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a native of Cattaraugus county. His wife was Deborah Barnum, a relative of P. T. Barnum. They came to Macedon at an early date, where he died in 1842, and his wife resides in Dunkirk, N.Y. Frank died in 1884. E. Lurissa is living.
Goossen, James, born in Holland April 4, 1859, is the youngest of nine children of James, born in 1814 and Saralı (Cappon) Goossen, born in 1817, natives of Holland, who came to Rochester in August, 1862. He afterward came to Marion and engaged in farming on fifty acres, which he sold after three years and rented a 350 aere farm, on which he remained three years. He went to Kalamazoo, Mich., and purchased a farm which he traded for city property there, later went to Oshtemo and engaged in farming, and then traded for the farm he settled in Marion when he came from Holland, which he now owns. He now lives retired, aged eighty, and his wife aged seventy-seven. Sub- ject was educated in the common schools of Marion and Kalamazoo. He started selling goods on roads, first on foot and afterward with a wagon; and in 1879 commenced in the building he now owns, and carries the largest stock in Marion. He married, May 18, 1893, Sarah Goossen, of Kalamazoo, a native of Marion and daughter of Abraham and Catharine (Farnieau) Goossen, natives of Holland.
Warner, Erotus, born in Madison county September 12, 1850, oldest of five children of R. K., and Ramonia (Vail) Warner. He was reared on the farm and educated in Palmyra; and has always followed farming and evaporating fruit. He married in 1872 Ellen Wake, born in 1853 and daughter of John and Marietta ( Rice) Wake. Mrs. Wake died in 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Warner have two sons and one daughter: Melville E., Oscar Czar and Florence May. Mr. Warner now has 105 aeres, and makes a specialty of fruit growing and truck farming. He is member of the Grange and of the A. O. U. W. of Marion.
Peacock, Albertus J., was born in Williamson, May 27, 1848, a son of James and Lydia (Andrews) Peacock, the former a native of Oneida county born Jannary 31, 1815, and the latter of Walworth. The parents of James were James and Gertrude Peacock who in 1816 came to Wayne county. The great-grandparents of our subjeet were Jonathan and Ann Peacock, of England, who came to this country. A. J. Pea- cock was educated in Walworth Academy. He owns a farm of 114 acres of land, with as fine buildings as can be found in the locality. In 1873 he married Merey M. daughter of Joseph Gould, who was a son of Daniel mentioned in this work. Joseph was born in this town March 12, 1819, and has been one of the leading farmers of the town, though he now resides on Long Island. He married Julia T. Bancroft, born in 1823, by whom he had five children. She died March 17, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Pea- cock have had one son, Ora S., who resides at home.
Wait, G. W., born in Marion June 10, 1816, is the third of seven children of Garner and Lucy (Potter) Wait, he a native of Massachusetts and she of Rhode Island. They came to Marion in 1811, lived there until 1836, and then moved on the farm now owned by subject, where Mr. Wait died April 5, 1858, and his wife Jannary 6, 1874. He was assessor and commissioner of highways in Marion. He was in the war of 1812. Subject was educated in the common schools, owns the old homestead of ninety- nine acres, and follows general farming. He has been trustee of schools of Walworth many years. He married in 1843 (October 18) Emily J. Sweczey of Palmyra, daughter of Isaac Sweezey, who died when she was an infant. Mr. Wait and wife had two children, Winfield S., who is a traveling salesman for the Anti-Rust Tin Works of Newark. His wife is Malinda Pulver, by whom he has one child, Elmora, wife of Irvin MeKinley of Onondaga county ; and Minnie E., wife of Alex F. Estey of Wal- worth, by whom she has two children Glenn W., and Floyd J. He is a traveling sales- man.
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Payne, George, a native of England, born July 20, 1840, is the youngest of six children of John and Sophia Payne. My mother's maiden name being Reader, natives of England, and there they died. Subject was reared in the town of Sheerness, county of Kent, England. In the year of 1866 he came to this county. While in England he worked eleven years in London at iron ship building, he worked on the Great Eastern after the laying of the Atlantic cable, also on the Rapanhance, when being fitted for the Confederate service. After crossing to America he worked in New York in a boiler shop on Cherry street. He soon came to town of Macedon and engaged in farm . ing and there became interested in concrecting wood for the railroad company with George Glover and after four years in the wood business came to Walworth, pur- chased a small farm of fifty-seven acres, where he now lives; he has added 103 acres to it known as Philites Miller farm. He has been highway commissioner and super- visor of the town. Mr. Payne married August 4, 1860, Charlotte Copping of Eng - land, by whom he has ten children, John, Lottic, Annie R., Flora, who were born in England, and George J., Willie W., Walter J., John W., Nellie E., Guy, were born in this country. Six are now hving.
Johnson, Samuel J., was born in Waterloo, Seneca county, November 7, 1853, son of George and Margaret Seott, natives of Ireland, he born December 25, 1811, and she born in 1821. He came to the United States in 1836, and his wife soon after. He was a gardener, a resident of Waterloo fifty-seven years, and died December 24, 1893, and his wife February 10, 1886. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. Subjeet was reared in Waterloo, N. Y., and educated in the common scl ools. Ile started in life working for Sidney Warner taking care of a carriage horse, learned the tinner's trade of Julins Smith of Waterloo, and in June, 1878, came to West Walworth and has since had a successful business. He owns a building 21x50 ft. which he oc- cupies.
Brandt, George, a native of Walworth, born January 27, 1832, is a son of Joshua and Susan Brandt. He was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and has al- ways followed farming. He now owns two farms consisting of 140 aeres. Mr Brandt married in 1855 Louisa L. Aldrich, a native of Henrietta, N. Y., born July 7, 1836, a daughter of Nathan and Oliva (Perry) Aldrich, who spent most of their life in Wayne county. The father of Nathan Aldrich was Brice, a native of Massachusetts and one of the early settlers of Farmington, Ontario county. The father of Oliva was Elnathan Perry, a native of Massachusetts, who was seven years in the Revolutinary war, being captain part of the time. He fought at Bennington, Saratoga, Monmonth, Ontario, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallns. He served three years under Lafayette, came to Rush, Monroe county in 1806, and was one of the first to enlist in the war of 1812. He died July 5, 1849, aged ninety-one years. Mr. Brandt and wife have three children, Emma J., wife of Gardner L. Tiffany of Walworth, and they have two children Fred E. and Hattie L .; Nathan G., who married M. Albertie Allen, of Penfield, and has two children George A. and Calla B. He is postmaster at Lin- coln; and Hattie, who died aged twelve. Our subject represented Lyon & Fisk, nurserymen in Rochester, and also traveled in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Michigan.
Bixby, John H., is a son of Nathan Bixby, who was born in the town of Green- field, Saratoga connty, in 1808 and came to Wayne county in 1836. He bought a farm of 100 acres, a mile and a half northeast of Savannah, the birthplace and present home of our subject. Nathan was twice married, the first time to Mary, the daughter of J. J. Klock of Montgomery county. December 19. 1832, and there were born to them seven children, namely : Sally A., Caroline, Andrew, Jerome, Alphonso, Joshua K., John H. Mary died Angust 6, 1850. His second wife was Mary Deuel of Saratoga county. He was a patriotic citizen, and in politics a strong Republican. The three oldest sons, Andrew, Jerome and Alphonso, enlisted and served their time in the Union army. Andrew was taken prisoner at the battle of Monocacy, and died in the rebel
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prison at Danville, Va. There are only two surviving members of the family, Jerome of Castalia, Ohio, who is a general merchant and farmer, and John H., the subject of the present sketch. John H. was born June 3, 1848, and married May 2, 1877, to Mattie M., daughter of Abijah Spoor of Savannah. They have two children, namely : J. Howard, born May 12, 1879, and George Raymond, born July 4, 1886. Mr. Bixby is a prosperous farmer making a specialty of shipping dairy produce to Rochester. For six years he has been a justice of the peace, and elected again to that office last spring for a term of four years more.
Boynton, Lorenzo R., born in Walworth, May 12, 1815, was a son of George and Annie (Twitehel) Boynton, he a native of Massachusetts, and she of Wayne county. George came to Walworth at eighteen years of age, and there spent the remainder of his life, dying at the age of sixty. His parents were Mary and Samuel (Robinson) Boynton. Mary Robinson lived with Robert Treat Payne, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and spent her last days with her son, George. The family are of English descent. George Boynton was a pioneer of Walworth and followed farming. He had four sons and six daughters, of whom one son and four daughters still survive. His wife died in 1834, and in 1835 he married, second, Sarah Hibner of Penfield, who died in 1857. He was a Republican, and was justice many years. He died in 1854. L. R. Boynton was a well informed man and before his death was pos- sessed of 230 acres, on which he made many improvements and built a fine brick resi- denee. He was twice married, first to Mary Hopkins, by whom he had one son and one daughter, Frank II., an oculist in New York. and Marv, widow of Oliver M. Palmer. Mrs. Boynton died October 7, 1854, and Mr. Boynton married second, April 5, 1855, Harriet, daughter of Ransom and Eunice Northrup of Webster. Mr. Northrup was a farmer by ocenpation. He died January 14, 1875, aged sixty-eight years, and lris widow lives with her children. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton have had four sons : Charles H., graduate of Brockport and Rochester Colleges, three years in New York Seminary, and is rector and pastor of the Episcopal Church of Genesco, N. Y. ; George E., graduate of Brockport, two years in Rochester College, and is attending Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Willis, graduate of Brockport and New York Medical College, is practicing in New York ; L. R., graduate of Brockport and at the death of his father came home, and has since had charge of the farm. The sons have all been engaged in teaching. Mr. Boynton died August 16, 1890, was killed by a train at Webster. Mrs. Boynton still resides on the farm. Mr. Boynton was a Republican and served twelve years as magistrate.
Allyn, John 1., of Macedon, was born in this town January 13, 1846, a son of Rus- sell Allyn, who was a native of Connecticut, and came to New York State in an early day. Ile was a carpenter by trade and took up farming later. He was at one time the owner of the Macedon Mills. He was the father of seven children by his first wife. His second wife was a Miss Servoss by whom he had five children. Ile died in 1876 at the age of sixty-nine years, and the mother of our subject died in 1876. Our subjeet, John L., came from the old pioneer family of Laphams, so widely known in this section, has been a farmer all his life, and connected with his farm is a small dairy from which he ships quite a quantity of milk. He mar- ried Elizabeth Lapham by whom he had four children, of whom Nettie died September 17, 1892, aged twenty-three. His wife died and he married, second, Florence, daughter of De Witt C. Beal, one of the oldest families of this section.
Hogan, Sarah A., was before marriage Sarah Me Withy, daughter of the late Timothy Me Withy, of Savannah. She is the widow of Augustus Horton Hogan, a well-known resident of Savannah, to whom she was married October 2, 1850, and who left but one child ; Eva J., born October 29, 1855. In 1877 Eva married F. E. Davis, then engaged in mercantile business at Conquest, Cayuga county. He removed to South Butler in 1880, erected a new and moderate building, and conducting a general store business. The .
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children of Frank and Eva Davis are: Charles, born 1878, and Raymond, born 1880. Augustus Horton was a staunch Republican, and an active worker for his party.
Eddy, Charles W., was born at Manchester, Vt., September 9, 1827, the son of Stephen Eddy, who settled near Buskirk's Bridge, Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1829, and who reared a family of nine children. Of that family but three now survive, and our subject is the only one in Wayne county. Charles bought a farm here in 1864, came here in 1864, and by his industry and business ability has achieved an unusual degree of success in his chosen calling, now operating nearly 275 acres. He has been honored with many positions of trust, has served as commissioner of highways, and of excise, and was for nine years an assessor. In 1868 he married Asenath Sprague, of Butler, and they have four children: Sarah, Jennie, Mary, and Sprague.
Spurr, John, was born in England July 23, 1835, emigrating to America in 1836 with his parents, Edward and Eliza Spurr, who settled at Burlington, Vt. During his boy- hood, his father was engaged in business at Chittenango, as overseer in a woolen mill and at Canaseraga, where he conducted a grocery. Edward and Eliza now live at Victory, Cayuga county, aged eighty-six and eighty-two years respectively. John Spurr came to Wolcott in 1866, and has for twenty-eight years been engaged in farm- ing. He has four sons : Edward II., Maey, Clayton and Harrison. Edward, a machinist is married and lives at Kalamazoo, Mich. During the war, our subject was a soldier of Co. F, 160th N. Y. Vols., suffering imprisonment and sickness. Ile was dur- ing the latter part of the war a wardmaster in the . hospital at New Orleans, having developed a valuable capacity as a nurse. Our subject is a member of the M. P. Church of Wolcott, holding the office of steward and trustee.
Worthy, Henry, son of William and Rachel Worthy, of Williamstown, Mass., was born at that place, September 19, 1825. William Worthy was a prominent farmer, operating 300 acres of land. Henry and Elisha, of Williamstown, are the sole survivors of a family of twelve children. Henry has been for twenty-one years a suburban resi- dent of Wolcott, where he purchased a farm in 1873. His early life was spent as a builder, erecting factories and mills at North Adams, Mass,, where he remained fourteen years. November 25, 1852 he married Hannah Larrabee, of Adams, Mass., and they have five children : Abbott, Arthur, Charles, Leila, and Nelle. Leila is now Mrs. George II. Green, of Port Byron, N. Y., and Nellie is Mrs. C. G. Walker, of Lyons, N. Y.
Hendee, Alpheus (deceased), was born September 19, 1809, at Cazenovia, N. Y., came to Lyons in 1832, and engaged in the livery stable business. At the age of thirty he married Rosetta, daughter of James Dunn, and they are the parents of four daughters : Addie (Mrs. Kate Goodman) ; Mrs. Hittie Barton, and Eliza Ilendee. In 1859 he bought the George Gee property of fifty acres, in 1866 bought part of the Elisha Barton property of thirty-three acres, and which is now carried on by the heirs in connection with his son-in-law, Israel Goodman, who was a native of Bedfordshire, England, who married Kate Hendee in 1878, and who are the parents of one daughter, Rosa, having 115 acres of some of the best farm lands in Wayne county, raising large amounts of mint, hay, gram and stock, making a specialty of small fruits. Alpheus Hendee died in 1893, at the age of eighty-four years, respected and regretted by all with whom he came in contact. He was always foremost in the furtherance of all good works.
Viele, Charles J., was born January 2, 1812, at Saratoga, came with his people to the town of Wolcott when six years of age. His parents were pioneer farmers here, and he has always followed the same vocation, besides dealing largely in live stock. He married in 1831, Angeline Hibbard of Butler, who died January 8, 1889. Of their three children one now survives, Incius Il., who married Emily Mackin, and now re- sides on the homestead farm. Sarah E., who become the wife of II. A. Graves of
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Wolcott, died in 1870, and Columbus J., the youngest son, died in 1874. The latter was a young man of much intellectual promise, and a practicing lawyer at the time of his decease. He left a wife and one daughter. At the ripe age of eighty-two onr subjeet is still hale and vigorous; a genial gentleman, full of reminiscences of early days.
Scott, Irving, son of Lewis and Evelyn (Brooks) Scott, was born at Cato, Caynga county, June 25, 1841. Lewis Scott died in 1887 at the age of seventy-seven, and his wife in 1894, aged eighty-seven years. Irving has been a resident of Wolcott fifty years, and has spent most of that period at home. He was a soldier of Company G, in the 9th Heavy Artillery. His wife was Fanny Scott, of Clay, Onondaga connty, daughter of William and Ellen Scott, whom he married November 25, 1886. They have one child, Ella, wife of George L. Baker of Oswego. Mr. Scott and wife are members of the M. E. church.
Westcott, Horace T., was born in Oneida county November 22, 1838. His father, J. H. Westcott, was a farmer of Oneida county. Horace T. was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. At the age of twenty-five he married Algenia daughter of Frederick Petrie of Vienna, Oneida county, and they are the parents of three children : Edgar T., Arthur HI., and Nora E. In 1872 he came to Lyons and purchased the grocery on lot No. 56, which he has con- tinned for the past twenty-three years. In 1883 he bought the Prime property of seventy-eight acres, raising hay, grain and stock. Subject is a member of the M. E. Church.
Killick, Henry, was born in Huntington, county of Kent, England, March 22, 1845. His father, Henry, came to the United States in 1854, settled in Lockport, N. Y., and was a miller by trade, which was the business pursued by the family in England for the past 200 years. Henry Killick married at the age of thirty-two Mary Ahce, danghter of Clark J. Manger, and they are the parents four sons: Harry C., Frank R., Wilfred M. and Charlie E. In May, 1885, he bought the Alloway Roller Flour Mills, making a specialty of patent and fine pastry flour. Our subject is one of the prominent business men in his town, taking an active interest in educational and religious matters.
Hammond, Burton, was born at Dover Plains October 18, 1856, was educated in the common schools and finished at Willeston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., after leaving which he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk for three years, then read law with G. & 11. D. Hufent, at Dover Plains, then read with Hon. D. W. Gurnsey, of Pough- keepsie, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1878. At the age of twenty-two he mar- ried Sophia A., daughter of William Van Marter, of Lyons, and they have five danghters. In March, 1880, he came to Lyons and engaged in the practice of law, in 1886 entered the surrogate's office and carries on a general law practice, making a specialty of cases before surrogate's court. He is a Republican in politics, was chairman of the Republican County Committee for seven years, and is now president of the Board of Edneation of Lyons. Our subject is identified in advancing the best interests of his town, taking a deep interest in educational and leading matters of the day.
O'Dell, Margaret, was born in the town of Rose. Her father, Russell Winchell, came to that town in 1821 when it was but a wilderness without roads, making their way by marked trees. He married Lucinda, daughter of David Ackerman, by whom he had four children : Margaret, David A., Clarissa, and Betsey. He died in 1858 aged forty- seven, and his wife in 1879 aged sixty-four years. Margaret, our subject, married Alexander Harper, and in 1855 came to the town of Galen to reside. They had three children : Lydia S., Bud A., and Lucida, Lydia S. Kelsey being the only one now living. Alexander Harper died in 1871, and Mrs. Harper married in 1884 Ebenezer O'Dell, who died m 1889. Our subject has one of the model farms'of Wayne county,
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raising fruit, hay, grain and stock, and through life has been a member and liberal sup- porter of the M. E. church of Clyde.
Syron, M. Barton, was born in Romulus, Seneca county, June 10, 1826. His father, Jacob P. Syron, was a native of New Jersey, and came to Seneca county in 1823. In 1837 he moved to the town of Galen, Wayne county, where he died in 1853 at the age of sixty-one. M. Barton Syron laid the foundation of his education in the old log school house of his district and also attended the Ingh school at Clyde for two winters. At the age of twenty-three he married Lucinda, daughter of Ethan Angell, and they have three sons and one daughter : Augustus C., William A., Fenton, and Mrs. Emma Foist. In 1852 he bought the Waldraff property of fifty-three acres, and in 1863 he bought the Peleg Meade property of 100 acres, having in all 140 acres, and raising fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is one of the representative farmers of his town, and takes an intelligent interest in town affairs.
Luffman, William, was born in Elbridge December 4, 1823. His father. Abram, was a native of Massachusetts. He came to Wayne county in 1827, settled in the town of Wolcott, where he died in 1882 aged eighty-fonr. William Luffinan was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-seven married Amelia, daughter of John W. Hendrick, a native of Vermont, who came to Wayne county in ISH4 and was among the earliest settlers in Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. buffman have had eight children, seven of whom are now living: Mrs. Arvilla Andrus, Mrs. Nellie Sanford, Mrs. William Stetler, Frank E., and Mrs. Cornelius Stell, Edwin and Mrs. Carrie Roberts. In 1869 they came to the town of Galen and bought the David Ferguson property of 100 acres raising fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is one of the representative farmers of his town, taking an active interest in educational and religious matters.
Ely, Charles H., was born in Williamstown, Mass., June 1, 1837. His father, Henry L., was born in town of Lyme, of New London county, Conn. The family originally came from England. Henry L. came to Clyde in 1870, and is a carriage maker by trade. Charles Il. was educated at Williamstown and finished at the Wilbraham Seminary in Massachusetts; then learned the carriage maker's trade with his father, came to Clyde in 1872 and entered the employ of his father, and in 1882 established himself in busi- ness and is a well-known manufacturer of fine carriages and sleighs. At the age of twenty-five he married Abbie M., daughter of J. P. Bliss, and they have had five chil- dren, three of whom are now living: Charles II., jr., Grace G., and Alice B. Our sub- jeet is prominently identified in educational and religious matters.
Howard, Frank, was born in Galen July 10, 1857. His father, William, came to Wayne county from Lowville, Lewis county in 1836. He- married Eliza A., daughter of Allen Kennedy, of Dover Station, Dutchess county, N. Y. They have had five children, two of whom are now living: Mrs. Ella Hoard and Frank. He died in 1891, aged ninety-three. Frank Howard was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. At the age of twenty-three he married Carrie B., daughter of William B. Sears, and they have four children : William S., Stella N., May and Howard. In 1891 he took charge of his father's estate of 200 acres, raising fruit, hay, grain, and stock, and making a specialty of dairying, producing from 225 to 250 quarts of milk per day. Our subject takes an active interest in school and church matters.
Porter, Ellory J., was born in Junius, Seneca county, January 2, 1818. His father, George W., was a native of that town, the family coming from the Mohawk Valley. Ellory J. was educated in the common schools to which he has added through life by reading and close observation ; after which he returned to his father's farm. At the age of twenty two he married Buelah, daughter of Isaac Thorn, and they have four children : George S., Lottie M., Mabel and Mand. In 1870 he came to Wayne county
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and settled in the town of Huron, and in 1875 removed to the town of Galen and pur- chased the Furlong property of 10S acres, raising fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our sub- ject is one of the representative farmers of his town, identified in educational and religious matters.
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