palmyra, is a native of Saratoga county, N. Y., born December 13, 1819. In 1829 he came to this town, where he lived with his unele, Oliver Durfee, until the age of twenty-three, when he married and lived in the town of Marion on a farm for two years. This he sold, and then resided in Orleans county for four years, and then in the town of Ontario, Wayne county. From 1854 to 1884 he lived in Walworth, then came to his present residence, about three-quarters of a mile north of the village of Palmyra. He also owns a farm of 105 acres in Williamson. Mr. Edgerton has served Walworth five terms as supervisor, Palmyra three years as assessor, and as supervisor two terms. In 1842 he married Louisa Pratt, who died in 1843. His second marriage was with Calista Avery, of Palmyra, a danghter of Caleb and Abigail (Cole) Avery, and their children are : Arrebell E., now Mrs. Rose, of New York city ; C. Avery, who graduated from the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College, practiced in Churchville, near Rochester, four years, and died Jime 11, 1880. He was born August 24, 1849, and married a danghter of Alfred Miller, by whom he had one child, Melvin G., born Angust 30, 1859, now a physician of Canastota, also a graduate of the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College. He married A. Nettie Blair, of Cleveland, Ohio, who died May 10, 1883, and his second wife was Maude, youngest daughter of Hon. Loring C. Fowler, of Canastota, N. Y.
Earley, James, is the son of Michael and Anne (Riley) Earley, of County Westmeath, Ireland, where he was born May 21, 1837. In 1853 the ship Columbia landed him in New York, without capital, save health, good habits, and energy. After ten years spent in farm labor, chiefly in Onondaga county, he bought in 1863 a small farm in Butler, having married, April 20, 1862, Alice, daughter of Patrick Kennedy, of Savan- nah. He came to Savannah in 1866, and owns a farm of 136 acres. Their children are : Michael, born in 1863, now a bookkeeper at Hoosick Falls, who married Olive Worden, of that place; Edward, born in 1864, who married Julie, daughter of John Davis, of Savannah, who conducts a farm adjacent to that of his father; and James, born in 1866, a bookkeeper for the Wood Machine Company at St. Paul, Minn. They have also a daughter by adoption, Agnes M. Keeley, of Red Creek, adopted in 1875 at the age of three, and now the wife of George Delaney, of Seneca Falls. Mr. Earley en- listed with the 15th New York Engineers in 1864, and served till the close of the war. He is now a prime mover and leader in the cause of Prohibition.
Ennis, Charles (deceased), was born in Alloway, September 1, 1835. His grand- father, William, came from New Jersey in 1806, and bought a tract of land in the southern part of Lyons, known as the Squire Parks farm. His father, Robert Ennis, was a prominent contractor, and in 1847 bought the Captain Towar residence and saw mill. Ile died in 1860. Charles Ennis, the fourth son, was educated at Lima and Hobart College, Geneva, and afterward removed to Minnesota, and in 1865 he with his brothers founded the Commercial National Bank of Chicago, which at present is one of the leading banks of Chicago, and of which he was cashier. In 1867 he returned to Lyons. At the age of twenty-nine he married Emma L., daughter of Deacon Newell Taft, of Lyons, and they were the parents of three children : Charles T., Willard G., and Marian. Charles T. is now preparing for admission to the bar of Wayne county in the office of J. W. Dunwell. He had many very large business interests in the West, but his home was in Wayne county, retaining the relations and being in association with the leading men of his county, and he ever sought to advance the west welfare of those, with whom he came in contact. Ile died July 2, 1879, at the age of forty-three. He took an active interest in educational and religions institutions, especially in the Presby- terian church, of which he was a member.
Eaton, James E., was born in Sussex county, England, December 7, 1827. He was the oldest of eight children born to Samuel and Hannah Eaton, natives of England, in 1854 came to America, and on his return to England he died. His wife died in Eng-
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jand in 1853. James E. Eaton was reared on a farm, and in 1850 came to Ontario and settled on the farm now owned by the family. Mr. Eaton had forty-five acres, on which he made improvements and built new buildings. He married, May 8, 1851, in Monroe county, Fannie Woodhams, a native of England, came to Ontario in 1850, and here Mr. Woodhams died in 1878, and his wife in 1874. Mr. Eaton and wife had twelve children : Sarah A., deceased; James T. ; Jacob, deceased; William; John W. ; Anme M., deceased ; Charles F., deceased ; Emma J .; Nettie; Lillie B., deceased ; Roland D., deceased ; and Raymond. Mr. Eaton died November 24, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton are members of the Wesleyan Methodist church.
Easton, Charles H., proprietor of the Empire Roller Mills of Wolcott, was born here in 1861, the son of Hezekiah Easton, a well-known citizen of Wolcott. He attended school at the Red Creek Seminary, where he obtained a fair business education. When twenty-one years of age he married Kate L. Clapper, daughter of John Clapper, of Red Creek. In 1883 he purchased a farm of 75 aeres, the old homestead, by being quite successful in the raising of tobacco. In 1892 he purchased the Empire Roller Mills of Wolcott, where he condnets a milling business both in custom and merchant milling.
Fritts, Aaron, was born in the town of Macedon, March 16, 1873. His father, George Fritts, was a native of New York State, and was a farmer. He died in 1881, but his wife is still living. Aaron Fritts is a young man of twenty-one years. He was educated in the Macedon Academy, and since leaving school has been engaged in farm work. He now owns a farm of 123 aeres. In politics Mr. Fritts is an Independent.
Freeland, Charles D., was born in Seneca county, July 5, 1818. His father was a native of New Jersey, and came to Seneca county in 1804, and died August 28, 1866, at the age of seventy-six. Charles D. was educated in the common schools, and at the age of thirty-one he married Eleanor Van Demark, who passed away in 1879. He after- ward married Incy Manthe, and they have one son, Jolm P., and three daughters, Mary B., Emma C., and Katie May. In 1866 he bought part of the Jonah Hopkins estate, having sixty acres, and raising fruit, hay, grain, and stock.
Finch, David S., was born in the town of Dresden, February 24, 1819. His father, Jeremiah S., came to the town of Rose in 1820, when the said town was nearly all a wilderness. He first settled about two miles west of Rose Valley, on the farm now occupied by a Mr. Hicox, living there eight years, when he took up and cleared the farm now owned by William Finch, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1859, aged seventy-seven years. He was a well-known farmer and veterinary sur- geon. David S. was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-sever. married Matilda A., daughter of Jacob Brush, of Lebanon, Columbia county, by whom he has six children : Nathaniel, Charles, William, Jeremiah, Ernest and Mrs. Phoebe J. Howe. In 1869 he bought the Calvin H. Bliss property of 208 acres, raising fruit, hay, grain and stock, having also a lot of about fifteen acres in the town of Rose, which he devoted to vegetable growing. Onr subject has been a member of the M. E. Church for the past twenty-five years, and takes an active interest in all school and church work.
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