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the wife of C. D. Foster, and Isabella, who married George H. Townsend, both residing near Palmyra village. For several years David was engaged in enstom tailor- ing, and subsequently located on what is now known as the George Cornwall farm, situated on the town line between Palmyra and Manchester. In the year 1844 Will- iam R., the subject of this sketch married Lucy Wilson, who with her widowed mother came from Cornwall, Conn. Soon after marriage they located on the farm now owned by the David Aldrich heirs, then in the possession of Thomas Rogers. About the year 1849 he, with his brother David, purchased what was then known as the Dugan farm, situated on the Marion road, two miles north of Palmyra, where he has since resided, having purchased from his brother David his interest in the farm in the year 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were parents of the following children : Carlton R., William HI., George S., Harriet S., Charles II., and Lucy M. Carlton died at the age of twenty- three while pursuing a course of study at Yale College. William, with his younger brother Charles, who married Catharine Hathaway, occupy the home farm ; George married May C. Foster, is a shoe merchant in Palmyra village, of the firm of Johnson & Rogers; Harriet married Henry A. Rumrill, and resides in the village ; Lucy May mar- ried John II. Walton, and lives on a farm one mile northwest of Palmyra village. After a marriage life of forty-seven years Mrs. William R. Johnson passed quietly and peacefully away, January 18, 1891, at the age of sixty-nine.
Hance, De Witt C., was born in Williamson, April 26, 1843. He was educated in the common schools and Marion Collegiate Institute. He owns 130 acres of land, and follows general farming and fruit raising. He was master of the Williamson Grange ten years, of which he was a charter member. January 1, 1879, he married Mary, daughter of Richard Whitbourn, by whom he has had four children : Samuel R., Harriet I., Elizabeth C., and John S. The father of our subject, Benjamin J. Hance, was born in Farmington, Ontario county, October 11, 1815, the oldest of eight children of Samuel, born in 1781, and Margaret (Ponnd) Hance. The great-grandfather, Benjamin, born in 1759, was a native of Calvert county, Md., and came to Ontario county in 1802. His wife was Sarah Dare, by whom he had five children. The family was of English descent, and settled in Maryland in 1680. Samnel Hance died in 1872, aged ninety-one years, and his wife in 1880, aged ninety-two. Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He has always been a farmer, and owns seventy-five acres of land. He married, Angust 15, 1839, Phoebe Ridgway, a native of New Jer- sey, by whom he has had four children : Samuel, killed at Reams Station in the late war; John, who was in the same regiment, and died of disease contracted in the ser- vice : De Witt C., a farmer of Williamson; Frank, who resides in California. He was supervisor of his town, first elected in 1860, and held the office until 1874, was justice of the peace four years, and is a member of the Williamson Grange.
Jordan, E. T., was born in Columbia county in 1837, and came with his parents in the same year to Macedon, where they lived eight years. They next removed to their present farm of sixty acres, which they purchased of Nathan Durfee. John and Marga- ret. A. Jordan, parents of our subject, were born in Columbin county. The father died in 1889, and the mother resides with her son, E. T. Jordan. The latter married in 1886 Agnes P. Vosburg, from Columbia county, and their children are: William, born in 1869, now a resident of Newark, O .; John A., teacher in Ontario, who resides at home ; Mrs. Jordan died in 1876, and he married second in 1889 Jane M. Miller, also from Columbia county.
Johnson, William R., was born July 21, 1817, in Palmyra, a son of David and Cynthia Johnson, who located here at an early day. His father, David, was born in Rhode Island and came with his parents to Palmyra. He followed the occupation of a tailor during the early part of his life, and then located on a farm in the town of Manchester, near Pahnyra village. His first wife, mother of our subject, died at the age of forty- eight years, and for his second wife he married Mrs. Julia Case. His children by his
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first wife were, viz. : William R .; Joseph, who died in infancy ; Ilarriet, who died at the age of twenty-one years ; David, a resident of Palmyra village, engaged in the furniture trade; Charles D., produce dealer, also a resident of Palmyra village; and Henry M .. a dealer in nursery stock. By his second wife he had two children, viz. : Caroline, wife of Dwight Foster, of East Palmyra; and Isabelle, wife of George Town- send, near Palmyra village. William R. married Lucy Wilson, who, with his widowed mother, came from Connecticut. After marriage they moved on the farm now occupied by the David Aldrich family. Subsequently he, in company with his brother David, bought the farm where he now resides (about 1849), and where he has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were the parents of the following named children, viz. : Carlton R., who died in his twenty-third year, while a student (his last year) in Yale College ; William H. ; George S., shoe dealer of Palmyra village ; Hattie S., wife of Henry Rum- rill, of Pahnyra village ; Charles H. ; Lucy May, wife of John Walton, of Palmyra. The mother of the aforesaid children died January 18, 1891.
Jordon, William H., was born in Columbia county, February 9, 1817. His father, Daniel Jordon, was also a native of Columbia county, born May 17, 1791, and his mother, Polly Hoffman, was born August 18, 1705. Mr. Jordon, the father, settled in Macedon in 1841, and engaged in farming. His family consisted of nine children, in- cluding William H., who is now seventy- seven years of age. William II. Jordon has followed the same occupation as his father, and has been engaged in farming all his life. In 1871 he married Delia A. Troop, of Port Gibson. They are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Jordon is a Republican.
Jepson, Charles B., was born in Madison county in 1825. and is the son of Eli Jepson, a native of Vermont (born in 1794, and died in 1858), and Mary (Burlington) Jepson (born in 1796, and died in 1865), a native of Rhode Island. Our subject married Cyn- thia Badger in 1848 at Cicero, Onondaga county, of which she was a native, born in 1828, They have had two sons: Eli, born in 1849; and William, born in 1874, both residents of this place, where Mr. Jepson has resided for forty years without interrup- tion. He is a Knight Templar, and has been treasurer of Lodge No. 764 for twelve years. He is now retired from business, and he and wife occupy a pleasant liome on Main street. He has been president of Savannah village three years.
Jennings, Henry, was born in Southport, Fairfield county, Conn., February 5, 1821, and at the age of twelve came with his father, Joshua, to Ontario county in 1832, set- tling in the town of Phelps on a farm. Henry was educated in the common schools, being able to attend school only during the winter time. At the age of twenty-two he married Mary, daughter of John Humphrey, of Phelps, Ontario county, and they are the parents of two sons, John HI. and Burr. In 1867 he came to Lyons, and in 1868 bought the S. D. Westfall farm of 208 acres, raising hay, grain and stock, and making a specialty of mint distilling, producing from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds a year. He has also engaged in cidermaking. Our subject is one of the largest and most success- ful farmers in his town, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious nat- ters.
Jennings, Loren, born in Ontario, Wayne county, June 21, 1822, is the sixth of a family of six sons and six daughters of Daniel and Polly (Clarke) Jennings, he a native of Burlington, Vt., she of Coleraine, Mass. Mr. Jennings in 1810 bought the home- stead of fifty acres; he afterward bought of Joel Sabin fifty acres east of his first pur- elrase, and in 1828 built a saw mill, where many thousand feet of hunber were annually sawed. Aside from farming he did much work as carpenter and millwright. In politics he was a Whig, and later a Republican. He died in 1868, his wife in 1862. This place is now owned by Mrs. Mary Palmer and heirs, and is situated on the Lakeside road. His son, Loren Jennings, was born and raised on the homestead farm, assisted in clear- ing land, farming, and running the saw mill, which, with the dozen other mills on the
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same stream, was supplied with logs from the adjoining heavy timbered land. He bonght forty acres south of and adjoining the old homestead, cleared and built a log house and set out an orchard amidst the stumps. Some of the trees of this orchard are yet in bearing, and a few measure over six feet in circumference. Later Loren Jennings bought fifty acres across the road which had formerly been owned by his brother Charles. On this he built his permanent dwelling, where he still resides. He married, Oc- tober 21, 1849, Rosetta B. Grinnell, of Webster, by whom he had one son, Wellington M., who is now assistant superintendent in the Barber Asphalt Paving Company of Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Jennings died in 1851, and he married second, Sarah C., daughter of William and Mary (Hinman) Huston, he of Rupert, N. Y., she of Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y. By his wife, Sarah C., he had two sons and three daughters. The daughters died young. Walter S. is a bookkeeper for the Barber Asphalt Company, and Fred. L. is foreman at the crusher for the same company. Four years ago, on ac- count of disability, Mr. Jennings retired from farming. He still lives on the place, but it is worked by a tenant. On the farm are raised hay, grain, and fruits. The land is rolling and with a variety of soil which adapts it for mixed farming. With the sur- rounding pleasing scenery, a fair view of the blue waters of old Ontario, it is picturesque and beautiful. Many Indian arrow heads are picked up by laborers in the fields. There was in earlier days a tangle of uprooted trees, forming a deer thicket on the farm, and often when the deer were driven by hunters from shelter they would take to the lake for safety in its waters, but many were there shot and brought to shore. In politics Mr. Jennings is Republican, his first presidential vote being east for William H. Har- rison. He was a charter member of the old Ontario Center Grange, and instigator and founder of South Shore Grange No. 552, to which order he and his wife still belong. Though in sympathy with present forms of religion, as far as it goes to enlighten, en- noble, and better the condition of the human race, both he and his wife are independ- ent in their beliefs.
Jones, Harvey, was born in Webster, October 17, 1830, the oldest son of twelve children born to Chester and Hannah (Millard) Jones, he a native of Connecticut, and she of Rhode Island. They came to Webster in an early day, where they both died. Our subject was educated in the common schools, has been a saw mill man, has been engaged in mercantile business at Union Hill, also a dealer in Inmber two years and coal twelve years. He is now engaged in farming, has eighty acres of land, and fol- lows general farming and fruit raising. He is a Democrat, has been justice of the peace five years, and is now serving his second term as assessor. He and wife are members of the M. E. church. He married in 1851 Orlena M. Milliman, a native of New York, and adopted danghter of Amos Wager, of Webster, N. Y. Mr. Jones and wife have had three children : Zardus, died in infancy ; Eva, wife of Rosman Dayton, by whom she has four children : Frank J., Harvey E., Allen R., and Annie A .; Chester. H., who married Nettie Niveson, by whom he has two children : Elmer C. and Esda N. The maternal grandfather of our subject was a captain in the Revolutionary War. His name was Samnel Millard, aged 81 when he died.
Johnson, J. Irvin, was born Angust 15, 1852, His father, William S. Johnson, was a native of Manchester, N. Y., he was born in 1817. His ocenpation was that of a farmer. Ile married Ann M. Sloem, of Adams, Mass,, who lived at the time of their marriage in Monroe county. In 1864 they removed to the town of Macedon, where he resided at the time of his death in 1893. They were the parents of two children : J. Irvin Johnson, and Mary Frances, now Mrs. Thomas Maculey, who resides on the old Johnson homestead. J. Irvin was a farmer up to the time he engaged in the nursery business. In 1883 he married Emma A. Hanna, of Palmyra, N. Y. She died in 1891, leaving no children. In 1893 he married his second wife, May A. Hannah, daughter of the late Dr. Geo. W. Hanna, of Mendon, N. Y. Ile first advertised in 1882, known to the trade as Brook Side Nurseries, making a specialty of small fruits and other fine
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nursery stock. He also has several evaporators, doing immense business sminmer and fall in berries and apples. He has at present from 25 to 35 acres of choice nursery stock. Ile is a shipper to all parts of the United States, Ilis trade is mostly whole- sale, and his customers are the leading firms of this country. His home and surroundings is one of the finest in the county, and through his close application to business and honorable dealing he has won the respect and confidence of those whom he has delt with. In politics he is a Republican, and a member of the Grange. Mary F. Maculey was born November 2, 1844, in the town of Manchester. In 1875 she married Thomas Maculey, of Manchester, and to them were born three children : William, Charles, and Lula. Charles died in infancy. Mrs. Maculey's occupation is that of farming and berry culture.
Kennedy, Charles R., was born in Camden, N. J., July 28, 1864. His father, Thomas G., was a prominent electrician in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. Charles R. was educated in Clyde and in New York, after which he entered the employ of a banking house in Wall street, New York. In 1888 he entered the employ of John C. Lloyd & Co., importers and jobbers of coffees, as head bookkeeper, and in 1888 came to Clyde and engaged in the malting business, in which he is now engaged, having an average output of 100,000 bushels of malt per year. At the age of twenty- five he married Juliette C., daughter of Hon. James C. Lamoreaux.
Kellogg. Edward HI., is the only son of Dr. A. D. Kellogg, of Wolcott, born Decem- ber 22, 1855. He attended Leavenworth Institute at Wolcott, and received an academic education. He spent two years traveling in the West after leaving school. Returning to Wolcott he entered the law office of J. W. Hoag, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1881. In 1888 he married Mary Lillian, daughter of the late Wilson Dewitt, of Wolcott, who became the mother of two sons and one daughter. Mr. Kellogg is a strong Republican, and besides a good legal practice is occupied with the duties of police justice of Wolcott village, and justice of the peace of the town. He was clerk of the Board of Supervisors four years, from 1889 to 1892 inclusive. He was also for several years secretary of the Republican Committee of Wayne county.
Kellecutt, Charles Boynton, was born in Huron, August 23, 1852, a son of George, a native of Saratoga county, born April 7. 1807, who was a son of David Kellecutt. a native of Oswego county. George was a farmer, and came to Huron about 1837. He married twice, first, Delilah Brooks, by whom he had five children : Zilpha, Margaret, Charlotte, Caroline, and Delilah. His second wife was Mrs. Abigail ( Boynton) Preston, and subject was their only child. They raised two children: Catherme A., and Caroline A., the infant twin daughters of the dead patriot, Daniel Keeslar, of Huron. They are now Mrs. D. H. Evans, and Mrs. P. Winans, of Barry county, Mich. Mr. Kellecutt died in November, 1892, and his wife in January, 1883. Our subject is a prominent man in his town, owns the homestead farm of sixty acres, and makes a specialty of fruit growing. In 1873 he married Alice S., the fourth of seven children of William G. and Sarah (Roberts) Guthrie, and they have one child, Eva Mae, born January 19, 1878. Mr. Kellecutt and wife are members of the Wolcott Grange, in polities he is a Republican, and has served as collector one term, inspector, and justice of the peace.
Keller, Jacob, was born in Cherry Valley, Otsego county, March 17, 1799. His parents were Germans. He came to Newark, Wayne county, m 1825. He was first a hatter by trade, then a farmer. He owned a good farm and was one of the substantial men of the town. He retired from business in the year 1870 and for his third wife married Miss Amanda Vanderbilt, of Lyons, N. Y., May 17, 1876. Mr. Keller died July 4. 1884. Mrs. Keller's father, Abram H. Vanderbilt, was born in New Jersey Angust 7, 1798, of Holland Dutch descent, and came to Lyons, Wayne county, at the age of fourteen years. He married Julia A. Paton, daughter of William Paton, April 16, 1820. They had ten children : Sarah A., Amanda, Mary, Elizabeth, William, Jolin,
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Abram, Helenah, Newell, Julia. Mr. Vanderbilt died October 22, 1841. His wife died April 3, 1872. William Paton came from Scotland and settled in Lyons, Wayne county, in the year 1794. He married Eleanor Van Wiekle March 15, 1801. They had four children : John, Julia A., Evert, Mary. Mr. Paton died September 2, 1843. His wife died May 14, 1815. Abram Vanderbilt, jr., was born at Lyons May 31, 1835, was educated in the district schools and the Union School at Lyons. He followed farming several years. December 22, 1859, he married Jennie A. Sparks, of Galen. They had three children : Emily J., Oscar T., Cora L. Mr. Vanderbilt enlisted August 22, 1862, in Company D, 138th N. Y. Vol., which was transferred to the 9th Heavy Artillery. He was wounded at Cold Harbor, his jaw being shattered, and was on the field three days without food or water. He received an honorable discharge from the hospital at Washington January 31, 1865. He is a member of Vosburg Post No. 99, G. A. R.
Koester, George W., was born in Rochester, N. Y., October 18, 1863. His father, Charles, came from Alsace-Lorraine in 1860. He first settled in Rochester, but soon came to Lyons and engaged in the brewing business, acquiring a wide reputation for business ability. George W. was educated in the Lyons Union School, and is a gradu- ate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and after graduating established a man- ufacturing wholesale and retail drug business, making a specialty of fine perfumes and toilet articles. At the age of twenty-eight he married Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius Haitz, of Lyons. He is a Republican and was elected town clerk in 1888-1889; in 1893 was elected president of the village of Lyons, and in 1894 was elected supervisor of his town. Our subject is one of the best known men in his town, of recognized business ability, taking an active interest in educational and public matters and identi- fied in the leading events of the day. He has been master of Humanity Lodge, F. & A. M. two years, is a member of Newark Chapter Royal Arch Masons, and Zenobia Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a man whose life has proven his word to be as good as his bond.
Kinney, W. Il., was born at Belfast, Allegany county, April 27, 1856. His father David, is a nati e of Union, Conn., whose ancestors came from Holland in the middle of the seventeenth century. He married Esther A. Hanks, whose family came from Birmingham, England, in 1700 and settled in Plymouth colony. He is a farmer. W. H. Kinney began his education in Genesee Valley Seminary at Belfast, N. Y., grad- uated at Genesee Normal School in 1876 and Rochester University in 1880. In 1881 he was principal of the Vietor public school, from 1881 to 1888 was principal of the Cuba Union School at Chba, N. Y., and in 1888 came to Lyons as principal of the Lyons Union School, having an average attendance of 806 pupils, which is an merease of 200 since 1888, the academie department having nearly doubled during that time. At the age of twenty-six he married Annie, daughter of Joel Macafee, of Athens, Pa. They are the parents of two children, Price W. and Edith. Our subject is identified in advancing the best interests of his town, and in the leading events of the day.
Kline, Mrs. Rebecca (Petersen), was born in St. Magnus, Germany, in 1821, daughter of Henry and Johannah Petersen, and is one of seven children. She came to America in 1847, starting from Germany, the first day of May and landed in New York the twelfth day of June. On July 3 of the same year she married Lewis Kline, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1820. They staid on Staten Island until June, 1848, then they caine to Clyde on a canal boat, thence to Huron, where they engaged with Benjamin Lunnis on a farm. Eight years later he purchased a farm, added to it and provided each of their children with farms. Their children are: Lewis, born in 1848; Henry, born in 1819; Aaron, born in 1852; John, born in 1856; Max, born in 1857 ; Matie, born in 1862, wife of Andrew Thomas, of Huron. Mr. Kline was a member of the Huron Grange and died in 1893. Mrs. Kline is a lady highly esteemed by all who know her and is also a member of the Huron Grange. j
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Kelley, Albert E., M. D., was born in Ione City, California, December 24, 1864, and came to Arcadia with his parents when three years old. He was educated in the Union School and Academy at Newark, studied medicine with Dr. Landon and attended lectures in the medical department of the University of the City of New York, gradu- ating from that institution in 1891. He practiced in Rochester until 1893, when he opened an office here and has a successful practice. His father, Charles H. Kelley, was born in Chatham, Columbia county, October 29, 1823 He was educated in the select
schools of his day, and graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1850. He went to California, where he followed Ins profession some time, and returned October 7, 1858. Ile married Josephine E. Ostrander, of Oneida county, and returned to California. They had two sons and two daughters : Charles L., who is a civil engineer in Mexico; Carrie, who died in infancy ; Albert E., as above, and Genevieve I., who married Ray Burleigh and resides in the town. The family returned to this locality in 1866. Our subject's father is a retired physician at East Newark. Dr. Albert E. is the health physician of the town of Arcadia.
Kellogg. A. D., who has practiced medicine here nearly fifty years, was born in 1818 at Ira, Cayuga county, N. Y. His father, Silas Kellogg, was a man of much local prominence, supervisor of Ira for a number of years, and died in 1862, at the age of seventy-three Our subjeet acquired a medical education at Geneva, and began homeo- pathic practice in 1847. He married in 1848 Araminta V., daughter of Ebenezer Cur- tis, of Victory, Cayuga county, N. Y. Their children are: Alice M., born October 19, 1849, now the wife of E. L. Cooper, of Williamson ; Day H., born January 21, 1852, died December 10, 1875 ; Lida V., born March 17, 1854 ; and Edward H., whose biog- raphy appears elsewhere in this volume. Ebenezer Curtis, father of Mrs. Kellogg, was a man of considerable renown in his native place, besides being a justice and super- visor he was elected to the Assembly in 1847. He died in 1884 at the age of ninety- one.
Legg, Orsborn Lafayette, was born in Speedsville, Tompkins county, September 27, 1845. His father, Lyman, was a son of Lyman Legg, and came to Wayne county in 1849. His wife was Sarah Blinn, and their children are: Mary, wife of William J. Harmon, of Rochester, Orsborn L., Edward, and Delancey. At the age of fourteen our subject began life for himself. When twenty-one years of age he learned the ma- son's trade and followed it in different States until 1890, when he came to Huron, where he has since been engaged in farming. In 1869 he married Hulda, daughter of John and Mary A. Brown, of Huron, and they have one son, Irving, born September 5, 1874.
Lent, J. II., was born in Otsego county, N. Y., December 3, 1830. He settled on a farm in the town of Macedon, March 28, 1863, and has been engaged in farming all his life. His farm consists of 102 acres, fifteen acres being woodland. In 1863 he mar- ried Susan K. Jackson, daughter of B. II. J. Jackson, of Macedon. They are the par- ents of seven children, all of whom, except the elder two, are living at home with their parents. Mr. Lent is a member of the M. E. eburch. In politics he is a Democrat.
Lane, Charles, was born April 27, 1852, a son of Francis B., one of the prominent farmers in the town, and now resides on the same farm which was cleared by Ziba Lane, his grandfather. The latter was born in 1789 in Maine, and after the War of 1812, at the age of twenty-five, hie canie to Wayne county, this State, making his way through the forest with his yoke of cattle and wagon containing his family and goods. Here he located on lot 80 and built a log cabin, making his chinmey of sticks and mnd and filling the spaces between the logs with mud. A blanket served as a door, and grensed cloths were their only window glass. Zaba felled the first tree that was ent in this region, and many are the interesting stories handed down to his family of the hard- ships endured that first year. His son, Francis, has added largely to the original estate,
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