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Kaiser, John, was born in Baden, Germany, August 5, 1824. He learned the black- smith's trade, came to the United States in 1840, and located in Rochester, where he worked in Barton's edge tool establishment. He afterward engaged in work at Mnd Creek, and from there came to Lyons. He married twice, first, May 28, 1847, Lottie Worlthiser, formerly of Germany. They had ten children, seven of whom are living : Lottie, John, jr., William, George, Margaret, Louisa, and Hattie. Mrs. Kaiser died October 9, 1867, and he married second, May 25, 1868, Mrs. Susana Becker, of Liver- pool, Onondaga county. Mrs. Kaiser's father, Frederick Arnold, was born in Wurtem- berg, Germany, m 1788, He married Barbara Harkenboek, of his native place, and =
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they had fourteen children, all deceased except Mrs. Kaiser. They came to the United States in 1837. Mr. Kaiser moved from Lyons to Fairville in 1848, and bought his farm there in 1854.
Kansier, Christopher, was the first of the family to settle in America. He came from Germany in 1852, and settled in Lyons. He was a wagonmaker by trade and engaged in that business. In 1859 he settled at Sodus Centre, where he engaged in the same business. lle married Frederica Schultz, and their children were : Fred, William, Augustus, and Ilattie. In 1863 Mr. Kansier retired from business and was succeeded by his son, William, who has since carried on carriage making and blacksmithing. Christopher died in 1878. Fred is a wagonmaker and settled at Sodns Centre. He married Dortha Yokel. Augustus was a blacksmith and carried on that business in Sodus for several years. He married Mary Flint, and died in 1888. Hattie married Henry Webber, of Sodus. William Kansier is a member of Sodus Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M,, and Wayne Chapter. He married Mary Eyer, and they have one daughter, Cora B.
Keir, Alexander, was born in Banffshire, Scotland, March 7, 1842. He was educated in their schools and when twenty years old went to Australia, remaining ten years. July 19, 1867, he married Elizabeth Rohinson, who was born in England of Scotch par- entage. They have five children, Jane, Margaret, who married Dyton Barclay of Sodns Centre; Alexander R. is an employee of the West Shore Railroad Company ; Elizabeth, who is a student in Genesee Normal School, and James W., who is a student in the Union School and Academy. The family came here from Australia in 1873. Mr. Keir has been in the employ of the West Shore Railroad Company since that time, first in charge of a construction corps and after assistant road master, which position he still holds. Mr. Keir was one of the principal men in constructing the railway track from Long Branch to Franklin cottage for the conveyance of President Garfield after he was shot by Quitean, and received a card of thanks therefor by the company. Mrs. Keir's father, Robert Robinson, was born in Scotland in 1792, and married Margaret MacKee of his native place. They had five children, Jane, Robert, Violet, James and Elizabeth. Her father was a sergeant in the British Army, and her brother, Robert, was a major in the British Army in India, Mr. Robinson died in 1869 and his wife in 1890. Mr. Keir is a member of the Masonic Order in Bolton, N. J., No. 150 F. & A. M., also of Newark Chapter No. 117 R. A. M.
Kelley, Charles E., was born on the homestead southeast of Newark January 28, 1858, was edneated in the common schools and the Union School and Academy at Newark. He is a farmer and dealer in seed potatoes, and owns the old E. B. Kelley farm. February 21, 1883, he married Ada A. Bennett, of Phelps, and they have two chil- dren : Bertha A. and Burnette F. Mrs. C. E. Kelley's father, Hiram Bennett, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, April 14, 1826, was educated in the common school and followed farming. He married Eliza Parsons of Columbia county, and they had five children : Ada A., as above, Milton P., Jennie E., Ulysses C. and Frank H. He had two children by a first marriage, Andrew J. and Mary L. Mr. Bennett died in 1893 and his widow survives at the old home in Phelps.
Jones, Albert N., was born in Cookham, Berkshire county, England, March 6, 1843, and came with his parents to the United States in 1847, finally locating in Shortsville, Ontario county. He was educated in the public schools, and worked at intervals in his father's paper mill till 1879, since which he has made a business of propagating varietics of winter wheat. He has 1,700 varieties, which he has produced from three kinds, viz, : Clawson, Mediterranean and Russian Velvet. August 17, 1862, he married Marietta Crofut, of Canandaigua, a daughter of Joel and Lucinda (C'oy) Crofut, of Connectient, and Vermont, respectively. They have one daughter, Ida S., who lives at home. His father, William, was born in England, and married Eliza Fisher, of Bradford, England,
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and they had six children : Albert N., William, who died, aged thirteen ; Lizzie. Walter S., Frank C., and George HI. The mother died in 1886. Our subject is a member of the A. O. U. W., No. 116, of Newark.
Jenkins, Thomas J., was born in New York city, September 25, 1840, was educated in the public schools there, and learned, the butcher's business, at the age of sixteen coming to Newark with his parents. Here he began work with G. H. Filkins, continu- ing four years. Jnly 6, 1862, he enlisted in Compeny E, 111th N. Y. Vols., and was in the quartermaster's department till 1863, ween he returned to his company, participat- ing in all its engagements until August, 1854, when he was captured at the battle of Reams' Station, sent to Libby Prison, and later to Belle Island, and Salisbury, N. C., caring as far as it was in his power to do, for his sick and starving fellow prisoners, caring for forty from the town of Arcadia, burying them when they died, taking their last messages to their friends at home, as well as assisting their widows and orphans in the settling of their property, etc. Few towns suffered as this town did, in its losses through the war. He was honorably discharged as duty sergeant August 7, 1865, and returned home to Newark, where he opened a meat market, and has been engaged in that business now for many years, having been for fourteen years in his present loca- tion, corner Main and Union streets. November 27, 1859, he married Annie Taylor, of this town, and they have had five children : Charles, Grace M., Will, and Lela and Lnla (twins), Charles and the twins being deceased. Grace married Charles Frey of Newark, and they have one daughter, Lulu. Will married Mary O'Brien, of Manches- ter, and they have two daughters, Fannie and Pearl. Thomas J., father of our subject, was born in New York city in 1800, and conducted a butcher's business. He married Maria Francisco, of Whitehall, by whom he had five children : Susan F., Louisa, Thomas J .. William W., and Isaae G. Mr. Jenkins died in 1856, and his wife in 1884. Our subject is a member of Newark Lodge, No. 83, F. & A. M., and also a member of the G. A. R. No. 99.
Jewell, Alva, was born in Dutchess county February 21, 1820, a son of Isaac and Charity Jewell, natives of Dutchess county, who came to Lyons in 1819, where Mr. Jewell died, and his wife died in Rose. Subject was reared on a farm till eighteen, when he learned the cooper's trade and after ten years engaged in farming. Mr. Jewell owns 140 acres, and has a fine residence and out buildings on his farm. He married in 1843 Susan Wager, a native of Galen, and daughter of John and Margaret Wager, carly settlers of Galen, who died in Huron. They had nine children. Mr. Jewell and his wife had six children, Henry, Malinda (deceased), Alonzo (deceased), Elizabeth, Frank- lin, and another.
Jolly, Rev. Thompson, was born in Yorkshire, England, August 5, 1822. His father died while he was still a child and his mother married John Middleton. In 1830 they came. to America and settled in Ontario county. In 1833 they removed to Sodus and settled in the northwest part of the town. He learned the blacksmith trade and from 1838 to 1843 followed that business at Stanley, N. Y. He then returned to Sodus village and for two years worked at his trade there. He then built a shop and for thirteen years carried on the business of blacksmithing. In 1857 he joined the Central New York M. E. Conference and from that time until 1884 was pastor of various churches throughout Central and Western New York. In the latter year he returned to his farm in Sodus and for a year was pastor of the church at Joy, and for a year and a half at South Sodus. In 1889 he settled in Sodns village. For twenty years he has been a strong Prohibitionist, and has taken a very active part in temperance work. He married in 1845 Merey, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Gates, of Sodus, and they had four children : Mary, Mrs. Wilmot M. Ormisby ; Dr. William F., Wesley T., and S. Belle. Dr. William F. Jolly on being admitted to practice settled at Middlesex, N. Y., and in 1894 settled at Atlanta, N. Y. Wesley T. settled in Sodus and is an enterprising
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farmer. He is a member of Sodus Grange and Pultney ville M. E. church. He married S. Cammilla, danghter of William S. Vosburgh, of Sodus, and their children are Olin B. and Arthur T.
Hoffman, Frederick, was born in Prussia, Germany, Jime 9, 1827. He was educated in their schools, learned the trade of carpenter and came to the United States in 1849, locating in Carthage, Jefferson county, where he remained fourteen years. He came to Lyons in 1863 and to Newark in 1864, where he has been a contractor and builder. He has done mneh in building and enlarging the enterprising village of Newark. July 31, 1854, he married Theresa Sayforth of his native place, and they have one adopted son August L., who is a resident of Lyons, a jeweler by ocenpation in company with O. C. Robinson, of Newark. Their stock in trade is watches, jewelry, diamonds, musical in- struments, pianos, organs, sheet music, etc., with stores in Lyons and Newark. He married Emma Jacoby, and they have a son, Frederick. Mrs. Hoffman's father, Fred- erick Sayforth, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1806. He married Juha Schlieder of that place, by whom he had six children. They came to the United States in 1847. Mrs. Hoffman's grandfather, Christoph Sayforth, was a judge in his province fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman are members of the German Evangelical church, of which he has been trustee twenty- nine years.
Hyde, William H., was born at the old home July 26, 1863. He was educated in the Union School and Academy, in Cook's Academy at Havana, and in Genesee Normal School. He is a farmer and capitalist. February 26, 1885, he married Bertha J. Jack- son, of Lyons, and they have two children : Bertha L., and William II., jr. Mr. Hyde's father, Artemus W., was born at the old home in Hlydesville September 15, 1816. He was edneated in the schools of that day, and was also a farmer. He married twice, first Armeda Miles, of this town, by whom he had four children : E. Miles and a twin brother who died in infancy ; Ransom A., who died aged nineteen, and John L. Mrs. Hyde died in 1856, and he married second Lonisa Pierson. They had three children : Artemus D., William H., as above noted noted ; and Armeda L. Mr. Hyde was super- visor of the town in 1864-65. He died Jannary 5, 1892. Mr. Hyde's grandfather, Henry W., was born in Vermont June 29, 1774. He was a pioneer settler and physi- cian of this town. Mrs. William II. Hyde's father, George W. Jackson, was born in Lyons Angust 11, 1832. He was edneated in the common schools and Starkey Semin- ary. He was a farmer by occupation. October 27, 1857, he married Elizabeth Agett, of Lyons, by whom he had two daughters and one son: Mary E., Bertha J., and James A. Mr. Jackson ched July 6, 1884. His father, Cyrus, came to Lyons in 1811 on horseback. He was then a young physician, and made several trips back and forth to New York eity for medieine on horseback. It was said by the Fox sisters that Artemus W. Hyde was a firm believer in spiritualism. The family wishes this to be emphatically denied, it being a pure fabrication on their part.
Hill, Gilbert and Noadiah, came from Columbia county in 1845, and settled about two miles southwest of Sodus village. They were sons of Caleb Hill, whose father Caleb Hill, sr., came from England and settled in Vermont. Noadiah Hill was supervisor of the town one term, and took an active part in political affairs. In 1867 he returned to Columbia county, where he died. Gilbert Hill died in Sodus in 1889. He married Sylvia Smith, of Columbia county, and their children were: Eunice (Mrs. T. H. Hath- away) ; John C., Noadiah M., and Ilenry, all of Sodus. Noadiah M. settled on the homestead and is a farmer. He married Eva L. Pulver. John C. Hill is a thrifty and enterprising fariner. He has held the office of collector of the town, is a member of Sodus Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M., and of Wayne Chapter; and is also a member of Sodus Grange and the Presbyterian church of Sodus. Ile married Lydia M. Brayton, and they have one son Gilbert.
Hoeltzel, George, was born in Alsace, France (now Germany), December 30, 1836,
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and came to the United States with his parents in 1840. They located in Lyons, Wayne county. He was educated in the district schools, and is a farmer. Jime 27, 1867, he married Lena Schwab, of Arcadia, and they have three children : Albert G., Emma M., and Minnie R. Angust 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, 9th Heavy Artillery, and was in the following engagements: Cold Harbor, Monocacy Junction, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and others, and was honorably discharged May 3, 1865. Mr. Hoeltzel's father, Michael, was born at the old home in Alsace in 1794, and married Dorathy , of his native place. They had seven children : Dorathy, Elizabeth, Michael. Frederick, Sally, Henry, and George, of whom Michael, Dorathy, Elizabeth, and Henry are deceased. Mrs. Hoeltzel's father, George Schwab, was born in Alsace, May 14, 1814, and came to the United States with his parents when sixteen years old, locating in this town. He married Magdalene -, also of this town, by whom he had five children : Elizabeth, Philip, Lena, Barbara, and George. Mrs. Schwab died January 9, 1854, and her husband June 4, 1884.
Hart, Samuel C., was born in Coonsville, Ontario county, February 29, 1814, son of Thomas R. and Lorinda (Granger) Hart, he a native of Rhode Island, born Jannary 21, 1786, and she of Connectient, born March 4, 1788. The grandfather of subject was William Hart, who lived in Rhode Island most of his life, and died in Manchester, Ontario county. The maternal grandfather was Jacob Granger, a native of Connecticut, and an early settler of Galen, where he died. Mr. Granger and wife had four daughters and two sons. The father of subject came to Ontario when a young man, and finally went to Seneca county where he died July 15, 1860, and his wife June 8. 1823. He married three times. His second wife was Amelia Eddy, who died March 23, 1841. His third wife was Nancy Lemnnion, who died in Watertown in 1892. Subject has been a farmer and has also followed varions ocenpations. He came to Rose in 1841 on the farm he traded to William Dodd for ninety-six acres one and one-half miles southwest of Rose Valley, and has lived where he now resides thirty-eight years. He owns 138 acres in Rose and an interest in a small place in Junins, Ontario county. He married in 1836 Ann Witherel, a native of Vermont and danghter of Abel Witherel, who lived in Vermont, but died in New York, and the wife of subject was reared by Tra Lathrup, of Rose. They have five children : Mary J., who died in 1864, the wife of George Knos, by whom she had one child, Lillie, deceased; Ira L., who married Cornelia Cushman, by whom he had six children : Susan, deceased ; Addie, Belle, Frank, Charles, and Bert; An E., wife of Daniel Seager, of Huron, both deceased ; Marion, born in 1851, who married Salina Cushman, by whom he has had nine children : George Il, Mary A., Clinton M., lda J., Alice E., Nettie M., John L., Rosie, Vina B. ; and William, born July 3, 1863, edneated in the common schools, and is a farmer.
Horton, William O., a native of Vermont, was born March 14, 1834, son of Abraham and Sarah (Bingham) Horton, he a native of Springfield, Mass,, and she of New Hamp- shire. He died in Vermont in 1838, and his wife in 1863. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Our subjeet was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He started when a young man, came west, and at the elose of the war came to Rose Valley and engaged in shoemaking, which he has since followed. He married in 1866 Sarah Brewer, a native of Bennington, Vt., by whom he has had five children : Mary, Willie, Hattie, and two who died in infancy. Mr. Horton is a member of Sherman Post No. 401, G. A. R. He enlisted in 1861 in Bonton's Battery, Ist Ill., served a short time, and was wounded at Shilo. He re-enlisted in Company K, Vt. Vols., and served until the elose of the war. Ile was in the following battles: Shilo, Fort Donaldson, Vicks- burg, Grand Gulf, Bolton, Champion Hill, Fort Hudson, Baton Rouge, Nashville, on Red River expedition, and New Orleans, Mobile, and many skirmishes. He was wounded five times. When a young man subject spent three years in California.
Hopkins, E. Horace, was born in Queensbury, Washington county, in 1820, and is a son of Thomas, whose father, James, came to Sodus about 1822, and purchasing a farm
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in the south part of the town, became a prosperons farmer. He was a leading member of the Sodus Centre Baptist Church. He married Mary Bramer, and they had eleven children : Nicholas, who served in the war of 1812. He settled in Michigan, where he died ; Esther died in infancy ; Elizabeth married James McMullen ; Jeremiah died in early manhood ; Eunice married Samuel Fuller, and settled in Michigan; John B. settled in Washington county ; Mary and. Hannah died in childhood; Freeman settled in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he died ; James; and Thomas, who served in the war of 1812. He settled first in the south part of the town, and the following year purchased a farm near the Point. Three years later he settled on the south line of the town, purchasing a farm, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a successful and prosperous farmer, and was a prominent member of the Sodus Centre Baptist Church, of which he was deacon many years. He married Samantha Fuller, and they had ten children : Emily, Mary, E Horace, Betsey J. Clark, Amanda, Thomas, Daniel, Samantha, and Alonzo. E. Horace Hopkins, with the exception of a residence of ten years in Lyons, has always lived in Sodus, and has always followed farming. He is a member of Sodus Grange and the Sodns Centre Baptist Church. He married Emeline, daughter of Gains Granger, of Sodus, by whom he had three children : Marion, who died in childhood; Catherine (Mrs. George Negus, of Sodus) ; and Emily (Mrs. Albert Harris, of Sodus).
Hanby, James E., was born in Sodus October 31, 1853, and is a son of Charles, jr., born September 19, 1809, whose father, Charles, sr., came from London, England, in 1832 and settled in the east part of Sodus, purchasing a tract of land. Charles Hanby, sr., died in 1849. His children were: Joseph, Elizabeth, Charles, Thomas, Peter, James and Henry. The father of subject settled in Sodos and was one of its enterprising and prosperous farmers. He married twice, first, Harriet Jackson, and their children were : Ann, Charles J., and Harriet P. His second wife was Catherine Gates, and their chil- dren were : Joseph G., Mary L., Catherine E., Lewis B., James E., Hannah and Esther J. Mr. Hanby died June 22, 1887. James E. Hanby settled in Sodus on the okl home- stead, and is one of the enterprising and prosperous farmers of the town. He is also a dealer in agricultural implements, and is a member of Sodus Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M., and Sodus Grange. He married, in 1893, Carrie O., daughter of James Van Slyck, of Sodus.
Hulett, William J., came from Onondaga county in 1837 and settled in the west part of Sodns, north of the Ridge road. He was a farmer and for several years a sailor. He married Mary A., daughter of Henry Mumford, and their children are : Louise (Mrs. C. C. Fields, of Sodus), and Charles Il. He was for a number of years a sailor on the lakes, and since 1877 has been engaged in farming. December 23, 1877, he married Mary A. Felker, of Sodus, and they had one son, Leslie J.
Hartnagel, Leonard, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, July 14, 1832, was edu- cated in their excellent schools, and came to the United States in 1851, at the age of nineteen, first locating in Lyons. March 10, 1859, he married Margaret Zimmerle, of Lyons, and they have three children : J. George, who is a resident of Rochester; C. Edward and L. Ella, who reside at home. Mr. Hartnagel's father, George, was born at the old home. He married Margaret Hanner, and they have five children. Both of his parents are now deceased. Mrs. Hartnagel's father, Jacob Zimmerle, was born in Switzerland, and married Sadie -- , by whom he had six children. He died when Mrs. Hartnagel was three years old, and her mother died in 1875.
Horn, John P., was born in Sodus in 1850 and is a son of Courad Horn, who came from Germany about 1835 and settled at Lyons, and in 1838 settled in the southeast part of Sodus, where he purchased a farm and engaged in farming. He also engaged in the manufacture of lime, and died in 1883. He married Dorathea Lang and their children were: Henry, who settled in Galen, and is a farmer; he married Eliza Benning ; Caroline, who married George Hopp, and, for her second husband, Eli White ;
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Barbara, who married George Richards, of Newark ; Lena, who married Michael Brier, of Fairville; Emma, who married Theodore Pultz, of Sodus; Eliza, who is namarried : Jennie, who married John Rogers, of Arcadia; William, who married Fannie Bureroff, settled in Sodus and is a lime manufacturer; Edward, who is a farmer on the old homestead; and John P., our subject, who is a farmer and resides in Sodus. He is a member of the Sodus Grange and married Hannah Hanby.
Grant, Willis, is one of fourteen children of James and Nancy Grant, of Butler. Hc enlisted in the 9th Heavy Artillery and suffered amputation of the right leg at Cedar Creek, as the result of a rifle ball wound. His reminiscences of those "times that tried men's souls" and when his own life was despaired of, are characterized by unusual modesty. James Grant gave his sympathetic and material assistance toward the abolition of slavery, and his house was a Mecca for the fugitive. January 14, 1851, being then twenty-two years of age, Willis married Mary M., danghter of Drayton Phelps, of Butler, and they have eight children : Horace, Emma, Charles, Bertha, Orena, Drayton, Nathan, and Arthur. An elder daughter, Nancy, died when three years of age in 18544.
Gilbert, William, born in Sodus August 12, 1834, is the oldest son of five children of Roswell and Harriet (Crandall) Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert came to Williamson with his parents when five years of age and died in Sodus in February, 1893, aged eighty-five. ITis wife died April 30, 1889, aged seventy-nine. Subject was reared on a farm, edu- cated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. Ile is a member of the P. of HI. of Marion, and he and wife are members of the Christian church, of which he has been deacon four years. He married, in 1857, Helen S., daughter of Simon and Caroline Adams, of Marion, where he died in 1854, and she in 1885.
Gridley, Edward, was born in Sullivan county, N. Y., December 9, 1837. His father, Charles Gridley, was a native of Schoharie county, and came to Wayne county in 1875. Ile died in 1878, aged seventy-seven. Edward Gridley was educated at Saratoga in the common schools. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, 9th Heavy Artillery, U. S. Volunteers, and was wounded in the left shoulder in the battle of Cold Harbor June 1, 1864, and for a number of months was not expected to live. He was honorably dis- charged February 11, 1865, returned to Clyde and married in the fall of the same year Betsey M., daughter of John Braden, by whom he has one daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Flynn. Our subject was elected collector in 1865, and takes an intelligent interest in educational and religious matters.
Graham, E. P., second son of Henry and Eliza (Ross) Graham, late of Rose, was born September 7, 1848. Heury Graham, a pioneer settler of Rose, a prominent Democrat, finding in farming and horticulture his principal occupation, died in October, 1878, aged seventy-six. Elmer was educated at Clyde and Canandaigua Academy, and in 1878 acquired by purchase a farm of 200 acres in Butler, devoted chiefly to small fruits and dairy products, and embellished with handsome buildings. In 1876 he married Nettie, daughter of Lewis Beach of Varick, Sencea county.
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