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Blossom's father died October 18, 1893, and his mother resides with him on Main street. His grandfather, 'Joseph Blossom, was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and brought home a scalp of his own taking. Mr. Blossom's place of business is the store on Palmyra street, where he keeps a first class restaurant. He came to reside here in 1876.
Bennett, Clark T., was born in Niagara county in 1856. His father was Orrin S., a son of Thomas Bennett, who came from Vermont in an early day and settled in Barre, Orleans county. In 1873 Orrin S. removed to Wayne county and settled in Sodus. He was a carpenter by trade, which he followed for some time, and later engaged in farming. He married Salome Baldwin, by whom he had two sons, Clark T. and Orlando. Orrin S. died in 1893. Orlando Bennett settled in Sodus Point. On arriving. at manhood our subject was engaged in farming for several years, but since 1882 has had charge of the mercantile business of E. B. Mathes at Sodus Centre. In 1880 he married Florence, danghter of John Brant. She died in 1887, leaving two children, Ross and Luln. In 1888 Mr. Bennett married Helen Prosens.
Brewer, Fred J., was born in Williamson, this county, August 2, 1857, and was edu - cated in the district schools, working summers and attending school winters, thus earn- ing money to defray his expenses at the academy at Sodus, which he attended winters. He learned the blacksmith's trade with his father, and shod his first horse when four- teen years of age. He worked in partnership with his father two years, then December 14, 1883, he came to Newark and began business on his own account in 1884, in company with his brother George C., in the Robinson stone shop on Union street, under the firm name of Brewer Brothers, which contined till the death of ms brother, October 16, 1892. In 1887 they purchased the said location, and in 1893 he erected the Brewer Block in the same location. June 18, 1879, he married Ella A. Craggs, of his native town, and they have had four children, two sons and two daughters: Florence E., Jessie M., James C., and Glen A. Mr. Brewer's father, Aaron, was born in the town of Williamson, Jannary 4, 1832, was a blacksmith by trade, and married Sarah Cole, by whom he had two sons, Fred J., and George C. The ancestry of the family is Dutch and English.
Burleigh, Emor E., was born on the homestead, east of Newark, June 24, 1847. His education was acquired in the Union School and Academy and in Eastman's Commer- cial College at Poughkeepsie. His occupation has been salesman and bookkeeping, and is now confidential clerk and bookkeeper for Blackmar & Allectch, produce dealers. He has been assessor ten years, and has been re-elected for three years, and has been president of the village one term. February 16, 1881, he married Clara L. Carr, formerly of Oswego county, and they have one danghter, Frances C. His father, George F., was born in Columbia county September 25, 1822, and came here with his parents when three years of age. He was educated in the schools of his day, and has always followed farming. November 9, 1844, he married Augusta F. Miller, formerly of Cayuga connty, and they had two sons : Emor E, as above, and William IL, who married Eva Ridley, by whom he has one son. Ray R. The grandfather, Abner, was born in Colombia county in 1790. Abont 1812 he married Mary Hanser, of that county, by whom he had five children. The family came to this town in 1825. The first known of the Burleighs in this country was three brothers who came from England, one of whom fought for the Americans in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Burleigh's father, Caleb L. Carr, was born in Columbia connty and came to Williamson when a boy. He married Frances C. Baker, of Sodos, and had three children. He died in 1868 and his wife survives, residing here. Both sides of this family fought in the war of 1812.
Amerinn, Albert, was born June 28, 1830, studied six years in the New York City University, and graduating from the grammar department, has been an accountant all
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his life, until his retirement some years ago. In 1857 he married Annie Hunt, of his native city, and they had two sons : Charles E., a member of the Brooklyn Trust Com- pany, and John J., who is in the auditing department of the Grand Central Station in that city. Mrs. Amerman died in 1865, and our subject married, second, June 18, 1869, Elethia E. Culver, of Arcadia, and they had one daughter, Alethia E., who died aged four years. Caleb, father of Albert, was born in New York city in 1800, where he was a clerk in the Merchant's Exchange Bank for sixty years, He married Susan Brower, of Westchester county, and they had seven children : Susan, Albert, Mary, Hannah, Frances, Charlotte, and Jacob. Mr. Amerman died in 1890 and his wife in 1891. The father of the latter was W. Norman Culver, born in this county December 20, 1814, who married Elizabeth Brown in 1838, and had one daughter, Elethia E., as above noted. Mr. Culver died in 1872, and his wife in 1889.
Allerton, Byron, was born in the town of Amenia, Dutchess county, September 22, 1822. He was educated in the public schools. His early life was spent on his father's farm. The family came to the town of Benton, on the lake, Yates county, except Byron, who had already begun as a boy the drover's trade from Dutchess county to New York. In 1814 he came to Newark and became clerk for his brother Orville HI. in his general store two years. He then began to trade in sheep, driving them to Dutchess county, making money in the transaction. In the fall he shipped sheep to New York in company with his uncle, a Mr. Hurd. He loaded the first car of sheep on the Anburn branch of the N. Y. C. & IL. R. R. R. About this time he became blind, which continued about seven years. After this he became merchant with his brother for seven years, when the co-partnership was dissolved by mutual consent. He then went to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he conducted a hotel at the stock yards called the Eastern Exchange, which continued a year. He then returned to Newark and bought the heirs' interests in the homestead, which he owns at the present time. In 1867 he married Helen Sherman, of Dover, Dutchess county, and they have two children : Samuel W. and Richard HI. Sammel W. is a resident of Jersey city and is a dealer in sheep; Richard H. is a student in the academy. Mrs. Allerton died June 10, 1892, mourned by a bereaved husband and children. Two years after his marriage he went to Buffalo and was made superintendent of the Erie Stock Yards for seven years, in fact he has been a drover the greatest part of his life.
Axtell, Wells H., was born in Michigan, October 10, 1838. He was educated in the district schools of that State, was a farmer and lumberman, and at the time of Ins en- listment was foreman of the stables of the copper mines. August 8, 1961, he enlisted in Company F, 7th Mich. Inf. Vols, was honorably discharged Jane 11, 1863, and cause to Steuben county on account of sickness which he contracted while in the army, and in May, 1864, came to this town, where he has since resided. February 23, 1864, he married Mary C. Hill, of Selmyler county, and they had one son, Bert R., born Novem- ber 1, 1869, who married Lonisa Webster, of Hammond-port. Steuben county. They reside in Monroe county. Mrs. Axtell died March 4, 1890. She was a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and held the office of junior vice. Mr. Axtell's father, John H., was born on the Atlantic Ocean. The fandily located in Steuben county. Ile married Margaret Morris, of that county, and they moved to Michigan, and had four- teen children. He died in 1858, and his wife in 1880. Mr. Axtell's grandfather, Henry, and five brothers were soldiers in the war of 1812, and the French and Indian war seven years. Mr. Axtell is a member of Vosburg Post No. 99, G. A. R., Dept of N. Y., and of Newark Lodge No. 116, A. O. U. W.
Andrews, Asa F., was born in Fabius, Onondaga county, in 1849. Ilis father, Orcemus, was a son of Ebenezer Andrews, who was a native of Vermont, and one of the early settlers of Onondaga county. Asa F. settled in Wayne county in 1882 and engaged in the drygoods and grocery trade at Joy, town of Sodus, which he has con- tinned until the present time. He was appointed postmaster at Joy under President
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Harrison's administration, which office he has held five years. Mr. Andrews is a mem- ber of Sodus Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M. His first wife was Alnora Steele, of Chen- ango county, and after her death he married in 1891 Margaret Sauer, daughter of Martin Sauer, of Sodus.
Allerton, Henry R .- The late Samuel W. Allerton was born in the town of Amenia, Dutchess connty, December 8, 1785. His education was received in the schools of that day, also in a select school under the tuition of the Rev. Dr. Barnett, a Presbyterian minister of his native place. His father and grandfather were professional men, phy- sicians, but he chose the ocenpation of farming. He married Hannah Hurd, of his native place, and they had nine children : Cornelia, Ammerelis, Henry R., Orville H., Amanda H, Byron, Rebecca A., Lois J., and Samnet W. He came to the town of Benton, Yates county, in 1842. In 1849 the family moved to Wayne county, and continued farming fifteen years. He hved in Newark until he died in August, 1885 only four months short of a hundred years. Cornelia married Walter Sherman, of Dutchess comny ; Ammerelis married Shadrack Sherman, of that county ; Henry R., retired farmer, residing in the village, his sister, Mrs. Taber, in charge of his household ; Orville H., mentioned elsewhere; Amanda HI. married William Taber ; Byron married Helen Sherman, of Dover, Dutchess county ; Rebecca HI. and Lois J. reside with their brother Henry R., all of them of independent means. Samuel L. married twice, first, Pamilla Thompson, and second, Agnes Thompson, and is a resident of Chicago. The grand- father, Reuben, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary war.
Holdridge, A. J., after a life of more than ordinary interest and adventure in foreign lands, returned in 1865 to his old home, for the next ten years was on shore and at sea, and for sixteen years has been express and freight agent at Savannah. He was born in Galen September 16, 1838, a son of Ambrose and Charity Holdridge. His educa- tional opportunities were limited, and at the age of fifteen he ran away from home and shipped from Greenport, L L., an board the whaler. Haly, in 1854. Off' the Alentian Istes in 1866 she was dismasted in a heavy storm, and after the loss of cleven men finally harbored in Honomil, Sandwich Islands, and the cargo of 2,800 barrels of oil and 32.500 pounds of whalebone was saved intact, then visited a number of the South Sea Islatids among the cannibals. He next shipped in the Sheffield for another whaling cruise, which lasted eight months, with a net result of 2,200 barrels of oil and 19 000 pounds of whalebone. Next entering the merchant service, he visited all the principal ports of South America, rapidly passing, by various promotions, from a colt- mon sator to first mate, which position he held on board the Monterey when but twenty-one years of age. During the war between Pern and Renador he was a blockade runner, which was on one occasion chased all day by a Peruvian man-of-war, without result. At Panama, when in the passenger steamer service, he had the dreaded Chagres fever, and after his recovery he agam entered the merchant service, visiting London and other points in the Old World. In 1863, while on the U. S. N. ship Aphrodite he suffered shipwreck off Cape Lookout, when the ship and twenty-six men were lost, but Mr Holdridge escaped unn jured. After the war he spent several seasons 'on the lakes, chiefly in sailing vessels, and subject to the usual vicissitudes of a sailor's hfe, sometimes an officer and sometimes before the mast. In 1889 he married Fannie Taylor, of Clyde. Our subject has been president of the village, trustee, assessor, etc.
John Vandenberg was born in Coxsackie, N. Y., July 31, 1827, and died in Clyde May 14, 1894. He attended the academy in his native place and studied law, and after admission to the bar removed to Cleveland, N. Y,, where he soon became prominent, In 1855 he located in Clyde and was in active and successful practice nearly forty years. In the fall of 1865 he was elected to the Legislature by the Republicans, and served a second term by re-election. In 1876 he formed a partnership with Charles T. Saxton, which continned to his death. In 1879 he was elected district attorney of Wayne
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county by a very large majority, and filled the office to the entire satisfaction of his fellow citizens. Hle was a prominent member of the Bar Association and a Mason of high standing. Mr. Vandenberg married, in 1849, Rebecca Landgraff, of Cleveland. Five children were born to them.
Burgess, Rev. A. P., D. D., was born in Herkimer county in 1845, prepared for Ham- ilton College, at West Winfield Academy, and received his theological training in New England. He received his degree of Doctor of Divinity from Monroe College in 1886. He was a pastor in Mexico, Oswego county, eight years. He was seven years in Dennis and Duxbury, Mass., and has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Newark, N. Y., for twenty-one years. In April, 1894, his church celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his pastorate by giving him a reception, nearly a thousand persons being present. On this occasion he was the recipient of a valuable gold water, and Mrs. Burgess of a costly supply of table china. Mr. Burgess has been largely iden- tified with the interests of his town and county. Mr. Burgess has added to his clerical duties a large service on the platform, in the cause of temperance, and he edited the Temperance Press two years while in Boston, Mass. For three years he edited the Watchword in Ilion, N. Y. His sons, W. C. and F. D. Burgess, are editors and pub- lishers of the Arcadian Weekly Gazette of Newark.
Richards, Sidney S., was born in the town of Hamburg, Lewis county, N. Y., May 8, 1839. He was educated in the public schools, was a farmer by occupation. When he attained tire age of twenty-one he moved to the town of Ellisburg, locating in the vil - lage of Bellville, and worked at the art of photography. In 1862 he enlisted in Com- pany E, 10th Artillery, N. Y. S. Volunteers, was honorably discharged at the close of the war, June 23, 1865. He first located in Carthage, Jefferson county, N. Y., follow- ing his chosen business. July 3, 1866, he married Lonisa Sanders, of Carthage, locat- ing here July 16, 1880, purchasing the gallery of A. F. Brooks and his line of business. Two children, both daughters, namely : Mary A. and Alice E, she married L. C. San- ford of Newark. Mr. Richards' father, David, was born in Massachusetts December 21, 1801, and married Eliza D. Stoddard, of Lewis county, N. Y .; they had three chil- dren, two sons and a daughter : Edward, jr., Sidney S., as above, and Adelia C'. Ile died October 19, 1882. Mr. Richards is a member of Vosburg Post, No. 99, G. A. R., Department of New York, has held the positions of commander, senior vice-com- mander and quartermaster. His daughter, Mary, was educated at Holyoke College, and is assistant preceptress in the Union School and Academy. Himself and family are members of the Baptist Church of Newark.
Wilson, J., was born in St. Johnsville, Montgomery county, N. Y., May 12, 1831. He graduated at Union College in 1851, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1852 ; raised a company of one Hundred and seven men at his own expense and served as captain, part of 1861 and 1862 ; for twenty years was principal of some of the lead- ing academies of the State ; since January, 1869, has been editor of the Newark Courier, one of the most popular county weeklies in the State. October 23, 1874, he was nominated unanimously as the Democratic candidate for Congress, for the counties of Wayne, Cayuga and Seneca; and in a district usually 6,000 to 7,000 Republican, he came within a few hundreds of being elected, with General MacDougall as his opponent, and without paying any attention to the canvass. In 1875 he was honored with the degree of Plr. D., from Union College; in 1880, was on the Democratic electoral ticket, as the representative of the Twenty-sixth Congressional District. He visited Europe in 1868 and 1888. Mr. Wilson is the anthor of the following works: 'Errors of Gram- mar," 1858; "Phrasis: A Treatise on the History and Structure of the Different Lan- gnages of the World," 1864; "A Practical Grammar of the English Language," 1870 ; "Truths of Religion and the Bible, as seen by the Light of the Nineteenth Century," 1874 ; "'Practical Life and the Study of Man," 1882; 'Radical Wrongs," 1892. These works have been commended by the best men in the land, and have given him a high
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standing among literary men and editors. He is proprietor, publisher and editor of the Newark Courier of Newark, N. Y.
Kelley, Charles E, was born on the homestead southeast of Newark January 28, 1858, was educated in the common schools and at 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. Burnette of Phelps, and they have two children : Bertha A, and Burnette F. Mrs. C. E. Kelley's father, Hiram Burnette, was born in Phelp:, 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 G. and Frank II. He had two children by a first marriage, Andrew J. and Mary L. Mr. Burnette died in 1893, and his widow survives at the old home in Phelps.
Welcher, Charles A., was born in Arcadia October 3, 1856, and was educated in the district, and the Union School and Academy of Newark. His early life was spent on his father's farm, and he is now one of Newark's enterprising grocery merchants. He married Jennie E. Garlock, of Newark, and they have five children : Fred G., Frank C, L. Fern, Ernest L. V., and J. Orville. Mr. Welcher's father, J. Philester, was born on the homestead two and one-half miles north of the village of Newark, March 13, 1821. September 22, 1845, he married Abigail Lee, of Arcadia, by whom he had seven children : Alice, Amanda, Rev. Manfred P., Velora E., Charles A, as above, Lucy V., and Byron R, who died aged fifteen years. Subject's grandfather, John, was born in Morristown, N J., in 1790 and came to Phelps, Ontario county, when in his ninth year, and went to live with Oliver Clark, of East Palmyra, until he was twenty-one years old. He then took np the land for the homestead from the primeval forest. He married twice, first Mchetabel Culver, and second Electa Jagger, of Batavia, formerly of Long Island.
llanby, James E., was born in Sodus October 31, 1853, and is a son of Charles Hanby, born September 19, 1809, who came from London, England, in 1832 and settled in the northwestern part of the town of Sodus, purchasing a tract of land. He married twice, first (in England) Harriet Jackson and their children were: Ann, Charles J., and Harriet P. His second wife was Catherine Gates, and their children were: Ann, Charles, Joseph G., Mary L., Catherine E., Lewis B., James E., Hannah and Esther J. He died June 22, 1887. James E. Hanby, settled in Sodus on the old homestead, 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 Sodos Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M., and Sodus Grange. Ile married in 1893 Carrie O., daughter of Mrs. Olivia Van Slyck, of Sodns.
Ridley, William, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, January 30, 1817. He was educated in the district schools and has always followed farming. January 14, 1839, he married Elizabeth M. Tittsworth of his native town, and they have had eleven children : James T., William, Esther A., Morrison, Aaron, George D., Mary E., Clara and an infant daughter not named (twins) ; Alice and Adelbert. Mr. Ridley's father, Mathew, was born in England in 1781 and came to the United States when eighteen years old, locating in the town of Phelps. He married Delilah Sober, of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, by whom he had these children: James, dead; William, as above; Nelson, dead ; Lydia ; Hiram, dead, and Delira. Mrs. Ridley's father, Richard Titts- worth, was born in New Jersey abont 1785 and married Esther De Witt, of his native place. They had four children : Jane, James, An Jennette and Elizabeth M. He died in 1830 and his wife in 1848. They came to this locality abont 1810. Mr. Tittsworth was a soldier in the War of 1812 at Sodns Point. Morrison is a professional caterer ; James T. married Phoebe Westfall; Willard married Pamela Eggleston; Aaron married Cornelia Morris; Mary E., married Oliver Eggleston; Alice married Charles Cornwell, and Delbert married Hattie Morris.
Drake, Harry R., was born in East Newark, N. Y., April 20, 1851, was educated in
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the Union School and Academy, and tanght school for several years. He has also been engaged in the grocery trade, and is now a manufacturer of eyelet-end wood-pulp but- ter dishes, paper boxes, egg case fillers, ete. In 1870 he married Eliza Munford, and had one daughter, Frances F., now Mrs. L. G. Baldwin of Newark. Mrs. Drake died in 1874, and he married in 1880 Mary A. Towlerton, of Wolcott. They have two sons, Albert R. and Charles H. 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. Lamoreanx of East Newark, and they had two sons, Harry R. and Nelson D. Mr. Drake died in 1864, and his widow married, second, Frank H. 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 Lamoreux, married Reuben Berry, who was born in Colombia county, and came here with his par- ents when two years old. In early life he was a farmer, and carned a competency, 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 house- hold word in town. The Lamoreaux family are of French extraction, having de- seended from the Huguenots whe came here m the Seventeenth Century.
Hankenson, Edward L., was born in Newark, March 18, 1845. His education was obtained in the Union School and Academy, and he then became a clerk in his father's store. In the year 1872 his father took him into the concern as partner, under the firm name of James W. Hankenson & Son, doing a retail business in clothing, hats, caps and men's furnishing goods. July 12, 1892, he married Ella V. Sutphen, daughter of Dr. R. M. Sntphen of Newark, N. J. Mr. Hankenson's father, James W., was born in Scho- harie county, in 1818, and came to the town of Arcadia with his parents when two years of age, and was educated in the schools of that day and place. His early life was spent on his father's farm until the age of sixteen, when he learned the tailor's trade with Lathrop Bristol, of Newark, N. Y. In 1841 he began business on his own account, which continnes until the present day. April 2, 1841, he married Nancy Good- win of this town, by whom he had one son, Edward L., as above noted. He has been a resident of the town seventy-three years. The father of James W. was Rnel. Mr. Hankenson was one of the originators of the I. O. O. F. in Newark.
Bartle, the late Warren S., was born in Junius, Seneca county, July 28, 1816. He came to Newark with his parents when eighteen years of age and learned the machin- ist's trade, after which he did business on his own account on South street. He was a skillful workman and mventor. October 6, 1840, he married Eliza Cambers, formerly of Whittlesen, Cambridgeshire, England. She was born October 25, 1818, and they had three children : James P., who married Gertie Shinnway of Newark, and has one son, Warren S .; Eldora L., who married James S. Horton of East Newark, by whom she has one son, Charles B., who is a jeweler by trade; and Willie, who died m infancy. Mrs. Bartle's father, William Cambers, was born at the old home in England March 7, 1775. He married Susan Sherrington of his native place, and they had ten children : Four sons by the name of William died in infancy ; George, who died aged twenty-five : Mary A., Lney and Eliza died in infancy ; Lney second and Eliza second survive. They came to the United States in 1834, and located at Albion, Orleans county, where they remained many years and then went to Canada. When Mlrs. Bartle's mother died in 1857, her father came here to reside with his daughter and died in 1859. The Bartles trace their ancestry back to the sixth generation in the United States from Germany. Mr. Bartle has been organist in four churches, and has taught instrumental music smee she was sixteen, and at her present age seventy-six, still retains a class of pupils. Mr. Bartle was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which he joined in 1845, being one of the charter members of the Subordinate Lodge Encampment. He passed all of the chairs in both lodges and was D. D. G. M. and D. D. G. P. He died August 20, 1882.
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