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W. J. GROVER, merchant and farmer, P. O. Newfield. A. M. Gro- ver, the father of this gentleman, is a native of Johnsburg, Warren Co., N. Y., born in 1814. In 1842 he married Sabra Dunkley, and in 1853 they moved to Potter county, Penn., locating on the farm now owned by Alva Carpenter, and two years later they purchased a portion of the farm now in possession of their son, W. J .; then, in 1885, they bought the T. A. Galutia farm, still owned by them, though they reside at Newfield. They are the parents of the following named children: Phebe L., Myron S. (deceased), W. J., Roxie M., Nettie A. and John J., the last two having been born in Potter county. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Grover having been among the early settlers of Potter county, and their means being then limited, they naturally had an active share in the hard- ships experienced in the pioneer lives of the settlers in the forests of Potter county. W. J. Grover, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Johns- burg, Warren county, N. Y., May 10, 1847, and came with his parents to Pot- ter county in 1853. At the time of the battle of Gettysburg, and during the excitement when there was an urgent call for militia troops, young Grover,
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against the will of his parents, enlisted in the militia, but through their influ- ence at the time he did not proceed to the front. In February, 1864, he again enlisted, this time at Coudersport, in the Forty-sixth Regiment P. V. I., under Lieut. Rees, but was prohibited from going with his regiment by his parents. However, on March 31, same year, by the assistance of his fellow-comrades, le succeeded in enlisting in Company H. Fifty-third Regiment P. V. I., in which he served his country till the close of the war, being discharged June 30, 1565. After the war he returned to the pursuits of peace, and settled down to a farming and commercial life. Mr. Grover has been three times married: First in 1875, to Eugenie L , daughter of Alva Carpenter, and she dying February 22, 1879, he married, in 1880, Mrs. Sarah A. Presho, daughter of Seth Conable; this wife died October 30, 1852, leaving one child, Willie M., and in 1883 our subject married Miss Nellie M., daughter of William and Irena Knapp, by which union there is also one child, Sarah Eugenie. Mr. Grover is a member of O. A. Lewis Post, No. 279, G. A. R .; in politics he is a Republican, has served his township as supervisor and overseer of the poor six years, and has held various township offices. He owns a farm of 400 acres, and is the founder of and the only merchant in Newfield, the manufacturing concerns of which place he was mainly instrumental in establishing.
ALBERT L. HERVEY, farmer. P. O. Ulysses, son of Joseph and Rhoda (Baker) Hervey, was born in Triangle, Broome Co., N. Y., in 1830. His father was a native of Berkshire. Mass .. and his mother of Lebanon, N. H. Each with their parents removed to Broome county, where they were married in 1824. They located at Triangle, where they remained until their removal to Bingham township, Potter Co., Penn .. in 1847, where the father died in 1876. The mother survives, and makes her home with her children. They had a family of four sons: Jerome (of Bingham township, on the old home- stead). Albert L., A. B. (of Canton, N. Y., and now president of the Univer- salıst Theological College, and J. E. (of Westfield, Penn. ). In August, 1862, Albert L. Hervey entered as a private in Company K. One Hundred and Forty- ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was wounded at Gettysburg. losing the thumb and forefinger of his lett hand, but remained in the field. In April, 1864. he was made second lieutenant, and was mustered out of the service in June, 1865. He then returned to his old home in Bingham township, and in 1874 purchased the farm he now owns in Ulysses township, erected fine farm buildings, and is now recognized as one of the able and successful agri- culturists of the county. He has also been largely engaged in raising stock, and has one of the best dairy farms of the county. He is a member of Lewis- ville Lodge, No. 556, F. & A. M., Ulysse; Chapter. No. 269. R. A. M., and of O. A. Lewis Post, No. 279, G. A. R. In politics he is a Republican. In 1871 he was elected treasurer of the county, serving one term of two years, and has been honored officially in various ways in his township. He was married in 1855 to Sarah E., daughter of Jason Spencer, of Triangle, N. Y., and to them have been born two children: William W. (now a merchant of Havana, N. Y. ) and Mark S. (now a book-keeper in W. K. Jones' Bank of Coudersport).
WILLIAM T. LANE. The family of Lanes, from which the subject of this sketch is sprung, can be traced back in direct line to one John Lane, who came to America from Derbyshire, England, more than two hundred years ago, and settled at Killingsworth, Middlesex Co., Conn. Azel Lane. the seventh in the genealogical line, and the father of William T. Lane, was born in Killingsworth, Conn., September 2, 1793. and removed to Jacksonville, Tompkins Co., N. Y., about 1818, and there married Mrs. Asenath (Thomp. son) Smith, widow of Capt. Enos Smith, who died in the war of 1812; they
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were the parents of one child, Willett B. Smith, who was born in Jackson- ville in 180S, and died in the Honeoye Valley in 1SS9. To the union of Azel and Asenath (Thompson) Smith Lane were born three children: Norman B., William Thompson, and a daughter who died in childhood. The father of these children had limited school advantages, but he made up in energy what he lacked in early education; he was a life- long student, and in his later years made the study of languages a speciality, and was enabled to speak several tongues, the knowledge of which he acquired by his own unaided efforts. He was a millwright by trade and a practical mechanic. He was also a man whose morals were stainless, and whose life was above reproach, and who, dying, left to his two sons the legacy of a name untarnished. He departed this life May 14, 1876, his wife having met her death several years before, the result of an accident.
William Thompson Lane was born in Chemung county, N. Y .. near New Town (now Elmira), March 27, 1825. He came to the Honeoye Valley, Potter Co .. Penn., about 1845. in company with his father and older brother Norman, now of Brockwayville, Jefferson Co., Penn. In June, 1846, he married Miss Sarah J. Mead, of Greenwood, N. Y .. and to this union were born seven chil- dren, named as follows: Homer K. (druggist, Lewisville, Penn.), Mary S. (wife of E. S. Remington), Frances A. (wife of Dr. L. D. Rockwell, Union City, Penn.), George H. (deceased September 3, 1889). Helen A. (wife of F. S. Hover, Honeoye, Penn.), Wilbur F. and Charles A. (telegraph operator, Pos- tal Line, Alma, N. Y.). After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lane they re- mained upon the farm which the husband had purchased upon coming to Potter county, and where he was engaged in lumbering and farming until the autumn of 1868, when they removed to Elk county, where Mr. Lane engaged more extensively in lumbering, for which business he possessed a particular aptitude. In this line he was successful, and, after a few years spent here, he re- turned to the farm, erected a fine, large house, and proceeded to improve and beautify the home place. In 1878 Mr. Lane was nominated by the Repub- lican party for representative to the State legislature, but was defeated by the combined vote of the Democrat and Greenback parties. Mr. Lane is one of the few men who lives up to his conceptions of right, even though they con- flict with his interest and convenience. He has always helped in every good word and work, and few men are held in higher esteem by those to whom he is thoroughly known. The church at Honeoye. Potter county. now being erected, owes much to his enterprise and enthusiasm. He is an ardent tem- perance man, and in this, as in any matter of conviction, never hesitates to speak and work for the right. This sketch would not be complete without a few words in regard to the wife of his youth, who has borne with him the bur- dens and heat of the day. and who has, in the highest sense of the word. been a helpmate unto him. Few women have so thoroughly fulfilled their mission as a wife and mother as she of whom we write. No labor was ever too great. no sacrifice too much for her to make. in order to give each child every advan- tage within her power. Nor has her kindness and self-sacrificing spirit been confined to her own home circle, no one in her vicinity ever needing aught within her power to give. Verily, she has walked the long pathway of her pilgrimage with feet shod with the sandals of the peace of God. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lane have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years.
HOMER K. LANE, druggist. Lewisville, was born in the town of Sharon, Potter Co., Penn., June 7. 1847. a son of William T. and Sarah J. (Mead) Lane. He was given the advantages of a good common-school education, fin-
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ishing at an academy in Richburg, Allegany Co., N. Y. He was employed by his father, in Sharon, in the lumbering business until August, 1867, when both went to Blue Rock, Elk Co., Penn., where they were engaged in the same business until 1874, when the father returned to Sharon, where he still resides. Homer K., however, went to Brockwayville, Jefferson county, where he was engaged in general merchandising with Wellman Bros., until the fall of 1875, when he went to Union City, Erie county, where he purchased a drug store from R. W. Hazelton, and remained there until the fall of 1878, when he sold out to R. W. Wilkins, and in the spring of 1879 he came to Lewisville and bought a small stock of drugs from C. E. Hooley, and also a stock from Chappel Bros., renting the store from the latter firm. About 1885, his trade having been a thriving one, he erected the store building which he now occupies at Lewis- ville, and in which he keeps a large and well selected stock of drugs and medi- cines, fine perfumes, toilet articles, fancy goods, school 'and miscellaneous books, wall-paper and ceiling decorations, and is doing a very successful trade. September 27, 1869, Mr. Lane married Miss Hettie E. Huhn, of Brockway- ville, Jefferson county, who bore him one son, August 3, 1870. November 21. 1872, Mrs. Lane died of consumption, and ten weeks later the son was carried away by lung trouble complicated with other disorders. December 22, 1875, Mr. Lane chose a second bride, Miss Carrie J. Eaton, of Andover, N. Y., and this union was blessed, March 13, 1880, by the birth of a daughter, Edith E. Mr. and Mrs. Lane are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Lane is a mem- ber of Lodge, No. 556, F. & A. M., and Ulysses Chapter, No. 269, R. A. M. SETH LEWIS, attorney at law, Lewisville, a son of William and Ruth A.
(Bierce) Lewis, was born at Upper Lisle, Broome Co., N. Y., January 27, 1829. His parents came to Potter county, Penn., February 14, 1839, and located in what is now Lewisville. William Lewis made farming his business, which he continued until his death, September 26, 1866, his widow surviving until February 18, 1869. They reared a family of nine children: Crayton, Seth Angeline, Louisa, Anna, Perry, Martha, Thomas, Seth and Burton. Lewis came to Potter county with his parents, remaining with them until 1850. The following six years he devoted to agriculture, and also attended Alfred University. He then taught school two years, and in 1860 was elected county superintendent of schools, serving one term. In 1863 he enlisted in Company K, Thirty-seventh Pennsylvania Militia, and September 23 was mustered into Company A, Eighth United States Colored Troops, as second lieutenant. He was wounded in the left thigh at the battle of Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864, and October 13, 1864, was wounded in the left hand near Richmond, Va. November 28, 1864, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and February 8. 1865, was made captain of Company C. He was present at the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, and, on May 31, 1865, left Fortress Mon- roe for Texas, reaching Ringgold barracks July 31, when he returned to Brownsville, and was mustered out November 10, but was retained and paid until December 13, 1865. After his return home he studied law with Judge A. G. Olmsted, and was admited to the bar in 1867. He first practiced at Union, West Va., but returned to Ulysses, where he is still engaged in the prac- tice of his chosen profession. He was also editor of the Ulysses Sentinel from September, 1882, to January, 1888. He was married, January 30, 1851, to Sarah E., daughter of Adna A. and Rodentha Gridley. Their children were Charles H. (deceased), Mary Eloise (Mrs. George A. Farnsworth), Jessie Flor- ence (who graduated from the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y., June 20, 1889, ) and Sarah Rodentha (deceased). Mr. Lewis is a charter mem- ber of Lewisville Lodge, No. 556, F. & A. M., and has been its secretary since
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its organization. He is also a member of Ulysses Chapter, No. 269, R. A. M., and of O. A. Lewis Post, No. 279, G. A. R. He is an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and a radical tariff man. He was elected dis- triet attorney in 1869, and served four years. He was either a teacher, school director or superintendent from the age of twenty years to the beginning of the war, and subsequently, until the past twelve years, was school director.
CRAYTON LEWIS, the oldest son of William and Ruth A. Lewis, was born at Upper Lisle, Broome Co., N. Y., February 11, 1813. He was mar- ried March 3, 1835, to Caroline Hinman, and very soon after moved to Potter county, Penn. He settled on a piece of wild land now within the limits of the borough of Lewisville, and in a few years made it one of the finest farms in the vicinity. He had but a limited education, but he was an industrious reader, had a very retentive memory, and he soon became one of the most intelligent men of the locality. He was very benevolent, with tender sympa- thies and a keen sense of justice, and he early became an Abolitionist, but when the Republican party was formed, he joined it and remained through life a member. He early espoused the cause of temperance, and as early as 1843 he circulated a pledge and procured numerous signatures, starting a movement which resulted in the organization of Ulysses Division of the Sons of Temper- ance, in 1849, and of Lewisville Lodge of Good Templars, a few years later, of both of which organizations he was an active and honored member. To his labors, more than to the labors of any other man, is due the strong temperance sentiment which prevails in the northeastern part of Potter, and which has made Lewisville borough the stronghold of prohibition, this election district having given at the election June 18, 1889, 125 votes for the amendment and only seven votes against it. In August, 1857, Mr. Lewis was thrown from a buggy and received an injury in his head, from which he never fully recov- ered, and January 13, 1870, he was killed by falling in his barn. He reared five children, all of whom are living: Emily, now Mrs. T. E. Gridley, of Bing- ham, Penn. ; John, living on the old homestead with his mother; Martin, a farmer of Ulysses, Penn .; Fayette, a surveyor and lumberman at Genesee Forks, Penn., and Carlos A., a merchant of Lewisville.
C. A. LEWIS, merchant, Lewisville, son of Crayton and Caroline (Hin- man) Lewis, was born in Ulysses township, Potter Co., Penn., in 1850. His parents came from Broome county, N. Y., and were among the pioneers of Ulysses township, being the third family to settle there, locating on the farm now owned by his mother. Their nearest mill at that time was at Jersey Shore, a distance of sixty-five miles, and Crayton Lewis on one of his trips thither camped out with a yoke of oxen. Having broken his ox yoke when beyond the reach of any assistance, and having no tools except an ax, with this he cut a beech stick of the proper length, and, as there had to be open- · ings made for the bows, he split it and bound it with withes, and went on his way. At one time his family and the neighbors were short of provisions, but he had a small patch of ground sown to buckwheat, which he worked during the day, chopping in the woods by moonlight. One day when they had not a mouthful of food in the house, except milk to drink, and were eagerly await- ing the ripening of the buckwheat and potatoes, as his wife stood at the door watching him at work, an idea, all at once, occurred to her. Selecting some buckwheat from the unripe crop, she picked a lot of it, dried it by the fire- place, pounded and sifted it, and having fully prepared it, blew the horn, as usual, for dinner. On her husband's coming to the house, he was rejoiced and surprised to find a meal prepared from his own crop. This old pioneer unfort- unately met with an accident, which resulted fatally; his widow still lives on
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the old homestead. Their children were Emily (Mrs. Thomas Gridley), John, Martin, Fayette and C. A. The last named was reared in his native township, and during his youth was variously employed, but in 1873, locating at Lewis- ville, he here embarked in general mercantile business. He was married April 23, 1874, to Kate Cushing, and they have two children: Irving C. and Archie C. Mr. Lewis is a member of Lewisville Lodge, No. 556, F. & A. M. In politics he is a Republican, and has served as school director, auditor. and in minor offices of trust.
CORNELIUS H. LOUCKS, P. O. Ulysses, son of Cornelius and Naomi Loueks, was born in Cortland county, N. Y., in 1831. His parents came to Hector Township, Potter Co., Penn., and located on the farm now owned by Clarence Stiles, where the father was a lumberman and farmer, and where they both died. Their children were Mary J. (Mrs. Russel Potter, of Skaneateles, N. Y.), Cornelius H., Mehitabel (deceased), Betsy (deceased). Steven L. (who enlisted and died in the army, aged twenty-six years) and William J. Cor- nelius H. Loucks remained with his parents until 1853, when he married Arty C. Calkins, and located on the farm adjoining the old homestead, where they remained several years. In 1864 he enlisted in Company G, Fifty-third Penn- sylvania Volunteers, and on Friday, March 31, 1865, in battle in front of Petersburg, Va., he received a wound in the left shoulder joint which necessi- tated the amputation of his arm. He was discharged June 12, 1865, and returned to his old home, subsequently removing to Lewisville, where he now lives, His wife died, leaving four children: Frank (since deceased), Darius, James and John, and March 26, 1883, he married Mrs. Louisa V. Stout, daughter of James J. Stewart. Mrs. Loucks is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Loucks is a member of O. A. Lewis Post, No. 279, G. A. R; in politics he is a Republican, has been supervisor of Hector town- ship, and has held various offices in his township.
GEORGE MERRILL, contractor and builder, Lewisville, son of Erastus and Elizabeth (Ayer) Merrill, was born in Ulysses Township, Potter Co., Penn., in 1838. His parents were natives of Vermont, and each, with parents removed to Broome county, N. Y., where they married, and in February, 1838, located in Ulysses township, Potter county, where the father of our subject was a farmer until his decease in 1884. The mother still has her residence on the old homestead with her daughter, Mrs. Caleb Gridley. Their children were Warren (who died when nineteen years of age), Obediah, Harriet (deceased), George Lyman, Esther (Mrs. Gridley) and Henry (deceased). George was married in 1864 to Amelia Kidney, of Wyoming county, after which he located in Lewisville, where he is a contractor and builder. Their children were Henry (who died when eleven years of age), Herbert and Maud. Mrs. Merrill is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Merrill affiliates with the Prohibition party, having formerly been identified with the Republican party. He has held various township offices.
O. A. NELSON, merchant, Lewisville, son of Henry and Speedy (Clark) Nelson, was born in 1845, near Colesburg, on the place now owned by F. A. Nelson, in Allegheny township, Potter Co., Penn. He made his home with his parents until 1864, when he traveled for several years, and engaged in various occupations. In 1875 he married Ellen M., daughter of A. F. and Juliette (Grove) Raymond, and located at Gold, on her father's farm, where they remained a year. He then worked at his trade (carpenter and joiner), and was also in the stock business, until his removal to Ceres, where he embarked in the mercantile business. Later he moved to Lymansville, where he was engaged in selling wagons, buggies and harness, afterward locating
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for a time in Austin. In November, 1897, he moved to Lewisville, where he is engaged in the clothing and gents' furnishing goods business, the firm name being Nelson & Presho. In politics Mr. Nelson is a Democrat.
MRS. KATE STEARNS PARKER, P. O. Ulysses, daughter of Anson S. and Betsy (Blackman) Burt (now deceased), was born in Cortland county, N. Y., in 1829. Her maternal grandfather, James Blackman, was a native of Pitts- field, Mass., where he married Elizabeth Andrews, and came to Potter county, Penn., in 1834, locating in Ulysses township, where they lived the rest of their lives. Their children were Betsy, Sally, Anson, Dennis and Laura (the late Mrs. Edmund Alvord). Anson S. Burt was a native of Pittsfield, Mass., where he married, and in the spring of 1832 located in Ulysses township, Potter county, about a mile east of the village, where he bought a hundred- acre farm, which at that time was wild land, he being obliged to cut his own roads. His children were Laura (deceased), Sally (Mrs. William Canfield, of Willett, Cortland Co., N. Y. ), James T., William F., Betsy (the late Mrs. Charles Monroe), T. W., and Kate S .. who married Thomas Parker in 1846, a prosperous farmer of Ulysses township. Mr. Parker died July 26, 1883.
W. B. PERKINS, farmer. P. O. Newfield, son of William M. and Marissa M. (Dean) Perkins, was born August 28, 1861, in Ulysses township, Potter Co., Penn., on the farm he now owns. His father was a native of Andover, Alle. gany Co., N. Y., and his mother of Potter county, Penn. After their mar- riage they located at Independence, Allegany Co., N. Y .. but sold and re- moved in the spring of 1850 to the farm now owned by W. B .; in the spring of 1886 his father removed to Sweden township. Mrs. Perkins died in the spring of 1862, leaving three children: Luther L .. Manson B. and W. B. Mr. Perkins afterward married Fannie Gloss, their children being Arthur and Rosa. W. B. made his home with his parents until 1877, when he went to Deerfield, Tioga county. Determined to secure an education, he worked for $13 per month, and when his father learned of his laudable efforts in that direction, he cheerfully loaned him $800, which enabled him to complete his education at the State Normal School at Lock Haven, and from which he graduated in 1883. While at the State Normal School he joined the Bap- tist Church, and, becoming interested in Sabbath-school work, was made its superintendent, and at the county convention, or pic-nic, each superintendent was supposed and expected to deliver a speech; his was so elaborate, and so far beyond what had been expected, that he soon received urgent invitations to attend their theological seminary, at Lewisburg, Union Co .. Penn., and after repeated solicitation accepted, remaining a year, when a change in his religious views induced him to sever his association with that institution. After leaving school he located on the old homestead, and engaged in business as a farmer and dairyman. He continued the dairy until the close of the summer of 1888, when he sold his cows and invested the proceeds in horses. Mr. Perkins mar- ried Mary A. Bigony, and they have a family of four children: Guy S., Ma- rissa D., Sally B. and Samuel B. Mr. Perkins is a member of Lewisville Lodge, No. 556, F. & A. M., and Ulysses Chapter, No. 269, R. A. M. He is a Democrat in politics, and has held various official positions in the township.
A. F. RAYMOND, merchant and farmer, P. O. Gold, was born in Tomp- kins county, N. Y., November 3, 1825. In 1836 his parents moved to Potter county, Penn., and settled in Allegheny township, where his father bought a tract of wild land. He remained at home until after his marriage, and then bought a part of the old homestead, where he has since lived. He has a good home, and attends to the cultivation of his farm, at the same time carrying on a general merchandise business in Gold. He was married in 1850 to Miss Juliet
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Grover of Bingham township and they have five children: Frank A., of Gold; Ellen, wife of Oscar Nelson, of Ulysses; Fred H., of Ceres; Kate L., wife of Wilton Elliott, and Matilda. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond are members of the Bap- tist Church. He is a member of Gold Lodge, No. 658, E. A. U.
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