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Scott, William W., was born a slave in Sullivan county, Tenn., about 1812, and is one of twelve children of Frank Scott, who died a slave. He was owned by four different masters, and at one time was sold for $1, 100. He did many heroic acts during the war, and many a Union soldier he fed from his master's larder in 1863. He led a large number of slaves in an escape to the Union lines. He was a sokher for eleven months, captured and re-captured several times, In 1864 he came to Sheffield, Mass., and engaged as laborer in a marble quarry, being unusually intelligent was made second foreman and timekeeper, and two years later engaged as charcoal burner in Mount Washington. He was there told of a State farther North called York, where he decided to go and wended his way north to Hudson. Later he went to Lyons, where he was employed by Dr. Bottom, thence to Sodus, and in 1871 came to Huron, where he mar- ried Naney, daughter of Lewis Samson, a farmer in Huron, who was a slave in his early days. His wife was Elizabeth Brigg, whom he married in 1842. Mrs. Scott was born in the town of Galen. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have three children: Lewis, born February, 1872 ; Finley, born in 1879, and Fred, born in 1886. Subject and wife are members of the Royal Templars of Temperance of Huron. They own the farm of fifty-six acres formerly owned by Mrs. Scott's father.
Wilson, Gorham J., born in Savannah, March 7, 1856, is the eldest son of George R. and Mary (Gorham) Wilson, now residents of South Butler. After leaving school he engaged in farming and teaching five years, and in January, 1881, established with Viele Mead a general store business at South Butler, the co-partnership now being Wilson & Mitchell. December 29, 1881, he married Carrie A., danghter of Mrs. Harriett Newton, of Savannah, and their children are: Florence E., born May 25, 1883; Hattie A., born October 16, 1885; and Newton G., born March 5, 1891. Mr. Wilson is an
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unassuming gentleman of genial manners, whom to know is to admire. From 1890 to 1893 inelusive he represented his town on the Board of Supervisors as an exponent of Republican principles.
Hale, J. A., was born in Wolcott, N. Y., August 13, 1842, and was the son of O. H. and Lamira Hale, who reared a family of four sons and seven daughters. Our subject is not only a builder by trade but the architect of his own destinies, and a citizen who commands the respect of all who know him. For several years past he has been con- nected with a Rochester milling company, building flouring mills. He is a staunch Republican, having cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln for president. He was for several years a member of the Board of Education of Leavenworth Institute, located in Wolcott village, where all his children were educated. On March 2, 1865, he married Esther M., daughter of Patrick and Emeline Casey, who is the mother of four children. Fred. G. Hale was born in Wolcott, October 20, 1866, who after completing his ednca- tion learned the millwright's trade and traveled through the western States, building fouring mills, In November, 1891, he went to Campeachey, Mexico, and built a large mill for cutting Spanish cedar and mahogany. Returning to the United States in July, 1892, took np bis residence in Jersey city, N. J., where he now has the supervision of a flouring mill. Frank A. Hale was bom September 3, 1867, who after completing his education learned the tinner's trade. In 1891 he with a party of six young men went to the State of Washington to find for themselves homes on the Pacific coast, but soon made up their minds that Wayne county, N. Y., had a more healthful climate and re- turned thither in 1892, and is now connected with the firm of Kelley & Son, hardware merchants in Wolcott, N. Y. Ida B. Hale was born in Wolcott, June 18, 1870, and died September 13, 1887. Nellie M. Hale was born October 17, 1876, and died June 4, 1886.
Garratt, Richard, was born in Westchester county May 1, 1824, son of Richard and Annie (Hallack) Garratt, natives of Long Island, who came to Galen in 1838, and died in Long Island. The paternal grandfather of subject was in the Revolutionary War, as was also the maternal grandfather. The father.of subject was in the war of 1812. Sub- ject was reared on Long Island and educated in the common schools He has always been a farmer and has cleared the land he owns, and about 200 acres of other land in the county. He owns twenty-eight acres. Mr. Garratt enlisted in 1862 in the 9th Ar- tillery and served seven months. He married in 1846 Frances L., daughter of Solomon and Sarah R. (Ryan) Smith, in Huron, by whom he has had two daughters : Sarah, wife of Frank Jones, and has three sons and one daughter, who is now a widow and resides in Rose ; and Mary E., wife of Michael Fisher, of Clyde. She died in 1887, leaving one son and three daughters. The family is of English descent, and date their ancestry to three brothers, who came to America during the Revolutionary War. The Hallacks are of Welsh deseent, and settled at Stony Brook, L. I.
Tinckelpaugh, William II., was born in Sodus, May 27, 1827, a son of Adam, a native of Columbia county, who came in 1811 to Wayne county and located in Marion, being at this time in early youth. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and on arriving at manhood he bought a traet of land west of Sodus village and south of the " ridge," the whole of it being dense forest. Building a log cabin he began clearing up the land, which he sold four years later. He was a man of push and enterprise, and became a prominent and prosperous farmer, taking an active part in political affairs. He was an influential member of the Presbyterian church of Sodus, was colonel of the old Rifle Regiment, and took great interest in miltary affairs. He married Harriet Alling, of Sodus, and their children were : Amanda, Charles, William H., Harriet J., Myron Oscar, Martha, and Delia. Adam Tinekelpaugh died April 4, 1863. William HI., with the ex- ception of six years, which were spent in Williamson, has always lived in Sodus. From 1857 to 1877 he was in the mercantile trade at Joy, with which exception he bas fol- lowed farunng. He is a leading member of the Presbyterian church of Joy, a member
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of the Masonic Lodge at Sodns, and Zenobia Commandery No. 41 of Palmyra. He married Sarah M. Nash, of Williamson, and they have had these children : Martha J., now Mrs. Samuel H. Allen, of Sodus; Mettie D., now Mrs. Leslie M. Snyder, of Sodns ; and Adella M., who died unmarried.
Trowbridge, Theodore B., was born in Susquehanna county, Pa,, December 23, 1837, came to Wayne county in 1860, and settled in Sodus, southeast of Sodus Centre, where he engaged in farming. Hle was commissioner of highways from 1876 to 1888, and was under sheriff in 1892, and in 1893 under Sheriff Thornton. He is a member of Sodus Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M., and is a charter member of Wallington Grange. He mar- ried in 1862 Emily, daughter of Durfee Wilcox, of Sodus, and their children are Melvin C. and Maud Emma (Mis. William Sherman, of Allegan, Mich. ) Durfee Wilcox was born in Palmyra in 1809, and died in Sodus in 1893. He was a son of Captain William Wilcox, who came from Rhode Island abont 1790 and settled in Palmyra. He was cap-
tain of a eavalry company in the days of the old militia. He married Ruth Durfee and they had twelve children. Durfee Wilcox, their son, came to Sodns in 1828, and set- tled north of Alton. Later he settled on the large farm south of Sodus Centre, where he resided until his death. He held numerous positions of trust and honor, among which were supervisor two years during the war, assessor several years, and for twelve years county superintendent of the poor. He married Samantha Wells, and they had five children : Louisa M., who died at the age of seventeen ; John M. and Stephen D., who are farmers in Sodns ; Emily J. (Mrs. Theodore B. Trowbridge, of Sodus); and William J., of California.
Espenscheid, Nicholas, was born in Sodus, May 31, 1851, and is a son of Adam H. Espenscheid, who, with his brothers Philip and Frederick, came from Germany in 1835. Philip and Frederick settled in Williamsport, Pa., Adam H. settled in Sodus and was a farmer. He married Barbara, daughter of John Espenscheid, of Sodus. He came from Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1834, and settled in Sodns, purchasing a farin one-half mile north of Alton, and was a prosperous farmer. He was a distiller in the old coun- try, and carried on the business to some extent after coming to this country. His chil- dren were John, Carl, Lawrence, Andrew, Nicholas, Philip, Louis, and Barbara, John settled in Galen and was a farmer; he married Mary Eich. Carl settled in Peoria, Ill., where he died; he married Sally Rumage. Lawrence settled on the homestead and is a farmer; he married Diantha Van Etten. Andrew settled at'Alton, is a harnessmaker, and married Catherine Roy. Nicholas settled in New York city, and is engaged in the hatting business. Philip settled in California, where he died young. Barbara married Adam H. Espenscheid, and their children were Nicholas and Frederick.
Jeffers, Henry, was born in Rose April 26, 1850, son of Robert N., a son of Nathan Jeffers. Robert N. was born April 26, 1820, in Rose, was always a farmer and stock dealer, owned 311 acres at his death and was one of the wealthiest men in Rose. He married twice, first Maria Winchell, by whom he had four children : Henry and Hen- rietta (twins). Laua and Robert, who died, aged four years. Mis. Jeffers died in 1863, and Mr. Jeffers married Sarah Holbrook, who resides in Rose Valley. Mr. Jeffers died June 11, 1893. Subject was reared on a farm and ed icated in the common schools, has always followed farming, and except six years in Butler has lived in Rose, and owns the old homestead of 160 acres. He married in 1876 Mary J. Haviland, a native of Rose, by whom he has had two children : Robert, who died in infancy, and Burton II., born November 2, 1883.
Jeffers, George, was born in Lyons August 22, 1846, a son of Nathan and Sallie Dunmore) Jeffers, he a native of Johnstown and she of Pleasant Valley, born in April, 1808. They came to Lyons in 1816 and finally came to Rose and settled on the farm owned by our subject, where he died in 1853, and his wife resides in Rose Valley. Mr. Jeffers was in the war of 1812. By a previous marriage to Eleanor Vandercook he had
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ten children. Subject was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and has always been engaged in farming, except one year in Pennsylvania in the oil regions. He added to the old homestead forty acres, and now owns 100 acres and follows gen- eral farming. Mr. Jeffers has been collector four terms, constable twelve terms and deputy sheriff twelve years. He married in 1874 Eliza Mitchell, whose father was one of the first settlers. Subject and wife have three children : Willard G., Frank W. and May L.
Rogers, Erastns, was born March 14, 1815, and died December 5, 1881, in Sodus. His father was Gabriel Rogers, born in 1776, who settled in South Sodns at an early day, and married Hannah Clark ; their children were : Bartlett, James, Jerry and Eras- Ins. The latter settled in South Sodus in early life and moved to Sodus Point in 1852, where he held the office of collector through two administrations; he moved to Sodus in 1862, where he resided until his death. He was a leading man in the affairs of his town, where he filled many local offices, and was prominent in his business pursuits. Hle married Cornelia A. Gardiner, of Sag Harbor, L. I., in 1855, and they had four children : J. Franklin and Harry G., who settled in Anrora, Ill., in 1892, engaged in mercantile pursuits, Kate S. (Mrs. Carlton L. Gaylord), of Sodns, and Bertie, who died in childhood.
Bates, Lewis (deceased), was born August 13, 1819, in Saratoga county, and was a son of Daniel P. Bates, who settled near Sodus Center abont 1826 and later near Sodus Point. He married Jane Van Cott, and their children were: Esther, who married Ira Powers and settled at Geneva, N. Y .; Ann, who married George Sergeant and settled in Sodus; Almira, who married Franeis Doville, of Sodns: John, who settled in Sodus and is a wealthy farmer, and Lewis, who early in life was a sailor on the lakes, was a captain and owner of various vessels, later engaging in the mercantile trade at Sodus Point, which he carried on for ten or twelve years. Abont 1863 he purchased a farm on the lake road, west of the Point, where he lived until his death in 1893. Ile took an active part in political affairs, and was supervisor of Sodus several years. le mar- ried in 1851 Martha A., daughter of Henry Finch, of Sodus, and their children were : Daniel P., who is a farmer in Sodas, and married Jane Knapp ; Frances A., who is an- married and resides on the homestead; Lawrence A., who lives in Pine Valley, Chemung county, and married Kate Farrell; A. Bonaparte, who is a farmer in Sodus, and married Mary Comstock ; Edward L., nomarried, who resides on the homestead ; Anna M., who married Franklin A. Palmer, resides in Erie, Pa; David R., unmarried, who resides on the homestead, and De Grape, unmarried, who resides on the home- stead.
Fish, Harry S., son of Isaac and Polly Rice Fish, was born in Williamson, N. Y., No- vember 24, 1811. Isaac Fish and wife came from Massachusetts and resided in Will- iamson until their decease. Harry S. Fish was brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools. He has always been engaged in farming, and is recognized as one of the most snecessful farmers in his town. Ile was always fond of fine horses and raised many. Ile has been highway commissioner of his town. He is a member of the W. M. church, and is a Republican in polities. He married Polly Maria Russell, January 29, 1835, from which marriage he had five children : Isaac N., Daniel R., Julia M., Selby S., and Carlton B. Mrs. Fish was a member of the W. M church, was born June 3, 1816, and died December 2, 1845. Mr. Fish subsequently married Fanny Maria Stewart, Oc- tober 15, 1846, who was a member of the W. M. church, and was born Jannary 9, 1817, and died January 13, 1893. From this marriage there were four children : Harriet A., Timothy S., William G., and Sarah L. Selby S., Carlton B., and Timothy S. Fish en- listed in the United States service early in the Rebellion of 1861-65, and served until honorably discharged therefrom. William Stewart, father of Fanny Maria Stewart Fish, was a Scotchman by birth. Soon after his arrival in America war was declared against England. Young Stewart entered the Continental army and served seven years in the
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war. Harriet A. is the only child who remams at home to care for her invalid father and aid him in his business transactions.
Ellinwood, E. Chester, was born in Rose, July 6, 1838, son of Chester and Sophronia (Allen) Ellinwood. The father was a native of Brookline, Vt., and she a native of Mas- sachusetts. The paternal grandparents were Jonathan and Naomi (Weeks) Ellinwood, and Ezra Allen and Lucy (Kellogg) Allen. The former were natives of Vermont, and the latter of Massachusetts. Chester Ellinwood was a soldier of the war of 1812. He and his wife, Sophronia, were married in 1816, and settled upon a large farm one mile east of Rose Valley, and here they reared a family of six children: Ensign W., Charlotte M., Lucy, Lemira, Mary A., Charles J., and E. Chester. He was a successful and well- to-do farmer of his time, and lived to be eighty five years old. E. Chester, the young- est of the family, and the subject of this sketch, received a liberal education at the Rose Valley School, the Clyde High School, and Fort Plain Seminary. He studied law in the office of Judge Norton at Newark, and here he songht and won the heart and hand of Mary E., who was the accomplished danghter of Clark and Irene Phillips, of Arcadia. They were married September 3, 1867. Among the important results of this union five children were added : Irene P. (who died at the age of fourteen years), Mary, Louise, John C., Chester, and Robert E. Louisa is now a teacher in the Clyde High School, John a teacher in his home district, and Chester and Robert are among his pupils. Mr. Ellinwood owns and resides upon a large farm situated midway between Rose and Wol- cott, and a very pleasant home it is with its surroundings and attractions. He enjoys the charms around his fireside of a devoted wife and happy children. In politics he is a Democrat, attends with his family the Baptist church, and is a member of the Wolcott Grange. He has been supervisor of his town two terms.
Graham, Archibald M., was born in the town of Rose, December 15, 1856, son of Henry Graham, a prominent man in his town. He was a farmer and blacksmith, buy- ing a tract of land a mile square of the original purchasers of the tract. He died in 1878 aged seventy-seven years. Our subject was educated in the common schools, Clyde High School, and Red Creek Seminary, and took a business course at Bryant & Stratton College at Syracuse, after which he entered the employ of Gurney, Streeter & Co. In 1877 he established a drug store with J. H. Childs, which he sold out in 1879, and then engaged in the boot and shoe business. In 1888 he purchased the W. H. & C. F. Groes- beck's warehouse and flonring plant, making a specialty of fine grades of flour, having an output of 150 barrels per day. At the age of twenty-one he married Rose E. Case, daughter of Harvey Case, by whom he has one daughter, Louise R. Our subject is one of the conservative men of the town, filling the office of trustee, also trustee of the school for eight years, president of the village in 1893, and is identified in advancing the best interests of the day.
Redman, Abraham, was born in Camillus in 1822, and is a son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. Isaac Redman came to Wayne county abont 1831, and settled in the east part of the town of Sodus, south of the ridge, and took up eighty aeres, where he spent the remainder of his life. He married Rebecca Pitts, and their children were : Abram, Betsey, Michel, Mary, and Sarah J. Abram settled in Sodus. He is a carpenter by trade, and during the earlier years of his life followed that business. He afterward set- tled on the Ridge road, near the west line of the town, and is engaged in farming. He married Sarah E. White, and their children are: Virginia Amelia (deceased), who mar- ried Charles Kelly ; Alice, who died nmarried ; Harvey, who married Frances Miller and resides in Williamson; and Warner D., is a farmer on the homestead. He married Lillian B. Whaling, of Sodus.
Greene, Samnel B., was born in Albany county, February 9, 1827, and died in Sodus in October, 1887. His father, Joseph, came to Wayne county in 1837, and settled near Joy in the town of Sodus. He took an active part in political affairs, and was highway
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commissioner and assessor. He was a prominent member of the Christian church of Marion. He married Abigail Baker, and their children were : Samuel B., Jeremiah, Benjamin B., and Joseph A. Joseph Greene, sr., died in 1875; Jeremiah settled in Clyde, where he died in 1888. For many years he carried on a drug business there ; Benjamin B. settled in Newark and is a carpenter and builder; Joseph A. settled in Indiana, where he died. Ile was for many years engaged in the hardware trade there; Samuel B. settled on a farm south of Joy, where he spent his life. He was highway commissioner and assessor for several years, also collector. Ile was a liberal supportor of the Presbyterian church of Joy, and for many years was superintendent of the Sab- bath school. He married in 1852 Harriet J., daughter of Adam Tinkelpaugh, of Sodus, and their children were: Lonise A. (Mrs. Lynn D. Wake, of Sodus) ; Harriet A. (Mrs. Franklin L. Butts, of Sodus) ; and Martha M. (deceased).
Knapp, Walter, the pioneer of the family in Wayne county, came from Columbia county in 1833, and settled two miles south south of Sodus village. Soon after he pur- chased what is now the Stickney farm, a mile south of the village, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a prominent member of the Sodus Presbyterian church, and for many years one of its deacons. He married Annis Richmond, and they had five children : Simeon, who settled in New York city and engaged in mercantlle pursuits ; George, who settled in Allegan, Mich. ; Phineas, who engaged in railroading, and died in New Orleans; Helen (Mrs. E. A. Greene) ; and James R., who settled in Sodus on the Flarel Kingsley farm. He is a leading member of the Sodus Presbyterian church, and for many years was trustee and elder. The latter office he still holds. Hle married Nancy, daughter of Flarel Kingsley, of Sodus, and they had two sons: George, who died in 1874, and Charles K., of Sodus village.
Kelley, William HI., was born in Areadia, June 12, 1856, educated in the district school and the academy, and spent his boyhood on his father's farm until the age of thirteen. In 1884 he began business as a druggist and stationer, which he has followed successfully ever since. August 30, 1874, he married Ella R. Van Anken, of this town, and they have had three children : C. Fred, Gertrude E., and Alice M .; the son is a student in the Wesleyan College at Bloomington, Ill., and the daughters students at the academy. Mr. Kelley's father, Ebenezer, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, and removed here with his parents in 1830. He married Anna M. Phillips, of Arcadia, and they had nine children : Clarence M., John P .. William H., Ellen 1., II. Madge, Charles E., Frank A., James E., and a son, Henry, who died young. Both parents are now living (1891). Mrs. Kelley's father, Martin (. Van Auken, was born in Westfali, Pa., November 18, 1832, and came here with his parents in 1833. Mr. Kelley is a member of the Masonie and Maccabee Orders, also Newark Grange, has served as town clerk two years, is a member of the Village Board, and is president of the Board of Education.
Delano, Edward Chandler, was born in Sodus Centre, N. Y., November 30, 1854, and traces his ancestry back to Jean and Marie (Mahien) Delano, natives of France, whose son, Philip, came to Plymouth with the second detachment of Pilgrims in " ye good ship Fortune " in 1621. The oldest son of Philip, th : Pilgrim, was Dr. Thomas Delano, who married Mary, daughter of John and Priscilla (Molines) Alden, from which this branch of the family is descended. William, the pioneer in Wayne county, was a son of Amaziah, a Revolutionary soldier, who was a great-great-grandson of Dr. Thomas above. William came to this locality in ISI from North Yarmouth, Me., where the family had settled two generations previously. He took up a farm near the present village of Sodus Centre, and carried on farming and blacksmithing. His wife was Hannah Hayden, who with her brothers came from Maine in 1812. The children of William and Hannah were: William II. 11., Lucy E. A., Elbridge G., Elvina A., Gardiner W., and Rufus Chandler, who all lived to maturity. Rufus C. has always resided in the town of Sodus; he married AAlmeda Matilda, daughter of Edward and
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Mary Ann (Jacobs) Taylor, March 4, 1847, by whom he had one child, Edward C. as above. The latter was educated in the public schools and at Sodus Academy, and from 1874 to 1881 was engaged in teaching, being principal of the Sodus Centre Graded School. In the fall of 1881 he was elected school commissioner of Wayne county, which office he filled for six consecutive years, and was then appointed chief examiner in the State Department of Public Instruction, holding the office for five years, or until his resignation in 1893. Here he organized and perfected the present State system of uniform examinations for teachers' certificates. He was also the pioneer in the move- ment for establishing Arbor Day in the State of New York, and many other salutary school laws have been enacted largely through his efforts. In 1878, '79 and '80 he was president of the Wayne County Teachers' Association, and in 1885 and 'S6 he was pres- ident of the New York State Association of School Commissioners and Superindendents. Hle is an attendant at the Presbyterian church in Sodus Centre, of which he is a trustee. January 25, 1888, he married Emma Jane, only daughter of Albert G. and Eliza (Smith) Graham, of Clyde, N. Y.
Robinson, Hon. Rowland, one of the prominent citizens of Sodus, was born in Cam- bridge, Washington county, November 7, 1820, his ancestors being Rhode Island Quakers. In 1865 he came and settled in the town of Sodus, buying a farmi south of the village, and at once began to identify himself with the best interests of the town. He was supervisor of Sodus from 1877 to 1880, when he was elected to the Assembly of 1881. He held for several years the appointment of town commissioner of the Sodus Point and Southern Railroad, and was director for a time of the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad; is president of the Wayne County Fire Relief Association, having insurance on farm property amounting to about $3,200,000, with an average increase of $200,- 000 per year.
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