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he again entered merchant service, visiting London and other points in the Old World. In 1863, while on the United States navy ship Aphrodite, he suffered shipwreck off Cape Lookout, when the ship and twenty-six men were lost, but Mr. Holdridge es- caped uninjured. After the war he spent several seasons on the lakes, chiefly in sail- ing vessels, and subject to the usual vicissitudes of a sailor's life, sometimes an officer, and sometimes before the mast. In 1889 he married Fanny Taylor, of Clyde. Our sub- jeet has been president of the village, trustee, assessor, etc.
Harrington, Eb., is a son of Daniel Harrington, a Wayne county pioneer, who died at Savannah in 1883. He was in many ways a promment man in early times, con- ducted a steam saw mill for a period of fifteen years, and was commissioner of high- ways for twenty-five years. His wife was Mary A. Fitch, and of her four children two are now living : Harriet, wife of Ezra Van Duyne, of Savannah ; and Eb., who was born October 23, 1818, and acquired a good education at a select school at South Butler. When twenty-four years of age he married Caroline, danghter of the late Herman West- cott, of Savannah, and their children are : Cynthia, born April 19, 1874, and Engene, born February 1, 1876. Caroline died February 16, 1886, and Mr. Harrington is now married to Miss Catharine Fiteh, of Savannah, and she has one daughter, born March 16, 1894.
Hamilton, David R., was born December 3, 1806, the son of David Hamilton, of Montgomery county, who died December 7, 1819, at an advanced age. David was one of a family of nine children, and at the age of eighty eight now stands the sole living representative, in Wayne county of that family. His boyhood was passed in Saratoga county, coming to Butler in 1828, in September of which year he married Mary Hol- lister, of Saratoga, by whom he had eight children : William H., born May 13, 1830; Charles A., born February 3, 1832; Melissa, born October 7, 1833; Harriet, born April 5, 1835 ; Mary C., born December 14, 1836; Hollister, born September 30, 1839; Martha, born February 19, 1841; and Frank, born September 24, 1844. Mary Hamil- ton died, January 22, 1873, and December 24, of that year, he married Harriet, widow of Oscar F. Coggswell, of Meridian. She had one son, William O. Coggswell, who died March 24, 1880, at Detroit, Mich., aged twenty-four years. He was a practicing physician. Mr. Hamilton was a delegate to the first Republican county convention, held in Wayne, when he served as secretary. He has served as coroner six years, justice of the peace four years, and was commissioner of deeds four years. While he was justice of the peace he had the pleasure of uniting in holy matrimony Mr. John Bloomingdale and Miss Melissa Watson, both of the town of Wolcott. At last account they were living happily together in Michigan.
Hotchkiss, II. G., was born in Oneida county, N. Y., June 19, 1810. His father, Leman Hotchkiss, removed to Phelps, N. Y., in 1811, and became the pioneer merchant of that region. On his death in 1826, HI. G., with his brother L. B., succeeded to his business, which continued until 1837, when he embarked in extensive milling opera- tions, sending his flour to the New York markets. There was at that time a small quantity of peppermint raised in the neighborhood. He seenred the oil and sent it to New York. Finding that the market was largely controlled by adulterators who were shipping the oil in an impure state to Europe, he decided to commence the manufacture of a strictly pure article for the European markets. The first consignments were through George B. Morewood & Co. to London, and through G. Meyer & Sons to Rot- terdam, in 1839. It soon became greatly appreciated by the consumers. Finding the lowlands of Lyons, N. Y., admirably adopted to the purpose, he purchased a large traet of land in 1843, and commeneed the extensive enltivation of the plant. He re- moved there in 1844. His brand has been awarded the first prize medals at the World's Fairs held in England, Germany, America, France and Austria since 1851; and is at present the leading brand of American essential oils in New York, London, Hamburg, and all large European markets, as will be noticed in the quotations in all the leading
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drug reports in America and Europe. On his way to the Paris Exposition in 1878 he stopped in London, and was congratulated by prominent London merchants on the London Exchange on the excellent reputations of his oils. He replied that if he were guilty of fraud and adulterations, he would not be there to receive their congratulations. Each case of oil contains a pamphlet describing the honors awarded to this brand, and received the highest award of merit at the Columbian Exposition held at Chicago in 1893.
Hall, Aaron, married Polly Warner in 1806 in the town of Amherst. State of Massa- chusetts, moved to Vernon, Oneida county, in 1810, and moved from there to the town of Galen, now Savannah, Wayne county, in 1812 and settled on the farm now occupied by Stephen Sprague. They had eight children, Harriet, the oldest, married Conrad Sedore, who died in 1872. She had eight children, three of whom are now living. She resides with her son, Ira B. Sedore at Savannah, and is eighty-seven years of age. Andrew Hall married Maria Chapin, of Savannah, in 1827. He died in 1841, and his wife died in 1876. They had five children, three of whom are now living: Aaron, living abont one mile west of Savannah, a farmer; Andrew S., living in Savannah, an insurance agent ; and Hattie, living in the State of Illinois. Oscar Hall died in Michi- gan in 1893. Charlotte Hall married Richard Shears, who died in 1877 in Michigan. She is living at present in Michigan, and is the mother of five children. Olive Hall mar- ried Jacob Rex. They live in Steuben county and have three children, all living. Ellis Hall married Thomas Blasdell, and moved to Michigan. They are both deceased. Charles Hall married Betsey Howland, both deceased. Sylvia Hall married Stephen Sprague in 1844, and they live on the homestead. Sylvia was the youngest of the Hall children, and is now about seventy years of age. She has six children. Polly Hall after the death of Aaron Hall in 1826, married Stephen Spragne, who died in 1858. She died in 1882, aged ninety-three. Aaron and Andrew Hall served in the war of the Rebellion, in Company A, 9th N. Y. Volunteers. Aaron is now sixty years old and Andrew is fifty-eight.
Harrison, Edwin H., son of Hurum and Jane Jagger Harrison, was born in Ontario. Wayne county, N. Y., June 16, 1839. His parents, who were natives of Palmyra, and children of old settlers of that town, came to Ontario about 1830 and located upon a farm of 100 acres, situated on the Ridge road, which continned to be their home nntil their death. The mother died many years since, but the father survived till 1887, when he died, aged eighty-one years. Edwin HI. was reared, and has always lived upon this farm, which he now owns, and was educated in the schools of Wayne county. His occupation is general farming and fruit culture. He is an earnest advocate of temperance, and is ever found supporting the principles of justice and morality. May 12, 1886, he married Lizzie M., daughter of Samnel and Harriet Vaughn, of William- son, N. Y.
Herendeen, Charles B., of Macedon, was born in this town January 31, 1871, a son of Charles B., also of this town, born within a short distance of where our subject now lives. Charles B. married Mary Lapham, daughter of John Lapham, one of the old settlers of this town, and they had five children : Anna, Hattie (who died aged about twelve years), Charles, Grace and an infant who died. Charles B. died in 1889, and his wife in 1874. Our subject owns a farm in Macedon, comprising 140 acres, which he works according to the latest approved methods. He attended the common schools and graduated at the Macedon Academy, and is at present a meniber of the Historical Society of Macedon. In 1890 he married Stella Post, of Arcadia, and they have one child, Alice G. Mr. Ierendeen is a member of the Grange, and in politics a Republican.
Hall, Aaron F., was born in Savannah, August 26, 1833, the eldest son of Andrew S. and Maria Hall. He married Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Incretia Ferris of Sa- vannah, and they have six children : Frank S., born April 10, 1856, who, with a wife
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and two danghters, reside at Marcellus, Mich., where he is engaged in the manufacture of school furniture ; Caleb II., born December 18, 1857, a farmer at Savannah, married, and has five children ; John A., born April 30, 1859, now a school teacher and farmer nt Bladen, Neb., married and has one son, Vanghn S., born March 30, 1861, married and has four children, residing at Bladen, Neb., a dealer in coal and lumber ; Joseph O., born March 4, 1862, now of Salem, Oregon, married and has two daughters; Oscar K'., born February 27, 1868, now operating his father's farm, is married and has one son. Our subject in December, 1863, enlisted in Company 1, 9th N. Y. Artillery, and was honorably discharged two years later. After the war he spent eight years in Michigan upon a farm, returning to Savannah in 1875, and in 1886 purchased the farm of 11] acres, lying two miles west of Savannah on the Clyde and Savannah road.
Holmes, Sebastian Durfee, was born in Palmyra, April 9, 1833. His father, Robert, was a native of Amherst, N. II., and came to Lyons in 1818 with his father, afterward engaging in the mercantile business. He married a daughter of Major Edward Durfee, of l'a'myra, who served in the war of 1812. S. D. Holmes was educated in the Lyons Union School and in Rochester, then came to Lyons in 1850 and learned the carriage business. In August, 1862, he raised Company D, 111th N. Y. Volunteers, going out with it, as captain. He was engaged in the battles at Harper's Ferry, Spottsylvania, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Mine Run and before Petersburg. He was wounded in the right arm at Gettysburg the last day of the battle, which forced him to resign May 27, 1864, but he returned in the fall and served in the commissary department. He mar- ried Ellen M., daughter of Zebnlon Moore, of Lyons, in October, 1855, and they have one daughter, Edith. Zebulon Moore was a prominent railroad and canal contractor, taking the contracts to erect some of the largest structures on the Erie and Welland Canals, the Great Western Railroad, the Hamilton & Port Dover, London & Port Stanley Railroad of Canada, and the Iowa Central Air Line. His last large operation was the construction of the Southern Boulevard in New York city, extending through the town of Morrisania and West Farms in the county of Westchester, in which work S. D. Holmes was associated with him and completed the work after his death in 1869. Mr. Hohes then associated with Charles HI. Moore, son of Zebulon, and contracted to build all bridge structures and station buildings on the line of the Canada Southern Railroad. In the meantime they bought 1,800 acres of woodland in Canada on the St. Clair branch of the Canada Southern Railroad, on which they erected saw and stave mills, two general stores, and cultivate about 800 acres of land, having about 200 cattle and over seventy-five horses, and while making a specialty of staves and hard wood lumber, do a general business of a quarter of a million dollars a year. Mr. Holmes still retains his home in Lyons.
Heek, Augustns, was born in Germany August 2, 1839, son of Philip L. Heck, of Germany, who came to America in 1848. Two years later he sent for his family. He was a highly educated man and overseer in a lead mine in Germany. He enlisted in 1861 for three years, was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg and discharged. His children were: Mrs. Janet Ramish, of Clyde; Mrs. Caroline Cronse, of Greenbush, N. Y .; Ernstein (deceased); Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Henry, Augustus, William and Alfred. All four brothers were soldiers in the Union army. Onr subject enlisted in the 3rd Ohio Cavalry, his principal engagements being Shiloh, Stone River, Chieamanga, Lookout Mt., Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta. After the war he returned to Huron, where he has since resided, engaged in the fishing business on Lake Ontario. In 1884 he purchased a farm formerly owned by Daniel Plumb, his wife's father. In 1860 he married Eliza Ann, daughter of Daniel and Electa (Green) Plumb, who came to Wayne county in 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Heck have had eight children, of whom six are now living: Mrs. Mabel Curtis, of Rose; Miss Emma Heck, of Oswego; Mrs. Myrtie Leroy, of Huron; Mrs. Maggie Davis, of Huron; Charles A. Heck, and Mrs. Bertha Gallagher, of Rochester.
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Hoffman, Augustus L., was born in Croghan, Lewis county, August 15, 1856. He with his father, Frederick, moved to Wayne county m 1863, and in 1861 made his home in Newark. Augustns L. was educated in Newark Union School. At the age of twenty- five he married Emma C. Jacoby, daughter of Rev. Levi Jacoby, of Newark, and they have one son, Levi Fred. After leaving school he learned his father's trade of earpen- tering, which he followed three years, and in 1875 learned the watchmakers' and jewelers' business with John E. Stuart, of Newark. In 1881 he removed to Lyons, and in connection with O. C. Robinson established the present firm of watehmakers and jewelers, musical instruments and art pottery, being the leading dealers and carrying the largest stock in their stores at Lyons and Newark in Wayne county. Mr. Hoffman is a Republican in politics, was elected trustee of the village in 1890, is also identified in the leading events of the day and in advancing the best interests of his town, where he is recognized as a man of sterling character and worth.
Huston, William, born on the Huston homestead in Ontario September 5, 1832, is the youngest of three sons of Archibald and Laura (Lockwood) Huston, he a native of Madison county, born January 16, 1799, and she of Penfield, N. Y., born February 8, 1804. Mr. Huston came to Ontario when it was a wilderness and settled on what is now known as the New Boston road. He bought a farm, cleared a home and built a log house, having in all 100 acres, fifty of which he sold to our subject. His principal occupation was farming, but he was a carpenter and joiner by trade. Mr. Huston died February 25, 1869. Mrs. Huston died in June, 1861. In politics he was a Whig and Republican, and was justice of the peace and assessor. He was one of the leading members and supporters of the Baptist church at Ontario Center, which was founded in 1817. He was also deacon in the church, and served in that capacity until his death. William Huston was reared on the farm and has always been engaged in farming. He married, December 27, 1854, Mary E., daughter of John and E. Walrod White, of Pen- field, Monroe county, he born in 1806, and she in 1808. Mr. White was reared by William Ross, of Penfield, his father having died when he was quite young. He died January 16, 1879, and his wife January 7, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Huston have had one son and one daughter, Emma L., wife of Willis W. Palmer, boot and shoe merchant, of Vinton, Iowa, and Fred. S., second engineer in the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, Buffalo, N. Y. His wife is Carrie Parcell, of West Webster. Mr. Huston is now en- gaged in general farming and fruit growing on the farm he bought of his father, In politics he is a Republican, and they attend and support the M. E. church.
Harding, Rev. John R., was born in Washington, North Carolina, June 30, 1860 His father, Rev. Israel Harding, was a well-known Episcopal clergyman. John R. graduated from Union College in 1883, and also graduated in 1887 from the General Theological Seminary of New York and was ordained July 3, 1887, and received a call from Lyons Grace Episcopal church while assistant minister of the Church of Messiah of Brooklyn, coming to Lyons in August, 1891. Finding the society involved, has been able through the force of his character to reduce the obligations against the society and to aronse a general interest in the welfare of the church. At the age of twenty-seven he married Catherine, daughter of Hon. John N. Rountree, of Chicago, and they are the parents of two children, one of whom is now living, Madelaine.
Hartman, William Louis, was born in Theresa, N. Y., October 29, 1864. Ilis father,. John Hartman, was a prominent farmer and produce dealer of his town. William Lonis Hartman attended the Hungerford Collegiate Institute at Adams, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1887. He first located at Ant- werp, where he remained three and a half years, and then entered the Philadelphia Hospital and took a post-graduate course. In 1891 he came to Clyde and opened an office, making a specialty of surgery and the eye and car. In 1893 he was elected pro- fessor of eye and ear of South Western Homoeopathic Medical College at Louisville, Ky., but declined to accept. He married Miss Lena M. Moore. Dr. Hartman is recognized
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as one of the most advanced members of his profession. He is a member of the Jeffer- son County Medical Society, the Western New York Medical Society, the New York State Homoeopathic Society, and the American Institute of Homeopathy.
Hunt, W. A., was born in the town of Galen, January 21, 1856. His father, Will- iam S., was a native of Rensselaer county, and came to Wayne county in 1837. W. A. Hunt was educated in the common schools and finished at the Oneida Conference Seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y., returning to his father's farm in 1886, entered the Briggs National Bank as bookkeeper, and was promoted to assistant cashier in 1890. At the age of twenty-six he married Jennie O., daughter of Fenner T. Palmer, of Newark, and they have three children: Lester Palmer, Olive M., and Susan B. Our subject is identified in advancing the best interests of his town, of which he was elected treasurer in 1892, and again in 1894. IIe takes an active interest in educational and religious matters, being a member and also secretary of the official board of the M. E. Church, is secretary of the Epworth League, and librarian of the M. E. Sunday school.
Hicks, Frank B., merchant, born in West Walworth, June 23, 1859, married, February 28, 1883, Julia N., daughter of William Eldredge. Mr. Hicks is a son of Elias Hicks, born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, in 1825, and is descended in the seventh generation from John Hicks, who settled on Long Island in 1639. His father was first cousin to Elias Hicks, the renowned Quaker preacher. Elizabeth (Howland) Hicks, his mother, was born in Dutchess county in 1830 and is a daughter of the late Joseph M. Howland, a descendent of Henry Howland in the seventh generation. Heury set- tied in Plymouth, Mass., in 1630. On her mother's side she is descended from Edward Doty, a passenger on the Mayflower. Mr. Hicks was educated at Maccdon Academy and learned the printer's trade in Rochester. He began his present business in 1883, and succeeded lns father, who began in 1864. Mr. Hicks was the founder of the Mace- don Centre Historical and Genealogical Society and is its president.
Ilouston, James, was born in the north of Ireland in 1824 of Scotch descent, son of John and Elizabeth Houston, who came to Canada abont 1842. Their children were : Andrew, William, James, Mrs. Nancy McBride, Mrs. Mary Ann Viekerman, of Michi- , gan, Mrs. Margaret Abernethy and Patrick While young om subjeet learned the weaver's trade of his father, and while in Canada followed farming and lumbering. In 1850 he came to Wayne county, purchased a piece of land, later added to it until he now owns eighty-four acres of choice land, and is very successful. In 1859 he married Caroline, daughter of Jonas and Sarah Ann (Gest) Whiting, born in Huron in 1830, and their children are: Anna E., wife of Stephen Vernoi, of Butler; Mrs. Mary Andrews, of North Wolcott, and Mrs. Agner Garner, of Huron. Subject and wife are members of the Wolcott Grange.
Howard, George M., born in Henrietta, Monroe county, November 4, 1819, is the second of six children of Eleazer and Matilda Howard, natives of Connecticut, who went to Monroe county and finally to Ohio and then to Illinois, where they both died. He was a farmer, and he and his brother were first butchers in Rochester. Subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He went from Monroe county at the age of twenty-three to Franklin county, Ohio, and there resided until 1881, and came to Marion, where he has since lived. He was married twice; first to Cordelia Parker, a native of Mexico, N. Y., by whom he had two children, Charlotte M., deceased, and George D. P. Mrs. Howard died November 9, 1860, and he married second, in 1864, Maria M. Parker, consin of his first wife, and daughter of Lucius and Annie Parker, he a native of Connecticut, and she of Massachusetts. They had three children. Mr. and Mrs. Parker died in Monroe county. Amos A., brother of Mrs. Howard, died in the late war. George P., son of subject, married Eliza J. Martin, of Marion, and they have five children : Archibald E., Viona C., Floyd D., Clive M. and Mabel M.
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Hanby, Joseph HI., born in Sodus April 8, 1844, is the oldest of six children of Charles and Catharine (Gates) Hanby, natives of Yorkshire, England, who came to Sodas about 1830, where he died in 1886, aged seventy years, and his wife in 1887, aged seventy-four years. Mr. Hanby liad three children by a previous marriage with Harriet Jackson in England. Onr subjeet was reared on a farm, educated in the com- mon schools, and followed farming. Ile came to Williamson in 1879 and in 1886 set- tled on the farm he now owns of 122 acres, and follows general fanning and fruit rais- ing. He was drafted in 1865 in Company I, 65th N. Y. Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He is a member of John Hance Post, of Williamson, No. 320. He married in 1877 Elizabeth Yeomans, a native of Geneva, N. Y., and daughter of George and Anna Yeomans, natives of England. Mr. Yeomans died in Sodus in 1891, where his wife still resides. Mr. Hanby and wife have had two children, Charles, who mar- ried Mary Buckley, of Sodus, and Catharine, wife of William Parkliel, of Williamson, and resides in Elmira, N. Y., engaged with the Singer Sewing Machine Company, hav- ing charge of the office.
Harbon, James B., of Macedon, was born in Canandaigua January 11, 1852, a son of Fritz Harbon, of Copenhagen, Denmark, who came to this country in 1840. After traveling in South America he married Judith Fritcher, danghter of John Fritcher, of Montgomery county, May 15, 1844, and their children were: Jane M., John W., Mar- garet, James B., Benetta, George W., and Wilhelmina. He was an architect and builder, having planned part of the court house in Canandaigua. He enlisted in the army under Captain Atwood, of Company C, Ist N. Y. Iengineer Corps, and died at Port Royal Island, S. C., from disease contracted in the army. His wife died in 1862. Until the spring of 1894 James has always followed farming, but is at present engaged in no active work. In 1877 he married Helen E. Eldredge, by whom he has had six children : Lena M., William F., Emma B., Darwin B., Benjamin F. and Helen. Of these Darwin B., William F, and Helen are deceased. Lena is a student at the Mace- don Academy. Mr. Harbon is a Granger, and in politics a Republican.
Hibbard, Nettie, is a daughter of Jerome and Achsah Hibbard, of South Butler, is a business women, being jointly engaged with her brother Fremont in operating the business established by her late father, well known as the Hibbard Basket Works. Jerome Hibbard was born m Butler February 20, 1830. In 1853 he married Achsah Clapp, who survives him. In 1859 he began the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, from which he graduated in 1861 and was a practicing physician at Fair Haven at the opening of the war, during which he saw much hospital service as an assistant surgeon. After the war he began to exercise his inventive genius, in which direction he possessed wonderful aptitude, seenring patents upon farm gates, and varions machinery for simplifying the manufacturing of baskets. The latter enterprise has from a small beginning grown into an immense business, the plant now covering two acres, employing twenty-five to forty skilled workmen, and placing upon the market goods of a standard quality second to none.
Johnson, William R., was born July 21, 1817, in Palmyra. His grandfather, Joseph, and father, David Johnson, were natives of Morristown, N. J., coming to Palmyra in the early part of the present century. Joseph, the grandfather, was born September 19, 1757, died December 17, 1825. David, the father of William R., was born January 25, 1791, died April 26, 1874. In 1816 he married Cynthia Rogers, who died June 5, 1835, at the age of forty eight. By this marriage six children were born, five boys and one girl: William R., Joseph, Harriet, David, Charles D. and Henry M. Joseph died in infancy, and Harriet at the age of twenty-one; the others still survive, and all reside in Palmyra, N. Y. David is engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, under the firm name of Drake & Johnson; Charles D. in the produce and commission trade, and Henry M. is a dealer in nursery stock. In 1836 he married, for his second wife, Mrs. Julia Case, and by this marriage two children were born : Caroline, who became
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