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Church for over twenty years. In 1857 he married Jennie R. Gaylord of Lima, and their children are: Frank D., Charles F. and Dora T. Orrin T. Gaylord settled in Oswego and was a partner for several years with Irwin Sloane & Co. and later a mem- ber of the firm of Gaylord, Downey & Co., extensive grain dealers of that city.
Gulick, Charles L., was born in Sodos, Wayne county, September 13, 1848, was edu- cated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. January 1, 1872, he married Aurelia M. Fredenburgh of Arcadia, by whom he had four children : Ollie M., Benjamin A., who died aged thirteen; Kingsley S. and Seaman II. Mr. Gulick's father, Amos,, was born in Columbia county May 10, 1820, was educated in the schools of his day, and was also a farmer. November 3, 1845, he married Mary E. Lord of Sodus, and they have three children, Mary A., Charles L., as above and Martha J. The par- ents are now residing at the old home in Sodus. Mrs. Gulick's father, Benjamin F. Fredenburgh, was born in Columbia connty June 1, 1829. and came to this town with his parents when a child. He married Adelia Van Inwagen, formerly of Tompkins county and they had four children: Esbon K., Aurelia M., as above; Milton E., and Ellsworth 11., who died in infancy. Mr. Fredenburgh died in 1891.
Gifford, John P., was born in Saratoga county January 20, 1833, was educated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. March 17, 1868, he married Sarah W. Spier of Lyons, and they have four children : Rowland S., Helen A., Emma M. and Evelyn. The son is a farmer with his father; Emma M. is a student in the State Normal School at Genesco; Helen A. is a teacher in the Umon School and Acad- emy at Newark, and Evelyn attends the district school. Mr. Gifford's father, Rowland S., was born in Columbia county in 1801, was educated in the schools of his day and married Mahala Conant of his native county. They had two children : James W., who is a farmer in the town, and John P., as above noted. He died in 1858, and his wife in 1887. Mrs. Gifford's father, Daniel Spear, was born in Columbia county in 1809. Ile married Sarah Bristol of his native place, and they had five children. He died in 1867, and his wife in 1885. The ancestry of the family is English.
Galusha, Robert M., was born on the homestead, three miles west of Newark village Angust 25, 1842. He was educated in the common schools, and was a farmer until he went to the war. October 5, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, 8 h Calvary, N. Y. S. Volunteers, and was engaged in all the battles with his regiment until he was honorably discharged on account of disability January 15, 1863. He re-enlisted Jannary 5, 1864, in Second Mounted Rifles, was wounded before Petersburg, and was honorably dis- charged in Angust, 1865. Upon his return home he became a elerk in a general hard- ware store in Rochester for six years. He married twice, first September 5, 1866, Delia M. Orcott, by whom he has three children : Georgiana, who married John Lippett and has one child, Charles F .; Fisher M. and Charles F., who married Belle George of East Newark. For his second wife Mr. Galusha married Nettie De Boufer, formerly of Holland, and they have two children : E. Fidelia and Hiram H. Subject has been a farmer for twelve years, and now resides on the homestead. Mr. Galusha's father, Abram F., was born in Florida, Montgomery county, August 5, 1808. He was edu- cated in the cominon schools and came to Western New York in 1827, and located first in Lockport, N. Y., where he remained until 1831 February 8, 1831, he married Esther MeCullum of Manchester, Ontario county, and they had five children ; Mariette, Susan F., Hiram M., Robert M. and Esther F. He moved to Sodus in 1832, and to this homestead in 1836. He died Jannary 4, 1894, and his wife September 25, 1875.
Gordon, Hiram, was born in Phelps December 18, 1815, the seventh of ten children of William and Phoebe Gordon, he of Saratoga county, and she of New Jersey. They came to Benton and then to Phelps, and in 1818 came to Galen, where Mr. Gordon died in 1830, aged fifty-five, and his wife in 1852, aged seventy-four years. Subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He followed farming till thirty
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years old, when he went into a glass factory and worked in Clyde eight years, Redwood eleven years, and Oswego six years. He then came on the farm he owns of seventy- five acres in Rose, where he follows general farming. He has been a member of the M. E. Church many years. He has married twice, first Clarinda Kirkland, by whom he had three children, one died in infancy ; Martha and Harriet, both deceased. Mrs. Gordon died in 1855, and in 1857 he married Anna Arnold, who died in 1889.
Granger Sprague S., was born in Sodus April 10, 1849, a son of Thomas J., who set- tled in the town of Sodus when a young man, the land then being unbroken forest. He cleared and brought under cultivation several farms, and in 1869 came to Sodus village to reside, where he was for many years engaged in the manufacture of fanning mills. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, Sodus Lodge. He married Sativa Negus, and had these children: George, who settled in Sodus, where he is engaged in the mann- facture of fanning mills, ete., and who married Lama Pulver; Harriet A., who married Hezekiah Lake; Samuel, who died young, and Sprague S., who settled in Sodus and established a lumber yard, carried on a saw and planing mill, and was engaged in the mannfacture of fanning mills, sash, doors and blinds, etc., carrying ou for several years an extensive business. He was also engaged in basket manufacturing. Ile takes a keen interest in political affairs, having served as commissioner of highways, etc. He is a member of Sodus Grange, No. 392, F. & A. M., and Wayne Chapter. In 1872 he married Alice E. Wride of Sodus, and they have one daughter, Bessie W.
Goseline, Peter, was born in Phelps April 5, 1835. His father, Joseph P., was a prominent farmer in his town. Peter was educated in the common schools, to which he has added through life by reading and close observation. At the age of twenty-two he married Hannah J., daughter of John Lawrence of Galen, and they are the parents of two children: James L., and Mrs. Lilly M. Miller. In 1869 he bought the John Roys property of fifty-four aeres, raising fruit, hay, grain and stock. Our subject is identified in advancing the best interests of his town and in the leading events of the day, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious matters, and is recognized as a man of sterling integrity and moral worth.
Field, Warren A., was born in Sodus Point in 1840, and is a son of Rodolphms, whose father was Wells Field. This family traces its ancestry back to Sir John Field, who came from England to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. Rodolphus served in the war of 1812, being at the battle of Plattsburgh, etc. At the close of the war he settled in Utica, and in 1818 removed to Sodus, where he died October 11, 1880. In 1815 he married Rachael, daughter of Aaron and Susan ( Watkins) Williams of Utica, by whom he had these children : Lurancy, William W., Elizabeth, Charles, Morris, Oliver (, Mariah, Cleason, Catharine C., Warren A., Mary and Rodolphus, besides two who died young. Warren settled in Sodus Point, and at the age of fifteen years became a sailor; and with short exceptions, he has spent his life in this service on the lakes. He is captain and owner of the steamer Sunbeam, and has also real estate interest at Sand Point. For several years he conducted a store at Sodus Point, and was also partner in a planing mill there. He is a member of Sodus Bay Yacht Club. He married Almina Harroun, and they have two children : Alvin and Cora, wife of Aaron Shufelt of Sodus Point.
Fish, Capt. Chauncey, was born in Williamson, January 22, 1828. He is the second of nine children of Thomas and Sarah (Gallop) Fish, he a native of Amherst, born March 7, 1795, and she born July 13, 1778. They came to Williamson in 1810. Mr. Fish was in the War of 1812. Chauncey married March 27, 1844, Phoebe J., daughter of John and Phoebe Cottrell, of Williamson, N. Y., and they have nine children : Myron M., John J., Mary E., Wilham W., Delphine, Thomas J., Charles W .. Recruit L., and Myron E. Myron M. was killed in the battle of Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864. John J. was also in the late war and died in 1869. Mr. Fish enlisted in Company B,
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Ninth N. Y. Heavy Artillery, Angust 6, 1862, and served three years. He was first sergeant when the company was organized and held the positions of second lieutenant, first lientenant, captain and major by brevet. He was at Cold Harbor, Monocacy Junction, Winchester, Va., Cedar Creek, Va., Sayler Run, Va., Appomatox. Mr. Fish is a mem- ber of G. A. R., Myron M. Fish Post No. 406, Department of N. Y., and is a member of the M. E. Church.
Frey, Philip, was born in Alsace, France (now Germany), May 18, 1831, and caine to the United States with his parents in June, 1846, locating first in Geneva and then set- tled in Lyons. He was a cooper by trade, but is now a farmer. July 16, 1859, he married Catherine Correll, of Huron, and they have had six children : Emnia B., George P., Carrie S., all deceased ; William L., Daniel L. C. and Belle V. They reside at home. George died March 10, 1891; Emma B., died October 15, 1893; and Carrie S., July 29, 1867. Mrs. Frey's father, Frederick Correll, was born in Germany and married Susan Hoover. They had eight sons and three daughter. They came to the United States in 1841. He died in 1859, and his wife in 1874. The family are mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church at Fairville.
Finley, Luther, was born in Walworth, Wayne county April 29, 1824. His parents moved to. this town when he was nine years of age. Upon the death of his parents he came to reside with his sister, where he attended school. At the age of nineteen he began business on his own account, owning a stage route from Phelps to Palmyra, do- ing much of the driving and managing of same. At this time he formed a co- partner- ship with a Mr. Ingersoll in the livery business at Phelps, which continued seven years. In 1841 he came again to Newark and began to run omnibuses for passengers and bag- gage to what is now known as the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. station at Newark, carrying the U. S. mails since he was nineteen, which now extends to three railroad lines and stations. In 1853 he married Mary W. Gonld, of Phelps, Ontario county, and they had three daughters, Ella S., who married W. W. Wheatly, of New York; Minnie, who died at the age of two years; and Laura B., who is house- keeper for her father. Mr. Finley's father, Nathan, was born at the old home in 1793. He married Abigail South - worth of his native place, and they had four children, Cordelia, Laura, Luther, and Ann E. He died in 1833 and his wife February 26, 1878.
Frey, Leonard, was born in Wortemburg. Germany, May 11, 1833. He was edu- cated in their schools, learned the blacksmith's trade, and came to the United States in 1856. He married twice, first Catrina Roesch of his native place, by whom he had six children. Two are deceased, the others are : Charles, a produce dealer and married twice, first Mary Fuller and had two daughters, Ora M. and Lillie; and second Grace Jenkins; Lois, Leonard, jr., who is a cigar manufacturer and married Betsey Rikeman ; and Frederick, who is also a cigar maker. Mrs. Frey died April 7, 1888, mourned by a bereaved husband and family. He married second November 30, 1891, Mrs. Minnie (Hnss) Young. She had three children by her first marriage, Emma, Frederick and Charles, who died Angast 30, 1894, aged ten years. Mr. Frev carried on blacksmithing several years, and has been a hotel keeper thirteen years. He erected a fine hotel at East Newark last spring, which he is now conducting.
Fisk, H. Hudson, was born in Arcadia, two and one-half miles south of Newark July 19, 1849, was educated in the common and Union Schools and Academy of Newark. The early part of his life was spent on the homestead farm. He also taught school several years, and was principal of the Union School and Academy here six years. In November, 1885, he became a newspaper man, purchasing the Newark Union, which he has condneted since with success, as proprietor, editor and publisher. Mr. Fisk's father, London, was born in Saratoga county February 11, 1811. June 14, 1832, he married Adeha Wells, of the town of Manchester, who was born March 1, 1812. They had nine clabien, George W., Samuel, Willis P., William H., A. Judson and H. Hudson
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(twins), Jennie, Frances A., and Belle. Mr. Fisk died December 19, 1885, and his wife July 27, 1888. The family came to reside in this town in 1823.
Filkins, William J., was born in Columbia county, August 8, 1818. His father was Jacob Filkins, a son of Isaac, a native of Holland, who came to America soon after the close of the Revolution, and settled in Rensselaer county, N. Y. Langdon and John, sons of Isaac, served in the war of 1812, one of them being a captain. Jacob caine from Columbia county in 1821 to Yates county, settling in Benton, and the next year moved to Barrington, where he remained until 1828, then came to Wayne county, buying a farm in the town of Sodus, and becoming one of the most prosperous farmers in the town. He died in Sodus in 1854. He was a inan of strict integrity and of sound judginent, taking an active part in political affairs and holding various offices in the town. He married Sarah Stinehart, and their children were : Elizabeth, who married Madison Stever, of Arcadia; Catharine, who married Peter A. Whitbeck, of Arcadia ; Alonzo, who settled in Montgomery, Il. ; Francis, who settled in Phelps, where he died June 23, 1889; Edwin B. Filkins was born in Columbia county in 1826, settled on the homestead in Sodus, and married Elizabeth A., danghter of James S. R. Sanford, of Palinyra, and they had two children : Chloe, who married Irving Waterbury, of Newark ; and Lonisa, who died in early womanhood ; William J. Filkins settled in Sodus, near the old home, and married Mary, danghter of George Van Hoesen, of Arcadia. Their children are: George HI., of Lyons, who married Hannah Mackey ; Caroline, wife of Dr. T. L. St. John, of Center Brunswick, Rensselaer county ; William F., of Sodns; and Emma E., wife of Herbert Lincoln, of Arcadia. William J. has always taken a prom- inent part in local polities, and has served as superintendent of schools for two years, as teacher for seven terms, assessor, overseer of the poor, etc. He is a prominent and active member of the M. E. church of Sodus, with which he has been connected for over forty years. He is also a charter member of the Grange at Sodus, of which he has been lecturer and master. For several years he was a director of the Fire Relief Associa- ·tion of Wayne county.
Fleming, William, was born in Dansville, Pa., August 8, 1815, and came to this town with his parents at the age of seven years. His education was obtained in the common schools, and he has had several occupations, but has followed farming and fruit-growing chiefly. In 1837 he married Catherine Rowe, of this town, who died in 1872. For his second wife he married Mrs. Lonisa M. Morgan, who died in 1874. His third marriage was in 1875, to Mrs. Evelin Hooker, of Lyons, and they have one daughter, Clara M., who married Charles Daley, of Syracuse, Mr. Fleming has resided in this town seventy- two years. Mrs. Fleming's first husband was Thomas Hooker, of Lyons, who enlisted immediately after his marriage in Company D, 111th N. Y. Vols., and died in Ander- sonville prison in 1864.
Emery, Walter, the first of the family to settle in Wayne county, came from Penn- sylvania to Huron in 1832 and engaged in farming. He afterward removed to Sodus and was manager of the Shaker tract for several years. He now resides at Alton. He was deputy sheriff under Sheriff Paddock, and for six years highway commissioner. He is a leading member and one of the founders of the M. E. church at Alton. IIe inarried Arloa Craig, and they have two sons, George, and Charles, who resides at Alton and was postmaster there during Harrison's administration. He has taught school at Alton since 1885, and married Ada Bockhoven. George has been principally engaged in teaching, having taught every winter since 1869, twenty-three consecutive terms at Alton. Since 1885 he has been principal of the school at Sodns Point. He was ap- pointed postmaster at Alton in 1877, and held the same for eight years, assessor one term, justice of the peace since 1878. He was deputy sheriff during Parshall's terin, and in 1885 was a prominent candidate for county superintendent of the poor. In 1893 he was appointed clerk of the Legislative Investigating Committee at Albany, and
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in 1890 was appointed inspector of customs at Sodus Point, which office he held until 1894. For seven years he was in the mercantile trade at Alton. He is a member of Sodus Sodus Lodge No. 504, I. O. O. F., and married Alice Philo, of Sodus.
Eggleston, Henry, was born in Phelps, March 22, 1842, and received his education in the common schools and the Union School of Phelps. April 22, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, 33d N. Y. Inf., and May 5, 1862, was taken prisoner and sent to Libby Prison, from which he was paroled on March 22, and honorably discharged from the service. About 1865 the family moved to the town of Arcadia, and January 11, 1867, he married Helen Daniels, of Arcadia, by whom he has two children, George W., and Lillian. The former is a clerk in the wholesale department of Barnes, Hengerer & Co., of Buffalo, and the latter has for the past three years been in the employ of the First National Bank of Newark, first as clerk, then assistant cashier, and on December 1, 1893, she was appointed notary public by Governor Flower. Chauncey, father of Mr. Eggleston, was born January 11, 1811, and married Betsey Greer, of Cayuga county. Of their nine children seven survived : Casadana, Henry, Jesse W., Parmelia, Oliver A., Minnie, and Marshall. The father died in 1889, and his widow survives, residing with her son. Mrs. Eggleston is a daughter of George W. Daniels, born in Arcadia in 1823, who married Rhoda Ennis, by whom he had two children, Hiram and Helen. He died in 1876. Elisha Eggleston, our subject's grandfather, served in the Revolution. Henry Eggleston is a member of the G. A. R., Vosburg Post, and Mrs. Eggleston is a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps.
Drake, Harry R., was born in East Newark, N.Y., April 20, 1851, was educated in the Union School and Academy, and taught school for several years. He has also been engaged in the grocery trade, and is now a manufacturer of eyelet ended wood pulp butter dishes, paper boxes, egg case fillers, ete. In 1870 he married Eliza Mumford, and had one daughter, Frances E., now Mrs. L. G. Baldwin, of Newark. Mrs. Drake died in 1874, and he married, in 1880, Mary A. Fowlerton, of Wolcott. They have two sons : Albert R. and Charles II. Mr. Drake's father, Leroy, was born in the town of Lyons, July 20, 1829, and during his later years sold canal supplies at the upper lock. He married Eliza D). Lamereaux, of East Newark, and they had two sons : Harry R., and Nelson D. Mr. Drake died in 1864, and his widow married, second, Frank HI. Spoor, who is now an engineer, and was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in 1861 in the Sturgis Rifles, in Chicago, Ill. He was honorably discharged in 1865, at the close of the war, after having been twice wounded. Mrs. Spoor's sister, Sally Lamereaux, married Reuben Berry, who was born in Columbia county, and came here with his parents when two years old. In early life he was a farmer, and earned a com- peteney. Both he and wife are living, and devote their time to many kind deeds, smoothing the way for those less fortunately situated than they are, Aunt Sally's name being a household word in town. The Lamiereaux family are of French extraction, having descended from the Huguenots, who came here in the seventeenth century.
Dillenbeck, John, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., December 4, 1838, and moved here in 1856, and the family two years later. He was educated in the publie schools and became clerk in a general store. In 1868 he began business for himself, having bought his brother Adam's general store at East Newark. He also has a farm and is building a modern malt house with a capacity of 100,000 bushels. He has been post- master thirty years, also president of the village one year. He was married twice, first, in 1866, to Ella Todd, of Albany, who died in 1868, and in 1869 he married Augusta Belden, of Arcadia. They had one son, John A., jr., who died at the age of four years. Mr. Dillenbeck's father was Michael, born in l'alatine, Montgomery county, in 1806. He was a farmer, hotel keeper, and contractor and builder. He married Phoebe Neir, of that county, and they had seven children : Michael, who died iu infancy ; Henry, Joshua, Margaret, Adam, John, as above, and Arie. Mr. Dillen-
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beck died about the year 1840, and his wife in 1887. The ancestry of this family is German and Scotchi.
Dewey, James S., was born in Chittenango, Madison county, September 6, 1835, and was educated in the publie schools. He moved with his parents to Waterloo, Seneea county, when a boy, and was a wagon wheel finisher by occupation. He en- listed twice, first April 26, 1861, in Company G, 33d Inf., N. Y. S. Vols, serving two years. After his discharge in June, 1863, he re-enlisted in Company K, Ist Veteran Cavalry, N. Y.S. Vols., and participated in all the battles, was honorably discharged July 20, 1865, at Camp Piatt, West Virginia. In July, 1863, he married Helen Baber, of Waterloo, and they have two daughters : Ha'tie L. and Bertha R. Mr. Dewey's father, Henry, was born in Wellsville, Oneida county, in 1811. He married twice, first, Mary Ann Sherman, of his native place, and they had one son, James S., as above. Mrs. Dewey died and he married again and moved to Waterloo. Mr. Dewey's grand- father, Sherman, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Dewey is assistant engineer in the State Custodial Asylum at Newark, and a member of Vosburg Post No. 99, G.A. R., department of New York.
Dickson, William, was born in Hopewell, Ontario county, was educated in the com- mon schools, and is a farmer. December 19, 1863, he enlisted in Company F, 2d Mounted Rifles, N. Y.S. Vols, was wounded before Petersburg and wounded a second time in the explosion of the mine, losing his right arm. In March, 1867, he married Christina Weaver, of this town, and they have two children: Etta, who married Franklin W. Rasch; and William T., a farmer with his father. Mrs. Dickson's father, Jacob Weaver, was born in Halltown Springs, Dutchess county, in 1812, and came to
Sodus with his parents when a boy. He married Sylvanna Hiscroadt, of his native county, and they had eight children : Homer, Lydia, Lewis, Christina, as above ; Esther, Jacob, and twins not named. Mrs. Dickson's brother, Lewis, was a soldier in Company F., 2d Mounted Rifles, and died in the service at City Point. Mr. Weaver died March 16, 1890, and his wife March 3, 1886. Mr. Dickson was honorably discharged from Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D.C., February 17, 1865. He is a member of Vosburg Post No. 99, G. A. R., department of New York. William T. is a member of E. K. Burnham Camp No. 14, S.O.V., Newark. The ancestry of the family is Scotch and German
Dufloo, William, was born in Holland in 1850, son of William, sr., who came to America in 1852 and settled in New Jersey, where he lived until 1857, when he came to Rochester and the following year settled in Sodus, where he died in 1868. He married Catherine Israel, and their children were: Catherine, who married Charles Shepard, of Sodus; Frances, who married Peter Cliequinoi, of Williamson; Sarah, who married Josiah Buckler, of Sodus; Josephine, who married William Harris, of Lyons ; Bigelow, who is a farmer in Sodus, he married Emma Weeks; Delia, who mar- ried John Nolan, of Pennsylvania, and resides at Groton, N.Y .; and William who is a farmer. He is a member of Sodus Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M., and Sodus Grange. Ile married, December 25, 1871, Magdalene Buckler, and their children are : Willis W., Elizabeth, Ada B., Florence C. and J. Roscoe.
De Right, Samuel H., was born in Williamson, Wayne county, October 13, 1849. Edwin De Right, his father, was a native of Holland and came to America about 1840 and settled in the town of Williamson. He is a prosperous and thrifty farmer, owning a farm of 280 acres. Abont 1880 he settled in Marion where he died in 1891. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church of Marion. He married Margaret Laco and their children were: Adrian, who settled on the homestead and was engaged in farming until 1893, when he settled in Williamson village. He married Mary Leroy ; Harmon M., wno married Mary De Lass ; Daniel, who settled in Marion and is a farmer. He married Libbie Brown ; Jesse B., who is a carpenter and builder in Williamson and
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