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two sons : Myron B., born August 27, 1873, now in State Normal School at Geneseo ; and Howard L., born December 23, 1879. Mr. Palmer was a soldier in the late war, a member of the 8th New York Cavalry, went in 1864, and remained until the close of the war. Ile was in Sheridan's division under Custer, and was wounded at Five Forks. In politics Mr. Palmer is a Republican, and is now justice of the peace. He has been notary public a good many years.
Pound, Charles Edward, born July 15, 1868, is the only son of Edward H. Pound, born in Farmington, Ontario county, N. Y., February 9, 1828, and Lucy Pease Pound, born in Ontario, Wayne county, N. Y., April 23, 1835. His grandfather, Nathan K. Pound, was born in New Jersey, Jannary 18, 1798, and came to Ontario in March, 1835, purchasing a farm, where he resided until his death in 1882. He had four sons : Addison S., Edward 11., Jacob M., and Stephen B. Edward HI. Pound early engaged in farin- ing, bonght the homestead in 1878, and there resided until his death in June, 1893. His wife is now living at Ontario Corners. Charles E. was educated at the Walworth and Canandaigua Academies, and has always been a farmer, residing on the homestead, which he now owns. He has 192 acres, and carries on general farming and stock raising. In November, 1891, he married Lizzie, the adopted daughter of Amos and Dorcas Woodhams, and they have one child, Norma May, born November 30, 1893. Mr. Pound attends the M. E. Church.
Querean, William, one of Huron's representative men, was born in Caynga in 1847, son of William Querean, a native of Westchester county, N. Y., born in 1819, whose father was John Querean, a farmer in Cayuga county. William, father of our subject, came to Wolcott in 1850, and was prominently identified in the politics of his county. Ilis wife was Mrs. Sabra (Myers) Lewis. Our subject began for himself when twenty- one years of age, and in 1883 purchased his present farm, his principal crops being fruit and gram. From 1888 to 1890 he served as under-sheriff of Wayne county, from 1887 to 1890 as commissioner of highways, and was re-elected to the same office from 1892 to 1896, constable two years, and collector one year. In 1868 he married Minnie A., daughter of Watson and Harriet Dowd, of IInron, born in 1852. Their children are : Sabra A., born in February, 1873; Elliott, born in June, 1875; Rosa W., born Septem- ber, 1886; and Ray D., born in January, 1890.
Pierson, Forest R., was born in Tyre, Seneca county, December 6, 1842. He is the elder son, and now the only one living, of the late Ogden and Julia A. Pierson, who came to Butler in the spring of 1845, and settled upon a farm near the present village of South Butler. Forest Pierson's mother died in 1887, when seventy-five years of age, his father had reached the age of eighty-five, died November 27, 1892. Forest was identified with the Ninth Artillery during three years in the thick of the Civil War. A musician and member of Company G, and despite the protracted and desperate character of the service, he escaped physical mjury. His wife is Melvina J., daughter of the late Loami Beadle, of Savannah. They were married February 26, 1873. Of three children but one daughter living, Alta, born February 23, 1874, and now the wife of Cyrus Aikins. Asa and Lillie did not survive infancy. Mr. Pierson is a member of the M. E. Church at Butler Center, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school for the past seven years, and being deeply interested in all moral reforms, was the first person in the town of Butler to espouse the cause of Prohibition, and was a candidate on that ticket for member of assembly for the First District of Wayne county in 1890, and may be reckoned among the citizens of Butler a representative citizen of that place.
Pallister, Richard, was born in Yorkshire, England, January 6, 1820. He is the second of four children of Thomas and Mary Pierson Pallister, of England, who came to Williamson in 1828, and here lived and died ; he in 1860, and she in 1811. He wasa farmer by ocenpation, and a sailor when a young man. Our subject owns fifty-one acres of land. Ile is a Prohibitionist, and both he and she are Methodists. In 1846 he mar-
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ried Lovina E., daughter of Glover and Sarah Manson, born in Onondaga county, N. Y., July 18, 1826. Mrs. Pallister's parents came to Sodus in 1830, and here her father, Mr. Munson died in 1883, and his wife in 1832. Mr. Pallister and wife have had two children : Mary. the wife of Sidney A. Baker, of Williamson, and they have three children; and George, who married Louisa Steele, and they have one son.
Rising, Henry C., is a prominent landmark among the farmers of Northern Savannah. He is the son of Joseph H. Rising, who is also a resident of Savannah, and eighty- three years of age. Henry C. was born August 4, 1840, at Lorraine, Jefferson county, N. Y., educated at Watertown, N. Y., at the Jefferson County Institute and Brown's Commercial School, taught school prior to his marriage, January 1, 1862, to Ellen M. Chapin, of Worth, Jefferson county, N. Y., by whom he had one child, Grace E., born May 10, 1870, and who died June 26, 1881. Mr. Rising again married, October 13, 1870, Augusta C. Cooley, of Rodman, Jefferson county, N. Y., who has two children, Byron O., born November 16, 1873, and Mattie A., born January 13. 1889. He came to Savannah February 3, 1877, and bought the present homestead and engaged in farming and fruit growing, is a life-long Republican, now serving his third term as justice of the peace. He has also been notary public for ten years and for several terms an associate justice in the Court of Sessions.
Perry, D. IL., was born in Oneida county, March 27, 1864. His father, John, was a native of Switzerland, came to the United States in 1854, and was a farmer by occupa- tion. D. H. Perry was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. In 1883 he came to Marengo and followed farming until 1890, when he established his present business, carrying a large and well selected stock of general merchandise, being one of the largest dealers in pork, butter, eggs, and poultry in Wayne county. In 1890 he received the appointment of post- master, which position he still holds. Our subject is the leading merchant and produce dealer in the town.
Rising, Joseph II., was born in the south of Jefferson county, N. Y., February 2, 1812, the son of Abner and Jane Rising. He has one sister in Wayne county, Miranda, widow of Jeremiah Smith, of Wolcott. February 22. 1838, he married Rachael P. Wakefield, of Watertown, N. Y., born in Vermont in 1814 and who died at Savannah October 28, 1886. Of her four children one son died in infancy. Byron J. died in 1862, sixteen years of age, and the biography of Henry C. appears elsewhere in this volume. Alice A., born December 26, 1850, and not married, is a member of her father's family at present, a lady of superior mental endowment and refinement and a life-long member of the M. E. church. The subject of this sketch, commencing life in the wilds of a new country and under adverse circumstances, has by his own un- aided efforts acquired a valuable competency and is now living upon his fine farm in the northern part of Savannah. He has for the greater part of his life been a prominent and substantial member of the M. E. church, has served four years as jus- tice of the peace, but has not sought official honors. He is of decided convictions, outspoken and consistent, in all respects worthy of the high esteem in which he is held.
Pintler, Freeman, was born in Fairfax county, Va., April 10, 1854, a son of Peter and Emma Pintler, he a native of Delaware county, and she of Orleans county, N. Y., born in 1820. They went to Virginia in 1851 and resided there until 1861, owning a farm adjoining the Robert E. Lee estate. In 1860 Peter was one of seven men in Fairfax county that dared to vote for Lincoln. Mr. Pintler was warned three times to leave, and finally, after the first battle of Bull Run, he was driven from his home, took his family to Washington, and after a few weeks came to Orleans connty, and four years after to Ontario county, and was killed by lightning in 1869, and his wife died in 1872. Mr. Pintler was a contractor and builder, and remodelled the Robert E.
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Lee house while in the south. His father was Adam Pintler, a native of Germany. The father of Emma Shaw was Elijah Shaw, of this state, and of German descent, who was in the war of 1812. His wife was Lydia Freeman, and they had six children. Our subject was seven years old when his parents came to Orleans county. He was fifteen years old when his father died, and his mother two years later. At eighteen he began teaching and afterwards completed a course at the Oswego Normal School. He has been a very successful teacher, having taught thirty-three terms. In 1886 he engaged as traveling salesman with the Niagara Grape Company, and sold enough grapes to plant 3,000 acres of land. He went to Europe in the interest of that com- pany and traveled in England, Scotland, and France. In 1893 he was elected school commissioner, and has served as supervisor of the town of Ontario during 1892 and 1893, leading the first straight Republican ticket that had been elected in that town in twenty years. He is a member of Wayne. Lodge No. 416, F. and A. M., and also of the A. O. U. W., No. 306. March 23, 1883 he married Hattie J., daughter of Edward Thompson, of Williamson, and they have two children, Leon F., born February 12, 1884, and Minnie, born November 13, 1885.
Rooke, Thomas, was born near York (England), April 6, 1833, and came to the United States with his father, John Rooke, in 1833, who settled in the town of Galen. John married Sarah. daughter of Mathew Robinson, by whom he had ten children. Ile died in March, 1862, aged seventy-two. Thomas Rooke was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. He has acquired by purchase of the other heirs his father's estate, subject to the rights of the widow, his mother, who still lives, and also purchased part of the Charles Tyndall estate and other adjoining pieces of property, having 120 acres. He raises fruit, hay and stock. Our subject was taken with erysipelas at the age of ten years, resulting in the loss of the use of both legs, and since then has been obliged to use crutches to get about. Notwithstanding this great calamity he has been successful in business, and gained the confidence of his associates. He never was willing to accept public office, but is trustee and steward of the M. E. Church of Lock Berlin.
Raymour, L. S., a native of Macedon, born November 24, 1824, is the oldest of a fannly of thirteen children of John and Alzina ( Aldridge) Raymour, he a native of Ver- mont, born in 1802, and she of New York, born in 1804. The grandparents were early settlers of the town of Walworth, where they lived and died. John came to Ontario about 1832, and bought a farm on the town line, between Williamson and Ontario, which he sold and bought the farm now owned by Sammel Raymour. They went to Palmyra, where they died, he May 12, 1880, and she July 7, 1872. He was a Republi- can, and they were Methodists in religion. L. S. was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming and fruit growing. In 1835 he bought the farm he now owns, where he has since resided. He married in 1847. Emily Thayer, of Orleans county, by whom he had two daughters: Addie, wife of Harda Bunday, a civil engineer of Monroe county, N. Y., and has one son, Clifford, and a daughter, Winnifred, and Martha, wife of Jacob Verdow, who is now working the farm. They are principally engaged in growing fruit. They have two sons, Bertley and Spencer. Mrs. Raymour died, June 14, 1881. Mr. Raymour is a Republican.
Roffee, E. M., was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, August 31, 1838. His father, Christopher, was a native of Providence, R. I., was a sea captain, and later was a promi- nent contractor and builder at Providence, R. I., erecting a number of the churches and public buildings in that enty. In 1834 he removed to Scipio, Cayuga connty, and en- gaged in farming. He died in 1885, aged seventy-eight years. E. M. Roffee was edu- cated in the common schools, and finished his preparatory course at the Antioch Col- lege, Springfield, O. The year 1857 he entered the office of Dr. Hines, of Elmira, and learned the profession of dentistry. In October. 1859, he came to Clyde, and established
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himself in business, being associated with Dr. T. C. Olds, and after his decease purchased the entire busmess, which he has since continued. The year 1882 went to Grayling for his health, a thriving village in the northern part of Michigan. During his stay was in- dueed to purchase village lots, also eighty acres adjoining the village, and at onee platted the same. With the proceeds of his sales of lots built a number of houses, and he has not missed an annual visit since his first there, and in meantime regained his health. At the age of twenty-two he married Emma A., daughter of J. S. Hood, and they have had two children : Mrs. George II. Hardisty and Nellie, who died, aged twenty-three, a devout Christian. Our subject takes an active interest in education and religious insti- tutions, and has been a member of the Presbyterian Church thirty- five years.
Rector, Mrs. Sarah, of Savannah, was born January 30, 1842, a danghter of Peter and Hannah (Carncross) Albright, of Lysander, who settled on the farin now occupied by Mrs. Rector in 1834. Here the mother died in 1855 and the father in 1886, he be- ing then in his eighty-third year. Sarah Albright was born on the farm where she now lives, and which is now operated by her only son, John W. Rector. She was married in 1863 to John W. Rector, of Wolcott, who died fifteen months later, Her son, John W., was born March 18, 1864, and by trade is a machinist, but he has re- turned to the farm, and in 1884 he married Minnie Ulum, of Alamo, Mich., who died in 1886, leaving one son, Ray, born March 8, 1885. January 26, 1887, he married again, Ursula May Schuyler, of Alamo, Kalamazoo county, Mich., by whom he had two children: Rose, born November 20, 1889, and Anson, born December 8, 1891. The subject of this sketch is a woman of most estimable character and mental ability, who has always devoted herself to her family. Her husband, before his death, was one of the prominent figures in the early life of Wayne.
Ray, C. H., was born in Piffard, Livingston county, October 12, 1854. His father, Rev. Charles Ray, now in charge of the Presbyterian Charch at Marion, has been an ordained clergyman for forty years. C. H. Ray was educated at the Temple Hill Acad- emy and Hamilton College, graduating from the latter institution in 1877. Afterward was principal of the Cayuga Lake Academy at Aurora, N. Y., for one year, and then began the study of the law. Ile read with Hon. John L. Parker, of Parker & Green- field, at Moravia, Cayuga county, N. Y., also taking the Hamilton College Law School course, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, and in September of the same year he entered into general practice at Lyons. At the age of twenty-six he married Hattie, daughter of Dr. Dennison R. Pearl, of Sherwood, Cayuga county, and they are the parents of two sons: Reginald P. and John P. In 1885 he was elected district attor- ney of Wayne county, and has been identified with most of the leading events of the day, taking un active part in political and educational mattera.
Rielman, Thomas I., was born in Onondaga county February 3, 1824. His father, Jneob Richman, was a native of New Jersey, moving to Manlius, Onondaga county, where he married Esther Clark, daughter of Christopher Clark. Mr. Thomas I. Rich- man was connected with the building of several different railroads, viz. : A portion of the Ogdensburg Railroad running east of Malone, a portion of the New York Central running through Wayne county, also west of Batavia, and forty miles of railroad in Canada, and in company with his brother built several sections of the Erie Canal en- largement, including the aqueduct in Macedon. He is now engaged in farming.
Rouch, Frank, of Macedon, was born in the town of Ontario June 10, 1857, a son of Max Roneh, a native of Germany, who came to this country when a young man and settled in Ontario, where he engaged in farming. He served in the late war three years, where he was wounded and disabled for any further hard work, for which he drew a pension. He died in Ontario in 1888, aged sixty-three. Frank married Adella Gard - ner, of Macedon, February 28, 1883, and they have no children. He owns a place of sixty-six acres, In polities he is a Republican, and has served as school trustee, lle is also a member of the Grange.
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Robertson, Dr. J, N., was born in Wolcott June 10, 1853. His father, Jonn, who died in 1880 at the age of fifty-five, was a prominent member of the M. E. Church, and a staunch adherent to the Republican party. Dr. Robertson received his diploma from the University of Vermont in 1877 and afterwards took a post-graduate course in New York city. Ile began practice at Sterling, N. Y., removing to Wolcott two years later. December 1, 1880, he married Anna M. Howard, of Sterling, and they have one daughter, Eva Lucille, born July 23, 1885. Dr. Robertson is a member of the Board of Education of Wolcott and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church.
Redfield, Albert F., was born in Victor, Ontario county, April 15, 1817. His father, Luther, was a native of Richmond, Mass., who located in the town of Junius in 1800. He removed to the town of Galen in 1822, purchasing 108 acres, to which he added fifty acres adjoining. He died in 1867, aged eighty-seven years. The family trace their genealogy back to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Albert F. was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. After following farming fifteen years he went into the mercantile business in Clyde, remaining five years, and then engaged in the distillery business, which was burned in 1857. He also was in the tan and curry business for nine years. He also engaged in the malting business ten years. In 1869 he was elected county clerk and served three years, and was elected supervisor of his town for five terms. At the age of thirty-six he married Susan A., daughter of Aaron Griswold, and they had one daughter, Mrs. Mary G. Whiting, who died, aged thirty-three years.
Rice, Stephen D., was born in Butler, July 26, 1835, a son of Jonathan G., a native of Rowe, Mass., born May 28, 1813. He married, in 1832, Levinne HI. Doolittle, born September 11, 1814, daughter of Stephen and Polly Doolittle, of Granby, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Rice had seven children : Stephen D., Levinne A., George E., Charles G., Harriet J., Jared F. and Franklin J. The grandfather of our subject was Ebenezer Rice, a native of Massachusetts, who married Sallie Glazier, and had seven children. He died aged eighty-seven, and his wife aged ninety. At the age of sixteen Stephen D. began learning the miller's trade, which he has followed for the past forty-three years. In 1857 he married Lydia J., daughter of Nicholas and Anna Taylor, of Victory, Cayuga county. She was born October 15, 1839. Their children are as follows : Franklin J., born March 17, 1862; Levinne, who died in infancy, and George W., born January 6, 1872. Both sons are millers. Mr. Rice is a Mason, and is a Republican in polities, though he has always declined nomination. He was a captain in Company D, 107th Regiment, 25th Brigade, 7th Division, N. Y. S. Militia.
Robinson, the late John N., was born in Arcadia, February 28, 1822. He was edu- cated in the district school and spent his early life on the farm. He afterward became a blacksmith and carriage maker in this village. He married twice ; first, Maria Austin, by whom he had three children : Cordelia, Frances, who died at the age of six years, and Osman C. Mrs. Robinson died in 1862, and he married second, November 6, 1863, Lydia Weaver, and they had one son, J. Floyd, who was educated in the Union School and Academy, and is learning the jeweler's trade in the village. He resides with his mother. Mr. Robinson was a successful business man, and died April 2, 1882, mourned by a bereaved wife and family. Mrs. Robinson's father, Jacob Weaver, was born in Dutchess county Jannary 1, 1812, and came here with his parents when he was a boy. He was educated in the district schools and followed farming. In 1831 he married Sylvina Hoysrodt, formerly of Dutchess connty, and they had six children : Homer, Lydia, Lewis, Christina, Esther and Jacob, jr. The ancestry of this family are English and German.
Redner, Dr. P., was born in Orange county, September 8, 1841, and is the son of Peter and Elizabeth Hall Redner, both natives of Orange county, where both families had resided for over a hundred years, and where the father died in 1848 and the mother
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at Patterson, N. Y., in 1890. Dr. Redner, when seven years of age went to live with Martin Litehult, of Ramsey, N. J., where he. remained six years. He then went to New York city and remained five years, learning the butcher's trade. He then came to Wayne county and attended school under Professor Curtis, and speculated during the sunmer. In 1865 he went to Buffalo and was engaged with the Western Trans- portation Company. Ile afterward went to Nevada and Montana and engaged in mining for three years, and then went to Denver and engaged in the feed and stock business, taking the first load of cattle that went over the Union Pacific from Omaha to Cheyenne. He next entered the Homopathic Institute in Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1874, and practiced his profession for twenty years in various places. In 1889 he came to Ontario, where he has since resided, and is an extensive property owner. He is a member of the Sodus Lodge, No. 392, F. & A. M. November 20, 1872, he married Mary H., daughter of Hezekiah Hill, who was born in Ontario in 1811. His parents were natives of Massachusetts and settled in Ontario in 1800. His father died when he was four years old, leaving his mother and nine children, the eldest but four- teen years old. Mr. Hill's educational advantages were limited, but by hard study he was able at the age of eighteen to teach school, which he did for six winters. He was school commissioner one year and school inspector two years, and held the office of constable two years, assessor nine years, justice four years, and was the railroad com- missioner of the town. In 1840 he married Pamelia, daughter of Samuel Stuck, of Ontario. In 1849 he bought the Pratt farm of 320 acres at Inman's Corners, now Ontario Village. He began at once to sell lots, and a large part of the village was built by him. for those to whom he sold lots. He became a large real estate owner in On- tario, Canada and Michigan. He died in 1889. Dr. Redner and wife have four chil- dren : Wilfred H., who died in 1876, Howard II., Vera A. and Boyd A.
Russell, W. D., was born in Marion in 1836, on January 27. He is the sixth of a family of nine sons of Daniel W. and Mary Turner Russell, he a native of Williamson, and she of Washington county, N. Y. Daniel Russell came to Williamson about 1793 from Conn., and first settled at Pultneyville and afterwards on the farm now owned by Darius, his grandson. The father of our subject held various offices of public trust, and died in 1868 and his wife in 1873. Our subject was educated in the common schools and Sodus Academy, and learned the printer's trade with Richard Olyphant, of Oswego, but was poisoned by the ink, and gave up the business and went to Lockport, Ill., and was connected with the construction of the Joliet & Chicago Railroad. He then went to the county surveyor's office with A. J. Matheson, of Walworth, N. Y., and after a year he came to Marion, and owing to his father's sickness he remained on the farm until the war broke out in 1861. He enlisted in Company I, 98th N. Y. Volunteer In- fantry as first lieutenant. After the consolidation of the 98th and a portion of the Franklin County Rifles, subject enlisted as a private and was soon promoted to second lieutenant, and was in these battles: Fairoaks, White House Landing, Seven Days fight, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Siege of Yorktown, Second Fair Oaks, Charleston, and was mustered out through another consolidation in June, 1863, and then returned to the farm. In January, 1865, he married, re-enlisted, and was detailed on recruiting service at Auburn, N. Y., then recruited eighty-four men for the 194th Regiment, and was at Eimira in command of barracks, and was to be made captain of Company A, 194th Regiment, but the company got no further than Elmira when they were mustered out of service. At the close of the war hie engaged in farming for five years, then went to Binghamton and was general agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. After three years he returned to Williamson and bought a farm of fifty-three acres, where he resided thirteen years, when he engaged in the sale of agricultural imple- ments. After four years he retired from business, and in 1891 he came to the village of Williamson, where he owns a fine residence. ITe is a G. A. R. man, having been commander of John Hanes Post, also aid-de-camp on the department commander's staff, as well as the commander-in-chief's staff, and also a member of the fire company and of the Grange. ITis wife is Lucy M., daughter of Roswell B. Harkness, of Williams.
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