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Wood, Alonzo D., an influential and prosperous farmer and business man, is the son of Seth Wood, who died in 1847, greatly respected. The latter had been for eight years justice of the peace, and died an incumbent of that office. ITis wife was Melinda, daughter of John Dunham, by whom he had nine children, seven now living : James, Seth, William, Laura, John, Julia, Alonzo, Helen and Gaylord. Alonzo was born May 18, 1838, was educated at Sodus Academy and Falley Seminary, beginning life for him- self on a farm in Conquest, Cayuga county, December 30, 1866. He married Anna M., daughter of H. O. Baggerly, of Savannah, by whom he has two sons, Howard C., born June 31. 1874 ; and Stanley D., born May 6, 1885. Mr. Wood was for some time en- gaged in school teaching prior to his marrirge. He now conducts a large and product- ive farm besides dealing in agricultural implements, machinery, etc. He a staunch Republican, and has served as overseer of the poor, and justice for four years each. In 1884-85 and 1886 he served on the Board of Supervisors.
Wiley, living, is the only son of Eli Wilsey, who was born in Columbia, Cayuga county December 5, 1830. Eli married Harriet, daughter of William II. Snyder, Sep- tember 12, 1855, and in 1870 they came to Savannah, and purchased a farm of 100 aeres, lying two miles northwest of the village. Eli's death occurred December 12,
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1893, and his widow, Harriet, remains upon the homestead farm, which is now operated by her son. Irving was born November 3, 1870, and married November 26, 1891, Augusta E., daughter of Edwin Tallman, of Savannah, and they have one daughter, Lula, born October 20, 1892.
Williams, Albert, was born in Savannah August 5, 1848. His parents, Smith and Phoebe Williams, were among the earliest settlers here. Smith died July 6, 1892, his widow surviving him. Albert married November 15, 1876, Gertrude, daughter of Thomas and Harriet Gerow, of Phelps, Ontario county, and they have four children : Howard S., born August 7, 1877; Carl G., born December 25, 1878; George A., born April 26, 1880, and Mand, born May 22, 1882. Mr. Williams operates 100 acres of land, making a specialty of the breeding of Holstein cattle for dairy purposes.
Widrig, Russell, is the son of. Michael Widrig, of Herkimer county, who removed to Clyde in 1833, and died in 1849. His wife, Martha, reared a family of ten children, all but one of whom are still living, the youngest one being past fifty years. Russell has one sister in Wayne county, Mary, widow of the late Jedediah Carter, of Savannah. Martha, wife of Michael Widrig, died in 1870, aged seventy five years. Russell's grandfather, George Widrig, born in Germany, came to America when ten years old, acquiring a collegiate education in New York. He served as a private through the Revolution, and a brigadier-general in the war of 1812, his son Michael, acting as aid- de-camp to him. Russell, born at Frankfort, Herkimer county, November 25, 1822, educated at Clyde High school, supplemented by reading and self-directed research, is a man of much ability and force of character. He has served as commissioner of high- ways several terms, besides other offices. December 25, 1853, he married Euretta Woodward, who became the mother of Russell A., born December 11, 1854, died Feb- ruary 22, 1863; Richard II., born November 13, 1860, died February 24, 1863, and Martha M., born September 6, 1856, now the wife of John Anderson, of Savannah, and mother of four children.
Wiley, C. C., was born August 29, 1850, in a log house upon the site of his present home. His parents, C. B. and Nancy Wiley, came here in a canoe and settled amid the wilderness. C. B. Wiley for many years engaged beside farming in the production and sale of lumber. He died November 12, 1891, and his wife January 1, 1892. C. C. Wiley was educated at Falley Seminary and married February 12, 1873, Kate, daugh- ter of Charles Long, of Savannah. They are located on a farm of 110 acres, two miles south of Savannah. Their children are: May, born December 27, 1874; Grace, born April 3, 1876 ; Charles, born November 25, 1879, and LeRoy, born May 3, 1891.
Westcott, George II., born at Galen, May 18, 1850, and, in 1859 his father, the late Heman Westcott, came to the present homestead, three miles northeast of Savannah. Heman Westcott was born in Ira, Cayuga county. April 28, 1812, coming to Butler in 1886, where he married Julia A., daughter of Philip Van Northwick, December 31, 1826. Julia was born in Columbia county in: 1817, and she had eight children, of whom but three survive : Harriet, Eleetn and George, the former married and residing in Michigan. Heman Westcott was a successful and prosperous farmer, a kind father and loving husband, and when he died March 14, 1894, Savannah mourned the loss of a worthy pioneer and a good citizen. George H., the present representative of the house of Westcott, was born May 18, 1850, and married December 23, 1871, Sarah L., daugh- ter of Sylvester Secor, of Savannah, and is now eligibly situated upon a farm adjacent to that owned by his late father. His wife, Sarah L., was born in Savannah Novem- ber 20, 1847. She is the mother of six fine children : Lillian B., born November 20, 1871; Cora E., born May 17, 1874; Archibald B., born February 10, 1879; Charles A., born July 26, 1882; Howard, born August 4, 1885; Harrison, born March 4, 1889. Mr. Westcott is a man of ability and enterprise, an uncompromising Republican, and beside farming does a large business in breeding fine horses, chiefly Percherons.
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Bilby, Joseph, born in New Jersey February 8, 1820, is the third son of eight children of William and Mary (Sharpe) Bilby, natives of New Jersey, who came to Marion in 1827 and here Mr. Bilby died in October, 1861, and his wife in 1863. He was a blacksmith by trade. Our subject was reared a farmer until seventeen years of age, learned the shoemaker's trade, and followed it in Marion most of his life. He owns fourteen acres of land in Marion. He has been highway commissioner. He married in August, 1853,' Mary M. Morgan, a native of Oswego county, and daughter of Isaac and Mary Morgan, natives of England, who settled in Oswego county, but died in Pultneyville.
Bilby, John H., born in New Jersey. November 28, 1817, was the second of six chil- dren of William and Mary Bilby. Subject was reared a blacksmith, but in 1859 bought the farm he owns of seventy-two and one-half acres, and has since followed farming. Hle married, February 8, 1838, Cynthia Luce, a native of Palmyra, and daughter of William Luce, of Long Island, who is descended from Israel Luce, of Wales, the latter's son having came to America abont 1676. William Luce came to Palmyra in 1796, where he died in 1891. His wife was Lydia Goldsmith, who died in 1874. The father of William was Benjamin Luce, who served through the Revoluionary War. Mr. and Mrs. Bilby have had one daughter, Louisa M., wife of Henry C. Allen, and they have one son, Elmer J. Allen, who married Carrie Pulver, who has one son, Wayne.
Boss, John, born in Williamson, N. Y., November 2, 1824, is the third son of Isaac and Sarah (Dedie) Boss, natives of Holland and mentioned in biography of Cornelius Boss. John Boss was reared on a farm and has always followed farming, except one year in the grocery business in Marion. He now ownis a portion of the Boss homestead, and makes a specialty of fruit growing. He married in 1883 Lena Ver- bridge, of Sodus. She is the daughter of Peter and Lisa Verbridge, natives of Hol- land who came to America in 1852 and settled in Pnltneyville, where the mother died in 1893, and Mr. Verbridge now resides with Mr. Boss. Mr. and Mrs. Boss. are members of the Reformed church, of Marion.
Bowen, Seth, was born in Tyre, Seneca county, March 15, 1824. Ilis father, Silas, was a native of New Jersey and came to Seneca county in 1810. He mar- ried Sarah Lumm, who was of English descent. Seth Bowen laid the foundation of his education in the log school house of his district. At the age of twenty-three he married Caroline, daughter of Jediah Jenkins, and they have two children, Mrs. Mary Cuyler and Frank Bowen. In 1871 he bought the Asaph Whittlesey property of 160 acres, raising fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is one of the leading farmers in his town.
Bishop, Alvin, was born in Albany, N. Y., January 22, 1863. His father, Rev. E. Sherman Bishop, a clergyman of the New York M. E. Conference, after a service of thirty years has retired to his home at Milton, on the Hudson. Alvin Bishop was educated in the schools of Fishkill, New York, and Hancock, N. Y., entering Union College in 1881, took the classical course and graduated in 1885. In 1887-89 he was appointed principal of Monticello Classical Institute; then during 1889-91 was prin- cipal of Woodstock, Vt., High School. In 189] he came to Clyde as principal of the Clyde High School, graduating in 1893 one of the largest classes in the history of the school, having an average attendance of 475 to 500. At the age of twenty-two he married Mary Louise, daughter of Horace Goodrich, of Schenectady.
Brockmyre, Chris., was born in Seneca Falls December 25, 1852 educated in the Clyde High School, and at the age of twenty-five married Emma, daughter of Loami Beadle, by whom he has five children : Christopher, Marvin, Clarence, Clifford and Ethel. In 1855 he came to Wayne county with his stepfather, John Seigmund, who purchased a farm. He died in 1884, and at the time of his death was one of the largest
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farmers in the town of Galen, having 290 acres of land and raising large quantities of hay, grain and stock. He was sixty-two years of age when he died. Our subject in 1876 established the grocery on lock fifty-three which he now carries on, carrying a large stock of general merchandise, hay and grain, and taking an intelligent interest in school and religious institutions.
Burghduff, W. R., only son of Jesse Burghduff, was born where he now resides No- vember 3, 1858. His father, now seventy-eight years of age, was also born here. His grandfather, Jacob, born in the city of Albany, was one of the earliest settlers in this locality. William Burghduff's wife is Elizabeth, daughter of Addison Chapman of Westbury, and their children are : Claude, born November 30, 1879, and Bula, born February 9, 1882. Her father's family are also remarkable for longevity and at one time, in 1884, there were represented at the Burghduff home four generations, Jacob, Jesse, William and Claude Burghdoff, and Curtis, Addison, Elizabeth and her son CInude of the Chapman family.
Bacon, Rufus J., was born in Skaneateles, Onondaga county, 1818. His parents, Ru- fus and Martha Bacon, came to the town of Butler in 1832, when Rufus died August 18, 1849, at eighty years of age. He was the eldest of eleven children. His mother died June 19, 1857. Mrs. Rufus Bacon is a sister of Mrs. John McCourtie, and they are the daughters of the late well known Eleazer Smith of Butler. Her four daugh- ters are Phebe A., born May 2, 1843, Martha P., born December 9, 1848, Sarah, born July 3, 1853, Florence, born April 5, 1857.
Bacon, Nathan, born in 1822, is the son of Rufus Bacon of Sennett, N, Y., who died at the age of seventy years in 1861. Nathan has been a resident of Butler since 1852. Both himself and wife are members of the M. E. Church. January 1, 1854, he married Lavina, daughter of the late Eleazer Smith of Butler, by whom he had three children : Mary E., Frances M., and Sumner S.
Brewster, A. F., was born at Sterling, 1825. Morgan Brewster, his father, was born at Palmyra, Wayne connty, and was well known as a hotel proprietor at Wolcott, and at Red Creek. He died in 1889, and his wife, Melinda Lyan, died two years later. Our subject, educated at Red Creek Seminary, has been engaged in mercantile and other lines af business, at one time operating a stage line between Wolcot and Clyde, in con- neetion with a livery. In 1876, he purchased a farm near Wolcott. His first wife, Evelyn, who died in 1860, left one son, Frank L. The present Mrs. Brewster was Cyrilla Lawrence, of Copenhagen, to whom were born three children. George A,, Fred II., and Anna Belle, the latter becoming Mrs. E. B. Cossohnan. Her death oe- eurred August 7, 1892, at twenty-three years of age. . She left one son, Earl Cossol- man.
Britton, Joseph, born in Williamson, September 21, 1833, and was the second child of Richard and Ann Wake Britton, natives of Warthell, Yorkshire, England, he born in 1797 and she in 1807, and who were married in 1829. The father of Richard was John Britton, who lived and died in England. Richard Britton was a veterinary surgeon and farmer, and settled where our subject now resides, and owned at one time 147 acres of land. He was a Republican, and poormaster for two years. He and his wife were members of the M. E. Church. He died in 1886 and she in 1871. Our sub- ject was educated in Sodus Academy, and he has spent his life where he now resides and owns sixty - five aeres of land. He is a Republican and has been assessor ten years. He and Ins wife are members of the Presbyterian church. October 27, 1864, he mar- ried Elizabeth Clark, of Williamson, born March 5, 1839, and daughter of John and Elizabeth Clark. Our subjeet has one daughter, Carrie M., born 1865, and the wife of Elmer V. Santee, a merchant of Watertown, whom she married February 18, 1892.
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Bnekles, Abram, was born in Williamson August 2, 1856. He is a son of Jacob and Anna (Wantesfelder) Buckles, natives of Holland. They came to America in 1847 and settled in Williamson, where they have since resided and followed farming. The grandfather, Adrian, died in Holland in 1830, and his wife Maggie (Deflue) Buckles, died on the ocean while on the way to America in 1847. Adrian Buckles was a wagonmaker by trade. Abram was reared on the farm and worked on the homestead till 1887, when he bought the plank road steam saw mill, where he has since been en- gaged in the manufacture of lumber. He also has a feed mill and a cider mill. They attend and support the M. E. Church. In 1883 he married Lucinda Resue, of William- son, and they have one daughter, Maud. The parents of Mrs. Buckles were Josiah and Annie Resue. He died in 1871, and his wife resides on the farm.
Budlong, A. P., Macedon, was born December 22, 1824, son of John Budlong, who was born in 1798. The latter was a farmer and business man, and a dealer in cattle. He married in 1816 Abigail Langley, and they reared seven children : Jenks, Dewain, Nathan, A. P., our subject, Samuel, Charlotte and Abigail. He married second in 1833 Widow Hill, by whom he had these cluldren, John R., Walter F., and Hettie M. Our subject is a farmer. He married first Hannah Arnold, by whom he had two children, Nathan and Cora. Ilis second wife was Cornelia Pulver. Mr. Budlong held the office of assessor.
Baker, David C., Macedon, was born on the farm now owned by John E. Baker, within a few yards of his farm, April 28, 1846. His occupation has been farming, but in early life he tauglit school six winters. He married in 1873 Margaret J. Longstaff, of Macedon, and settled where he now lives, owning abont 100 acres, three acres in timber. They have two children, David G., jr., and Mary E., both at home attending the district school and Macedon Union seliool. Our subject is excise commissioner, also assessor, and is a member of the Royal Templars and the Grange.
Bentley, Joseph W., Macedon, was born in Queensbury, Warren county February 17, 1840. Warren Bentley, his father, was born in Warren county August 28, 1815, son of Richard Bentley, a native of Rhode Island, who came to this State at an early day. His occupation was speculating in lumber, ete. He married Dina Vaughn, and they had seventeen children, thirteen of whom grew to maturity. At present there are six living. He settled in Queensbury, near Lake George. Warren Bentley married Calista Jenkins, born in Queensbury. Warren county, January 25, 1819, daugh- ter of Murray Jenkins, and they had seven children, all now living. The occupation of our subject has been farming except in the year of 1862, when he went to the oil region in Pennsylvania. He conducted a lumber yard and general merchandise store for W. Ames & Co., m the village of Pioneer near Titusville, which position lie held four years. He married Axie Vaughn of Erie county, in 1867, at which time he gave up his position and went to Michigan, where he lived one year. He then came to Genesee county and then to Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent the summer. In 1869 he canie to the farm he now owns, consisting of seventy-five acres. He has two sons, Fred W. Ames and Herbert Lee. Fred W. is a physician and gradnated from the New York Homoeopathic Medical College May 3, 1894, and went to Buffalo May 15, 1894, to assnme charge of the Buffalo Homoeopathic Hospital. Herbert Lee graduated May 25, 1894, from the Buffalo Law school. Subject never aspired to public office.
Bullis. Abraham, Macedon, was born in Farmington, Ontario county, September 4, 1854. His father, Dr. Abraham R., was a native of Vermont, born July 8, 1815. He was a graduate of Geneva Medical College, and took up his practice in Farmington and Macedon. He married Lydia P., daughter of John Lapham, of Macedon, a descendant of the old pioneer family of Laphams so widely known in this part of Wayne county, who came to this part of the State in 1790. John L. Bullis, brother of our subject, is captain in the regular army of the United States, also Indian agent in
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New Mexico. The children of Abraham R. Bullis are : John, Mary, Charles, Abrahamn R., our subject ; bida and Nettie. Mary, Charles, and Nettie are deceased. Lida is the wife of Major Weni, of the regular army. Our subject is a graduate of Cornell University, graduating as a civil engineer in 1882, also in mathematics in 1881. He married Josephine Breese in 1884, daughter of J. D. Breese, of Macedon, and they have two children, Charles and Nettie. Our subject is a prominent member of the Masonic Lodge No. 665, of Macedon.
Blaine, C. G., was born in the town of Varick, Seneca county, March 23, 1856, was educated in the Ovid Academy and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1882, taking the law course. He came to Lyons in 1882 and entered the office of Major Roys and in 1883 was admitted to the bar of Wayne county, and entered into general practice. In 1889 he bought the George H. Cramer insurance business, and in 1894 also bought the Charles E. Crandall agency, doing the largest line of insurance and handling real estate and placing loans in Lyons. At the age of twenty-eight he mar- ried Cassie A., daughter of Amos Desmond, of Galen, and they are the parents of one son, Carlton A. Our subject is a very active business man, identified in advancing the best interests of his town and the leading events of the day, and is recognized as a man of sterling integrity and worth.
Baltzel, G. H., the eldest son of Henry Baltzel, who came to Lyons from Alsace Sulz in 1842, was born in Lyons January 12, 1851. He was educated in Lyons, and at an early age became his father's assistant in his many enterprises, paying special attention to the boot and shoe trade, which, at the death of his father in March, 1878, he con- tinned, being at the present time one of the leading merchants and carrying one of the largest stocks of fine footware of all kinds in Wayne county. Retiring and unassum- ing he has done much to advance the best interests of his town as any of his towns- people, having in connection with his brother, W. H. Baltzel, erected the well known Baltzel block.
Baltzel, W. H., was born May 5, 1855, in Lyons. His father, Henry, came from Alsace Sulz to Lyons in 1842, first engaged in the hotel and boot and shoe business, and gradually acquired a large amount of real estate, and at his death, in March, 1878, was one of the wealthiest and most prominent business men in the town of Lyons, leaving a large estate to his ten children. W. H. Baltzel was educated at Lyons Union School and finished at the Rochester Business University, after which he engaged in the dry goods and provision business, and, in connection with his brother, Henry, erected one of the largest blocks in Lyons, containing four stories and the Baltzel House. At thirty- one years of age he married Jennie E. Reads, of Syracuse, and they have three chil- dren : Irene, Pauline, and Marjorie. Our subject is one of the prominent business men in his town, identified in advancing its best interests, and is recognized as a man of nigh business ability and strict integrity.
Boeheim, F. W. & Son, Furniture and Undertakers .-- The firm is composed of F. W. Boeheim, came from Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1850, settled in Lyons and established himself in the same business now carried on by himself and sons in 1854. Starting in a small way he soon began to acquire a competence, and in 1880 took into the firm the eldest son, Frederick, and in 1891 the youngest son, Charles. In 1891 he bought the Leonard property on Water street which they rebuilt, making one of the largest busi- ness blocks in Lyons, occupying four floors and carrying the largest and most complete line of furniture and undertaking goods in Wayne county. F. W. Boeheim married Philopena Gehres, daughter of Daniel Gehres, of Germany, and they have four chil- dren : Frederick, Philip, and Charles, and one daughter, Mrs. William Buisch, of Lyons. Frederick married at twenty-three Sallie Buisch, of Lyons, daughter of George Buisch, and they have one son, Frederick. Charles married at twenty-one Libbie, daughter of Adam Frey, and they have three children : Charles E., Bessie, and
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Clara. Our subjects are noted among the business community as men of energy and high business ability, identified in advancing the best interests of their town, where they have been selected to fill many positions of trust and of recognized worth and sterling integrity.
Barton, Daniel, was born June 12, 1830, on the old Barton homestead in Lyons, which at the time of his birth was a log house. His father, Elisha, was a prominent fariner in his town. Daniel was educated in the common schools, attending school during the winter and working on the farm during the summer. At the age of twenty-five he mar- ried Eliza, daughter of David Griffiths, who died in 1857, and in 1859 he married Soph- ronia, daughter of James Miller, of Arcadia. They have had three children, two of whom are living: Bernard M., and Lillie B. Eliza died in 1880, at the age of twenty-three. In 1869 he bought the Captain Merry property of 100 acres, raising mint, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is one of the leading farmers in his town, elected as assessor in 1893. Ile took an active interest in educational and religious matters.
Barton, Theodore, was born in Putnam county, January 7, 1828, came to Wayne county in 1829 with his father, Elisha, and was educated in the common schools of his day, to which he has added through life by reading and elose observation. At the age of twenty- seven he married Jeannette, daughter of Philip Pulver, of Lyons, and they have one daughter, Ida. In 1856 he bought the Ben Carroll property of sixty-five aeres, and in 1869 bonght part of the Captain Merry property of thirty-three aeres, having sixty - nine aeres of some of the best farm land in Wayne county, raising mint, hay, grain and stock, Our subject is one of the prominent farmers in his town, filled the office of commissioner of highways, and a liberal supporter of educational and religions in- stitutions. .
Beadle, Judd, was born in the town of Marengo. March 28, 1859. His father, Orrin, the proprietor of Beadle's Hotel for fifty years, is also a native of the county. Judd Beadle was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and observation. In 1888 he established a general grocery and mercantile store at Marengo, and disposing of it in 1891 came to Clyde and remained in busi- ness one year, and in the fall of the same year came to Lyons and established the same business in the double stores on the south side, carrying one of the largest and best selected stocks of fine groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes, rubber goods, in Wayne county. Our subject is recognized as one of the most energetic and enter- prising merchants in his town, identified in advancing its best interests and in the leading events of the day.
Bastian, David, was born in the town of Galen, February 7, 1849. His father, Michael, came from Alsace. David was educated in the common schools. At the age of twenty-four he married Magdalena, daughter of George Ehreman, of Lyons, and they are the parents of four children : Philip A., Helen L., Bertha, and Maud N. In 1881 in connection with his brother George B., he bought the Walter Aikenhead property of 320 acres, which they divided, raising hay, grain and stock, making a specialty of milk dairying, averaging 200 quarts per day. Our subject is one of the intelligent farmers in his town, identified in advancing its interests.
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