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West, George H., was born about two miles west of Newark, November 19, 1840, He was educated in the common schools. He was one of a family of five children, whose parents were Matthew W. West, who was born near Fairville, this town, June 18, 1818, and whose occupation was that of a farmer, and his wife Mary Inghes, of this town, formerly of Vermont, whom he married Feb. 5, 1839. Matthew W. West died March 4, 1874, mourned by a bereaved wife and family. The five children were as follows: George HI., S. Maria, Catharine, Emma J., and Lewis G. The daughters are dead. Their grandfather, Moses West was a soldier in the War of 1812, and other members of the family were in the late war. Lewis G. married Effie M. Lake of Mar- bletown, by whom there were two children : Edward W. and Ethel. George H. fol- lowed his father's ocenpation and November 19, 1861, he married Mary L. Lee, of Newark formerly of Fairport, whose father, William Lee, came from England when a small child and whose mother Mary Ann Hutchinson came from Vermont. They had two children : K. Eudora, and Charles E. January 13, 1886 Charles married Harriet A. Richmond, of Newark, they have three children, namely : Mary A., Mabel E., Ada B. Mrs. George West died October 16, 1892 and Mr. West married again March 7, 1894, Lizzie S. Yeo, of Phelps, Ontario county, whose father was born in Devonshire, England, September 28, 1814, coming to the United States when a young man, locating at Mt. Morris, Livingston county, where he married Mary Stillson, a sister of Judge Norton's wife by whom he had four children : Arthur E., Frank S., M. Ella and Lizzie S. The family resided in Le Roy for a number of years, where Mrs. Yeo died April 12, 1861. Mr. Yeo married a second time, Adaline Knapp, of Newark, and they lived in the town of Phelps, Ontario county, for twenty-eight years, where both died, Mrs. Yeo February 5, 1892 and Mr. Yeo April 25, 1893. Mr. West is a member of the offi- cial board of the Newark M. E. church. He and his family still reside two miles west of Newark.
Hyde, Artemas W., was born at the old home in Hydesville, September 15, 1816. He was educated in the schools of that day, and was also a farmer. He was the only surviving son of Dr. Henry Hyde, born June 29, 1774 in Vermont, who came to this locality as a pioneer physician and settled amid forests and small clearings and a seant population in 1810. Artemas W. Hyde began life by putting into practice these prin- ciples of self reliance, untiring industry. promptness in all business transactions, and care and prudence in all the details of his affairs which made him at once the successful and reliable busmess man he was. Mr. Hyde was supervisor of the town in 1861-65. It was said by the Fox sisters that Artemas W. Hyde was a firm believer in spiritualism. The family wishes this to be emphatically denied, it being a pure fabrication on their part. He was twice married, first, to Armeda Miles, who died in 1856. After her death he married Louise Peirson. He has four children living, two of them E. M. and John L., sons of the first wife, and William H. and Armeda, now Mrs. P. R. Sleight, children of the second wife. Mr. Hyde died January 5, 1892, and his wife in Septem- ber of the same year. William H., the youngest son of Artemas W. Hyde, was born July 26, 1863 at the old home in Ilydesville, where he at present resides. He was educated at the Union School, Cook Academy, and at Geneseo Normal School. He is a farmer and capitalist by ocenpation. He is a man of enterprise, ability and integrity, already well and favorably known in this and adjoining communities as a capable and successful financier. He married February 26, 1885, Bertha Jackson, of Lyons. They have two children, Bertha I .. and William fleury, jr., who is the eighth Henry in the direct line in the Hyde family. Mrs. Hyde's grandfather, Dr. Cyrus Jackson, was a pioneer settler and physician of the town of Lyons, coming to that town from Milford, l'a., through the woods on horseback some time in 1811. He purchased the farm upon which he resided the rest of his long and useful life, and which is still in the possession of the Jackson family. Like all old time physicians he went to see his patients on horseback and carried his medicine case in his saddle bags. George W. Jackson, the father of Mrs. Hyde, was the youngest son of Dr. Jackson ; a farmer by oceupation and
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an upright, conscientious Christian gentleman, who was called to his rest while still in the prime of his life, July 6, 1884.
Vosburgh, William, son of Jacob, came from Dutchess county abont 1845 and settled m the northwest corner of Sodus on the lake road, purchasing a farm of 250 acres, and was an extensive farmer. He married first Henrietta Tromper and second Elizabeth Trowbridge, and their children were: Jacob, Anna E., Margaret, Sarah C., Mary E., Emma, who died in infancy, Emma and Antoinette. Anna E. married Robert Watson; Margaret married Thomas Youmans; Sarah C. married Wesley T. Jolly ; Mary E. married Rowland Smith; Antoinette married Henry Toor; Jacob settled on the home- stead and is a farmer. He taught school for several years during the winter. He mar- ried Catherine Yonmans, of Sodus, and they have five children : William, Edith A., Wesley, Henrietta and George Y.
Diekson, William, was born in Hopewell, Ontario connty, was educated in the com- mon schools, and is a farmer. December 10, 1863, he enlisted in Co. 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 Christma 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 Balltown Springs, Dutchess county in 1812, and came to Sodus with his parents when a boy. He married Sylvina Hiscrodt of his native county, and they had eight children : Homer, Lydia, Lewis, Christina, as above; Esther, Jacob. Mrs. Dick- son's brother, Lewis, was a soldier in Co. F, 2d Mounted Rifles, and died in the service at City Point. Mr. Weaver died March 16, 1890, and his wife March 3, 1884. 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.
Van Marter, David, father of Mrs. William J. Holland, was born in Arcadia April 19, 1819, was educated in the public schools, and in early life was a cooper, later taking up farming. October 30, 1853, he married Elizabeth J. Baldwin, of Lyons, by whom he had two children : Mary, who died in her ninth year, and Jennie M. Mr. Van Marter died Jannary 4, 1887, and his wife died September 29, 1889. Jennie M. married, Sep- tember 16, 1890, William J. Holland, of Fairville, and they have two children : Viola M. and David Coles. The family are nicely situated on the Van Marter homestend. Mr. Holland's father, Thomas, was born abont 1836, in England, and married Mary S. West, of Bay City, Michigan, formerly of England. Their six children were: Mary A., William, John, Sarah S., Ettie D. A., who died young, Henry R., and Emma J. Both parents reside in Fairville.
Van Dusen, Richard, was born in Marion, Wayne county, August 20, 1845, was edu- cated in the Palmyra Classical Union School and has taught school fifteen years, three of which he taught in the Union School of Palmyra. For the past thirteen years he has been conducting a fruit farm near Marbletown. August 10, 1886, he married Eliz- abeth Rentschler, of East Newark, and they have one daughter, Mary E., who is a stu- dent. Mr. Van Dusen's father, Hiram, was born in Berkshire county, Mass., June 27, 1798. The family moved to Columbia county, N. Y., when he was a boy, where he was educated in the schools of his day. June 30, 1816, he married Marin Crandall, of his native county, and they had eleven children : Marin, Hannah, William, Henry J., Lucinda, Catherine, John 11., Margaret, Stephen, Hannah second, and Richard. Mr. Van Dusen died in 1886, and his wife April 17, 1850. Subject's grandfather, William, was born September 6, 1772. He married Hannah Spencer and had seven children. Mrs. Richard Van Dusen's father, John Rentschler, was born in Germany. He married Mary Schanz, of his native place and came to the United States, locating at East Newark,
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They had seven children. Mr. Van Dusen was elected assessor in 1892 and is trustee of the district school. He is also a member of Newark Lodge No. 83 F. & A. M., is a member of the Knights of Honor, and a Granger.
Hoeltzel, George, was born in Alsace, France, (now Germany) December 30, 1836, and came to the United States with his parents in 1840. They located in Lyons, Wayne county. Ile was educated in the district schools and is a farmer. June 27, 1867, he married Lena Schwab, of Arcadia, and they have three children : Albert G., Einina M. and Minnie R. August 12, 1862, he enlisted in Co. C, 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 Rukth 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 mar- ried Magdalene Studer also of this town, by whom he had five children : Elizabeth, Philip, Lena, Barbara and George. Mrs. Schwab afterwards married Sallie Deetch also of this town, by whom he had two children, Jacob and William, the latter is deceased. Mr. Schwab died June 4, 1881 and his wife March 30, 1883.
Blakely, Lamott M., is a native of Wyoming County. He attended school in Wyo- ming county, Honeoye, Richmond Mills, and finished his education at the East Bloom- field Academy, Ontario county. His first business enterprises of note were in Iowa and Illinois, where he became a heavy shipper of limber from points in lowa on the Mississippi River to all points below St. Joseph on the Missouri River. He continued in the lumber business until the breaking out of the war, which closed all traffic for the time on the Missouri River. At the close of the war he went into the cotton busi- ness at Atlanta, Ga., which he continued from 1866 to 1870 at Washington, N. C., and other places, including Newbern and Greenville. Later he resumed the himber business and soon became one of the heaviest dealers in the South. These operations extended over nearly twenty years, and pine, juniper and cypress were the principal varieties of Immber handled. Mr. Blakely won the good will and respect of the Southern peo- ple during his long residence in the South, and at the present time has many warm friends in that section. He returned to Lyons a few years ago, where his people had resided since 1848. In 1892 Mr. Blakely was an alternate delegate to the National Re- publican Convention at Minneapolis. From the time of his return he has taken a great interest in the advancement of Lyons and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees; last March he was elected president of the village, and has been active in matters tending to improve the town, especially the streets and water courses. His administration thus far has been characterized both by public improvements and the economical expenditure of publie money.
Nolan, William HI., was born in Oneida county May 20, 1857. His parents moved to Lewis connty when he was seven years of age, and he was educated in the public schools and learned the trade of carpentry. He came to Newark in 1888, and has built up a successful business as a contractor and builder. March 31, 1880, he married Mary E. Laulee of Martinsburgh, Lewis county, and they have five children : Eva M, Grace, Mary, Lula M. and Gertrude A. Mr. Nolan and family are members of St. Michael's Catholic Church, and are Democrats. The father of our subject, James S., came to Quebee in 1838, and was compelled to leave, or take up arms against the United States, choosing the former. He came to Syracuse for a short time, where he condneted a blacksmith business many years, and afterwards removed to Lewis county. He was twice married, and had four children by his first marriage, James, Mary, Margaret and Jolin. He married, second, Delia Ragan, and had by her four children : William H.,
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Michael G., a contractor in Buffalo ; Frances, who lives in Cohoes; and Edward, who died aged thirteen. James S. died in 1885 and his wife in 1880. Mrs. Nolan's father, Patrick Lanlee, came to this country with his parents at the age of fifteen, and mar- ried Anna Dnnn, and of their eleven children eight grew to maturity.
Butts, Porter P, was born in Pompey, Onondaga county, February 25, 1838, a son of Lyman Butts, whose father was Jabez, of Scotch and English ancestry. Lyman came to Wayne county in 1838, residing in Savannah several years, then removing to Cort- land county, where he lived till 1856, when he bought a farm in the town of Sodns near Joy and spent the rest of his life. He was a prominent man in the town, a strong anti-slavery advocate, and active in political affairs, lle married Sarah, daughter of Pliny Porter of Onondaga county, and their children were: Susan, who married Gen. A. J. Warner, and settled in Marietta, O .; Helen M., who married Selden Granger, and settled in Cleveland, O .; Henry HI., who enlisted in the army and died in the serv - ice ; George C., who settled in Marietta, O .; Frank L., who settled on the homestead ; . and Porter P. (See Clark's history of Wayne county.) In 1862 he settled in Sodus, where he bought a farm south of the village, and has since resided. He is a member of Sodus Grange, and of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Butts married Anna, dangh- ter of Jacob Andrews of Sodus, and their children are Watson A., who settled at Fulton ; Henry P. and Raymond K.
Gulick, Charles L., who was born in Sodns, Wayne county, September 13, 1848, was educated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. Jannary 1, 1872, he married Aurillia M. Fredenburgh of Arcadia, by whom he had four children : Olie M., Benjamin A., who died aged thirteen ; Kingsley S. and Seaman II. Mr. Gulick's father, Ainos, 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. Ford 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 the town of Arcadia, June 1, 1829. He married Adelia Van Inwagen, formerly of Tompkins county, and they had four children: Esbon K., An- rillia M., as above ; Milton E. and Ellsworth H., who died in infancy. Mr. Freden- burgh died in 1891.
Weinman, Jacob, was born in Rhinefalta, Germany, September 7, 1832, educated in their schools, and worked at various occupations. May 13, 1859, he married Catherine Menzner of his native place, and they have had eight children: Jacob, jr., who is a farmer in Clifton Springs, Ontario county, and married Emma Frech of Newark, by whom he has three children : Carrie M., Carl E. and Ruth E; Philip is a farmer in Phelps, Ontario county. He married Julia Werner and has one son, John P .; Frede - riek is a carpenter and builder in Newark, and married Nellie Frech; Theresa M. and Julia A. reside at home; Elizabeth C., died in infancy ; Louis also died at the age of two years; and Christian was killed on the West Shore Railroad near his home at the age of fourteen. They came to the United States in 1871. Mrs. Weinman died in 1885, mourned by a bereaved husband and family. Mr. Weinman and family are men- bers of the German Evangelical Church of Newark, and the family have resided on their farm twenty years.
Graham, E. P., second son Henry and Eliza (Ross) Graham, late of Rose, was born September 7, 1848. Henry Graham, a pioneer settler of Rose, a prominent Democrat, finding in farming and hortienhure his principal occupation, died in October, 1878, aged seventy-six. Elmore was educated at Clyde and at 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, Seneca county.
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Robinson, Minard, was born in Arcadia October 3, 1845, was educated in the com- mon schools, and has always followed farming. December 27, 1872, he married M. Rowe of Manchester, Ontario county, and they have one daughter, Harriet E. Mr. Robinson's father, John D., was born in Phelps, Ontario county January 25, 1813, was educated in the schools of his day, and was also a farmer. He married Christina Van Decar who was born in Rensselaer county, and had five children ; Abram. Aaron V., Minard as noted, Mary and Andrew J. He died in 1877 and his wife in 1885. His grandfather was Minard, and his great-grandfather, John Decker Robinson, was the first settler in the town of Phelps. Mrs. Robinson's father, Freeman Rowe, was born in Wayne county in 1827. He married Harriet A, Oderkirk of Manchester, and they had three children: Robert D. George F. and Alazan M. Both parents were killed at the same time on the N. Y. C. & M. R. Railroad March 12, 1857.
Marble Brothers .- Jolin W. was born in the town of Arcadia in Marbletown, Novem- ber 28. 1842, was educated in the common schools, and has always followed farming. December 25, 1874, he married Mary E. Robison, of Huntsburg, Ohio, and they have one son, Ray W., born April 14, 1879, who is a student in the Union School and Academy at Newark. His brother, Warren F., was born at the old homestead Decent- ber 5, 1848, was also educated in the common schools, and is a farmer with his brother John W. December 16, 1874, he married Josette Moss, of Huntsburg, Ohio, and they have one son, George B., born July 2, 1879, who is also a student in the Newark A cad- emy. Our subjeet's father, James, was born in Marbletown July 29, 1819, was educated in the schools of his day, and was a farmer. He married Lorinda Dusenberry, of Phelps, Ontario county, and their children were: John W., as noted; Elizabeth, and Warren F. Mr. Marble died April 21, 1891, and his wife September 29, 1887. Mrs. John W. Marble's father, Harry HI, Robison, was born in 1792, the first white child born in the town of l'helps. He served in the war of 1812; was well educated, and taught school in this State, also in the South. He married twice, for his second wife Emily Durham, by whom he had three children : James, Harry, who died in infancy, and Mary P., who was born in Lima, Livingston county. He died in 1851, and his wife in 1-58. Mrs. Warren F. Marble's father, William C. Moss, was born in Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, in 1808. He married Maria J. Robison, of Phelps, and they had seven children : Charles. Elizabeth, Ford, Josette, as noted, Marvin. Almira, and Jessie M. He died in 1870, and his wife survives him.
Miller, Frederick C., was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, October 10, 1843, and came to the L'inted States when he was twenty-one locating in lyons. He is a farmer and milk dealer. March 20, 1867, he married Sophia Mierke, of Lyons, formerly of his native place, and they have three children: Charles, who married Julia Perock, of this town; James H., who is a farmer with his father ; and Ella L., who reside- at home. Mr. Miller's father, Christian, was born at the old home, July 2, 1905. He married Dora Colman, of Germany, and they had seven children : Louise, Mary, Loule, Jennie, William, Frederick C., as noted, and Charles. Mr. Miller died in 1873, and his wife in 1802. Mrs. F. C. Miller's father, Louis Mierke, was born in Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany, June 25. 1824. He married Minnie Helwie, of his native ple e. and they had eight children : Sophia, Louise, John, William, Henry, Charles, Plaza af! Lois. Mr. Mierke died January 6, 1888. The family came to the United States in 1862, locating in Lyons.
Vorberg, Rev. Robert T., was born in Milwaukee, Wis., April 19, 1868, When a child his father, who was a minister, received a call to preach in New York city. Mr. Vorberg was educated in the public schools of Rochester, five years in Wagner College in that city, and three years in the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Ary, l'hadella, l'a, from which la was graduated in 192, and began to preach in Newark, July 1, 1-92, in Ton's Lutheran church, May 17, 189, he married Mine
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Salome A. Ungerer, of Lyons. They have one child, a danghter, Magdalena E. Mr. Vorberg's father, George A. G., was born in Magdeburg, Germany, Angust 26, 1835. He was educated at the Magdeburg Gymnasium, studied theology at the Friedrichs- University at Halle-Wittenberg, also at the university of Tübingen, and completed his theological studies at the University of Erlangen in March, 1860. He then taught at a ladies' seminary in Bremen two years, In 1863 he was sent to the United States by the Berlin Missionary Society as a missionary, locating and preaching in many places, to the German Lutherans of Wisconsin. In February, 1867, he married Emily H., daughter of the Rev. George J. Kempe, of Rochester, N. Y. They had three sons, Robert T., George M., and Gustav S. He died at New York city, April 1, 1873. His widow re- moving to Rochester with her children, where she and her sons, George M. and Gustav S., now reside.
Pitts, Jesse G., was born in Chatham, Columbia county, June 7, 1823, and was edu- cated mostly in Kinderhook Academy. In 1845 he came to Geneva, Ontario county, where he engaged in saddlery and hardware business, including harnesses and trunks. until 1852. Hle then came to Newark, where he embarked in the general hardware business, in company with Eli Van Valkenburg, under the firm name of Pitts & Van Valkenburg. They sold ont in 1854, and Mr. Pitts then went on his farm north of the village, remaining two years, June 2, 1859, he married Helen R. Day, of Westfield, Mass., and they have one adopted daughter, Louise, now wife of Calvin P. 11. Vary, a banker in this place. Mr. Pitts has resided in New York seven years, also in Brooklyn seven years, during most of this time was in the wholesale petroleum business, returning to Newark about 1873, where he has conducted a boot and shoe business about twenty years, inelnding the manufacture of moccasins under letters patent, making about six or eight thousand dozen pairs annually. selling them to jobbers and the finding trade. Mr. Pitts' father, John W., was born at the old home in Columbia county in 1795, and came here at an early day. He married Polly L. Gifford, of his native town, and had six children. He died in 1874, and his wife in middle life. Mr. Pitts' father was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Spoor, Eliza D., was the daughter of Thomas W. Lamoreanx (see Harry R. Drake's personal sketeh for account of both of Mrs. Spoor's marriages). Her granddaughter's (Mrs. L. G. Baldwin) Isband is L. G. Baldwin ; his father, Amos Baldwin, was born in Pennsylvania, April 5, 1844, and married Eliza Whitbeck, by whom he had two children, Leonard G. and Ezra P. Mr. Baldwin enlisted in Company D, 50th Penn. Vols,, und was first sergeant of his company. He was taken prisoner May 12, 1864, and exchanged on May 5, 1865. This regiment participated in twenty-nine general engagements. Leonard G. Baldwin is captain of E. K. Burnham Camp No. 14, Sons of Veterans.
Tiffany, George W., was born at Austerlitz, Columbia county, February 18, 1844, and came to Ontario county with his parents when he was three months of age. He was educated in the public schools, and has always followed farming. He has also had charge of and settled several estates. Jannary 21, 1867, he married Theessa Coons, of the town of Arcadia, and they have one daughter, Iva F., who is a student. Mr. Tiffany's father, Lamont, was born at Austerlitz, Columbia county, in 1808, and married Sophia Clark, of that county. They had ten children : Charles L., Jane, Esther M., George W., as noted, Edward D., Loren R., Florence A., Sophia E., Millie E., and Anna B. IIe died in 1869, and his wife May 10, 1876. Mrs. Tiffany's father, Alexander Coons, was born at Red Hook, Dutchess county, July 4, 1812. He was edneated in the schools of his day, and always followed farming. April 10, 1848, he married Deborah E. Ackley, of Stockport, Columbia county, formerly of Sing Sing, Westchester county. They had two children, one who died in infancy, and Theessa, as above. The family came to Newark in November, 1849. He died in 1887, and his widow resides with her daughter, Mrs. Tiffany. Mr. Tiffany is a member of Newark Grange.
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