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Calkins, Clarissa V., widow of the late Hudson Calkins, who was born in Butler in 1840. They were married in 1862, and they had two children, Ilattie and Frank. Mr. Calkins went to the front in 1862, as second lientenant Company G, 9th Artillery, and served with honor until the close of the war. He died in 1872. Clarissa Calkins is the daughter of F. H. Moore, who with his parents eame from Connectient m 1810 with a team of oxen. He was then five years of age and lived in the town of Butler for eighty years after. His wife who was born in Massachusetts in 1811, survived him until 1894.
Creager, William, was born in Galen December 26, 1836. His father, William, was a native of Fredericksburg, Md., came to Wayne county in 1785, and settled on lot 93 where his descendants now reside, the property having been in the family for more than 100 years. He died in 1837, aged forty-nine years. He married Elizabeth, dangh- ter of John Barriek. William Creager was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-seven married Icina 1., daughter of David Closs, by whom he had two children, Mrs. Belle Sutterby and David G. Creager. In 1881 he bought the old home- stead of 100 acres, raising mint, fruit, hay, grain and stoek. Our subject is one of the representative farmers of his town, elected assessor for three years, and takes an active interest in school and church matters.
Clouse, Charles, was born in the town of Arcadia November 28, 1859. His father was a native of Alsace, Germany, and came to the United States in 1850. He married Magdalena Brock, and died in 1888, aged seventy-one years. Charles Clouse was edu- cated in the common schools, and a the age of twenty-three married Mary A., dangh- ter of Charles A. Bremner, by whom he has two sons, Irving and Frank. In 1882 he bought the Levanway property of 103 acres, raising frmit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is one the representative farmers in Wayne county, and takes an active interest in educational and religions matters.
Crane, Zebina, born in Marion July 20, 1818, is the oldest of two children of Jacob G., and Parmelia (Dexter) Crane. Mr. Crane came to Marion with his parents, Zebina and Mary E. Crane in 1804, and here Zebina died in 1820, and his wife died in Illinois in 1840. Jacob G. was a farmer, and was poormaster of the town. He and his wife are both dead. He married twice afterward, his second wife being Mary Carr, by whom he had two children now living. His third wife was Ann Smith, and they had two children now living. Our subjeet was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools. He has always been a farmer, and owns 110 acres. He has been high- way commissioner. He was married twice, first Jannary 17. 1844, to Hannah Peer, daughter of Thomas Peer, an early settler of Williamson. Mr. Crane and wife had four children De Witt C., Emily P., Alonzo B., and Mary. Mrs. Crane died in 1875, and Mr. Crane married Mariana Cogswell, daughter of Giles Cogswell, a native of Rhode Island and one of the early settlers of Williamson. His wife was Parmelia Sanford. Mr. Cogswell died in Marion in 1874, aged eighty-fonr, and his wife in 1864. They had ten children, of whom six are living : Eliza J. Eggleston, wife of subject and twin sister Marietta, Richmond P., Almond G., and Marnett H.
Clark, Samuel, of English stock, emme to Palmyra and located abont 1790, having three sons: Samuel, jr., who removed to Michigan with his family about 1840; Ben-
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jamin, and Oliver, the latter two buying land together one mile north of East Palmyra. This farm was afterward divided, Benjamin taking the north and Oliver the south part. Here Benjamin died, also his daughters, one granddaughter removing to the West in 1840. Oliver was born February 14, 1767, and died January 21, 1843. Ile came from Long Island abont 1794, and was a tailor, having a farm just across the creek from East Pahyra. Of his three sisters who settled and married here, one be- came the wife of Gabriel Rogers, and later removed to Sodus. She was the mother of B. R. and James, of Lyons, and Erastus, of Sodns. Another sister married Sol-
omon Franklin, and, after his death, Luther Sandford. The other sister married a Mr. Soverhill, of Arcadia, and had two sons, Joel and Hiram. Oliver married Sarah Jessup, of Long Island, who died January 8, 1823. Their children were : Maltby, born March 31, 1798; Matilda, born June 3, 1800, who died April 2, 1827; Jerry, born Sep- tember 16, 1802, of Orleans county ; Dennis, born March 21, 1805; Nelson, born May 7, 1807; Betsey, born December 5, 1810; Hannah, born February 14, 1812; and Iliram, born April 29, 1814, died January 11, 1835. The mother of these children died Jannary 8, 1823, and Oliver married, second, Susan Romeyn in 1828, who died in 1857. Maltby, the oldest of the family, who died in 1875, married Maria Mason, who died in 1822, and, second, Jerusha Jagger, by whom he had eight children : Henry M., born March 6, 1826 ; Maria M., born January 25, 1829; Abigail J., born November 3, 1831; Har- riet E., born August 8, 1834; Nelson, born March 23, 1837 ; Lucms II., born December 8, 1840; Oliver N., born January 31, 1846; and Mary E., born January 28, 1850. Maltby served in various town offices, was superintendent of the poor nine years, and was a Republican. Henry M. Clark resided with his parents until the age of twenty- one, when he married, April 3, 1850, Frances A. Foster, a native of Palmyra, and their children are: Edwin H., born January 3, 1852, who resides near his father ; George W., born July 26, 1853, died September 30, 1875; Julia F., born August 14, 1856, who married Edwin F. White. Henry Clark began married life on his grand- father's farm, remaining four years, then bought fifty-four acres, which he afterwards. sold and bought the place where he now resides. He is a Republican, and has served as supervisor and member of Assembly, being elected to the latter office in 1874. The family are Presbyterians, and he has been clerk of the Presbytery of Lyons for twenty- four successive years,
Converse, Charles, was born in Cayuga county in 1827, son of Josiah Converse, a native of Allegany county, whose father was Sanmel Converse, a farmer. The father of our subject was also a farmer. His wife was Betsey Laberrux, and they have seven chil- dren. At the age of twenty-one our subject went to Michigan, soon after returned and erected a steam saw mill in Cayuga county and engaged in the manufacture of lumber. In 1852 he came to Huron, and for some years followed coopering. Since then he has devoted his time to farming and is a prosperous farmer, owning several farms and fifty acres of the homestead in which he was born. In 1854 he married Demorah Schofield, of Onondaga county, and they have one child, Eliza, wife of Charles Davis, of Huron.
Chapin, Spencer E., was born in Huron in 1845. Ilis father, Harlow, also born in Huron in 1822, is the son of Spencer Chapin, a native of Massachusetts, whose father was Phineas Chapin, of Massachusetts, who came to Huron in 1811 with his wife and six children, and was killed the following year by the fall of a tree. He was the first man born in Huron. Harlow was a thrifty and successful farmer. His wife was Fannie Reed, and their children were: Spencer E., Joseph R., Charles E., Frank H., Ella L., wife of Rev. Matthew Gafney, of Manlius, Onondaga county ; Edgar W., Har- low and Fannie (twins). Mr. Chapin began farming when twenty-one years of age. From 1875 to 1879 he was interested in a barrel and stave factory in Huron. In 1877 he purchased his present farm, and since 1890 has been engaged in the manufacture of lumber. In 1867 he married Etta L. Persons, born in Berkshire county, Mass., in 1847, and they have one child, Gertie, wife of George Hatcher, of Huron.
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Church, William O., is the only son of the late Hiram Church, who was a pioneer of Wolcott, a successful business man, of liberal views and wide information. He came from Massachusetts to Wolcott when two years of age with his father, Osgood Church, who was the first supervisor of Wolcott. He died in 1889, at the age of eighty-four years. He was born February 22, 1847. William O. Church graduated from Falley Seminary in 1865, and two years later entered into partnership with his father. He was for many years a prime mover in the large mercantile interests of Wolcott, but is now retired from active business. He married in 1867 Sarah E., daughter of Professor Bragdon, of Lima, N. Y., and their only child, Belle B., born February 16, 1876, died in infancy.
Catchpole, James, was born in England in March, 1825, the son of James and Susan Catchpole, who came to America in 1835. Their children are: Mrs. Susan Smith, of Geneva; Mrs. Ann Thomas, of Geneva; Jerimia Smith, of Huron ; Benjamin, Mary Ann, Robert, and Matilda. In 1844 they came to Huron and settled on the farm now owned by our subject. Mr. Catchpole was at an early date in partnership with his brothers, Benjamin and Robert, and John Smith engaged extensively in the manufac- ture of lumber. They built the lake boats called Charger and Catchpole, and they also built a storehouse in North Rose, and dealt in produce for many year's. For several years our subject has devoted his attention to farming on the homestead of 118 acres, where he now resides with his sisters, Mary Ann, and Matilda.
Curtis, Omar M., was born May 9, 1867, son of the well known veteran soldier and merchant, George B. Curtis He was educated at Albany, and upon reaching his majority, took charge of the foundry and machine shop, known as the Curtis Deoxy- dized Plow Works, manufacturers and dealers in agricultural implements, probably the largest and oldest firm in the country in this line. This firm makes a specialty of Land Rollers, and of the Giant Fruit Dryer, possessing characteristic and unique points of merit, largely due to the inventive genius and business energy of Omar M. Curtis.
Carrier, Amaziah T., son of Amaziah and Wealthy Carrier, was born in Brutus, Cayuga county. One of a family of five children, deprived of a father's care while a mere boy he early learned the lessons of patient toil and economy, and developed those sterling qualities of character, which gave him in future years the esteem of all who knew Inm. He married in 1831 Lois J. Bottum, of Conquest, Cayuga county, N. Y. Their early married life was spent in the near vicinity, till in 1844 he purchased a farm in Rose, one mile east of the present village of North Rose. There for twenty years, he, his wife and a family of five children, assimilated themselves into the life of the community around them. Members of the Methodist Church their home became the half-way house of the itmerating clergy, and the center of the social life around them. In November, 1859, the first sorrow overshadowed the home, in the death of the eldest daughter, Mary, a beautiful girl of nineteen years. Then came to the sixties, those years that covered our whole broad land with blood and tears-and when as of old it might be said " there was not a house where there was not one dead." The old- est son, William Seward, canght the patriotic fire, and seeing only his country's danger, turned his back upon his school life at Lima Seminary, without title or bounty, and marched southward with the 10th Regiment N. Y. Vol. Cavalry, Company E. The rigors of camp life proved too severe for the student, and August 3, 1862, at the hos- pital in Baltimore his brave young life went out, aged twenty-four years -- only one of the numberless thousands who "counted not his life dear unto himself." The second son, Elbert, a practicing physician in Syracuse, died August 3, 1870, aged twenty-eight years. In 1864 Mr. Carrier exchanged his property in Rose for a home in Wolcott. Failing healthi caused him to retire from active labor, and June 15, 1872, he passed away. Mrs. Carrier still occupies the home in Wolcott. Two daughters are living -- Ellen J., wife of George Aldrich, North Rose, with one son, J. Clarence ; and Lettie,
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wife of Rev. B. A. Partridge, member of Central N. Y. M. E. Conference, and their only daughter Ethlyn.
Cuyler, John H., was born in Orleans county, in 1826. His father, Abram, a promi- nent man of affairs in his day, settled here in 1833. Our subject has been identified with various industries in this locality in early years; was the first producer of barrel staves in Wolcott, but since 1854 has devoted himself to farmning and has for a quarter of a century occupied a house on a farm of 150 acres. March 16, 1854, he married Cordelia, daughter of Nelson De Vinney, a merchant of Newark. They have three children, Ella, Nelson and Ida. Ella has been a teacher since the age of seventeen, and it is due to her efforts as orignator and promoter of the idea that the excellent library at District No. 3 must be ascribed. The library is conducted upon a sound business basis, and its value as an educational factor is thereby enhanced and prolonged. Founded in 1888, it consists at present of nearly one hundaed volumes of educational and historical works.
Cosad, Samuel, the popular and efficient commissioner of schools in the first district uf Wayne county, was born December 24, 1855, in the town of Junius, Seneca county. His father was James M. Cosad, who was born in Somerset county, N. J., in 1810, and who removed with his parents to Seneca county in 1819. He married first Elizabeth Stout, and had two children : Cassie Robinson, and George Combe. He married sec- ond, Catharine Stout, born in Arcadia in 1818, a sister of his first wife, and had two children. Frank and Samnel. James M., who was a farmer, removed from Junius to IInron in 1856, where he resided till his death, August 15, 1893. He was a very snc- cessful business man and accumulated a large property, consisting of abont GO0 acres of valnable lands, which, before his death, he divided among his three surviving chil- dren. Samnel received such an education as was obtainable in the common schools, supplemented by two years attendance at Leavenworth Institute, Wolcott, and was one year at Sodns Academy, after which he spent three years in teaching and then entered mpon the study of law with Senator Thomas Robinson at Clyde, N. Y. These studies were continued for two years, and were then interrupted by the necessity of aiding his father in the management of Ins farms. He early took au active part in politics, being a Republican, and when but twenty-two was made town clerk of Huron, to which po- sition he was thrice elected. In 1886 he was chosen supervisor, and for seven years represented the town of Huron in the County Legislature. In 1892-93 he was chair- man of that body. His advocacy of economical and reformatory measures made him an especial favorite with his constituency, and in the fall of 1893 was elected school commissioner of the first district of Wayne county. In 1888 he married Ida E. Smith of Galen, by whom he had one daughter, Lillian, born Jannary 22, 1893. Mr. Cosad is at present residing in the village of Wolcott to which place he removed in the spring of 1894 that he might devote his whole time to the discharge of his duties as commis- sioner of schools. And while at present a resident of that village, his whole life has been so closely identified with the town of Huron and its interests that it is proper that his biography should appear among the citizens of that town.
Van Duzer, Z. A., was born in the town of Macedon, April 25, 1833. Caleb Van Duzer, father of the above, was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1800. He came to the rows of Macedon when four years of age, settling one-half mile east of Macedon Le engaged in farming and speculating. He married Lydia Maloney, ice were born five children, the youngest being %. 1. Van Duzer.
4 1. is engaged in farming all his life and has acquired a large In connection with his farm he also has a fine dairy bus- : the Baptist Church and of the Masonic fraternity, Macedon
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wire fences, at Wolcott, with office and storehouse near the R. W. & O. R. R. depot, is the second son of David and Maria (Apham) Vought, of Huron, where he was born in 1848. Mrs. Maria Vought still lives upon the old homestead farm in Huron, which is operated by the oldest son, A. U. Vought. Nicholas Vonght spent his early years in IFuron, chiefly engaged in farming, and acquired his present business by purchase from David De Mell in 1891. His wife, Emma L., is a daughter of Hugh Green, of Wolcott. They were married January 23, 1873, and have one daughter, Ina I. Mr. Vought is commander of Wolcott Lodge, Knights of S., F, and I.
Van Der Veer, H. E., was born in Montgomery county, N. Y., April 27, 1843, the only child of G. Van Der Veer and M. Allen, the former born May 9, 1813, and the latter June 24, 1814. The grandfather of our subject was Garret Van Der Veer, a native of New Jersey, born in 1765. The family is of Holland descent, and date their ancestry to the coming of Cornehus J. Van Der Veer to America from Holland (Alk- marr) in 1659. Garret married Rachael Covenhoven, a native of Monmouth county, N. J., on whose father's farm the battle of Monmouth was fought. The grandparents came to Montgomery county, where they lived and died. The father of our subject came to Wayne county in 1848, and settled at Marion, where the mother died, Decem- ber 1, 1890. Mr. Van Der Veer has devoted much of his time to the manufacture of machines for packing apples, and also kept hotel at Marion five years. He has always been a Democrat, a temperance man, and a prominent anti-slavery advocate before the war. HI. E. Van Der Veer was reared in the village of Marion, where he was educated in the Colgate Institute. At the age of fifteen he began as clerk for F. & J. B. Reeves, which he followed in that place and Palmyra, and was also in the Commissary Department in Indian Territory, at Fort Gibson, and was also in Kansas. In 1866 he came to Marion and engaged in the drug trade and in 1873 came to Ontario village, where he has since condneted a successful business in that line. He is a Democrat, and was appointed postmaster in 1893. He is a member of Wayne Lodge No. 416 F. & A. M., and the K. O. T. M., in both of which he holds positions of honor. February 22, 1870, he mar- ried Annette L. Pratt, of Williamson, born April 15, 1841, daughter of Jonathan and CHlarissa (Jennings) Pratt, of Whatley, Mass., and Burlington, N. Y., respectively, who had fourteen children, six of whom grew to maturity. Mr. Pratt and wife settled in Williamson in 1811, where he became one of the wealthiest farmers of the town. His oldest child, Aaron W., shipped with the first whaler in the northern seas. Another son was Capt. William W., a whaler and merchantman for forty years.
Van Vleck, Lawrence, was born in Schyler, Herkimer county, March 17, 1817, and has for forty-two years been a continued resident of the town of Butler, having settled first in Savannah in 1842, and in 1852, removed to Butler. His parents, Merinus and ley Van Vleck, reared a family of ten children in Herkimer county, of whom he is the third son. He married, September 21, 1839, Prudy A., daughter of John and Susan Hughes, of Schuyler, Herkimer county, who has been his faithful companion for more than half a century, and by whom he had eleven children, of whom all are living but the older, Louise, who died during their residence in Savannah, December 18, 1850 : Curtis k., Cady L., Susan L., the wife of Alfred Bullock, of Red Creek; Merinus, Harry D., Francis, Emma, now Mrs. N. Pierce, of Granby, N. Y., Ernest, Lawrence, and Allen. The family group is one of which their parents are justly proud, and upon whom no stigma has ever befallen.
Upham, H. M., whose paternal lineage may be traced to the earliest known settle- ment of Butler, was born February 25, 1863, on the place which was the home of his grandfather, and which was also the birthplace and life-long home of his father, Ebe . nezer Upham, who was hale and hearty at seventy-five years of age, and is the father of four children, of whom Merton is the elder. His wife, Marie, a sister of Jeremiah Lebring, of Wolcott, died January 5, 1894, aged sixty-nine years. Merton was edu-
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cated at Red Creek Academy, and is a young man of mneh ability and character, and greatly esteemed by all who know him. His wife is Della, daughter of Robert O'Brien of Iluron.
Vantassel, Elmer, of Butler, is the son of the late James Vantassel, who came here from Conquest, Cayuga county, in 1862. His wife, who is Ellen Brown, survives him. She is nearly seventy years of age, and of four children none are living except the subject of this sketch, who is the eldest of her children. He was born during their residence at Conquest June 8, 1849. December 15, 1873, he married Lucinda Burgh- dorf, daughter of John Burghdorf, of Victory, and their children are : Dewayne, born August 1, 1881, and Charlie, born February 28, 1873.
Van Lare, Jacob, born in Holland in 1832, was a son of Jacob and Zina Van Lare, natives of Holland, who came to Marion and he died in Sodus in 1859, and his wife resides at East Williamson. Jacob came to Marion in 1854 and bought the farm now owned by the family of 100 acres, and put up good buildings. He married in Wayne county Frances De King, a native of Holland, by whom he had eight children : Adrian, Zina, Abram, Annie, Maggie, William, David, and James. By his first wife, Lizzie Van Lare, he had five children : John, Jacob, Josiah; Isaac, and Peter. The family are mem- bers of the Dutch Reformed church. Mr. Van Lare died November 5, 1891.
Vosburgh, Jolin (deceased), was born in Copake, Columbia county, December 29, 1807, and came to Wayne county in 1837. He married Christiana, daughter of Tunis Race, of Ancram, Columbia county, and they have seven children : Cornelius. Tunis, John, Lee, Mrs. Clarinda Winegar, and Anna, and Mrs. Ella Miles. The family are now living on the Vosburgh homestead of 147 acres, which was settled by John Vos- burgh, having resided there fifty-seven years. He came from Columbia county with a sleigh. He raises large amounts of fruit, hay, grain, and stock. Our subject was among the early settlers of Wayne county, and the family were prominent in Columbia county. He died in 1891 aged eighty-four.
Van Holde, John, born in Holland September 3, 1827, is the fifth of fourteen children of John and Sarah Van Holde, natives of Holland, who came to Marion in 1855, where Mr. Van Holde died in 1857, and his wife in 1860. Subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He came to Williamson in 1853, where, with the exception of thirteen years in Marion, he has resided. He owns forty-nine acres of land, and follows general farming. He married, in 1853, Tannetje Rosencrantz, a native of Holland, by whom he has had three children: John, Jacob, and William. Two died in infancy. Mr. Van Holde was assessor nine years, and he and family are members of the Reformed church.
Tassell, Frank W., was born in Williamson August 31, 1853. He is the fifth of six children of Lewis and Harriet Tassell, natives of England, and who came to William- son in 1840, and here lived the remainder of their days. Mr. Tassell died in 1880, and his wife now resides in Williamson. Our subject finished his education in Marion College, and is a carpenter by trade. He followed farming until 1885, beginning the produce business then, and in 1888 formed a partnership with Mr. H. J. Bradley, which firm has since continued. Mr. Tassell is a member of the Pultneyville Lodge No. 159, 1. & A. M. In 1876 he married Phoebe M. Wood, a native of Sodus, and they have three children : Ofis L., Willis G., Stanley, who died in ISS6.
Thomas, Philip, was born in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga county, May 29, 1825, son of Alexander Thomas, a miller. His wife was Ruth Hart, and their children were : Isane 11., Alexander, William George, Abram, and Philip. When twenty-one our sub- jest began farming, and in 1816 came to Huron, and in September, 1861, enlisted in Company A, 9th Heavy Artillery, was taken sick and spent most of his time in the
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hospital. He contracted ailments from which he never fully recovered. In 1865 he purchased his present farm in lot 38, and in 1846 he was married to Charlotte, dangh- ter of Richard Morey, of Rose. Their children are : George, Eliza, wife of William Snyder, of Huron : Gene, wife of Josiah Cartwright, of Michigan ; Lottie, widow of Frank Dago; Charles, E., deceased; and Edward. Our subject is an honored member of the G. A. R., Keeslar Post No. 55, and a Republican.
Terbush William Spencer, was born in Junins, Seneca county, April 26, 1851, son of Jolm Terbush, who came to Huron in 1859. His wife was Eunice Jane Weeks, and their children were Emma Jane, William S., and George W. His second wife was Adelia Abbott, and their children were: Franklin, Lura, Clara and Adelina ; and his third wife was Frances M. Chase, by whom he had one child, Wesley. Our subject be- gan for himself when nineteen years of age, conducting his father's farm. Later years he was interested in dealing in live stock, and since 1892 has worked at the carpenter trade. His wife is Ordice Streeter of Pinkey, daughter of David Streeter, and their children are : Eunice Jane and Earl S. Subject is an Odd Fellow.
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