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pital at David's Island ; was later assigned as post surgeon at the Draft Rendezvous at Riker's Island, New York harbor. Continuing in the hospital service up to 1865, he then resigned on account of ill health. He soon after located in Long Island City and established a general practice and a drug store, and was appointed postmaster. Since 1870 he has practiced in the west until 1881, when he returned to Lyons, where he has since resided. Dr. Gilbert is the inventor and proprietor of " Vital Vim," a new stimulant without alcohol or any injurious ingredients, which is rapidly gaining in favor as a household remedy, as well as a cure for the liquor habit. He is a comrade of A. D. Adams Post, No. 153, G. A. R., of the State of New York ; a member of Humanity Lodge, No. 406, F. and A. M., and one of the original charter members of Temple Lodge, No. 115, Ancient Order of United Workmen, of which he is past master work- man and medical examiner.
Greenway, George B., was born in Syracuse February 15, 1856. His father, George Greenway, was one of the firm of J. & G. Greenway, brewers. George B. Greenway was educated in Syracuse and Williams College, after which he studied medicine. In 1880 in connection with C. E. Wolcott he purchased the book and stationery business of Davis, Bardeen & Co., which he afterward sold out and took an interest in the Whitney Wagon Works. In 1889 he came to Clyde and purchased S. D. Streeter's in- terest of the Streeter Malting Company, and in 1892 bought the remaining Streeter in- terest. Mr. Greenway married Miss Ella M. Warner daughter of Arthur Warner, of Springfield, Mass., and to them one child was born, viz., Ruth W. Mr. Greenway is a publie spirited man and is interested in the advancement of the educational and religious institutions of the town. In 1894 he was elected president of the village of Clyde.
Gatchell, William Whittier, was born in Galen September 7, 1822, a son of Elisha, a native of Boston, who came in 1813 to Lyons, Wayne county, and some years later to Iluron and settled on Great Sodus Bay. He served as justice of the peace, com- missioner, and assessor. He married first Sophia, daughter of Clark Whittier, of Port- land, Maine, by whom he had five children : Jeremiah, William W., James W., Harriet, and Mary Ann. ITis second wife was Margaret Britton, and their children were : Sophia, Christopher, Henry, Charles, Guett, Elisha (deceased), Jane, and Charles. The grandfather was Jeremiah, also a native of Boston, and a sea captain. His wife was a Miss Diamond, whose father was sailing master on board the war-ship Constitution. At the age of eighteen William W. engaged in the mercantile business in Port Glasgow, which he followed four years, afterward engaging in the apple business, which he fol- lowed eighteen years and then turned his attention to farming and fruit growing, own- ing 170 acres. In February, 1861, he married Lonise, daughter of Charles and Polly Tyndall, of Rose, and their children are: Minnie, wife of Dr. George D. York, of Huron ; James K., of Troy ; Worth and Sophia. Mr. and Mrs. Gatchell are members of Huron Grange, and in polities our subject is a Democrat. He has served as post- inaster, assessor, constable, collector, and supervisor.
Gilbert, Edward F., was born in Lyons January 21, 1843. His father, John, was one of the prominent business men in his town, being a manufacturer and inventor of fan- ning mills for over sixty years. These mulls were shipped all over the United States, Canada, and to foreign countries, including Turkey and Damaseus, Syria. He invented the process of putting the twist in the double warp of the wire screens used in clean- ing grain ; previous to that time they were braided by hand. In 1858 he engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, in which he was succeeded by his son Edward F., who was educated in the Lyons Union School, began an active business life at the age of sixteen, and carried on the business twenty-eight years. Ile then traveled on the road and is also engaged in shipping to foreign countries parts of fanning mills that could not be manufactured there. He is also the inventor of several toys, among them being the thirteen, fourteen, fifteen puzzle, "Gibert's Instruction Alphabet" and lı
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" Wash-stand Screen." At the age of twenty-four he married Viola, daughter of Mor- timer Calkins, of Earlville, N. Y., a graduate from the Lyons Musical Academy, who is an efficient organist and successful piano music teacher. They are the parents of two children : Carrie (deceased), and Mary Keokee, who has been a pupil of celebrated vio- linists and is herself a brilliant performer and able instructor on the violin. Our subject is one of the prominent business men in his town, having been trustee, treasurer and assessor in his village.
Gillett, William, was born at Ferguson's Corners in the town of Galen, June 26, 1827. His father, James Gillett, was a native of Kent, England, came to the United States in 1824 and settled in Wayne county at Ferguson's Corners. He died in 1848, aged fifty-six. William Gillett was educated in the common schools in the town of Sodus, aud at the age of twenty-five married Lucy A., daughter of John Butler, by whom he had three eluldren, John H., William J. (now deceased), and Mrs. Lizzie B. Patten. In 1861 he bought the Benjamin Ford property of 100 acres, raising fruit. hay, grain and stock, and making a specialty of garden seeds. Our subject is one of the representative men of his town, was elected supervisor and assessor, and takes an active interest in school and church matters.
Garlock, James P., was born in Arcadia July 15, 1825, and came with his parents to Parma, Monroe county, and here he was educated and learned the trade of carpentry. This he followed twelve years, since which he has engaged in farming. February 23, 1859, he married Lydia A. Bryant, a daughter of one of the first settlers of the town, and they have one son, Willard B., a farmer with his father. The family returned to Wayne county and located in East Palmyra in 1864, and in 1868 to the town of Arca- dia, locating on part of the Bryant homestead. Nicholas, father of our subject, was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery county, May 17, 1788, and married Katie Writen- burgh, by whom he had two children : Elisha and Sarah E. He married second Re- becca Van Zile, and their five children were: Andrew, James P., Nelson H., William, and Wesley. This family came here in 1812, locating on the Edgett place west of Newark. Nicholas died December 17, 1838, and his wife January 10, 1866. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. The great-grandfather of James P. came from Germany in 1709 and settled in Montgomery county, where the family was long identified with the best interests of the locality. The fifth generation is now residing on the Bryant homestead.
Gardner, Amos, was born in Webster, Monroe county, November 30, 1831. He is one of a family of nine sons and seven daughters of Thomas and Matilda (Russell) Gardner, he a native of Albany county, born February 12, 1806, died February 1, 1861, and she a native of Greene county, born September 18, 1812. Mr. Gardner was a farmer by occupation and bought the farm now owned by George Gardner in Ou- tario. Mrs. Gardner died December 13, 1889. A son, Louis, was in the Rebellion two years. He was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, from the effects of which he died October 20, 1886. The grandfather was Silas, who came from Rhode Island to Monroe county, and settled finally in Ontario Wayne county, where he died. Amos Gardner was reared on the farm and has always followed farming. He now has a farm of fifty acres and carries on general farming and fruit raising. October 24, 1855, he married Lydia, daughter of Urial and Esther (Power) Aldrich, he of Macedon and she of Oak Orchard Creek, N. Y. They had three sons and two daughters, all of whom are now living. He died September 24, 1882, and his wife resides at Farmington, Ou- tario county, on the homestead, aged eighty-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have had three sons and one daughter : E. Isabelle, who died May 25, 1872; Urial, deceased; Cassius and Royal, who are at home. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion they are Baptists.
Gardner, Ishmael Gilbert, is one of Huron's representatives, born in Huron April 6, 1851, and is the son of Samuel Gardner, a farmer born in Ontario county in 1820. He
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came to Huron in 1849, and served as assessor, supervisor, and in other offices. His wife was Hannah Brewster, of Lansingburg, and their children were Ishmael G. and Elizabeth, deceased. His second wife was Happilona Chatterson, and they had one child, Ella, wife of Samuel Lyman, of Rose. Our subject now owns the homestead farm, and is a grower and distiller of the oils of peppermint, spearmint, wormwood and tansy. He also has extensive hot houses and gardening lands, and is engaged in forcing various winter and early spring erops for the city markets. In 1875 he married Sarah, daughter of Azael and Harriet Slaght, and their children are: Evelyn, born 1876; Samuel, 1878; Belle, deceased; Laura, 1889. Mr. Gardner is a Democrat.
Ganze, Henry A., was born in Germany, July 27, 1837, is the son of Henry and Maria Ganze, natives of Germany, who came to New York in 1852, and finally settled in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic county, N. J., where Mr. Ganze died in 1881, and his wife in 1866. Subject was educated in the common schools of Germany and at a evening school in New York. Hle left New York in 1854, and settled in Marion (at sixteen years of age). Mr. Ganze is a natural musician, and for a number of years played the organ in the Christian church, of which he and his wife are members. He learned the carpenter trade, and has followed it most of his life. He enlisted in 1862 in Company D), 160thi New York Volunteer Infantry, and served three years and three months. He was in the following battles: Port Hudson, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, wounded and taken prisoner, but only held one day. He married, December 30, 1857, Clarissa Fish, a native of Fall River, Mass., daughter of John and Mary Fish. Mr. Ganze and wife had six children: Henry J., born August 26, 1866; Albert A., born September 27, 1867 ; William HI., born January 2, 1871 ; Thomas S., born July 7, 1872; Mary A., born February 3, 1875, and one born in 1880, who died in infancy. Henry J. died August 27, 1866 ; Albert A. died March 3, 1870; Thomas died April 26, 1873. Mr. Ganze holds the office of excise commissioner.
Hall, J. Madison, one of the oldest residents of this locality, and who yet carries lightly his eighty-six years, was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, October 8, 1808, the son of Aaron Hall, a native of Connecticut. Practically a self-educated man, he is an omniverous reader and a man of vigorous mental action. His wife, Phila Mosher, was born in Pittstown, February 3, 1810, and died May 16, 1889. Their children were as follows : Henry, now with his father ; Wesley, a prominent merchant at Red Creek ; Mary, wife of D. D. Becker, of the firm of Becker & Hall, merchants and bankers of Red Creek ; Martha, wife of A. M. Turner, of New York city ; and Harriet, who died April 22, 1850, aged fifteen.
Heisler, Henry, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, November 7, 1833, and came to the United States in 1855. He first went to Monroe county, in 1856 came to the town of Huron, and in 1869 bought the Rogers property of fifty aeres, raising fruit, hay, grain, and stock. In 1857 he married Maria B., daughter of Casper Mannes, and they have three children : Henry R., John C., and Mrs. Maria Jenkins. Our subject is one of the most thorough farmers in the town of Galen, and is recognized as a man of sterling integrity.
Hamm, Moses F., was born in the town of Bloomfield, Ontario county, March 17, 1834, was educated in the common schools, and is a graduate of the Canandaigua Acad- emy. About 1854 he married Phoebe J., danghter of Jason and Adeline Sanford, of East Palmyra. Mr. Hamm taught school when a young man, and by industry and good management has become possessed of a comfortable competence. When the Union School and Academy was erected, he devoted his entire time to superintending the con- struction of the edifice, in the capacity of trustee, which latter office he filled for nine years. He has also served as president of village of Newark. Mrs. Hamm died in 1865, and he married second, May 14, 1867, Mary E., daughter of Edward and Lida Kirby, of Oneida county. Mr. Hamm is committee in charge of the Emma L. Ramsdell
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estate, the owner being insane. He has resided in Newark seventeen years. His care of the above estate, together with the care of his farms, absorbs his whole time and energies. He was formerly associated with James Upton and Gideon Ramsdell as wood and tie contractors for fifteen years, for the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. Ile is a member of Newark Lodge No. 83, F. & A. M .. also of I. O. O. F. No. 250. Mrs. Hamm is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. Hamm's father, Robert, was born in Vermont, of Seotch parentage, and came to this part of the country in 1802, first locating in Palmyra, and later in East. Bloomfield. His first wife was Sarah Mack, and his second was Eunice Guile, of Keene, N. H. His children were: Miranda, Burton, Helena, Levantiaette, Robert, jr., Delia, Moses F., Ennice, Eusebia. He died, aged eighty-four. Edward Kirby, Mrs. Hamm's father, was a civil engineer, born in France, who married Lida Long, of Oneida county, and they had seven children, of which only three survive.
Hance, Thomas C., was one of the early settlers in this county, having been born in Calvert county, Md., September 27, 1782, and died April 18, 1888, in Macedon, at the advanced age of 105 years, six months, and twenty-one days. He moved from Balti- more, Md., in 1803, to Western New York, and remained with his parents in Farming- ton until 1817, when he married Esther C., daughter of Abraham Lapham. He thien removed to Macedon and kept the first general store on the mail route, west of Palmyra, also had nurseries in Farmington and Macedon. In 1821 he received a patent for a horse hay rake on wheels, it being the first patent of the kind issued. He and wife were members of the Society of Friends. They had seven children, six of whom lived to maturity, as follows: Benjamin M., born in 1818 in Macedon, graduated from the Canandaigua Academy, and taught school a number of years. He was a member of the Sanitary Commission in the late war, stationed at Point of Rocks, Va., and later at Alexandria Heights. He took the overland route to California in 1849. At present he is a resident of Niles, Mich., in the horticultural business; Sarah D., born in 1820, graduated from the Albany Female Seminary, and at onee took the position of precep- tress at Macedon Academy (of which she was a graduate), later of the Palmyra and Utica schools. She was instructor to the daughter of Senator Seward, and she served as an assistant private secretary to him at Washington in 1857. She died June 10, 1867 ; Abraham L., born April 6, 1822, died December 20, 1893 ; Thomas C., born in 1823, graduated from the Chicago Medical College, was a surgeon in the United States army, and is now stationed at Republican City, Neb .; Dr. S. F. H., born in 1825 in Ohio, graduated from the Albany Medical College, and was surgeon in the 89th Illinois Infantry, resident now of Minneapolis, Minn. ; and Jonahan R., born in Ohio in 1827. The parents in their old age hved with their son, Abraham L. The father was a de- seendant of John Hance, of England, who settled in Maryland soon after Lord Baltimore established the colony there. The mother was a descendant of the Laphams of Rhode Island. She died in June, 1862, at the home of her son Abraham. The latter is the only one of the sons who remained in this State. He was educated at the Canandaigua and Macedon Center Academies, and in early life was a teacher and superintendent of schools, and for forty years was connected with the best interests of his native town. He married Lydia Packard in 1854. She was a daughter of Philander and Minerva Packard. They had two sons: Frederick S., born October 17, 1858, who married Jessie E. Parker in 1882, and has five children : and Benjamin M., born December 9, 1859, who lives on the homestead. He married Ada E. Eldredge in 1883.
Horton, George S., of Wolcott, was born in the old homestead at North Wolcott, March 23, 1857. He was educated at the Leavenworth Institute and Red Creek Union Seminary. In the fall of 1880 he became a student in the law department of the Uni- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, remaining there one year, thenee to the Albany Law School, where he graduated in the class of 1892. Prior to his legal studies he spent a portion of each year as a teacher. When only twenty-two years of age, he was elected justice of the peace in his native town, being the youngest one in the country. Mr.
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Horton cast his first presidential vote for James A. Garfield in 1880. He has been an enthusiastic Republican ever since. He is associated with Colonel A. S. Wood in the practice of the law. In the town of Wolcott, where he was reared, and with whose interest he has always been identified, no man is more popular nor more highly respect- ed, as is evidenced by the majorities which he always gets when he is a candidate for an office. In the fall of 1893 he was elected by a plurality of two thousand five hundred and fifty-three to represent the big and populous county of Wayne in the Assembly. He was made chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and was also a member on Judiciary and Claims. In the season of 1894 he introduced several measures of an economical and reformatory character, not only earning the continued regard of his constituents, but the respect of his political opponents. He is married, and has one child.
Hanchett, Mrs. Orange R., was born at Mexico, N. Y., March 17, 1826. Her maiden name was Maretta Kenyon. In 1847 she married Frank Maguire, who was born in Tyre, Seneca county, February 22, 1819. He was a resident of Butler forty years, en- gaged in blacksmithing, and is a citizen of irreproachable character and moral worth. Hle died at Butler, January 21, 1887. They had two sons, Darwin F., who died in infancy ; and Adelbert E., who was conductor on the T. W. S. W. R. R., and was killed in a collision, November 6, 1874, aged twenty-six years. Mrs. Maguire married second, Orange R. Hanchett (formerly of Wichita, Kan.), March 25, 1889, and they moved to Wolcott, where Mr. Hanchett died April 9, 1893.
Henry, William, was born in Chatham, Columbia county, in 1817, a son of William Henry, a school teacher, who went to Albany in 1818, and was never again heard from. His wife was Catherine Sours, of Columbia county. In 1836 he and his mother moved to Wayne county, and purchased the farm where Mr. Henry now lives. Here his mother died in 1873. He makes a specialty of raising fruit, in which he is very success- ful, his farm consisting of 200 acres. In 1844 he married Olive, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Parker, of Huron, who were early settlers here. Mrs. Henry was born in 1823. They had one child, born in 1846, Catherine Ann, wife of Aaron Peck, of Wol- cott, by whom she has three children : Gertie, Frank, and Minnie. Mrs. Henry died in 1849, and two years later he married Julia A. (born in July, 1823), a daughter of Christian and Anna C. (Rote) Sours. They had four children : Seymour, born in 1852; Mary, born in 1855, wife of Charles S. Pratt, of Marion; Emma, born in 1857, wife of Lewis Lovejoy, of Huron ; and Idella, boin in 1860, wife of Frank Chapin, of Huron. Mrs. Henry died June 18, 1894, aged seventy years. Mr. Henry has fourteen grand- children, and three great-grandchildren. Ulrich Sours, great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Germany, and had three children: Tunis, Peter, and Elizabeth. Tunis, born in 1764, and his wife, Maria, born in 1756, had these children : Christiana, born in 1786; Philip, born in 1788; Catherine, born in 1790; Hannah, born in 1793; Margaret, born in 1795; Maria, born in 1797; and Cynthia, born in 1799.
Heit, Jacob, was born in Alsace, March 8, 1823. His father, Michael, came with his family to the United States in 1830, and died in 187 , aged eighty years. Jacob was educated in the common schools. At the age of twenty-eight he married Magdalena, danghter of Henry Miller, of Lock Berlin, and they have five children : John HI., George F., William A., Henry M., and. Jacob D. In 1855 he bought the Adam Clum property ; in 1868 bought the William Bonell property, and subsequently the David Waldruff farm, in all having about 450 acres, and raising fruit, hay, grain, and stock. Onr subject is one of the largest farmers in his town, taking an active interest in educational and re- ligious matters, and has been steward of the M. E. church of Clyde many years.
Hopkins, Burton J., born in Ontario, September 22, 1835, is the third of five sons of Joseph and Pamela J. (Nichols) Hopkins, he a native of New Jersey, and she of Con- necticut. He came to Manchester and then to Pultney ville, where he was married. He
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then came to Ontario and settled on a farm, where he lived fifty-five years, and there died in November, 1890, aged ninety years, and his wife resides with the subject of this sketch at the age of ninety-two. Subject was reared on a farm and educated in Mace- don and Webster Academies. He taught in district school during winter terms from the time he was eighteen years old until he was married, was engaged in selling nursery stock and also in the saw mill business, and bought wool in partnership with his brother Henry for several years. He received a patent for slicing and curing apples in 1880, it being the first in use. Mr. Hopkins is at present a farmer, and purchased a farm of 111 acres in 1885, where he has since resided. He is a Republican, a member of South Shore Grange of Ontario, and is now master of the Grange. The family are members of the Presbyterian church. He married in 1864 Ann E. Sprague, by whom he has had four children : Archer C., W. Burr, Mary A., and Glenn N. W. Burr graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1893, and is now a student of Brown's College, Providence, R. I. Archer C. was educated in Palmyra and Macedon Academies. Mary is a student of Webster Union School.
Hamm, Edson W., was born at Sharon Springs, N. Y., September 18, 1861, was edu- cated in Macedon Academy, and from there went to the Albany Normal School, and after teaching two years began the study of law with IIon. Stephen K. Williams at Newark, N. Y., then went to Washington, D. C., to assist in the republication of the United States Supreme Court reports. He then took the law course at the National University of Law at Washington, graduating in 1884, and in 1885 took a post-graduate course, and returned to Newark and spent a year with Judge Norton, and was admitted to the bar in 1886, and then entered into partnership with Judge Norton. In 1887 he terminated that connection and came to Lyons, where he carries on a general practice. At the age of twenty-eight he married Mary W. Van Camp, daughter of William Van- Camp. Subject is recognized as one of the rising men in his profession, giving an earnest and energetie attention to all business matters.
Hill, Edmund, was born in Junius, Seneca county, May 11, 1835. ITis father, Peter, came to Wayne county in 1839, and was a prominent farmer in his town. Edmund re- ceived his education in the district schools, to which he has added through life by read- ing and close observation. In 1865 he married Angusta, daughter of William Rein- hardt, of Pittsfield, Mass., and they are the parents of four children : Theodore W., Charles E., Edmund Augustus, and Lena E. In 1879 Mr. Hill inherited his father's estate of ninety acres, to which he has added by buying adjoining property, and all of which he has now under cultivation. Our subject is one of the leading men of his town, taking an active interest in educational and religious matters.
Holdrige, A. J., after a life of more than ordinary interest and adventure in foreign lands, returned in 1865 to his old home, for the next ten years was on shore and at sea, and for sixteen years has been an express and freight agent at Savannah. He was born in Galen, September 16, 1838, a son of Ambrose and Charity Holdridge. His educational opportunities were limited, and at the age of fifteen he ran away from home and shipped from Greenport, L. I., on board the whaler Italy in 1854. Off' the Aleutian Isles in 1856 she was dismasted in a heavy storm, and after the loss of eleven men finally harbored in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, and the cargo of 2,800 barrels of oil and 32,500 pounds of whalebone was saved intaet, then visited a number of the South Sea Islands among the cannibals. He next shipped in the Sheffield for another whaling eruise, which lasted eight months, with a net result of 2,200 barrels of oil and 19,000 pounds of whalebone. Next entering the merchant service he visited all the principal ports of South America, rapidly passing by various promotions from a common sailor to first mate, which posi- tion he held on board the Monterey when but twenty-two years of age. During the war between Peru and Ecuador he was on a blockade-runner, which was on one occa- sion chased all day by a Peruvian man-of-war without result. At Panama, when in the passenger steamer service, he had the dreaded chagres fever, and after his recovery
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