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A HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 Steuben County, New York 
 
 AND ITS PKOPLK 
 
 BY 
 IRVIN W. NEAR 
 
 ILLUSTRATED 
 
 VOL. II 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO. 
 
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George B. Bradley, LL. D. — Among the many men of emi- 
 nence and influence that have honored the bar of Steuben eountj 
 is the Hon. George B. Bradley, who was actively engaged in the 
 practice of his profession in Corning, his present home, for upwards 
 of half a century. A man of broad and comprehensive knowledge, 
 his professional zeal and untiring industry made him a power upon 
 the bench, and his decisions were seldom reversed. After a long 
 and brilliant career he is now spending the closing years of his 
 useful life free from business cares, enjoying a well merited leisure. 
 He was born February 5, 1825, in Chenango county. New York, 
 where his parents were early settlers. 
 
 Having as a young man become proficient in the study of law 
 Mr. Bradley was admitted to the bar at Oswego, New York, in 1848, 
 and immediately began the practice of his profession in Addison, 
 remaining there four years. Locating in Corning in 1833 he has 
 since been an esteemed and honored resident of this city and one of 
 its leading attorneys. His ability and skill have met with a wide 
 recognition, and several years ago the University of Eochester con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of LL. D. 
 
 He has been active in many lines, and in 1872 was a member 
 of the Constitutional Commission for two terms. From 1873 until 
 1877 he was a member of the state senate, and in 1883 he was 
 elected Justice of the Supreme Court, being exceptionally well 
 equipped for a place upon the bench. For four years, from 1888 
 until 1892, Judge Bradley was a member of the Court of Appeals, 
 second division of the state. He was one of the organizers of the 
 First National Bank of Corning and is now serving as its vice-presi- 
 dent. A sound Democrat in politics the Judge has ever been an 
 active worker in the interests of his party. 
 
 William H. Prangen.— The present incumbent of the import- 
 ant office of postmaster of Homell, New York, is a native of New 
 York city, bom November 1, 1852. His father, Diedrich Prangen, 
 was born in Germany and came to the United States as a young 
 man, landing at New York. He spent some time in New York 
 in the grocery business and located in Homell about 1854, estab- 
 lishing himself in the same business. He died there at the age of 
 sixty-three years. He married Bthelind Wheeler, a native of 
 New York. They were married at Newburgh, New York, and lived 
 at JNew York city. Mrs. Prangen died at the age of thirty-eight 
 
506 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 
 
 years. They were parents of eleven children, of whom William H. 
 was the oldest and was two years of age when the family located 
 
 at Hornell. ^^ „ j \, >,„ 
 
 William H. Prangen was educated at Hornell and when ne 
 reached manhood became much interested in public affairs He has 
 held various offices in the city and county and received the ap- 
 pointment to the office of postmaster in January, 1908, under tne 
 administration of President Roosevelt. He has been successtul in 
 life through his own efforts and has been self-supporting since 
 early years. When he was eighteen years of age he was made 
 yardmaster at Hornell for the Erie Railroad and held this position 
 fifteen years. He afterward embarked in business m other lines 
 and has for some time been proprietor of the City Steam Laundry 
 Company. He is interested in various enterprises and is engaged 
 in wholesale and retail dealing in ice. Mr. Prangen is a man of 
 remarkable business ability and has always shown that careful 
 attention to detail that is so essential to successful business. He is 
 well known and popular in the county and is a stanch supporter of 
 the Republican party. He is a member of the Masons in all its 
 degrees and also of the Elks. Religiously he is a member of the 
 Episcopal church. 
 
 Benton McConnell.— One of the most enterprising business 
 men of Hornellsville, New York, is Benton McConnell, president 
 of the McConnell Manufacturing Company, which has been doing 
 a thriving business for over forty years, though it has been incor- 
 porated but half that time. The business was established and 
 built up by Mr. McConnell, who has always been at the head of 
 the concern. He was born in Howard, Steuben county, New York, 
 November 28, 1832, and received his education in the common 
 schools. His father, Asa McConnell, was born in Orange county, 
 New York, and located in Steuben county at the age of seven 
 years, being brought here by his parents in 1808. Asa was a son of 
 Charles McConnell, also a. native of Orange , county, who became 
 one of the pioneers of Steuben county and located on a farm m 
 the vicinity of Howard about 1808. Asa McConnell grew up m 
 Steuben county and there received his education. He was there 
 married to Elizabeth Jones, who was born in that county, and they 
 located on a farm near his old home. Here he died at the age 
 of eighty-six and one-half years and she at the age of eighty-four. 
 They reared a family of seven children, four daughters and three 
 sons, and three are living at this writing. Jemima is a resident 
 of Hornellsville and Philo F. lives in London, England. 
 
 Benton McConnell is the oldest of the surviving family. At 
 the age of eighteen years he began working for his uncle as clerk 
 in a general store at Howard, and five years later he went west, 
 locating at Madison, Wisconsin. In 1861 he enlisted as regimental 
 (iiiartormaster of the Tenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In 
 1863 he was appointed paymaster in the volunteer service and 
 remained in that capacity until the fall of 1865, having served 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 607 
 
 more than four years. At the close of the war Mr. McConnell 
 engaged in the lumber business near Norfolk, Virginia, remaining 
 there until the spring of 1868, at which time he returned to 
 Steuben county and located at Hornellsville. He purchased prop- 
 erty and engaged in manufacturing sashes, doors and blinds. In 
 January, 1891, the company was incorporated under the name of 
 the McConnell Manufacturing Company. He has been successful 
 since embarking in the enterprise to a degree that is very gratify- 
 ing. Besides being a business man of energy and acumen he is 
 identified with the best interests of his community and is a repre- 
 sentative citizen. 
 
 Mr. McConnell was married in 1864 to Harriet Hopkins, of 
 Branchport, Yates county, New York, and they became the parents 
 of one daug'hter, Anna C, who married Shirley E. Brown, a prom- 
 inent lawyer of Hornellsville. 
 
 Thomas Niles Smith.— The Smith family has been prominent 
 in Steuben county. New York, for several generations, and the 
 members of this family have contributed their share toward the 
 development of this section of the state. Thomas Niles Smith, 
 now a farmer living near Kanona in Bath township, a native of 
 the county, born at Pulteney, August 6, 1844, son of Philip T. 
 and Anner (Dean) Smith. Philip was a son of |homas and 
 grandson of John Smith. John Smith was a Revolutionary soldier, 
 from Rhode Island, and his descendant, Thomas N. Smith, still 
 has the musket he carried in the war. His son, Thomas Smith, 
 was born in Putnam county. New York, and followed masonry 
 contracting most of his life. He married Hillech Smith of Otsego 
 county, and they continued to live in Putnam county several years 
 after their marriage, but finally moved to Steuben county in 1838, 
 where their last days were spent. He died in 1852, at the age of 
 seventy-two years, and his widow died in 1861, at tlie age of 
 eighty-one. 
 
 Philip T. Smith was born in Putnam county. New York, 
 November 21, 1801, and died in Steuben county, May 1, 1886. He 
 took up the masonry contracting business with his father and also 
 followed farming. About 1839 he and his father came to Steuben 
 county and the rest of the family followed later. They engaged in 
 farming in that county, and on account of his health Philip Smith 
 gave up contract work and devoted himself to his farm. He was 
 a good workman and an enterprising business man. He was a 
 member of the Baptist church but not active in political affairs. 
 His widow survived until June 23, 1895. 
 
 The education of Thomas Niles Smith was received in the 
 public schools of Steuben county and when about twenty years of 
 age he began farming with his father. A few years later he bought 
 110 acres where he now lives and he has added to his land until 
 he now has 240 acres of fine farming land. He has made most of 
 the improvements himself and is an industrious, progressive farmer. 
 He has erected substantial buildings and carries on his work in an 
 
508 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 able manner. He is engaged chiefly in general farming, but makes 
 a specialty of stock, keeping Short-horn cattle and Percheron horses. 
 He believes in the wisdom of keeping high-grade stock and in bring- 
 ing it into the county is doing a good turn to the community. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Smith married Miss May Milliman, who was born 
 in the town of Fremont, Steuben county, daughter of John and 
 Ada (Bldridge) Milliman, the father a farmer. Mrs. Smith died 
 July 28, 1906, leaving children as follows : Bemice M., bom De- 
 cember 12, 1897 ; Ruth, born January 22, 1899 ; and Naomi Doro- 
 thy, born March 4, 1902. Mr. Smith belongs to the Blue Lodge 
 of Masons at Bath. He is a prominent Democrat and an active 
 worker in the interests of the party. He was candidate for the 
 office of county treasurer in the year 1894 and served three years 
 as treasurer of the Steuben County Agricultural Society, of which 
 he was also vice president four years. Mr. Smith is well known 
 through his community, where he is held in the highest esteem, not 
 only on account of his success as a farmer, but because of his many 
 good qualities of mind and heart. His wife also had many friends 
 and was a woman of good deeds and high character, interested in 
 every worthy cause. The family attend the Baptist church at 
 Bath. 
 
 Amort Houghton, Jr. — A publication of this kind exercises 
 its most important function when it pays tribute to the life and 
 labors of a distinguished citizen. Amory Houghton, Jr., rose to 
 prominence and prosperity through his own well directed efforts, 
 stood exponent of the most loyal citizenship, and the memory of his 
 noble personality will always be cherished and venerated in the city 
 of Coming, to whose civic and commercial prestige he contributed 
 in most generous measure. Measured by its beneficence, its recti- 
 tude, its productiveness, its unconscious altruism and its material 
 success, the life of the late Amory Houghton, Jr., counted for much, 
 and it is not the name alone but the man himself that it is hoped 
 this brief article may reveal, and that a tribute of honor may be 
 perpetuated where honor is well due. 
 
 Amory Houghton, Jr., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
 on the 20th of October, 1837, and his death occurred on the 5th of 
 November, 1909. He was the eldest son of Amory and Sophronia 
 (Oakes) Houghton, both representatives of sterling families founded 
 in New England in the Colonial era of our national history. The 
 original progenitors of the Houghton family in America settled in 
 Bolton, Massachusetts. Prom 1848 to 1851 the subject of this 
 memoir attended the boarding school conducted by Edward Hall, at 
 Ellington, Connecticut. Later he continued his studies in the high 
 school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in which he was graduated as 
 a member of the class of 1854. In 1855 he began his business 
 career, concerning the salient points in which no better record can, 
 ]jerhaps, be given than the following statements from the Corning 
 Daily Journal of Saturday, November 6, 1909, the day following 
 his death : 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 511 
 
 "After spending three years in the service of Lawson Valentine, 
 in the varnish, paint and oil business in Boston, Massachusetts, he 
 became connected with the Union Glass Company, which his father 
 had founded in 1851 at Somerville, Massachusetts. For thirteen 
 years the father manufactured the finer quality of flint and colored 
 glassware at Somerville, when he removed, in 1864, to Brooklyn, 
 New York, where he purchased the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. 
 At Brooklyn, Amory Houghton, Jr., was associated with his father 
 in the glass business and was a stockholder in the incorporated com- 
 pany. In 1868 the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works were induced to 
 remove to Corning, New York, largely through the representation 
 of Blias B. Hungerford, of Corning, that coal and wood to operate 
 the works would here be cheaper than in Brooklyn. The works were 
 established here as the Corning Flint Glass Company, the village 
 of Corning taking, through individuals, fifty thousand dollars of 
 stock, while the company, comprising Amory Houghton, Sr., Josiah 
 Oakes, George P. Bradford and Amory Houghton, Jr., took seventy- 
 five thousand dollars in stock and brought here from Brooklyn about 
 one hundred regular and skilled employes. 
 
 "As originally established in Corning the works of the Corning 
 Flint Glass Company covered about two acres and consisted of two 
 furnaces. For at least three years after its establishment the com- 
 pany conducted its operations at a heavy loss, the coal used not being 
 suited to its purpose, and the factory being brought into direct com- 
 petition with the larger and better equipped Pittsburg factories. In 
 1871 disaster came and the business was sold to Nathan Cushing, 
 of Boston, who placed in charge of it as manager Amory Houghton, 
 Jr. With an apparently gloomy future for the business, Mr. Hough- 
 ton began the management on slender capital, being often, as he ad- 
 mitted, hard put to pay the help ; but by running economically and 
 by devising and introducing specialties, the business at the end of 
 a year showed a small profit. In 1872 the new manager, then in 
 his thirty-fifth year, bought the establishment on credit, and for 
 three years thereafter he was the sole proprietor, working with 
 characteristic determination to make the business pay. The result 
 of his energy was soon apparent. In 1875 the Coming Glass Works 
 was incorporated with a capital of fifty thousand dollars and with 
 the following officers: Amory Houghton, Jr., president and treas- 
 urer; his brother, Charles F. Houghton, vice-president; and 
 Henry P. Sinclaire, Sr., secretary. From the time of such in- 
 corporation until his death Amory Houghton, Jr., continued as 
 head of the concern and one of its largest stockholders. In re- 
 cent years he had been ably assisted in the conduct of the business 
 by his two sons, Alanson B. and Arthur A. Houghton, and William 
 Sinclaire, younger son of the late Henry P. Sinclaire. 
 
 "Under the management and presidency of Amory Houghton, 
 Jr., the Corning Glass Works grew and thrived, the plant developing 
 year by year and frequent additions being made, until now it is one 
 of the largest glass-manufacturing establishments to be found any- 
 
513 IIISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 where. As now constituted the glass works covers a number of acres 
 and gives employment, in busy times, to more than a thousand 
 persons. It has been the most potent factor in the growth and 
 prosperity of Corning. Amory Houghton, Jr., was ever a student. 
 As a boy in his father's factory in Somerville, Massachusetts, he de- 
 voted his attention to experiments in the composition and manufac- 
 ture of the various kinds of glass, and in this connection he had a 
 laboratory in which to pursue his studies and experimental work. 
 He was determined to know all about glass, and in time there was 
 no detail of the business in which he was not an adept. In the art 
 of mixing the ingredients which produced the most beautiful ware 
 he became recognized as one without a peer in the United States. 
 He had a firm grasp of principles and he perfected his knowledge of 
 glass jnanufacturing by tireless research and patient investigation. 
 ;Mr. Houghton was a man of great energy and business sagacity. 
 He was not easily discouraged. He was not impulsive, but calm 
 and deliberative, thinking out a project before taking it up, care- 
 fully weighing it in its various phases and then determining upon 
 the course to be pursued. Once that was settled, he went straight 
 forward to the end, his indomitable will pushing aside all obstacles." 
 
 A number of years prior to the death of Mr. Houghton the 
 Hon. Harlo Hakes, of Hornellsville, gave the following estimate 
 of his sterling characteristics as a citizen and business man, and the 
 statements are well worthy of reproduction in this memoir: '"In 
 some respects Amory Houghton, Jr., is the fair reminder of his 
 father, every dominant trait, firin determination of character, having 
 been transmitted from sire to son, and its best results are seen in 
 the present prosperous condition of the Corning Glass Works. We 
 pay no fulsome compliment to our subject when we say that the suc- 
 cessful re-establishment of the glass works upon a secure and profit- 
 able basis was due to his personal effort, energy and determination. 
 Business men knew him to be straightforward and honest, and al- 
 though his resources in his early business career in Corning were 
 known to be limited, the business men gave him both, credit and 
 cash without asking security." 
 
 With the passing of years the earnest efforts of Mr. Houghton 
 found generous and worthy fruition in large and substantial suc- 
 cess, nbt only in connection with his glass-manufacturing operations 
 but also through judicious investments in coal and other properties. 
 Few men have shown a higher sense of stewardship, and success 
 meant to him not self-aggrandizement and narrowness of view but 
 rather greater opportunity for doing good as one of the world's 
 army of productive workers. It is gratifying to be able to enter at 
 this juncture further quotation from the memorial appearing in the 
 Corning Daily Journal at the time of his death, for the words of 
 appreciation indicate the consensus of popular opinion in the city 
 where he was best known and where his interests were long cen- 
 tered : "Increased resources were to him only a means for increased 
 usefulness. For years he had been the foremost contributor in Corn- 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 513 
 
 ing to worthy causes. Xo good cause appealed to him in vain. Eyerv 
 measiire tending to advance the interests of Corning found in him 
 a generous supporter. To enlist his support of a public project was 
 to ensure its success. He was notable for his considerate treatment 
 of employes. He paid good wages and expected good service, but 
 he was never domineering or harsh. He listened patiently to com- 
 plaints; he even took time to investigate in small matters, so that 
 no injustice might be done. To those employes suffering from dis- 
 ability on account of age or illness he was especially kind and gener- 
 ous, the only condition imposed being silence as to the amount of 
 the donation or pension and also as to the name of the donor. Mr. 
 Houghton took pleasure in making satisfactory and noble use of 
 the means which he had accumulated by the strength of his brain, 
 the industry of his hands and the steady clearness of his vision. He 
 was a true and stanch friend of those whom he liked or whose good 
 opinion he valued. For many years the most influential citizen of 
 Corning, he never was arrogant, demonstrative or ostentatious in the 
 display of his power or his resources, but to the end of his da)'s he 
 was modest, simple and direct, like all great men. He was a rugged 
 type of man, with an inflexible standard of integrity. In business 
 as in private life he hewed to an unswerving line of honor and hon- 
 esty and uprightness." 
 
 That "man lives not to himself alone" is an assurance that is 
 amply verified in all the relations of life, but its pertinence is most 
 patent in those instances where persons have so employed their tal- 
 ents, so improved their opportunities and so marshaled their forces 
 as to gain prestige that transcends mere local limitations and finds 
 its angle of influence ever broadening in beneficence and human 
 helpfulness. There is both lesson and incentive in such a life as 
 that of Amory Houghton, Jr., and even the brief outline here of- 
 fered can but shadow forth the great strength and great nobility 
 of the man. He contributed in magnificent measure to the com- 
 mercial and civic advancement of Corning and in his death the city 
 and state suffered an irreparable loss. He was long a valued mem- 
 ber of the local board of education, and of the same was president 
 from 1892 until the time of his demise. Concerning his services in 
 this capacity the following statements have been made: "Although 
 engrossed in business affairs he was no figurehead on the board of 
 education but was its mainspring and directing genius, giving much 
 time and thought to the problems of school growth and being a 
 steady advocate of progress in school affairs. His long and valu- 
 able services on the board of education attest his public spirit and 
 his deep interest in the cause of education." 
 
 Though he accorded an unswerving allegiance to the Republican 
 party and showed a broad-minded interest in public affairs, ilr. 
 Houghton had no ambition for political office, and his only devia- 
 tion from his fixed rule was made in 1880, when he consented to 
 permit the use of his name as presidential elector on the ticket of 
 his party. During almost the entire period of his residence in 
 Corning Jfr. Houghton was a regular attendant at Christ church. 
 
514 HLSTOEY OF STEUBEN COUKTY 
 
 Protestant Episcopal, of whose vestry he was a valued member from 
 1875 until the time of his death. The present beautiful edifice of 
 Christ church stands in a large degree due to his productive interest 
 and marked generosity. 
 
 Mr. Houghton's name is graven deeply and with firm distinc- 
 tion on the history of Corning, where his memory will long be re- 
 vered and honored for the good he did and the worthy life he lived. 
 He was a commanding figure in connection with the glass-manufac- 
 turing industry in the United States, and, as has been well said, he 
 made the name of Coming widely known to the commercial world, 
 and his signal infiuence and ability were felt and recognized in many 
 lines outside of the glass trade. The city of Coming on his death 
 lost a public-spirited and respected resident who, as the head of a 
 great industry, was long the largest individual employer of labor in 
 this city and county. The death of one thus conspicuously identified 
 with the growth and actively interested in the welfare of the com- 
 munity must be regarded as a public loss of no ordinary magnitude. 
 
 On the 19th of June, 1860, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
 Houghton to Ellen Anne Bigelow, daughter of Alanson Bigelow, of 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mrs. Houghton survives her honored 
 husband, and concerning their children the following brief data are 
 entered: Elizabeth Bigelow Houghton died at the age of one yearj 
 Alanson Bigelow Houghton is president of the Corning Glass Works 
 and Arthur Amory Houghton is vice-president of the same; Annie 
 Bangs Houghton remains with her widowed mother; and Clara 
 i label is the wife of Hon. William J. Tully, of New York. 
 
 John D. Tatloe is numbered among the representative busi- 
 ness men and highly esteemed citizens of Steuben county and for 
 the past fifteen years he has devoted his attention to real-estate 
 business and to dealing in produce. He maintains his residence 
 in Arkport, where he has served most acceptably as postmaster, 
 and he is at the present time supervisor of Hornellsville township. 
 
 John Dildine Taylor was born in Hornellsville, Steuben county, 
 on the 4th of December, 1868, and is a son of Thomas J. and 
 Charity A. (Dildine) Taylor, the former of whom was born on 
 the 12th of July, 18.38, in Livingston county, this state, and the 
 latter of whom was born in Hornellsville township on the 8th of 
 April, 1844. The father now resides at Arkport and the mother 
 was summoned to the life eternal on the 1st of June, 1890. The 
 latter was a daughter of John R. Dildine. Dr. Zaehariah, his son, 
 was one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Steuben 
 county in the early days and who gave effective service as a surgeon 
 in the Union army during the Civil war. His brother Zeanas 
 likewise tendered his services in defense of the Union, havino- en- 
 listed in 1862 as a private and having served two years. Heathen 
 became disqualified for further service by reason of illness and 
 he died while en route to his home. Thomas J. Taylor is now- 
 living virtually retired ; he devoted the major portion of his active 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 515 
 
 career to farming and he is one of the venerable and honored 
 pioneer citizens of Steuben county. He is a Democrat in politics 
 and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, of which 
 his beloved and devoted wife was likewise a devout member. 
 
 John D. Taylor, whose name initiates this review, gained his 
 early educational discipline in the public schools of Arkport and 
 later he continued his studies at Almond, Allegany county, where 
 he remained with his maternal uncle. Dr. Dildine, for a period of 
 five years. That he nfkde good use of his educational advantages 
 is evident when it is noted that for two years, as a young man, 
 he was a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of 
 Steuben county. He then engaged in^ the general merchandise 
 business at Arkport and he continued to be successfully identified 
 with this line of enterprise for a period of twelve years, since 
 which time he has given his attention to dealing in produce and to 
 the handling of real-estate. He has built up a successful business 
 in both departments of his enterprise and is numbered among 
 the substantial and valued business men of his native county. 
 
 In politics Mr. Taylor is a staunch advocate of the principles 
 and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor in 
 a generic way and he served as postmaster at Arkport for a period 
 of eight years, under the administration of President Cleveland. 
 He was incumbent of the ofi&ee of supervisor of HornellsviUe town- 
 ship from 1889 to 1896 and in 1909 he was again elected to this 
 position, of which he has since continued in tenure and in which 
 his service has been, marked by progressive ideas and utmost loy- 
 alty. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church since 1883 
 and his wife likewise is a zealous member of the same church. 
 
 On the 26th of January, 1898, Mr. Taylor was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Bertha E. Kridler, who was born at Arkport on the 
 6th of October, 1872, and who is a daughter of Cyrus_ and Eliza 
 (Willey) Kridler, both of whom were residents of Arkport at the 
 time of their death. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have three children, 
 whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted — Win- 
 field K., August 10. 1899 ; Leland B., February 16, 1901 ; and Ran- 
 dolph, October 14, 1903. 
 
 S. Lisle Hollistee.— One of the former citizens of Steuben 
 county who has become actively and prominently identified with 
 business interests in New York city is Mr. HoUister and he is 
 at the present time incumbent of the office of bookkeeper and gen- 
 eral clerk in the United States Trust Company, at 45-47 "Wall 
 street, one of the stanch and popular financial institutions of the 
 great metropolis. 
 
 Mr. Hollister claims the fine old Keystone state of the Union 
 as the place of his nativity, as he was bom at Dimock, Susque- 
 hanna county, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of January, 1882, and he 
 is a son of Amos B. and Harriet E. (Kent) Hollister, both of whom 
 were likewise born in Pennsylvania. When the subject of this 
 
516 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 review was a child of one year his parents removed to Painted 
 Post, Steuben county, where he was reared to adult age and where 
 his early educational training included a course in the high school. 
 This discipline was supplemented by a course in a business col- 
 lege at Elmira, this state, and also by further study in the Scran- 
 ton Business College at Scranton, Pennsylvania. After leaving 
 school he became secretary to Smith Table Co., at Warren, Penn- 
 sylvania, and later he was employed by the Belmar Manufacturing 
 Company of Canton, Pennsylvania. He finally returned to Painted 
 Post, where he entered the employ of IngersoU-Rand Co. His 
 next position was in the First National Bank at Hornellsville, New 
 York, and after leaving that place he removed to Kane, Pennsyl- 
 vania, from which place he removed to New York city, in 1907. 
 Here he became bookkeeper in the offices of the United States 
 Trust Company and he has since continued incumbent of this posi- 
 tion, as well as that of general clerk, being one of the popular and 
 valued executive men of the institution. 
 
 He is actively identified with the Steuben Society of New 
 York city and has found much pleasure in his association therewith. 
 He maintains his residence in Ridgewood, Bergen county, New 
 Jersey, one of the attractive suburbs accessible to New York city. 
 In politics Mr. HoUister gives his allegiance to the Republican 
 party and both he and his wife are members of the Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 In the year 1903 Mr. Hollister was united in marriage to Miss 
 Bella Irene Nash, daughter of Andrew J. Nash, of Canton, Penn- 
 sylvania, and the two children of this union are Jennie Irene and 
 Stuart Nash. 
 
 Nicholas J. Wagner.— Among those citizens of Steuben 
 county who belong to her in particular degree by reason of almost 
 life-long residence within her borders must be mentioned Nicholas 
 J. Wagner, a well-known agriculturist. He was born in Dans- 
 ville, Livingston county. New York, October 13, 1839, and he is 
 of Teutonic extraction. His parents were Jacob and Anna M. 
 (Grob) Wagner, natives of Prussia, who followed the example 
 of so many of those with whom they were associated and emi- 
 grated to the United States in May, 1837. In course of time they 
 found their way to Dansville, New York, where the father followed 
 his trade, which was that of a cabinet-maker. He subsequently 
 took up agriculture and moved onto land in Cohocton township in 
 1841. He lived here up to the time of his demise, which occurred 
 February 18, 1871. He was survived by his widow until January 
 6, 1878. These estimable people were the parents of eleven chil- 
 dren, nine of whom grew to maturity and seven of whom are still 
 living. They were : Mrs. William Cradler, Mrs. Mary Hart, Nich- 
 olas J., Catherine (deceased), Jacob, Wallace, George E., Harry 
 and Rose (twins— deceased), John and Emma. 
 
 Mr. Wagner, who was only a year and a half old when his 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 517 
 
 parents moved to Steuben county, received his education in the 
 common schools and on his father's farm found that training in 
 the various phases of agriculture which has since served him so 
 well. When the Civil war broke out and the integrity of the union 
 was threatened, Mr. "Wagner was one of the most eager to give his 
 services. He was enrolled August 30, 1862, in Company I, New 
 York Volunteer Infantry, Department of the Gulf, and served 
 until September 20, 1865, at which time he was honorably dis- 
 charged. Mr. Wagner has a war record which is both interesting 
 and thrilling. He participated in numerous engagements, among 
 them the siege of Fort Hudson, Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, 
 Sabine Pass, the surrender of Port Morgan, the siege of Spanish 
 Fort and the siege of Fort Blakeley, not to mention numerous minor 
 engagements. Mr. Wagner was wounded at Sabine Cross Roads, 
 his left hand being disabled. Another experience more exciting 
 than pleasant came about when he was one of a force of troops 
 engaged in patrolling the Mississippi. The boat which carried 
 them collided with another boat, causing the loss of forty-one men, 
 Mr. Wagner, however, escaping with a severe shaking up. 
 
 After the war Mr. Wagner resumed his farming and he has 
 enjoyed unqualified success in his chosen vocation. He owns in 
 Cohocton township one hundred and ten acres in a high state of 
 cultivation. His other property consists of a home in Cohocton 
 village. 
 
 Mr. Wagner has played a prominent part in the county in 
 which he makes his home. He has from time to time ably filled 
 various positions such as overseer of the poor, director of the Cem- 
 etery Association, and justice of the peace, which latter office he 
 still holds (1910). He belongs to the Rodney E. Harris Post, No. 
 240, Grand Army of the Republic, having been associated with it 
 since its organization October 17, 1881. For twenty-three years 
 he has held the ofSee of post commander, besides serving in various 
 minor capacities. He is a member of the Universalist church and' 
 a trustee of the same. 
 
 On February 4, 1866, Mr. Wagner was united in marriage to 
 Miss Caroline, daughter of Hiram Dewey. To this union two 
 children were born, Anna M. and Gard 0. D. 
 
 A. Daniel B. Geimley. — This busy and useful citizen of Steu- 
 ben county is one of the largest packers and shippers of grapes in 
 the world and his "Lyons" brand of grapes is known throughout 
 the civilized world. Mr. Grimley was bom in New York city, De- 
 cember 11, 1871. His father, Thomas Grimley, came to the United 
 States from England as a boy of seventeen. He had graduated in 
 pharmacy in his native land, and he eventually engaged in the 
 drug business in New York and prospered till 1880, when he died. 
 He married Frances Virginia Haight, who is living with her son, 
 aged sixty-three. She was a daughter of William Henry and 
 Fanny (Acker) Haight. Her father, who was a wholesale dealer 
 
518 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in feed, died in 1860, and her mother died July 25, 1901, aged 
 seventy-six years. Mr. Grimley has a brother, T. Harry Grimley, of 
 Summitt, New Jersey. 
 
 Mr. Grimley left school at the age of seventeen and went into 
 the fruit business in New York city, in which he continued till 
 1894. He then came to Hammondsport in the interest of Lyon 
 Brothers, in whose employ he continued four years. In 1898 he 
 engaged in business on his own account, in association with others, 
 and in 1899 he bought in all other interests and improved and en- 
 larged his plant, which occupies the space of an ordinary block 
 or "square." His business consists principally in growing and 
 buying grapes and packing them in baskets. He employs in season 
 an average of one hundred and twenty-five people and ships an 
 average of five hundred thousand baskets of grapes per year. He 
 also manufactures fermented gi'ape juice, which is distributed from 
 New York city. His ice plant, an important adjunct to his busi- 
 ness, is one of the show places of Hammondsport. He is recognized 
 in the trade as one of the world's largest shippers of grapes and 
 his goods are known in all the markets on both continents. 
 
 Mr. Grimley is a Republican, and as such was elected mayor 
 of Hammondsport in 1889 and village trustee in 1907. He is a 
 very active and efficient worker in the interests of his party, its 
 principles and its nominees. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and 
 a member of the Royal Arcanum. In 1900 he married Miss Clari- 
 bell IngersoU. She died in 1904, aged twenty-six. On April 7, 
 1909, he married Grace M. Casterline, daughter of Frank and 
 Emma Jane (Earley) Casterline. Her father, who is dead, was 
 of a family of pioneers in Steuben county. 
 
 QuiNCT W. Wellington. — Essentially and broadly American in 
 spirit and in achievement, possessing marked business ability and 
 sagacity, Quiney W. Wellington has gained distinctive recognition 
 as one of the foremost financiers of Corning, for forty and more 
 years having beeji at the head of the Q. W. Wellington Bank, the 
 leading financial institution of this part of Steuben county. He 
 was born December 27, 1832, in Moriah, Essex county. New York, 
 where his father settled on coming to this state from Vermont, his 
 place of nativity, in the early part of the nineteenth century. En- 
 dowed by nature with the energy, enterprise and sterling integrity 
 characteristic of his honored New England ancestors, he has success- 
 fully scaled the ladder of attainments from an errand boy in a 
 country store becoming a prosperous banker and capitalist in a 
 thriving city. 
 
 Making the rudimentary education which he obtained as a boy 
 in the rural schools serve as a firm foundation for the support of a 
 lofty structure of varied knowledge subsequently acquired in the 
 school of experience, Quiney W. Wellington began life for himself 
 as a clerk in a mercantile house in Pennsylvania, where, in partner- 
 ship with a friend, he was afterwards in business on his own account 
 
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HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 521 
 
 for a short time. Soon after attaining his majority he entered the 
 employ of the Xew York and Erie Eailroad Company, locating in 
 Corning. On terminating his connection with this road he entered 
 upon a field of action more congenial to his tastes, from 1859 until 
 1862 being in the employ of the George Washington Bank in Corn- 
 ing. 
 
 Having in those three years obtained a- practical insight into 
 the principles of banking, Mr. Wellington, in company with Samuel 
 Russell, Jr., organized the Q. W. Wellington & Company Bank, a 
 concern which has since received the support and confidence of Corn- 
 ing-'s business men and of the citizens in general. Mr. Eussell re- 
 tired from the firm many years ago, and Mr. Wellington's son, B. 
 W. Wellington, is now associated with him and is cashier of the 
 bank. Mr. Wellington is recognized by the patrons of his institu- 
 tion as a safe custodian of their funds, a sagacious officer and a 
 trustworthy adviser. 
 
 Public spirited and progressive, Mr. Wellington spares neither 
 time, energy nor expense in the advancement of enterprises having 
 for their object the development and improvement of Corning, his 
 adopted home. He has served as vice-president of the Corning Board 
 of Trade and as treasurer of its board of education. He belongs to 
 the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons and to the city 
 clubs. 
 
 Mr. Wellington married. May 13, 1857, Matilda B. Wickham, of 
 Tioga Eiver. 
 
 John J. Kane, D. V. S.— An able representative of the vet- 
 erinary profession in Steuben county, Dr. Kane is engaged in 
 practice and is one of the well known and popular citizens of the 
 county, where he is now serving as humane officer. He has here 
 followed the work of his profession for nearly thirty years and his 
 sterling attributes of character have retained to him the unequiv- 
 ocal confidence and esteem of the community. 
 
 Dr. Kane claims the fine old Keystone state of the Union as 
 the place of his nativity and he was born in the family home on 
 Vine street, in the city of Philadelphia, on the 15th of May, 1859. 
 He is a son of John J. and Mary Kane, the former of whom was 
 born at Yorkshire, England, and the latter in Tipperary, Ireland. 
 The father of the Doctor devoted the major portion of his active 
 career to veterinary surgery, and both he and his wife continued to 
 reside in Philadelphia until their death. 
 
 Dr. Kane gained his preliminary educational discipline in the 
 public schools of the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore and in 
 preparation for the work of his chosen profession he entered Lolita 
 College of Veterinary Surgery in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, 
 in which he completed the prescribed course and in which he was 
 graduated as a member of the class of 1876. Shortly after his 
 graduation he came to Steuben county and engaged in the work of 
 
033 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 his profession at the True Blue Stock Farm, where he remained 
 three years. In 1886 he established an office in the village of Pratts- 
 burg and he has built up a large and successful practice, the while 
 he has gained a high reputation for his scientific knowledge and effi- 
 cient treatment of the diseases of domestic animals and has made 
 for himself a secure place in the esteem of the community. He 
 is a member of the New York State Veterinary Medical Society and 
 keeps in close touch with the advances made in his profession, in 
 which his success has been largely augmented in his fondness for 
 horses and other animals and his desire to see them properly cared 
 for and treated. 
 
 As humane officer of Steuben county he has been unflagging in 
 his efforts to protect all kinds of animals and he is known as a 
 man of generous impulses and most genial and engaging personal- 
 ity. The Doctor gives his political support to the Republican 
 party and he is identified with various social organizations of rep- 
 resentative character. He has never assumed connubial responsi- 
 bilities but it cannot be said that this fact has militated against his 
 social popularity. 
 
 William Wolfanger, who died at his home in Wayland 
 township, was numbered among the representative farmers and 
 highly esteemed citizens of his native county, where his active ca- 
 reer was marked by earnest and well directed industry and where 
 he gained a due measure of success as one of the world's noble 
 army of productive workers. He was born in Wayland township, 
 this county, on the 17th of June, 1850, and was a son of Nicholas 
 Wolfanger, who was born in Germany, in 1815, and who was 
 reared to maturity in his native land, where he continued to reside 
 until 1836, when he immigrated to America. He soon came to 
 Steuben county and in Wayland township he purchased one hun- 
 dred and thirty acres of land, which he reclaimed and placed 
 under effective cultivation; he continued to maintain his home in 
 this county until his death and was one of the sterling pioneers 
 of this section of the Empire state. 
 
 William Wolfanger was reared to maturity on the old home- 
 stead farm and early began to assist in its work and management, 
 so that he secured excellent training in the details of the great 
 basic industry to which he devoted his attention until he was 
 summoned to the life eternal. He was afforded the advantages of 
 the common schools and eventually he became one of the substan- 
 tial farmers of his native county, where his energy and good man- 
 agement enabled him to accumulate a competency. At the time 
 of his demise he was the owner of a well improved landed estate, 
 all in Wayland township, and after his death his widow removed 
 to the village of Wayland, where she has since maintained her 
 home, surrounded by a circle of leal and loyal friends. 
 
 Mr. Wolfanger was married to Miss Katharina Bill, who was 
 born and reared in Dansville township, this county. Her father 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 523 
 
 was of stanch German lineage and was one of the substantial 
 farmers and stock growers of Steuben county for many years prior 
 to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfanger became the parents of four 
 sons and one daughter, all of whom are living, and the sons are all 
 successful farmers of Wayland township. The names of the chil- 
 dren are as here noted : Jennie, Frank, Jacob, Arthur and 
 Edward. 
 
 CfiABLES W. Etz, cashier of the Bank of Steuben, Hornell, 
 is a descendant of a Revolutionary forefather and the son of a 
 Federal officer whose death was regarded in northern Pennsylvania 
 as one of the grievous tragedies of the Civil war. Two brothers 
 named Etz came over from Germany and joined in the fight of 
 the Colonies for liberty from British oppression. They were the 
 founders of the American family of Etz and one of them was 
 a lineal ancestor of the subject of this notice. Lieutenant Charles 
 O. Etz, a first lieutenant in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Pennsyl- 
 vania Volunteer Infantry, enlisted at the beginning of the war of 
 the states and, in 1862, having completed his term of service, was 
 ready to return to his wife and son at Tioga, Tioga county, Penn- 
 sylvania, when he was killed. All in that little town and all in 
 the country round about mourned with the widow and orphan. 
 Lieutenant Etz was popular there, as indeed he was wherever he 
 was known, and his loss was accounted a blow to Tioga county. 
 
 Mr. Etz was born at Corning, New York, December 1, 1855, 
 a son of Lieutenant Charles 0. and Sarah (Wellington) Etz. 
 Mrs. Etz, a sister of Q. W. Wellington, long identified with the 
 banking interests of Corning, was born in Essex county, New 
 York, and has now attained to her seventy-sixth year. Charles 
 W., the only one of her children who grew to maturity, was 
 reared at Tioga, Pennsylvania and educated in the village school 
 there and at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. He has lived 
 at Hornell since 1874. Until 1902 he was connected in one capac- 
 ity or another with the First National Bank. In 1902 he was one 
 of the eight organizers of the Bank of Steuben, which is at this 
 time managed by the following named officers and directors: 
 President, William Richardson ; vice-president, L. W. Rockwell ; 
 cashier, Charles W. Etz ; assistant cashier, William E. Pittenger ; 
 directors, William Richardson, J. E. Walker, J. L. Rockwell, 
 William E. Pittenger, W. G. Hollands, S. S. Karr, H. G. Pierson, 
 Charles W. Etz, L. W. Rockwell, S. E. Brown, C. E. Shults, W. 
 H. Greenhow, George Hollands, Don L. Sharp and J. E. Schwar- 
 zenbach. Of this stanch institution Mr. Etz has been cashier from 
 the day it began business. 
 
 In 1888, Mr. Etz married Miss Anna Cadogan, a daughter 
 of Charles and Corrinne (Sweetland) Cadogan. Their son, David 
 C. Etz, died when he was nineteen years old. They have a daugh- 
 ter named Katharine. Mr. Etz has been a member of the Board 
 of Public Works since it was created and succeeded George T. 
 Rehn as its president. He was treasurer of the Chamber of Com- 
 
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634 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 merce and also of the library board. He has been active to some 
 extent in local politics and wields a recognized influence in public 
 affairs. All in all, he is a public-spirited citizen of Hornell, to 
 whom his fellow citizens owe not a little. 
 
 Hon. Chaeles William Gillet was born at Addison, New 
 Yorlj, November 26, 1840, and was the only son of Joel D. Gillet 
 and Lucy Jane Patten. 
 
 The Gillet family descended from the French Huguenots who, 
 owing to religious persecutions, fled from their native home into 
 the Netherlands and came thence to America early in the Eigh- 
 teenth Century. 
 
 Aaron Gillet, born at Colchester, Connecticut, in 1732, had a 
 son named Solomon who married Martha Doolittle, sister of the 
 Hon. Mark Doolittle and of the Hon. Joel Doolittle of Middlebury, 
 Vermont, who was known as Judge Doolittle. 
 
 Solomon and Martha (Doolittle) Gillet reared a large family, 
 one of whom was Joel D. Gillet of Addison, the father of Charles 
 William Gillet. 
 
 Joel D. Gillet was born at Colchester, Connecticut, on the 27th 
 of August, 1809. He spent his youth at school and on his father's 
 farm and was often employed as a teacher in the common schools 
 of that section. 
 
 In April, 1835, he married Lucy Jane Patten, youngest daugh- 
 ter of David Patten of Salem, Connecticut, and in October of the 
 same year established his home at Addison, this county, where he 
 entered into partnership with his brother Solomon, in a general 
 merchandise enterprise. To this union were born three children, 
 namely: Frances Jane, now Mrs. David B. Winton, Emma Ma- 
 tilda, who died in her youth, and Charles William. 
 
 In 1838 Joel D. Gillet purchased his brother's interest in their 
 store and continued to operate the concern until twelve years later, 
 when failing health compelled him to seek other employment. He 
 later established a business in lumber in Addison, and in 1851 
 began buying timber land in central Wisconsin in the vicinity of 
 Oshkosh and Wausau. His operations in logging and manufac- 
 turing lumber gradually increased until it amounted to several 
 millions of feet annually. 
 
 Lucy Jane (Patten) Gillet, the mother of Charles William, 
 died in 1845, and in June, 1846, Joel D. married Catharine S. 
 Stowe, youngest daughter of Rev. William B. Stowe. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Gillet maintained their residence at Addison for many years, 
 celebrating their golden wedding at their home on the 2nd of June, 
 1896, three years before the death of Mrs. Gillet, which occurred 
 in 1899. 
 
 Mr. Gillet was identified with the growth of Addison from 
 the time that village numbered about two hundred and fifty inhab- 
 itants until the time of his death in 1902. He early interested him- 
 self in the public schools of Steuben countv and was one of the 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 527 
 
 originators of the Addison Academy. He was a liberal contrib- 
 utor to the maintenance of the Presbyterian church, of which he 
 was an elder, and in 1889 built and endowed the Young Men's 
 Christian Association Building on South street. 
 
 Charles William Gillet, the subject of this review, came of 
 a long lived race. His parents gave him a physical make-up noble 
 and energetic, a mentality, ambitious, clear-sighted and honor- 
 able. His youth and boyhood were passed among the healthful 
 environments of the place of his nativity. He was prepared for 
 college at the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, Delaware 
 county. New York, a famous institution in its time. He entered 
 Union College as a member of the class of 1861. 
 
 Ausbum Towner has interestingly related the story of his col- 
 lege days, which were also his soldier days. "Those were perilous 
 times for our country and that was a perilous year. Perhaps no- 
 where else in the land was the strain and appeal more deeply felt 
 than in our higher institutions of learning. It was natural that the 
 cultured and high-spirited should chafe and fret under the almost 
 despairing call of their country and be unsatisfied until they 
 could free themselves from all other ties and rush to her defense. 
 Many an academy and college was almost depopulated and whole 
 classes were wiped out of existence by the impetuous rush of the 
 young blood to get to the front. When young Gillet came home 
 for his spring vacation he was all afire to join his companions in 
 the camp. His course at college was almost completed and it was 
 predicted that the trouble would be over in ninety days. In view 
 of these facts, a compromise was made with the unwilling father 
 that the youth should return to his college duties, graduate, and 
 if at that time the war was still in progress, no impediment would 
 be placed in the way of his enlisting. He therefore returned to 
 Union to graduate, and became a member of the celebrated Union 
 College Zouaves, which furnished the Union army with more than 
 sixty commissioned officers. The next day after he received his 
 diploma, young Gillet enlisted as a private in Colonel Bailey's 
 'Steuben Rangers,' the Eighty-sixth Regiment, New York Volun- 
 teer Infantry, of which regiment he afterward became adjutant. 
 He served two years with honor and credit in an organization 
 noted for its gallantry; then, wounded and broken in health, he 
 was discharged from the army for disability and returned to 
 Addison to live." 
 
 Recovered in health, Mr. Gillet engaged in business enterprises, 
 and in them all he was successful and prosperous. He was always 
 a steadfast and conscientious Republican, active and earnest in the 
 advocacy of principles in which he believed and in furthering the 
 ends and aims of his party. He was for some years after 1877 
 postmaster at Addison, but until his election to Congress had 
 never held any other public office. He represented the Twenty- 
 ninth Congressional district of New York in that body from 1892 
 to 1904, for a period of twelve years. He gained; a large personal 
 
r.'>8 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COIT^tty 
 
 acquaintance in Washington, was familiar with all the duties in- 
 cumbent upon one occupying the position and was ready and will- 
 ing at all times, in' so far as he was able, to grant the demands 
 of his constituents. To those aequjainted with the difficulties in the 
 way of legislators it is pretty generally known that in Washington 
 the "first-termer" is scarcely recognized and that the average 
 congressman does not become conspicuous among his fellows for 
 many years. But Mr. Gillet was not an average congressman — he 
 was better. He won the chairmanship of the committee on Ex- 
 penditures in the Department of Agriculture in four years and his 
 influence steadily increased. In 1894 he was appointed a member 
 of the committee of Public Buildings and Grounds, which is re- 
 garded as one of the most important in Congress, and in 1902 
 became its chairman. He was one of the most easily approached of 
 public men and was prompt in pushing forward the interests of 
 the district that he so ably represented. During the sessions of 
 Congress he was always at his post and his advice came to be 
 sought by men wlw shaped legislation. It is doubtful if any con- 
 gressman in the United States stood higher in his district for honor 
 and integrity or for intelligence and culture than did he. 
 
 His attractive personality, lovable disposition and broad sym- 
 pathy drew men to him, so that his companionship was always 
 a pleasure. His kindness and encouragement to young men meant 
 a great deal to them. No word of praise can adequately express 
 the love which his friends bore him and it can be truly said that 
 he was a most lovable, high-minded and public-spirited man. 
 
 On September 1, 1864, Mr. Gillet married Miss Augusta E. 
 Comstock, daughter of General William Comstock of Laurens, 
 Otsego coimty, New York, and a niece of Colonel Hiram Bostwick, 
 one of the earliest and most prominent citizens of Corning, this 
 county. 
 
 Two children were born to this union, namely: Frances A., 
 who is now Mrs. W. H. Stradella of North Tonawanda, New York, 
 and Katharine M., wife of C. M. Wales of New York City. Mr. 
 Gillet died on the 31st day of December, 1908. Mrs. Gillet survives 
 her honored husband and maintains her residence at Addison. 
 
 A few extracts from a Memorial written by Rev. Daniel 
 Mackay and delivered at Addison are here inserted : 
 
 "Be thou faithful until death and I will give thee the crown 
 of life." Rev. 2:10. 
 
 This text expresses the most prominent characteristic of the 
 man whose life I wish to hold up to you as an example— namely, 
 faithfulness. This, indeed, is the use of a memorial sermon and 
 the chief reason why it should be preached. Were he not an ex- 
 emplary man, better let the mantle of silence fall upon his memory. 
 But, the Hon. Charles William Gillet was a type of manhood we 
 rarely find, worthy to be held before the young, and a pattern of 
 faithfulness for business men. His fulfillment of promises, his 
 conscientious discharge of obligations, his truthfulness of state- 
 ment, his fidelity to confidence, his loyalty to friends, and his dili- 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN" COUNTY 529 
 
 gence in work, give a elose-at-hand model for imitation. We 
 sometimes speak of men with world-wide reputation of whose 
 private life we know little, whom we measure and admire for their 
 public acts alone; but here is a man, who spent all his life in our 
 midst, whom we know at close range, and whose conduct has stood 
 the limelight of personal scrutiny, whom we always found a genu- 
 ine Christian gentleman— he should become to us a greater inspir- 
 ation to good citizenship and a stronger incentive to right living, 
 because of our intimate acquaintance. And so I hold up to you 
 our respected townsman, beloved friend and fellow-worshipper, 
 as an example for you to follow with this important limitation, 
 ' ' even as he followed Christ. ' ' 
 
 All through his life he adhered to the supreme law of right- 
 eousness. I do not believe his integrity has ever been questioned. 
 We may differ with such men, but we can never lose our respect for 
 them. People say, "Men can't be in politics and be honest." 
 Here was an honest man, a statesman, not a politician. And the 
 day is coming when none but honest men can be the representa- 
 tives of the people. If one place more than another needs honest 
 men, that place is our Assembly and our Congress. 
 
 Mr. Gillet was an example of the kind of man we need for 
 office. Faithful to his trust — a man of truth — man of sound judg- 
 ment, a man who abhorred evil, and a man in sympathy with the 
 needs of the people. I believe it was Walpole, Prime Minister of 
 Great Britain, who first used the expression, "Every man has his 
 price." No price could purchase Congressman Gillet 's honor or 
 integrity. There did not hang on the tree of national patronage 
 a golden apple, which would seduce him from rectitude. 
 
 Benevolence as well as fidelity marked his whole career. The 
 scriptural injunction of not letting the left hand know what the 
 right hand did was followed in all the acts of liberality that came 
 from his hand. 
 
 The personal sentiment of the board of trustees of the Pres- 
 byterian church, Addison, New York, is manifest in the following 
 memorial, which was ordered spread on the records of the society : 
 
 We meet to-night under the saddest circumstances that ever 
 eonfronted our board. Charles W. Gillet has passed from our 
 midst and left a vacancy which will last forever. No language can 
 express our sorrow, no words can convey the sadness his untimely 
 death has caused us. 
 
 Mr. Gillet since early manhood has been identified with the 
 afi:airs of our church. His time, energy and purse were always 
 at her command, and not only in our own church but in all other 
 Christian denominations was his generosity felt, and our whole 
 community mourns his death. 
 
 When a lonely and obscure man falls by the wayside the whole 
 household grieves, but when one who has reached high attain- 
 ments in life is called home by God, the blow falls with crushing 
 effect upon all who are left behind. 
 
 Our deceased brother was one who bore his honors modestly 
 
.530 HI8T0KY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 smd was everywhere recognized and known as a generous, warm- 
 hearted, true Christian gentleman. 
 
 Dated January 6, 1909. A. G. Crane, Chairman; 
 
 George I. Teue, 
 George H. Weatheeby, 
 Charles A. Brewster. 
 Charles D. Reynolds, Clerk. 
 
 FROM THE "annals'' OF CONFUCIUS. 
 
 "The highest study of all is that which teaches us to develop 
 those principles of purity and perfect virtue, which Heaven be- 
 stowed upon us at our birth, in order that we may acquire the 
 power of influencing for good those amongst whom we are placed, 
 by our precepts and example." 
 
 This exemplifies the life and character of Charles William 
 Gillet. 
 
 John Coumbe is associated with the industrial life of the city 
 of Bath as a photographer, and he has achieved success and a high 
 place in the profession. He was born at Cornwall, England, 
 October 10, 1849, a son of Henry and Ann Budge (Gaunter) 
 Coumbe, the father born in 1805 and the mother in 1806. The 
 father, both a butcher and a farmer, died during the infancy of 
 his son John, and the widowed mother afterward came with her 
 family to America, spending some time in Sault Ste. Marie, Michi- 
 gan, then nine years in Canada, from 1865 resided for five years 
 in Ulster county, New York, while during the following eighteen 
 years their home was in Dutchess county, this state, and on the 2d 
 of May, 1890, they located in the city of Bath. 
 
 John Coumbe is the only one of his parents' family now liv- 
 ing. He was a lad of eight when he arrived in America, and 
 after leaving the school room he followed copper mining until the 
 age of seventeen. After spending three years with his brother- 
 in-law in a limestone quarry at Kingston in Ulster county he 
 began his preparation for the profession of photography, and has 
 long been one of its leading representatives in the city of Bath. 
 He continued to care for his widowed mother until her death, and 
 he chose for his wife Fanny L. Brandow, who was born at Pough- 
 keepsie. New York, November 23, 1849, a daughter of Nelson P. 
 and Emeline (Kipp) Brandow, who were born in Greene county, 
 this state, the father being by trade a tinsmith. A son, Harry B., 
 was born to Mr. and Mrs. Coumbe on the 18th of December, 1888, 
 and he is a drug clerk in Bath. 
 
 Judge Arthur H. Erwin represents all that is noteworthy in 
 the citizenship of Steuben county in all periods of its history— 
 the period of the pioneer, the period before the war, the Civil 
 war period and the period since that great struggle. No history of 
 the county could be written without mention of the name of Erwin, 
 which is interwoven with many of its noteworthy events and has 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEiq' COUNTY 531 
 
 been perpetuated in that of one of its largest and most important 
 townships, all of which was once owned by his ancestor. 
 
 Judge Erwin was bom at Painted Post May 10, 1844, a son of 
 Arthur H. Erwin, himself a native of the township of Erwin, 
 born November 26, 1803, whose entire life, which ended August 1, 
 1863, was passed in that township. In his earlier years Arthur H. 
 Erwin was a merchant at Painted Post, but during most of it he 
 was an extensive and successful farmer and lumberman. He mar- 
 ried Prances Maria McKeen, daughter of William and Rebecca 
 McKeen and a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, born in 1808, who 
 was brought to Erwin township in her childhood by her parents, 
 who were early settlers there. Captain Samuel Erwin, father of 
 Arthur H. Erwin and grandfather of Judge Erwin, was born, 
 in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and his father was Colonel 
 Artlrar Erwin, a native of county Antrim, Parish of Crom- 
 well, Ireland, born in 1726, of mixed Scotch and Irish ancestry. 
 He came to America in the pre-Revolutionary period and returned 
 to Ireland about 1765 to bring over his family. They landed at 
 Philadelphia in August, 1768. In 1789 he bought the township 
 of Erwin, in Steuben county, a tract of hill and valley land 
 comprising in all some twenty-three thousand and five hundred 
 acres, for which he paid fourteen hundred pounds. Captain 
 Samuel Erwin died at Painted Post November 10, 1836. His 
 son, Arthur H. Erwin, father of the immediate subject of this 
 notice, and Frances Maria McKeen, above mentioned, were mar- 
 ried in Erwin township February 21, 1828. The following facts 
 concerning their children will be found of interest in this con- 
 nection. They had seven daughters and five sons. Mary, born 
 April 2, 1831, married Marcus Strom of Detroit, Michigan, and 
 died June 13, 1903. Eugene H. married Miss Elizabeth Cook 
 of Painted Post. He was born August 14, 1832 and died June 
 13, 1894. Emily, born June 27, 1834, died October 27, 1891. 
 Frances Virginia, born April 15, 1836, died April 13, 1909. Eliza- 
 beth, born July 15, 1838, married Dr. J. B. Dudley of Painted 
 Post and died October 27, 1905. DeWitt Clinton, born March 
 10, 1840, died December 11, 1873. Anna Maria, born May 2, 
 1842, married Charles Iredell of Painted Post and died June 17, 
 1898. Arthur H. was born May 10, 1844. Harriet L., born July 
 9, 1846, married John Lutman and is living at Painted Post. 
 Winfield Scott, born December 18, 1848, died October 30, 1905. 
 Helen, born June 14, 1851, died September 5, 1855. John J., 
 born May 1, 1854, died August 30, 1855. 
 
 Of this family of children, notable for its number and more 
 notable for the ability which many of its individual members 
 displayed. Judge Erwin was the eighth in order of nativity. He 
 was educated in home schools at and near Painted Post and at 
 Alfred University. He had been brought up to farming, and to 
 farming he first gave attention after his graduation. He easily 
 took rank as a leader among the farmers of Erwin township, and 
 during thirteen years of his active life there conducted an agri- 
 
532 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 cultural warehouse at Addison, selling up to date machines and 
 implements of all kinds in demand among the farmers of that 
 section. He married, October 19, 1869, Miss Gertrude Brown, 
 daughter of Reuben P. and i\Iaria Brown of Addison, who died 
 December 28, 1889, leaving two children— Agnes M. and Frances 
 G. Agnes M., born July 23, 1870, is married and lives in New 
 York city. There also lives Frances G., and she too is married. 
 On August 15, 1899, Judge Erwin married Miss Mary tfay Bres- 
 sia of Ponca City, Oklahoma, who bore him a son, Arthur H., 
 Jr., September 1, 1900. 
 
 Judge Erwin went west in April, 1888, and during the suc- 
 ceeding five years was in the shoe trade in. different cities. In 
 September, 1893, at the opening of the Cherokee outlet in Okla- 
 homa territory he located at Ponca City, where he was in the real 
 estate business until in 1896, when he was elected city judge of 
 the municipality mentioned. In the spring of 1898, when he 
 retired from that office, after a period of service creditable for 
 integrity no less than for efficiency, he returned to his real es- 
 tate office, branched out into larger operations than he had 
 handled before and has since continued the business, though living 
 a part of the time amid the scenes of his boyhood and earlier 
 active years. He takes a helpful interest in all local affairs and 
 has in many ways repeatedly demonstrated his public spirit. 
 There are those in the little old eastern town of Painted Post 
 whose name came down with it from the days of the Indians in 
 Southern New York who rejoice that Judge Erwin comes back 
 to them with western experience and western ideas to inculcate a 
 new standard of progressiveness. He is a popular ]\Iason, having 
 been made a member of the order as long ago as 1866. Politically 
 he is a Democrat. 
 
 Joseph G. McConnell.— Though not himself a native of Steu- 
 ben county Mr. McConnell, who is engaged in the furniture and 
 undertaking business in the thriving village of Prattsburg, is a 
 scion of old and honored families of this county, where both his 
 father and mother v;ere born. He is numbered among the pro- 
 gressive and public-spirited citizens of Prattsburg and he has 
 contributed in generous measure to its material and civic ad- 
 vancement. He is an influential citizen and one who has an im- 
 pregnable place in the confidence and esteem of the community. 
 
 Joseph G. McConnell was born in Italy township, Yates coun- 
 ty, New York, on the 18th of May, 1865, and is a son of Ira 
 A. and Rosanna J. (Bardeen) McConnell, both of whom were born 
 in Prattsburg township, Steuben county, where the respective fam- 
 ilies of stanch Scottish lineage were founded in an early day. 
 Ira A. McConnell was bom on the 14th of January, 1838, and 
 was a son of Alexander McConnell, who was likewise a native of 
 Prattsburg township, where he was born on the 2nd of August, 
 1817. Alexander McConnell was a son of William McConnell, 
 who was born in Pennsylvania and who was a son of Guyon Mc- 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUXTY 533 
 
 Connell, a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated to America 
 and established his home in Pennsylvania in 1776. There he passed 
 the residue of his life, and his son William settled in Prattsburg 
 township, Steuben county. New York, in the pioneer days, here 
 securing a tract of wild land and reclaiming the same into a duly 
 productive farm. He and his wife here continued to reside until 
 they were summoned to the life eternal, and during the long inter- 
 vening years the family name has continued to be associated with 
 the great basic art of agriculture in this county, the while repre- 
 sentatives of the name have also achieved worthy success in other 
 lines of productive endeavor. Ira A. McConnell was born and 
 educated in Steuben county, and with his parents moved to Yates 
 county when he was five years of age. Upon reaching his majority 
 he secured land in Italy township and became a successful agri- 
 culturist and influential citizen. His course was so guided and 
 governed by strict principles of integrity and honor that he never 
 was denied the fullest measure of popular respect and confidence. 
 He was a Republican in his political proclivities and his religious 
 faith was that of the Baptist church, as was also that of his wife. 
 He died in 1884. Mrs. Rosanna J. (Bardeen) McConnell was born 
 in Prattsburg township on the 5th of April, 1844, and was a daugh- 
 ter of Moses and Hannah (Fisher) Bardeen, both of whom were 
 born and reared in the same township. Moses Bardeen was a son 
 of Calvin Bardeen, who likewise was a native of Prattsburg town- 
 ship and who was a son of Moses Bardeen, a patriot soldier of the 
 Continental line in the war of the Revolution. From the brief 
 data here incorporated it will be seen that both the McConnell and 
 Bardeen families were founded in Steuben county in the pioneer 
 epoch of its history, and both names have been conspicuously iden- 
 tified with the development and upbuilding of this favored sec- 
 tion of the old Empire state. Mrs. McConnell died in Italy, Yates 
 county. New York, June 11, 1872. 
 
 Joseph G. McConnell, whose names initiates this review, was 
 reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm in Yates county, 
 and after availing himself of the advantages of the district schools 
 he entered the high school at Naples, that county, where he com- 
 pleted the prescribed curriculum. Thereafter he continued his 
 higher studies at Hillsdale College, in the city of Hillsdale, Mich- 
 igan, where he remained a student for three years and where he 
 admirably fortified himself for successful work in the pedagogic 
 profession, to which he devoted his attention for a period of fifteen 
 years, within which he was a popular and valued teacher in the 
 public schools of Yates and Wayne counties. He served five years 
 as principal of the Macedon Academy, Macedon, New York, which 
 was the last of his teaching, he having resigned that position. 
 
 In the year 1900 Mr. McConnell returned to the ancestral 
 home, Steuben county, and located in the village of Prattsburg, 
 where he purchased the old Foster furniture and undertaking 
 establishment on Mechanic street, one of the oldest places of busi- 
 ness of the town. He forthwith identified himself with local in- 
 
r-M HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 terests by engaging in the furniture and undertaking business, in 
 which he has since continued with unqualified success, having an 
 establishment of modern equipment and appointments and having 
 the best of facilities for the handling of the department of his 
 enterprise devoted to undertaking and funeral directing. As a 
 progressive business man and loyal and public-spirited citizen he 
 is well upholding the high prestige ever attached to the name in 
 Steuben county. In 1906 Mr. McConnell established a branch 
 store in the village of Pulteney, this country, and this also con- 
 trols a large and representative patronage in the territory norraallj' 
 tributary to the village. He is also owner of the Prattsburg 
 Marble Works, representing one of the successful industrial en- 
 terprises of the county, and is a stockholder and director of the 
 Prattsburg State Bank. In politics Mr. McConnell is a stalwart 
 adherent of the Republican party and he has ever shown a deep 
 and broad-minded interest in public affairs, especially those of a 
 local order. He is affiliated with Prattsburg Lodge No. 583, F. 
 & A. M., of which he is past master; with Prattsburg Lodge No. 
 598. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Prattsburg 
 Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Both he and his wife are iden- 
 tified with the work of the Presbyterian church. Their home in 
 Prattsburg is a center of cordial and refined hospitality and they 
 also have an attractive summer cottage on the shores of Keuka 
 Lake. 
 
 On the 20th of November, 1889, was solemnized the marriage 
 of Mr. McConnell to Miss Jennie Squier, who was born in Italy 
 township, Yates county, New York, on the 9th of April, 1867, and 
 who is a daughter of Ezra Squier, a representative citizen of that 
 county. Mrs. McConnell was afforded the advantages of the pub- 
 lic schools of her native county and for several years prior to her 
 marriage she had been a successful and popular teacher. Mr. and 
 Mrs. McConnell have two children, Lyle E., who was born on the 
 27th of December, 1891, is now taking a course in electrical en- 
 gineering in Bliss Electrical School, Washington, D. C. Mary E., 
 who was born on the 5th of April, 1897, is attending the high 
 Kcliool of her native town. 
 
 George I. True.— "Civilization will hail riches, prowess, hon- 
 ors, popularity, but it will bow humbly to sincerity in its fellows. 
 The exponent of known sincerity, of singleness of honest purpose, 
 has its exemplification in all bodies of men; he is found in every 
 association and to him defer its highest officers. Such an exemplar, 
 Avhose daily life and whose life work have been dominated, as 
 their most conspicuous characteristic, by sincerity, is George Ivers 
 True, of Addison, New York." These complimentary phrases are 
 quoted from an article in the American Luinberman, dated July 
 21, 1906, and from it we glean the following interesting facts in 
 Mr. True's useful career. 
 
 Mr. True reflects the sturdiness of New England ancestry. 
 Henry True, an immigrant, seeking spiritual freedom in the New 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUisTTY 537 
 
 World, eaiiie to the Massachusetts colony in 1659, and was the 
 founder of the American branch of the family of which George I. 
 True and Charks H. True of Galveston, Texas, are the only living 
 male representatives of their line. George Ivers True is the only 
 son of Jairus and Jane (Kimball) True and was born at Owego, 
 Tioga county, New York, on the 12th of June, 1847. He had 
 one sister, Anna J., whose birth occurred on the 23d of March, 
 1846, and who was summoned to the life eternal October 15, 1867. 
 Jairus True, father of him whose name initiates this review, died 
 when George I. was a child of five years and subsequently his 
 mother married Philander C. Daniels, and as his wife continued to 
 live at Owego. Y^oung True began his education in the common 
 schools at Owego and later was a student at Owego Academy till 
 April, 1863, at which time Mr. and Mrs. Daniels moved to Addison, 
 where he pursued a course of study in a select school until circum- 
 stances made it necessary for him to find some employment. 
 Thomas Paxton, a prominent man in Addison, at that time gave 
 him work, paying him fifty cents a day, later twenty dollars a 
 month, and in 1868 admitted him to partnership in the firm of 
 Paxton & True, a general merchandise establishment which did 
 business under that name for a quarter of a century. Meantime, 
 out of his meager earnings Mr. True helped to pay for a home 
 in which his mother and step-father lived until they were more 
 than eighty years of age and in which they died. 
 
 On January 1, 1893, the firm of Park, Winton & True suc- 
 ceeded the firm of Park & Winton in operating a pioneer factory at 
 Addison, which had been established in 1855 and of which Mr. 
 Park became a member about 1885. This was the beginning of Mr. 
 True 's connection with the manufacturing of sash, doors and blinds. 
 The combination of ability thus made had all the requisites of 
 success. From the outset Mr. True had charge of the office and 
 of the finances. Mr. Park was lumber buyer and superintendent 
 of manufacture, and Mr. Winton had charge of the sales depart- 
 ment. In 1898 ]\Ir. Winton disposed of a portion of his interest 
 in the business to his brother, Maynard Winton, the remainder 
 being taken by Messrs. True and Park. In May, 1900, Mr. Park 
 was obliged to give up active business on account of ill health and 
 on February 28, 1901, he died. At this time Mr. Winton, the 
 former partner, again assumed an interest in the concern and he 
 continued as a member of the firm until his death, which occurred 
 February 8, 1906. During the periods of illness of his partners, 
 which had lasted more than a year in each instance, Mr. True 
 shouldered their labors in the business and carried it on success- 
 fully. William R. and Charles F. Park, sons of the late James H. 
 Park, are now actively associated with Mr. True in the conduct 
 of the business. The Park, Winton & True Company was incor- 
 porated under the laws of the state in 1910 with an official corps as 
 follows : George I. True, president and treasurer ; Charles F. Park, 
 vice-president and purchasing agent; and William R. Park, secre- 
 tary and assistant treasurer. The officers, together with James G. 
 
538 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Casson and D. N. Winton are the directors. The company is widely 
 known for its fair and honorable business methods and it may be 
 said that the sterling integrity of its officers constitute one of its 
 best assets. 
 
 Aside from the manufacturing business Mr. True has other 
 lumber interests of broad scope and importance. He is a stock- 
 holder in the Painted Post Lumber Company, of Painted Post, 
 New York; a stockholder in the Yadkin Lumber Company, of 
 Yadkin, North Carolina, \^hich owns fifty thousand acres of tim- 
 ber lands in the western part of the state ; and vice-president of the 
 Embreeville Timber Company, of Embreeville, Tennessee, which 
 holds title to thirty thousand acres of timber in eastern Tennessee. 
 He was one of the organizers and a director of the First National 
 Bank of Addison and for a number of terms he was incumbent of 
 the office of vice-president of the Veneered Door Manufacturer's 
 Association. He was one of the charter members of the Baldwin 
 Hook & Ladder Company, organized in 1876, and is now one of its 
 honorary members. His deep interest in educational affairs in the 
 town has caused him to be several times elected a member of the 
 local school board, on which he has served with great efficiency and 
 credit. Since 1888, when he was one of the foremost in the organi- 
 zation of the Addison branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, he has been a trustee, director and treasurer of that body. 
 As a member of the Presbyterian church he has contributed liber- 
 ally to its support and there are many at and near Addison who 
 can testify to his generosity in private charity. He is a mem- 
 ber of the City Club but spends most of his leisure time at home. 
 Having a fondness for a good horse, he delights in driving. In 
 1906, when he had been village treasurer of Addison for the long 
 period of twenty-two years, he declined re-election to the office 
 on account of the pressure of private business. In every sense 
 he has shown a loyalty and public-spirit beyond that manifested by 
 the average man of affairs. His townsmen know how much he has 
 done to advance the interests of his community and they proudly 
 recognize in him a leading business spirit and a citizen of the 
 highest type. 
 
 On the 19th of June, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. True to Miss Louise M. Turner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
 John P. Turner, of Addison.. No children have been born of this 
 union but included within the charming home circle is iliss Jessica 
 K. Turner, a sister of Mrs. True. Mrs. True is a woman of most 
 gracious personality, is a member of the Daughters of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution and she has given much of her time and most 
 freely of her purse to charitable work of various kinds. \Mv. True 
 ha,s ever been, a most devoted brother to Mrs. C. C. Dawson, of 
 Toledo, Ohio, a daughter of his step-father, ilr. Daniels, by his 
 first marriage. 
 
 George IvCrs True has lived a life of usefulness such as few- 
 men know. God-fearing, law-abiding, progressive, his life is as 
 truly that of a Christian gentleman as any man's can well be. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 539 
 
 Unwaveringly he has done the right as he has interpreted it. Pos- 
 sessed of an inflexible will, he is quietly persistent, always in com- 
 mand of his powers, never showing anger under any circum- 
 stances. 
 
 John F. Little.— Captain Little is one of the venerable and 
 honored members of the bar of Steuben county, is a veteran of 
 the Civil war and is still engaged in the active practice of his 
 profession at Bath. He commands a secure place in the confidence 
 and esteem of the community that has so long represented his 
 home and is a native of Steuben county as originally constituted, 
 though the town of Reading, in which he was born on the 30th of 
 July, 1839, is now in Schuyler county. He is a son of William 
 and Letitia (Shannon) Little, both of whom passed the closing 
 years of their lives in Bath. The father was born in Ireland, 
 whence he came to America when a young man and he located 
 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and for years was engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits. . He later moved to Steuben county, where 
 he engaged in agricultural pursuits during the residue of his long 
 and useful life, though for some time he maintained his home in 
 the village of Bath. 
 
 Captain John F. Little was not yet two years of age when his 
 parents moved to Bath, where he secured his early educational 
 training, which included a course in the historic old Haverling 
 Academy, in which he was graduated. Thereafter he began the 
 study of law under the able preceptorship of Hon. William B. 
 Ruggles and he continued his technical studies until he responded 
 to the call of higher duty and tendered his services -to the cause 
 of the LTnion, whose independence had been placed in jeopardy by 
 open rebellion. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany F, One Hundred and Sixty-first New York Volunteer In- 
 fantry, as a first lieutenant, and he continued in active service until 
 several months after the surrender of General Lee, having re- 
 ceived his honorable' discharge in November, 1865, and having 
 been assigned to detached duty after the virtual close of the war. 
 He took part in the battles of Port Hudson and Sabine Pass, 
 participated in the Red River campaign, Cox's Plantation, Fesche 
 campaign, in the building of the famous dams that saved the fleets 
 at Alexandria, Louisiana, and in the capture of Mobile, and he 
 made an admirable record as a faithful and valiant soldier of the 
 Republic. In 1863 he was commissioned captain and later he re- 
 ceived the brevet rank of major. 
 
 After the close of his military service Captain Little returned to 
 Bath and resumed the study of law. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1866 and forthwith established himself in the practice of his 
 profession at Bath. In 1867 he was elected to represent his county 
 in the lower house of the state legislature, in which he served one 
 term. In 1887 Captain Little was appointed surrogate of Steuben 
 county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Guy H. 
 McMaster, and he continued on the bench until the close of the 
 
540 HISTORY OF STEUBEIST COUNTY 
 
 unexpired term. For five years he served as a member of the 
 county board of supervisors and in 1878 he was one of the 
 original trustees appointed by the state to establish and complete 
 the Soldiers' Home at Bath. He was reappointed to this posi- 
 tion in 1885 and continued incumbent of the same until 1897 ; he 
 was secretary of the board of trustees during practically this entire 
 period. Captain Little has long held prestige as one of the able 
 and resourceful members of the bar of Steuben county and here 
 he has been identified with a large amount of important litiga- 
 tion. He has at all times retained a representative clientele and 
 his professional course has been marked by deep appreciation of 
 the dignity and responsibility of his chosen vocation so that he 
 has held the confidence and high regard of his professional con- 
 freres. 
 
 In politics Captain Little is a staunch adherent of the Demo- 
 cratic party and he is an able exponent of its principles. He 
 has been prominent in its councils in his native state and was a 
 delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1904, when 
 Judge Alton B. Parker was nominated for the presidency. He 
 is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and while not 
 formally united with any religious organization he attends and 
 is a liberal supporter of the St. Thomas church, Protestant Episco- 
 pal, of whose vestry he is a valued member and of which his 
 wife is a zealous communicant. 
 
 In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Captain 
 Little to Miss Emily Theodora Howard, youngest daughter of the 
 Rev. Oran R. Howard, S. T. D., who was rector of St. Thomas 
 church, Protestant Episcopal, in Bath, from 1857 to 1882, and 
 whose memory is revered in the community in which he so long 
 labored with all of consecrated zeal and devotion. The maiden 
 name of his wife was Emily Millington and she survived him by 
 a number of years. 
 
 Peter H. Zimmerman. — On the roster of the public officials 
 of Wayland is accorded the name of Peter H. Zimmerman, the 
 city's present postmaster. Perhaps no man in the city or county 
 is more widely known, and his splendid personality has enabled 
 him to fill with distinction the many public positions to which 
 he has been called. He was born, reared and educated in Way- 
 land township, born May 13, 1857, and under the tuition of his 
 father, Nicholas Zimmerman, a learned man and a graduate of 
 Trevis University, Germany, gained the knowledge which fitted 
 him for life's usefulness. Both Nicholas Zimmerman and his 
 wife, nee Anna Hoffman, were from Germany, their emigration 
 occurring respectively in 1848 and in 1851, and settling in Steu- 
 ben county, New York, they were here married in 1854. Nicholas 
 Zimmerman was the first merchant in Perkinsville, where he suc- 
 ceeded in business, but he was an educator, brilliant and accom- 
 plished to a high degree, and in his own native land he served 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 541 
 
 as a professor in a high institution of learning. In 1858 he moved 
 to Corning, but soon returned to Steuben county, where he died in 
 1895, and where for twenty-three years he had served as a magis- 
 trate, filling the office with honor and dignity up to the time of his 
 death. His widow survives him, and of their four children, three 
 grew to mature years and two are yet living, C. M. Zimmerman, 
 whose home is in Buffalo, and Peter H. 
 
 The last named entered upon his business life as a clerk to 
 the agent for the Illinois Central Railroad Company at Carbon- 
 dale, Illinois, this being in 1872, and in 1879 he entered the office 
 of Capron and Fowler, at that time the most extensive produce 
 dealers in Steuben county. In 1880 he was made the census 
 enumerator, four years later was elected the village treasurer for 
 one year, was village clerk from 1881 until 1884, and from 1888 to 
 the present time he has served as the secretary of the Wayland 
 Dime Savings and Loan Association. At the age of twenty-one 
 he was appointed a notary public, and he has held that office 
 continuously since, from 1898 to the present time has been a mem- 
 ber of the board of education, and he is the president of the Board 
 of Trade. In 1901 Mr. Zimmerman became a stockholder and the 
 president of the board of directors of the Wayland Canning 
 Factory, and he continued at the head of that institution until 
 his resignation in 1905. From 1894 until the abolishment of the 
 office he was a justice of the sessions, from 1884 to 1900 was a 
 justice of the peace, and in February of 1900 he was appointed the 
 postmaster of Wayland and is the present incumbent of the of- 
 fice. He was appointed a special agent of mortgage and indebted- 
 ness for Steuben, Yates and Ontario counties, which comprised 
 the Twenty-ninth Congressional district for the eleventh Federal 
 census. He has proved a valuable factor in the public councils of 
 Wayland and of Steuben county, and as one of the representative 
 men of this community consideration is due Peter H. Zimmer- 
 man in this compilation. He is a member of the Knights of 
 Columbus, the Maccabees, the Woodmen of the World and the 
 C. M. B. A. 
 
 On the 25th of September, 1883, he was happily married to 
 Miss Amelia, a daughter of Philip and Catherine Conrad, and 
 the following children have graced their marriage union: Victor 
 B., the deputy postmaster at Wayland; Emanuel M., in the em- 
 ploy of the Standard Oil Company in Buffalo; Magdalene M., 
 Beatrice H., Harold J., Peter H., Wilhelmina H., Marion E. and 
 Bernetta J. 
 
 Chables a. Kinney.— Noteworthy among the rising young 
 business men of Steuben county is Charles A. Kinney, a skilful 
 mechanic, now actively engaged in plumbing at Bath. A native of 
 this city, he was born April 5, 1884, a son of James Kinney, whose 
 birth occurred in this city fifty years ago. James Kinney married 
 Margaret Kahal, who was born in Thurston township, Steuben 
 
5i-i HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUN-TY 
 
 county, in 1862. They reared four children, namely: Charles A., 
 the special subject of this brief biographical sketch; James, an elec- 
 trician in Rochester, New York; John, of Bath, a printer; and 
 Helena, a clerk in Rochester, New York. 
 
 Having acquired a practical education in the public schools, 
 Charles A. Kinney enlisted for a term of three years in Company 
 P, Twenty-second* Regular Infantry, and at the expiration of his 
 term of enlistment re-enlisted for three years, joining Company I, 
 Twenty-third Regular Infantry, being stationed a part of the time 
 at Fort Crook, Nebraska, while during the Spanish-American war 
 he served under General Wood for two years in the Philippine 
 Islands. On returning to this country he was, with his regiment, 
 on guard duty at the Jamestown Exposition, from there going to 
 Oswego, New York, where he was honorably discharged from the 
 service. Since that time Mr. Kinney has followed the trade of a 
 plumber in Bath, in the meantime living at the old home and 
 caring for his widowed mother. 
 
 ^Ir. Kinney is a valued member of Saint Mary's church. He is 
 not actively interested in politics, voting for the best men and 
 measures regardless of party interests. He is now serving his second 
 term as president of Hose Company No. 2, of Bath. 
 
 Harvey P. Jack, M. D.— A distinguished representative of the 
 medical profession in Steuben county is Dr. Jack, who has attained 
 marked precedence in the domain of surgery and gynecology and 
 who has given most effective service along educational lines in his 
 profession through various contributions to medical and surgical 
 literature of standard periodical order. He is engaged in practice 
 as a specialist at Canisteo, Steuben county, and is a representative 
 of one of the old and honored families of this county. Dr. Harvey 
 P. Jack was born at Thurston, Steuben county, on the 1st of De- 
 cember, 1865, and is a son of Allan T. and Loranah (Lane) Jack, 
 the former of whom was born in Steuben county, in March, 1831, 
 and the latter of whom was born in New Jersey in June of the 
 same year. Their marriage was solemnized in 1862. Allan T. Jack 
 early became identified with railroad interests, in connection with 
 which his first wort was on the Erie Railroad. About 1862 he be- 
 came a conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad and he continued 
 to be thus engaged until 1866, when he returned to Steuben county 
 and purchased a farm on the southeast corner of Cameron town- 
 ship, on Tracy creek. He became the owner of one hundred acres 
 of valuable land and developed one of the fine farms of the county. 
 He continued to give his attention to the supervision of his farm 
 until 1898, and he is now living retired in the city of Buffalo. 
 His devoted and cherished wife was summoned to the life eternal 
 in 1907, and she is survived by three sons and one daughter. 
 
 Dr. Harvey P. Jack gained his preliminary educational disci- 
 pline in a select school at Hedgesville, Steuben county, and this 
 school was presided over by Emily Hubbard, who had been a friend 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 545 
 
 and classmate of his mother at the female college at Blmira, this 
 state, and another classmate later became the wife of Samuel L. 
 Clemens (Mark Twain). Later the Doctor continued his studies 
 in historic old Haverling Academy, at Bath, Steuben county, in 
 which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1885. That 
 he made excellent use of the advantages afforded him is evident 
 when it is stated that when but nineteen years of age he became 
 principal of Woodhull Academy, Woodhull, New York, an incum- 
 bency which he retained one year, within which he raised the stand- 
 ard of the school to a much higher grade, obtaining the first cer- 
 tificate of intermediate grade for the institution. Upon retiring 
 from this position he became principal of the Howard Flats Acad- 
 emy, Howard, New York, which is now a union school, where he 
 remained one year. . He also served as principal of two district 
 schools in his native county and he made an excellent record 
 in connection with his pedagogic career. After leaving the Howard 
 Flats Academy the Doctor entered the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, in the city of Baltimore, and in this splendid institution 
 he was graduated oni the 1st of April, 1891, duly receiving his well 
 earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Prior to this he had devoted 
 six months to the reading of medicine under the able preceptor- 
 ship of Dr. M. B. Hubbs, of Addison, Steuben county. In 1899 
 and 1900 he took two post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins 
 Hospital, under Dr. Howard A. Kelly. 
 
 After his graduation Dr. Jack initiated the active practice of 
 his profession at Rathbone, New York, where he laid the founda- 
 tion for the distinctive precedence which he has since gained in his 
 chosen vocation. He has been an especially close and appreciative 
 student of the profession and has had recourse to the best of its 
 standards and periodical literature. On the 17th of January, 1893, 
 he located at Canisteo, where he has since continued in practice and 
 where he now confines his labors to office practice, surgery and 
 consultation, the while he makes a specialty of gynecology. His 
 reputation has gained him a clientage that far transcends local 
 limitations and as a surgeon his success has been of the most pro- 
 nounced order, as is also his work in plastic surgery. He is the 
 inventor of several useful instruments that have met with signal 
 favor on the part of leading surgeons throughout the United States 
 and one of these is the Jack Suture-Thimble, which is a great aid 
 to surgeons in sewing up orifices and which is used in the same 
 manner as an ordinary thimble. He has also invented the Jack 
 Hysterectomy Needle, which likewise is widely used. His indi- 
 vidual methods of teaching surgery are now being taught in the 
 principal medical colleges and have gained him high commendation 
 on the part of his professional confreres. He has succeeded in 
 greatly simplifying operations for hernia and his work along this 
 line serves as a model for many of the leading surgeons of the 
 country, besides which it has been adopted by representative sur- 
 geons in Europe. His contributions to medical literature have 
 been wide and varied and have attracted much appreciative atten- 
 
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546 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 tion on the part of leading members of the medical fraternity. 
 Especially is this true in connection with his recommendation con- 
 tained in a paper published in 1908 and entitled "Preparation 
 of the Surgeon." This paper appeared in the Interimtional Journal 
 of Surgery and it is worthy of special note that his suggestions in 
 this connection are now being adopted in Japan. The Doctor has 
 had a large amount of correspondence with eminent Japanese sur- 
 geons and they are zealously working out a method of manual 
 training for surgeons— a discipline that is now considered an abso- 
 lute necessity. Dr. Jack also devised a new and simple method of 
 burial of the appendix stump and his paper entitled "Shall We 
 Bury the Stump of the Appendix ? ' ' was published in the Journal 
 of the American Medical Association of March 13, 1909, being 
 copyrighted by the association. His method* of performing this 
 part of the operation is original and is now being utilized by 
 leading surgeons. Other noteworthy papers contributed by Dr. 
 Jack are entitled "Puerperal Septicemia" and "Hernia as a Dis- 
 ability, with a New Procedure for Disposing of the Sac, and the 
 Use of Cocaine Anesthesia for Operations. ' ' Dr. Jack is consulting 
 surgeon to the St. James Mercy Hospital at Hornell, Steuben 
 county and the Steuben County Medical Society, and has served as 
 president of the Hornell Medical & Surgical Association. He has 
 also been president of the New York State Railway Surgeons ' Asso- 
 ciation and is identified with the New York and New England Rail- 
 road Surgeons' Association, besides which he is an active and val- 
 ued member of the American Medical Association and the New 
 York State Medical Society. He has served for ten years as a mem- 
 ber of the board of the United States pension examiners for Steu- 
 ben county. 
 
 He is a stanch Republican in his political allegiance, is affil- 
 iated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the 
 Knights Templars' degree, and is also identified with the Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife holds membership 
 in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 On the 21st of February, 1891, was solemnized the marriage 
 of Dr. Jack to Miss Drusilla St. Clair, a daughter of Samuel St. 
 Clair, a representative citizen of Port Deposit, Maryland. Dr. 
 and Mrs. Jack have one daughter, Loranah S., who was born on 
 the 20th of December, 1891, and who is now a student in the 
 Emma Willard Seminary at Troy, New York. 
 
 John E. Jacobs.— Numbered among the progressive citizens 
 of Steuben county is Mr. Jacobs, who resides in the village of 
 Wayland, where he controls a prosperous enterprise in the team- 
 ing and express business, for which he has an adequate equip- 
 ment and in connection with which he has a representative sup- 
 porting patronage, showing that he is reliable and upright in his 
 business dealings and well entitled to the confidence so uniformly 
 reposed in him in the community. 
 
 John Brhart Jacobs was born on the old homestead farm of 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 547 
 
 his father, in Springwater township, Livingston county. New 
 York, on the 24th of October, 1858, and is a son of Blias and Mary 
 Catherine (Beek) Jacobs, the former of whom died on the 28th of 
 April, 1893, at the age of sixty-five years, and the latter was sum- 
 moned to eternal rest on the 16th of November, 1904, at the 
 age of seventy-one years. Elias Jacobs was born in Pennsylvania 
 and was ten years of age at the time when his parents removed 
 from the old Keystone commonwealth to Livingston county. New 
 York, where his father secured a tract of land and engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits, to which he devoted the residue of his life. 
 Elias Jacobs was reared to maturity under the sturdy discipline of 
 the farm and his educational advantages were limited to the 
 common schools of the locality and period. In his youth he 
 learned the carpenter's trade and he found his services in requisi- 
 tion in connection with building operations in this section of the 
 state, even after he had made farming his vocation. He continued 
 to be identified with agricultural pursuits until his death, and 
 with the passing years a due measure of prosperity attended his 
 earnest and arduous labors. His wife was a daughter of Valentine 
 and Margaretta Beek, who immigrated from Germany to America 
 and established their home on a farm near Dansville, Livingston 
 county. New York, where they passed the remainder of their lives. 
 Of the children of Elias and Mary Catherine (Beek) Jacobs five 
 sons are living,— William, who resides at Trout Run, Pennsyl- 
 vania; Valentine, who is a successful farmer of Livingston 
 county. New York; Edward, who is a resident of the village of 
 Wayland; Alonzo A., who is individually mentioned on other 
 pages of this volume; and John E., who is the immediate subject 
 of this review. The mother was a devout member of the Lutheran 
 church. 
 
 John E. Jacobs was reared on the home farm and is indebted 
 to the public schools for his early educational training. At the 
 age of eighteen years he found employment at farm work, and 
 he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits for many 
 years, eventually becoming the owner of a well improved farm, 
 a property which he still retains. In 1900 Mr. Jacobs took up 
 his residence in the village of "Wayland, where he has since been 
 successfully engaged in the teaming and express business. He is 
 loyal and public-spirited as a citizen but has never desired of- 
 ficial preferment, the while he maintains an independent attitude 
 in politics, giving his support to the men and measures meeting the 
 approval of his judgment. He is affiliated with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Ma,ceabees, and 
 both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal 
 church in their home village. 
 
 On the 3d of January, 1897, Mr. Jacobs. was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Eda Hecox, who was born and reared in Howard 
 township, this county, and the date of whose nativity was Novem- 
 ber 4, 1864. She is a daughter of David and Laura C. (Dock- 
 
548 HISTOEY OF STEUBElSr COUNTY 
 
 stetter) Heeox, both of whom were born in Otsego county, New 
 York. David Hecox was a child at the time of his parents' re- 
 moval to Steuben county and they settled in Howard township, 
 where the parents passed the rest of their lives. He himself be- 
 came one of the prosperous farmers of that township and was a 
 man who was never denied the fullest measure of popular esteem. 
 He died on the 26th of February, 1898, at the age of sixty years, 
 and his wife passed away on the 6th of March, 1897. She was a 
 daughter of Leonard and Catherine (Kincaid) Dockstetter, who 
 came from Otsego county to Steuben county in an early day. Of 
 the children of David and Laura C. Hecox three are living besides 
 Mrs. Jacobs,— David, who is a resident of the state of Nebraska; 
 Ella, who is the wife of Allen Reed, of Kanona, Steuben county; 
 and Ida, who is the wife of Horace Snell. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs 
 have two children, — Beulah C, who was born May 26, 1904, and 
 Dorr, who was born January 19, 1907. 
 
 Hon. Pbed A. Robbins.— This legal practitioner, attorney at 
 Hornell for the Erie road, was bom at Bainbridge, Chenango 
 county. New York, October 16, 1858. His father, of the same 
 name and a native of Granby, Massachusetts, died in his sixty- 
 sixth year. Asa Robbins, father of the latter and grandfather of 
 Fred A. Robbins of Hornell, was of an old New England family 
 of English extraction. Mr. Robbins' mother was Miss Catherine 
 Whittlesey, daughter of Zina "Whittlesey. Her father was born 
 in Saybrook, Connecticut, she, in Durham, Greene county. New 
 York. She died in her fifty-third year. Of the children tbat she 
 bore her husband four grew to maturity and of those four Fred 
 A. was the second in order of nativity. 
 
 The immediate subject of this sketch was educated in common 
 schools at Angelica, Allegany county. New York. He began the 
 study of law there and in 1880 was admitted to the bar at 
 Rochester. He began his practice at Belfast, Allegany county, but 
 remained there only about six months. Returning to Angelica, he 
 was in practice there from in 1881 until in 1898, when he located 
 at Hornell, and there he resumed his professional work. Since 
 January 1, 1904, he has been one of the local attorneys for the 
 Erie road. 
 
 While living in Allegany county Mr. Robbins was for five 
 years supervisor of Angelica township, and during the last three 
 years of the five he was chairman of the Allegany county board 
 of supervisors. From 1893 to 1897 he represented Allegany coun- 
 ty in the general assembly of the state of New York. 
 
 In 1887, Mr. Robbins married Miss Clara E". Kendall, of 
 Angelica, New York, and they have three sons,— Charles, Albert 
 and Edward Robbins. 
 
 William Manley Wagner.- One of the most prominent of 
 the industrial representatives of the little city of Savona is found 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 551 
 
 iu the person of William M. Wagner, perhaps most prominently 
 known as a merchant. He was born in the city of Bath on the 
 28th of November, 1866, to Peter and Mary (Freeman) Wagner. 
 The mother, a daughter of Alexander and Hulda Freeman, died in 
 the year 1906, aged sixty-seven years, and she is survived by her 
 husband, who is living retired at Altoona, Pennsylvania. He 
 was born in Steuben county, New York, seventy-eight years ago, 
 and for many years he was both a farmer and lumberman in Bath. 
 
 William M. Wagner, the only surviving child in his parents' 
 family, on leaving school at the age of sixteen spent three years as 
 a clerk in the oflSce of the superintendent of the Erie Railroad 
 Company at Hornell, New York, was then for a similar period em- 
 ployed in the capacity of a brakeman, and returning at the close 
 of that period to Savona he embarked in the general mercantile 
 business as a member of the firm of Wagner and Stevenson. This 
 association continued until 1892, and since then Mr. Wagner has 
 been alone in the business. He carries the largest stock of goods 
 to be found in any store of its kind in this community, and his 
 goods are also well selected. Iu addition he is associated with the 
 insurance business, representing as a general agent the Baron 
 Steuben Fire Insurance Company, is a stockholder and the secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the Coleman Iron Works Company of Savona, 
 and is also a stockholder iu the Savona Milling Company and the 
 Savona Elgin Butter and Cheese Association. In politics he is, 
 allied with the Democratic party, and he was formerly president 
 of the Savona corporation, and has been its treasurer during the 
 past six years. During a period of three years he was the overseer 
 of the poor at Bath. 
 
 Mr. Wagner married in 1895 Miss Anna M. Van Housen, and 
 two daughters have graced their union, Julia and Cora. 
 
 Clarence Willis.— No citizen of Steuben county has shown 
 more vital interest in its history than Clarence Willis, of Bath, who 
 is a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section 
 of the state and who is a representative member of the bar of his 
 native county. He has been called upon to serve in various offices 
 of public trust and is a citizen who is held in implicit confidence 
 and esteem in the community. 
 
 Clarence Willis was born in Howard township, Steuben county, 
 on the 31st of July, 1852, and is a son of William H. and Nancy 
 (Whiting) Willis, both of whom were likewise natives of Steuben 
 county, the father having been born in Bath township, on the 30th 
 of ilay, 1832, and the mother iu Howard township, on the 30th 
 of November, 1827. The marriage of the parents was solemnized 
 on the 25th of September, 1851, and they immediately established 
 their home on the farm of ]Mrs. Willis' father, the old Whiting 
 homestead, and this has been maintained as the homestead of the 
 Willis family since that time. There William Hern Willis still 
 maintains his home and there his cherished and devoted wife died 
 on the 20th of September, 1894. Mr. Willis remodeled the house 
 
553 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 on the farm which is now his home and has made other improve- 
 ments of the best order. He is one of the substantial and hon- 
 ored citizens of the county, and though now venerable in years, 
 he still gives a general supervision to the work and management 
 of his fine farm. The Whiting family is of English extraction 
 and was founded in Massachusetts in 1636. Colonel John Whit- 
 ing, grandfather of Mrs. Nancy (Whiting) Willis, removed from 
 Massachusetts to Maine, whence he came to Steuben county, New 
 York, in 1814, settling near the old stone quarry south of the 
 village of Bath, and in the township of the same name. He 
 afterward removed to the village, where he continued to reside 
 until his death, which occurred in 1853. Of his fourteen children, 
 twelve attained to years of maturity and his son, John W. Whit- 
 ing, father of Mrs. Willis, became one of the representative 
 farmers of Howard township, where he continued to reside during 
 the major portion of his life and where he died on the 15th of 
 June, i871. Colonel John Whiting was a man of prominence 
 and influence in the community in the pioneer days and was es- 
 sentially progressive in his attitude, doing all in his power to 
 further the civic and material upbuilding of the county. He was 
 prominently identified with the construction of the Lake Erie 
 turnpike and it may be noted that in 1818 he contracted to plow 
 and scrape twenty-two miles of this highway and to build the 
 needed aqueducts and bridges. For this work he received $3,076.56. 
 The construction of the road was initiated in 1809. 
 
 William Willis, paternal great-grandfather of him whose name 
 initiates this review, was born in the year 1779 and was likewise 
 a representative of one of the Colonial families of New England. 
 In 1820 he came with his family to Steuben county and secured 
 a tract of land in the western part of Bath township, a locality 
 which was later known as Willis Hill. There he died in 1824. His 
 children were nine in number and of these Harry Willis, grand- 
 father of the subject of this review, continued to reside on a part 
 of the old homestead farm, where he remained until his death. On 
 this ancestral farm William Hern Willis was born and reared. 
 He has been for many years a zealous member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church and his wife was a Presbyterian in her religious 
 faith. He has always given his support to the principles and pol- 
 icies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor- and he has 
 been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust, in- 
 cluding those of township supervisor and assessor. His election 
 to these offices indicates his personal popularity in the township 
 which has for many years given a large Republican majority. 
 William H. and Nancy (Whiting) Willis became the parents 
 of four children, of whom Clarence is the eldest. Sarah AV is 
 the wife of Albert T. Abbey, of Watkins, Schuyler county; John 
 W. remains on the old homestead with his father and has the gen- 
 eral management of the place; Angeline is the wife of Andrew 
 J.' McKibben and they reside near the old homestead in Howard 
 township. W^illiam H. Willis was at one time the candidate of his 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 553 
 
 party for the ofSce of state senator and he has been for a good 
 many years influential in the public affairs of his township. Con- 
 cerning the Whiting family it should be noted that the subject 
 of this sketch is a direct descendant in the sixth generation from 
 Timothy Whiting, who was a valiant soldier in the Continental 
 line in the war of the Revolution, in which he participated in the 
 battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. 
 
 Clarence Willis passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm 
 and his rudimentary education was secured in the district schools, 
 after which he continued his studies under the direction of a 
 private tutor. Rev. Peter C. Robertson, a graduate of Union Col- 
 lege. Under the preceptorship of Mr. Robertson Mr. Willis began 
 the study of Latin and he later became efficient in this classical 
 language. 'He finally entered Haverling Academy, at Bath, in 
 which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 
 1871. Thereafter he was engaged in teaching in the public schools 
 of his native county during the winter terms for five years and 
 in the meanwhile, in 1873, he began the study of law in the of- 
 fice of Ruggles & Little, of Bath, besides which he continued his 
 technical studies under Charles P. Kingsley. His health became 
 impaired and under these conditions he returned to the home farm, 
 where he -remained for two years, at the expiration of which he 
 resumed his law studies and on June 14, 1878, at the General 
 term of the Superior court, in the City of Buffalo, he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. He immediately initiated the practice of his 
 profession at Bath and on the 1st of January, 1883, he was ap- 
 pointed sheriff's clerk, a position of which he continued incumbent 
 under two administrations. In 1889 he was elected village clerk of 
 Bath and in 1890 he was elected police justice, a position which he 
 retained for six years. In 1891 he was also elected justice of the 
 peace of Bath township and this incumbency he retained four 
 years. In 1906 he was Democratic candidate for the office of 
 county judge and though he received a very flattering endorse- 
 ment at the polls he was unable to overcome the normal Republican 
 majority. On the 1st of March, 1907, he was appointed transfer 
 tax attorney for Steuben county by the state comptroller and in 
 this position he served until January 9, 1909. He has also served 
 as village assessor and as a member of the board of health of 
 Bath. He became a member of the local board of education in 
 1888 and has continuously served in this capacity except for an 
 interim of three years, and is now the president of the board. 
 Mr. Willis has taken a specially active interest in educational 
 affairs and also in political manoeuvers in his home county. In 
 the autumn of 1909 he was made the nominee of his party for 
 member of assembly of the First district of Steuben county in the 
 state legislature. He made a splendid campaign and was de- 
 feated by only one hundred and forty-two votes in a district that 
 gives a normal Republican majority of sixteen hundred. He car- 
 ried the town of Bath by three hundred and ninety-six plurality 
 and his home precinct by one hundred and forty. He was the 
 
554 HISTOKY OF STBUBEX COUNTY 
 
 candidate of the Democratic party for the state senate in 1910, in 
 the forty-third senatorial district, comprising Steuben and Living- 
 ston counties, a district that gave Taft a majority of over seven 
 thousand, and he. was defeated by the meager majority of two 
 hundred and sixty-seven votes. He carried every election district 
 in his own town and his county by three hundred and twenty votes, 
 the first Democrat to receive a plurality in Steuben county in 
 twenty-five years. He was secretary of the Democratic county 
 committee from 1881 to 1884, inclusive, and in 1909 he served as 
 chairman of the Democratic committee of the First assembly dis- 
 trict of Steuben county. 
 
 Mr. Willis has maintained his law office in the Dean Block for 
 twenty years and his business is largely that of the settlement of 
 estates. Concerning him the following statements are substantially 
 those that appeared in the Elmira-Star Gazette: "He is known 
 as a careful counselor and a man thoroughly read in his profes- 
 sion. Mr. Willis is a gentleman of great and diversified ability and 
 is authority on all matters pertaining to the local history of Steu- 
 ben county. He has given numerous addresses at various meet- 
 ings and before various bodies on historical subjects and these 
 papers are valuable additions to the historical literature of Steu- 
 ben county. In a business way he has always been a careful man- 
 ager. Since he became secretary of the Nondaga Cemetery Asso- 
 ciation at Bath, in 1898, when he found the organization hope- 
 lessly in debt, he has placed its afllairs in a fine financial condi- 
 tion and has made the cemetery one of the beauty spots of the 
 town. When transfer tax attorney his businesslike management 
 was praised by all, including the state comptroller. While police 
 justice his papers were never reviewed by any court and only 
 two appeals were taken from his decisions, in both of which he 
 was affirmed. Mr. Willis has been the architect of his own fortune 
 and has worked his way up from the original vocation of farm- 
 ing. He can still pitch hay, and enjoys the acquaintance of hun- 
 dreds of the farmers of Steuben county, who respect him thor- 
 oughly as a man and a citizen. He is a typical American, is a 
 first class business man and an official who has always been true 
 to his trusts." 
 
 Mr. Willis is a most zealous communicant of the Episcopal 
 church and has been a member of St. Thomas church at Bath since 
 1873. He was elected a member of the vestry of this parish in 
 1889 and he is now senior warden of the church. He is a mem-, 
 ber of Kohoeton Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 
 has served both as district deputy grand master and as district 
 deputy grand patriarch of this organization, which he has rep- 
 resented in both the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of 
 the state. In 1905 he received from Hobart College the honorary 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts and 1910 he received the honorary 
 degree of Master of Litigation from Alfred University. 
 
 On the 23d of April, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. Willis to Miss Mary Alice Billington, who was born March 
 25, 1849, in Bath township and there reared, a daughter of Jacob 
 and Abigail (Hewlett) Billington, well known residents of the county. 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 555 
 
 Fred E. Bartholomew.— Among the representative citizens 
 of Steuben county, New York, is Fred Eugene Bartholomew, who is 
 actively engaged in farming and the dairy business in Wayland 
 township and who has ever manifested a deep and sincere interest 
 in all matters tending to advance the general welfare of this 
 section of the grand old Empire state. He was born in Naples 
 township, this county, on the 20th of October, 1876, and is a 
 son of Henry Eugene Bartholomew, who was likewise born in 
 Naples township, the date of his birth being February 3d, 1852. 
 The paternal grandfather of the subject of this review was Henry 
 Bartholomew, who resided in Pennsylvania for a time, coming 
 thence to Naples township, Steuben county, New York. He and a 
 brother who accompanied him were identified with the dairy busi- 
 ness and general farming throughout their lives. Henry Bartholo- 
 mew was a carriage-maker by trade and he married Minna Rodley, 
 who was born in Connecticut. He was summoned to eternal rest 
 in 1895, at the age of seventy-five years, and she passed away in 
 1893, at the age of sixty-eight years. Allen Bartholomew, father 
 of Henry, was a native of Connecticut, whence he came to Naples 
 township, where he took up farming and where he died in 1853, 
 at the age of eighty years. The maiden name of his wife was 
 Zenith Bryee. The great-great-grandfather of Fred E. Bartholo- 
 mew, of this sketch, was Aaron Bartholomew, who lived to the 
 age of ninety-seven years; he was a farmer by vocation. The 
 mother of him whose name initiates this review was Miss Phoebe 
 Warring prior to her marriage. She was born on the old Warring 
 homestead in South Cohocton, New York, on the 4th of February, 
 1854, and is a daughter of John C. Warring, who was also born in 
 South Cohocton, where he died in 1887, at the age of fifty-seven 
 years. He married Martha- D. Hoag, who died in her seventy-fifth 
 year, in 1904. Martha D. Hoag was a daughter of Nathan and 
 Susan Hoag, of Buffalo, New York. The maternal great-grand- 
 father of Fred E. Bartholomew, Charles Warring, was a carpenter 
 and ship-builder by vocation and he was born and reared in 
 England, whence he came to the United States with his parents. 
 Settlement was made in Connecticut, where Charles W^arring 
 wedded Rhoda Glason. They came to New York with an ox-team 
 and wagon and located a colony at what is now known as Warring 
 Hill, where Charles took up a homestead of two hundred and 
 sixty acres of timber land, which he cleared, hauling the timber 
 to Cohocton and Bath, whence it was shipped down the Cohoc- 
 ton river. In those days all the clothing worn was homespun 
 and the schoolhouse was some two and a half miles distant. 
 John C. Warring, grandfather of Fred E. Bartholomew, served for 
 a time as a soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company C, 
 New York Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service at 
 Elmira, New York. He participated in many important campaigns 
 under General Grant and was present at the time of General Lee's 
 surrender. 
 
556 HISTOEY OF STEUBE^^ COUNTY 
 
 Mr and Mrs Henry Eugene Bartholomew became the parents 
 of two children, namely -Lottie, who is the wife of Philip Damoth 
 of Corning, New York; and Fred E., the immediate subject ot 
 this review. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew are both living. Fred E, 
 received his educational training in the public schools of Steu- 
 ben county and he was associated with his father m the work and 
 management of the home farm until he had attained to the age ot 
 sixteen years, after which he farmed out until 1909, m which year 
 he engaged in the farming and dairy business on his own account. 
 He now owns a splendid estate in Naples township and m con- 
 nection with the milk business he utilizes twenty cows, operating 
 a fine milk and dairy depot. In politics he is aligned as a stal- 
 wart supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican 
 party and although he has never manifested aught of desire for 
 political preferment of any description he is alert and enthusiastic- 
 ally in sympathy with all measures advanced for the general good 
 of the community. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the 
 Modern "Woodmen of America. 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew married Miss Lieny Sidmore, who was born 
 in 1879. She was a daughter of B. Sidmore, a prominent farmer 
 near Hemlock, this county. Mrs. Bartholomew was summoned to 
 the life eternal in 1899. She was a woman of most gracious per- 
 sonality and was deeply beloved by all who came within the 
 sphere of her gentle influence. 
 
 Reuben E. Robie.— At this point it is permitted to enter brief 
 record concerning one of the honored and essentially representa- 
 tive members of the bar of Steuben county, with whose annals the 
 name has been identified for more than four score years. Mr. 
 Robie has been for a number of years engaged in the practice of 
 his profession at Bath and this place has represented his home 
 from the time of his birth, which here occurred on the 24th of Sep- 
 tember, 1843. He is a son of Hon. Reuben and Nancy (Whiting) 
 Robie, whose marriage was here solemnized on the 29th of April, 
 1824, in which year Reuben Robie had established his home at 
 Bath, whither he came from his native state of Vermont in 1822. 
 He became one of the prominent business men and influential citi- 
 zens of Steuben county and was a member of congress in 1851-2. 
 For more than half a century he was numbered among the lead- 
 ing merchants of Bath and here his death occurred in January, 
 1872. The lineage of the Robie family is traced back to John Robie, 
 of Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, England, who died in 1515, 
 and the original representative of the name in America was Henry 
 Robie, who landed at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1639, and went 
 thence to Exeter, New Hampshire, in which state he continued 
 to reside until his death, which occurred at Hampton. Mrs. Nancy 
 (Whiting) Robie, mother of him whose name initiates this review, 
 was a descendant of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, Massachusetts, 
 who settled at Lynn in 1636, and she was a daughter of Colonel 
 John Whiting, who came from Maine to Bath, Steuben county. 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 55? 
 
 in 1815. Reuben and Nancy (Whiting) Robie became the parents 
 of twelve children, whose names are here entered in their respec- 
 tive order of birth,— Nancy Jane, Harriet Alvira, Lydia, Olive, 
 John Whiting, Jonathan, Charles Henry, James Whiting, Mary, 
 Reuben Edward, Joel Carter and James Lyon. Of the number 
 three sons and one daughter are now living. 
 
 Reuben E. Robie gained his early educational training in the 
 schools of his native town and in 1864 he was graduated from 
 Hobart College, in Geneva, this state. Thereafter he began read- 
 ing law under the able preceptorship of Hon. David Rumsey, of 
 Bath, and in 1866 was duly admitted to the bar. He initiated the 
 active work of his profession by entering into partnership with 
 his former preceptor and George S. Jones, under the firm name of 
 Rumsey, Jones & Robie. This alliance continued for two years 
 and for the succeeding two years Mr. Jones and Mr. Robie were 
 in partnership. Since that time Mr. Robie has continued his prac- 
 tice in an individual way and he has long controlled a large and 
 representative professional business, based upon his recognized 
 ability as an advocate and counselor and upon his sterling at- 
 tributes of character. He has served as a member of the board of 
 trustees of his native town and as loan commissioner of the state 
 of New York. He was long and prominently identified with the 
 National Guard, in which connection he served as adjutant, brigade 
 inspector and judge advocate. In politics Mr. Robie has ever ac- 
 corded a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party and he has been 
 an efficient exponent of its principles and policies. He is identi- 
 fied with various social organizations. 
 
 On the 2d of February, 1881, Mr. Robie was united in marriage 
 to Miss Anna Watkins Babcock, a daughter of the late Colonel 
 William Babcock, of. Canton, Illinois. 
 
 E. R. Hyde, Wayland's florist, has been a resident of Steuben 
 county for twenty-one years, but has maintained his residence in 
 Way] and only since 1904. He is a natural horticulturist and a 
 successful man in the vocation, and he has always been a lover of 
 flowers, but it was not until 1906 that he took up the business as 
 a special vocation. He owns his own property, and has twelve 
 hundred feet under glass, and will soon enlarge his plant in order 
 to supply the growing demands of his trade. He is at the present 
 time making a specialty of the raising of carnations and roses, 
 but he has a large trade in all cut flowers and potted plants. 
 
 Mr. Hyde claims Candice Corners in Livingston county, New 
 York, as the place of his nativity, and he was born in 1869 to 
 the marriage union of Frank L. and Lucretia (Mott) Hyde, whose 
 children consisted of but two and E. R. Hyde is the only one liv- 
 ing in Steuben county. He was educated at Hornell, this state, 
 and his first business experience was in a clerical capacity in the 
 dispatcher's office in the Erie Railroad shops at Hornell, but later 
 he went from there to Bufi'alo and followed clerical work there 
 until coming to Wayland in 1904. In 1899 he married Miss Nellie 
 
558 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 Algier, and a son, Stephen, was born to them in 1901. Mr. Hyde 
 is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Patehin Lodge of Wayland. 
 
 M. C. SwAKTHOUT.— The one agency which has done most for 
 public progress is the press, and M. C. Swarthout is a journalist of 
 well known ability, the editor of the Wayland Register. He has 
 been connected with journalistic work during the greater part of 
 his business life, and his power as a writer and editor is widely 
 acknowledged. He has edited the Wayland Kegister since the 17th 
 of November, 1904, and with the passing years he has made it 
 one of the leading journals of Steiiben county. 
 
 JMr. Swarthout has been identified with Wayland and its in- 
 terests since 1902, but he claims Ovid in Seneca county as the 
 place of his nativity, born on the 22d of September, 1882. His 
 parents, C. H. and Elizabeth (Critehell) Swarthout, were from 
 Seneca county, New York, and Adrian, Michigan, respectively. 
 The mother died June 6, 1907, and the father is now living in 
 Ovid, where he is held in the highest esteem. He has served in 
 many of the public offices of Seneca county, including six years as 
 its sheriff, ten years as a supervisor, ten years as the chairman of 
 the County Democratic Committee, and he is now the president of 
 the village of Ovid and is numbered among his county's rep- 
 resentative and influential citizens. M. C. Swarthout is the third 
 born of his parents' five children, and he was reared and educated 
 in his native village of Ovid and is a graduate of its high school. 
 Immediately after leaving school he became associated with the 
 printing business and in a comparatively short time has become 
 proficient as an editor. His job printing department is one of 
 the chief features of his business, and he is well equipped in every 
 line of his work. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of 
 America, and served his lodge as consul during the years 1906 
 and 1907. 
 
 On the 8th of January, 1905, Mr. Swarthout was happily mar- 
 ried to Miss Katheryn, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gregg, 
 of Wayland, and a son, Maurice G., was born to them on the 1st 
 of January, 1906. 
 
 James Laurno.— The business houses of the city of Bath in- 
 clude among their number the fruit, candy and cigar store of 
 Vennto and Laurno, which was established in 1906, and which is 
 one of the leading houses of its kind in the city. James Laurno, of 
 that firm, was born in Alatri, Italy, April 17, 1876, a son of 
 Beato and Rose (Mirino) Laurno, who are living in the city of 
 Alatri, the father at the age of seventy-two and the mother at the 
 age of fifty-eight. There are two daughters of the family, Zeno- 
 phina, wife of Peter Wetat, who resides in Bath, and Theresina, at 
 home with her parents. James Laurno was a lad of thirteen when 
 he came to America, and during the following six years was em- 
 ployed in a glass factory at Corning, New York. Then return- 
 
HISTORY OK STEUBKX C'OUXTY 559 
 
 ing to the country of his birth he spent another six years on the 
 home farm there, and coming once more to America in 1904 he 
 located in Bath, but later went again to Corning, and in 1906 he 
 returned to this city, and has since been engaged in the conduct 
 of his fruit, candy and cigar store. He is a member of the Catholic 
 church and of the order of United Workmen in Bath. 
 
 Mr. Laurno married a lady from his own native land, Rosa 
 Marino, who was born near his boyhood's home in Italy in 1877, 
 a daughter of Dominick IMarino, deceased, and of Rosa (Foggana) 
 Marino, his wife. Three daughters have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Laurno, Olinda, eight years of age, Mathilda, six years old, 
 and Louisa. 
 
 William Cuffney. — The native-born citizens of Bath, Steu- 
 ben county, have no finer representative than William Cuffney, 
 bookkeeper at the Halloek Bank. He is a man of sterling integrity 
 and worth, public-spirited and enterprising, and, although one of 
 the younger generation, is already quite active in local affairs and 
 prominent and popular in social circles. A son of Dennis Cuffney, 
 he was born October 24, 1886, in this city. 
 
 Dennis Cuffney was born in 1858 in Bradford county, Penn- 
 sylvania, but has spent the larger part of his active life in Bath, 
 at the present time being fireman at the Soldiers' Home. He 
 married Mary B. Tigue, who was born, fifty-one years ago, in 
 Bath, New York, a daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Smith) 
 Tigue, who settled in this part of Steuben county at an early day. 
 Five children have been born of their union, namely; James, of 
 Sonyea, New York; William, the subject of this sketch; Edward, 
 a druggist in Bath; Margaret, a pupil in the Bath High School; 
 and Thomas, a school boy. 
 
 Having been graduated from the Union High School in Bath 
 in 1904 William Cuffney taught school for a year at AUegany, New 
 York, after which he continued his studies at Saint Bonaventure 
 College for a year. The following year he was employed as a 
 clerk, and in 1907 was offered the position of bookkeeper at the 
 Halloek Bank, and has since retained it, performing the duties 
 devolving upon him in this capacity most creditably and satis- 
 factorily. , , , n 
 
 Mr. Cuffney is a faithful member of Saint Mary's church, and 
 belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He is an earnest advocate of 
 the principles of the Democratic party, and in 1909 was elected 
 town clerk of Bath, being the second man elected to that position 
 on the Democratic ticket in a period of fifty-five years. He is 
 still free from domestic ties, making his home with his parents, in 
 the house where his birth occurred. 
 
 William Richardson, a man of affairs and president of the 
 Bank of Steuben, Hornell, was born in Almond, Allegany county. 
 New York April 10, 1836, a son of Thomas Richardson. His 
 
560 HISTOKY OF STEUBfeN COUNTY 
 
 father was a shoemaker by trade, but became a manufacturer and a 
 shoe merchant. He was born in 1800 and died in July, 1869. His 
 wife who died when she was forty-four years old, was Helen M. 
 Brower, a native of the state of New York. She bore her husband 
 five son's and two daughters, all of whom except one grew to man- 
 hood and womanhood. The subject of this notice, the youngest of 
 the family, was reared on a farm and educated in schools near his 
 boyhood home. At eighteen he became a clerk in a store at Al- 
 mond. In 1856 he formed a partnership with his father in the 
 shoe business in that village. Four years later he bought his 
 father's interest in the enterprise and continued it individually, 
 meantime embarking in the tanning business at Andover, in the 
 same county. In 1873 he removed his business to Hornell, where 
 he conducted it successfully till 1907. Then he disposed of it in 
 order the better to give his attention to other interests. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Richardson and seven other gentlemen organized 
 the Bank of Steuben and he became its president. Its twenty- 
 ninth quarterly report made to the banking superintendent in 
 November, 1909, showed its resources and liabilities as follows: 
 Assets— loans and discounts, $579,225.75 ; bonds owned, $65,249.07 ; 
 mortgages owned, $13,170.00 ; accrued interest, $2,000.00 ; cash on 
 hand and in banks, $160,362.00; liabilities— capital, $50,000.00; 
 surplus and profits, $98,923.55 ; deposits, $666,084.05 ; interest due, 
 $5,000.00. The official roster of this strong financial institution is 
 as follows: President, William Richardson; vice-president, L. W. 
 Rockwell; cashier, Charles W. Etz; assistant cashier, "William E. 
 Pittenger ; directors, William Richardson, J. E. Walker, J. L. Rock- 
 well, William E. Pittenger, W. G. Hollands, S. S. Karr, H. G. 
 Pierson, Charles W. Etz, L. W. Rockwell, S. B. Brown, C. E. 
 Shults, W. H. Greenhow, George Hollands, Don L. Sharp and J. 
 E. Schwarzenbach. Mr. Richardson owns considerable real es- 
 tate, including several farms. He has erected a number of prom- 
 inent buildings in Hornell, the first one thirty-seven years ago. 
 
 Mr. Richardson married Miss Elsie Hammond, of Allegany 
 county, New York. Their only child, Frances, is the wife of Dr. 
 Herman Biggs, of New York city. Without any real desire for 
 political activity, too busy to mix in political affairs even did he 
 wish to do so, Mr. Richardson while exercising much influence as 
 a private citizen has never given much attention to practical poli- 
 tics. It is as a business man that he has made his way in the 
 world, and as such he will impress the spirit of his personality on 
 the community with which he has been so long identified and to 
 which it is to be hoped he may long be spared. 
 
 Dr. John D. Mitchell was born at Cameron Mills, Steuben 
 county. New York, March 7, 1853, a son of Dr. Samuel Mitchell, 
 a native of Lisle, Bromme county. New York, who came to Steu- 
 ben county in his young manhood. John D. was the eldest son of 
 the family, and the oldest except one of the members of it who are 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 5G3 
 
 living in 1910. He passed the years of his boyhood at Cameron 
 Mills and at sixteen went to Hornell to school. After a period of 
 study at Lima, he took up the study of medicine under his father 's 
 preceptorship. He was duly graduated from the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University of New York in 1876. For twelve years 
 thereafter he practiced his profession with increasing success at 
 Savona, Steuben county. Then, coming to Hornell, he organized 
 the Hornell Sanitarium company, erected the sanitarium build- 
 ings and was for six years in charge of that institution as its 
 superintendent and resident physician and surgeon. He then 
 turned to the general practice of medicine and surgery as an in- 
 dependent practitioner, in which he has won signal eminence. He 
 is a member of the Steuben County Medical Society, is a member 
 and has been president of the Hornell Medical and Surgical Asso- 
 ciation, a member of the New York State Medical Society, and a 
 member of the American Medical Association. 
 
 Dr. Mitchell, while living at Savona, became a Mason. In 
 politics he is a stanch Republican. He is a member and a trustee 
 of the Methodist -Episcopal church. April 19, 1876, he married 
 Miss Artelissa Morris, daughter of Aaron Morris, a pioneer in 
 Steuben county who was early prominent in connection with the 
 Protestant Episcopal church, influentially helpful in connection 
 with the building of the first Episcopal church edifice at Hornell. 
 Mrs. Mitchell's mother was a daughter x)f Nathanial Finch, an 
 early settler at Hornell. Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell have eight children 
 as follows : William M., M. D., is a practicing physician at Brad- 
 ford, Pennsylvania; Samuel is a dentist; Carrie married Fred G. 
 Spink of Hornell; Hobart is studying for a medical and surgical 
 career at the University of Baltimore; Florence, Lovina, Clarence 
 and Ward are members of their parents' household. As a citizen. 
 Dr. Mitchell is public spirited and helpful to all worthy interests. 
 
 Judge Monroe Wheei^ee is not only known as one of the es- 
 sentially representative legists and jurists of his native county, 
 where he is now serving on the bench of the surrogate court, but 
 he is also a scion of one of the old and distinguished families of 
 Steuben county, where the family name is perpetuated in the 
 town of Wheeler, where he was bom on the 16th of August, 1849. 
 Judge Wheeler is a son of Grattan H. and Nancy D. (Sayre) 
 Wheeler, whose marriage was solemnized on the 30th of March, 
 1837. Grattan H. Wheeler was born in the town of Wheeler on 
 the 12th of March, 1813, and was a grandson of Silas Wheeler, 
 who served as a valiant soldier in the Continental line in the war 
 of the Revolution and who also took part in the war of 1812. Silas 
 Wheeler was a native of Concord, Massachusetts, and he took up 
 his residence in Steuben county, New York, about the year 1799. 
 Here he purchased a tract of land in what is now the town of 
 Wheeler and he. and his son, Grattan H., added: to their landed 
 estate from time to time until its area was more than four thou- 
 
564 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 sand acres. Silas Wheeler became the father of two daughters, 
 who were twins, and one son, Grattan H. The son was nineteen 
 years of age at the time when the family settled in the town of 
 Wheeler and there be continued to reside until his death. In 
 polities he was a stanch adherent of the Whig party and he was 
 called upon to serve in offices of distinctive public trust, includ- 
 ing that of representative in Congress and a member of the state 
 legislature. He married Miss Prances Baker, of Cameron, this 
 county, and they had three children,— Mrs. Sarah Brundage, Silas 
 and Grattan H., Jr. Grattan H. Wheeler, Sr., died on the 11th 
 of March, 1852, at the age of sixty-eight years, six months and 
 sixteen days, and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to 
 eternal rest on the 22d of March, 1813, only ten days after the 
 birth of her only son. 
 
 Grattan H. Wheeler, Jr., father of Judge Wheeler, was af- 
 forded the advantages of the common schools of his day and he 
 continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits in 
 the township of Wheeler until December 9, 1857, when he removed 
 to Hammondsport, this county, and engaged in the raising of 
 grapes and the manufacturing of wine. He was one of the founders 
 of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, which built the first wine 
 cellar in this section and which has long held wide reputation for 
 the production of high-grade wines. He was president of the 
 wine company for nine years and then established an individual 
 cellar, which was known as the Hammondsport Wine Cellar and 
 which continued to be operated under this title until 1880, when 
 the title of Hammondsport Wine Company was adopted. He was 
 the owner of a large and well improved landed estate and was a 
 man who wielded much influence in local affairs while he so or- 
 dered his course as to well merit the unqualified confidence and 
 esteem so uniformly reposed in him. In politics he was originally 
 a Whig but upon the organization of the Kepubliean party he 
 identified himself therewith, ever afterward continuing a stanch 
 advocate of its principles and policies. He served one term as 
 supervisor of Wheeler township and was at one time the candidate 
 of his party for the state legislature. Grattan H. Wheeler, Jr., was 
 summoned to eternal rest on the 10th of April, 1901, and his wife 
 passed away on the 27th of May, 1889. They became the parents 
 of ten children, of whom two sons and four daughters are now 
 living. 
 
 The name of Grattan, which has been borne by various mem- 
 bers of this old and honored family, has its origin according to 
 the following record. Silas Wheeler was taken prisoner by the 
 British after the historic "Boston tea-party," with which he was 
 supposed to have been identified, and he was confined in Kinsale 
 Castle, Ireland, from which he was assisted to escape by Lord 
 Henry Grattan, who requested Mr. Wheeler to name his son in 
 his honor. This name has been perpetuated in the various genera- 
 tions. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEF COUNTY 565 
 
 Judge Monroe Wheeler gained his preliminary educational 
 training at Hammondsport Academy and later he took a partial 
 course in the literary department of the famous University of 
 Michigan. He then began the study of law, under the preeeptor- 
 ship of Honorable David B. Hill, later governor of New York, at 
 Elmira, and thereafter he continued his technical studies under 
 the direction of Hon. David Rumsey, of Bath, where for three 
 years he was managing clerk for the law firm of Rumsey & Miller. 
 In October, 1874, he was admitted to the bar and thereafter he 
 was engaged in the active practice of his profession at Hammonds- 
 port until 1906. He served as village attorney of Hammondsport 
 and there he built up a very successful practice, in which he con- 
 tinued until 1906, when he removed to Bath, establishing his home 
 on Liberty street. In 1900 he was elected surrogate of Steuben 
 county and upon the expiration of his first term, in 1906, he was 
 elected as his own successor, his present term expiring in 1912. On 
 the bench of this court Judge Wheeler has given a most able ad- 
 ministration and he is one of the most prominent and influential 
 representatives of his profession in his native county. He is a 
 stockholder in the White Top Champagne Company, in which he 
 formerly served as treasurer and a director, and he is the owner of 
 valuable real-estate at Hammondsport and Bath, as well as in 
 other sections of the county. He has been identified with the 
 early development of aviation, being president of the Curtiss Ex- 
 hibition Company, and he is general counsel for Mr. Glenn H. 
 Curtiss, the famous aviator. 
 
 In polities Judge Wheeler is a stanch supporter of the princi- 
 ples and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor 
 and he has done effective work in various campaigns. He is 
 identified with several fraternal and social organizations of rep- 
 resentative character and he holds a secure place in popular con- 
 fidence and esteem. 
 
 In the year 1877 was solemnized the marriage of Judge 
 Wheeler to Miss Emma White, a daughter of the late John White, 
 of Cohocton, Steuben county. New York, and the two children of 
 this union are David Rumsey and Harrison Sayre. 
 
 F. E. Barboue, M. D.— One of the most exacting of all the 
 higher lines of occupation to which a man may lend his energies is 
 that of a physician, but Dr. F. E. Barbour has gained distinction 
 in the profession, and he is at the same time an earnest and dis- 
 criminating student. His name has become widely known in con- 
 nection with the Barbour Sanatorium at Wayland, one of the best 
 known institutions of its kind in this part of the state. Dr. Bar- 
 bour has been practicing medicine in Wayland since 1901, and it 
 was in that year also that he established" the Barbour Sanatorium. 
 He is a graduate of both the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, 
 New York, and of the Eclectic College at Lima, Ohio, m 1903, and 
 he has been associated with the practice of medicine for nineteen 
 years. 
 
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566 HISTOEY OF STEUBBIST COUNTY 
 
 Dr. Barbour was born at Springwater in Livingston county, 
 New York, in 1855, and his early educational training was ac- 
 quired in the district school near his boyhood's home. Jerrod and 
 Sarah J. (Langdon) Barbour, his parents, were farming people, 
 the father a native of Livingston county and the mother of Elmira 
 in Chemung county, New York, and their family numbered the 
 following children: Jerrod A., living in Jamestown, New York.; 
 Charles A., of Van Buren county, Michigan ; and P. E. Dr. F. 
 E. Barbour in addition to his large professional interests in Way- 
 land also maintains an office in Rochester, which he endeavors to 
 visit once a week. He has attained special recognition for his 
 skill in the treatment of cancers, all female diseases of a chronic 
 nature and in all sanatorium work, and he is not only skilful in the 
 treatment of diseases, but he possesses an attractive personality and 
 commands the respect of all who know him. As a physician he 
 enjoys high honors. 
 
 Dr. Barbour in 1876 was married to Miss Libby B. Bray, and 
 the five children born to them are: AUie A.; Sarah E., Mrs. 
 Goodno, and Maude, twins, the latter a trained nurse in Rochester ; 
 Minnie, Mrs. Sturner, whose husband occupies a professorship in 
 an educational institution in Rushford; and HoUis D. Barbour, of 
 Buffalo, New York. 
 
 Thomas L. Norton is numbered among the successful farmers 
 of Wayland township, where he owns and conducts a valuable 
 farm of one hundred and sixty-two acres east of the village of Way- 
 land. He has owned this place since 1905, and since then he has 
 made vast improvements in clearing, draining and cultivating and 
 in beautifying the buildings. He makes a specialty of the raising 
 of celery and lettuce, his average crop being twenty car loads of 
 the latter commodity and ten cars of celery, and he is also giving 
 some attention to the production of spinach. During the summer 
 months he furnishes employment to eight men, and two or three 
 are given constant employment. Mr. Norton has one hundred acres 
 of muck land under cultivation, and each year he adds to the value 
 of his farm and to his acreage for cultivation. His products are 
 sent to all parts of his own state and to adjacent ones, and the 
 superiority of his products insures a ready market. 
 
 Mr. Norton was born in Ontario county, New York, at East 
 Bloomfield, in 1881, and he was educated in the public schools 
 there and in the Rochester Business College. For some time he 
 was in the produce business with his father in Ontario county. He 
 is a son of Isaac and Nellie (Stoddard) Norton, and their only 
 heir. He married Miss Hazel E. Newman, from Canandaigua, New 
 York, in 1903, and their four children are Oscar E., Virginia J., 
 Betty S. and Robert. I. 
 
 James Emanuel Schwarzenbach is a leader among the busi- 
 ness men of Hornell, New York, where he resides. He is a native 
 of Germania, Potter county, Pennsylvania, born March 26, 1868, a 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 567 
 
 son of Joseph Sehwarzenbaeh, who was a marble carver and came 
 to the United States from Bavari^, Germany, in 1853. He was 
 only for a short time in New York city after arriving from his 
 native land, but went to Washington, D. C, where he was en- 
 gaged as a contractor in marble carving on the National Capitol 
 building, and came north to Germania, Pennsylvania, in 1857 where 
 he engaged in the brewing industry, which for fifty-three years has 
 been perpetuated by himself and his three sons. The father was 
 married to Louisa Seebald, who was also of German birth. The 
 mother died in her fifty-fifth year, while the father lived to be 
 sixty-nine. 
 
 Of the nine children of Joseph and Louisa (Seebald) Sehwar- 
 zenbaeh all but two grew to manhood and womanhood, James B., 
 the youngest of the family now living, was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools at Germania, Pennsylvania, also had private tutors in 
 the German and English languages, and later received a business 
 education at Detroit, Michigan. When a young man he interested 
 himself in lumbering and various other enterprises with successful 
 results. He was one of the organizers and stockholders of the 
 First National Bank of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, and in 1895 lo- 
 cated in Hornell, New York, where he with his brothers Roland 
 and Herman Sehwarzenbaeh built the new plant of the Sehwarzen- 
 baeh Brewing Company, and in 1900 erected a new brewery at 
 Galeton, Pennsylvania, these two breweries later consolidated, in- 
 corporated for three hundred thousand dollars (par) and Mr. 
 Sehwarzenbaeh has held the position as its president since. He is a 
 director in the Bank of Steuben and was for seven years secretary 
 and treasurer of the Hornell Telephone Company; he is a director in 
 the Agricultural Fair Association of Hornell, was most prominent 
 in connection with the construction of the Hornell Maennerchor 
 Hall and is a di/ector of the association at the present time. Mr. 
 Sehwarzenbaeh is a stockholder in the Hornell and Bath Interurban 
 Electric Railway, is now serving his second four-year term as a 
 member of the Board of Public Works of the city of Hornell, is a 
 director of the Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Good 
 Roads Committee. It was largely due to his personal efforts that 
 the three public play grounds for children were established in his 
 home city and he has been most prominently identified with other 
 important public movements. 
 
 In his political alliances he is a Democrat; in 1893 he was a 
 candidate for office of representative in the state legislature and 
 ran far ahead of his ticket, especially in his home city, where he 
 was best known. He is now serving his third term as a member 
 of the Democratic State Committee, and in 1908 was appointed 
 as one of the "Big Four" alternate delegates at large to repre- 
 sent the Empire state at its national convention at Denver, Colo- 
 rado, which was a distinguished honor for a comparatively young 
 man from an interior town. He was a commissioner in connec- 
 tion with the Hudson-Fulton celebration, and acted with Pro- 
 fessor Schurmann of Cornell University and other leading men 
 
568 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 of New York state in connection with this state affair. He is pres- 
 ident of the New York and Pennsylvania Bottlers' Association, 
 and was recently selected as one of the Committee of Patrons of the 
 Second International Brewers' Congress and True Temperance 
 Conference to be held in Chicago in October, 1911. In his society 
 afSliations he is a Mason, an Elk and an Eagle. 
 
 On May 7, 1900, Mr. Schwarzenbach married Miss Marie S. 
 Zieger, daughter of Louise Zieger, of Hornell, New York. She 
 has borne him two children, Norman Robert and Helen Lois. 
 
 Mr. Schwarzenbach is a recognized friend of organized labor, 
 and in Steuben county from the northern to the southern boundary, 
 and from its eastern to its western borders, there is not probably 
 a man of broader or more generous and spontaneous public spirit 
 than Mr. Schwarzenbach. He has the interests of the county and 
 his city close to his heart at all times and there is nothing that 
 he can do to advance them that he does not perform with a 
 prompt gladness that makes it a pleasure to appeal to him. 
 
 RoBEET James MaGill.— Prominent among the leading citizens 
 of Bath, Steuben county, is Robert James MaGill, who has been 
 identified with the agricultural and indiistrial interests of this 
 section of New York during his active career, and is now rendering 
 excellent service to his fellow-men as school commissioner. A native 
 of Bath township he was born June 13, 1872, a son of the late 
 Alexander MaGill. 
 
 Born in Ireland, Alexander MaGill came to America when 
 young, locating in the Empire state. During the Civil war he en- 
 listed in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-first New York 
 "Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the conflict. 
 Settling then in Steuben county, he was engaged in general farming 
 in Bath township until his death, February 2, 1893, at the age of 
 fifty-nine years. He married Esther White, a daughter of James 
 and Mary Ann (Dobbin) White, natives of Ireland, who came after 
 their marriage to America and settled on the White homestead in 
 Howard township. Three children were born of the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Alexander MaGill, namely: Mary Elizabeth, who mar- 
 ried Charles Brewer, died in Bath leaving, one child, Willis M. 
 Brewer, who was born July 1, 1892, and since the death of his 
 mother has lived with his uncle, Robert J. MaGill; Sarah, who 
 ■ died unmarried ; and Robert J. 
 
 Robert J. MaGill attended the Bath High School, completing 
 his course in 1889. During the following "four years he taught 
 school during the winter terms, being engaged in farming during 
 seed time and harvest, and for the next four years taught the 
 year through. He was afterwards for three years engaged in the 
 coal business in Bath, being in partnership with W. D. Garrison. 
 He then served two years as town collector, at the expiration of 
 his term resuming the coal business, with his late partner as 
 manager, continuing until 1907. In that year Mr. MaGill had the 
 honor of being elected town clerk of Bath, the first Democrat elected 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 571 
 
 to that position in the township for a full half century, and in 
 1909 he was elected to his present office of school commissioner. 
 
 Mr. MaGill married, February 16, 1910, Anna M. Bond, who 
 was born in Bath, a daughter of Charles and Jennie (Gilbert) 
 Bond, natives of Schuyler county, New York, Mr. Bond being now 
 engaged in business as a music dealer. Mr. MaGill is a member 
 of the Presbyterian church, and belongs to the Ancient Free an^ 
 Accepted Order of Masons. His father was for many years a 
 member of Post No. 81, G. A. R., of Bath. 
 
 William W. Aveeell.— A life conspicuous by reason of the 
 magnitude and variety of its achievements was that of the late 
 William W. Averell, one of the distinguished and honored figures 
 in the history of the state of New York and one whose influence 
 transcended local environment to permeate national affairs. So 
 great an accomplishment as was his must, per se, imply exalted 
 character, and thus, beyond and above all. General Averell merits 
 perpetual honor by reason of the very strength and nobility of his 
 manhood. He rendered service to the state and nation to the full 
 extent of his powers; his labors were inspiring and his honesty of 
 purpose was beyond cavil. The reflex of the honors conferred upon 
 him are the honors he in turn conferred. It is not easy to describe 
 adequately a man who was as just in character and one who ac- 
 complished as much in the world as did General Averell, and the 
 limitations of this article are such as to render possible only a 
 cursory glance at the individuality and achievements of the man,— 
 not permitting extended geneological research or critical analysis 
 of character. 
 
 General Averell was a native of Steuben county and a mem- 
 ber of one of its old and honored pioneer families. He was born 
 at Cameron, this county, on the 5th of November, 1832, and his 
 death occurred at the sanitarium at Hornell, this county, whither 
 he had gone for medical treatment, on the 3d of February, 1900. 
 He was a son of Hiram and Huldah (Hemmingway) Averell, the 
 former of whom was bom in Delaware county, New York, whence 
 he came to Steuben county in the pioneer days, securing a tract of 
 forty-seven acres of land in Cameron township, where he reclaimed 
 a productive farm and where he became a citizen of prominence 
 and influence, ever commanding the unqualified confidence and 
 esteem of the community. He served as justice of the peace and 
 also as postmaster at Cameron and was a man of strong mentality 
 and sterling integrity of purpose. He passed the closing years of 
 his life in the city of Bath, this county, where he died at the 
 patriarchal age of ninety-two years. His wife also died at Bath, 
 having preceded him to eternal rest by many years. 
 
 General WiUiam W. Averell was reared to the sturdy discipline 
 of the farm and was afforded excellent educational advantages in 
 his youth, including a course at Blmira Institute. He intended 
 to prepare himself for the medical profession but he was deflected 
 from this course by reason of receiving an appointment to a cadet- 
 
572 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 ship to the United States Military Academy at West Point, in 
 which he became a student on the 1st of July, 1851. There he was 
 graduated on the 1st of July, 1855, and he immediately received 
 brevet rank as second lieutenant of mounted riflemen, in which 
 connection he served in the garrison at Jefferson Barracks, in 
 Missouri, in 1855, on the 1st of May of which latter year he was 
 promoted to second lieutenant of mounted riflemen. He was at the 
 Cavalry School for Practice at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1856-7; 
 was on frontier duty in command of the escort to the commanding 
 general of the department of New Mexico in 1857, and in that 
 year was stationed for a time in Fort Craig, that territory. He 
 was in active service in scouting and was engaged in a skirmish 
 with the Kiowa Indians at Fort Craig on the 7th of Decembei, 
 1857. He continued to be identified with scouting and other mili- 
 tary operations in the southwest, including the Navajo expedition, 
 in 1858, and he participated in a skirmish in Chusea valley, Septem- 
 ber 29, 1859. Prior to this, on the 1st of October, 1858, he took 
 part in a skirmish with Kyatano 's band of Indians and in a skirmish 
 at Puereo of the West on the 8th of the same month, in which 
 engagement he was severely wounded in a night attack on the camp. 
 He thereafter continued in frontier duty at Fort Craig until 
 granted a leave of absence on account of sickness, in 1859. 
 
 When the dark cloud of Civil war cast its pall over the national 
 horizon General Aver ell was still with the regular army and forth- 
 with became identified with active military operations. On the 
 30th of May, 1861, he returned from the west to the national capi- 
 tal and from the 7th of June to the 2nd of July he was engaged 
 in mustering duty at Elmira, New York, in the meanwhile having 
 been promoted first lieutenant. From July 5 to October 9, 1861, 
 he was acting assistant adjutant general to General Porter. In 
 Julyj 1861, he took part in the Manassas campaign and on the 21st 
 of that month he participated in the battle of Bull Run. He was 
 on provost duty at Washington, D. C, from July 30 to October 9 of 
 that year and was in command of a cavalry brigade in front of the 
 defense of Washington, D. C, until March 1862, having thus 
 served as colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, to 
 which office he was promoted on the 23d of August, 1861. He led 
 the advance on Manassas in March, 1862, and was in the Army of 
 the fotomac in the peninsular campaign in Virginia from March to 
 August of that year. In this connection he took part in the siege 
 of Yorktown and the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and Mal- 
 vern Hill. On the 26th of September, 1862, he was made brigadier 
 general of volunteers and in October and November of that year he 
 was engaged in scouting on the upper Potomac, where he took part 
 in numerous skirmishes. Later he was with the Army of , the 
 Potomac in the Rappahannock campaign in which he took part in 
 the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. He was in com- 
 mand of the second cavalry division from February 2 to May 4, 
 1863, and on the 17th of March of that year he was in command in 
 the engagement at Kelly's Ford, where his gallant and meritorious 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 573 
 
 service gained to him the brevet rank of major general. He par- 
 ticipated in Stoneman's raid toward Richmond, Virginia, and was 
 thereafter in command of the Port Separate brigade in operations 
 in West Virginia, in connection with which, he had command in 
 the combat at Rocky Gap and the engagement at Droop IMountain. 
 On the 6th of November, 1863, he was brevetted lieutenant colonel 
 in recognition of his gallant and meritorious service in the action at 
 Droop Mountain. On the 15th of December, 1863, he was brevetted 
 colonel, for gallant and meritorious service during the Salem 
 expedition in Virginia. He commanded the second cavalry division 
 in operations in Virginia from April 26, 1864^ to May 18, 1865, 
 being in command in the action at Cove Gap on May 10, 1864, and 
 being wounded in this engagement. Thereafter he marched with his 
 command across the Alleghany mountains to Staunton, Virginia, 
 and joined the expedition against Lynchburg, in which connection 
 he took part in several skirmishes. He marched his command to the 
 Kanawha and Shenandoah Valleys and he defeated Ramseur's 
 division at Carter's Farm, July 20, 1864. He took part in the 
 combat at "Winchester on the 24th of July and thereafter went in 
 pursuit of MeCausland's raiders. On the 8th of August, 1864, he 
 took part in the engagement at Moorefield and thereafter he was 
 in command of his forces in various skirmishes. He participated 
 in the battle of Opequan on the 19th of September, 1864, the battle 
 of Fisher's Hill on the 22d of the same month and the action at 
 Mount Jackson on the following day. On the 13th of March, 1865, 
 he received the brevet rank of brigadier general of the United 
 States Army for gallant and meritorious service in the field during 
 the rebellion and on the same date he was brevetted major general 
 in recognition of his splendid service in the battle of Moorefield, in 
 Virginia. He resigned his position in the army on the 18th of 
 May, 1865, but was finally reinstated in the United States Army by 
 special act of congress and was placed upon the retired list. Later 
 he served ten years as assistant inspector general of the Soldier's 
 Home of the United States. His duties in this connection were 
 most arduous as they involved from fifteen thousand to twenty 
 thousand miles of travel each year, besides the inspection of the 
 various Soldiers' Homes. From 1866 to 1869 he was United States 
 counsul general of Canada. Framed and hanging upon the 
 wall of the attractive home so long occupied by General Averell, 
 at Bath, is an interesting record concerning the honors tendered 
 him at the time of the Civil war and the inscription is worthy of 
 reproduction in this article : "At a dinner given to General Averell 
 at Bath, New York, on January 26, 1864, by the oldest citizens of 
 Steuben county, this identical paraphrase of his dispatch to Gen- 
 eral Halleck, relating to the Salem raid, was written and dis- 
 played on the walls by Guy Humphrey McMaster : 
 
574 HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 '"To General Halleck: 
 
 By marching and riding, 
 
 By swimming and sliding, 
 
 By dodging and squeezing, 
 
 By thawing and freezing, 
 
 "We went down to Salem 
 
 And tore up the railin. ' ' ' 
 General Averell was a man of much inventive ability and had 
 the distinction of being the inventor of asphalt paving. His first 
 successful work in this line was the paving of Pennsylvania avenue 
 in the city of Washington, D. C. He organized a company for the 
 manufacturing of asphalt and was eventually deprived of his inter- 
 ests in the same by the fraudulent methods of his associates. For 
 thirteen years the affairs of the company were in litigation and set- 
 tlement was finally made with General Averell. This was a case 
 which attracted national attention and interest. General Averell 
 ever continued a close and appreciative student of the best in 
 literature and science and he was specially interested in practical 
 electrical affairs, in which he became well informed. He passed 
 several years in New York city in perfecting a conduit for electric 
 wires and he finally received a patent on this valuable invention. He 
 was a man of most gracious and courtly manners, genial and kindly 
 in his intercourse with his fellow men and no citizen of Steuben 
 county held a more secure place in popular confidence and regard. 
 He formed the acquaintance of many of the most distinguished 
 public men of the nation, including President Lincoln and the mem- 
 bers of his cabinet and in latter years also he had the close friend- 
 ship of many prominent and influential citizens. He continued 
 to maintain his home in the attractive little city of Bath until he 
 was summoned to the life eternal and here his name is held in 
 reverent memory. He was a stanch Republican in his political 
 allegiance and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic 
 and other fraternal and social organizations. He held membership 
 in the Episcopal church, as does also his widow, who still resides 
 in the beautiful old homestead at 121 Liberty street, Bath. 
 
 In September, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of General 
 Averell to Mrs. Kezia Haywood, who was born in Surdan, England, 
 and who has been a most popular figure in the best social activities 
 of Bath. No children were born of this union. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Ryder, D. D.— Among those who play a prominent 
 role in the every-day life of Wayland is the Rev. J. H. Ryder, D.D. 
 pastor of the United Evangelical church. He was born in Lycoming 
 county, Pennsylvania, in 1871, his parents being John and Hannah 
 J. (Derrick) Ryder, who were also natives of that county. Rev. 
 Mr. Ryder is one of ten living children, a somewhat unusual dis- 
 tinction in the present day. He passed his early years within the 
 borders of the county which gave him birth, attending the public 
 schools and graduating from its higher department. This train- 
 ing he supplemented with a course in the Lycoming county and 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 575 
 
 Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which institution he was 
 graduated in 1898. His natural gifts and inclinations particularly- 
 fitting him for the ministry, he took a theological course and was 
 ordained in 1903. His studies preliminary to becoming an ex- 
 pounder of the gospel were pursued in the Potomac University, 
 which gave him the degree of B. D. 
 
 Eev. Mr. Ryder's first pastorate was at Dorsey, Maryland, 
 where he remained for four years and from whence he was 
 transferred to Grover, Pennsylvania. He remained four years in 
 the latter place and in March, 1909, entered upon his present charge 
 at Wayland. It has been his portion to make steady development 
 and he is greatly esteemed by his church, which recognizes the 
 unusual value of his services. He is an excellent orator and his 
 sermons are brief, plain, comprehensive and convincing. In 1909 he 
 was honored by the degree of Doctor of Divinity, after a four-year 
 course in the Oriental University of Alexandria, Virginia. The 
 church of which Rev. Mr. Ryder is pastor is less than twenty years 
 old. In 1894, when the building was erected, it had a membership 
 of only twenty, which has subsequently increased to one hundred, 
 with a Sunday-school enrollment of one hundred and twenty- 
 seven. The valuation of the church property is about seven thou- 
 sand dollars. The first pastor was Rev. J. W. Thompson, who 
 was followed by Rev. L. M. Dice and he in turn by Rev. C. C. 
 Mizner. As stated previously, Rev. Mr. Ryder undertools its 
 spiritual guidance in 1909. 
 
 In 1901 Mr. Ryder took as his bride Mary, daughter of Robert 
 and Ellen Huston. To this union have been born two children, 
 Robert H. and Helen J. 
 
 Nicholas Malter, the proprietor of the Perkinsville Hotel, 
 is fitted by natural geniality and hospitality for the post which he 
 holds so well. The hotel which Mr. Malter purchased and fitted up 
 in 1909 is well adapted to meet the demands of the traveling public. 
 Mr. Malter is a, native of the town in which he still resides, having 
 been bom here in 1865. Here he was reared and educated and here 
 began his career as a wage-earner. His parents were Nicholas 
 and Margaret Malter, the former being also a native of Perkins- 
 ville where in 1836 he was born. The mother was a native of 
 Germany in which country she was born in 1842, and three years 
 later was brought to this country by her parents, whose names were 
 John and Catherine Rauber. On the paternal side Mr. Malter is 
 likewise German, his grandfather, also Nicholas Malter, with his 
 wife, Catherine, coming to this country in 1834, shortly after their 
 marriage and being among the early settlers in Steuben county. 
 Their six children, Jacob, Catherine, Nicholas, John, Mary and 
 Elizabeth experienced the peculiar advantages and privations of a 
 new country and grew up to be strong and progressive citizens. Mr. 
 Malter's parents were married about 1859 and to this union five 
 children were born, namely, Elizabeth, Nicholas, Jacob, Frank and 
 Stephen. 
 
576 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Mr. Malter's father was a butcher by trade and this he fol- 
 lowed for over forty years. He was a loyal citizen and a stanch 
 member of society, serving his village as constable for twenty-six 
 years. He was collector for two years and excise commissioner for 
 twelve. He and his wife were consistent members of the Catholic 
 church and their descendants have followed in their footsteps in this 
 particular. The father died in December, 1897, his widow surviving 
 to the present day. 
 
 During his early years Mr. Malter assisted his father in his 
 business, but later took up telegraphy and served in the employ 
 of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. He remained 
 with this railroad for fourteen years. He later took up the hotel 
 business and in this new line of endeavor has proved eminently 
 successful. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Malter was united in marriage to Miss Angeline 
 Dides and four children were born to them, Isabelle, Dorothea, 
 Anna and Nicholas. Mrs. Malter died in 1904 and in 1906 he was 
 united to Miss Cecelia McHale by whom he has had one child, a 
 daughter named Cecelia M. 
 
 George W. Peck.— The present supervisor of Bath township 
 is recognized as one of the most progressive and substantial busi- 
 ness men of Steuben county and is president of the George W. Peck 
 Company, which has built up a hardware business of wide scope 
 and importance and which conducts a number of well equipped 
 stores in this section of the state. 
 
 Mr. Peck was bom at Landsdowne, Leeds county, province 
 of Ontario, Canada, on the 18th of February, 1854. His father. 
 Rev. James B. Peck, was a native of England, whence he came to 
 America when a young man and in 1840 he settled in Jeflferson 
 county. New York. For forty years he was active in the work of 
 the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was known 
 as a man of fine intellectual attainments and of consecrated zeal in 
 his chosen vocation. During the greater portion of his work as a 
 clergyman he maintained his home in Steuben county and here he 
 died in the year 1900, at the age of seventy-five years. His memory 
 is revered in this community and his life was one of signal 
 purity and devotion. His wife, whose maiden name was Louisa 
 Warren, now resides at Knoxville, Pennsylvania, and she has at- 
 tained to the venerable age of eighty-three years (1910). 
 
 George W. Peek gained his early educational training in the 
 public schools of the state of New York and when but fourteen 
 years of age he entered the employ of the firm of Powers & Wagner 
 at Sayona, Steuben county. He assumed this position in 1870 and 
 in this connection he gained his initial experience in the hardware 
 business in which he was later to achieve so much of prominence 
 and success. In 1875 Mr. Peek became a member of the firm of 
 Wagner & Peck and in the following year he purchased his part- 
 ner's interest in the business, which he individually continued at 
 Savona until 1880. He then removed to Prattsburg, this county, 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 577 
 
 where he purchased the hardware stock of George H. Look. In 1883 
 he established a branch store at Pulteney, Steuben county, and in 
 1886 he purchased another stock of hardware at Cohocton, Steuben 
 county. In 1888 he effected the purchase of the stock of Hodgman 
 and McNamara, of Bath, and in 1893 he established a branch store 
 at Bradford, this county. In the following year he found it ex- 
 pedient to bring his various mercantile interests into more effective 
 control by the organization of a stock company, which was duly 
 incorporated under the present title of the George W. Peck Com- 
 pany. When he began operations as an independent business man, 
 in 1875, the annual business controlled did not exceed four thousand 
 dollars and the splendid growth of the enterprise under his able 
 management is measurably indicated when it is stated that the 
 aggregate amount of business done by this company in 1910 was 
 fully two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The George "W. Peck 
 Company also conducts stores at Canandaigua, Penn Yan and 
 Dansville. Mr. Peck is also one of the largest stockholders of the 
 Bath Harness Company, which has built up a large business in the 
 manufacturing of harness and in 1906 this corporation erected a 
 substantial cement building in Bath for the manufacturing of its 
 products. The company gives employment to an average of sixty 
 persons and its annual transactions have reached the notable aggre- 
 gate of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Peck is a mem- 
 ber of the directorate of this corporation, which bases its operations 
 upon a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. He is also president 
 of the Bath Knitting Mills. 
 
 Mr. Peck is essentially progressive and public-spirited as a citi- 
 zen and gives a loyal support to all measures and enterprises tend- 
 ing to advance the general welfare of the community. He is a 
 man of high civic ideas and ideals and his political proclivities are 
 in line with the Democratic party, in whose local councils he is an 
 influential factor. He was elected chairman of the Democratic coun- 
 ty committee of Steuben county in 1907 and he has been called upon 
 to serve in various public offices of a public order. While a resi- 
 dent of the town of Prattsburg he was elected supervisor, in 1888, 
 serving one term in this office and also having been, a member of 
 the board of education of that town. In 1907 he was elected super- 
 visor of the town of Bath, by a majority of fifty-two votes and the 
 popular estimate placed upon his service in this connection is 
 clearly indicated when it is stated that in 1909 he was re-elected by 
 a majority of four hundred and forty-two votes, carrying every 
 voting precinct in the township. He has been on several occasions 
 a delegate to the Democratic state convention and he has been 
 otherwise active in the work of his party. Mrs. Peck is a zealous 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bath and was also 
 a member of the local board of education from 1905 to 1908. The 
 family is prominent in the best social life of the community and 
 here its members enjoy unalloyed popularity. 
 
 In the year 1884 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Peck to 
 Miss Flora Griswold, daughter of the late Benajah Griswold, of 
 
578 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Darien, Genesee eoimty, New York. Of this union have been born 
 five children, namely, George G., J. Arthur, Flora M., Warren S. 
 and John Elwood. All of the sons except the youngest, who is still 
 attending school, are identified with the business enterprise of their 
 father and are being thoroughly trained in connection therewith. 
 The only daughter is a member of the class of 1912 in Elmira Col- 
 lege. 
 
 Feed B. Bradley. — A man of undoubted enterprise and 
 sagacity, industrious and progressive, Fred E. Bradley, of Bath 
 township, is a valued representative of the prosperous agriculturists 
 of this part of Steuben county, as a farmer displaying excellent 
 judgment in his operations. A son of Zera S. Bradley, he was born, 
 October 20, 1867, at Kanona, Steuben county, coming from dis- 
 tinguished patriotic stock, his great grandfather, Sterges Bradley, 
 having served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 Mr. Bradley's grandfather, Zera Bradley, was born in 1796, 
 in the town of Butternuts, Otsego county, New York. Coming from 
 there to Steuben county in 1830, he located in Bath township, and 
 ten years later bought the Bradley homestead property, on which 
 he continued his residence until his death, November 13, 1879. His 
 vrife, whose maiden name was Emily L. Osborn, was born August 
 19, 1818, and died February 16, 1882. 
 
 Zera S. Bradley was born on the Bradley homestead, in Bath 
 township, June 30, 1844. He received a good education, after leav- 
 ing the public schools, taking a course of study in a commercial 
 college. Succeeding to the ownership of the home farm, he was here 
 engaged in general agriculture until his death, December 29, 1908. 
 He married Lida Shaver, September 25, 1866, who was born Octo- 
 ber 1, 1845, in Avoca, New York, a daughter of Alexander Shaver, 
 and died on the home farm, in Bath township, February 10, 1893. 
 Three children were born into their household, namely, Louis K., 
 engaged in farming in Bath ; John D., engaged in the grocery busi- 
 ness at Prattsburg; and Fred E. 
 
 After his graduation from the Bath High School, Fred E. 
 Bradley taught school two terms in Wheeler, but since 1897 has been 
 successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits at his present home, 
 having one of the finest improved and best equipped farms in 
 Bath township. 
 
 Mr. Bradley married Evangeline Warren, October 15, 1890, 
 who was born May 21, 1867, in Kanona, a daughter of Francis M. 
 and Sophia (Willis) Warren, of Bath, both of whose families 
 were among the pioneer settlers of Steuben county. To Fred E. and 
 Evangeline Bradley two children have been born, namely, Alida 
 Evangeline Bradley, born March 20, 1894, now a junior in Haver- 
 ling High School at Bath and Fred Warren Bradley, born Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1900. Mr. Bradley is a member of Bath Grange. 
 
 Charles D. Bakek.— Numbered among the essentially repre- 
 sentative members of the bar of the national metropolis is Charles 
 Duane Baker, who is now special counsel and attorney for the 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 579 
 
 department of justice in New York city, of which position he has 
 been incumbent since 1910, having been appointed to this office 
 by the attorney general of the United States. Mr. Baker is a scion 
 of old and honored families of the Empire state and the name 
 which he bears has long been identified with the annals of Steuben 
 county. He was born at Painted Post, this county, on the 17th of 
 September, 1846, and is a son of Harrison H. and Elizabeth (Flem- 
 ing) Baker, both of whom were likewise born and reared at Painted 
 Post. Harrison H. Baker was a millwright by trade and followed 
 the same in his earlier career. He later turned his attention to the 
 lumber industry and became a successful lumber manufacturer at 
 Painted Post, where he continued to reside until his death, which 
 occurred when he was about forty-seven years of age. He was a 
 progressive and public-spirited citizen and was influential in local 
 affairs while he ever commanded the unqualified esteem of the 
 community, in which his long life was passed. His father, Jonathan 
 Baker, was a native of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 
 was one of the pioneer settlers of Painted Post, Steuben county. 
 New York, where he achieved marked success as a business man 
 and where he established the first mill in that county. In politics 
 he was a Democrat and a stanch supporter of the policies of Pres- 
 ident Jackson. His wife, whose maiden name was Dorcas Gorton, 
 was a member of the well known family of that name in New 
 York. Mrs. Elizabeth (Fleming) Baker was a daughter of John 
 Fleming, who likewise was a sterling pioneer and prominent busi- 
 ness man of Painted Post, the lineage of the family being traced 
 back to stanch Flemish stock ; she was seventy years of age at the 
 time of her death and of the children who attained to years of 
 maturity, the subject of this review was the second in order of 
 birth. The only other surviving son is Clarence E., who is a resi- 
 dent of the city of Chicago. 
 
 Charles Duane Baker was afforded excellent educational ad- 
 vantages in his youth, having gained his early discipline in the 
 common schools of his native county and having later attended 
 Overland College for two years. He was then matriculated in 
 Cornell University, at Ithaca, in which institution he completed 
 the classical course and was graduated as a member of the class of 
 1874, duly receiving his degree of Bachelor of Arts. Shortly 
 afterwards he returned to his native county and located at Corning, 
 where he began the study of law, under effective preceptorship, one 
 of his instructors having been Judge Bradley, a representative 
 member of the bar of that county. He made excellent progress 
 in his absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1876. Thereafter he was actively 
 engaged in the practice of his profession at Corning for a number 
 of years, having been associated for some time with John "W. Brown 
 and later with Henry Thompson. In 1884 he was elected to repre- 
 sent the Second district of Steuben county in the state legislature, 
 in which he served three consecutive terms and in which he made 
 an admirable record. At the close of his last term, he removed 
 
580 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 to New York city, where he engaged in the general practice of his 
 profession. Two years later he was appointed assistant United 
 States attorney, under the administration of President Harrison, 
 and during his incumbency of this office his headquarters were 
 maintained in the Federal building. He finally resigned the office 
 and resumed the private practice of his profession but under the 
 administration of President McKinley he was again appointed 
 United States district attorney, of which position he continued in 
 tenure also during the administration of President Roosevelt. He 
 resigned the office in 1908 and thereafter was engaged in private 
 practice until 1910, when he was appointed to his present im- 
 portant office, that of special counsel and attorney for the newly 
 organized department of justice in New York city, this appointment 
 having been made by Attorney General Wiekersham. Mr. Baker 
 has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party and 
 he has rendered yeoman service in behalf of its cause in the various 
 campaigns, being known as an able exponent of its principles and as 
 an especially resourceful campaign orator. He is recognized as 
 one of the finely equipped members of the bar of his native state and 
 he has won distinctive prestige both as an advocate and as a counselor 
 He continues to take a lively interest in the affairs of his native 
 county and signifies the same by his membership in Steuben 
 County Society of New York City. He is affiliated with the 
 Jlasonic fraternity and holds membership in various civic organiza- 
 tions. 
 
 In January, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of J\Ir. Baker to 
 Miss Letitia Beattie Rock, a daughter of Alfred Rock, a well known 
 citizen of Brooklyn, New York. The three children of this union 
 are, Charles Duane, Jr., David Dudley Field and Caroline Beattie. 
 
 Elmer S. Redman.— Among those citizens whom Hornell is 
 happy to call representative stands Elmer S. Redman, who since 
 September, 1898, has held the position of city superintendent of 
 public schools. As an educator of high ideals and splendid accom- 
 plishment he enjoys prestige throughout this section of the Em- 
 pire state. No field is more important and nowhere is enlightened 
 effort farther reaching in effect than in public education and to 
 Dr. Redman's progressiveness Hornell is indeed indebted, her 
 schools being of excellent order. He is also a lecturer of note, being 
 eloquent, logical and convincing and many educational bodies have 
 reaped the benefits of his originality. 
 
 Dr. Redman was born in AUen, New York, August 19, 1861, his 
 parents being John D. Redman, Jr. and Clarissa A. (Scoville) Red- 
 man. These worthy people are representatives of old and honored 
 families of New England, that cradle of so much of our national 
 history. The father was born in the city of Boston and the mother 
 in Vermont, the immediate forebears of both parents having been 
 prominent in the Revolutionary war. The Redmans were the 
 stanchest of patriots, and among the dearest possessions of Dr. 
 Redman is a small chest taken from a "tea-ship" in the Boston 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 581 
 
 harbor by his great-great-grandfather. In the matter of vocation 
 the subject has in a measure followed in the footsteps of his 
 father, that gentleman having answered to the double calling of 
 farmer and schoolmaster. 
 
 Dr. Redman enjoyed the advantages of a wide and varied edu- 
 cation. His preliminary schooling was in the country schools and 
 he subsequently attended Belfast high school, from whose. portals 
 he advanced to the Geneseo State Normal School, from which latter 
 institution he was graduated. By no means of the type which is 
 content to let well enough alone he attended university after uni- 
 versity and added degree to degree, receiving the inestimable benefit 
 of association with some of the finest minds of the age. In 1892 he 
 was graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University, in 1894 ob- 
 taining the degree of Master of Arts by post-graduate work, and 
 in 1898 becoming entitled to that of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1894 
 he was also awarded the degree of Master of Arts by Alfred 
 University of Alfred, New York, and later he attended lectures at 
 the New York University. To add to all this he studied abroad, 
 in the years 1896, 1905 and 1909, the scenes of his foreign study 
 being all the countries of Europe except Russia and Spain. 
 
 Dr. Redman has been a teacher from his earliest youth. Dur- 
 ing his first years of college life he taught school in order to obtain 
 money to pursue his education, and his success from the first, and 
 the never-failing satisfaction taken by the public in his efforts in 
 the training of the youthful mind, led him to adopt the pedagogical 
 profession as a life work. He has held various important posts, all 
 of them in his native state. He was for three years principal of 
 the Angelica high school and then removed to Belfast, where he was 
 engaged in a similar capacity for a like period of years. Rockville 
 Centre became the scene of his endeavors, and for six years he acted 
 as principal of the schools of that thriving Long Island town, just 
 outside Greater New York City, severing his associations there to 
 accept the superintendency of the schools of Hornell, where he has 
 continued for more than twelve years. He has also had a short but 
 interesting experience as a newspaper man, having for a time edited 
 the Livingston County Progress. 
 
 Politically Dr. Redman is independent, in his convictions the 
 best man and the best measure far outweighing mere partisanship. 
 His fraternal affiliations extend to the ancient and august Masonic 
 order and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church, m 
 which he has held various offices, such as deacon, president of the 
 board of trustees, etc. He is a valued member of several organiza- 
 tions having to do with his profession, these including the National 
 Education Association, the State Council of School Superintendents 
 and the State Association of Normal Schools; the second and third 
 having claimed his as president. 
 
 In the year 1884 Dr. Redman insured a congenial life com- 
 panionship by his union with Miss Mary L. Dexter, daughter of 
 William Dexter, of Angelica, New York. The children of this 
 
582 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 marriage are lona Fern, born in 1892; Gladstone Elmer, born in 
 1894, and Olive, born in 1900. 
 
 Colonel Andrew Jackson Switzee, who resides in the attrac- 
 tive little city of Bath, is a native son of Steuben county and a 
 member of one of its sterling pioneer families. He has been con- 
 spicuously identified with the upbuilding of grape-culture and the 
 wine industry, which have given this county wide prestige and have 
 added largely to its material and civic prosperity. Colonel Switzer 
 was born at Bradford, Steuben county, on the 8th of February, 
 1833, and is a son of John and Sarah (Rowlesj Switzer, the former 
 was born in Newark, New Jersey, and the latter also ip New 
 Jersey. The father died in Bradford, Steuben county, where he 
 passed the major portion of his life and he was an octogenarian at 
 the time of his death. His cherished and devoted wife lived to at- 
 tain to the venerable age of more than ninety years. John Switzer 
 was a son of John Switzer, who, with his wife, immigrated from 
 Germany to America and the limitations of whose financial resources 
 may be realized when it is stated that for three years after their 
 arrival in the United States they utilized all their surplus earnings 
 in paying for their passage on the vessel which brought them to 
 the new world. They became the parents of four children, Henry, 
 John, William and Peter, and when John, the second son, was nine 
 years of age they removed to Steuben county and located in Brad- 
 ford township. Here the father purchased about two sections of 
 land and he reclaimed a considerable portion of the tract to culti- 
 vation, continuing to reside on the homestead until his death. After 
 the death of his father John Switzer, Jr., inherited about one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of the old homestead and he developed this 
 tract into a productive farm, upon which both he and his devoted 
 wife continued to reside until their death, their marriage having 
 been solemnized in Steuben county. 
 
 Colonel Andrew J. Switzer passed his boyhood days on the 
 home farm and after availing himself of the advantages of the 
 common schools he continued his studies in Alfred University. 
 That he made good use of the opportunities thus given him is shown 
 by the fact that as a young man he became a successful and popular 
 teacher in Haverling Academy, at Bath, an institution that has long 
 held a high reputation. He finally went to Watertown, Wisconsin, 
 where he taught school for one winter and he then went to the city 
 of Chicago, whence he proceeded to Lawrence, Kansas, where he 
 i-emained a few months. From that place he went to Topeivj and 
 thence he accompanied his cousin, John Brown, to Atchison, Kan- 
 sas. He met with numerous adventures on his trip through the 
 west and at Kansas City, Missouri, he met his brother. Richard, 
 whom he accompanied to Council Bluffs, Iowa. From that point the 
 brothers proceeded by stage to Burlington, that state, and thence 
 to central Illinois, where the brother of the Colonel purchased one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land at Mendota. The Colonel himself 
 soon afterward returned to the old homestead farm near Bradford, 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEI^ COUNTY 585 
 
 Steuben county, having inherited this property from his father. 
 A year later he sold the farm and located at Hammondsport, where 
 he studied law for a short time, under the preceptorship of Clark 
 Bell, with whom he soon became interested in the growing of 
 grapes. Messrs. Bell and Switzer, together with Henry H. Cook, 
 purchased about thirty acres of grape vineyard and Colonel Switzer 
 assumed the active supervision of the same. In December, 1864, 
 the three interested principals. Colonel Switzer and Messrs. Bell and 
 Cook, effected the organization of the Urbana Wine Company, 
 which was incorporated in January, 1865. John "W. Davis, Henry 
 Harlow Hakes and D. M. Hildreth later became stockholders in the 
 company and Colonel Switzer became general manager of the busi- 
 ness. He has been actively and prominently identified with grape 
 culture and the manufacturing of wine during the long intervening 
 years and is at the present time secretary of the Urbana Wine 
 Company, as well as a member of its board of directors. The 
 product of this company is of the highest standard and has done 
 much to give precedence to Steuben county as a wine manufacturing 
 center. The company has long controlled a large and substantial 
 trade and it is one of the largest concerns of the kind in this section 
 of the state. While the manufactory of the company is located at 
 Hammondsport Colonel Switzer has maintained his residence at 
 Bath since 1880. He has been conrected with the company forty- 
 six years. 
 
 Colonel Switzer has long been recognized as one of the progres- 
 sive and public-spirited citizens of his native county and he has done 
 all in his power to further its social and material development and 
 upbuilding. He has given his allegiance to the Republican party 
 since the time of its organization, with the exception of the occasion 
 when Horace Greeley was the nominee of the Democratic party for 
 president of the United States. Horace Greeley, in fact, made him a 
 Republican for he was born a Democrat. Colonel Switzer served 
 on the military staffs of Governors Crane and Cornell with the rank 
 of colonel and from this service he gained the title by which he is 
 familiarly known. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and 
 the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and both he and his 
 wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 In the year 1862 was solemnized the marriage of Colonel Swit- 
 zer to Miss Fidelia Hastings, who was born in Bath and reared in 
 Howard township, Steuben county, where her father settled in the 
 pioneer days. Colonel and Mrs. Switzer became the parents of 
 four children, concerning whom the following brief record is given : 
 Luin is engaged in the drug business at Southport, Connecticut; 
 Charles C. is a representative dentist of Norwich, New York; George 
 H. is an electrical engineer by profession and resides at Bath, 
 Steuben county ; and Henry died in infancy. 
 
 Charles A. Millee.— A prominent member of that progres- 
 sive and public-spirited citizenship in which Steuben county takes 
 
 Vol. II— 5 
 
586 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 proper pride is Charles A. Miller, a prosperous farmer and poultry 
 raiser residing in Rathbone township. As in so many instances 
 when tracing the lineage of America's best stock it is discovered 
 that Mv. Miller's forebears are German, his parents, Maurice and 
 Marie (Schaefer) Miller, both being natives of the "Fatherland." 
 They followed the westward course of emigration to America early 
 in the fifties, breaking home ties for the fuller opportunities of a 
 new land. They lived for a time in New York city, and it was in 
 this metropolis that Mr. Miller was born. The fatiier was a tin 
 and copper smith and was a mechanic of a high order of ability, and 
 he continued to pursue his trade in this country. "When, Mr. Miller 
 was still a youth his father moved his family to Chicago. The 
 father continued to reside in that city until the time of his death 
 and Mr. Miller's residence there was of twenty-three years' dura- 
 tion. After 'he had received his education in New York city he 
 almost immediately took up his struggle with the world, and entered 
 the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. It is a favor- 
 able comment upon his ability and trustworthiness that he con- 
 tinued in the service of this railway for over twenty years, serving 
 for seven and a half years as fireman and for fifteen and a half as 
 locomotive engineer. 
 
 In course of time Mr. lliller, who haa always had some inclina- 
 tion toward agriculture, came eastward again to Steuben county 
 and became the possessor of a farm of eighty acres of valuable laTid. 
 This farm, which he has had under his management since 1895, is 
 centrally located and has many natural advantages in addition to 
 the up-to-date improvements which have been lavished upon it. 
 In connection with his farming Mr. Miller raises poultry and his 
 efforts in this line have been crowned with undeniable success. He 
 winters about three hundred laying hens, besides his other fowls 
 for breeding purposes, and his poultry is of the best strain of 
 White Leghorn. It was in 1904 that Mr. Miller decided to devote 
 part of his attention to the poultry business and he has found in it 
 much pleasure as well as profit. He stands high in the affection 
 and esteem of his neighbors and he is serving his second term as a 
 justice of the peace, in which capacity he has given the highest sat- 
 isfaction. He is a member of the Grange and he and his family are 
 earnest and consistent members of the Presbyterian church, to 
 which they give generous support in every way. 
 
 Mr. Miller laid the foundation of a happy household in 1878, 
 in which year he was united in marriage to Miss Ida Falkner, 
 daughter of Rensselaer and Mary Falkner. Mrs. Miller was born 
 in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, in 1856. She comes of fine Amer- 
 ican stock, many of her ancestors having been stanch patriots who 
 gladly risked their lives for their country. Her father did valiant 
 service at the time of the Rebellion. He served three years and was 
 Quartermaster Sergeant of Company H, Second Regiment Colorado 
 Volunteer Cavalry. In one encounter he had a horse shot from un- 
 der him. Her maternal grandfather, Benjamin Smith, was mar- 
 ried three times to three sisters in succession, by whom he had 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 587 
 
 seven children. One of these sons, Asa, was a classmate of President 
 Arthur. The Smiths are closely related to the Howlands, who came 
 to this continent in the Mayflower. They ultimately settled in 
 Pennsylvania and their descendants migrated to Steuben county. 
 The previously mentioned Benjamin Smith saw service in the war of 
 1812. This heritage of patriotism has been an inspiration to Mrs. 
 Miller's children, who are of the best type of young American 
 citizenhood. Mr. Miller's children are five in number: C.Arthur, 
 who married Miss Florence Merring ; Herbert F., who married Miss 
 Kate Young; Maud E., now Mrs. F. Perry; Marie I., now Mrs. R. 
 Hannah, and Maurice E., who is a law student. 
 
 Douglass H. Smith, M. D.— It is gratifying to enter record 
 concerning the career of Dr. Smith, from the fact that he is a native 
 of Steuben county, a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families and 
 a worthy representative of the profession which was dignified and 
 honored by the life and services of his father. He is engaged in 
 the active practice of his profession at Bath and is known as one 
 of the able and successful physicians and surgeons of his native 
 county. 
 
 Dr. Douglass H. Smith was born at Bath, Steuben county, 
 New York, on the 22nd of October, 1879, and is a son of Dr. 
 Ira P. and Harriet Amelia (Smith) Smith. Dr. Ira P. Smith was 
 born at ROgersviUe, Steuben county, on the 19th of August, 1835, 
 and he died at Bath, this county, on the 26th of May, 1905. His 
 wife was born in the town of Bath, this county, on the 28th of 
 February, 1842, and here she passed away on the 11th of December, 
 1907. Andrew Smith, the maternal great-grandfather of the sub- 
 ject of this review, was a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated 
 to America in 1792, coming with Colonel Williamson, the first set- 
 tler of Steuben county. Andrew Smith for some time had charge 
 of the farming operations of his friend and associate. Colonel 
 Williamson, and he had the supervision of the reclamation of much 
 land in Steuben county, where he directed the work at various 
 times of from thirty to fifty men. About 1798 he established 
 his home on his farm, a short distance from the village of Bath, 
 where he continued to reside until his death. He was a man of 
 ability and sterling character and as he was a skillful surveyor he 
 found much requisition for his services in this capacity m the early 
 pioneer days. He was one of the first settlers of Steuben county 
 and his name is enrolled on the roster of its sterling pioneers. His 
 son John J. Smith, grandfather of him whose name introduces 
 this sketch, continued to reside in the vicinity of the village ot 
 Bath throughout his entire life and his active career was one o± 
 successful and close identification with agricultural pursuits. 
 
 Dr Ira P Smith was a son of William Smith, who removed 
 from Vermont to Steuben county in an early day and he here 
 passed the residue of his life as did also his wife. Both were 
 representatives of families founded in New England m the colonial 
 epoch of our national history. Dr. Ira P. Smith was one of a 
 
588 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 family of four children and he was reared to the sturdy dis- 
 cipline of the farm but was afforded the best educational ad- 
 vantages available in the locality and period, including those of 
 Union Seminary at Rogersville. For some time he was engaged in 
 teaching in the schools of Steuben county and later he passed one 
 year as a student in the celebrated University of Michigan, at Ann 
 Arbor. He began the study of medicine under the able preceptor- 
 ship of Charles S. Acbley, of Rogersville, Steuben county, and 
 finally he entered the Albany Medical College, in which well ordered 
 institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1859, with 
 the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately 
 began the practice of his profession at Avoca, Steuben county, 
 where he remained until 1862, when he tendered his services to 
 the Union by assuming the position of acting assistant surgeon in 
 the regular army; an office which he retained for two years. He 
 then returned to his native county and located at Bath, where he 
 continued in the active practice of his profession until the time of 
 his death. He gained prestige as one of the earnest and well 
 fortified physicians and surgeons of the county and kept in touch 
 with the advancement made in both departments of his profes- 
 sion. He was in the most significant sense humanity's friend and 
 he labored with all of zeal and devotion in the alleviation of suffer- 
 ing and distress. At the time of his demise he was the eldest mem- 
 ber of the Steuben County Medical Society, of which he had served 
 as president. He also gave effective service as a member of the 
 board of pension-examining surgeons of Steuben county and was 
 president of the Bath Bible Society. Both he and his wife were 
 zealous and devout members of the Presbyterian church. They 
 became the parents of four children, Alice, who still resides in 
 Bath; Fannie, who died in infancy; Edward R., who died at the 
 age of thirty-one years ; and Dr. Douglass H., of this sketch, who is 
 the youngest of the number. It should be noted that Edward R. 
 Smith was an employe in the office of the county c^erk of Steuben 
 county at the time of his death and that he had devoted consider- 
 able attention to the study of law, though he had not been ad- 
 mitted to the bar when he was summoned from the scene of life's 
 mortal endeavors. 
 
 Dr. Douglass H. Smith was graduated in Haverling High 
 School in Bath as a member of the class of 1898, and after leaving 
 school he secured employment in a drug store in his native town. 
 Through the discipline and study gained in this connection he be- 
 came a licensed pharmacist in 1902. In 1900 he entered the medical 
 department of the University of Buffalo, in which he completed the 
 prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 
 1904, receiving from this well ordered institution his degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he passed one year as 
 interne in the Erie County Hospital, in the city of Buffalo, where 
 he gained most valuable clinical experience and in 1905, shortly 
 after the death of his honored father, he engaged in practice in his 
 native town of Bath, where he has put forth every effort to give 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 589 
 
 as eflEective service in his profession, as did his father, to a large 
 amount of whose practice he has succeeded. The Doctor is a mem- 
 ber of the Steuben County Medical Society, the New York State 
 Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was 
 reared in the faith of the Republican party and has never wavered 
 in his allegiance thereto and he is affiliated with Bath Lodge No. 
 112, Free & Accepted Masons. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
 church and is prominent in connection with the social activities in 
 the community which has represented his home the greater portion 
 of the time since he was ushered into the world. He and his sister 
 still reside in the old homestead, which is a center of refined hospi- 
 tality. 
 
 Charles Henry Christian.— Actively identified with the in- 
 dustrial interests of Corning as a successful dealer in real estate, 
 an insurance agent and a loan agent,. Charles Henry Christian has 
 done much towards promoting the prosperity of the community, 
 and as an enterprising and public-spirited citizen is held in high 
 respect and esteem. A native of Steuben county, he was born, 
 August 14, 1862, in Woodhull, where his father, James W. 
 Christian, was a pioneer settler. 
 
 Locating in Woodhull when there was but one store and one 
 blacksmith's shop in the place, James W. Christian acquired title 
 to considerable land, among other tracts owning the present site of 
 the village of Addison. He continued a resident of Steuben county 
 until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. He married Lydia 
 Allen, who lived but fifty-five years. They became the parents of 
 ten children, nine of whom are now, in 1910, living, Charles Henry 
 being the eighth child in succession of birth. 
 
 Having completed his early studies in the Elkland graded 
 schools, Charles H. Christian soon began the battle of life on his 
 own account. Establishing himself in the insurance business in 
 Corning in 1891, he has carried it on continuously since, each year 
 enlarging his operations. He deals extensively in real estate, rent- 
 ing, buying and selling, his straightforward methods securing him 
 a large patronage. 
 
 Mr. Christian married, May 14, 1884, Ida M. Redfield, an 
 adopted daughter of William H. and Nancy J. Redfield. Their 
 union has been blessed by the birth of two sons and two daughters, 
 namely : Cora, wife of Ernest J. Thomas, of Elmira, New York ; 
 Sayre, in the employ of the Corning Glass Company; Ethel, and 
 Charles Henry. Politically Mr. Christian is a stanch supporter of 
 the principles of the Republican party, and fraternally he be- 
 longs to Corning Tribe, I. 0. R. M. 
 
 Leroy McCorn.— As a grape-grower and wine manufacturer 
 Mr. McCorn has gained a position of distinctive prestige in Steuben 
 county, where he is associated with his brother, Van Buren, with 
 headquarters in the thriving little city of Hammondsport. On other 
 pages of this work is entered a brief review of the career of his 
 
690 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 brother and in that connection are given adequate data concerning 
 the family history so that repetition thereof is not demanded at 
 this juncture. 
 
 Leroy MeCorn was born in Tompkins county, New York, on 
 the 27th of August, 1855, and his early discipline jb connection 
 with the practical duties and responsibilities of life was that 
 gained in connection with the work and management of the home 
 farm. He was afforded the advantages of the public scliools of his 
 native county and at the age of eighteen years he went to the state 
 of Illinois, where he remained five years. At the age of twenty- 
 five years he came to Steuben county and located at Hammondsport, 
 where he was employed for two years by H. 0. Pairchild, a pros- 
 perous fruit shipper. Later he secured employment in a vineyard 
 near Hammondsport and after being thus engaged for one year 
 he engaged in the growing of grapes on his own responsibility, de- 
 veloping an excellent vineyard which was the nucleus of the present 
 fine vineyards owned by the firm of which he is a member. For five 
 years he gave his attention to the growing and shipping of grapes 
 and he then initiated the manufacturing of wine on a modest scale. 
 This branch of his industrial' enterprise has been developed into one 
 of large proportions and he and his brother are now numbered 
 among the largest producers of high grade wines in Steuben coun- 
 ty, besides which he is individually interested in several important 
 manufacturing and commercial enterprises, his connection with 
 which indicates conclusively that he is essentially a progressive 
 business man and one with excellent initiative and administrative 
 powers. 
 
 Mr. McCorn has ever been found ready to give his co-operation 
 and influence in support of all measures tending to advance the 
 general welfare of the community and he has been called upon to 
 serve in various offices of public trust, including that of mayor of 
 Hammondsport, of which position he was incumbent for three 
 terms, during which he gave a most admirable administration of the 
 municipal government. He had previously served as a village 
 trustee and of this office he is incumbent at the present time, besides 
 which he is a supervisor of Hammondsport township. He is affiliated 
 with the lodge of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks at 
 Hornell and he was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church ; 
 Mrs. McCorn is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. 
 
 In the year 1877 was recorded the marriage of Mr. McCorn to 
 Miss Sabina Bailey, who was born in Steuben county. New York, 
 on the 8th of April, 1859, and who is a daughter of Charles L. and 
 Amanda (Ide) Bailey. Mr. Bailey was a representative of one of 
 the old and honored families of Steuben county, with whose annals 
 the name became identified in the pioneer days, and he was a 
 successful farmer and substantial capitalist of this covinty at the 
 time of his death, which occurred on the 16th of December, 1896, 
 at which time he was sixty-five years of age. Mrs. Amanda (Ide) 
 Bailey died in 1865, at the age of twenty-nine years, and besides 
 Mrs. McCorn she is survived by one son, Lafayette Bailey, who is a 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 591 
 
 successful wine-maker at Hammondsport. Mr. and Mrs. McCorn 
 became the parents of one son, Charles L., who died at the age of 
 twenty-two months. 
 
 Clyde E. Shults, lawyer and a prominent and influential citi- 
 zen of Homell, was born at Avoca, Steuben county, April 12, 1876. 
 Alonzo Shults, his father, was born in the Mohawk Valley, a son 
 of Josiah Shults, an early settler in his vicinity, who came to 
 Steuben county in the early fifties, bringing his family and their 
 few portable things by means of an ox cart. Alonzo came along, 
 and was himself a pioneer. He married Gertrude Bush, daughter 
 of Ira Bush. She was born in Steuben county, a child of early 
 settlers. 
 
 Alonzo and Gertrude (Bush) Shults located in the town of 
 Avoca, later moving to Wayland, where they were both living in 
 1910. They had two sons, I. J., the eldest, is a traveling salesman, 
 whose home is in Detroit. Clyde B. was reared on his father's 
 farm in Wayland and was graduated from the Wayland High 
 School in 1892 and from the New York State Normal School at 
 Geneseo, Livingston county, in 1894. He was graduated from the 
 Buffalo Law School in 1898 and was admitted to the bar in that 
 city. He located in Homell that year and became a law partner 
 of John Griffin. He was thus associated with Mr. Griffin about 
 four years, then entered into partnership with Frank H. Eobinson. 
 About four years later he began an independent practice, which 
 has been continued with much success to the present time. 
 
 Mr. Shults is secretary and chief active executive officer of the 
 association having in hand the Hornell Fair. He was elected sec- 
 retarj' of the Hornellsville Farmers' Club as long ago as 1903. 
 Politically he affiliates with Republicans. He was for four years 
 a justice of the peace. In 1902 he was elected secretary of the 
 Hornell board of education, a position which he has filled with 
 great credit to the present time. He is a director in the Bank of 
 Steuben and treasurer of the F. A. Owen Publishing Company, of 
 Dansville, Livingston county. New York, publishers of "Primary 
 Plans," "The Normal Instructor" and other educational mag- 
 azines. His social relations and wide acquaintance are indicated by 
 the fact that he is a Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks and of the Knights of the Maccabees. In 1899 
 he married Miss Anna Sherman, a native of Plainwell, Allegan 
 county, Michigan, and they have three children, named here in the 
 order of their birth, Everett, Angeline and Sherman Shults. Enough 
 has been said of Mr. Shults' business connections to give ground 
 for the inference that he is a man of great public spirit, ready at all 
 times to entertain any proposition for the advancement of his city 
 and county, eager to do all in his power to promote it if it appeals 
 to him as practical and far-reaching. All in all he is a citizen of 
 whom Homell is proud. 
 
593 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 W. R. Guile.— Way land has no more representative business 
 man than W. R. Guile, the secretary and general manager of the 
 Wayland Canning Company. He is a progressive business man, 
 and under his fostering care and watchful eye the canning industry 
 with which he is associated has been brought to a successful issue, 
 and it adds much to the wealth and enterprise of both town and 
 county. The factory was first established in 1899 under the man- 
 agement of a stock company, co-operative in effect, but its system 
 and working order was changed in 1901. Its first directors were 
 Julian Morris, W. R. Guile, C. P. Newfang, Prank Hartz, P. H. 
 Zimmerman, A. L. Huber and George E. Whitman, and its officers 
 were as follows: President, P. H. Zimmerman; Vice-President, A. 
 L. Huber; Treasurer, Julian A. Morris; and Secretary, W. R. 
 Guile. Under this management the plant was put in operation on 
 the 1st of October, 1899, with about thirty-five employes, but at 
 the end of two years the enterprise proved a failure and a reorgani- 
 zation was necessary, which took place in 1901. The company was 
 then organized on a new basis, with a directorate as follows : Julian 
 A. Morris, P. H. Zimmerman, C. S. Avery, W. R. Guile, George 
 E. Whitman, C. P. Newfang and J. Kimmel, while the officers elect- 
 ed were: P. H. Zimmerman, President; C. S. Avery, Vice-presi- 
 dent ; Julian A. Morris, Treasurer ; and W. R. Guile, Secretary. P. 
 H. Zimmerman resigned the presidency in 1904 and was succeeded 
 by John Kimmel, and John A. Bennett was elected to the vice- 
 presidency on the 6th of January, 1905, to fiU the vacancy caused 
 by the death of C. S. Avery. The present plant of the Wayland 
 Canning Company occupies four acres of ground, the buildings are 
 large and commodious, fitted with modern machinery for the ac- 
 complishment of their growing business, and three steam engines, 
 ranging from eighty-five to thirty and fifteen horse-power, are 
 used, besides the electric forty horse-power from the city, and all 
 these are called into active service during the canning season. One 
 hundred and fifteen operatives are employed. The plant is prov- 
 ing a great acquisition to Wayland 's commercial industry, and 
 directed by its present board of substantial and influential business 
 men it is destined to attain to still greater proportions. In addition 
 to their regular canning business they have six silos, which re- 
 ceive and preserve the husks and offal from the factory, and the 
 product finds a ready market in the farmers for stock feeding pur- 
 poses. The plant is situated on the line of the Erie Railroad. 
 
 W. R. Guile, the secretary and general manager of the Way- 
 land Canning Company, has been a resident of Wayland during the 
 past sixteen years, and during twelve years of that time he has 
 served on the city's school board and at the same time was the 
 trustee of the borough. But he is a native son of Livingston coun- 
 ty. New York, born September 12, 1855, and he was reared and 
 educated there and yet owns the old Guile homestead of eighty- 
 five acres. The family have for generations been loyal citizens of 
 the old Empire state. W. R. Guile wedded ]\Iiss Linda Robinson 
 in 1878, and their three children are Lucinda H., Florence B. and 
 
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HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 595 
 
 Orton R. He is a worthy member and one of the board of trus- 
 tees of the United Evangelical church, and is also affiliated with 
 the Masonic fraternity in Wayland. 
 
 Charles Cadogan.— Among the older residents of Hornell, 
 Steuben county, New York, who have not retired from active busi- 
 ness life is Charles Cadogan, at the present time incumbent of the 
 responsible position of president of the Citizens' National Bank. 
 As the head of this popular financial institution he has done much 
 to further its stability and to increase its scope of operation. 
 
 Charles Cadogan is a native of Steuben county and was born 
 at Canisteo September 10, 1838, a son of Abram and Jennie (Whit- 
 wood) Cadogan, the former of whom was born in Cortland county, 
 New York, and the latter in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cadogan became the parents of four children— two boys 
 and two girls— and of the number Charles was the second in order 
 of birth. During the major portion of his active business career 
 the father was engaged in building operations, and both he and 
 his wife are now deceased, the former having been summoned to 
 eternal rest in 1892 and the latter having passed away in 1889. 
 
 Mr. Cadogan completed the curriculum of the common schools 
 of his native town and he initiated his independent business career 
 as a clerk in the grocery establishment of Ely & Brown, located at 
 the corner of Broad and Main streets, Hornell. Later he held the 
 position of yard master for the Brie Railroad Company, with 
 headquarters in Hornell, for a period of twelve years. In the 
 autumn of 1868 he entered into a partnership alliance with J. W. 
 Nicholson and they succeeded to the business established by Ely & 
 Brown. For nearly a score of years the firm of Cadogan & Nichol- 
 son carried on a successful mercantile enterprise and it rapidly 
 gained precedence and distinctive prestige as one of the leading 
 establishments of its kind in the county. In 1887 Mr. Cadogan 
 became interested in the banking business and in October of that 
 year he was elected president of the Citizens' National Bank, as 
 already noted. The other officers of the bank are: J. M. Finch, 
 vice-president; and J. E. B. Santee, cashier. The bank was incor- 
 porated under the laws of the state in 1882, with a capital stock 
 of $100,000.00, its surplus and undivided profits amount to 
 $52,000.00 and its deposits aggregate .$565,000.00. Mr. Cadogan 
 has gained recognition as one of the conservative business men of 
 the county and he has a widespread reputation for fair and honor- 
 able methods in all business transactions. He is a Republican in 
 his political proclivities, warmly advocating the party principles, 
 although he is not an active politician. He has devoted himself 
 assiduously to his business interests and has not sought political 
 office. He holds membership in the Universalist church, to whose 
 charities and benevolences he has contributed in generous measure. 
 As a man he is thoroughly conscientious, of undoubted integrity, 
 affable and courteous in manner. 
 
596 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 In 1859 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cadogan to Miss 
 Corinne Sweetland, who was born and reared in Livingston county, 
 and who is a daughter of David and Amanda Sweetland, long 
 citizens of Hornell. Mr. and Mrs. Cadogan have five children, 
 concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated,— 
 Mary is the wife of F. E. Williams and resides at Hornell; Anna 
 C. married C. W. Etz, who is cashier in the Steuben Bank at 
 Hornell.; Bertha R. remains at the paternal home; Gertrude is the 
 wife of J. H. Wynne and they reside in New York City ; and Lucy 
 remains at home. Mr. and Mrs. Cadogan reside at 103 Genesee 
 street, Hornell. 
 
 John F. Pakkhurst.— One of the distinguished citizens of 
 Steuben county was the late Judge John Foster Parkhurst, who 
 was numbered among the representative legists and jurists of the 
 state and who was a member of its supreme court at the time of his 
 death, which occurred at his home in the city of Bath on the 21st 
 of February, 1906. He was a man of scholarly attainments and 
 one whose character was moulded on a large and generous scale. 
 His course was guided on a lofty plane of integrity and honor, he 
 viewed all things in their correct proportions, and an exalted de- 
 votion to duty was emphasized in every stage of his long and use- 
 ful career, so that he well merited the implicit confidence and 
 esteem in which he was held by his fellow men. 
 
 John Foster Parkhurst was born at Wellsboro, Tioga county, 
 Pennsylvania, on the 21st of February, 1843, and was a scion of 
 distinguished Colonial families of our great American republic. 
 George Parkhurst, the founder of the family in America, came 
 from England to the New World in 1635 and established his 
 home in Watertown, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. John Park- 
 hurst, son of Josiah Parkhurst, Jr., and grandfather of the sub- 
 ject of this memoir, was born in Massachusetts on the 2d of May, 
 1760. In 1777 he manifested his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism 
 by enlisting for service in the Continental line in the war of the 
 Revolution. He was first assigned to duty in guarding army 
 stores at Bast Sudbury, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, and in 
 April, 1878, he enlisted in Captain Holmes' company of the regi- 
 ment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Reed. This was the first 
 regiment assigned to duty in guarding British prisoners of war. 
 John Parkhurst received his honorable discharge on the 4th of July, 
 1778, and he then re-enlisted, for a term of six weeks, in a company 
 commanded by Captain Amos Perry. In July, 1780, he enlisted in 
 Captain McFarland's company of Colonel Harris' regiment, with 
 which he served in Rhode Island, and he received his final dis- 
 charge on the 30th of October, 1780. 
 
 Judge Parkhurst was a son of Dr. Curtis and Jane Ann (Kas- 
 son) Parkhurst, the former of whom was born at Marlborough, 
 New Hampshire, on the 2d of July, 1794, and the latter of whom 
 was born at North Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 597 
 
 the 5th of April, 1811. The parents passed the closing years of 
 their lives at Lavvreneeville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where 
 the father died on the 5th of June, 1872, and the mother on the 
 20th of October, 1887. Dr. Curtis Parkhurst was a physician and 
 surgeon of splendid ability, and during the many years of his de- 
 votion to the work of his profession he maintained his home at 
 Lawrenceville, where his name is held in affectionate memory. 
 He was graduated in the Medical school of Dartmouth College 
 as a member of the class of 1819. In 1828-9 he represented Brad- 
 ford and Tioga counties in the state legislature, as did he also in 
 1830, after the consolidation of the two counties into one district. 
 In 1840 he was elected sheriff to Tioga county, and in this office 
 he served from 1841 to 1844. On the 15th of March, 1847, the 
 governor of Pennsylvania appointed him associate judge of the 
 court of common pleas of Tioga county, for a term of five years, 
 and he made an admirable record on the bench, having been a 
 man of broad mental ken, mature judgment and excellent knowl- 
 edge of law. He was an influential and honored citizen and did 
 much to further the progress of his home county and state. He 
 was one of the prime factors in effecting the construction of Tioga 
 Railroad from Corning, New York, to Blossburg, Tioga county, 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Alvin Hall, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Jane Ann (Kasson) 
 Parkhurst, was a loyal soldier of the Continental forces in the war 
 of the Revolution, in which he served at Fort Champlain in 1777. 
 He enlisted for a second term and in 1780 he took part in the bat- 
 tle of Stone Arabia, New York, in which engagement his colonel 
 and forty members of his regiment were killed. 
 
 Judge Parkhurst was the fifth in order of birth in a family of 
 eight children, and he was afforded the advantages of a home of 
 marked culture and refinement. He attended the schools of 
 Lawrenceville and thereafter continued his studies under the direc- 
 tion of a private tutor. In 1863 he came to Bath, Steuben county, 
 where he began reading law under the effective preceptorship of 
 Judge Guy Humphreys McMaster, one of whose daughters he later 
 married. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar and he forthwith en- 
 gaged in the general practice of his profession at Bath, where in 
 1872 he formed a partnership with his honored preceptor. Judge 
 McMaster, under the firm name of McMaster & Parkhurst. This 
 admirable professional alliance. continued without interruption un- 
 til the death of Judge McMaster, to whom an individual memoir 
 is dedicated on other pages of this work, and thereafter Judge 
 Parkhurst continued in individual practice, retaining a large and 
 representative clientage. In 1897 Governor Black appointed him 
 judge of the state court of claims, and this position he retained 
 until 1901, when he was appointed to the bench of the supreme 
 court of the state, for the seventh judicial district. In 1902 he was 
 elected to this same high office, of which he continued incumbent 
 until his death. The profundity of his legal knowledge and the 
 
598 HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 eminently judicial east of his mind made him specially strong as 
 a jurist, and upon the supreme bench he rounded out a career of 
 signal honor and distinction. 
 
 In politics Judge Parkhurst accorded an unwavering al- 
 legiance to the Republican party, and he was an effective exponent 
 of its principles and policies. From 1889 until 1902 he was chair- 
 man of the Republican committee of Steuben county, and from 
 1889 until his appointment to the supreme bench he served as a 
 member of the Republican state central committee of New York. 
 He was a delegate to the national conventions of his party in 1888, 
 1892 and 1896, and was one of its recognized leaders in his section 
 of the state. As editor of the Steuben Courier from 1890 until he 
 was summoned from the scene of life's mortal endeavors he made 
 that paper an effective exponent of the cause of the Republican 
 party and of the general interests of the community. He wielded 
 much influence in public affairs and also in connection with material 
 enterprises of important order. He was vice-president of the 
 Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank of Bath and vice-president of the 
 Bath & Hammondsport Railroad Company. In 1894 he was a 
 delegate from the state at large to the state constitutional conven- 
 tion, in which he served as a member of the judiciary and suf- 
 frage committees and as chairman of the committee on county, 
 township and village offices. He was a zealous member of the 
 Presbyterian church, as is also his widow, and was affiliated with 
 the Masonic fraternity and the Empire State Society of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution. Judge Parkhurst had traveled ex- 
 tensively in Europe and throughout the United States, and he 
 profited duly by the broadening influences of such diversion. His 
 life was guided on the loftiest plane of integrity and honor and 
 he brought to bear the splendid equipment of a broad intellectual- 
 ity and high purpose in all the relations of life, so that his career 
 offers both lesson and incentive. 
 
 On the 22d of July, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Judge Parkhurst to Miss Alice A. McMaster, daughter of the late 
 Judge Guy H. McMaster, of whom individual mention is made 
 elsewhere in this volume. Of this union were born two children,— 
 Juliet, who died at the age of eighteen months, and Guy McMaster 
 Parkhurst, who is a member of the class of 1912 in Cornell Univer- 
 sity, at Ithaca, New York. Mrs. Parkhurst is a prominent and 
 valued factor in connection with the best social activities of her 
 home city, and her home has long been a center of gracious hospi- 
 tality. 
 
 George W. Johnson.— Noteworthy not only as a life-long resi- 
 dent of Steuben county, and the son of a life-long resident of this 
 part of the Empire state, but as one who has performed his full 
 share in advancing the agricultural and industrial prosperity of 
 his community is George W. Johnson, a son of Silas H. Johnson, 
 born in Howard, November 29, 1848. 
 
HLSTOKY OF STEUREX COUNTY 599 
 
 Born and brought up in Yates county. New York, Silas H. 
 Johnson came to Steuben county in 1843. The following two years 
 he taught school in Howard. He married Adelia Bennett, Septem- 
 ber 1, 1847. She was the daughter of Benjamin Bennett, one of 
 the first settlers in Howard. They resided for many years on a 
 farm in Howard, and late in life moved to Hornell. Silas H. John- 
 son died August 7, 1900. His wife survived him but four days. 
 They reared a family of five children: George W. Johnson (sub- 
 ject of this sketch), Frances A., widow of Byron Kysor, Launa 
 M., who died December 16, 1871, in the twentieth year of her 
 age; Clymenia, wife of Daniel S. Kysor of Galesburg, Illinois, 
 and Fred A., who was born May 10, 1861, and died May 1, 1889, 
 unmarried. 
 
 George AY. Johnson located in Fremont soon after his mar- 
 riage to Berniee Jane Kysor, and successfully engaged in general 
 farming until 1900, when he moved to the city. He takes an ac- 
 tive and intelligent interest in public affairs and is a member of 
 the Hornell Lodge No. 44 of F. & A. U. 
 
 Mr. Johnson married in 1872, Berniee Jane Kysor who was 
 born August 22, 1847, at "VVoodsville, Town of Sparta, Livingston 
 county. New York. Her father, Archibald Kysor, was born in 
 1805. He was a millwright by trade and he built the J. C. Will- 
 iams' mill at Dansville; the Ullyette Mill at Woodsville; the Alley 
 Mill at Howard; the Alley i\Iill at Hornell, and a large sawmill at 
 White Hall, Michigan, and many others. He shipped much of his 
 flour to Albany, by the old Erie Canal. He married Calista H. 
 Sill, and eight children were bom to them. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of three children, name- 
 ly: Kittie Launa, Adelia Augusta and Jessie Benton. 
 
 MoRTiMEK W. Read is one of the honored and useful citizens of 
 Wheeler, Steuben county. New York. This well-known farmer and 
 jobber was born March 16, 1840, on the old Darius Read farm in 
 Urbana, this county. This Darius Read, grandfather of the sub- 
 ject, when a boy of twelve years came with his father from Massa- 
 chusetts to Urbana, and near that point the elder gentleman took 
 up a claim of two hundred and five acres of land, which he cleared 
 from the forest and converted into a home for his family. There 
 four generations of the family lived, the great-grandfather and 
 grandfather, as above mentioned, and the subject and his father, 
 both of whom were born on this estate. The father, Thomas M. 
 Read, was born in the old house erected by his forbears and its 
 ancient walls were the first scene upon which the young eyes of 
 Mortimer W. opened. Thomas M. Read married Hannah Hill and 
 became the father of four children and subsequently went west 
 locating at Grand Rapids in the state of Michigan, and working at 
 his trades, carpentering and blacksmithing. His wife, who was 
 a native of Urbana, died October 4, 1854, at the age of thirty- 
 nine years. Thomas M. Read was a veteran of the Civil war in 
 
600 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 which he gave valiant service, and he spent his last days in the 
 Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio, his demise occurring there m 1892 
 at the age of sixty-nine years. Of the four children born to this 
 hero of the '60s Mortimer W. is the only one who survives. 
 
 Mr. Read at a very early age began to make his own way in 
 the world, and not only earned his own living, but also took care of 
 his youngest brother, who was a cripple. He had no school educa- 
 tion and at his first enlistment (for he, as well as his father, 
 offered his services in defense of the union) he could neither write, 
 nor read writing, but could read print. His youth was shadowed 
 by the lowering Civil war cloud and very early in that tragic con- 
 flict, April 22, 1861, he enlisted at Bath, New York, for two years 
 as a private in Company A, Twenty-third Regiment, ■ New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Barney A. Hoffman and with 
 his command joined the Army of the Potomac. His faithfulness 
 and efficiency were recognized and in 1862 he was promoted to 
 second sergeant and acted as orderly sergeant until discharged 
 May 12, 1863, when his term expired. He re-enlisted August 24, 
 
 1864, in the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Regiment, New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the 
 war. He was orderly sergeant of his company, C, when the com- 
 pany was formed and he was promoted to second lieutenant. While 
 with both regiments he was in every march, battle and skirmish in 
 which they participated, and in his last service was offered promo- 
 tion to major and lieutenant colonel, but refused both, since ac- 
 cepting these offices meant going into another regiment than the 
 one to whose members and officers he was so loyally attached. 
 During his service with the first named regiment he much improved 
 his education, under the tutelage of his officer, Captain Theodore 
 Schlick, learning to write and figure by helping to keep the com- 
 pany's books. After being mustered out the second time, in June, 
 
 1865, he returned to his home in Steuben county, where he has 
 since lived. "While he has worked at different trades, his life has 
 been spent chiefly as a farmer, the scene of his latter operations 
 being in Wheeler township, where he has a farm and vineyard. 
 Since 1906 he has been practically retired from active work. 
 
 Mr. Reed married Miss Axie Angel, daughter of Alonzo D. 
 and Rachel (Pickett) Angel, of Wheeler, Steuben county, and to 
 them have been given five sons and five daughters, one being de- 
 ceased. Those living are : Rachel, wife of William Foster ; Minnie, 
 wife of Frank Bates; Hannah, wife of Albert Grants; Diantha, 
 wife of A. LaRew, Jr.; Edwin, who married Miss E. M. Crants; 
 Cloa, wife of C. Young ; and Ely and Mortimer, Jr., at home. Of 
 those married all are residents of Mitchellville, Steuben county, 
 except Edwin, who lives on a farm in Bath township, this county; 
 and at this writing the grandchildren in the family number eleven. 
 He had six great-grandchildren, but only one is now living. 
 
 Mr. Read has membership in the post at Bath of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and finds great pleasure in continuing the 
 pleasant relations with the comrades of other days. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 601 
 
 Hon. James B. Day, of Hornell, was born in Union, Broome 
 county, New York, March 29, 1847. Abram Day, his father, was 
 a native of Owego, Tioga county. New York, by trade a tailor. He 
 lived and died there, passing away at about the age of forty- 
 seven years, and the . family records show that he was a lineal 
 descendant of one of two brothers from Scotland who came early 
 to the colonies, locating, the one in New York, the other in Connec- 
 ticut. Abram Day married Gertrude Stillman, of German extrac- 
 tion, but a native of the state of New York, who was about fifty 
 years old when she died. She bore her husband a daughter and 
 two sons. All of these children are living. Elias S. is a citizen of 
 Akron, Ohio. Mary is the widow of Charles Cooper, of Bingham- 
 ton. New York. The subject of this notice was the last born of 
 the three. He was reared and educated at Binghamton, and in 
 1866, when he was about nineteen years old, went to New York 
 city, where he was for eight years connected with the municipal 
 police department. In 1874 he took up his residence in Hornells- 
 ville, engaging in the wholesale wine and liquor business, and he 
 has continued in that branch of trade ever since with much success. 
 
 Almost ever since Mr. Day came to Hornellsville he has been 
 active in the local polities of that village and of Hornell, as well 
 as in the polities of his state and of the nation at large. He was 
 the last president of the village of Hornellsville and the first mayor 
 of the city of Hornell, filling the office two successive terms. For 
 five years he was a Democratic state committeeman, and as a mem- 
 ber of the national electoral college from New York, he voted for 
 Mr. Cleveland for the office of president of the United States. 
 Since then he has sought so far as has been possible to withdraw 
 from active participation in political work. 
 
 ilr. Day has been interested, directly and indirectly, with many 
 important enterprises. As a stockholder and otherwise he has had 
 to do with some of the leading interests of the village and city. 
 In the street railway system of the city he is especially interested, 
 and he is the owner of much valuable real estate. He is a thirty-sec- 
 ond degree Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Or- 
 der of Elks (Lodge 346 of Hornell), and is identified with the 
 Maennerchoer of the city. He married, in 1872, Jennie L. Twadell 
 and they have three children. He has been a resident of the place, 
 village and city for thirty-six years, and during that long period has 
 been one of the best friends that it has had, always contributing 
 liberally toward its advancement in every way that has appealed to 
 him as practical and likely to prove efficient. 
 
 John B. Vogt, Je.— One of the aggressive business men and 
 loyal and public-spirited citizens of the village of Wayland is Mr. 
 Vogt, who is here incumbent of the position of manager of the 
 Schwarzenbach Brewery, which is owned and operated by the Hor- 
 nell Brewing Company, of Hornell, this state. He is a represen- 
 tative of the third generation of the Vogt family in Steuben county. 
 
602 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 where his paternal grandfather located upon his immigration from 
 Germany and where this worthy ancestor secured a tract of la ad 
 and developed a productive farm, this continuing to be his home 
 until the close of his life. 
 
 John Bernard Vogt, Jr., was born in Wayland township, on 
 the 12th of February, 1878, and is a son of John B. and Barbara 
 (Shuster) Vogt, both of whom now reside in Spring Water town- 
 ship, Livingston county, where the father is a prosperous farmer 
 and stock-grower. Of the children seven sons and three daughters 
 are now living: Clara, is the wife of J. Cramer, a farmer of 
 Wayland township; George, is engaged in the merchandise busi- 
 ness in Wayland; John B., Jr., is the immediate subject of this 
 sketch ; Frank Meton, is identified with the brewing business under 
 the direction of his brother ; Peter resides on the home farm ; Will- 
 iam, is a resident of Atlanta, this county; and Anna, Herman and 
 Irene, remain at the parental home. It may be noted that Peter 
 was a twin of Rosa and that the latter died in infancy, as did also 
 Henry, who was a twin brother of William. John B. Vogt, Jr., 
 is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early 
 educational discipline and he continued to be identified with the 
 work of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority 
 when, in 1899, he became associated with a partner and they acted 
 as agents for a Rochester brewery, whose products they distributed 
 in Steuben county and adjacent sections. Mr. Vogt continued to be 
 thus engaged until 1905, on April 3d of which year, he assumed 
 his present position as general manager of the Schwarzenbach 
 Brewery of the Hornell Brewing Company, at Wayland. He has 
 since assumed charge also of the company at Dansville and Cohoc- 
 ton and he now has charge of the distribution of the products of the 
 company for the entire district tributary to these three towns. 
 
 Mr. Vogt is uncomprising in his allegiance to the Democratic 
 party and he has been an active worker in its local ranks. Both he 
 and his wife are communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic church in 
 Wayland, where he also holds membership in the local organization 
 of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. 
 
 On the 18th of June, 1907, Mr. Vogt was united in marriage 
 to Miss Julia Sauerlier, who was born on the 21st of March, 1880, 
 and who is a daughter of Albert and Mary (Meyers) Sauerlier. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Vogt have no children. 
 
 0. F. KiEFEE is the secretary and manager of the Wayland 
 Cement Works at Wayland, and is one of the progressive and in- 
 fluential men of the city. The cement plant adds much to the 
 wealth and business enterprise of Wayland. It was organized in 
 1883, as the Thomas Millen and Sons Cement Works, and in 1901 
 thename was changed to that of Thomas Millen and Company, 
 while in 1909 it underwent another change and has since been 
 known as the Wayland Portland Cement Company. The president 
 of the company is John Kimmel, the vice-president, F. K. Smith, 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 603 
 
 the treasurer, F. C. Lander and the secretary and manager, 0. F. 
 Kief er. The ground of the works cover a space of two hundred and 
 three acres, while their marl bed covers one hundred acres and 
 reaches a depth of twenty-four feet. The plant furnishes em- 
 ployment to fifty-three operatives, and the Erie, D. L. and W. and 
 the Shawnee Railroads furnish it with splendid shipping facilities. 
 The secretary and manager of the Wayland Cement Works 
 was born at Cohocton, New York, February 4, 1884, and is a gradu- 
 ate of the high school of his native town with the class of 1900 and 
 of the Rochester Business Institute with the class of 1901. Since 
 then he has been a resident of Wayland. He is the sixth of the 
 eleven children born to Charles and Lena (Wagner) Kiefer, who 
 emigrated from their native Germany to America in 1863 and lo- 
 cated in Rochester, moving from there in 1880 to Cohocton in 
 Steuben county. Charles Kiefer is a miller and a first class me- 
 chanic, and both he and his wife are living. 0. F. Kiefer after com- 
 ing to Wayland entered the employ of N. Kimmel and Sons as a 
 bookkeeper in their hardware store, and after three years there he 
 became associated with the Wayland Cement Works. During the 
 five years which he has served the corporation as its secretary and 
 general manager he has in many ways increased its value, and he is 
 prominently numbered with this coterie of substantial business men. 
 In 1905 he was married to Miss Florence, a daughter of L. A. 
 Schwan, and a son, Orrin 0., has been born to them. 
 
 W. W. Babcock.— Among the prominent citizens of Hornells- 
 ville, New York, is W. W. Babcock, who takes a prominent part in 
 public affairs and is well established in business. Mr. Babcock was 
 born in- the town of Fremont, four miles from his present resi- 
 dence. May 21, 1849, and is a son of James Ross Babcock. James 
 R. Babcock came to Steuben county with his father, James Bab- 
 cock, when he was eighteen years of age. The latter settled on 
 the Cohocton river and later moved to Buffalo, when it was only 
 a village. James Ross Babcock lived for some time in Cohocton, 
 Ohio, but returned to Steuben county and engaged in business as 
 a contractor and builder, as well as a farmer. He erected a large 
 number of buildings in the county and lived on his farm in Fre- 
 mont until eighty years of age. He took an active part in local 
 polities and was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. When he located on his farm there was but two acres of 
 land cleared and he continued the work of clearing and improving 
 it. He owned one hundred and thirty acres. He was of English 
 descent. '■'■'-' r'| 
 
 James R. Babcock married Ruth Phillips, a native also of 
 Cohocton and she lived to be eighty-five years of age. They were 
 among the early settlers of Steuben county and were very well 
 known. They had six children, of whom five reached maturity. 
 All were born in Steuben county, and W. W. is the oldest son 
 and third child. 
 
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604 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 The boyhood days of W. W. Babcock were spent in his native 
 place and he was educated in the public schools. He was reared 
 on a farm and carried on his farm in young manhood. When he 
 started business on his own account he began dealing in monu- 
 ments, working first as traveling salesman for the Field & Alden 
 Granite Company, with whom he remained fourteen years, when 
 he left their employ to engage in business on his own account at 
 his present location. He is an expert in his line, having been en- 
 gaged in the business as salesman and proprietor about thirty-two 
 years. He has been very successful in establishing himself in the 
 esteem and confidence of the people of his vicinity, and besides 
 this business owns a farm of one hundred and twelve acres near 
 by, which is mostly devoted to grain. He rents this land to good 
 advantage. 
 
 Mr. Babcock married December 29, 1870, Electa H. Helmer, 
 daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Hannah) Helmer, who was born 
 also in Fremont. Her parents were early settlers of the county and 
 came from Herkimer, New York. Mr. Babcock has two children 
 living : Claud F., a merchant of Hornellsville, and Lela, living at 
 home, supervisor of music in the public schools of the city. One 
 son, Hermie, died at the age of eight years. 
 
 Mr. Babcock is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., and is very active 
 in church work, having been a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church for about fifteen years. He has been a lifelong Republican 
 and has taken great interest in public and political affairs, and has 
 held various offices. He has served as town clerk and commissioner 
 of highways, has been postmaster of Fremont and is now a 
 member of the board of public works of Homell. He has always 
 supported every cause which he considered for the benefit and 
 welfare of the community, and is looked upon with great respect 
 by all who know him. About 1875, while Mr. Babcock was carrying 
 on his farm, lie lost his left arm in a threshing machine. However, 
 in spite of this misfortune he continues in excellent health and 
 is as much interested as ever in matters of public moment. 
 
 William R. Sutton, musician and opera house manager, Bath, 
 Steuben county, New York, was born at Avoca, that county, August 
 10, 1869, a son of George W. and Louisa (Wells) Sutton, natives 
 of Ontario county. With the exception of one half brother, who is 
 living at Naples, New York, he is the only survivor of his family, 
 once well known not only at home but throughout the country 
 wherever good music was appreciated. He attended school at 
 Wallace, near Avoca, till he was seventeen years old and later was 
 for years a member of the Sutton family band, an organization 
 which traveled extensively and met with much success. It was com- 
 posed entirely of members of the Sutton family and was under the 
 leadership of M. C. Sutton, and George W. Sutton was in active 
 service as a bandmaster twenty-two years. 
 
 Returning to Bath Mr. Sutton became connected with the 
 Soldiers' Home Band, of which he was later leader. He was the 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 605 
 
 leader for a time also of the Forty-Seventh Separate Company 
 Band. In 1909 W. R. Sutton leased the Casino opera house at 
 Bath, one of the best establishments of its class in this part of the 
 state, seating five hundred and fifty persons and giving employ- 
 ment to seven, of which he is making a business success. 
 
 Mr. Sutton is a member of the Bath lodge of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and has passed all its chairs as well as 
 those of the Encampment and he represented his home lodge in 
 the Grand Lodge of the state. He is identified with the order of 
 Maccabees and is a Red Man and a member of the order of Sons 
 of Veterans. He married Miss Anna R. Murphy, a native of 
 Bristol, England, and a daughter of William and Anna (Howell) 
 Murphy, who brought her to the United States when she was about 
 five years old. Her parents died at Penn Yan, Yates county, where 
 her father was a merchant. Mrs. Sutton has borne her husband 
 two daughters— Marie V., a graduate of the schools of Bath, and 
 Florence Cherry, who was graduated from the Bath high school 
 and is a student at the New York State Normal School at Syracuse, 
 where she was admitted on a scholarship which she won in fair 
 competition. 
 
 Mr. Sutton is a man of much public spirit who does his full 
 share in promoting the public welfare and who is confidently looked 
 upon by his fellow citizens for help when it is necessary for some 
 one to take the lead in a movement for the general advancement of 
 the town. 
 
 John H. Laerison.— The great basic industry of agriculture 
 in Steuben county has as one of its most progressive representatives 
 John H. Larrison, who is owner of the well improved landed es- 
 tate of two hundred and eighty-five acres, eligibly located in Caton 
 township and devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-growing. 
 Mr. Larrison is one of those sturdy citizens who has realized the 
 possibilities of large and definite success in connection with the 
 farming enterprise and his life has been one of action, as shown 
 in his prominence in his chosen field of endeavor. He is one of the 
 substantial and honored citizens of Steuben county, is the largest 
 land holder of Caton township and is a member of the directorate 
 of the Farmers' Alliance & Co-operative Insurance Company, one 
 of the important corporations of this county in this section of the 
 
 John H. Larrison reverts to the fine old Keystone state as the 
 place of his nativity. He was born in Ridgbury township, Brad- 
 ford county, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of March, 1853, and is a 
 son of Oscar and Dora (Edgerton) Larrison. Oscar Larrison was 
 born near Dieget Hollow, in Jackson township, Tioga county, 
 Pennsylvania, on the 6th of February, 1820, and was a son of John 
 Larrison, who was born in Dryden, Tompkins county. New York, 
 and whose wife, Mary (Huntley) Larrison was born June 17, 
 1805. John Larrison was a son of Theodore Larrison, who was 
 
606 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 born on the 26th of August, 1773, and whose wife, Elizabeth Up- 
 dike, was born on the 29th of July, 1785 ; their marriage was solem- 
 nized on the 27th of November, 1802, and they became the parents 
 of four children : Anna, Jacob, John and Lewis. John and Mary 
 (Huntley) Larrison became the parents of six sons,— Theodore, 
 Oscar, Lewis, Levi, Horace and David. Oscar and Dora (Edger- 
 ton) Larrison became the parents of four children, of whom John 
 H., of this review, is the eldest ; Amanda is the wife of George T. 
 Davenport ; Florence is deceased ; and Ethel unmarried. 
 
 John H. Larrison was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 home farm and his early educational advantages were those af- 
 forded in the public schools of his native township. He continued 
 to be associated in the work and management of the home farm 
 until he had attained to the age of twenty-five years, when he 
 married and initiated his independent career. In 1878, shortly 
 after his marriage, he located upon his present fine homestead 
 where he has continued to reside during the long intervening years 
 and where he has made improvements that have given the place 
 precedence as one of the finest rural estates in Steuben county. 
 As a citizen Mr. Larrison has been essentially progressive and 
 public-spirited and he has been called upon to serve in various local 
 offices of public trust. His political allegiance is given to the 
 Republican party. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' 
 Alliance & Co-operative Insurance Company and has been a mem- 
 ber of its board of directors since 1894. He is known as a busi- 
 ness man of marked ability and in the handling of his various in- 
 terests his discrimination and progressive ideas have brought to 
 him the most generous measure of success, the while he has main- 
 tained a strong hold upon popular confidence and good will. 
 
 On the 6tli of March, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. Larrison to Miss Julia W. Soule, who was born in Tioga coun- 
 ty, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of May, 1859, and who is a daughter 
 of Seneca Soule, who was born in Onondaga county, New York, 
 being a representative of one of the pioneer families of that sec- 
 tion of the Empire state. In conclusion of this brief sketch of one 
 of the sterling citizens of Steuben county is entered brief record 
 concerning his children, — May, who was born on the 23d of De- 
 cember, 1878, is the wife of James H. McLaughlin ; Roland S., was 
 born on the 30th of April, 1880 ; Bertha, who was born on the 23d 
 of January, 1883, is the wife of John Hopkins; Liston E., was 
 born on the 23d of May, 1886 ; Ruth E., born on the 23d of Decem- 
 ber, 1888; Irene B., born on the 31st of January, 1890; Florence 
 died at the age of four years ; Frank C. was bom July 16, 1894 ; 
 Millicent, October 31, 1897 ; and Oscar C, born in 1901. 
 
 William Wallace Oecutt, a prominent attorney of Bath, New 
 York, who makes a specialty of pensions, was born in Lacona, New 
 York, April 15, 1843, son of Lorenzo and Julia N. (Ward) Orcutt, 
 the former a native of Lacona also. 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 607 
 
 After acquiring his education in the public schools of Lacona, 
 William W. Orcutt took up the trade of shoemaker, which he 
 learned and followed until 1890, when he removed to Bath. Mean- 
 while he had been studying law and upon coming to Bath engaged 
 in practice as an attorney. He has met with pleasing success and 
 has gained the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. His 
 work in the line of pensions has been especially successful. 
 
 Mr. Orcutt served in the Civil war as a member of Company 
 H, One Hundred Eighty-ninth Volunteer Infantry, of New York, 
 and participated in several important engagements. He belongs 
 to the Grand Army of the Republic and is prominent in the or- 
 der. Politically he is a Republican. He is actively interested in 
 public affairs and is highly esteemed for his public spirit and for 
 the valuable service he rendered as a soldier. He is the friend of 
 progress and advancement and has a large circle of friends. 
 
 Mr. Orcutt married Melinda J. Buckingham, who was born at 
 Marshall, Michigan, August 5, 1847. The following children have 
 been born to them: Effie Florence, wife of B. DeGroat, a pho- 
 tographer of Bath ; John Lorenzo, of Chicago, married Lena Hunn, 
 and they have one child— Tracy; Julia Ward, married William 
 Reynolds, and is now a widow, having two children— Harold and 
 Hobart; Daniel Jasper, a clerk in the employ of the government, 
 at Washington, D. C, married Lila Lewis; William Wallace, Jr., 
 of Buffalo, New York; and Edith and Alice L., twins, the former 
 at home and the latter married F. Dudley, a contractor of Bath, 
 and they have one child— Edith. 
 
 Benjamin Jacob Wright, an influential lawyer and justice of 
 the peace, at Hammondsport, New York, was born at Hammonds- 
 port, on the 8th of August, 1852, and is a son of John and Lucy 
 (Strong) Wright. The father was born at Naas, county Kildare, 
 Ireland, whence, in company with his wife and family, he immi- 
 grated to America about 1850. On landing at Quebec, they made 
 their way to Albany and thence to Hammondsport by canal. Mr. 
 Wright was a gardener by trade, having served a seven years' ap- 
 prenticeship and having worked as a journeyman in his native land. 
 On his arrival in Steuben county, he early gave his attention to 
 grape-culture and continued to be identified with that line of enter- 
 prise until his death, which occurred in 1879, at the age of sixty- 
 six years. Mrs. Wright's father was Joseph Strong, who was high 
 sheriff of county Kildare, Ireland, for fifty-four years. Mr. Strong 
 married a Miss Dunbar and they passed their entire lives in Ireland. 
 Mrs. Wright survives her honored husband and is now residing at 
 Hammondsport, aged eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Wright be- 
 came the parents of thirteen children, three of whom are now liv- 
 ing,— Lucy, who is the wife of Judge HoUis; Mary, who married 
 W. n. Edwards, resides at Hammondsport; and Benjamin J., the 
 immediate subject of this review. 
 
 Benjamin J. Wright completed the curriculum of the public 
 schools of Hammondsport, was graduated in the home high school 
 
608 HISTORY OF STBUBEX COUXTY 
 
 and in the Hammondsport Academy. Thereafter he began the read- 
 ing of law in the office of his brother, William W. Wright, and he 
 was admitted to the bar of the state. After hi? marriage, in 1876, 
 he turned his attention to farming and followed that vocation for 
 a period of twelve years, at the expiration of which he established 
 his home in Hammondsport and entered upon the practice of his 
 profession. In 1888 he was elected justice of the peace and he has 
 acted in that capacity during the long intervening years to the 
 present time. He has won a creditable success as a legal practi- 
 tioner and enjoys the distinction of being the oldest lawyer in point 
 of continuous practice in the northern part of Steuben county. In 
 1884 he became interested in viticulture and has made a big success 
 of the grape-growing industry. Since 1890 he has devoted consider- 
 able attention to a milling enterprise and he has been identified with 
 various other business aft'airs of broad scope and importance. 
 
 In a political way Mr. Wright is an active Republican, zealous 
 for the success of his party and its principles and nominees. He 
 has held important places on the Republican county committee and 
 he has been sent as a delegate to several important party conven- 
 tions. For twenty-two yeai's, by repeated re-election, he has held 
 the office of justice of the peace. In a fraternal way he is affiliated 
 with various representative organizations and both he and his wife 
 are devout communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, to 
 whose charitable institutions he has been a most generous contribu- 
 tor. Mr. Wright's brother John was a gallant soldier in the Civil 
 war. He enlisted in Company I, Thirty-fourth New York Volun- 
 teer Infantry and saw much active service until his death, at Fort- 
 ress Monroe, after one year in the army. Another brother, Will- 
 iam W. Wright, enlisted in Company F, Seventy-eighth New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, in February, 1862. He served under Sher- 
 man and was promoted to a captaincy. After valiant and faithful 
 service until the end of the war, he was mustered out in North 
 Carolina. He immediately returned to Hammondsport, where he 
 practiced law during the remainder of his active business career. 
 
 In May, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wright to 
 Miss Mary Irene McLean, who passed to eternal rest in 1895, at the 
 age of forty-two years. She was a daughter of George and Cather- 
 ine (Riley) McLean, of Prattsburg. George McLean was a lawyer 
 of note in Steuben county and he was a man of the utmost public 
 loyalty and usefulness. Mr. and Mrs. Wright had seven children, 
 five of whom are deceased. Of those living, — Nancy is manager of 
 the Bell telephone office at Hammondsport : Preston, a printer, who 
 resides at Geneva married Esther Sponable and they have a 
 daughter, Grace Martha, seven years of age. 
 
 Maurice A. Hoyt, Hammondsport 's popular druggist, is a son 
 of Warren J. Hoyt. The latter was born in Litchfield county 
 Connecticut, a son of Ira Hoyt, also a native of the Nutmeg 
 state. He was a prosperous farmer and was gathered to his 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 609 
 
 fathers in the years 1862, his years numbering seventy-seven. His 
 wife, Anna (Shove) Hoyt, died in 1888, in her ninety-first year. 
 Warren J. Hoyt married Jeanette Manchester, who was born in 
 Chenango county, New York, in 1834. Her parents were Milton 
 and Emeline (Stilson) Manchester. Her father, who was a gard- 
 ener and basket maker, died in 1884, aged eighty-one years. Her 
 mother died in 1850, aged forty-one years. 
 
 Warren J. Hoyt, born in Torington, Connecticut, in 1834, set- 
 tled at Halsey Valley, Tioga county. New York, and worked there 
 at his trade, that of a cooper, later going into merchandising. In 
 1881 he came to Hammondsport. Some years before his death he 
 engaged in the vineyard business and became a stockholder in the 
 Hammondsport Cooperage Company. These interests commanded 
 his attention to the end of his life. He was an active Republican, 
 not an office seeker, but a worker for the principles represented by 
 his party. He lived a quiet, , Christian life, devoted to the family, 
 and in a public spirited way to the good of the community. His 
 son, Gordon G. Hoyt, is manager of the Hammondsport Cooperage 
 Company. 
 
 Maurice Adrian Hoyt was born in Tioga county. New York, 
 April 10, 1874. He began his education in public schools near his 
 home. At fifteen he entered high school at Chicago, Illinois, and 
 also took up the study of pharmacy. A part of his preparation for 
 the business career he contemplated was a six years' clerkship in a 
 drug store. For a time after his return to Hammondsport, he was 
 employed by the Hammondsport Cooperage Company. Then he 
 became local station agent for the Bath & Hammondsport Rail- 
 way Company. Then, after two years clerkship in the old Ham- 
 mondsport drug store of James Smellie, he bought the drug store 
 of Hobart J. Moore in 1892 and has since conducted it with much 
 success. He is a man of public spirit, devoted to the upbuilding of 
 the village, and is now a member of the town committee. As a 
 Republican he is an active worker in the local political field and has 
 been called to several town offices. He is a member of the Presby- 
 terian church and helpful to its various interests. He is a Mason, 
 a member of the Blue Lodge, Commandery and Shrine, and has 
 held high office in some of the organizations. He is a member also 
 of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 Mr. Hoyt married Nancy E. Haight, who was born April 9, 
 1872j and has borne him one daughter, Mary Lenore, the date of 
 whose nativity was December 2, 1900, and who is now in the fifth 
 grade at school; and one son, Maurice Gilmore, born November 7, 
 1905. Mr. Hoyt's sisters are Ella, who is Mrs. Lemual Schutt of 
 Halsey Valley, New York ; Addie M., the wife of Dr. H. M. Corey 
 of Chicago ; and Vesta C, the widow of Lewis B. Scott of Chicago. 
 
 John W. Curtis, a dealer in farm implements at Bath, New 
 York, was born at Hornellsville, Steuben county, January 15, 1864, 
 his father, Samuel R. Ciirtis, having taken up his residence in this 
 
610 HISTOEY OF STEUBEK COUNTY 
 
 county in 1860. Here Samuel R. Curtis lived and prospered, carry- 
 ing on agricultural pursuits, for more than thirty years. He died 
 February 22, 1892. His widow, Martha (Parker) Curtis, daughter 
 of W. G. Parker, is still living, now sixty-nine years of age. To 
 them were born four children, namely : Harry, a farmer at Elmira, 
 New York; William, a mechanic, Buffalo, New York; Agnes, de- 
 ceased, and John W. 
 
 John W. Curtis passed his boyhood on the farm, receiving his 
 education in the schools near his home. He continued farming 
 until, on account of ill health, he sold the home farm and turned his 
 attention to other occupations, finally becoming interested in the 
 sale of farm implements, with Steuben and adjoining counties as his 
 field of operation, in which he is meeting with marked success. And 
 in connection with this business he makes a specialty of buying and 
 shipping potatoes. Previous to his taking up this line of occupation, 
 he was for a time interested in the insurance business at Buffalo. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married, in 1890, Miss Emma Rooeh. She died in 
 1902, leaving no issue. His religious creed is that of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church, of which he is a worthy member. 
 
 George Washington Marts, who is now living virtually re- 
 tired in the attractive little city of Way] and, is a scion of one of the 
 sterling pioneer families of Steuben county, though he himself was 
 born in Dansville township, in the adjoining county of Livingston, 
 on the 20th of October, 1838. He is well known in this section of 
 the state and his course has been so guided and governed as to 
 justify the unqualified esteem in which he is uniformly held in the 
 community. Mr. Marts is a son of Daniel Marts, who was born 
 in the home now owned by Judge William Clark, in Wayland 
 township, Steuben - county, and the date of whose nativity was 
 May 8, 1816. He was a son of George Marts, who was born in 
 Pennsylvania, of stanch German lineage, and who came from the 
 old Keystone state to Steuben county in an early day, becoming 
 one of the substantial agriculturists of Wayland township, where 
 both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. Of their 
 nine children only 6. W. Marts is now living. 
 
 Daniel Marts was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer 
 farm and was afforded the advantages of the somewhat primitive 
 schools of the locality and period. As a youth he went to Dansville, 
 Livingston county, where he entered upon an apprenticeship at 
 the trade of paper-making, but one year later he returned to Steu- 
 ben county and purchased a farm in Wayland township, near the 
 village of the same name. There he continued to be actively en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits for the ensuing seven years, at the 
 expiration of which he sold the farm and removed to the village of 
 Wayland, where he assumed charge of the loading and shipping of 
 lumber for a leading firm engaged in the lumber business at this 
 pomt. Later he engaged in the draying and general transfer busi- 
 ness and also conducted independent operations in the lumber trade, 
 
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HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 613 
 
 with which lines of business he here continued to be actively con- 
 cerned for seventeen years. After the railroad was completed 
 through the village he found it inexpedient to continued his busi- 
 ness, as the railroad provided better facilities for the transfer of 
 freight and produce, and thereafter he lived retired, save that for 
 a number of years he had the supervision of the Wayland cemetery. 
 He was a man of impregnable integrity and ever commanded the 
 unequivocal confidence of all who knew him. His political al- 
 legiance was given to the Democratic party and he was an earnest 
 exponent of its principles and policies. He served as poormaster 
 of Wayland township for a number of years and also held other 
 local oiB'ces of minor order. He was a most ztialous member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal church, as was also his wife, and he was 
 specially active in the work of the Sunday-school, in which he was 
 an able and valued teacher for many years. In recognition of his 
 many years of service in connection with the freighting and team- 
 ing business prior to the construction of the railroad through Way- 
 land and Dansville the citizens of the latter place presented to him, 
 in 1872, a fine silver watch, which was purchased with money 
 secured by popular subscription and which was given him as a 
 token of confidence and esteem. This watch is now the property 
 of his son George W., of this sketch, and is treasured as a valued 
 heirloom. As a young man Daniel Marts was united in marriage 
 to Miss JMartha Wilson, who was born at Loon Lake, Wayland 
 township, this county, on the 24th of May, 1819, and who was a 
 daughter of Jeremiah Wilson, a well known pioneer of this section 
 of the state, where he continued to reside until his death. Daniel 
 and Martha (Wilson) IMarts became the parents of nine children, 
 of whom the subject of this review is now the only survivor. 
 
 George W. Marts was reared to maturity on the home farm 
 and early began to assist in its work, finding ample demand upon 
 his services while still a mere boy and such demands being so in- 
 sistent as to render it impossible for him to attend school except at 
 intermittent intervals of brief duration. He has, however, effect- 
 ually overcome this early handicap through the lessons gained un- 
 der the direction of that wisest of headmasters, experience. He 
 endured his full quota of hardships and privations in his youth, 
 and the record of the family in the early days was that expressed 
 by Lincoln concerning his parents,— "the short and simple annals 
 of the poor." Mr. Marts continued to assist in the work and 
 management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal 
 majority and soon afterward he responded to the call of patriotism 
 and higher duty when the integrity of the nation was menaced by 
 armed rebellion. On the 16th of November, 1861, he tendered his 
 services in defense of the Union, by enlisting as a private in Com- 
 pany I, Sixth U. S. Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front 
 and with which he participated in many important engagements, 
 his regiment having been assigned to the Army of the Potomac. 
 One the 7th of July, 1864, he received his honorable discharge, but 
 
G14 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 on the following day he re-enlisted for three years more as a 
 veteran in the same company and regiment, with which he con- 
 tinued in service until some time after the surrender of General 
 Lee. For some time his regiment was in service on the Pacific 
 coast and other portions of the west, and he took part in numerous 
 conflicts with the Indians while protecting emigrants who were 
 making their way across the plains. During the last three years 
 of his service he was sergeant of his company. His military rec- 
 ord is one that redounds to his credit as a loyal soldier and he 
 maintains his association with his old comrades by retaining mem- 
 bership in the Grand Army of the Republic. After the close of his 
 military service Mr. Marts returned to Steuben county, where he 
 was associated with his father in the express and freighting busi- 
 ness until 1872, after which he devoted two years to the manu- 
 facturing of shingles. Thereafter he was in the employ of the 
 Erie Railroad Company for a time and finally he entered the em- 
 ploy of the firm of Capen & Fowler, engaged in the produce busi- 
 ness. For seven years he had charge of the branch establish- 
 ment of the firm at Atlanta, this county, and he then returned to 
 Wayland, where he had the supervision of the street lights of the 
 village for two years. For five years he was employed at the local 
 station of the Erie Railroad, and for the ensuing four years he 
 was identified with the operations of the Wayland canning factory. 
 Since that time he has lived practically retired, having an attrac- 
 tive home in the village of Wayland, where he is held in uniform 
 confidence and esteem. In politics he gives his allegiance to the 
 Democratic party. 
 
 In the year 1876 Mr. Marts was united in marriage to jMiss 
 Fannie Fox, who was born and reared in Steuben county, and who 
 is a daughter of the late Jesse Fox. Mr. and Mrs. Marts have no 
 children. Mr. Marts is very active in educational work. He 
 speaks to the school children two or three times each year, and 
 gives liberally of his means to school purposes. 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Platt, widow of the late Cephas F. Piatt and 
 mother of state senator Frank C. Platt, is a life-long resident of 
 Painted Post, having been born there June 20, 1831, a daughter 
 of Francis E. Erwin. Her father, also a native of Painted Post, 
 born in 1806, passed his entire life there, identified with leading 
 interests of the community, giving his attention principally to 
 farming and real estate and amassing, a considerable fortune for 
 his time, chiefly in land, of which he left about two hundred and 
 fifty acres to each of his five children. His wife was Miss Sophia 
 McCall, born east of Corning, in Steuben county. For a year after 
 their marriage they conducted a public house. That business was 
 not to the taste of either of them, however. They had seven 
 children, of whom five grew to manhood or womanhood and of 
 whom these four are living: Samuel S., Mary E., Platt, Francis, 
 and Mrs. Harriet Wilkes of Bath. 
 
HLSTORY OF STEUBEX (^OUXTY G15 
 
 Mrs. Piatt was educated at the Troy, New York Seminary. 
 In May, 1852, she married Cephas P. Piatt, a native of Otsego 
 county, New York, and they settled down to wedded life in a house 
 which they ^uilt at Painted Post that year and in which she has 
 lived ever since. Mr. Piatt was a lawyer, a banker and a man of 
 affairs of the best judgment and ability, well and widely known and 
 highly respected wherever known. In the course of his active life 
 he accumulated a fine property including about eighteen hundred 
 acres of good farming land. He died in 1883. Mrs. Piatt bore 
 him three children— Mrs. Sophia E. Tousey, Mrs. Elizabeth Ham- 
 ilton of Campbell, Steuben county, and Hon. Frank C^ Piatt. 
 Her home at Painted Post is one of the most beautiful in that 
 part of the county, and she has always dispensed a generous 
 hospitality that has made it sought by the most refined people in 
 "Old Steuben." The prominence of her late husband and of 
 their son has kept her in touch indirectly with the leading spirits 
 of her part of the state, and those who know her own family 
 speak of her as of pioneer stock. 
 
 Guy H. McMaster.— One who conferred honor and dignity 
 upon the bench and bar of the Empire state was Judge McMaster, 
 who passed virtually his entire life in the attractive little city of 
 Bath and who ever commanded the affectionate regard and high 
 esteem of the people of Steuben county. His character was the 
 positive expression of a strong and noble nature and he left upon 
 the annals of hi^ native state the record of distinguished service 
 as a legist and jurist and as a man he "kept himself unspotted 
 of the world." 
 
 Judge Guy H. McMaster was born at Clyde, Wayne county, 
 New York, on the 31st of January, 1829, and he died at Bath, 
 Steuben county, on the 13th of September, 1887. He was a son 
 of Judge David and Adeline (Humphreys) McMaster, who re- 
 moved from Wayne county to Bath, Steuben county, when he was 
 about one year of age. Here he was reared to maturity and here 
 he continued to maintain his home until he was summoned from 
 the scene of life's mortal endeavors. He received excellent edu- 
 cational advantages in his youth and in 1847, when eighteen years 
 of age, he was graduated in Hamilton College, from which he 
 received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was a member of 
 the same class as were Senator Joseph R. Hawley, Charles Dudley 
 Warner and Colonel Emmons Clark. Soon after leaving college 
 Judge McMaster began the study of law and in 1852 he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. He forthwith engaged in the active practice of 
 his profession in Bath and for some time he was associated in 
 practice with Colonel Charles W. Campbell, as was he later with 
 Hon. Clark Bell. For the last twenty years he was senior member 
 of the firm of McMaster & Parkhurst, the junior member of which 
 was his son-in-law, the late Judge John F. Parkhurst, to whom 
 a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. In 1863 Judge 
 
616 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 McMaster was elected to the office of county judge and surrogate 
 of Steuben county and at the expiration of his first term, in 1867, 
 he was elected for another term of four years. In 1877 he was 
 elected to the same dual office for a term of six years. In 1883 
 when the offices of county judge and surrogate were separated, 
 he was elected surrogate for a term of six years and he was nom- 
 inated for this office by acclamation. As surrogate he had no 
 superior in the state. His knowledge of the minutia of the science 
 of jurisprudence and of precedent was of the most profound order 
 and his knowledge of surrogate practice was specially ample and 
 accurate so that he was able to define clearly the duties and lia- 
 bilities of administrators, executors and guardians. On the bench 
 he was invariably dignified, courteous and forbearing and these 
 qualities won to him the admiration and high regard of lawyers, 
 litigants, witnesses and jurors. He frequently interfered to shield 
 flurried witnesses from unnecessary annoyance at the hands of 
 attorneys. His rulings were given with promptness and clarity 
 of diction and so accurate were his judgment and knowledge of 
 the law that during the fourteen years that he presided upon the 
 bench of the county court no new trial was ever ordered by the 
 supreme court in any case tried by him. Judge McMaster iden- 
 tified himself with the Republican party at the time of its organi- 
 zation and ever continued an able and effective exponent of its 
 principles and policies. He was a devout member of the Presby- 
 terian church, as was also his wife, and he found his greatest 
 solace and pleasure in the associations of an idyllic home. He was 
 a man of exalted character and, knowing well the springs of 
 human thought and motive, he was tolerant and charitable in his 
 judgment of his fellow men, ever striving to aid and uplift those 
 who needed such succor and being specially earnest in his charities 
 and benevolences. He was a man of fine literary ability and ap- 
 preciation and his reading covered a wide realm of classical and 
 modern literature. He had great poetical talent and was the 
 author of many poems that are chaste and beautiful in thought 
 and metrical form. These alone would give him enduring reputa- 
 tion as a man of great literary genius. His published work, ' ' Car- 
 mena Bellicosum," contains many poetical gems and the work has 
 met with high commendation on the part of both critics and lovers 
 of poetry. 
 
 In 1853 was solemnized the marriage of Judge McMaster to 
 Miss Amanda Church, daughter of Robert W. Church, of Bath. 
 Mrs. McMaster was summoned to the life eternal on the 29th of 
 November, 1883, and of their four children three are living — 
 Humphrey, who is at the present time clerk in the office of the sur- 
 rogate of Steuben county at Bath; Alice, who is the widow of Judge 
 John F. Parkhurst and who resides at Bath, and Katharine, a 
 resident of Bath. As has been stated, a review of the life of 
 Judge Parkhurst appears elsewhere in this work. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 617 
 
 WiLiLiAM J. Brundage. — As a scion of old and honored fam- 
 ilies of the central eastern part of the Empire state and as one of 
 the representative business men of Steuben county, Mr. Brundage 
 is well entitled to recognition in this publication. He is prom- 
 inently identified with viticulture and wine manufacturing and 
 is the owner of a fine vineyard in Urbana township, besides which 
 he is a stockholder in the Urbana Wine Company. His postofSce 
 address is Keuka. ' ^ ; 
 
 Mr. Brundage was born In Urbana township, Steuben county, 
 on the 2nd of August, 1864, and is the only child of David J. and 
 Anna' J. (Douglass) Brundage. The father became one of the 
 successful representatives of the agricultural industry in Yates 
 county, where he owned a finely improved farm of two hundred 
 acres, upon which he continued to reside until his death. He was 
 a stanch Republican in his political proclivities, having been in- 
 fluential in local afliairs in Yates county and having ever com- 
 manded the unqualified esteem of all who knew him. 
 
 William J. Brundage is indebted to the public schools of 
 Yates county for his early educational discipline and he continued 
 to be associated in the work and management of the home farm 
 until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years. After the 
 death of his father he assumed charge of the old homestead, of 
 which he has since maintained a general supervision. This farm 
 comprises two hundred acres and is one of the valuable places of 
 this section of the state. Mr. Brundage is a stockholder in the 
 Urbana Wine Company and he is also actively identified with the 
 grape-growing industry and with diversified agriculture on the 
 old home farm lying on the border near the line dividing Yates and 
 Steuben counties, besides which he owns his fine vineyard near 
 Keuka, in Urbana township, Steuben county. Mr. Brundage is 
 known as a progressive and public-spirited citizen and while he 
 has never had any aspiration for political office he accords a stanch 
 support to the Republican party. He is a member of the Presby- 
 terian church, is a bachelor and is recognized as one of the suc- 
 cessful business men and sterling citizens of his native county. 
 
 Charles A. Avet. — After having been successfully identified 
 with agricultural pursuits for more than a quarter of a century 
 Mr. Avey is now living virtually retired in the attractive little 
 village of Wayland, though he still retains the ownership of his 
 fine homestead farm, located in Springwater township, Livingston 
 county, near the border of Steuben county. He is well known 
 throughout this section of the state, where the major part of his 
 life has been passed, and his course has been such as to entitle him 
 to the unequivocal confidence in which he is held. 
 
 Mr. Avey was born at New York on the 12th of February, 
 1865, and is a son of Chester and Henrietta (Milliman) Avey, the 
 former of whom was bom in Steuben county. Chester Avey was 
 a son of Andrew Avey, who removed to Steuben county from 
 
•618 HISTOKY OP 8TEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Pennsylvania and who became one of the prosperous farmers. of 
 the county, where he continued to reside until his death. Chester 
 Avey gained his initial experience in connection with the work 
 of the home farm and received such advantages as were afforded 
 in the common schools of the locality and period. As a youth he 
 learned the carpenter's trade, as well as that of painter, to both 
 of which he devoted his attention until his death, which occurred 
 at Dansville, Livingston county, in 1875, at which tune he was 
 forty-two years of age. His wife was summoned to the life eternal 
 in 1883, at the age of fifty-six years. She was a daughter of 
 Nicholas Milliman, who passed his declining years in the home of 
 his grandson, Charles A. Avey, of this review, and who died at the 
 venerable age of eighty-six years. Of the children of Chester and 
 Henrietta (Milliman) Avey, Charles A. is the younger of the two 
 surviving, and his sister, Mary, is the wife of John Moore, of 
 Flint, Michigan. 
 
 Charles A. Avey was about ten years of age at the time of 
 his father's death and about three years later, in 1878, he accom- 
 panied his sister and her husband to Michigan, where he re- 
 mained until 1883 and where he continued his studies in the public 
 schools. He then returned to his native state and entered the high 
 school at Dansville, where he continued his studies until he had 
 attained to the age of eighteen years. Thereafter he was a success- 
 ful and popular teacher in the district schools for a period of four 
 years, thus putting his scholastic attainments to practical use 
 after his graduation in the Dansville high school. After his re- 
 tirement from the pedagogic profession he assumed the manage- 
 ment of the farm of his maternal grandfather, Nicholas Milliman, 
 in Springwater township, Livingston county, and of this fine prop- 
 erty he eventually became the owner. He made many improve- 
 ments on the place and brought it up to the highest standard of 
 productiveness. There he continued to reside until 1910, when he 
 rented the farm and removed to the village of Wayland, Steuben 
 county, where he purchased an attractive residence property and 
 where he is now living essentially retired, enjoying the rewards 
 of former years of earnest toil and endeavor. He still gives a 
 general supervision to his farm, which yields him a satisfactory 
 income. Mr. Avey has never been animated with aught of ambi- 
 tion for public offices but he is found aligned as a stanch sup- 
 porter of the cause of the Eepublican party and he has not denied 
 his influence and co-operation in the support of measures and en- 
 terprises tending to advance the general welfare, both civic and 
 material. He is not formally identified with any religious organi- 
 zation but is a liberal supporter of the United Evangelical church, 
 of which Mrs. Avey is a member. 
 
 In the year 1890 Mr. Avey was united in marriage to iliss 
 Ida Lawrence, who was born and reared in Springwater township, 
 Livingston county, and who is a daughter of Ira and Julia (Lewis) 
 Lawrence, who continued to reside in that county until their death. 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 619 
 
 the father having been a prosperous fanner. Mr. and Mrs. Avey 
 have one daughter, Olive, who was born August 30, 1892, and 
 who is now employed as a bookkeeper and stenographer at Homell, 
 Steuben county. She is a graduate of Maple City Business 
 College. 
 
 Adelbeet Perry.— a prosperous citizen and a successful law- 
 yer, this well known gentleman of Homell counts his friends 
 throughout Steuben county and in many of the towns and villages 
 of surrounding counties. He has been thus far a life-long resi- 
 dent of Hornellsville and of the city of Hornell, having been born 
 in the old village, November 16, 1854. His father, Silas Perry, 
 born in Almond, in the neighboring county of Allegany, came to 
 Hornell about 1850. His drug store was, if not the pioneer of its 
 class, one of the early drug stores in the village. He was later a 
 merchant in other lines and gave some attention to farming. He 
 traced his ancestry to Prench-Scotch sources. Combining the amia- 
 bility of the Prenchman with the hard business sense of the Scotch- 
 man he made friends and prospered well, considering his time and 
 opportunities. He lived to be about sixty-six years old. 
 
 Silas Ferry, of whom somewhat extended mention has just 
 been made, married Cyrena Stephens, a native of Hornellsville 
 and a daughter of Colonel John R. Stephens. That gentleman 
 was of English extraction, a lineal descendant of one of three 
 brothers of the name who were among the pioneers in southern 
 central New York. There is a family tradition that two of them 
 were passengers on the historic Mayflower of blessed memory. 
 So far as Hornell itself is concerned Colonel Stephens was him- 
 self one of its pioneers. He was the first town clerk at Hornells- 
 ville and was several times elected supervisor and from time to 
 time filled other important offices. In 'other fields than local poli- 
 tics he was active. His was one of the earliest frame houses erected 
 in the village. In Masonry he was one of the most influential of 
 the early leaders. For eighteen successive years he was master of 
 his lodge; for twenty-six years, from June 25, 1875, when his 
 chapter was organized, he was its high priest. His daughter, wife 
 of Silas Ferry and mother of Adelbert Ferry, died when she was 
 sixty-six years old. 
 
 Adelbert Ferry, only child of Silas and Cyrena (Stephens) 
 Perry, received his English education in the public schools at 
 Hornell and in select schools at Greenville, Pennsylvania. In 
 1873 he began the study of law in the offices of Hakes and Stephens 
 and in 1876 was admitted to the bar, having been duly graduated 
 from the Albany, New York, law school. He began the practice of 
 his profession at Dalton, Livingston county, but remained there only 
 a few months. Prom there he removed to Hornellsville, where he 
 devoted a part of his time to farming. He owns a farm of one 
 hundred and thirty acres two miles from Hornell and another of 
 sixty acres on Bull Hill, besides real estate in Hornell and some 
 valuable lots on the Arkport road. He resumed his law practice 
 
620 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in 1907 and has met with good success. Throughout the county 
 he is well and favorably known as a man of influence, and he was 
 a stanch Republican up to 1910, when he decided to join the ranks 
 of Democracy. In Masonic circles his position is high. He is a 
 member of Homell Lodge, No. 331', Free and Accepted Masons, 
 of Steuben Chapter, No. 101, Royal Arch jMasons, of Hornells- 
 ville Council, No. 135, Royal and Select Masters of De Molay Com- 
 mandery, No. 22, Knights Templars, and of Damascus Temple, 
 Rochester, New York. He is eminent in lodge and encampment 
 in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His public spirit ren- 
 ders him helpful and popular as a citizen. 
 
 Hon. Milo M. Acker, lawyer and man of affairs, was bom 
 at Hartsville, New York, October 3, 1853, of German-American 
 parentage. Until he attained his majority he worked for his 
 father during the farming season and found employment in the 
 lumber woods during the remainder of the year, devoting what 
 little spare time he had to study. He saved money enough to keep 
 him awhile at Alfred University, and was enabled to take up the 
 duties of life well equipped educationally for all responsibilities. 
 
 In 1879 and 1880 Mr. Acker was supervisor of Hartsville. In 
 1881 he began the study of law in the office of Judge Hakes at 
 Hornellsville. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and became a 
 member of Judge Hakes' law firm in 1885. In 1886 Mr. Acker 
 served as recorder of Hornellsville. He was four times elected to 
 represent his district in the state legislature and held many prom- 
 inent places on important committees. In 1890 he was chairman 
 of the judiciary committee. In 1891 he was Republican candidate 
 for the speakership and therefore leader of the Republicans in 
 the house. He was recognized as one of the best debaters in the 
 assemblies of which he was a member. 
 
 Mr. Acker was a member of the State Constitutional con- 
 vention in 1894 and of its committee on rules. Since 1904 he has 
 been a member of the State Water Supply Commission. He has 
 served on the board of education of his home city, as trustee of 
 the public library, the Farmers' Club, the First National Bank 
 and the First Presbyterian church, and on the governing boards 
 of several private clubs. In 1890 he married Mary W. Clarke of 
 Brattleboro, Vermont. 
 
 Nancy Smith.— Among the most intelligent and capable 
 women of Steuben county. New York, is Nancy Smith, living in 
 the village of Bath, a member of a family that has been prominent 
 in the region for more than a hundred years. The emigrant an- 
 cestor of this family was Andrew Smith, who came from Scotland 
 in 1791 as secretary for Captain Williamson. He settled at Bath, 
 New York, in 1793, purchasing the present old Smith homestead 
 near Bath, where he took up three hundred and sixty-five acres of 
 land. He died on this farm in 1837 at the age of seventy-five years. 
 The fifth generation is now living on the homestead. Andrew Smith 
 
HLSTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY C21 
 
 married Elizabeth Lewis, a native of Orange county, New York, 
 and they had six children, the youngest son of whom was Andrew. 
 Mr. Smith was one of the earliest to settle east of Bath, and was one 
 of the sturdy pioneers who helped in first developing and im- 
 proving the community. He was well read and well educated for 
 his time and locality. In religion he was a Presbyterian. 
 
 Andrew Smith, Jr., the youngest son of Andrew and Eliza- 
 beth Smith, was born near Bath, and after receiving his education 
 worked at various occupations for several years. He died in 1852 
 at the age of forty-six. He married Maria Doyle, who was born 
 at Bath, a granddaughter of Samuel Doyle, also a pioneer. She 
 was reared by her grandparents, Samuel and Mary Doyle. Mrs. 
 Smith died in 1889, at the age of eighty-four years. She and her 
 husband had two sons and two daughters, namely : Charles, died 
 in infancy; Joseph, died in the Civil war; Elizabeth, deceased, 
 and Nancy. 
 
 Nancy Smith was born in 1836 near the old homestead near 
 Bath. She received her education in Haverling High School and 
 taught school twenty-two years, beginning in 1852. She lived with 
 and took care of her mother until the latter 's death. Miss Smith 
 taught also in select school and in private families and is well 
 known and highly esteemed by all who know her. Miss Smith 
 reputation for ability in her profession and was very fond of it. 
 She is an active worker in the interests of the Presbyterian church, 
 of which she is a member. Miss Smith is unmarried. She is well 
 versed in the early history of the county and feels justly proud 
 of the part taken by her family in promoting the general welfare 
 of the community. There are eleven of the Smith family of the 
 third generation still living. Miss Smith has now retired from 
 active life and for many years has lived quietly, though she keeps 
 well informed on the current topics and issues of the day. 
 
 William Henry Greenhow^. — One of the most able and en- 
 lightened exponents of the fourth estate, not only in Steuben coun- 
 ty but in this part of the New York as well, is William Henry 
 Greenhow, editor of that excellent sheet, the Hot-nell Tribune. 
 Mr. Greenhow has directed its destinies fully forty years, conduct- 
 ing it on broad and liberal lines, and standing as it does for clean 
 principles and ideals it is one of the most potent contributors to 
 the high prestige enjoyed by Hornell as a community. 
 
 By the circumstance of birth Mr. Greenhow is a Pennsylvanian, 
 his birth having occurred in the city of Philadelphia, November 
 13, 1845, but by parentage and descent he is British. The father, 
 John Greenhow, was born in Kendall, England, and chose as his 
 wife Mary Frodsham, of St. Helens, England, their union being 
 celebrated in Galena, Illinois. The father followed the trade of a 
 printer in the old country, and after his emigration to this, became 
 an editor and clergyman. His father was a teacher of Latin and 
 mathematics and managed a large estate in Westmoreland, Eng- 
 
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622 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 land. One of his sons became a teacher of classic languages and 
 mathematics in Windsor College in his twenty-third year, but what 
 promised to be a brilliant career was cut short by his untimely 
 death in that very year. John Greenhow, convinced that greater 
 opportunity awaited a young man in a land of newer civilization 
 than Great Britain, considered going to Australia, but finally de- 
 cided in favor of America, for which he sailed with his particular 
 lares and penates, landing on these shores about the year 1842. 
 New Orleans was the first American city which his eyes beheld and 
 he visited and lived in many sections of the United States and 
 Canada, settling in Hornell in 1870, and remaining in this favored 
 section of Steuben county until the year 1892. 
 
 When Mr. Greenhow was very young his parents removed to 
 Canada and his earliest experiences were of farm life. He re- 
 ceived public school advantages, pursuing the usual course of 
 studies, and supplementing this most effectively by a self-imposed 
 study and omniverous reading. In 1866, about the time at which 
 he arrived at his majority, Mr. Greenhow joined his father in the 
 publication of the Canastota (New York) Herald, and finding the 
 work congenial, in 1870 acquired the Hornellsville (then so-called) 
 Tribune. Almost from the beginning a course of improvements 
 was inaugurated. In 1873 the Tribune was made a tri-weekly and 
 in 1878 it took its place among the New York dailies. Charles F. 
 Peck, later New York state commissioner of labor, purchased the 
 elder Mr. Greenhow 's interest in the paper, the firm being known 
 as Greenhow & Peck. This proved to be a stormy period, for Peek 
 was aggressive in his writings and the instigator of much wrath. 
 He was burned in efiigy at one time, was horsewhipped by a woman 
 at another and several libel suits occurred. Mr. Greenhow pur- 
 chased Peck's interest in 1884 and a more serene and peaceful 
 regime ensued. It was conducted under his name alone until 
 January 1, 1909, when the paper was incorporated under the name 
 of the W. H. Greenhow Company, of which Mr. Greenhow is presi- 
 dent and editor-in-chief. Mr. Greenhow enjoys to the utmost the 
 confidence of his associates and during the Cleveland administra- 
 tion, from 1886 to 1891, he gave efficient service as postmaster of 
 Hornell, establishing the free delivery service here. He also served 
 as town clerk for four years, his term of office expiring in 1878. 
 
 Mr. Greenhow is devoted to the principles of the Democratic 
 party, being willing to do anything in his power for the cause. He 
 is very liberal in his treatment of the public's affairs, neverthe- 
 less, and has assumed a most admirable attitude toward the repre- 
 sentatives of the opposition party. Having the only newspaper 
 in Hornell he has conducted it on broad public and liberal lines, 
 and seeking to deserve the respect of his neighbors he has been 
 entirely successful in the attainment of this laudable ambition. 
 The years have brought a host of competitors. Many of them were 
 experienced newspaper men with ample resources, but none were 
 able to establish a solid foothold, owing to popular support of Mr. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 633 
 
 Greenhow and the impossibility of making more than one penny 
 paper pay in Homell. 
 
 On June 23, 1886, Mr. Greenhow laid the foundations of a 
 household of his own and a congenial life companionship, the lady 
 to become his wife being Helen M. Stephens, daughter of Hon. 
 Obadiah Stephens. They have one daughter, Olive, now Mrs. 
 Louis H. Buiseh, of Fairbanks, Alaska, where the Eev. Mr. Buiseh 
 is rector of St. Matthew's church. 
 
 Mr. Greenhow, while an ardent partisan of the Democratic 
 faith, is recognized as being very fair to the opposition, allowing 
 its representatives access to the columns of his newspaper and 
 ample notices of their meetings. More than that the proceedings 
 of those meetings are reported exactly as though they were Demo- 
 cratic meetings an^ speakers, by personal instruction to reporters, 
 and statements of speakers are subject to fair editorial criticism. 
 This gives advocates of both sides of a controversy a hearing from 
 every element in the entire community, an advantage they could 
 not have in a personal organ with a limited circulation. 
 
 Mr. Greenhow 's business connections in the city are extensive. 
 He is a stockholder in each of the three city banks and a director 
 in two and is connected with other enterprises. He is a director in 
 the Maple City Land Company, an enterprise established by public- 
 spirited citizens to provide houses for Erie Railroad employes to 
 secure additions to the extensive shops of that company in Hornell. 
 He is also a director in the Chamber of Commerce. He is con- 
 nected with several fraternal societies and is associated with the 
 Episcopal church. In 1901 Mr. Greenhow organized the now very 
 successful "New York Associated Dailies," an organization em- 
 bracing fortj-five daily papers in the state outside the metropolitan 
 cities, and was for the first three years president thereof. In 1909, 
 while absent in Alaska, he was elected president of the New York 
 State Press Association, embracing three hundred in its member- 
 ship, and presided at the annual convention in Saratoga in 1910, 
 the efficiency of his services being recognized by the members by a 
 handsome gift at the close. 
 
 George L. Preston, M. D.— Secure in the enjoyment of great 
 personal and professional popularity in Steuben county and 
 Canisteo, a citizen of high ideals and prominent in other circles 
 than his honored profession is Dr. George L. Preston. He is a 
 native son of Steuben county, his birth having occurred here April 
 18, 1861. He is the son of Elisha W. Preston and his wife, Martha 
 J. Preston. 
 
 Dr. Preston was educated in Canisteo Academy and early 
 chose the medical profession as his life work. To this end he en- 
 tered the Eclectic Medical College of New York city and was 
 graduated from that famous institution in 1882, having just at- 
 tained to his majority. He began his practice in Italy, Yates coun- 
 ty. New York, and his residence there was of nearly eighteen years 
 
624 HISl'ORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 duration. In 1901 he removed to his native town of Canisteo and 
 has ever since continued here in the active practice of his profes- 
 sion. Dr. Preston is by no means one of those who are content 
 to let well enough alone and in 1886 he took a post graduate course 
 in the New York Post-Graduate College, specializing on the eye, 
 ear, nose and throat. In 1900 he again took post graduate work, 
 this time in the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland, 
 upon this occasion devoting his attention to the diseases of women 
 and surgery, as well as in the lines in which he had previously 
 specialized, the eye, ear, nose and throat. 
 
 Ever since coming to Canisteo in 1901 Dr. Preston's practice 
 has been on the increase and it is now one of the largest in Steuben 
 county, while in addition to this he is medical examiner for several 
 life insurance companies. He is not inexperienced in public of&ce 
 and for two terms in Yates county held the position of coroner. 
 He is a Mason of high standing, a loyal adherent of the policies 
 and principles of the Republican party, and a Unitarian. 
 
 Dr. Preston has been twice married. His first wife was Miss 
 Carrie Jamison, daughter of Daniel Jamison, a prominent citizen 
 of Canisteo, where her birth occurred June 15, 1860. She was 
 educated in the Canisteo Academy and was married to Dr. Preston 
 March 7, 1888, her death occurring January 13, 1895. One son is 
 the issue of their union, J. Louis Preston, born in Italy, New York, 
 February 5, 1889. He graduated from the high school of Canisteo 
 in 1909 and is at present attending the University of New York 
 and Bellevue Medical College, it being his intention to follow in 
 the parental footsteps in the matter of a profession. Dr. Preston's 
 second wife was, previous to her marriage, Miss Alice Jamison, 
 daughter of Eugene Jamison, and born in Oakland, Livingston 
 county. New York, March 7, 1879. They were married September 
 24. 1902, and have one daughter, Eugenia, born July 25, 1904. Dr. 
 Preston is a lover of outdoor life and he finds no small amount of 
 diversion in the breeding of high grade poultry, having had great 
 success in this line of endeavor. 
 
 Dbxtee M. White, a farmer of Bath, Steuben county, is a 
 son of Russell White and was born in Fremont, Steuben county, 
 February 17, 1865. The father, also a native of Fremont, is still 
 living, aged seventy-three years. Besides Dexter M., he had chil- 
 dren as follows: Celinda, Amos, Bben, Mary, George, Merrit and 
 Carrie, and Charles, who died in infancy. Eben is a doctor of 
 medicine and lives in Washington ; Mary is a member of her fath- 
 er 's household; George is a farmer living in Cortland county. New 
 York ; Merrit, a farmer, lives at Belmont, Allegany county ; Carrie 
 is a trained nurse in Washington; Celinda is the wife of L. D. 
 Harrington, an upholsterer at 33 Genesee street, Hornell. 
 
 Dexter M. White was educated in the public schools and at 
 the age of twenty-one began farming for himself. Later he was 
 for five years in the agricultural implement business, living for 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 625 
 
 one year in Chicago. Returning to Ithaca, New York, he took the 
 dairy course at Cornell University, after which he accepted a, posi- 
 tion as, manager of a large dairy farm in New Britain, Connecti- 
 cut. Thence he went to Lake George, New York, where he was 
 for a year superintendent of a large farm. Marrying, he settled 
 on his present home farm in 1899 and has since devoted himself to 
 breeding Holstein cattle and also Yorkshire swine. At the New 
 York state fair of 1907 he won every first champion and grand 
 champion that he exhibited, also champion for breeder, same for 
 exhibitor as well as the American Yorkshire special. 
 
 Mr. White married Miss Carrie B. Bowlby, daughter of John 
 Bowlby. She was born in 1875. He has children as follows: 
 Lydia, aged nine; Erwin, aged five; Helen, aged three; Chester, 
 an infant. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Presbyterian 
 church. He is a member of the Grange. He has a world wide 
 reputation as a breeder of Holsteins and was superintendent of the 
 horse department at the New York state fair at Syracuse four 
 years. He has no time for active political work, but has pronounced 
 views on all questions of public moment, town, county and national. 
 As a public-spirited citizen he is reputed to be at all times ready 
 to aid to the extent of his ability any movement having for its ob- 
 ject the enhancement of the well-being of any considerable number 
 of his fellow citizens. 
 
 Joseph W. Lebaet. — Many of the most energetic, enterprising 
 and prosperous business men of the Empire state are of foreign 
 birth and breeding, and bring with them to this country the habits 
 of industry, economy and thrift characteristic of their ancestors, 
 and in the land of their adoption meet with recognized success in 
 their undertakings. Noteworthy among this number is Joseph W. 
 Lebart, of Bath. A native of sunny Italy, he was born June 24, 
 1882, in Alessandria, a son of Cosimi Lebart. 
 
 The descendant of an old and honored Italian family, Cosimi 
 Lebart was bom sixty years ago in Alessandria, Italy, and has 
 there spent his entire life, being an extensive landowner and a 
 most successful stockman. He married Orazia Lici, who was born 
 in Italy in 1850, the descendant of a family distinguished as large 
 landholders. Her father, Tony Lici, lived to the remarkable age 
 of one hundred and two years. Five children were born to Cosimi 
 Lebart and wife, as follows : Rosa, wife of James Dispam, a farmer 
 and wine grower in Dunkirk, New York ; William, a shoe merchant 
 in Italy; Carrie, wife of Joseph Terrace, a commission merchant 
 in Italy ; Bert, engaged in the shoe business as a merchant in El- 
 mira. New York, and Joseph, of this sketch. 
 
 Leaving school at the age of fifteen years, Joseph W. Lebart 
 assisted in the care of the parental estate for five years. Desirous 
 then of trying the hazard of new fortunes, he emigrated to Amer- 
 ica, locating in Rochester, New York, where he carried on a sub- 
 stantial business as a caterer for awhile. In 1908 he took up his 
 
626 HISTOEY OF STEUBEIST COUNTY 
 
 residence in Bath, where he still follows his occupation of a caterer, 
 being also engaged in other enterprises of a financial nature, buying 
 and selling, and otherwise successfully speculating. He is a man 
 of fine character and habits, and a conscientious member of St. 
 John's Catholic church. 
 
 Geoege Hollands.— An able exponent of the progressive spirit 
 that has caused Hornell to forge ahead so rapidly as an industrial 
 and commercial center is George Hollands, of the house of George 
 Hollands & Sons, druggists, at Hornell, Steuben county, New 
 York. He was born in Sussex, England, January 9, 1841, and is 
 a son of William and Charlotte Hollands, both of whom were like- 
 wise natives of England. With a family of six children they emi- 
 grated to the United States in 1850 and located at Mansfield, Tioga 
 county, Pennsylvania. Four more children were bom to them after 
 their arrival in this country. At the age of eleven years George 
 Hollands entered the home of a respectable farmer, with whom it 
 was understood he was to live during his minority, giving his 
 services in return for board and clothing, in addition to which he 
 was to receive one hundred dollars and a suit of clothes when he 
 attained to his legal majority. His term of service would have 
 expired in 1862 but in 1861, at the time of the inception of the Civil 
 war, he responded immediately to President Lincoln's call for 
 volunteers by enlisting in Company B, One Hundred and First 
 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He continued in service until 
 the close of the war and participated in many of the most im- 
 portant battles marking the progress of that sanguinary conflict. 
 At the battle of Fair Oaks, May 30, 1862, he was wounded, and on 
 April 20, 1864, he, together with his entire regiment, was taken 
 prisoner. At the surrender at Plymouth, North Carolina, he was 
 taken to Andersonville prison in Georgia and later was transferred 
 to the Florence prison in South Carolina, where he was held in 
 duress until the following December, when his exchange was ef- 
 fected. In April, 1865, on his way south from Annapolis, Mary- 
 land, he was shipwrecked on the Potomac River while en route 
 to rejoin his regiment and was saved only by clinging to a mast 
 all night. In the morning he was picked up in an exhausted con- 
 dition by a gunboat. Thus in many ways he risked his life in the 
 cause of his country and in July, 1865, he received his honorable 
 discharge and was mustered out of service, having risen from the 
 rank of private to the office of first lieutenant. Mr. Hollands re- 
 tains a deep and abiding interest in his old comrades in arms and 
 signifies the same by his membership in the Grand Army of the 
 Republic. 
 
 Soon after the close of the rebellion Mr. Hollands initiated 
 his independent business career as a grocer, becoming a member of 
 the firm of Hollands & Fletcher, of Hornell, New York. This con- 
 cern occupied the old "Mammoth Store" opposite the park and 
 the partnership continued until the autumn of 1866, Avhen :\Ir. 
 Hollands returned to Pennsylvania and entered into business in 
 Full Brook and IMorris Run, Pennsylvania. In 1871, however, he 
 
HISTOHY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 62? 
 
 again established his home in Hornell, where he has continued to 
 reside during the long intervening years to the present time. He 
 engaged in the drug business and the passage of time has wit- 
 nessed the growth of his establishment until today the house of 
 George Hollands & Sons is recognized as one of the largest and 
 most progressive of its class in the county. In connection with the 
 drug business Mr. Hollands was one of the organizers of the Hor- 
 nell Sanitarium Company, which was incorporated under the laws 
 of the state and of which he was for some time treasurer and a 
 director. His prominence in connection with the building of the 
 Hornell court house is a matter of public history. 
 
 In politics Mr. Hollands is aligned as a stalwart supporter of 
 the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands 
 sponsor and he has ever been on the alert and enthusiastically in 
 sympathy with aU measures and enterprises projected for the gen- 
 eral welfare of the community. Prior to the incorporation of the 
 city of Hornell he served for a period of six years as trustee of 
 the village. In 1879 he was elected county superintendent of the 
 poor for Steuben county, retaining this incumbency for a period 
 of three years, and in 1886 he served as a member of the board of 
 supervisors of Hornellsville. In 1891 he was given further mark 
 of public confidence and esteem in that he was then elected sheriff 
 of Steuben county and for three years he administered the affairs 
 of this office in a manner that won for him commendation as a 
 model sheriff. In 1906 he was elected supervisor of the first su- 
 pervisors district of the city to fill out the term of Mr. W. G. 
 Masterman, who had been elected county treasurer, and he was re- 
 elected again in 1907 for the term of two years and proved himself 
 a very capable official. He is affiliated with various fraternal and 
 social organizations of representative character and, as already 
 noted, he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, hold- 
 ing membership in Doty Post, No. 226, of which he was commander 
 in 1889-90, and at present is its commander. Both he and his wife 
 are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the dif- 
 ferent departments of whose work they have been most active 
 factors. 
 
 On the 2nd of January, 1866, Mr. Hollands was united in 
 marriage to Miss Lydia Bailey, 'who was bom and reared near 
 Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Hollands became the par- 
 ents of five children, namely: Minnie, the wife of Charles A. 
 Smith, of Middletown, New York ; Eva and Robert, deceased, their 
 deaths having occurred in October, 1876. George, Jr., who was 
 born November 1, 1875, and Burr R., born June 5, 1878, are both 
 now residents of this city and both of whom are now associated with 
 their father in the drug, book and stationery business. 
 
 It is to such men as Mr. Hollands that Hornell owes her ad- 
 vancement, to a proud position among the interior cities of the 
 state. The present status of the city was not gained without hard 
 work by the best citizens, without liberal helpfulness from leaders 
 
628 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in all lines. Mr. Hollands has contributed in generous measure to 
 the civic and material development and progress and as a public 
 official he has well served his fellow citizens. To every demand 
 upon him he has responded with fine ability and admirable in- 
 tegrity, the spirit thaf prompted him to make sacrifices for the 
 defense of his country having dominated him through life. 
 
 Mrs. Saeah Edwards Harlow was born at Bath, Steuben 
 county, New York, June 5, 1847, a daughter of James R. Dudley. 
 Her father was a native of Bath, born November 5, 1816. He was 
 a son of John and Elizabeth Dudley from Maine, who settled early 
 at Bath, where Grandfather Dudley won success as a farmer and 
 became a man of influence in the town and county. After leaving 
 school James R. Dudley, who was well educated for his time, was 
 in the mercantile business till he accepted a place as bookkeeper 
 in Cook's Bank. He became prominent as a citizen and in political 
 circles as a Republican, was active and helpful in the work of the 
 Presbyterian church and was an earnest temperance leader. He 
 married, April 2, 1844, at Bath, Clarissa Roe Edwards, born in 
 Elmira, New York, December 25, 1820, a daughter of George C. 
 and Hannah Edwards, the father born at Stockbridge, Massa- 
 chusetts, September 21, 1787. Mr. Edwards, who was an able 
 lawyer, gained high standing at the Chemung county bar, but re- 
 moved to Bath in 1821. In 1827 he was appointed the first judge 
 of the court of common pleas of Steuben county. He married 
 Hannah Carpenter. He passed away November 18, 1837, she sur- 
 viving him till in 1877. He was a great-grandson of Jonathan 
 Seeley Edwards. 
 
 Besides Mrs. Harlow the children of James R. Dudley are: 
 Hannah E., of Bath; "William Dudley, a jeweler, Canisteo, New 
 York; John M. Dudley, a member of the stock exchange of New 
 York and a resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey. ]\Iiss Sarah Dudley 
 married Dr. James Stratton Harlow, who died in 1875, aged thirty- 
 four years, having attained high standing as a physician and sur- 
 geon. He was a son of the Rev. James M. and Abby (Osborne) 
 Harlow, pastor of the Bath Presbyterian church, 1863-68. Dr. and 
 Mrs. Harlow had three children, two of whom died in infancy. 
 The other is Agustin De Peyster Harlow of New York city. It 
 is a matter of record that Dr. Harlow became a member of the 
 Steuben County Medical Society in 1865. He was educated in 
 medicine at the Buffalo Medical College and was in practice at 
 Bath several years. After that he practiced about two years in 
 New York, then sought health unavailingly at Colorado Springs, 
 Colorado. He was a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic 
 order. For a time he held the office of adjutant in the New York 
 state militia. 
 
 Miss Hannah Edwards Dudley, Mrs. Harlow's sister, was born 
 at Bath September 17, 1850. She has been practically all her life 
 a member of the Presbyterian church. 
 
HI!ST0RY of STEUBEN COUNTY 631 
 
 Miss Maky L. Noble was born on the old Noble farm May 16, 
 1856, a daughter of Martin William Noble, who was born in Otsego 
 county, New York, in 1828, a son of Lay and Lucinda Noble. His 
 parents came to Bath, where his father worked for a time as a 
 cabinet maker. When they moved on the first Noble homestead 
 near the home where Miss Noble was bom he was but a child. 
 There Lay Noble improved a fine place and prospered as a farmer 
 and he died in 1879 at Bath, aged seventy-nine years, having been 
 born in 1800. He was a man of influence in his time, a Whig and 
 later a Republican, who was active in all work looking to the de- 
 velopment of his town and county, but never sought nor accepted 
 public office. In his religious affiliation he was an Episcopalian. 
 
 Martin W. Noble was educated in common schools near his 
 boyhood home and was brought up as a farmer's boy of all work, 
 in which capacity he learned in a very practical way about all that 
 was to be known about tilling the soil in the time and locality. 
 After the farm came to him he added to it and improved it in 
 many ways. He prospered not alone as a farmer but as a stock 
 raiser and shipper and as a wool buyer. Indeed, he was one of 
 leading stockmen in the county. His farm came eventually to com- 
 prise two hundred acres. He married Lucinda Hunter, born in 
 1830, a daughter of Peter and Lucinda (Dimmick) Hunter, natives 
 respectively of Bath and of Orange county. New York. Mr. Dim- 
 mick was a prominent farmer and stock raiser, a Republican and 
 a member of the Universalist church. 
 
 Martin W. and Lucinda (Hunter) Noble had the daughter 
 mentioned above and two sons. Their son, Clarence H. Noble, is ,a 
 farmer owning the Noble homestead. Their son, Albert Lay Noble, 
 is a lawyer at Winfield, Kansas. Miss Noble, after completing her 
 regular school course, was a student at the Clifton Springs Female 
 Seminary. Her life has been devoted to her parents. Her father 
 died May 23, 1900, and her mother April 11, 1909. She is a mem- 
 ber of the Episcopal church and a useful and popular member of 
 society. 
 
 Charles Oliver Jones.— This name will be recognized as that 
 of one of the earliest and most conspicuous victims of the airship, 
 which seems destined to kill off many of its inventors and devotees 
 before it is brought to safety and to practical utility. Mr. Jones 
 was born in Wayne county, Illinois, June 27, 1867. His father 
 was John Jones, who lived some years at Cincinnati, Ohio, where 
 he was a river boss on steamboats for the Wineford Coal Company. 
 Later he moved to Illinois, where he farmed as long as he lived, 
 He married Ellen Van Pelt, mother of the late Charles Oliver 
 Jones, and after her death he married Mathilda (Otte) Wilson, 
 a widow, who is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Oliver 
 Jones, a child of her first marriage, her second husband being now 
 
 dead. ^ . 
 
 After leaving school Charles Oliver Jones was for some years 
 with an uncle on a cattle ranch in Texas. Then going to Chicago 
 
632 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 he studied drawing and engraving and did work in designing for 
 various artistic and commercial purposes. He invented the first 
 modern color work as applied to printing and during the "World's 
 Columbian Exposition in 1893 did the artist's color work for the 
 first number of the Graphic that was printed in colors. The prin- 
 ciples of his invention are now of world wide application and could 
 his name be handed along with them would give him endless fame 
 as an originator. After remaining in Chicago six years he re- 
 turned to his parents in Cincinnati, where he took a position in 
 the engraving department of a large establishment. Later he went 
 to Nashville, Tennessee, where he married and lived three years. 
 Then he went through the west, lecturing on Socialism. While 
 traveling with his family through the mountains with a team and 
 van that he had bought in Denver he began those studies in aerial 
 navigation which were destined to lead him to fame, but to death. 
 
 Returning to his old home in Illinois he remained there a 
 year, then went to Dayton, Ohio, where he organized a stock com- 
 pany to promote his airship plans. Mr. Curtiss and Mr. Baldwin 
 came to Hammondsport, Mr. Curtiss' birthplace, and built an 
 airdrome shed where they constructed his first machine. His first 
 flight was made in the valley in which Hammondsport lies. The 
 machine proved too heavy and was eventually converted into a 
 dirigible machine. This work Mr. Jones did himself. His first 
 flight in the new machine from the glen showed that the apparatus 
 was defective. He improved the machine and after trials at El- 
 mira and Binghamton, New' York, made several successful flights 
 at Palisade Park, in New Jersey, during August, and from there 
 he went to Waterville, Maine, where he was killed in his second 
 flight by the explosion of the gas bag of his machine, the cause of 
 which has never been explained. I 
 
 Mr. Jones married Miss Lottie Wilson, who was born at Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, March 22, 1879, a daughter of Alfred H. and Ma- 
 thilde (Otte) Wilson. Her father, an operator, had died and her 
 mother had married Mr. Jones' father. Mrs. Mathilde (Otte) 
 Wilson Jones' father was the first manufacturer of hats in Cin- 
 cinnati. Mrs. Jones bore her husband three children: Stanley, 
 aged ten years ; Mina, aged six years, and Alfred, aged three years. 
 
 Charles Gilbert Lyon.— A man of much ability, enterprise 
 and judgment, Charles Gilbert Lyon holds an assured position 
 among the foremost business men of Atlanta, Steuben county, and 
 as a man and a citizen is held in high respect. A son of the late 
 James S. Lyon, he was born May 22, 1864, in Bulfalo, New York. 
 Born and brought up in Montreal, Canada, James S. Lyon came 
 to the states with his parents, and during his active life was en- 
 gaged in the real estate business at Buffalo, New York, dying in 
 that city in 1892, aged seventy-six years. He married Louisa L. 
 Dougherty, a daughter of John and Julia Dougherty, natives of 
 Vermont, and of the children born of their union five are living. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEF COUNTY 633 
 
 as follows : Emma L., wife of E. L. Kimberly, a retired business 
 man of Buffalo, New York ; Eva, wife of J. T. Burrows, of Elyria, 
 Ohio; Florence, living in Buffalo; Henry L., deputy water com- 
 missioner of Buffalo, New York, and Charles Gilbert, the special 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Leaving the public schools at the age of eighteen years Charles 
 Gilbert Lyon studied civil engineering for a while, and was sub- 
 sequently engaged in the lumber business at Buffalo for six years. 
 Moving from that city to Atlanta, Steuben county, Mr. Lyon here 
 embarked in the lumber and produce business as a member of the 
 firm of Hatch, Otto and Company, and met with success from the 
 start. In September, 1909, Mr. Otto retired from the firm, and 
 its name was changed to Hatch, Lyon and Company, its present 
 form. Mr. Lyon is connected with other substantial business en- 
 terprises, being secretary of the United Produce Company, which 
 has its general office in Atlanta, and of the Steuben Bean Company, 
 an Atlanta corporation. 
 
 Politically Mr. Lyon is a Republican, but he has never desired 
 public oiBce, his private interests demanding his entire attention. 
 He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and be- 
 longs to Liberty Lodge, No. 510, F. & A. M., and to Bath Chapter, 
 No. 95, R. A. M., of Bath, New York. Religiously he is a trust- 
 worthy member of the First Presbyterian church. 
 
 Mr. Lyon married, August 13, 1891, Minnie L. Hatch, who 
 was born February 4, 1871, in Atlanta, a daughter of Hiram "W. 
 Hatch. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyon, 
 namely: Hyatt Hatch, born August 23, 1893, is taking a post- 
 graduate course in Atlanta; Stuart Gilbert, born May 6, 1897; 
 Harold Maurice, born June 1, 1899 ; Hiram William, born Febru- 
 ary 9, 1901, and Florence Dorothy, born February 19, 1907. 
 
 Frank M. Bertkon. — Standing as one of the most valued ex- 
 ponents of his profession, that of veterinary surgery, is Dr. Frank 
 M. Bertron. He comes of stanch New England parentage and his 
 father, Daniel Bertron, was born in New Jersey in the year 1812, 
 and his mother, whose maiden name was Melissa Balch, claimed 
 the Green Mountain state, by the particular tie of birth within its 
 borders, the date of her nativity being 1822. This worthy couple 
 united their hands and fortunes in marriage in 1844, and reared 
 a family of children who earne to enjoy the respect and considera- 
 tion of all who knew them. They were: Mary E. Bertron, who 
 became the wife of 0. P. Jeffries; Helen, who married Marcus 
 Hickock; Oscar, now living in Allegany county; Frank M., our 
 subject; Roxie, who married Theodore Cobert, and Andrew, who 
 is a citizen of Pennsylvania. Some two years after their marriage 
 Daniel Bertron and his wife came to Steuben county and he en- 
 gaged in blacksmithing, and in Canisteo pursued that useful trade 
 tintil the time of his demise, which occurred in January, 1876. 
 Ever busy at his anvil he was a familiar figure and a beloved 
 
634: HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 one, and he left this earth with a worthy record. His wife, who 
 had been an ideal helpmate in all that the term implies, survived 
 him for a number of years, her death occurring in the month of 
 January, 1892. 
 
 Dr. Prank M. Bertron was born in Steuben county on June 3, 
 1856, and has passed the greater part of his useful and active life 
 amid the familiar scenes of his birth. He was educated in the 
 public schools and attended the Canisteo high schools. He learned 
 the blacksmith's trade under his father's tutelage when a boy, so 
 young that it was necessary for him to stand upon a block to work 
 the bellows, and he came to have a very unusual skill in horse- 
 shoeing. Later when he look up veterinary surgery his practical 
 experience in horseshoeing enabled him to place in general prac- 
 tice many original and humane ideas and improvements in that 
 line. He was prepared for his profession in the Ontario Veterinary 
 College, of Toronto, Canada, which he entered in the year 1891, 
 and from which he was graduated in 1893, in a class numbering 
 one hundred and sixty-three. This class was a cosmopolitau gath- 
 ering, comprising students from the States, from Canada and from 
 various countries across the Atlantic. 1 
 
 Since 1893 Dr. Bertron has been in continual practice. His 
 practice is of an extended character, for he is known far and wide, 
 being well advertised by the irrefutable fact that he is one of the 
 best in his profession. He has been frequently called out of the 
 state upon professional business, his judgment being widely sought. 
 Mr. Bertron 's citizenship is irreproachable and he can be depended 
 upon to give his heart and hand to all good causes. He was one 
 of the first to promote tenjperanee in Canisteo, and he has made 
 many speeches in the cause, his eloquence and logic forming a 
 combination difficult to withstand. His heart is in the good work 
 and he has not hesitated to contribute generously of his own 
 means to the campaign fund for the promotion of temperance. 
 Zealous and never-tiring, he is one of those who usually accom- 
 plish what they set out to do and he is largely responsible for the 
 fact that Canisteo is now a temperance town. 
 
 On November 6, 1879, Dr. Bertron laid the foundation of a 
 happy home life by his marriage to Hannah M. Dickinson, born 
 November 9, 1846. She is the daughter of Perry Allen and Phoebe 
 W. (Denman) Dickinson, residents of Thompson county. The 
 father was a railroad fireman and was killed at Ithaca while on 
 duty, a bridge falling beneath his engine. Dr. and Mrs. Bertron 
 have one daughter, Helen A., born February 27, 1886. She was 
 educated in the Canisteo High School. 
 
 Dr. Bertron is a Republican in politics and he and his family 
 are attendants at the Presbyterian church, being earnest in their 
 advocacy of its good works and generous in its support. 
 
 Irving Gardner Burch.— A general merchant of Atlanta, Irv- 
 ing Gardner Burch is numbered among its prosperous and sub- 
 stantial business men, and is a well-known factor promoting its 
 
HISTORY OF 8TEUBEX COUXTY 035 
 
 mercantile prosperity. A man of culture and talent, he is held in 
 high repute as a citizen, and by his excellent character and straight- 
 forward business methods has fully established himself in the es- 
 teem and confidence of his associates, winning and retaining a lu- 
 crative patronage in this vicinity. A son of Darius J. Burch, he 
 was born, June 12, 1870, in Western, Oneida county. New York. 
 
 Darius J. Burch was born in Rome, New York, and has spent 
 his entire life of seventy-seven years in Oneida county, being now 
 retired from agricultural pursuits, which he followed during his 
 active career. He has been twice married, first to Cynthia Blasier, 
 a daughter of David and Catherine (Teachout) Blasier, descend- 
 ants of pioneer families of the Mohawk valley. He married, second, 
 j\Iarcia Blasier, a sister of his first wife. Of the four children born 
 of his first union, all daughters, two are living, namely: Emma, 
 wife of L. S. Parkhurst, of Trenton, New York, and Alice, wife of 
 G. M. Thomas, of Holland Patent, New York. By his second mar- 
 riage he was the father of three children, as follows : Archie L., 
 living on the home farm at Western, Oneida county; Nellie, de- 
 ceased, and Irving Gardner, the special subject of this brief 
 biographical review. 
 
 Obtaining his rudimentary education in the public schools 
 Irving G. Burch subsequently attended Rome Academy for a year, 
 after which he taught school in his home town for two years. En- 
 tering then the Fairfield Military Academy, he was graduated from 
 that institution at the end of a year, and the ensuing year was an 
 instructor at Gressly College, at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He 
 was subsequently honored with the degree of Bachelor of Litera- 
 ture by Gressly College. Continuing his residence in McKeesport, 
 ;\rr. Burch was principal of the normal department of Douglas 
 College for a year, and also teacher of oratory. 
 
 Deciding to make a change of occupation Mr. Burch located 
 in Lowville, New York, where he was engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits for seven years. Coming then to Steuben county. New York, 
 he was for three years associated with his brother-in-law, D. D. 
 Cottrell, as cashier. Since 1907 he has been actively engaged in 
 business at Atlanta, where he has built up a flourishing trade in 
 general merchandise, his store being finely equipped and well 
 stocked. In his political affiliations Mr. Burch is independent, vot- 
 ing for the best men and measures. Religiously he belongs to the 
 Methodist church. 
 
 Mr. Burch married Clara De Voe, a daughter of the late 
 Alexander De Voe, who was born in Lewis county. New York, and 
 there married Mary Staring, a native of the same county. Mrs. 
 Burch was born in Lewis county, September 7, 1872. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Burch have one child, Marjorie, born June 6, 1906. 
 
 Seymour C. Williamson, M. D.— Occupying an enviable posi- 
 tion among those who are ably upholding the high prestige of the 
 medical profession of this section of the Empire state is Dr. Sey- 
 
636 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 mour C Williamson. A veteran of the fraternity, he is also the 
 kindly friend and adviser of himdreds of families m this com- 
 munity, and for many years has faithfully devoted himself to re- 
 lieving the ills and sufferings of humanity. 
 
 The father of the Doctor, David WUliamson, was born m Al- 
 bany county. New York, July 15, 1788, at about the time that the 
 Revolution had really achieved the independence of the colonies. 
 His wife whose maiden name was Elizabeth RuUufson, was like- 
 wise a native of the Empire state, born in Schenectady county in 
 the year 1798. The father was a farmer and a very prominent 
 citizen in his day and generation. He served as sheriff of Albany- 
 county for one term and was always active and influential m poli- 
 tics his word being of weight both because of its common sense 
 and truthfulness. While fulfilling the duties of the shrievalty it 
 was necessary upon one occasion for him to make a long journey 
 on horseback into Canada, over Indian trails and terrible roads, 
 and the fact that his business was of a financial nature and re- 
 quired him to carry a large sum of money in gram bags slung 
 over his horse's shoulders did not add to the safety or the personal 
 calmness of the pilgrimage. 
 
 In the year 1837 David Williamson moved to Steuben county 
 and bought two hundred acres of wild forest land, upon which he 
 settled with his family. The livestock of the household, part ol 
 which he shipped by canal and the balance drove overland, con- 
 sisted of six cows, four horses and ten sheep. Upon his newly 
 acquired property he erected a log house, and in this locality and 
 amid the typical pioneer surroundings seven boys and seven girls 
 were reared to useful manhood and womanhood. With the in- 
 dustry and thrift of his race he cleared one hundred acres of his 
 new land and sowed it to wheat, realizing fine crops and good 
 prices, and in time he became one of the leading agriculturists of 
 the locality. He was so well pleased with this favored section as 
 to make it his permanent home, and it was here that his death 
 occurred in 1866. The wife and mother died in 1876. 
 
 Dr. Seymour C. Williamson was bom in Steuben county July 
 15, 1838, and spent his boyhood and youth upon his father's farm. 
 At the age of seventeen he became a man in all but years, leaving 
 the farm, engaging in the business of sawing lumber for four years 
 and attending school in the winter months. He then married, 
 moved to Wisconsin, and cultivated a rented farm for another four 
 years. His next step was to settle in Cameron, that state, and 
 conduct a mercantile business until 1879, when he decided upon a 
 professional career in the field of medicine and surgery. Entering 
 the University of the City of New York he pursued a thorough 
 course and upon graduating from that institution in 1885 began 
 practice in his native town of Canisteo. Although not trained to 
 his profession from youth Dr. Williamson had the advantage from 
 the start of wide worldly experience and a mature judgment; the 
 result has been a substantial advancement from first to last, and 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 637 
 
 he has already passed a quarter century of well-considered and 
 notable activity in his chosen field. 
 
 Frederick D. Williamson, M. D., the son, is also a practicing 
 physician; in fact, entered the ranks of the fraternity in 1891. 
 He is a graduate of the Medical University of New York and 
 stands high in his profession. 
 
 Dr. Seymour C. Williamson is one of the prominent Masons 
 of Steuben county, being a leading member of the chapter and 
 commandery. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. To round out his professional record it may also be said 
 that in addition to carrying along a large private practice he has 
 served as coroner of Steuben county for four years and is medical 
 examiner for a number of standard life insurance companies. He 
 is a Republican in polities and a Presbyterian in his religious faith 
 —a man who can be implicitly depended upon, whether considered 
 in the light of his profession, his citizenship or his every-day 
 morality. 
 
 Harry L. Allen, one of Hornell's leading lawyers and a citi- 
 zen of much worth and prominence, is a native of Alfred, Allegany 
 county, New York, born June 1, 1872. Henry Allen, his father, 
 was born there and has lived there all his life. The family is of 
 English extraction. Its first representative in Allegany county 
 arrived about 1815. Henry Allen married Henrietta Rice, a na- 
 tive of Raymond, Potter county, Pennsylvania. Her father, Samuel 
 Rice, was born near Cortland, Cortland county. New York, of 
 mixed French and German ancestry. Sh6 was living when this 
 work was in preparation. 
 
 Mr. Allen was his parents' only child. He spent his youth 
 on his father's farm and in the district school near his home. At 
 eighteen he entered the Hornell High School, from which he was 
 graduated in 1891. Later he was duly graduated from Alfred 
 University. In 1893 he took up the study of law, with Beard and 
 Griffin as his preceptors. He was admitted to the bar of the state 
 of New York in 1896 and began the practice of his profession in 
 Hornell. For a time he was connected with the office of Judge 
 Frank H. Robinson. Later he was identified with the practice of 
 Seward A. Simons at Buffalo, New York. Returning to Hornell, 
 he practiced awhile in^ association with C. B. Beard. Since 1904 
 he has maintained a successful individual practice. 
 
 Mr. Allen is a Knight Templar Mason. His political alliances 
 are Democratic. For six years he did great credit to himself and 
 to the community as a justice of the peace. He married Miss 
 Belle Spink, daughter of William H. and Mary (Whiting) Spink, 
 in 1898. As a lawyer Mr. Allen is conscientious and persistent, a 
 safe counsellor and an able advocate. As a citizen he is progres- 
 sive and public-spirited, ready at all times to aid to the extent of his 
 ability any measure which in his good judgment promises to ad- 
 vance the well-being of any considerable number of his fellow 
 townsmen. 
 
G38 HISTORY OF STEUBE^r COUXTT 
 
 Heney Miller.— The great empire of Germany has contributed 
 a most valuable element to the cosmopolitan social fabric of our 
 American republic, which has had much to gain and nothing to lose 
 from this source. Among those of German birth and ancestry who 
 have attained success and precedence in connection with industrial 
 and business affairs in Steuben county is Mr. Miller, whose interests 
 are of broad scope and importance and who is now serving as 
 mayor of Hammondsport. He has been in the most emphatic sense 
 the architect of his own fortune, as he came to America when a 
 mere boy and without financial resources. He has worked his way 
 upward to a position as one of the essentially representative busi- 
 ness men of Steuben county and his sterling attributes of char- 
 acter have gained to him the unqualified esteem of his fellow men. 
 
 Henry Miller was born at Friedewald, Prussia, on the 12th 
 of September, 1868, and is a son of Conrad and Catherine (Fech- 
 ter) Miller, both of whom now reside in Potter county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, where they took up their residence in 1888 and where the 
 father has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He is now living 
 virtually retired, having attained to the age of seventy-five years. 
 (1910) and his devoted wife is sixty-nine years of age. They are 
 members of the Lutheran church and of their children seven are 
 living, namely: Henry, George, William, Peter, Conrad, Martha 
 and Mary. Martha is the wife of Conrad Rudolph and Mary is 
 the wife of Henry Mulfelman. Henry Miller was reared to the 
 age of fifteen years in his native land, to whose schools he is in- 
 debted for his early educational training. At the age noted, in 
 1883, he severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland 
 and came alone to America, where he joined an uncle who had 
 previously established his home in Germania, Potter county, Penn- 
 sylvania. By industry and good management he gradually made 
 his way toward the goal of definite success and for a number of 
 years he was actively identified with the lumbering industry in 
 the south and west. In 1901 he established his home at Ham- 
 mondsport, where he has since resided and maintained his busi- 
 ness headquarters. He is one of the stockholders of the Henry 
 Curtis Company, which is engaged in the manufacturing of the 
 Curtis aeroplanes, and he is also a stockholder in the Hammonds- 
 port Cooperage Company, the Schwarzenbach Brewing Company, 
 the International Correspondence School, the New Jersey Steel 
 Company and other important corporations. 
 
 In polities Mr. Miller is aligned as a stanch supporter of the 
 cause of the Republican party and he is known as one of the most 
 enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Hammondsport. The 
 high esteem in which he is held in the community is indicated by 
 the fact that on the 15th of April, 1909, he was elected mayor of 
 the city, in which position he has since continued to serve and in 
 which he is giving a most admirable and progressive administra- 
 tion of the affairs of the municipal government. He is a member 
 of the Lutheran church and is affiliated with Hammondsport 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN' COUNTY 639 
 
 Lodge No. 559, Free & Accepted Masons, Bath Chapter, No. 95, 
 Royal Arch Masons, Ju Commandery No. 17, Knights Templars, 
 at Penn Yan, and Damascus Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the 
 Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the city of Rochester. He also 
 holds membership in Hornell Lodge of the Benevolent & Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks, and in Hammondsport Tent of the Improved 
 Order of Redmen, in which he is treasurer. The popular mayor 
 of Hammondsport is a bachelor. 
 
 Feed William Tekby.— Wide-awake and enterprising, ever 
 alert to take advantage of offered opportunities, Fred Williani 
 Terry holds an excellent position among the leading business men 
 of Steuben county, being properously engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits at Atlanta, as a dealer in wagons, carriages and vehicles of 
 all kinds, having a substantial trade. He was born in Atlanta, New 
 York, November 3, 1873, and is an excellent representative of the 
 native-bom citizens of this section of the state. 
 
 William Terry, Mr. Terry's father, was born seventy -two years 
 ago and having located in Atlanta, New York, in early days has 
 since followed his trade of a stone mason in this vicinity, and now 
 makes his home with his son Fred. He married for his first wife 
 a IMiss Avery, who died in early womanhood, leaving one child, 
 Victoria, who is the widow of the late C. E. Partridge, and has 
 one daughter, Lillian Partridge, a bright girl of ten summers. He 
 married second, in 1872, Sarah Nickoson, who was born seventy- 
 one years ago, a daughter of William 0. Nickoson, the first station 
 agent at Atlanta for the Erie Railroad Company, and his wife, 
 Rhoda (Phelps) Nickoson. Three children were born of their 
 union, namely: Fred W., the special subject of this sketch; Lil- 
 lian, wife of R. W. Lander, an Atlanta merchant, and Effie, wife 
 of M. 0. Hill, a hardware merchant in Rochester, New York. 
 
 At the age of seventeen, having previously attended school 
 regularly for ten years, Fred William Terry entered the employ 
 of William T. Cornish, with whom he remained as a clerk for 
 seven years. Buying then his present establishment, Mr. Terry has 
 since carried on a thriving mercantile business, making a spe- 
 cialty of dealing in carriages. He has other interests, however, 
 being an extensive dealer in real estate and loans, and is finan- 
 cially associated with various enterprises. 
 
 Politically Mr. Terry is a straightforward Republican, but 
 has never had official aspirations. Fraternally he is a member of 
 the K. 0. T. M., of North Cohocton, of the M. W. A., of the I. 0. 
 O. F., of Atlanta, and of the Atlanta Lodge of the Daughters of 
 Rebekah. Mr. Terry married in 1904 Leona Cornish, who was 
 born in Atlanta, Steuben county. New York, March 31, 1885, a 
 daughter of the late William Cornish. Mr. and Mrs. Terry have 
 two children, namely: Conant, aged five years, and Harry, aged 
 three years. Mrs. Terry is a valued member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church and an active worker in the Ladies' Aid Society, 
 and in its Missionary Society. 
 
 Vol. II— 8 
 
640 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Joseph Leonard Waugh, who is engaged in the insurance busi- 
 ness in the thriving village of Cohocton, where he is also incumbent 
 of the office of justice of the peace, is a citizen who commands a 
 secure place in popular confidence and esteem and he is entitled 
 to definite consideration in this historical work. 
 
 Joseph Leonard Waugh was born in Oneida county, New York, 
 on the 21st of October, 1844, and is a son of Kev. John and Char- 
 lotte (Rogers) Waugh. Rev. John Waugh was born in the city 
 of Carlisle, Cumberland county, England, on the 14th of March, 
 1814. He was four years old at the time of the family removal to 
 the United States and after due preliminary discipline he entered 
 Brown University, in which he took a partial course. He carefully 
 prepared himself for the work of the ministry and was ordained 
 as a clergyman of the Presbyterian church. He was for a time 
 pastor of the church of this denomination at Mount Hope, Orange 
 county. New York; for fourteen years he held a pastorate at 
 Sauquoit, Oneida county; for an equal period he was engaged in 
 the work of his high calling at Canton, St. Lawrence county; the 
 following nine years he held the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian 
 church at Carthage, Jefferson county; and in 1878 he came to 
 Steuben county and assumed the pastorate of the church of his 
 denomination in Cohocton, where he served for fifteen years. He 
 was a man of marked intellectual ability and deepest piety, and 
 his labors in the ministry were marked by the utmost zeal and 
 consecration. He passed the closing years of his life in Cohocton, 
 where he died on the 20th of August, 1907. 
 
 On the 3d of May, 1842, was solemnized the marriage of Rev. 
 John Waugh to Miss Charlotte Rogers, who was born at Laurens, 
 Otsego county. New York, on the 6th of November, 1817, and who 
 was a daughter of Oliver G. and Deborah (Lewis) Rogers. She 
 was summoned to the life eternal on the 3d of February, 1899, and 
 her memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her 
 gentle and gracious influence. Of the five children four are living 
 and of the number Joseph Leonard, subject of this review, is the 
 eldest. Dr. Theodore R. is a representative physician and surgeon 
 of St. Albans, Vermont; Ella Charlotte died at the age of eight 
 years ; Rev. Arthur J., a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, is 
 pastor of a church at Montasata, Sullivan county. New York; and 
 Ida is the wife of Dr. Thomas B. Fowler, of Springville, Erie 
 county, this state. 
 
 J. Leonard Waugh gained his early educational discipline in 
 the common schools, and supplemented this by effective prepara- 
 tory work in Canton Academy, at Canton, New" York, after leaving 
 which institution he matriculated in Hamilton College, at Canton, 
 in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1867 and 
 from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The ensu- 
 ing three years he was a successful and popular teacher in the 
 public schools of his native state, and in 1873 he was graduated in 
 Auburn Theological Seminary, after which he was ordained to the 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 643 
 
 ministry of the Presbyterian church. He assumed the pastorate 
 of the church at Brasher Palls, St. Lawrence county, where he 
 remained until 1879, and in 1881 he came to Cohocton, where he 
 was engaged in the printing and publishing business for two years. 
 He then established a general insurance agency and to this line of 
 enterprise he has devoted his attention during the long intervening 
 years, within which he has built up a large and representative 
 business as an underwriter. Though he has retired from the min- 
 istry he has continued to be a most earnest and devoted worker in 
 the church and he is at the present time an elder of the Presby- 
 terian church in his home village. He commands unequivocal con- 
 fidence and regard, and none has shown greater loyalty and public 
 spirit. He is affiliated with Liberty Lodge No. 510, Free & Accepted 
 Masons, with which he has been identified since 1882. In politics 
 Mr. Waugh is found arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the princi- 
 ples and policies of the Republican party, and he has given effective 
 service in behalf of its cause. He has served as delegate to the 
 county and district conventions of his party. In 1883 he was ap- 
 pointed justice of the peace, and in 1885 he was duly elected to this 
 office, of which he has served in all eighteen years. 
 
 Samuel E. Quackenbush, dealer in insurance, real estate and 
 loans at Corning, New York, has been identified with the business 
 activity of this place since 1903, having come here at that time 
 from West Caton, where he was for some time engaged in general 
 merchandising. Previous to that, from 1884 to 1886, he was in 
 Corning, in the employ of J. H. Huber, grocer, and the following 
 year owned and operated a farm adjoining the town of Lindley. 
 On his return to Corning in 1903, he engaged with the Meltby 
 Company, with which he was connected one year, and afterward 
 was with L. T. Goodrich & Company, incorporated, dealers in books 
 and stationery. This last named company he left to engage in busi- 
 ness for himself. 
 
 Mr. Quackenbush was born in Caton, Steuben county. New 
 York, April 30, 1858, son of William and Polly (Gardner) Quack- 
 enbush, natives of Otsego county, New York, the former born in 
 1833, the latter, in 1835. When he was four years old the death 
 of his mother broke up the home and he was taken into the house- 
 hold of his cousin at Caton, near Corning. His father was en- 
 gaged in lumbering at Mitchell Station, Pennsylvania, and there 
 young Quackenbush remained until he was twenty-one years of 
 age, and until he was twenty-four was engaged in farm work. 
 His early education was limited to the common schools, but after 
 he was thirty he took a course in commercial law and thus fitted 
 himself to engage successfully in his present line of business. 
 
 Mr. Quakenbush has been twice married, January 9, 1879, he 
 wedded Miss Mary E. Barnard, daughter of Gershom W. Barnard 
 of Corning, and to her he gives the credit for much of the success 
 he has attained. She died in July, 1895. The two children born to 
 
644 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 them are Nina A. Quackenbush Ammerman and Earl B. Quaeken- 
 bush, the former a resident of Corning and the latter of Ithaca. On 
 February 20, 1901, he married Miss Louise I. Borst, daughter of 
 John and Nancy (Van Gelder) Borst, of Painted Post, Steuben 
 county, both now deceased, her mother having died May 28, 1899. 
 
 Politically Mr. Quackenbush has since he became a voter af- 
 filiated with the Republican party, and has always taken an active 
 interest in public affairs and frequently filled public office. While 
 a resident of West Caton he established a post office, was appointed 
 postmaster and served as such for a number of years. Also while 
 in that town he was two years supervisor and two terms justice of 
 the peace. In 1900 he was a delegate to the state convention at 
 Saratoga which placed in nomination for governor of New York 
 Benjamin Odell of Newberg, who was elected and served one term. 
 In the fall of 1909 ilr. Quackenbush was elected alderman of the 
 Third ward, and he is now serving as such, and also he is now 
 serving his third year as a member of the Republican City Com- 
 mittee, of which he is secretary. 
 
 He and his wife are identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 David F. Smith. — This prominent farmer and citizen of Steu- 
 ben county was bom on his father's farm near Bath August 3, 
 1860, a son of George Smith. George Smith came to the United 
 States from Scotland when he was sixteen years old with Matthew 
 Smith, his father, the grandfather of David F. and Nancy Smith. 
 Matthew, a widower, married Harriet Richardson and settled on 
 the Smith farm near Savona. The land was not then all cleared 
 and the improvements on it were primitive and incomplete. By 
 years of hard work Mr. Smith developed the place into a first 
 class farm. George Smith had the farm in his turn and died there 
 in 1908, age(J eighty-four years. He married Jane Foster, who 
 is living with their son David, now advanced to the age of eighty- 
 seven years. She was born in Ireland and was brought, compara- 
 tively young, to America by her widowed mother, Nancy (Atkin- 
 son) Foster. They settled in Bath and she later became acquainted 
 with and married Mr. Smith. 
 
 David F. Smith went to school till he was seventeen years old 
 and was reared to farming. Since his father's death he has suc- 
 cessfully managed three large farms belonging to the estate. He 
 is not only one of the most extensive farmers in the county, but 
 one of the largest shippers of stock, giving special attention to 
 sheep. A man of public spirit, he is naturally interested in all 
 that pertains to the welfare and development of the town and 
 county. A Republican, he is active in the local work of his party 
 and has been elected twice to the office of assessor of taxes, which 
 he has filled with rare judgment and fidelity. He has also served 
 several terms on the Board of Education, at one time as president. 
 
 Mr. Smith married, in 1882, ]\Iiss Emma Stowell, born in 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 64.5 
 
 Wayne county, New York, in 1862, a daughter of DwigM Stowell, 
 a carpenter by trade. Mr. Stowell married Elizabeth Hayes and 
 they were both dead when Mrs. Smith was ten years old, and she, 
 their only child, was reared by her mother 's brother. The following 
 facts concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be of 
 interest in this connection: Mabel Zenobia is the wife of Dr. J. 
 Floyd Bowman, of Irvington, New Jersey, and she has a son, 
 Floyd Smith Bowman, aged about one year. She is a member of 
 St. Thomas' Episcopal church, Bath. Before her marriage she 
 was graduated at the close of the prescribed course at Bellevue 
 Hospital, New York. George, the only son of David Smith, is 
 dead. Edna Maud is a teacher in the public school at Irvington, 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Mr. Smith is a charter member of the Savona lodge of the 
 Independant Order of Odd Fellows and has passed all the chairs 
 of his lodge and encampment and is now a past grand commander. 
 He is a member also of the Grange. He is a Baptist, devoted to 
 his church and all its interests. 
 
 j\Iiss Nancy Smith, daughter of George Smith and sister of 
 David F. Smith, was born on the Smith homestead near Savona 
 April 14, 1862, and is living on one of the farms of the Smith es- 
 tate, which, with a local superintendent, is under the general man- 
 agement of David F. Smith. It has been increased in size to a 
 farm of one hundred and ten acres. Miss Smith is a member of 
 the Episcopal church, active in its work and generous in its sup- 
 port. She is a woman of rare good sense and of a charitable dis- 
 position, which leads her into avenues of usefulness and wins her 
 many warm friends. 
 
 Robert J. Miller, plumber, conducts one of the leading biisi- 
 ness interests of Hornell and is one of the admirable army of the 
 self-made, having developed through his own efforts into a man of 
 character, standing and substance. He is a native of the Empire 
 state, his birth having occurred in Rochester, New York, September 
 1, 1866, and he is of Irish lineage, combining in himself all the 
 best traits of that versatile and interesting nation. His father, 
 William Miller, was born in Ireland in the year 1816 and came to 
 the land of the stars and stripes in his early days. In the country 
 of his adoption he followed contracting throughout the active years 
 of his life, his death occurring July 12, 1905, when almost ninety 
 years of age. The subject's mother, whose maiden name was Mary 
 Courtney, was born in Rochester, New York, in 1830, and was 
 married in that city some two decades later. The progeny of this 
 worthy pair were: Emma Miller, who married Sidney White; 
 Ada, who became the wife of Jermia O'Brien and makes her home 
 in Rochester; William and Robert J., of Hornell. 
 
 Robert J. Miller received his early educational discipline in 
 the public schools of Rochester, graduating from the grammar 
 school. When still quite young he faced the serious issues of life 
 
646 HISTORY OF STEITBEX COI'XTY 
 
 and learned the trade of plumbing, which he has followed for 
 twenty-four years. In 1895 he removed from Rochester to Hornell 
 and the fifteen years of his residence here have been characterized 
 by the greatest success. He enjoys the confidence of his associates 
 and his business record is irreproachable. He gives his faith and 
 suffrage to the men and measures of the Democratic party. He 
 has always been active in politics, desiring no office for himself, 
 but standing steadfast for his party and his friends. Beginning as 
 a poor boy, with ' ' a fair field and no favors, ' ' he has overcome all 
 obstacles, and is to-day one of Hornell's prosperous men. He 
 finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in his lodge relations, 
 which extend to the ancient and august Masonic order and the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his family are 
 Episcopal in religious faith. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. Miller took as his wife Miss Metta Northrop, a 
 daughter of David Northrop and a native of Syracuse. This 
 union has been blessed by the birth of three children. Ada, the 
 eldest, was born in 1891, is a graduate of Hornell high school and 
 has considerable musical ability, which is under cultivation. There 
 are also two sons, Willie, bom in 1898, and Robert J., born in 1900. 
 
 Emmett F. Stone has gained prestige and definite success as 
 one of the representative farmers and stock dealers of his native 
 county and resides on the old homestead farm, in Pulteney town- 
 ship, which was the place of his birth. Here he was ushered into 
 the world on the 14th of February, 1854, and he is a son of James 
 D. and Jane H. Stone, both of whom were likewise born and reared 
 in the state of New York. The father continued to reside on the 
 old homestead until his death which occurred in the year 1905 and 
 the mother was summoned to the life eternal in 1906, both having 
 been earnest members of the Free Baptist church. 
 
 Emmett F. Stone was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 farm and early began to lend his aid in its work, in the inean- 
 while duly availing himself of the advantages of the district schools. 
 He has never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the great 
 basic industry of agriculture and shortly after his marriage he 
 purchased a farm west of the old homestead, where he not only as- 
 sumed the management of his own place but also had supervision of 
 the cultivation of the old homestead on which he was born. This 
 latter property he purchased after the death of his parents and 
 his landed estate now comprises one hundred and ninety acres. He 
 has made the best of improvements upon his farm which may well 
 be considered one of the model places of the county and on this 
 place he set out one of the first Concord vineyards in Pulteney 
 township. This he has developed into one of the best in this sec- 
 tion and in addition to the raising of grapes and diversified crops 
 he has made a specialty of stock-growing. During the past sixteen 
 years he has also been engaged in business in the buying and ship- 
 ping of live stock and in this line of enterprise he has built up a 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 647 
 
 large and prosperous business. He is one of the substantial and 
 enterprising farmers and stock-growers of Steuben county and his 
 attractive homestead gives every evidence of thrift and prosperity. 
 Though never imbued with ambition for public office Mr. Stone 
 takes a loyal interest in all that touches the welfare of the com- 
 munity and his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party. 
 Both he and his wife hold membership in the Freewill Baptist 
 church, of which his parents also were consistent members. 
 
 In the year 1887 Mr. Stone was united in marriage to Miss 
 Belle Baker, who was born at Hornell, this county, and they have 
 four children,— Clara H., Jennie G., James D. and Dorothy G. 
 Clara H. was graduated in the high school in the city of Syracuse, 
 where she is now a student in the Syracuse University; Jennie G. 
 was graduated in the high school at Prattsburg, Steuben county, 
 and the two younger children are now attending the local schools. 
 
 Geoege a. Manning, proprietor of marble quarries in Georgia 
 and operator in mines in Nevada, is one of the best known men in 
 Steuben county. 
 
 Mr. Manning was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 14, 1862, 
 and here was reared and educated. In 1900 he married Miss Nellie 
 M. Horton, who was born at Campbell, a daughter of Charles T. 
 Horton, a native of Steuben county, whose father was a pioneer 
 at Campbell. 
 
 Mrs. Manning was reared and educated in Campbell, but in 
 her girlhood went to Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Manning have their summer home at Campbell 
 on her father's old homestead. They are widely acquainted 
 throughout the county and their coming home, as they call it, is 
 welcomed by many who from time to time enjoy their generous 
 yet refined hospitality. Mr. Manning is a member of the Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 William Everett Palmer.— The prominent physician and 
 surgeon of Steuben county whose name is above was born in Cort- 
 land county. New York, June 30, 1838. Norman Palmer, his 
 father, was a native of Bennington, Vermont. He made his living 
 as a farmer, beginning on a pioneer farm in Cortland county. His 
 father came, seeking better opportunities, when Norman was about 
 four years old, bringing with him his wife, Abigail (Dodge) Pal- 
 mer, and such of their children as were born in Vermont. This 
 worthy couple came of old New England families long represented 
 in Vermont and were among the early settlers in central New 
 York. Dr. Palmer's American ancestry is traced to a Palmer who 
 came over from England in 1640 and settled at Charlestown, now 
 a suburb of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 Norman Palmer was reared and educated in Cortland county, 
 New York. In 1853, with his wife and five children, he went to 
 Wisconsin and located at Milton, Rock county. From there he 
 
648 TiISTOEY 01 STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 removed to Dodge Center, Dodge county, Minnesota. The last 
 fifteen years of his life were spent with his daughter, wife of Dr. 
 H. R. Maxon, at Nortonville, Kansas, where he died, aged ninety- 
 three. His wife was ninety-one at the time of her death. They 
 reared a family of five children, all of whom were living when this 
 book was in preparation. Doctor Palmer is the eldest. His 
 brother N. P. Palmer lives at Milton Junction, Dodge county, Wis- 
 consin. His sister, Mrs. Olive A. Maxon, lives at Nortonville, Kan- 
 sas. His brother Albert L. is a citizen of California. His sister 
 Avaline A. lives at Dodge Center, Minnesota, the wife of a Mr. 
 Ellis. 
 
 Doctor Palmer passed his childhood and youth in Cortland 
 county. New York. When he was fourteen years old he went to 
 Wisconsin, and he remained there until he was twenty-five. His 
 education was begun in public schools in his native county and 
 continued in those of Milton, Y\'iseonsin. In time he became a stu- 
 dent in what is now known as Milton University. For ten years 
 he taught school in New Jersey, closing his work in that state at 
 Salem, Salem county, ' ' South Jersey, ' ' where he was superintendent 
 of the city schools in 1870-73. From 1873 to 1879 he was a teacher 
 in public schools in Rhode Island. He had now decided to become 
 a physician and surgeon, and after three years' diligent study of 
 medicine and its allied sciences he was graduated in 1882 from 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city. 
 
 AVithin a few months after he received his diploma as an M. D. 
 Doctor Palmer located at Hornell and there, practically, made his 
 professional beginning. He soon became in demand and had no 
 difficulty in working up a lucrative practice. He has remained 
 there, adding year by year to his success. Among medical men of 
 the Southern Tier he is well known through his membership of 
 Hornell Medical. Society, the Steuben County Medical Society and 
 the New York Medical Society. Of the Hornell society, known 
 officially as the Hornell Medical and Surgical Association, he has 
 been president. He is now responsibly connected with the Steuben 
 Sanitarium. He has from time to time been appointed medical 
 examiner for some of the great life insurance companies. 
 
 In 1864 Doctor Palmer married Miss Margaret C. Noble, of 
 Shiloh, Cumberland county, New Jersey, a daughter of Mark S. 
 and Mary Noble. Though born at Shiloh, New Jersey, Mrs. Palmer 
 was married in Wisconsin. She has reared three children. Ivanna 
 J. is supervisor of music in the city schools of New York city. 
 Jessie M. is the wife of Professor F. G. Bates, a graduate of Cor- 
 nell University and of Columbia University, now connected with 
 the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Everett C, who was edu- 
 cated at Alfred University and at Cornell University, is employed 
 as a draughtsman in the great establishment of Cottrell & Sons, 
 Westerly, Rhode Island. 
 
 In his politics Dr. Palmer is a good Repiiblican, but he would 
 vote for a good Democrat for a local office as against an unpromis- 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 649 
 
 ing Eepublican. He has pronounced views on all national questions 
 and believes his ideas will be better promoted by the party of his 
 choice than they could possibly be by any rival party. He is a 
 Seventh Day Baptist and was one of the founders and has always 
 been one of the most dependable supporters of the Hornell organiza- 
 tion of that denomination. 
 
 Frank Caul,kings, M. D.— In the male, line of descent this 
 popular citizen and medical man is of English extraction. Poi-ter 
 Caulkings, his father, a native of the state of New York, was a con- 
 tractor and builder, living in Wales, Erie county, New York, but 
 doing business exclusively in Buffalo. He married Angeline Rossell 
 Andrews, also of New York state birth, and they had two sons. Mr. 
 Caulkings died in 1850, aged about thirty-five years, and his widow 
 survived to celebrate the eighty-fourth anniversary ,of her birth, 
 with a prospect that she will see several more anniversaries of that 
 event. 
 
 Doctor Caulkings was born in Wales, Erie county, New York, 
 October 4, 1849, the eldest of his parents' two sons, and was about 
 two years old when his father died. He began to support himself 
 when he was nine years old, working at anything that he could 
 find to do that was honest and would bring remuneration in any 
 available shape. Notwithstanding the disadvantage at which he 
 was as compared with other boys of his age, he gained a fair com- 
 mon-school education, and he was only a mere lad when he began in 
 an irregular way to study medicine. He was graduated from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons at Buffalo Jime 6, 1884. Later 
 he was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College 
 and also received an honorary degree from the Hahnemann Medi- 
 cal College of that city. He practiced in Wyoming county five 
 years and moved to Erie county in 1880, where he continued his 
 practice in Buffalo and vicinity until 1903, when he came to 
 Hornell. He makes a specialty of chronic diseases, for the treat- 
 ment of which he makes his own remedies in his own laboratories. 
 
 Medicine alone does not claim all of Doctor Caulkings' atten- 
 tion. He is interested in a number of patents for automobiles, in- 
 eluding springs of an original conception, some of which he is hav- 
 ing manufactured on royalty. He is the owner of some good proper- 
 ty and has a real interest in Hornell and its prosperity. On June 
 25, 1902, he married Alice M. Tefft, daughter of Stephen E. and 
 Caroline E. (Jenkins) Tefft and a native of Springville, Erie 
 county. New York, who was educated at Griffith Institute and at 
 the New York State Normal School at Buffalo. Before her mar- 
 riage Mrs. Caulkings had been a teacher twelve years, eight of them 
 in her home schools at Springville. 
 
 Eliz;abeth D. Hunt. — It is a matter of much gratification to 
 be able to offer in this publication a brief record concerning Miss 
 Hunt, who has been a resident of Steuben county from the time of 
 
650 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 her nativity and who is a member of one of the old and honored 
 families of the county. 
 
 Elizabeth Dudley Hunt was born in Bath township, Steuben 
 county, on the 17th of October, 1834, and is a daughter of Otis and 
 Louisa (Fluent) Hunt, the former of whom was born in Benning- 
 ton county, Vermont, on the 4th of November, 1804, and the latter 
 of whom was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1803. Otis Hunt was a 
 son of Ezekiel and Lavina (Thayer) Hunt, the former of whom 
 was born March 3, 1772, and the latter, December 22, 1775. Their 
 marriage was solemnized on the 28th of February, 1796, and both 
 were representative of stanch old New England stock, the respec- 
 tive families having been founded in America in the Colonial 
 epoch of our national history. Ezekiel Hunt came to Steuben 
 county in 1820 and located in Bath township, where he reclaimed 
 a farm from the wilderness and where both he and his devoted wife 
 passed the residue of their lives. He was summoned to eternal rest 
 at the age of seventy-seven years and his wife passed away at the 
 age of seventy-six years. They were numbered among the sterling 
 pioneers of the county and their names merit a place on its records, 
 as they did well their part in connection with the development and 
 upbuilding of this favored section of the old Empire state. In 
 1834 Governor Marcy appointed Otis Hunt to the office of lieu- 
 tenant colonel of a regiment of New York artillery, and in this 
 capacity he gave effective service. Colonel Otis Hunt, father of 
 her whose name initiates this review, was about sixteen years of 
 age at the time of the family removal from the old Green Moun- 
 tain state to Steuben county, and here he was actively identified 
 \\ith agricultural pursuits during his youth. In 1841 he became as- 
 sociated with R. B. Stewart in the gerenal merchandise business 
 in the village of Bath, and with this line of enterprise he here con- 
 tinued to be identified for a period of five years. Within this time 
 he also served as deputy sheriff and he was superintendent of the 
 county house and farm for five years. He ever held secure van- 
 tage place in the confidence and esteem of the community and is 
 well remembered by its older citizens. He finally removed to Liv- 
 ingston county, this state, where he was engaged in the hotel busi- 
 ness for some time. In 1861 he removed to Illinois and located at 
 Dixon, where he passed the residue of his life and where his death 
 occurred on the 2d of November, 1882. His wife passed away in 
 1865, and of the five children Elizabeth D., of this review, is the 
 only one living. Otis Hunt was a stanch Democrat in his political 
 allegiance. Mrs. Hunt was a daughter of Jeremiah and Mehitabel 
 (Dudley) Fluent, both of whom were natives of Maine, whence 
 they came to Steuben county in an early day. Mr. Fluent be- 
 came one of the prominent farmers and influential citizens of the 
 county, and here both he and his wife continued to maintain their 
 home until death. The names of the deceased children of Otis and 
 Louisa (Fluent) Hunt are: Barbara A., Cordilia, Kerin P. and 
 
HISTORY OF STEIIBEX COUXTY G53 
 
 Louisa il. Miss Elizabeth D. Hunt now resides with her nephew, 
 Otis Moores, who is a son of her eldest sister, Barbara A. 
 
 Miss Hunt was afforded the advantages of the schools of her 
 native county and remained with her parents until their death, 
 after which she lived with her sisters, having gone to Mobile, Ala- 
 bama, where she was with her sister for a period of twelve years. 
 She then, in 1903, returned to Steuben county, and has since 
 maintained her home in Bath, where she is surrounded by a circle 
 of leal and loyal friends and where she finds pleasure and solace 
 in the gracious memories and associations of the past. She re- 
 tains a vital interest in social and religious affairs and is a devout, 
 member of the Universalist church. It may be noted that her uncle, 
 Phineas Hunt, was long engaged in foreign missionary work, as a 
 representative of the Presbyterian church, and that he died in 
 China. 
 
 Edwin J. Carpenter, M. D., who is prominently identified 
 with the medical profession of Corning, New York, was born and 
 reared in the county in which he lives, and he comes of a family 
 long resident in New York. Dr. Carpenter's grandparents, Tim- 
 othy and Nancy (Shaw) Carpenter, were born in the "Empire 
 State," the former in Chautauqua county, March 27, 1800, and the 
 latter, in Yates county, March 5, 1805. They were married on Sep- 
 tember 10, 1824, in Cameron, New York, by Squire Mason, and 
 with the passing years became the parents of a large family of 
 sons and daughters who grew up and scattered and became useful 
 and respected citizens. Their children in order of birth are as 
 follows: Ann, born June 13, 1825, married a Mr. Jost; Hiram, 
 born September 25, 1826, is a resident of Minnesota; Alva, born 
 October 26, 1828, was for many years a resident of Avon, New 
 York, and died in 1905 ; John, born March 13, 1833, died in Mis- 
 sissippi in 1909; Jane, born April 14, 1835, is now Mrs. Brink 
 and resides at Custer, Ohio; Phoebe, born December 6, 1837, mar- 
 ried a Mr. Smith and lives in Minnesota; Uri, born in Cameron, 
 New York, June 30, 1841, died October 8, 1908 ; Fidelia, born Au- 
 gust 3, 1843, married a Mr. Fergown* and lived in Wisconsin, 
 where her death occurred in 1908. Grandfather Timothy Carpen- 
 ter died December 29, 1882, at the age of eighty-two years and 
 six months. 
 
 Uri Carpenter married Frances Merchant, who was born March' 
 24, 1843, and died June 25, 1905. They were the parents of two 
 children, Edwin J., born July 1, 1864, and Charles A., born in 
 1868. The father was a farmer and lumberman, and at one time 
 had charge of a veneer factory at Bath. His whole life was spent 
 in Steuben county. Charles A. is a resident of Kansas, at this 
 writing employed as foreman of construction work. 
 
 Edwin J. Carpenter, after completing his studies in the Bath 
 schools, engaged as teacher in the rural districts, and in this man- 
 ner paved his way to a higher education. In 1888 he entered the 
 
654 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 University of Bufealo, in whicli he pursued a medical course, and 
 where he graduated in 1891. Immediately after his graduation he 
 settled down to the practice of his profession at Corning, and here 
 for nearly two decades he has successfully conducted a general 
 practice, making a specialty of surgery, and not infrequently being 
 called in council. Dr. Carpenter is a member of the Corning 
 Medical Association, the Keuka Lake Medical and Surgical Asso- 
 ciation, the Steuben County Medical Society, the New York State 
 Medical Society and the American National Medical Association. 
 He is United States pension examiner and surgeon, and for three 
 years has been city coroner. ■ . . -o 
 
 Politically Dr. Carpenter has always affiliated with the Ke- 
 publican party, and while he has never been a politician he has 
 maintained an interest in public affairs and in many ways his in- 
 fluence has been felt for the advancement of the public good. At 
 this time he is president of the School Board, of Avhich he has been 
 a member nine years. He is a member in good standing of both 
 the F. and A. M. and the I. 0. 0. F., and he is a trustee of the 
 Congregational church, with which he has for years been identified. 
 
 On October 12, 1885, Dr. Carpenter married Miss Helen L. 
 Abel, a daughter of Harrison Abel of Thurston, New York, and 
 they have two children, Edwin J. Jr. and Iri A. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth A. Read.— One of the enterprising and in- 
 telligent women farmers of Bath township, Steuben county. New 
 York, is Miss Elizabeth A. Read, a native of Bath, New York, 
 born April 8, 1839. She is a daughter of Daniel Van and Louisa 
 (Smith) Read, the former born near Hope, New Jersey, in 1804. 
 Daniel Read removed to Bath, New York, at the age of twenty 
 years and spent the remainder of his life in farming in that vicin- 
 ity. He spent eight years at a place called Dublin, in the town of 
 Howard, and then removed to the present Read homestead, where 
 he died in 1885. He was very much interested in public affairs 
 and was a prominent Democrat. At the age of twenty-two years 
 he married Louisa Smith, born in Massachusetts April 21, 1804, 
 daughter of Stephen and Mary (Fenunder) Smith, who came to 
 Bath township in 1812 and settled on a farm. Her parents were of 
 Scotch and Irish descent and the family included many clergy- 
 men. Mr. Read's father, John Read, spent all his life in New 
 Jersey, where he was a farmer. 
 
 The children born to Daniel V. Read and his wife were: 
 Stephen and Joseph, deceased,— both dying while soldiers in the 
 Union Army, George, a farmer living near Howard; Franklin, a 
 farmer living at Bath ; Mary L., wife of Oliver Wheeler, a farmer 
 of North Urbana ; Elizabeth A. ; and Samantha, deceased wife of 
 A. J. Read, of Mineola, Kansas. 
 
 Elizabeth Read attended the public school until she was 
 seventeen years old. She taught in the schools near her home 
 until 1865, then attended Oberlin (Ohio) College two years and 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 655 
 
 then taught in Illinois two years. Returning to Steuben county 
 she kept house for a brother eight years and then cared for her 
 parents during the rest of their lives, attending to the conduct of 
 their farm. She now carries on general farming and stock raising 
 on the homestead. 
 
 Miss Read is well known and highly esteemed in the com- 
 munity and is much interested in all movements for the common 
 welfare. She is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church and active in Sunday-school and missionary work. She 
 was a charter member of the W. C. T. U. at Kanona and is a past 
 president of the same. 
 
 William F. Schultz.— One of Hornell's substantial citizens, a 
 plumber by trade and a business man whose motto, "anything 
 worth doing at all is worth doing well, ' ' strictly lived up to, has 
 given him high standing in the business world, is William F. 
 Schultz. He is also prominent in lodge circles, his fraternal rela- 
 tions extending to several of the largest organizations. Mr. Schultz 
 is of German extraction, both of his parents having been born in 
 the Fatherland. William Schultz, the father, whose name the 
 subject received, was born in 1821, and the mother, Amelia Schultz, 
 was born in 1818. They were married in Germany, but shortly 
 after their union followed the example set by so many of those 
 with whom they had been associated and crossed the Atlantic to 
 claim their share of the rich opportunities offered by the New 
 World. This was in the early fifties. They located in Springfield, 
 Massachusetts, and the father resumed the business of tailoring, 
 which had been his vocation in the country of his birth, and he 
 followed this throughout the course of a long and active business 
 life. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, now arrived at a great old age, reside 
 in Syracuse, New York, where they enjoy in leisure the fruits of 
 a former thrift and industry. Although of such advanced years 
 both of them have excellent health. 
 
 William F. Schultz was born in Cohoes, New York, on Oc- 
 tober 8, 1865. He attended school at Buffalo and commenced 
 his business career at the age of thirteen, in which year he was 
 graduated from the grammar school. Having decided upon the 
 trade of plumbing as a life work he served a four years' apprentice- 
 ship and then engaged himself on salary. He continued under 
 this arrangement until 1900, when he decided to make an inde- 
 pendent venture and started out in business for himself in Hornell. 
 He is a fine workman and an astute business man, and he has 
 prospered in the most satisfactory manner. When to this is added 
 the fact that he is a right and honest business man, his value as a 
 citizen is told. He is a self made man and his present competence 
 has been derived from his own efforts, assisted by those of his wife. 
 He has been commissioned to fit the new schoolhouse of Hornell 
 with plumbing, both heat and light. 
 
 On the 12th day of June, 1896, Mr. Schultz was united m 
 marriage to Miss Sarah A. 'Heron, a daughter of Morris 
 
656 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 'Heron, the ceremony being solemnized at Boston, Ontario. They 
 have three children: Robert 0., born in 1900; Howard I., born 
 in 1903; and Frederick Neil, born in 1907. Mr. Schultz is the 
 friend of good education and his sons will, no doubt, receive the 
 best to be had. The eldest is now in the third grade and showa 
 much talent in music, frequently singing at entertainments. 
 
 Politically Mr. Sehultz votes the Republican ticket and he and 
 his wife attend the Presbyterian church. He is a member of the 
 great Masonic body, and belongs to the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows and the Maccabees. 
 
 Edward D. Cross.— It is a matter of satisfaction to be able to 
 record in this volume that so great a percentage of the native sons 
 of Steuben county have here found ample scope for successful ef- 
 fort in connection with normal lines of business, professional and 
 industrial enterprise and that they have never severed their al- 
 legiance to the county of their birth. Among the prominent and 
 honored representatives of this class is Hon. Edward D. Cross, who 
 was born in the house which he now occupies and who is one of 
 the representative farmers and grape-growers of the county. That 
 he commands a secure place in the confidence and esteem in the 
 community which has ever been his home needs no further voucher 
 than that offered by the fact that he has served eight terms as 
 supervisor of Pulteney township and has represented his county in 
 the state legislature. His attractive and well improved homestead 
 is located in Pulteney township and is one of the fine places of 
 the county. 
 
 Edward D. Cross was born in the old homestead in which he 
 now resides and the date of his nativity was February 4, 1852. 
 He is a son of Odell and Adelaide (Gibson) Cross. Odell Cross 
 was born in Westchester county, New York, in 1826 and in 1829 
 his parents removed to Steuben county, where he was reared to 
 maturity and where his marriage was solemnized. He became one 
 of the successful agriculturists and grape-growers of Pulteney 
 township, where he continued to reside until his death, as did also 
 his wife. They became the parents of three children, of whom 
 the subject of this review is the eldest. The father was a Republi- 
 can in his political proclivities and both he and his wife held mem- 
 bership in the Methodist church. He was well known in the coun- 
 ty that so long represented his home and here he ever commanded 
 unqualified esteem, having played well his part in connection with 
 the material development of the county. 
 
 Hon. Edward D. Cross was reared to maturity on the home- 
 stead which is his present place of abode and after availing him- 
 self of the advantages of the public schools of his native township 
 he continued his studies for some time in the graded schools of 
 Bath, this county. He has always been identified with the line 
 of industry under whose influence he was reared and in connec- 
 tion therewith he has achieved success worthy of the name. His 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 657 
 
 present homestead comprises sixty-five acres, of which thirty acres 
 are devoted to vineyard purposes, the remainder being 
 utilized for diversified agriculture. Mr. Cross is progressive in his 
 business associations and the substantial improvements and dis- 
 tinctive thrift that characterize his homestead well indicate the 
 excellent management he has given to the property. Like his 
 honored father he served as supervisor of Pulteney township, he 
 has taken a loyal and public-spirited interest in all that has touched 
 the welfare of the community and his political allegiance has ever 
 been given to the Republican party, in whose local ranks he has 
 been a prominent factor. In 1880 he was elected supervisor of his 
 native township and he continued incumbent of this office for eight 
 years, by successive elections. In 1898 he was elected to represent 
 Steuben county in the lower house of the state legislature in which 
 he served two terms and in which he made an admirable record. 
 He was assigned to membership on important committees of the 
 house and was a faithful and earnest worker in the deliberations 
 of both the floor and committee room. Since his retirement from 
 this office he has continued to take an active interest in political af- 
 fairs in his home county. Both he and his family hold member- 
 ship in the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 In the year 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cross to 
 Miss Sylvia McConnell, who was born and reared in Pulteney 
 township and who is a daughter of the late Mr. ilcConnell, a suc- 
 cessful agriculturist of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Cross have 
 two daughters,— Stella and Mary A. The elder daughter is now 
 engaged as a trained nurse in the state hospital at Willard and she 
 is a talented musician, having been graduated in music at Utica 
 Conservatory of Music. 
 
 John De Kay.— The De Kay family sprang from an ancient 
 family of Picardy, France. It was a Huguenot family. Members 
 of it came from Ghent, in the sixteenth century, and found refuge 
 in London, England, and later in Holland. The head of this 
 branch, one Guillaume de Kay, was one of the Lord Directors of the 
 Dutch West Indies Company. His son William, a native of Lon- 
 don, was the first of the line to come to America. He settled at 
 New Amsterdam (New York), in 1641. His descendants became 
 land owners, officials and men of weight and authority. One of 
 the descendants of Guillaume de Kay located in Sullivan county, 
 New York. There John De Kay was born March 5, 1832, a son of 
 Richard and Lizzie (Knapp) De Kay. In 1842 his father took 
 him, with other members of his family, to Chicago, Illinois. Thence, 
 they went to McHenry county, Illinois, where the elder De Kay 
 bought and settled on a farm. Here they remained till 1852, when 
 they moved to Minnesota, where the father of the family eventually 
 passed away. 
 
 John De Kay had few educational advantages, but he was 
 intellectually alert and gained a practical knowledge of the world 
 that stood him in good stead in the battle of life. He married 
 
658 HISTORY OF STEUBEjS" COUNTY 
 
 Eliza Ellsworth, a teacher, who was a most excellent wife. She 
 was of the Ellsworth family of Yates county. New York. She 
 died in 1904, having borne her husband seven children,— William 
 A., Amelia, Lewis F., Mary, John W., Henry E., and Ada. 
 Amelia is deceased and Mary married James Muldoon. Mr. De 
 Kay sold his interests in the West in 1903 and returned to Steu- 
 ben county and bought fifteen acres at Prattsburg. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics, deeply interested in the success of his party 
 and with an intelligent grasp of national events, but has never 
 devoted himself to political work. As a citizen he is eminently 
 public spirited and helpful. 
 
 James N. Robinson.— Steuben county claims the nativity of 
 this progressive young lawyer and man of affairs of Hornell. Mr. 
 Robinson was born in Canisteo September 14, 1881, a son of the 
 late Hon. Frank H. Robinson. The latter, a native of Cuba, Al- 
 legany county, New York, attained prominence there as a lawyer 
 and came to Steuben county about 1880. He was twice elected 
 county judge, was district attorney and was a candidate for the 
 office of attorney general of the state of New York. In all his 
 active years he was prominent in political affairs. As a Mason 
 he was no less conspicuous and popular and he was a member of 
 several other secret and beneficial societies. He married Miss 
 Jennie Nichols, a native of Limestone, Cattaraugus county. New 
 York, who survives him. They had five children, all of whom are 
 living. Charles P. has gained success as a lawyer in New York 
 city. F. Hurd is connected with the city engineer corps. Eliza- 
 beth is next in order of nativity. Robert is the youngest of the 
 family. 
 
 James N. Robinson, second in order of birth of the children of 
 Hon. Prank H. and Jennie (Nichols) Robinson, was prepared for 
 college at Dr. Stone's school at Cornwall-on-the Hudson and spent 
 three years at Yale, his studies being interrupted by his recall 
 home because of the illness of his father. He was admitted to the 
 bar in June, 1909, and took up his father's practice. He is a 
 Mason, an Elk and a Knight of the Maccabees. In politics he is, 
 as was his father, a Republican. At this time he is ably filling 
 the office of justice of the peace. 
 
 In 1908 Mr. Robinson married Miss Mary Schuyler Hurd, 
 daughter of Walton and Anna (Ide) Hurd, an attractive and win- 
 ning young woman who is doing much to aid him in his advance- 
 ment. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Steuben and in the Bank 
 of Canisteo, is secretary of the Maple City Co-operative Savings 
 and Loan Association of Hornell and secretary and treasurer of 
 the Hurd Real Estate Company of Hornell. His interests in the 
 real estate line are considerable. His political activities, as treas- 
 urer of the Republican City Committee and otherwise, have gained 
 him wide recognition as a man of potential usefulness and prom- 
 inence in a public way. In all things he is essentially helpful and 
 public spirited. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 659 
 
 Albert W. Barton.— The present chief of police of the thriv- 
 ing little city of Hammondsport, where he is also rendering effec- 
 tive service as street commissioner, is a native son of Steuben 
 county and a scion of one of its honored families. He was born in 
 Bath township, this county, on the 5th of November, 1862, and is 
 a son of Leonard and Caroline (Bateman) Barton, the former of 
 whom died in 1885, at the age of fifty-seven years, and the latter 
 of whom died in 1894, at the age of sixty-six years. Leonard Bar- 
 ton was born on the old homestead farm in Bath township and his 
 entire active career was one of close identification with agricultural 
 pursuits. He was a son of Jeremiah Barton, who came to Steu- 
 ben county and secured a tract of land in Bath township in the 
 pioneer days, there passing the residue of his life, as did also his 
 wife, whose maiden name was Ellen St. Clair. Mrs. Caroline 
 (Bateman) Barton was a daughter of Samuel and Caroline Bate- 
 man, who were born at Egypt, Monroe county. New York, whence 
 they came to Steuben county many years ago. Concerning the 
 children of Leonard and Caroline (Bateman) Barton the follow- 
 ing brief record is entered, — Ida is the wife of J. L. Davis, who is 
 a carpenter by trade and who resides at Dresden, Yates county; 
 Samuel is a successful carpenter and builder in the city of Roches- 
 ter; Jeremiah resides on the old homestead farm in Bath town- 
 ship ; Harley S. is a contractor and builder at Utica-, this state ; 
 William J. is a successful farmer in North -Dakota ; Allen H. is 
 engaged in farming in Avoea; Andrew J. is a farmer and rural 
 mail carrier in North Dakota; and Albert W., of this review, was 
 the eighth child in order of birth. 
 
 Albert Wheeler Barton was reared to the sturdy discipline 
 of the home farm and his early educational advantages were those 
 afforded in the distriiit schools. He was but twelve years of age 
 at the time of his father's death and thereafter he continued to be 
 associated with the work of the home farm until he had attained 
 to his legal majority. After his marriage be continued to be ac- 
 tively identified with agricultural pursuits in Howard township 
 until 1895, when he established his residence in Hammondsport, 
 where he was engaged in the grocery business for one year, at the 
 expiration of which he opened. a meat market. Later he was for 
 three years in the employ of the Lake Keuka Navigation Company 
 and since 1900 he has served as chief of police and street commis- 
 sioner of Hammondsport, offices in which the best evidence of his 
 effective administration ' is that given by his continuous incum- 
 bency. He is a stanch Republican in his .political proclivities and 
 while in Howard township he served two terms as township col- 
 lector, besides which he has been a delegate to the county conven- 
 tions of his party. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of 
 America, in which he is chief counsel of the Hammondsport or^ 
 ganization, and he also holds membership in the Improved Order- 
 of Redmen. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal church. In the year 1883, shortly after attaining 
 
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660 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 to his legal majority, Mr. Barton was united in marriage to Miss 
 Georgiana Sharp, who was born in Howard township, this county, 
 on the 4th of October, 1864, and who is a daughter of David and 
 Mary (Briscoe) Sharp, the father a native of Steuben county, and 
 the mother of England. The father showed his loyalty to the land 
 of his birth by his service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil 
 war and he died while in service. Mr. and Mrs. Barton have five 
 children: Bertha is the wife of Ard Dye, who is engaged in the 
 plumbing business at Hammondsport, and they have two chil- 
 dren,— Barton and Clifford; Blanche is the wife of Floyd Barnes, 
 who is engaged in the plumbing business at Corning, and their 
 only child, Ronald, died in infancy; and Evelyn, Martin Van 
 Buren and Le Roy are attending the public schools of Hammonds- 
 port. 
 
 Chaelbs M. Hunter, proprietor of a livery establishment and 
 a dealer in stock at Bath, New York, was born in Bath township, 
 Steuben county, July 16, 1845, a son of James and Catharine 
 (Velie) Hunter and grandson of Peter and Lucinda Hunter. The 
 Hunters have long been residents of the "Empire state." James 
 Hunter was born in Orange county. His surviving children, three 
 in number, are Giles, engaged in the hardware business at Rock- 
 ford, Illinois; Velie, a farmer near Bath, New York; and Charles 
 M., the immediate subject of this sketch. A son Henry is de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Charles M. Hunter was reared on a farm and remained with 
 his father, engaged in agricultural pursuits, until he attained 
 his twenty-second year. Then he went into the neighboring state 
 of Pennsylvania and found employment as a clerk in a dry goods 
 store, where he remained thus occupied for three years. About 
 this time he was married, and from Pennsylvania he went to Ohio, 
 where he was engaged in the mercantile business with his brother 
 Henry for several years, and from there he returned to Bath and 
 was eight years in the grocery business. He then turned his at- 
 tention to the livery business. In 1887, having disposed of his 
 livery establishment, he went to Colorado, and at Greeley, that 
 state, accepted a position as manager of an opera house. This 
 place he filled for six years. At the end of that time, returning to 
 his native state, he settled at Bath, where he has since conducted 
 a livery and dealt in horses and other stock. 
 
 Mrs. Hunter, formerly Miss Mary Cass, is a native of Bath 
 and a daughter of Daniel Cass, deceased, for many years a farmer 
 and stock dealer of Steuben county. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have 
 been given two children: Byron T., who married Maude Osgood 
 and who is engaged in the jewelry business at Greeley, Colorado ; 
 and Nellie, wife of Daniel McBride, cashier of the HoUoek Bank 
 at Bath. 
 
 Mr. Hunter has always been a stanch Republican. For years 
 he has been elected and served as constable of Bath, and he served 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 663 
 
 one term as chief of police. He and his family are members of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 Otto K. Stewart, M. D.— One of the brilliant and reliable 
 representatives of the medical profession, and still to be counted 
 among the younger generation, is Dr. Otto K. Stewart, a native of 
 Steuben county and especially deserving of representation in this 
 volume as one of the citizens who stand for the progress and up- 
 building of the community in which their interests are centered. 
 He has an interesting ancestry, the Stewart family having been 
 founded in this country by the great-grandfather of the subject, 
 one John Stewart, born in Ireland in 1775. Possibly inspired in 
 some occult manner in his cradle by the spirit of those stanch 
 Colonists who in the year following that of his nativity signed that 
 famous document, the Declaration of Independence, he at any 
 rate was in his youth drawn to cross the blue Atlantic in quest of 
 the freedom and opportunity of the new world. His wife, Jane 
 White, was also a native of the Emerald Isle, where she was bom in 
 1777. They were married in their native country in 1797 and 
 came to America in 1805. They stopped for a time in Albany, 
 New York, and then came on to Argyle in Washington county, 
 where they located, making it their home until the year 1818, the 
 head of the family making his livelihood and that of his wife and 
 children as a stone mason and bricklayer. The agricultural re- 
 sources of the state proved a temptation sufficiently great for him 
 to abandon his trade and he brought his goods, chattels and children 
 to Howard, Steuben county, where he bought a farm of one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, which was quite unimproved. He proceeded 
 to build a house and to clear his land, with the assistance of his 
 stalwart sons, and in course of time he canie to enjoy comfortable 
 fortunes, occasionally reverting to his trade, by which he earned 
 many an honest dollar. He reared a family of seven sons and two 
 daughters, by whom his name and his revered memory were per- 
 petuated. When about sixty-five years of age, a team ran away 
 with him and he received injuries which resulted in his death, this 
 worthy pioneer and emigrant being gathered to his fathers in 1842. 
 
 William Stewart, grandfather of the subject, was the fourth 
 son of John Stewart. He was educated in the public schools of 
 Towelsville and spent some of his early years engaged in farm 
 work. He was inclined toward the medical profession, and being 
 of that indefatigable type which knows no difficulty and stands 
 erect under tasks which would have dislocated the arm of Hercules, 
 he studied at night, working hard by day upon the farm. He 
 had reached the age of forty years before he was prepared for his 
 practice, which he inaugurated in Buena Vista, Steuben county. 
 New York. His was an active and useful life and he continued in 
 practice in the above-mentioned town until his death in 1898. He 
 was bom in 1816, at Argyle, and married Miss Susan L. Ford, 
 who was born in Howard, February 3, 1819. His widow survives 
 
664 IlISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 and is living, at the age of ninety-one years, at Buena Vista. The 
 grandmother of this estimable lady was a first cousin of President 
 William Henry Harrison. She and her husband were married 
 January 8, 1838, and reared a family of thirteen children, seven 
 of this "baker's dozen," being sons and six daughters, and eight 
 of the number being alive at the present day. 
 
 James H. Stewart, father of him whose name initiates this 
 review, is the ninth child born to the foregoing couple. His eyes 
 first opened to the light of day on March 4, 1853. He received 
 his educational discipline, of an elementary character, at the pub- 
 lie school of Howard, later entered Canisteo Academy, and began 
 his career as a farmer. This he continued for three years, and 
 then took up the musical instrument business, selling pianos, or- 
 gans and music. He has continued in this line ever since and 
 enjoys a thriving patronage, possessing that most enviable of 
 gifts, the confidence of his associates, and being modern and 
 progressive in his ideas. On December 14, 1875, he married Miss 
 Rachel J. Stevens, born March 25, 1855, a daughter of Joshua and 
 Hannah (Abbie) Stevens, and they have a family consisting of 
 two sons and two daughters. The former are both professional 
 men. Pauline Adelaide, the elder daughter,- has pronounced 
 musical talents and holds the position of musical instructor in the 
 Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, in which institution of learning 
 the younger daughter, Mabel Emma, is a student and a member 
 of the class of 1911, specializing in elocution and piano. The 
 son Harry is a Democrat in his affiliations. Politically Mr. J. H. 
 Stewart, the father, is a Republican, and he has given efficient 
 service in public office as a member of the school board, and the 
 village board. He was town clerk for several terms and town col- 
 lector for two. In his lodge relations Mr. Stewart is a member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons, in the 
 latter holding membership in Steuben Chapter. He and his fam- 
 ily are Baptist in religious conviction. 
 
 The subject. Otto K. Stewart, was born in Steuben county on 
 February 20, 1878, and he is the second son of his parents. The 
 Canisteo public schools afforded him his preliminary education 
 and later he entered the Canisteo Academy, from which he was 
 graduated. In the fall of that year, 1898, he matriculated in the 
 medical department of the University of Buffalo, from which in- 
 stitution he was graduated in the spring of 1902. After spending 
 one year as interne in the Erie County Hospital he came with high 
 recommendations to begin upon his career. He initiated his prac- 
 tice in 1903 and in the ensuing years has built up a large practice. 
 He is a hard worker and a constant student of his profession, 
 realizing to the fullest degree the importance of keeping in touch 
 with the latest discoveries in this most important of sciences. On 
 August 16, 1904, he married Miss Alice G. Valentine, a native of 
 Hamilton, Canada, born in the month of April, 1878, and a daugh- 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 665 
 
 ter of Charles and Alice (Arland) Valentine. Mrs. Stewart 
 previous to her marriage was a trained nurse. 
 
 Dr. Stewart has numerous affiliations, of professional and other 
 character. He is a member and president of the Hornell Medical 
 Society ; also president of the Steuben County Society ; a member of 
 the State Medical and Surgical Society; belongs to the American 
 Medical Association; the New York and New England Railway 
 Surgical Association and the Keuka Lake Medical Surgical Asso- 
 ciation. He is a Mason, belonging to the chapter at Hornell, and is 
 affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is examining 
 physician for several life insurance companies and surgeon for the 
 New York and Pennsylvania Railroad. He is Methodist in his 
 religious views, and gives his sympathy and support to the men 
 and measures of the "Grand Old Party." 
 
 I 
 
 Aaeon F. Williams, the leading hardware merchant of Corn- 
 ing, New York, is a son of one of the prominent and highly re- 
 spected citizens of Steuben county — Holland B. Williams, who 
 was- born at Prattsburg, Steuben county. New York, April 12, 
 1834, and died at Corning, April 30, 1889. He began life as a 
 clerk in a general store in his native town. Later he clerked at 
 Bath, in Steuben county. Returning to Prattsburg, he was ap- 
 pointed postmaster, and soon afterward bought a general store, 
 which he conducted in connection with the office. In 1873, after 
 being elected sheriff of Steuben county, he sold his mercantile 
 business. Previous to this time and afterward he was more or less 
 interested in produce business. In 1880, he purchased Mr. Goff's 
 interest in the dry goods store of GofE & Robinson, and continued 
 in that business until his death. . In the meantime, in 1887, he 
 built the Williams block ou Market street, Corning. After his 
 removal to Corning he was nominated for the state legislature but 
 was defeated, he being a Democrat and the county largely Republi- 
 can. In his religious faith he was a Presbyterian, and in this 
 faith reared his family. March 19, 1874, he married F. Amanda 
 Barber, who was born in Avon, Livingston county. New York, 
 June 15, 1843, daughter of Aaron and Lois (Stevens) Barber. 
 Aaron Barber was born in Onondaga county, New York, February 
 4, 1806, passed his life as a farmer and died June 4, 1869, 
 at Avon. Lois (Stevens) Barber was born June 30, 1807, and died 
 at Avon, September 17, 1903. Mrs. Williams has a brother, 
 Aaron, and a sister, Sirs. Jlary L. Jenks, both residents of Avon, 
 New York. To Holland B. Williams -and wife were born three 
 children, namely : Frank Barber Williams, born April 13, 1875, 
 died January 25, 1905; Aaron F., the subject of this sketch, and 
 Lois, born June 18, 1879. 
 
 Aaron F. Williams dates his birth in the town of Bath, Steu- 
 ben county, November 13, 1876. He was educated at Corning 
 Academy and the University of Rochester, in the latter institu- 
 tion spending two years. At the age of eighteen he began his 
 
666 BISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 business career as an employe in his uncle's meat market at Corn- 
 ing, where he remained about two years. Then he succeeded his 
 brother in the firm of Frost & Williams, hardware dealers, and 
 was associated in business with Mr. Frost until July 1, 1904, when 
 he purchased Mr. Frost's interest, and has since continued alone. 
 Mr. Williams is an enterprising young man, progressive and 
 up-to-date in whatever he undertakes, and the success he has 
 achieved is due to his individual efforts, which have always been 
 backed by integrity and high purpose. He is a lover of sports, 
 especially of the turf, and has for years been identified with the 
 prominent horsemen of the country, he himself owning many fine 
 harness horses. Fraternally, he is a member of the Order of Elks, 
 and, politically, like his father before him, he is Democratic. 
 
 Henry Davidson.— At this juncture attention is directed to a 
 brief review of the career of the present efficient and popular super- 
 intendent of the state fish hatchery at Bath, Steuben county. Mr. 
 Davidson has shown marked ability in the handling of the affairs 
 of this interesting business and under his administration distinc- 
 tive progress has been made. 
 
 Henry Davidson was born at White Lake, Oneida county. 
 New York, on the 30th of December, 1866, and is a son of John 
 and Jane (Edgar) Davidson. John Davidson was born in Scot- 
 land and was a hoy at the time of his parents' emigration to 
 America. He was a son of John and Elizabeth Davidson, who 
 settled in the vicinity of the city of Albany, where John Davidson, 
 Sr., engaged in farming and gardening for a time. He then re- 
 moved to White Lake, Oneida county, where both he and his wife 
 passed the residue of their lives. John Davidson, Jr., father of 
 him whose name initiates this review, was reared to the sturdy 
 discipline of the farm and he continued to be actively identified 
 with agricultural pursuits and the lumber business for many 
 years. He passed the closing years of his life at White Lake, 
 where he died in 1892, at the age of seventy-four years. He was 
 a stanch Kepublican in his political allegiance and was called 
 upon to serve in a number of local offices of public trust,— incum- 
 bencies that well indicate the high esteem in which he was held 
 in his home community. He was a zealous member of the Presby- 
 terian church, as is also his widow, who is now a resident of White 
 Lake, and who has attained to the venerable age of eighty-six 
 years. Of the eight children the sub.ject of this sketch is the 
 youngest; John is a railway engineer by vocation and resides at 
 Schenectady; William is engaged in farming at White Lake, 
 Oneida county; Samuel is a successful farmer of Lafayette town- 
 ship, Onondaga county; David is a carpenter by trade and re- 
 sides in the city of Syracuse; James is a farmer in White Lake 
 township, Oneida county; Robert is a railway engineer and re- 
 sides at Schenectady and George is a successful carpenter and 
 builder at Oswego, this state. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEjST COUNTY 667 
 
 Henry Davidson passed his boyhood days on the home farm 
 and waxed strong- in mental and physical powers, through the 
 invigorating- discipline involved. He continued to attend the 
 public schools of his native county until he was sixteen years of 
 age and thereafter was identified with agricultural pursuits until 
 he attained to the age of twenty-one years. He then learned the 
 carpenter's trade, to which he devoted his attention until January, 
 1895, when he established a private fish hatchery at Fulton Chain, 
 Herkimer county, where he remained four years. For the en- 
 suing three years he followed the same line of enterprise in Frank- 
 lin county and then he was transferred to the state fish hatchery at 
 Fulton Chain, where he remained four years. He then, in 1905, 
 came to Bath, where he has since been superintendent of the well 
 equipped fish hatchery here conducted under the auspices of the 
 state. In polities Mr. Davidson gives his allegiance to the Repub- 
 lican party and he has been an active worker in its local ranks, 
 though the only public ^office of which he has been incumbent is 
 that of notary public. 
 
 Chauistcey G. Hubbaed, M. D., who has a wide and valuable 
 acquaintance throughout Steuben county, was born in Cameron, 
 that county, October 16, 1845. Chauncey P. Hubbard, his father, 
 was a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, born in 1803. He came 
 to the county in 1828, settled in WoodhuU and became success- 
 ful and well known as a pioneer farmer and lumberman. He 
 died at Fredonia, New York, in 1894. Nathan Hubbard, father 
 of Chauncey P. Hubbard and grandfather of Chauncey G. Hub- 
 bard, was born near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1775, became a 
 merchant and lumberman, moved to Middlebury, Vermont, in 1803 
 and died there. He was a son of Zadoc Hubbard, who was born 
 in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1749, and Zadoc Hubbard was a 
 son of Captain Daniel Hubbard, born in 1714, who died at Pitts- 
 field, Massachusetts. Captain Hubbard had four sons in the 
 patriot service. Dr. Hubbard is descended from ancestors who 
 came over from England on the Mayflower. Among his forbears 
 were William Brewster and Eichard Warren. 
 
 Chauncey P. Hubbard married Mary Wells, a native of 
 Lenox, Massachusetts, daughter of Stephen and Lois (Hubbard) 
 Wells. Some of her ancestors fought for the cause of the Colonies 
 in the Revolutionary war. She, too, was of English descent. 
 She died in 1896, aged ninety-two years. She bore her husband 
 nine children, seven of whom lived to manhood and womanhood 
 and three of whom were living in 1910. Mrs. Emily Hubbard 
 lives at Syracuse, New York. Alma Rose Hubbard lives at 
 Fredonia, New York. Chauncey G., the immediate subject of this 
 notice, was the seventh of his parents' children in order of nativ- 
 ity. He spent his boyhood days in Cameron, and was educated 
 in schools there and at Corning, Steuben county; at Alfred Uni- 
 versity, Alfred, Allegany county, and at the New York Univer- 
 
668 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 eity Medical College. He was graduated from the last named 
 institution in 1871, and after spending a year as a physician in 
 the Blackwell's Island asylum for the insane he came in 1872 to 
 Hornell, where he has practiced his profession ever since and is 
 referred to often as the oldest active physician in the city in 
 point of period of continuous service. He is a member of the 
 Steuben County Medical Society. 
 
 In 1880 Doctor Hubbard married Miss Florence N. Prentice, 
 of Jasper, Steuben county, New York, and they have two sons— 
 Chauncey P., of Avon, Livingston county. New York; and Harold 
 C, of Ithaca, New York. The Doctor is a member and an elder of 
 the Presbyterian church. His brother. Rev. Albert Hubbard, was 
 a missionary in Turkey and died there in 1889, after a residence 
 there of twenty-six years. Theodore S. Hubbard, another of the 
 Doctor's brothers, became prominent as a nurseryman and died in 
 1906. He was a liberal supporter of religious and temperance 
 work and his gifts to charities amounted to one hundred thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 Dr. Edith Kimball Neel, of Hammondsport, has the dis- 
 tinction of being the only woman member of the Steuben County 
 Medical Society. Her undoubted ability as a physician and her 
 usefulness to the community have made her an ornament to her 
 profession and a credit to her sex. She is a native of the state of 
 New York, her birth having occurred at Deansboro, Oneida county, 
 February 22, 1861. Her father was Charles W. Kimball, who 
 was born at Manlius, New York, February 24, 1824, and died 
 February 25, 1907. He was a farmer by occupation and he chose 
 as his wife, Jane Waterman, also of Oneida county, where she 
 was born on Christmas day in the year 1825. Dr. Neel's grand- 
 parents on the maternal side were Joseph and Polly (Ritter) 
 Waterman and on the paternal side they were Nathaniel and 
 Emma (King) Kimball. She is of fine American stock which in- 
 cludes good citizens, soldiers and patriots. Of the children of 
 Charles W. and Jane (Waterman) Kimball we are enabled to 
 write as follows: Frances L. is at the old Kimball home; Mary 
 Ella is the wife of Robert Hare, a farmer, residing at Perry, New 
 York. Alice J. became the wife of T. Hare and is deceased; 
 Charles N. an architect lives at Attica, New York; Dr. Neel is 
 next in order of nativity; William and Willis, twins, reside at 
 Linden, New York, where both are engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits; Edwin J., the youngest member of this large family has 
 not been heard from for fifteen years. His last residence was 
 Stockton, California. 
 
 Edith Kimball spent his girlhood amid the scenes upon which 
 her eyes first opened to the light of day, and attended the public 
 schools until her fourteenth year. She then attended the select 
 school of Emily Thrall, Batavia, New York, for about a year, 
 Middlebury Academy for two years, and then began upon a career 
 
HISTORY OP •STEUBEN COUNTY 669 
 
 as a school teacher, her enlightened endeavors in that line cover- 
 ing a period of nearly seven years, nearly two years of that time, 
 however, being devoted to study in a normal school. Being natur- 
 ally gifted for dealing with the ills which afflict mankind, she 
 abandoned her pedagogical labors and entered a training school 
 for nurses at Rochester, New York. She was graduated as a 
 trained nurse from Rochester City Hospital in 1889 and chose 
 Buffalo and Rochester as promising fields for her labor. There 
 she remained for fifteen years, manifesting such unusual ability 
 and executive capacity that she was elevated to the position of 
 head nurse at the Fitch Accident Hospital of that city. Her am- 
 bitions embraced projects of greater scope, however, and with 
 a view to becoming a member of the medical profession she de- 
 voted some time to the study of medicine and surgery at the Uni- 
 versity of Buffalo Medical Department. A few years after her 
 marriage in 1898 she removed to Detroit, where she attended the 
 classes of the Detroit Homeopathic Medical College for two years, 
 graduating from that institution in 1906. Coming to Hammonds- 
 port soon afterward, she opened an office here and has won a suc- 
 cess of which any physician in the town could well be proud. 
 She is one of those who believe it no less than a crime not to keep 
 abreast of this constantly advancing science and she never slum- 
 bers nor sleeps in the matter of making herself mistress of its 
 newest discoveries. Not only is she a prominent member of the 
 Steuben County Medical Society, but she also is affiliated with the 
 Lake Keuka Medical Association and the Southern Tier Homeo- 
 pathic Society. She has made a specialty of the diseases of do- 
 mestic animals, has made some world-renowned discoveries in 
 this department and is the author of a popular book called, ' ' Cats, 
 How to Treat Them When 111." Her professional duties, im- 
 portant thought they may be, do not prevent her keeping in touch 
 with the many-sided life of the community. She is a member 
 of the Presbyterian church, a leader in woman's mission work 
 and is identified with the Masonic order of the Eastern Star. 
 
 On May 25, 1898, she was united in marriage to James Neel, 
 who was born near Buffalo, New York. The year of his birth was 
 1,837 and he was the son of Robert and Lucinda (Mc Arthur) Neel. 
 After a long career as a railroad man he adopted a mercantile 
 career, his business being located at Kanona, New York, and he 
 subsequently became bookkeeper for the Urbana Wine Cellar and 
 later manager of the concern, which position he held at the time 
 of his demise, April 7, 1908. He was a man of affairs and of fine 
 business ability. His interests were of broad scope and importance 
 and included the treasurership of the American Wine Growers' 
 Association and a directorship in the Hammondsport Bank. An 
 ardent Republican and a tireless worker for the success of his party 
 he was well known for this reason alone and for thirty years 
 served as postmaster of Urbana. As a citizen lie was interested 
 in the success of good government, participating in the political 
 
670 HISTOEY OF STEU-BEN COUNTY 
 
 bouts of Ms party and aiding in the promotion of business and 
 social harmony by a straightforward course as a citizen. He was 
 high in the councils of the Masonic order, having passed all the 
 chairs in his lodge and taken all the degrees, including that of the 
 Mystic Shrine. His death in the prime of his usefulness was 
 regarded as a general calamity. Since her marriage. Dr. Neel has 
 been known as Dr. Edith Kimball Neel, and the name is one which 
 is well and favorably known throughout the length and breadth 
 of Steuben county. 
 
 Hon. William J. Tully is one of the best known members of 
 the bar of his native commonwealth and he has brought to his 
 profession great energy and resourcefulness, qualities that he has 
 also called into effective action in connection with various business 
 enterprises of important order. He gave distinguished service 
 as a member of the state senate and has held various public offices 
 of more localized character. He has been engaged in the practice 
 of his profession in New York city since 1908 and he is general 
 solicitor of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a note- 
 worthy preferment and one which implies definite recognition of 
 his splendid professional abilities. Concerning him the follow- 
 ing statements are made in a bulletin issued by the co-operative 
 pi-ess: "The career of Hon. William J. Tully is marked by a 
 progression of successful business undertakings. He is hardly 
 forty years of age. He looks much younger. He has been, prac- 
 ticing law since his twenty-second year. Since that time he 
 has held important public office in three different positions, has 
 practiced law with success in two localities and now he is occupied 
 in one of the most important positions in the life insurance in- 
 dustry in this country. In October, 1909, Mr. Tully was chosen 
 to take charge of the newly created office of general solicitor of 
 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company." 
 
 William J. Tully was born at Corning, Steuben county. New 
 York, on the 1st of October, 1870, and is a son of Joseph J. 
 and Sarah (Byers) Tully, the former of whom was identified with 
 the Corning Glass Works from the time of the foundation of this 
 important industrial enterprise until his death, forty-one years 
 later, in June, 1907. William J. Tully is indebted to the public 
 schools of his native town and of the city of Brooklyn for his 
 earlier educational training and he was graduated in public school 
 No. 15 in Brooklyn as a member of the class of 1885. Later he 
 continued his higher studies in the Corning Free Academy, in 
 which institution he was graduated in the class of 188. His next 
 definite action was to become a student in the Brooklyn Polytechnic 
 Institute, in which he prepared himself for entrance to Columbia 
 University. In preparation for the work of his chosen profession 
 Mr. Tully was matriculated in the New York Law School, in which 
 he completed the prescribed course and in which he was grad- 
 uated as a member of the class of 1892, duly receiving his degree 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 671 
 
 of Bachelor of Laws and being admitted to the bar of his native 
 state, in the city of Buffalo, in the following year. Data con- 
 cerning further points in his professional and business career have 
 been succinctly given in the article from which the former quota- 
 tion was made and recourse is therefore taken to the same, though 
 slight paraphrase is made. 
 
 Naturally Mr. TuUy went back to his home town to initiate 
 the practice of law and in the spring of 1894 he was elected re- 
 corder of Corning. While incumbent of this office the law firm 
 of MUls & TuUy was organized and after two years of service as 
 recorder he declined a renomination and renewed the practice of 
 law. His partnership with Mr. Mills was dissolved only by the 
 death of the latter and thereafter he was for some time engaged 
 in practice in an individual way. In 1899 he organized the firm 
 of Page, TuUy & Ferris, with which substantial law firm he con- 
 tinued to be actively identified for seven years. In 1902 Mr. TuUy 
 was again induced to accept public office, being elected to the 
 board of supervisors of Steuben county. He was immediately 
 made chairman of that board and was afterward renominated by 
 both political parties, again serving as chairman of the board. He 
 resigned this position to enter the contest for state senator, to 
 which office he was elected in 1904. He made himself felt in the 
 senate during his first term, and in July, 1905, he had the dis- 
 tinction of being made a member of the famous special committee, 
 which conducted investigations into the management of the vari- 
 ous life insurance companies in New York city. He was re-elected 
 to the senate in 1906 and served until 1908, when he resigned to 
 enter upon the practice of law in New York city. In October of 
 the same year he was appointed to the position of attorney to the 
 Association of Life Insurance Presidents, an organization dis- 
 tinguished by the membership of the late Grover Cleveland, who 
 was its head up to the time of his death. In June, 1909, there 
 came consistent recognition of his ability and services when Alfred 
 University conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of 
 Laws. Mr. TuUy is identified with the Bar Association of New 
 York city and also the New York County Lawyers' Association. 
 He is a member of the Coming Club of his native town, as well 
 as the Fort Orange Club of Albany, and the Calumet, Manhattan 
 and Republican Clubs of New York city. He is a member of 
 the directorate of each the Corning & Painted Post Street Railway 
 Company, the Elmira, Corning & Waverly Railroad Company 
 and the Ephraim Creek Coal & Coke Company. He is an able 
 and effective exponent of the principles and policies for which 
 the Republican party stands sponsor and he has done much to 
 further its interests in various campaigns. 
 
 On the 5th of October, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. TuUy to Miss Clara jNIabel Houghton, of Corning, and though 
 his business interests are largely centered in New York the family 
 home is still maintained at Corning. Mr. and Mrs. TuUy have 
 two children : Alice Bigelow TuUy and Marion Gordon TuUy. 
 
672 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Edwin C. Cook.— In the thriving little city of Bath resides a 
 well known and highly honored citizen of Steuben county with 
 whose annals the family name has been identified for nearly three- 
 quarters of a century. He has been concerned with important in- 
 terests in his native county, including the banking business, and 
 now, venerable in years, he is living virtually retired, enjoying the 
 due reward of former years of earnest toil and endeavor. 
 
 Edwin C. Cook was born at Liberty Corners, this county, on 
 the 12th of October, 1838, and the place of his ■ nativity is now 
 known as Cohocton. His father. Constant Cook, was born in 
 Warren, Herkimer county. New York, in the year 1797, and he 
 died at Bath, Steuben county, in 1874. Constant Cook married 
 Miss Maria Whitney, who was born at Parishill, Oneida county, 
 New York, in 1798, and who died at Bath, Steuben county, on the 
 6th of September, in 1889, and thus she survived her honored hus- 
 band by a decade and a half. Their marriage was solemnized at 
 Monticello, Herkimer county, New York, on Christmas Eve of the 
 year 1819, and they became the parents of the following children, 
 all of whom are deceased except the subject of this review, who 
 is the youngest of the number. The first child died at birth; 
 Harriet Jane was three years of age at the time of her death; 
 Mary Jane died at the age of four years; John was sixteen years 
 of age at the time of his demise ; Abigail Clarissa, who became the 
 wife of Lansing Hodgeman, died in 1906, at the venerable age of 
 eighty-three years, and Henry Harvey died in 1905, at the age of 
 eighty-three years. 
 
 Constant Cook learned the trade of blacksmith in his youth 
 and in 1820, in company with his father, Philip Cook, who was 
 familiarly known as 'Squire Cook, came to Steuben county and 
 located at a point two and a half miles distant from Cohocton. 
 Here Philip Cook purchased four hundred acres of land, for which 
 he paid fifty cents per acre. He was also a blacksmith by trade 
 and he and his son Constant erected a primitive shop on the farm, 
 where they found ample demand \ipon their services as black- 
 smiths, while they also gave their attention to the reclamation of 
 the farm. It is worthy of note that on the day that he was mar- 
 ried Constant Cook made the extraordinary record of shoeing 
 eight horses. He and his father cleared and brought under cul- 
 tivation more than two hundred acres of their land and the old 
 homestead continued in the possession of the family until 1907. 
 Philip Cook was originally a Democrat in his political allegiance 
 but later gave his support to the Whig party, of which his son 
 Constant became a stanch adherent, thus continuing until the 
 organization of the Republican party, when he transferred his 
 allegiance to the latter. Constant Cook continued to reside on the 
 pioneer homestead until 1822, when he located in the village of 
 Liberty Corners (now Cohocton), where he erected a tavern of the 
 type common to the locality and period. Upon establishing his 
 home in the little village he there purchased about thirty acres of 
 
HISTOIJY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 673 
 
 land and he brought to his new home but a limited amount of 
 household goods, besides which he had a pair of steers and bobbed- 
 sled. He achieved success and definite popularity as an innkeeper 
 and he was associated with John McGee in contracting for the 
 transportation of United States mail, in which line their opera- 
 tions were of wide scope. They operated an extensive stage line 
 in connection with which they owned at one time more than five 
 hundred horses and one hundred stage coaches. They were also 
 associated in contracting in connection with the construction of 
 the Erie canal and they were the largest contractors in the con- 
 struction of the Erie Railroad. On the 23d of March, 1843, Con- 
 stant Cook sold his popular tavern in Liberty Corners and re- 
 moved to Bath, having been previously elected to the office of 
 county judge. Prior to this time he had served as an associate 
 judge on the bench of the county court. Upon coming to Bath 
 Constant Cook first located in the vicinity of the present Erie 
 railroad station and prior to this time he has purchased the prop- 
 erty upon which is located the attractive homestead of his son, 
 Edwin C, whose name initiates this review. Shortly after estab- 
 lishing his home at Bath, Judge Cook became associated with nine 
 others in the organization of the Steuben County Bank, of which 
 he became one of the original directors. He was an influential 
 factor in the development and upbuilding of Steuben county and 
 as a canal and railroad contractor he did much to further the 
 advancement of this and other sections of the state. At the lime 
 of his death he was the owner of a valuable landed estate of three 
 hundred and twenty-six acres. Both he and his wife were devoixt 
 communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church and they were 
 numbered among the early members of the parish of St. Thomas' 
 church at Bath. Constant Cook was a man of fine mentality and 
 sterling integi-ity and his name is consistently given place on the 
 roster of the honored pioneers of Steuben county. He was m a 
 significant sense the architect of his own fortune, and his success, 
 which was large, was won by worthy means so that upon his en- 
 tire record there rests no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. 
 An anecdote worthy of perpetuation in connection with his career 
 is here given. At the time when he was a youth and had uuap- 
 preciable financial resources he purchased a horse, for which he 
 gave his note for eighty dollars payable at the expiration of six 
 months. Just before this note became due he was making his way 
 on foot from Bath of Cohocton and was overtaken by a man who 
 invited him to ride in his vehicle. This man asked him if he jjnew 
 Constant Cook and whether or not he was "good pay." Constant 
 Cook, who had a distinctive impediment in his speech, replied to his 
 interrogation by stating that the subject of the same was "p-p-prop- 
 erty poor but honest. ' ' After some time the stranger said he had a 
 note against Mr. Cook for eighty dollars and, with true business 
 sagacity, Mr. Cook finally purchased this note for the sum of 
 fifty dollars. On another occasion 'Squire Cook had placed a man 
 
674 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in jail for debt in accordance with the old-time laws. In order 
 to keep the debtor in duress after the expiration of sixty days it 
 was necessary for him to defray the expenses of his board, as 
 otherwise the prisoner would be released. Under these conditions 
 'Squire Cook went to the jail and had an interview with his debtor, 
 whom he informed would be given his release, but the debtor re- 
 fused to accept this adjustment of the case unless 'Squire Cook 
 would provide for him a conveyance by which he might have 
 transportation to Liberty Corners. It was fully agreed that such 
 conveyance would be supplied, but under the primitive conditions 
 involved in the utilization of the horse which should be ridden, 
 under the old-time plan of "ride and tie,"— that is, 'Squire Cook 
 agreed that he would ride the first half mile, tie the horse and 
 then proceed on foot. When the debtor should arrive at the point 
 where the horse was tied the latter party to the agreement would 
 mount the horse and proceed to a point beyond that reached by 
 Mr. Cook with the idea of carrying out this plan throughout the 
 journey. The result of the agreement between the two was that 
 'Squire Cook rode the first half mile and then tied the horse, 
 trusting to the honesty of purpose of his coadjutor in this unique 
 enterprise. However, there was a manifest lack of fealty on the 
 part of the debtor from the fact that when he came to the point 
 where he was to mount the horse he made use of the same and 
 continued his journey in an uninterrupted way to his destination, 
 thus compelling the father of the subject of this review to make 
 the remainder of the journey on foot. 
 
 Edwin C. Cook was afforded the advantages of the Haverling 
 Union School, at Utica, and thereafter attended for one year a 
 private school conducted by Dr. Prentice, a successful and popular 
 educator of his day. Thereafter he was for two years a student 
 in a private school at Springside, after which he continued his 
 studies for five years at Walnut Hill school, in Geneva, Ontario 
 county. He was one of the first pupils in the Haverling school, 
 at Bath, an institution that has given instruction to many of the 
 native sons of Steuben county, and after completing his school 
 work in 1857 he assumed a position in the Bank of Bath, where, 
 as he states, he began his service in the dignified capacity of floor 
 sweeper. He devoted himself with all of assiduity and care to his 
 assigned duties and gradually won advancement to positions of 
 increasing trust and responsibility, finally becoming assistant 
 cashier. In 1862 when this bank was reorganized as the National 
 Bank he was made assistant cashier of the same and he continued 
 one of its valued executives for many years, having been pro- 
 moted to the office of cashier in 1896 and having retained this 
 incumbency until 1898, when the institution went into voluntary 
 liquidation and resigned its charter. Mr. Cook became one of the 
 principal stockholders of this bank, long known as the First Na- 
 tional Bank, and was a director of the same from the time of its 
 incorporation under the National Bank law until it closed its busi- 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTV vr.: 
 
 ness. Since that time he has lived virtually retired in his beautiful 
 home on Morris street. This attractive residence is located on a 
 tract of thirty acres of land, is surrounded by a high stone fence 
 and the grounds are beautified by fine hardwood forest trees and 
 and effective system of landscape gardening, making it one of the 
 most delightful homes of Steuben county. Mr. Cook has ever 
 shown a loyal interest in all that has touched the welfare of his 
 home town and coiuitj'' and as a citizen is essentially loyal and 
 public-spirited. In politics he has ever accorded a stanch allegi- 
 ance to the Republican party and his popularity in connection 
 with political affairs will be readily appreciated when it is stated 
 that he has served for three terms as president of the village and 
 as a member of its board of trustees for two terms. He is affiliated 
 with various fraternal and social organizations of representative 
 character and is a communicant of St. Thomas' church, Protestant 
 Episcopal, of which his wife was likewise a zealous communicant. 
 On the 27th of October, 1863, was solemnized the marriage 
 of Mr. Cook to Miss Mary Adelaide De Witt, who was born in 
 Dundee, New York, and who was a daughter of Frederick S. and 
 Martha W. (Hinckley) De Witt, both of whom were long repre- 
 sentative citizens of Rochester. Mrs. Cook was summoned to the 
 life eternal on the 14th of October, 1907 ; she was a woman of 
 most gracious personality and her memory is revered by all who 
 came within the sphere of her gentle influence. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Cook became the parents of one daughter, who died at the age of 
 nine months. 
 
 Lorenzo Davison.— The late Lorenzo Davison, who died at 
 his home in the village of Canisteo on the 30th of June, 1900, 
 established his residence in Steuben county more than half a cen- 
 tury ago, and it was given him to wield appreciable influence in 
 connection with the civic and material upbuilding of the county, 
 the while his strong, purposeful and sterling character gave to 
 him a secure hold upon the confidence and regard of all with 
 whom he came in contact. He is remembered as one of the essen- 
 tially representative business men of Canisteo and it is most con- 
 sonant that in this volume be incorporated a brief tribute to his 
 memory. 
 
 Lorenzo Davison, the third in order of birth of a family of 
 five sons and five daughters, was born in Tyrone township, Schuy- 
 ler county, New York, on the 23d of March, 1824, and was a son 
 of Lewis and Jemima (Gannon) Davison, the former of whom 
 was born and reared in the state of New Jersey and the latter in 
 Orange county. New York, whence she accompanied her parents 
 on their removal to Schuyler county, where her marriage to Lewis 
 Davison was solemnized. As a young man Lewis Davison moved 
 from his native state to Schuyler county, where he secured a tract 
 of wild land and reclaimed therefrom a productive farm. Upon 
 this old homestead in Tyrone township he reared his large family 
 
678 HISTORY OF STEUBEN' COUXTY 
 
 of children and there both he and his devoted wife continued to 
 reside until they were summon,ed to eternal rest. They were num- 
 bered among the pioneers of Schuyler county and lived up to the 
 full tension of hardships and privations incidental to the pioneer 
 epoch in that now opulent section of the old Empire state. Loren- 
 zo Davison was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and 
 early began to assist in its arduous work, in the meanwhile at- 
 tending the somewhat primitive schools of the locality and period, 
 principally during the winter terms, when his aid was not re- 
 quired in connection with the work of the farm. To secure such 
 educational advantages as were available he was compelled to 
 walk a long distance over rough and hilly roads in order to pursue 
 his studies in the little pioneer school house, but his alert mentality 
 and excellent powers of observation and absorption enabled him 
 to overcome in later years the handicap of the early days, the 
 result being that he became a man of broad mental ken and 
 mature judgment. He continued to remain at the parental home 
 until he had attained to his legal majority and he then entered 
 upon "an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner, in 
 which he became a skillful workman and to which he devoted his 
 attention for a period of six years. 
 
 In the spring of 1851 Mr. Davison removed to Canisteo, Steu- 
 ben county, where he at once erected a large shingle and planing 
 mill, which was operated by steam and which was located on the 
 banks of the Canisteo Eiver, near the site of the present depot of 
 the Erie Railroad. This was the first planing mill erected in Steu- 
 ben county west of Corning, and after it had been operated suc- 
 cessfully for four years it was destroyed by fire. Mr. Davison 
 was not disheartened by this misfortune, but promptly erected 
 and equipped a new mill on the same site. In 1862 he formed a 
 copartnership with the late L. A. Waldo and they engaged in the 
 lumber, stave, shingle and general merchandise business upon a 
 comprehensive scale. They owned and operated three mills, lo- 
 cated at diflferent points in Steuben county, and at Canisteo they 
 conducted a large and well equipped general store. The firm of 
 Waldo & Davison continued operations for a period of eighteen 
 years, at the expiration of which the partnership was dissolved. 
 Mr. Davison thereafter continued in the lumber and mercantile 
 business in an individual way, and he did not abate his activities 
 until the last few years of his long, honorable and useful life. In 
 addition to his business interests he was prominently concerned 
 with the agricultural industry, in connection with which he owned 
 a valuable farm about one mile east of the village of Canisteo, in 
 the fertile Canisteo valley. 
 
 In politics Mr. Davison originally gave his allegiance to the 
 Whig party, but he cast in his lot with the Republican party at 
 the time of its organization and ever afterward continued a zealous 
 supporter of its principles and policies. He showed a deep but 
 quiet interest in public affairs and was admirably fortified in his 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBE^ST COUNTY 679 
 
 opinions as to political affairs. Though progressive and public- 
 spirited in his attitude as a citizen he had naught of desire for 
 public office, but in 1873 he yielded to the importunities of his 
 fellow citizens and consented to become a candidate for the office 
 of president of the village of Canisteo, to which position he was 
 elected by a majority that gave effective voucher for the esteem 
 and confidence reposed in him in the community that so long repre- 
 sented his home. He gave a businesslike administration as chief 
 executive of the village, but could not be induced to serve a second 
 term. He was affiliated with Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, Free 
 & Accepted Masons, from the year 1862 until his death, and was 
 deeply appreciative of the noble teachings of this time-honored 
 fraternal order. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church 
 of Canisteo in 1868, and ever afterward was one of its most zealous 
 and consistent adherents, as was also his cherished and devoted 
 wife. He was president of the Canisteo Cemetery Association for 
 a number of years and was ever ready to extend his aid to those 
 "in any way afflicted, in mind, body or estate." His heart was 
 attuned to sympathy and his impulses were ever generous and 
 kindly. He gave liberally of his lai^gess to worthy charitable and 
 benevolent causes, and also contributed to the support of enter- 
 prises and measures tending to advance the social and material 
 well-being of the community. 
 
 On the 3d of October, 1850, Mr. Davison led to the hymeneal 
 altar Miss Louise Jackson, daughter of Josiah and Betsey Jack- 
 son, of Schuyler county, this state, and the two children -of this 
 union died in infancy. Mrs. Davison was summoned to the life 
 eternal on the 23d of June, 1855. 
 
 On the 23d of November, 1856, was solemnized the marriage 
 of Mr. Davison to Miss Martha Carter, who was born in Schoharie 
 county, New York, and who was a- daughter of Rev. Chauncey 
 and Maria (Plough) Carter, who were at the time residents of 
 Canisteo. The mother is still living, making her home with her 
 son, Milton W., at Canisteo. Mr. and Mrs. Davison became the 
 parents of five children, whose names and respective dates of birth 
 are here noted: Ida L., August 26, 1^59; George A., October 1, 
 1861; Hiland T., March 25, 1863; Ella M., June 14, 1865, and 
 Milton W., July 2, 1867. All of the children are living except 
 George A., who died June 1, 1862, and Hiland T., who died De- 
 cember 4, 1864. 
 
 j 
 
 Waldo Wickham Willaed, of the law firm of Willard and 
 Rogers, Corning, New York, was born in Tioga, Pennsylvania, 
 February 25, 1865. In his youth he had excellent educational ad- 
 vantages. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New 
 Hampshire, where he graduated in 1883. Then he matriculated 
 at Harvard University. He completed his classical course at Har- 
 vard in 1887, and in 1891 received his degree from the Harvard 
 Law School. That same year he was admitted to the bar in New 
 
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680 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 York city, and there entered upon the practice of his profession, 
 which he continued at that place for five years. Coming to Corn- 
 ing in 1896 he opened an office and practiced alone until 1909, 
 when he formed a partnership with Mr. Rogers, under the firm 
 name of Willard & Rogers. 
 
 Politically Mr. Willard is a Republican, and since becoming 
 identified with Corning has filled the office of city attorney. He 
 was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and the D. K. E. at 
 Harvard. He is unmarried. 
 
 William S. Shults, merchant and town collector, Bath, Steu- 
 ben county, New York, was born at Bath, August 30, 1875, a son 
 of Arnold and Ella (Gray) Shults. His father is living, retired 
 from business. His mother died in 1877. Mr. Shults married for 
 his second wife Anna Buck, v/ho is also dead. His present wife 
 was Rachel Adams. He is now in his seventieth year. By his 
 first marriage he had children (besides William S., the immediate 
 subject of this notice), who were named as follows in the order 
 of their nativity: Clara, Fanny, Frank and Lydia. Clara is the 
 wife of George Little, of Bath. Fanny lives at Goodland, Newton 
 county, Indiana. Frank is a feed merchant and farmer at Bath. 
 Lydia is the wife of Newman S. Look, of Bath. Mr. Shults has 
 three half-brothers: Daniel, Edward and Grattan. Daniel is a 
 druggist at Ithaca, New York. Edward is in the feed trade at 
 Bath. Grattan is a student. 
 
 William S. Shults attended public schools till he was four- 
 teen years old and then helped his father on the farm till 1898. 
 In that year he bought the home farm. In 1902 he sold it to his 
 brother and came to Bath to accept a position as a clerk. He was 
 thus employed three years. After that he was for two years at 
 Buffalo, New York, as foreman on some railway construction work. 
 Then, until 1907, he was in the grocery business at Lackawanna, 
 New York. He sold out there to join his brother in the feed busi- 
 ness at Bath. Politically he is a Democrat. So great is his per- 
 sonal popularity that in 1909 he overcame by one hundred and 
 sixty-five votes a regular Republican majority of five hundred, and 
 was elected to the office of town collector, which he is filling with 
 such ability and integrity that his advancement in the official 
 management of town affairs would seem to be assured. Since he 
 was seventeen years old he has been a member of the Grange. As 
 a member for many years of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, 
 of Bath, he gained so good a reputation as a fireman that he is 
 now assistant chief of the fire department of the city. He is a 
 high Mason and a member of the Presbyterian church. 
 
 Mrs. Shults was Miss Mary Herron. She was born at Bath 
 April 9, 1874, a daughter of James and Mary (Rutherford) Her- 
 ron. Her father is a well-known retired farmer. She has borne 
 her husband a son, James Herron Shults, now nine years old and 
 a promising student in school. Enough has been said of Mr. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 681 
 
 Shults to show that he is active in puhlic affairs, efficient and 
 helpful as a citizen, a leader in public and private life. His public 
 spirit, many times tested, has never been found wanting, and he 
 is in the forefront of all movements for the enhancement of the 
 public weal. 
 
 L. Wilson Rockwell was born in Olean, New York, Novem- 
 ber 2, 1 855. His parents were Lemuel and Mary (Van Scoter) 
 Rockwell, of English and Dutch descent respectively. The father 
 was born blind, but was well educated and a musician, and for a 
 number of years was a teacher of the profession in Hornellsville. 
 L. Wilson was the third of eight children. He received a common 
 school education and at thirteen years of age he secured a position 
 as bundle boy and clerk in the dry goods store of Adsit & Tuttle, 
 holding the position ten years. In 1879 the firm of M. A. Tuttle 
 & Company was organized with Mr. Rockwell as the company. 
 In 1883 this partnership was dissolved and he removed to Wells- 
 ville and with his brother, H. H. Rockwell, organized the firm of 
 Rockwell Brothers, which firm still exists. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Rockwell removed to Cortland, New York, and 
 there organized another firm under the same name. In 1888 he 
 returned to Hornellsville, and in 1890, with M. A. Tuttle, or- 
 ganized the firm of Tuttle & Rockwell. The business of this firm 
 grew to such proportions that iu 1903 it was incorporated under 
 the present name, The Tuttle & Rockwell Company. In 1891 
 Mr. Rockwell, in connection with his brother, J. L. Rockwell, and 
 F. P. Merrill, formed a partnership under the firm name of Rock- 
 well, Merrill & Company for the manufacture of silk gloves. This 
 business was very successful and was the beginning of the silk in- 
 dustry in Hornell. Ten years later Mr. Merrill withdrew from 
 the firm and two years later the Rockwells became members of the 
 corporation of Julius Kayser & Company, the largest silk glove 
 manufacturers in the world. Mr. Rockwell is also one of the or- 
 ganizers and a director in the following corporations: The Citi- 
 zens' National Bank, Wellsville, New York; the Bank of Steuben, 
 Hornell; the Steuben Sanitarium Company, Hornell, and the 
 Plymouth Lumber Company, Plymouth, North Carolina ; he is 
 president of the Bank of Steuben, also the Steuben Sanitarium 
 Company, and treasurer of the Tuttle & Rockwell Company. 
 
 Mr. Rockwell is a life-long Republican, but never held public 
 office. He is a member of Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, F. & A. 
 M., and is past master of the same; and is also a member of the 
 Steuben County Chapter and DeMolay Commandery. He is a 
 communicant of the Episcopal church and a member of its vestry. 
 He was married in 1884 to Miss Lizzie Smith, of Wellsville, who 
 died in January, 1892. He was again married in 1895 to Miss 
 Minnie Smith, of Hornell. He has two children, Robert F. Rock- 
 well, of Paonia, Colorado, and Miss Jeanette, of Hornell. 
 
682 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 AsHAHEL W. Reed.— The real estate, loan and insurance in- 
 terests have no abler or more successful representative in Steuben 
 county than the popular citizen whose name is the title of this 
 brief notice. Mr. Reed is a native of Birdsall, Allegany county, 
 New York, born February 7, 1880, a son of Cyrus and Nettie 
 (Davidson) Reed. His parents, both born in New York state, 
 were both living when this work was in preparation. Their home 
 is in Hornell. Ashahel William Reed, their only child, was edu- 
 cated in the high school at Almond, Allegany county, New York, 
 at Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany county, and at Cornell 
 University, Ithaca, New York. After having taken a special 
 course in civil engineering he came to Hornell as city engineer, 
 which office he filled with great efficiency and credit. When he 
 relinquished- it he opened an office in Hornell as a civil engineer 
 and was successful in the venture almost from its beginning. His 
 official work had made him well known and in its prosecution he 
 had made many friends, some of whom became his personal cus- 
 tomers. After giving his undivided attention to engineering for< 
 two years he took up in connection with it real estate and insur- 
 ance. In the development of his business real estate and insurance 
 gradually came to demand the greater share of his attention, but 
 he has continued to make a specialty of reliable engineering work 
 and has always been in good demand in that way. His offices, 
 formerly in the Adsit building, are now in the Conderman block. 
 
 On November 20, 1909, Mr. Reed married Miss Ina Josephine 
 Hann, of Andover, Allegany county, daughter of Charles and 
 Viola J. (Young) Hann. He is a Republican and a strong tem- 
 perance man. In his religious affiliation he is a Presbyterian, 
 active in church work and secretary of the Sunday-school. He is 
 a firm believer in the future of Hornell and is ready at all times 
 in a public-spirited way to do what he can for the good of the 
 community. 
 
 Perry Delos Greene, D. D. S., Hammondsport, Steuben 
 county, New York, was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, 
 December 8, 1873, a son of Franklin P. Greene, who was born in 
 November, 1852. Franklin P. Greene, a merchant at Hammonds- 
 port, came there in 1897 from Belmont, Allegany county, New 
 York, where he had conducted a store two years. He had gone to 
 Belmont from Wellsville, in the same county, where, he had car- 
 ried on merchandising on a large scale for fourteen years. Polit- 
 ically he is a Republican, zealous for the success of his party. He 
 is one of the town trustees of Hammondsport and is otherwise 
 influential in local and county affairs. He is a Mason of high de- 
 gree, being a member of Damascus Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
 Shrine, of Rochester, New York. He is also a member of the 
 Improved Order of Red Men. He married Elizabeth Smith, daugh- 
 ter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Sheer) Smith, of Schuyler coun- 
 ty. New York. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 683 
 
 Perry Delos Greene, D. D. S., only child of Franklin P. and 
 Elizabeth (Smith) Greene, finished at school when he was seven- 
 teen and entered the Philadelphia Dental College, Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania, where, after three years' study, he was duly grad- 
 uated and given a diploma as a doctor of dental surgery. He 
 practiced his profession a year at Wellsville, Allegany county, 
 and seven years at Belmont, in the same county. In 1902 he lo- 
 cated at Hammondsport. Dr. Greene is an active Republican and has 
 been elected mayor of Hammondsport, which responsible office he 
 has held satisfactorily to his fellow citizens of aU parties. He is 
 an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Red Man and a Woodman. 
 
 Benjamin F. LaRue.— A native son of Steuben county, who 
 has gained prestige as one of the successful members of the bar 
 of New York city, is Mr. LaRue, whose offices are located at 143 
 Liberty street. He is a "lawyer and is incumbent of the position 
 of claims attorney for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Mr. LaRue 
 was born at Hornell, Steuben county, New York, on the 1st of 
 January, 1873, and is the son of Henry B. and Minnie (Crandell) 
 LaRue, the former of whom was born in New York city and the 
 latter in Schuyler county. New York. 
 
 The father established his home in Steuben county in 1868, 
 beginning his career as a locomotive engineer. He later, in 1873, 
 became a contractor in connection with the construction of steam 
 railways and in the handling of supplies utilized in this line of 
 enterprise. He has retired from active business and resides at 
 Baltimore, Maryland. His wife died when about sixty-five years 
 of age and is survived by two sons, of whom the subject of this 
 review is, the younger. The elder son, Belmont M., is engaged in 
 the real estate business in New York city, with offices at 180 
 Broadway. 
 
 Benjamin F. LaRue was reared to maturity in his native town, 
 to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational 
 training, which included a course in the high school. At the age 
 of nineteen years he removed to New York city, where he secured 
 employment in the law office of Henry Granger. On account of a 
 severe illness and poor health he finally went to the city of Roch- 
 ester, where he became managing clerk in the law office of John 
 Van Voorhees, under whose able preceptorship he began reading law, 
 in which he made rapid and substantial progress in the prepara- 
 tion and trial of suits. His duties were so numerous that he had 
 little time for a careful study of the theory of the law. While 
 there, however, he tried forty-eight cases in all the courts and 
 lost but seven. 
 
 In 1898, realizing the importance of a thorough legal educa- 
 tion, he returned to New York city and in 1901 graduated from 
 the New York Law School, after which he was admitted to the 
 bar of his native state. He then entered the legal department of 
 the Brie Railroad, maintaining his headquarters in Jersey City, 
 
684 HISTOKY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 and in 1903 became identified with the legal department of the 
 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, with of- 
 ficial headquarters in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and remained until the 1st of January, 1906, 
 when he was transferred to the offices of the company in New 
 York city. 
 
 Since 1908 Mr. LaRue has held his present position as claims 
 attorney with the Lehigh Valley railroad corporation, having 
 charge of all litigation founded on tort in the states of New York, 
 New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. LaRue is Republican in his 
 political proclivities, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and 
 is an appreciative member of the Steuben Society of New York 
 city. 
 
 In December, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
 LaRue to iMiss Lallah Dymoke St. John, who was born and reared 
 at Port Jervis, New York. Their charming little daughter, Kath- 
 ryn Crandell LaRue, was born August 7, 1910. 
 
 William R. Park, secretary of the Park, Winton & True 
 Company, Addison, was born in that town August 22, 1869, a son 
 of James H. Park. The latter, a native of Woodhull and a life- 
 long resident of the county, was for many years a manufacturer 
 at Addison and died there in 1901. His widow, a native and now 
 a resident of Addison, was Miss Theresa Adelaide Reynolds. Wil- 
 liam R. Park has a brother, Charles F. Park, who also was born 
 and reared in Steuben county and who is known in business 
 circles as vice-president of the Park, Winton & True Company. 
 
 WiUiam R. Park, eldest son of James H. and Theresa Ade- 
 laide (Reynolds) Park, was reared in Addison and educated in 
 the public school of that village. When he was about twenty 
 years old he became an employe in his father's manufactory with 
 a view to taking a responsible place in the business in the course 
 of events. In 1901, his father having passed away, he became ad- 
 ministrator of his estate. The Park, Winton & True Company 
 was organized in 1910, with George I. True as president, Charles 
 F. Park, vice-president, and WiUiam R. Park, secretary. It is 
 the oldest factory of any kind in the vicinity of Addison and 
 one of the oldest sash, door and blind factories in the country, and 
 gives employment the year around to about one hundred men. It 
 is such institutions as this that help to build up towns, and Addi- 
 son gladly acknowledges obligation to Mr. Park and his prede- 
 cessors and associates for very material benefits in all the years of 
 their operations there. Mr. Park is a stockholder and director in 
 the Yadkin Lumber Company, of Yadkin, North Carolina, which 
 owns fifty-five thousand acres of timber land in the western part 
 of that state, and the Embreeville Timber Company, of Embree- 
 ville, Tennessee, that holds title to thirty thousand acres of tim- 
 ber in the eastern part of that state. 
 
 Mr. Park married Miss Carrie M. Ainsworth, daughter of 
 Dr. H. R. Ainsworth, of Addison, in 1900, and they have two chil- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTT 685 
 
 dren : James H. and Emma A. He is identified with the Masons, 
 the Odd Fellows and the Elks. Energetic, progressive and of 
 friendly disposition, he counts his friends by the score wherever 
 he may go throughout Steuben and surrounding counties on both 
 sides of the state line. 
 
 Claud D. Carboll.— Avoca is indeed fortunate in the per- 
 sonality of him who stands at the helm of the municipal ship, for 
 he possesses in good measure those qualities which best adorn the 
 incumbent of the mayor's office— sound judgment, fairness and 
 nicely-balanced justice, and that executive capacity which can make 
 a reality out of a good project. He was elected in March, 1908, 
 for his third term as mayor of Avoca, and that his fitness for the 
 office was generally recognized was made manifest by the fact that 
 he was elected by a large Republican majority, and he has amply 
 fulfilled all the faith reposed in him. He was born July 22, 1870, 
 in Yates county, New York, the son of Alfred and Sarah Carroll. 
 The father was born in the year 1832 in Columbia county, having 
 gone there as a boy with his father, William Carroll. He is of 
 noble lineage, his great-grandfather having been one Sir Charles 
 Carroll, who emigrated to North Carolina. The mother of the sub- 
 ject was Sarah De Reimans, who died in 1903, at the age of sixty- 
 eight years. Mr. Carroll is one of a family of eight. His only 
 sister, Grace, is the wife of H. Turner, of Utica, New York; Fred 
 resides at Penn Yan ; Charles, at Yatesville ; Pearl, at Avoca ; Gor- 
 don, near Plattsburg, Yates county; Granger, in Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts, and Winfield, at Benton, Yates county. 
 
 Mayor Carroll received his preliminary education in the public 
 schools, being graduated at the age of seventeen from the Yates- 
 viUe school, and subsequently attending Penn Yan Academy for 
 two terms. He then engaged in the wheel manufacturing business 
 at Shortsville, New York, and continued with this enterprise for 
 two years. Following that he was for one year employed in the 
 same line in Syracuse, New York, and in 1889 he came to Avoca, 
 when he became associated with the Avoca Wheel Company. He 
 advanced rapidly, becoming general superintendent of the plant 
 and a member of the directory, and he has been largely instru- 
 mental in making of this enterprise one of the thriving concerns 
 of the town. 
 
 Mayor Carroll has for a long time been active in politics and 
 is devoted to the principles of his party, the Democratic, and has 
 always been ready to do anything to proclaim its ideas and sup- 
 port its candidates. He enjoys the confidence of his neighbors and 
 has been mayor three terms and a member of the school board for 
 three years. He is affiliated with the F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 673, of 
 Avoca, and with the Maccabees, also of this place. 
 
 On the 27th day of December, 1892, Mayor Carroll was united 
 in marriage. to Miss Minnie Schultz, daughter of George Sehultz, . 
 of Avoca township, who died at the age of seventy-three years. He 
 
686 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 was a prominent representative of the agricultural interests of 
 the county. The mother, whose maiden names was Mary Martin, 
 died in October of the year 1910, at the age of seventy-one years. 
 Mayor and Mrs. Carroll are the parents of the following children : 
 Eva, aged sixteen; Bernice, aged thirteen; Ellen, aged eleven; 
 Jeanette, aged five, and Francis, aged two. The three eldest attend 
 school. Mrs. Carroll is a faithful and valued member of the Pres- 
 byterian church. 
 
 Austin Latheop, for many years a prominent citizen of Corn- 
 ing, New York, was born and reared in the neighboring state of 
 Pennsylvania, Tioga being his native county and 1839 the year of 
 his birth. His father, Austin Lathrop, was born in Otsego county, 
 New York, in 1805, but the greater part of his life was spent in 
 Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged extensively in 
 farming and lumbering. He died in Tioga county in 1882, at the 
 age of seventy-eight years. By his first wife, who before marriage 
 was Miss Amy Walker, he had seven children, three daughters and 
 four sons: Margaret, Martha, Mary, Austin, DeLass, Daniel and 
 William. His second marriage was to a Miss Devenport. For his 
 third wife he married a Mrs. Colvin, nee Knox, who bore him four 
 children: Mrs. Horatio Patrick of Scranton, Pennsylvania; 
 Charles K., of Gailton, Pennsylvania; Anna, Mrs. Weeks, and 
 John C. 
 
 Austin Lathrop passed his early life on his father's farm and 
 received his education in the common schools of his native county. 
 At the age of sixteen he entered upon a business career at a lum- 
 ber inspector in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and later for two 
 years was employed as clerk at Lawreneeville, that state. Coming 
 to Corning, Ncav York, in 1859, he accepted a position as clerk in 
 the hardware store of C. C. B. Walker, with whom he was asso- 
 ciated until 1888, having been taken in as a partner in 1862. After 
 Mr. Walker's death in 1888 Mr. Lathrop sold his interest in the 
 business and has since been engaged in the lumber business and 
 in railroad building. From time to time he has made investments 
 in various enterprises. He is a trustee of the American Surety 
 Company of New York city ; director in the Safety Car Heating & 
 Lighting Company, of New York city; director in the Standard 
 Coupler Company, of New York city; president of the Wheeler 
 Holden Company, lumber and tie dealers of Buffalo, New York, 
 and vice-president of the Empire Coke & Gas Company of Geneva, 
 New York. 
 
 Politically Mr. Lathrop is a Democrat, having affiliated with 
 the Democratic party all his life and always taken an active in- 
 terest in public affairs. For nine years he was a supervisor. He 
 served two years as president of Corning, and for eleven years he 
 was superintendent of all the state prisons in the state of New 
 York. Fraternally he is a Mason and religiously an Episcopalian. 
 Mr. Lathrop married, in 1893, Mrs. Emma F. Wellington. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 687 
 
 MuEEAY D. CoEBETT, engaged in farming and teaming in 
 Avoea, New York, is one of Steuben county's substantial and pro- 
 gressive citizens. He is a native son, his birth having occurred in 
 Cohocton township, June 24, 1878, and the names of his parents 
 being John and Sarah Fairbrather Corbett. These worthy people 
 are now living at Avoca. 
 
 Mr. Corbett is one of a family of ten living children, six of 
 whom are sons and four daughters. Ida is the wife of F. L. Mat- 
 toon; Mamie married Pay Edwards; Mabel is the wife of Walter 
 Shont, of Avoca ; Lena, aged sixteen, resides with her brother, the 
 subject of the sketch, and attends school; John resides in Avoea, 
 as does also Albert H., Frank L. and Matthew, and the youngest 
 brother lives with Mr. Corbett and attends school. 
 
 Murray D. Corbett received his education in the public 
 schools, terminating his educational discipline at the age of four- 
 teen years, and he remained beneath the parental roof until his six- 
 teenth year. He was then employed as a farm assistant by various 
 agriculturists in the vicinity until 1906, when he removed to Avoca 
 and engaged in heavy teaming and drafting in association with 
 his brother, and he also conducted a livery stable and milk busi- 
 ness. This he has continued until the present day, building up a 
 fine trade and enjoying the confidence of his patrons. The 
 brother with whom he is' associated is Frank L. 
 
 Mr. Corbett was a recruit to ranks of the benedicts on Decem- 
 ber 14, 1898, the lady of his choice being Eula Young, born July 
 20, 1878, in Fort Plain, New York. She is a daughter of Abram 
 Young, who died December 2, 1908, at the age of seventy-two 
 years. He was born in the eastern part of New York and was a 
 carpenter and patternmaker. He removed to Bath, where he re- 
 sided for fifteen years and engaged in the pursuit of his trades, 
 and he afterward farmed for the fifteen years prior to his death, the 
 scene of his agricultural activities being Avoea township. The 
 maiden name of Mr. Young's wife was Frances M. Smith, and she 
 is now living in Bath township at the age of sixty-eight years. She 
 is the daughter of J. Smith, of England. Mrs. Corbett has two 
 brothers: Frank W., a Methodist pastor, of Pennsylvania, and 
 George I., a physician, of Baltimore, Maryland; and one sister, 
 Anna, who is the wife of L. Everson, of Bath. 
 
 Politically Mr. Corbett marches beneath the standards of the 
 Republican party and his fraternal affiliations extend to the Wood- 
 mien of America. His wife is a valued and eoDsistent member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal church, and belong to the Ladies' Aid 
 Society. Mr. and Mrs. Corbett have one child, a daughter, Frances 
 Luella, who is one year old. 
 
 Spencer H. Stuart, M. D., of Hornell, was bom in the town 
 of Howard, Steuben county, New York, October 20, 1867. Samuel 
 W. Stuart, his father, Irish by birth, name to Steuben county as 
 a boy of fourteen with his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Wood) 
 
688 HISTOllY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Stuart. The family located in the town of Bath, on Campbell 
 Creek. Samuel W. Stuart married Mary Ann Carroll, who was 
 born in Bath, a daughter of Andrew and Ann Carroll. Her father 
 was, like her husband, Irish and had come, as he had done, to 
 America as a boy. Soon after their marriage Samuel VV. and 
 Mary Ann (Carroll) Stuart located in the town of Howard, where 
 he acquired a good farm, which was his home during the greater 
 part of more than forty years of his experience as a teacher in 
 public schools in Steuben county. He died October 17, 1908, leav- 
 ing a widow and four sons and three daughters, all of whom were 
 living when these paragraphs are written. 
 
 The future doctor of medicine passed his boyhood days in the 
 town of Howard and there gained a primary education. Later he 
 was a student at the academy at Canisteo. For a year he was a 
 school steacher, studying medicine in his leisure hours. In 1888 
 he submitted himself to the preceptorship of the late Dr. C. B. 
 Robertson, and that same year entered the Columbus Medical Col- 
 lege at Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the 
 degree of M. D. in 1892. He also took a course at the University 
 of Buffalo, where he graduated in 1899, and also from the Uni- 
 versity of the State of New York in the same year. Not long 
 afterward he located at Cameron, Steuben county. New York, 
 where he practiced his profession successfully for ten years. From 
 Cameron he removed to Hornell, where he has risen to a high place 
 in his profession. Giving attention to family practice he has 
 gained the confidence of the public to such an extent that he num- 
 bers among his regular patrons some of the best people not only 
 in Hornell but throughout the surrounding country. He is a 
 member of the Hornell Medical and Surgical Association, of the 
 Steuben County Medical Society, of the New York State Medical 
 Society and of the American Medical Association. 
 
 Dr. Stuart is a Mason, a member of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows (Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331) and of the Knights 
 of the Maccabees. On January 9, 1895, he married Miss Nellie 
 A. Timmerman, daughter of Henry and Martha Timmerman, of 
 Bath, New York, where she was reared and educated. Politically 
 he is a stanch Republican, and though not in active politics he 
 wields a recognized influence in local party affairs. As a life-long 
 resident of Steuben county he is public-spiritedly interested in 
 everything that pertains to its advancement and prosperity. 
 
 The following items of information concerning the brothers 
 and sisters of Dr. Stuart may be found interesting in this con- 
 nection. Rev. Aaron C. Stuart, a minister of the gospel, is sta- 
 tioned at Vernon, Oneida county. New York. Robie W. Stuart is 
 farming near Bath, Steuben county. Lena A. married Melvin 
 Daniels and is living at Hornell. Rev. Elmer J. Stuart is pastor 
 of a Presbyterian church at Oneida, New York. Sarah L. mar- 
 ried William Hoyt, of Howard, New York. Ellen J. is living 
 with her mother on the Stuart farm in Howard. 
 
HISTOBY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 68S 
 
 Leon M. Kysoe, M. D.— The family of which this prominent 
 physician is a representative has an interesting history. Only that 
 part of it which refers more or less directly to Doctor Kysor and 
 his American ancestry can be here included, however. The name 
 has been long known in Prussia. The grandfather of Doctor 
 Kysor 's grandfather in the paternal line of descent was, while em- 
 ployed in the German service, impressed into the service of Eng- 
 land against the colonies in the time of our Eevolutionary war, 
 but at the first opportunity he left the British service to become a 
 patriot soldier, fighting for the people of the side of the contro- 
 versy that had his sympathy. 
 
 Dr. Leon M. Kysor was born in Howard, Steuben county. 
 New York, September 10, 1872, a son of W. Byron Kysor, who was 
 a son of Archibald Kysor, a millwright by trade, who built some 
 of the early flour mills in Steuben county. W. Byron Kysor was 
 reared in Steuben county and died there at the early age of thirty- 
 seven years. He married Frances Olivia Johnson, a native of 
 Howard, Steuben county. New York, daughter of a pioneer from 
 Pennsylvania. Six children were born to them, the immediate sub- 
 ject of this sketch being the oldest. He began his education in 
 common schools near his childhood home and after he was eleven 
 years old, when he went to Hornell, he continued it in the public 
 schools there. Taking up the study of medicine and surgery he 
 was duly graduated from the medical department of the Universi- 
 ty of Buffalo in 1903. 
 
 He began his professional practice by a year's connection 
 with the Steuben Sanitarium. Then he was for some time, until 
 Dr. Parkhill's death, associated with him. Since that event he has 
 been in independent practice. One of the successful and progres- 
 sive medical men of the city, he is identified with the Hornell Med- 
 ical and Surgical Association, the Steuben County Medical So- 
 ciety, the New York State Medical Society and the American 
 Medical Association. He is a Mason and affiliates with other secret 
 social and beneficial orders. 
 
 Dr. Kysor married Miss Bertha M. Eells, daughter of James 
 Eells, in August, 1905. He is a director in the Maple City Loan 
 and Savings Association and has from time to time been connected 
 with other important local movements. His public spirit is such 
 that he cordially responds to any demand upon it involving the 
 advancement of any considerable number of his fellow citizens. 
 Professionally he is popular, enjoying the confidence of the gen- 
 eral public and numbering among his patients some of the 'best 
 families in the city. 
 
 Floyd E. Adair— Prominent in the business life of Atlanta 
 is Floyd E. Adair, proprietor of the Atlanta Flouring Mills. He 
 has reason to be particularly loyal to Steuben county, for his birth 
 occurred within its pleasant limits, its date being 1873 and the 
 place Cohocton. He is the son of Edward and Osca (McCarty) 
 
690 HISTOKY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Adair and the family consists of two children besides himself, 
 Verne and Maud. Mr. Adair spent his early days in his native 
 town, attending the common and high schools and when stiU a lad 
 he developed an interest in milling. His first practical experience 
 in this line was gained in Rochester, New York. He was later en- 
 gaged in a mill situated in the Adirondack Mountains and finally 
 found his way to New York city, where he secured employment in 
 a great flouring mill where there were turned out per day twenty- 
 five hundred barrels of flour. 
 
 Thoroughly familiar with the business in aU its phases, under- 
 standing the latest and best methods in the production of high 
 grade flour, Mr. Adair wisely gratified his ambition to become estab- 
 lished independently and in 1906 became proprietor of the At- 
 lanta Flouring Mills. This mill is twenty-six by forty feet in 
 dimension, two stories high and has an engine room eighteen by 
 twenty-six feet. It is operated by steam power and has a forty 
 horsepower engine. Its capacity is twenty-five barrels of flour and 
 twenty-five tons of feed per day. He has the latest and most ap- 
 proved machinery and his flour is of the finest grade. Not only 
 does he manufacture all the flour and feed that can be turned out 
 in a mill of such capacity, but he also keeps on hand for the home 
 market a stock of feed of all description. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Adair was united in marriage to Miss Emma 
 Bothwell and two young children are growing to manhood be- 
 neath their roof, these being by name Edward and Harold. 
 
 C. L. Crane, who is winning enviable success at the bar of 
 Steuben county, was born in Cameron, that county, September 12, 
 1879, a son of Milton E. Crane, also a native of Cameron. His 
 grandfather, who was a native of New York and by trade a black- 
 smith, also one of the historic old-fashioned schoolteachers who 
 flourished in the earlier part of the last century, was a pioneer in 
 Steuben county. He taught his son, father of the immediate sub- 
 ject of this sketch, the blacksmith's trade, and the latter is in busi- 
 ness as a blacksmith at Addison. Mr. Crane's mother was Miss 
 Sarah Snyder, daughter of Daniel Snyder, a pioneer in Steuben 
 county, where she was born. The Cranes are of Scotch-Irish-Eng- 
 lish ancestry, the Snyders are of Holland descent. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Crane had six children, three of whom were sons, and aU but one 
 of the six are living. 
 
 C. L. Crane was the fourth in order of birth and the youngest 
 son. He was about ten years old when his parents moved to Addi- 
 son from Cameron. After having been graduated from the Addi- 
 son high school in 1896 he was until 1900 in business at Hammonds- 
 port, at Hornell and at Addison. In the year last mentioned he 
 entered upon a year's special work in the College of Liberal Arts 
 in the Syracuse University. He was duly graduated from the law 
 department of that institution and in 1904, after some preliminary 
 experience, went to Long Island City and there began the practice 
 
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HISTORY or STEUBEK COUNTY 693 
 
 of his profession in the different courts of the state. In 1905 he 
 returned to Addison and opened a law office there. In 1907 he 
 formed a partnership with E. C. Smith, which existed till January, 
 1910, since when he has been in individual practice. He gives 
 attention to general legal business in and out of the courts, is con- 
 scientious in taking cases, respecting both his clients and the court, 
 and when he has accepted a case is indefatigable in pushing it to 
 success by all fair means known to shrewd and resourceful lawyers. 
 He is an influential member of the Steuben County Bar Associa- 
 tion, is an Ancient Free and Accepted Mason and is identified with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Delta Chi 
 and other college societies. He married, August 14, 1906, Miss Grace 
 A. Strang, daughter of F. D. and Alice Strang, of Westfield, 
 Pennsylvania, and they have a little daughter whom they named 
 Janet. She was bom March 31, 1910. 
 
 In his political alliances Mr. Crane is Republican. He was 
 secretary of the Steuben County Republican Committee from 1906 
 to 1909 and has been politically active otherwise, with the result 
 that his usefulness is recognized by Republicans throughout the 
 county. He has for a number of years been attorney for the vil- 
 lage of Addison and he is doing good work for the town as corres- 
 ponding secretary for the Addison Board of Trade. In many 
 ways and on numerous occasions he has demonstrated a degree of 
 public spirit that has placed him among the leaders in the valley 
 and there are those who predict that he has only to remain in and 
 continue to labor for the county of his nativity to receive such 
 honors as old Steuben has been wont in all her history to bestow 
 on her favorite sons. 
 
 William G. Coye, of Homell, is one of the oldest insurance, 
 loan and real estate men in Steuben county and one of the oldest 
 in the country. He is a native of Otsego -county, New York, born 
 September 16, 1833. J. Morris Coye, his father, was born in New 
 York state and was among the early settlers in this county. He 
 was a printer by trade and carried on a business in his line in 
 Hornellsville several years. When he passed away he was mourned 
 as a pioneer. He married Sophronia Norton, a native of New York 
 state, who bore him a son and two daughters. Frances is dead. 
 Mary (Mrs. Isbel) was living in 1910 in California. 
 
 Mr. Coye 's childhood and youth were spent in his native coun- 
 ty, where he acquired a practical education in the public schools. 
 He came to Hornellsville about 1860 and was for a time a clerk in 
 a dry goods store. In 1866 he made his start in the insurance busi- 
 ness, with N. M. Crane and C. H. Young. About 1874 Mr. Crane 
 withdrew from the firm and its style became Coye & Young and 
 was so continued until Mr. Coye assumed individual proprietor- 
 ship of the enterprise. Real estate operations and the handling of 
 loans were added to the business, and under Mr. Coye's manage- 
 ment have become important factors in it. He is regarded as one 
 
694 HISTOKY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 of the best judges of local real estate values in the city, and in the 
 negotiation (5f loans he has shown rare tact and shrewdness. So 
 long has he been in business in Hornell that his office is one of 
 the landmarks of the town, not only one of the things that bridged 
 the transition of the place from village to city, but one of the liv- 
 ing interests that connect the present with the days of primitive 
 things. So well established is Mr. Coye's reputation for integrity 
 in all his dealings that no one in Hornell would hesitate to entrust 
 to him any commission however large or however difficult. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Coye married Miss Julia A. Lockwood, daughter 
 of Nelson Lockwood. She was born in New York of Connecticut 
 ancestry. In his political allegiance Mr. Coye is a Republican, 
 and has been in all the history of his party. In the days before 
 the war, when the people were divided on the question of slavery, 
 he espoused the cause of Fremont and of Lincoln. Through the 
 period of the Civil war he was steadfastly Republican and "Un- 
 ion." Through the period of reconstruction he supported the party 
 that he believed had put down the rebellion and saved the nation 
 from dissolution and was trying to reunite it in the only practical 
 way in which he believed the work could be done. In the later 
 days of our great national expansion he was proud of the party 
 that was in power while most of it was brought about, and in these 
 days of political unrest, out of which he believes better things and 
 grander things are to come, he sees no reason for forsaking the 
 straight road that he has followed safely through so much of tur- 
 moil and of evolution. 
 
 Edward W. Beyan, M. D., for many years a leading practi- 
 tioner of Corning, New York, was born on a farm in Steuben coun- 
 ty, November 6, 1832, and belongs to a family long resident of the 
 "Empire state." His grandfather, George Bryan, a blacksmith 
 by trade, was born April 7, 1779, and his grandmother Bryan, 
 whose maiden name was Covart, was born March 23, 1775, both in 
 New York. For some years they lived in Seneca county, from 
 whence they moved to Steuben county when their son, Abram C, 
 the Doctor's father, was a small boy. Abram C. Bryan was born 
 in Seneca county October 21, 1806, passed his life as a farmer in 
 Steuben county, and died here February 2, 1895. He married, 
 October 11, 1831, Asenath Conlogue, who was born in Ontario 
 county. New York, August 1, 1806, and who died in Steuben coun- 
 ty March 18, 1882. They were the parents of six children: Dr. 
 Edward W. ; Catherine J.; William J., who was a physician; El- 
 mina; Laura, and Mrs. Mary E. Orcutt. The latter, now a widow, 
 was born November 2, 1840, and resides in Ciorham, Ontario county. 
 New York. All of the children are deceased excepting the subject 
 of this review and Mrs. Orcutt. 
 
 Edward W. Bryan was reared on his father's farm and was 
 occupied in agricultural pursuits until he reached his majority, in 
 his youth having meagre opportunity for obtaining an education. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 695 
 
 After he was grown, however, he determined to educate himself, 
 and began by utilizing all his spare moments. He worked for 
 seventy-five cents a day at odd jobs at whatever he could find to 
 do. Later he taught school in the winter and spent the summer 
 in the harvest fields, and all the while pursued his studies with a 
 view to entering the medical profession. In the meantime he spent 
 two years and a half as agent for the Erie Railroad Company at 
 Savona. In 1865 he entered the Homeopathic Hospital College at 
 Cleveland, Ohio, where he pursued a three years' course and grad- 
 uated in 1873. Previous to his graduation he had practiced for a 
 short time in Illinois, and after he received his degree he settled 
 at Ovid, New York, where he opened an office and practiced suc- 
 cessfully for a period of eleven years and a half, coming thence to 
 Corning. Here he has had a successful career as a practitioner, 
 covering nearly thirty-five years, and during this time has fre- 
 quently been called into consultation with other prominent physi- 
 cians not only at Coming and in this vicinity but also to distant 
 points. He is medical examiner for the Marine Corps of Corning 
 and is city health officer. 
 
 All these years Dr. Bryan has maintained membership in vari- 
 ous medical organizations. In the New York State Homeopathic 
 Society he has filled several offices, including that of vice-president. 
 He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a char- 
 ter member of the Hahnemann Society of Cleveland, and the only 
 living charter member of the Southern Homeopathic Medical So- 
 ciety of the state. Also he is a charter member of the Corning 
 "Medical Association. Other fraternal organizations with which 
 Dr. Bryan has long been identified are the F. & A. M. and the 
 Royal Arcanum. Politically he is a Republican, religiously a 
 Methodist. 
 
 Edward P. and Charles D. Baker.— Edward P. Baker, a 
 successful business man of Kanona, New York, member of the firm 
 of Baker Brothers, who own and operate a mill at Kanona, is a 
 native of the county where he now resides, born on what is now 
 the Soldiers' Home grounds, June 14, 1858, a son of John K. 
 Baker. His grandfather and great-grandfather, as well as his 
 father, were millers, and the family came to Steuben county from 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 John K. Baker was born in southern New York May 14, 1824, 
 and was reared to the work of operating a mill, in which his father 
 was engaged. In 1857 he removed to Steuben county and estab- 
 lished a grist mill where the Old Soldiers' Home now stands. Sev- 
 eral years later he left this location and operated a mill at Howard, 
 Steuben county, and in 1865 established a mill at Kanona, putting 
 in good machinery. He bought the building of L. D. Fay, who 
 had bought of a man named Rowe, and it had first been used as a 
 sawmill. The first proprietor of this mill was a Mr. Gross, who 
 built it in 1840. 
 
696 HISTORY OF STEUBEK COUNTY 
 
 Most of the present improvements in the mill were installed 
 by John K. Baker, and he put in the old turbine machinery. Many 
 modern appliances have been installed by the present owners. Mr. 
 Baker married Lucretia Powell, who was born in 1830 in Penn- 
 sylvania, daughter of Hon. Joseph C. Powell, a member of an old 
 family in the Keystone state, who married Saloma Ellis. Mr. 
 Baker and his wife had two sons, Edward P. and Charles D., of 
 Kanona. 
 
 After receiving his education in the public schools of his lo- 
 cality Edward P. Baker took up the trade of miller and worked 
 for his father. He has followed this line of work since with ex- 
 cellent success and in 1906 the firm of Baker Brothers was formed. 
 They have a reputation for the excellence of their output and are 
 both men of good judgement and enterprise, using the best and 
 most modern methods and carrying on the enterprise in a most 
 businesslike way. Edward P. Baker married Minerva Andrews, 
 a daughter of Lewis Andrews, and three children have been born 
 of this union, namely : J. Powell, aged sixteen years ; Ruth Eliza- 
 beth, aged fourteen, and Helene Brown, aged ten. Mr. Baker pays 
 strict attention to his business interests, and this is one of the 
 secrets of his success in life. He does not belong to any -church 
 and is not active in political affairs, though he votes the Demo- 
 cratic ticket. 
 
 Charles D. Baker, younger of the two sons of John K. Baker 
 and his wife, was born December 3, 1862, on what is now the Old 
 Soldiers' Home grounds, and after attending the public schools of 
 his neighborhood until about nineteen he then engaged in the 
 milling business. He and his brother are men of similar tastes 
 and both have a natural aptitude for the work in which they are 
 now engaged. 
 
 On April 8, 1890, C. D. Baker married Ida Snell, who was 
 -born in Avoea in 1866, daughter of George W. Snell, a farmer 
 along the Mohawk River, who came to Steuben county with the 
 Mohawk colony and settled on a farm. He married Margaret Dil- 
 lenbeck. No children have been born to Mr. Baker and his wife. 
 He is a member of the Maccabees, and is not actively interested in 
 political affairs, being entirely absorbed in his business enterprises. 
 
 William W. Clabk.— Among those who have conferred dis- 
 tinction and honor upon the bench and bar of the Empire state is 
 Judge William Walker Clark, of Wayland, who is now serving 
 upon the bench of the supreme court of the state, as representative 
 of the Seventh Judicial District. The distinguished official posi- 
 tion of which he is incumbent indicated not only the profundity of 
 his legal knowledge but also the estimate placed upon him by his 
 fellow men. 
 
 Judge Clark claims the state of Illinois as the place of his 
 nativity and was born in the city of Elgin, which was then a mere 
 village, on the 14th of February, 1858. His father, DeMarcus 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 697 
 
 Clark, was born in Kirldand township, Oneida county. New York, 
 and the place of his birth was locally known as Clark's Mills, the 
 family home having there been established in the pioneer days. 
 DeMarcus Clark was a son of Martin Clark, was born in the bor- 
 ough of Colchester, New London county, Connecticut, and was 
 a child at the time when his father, Noah Clark, a native of Eng- 
 land, removed from Connecticut to Oneida county, New York. 
 Noah Clark secured a tract of wild land in Oneida county, where 
 he reclaimed a productive farm and where he continued to be 
 identified with agricultural pursuits until his death. Martin Clark 
 likewise devoted his entire active career to the great basic industry 
 of agriculture and was a resident of Oneida county at the time of 
 his death, which occurred on the 7th of September, 1870. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Wealthy Smith, was born and reared 
 in the state of New York and she was summoned to the life eternal 
 in 1858. Both were consistent members of the Baptist church and 
 in polities he originally gave his support to the Whig party, from 
 which he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party at the 
 time of its organization. 
 
 DeMarcus Clark was reared to maturity in Oneida county, and 
 his early educational advantages were those afforded in the com- 
 mon schools of the locality and period. He continued to be asso- 
 ciated with his father in the work and management of the home 
 farm until he had attained to his legal majority and shortly after- 
 ward, in company with his brother and two of his uncles, he en- 
 gaged in the manufacturing of cotton cloth in Oneida county. The 
 little village that grew up about the factory gained the name of 
 Clark's Mills, and the title has been retained to the present time. 
 With this line of enterprise Mr. Clark continued to be concerned un- 
 til his demise, which occurred on the 7th of January, 1871, at which 
 time he was but fifty-one years of age, his father having passed 
 away in the preceding September, as already noted. DeMarcus 
 Clark was a man of superior mentality and strong business acu- 
 men, the while his impregnable integrity and honor in all the rela- 
 tions of life commended him to the approbation and implicit con- 
 fidence of all who knew him. He was a stanch and effective advo- 
 cate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party 
 stands sponsor and gave yeoman service in behalf of the party 
 cause. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Baptist 
 church and exemplified their Christian faith in their daily lives. 
 At Utiea, New York, was solemnized the marriage of DeMarcus 
 Clark to Miss Mary Ella Walker, whose father. Rev. Warhan 
 Walker, was at that time pastor of the Baptist church in Utica and 
 the maiden name of his wife was Jane Davis. Mrs. Clark was 
 -born at Utiea, New York, in the year 1831, and her summons to 
 eternal rest came in 1860. She was a woman of most gracious 
 and engaging personality and her memory is revered by her chil- 
 dren and others who came within the sphere of her gentle influence. 
 DeMarcus and Mary Ella (Walker) Clark became the parents of 
 
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698 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 one son and two daughters, and of the number, Judge Clark of 
 this review, and one daughter are now living. Lillian C, the 
 surviving daughter, is now the wife of Robert C. Young, assistant 
 superintendent of the Utiea Street Railway Company, at Utica, 
 this state. 
 
 Judge William W. Clark gained his preliminary educational 
 discipline in the public schools of the village of Clark's Mills, 
 Oneida county, and supplemented this by a three years' course in 
 Whitston Seminary, at Whitesboro, New York, after leaving which 
 institution he was matriculated in the law department of Hamilton 
 College, at Clinton, in which he was graduated in June, 1878, and 
 from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In May of 
 the following year the future jurist established his home at Way- 
 land, Steuben county, where he engaged in the practice of his 
 profession and where his earnestness, devotion and technical abil- 
 ity in the work of his chosen vocation caused him to make rapid and 
 secure progress, until he gained precedence as one of the leading 
 members of the bar of this section of the state, with ultimate pre- 
 cedence as one of the strong lawyers and distinguished jurists of 
 the old Empire commonwealth. His novitiate in his profession was 
 attended by its due quota of hardships, however, and he recalls, 
 with appreciative memory, that when he opened his office in Way- 
 land his financial resources were of emphatically negative order, 
 the while the furnishings of his legal sanctum were summed up 
 in a few well worn law books, one desk, one chair and, perhaps 
 fortunately, one cuspidor. His first fee as a full-fledged attorney 
 was the generous sum of seventy-five cents and was paid to him by 
 Josi&h Gray. His first law suit was that involved in the defending 
 of an old rag pedler, from whom he received a fee of three dol- 
 lars. In 1892 Judge Clark was elected district attorney of Steu- 
 ben county, and he continued incumbent of this position for three 
 successive terms, during which his administration of the office of 
 public prosecutor did much to heighten his professional precedence. 
 In 1902 he was elected to the bench of the county court, upon 
 which he served for four years, resigning in 1906 with an admir- 
 able record,— one that proved the solidity of his legal learning and 
 his fine judicial acumen. He was still serving as county judge at 
 the time of his appointment to his present distinguished office 
 as a justice of the supreme court of the state, in March, 1906. This 
 appointment was conferred by Governor Higgins and was made to 
 fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John F. Parkhurst. 
 In November of the same year Judge Clark was regularly elected 
 to the office for the full term of fourteen years. It is specially 
 significant that in securing this preferment he was the nominee on 
 both the Republican and Democratic tickets, having first been 
 nominated by the Republican party, of whose cause he has ever 
 been a stalwart supporter. That he gained also the support of 
 the opposition party offers emphatic and unequivocal evidence of 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 699 
 
 his personal popularity and of the objective appreciation of his 
 ability as a legist and jurist. 
 
 Judge Clark has continued to maintain his home in Wayland 
 from the time he here initiated his eiJorts as a young lawyer and 
 as a citizen he has exemplified the highest civic ideals, the utmost 
 loyalty and public spirit. He has done much to further the social 
 and material interests of the community and was one of the princi- 
 pal factors in organizing the First National Bank of Wayland, of 
 which he is president. Both he and his wife are active and valued 
 workers in the Methodist Episcopal church in their attractive little 
 home city and are prominent in the best social affiairs of the com- 
 munity. Judge Clark is affiliated with Patchin Lodge No. 883, 
 Free & Accepted Masons; Wayland Lodge No. 176, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows; and Wayland Camp No. 10,989, Modern 
 Woodmen of America. 
 
 On the 18th of September, 1879, was solemnized the marriage 
 of Judge Clark to Miss Hattie M. Hill, who was born at Stetson, 
 Penobscot county, Maine, on the 25th of June, 1857, and who is a 
 daughter of General Jonathan A. and Lucy (Richards) Hill. The 
 former passed the closing years of his life in Towanda, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and was a gallant soldier and officer in the Civil war. Mrs. 
 Clark was graduated in Wyklan Hall Seminary, in the city of 
 Toronto, Canada, and in 1875 she was also graduated in Cazenovia 
 Seminary, at Casenovia, New York. A woman of culture and 
 much social charm, she proves a gracious chatelain of the beauti- 
 ful home of the family in Wayland. Judge and Mrs. Clark be- 
 came the parents of one son, William H., and the great loss and be- 
 reavement of their liie came when this noble young man was called 
 from the scene of life's mortal endeavors, on the 20th of February, 
 1910. A brief tribute to his memory is given in the following 
 sketch. 
 
 William Hill Clark was born in the village of Wayland, 
 Steuben county, on the 2d of July, 1880, and after completing the 
 curriculum of the public schools, including the Wayland high 
 school, he continued his higher academic studies at the Genesee 
 WesJeyan Seminary, at Lima, this state, and Cazenovia Seminary, 
 at Cazenovia. In 1901 he entered the First National Bank of 
 Wayland, of which institution his father was then, as now, presi; 
 dent, and he eventually became assistant cashier of the institu- 
 tion, a position of which he continued incumbent until the time of 
 his death, in addition to which he was a member of the directorate. 
 He showed marked executive ability and did much to further the 
 success of this substantial and popular financial institution. From 
 an appreciative estimate of his character given in an obituary no- 
 tice in the Wayland Register, under date of February 25, 1910', 
 are taken the following extracts, with but slight paraphrase- 
 "William H. Clark has been known by the older inhabitants from 
 the cradle, and the noble characteristics of his early days were 
 
700 HIST01!Y OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 steadfast to the end,— intensified and developed -with maturity, as 
 God in his wisdom provided. He was a typical American gentle- 
 man,— modest, retiring, courteous, sincere, sympathetic, and 
 straightforward and honest in his dealings. His home life was 
 ideal and resplendent with tenderness, love and sympathy, and 
 all his leisure hours were spent in its enjoyment. His earthly body 
 has been removed, but the memory of his sweet and beautiful life 
 and influence will forever linger." To those nearest and dearest 
 must come a measure of compensation and reconciliation from hav- 
 ing thus known and touched so strong and so lovable a character, and 
 in this sense death loses its sting and the grave its victory. Mr. 
 Clark was identified with representative fraternal, business and 
 social organizations in his home village, and no young man of the 
 community had a more inviolable place in popular confidence and 
 affection. On the 1st of October, 1903, he was united in marriage 
 to Miss Jeanette C. Smith, only daughter of Edward B. Smith, a 
 representative citizen of Cazenovia, and since the death of her 
 husband she has made her home with Judge and Mrs. Clark. 
 
 In politics William H. Clark was a stanch supporter of the 
 cause of the Republican party and he was a devout member of the 
 Presbyterian church, as is also his widow. He was affiliated with 
 the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America, was 
 a charter member of the Wayland Hose Company, and also held 
 membership in the Wayland Board of Trade. When but twenty- 
 one years of age he was elected village treasurer of his native 
 place and he retained this office until the time of his death. 
 
 Mrs. Melinda (Wheeler) Bennitt was born in the town of 
 Urbana, February 25, 1831, a daughter of Obediah and Olive 
 (Woodward) Wheeler. Her parents came to Steuben county from 
 Vermont in 1816 and settled in the town of Urbana; where Mr. 
 Wheeler devoted his energies to farming and blacksmithing. The 
 foundation of her education was laid in the common schools and 
 she then entered Clover Street Seminary at Rochester, New York, 
 where she was graduated in 1852. Three years were devoted to teach- 
 ing school. In 1856 she married Benjamin Bennitt, also of the 
 town of Urbana, who became prominent as a lawyer and soldier in 
 the Civil war. On his first enlistment in the Twenty-third New 
 York Volunteers he became a lieutenant and on the expiration of 
 his service in this regiment, he returned home and raised a com- 
 pany for the Twenty-Second New York Cavalry, which he led as 
 captain. He was advanced to the rank of major and was brevetted 
 lieutenant colonel for meritorious service by President Johnson. 
 He died in Hammondsport in 1889. 
 
 Colonel Fred Bennitt, elder son of Benjamin and Melinda 
 Bennitt, is a prominent lawyer of Joliet, Illinois, where he is also 
 interested in manufacturing enterprises. Colonel Bennitt was 
 for many years in command of the Third Illinois National Guard 
 and led that regiment to Porto Rico in the war with Spain. Colonel 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 701 
 
 Bemiitt married Annie E. Reed, a daughter of Samuel B. Reed, 
 a distinguished civil engineer and railroad builder, who was chief 
 engineer in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. They 
 have two children, Mrs. Elbert Bates and Fred Dwight Bennitt. 
 
 Mark Bennitt, second son of Benjamin and Melinda Bennitt, 
 is also a resident of Joliet. He formerly was engaged in news- 
 paper work in Elmira and Buffalo, New York. He organized the 
 General Press Bureaus of the Pan American and Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Expositions and managed them during the exposition periods. 
 He was editor in chief of a comprehensive history of the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition. He is now associated with large organiza- 
 tions in the colonization of western irrigated lands. He married 
 Helen Tallett at Elmira, New York, in 1890 and they have two 
 children, Dorman Tallett and Katharine Esther Bennitt. 
 
 Mrs. Melinda Bennitt is a communicant of the Protestant 
 Episcopal church and an active Daughter of the American Revolu- 
 tion. She is well known for her literary taste and writings for the 
 county press. In 1873 she joined with Mrs. E. B. Fairehild in 
 establishing the Hammondsport Herald and continued as its editor 
 for some time. She has long been active in the cause of education 
 and was for twelve years a member of the Board of Education of 
 Hammondsport. 
 
 John Ransom Sheldon certainly deserves representation 
 among the men who have been instrumental in promoting the wel- 
 fare of Hornell. He has done much to advance the wheels of 
 progress, aiding materially in the development of business activ- 
 ity and energy, on which the prosperity and growth of the state 
 always depend. He has found in each transition stage opportunity 
 for further effort and broader labor and his enterprise has not 
 only contributed to his individual success but has also been of 
 marked value to the community in which he makes his home. Since 
 1898 Mr. Sheldon has lived retired from the cares of active busi- 
 ness affiairs. For more than two-score years he was actively en- 
 gaged in the hardware business at Hornell, where he is now en- 
 joying a well deserved leisure, his home being at No. 56 Maple 
 street. 
 
 Mr. Sheldon was born in Hornellsville, Steuben county, New 
 York, July 6, 1833, a son of Orson Sheldon, the family being of 
 substantial New England ancestry. His grandfather, John 
 Sheldon, a native of Connecticut, followed the march of civiliza- 
 tion westward when young, settling in the vicinity of Lebanon, 
 Madison county. New York, in the pioneer days, and directing his 
 attention to agricultural pursuits. Orson Sheldon was born, in 
 1807, in Lebanon, New York, where he grew to adult age. From 
 1832 until 1836 he resided in Steuben county and thereaftei- for 
 two years was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Alfred, Allegany 
 county. New York. Returning, in 1838, to his native county, he 
 was in business in Lebanon for some time. In 1851 he established 
 
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 his home in Hornellsvilie, Steubeu county, and was here a resi- 
 dent until his death, in IbTO, a part of the time being in business 
 as a dry-goods merchant. His wile, whose maiden name was Jane 
 Jti'. llartshorn, was born, in 1811, in Lebanon, Madison county, and 
 she was summoned to the life eternal in 1892. Her father, Jacob 
 llartshorn, a native of Connecticut, was of English lineage and 
 was one of the pioneer settlers of Aladison county. New York. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Orson Sheldon became the parents of two children and of 
 the number John llausom, the oldest member of the parental house- 
 hold, and Frederick M., of Buffalo, New York, the youngest in or- 
 der of birth, are now living. 
 
 Until attaining his majority John R. Sheldon remained at 
 home, assisting .his father in the store and attending the public 
 schools of Lebanon. When ready to assume the real responsibilities 
 of life he decided upon the hardware busines as a good field for 
 operation and accordingly established himself in business as a 
 hardware merchant at Hornell, in 1858. The firm of Sheldon 
 Brothers, retail and wholesale dealers in hardware, was formed and 
 rapidly built- up a large and representative patronage, it having 
 an extended trade in this section of the state, and maintaining 
 a number of traveling salesmen on the road. For fully forty years, 
 from 1858 to 1898, was Mr. Sheldon identified with this line of 
 enterprise and with other important financial ventures in Hornell. 
 in the latter year, however, he withdrew from active participa- 
 tion in the affairs of the business world and he has since lived in 
 retirement, in the full enjoyment of former years of earnest toil 
 and endeavor. He has maintained his home in this city for a 
 period of sixty years and is one of the oldest residents in the 
 place. When he first came here, in 1851, Hornellsvilie was a town 
 of seven hundred inhabitants and it now boasts a population of 
 fourteen thousand. A sound advocate of the principles of the 
 Republican party Mr. Sheldon has been most active in public af- 
 fairs and served for a number of years as a member of the board of 
 trustees of the village. He is widely known throughout the coun- 
 try and holds a distinctively high place in the confidence and re- 
 gard of his fellow men. 
 
 Mr. Sheldon has been twice married, his first union, in 1862, 
 being to Miss Lydia P Canfield, a native of Elmira, New York. 
 She passed to eternal rest in 1905 and is survived by two chil- 
 dren,— William C, who died May 18, 1882, and Mary J., who is 
 now wife of R^v. Thomas Stephenson, residing in Hornell, New 
 York. In 1907 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sheldon to 
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 tributing greatly to the growth and prosperity of this section of 
 the state. In every sense of the word he is a representative citizen, 
 whose loyalty and public-spirit have been of the most prominent 
 order. It is to the inherent force of character and commendable 
 ambition and the unremitting diligence of Mr. Sheldon himself 
 that he steadily advanced in the business world until he eventually 
 occupied a leading place among the active and representative 
 men of Hornell. 
 
 George 'Wollage Pratt.— Among the prominent citizens 
 whom Corning has been called upon to mourn within the past few 
 years none will be more generally missed than the late George 
 Wollage Pratt, whose death, which occurred at his home, No. 138 
 Cedar street, at a quarter after two o'clock, Wednesday morning, 
 October 3, 1906, was a cause of deep regret not only to his im- 
 mediate family and friends but to the public. Taken desperately 
 ill the preceding May, his death was almost momentarily expected 
 for ten days, but his strong vitality conquered and in a few weeks 
 he was able to sit up a while each day. With increasing strength 
 his desire to once more look after his personal interests caused 
 him to be wheeled to the Corning Journal office, where the greater 
 portion of his business career had been spent, his last visit to the 
 editorial sanctum having been made on September 27. On Sep- 
 tember 30, after retiring for the night, he was seized with an at- 
 tack of acute indigestion, and, unable to recover from the effects 
 of the great suffering and the ensuing prostration he quietly passed 
 to rest in the home in which he had resided since 1860. 
 
 'Sh-. Pratt was born April 17, 1821, at May's Mills, midway 
 between Penn Yan and Dresden, in the town of Milo, then Ontario 
 but now Yates county, New York, a son of Joel B. Pratt. Joel 
 B. Pratt was born in 1795 in Colchester, Connecticut, and in 
 1819 became a resident of what is now Yates county, New York. 
 In June, 1834, Joel B. Pratt came with his family to Steuben 
 county, locating in the old town of Painted Post, now known as 
 Corning, and for a number of years had a carding and cloth-dress- 
 ing shop at the Mills, in what is now Hammond street, in the first 
 ward of the city of Corning. A man of much intelligence and of 
 strong convictions, he was an earnest advocate of total abstin- 
 ence and one of the few stanch and fearless anti-slavery men of his 
 day to be found in this section of the Empire state. He married 
 Cerinthia Wollage, who died October 10, 1867, in Binghamton, 
 New York, aged seventy-three years. He survived her, passing 
 away in Corning, New York, February 21, 1869. 
 
 Prior to coming, on June 20, 1834, with his parents to Corning, 
 George W. Pratt attended school at Dresden, and at Avon, New 
 York. He subsequently worked in his father's carding shop, as 
 chance offered attending the local schools and finally becoming 
 a district school teacher. Entering the Geneva Medical College, at 
 Geneva, New York, in 1842, he was there graduated with the degree 
 
706 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 of M. D. in January, 1845, and the ensuing four years was en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession at Corning. Going to 
 Michigan in September, 1849, Dr. Pratt continued to practice medi- 
 cine, and in addition embarked in journalistic work, being from 
 February, 1850, until May, 1851, editor of the Statesman, an 
 influential Whig paper at Marshall, Michigan. Returning to Corn- 
 ing, he became, in July, 1851, editor and part owner of the Corn- 
 ing Journal, which had been in existence at that time for four 
 years. In April, 1853, he purchased his partner's interest in the 
 paper, and, with the exception of a brief period when he had a 
 partner, he owned and edited the Corning Journal until his 
 death. In September, 1891, at the age of three score and ten years, 
 he established an afternoon edition of the Journal, and in 1905 
 the Weekly Journal was merged with the Daily Journal, to save 
 the labor and expense of two newspapers. 
 
 In early life Mr. Pratt was a strong anti-slavery man and a 
 stanch adherent of the Whig party, in 1854 joining the ranks of 
 the Republican organization. He was one of two delegates elected 
 from this assembly district of Steuben county to the first Repub- 
 lican state convention held in the state of New York, in Syracuse 
 in 1855, and was one of the eight vice-presidents of that conven- 
 tion. He was afterwards many times a delegate to state conven- 
 tions, being prominent in party affairs. In 1861 Mr. Pratt was 
 appointed a state canal coUecter at Corning, a position which he 
 held a number of years. He was appointed in 1872 by President 
 Grant postmaster at Corning, and held the office four years. Be- 
 ing appointed to the same position in 1890 by President Harrison, 
 he served another four years. In 1887, without his previous knowl- 
 edge, Mr. Pratt was appointed by Governor Hill as a member of 
 the first board of managers of a projected state hospital for the 
 insane to be located at Ogdensburg. During the four years that 
 he remained on that board a fine hospital was erected at a large 
 cost. 
 
 A man of deep religious convictions, he united with the Pres- 
 byterian church in early life and was ever afterwards an ardent 
 worker, for many years being a Sunday-school and Bible class 
 teacher. Mr. Pratt was a charter member of the New York State 
 Press Association, which was organized in 1853. He was for over 
 fifty years a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of 
 Masons, and was a life member of the Masonic organizations of 
 Corning. 
 
 Mr. Pratt married, September 19, 1846, Helen Melvina Hayt, 
 of Patterson, Putnam county, New York. She died April 4, 1880, 
 at the comparatively early age of fifty -five years. Of the six 
 children born of their union, three have passed to the life beyond, 
 as follows: Theodore Steele, died aged twenty-one years, Feb- 
 ruary 3, 1872, at Riverside, California, where the previous year 
 he had embarked in business as an orange grower; Sophie Steele, 
 the youngest child, 'died November 27, 1889, in Corning, aged 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEiSr COUNTY 707 
 
 twenty-three years; Claudius B., the first-born, died May 30, 1850, 
 aged two years. The three children living are George E., of Berke- 
 ley, California, third vice-president of The Realty Syndicate, one 
 of the largest corporations on the Pacific Coast, with offices in Oak- 
 land, California; Ransom, of Berkeley, California, secretary and 
 manager of the San Francisco office of the Bausch & Lomb Optical 
 Company; and Harry Hayt, for many years associated with his 
 father in the management of the Corning Journal, of which he is 
 now the editor. Harry Hayt Pratt is also postmaster of Corning. 
 George W. Pratt was for more than fifty-five years the editor 
 of the Corning Journal. He had a high sense of the dignity and 
 power of journalism. His convictions of right were positive ; his 
 sense of justice was keen. A writer of unusual force and ability 
 he was fearless in the expression of his views and took rank during 
 his long editorial career as one of the strongest individuals on the 
 "country press" of New York state. In private life he was kindly, 
 helpful, generous and broad-minded. He was a man of unblemished 
 integrity and his influence was constantly exerted for the right. 
 He ever sought to be useful, and when he died it was recognized 
 that one of the ablest journalists and one of the best of men had 
 gone hence. 
 
 Harry H. Pratt. — A man of energy and enterprise, brainy 
 and bright, Harry H. Pratt, editor of the Corning Daily Journal 
 and Coming's postmaster, has achieved a large measure of success 
 in his newspaper work, and as a public official, a man and a citizen 
 is influential and popular. He was born in this city jSTovember 11, 
 1864, youngest son of the late George W. Pratt, of whom a brief 
 personal history may be found on another page of this volume. 
 
 Brought up in Corning, Harry H. Pratt was graduated from 
 the Free Academy with the class of 1882, and immediately entered 
 the office of the Corning Journal, then a weekly paper of which his 
 father was the proprietor. This paper was established in 1847 and 
 six years later became the property of George W. Pratt, who had 
 previously had an interest in it for two years, and who, in Septem- 
 ber, 1891, began its daily issue. On the death of the proprietor, in 
 October, 1906, the paper passed into the hands of a corporation, 
 and Harry H. Pratt was made president of the company and its 
 editorial manager. Full of personal resources and of undoubted 
 ability, he is enthusiastic in his work, the Journal, which is an in- 
 fluential daily, bearing the marks of his individuality. In 1905 Mr. 
 Pratt was appointed postmaster at Corning by President Roosevelt, 
 and in December, 1909, was reappointed to the same position by 
 President Taft. 
 
 Active in public affairs, Mr. Pratt was for five years a member 
 of the Corning Board of Health. He is prominent in Republican 
 ranks, having rendered his party effective service with his pen and 
 as a delegate to district, state, congressional and senatorial conven- 
 tions. Fraternally he has taken the thirty-second degree of ilasonry 
 
708 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 and for one term was worshipful master of Painted Post Lodge No- 
 ] 17, Free and Accepted .Masons. For two terms he was exalted ruler 
 in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 On September 14, 1892, Mr. Pratt was united in marriage with 
 Clarissa Chapman Spencer, a daughter of Hon. George T. Spencer, 
 a prominent citizen of Steuben county, and to them six children 
 have been born, namely: Sophie and George Wollage (twins), Hugh 
 Spencer, Harriet Stacy, Ransom and Helen Hayt Pratt. 
 
 James S. Harrison.— A prominent banker and manufacturer 
 of Steuben county. New York, and a citizen whose loyalty and 
 public spirit have done much to advance the progress and develop- 
 ment of Addison is Hon. James S. Harrison. He was born in 
 Woodhull township, this county, on the 15th of February, 1851, 
 his ancestry being of English extraction. His grandfather was 
 long a practicing physican and surgeon in Otsego county, where 
 he resided for a number of years and where his death occurred at 
 an advanced age. James S. is a son of Salmon Harrison, a native 
 of Laurens, Otsego county, whence he removed to Steuben county, 
 settling in Woodhull township, when about thirty-five years of 
 age. He married Miss Amy E. Haight, also of Otsego county, and 
 they became the parents of four children : Charles S. is a resident 
 of Flint, Michigan ; L. Adelia is deceased ; Howard B. maintains his 
 home in Albany, New York ; and James S. is the immediate subject 
 of this review. Salmon Harrison was identified with agricultural 
 pursuits during the major portion of his active business career and 
 he was an influential citizen, filling many important offices of pub- 
 lic trust in the community in which he elected to maintain his 
 home. At the time of the organization of the Republican party, 
 in 1858, he became aligned as a stanch supporter of its principles 
 and policies and he ever contributed in generous measure to all 
 matters projected for the general welfare of the community. For 
 about twelve years he was the efficient incumbent of the office of 
 justice of the peace and for a time he was tax assessor of Wood- 
 hull township. His religious faith was in harmony with the tenets 
 of the Baptist church, in the various departments of whose work 
 he was an active factor. He was summoned to the life eternal at the 
 age of eighty-four years and his cherished and devoted wife was 
 eighty-two years of age at the time of her demise. 
 
 Hon. James S. Harrison was reared to maturity on the old 
 home farm, in the work and management of which he early became 
 associated with his father, and his rudimentary education con- 
 sisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools 
 of his native township. Later he attended Alfred University, at 
 Alfred, Allegany county, New York, being enrolled as a student in 
 that institution for two years, at the expiration of which he turned 
 his attention to business affairs. In 1870 he made his advent in 
 Addison, where he began the manufacture of agricultural wood 
 work, continuing in this line of enterprise to the present time and 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 711 
 
 developing it till he now gives constant employment to about fifteen 
 skilled workmen. In 1902 he became extensively interested in 
 banking pursuits and in that year was elected president of the 
 First National Bank of Addison, being incumbent of this respons- 
 ible office at the present time, in 1910. This substantial financial 
 institution has a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars and a sur- 
 plus of fifty thousand dollars. Its official corps consists of Mr. 
 Harrison, president, as already noted, E. M. Welles, vice-president; 
 and W. A. Cronk, cashier. Besides the ones mentioned Mr. Har- 
 rison has other important interests in and adjacent to Addison and 
 he is considered one of the ablest and most honorable business men 
 in the county. His helpfulness to all measures for the public good 
 is proverbial. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the Ee- 
 publican party and in the session of 1905-6 he represented his 
 assembly district in the state legislature, where he was a member of 
 various important committees and took part in the deliberations 
 of the floor of the house, well demonstrating his ability and political 
 integrity. He has filled the office of supervisor of his township and 
 in different ways has had much to do with the public affairs of 
 Addison and of the county. He and his wife are devout members 
 of the Presbyterian church and he is affiliated with various frater- 
 nal and social organizations of representative character. 
 
 In the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harri- 
 son to ]\Iiss Carrie E. Griswold, a daughter of Linus Griswold, a 
 representative citizen of Addison. They have two children : How- 
 ard G., born in 1884, was graduated in Cornell University as a 
 member of the class of 1907, with the degree of Civil Engineer; 
 and Celestia G., born in 1889, remains at the parental home. The 
 Harrison family is one of prominence in Addison and their spa- 
 cious and attractive home is a recognized center of gracious hos- 
 pitality and refinement. 
 
 George S. Gofp, il. D., manager of the Crystal City Gas 
 Company, Corning, New York, has been a resident of Corning 
 since 1894 and has lived in Steuben county all his life. He was 
 born at Cameron Mills, this county, December 7, 1853, son of Finla 
 Goff. He received his early education in the schools of his native 
 town, and upon reaching manhood decided to prepare himself for 
 the practice of medicine. Accordingly, in the fall of 1875, he en- 
 tered the medical department of the University of New York and 
 graduated there in the spring of 1877. Immediately after his 
 graduation he opened an office in Tollsville, New York, where, how- 
 ever, he remained only a few months. Returning to Cameron 
 Mills he established himself in practice among the people who had 
 known him from childhood, and there for a period of seventeen 
 years he successfully conducted the practice of medicine. In 1894 
 Doctor Goff moved to Corning. Here he continued his practice 
 for a time, but of recent years has abandoned it. From time to 
 time he has made profitable investments. He was the promoter of 
 
713 HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 the Crystal City Gas Company, in which he is a heavy stockholder, 
 and for the past five years has been general manager of the com- 
 pany. 
 
 Dr. Goff has been twice married. His first wife, Lucinda 
 (Northrop) Goff, was bom March 12, 1852, and died December 7, 
 1890. By her he had three children: Mrs. Josephine Almy, a 
 resident of Oklahoma; Raymond F. Goff, of Oklahoma City, Okla- 
 homa ; and George Victor Goff, of Clean, New York. For his sec- 
 ond wife, on October 25, 1891, he married Miss Claribel Alexander, 
 who was bom March 7, 1875. The only child of this union is M. 
 Winifred, who lives at home. 
 
 Dr. Goff has membership in the Steuben County and the New 
 York State Medical Associations, and also is a member of the City 
 Club of Corning. Politically he is a Republican. He served eight 
 years as health officer and nine years as coroner. He and his fam- 
 ily are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 S. GiLMOEE Haight.— A native son of Steuben county who has 
 attained success and prestige as one of its representative business 
 men is Samuel Gilmore Haight, who is engaged in the drug busi- 
 ness at Hammondsport, where he is also operator for the Western 
 Union Telegraph Company and incumbent of the office of township 
 clerk. He was born in Urbana township, this county, on the 27th of 
 January, 1873, and is a son of Samuel Charles and Mary E. (Gil- 
 more) Haight, the former of whom was born in Dutchess county, 
 New York, and the latter in Urbana township, Steuben county, be- 
 ing a daughter of Richard and Martha (Osborn) Gilmore. Samuel C. 
 Haight became one of the representative farmers of Urbana town- 
 ship, where he continued to reside until 1885, when he removed to 
 the village of Hammondsport, where he lived retired until his death, 
 which occurred on the 25th of April, 1909, at which time he was 
 seventy years of age. He was a lad of fourteen years at the time 
 of his parents' removal from Dutchess county to Steuben county 
 and he was a son of David W. and Sarah (Tompkins) Haight. His 
 father became a prosperous farmer in Urbana township and there 
 continued to reside until his death, as did also his wife. Mrs. 
 Mary E. (Gilmore) Haight now resides in Hammondsport in the 
 home of her son, S. Gilmore, the subject of this review, and she 
 has attained to the venerable age of seventy-four years. Samuel 
 C. Haight served two years as a loyal soldier of the Union during 
 the Civil war and while in service he was struck by lightning, 
 though the injury did not prove fatal. He was commissioned cap- 
 tain of his company but the result of his injuries from the stroke 
 of lightning compelled him to resign his commission. He was a 
 member of Company E, First New York Artillery. He was a Re- 
 publican. His daughter, Nancy E., is the wife of M. A. Hoyt, 
 of Hammondsport, and her sister, Mary, is the wife of Rev. 
 John Hickok, who is a clergyman of the Methodist church ; he now 
 has pastoral charge of the church at Ashville, Chautauqua county. 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUA'TY 713 
 
 S. Gilmore Haigiit gained his early educational training in 
 the public schools of Steuben county and as a youth he learned the 
 art of telegraphy. When eighteen years of age he became identi- 
 fied with railroad interests at telegraph operator at Rheims, Steu- 
 ben county, where he also served as station agent for two years. 
 He then came to Hammondsport as telegraph operator and station 
 agent and here he served in this dual capacity for four years, at the 
 expiration of which he entered the service of the Great Northern 
 railway, near Spokane, Washington. He remained in the west one 
 year and he then returned to Steuben county, where he had charge 
 of his father's farm for the succeeding year. Since that time he 
 has been engaged in the drug business in Hammondsport with his 
 brother-in-law, Maurice A. Hoyt, and who controlled a substantial 
 and representative enterprise in this line. Mr. Haight is also 
 serving as operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company at 
 Hammondsport and he has been incumbent of the office of clerk 
 of Hammondsport township, having been elected on the ticket of 
 the Democratic party, of whose principles and policies he is a 
 stanch advocate. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and 
 the Improved Order of Redmen. He takes a lively interest in all 
 that touches the welfare of his home city and county and is essen- 
 tially progressive and public-spirited. 
 
 In the year 1902 Mr. Haight was united in marriage to Miss 
 Jennie Relyea, who was born and reared in Steuben county and 
 who is a daughter of Frank Relyea, who is now engineer of the 
 city water works of Elmira, New York. Mrs. Haight as graduated 
 in the high school at Prattsburg, later attended Franklin Acad- 
 emy and finally was graduated in the state normal school at Gene- 
 seo. Prior to her marriage she was a successful and popular 
 teacher in the public schools for several terms. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Haight have no children. 
 
 Herbert A. Heminway.— One of the best known and most 
 successful attorneys that ever graced the Steuben county bar is 
 Herbert A. Heminway, of Corning, who has the rare logical faculty 
 of applying the standard principles of law with wonderful power 
 to the cases he may have in hand, never being led astray from the 
 point at issue. A son of the late Allen Heminway, he was born 
 August 25, 1875, in Nunda, Livingston county. New York, being 
 the third child in a family of four children that grew to years of 
 maturity. 
 
 Allen Heminway was born and brought up in New York state 
 and during his active career was variously employed. He lived in 
 different places, spending his last years in Pownal, Vermont, where 
 he passed away at the age of seventy-two years. He married Caro- 
 line D. Underwood, who was born three score and ten years ago, 
 and is now living in Pownal, Vermont. 
 
 Spending the days of his boyhood in Bennington county, Ver- 
 mont, Herbert A. Heminway was graduated from the Bennington 
 
714 [IISTOKV OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 High School in 1895, and subsequently attended the Boys' High 
 School in New York city. Entering then Cornell University he 
 was graduated from the law department with the class of 1900, 
 and the same year located in Corning. As a general practitioner 
 he has been exceedingly fortunate, his breadth of wisdom and 
 fertility of resource winning him a noteworthy position among the 
 lawyers of prominence and eminence. He is now attorney for the 
 towns of Erwin and Hornby, and as a leading member of the Re- 
 publican party he takes an active interest in public affairs. Fra- 
 ternally Mr. Heminway is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging 
 to the lodge, chapter, council and consistory; is also a member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belongs to Corning 
 Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. 
 
 Mr. Heminway married, June 25, 1902, Ella May Daley, a 
 daughter of John P. and Jane Dalej'^, of Bennington, Vermont, 
 and of their union two children have been born, Caroline Ella and 
 Marion Louise. 
 
 Dr. Philo L. Alden was born in the town of Howard, Steu- 
 ben county. New York, August 27, 1856. His father, George V. 
 Alden, was born May 17, 1824, and died in 1887, aged sixty-three 
 years. He was a native of Yates county and came to Howard 
 with his father in 1830. He became a millwright, a lumberman 
 and a civil engineer and did much work as a draftsman. He died 
 in Howard, after a life of activity and usefulness. He took little 
 practical interest in politics, but was well known as a Mason. He 
 married Ann C. Chapman in 1847. She was born in Moskow, New 
 York, in 1825, a daughter of James and Lavinia (Utter) Chap- 
 man. Dr. Alden had the following brothers and sisters : Josie 
 died at the age of two; George died at the age of fifty years; 
 Frank died at the age of sixty years; Henry D. died in infancy; 
 Charles is a machinist at Warren, Ohio; Emma is the wife of 
 Charles Hubbell, of Union City, Pennsylvania; Omar resides at 
 Warren, Ohio. The subject's grandfather on the paternal side was 
 Barney Alden, a cabinetmaker, carpenter and builder, who with 
 his brother erected the two churches in Howard. He died August 
 2, 1871. His wife, who was Nancy Devoe, was born September 11, 
 1800, and died November 9, 1876. Manoah Alden, father of Bar- 
 ney Alden and great-grandfather of Dr. Alden, settled in Steuben 
 county in 1776 and made a success as a pioneer undertaker and 
 cabinetmaker. His wife lived to be one hundred and three years 
 old. Dr. Alden of this review has a history of John and Priscilla 
 Alden family of the Pilgrims down to 1865, and which includes 
 his grandparents, thus making the Doctor a direct descendant of 
 this historic family. 
 
 Dr. Alden completed the course of the public school, was 
 then graduated from the high school and later attended Alfred 
 University at Alfred, Allegany county, New York. From 1878 to 
 1883 he was a salesman at Buffalo, New York. Then, at Pulteney, 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 717 
 
 he began the study of medicine, and in 1887 was graduated from 
 the medical department of the University of Buffalo. He began 
 his professional work in Wayne, remaining there until 1889, when 
 he located at Hammondsport, where he has won high rank both 
 as physician and surgeon. He spent the season of 1905 abroad to 
 better prepare himself for his practice and in England he visited 
 many Alden families, notably in Oxford, the home of the Aldens. 
 He is a member of the Lake Keuka Medical Association and has 
 been for twenty years a member of the Steuben County Medical 
 Association. He is a member of the New York State Sanitary 
 Officers' Association, also president of the Hammondsport Busi- 
 ness Men's Association, Incorporated, and was appointed by 
 President Cleveland president of the pension board and filled the 
 office six years. 
 
 Dr. Alden finds time from the exacting demands of his pro- 
 fession to keep in touch with the progress of the times. As a 
 Democrat he has been active in party work and has been called to 
 several offices, notably to that of health officer of the town and 
 corporation, which he held ten years. He is a member of the 
 Corning lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 In 1885 he married Miss Mary Emma Nichol of Pulteney, 
 born November 20, 1865, a daughter of Dr. Lyman and Harriet 
 (Thompson) Nichol, who are living at Pulteney, aged respectively 
 seventy-five and seventy-four years. Dr. and Mrs. Alden have had 
 two children: George Lyman, born in 1887, a trained nurse and 
 a graduate of Portsmouth ; and Edna May, born in 1891, who died 
 in infancy. 
 
 There is nothing of public import at Hammondsport and in 
 the surrounding country in which Dr. Alden is not helpfully in- 
 terested. His profession has made him more observant than the 
 ordinary citizen in many things affecting the public health and the 
 physical well-being of residents in particular localities, and he is, 
 in truth, a model health officer. His public spirit is such that he 
 seldom turns a deaf ear to any proposition looking to the general 
 good. In all that affects Hammondsport and its people he has 
 keen interest and there is no local movement which in his judgment 
 promises to benefit any considerable number of his fellow citizens 
 that does not have his cordial advocacy and his generous support. 
 
 WiLLARD S. Reed.— A man of scholarly attainments, posses- 
 sing good business tact and judgment, Willard S. Reed is well 
 qualified for the responsible position he now holds as cashier of 
 the First National Bank of Corning. A native of Steuben county, 
 he was born May 1, 1871, at Hammondsport, of English ancestors. 
 His father, Walter Reed, was born and bred in Honesdale, Penn- 
 sylvania, from there coming as a young man to Steuben county. 
 Locating at Hammondsport, he embarked in the grape-growing 
 business, in which, notwithstanding his burden of eighty-two years, 
 he is still successfully engaged. He married Catherine Smith, who 
 was born eighty-two years ago in Tompkins county. New York, a 
 
?1S HISTORY OF STEUBE.N COLMl 
 
 daughter of William Smith, whose father was one of the original 
 settlers of Tompkins county. Of the children born of their union 
 five survive, namely: Lawrence F.; George W. ; Elizabeth, wife 
 of Theo. Bennett ; Mary, wife of Asa Robbins ; and Willard S. 
 
 After receiving his diploma at the Haverling Free Academy 
 in Bath with the class of 1892, Willard S. Reed studied law in the 
 office of Charles F. Kingsley, of Bath, and in 1896 was admitted 
 to the bar. Coming directly to Corning Mr. Reed was here engaged 
 in the practice of his profession for eleven years. Accepting the 
 position of cashier in the First National Bank of Corning in 1907 
 he has since retained it. This bank is one of the substantial in- 
 stitutions of Steuben county. On November 10, 1910, its liabilities 
 included a paid-up capital of $100,000; a surplus fund of $50,000; 
 undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid, of $27,956.31 ; with 
 individual deposits subject to check, demand certificates of deposit/ 
 certified checks, cashier's checks outstanding and United States de- 
 posits, amounting to $868,225.93. Its resources at the same time, 
 including loans and discounts, overdrafts, bonds and premiums, 
 house, furniture and fixings, stocks, money due, checks, notes, 
 money on hand, bank reserve fund, specie, legal tender notes and 
 redemption fund, amounting to $1,146,140.25. The bank oflScers 
 are men of recognized financial ability and integrity, James A. 
 Drake being president; George B. Bradley, vice-president; Willard 
 S. Reed, cashier; and Charles M. Hyde, assistant cashier, while the 
 directors are James A. Drake, George B. Bradley, Willard S. Reed, 
 John L. Lewis, C. Glen Cole, Eran F. Williams and Charles M. 
 Hyde. 
 
 In his political affiliations Mr. Reed is a Democrat, and m 1897 
 and 1898 was city attorney, while in 1900 and 1901 he served as 
 city judge. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion, and belongs to Lodge No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. 
 
 ]\Ir. Reed married, July 24, 1893, Estelle Brush, a daughter 
 of James and Malvina Brush, and into their home two children 
 have been born, Walter and Charlotte. 
 
 Lee Vebne Rosenkrans, justice of the peace and dealer in 
 real estate, Wayland, Steuben county, New York, was born on the 
 old Rosenkrans homestead, September 22, 1871, a son of Hamilton 
 S. and Helen M. (Davis) Rosenkrans. His father died December 
 14, 1897, leaving a widow, three sons and two daughters as follows : 
 Maynard H., of Wayland, is a painter; Merton J. is in the employ 
 of the Standard Oil Company at Kansas City; Lee Verne of this 
 sketch ; Jennie J. married Bert Goodno, a farmer living in Roch- 
 ester, New York; Hattie J. is the wife of Hugh McKay, of Drury's 
 Bluff, Virginia. 
 
 Lee Verne Rosenkrans left the public school at eighteen and 
 took a commercial course under the preceptorship of Professor 
 Pangborn of Wayland. To the education thus acquired he has 
 added very extensively by a system of self study, and it was broad- 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUXTY 719 
 
 ened by his study of the law. The latter he carried on while he 
 was managing the manufactory of cider vinegar established by his 
 father and laying the foundation for his present fine business in 
 real estate. 
 
 Throughout Steuben and adjoining counties Mr. Rosenkrans 
 is known as a devoted and active and influential member of the 
 Democratic party. For a decade he has been prominent in the 
 public business of the town of Wayland. When he had but just 
 attained his majority he was honored by his fellow citizens with 
 the responsible post of inspector of elections, and at twenty-eight 
 he was elected justice of the peace, which office he has held by suc- 
 cessive reelections to the present time. He was a delegate to a state 
 senatorial convention and at numerous important conventions has 
 been placed on committees where the finest ability was demanded 
 and in the work of which he acquitted himself with the greatest 
 credit. It is to such men of the younger class as is Mr. Rosen- 
 krans that Steuben county looks for the carrying forward of the 
 traditions of its glorious past, and nobly are they rising to the re- 
 sponsibility. There is not in Wayland a man of better developed 
 public spirit than that always exhibited by Mr. Rosenkrans in all 
 his dealings with his fellow citizens. Indeed, it is not to be be- 
 lieved that he would refuse his generous support to any measure 
 which in his opinion promised to benefit the general public. 
 
 A. D. Stevens, a stockholder in and superintendent of the 
 Painted Post Lumber Company, was born in Avon, Livingston 
 county. New York, January 19, 1864, a son of Edwin and Juliette 
 (Deming) Stevens. His father, born in Orleans county. New 
 York, devoted his active life to farming and now lives in retire- 
 ment at Painted Post, aged about seventy-four years. His mother, 
 who first saw the light of day in Livingston county. New York, 
 lived about forty-five years, all of the time at Avon, the place of 
 her birth. She bore her husband children named as follows : A. D., 
 the immediate subject of this notice, and John D., who is a resi- 
 dent of Chicago, Illinois. The former spent his boyhood days in 
 Livingston county and was educated in the Union school at Avon. 
 He began his business career in the lumber trade in his native 
 town, where for about three years he was employed by the firm of 
 Watkins & Bennett. From Avon he came to Painted Post in 1886 
 as foreman for the lumber firm of Stanton, Crandall & Company. 
 After the dissolution of that concern he was for about two years 
 in Mr. Stanton 's employ, and when the firm of Stanton & Brewster 
 was organized he passed into its service, remaining with it till he 
 became one of the organizers and superintendent of the Painted 
 Post Lumber Company, with the management of which he has been 
 efficiently prominent to the present time. This concern, employing 
 in its yards and planing mill about twenty-five men, is one of the 
 leading business institutions of the town. 
 
 Not alone in connection with the Painted Post Lumber Com- 
 pany is Mr. Stevens active in the community. With W. A. Clark 
 
 Vol. 11—12 
 
720 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 he is concerned in real estate transactions of considerable im- 
 portance, they having platted and offered for sale to home builders 
 a two and one-half acre tract on the street car line near the center 
 of the village. For many years he has taken an active interest in 
 the affairs of Painted Post. He was village trustee four years and 
 then was elected a member of the village board. In 1909 and again 
 in 1910 he was elected to the presidency of the body just men- 
 tioned. Throughout the county he is known as a prominent Odd 
 Fellow, having been noble grand of his lodge at Painted Post, 
 district deputy of District No. 1, and a member of the Encamp- 
 ment and of the Rebekahs. As a Mason he is no less well known, 
 having passed from the Blue Lodge into the Royal Arch and Chap- 
 ter degrees. His connection with Masonry began about eighteen 
 years ago. He was the first noble grand in the local history of 
 Odd Fellowship, and was a member of the building committee that 
 had supervision of the erection of the Painted Post Odd Fellows' 
 temple. His identification with the village hook and ladder com- 
 pany has been long. In fact, there is no important local interest 
 of a public character to which he has not been helpful to the extent 
 of his ability. In political alliance he is Republican, doing all 
 that he can to advance the interests of his party in village, county, 
 state and nation. In 1894 Mr. Stevens married Miss Lydia Fan- 
 eher, daughter of Delos Fancher, of Corning, New York. 
 
 Frank H. Lawrence, M. D.. a well known and successful 
 physician of Kanona, New York, is a native of Steuben county, 
 born at Arkport, April 14, 1857, a son of Hiram and Jane (Hill) 
 Lawrence, natives respectively of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. 
 Hiram Lawrence was a farmer and upon coming to Steuben county 
 opened the second grocery store in Hornell, but afterward engaged 
 ill farming near Arkport. He was active in political affairs and 
 was a strong -Democrat. Besides Frank H. he and his wife had 
 another son, who is a farmer and lives near Arkport. Mrs. Law- 
 rence was a daughter of Joseph Hill. Hiram Lawrence died in 
 1866, at the age of fifty-two years. 
 
 After completing the course in the public schools of his locali- 
 ty Frank H. Lawrence attended Rogersville Seminary two years 
 and afterward entered a medical college of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 
 which he graduated in 1880, with the degree of M. D. He immedi- 
 ately took up his residence at Kanona for the practice of his pro- 
 fession and has built up a large and gratifying practice. He is 
 recognized as a physician of considerable sldll and readily wins 
 the confidence and esteem of his patients. He served seven years 
 as a member of the medical pension board of the county, and is 
 active in the medical societies of both county and state, having 
 belonged to both several years. In polities he is a Democrat and 
 interested in every movement for the progress or well-being of the 
 community. He served four years efficiently as postmaster of 
 Kanona, assuming office in 1882. Fraternally he is a member of 
 the Masonic lodge at Bath and of the Elks Lodge at Hornell. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 731 
 
 Dr. Lawrence married, in 1874, Lulu Dagert, daughter of 
 Horace and Nancy Dagert, of Avoca, who died in 1891, at the age 
 of thirty-two years, leaving one child, Robert, who lives at home. 
 Dr. Lawrence married for his second wife Jennie Bonney, daugh- 
 ter of John Bonney, a carpenter living at Prattsburg. No chil- 
 dren have been born of this union. 
 
 Edwin Clarke English.— The name of English is well and 
 honorably known in Steuben county, and Edwin Clarke English, 
 one of Corning 's leading attorneys, is a native and a life-long lesi- 
 dent of this progressive portion of the Empire state. He was 
 born October 27, 1837, at Caton, and is the son of Amzi and Sally 
 (Gorton) English. On his mother's side he comes of a family 
 whose identification with the affairs of the American nation was 
 very soon after the landing of the historic Mayflower. The founder 
 of the family on the shores of the new world was Samuel Gorton, 
 who was born in 1592 at Gorton, within the limits of the city of 
 Manchester, England, and landed at Boston in the month of 
 March, 1637. He was a man prominent in the affairs of the budding 
 New England and one of the early founders of the colonies of 
 Providence and Rhode Island. 
 
 Edwin Clarke English, the son of a farmer and Methodist 
 Episcopal minister, passed his youth in Steuben county and re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the public schools, later ma- 
 triculating in Alfred Academy. He devoted the gifts of an eagei' 
 intellect principally to the English branches and when his school 
 days were over devoted himself to agriculture, which for a time he 
 thought of adopting as a life work, but abandoned owing to his 
 health being impaired in the army. In the year 1874 he made a 
 radical step by removing from his native town of Caton to what 
 was then the village of Corning, and it has been his pleasure to 
 witness the steady growth and improvement of said village into 
 one of the state's most prosperous centers, at the same time assist- 
 ing in full measure towards this result. A long cherished desire 
 to become a lawyer had meantime reached fruition, his training for 
 the profession having been acquired in the law office of Spencer & 
 Mills, where he read law for three years. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1877 and to full practice in 1879, and ever since that 
 date has practiced law here, being recognized widely as conserva- 
 tive, reliable and well-read, and, in short, one of the able repre- 
 sentatives of a high calling. 
 
 Mr. English is a veteran of the Civil war. When an answer 
 to the importunate inquiry, "Shall the nation liveT' could no 
 longer be denied, Mr. English enlisted in the Twenty -third Regi- 
 ment of New York Volunteer Infantry, the date of this event being 
 October 14, 1861. His service to the Union was of about a year's 
 duration for he was disabled by the breaking down of his health 
 and was discharged from the hospital on November 11, 1862. 
 
?22 HISTOltY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 Mr. English, in testimony of the confidence in which he was 
 held by his fellow citizens, was made supervisor of the town of 
 Caton in 1873-4. Since the year 1874 he has been an active cham- 
 pion of the cause of the Prohibition party, and on its ticket he 
 was nominated for justice of the supreme court of New York state 
 also for attorney general. He is, indeed, one who may be depended 
 upon to give his heart and hand to all good causes and for forty- 
 six years he has been a consistent member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church. 
 
 The foundation of a pleasant life companionship was laid m 
 May, 1866, when Mr. English was united in marriage to Frances 
 P. Gulliver. They have no children. Mr. English is very promi- 
 nent in lodge circles and derives no small amount of pleasure from 
 his association with his fellow men. He is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason, a Knight of Honor, and belongs to several other fraternal 
 ■organizations, in all except the Masonic order having occupied the 
 highest chair. 
 
 Van Buren McCorn.— Numbered among the progressive rep- 
 resentatives of viticulture and wine-producing in Steuben county 
 is Mr. McCorn, who is one of the substantial business men and 
 public-spirited citizens of Hammondsport and who is well en- 
 titled to consideration in this publication. Mr. LleCorn, whose line- 
 age is traced back to stanch Scotch origin, was born in Newfield 
 township, Tompkins county. New York, on the 1st of November, 
 1861, and is a son of John Wesley McCorn, who was born in 
 Orange county, this state, and who devoted the greater portion of 
 his active career to the lumber business. He died at the age of 
 seventy-seven years. He was a son of Moses McCorn, who was 
 born and reared in Scotland and who came with his family to 
 America on a sailing vessel, which in due time arrived in the port 
 of New York city. He settled in Orange county. New York, where 
 he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and he later removed to Tomp- 
 kins county, where he passed the residue of his life and where he 
 died at the age of eighty-eight years. John W. McCorn, father 
 of him whose name initiates this review, was prominently identified 
 with the lumbering industry in Tompkins county, where he built 
 the first large sawmill, from which was furnished the greater por- 
 tion of the lumber utilized in the erection of the earlier buildings 
 of Cornell University, in the city of Ithaca. He controlled six 
 hundred acres of timber land and was a man of much pragmatic 
 ability and of sterling integrity of purpose, so that he ever com- 
 manded the unqualified confidence and esteem of his fellow citi- 
 zens. He continued to reside in Tompkins county until his death. 
 He M'as a stanch Republican in his political proclivities, having 
 united with the party at the time of its organization and having 
 been a zealous worker in behalf of its cause. He was called upon 
 to serve in various local offices of trust and was progressive in his 
 civic attitude. Both he and his wife were devout members of the 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 723 
 
 Presbyterian church. John W. McCorn married Miss Mary Cutter, 
 who was born and reared in Tompkins county, this state, and who 
 was a daughter of Nirum and Rebecca (Dennis) Cutter. Concern- 
 ing the children of John W. and Mary (Cutter) McCorn brief rec-- 
 ord is here entered. Nirum is an expert gun-lock maker and is 
 employed in the Remington Gun Works, and Leroy is associated 
 with his brother, Van Buren, in the grape and wine busmess af 
 Hammondsport. 
 
 Van Buren McCorn, to whom this article is dedicated, was- 
 reared on the old homestead farm, to whose work he early began 
 to contribute his quota, and in the meantime he continued to attend • 
 the common schools of his native county. He was identified with 
 agricultural pursuits until 1890, when he came to Hammondsport,' 
 Steuben county, and associated himself with his brother, Leroy, in 
 the grape and wine business, in which their success has been of 
 unequivocal order. Their vineyards are in excellent condition and 
 produce the finest quality of grapes, from which they manufacture ' 
 all kinds of fine dry wines. Their wine products are shipped to all • 
 parts of the Union and as excellent export trade is also controlled, • 
 the same showing a constantly cumulative tendency. On other pages' 
 of this work is entered a brief review of the career of Leroy Mc- • 
 Corn, who is senior member of the concern. 
 
 Though Mr. McCorn has never sought or desired public ofSce 
 he is loyal to all duties of citizenship and takes a lively interest in 
 local affairs. His political allegiance is given to the Republican 
 party and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he 
 holds membership in the lodge at Hammondsport, and the chapter 
 of Royal Arch Masons at Bath. Both he and his wife are members 
 of the Presbyterian church and are actively identified with the 
 various departments of its work. 
 
 In the year 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCorn 
 to Miss Elizabeth David, who was born near the city of Berlin, 
 Germany, and who was a child at the time of her parents' emigra- 
 tion to America. She is a daughter of Carl David and the maiden 
 name of her mother was Hoffman. Her father is a tanner by trade 
 and during his earlier years of residence in America he followed 
 this vocation. Both he and his wife now reside in Elmira, this 
 state, where he is engaged in the hide and fur business and where 
 he is held in high regard as a man of sterling character. Mr. and 
 Mrs. McCorn have one daughter Ruth, who was born in 1899. Mrs. 
 McCorn has one sister and one brother, and the latter is a pros- 
 perous merchant in the city of Elmira ; he served during the Span- 
 ish-American war and later was with the United States troops in 
 China at the time of the Boxer uprising. 
 
 Thomas F. Rogers.— Ranking high among the ablest lawyers 
 of Steuben county is Thomas F. Rogers, of Corning, who has met 
 with distinguished success in the practice of his profession, to which 
 he is devoted. Thorough and methodical in the preparation of his 
 cases and skilled and judicious in their management, he is. always 
 
724 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 true to his client, to the court and to himself in the conduct of the 
 numerous criminal cases with which he has been associated, having 
 successfully won the attention of the court, the jury and the bar, 
 and almost invariably gained his case. A native of Pennsylvania, 
 he was born June 26, 1879, in Wellsboro, Tioga county, of Irish 
 ancestry. 
 
 Edward Rogers, his father, was born and educated in Ireland. 
 In early manhood, about 1850, he emigrated to the United States, 
 Jocating at Cooperstown, where he followed his trade of a tanner 
 for a few years. Subsequently removing to "Wellsboro, Pennsyl- 
 vania, he was there assistant superintendent or foreman in a tan- 
 nery for a long time. In 1896 he settled in Corning, New York, 
 and has since been here a resident. He married m Elmira, New 
 York, Margaret CuUinan, who was born in Ireland and came with 
 her parents to Elmira, New York, in 1855. Of the children born 
 of their union nine grew to years of maturity, namely : James, who 
 died in Corning in 1906 ; Mary, who married Patrick McManus, of 
 Rochester, died in 1897, leaving two children: Daniel C, of Corn- 
 ing, an engineer on the New York Central Railway, who mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Haischer and lives in Corning ; Edward R., of New 
 York city, in the employ of the New York Central Railway Com- 
 pany as yard superintendent of engines; Ella M. is the wife of 
 Thomas J. Curtin, clerk at the St. James Hotel in Corning; Rose 
 M. is the wife of Dr. J. L. Ronan, of Corning; Emma C. is living 
 with her parents; John J., of Corning, is the proprietor of St. 
 James Hotel; and Thomas P. 
 
 Obtaining his first knowledge of books as a boy in Wellsboro, 
 Thomas F. Rogers continued his studies in the public schools of 
 Corning, subsequently attending the Niagara University. He then 
 entered the law department of Columbia University, from which 
 he was graduated with the class of 1901. Coming immediately to 
 Steuben county, Mr. Rogers opened a law office in Addison, from 
 there coming in a short time to Coming, for three years thereafter 
 being junior member of the law firm of Sebring, Cheney & Rogers. 
 He was afterwards engaged in the practice of his profession alone 
 until February, 1909, when he formed a partnership with W. W. 
 Willard, the firm name having since been "VVillard & Rogers. Mr. 
 Rogers is especially well known as a criminal lawyer of ability, 
 being thoroughly informed on that special branch of law, in the 
 fourteen homicide cases in which he has been retained as counsel 
 having won his cause. 
 
 Mr. Rogers possesses excellent business judgment and has large 
 financial interests, being president of the Corning Motor Car Com- 
 pany and also president of the Wright Motor Car Company of 
 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a part owner of the St. James Hotel, 
 and a stockholder in the National Hotel and in the Haischer Brew- 
 ing Company of Corning. Politically he is actively identified with 
 the Democratic party, snd has served his fellow citizens as city 
 recorder. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Columbus, 
 
HISTORY OF STKUBKX. COUXTY 725 
 
 which he served as grand knight two terms, and oE the Corniug 
 Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. Mr. Rogers has never inarried, his 
 business, mayhap, claiming his attention in the exclusion of matri- 
 monial affairs. 
 
 Harry M. Benner, artist and photographer, Hammondsport, 
 Steuben county, New York, was born May 10, 1875, A son of Wil- 
 liam Benner, from Tralee, Ireland, who came when young with his 
 parents to Hammondsport, and is now living there in retirement 
 from active life. He was fifteen when they came in 1855, and he 
 is seventy now. His father, Timothy Benner, had come a little 
 earlier and sent -back for his household. He was a wagonmaker 
 by trade. Many of the wagons and buggies used by the farmers 
 and lumbermen of a bygone generation were of his handiwork. 
 It was but natural that his son William should have taken to some 
 branch of his industry. Colors appealed to him and he became an 
 expert carriage painter and worked at his trade till 1895, when 
 he retired. He is a Republican and a man of influence in his 
 party, but has never wanted office for himself. He married Cath- 
 arine Damoth, a native of the town of Bradford and a daughter 
 of Dennis Damoth. She died in 1899, aged fifty years. They had 
 two children, the immediate subject of this sketch, and a daughter, 
 May Benner, employed in a manufacturing concern and a member 
 of her father's household. 
 
 After leaving school Harry M. Benner was employed at Ham- 
 mondsport five years as a laborer and later he was in the laundrj' 
 business for a time at Newton, New Jersey, and at Buffalo, New 
 York. He had early developed an interest in photography and 
 had come to be quite proficient in all branches of the art. In 
 1903 he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as photographer for an 
 electric railway company, and in that position gained further val- 
 uable experience. In 1906 he returned to his old home and en- 
 gaged in photography and grape-growing and is achieving a satis- 
 factory business success. 
 
 Mr. Benner is a Democrat, alive to all local and national is- 
 sues, but too busy to be a politician for the sake of office. He is 
 a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church and a member 
 of the order of Modern Woodmen of America. In August, 1899, 
 he married Grace H. Culver, born at Seneca, New York, in 1878, 
 daughter of John and Mary (Cummings) Culver. Mrs. Benner 
 bore her husband a daughter, Myrtle K. Benner, now seven years 
 old. After leaving school Mrs. Benner was a clerk in a mercantile 
 establishment till marriage. She died June 14, 1910, after a year's 
 illness, and is mourned as a devoted wife and mother. She was a 
 member of the Protestant Episcopal church of Hammondsport. 
 She left, besides her husband and their child, brothers named Fred. 
 Frank and James Culver. The latter married Miss J. Baker, of 
 Geneva, New York. 
 
726 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COT'XTY 
 
 Joseph Franklin Brown, a farmer of Wheeler township, 
 Steuben county, New York, was born September 13, 1839, in the 
 log cabin on his father's farm near Mitchellville, this county. His 
 father, John Brown, son of Jacob Brown, came from Orange coun- 
 ty, New Jersey, to this place in 1826, and settled on a tract of 
 fifty acres, which he cleared and improved. In connection with 
 his farming here in the early days he taught school and also 
 worked at the trade of chairmaker. A stanch Methodist, he was 
 for years an active worker in the church. He died in 1877, at the 
 age of seventy-nine years ; his widow survived him until 1884, when 
 her death occurred at the age of eighty-one. She was before mar- 
 riage Miss Ann Thresher, daughter of Asol and Eva (Churchill) 
 Thresher. Of their children three are now living, the subject of 
 this sketch and a widowed sister, and brother, the latter a veteran 
 of the Civil war and a Methodist minister. 
 
 Joseph F. Brown was reared at the old home place and edu- 
 cated in the school near by, chiefly under his father's instructions, 
 and remained with his parents and cared for them while they lived. 
 Farming has been his life-long occupation. 
 
 He married Miss Sarah J. Garnell, who was born February 1, 
 1841, daughter of William and Amy (Somer) Garnell, and one 
 of threft children. They came to New York from New Jersey, ilr. 
 and Mrs. Brown have three children: William G., who married 
 Miss Mary Townsend; Elizabeth N., a stenographer at the Soldiers' 
 Home; and Jenny M., wife of G. Depew, a farmer of Steuben 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Brown and his wife, like the other members of his family, 
 are identified with the Methodist church and are active church 
 workers, Mrs. Brown being president of the Ladies' Society. Mr. 
 Brown's connection with the Methodist church at Mitchellville 
 dates back to its organization, his name being among its charter 
 members. For some years this church was on a circuit, and the 
 circuit rider held services here only once in four weeks. The 
 circuit riders and the subsequent pastors have always found a 
 cordial welcome at Mr. Brown's, and his support has always been 
 a substantial aid to the church. Politically Mr. Brown has always 
 been a Republican, having east his first vote for Abraham Lincoln 
 for president. 
 
 Colonel Parnach D. Haradon. — The substantial' and well-to- 
 do citizens of Corning, Steuben county, have no more worthy rep- 
 resentative that Colonel Parnach D. Haradon, who has here been 
 prosperously engaged in the real estate and loan business for fully 
 twenty-five years, at the present time, in 1910, being at the head 
 of the enterprising and well-known firm of Haradon & Pease. A 
 native of this county, he was born June 17, 1828, in Hornby, where 
 his father, the late Parnach Haradon, was a pioneer settler. 
 
 Of English descent, Parnach Haradon was born in Massa- 
 chusetts during the closing years of the eighteenth century, and 
 was there brought up and educated. He served as a soldier in the 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUJSTTY 729 
 
 war of 1812, after which he migrated to the state of New York, 
 settling in Steuben county in pioneer days. A carpenter by occu- 
 pation, he did much of the building done in this part of the coun- 
 try in early times, and was also engaged to some extent in agri- 
 cultural pursuits, clearing and improving a good farm. He was 
 active in public affairs, for over a score of years rendering ex- 
 cellent service as a justice of the peace. He attained the venerable 
 age of eighty-seven years, dying an honored and respected man. 
 He was for a number of years a captain in the State Militia. He 
 married Delena Clark, who was born in Massachusetts, but was 
 reared and educated in Hornby, New York, whither her parents 
 settled when she was about two years of age. Six children were 
 born of their union, five sons and one daughter, all of whom grew 
 to years of maturity, Parnach D. being the third child in succes- 
 sion of birth. 
 
 Leaving Hornby, his native town, in 1853, Parnach D. Hara- 
 don followed the trend of civilization westward to Illinois, locat- 
 ing in Dixon, Lee county, where he embarked in the real estate 
 business. Subsequently buying three acres of land he laid it out 
 in town lots and erected about thirty houses, which he sold at an 
 advantage. During the progress of the Civil war he enlisted in 
 Company D, Fifteenth Illinois Infantry, and served in 1863 and 
 1864 in Arkansas with the Illinois Militia. He was subsequently 
 transferred to the quartermaster's department, in which he served 
 with the rank of captain until the close of the war. 
 
 Returning then to Steuben county, Mr. Haradon established 
 himself as a contractor and builder in Corning, and while follow- 
 ing his trade erected a number of buildings, including two brick 
 blocks on Market street and several fine buildings on Bridge and 
 Hugel streets, for fifteen years being a leader in his line of in- 
 dustry. He subsequently established the first real estate office 
 opened in Corning, and has since been successfully engaged in the 
 real estate and loan business, for several years being a member 
 of the firm of Haradon & Nichols. After the death of Mr. Nichols 
 he continued alone for a time, and then formed a partnership with 
 Frank L. Pease, under its present firm name of Haradon & Pease, 
 and has since carried on au extensive and profitable business, 
 with offices at No. 110 Bridge street. 
 
 Politically Mr. Haradon is a stanch and loyal citizen, and for 
 twelve years served faithfully as assessor of Coming, his election 
 having been brought about through the combined efforts of the 
 leading members of all parties, these loyal citizens appreciating the 
 high principles and sterling characteristics that distinguished Mr. 
 Haradon above the typical officeseeker. Oh retiring from the as- 
 sessorship Mr. Haradon thought to give up all offices of a public 
 nature, but his fellow citizens without solicitation on his part urged 
 him to become the nominee for the position of supervisor, and his 
 name was placed upon the Democratic ticket to represent the Third 
 district on the county board of supervisors. 
 
730 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 One of the more prominent members of the J. B. Rathburn 
 Post, No. 277, G. A. R., of Coming, he has served as its commander 
 at different periods for seven years, and it was largely through his 
 activity that the J. B. Rathburn Women's Relief Corps was estab- 
 lished. He has been present at many state and national gatherings 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, often in an official capacity, 
 having served as aide-de-camp on General Sherman's staff at Chi- 
 cago, holding the rank of colonel; with General Burton at the 
 National Encampment; and on the staff of General Tanner at 
 Minneapolis. 
 
 Mr. Haradon married, May 7, 1855, Augusta Wheat, who was 
 born in Steuben county, New York, and prior to her marriage 
 taught school several terms. Five children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Haradon, namely: George, who has been a mail carrier 
 in Corning for twenty years ; Charles, deceased ; William, living at 
 home; Frederick, of Corning; and Frank, deceased. 
 
 George Rltjolph, farmer, lumberman and man of business, 
 was born in Westphalen, Germany, April 2, 1887, a son of Fred- 
 erick and Martha (Miller) Rudolph. The elder Rudolph came to 
 America with his family in 1894, and settled at Germania, Penn- 
 sylvania, where he lumbered successfully till February 12, 1908, 
 when he was killed in trailing logs, aged forty-five years. He was 
 a progressive man, a friend to public education and a member of 
 the German Lutheran church and of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. Martha Miller, who became his wife, was a daughter 
 of Conrad and Catharine Miller. For information concerning 
 her family the reader is referred to a sketch of H. Miller, 
 which appears in this work. George Rudolph has three brothers 
 and one sister living : William Rudolph of Hammondsport ; Charles 
 of Galeton, Pennsylvania ; Walter, who lives on the Rudolph home- 
 stead; and Elizabeth, who is Mrs. George Deisroth, of Germania, 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 After leaving school Mr. Rudolph lived for a time with his 
 parents, helping them in farming and lumbering. Later he was 
 employed by the Schwarzenbach Brev/ing Company as a solicitor. 
 After working as a clerk in a hotel at Galeton, he came to Ham- 
 mondsport, where he is farming and giving attention to various 
 interests. He is a young man of good business ability and of public 
 spirit. His friends predict that he will achieve noteworthy suc- 
 cess. He is a member of the Lutheran church of Hammondsport. 
 
 J. Towner Hatt. — Energetic and enterprising, possessing fine 
 business and executive ability, J. Towner Hayt is actively identified 
 with the advancement of the industrial prosperity of Steuben coun- 
 ty and is numbered among the useful and valued citizens of Corn- 
 ing, where he is favorably known as the manager of the Southern 
 Tier Roller Mills. A son of the late Hon. Stephen Thurston Hayt, 
 he was born October 28, 1870, in Corning, coming from honored 
 stock on both sides of the house. 
 
HISTORY .OP STEUBEX COUXTY 731 
 
 John C. Hayt, his grandfather, came from Patterson, New- 
 York, to Corning in 1833. He was educated for a physician and 
 for a number of years was actively engaged in the practice of his' 
 profession. Being compelled by ill health to retire from practice 
 he subsequently engaged in the lumber business in Corning, con- 
 tinuing until his death in 1854, and is doubtless well remembered 
 by many of the older residents of this part of the county. The 
 maiden name of his wife was Martha Towner. 
 
 Stephen Thurston Hayt was born June 5, 1823, in Patterson, 
 Putnam county. New York, where he spent the first ten years cf 
 his life. He was educated in the Knoxville schools, and at the age 
 of seventeen years went to Elmira, where for three years he was 
 employed as clerk in a general store. Returning then to Corning 
 he embarked in mercantile pursuits on his own account before 
 attaining his majority, for seven years conducting a store of gen- 
 eral merchandise. He then changed his occupation, becoming 
 junior member of the lumber firm of Towner & Hayt, which con- 
 tinued until 1868, when it was dissolved by mutual consent. The 
 same year, in partnership with Mr. Olcott, he built the Southern 
 Tier Roller Mills at Corning, and the following year became sole 
 proprietor of the plant, which he conducted during the next ten 
 years, manufacturing flour by the old process. The buildings were 
 destroyed by fire in 1879, but were replaced the same year with 
 large brick buildings. These were equipped with the latest ap- 
 proved modern machinery, the plant having a capacity of two 
 hundred barrels a day. This the original owner managed suc- 
 cessfully until his death, which occurred August 31, 1907. Stephen 
 T. Hayt was one of the leading members of the Steuben county 
 Republicans. He cast his fir^t presidential vote, in 1844, for 
 Jajnes K. Polk, in 1 872, however, voting for and supporting Horace 
 Greeley. He was a delegate to the convention in 1860 that nomi- 
 nated Abraham Lincoln for president; also to the convention that 
 in 1868 nominated U. S. Grant ; and to the one that in 1884 made 
 James G. Blaine a presidential candidate ; and to the one that nom- 
 inated Benjamin Harrison in 1888. In 1863 and 1865 he was 
 nominated and elected to the state senate. In 1866 he resigned his 
 position in the senate and was elected canal commissioner for the 
 state and served for three years. In local affairs he was always 
 greatly interested, holding many public offices. He married, No- 
 vember 19, 1856, Margaret C. Townsend, and they became the par- 
 ents of eleven children. 
 
 Completing his early education in the Corning High School 
 J. Towner Hayt began when young to assist his father in the mill, 
 hustling as a boy at any work assigned to him. He became thor- 
 oughly familiar with every department, and is now carrying on 
 an extensive and substantial business as manager of the milling 
 property, keeping ten men busily employed. The mill has been 
 enlarged, having now a capacity of two hundred and fifty barrels 
 of wheat flour daily, and seventy-five barrels of wheat, which he 
 
733 HISTOBY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 sells at both retail and wholesale. He has spent his entire life in 
 Corning, for twenty- three years having been engaged in milling. 
 He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of 
 Masons and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 Edgab Baggerly, proprietor of a hotel at Kanona, New York, 
 was born April 2, 1847, in Ontario county. New York, a son of 
 Cranson and Sarah Elizabeth (Derr) Baggerly, the latter of whom 
 died when her son Edgar was but four years old. The father, also 
 a native of Ontario county, has followed the trade of a carpenter 
 all his life and is now living in Rochester, New York, having 
 reached the age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 After completing his education in the common schools Edgar 
 Baggerly learned the trade of carpenter. At the age of twenty- 
 two years he engaged in wheel making at Shortsville, New York, 
 which he continued ten years, and spent three years at Syracuse 
 in the same occupation. In 1893 he located in Avoca, New York, 
 where he became a contractor and engaged in manufacturing 
 wheels. Some years later he engaged in conducting a hotel at 
 Kanona, which he still continues. He is well established in busi- 
 ness and has the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. 
 
 Mr. Baggerly belongs to the F. & A. M., No. 673, and to 
 Chapter No. 95, of Bath. He is a Republican, although he has 
 never cared to hold public office. 
 
 Mr. Baggerly married Christina Bush Vander Carr, daughter 
 of Clarissa (Canfield) Vander Carr, of Shortsville, New York. 
 Mrs. Baggerly died at the age of twenty-eight years, having borne 
 two children: Guy Canfield, twenty- four years of age, married 
 Nora DeGraff and is a resident of British Columbia, at Wardener, 
 and has one child, Viola ; Roma Helen, nineteen years of age, mar- 
 ried Prank Corwin, of Clifton Springs, New York, and they have 
 one child, Mina Juaneta. Mr. Baggerly married for his second 
 wife Cora Dillenbeck, born January 6, 1876, daughter of Henry 
 and Elizabeth M. (Near) Dillenbeck. Mr. Dillenbeck died in 1899 
 at the age of seventy-one years, and Mrs. Dillenbeck, who is 
 seventy-nine years of age, lives with Mrs. Baggerly. Besides Mrs. 
 Baggerly her parents had children as follows : Benjamin, a farmer 
 living near Wallace, Steuben county, New York; William, a 
 plumber living at Kanona and Celesta, wife of Albert Snell, of 
 Wallace. Mrs. Baggerly is a member of the Eastern Star Chapter 
 No. 360, of Avoca, in which she served three years as secretary, 
 and also belongs to the Ladies of the Maccabees of Avoca. She 
 and her husband are well known and popular in social circles. 
 
 Gordon M. Patchin.— Any history of Steuben county would 
 stultify its consistency and appreciable value if within its pages 
 there were failure to make definite record concerning the Patchin 
 family, whose name has been indissolubly linked with the annals 
 of the county for nearly a century, the while the name has stood 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN" COUXTY 733 
 
 sponsor for sterling integrity, marked pragmatic ability and potent 
 influence in the furthering' of the development and upbuilding of 
 this now favored and opulent section of the old Empire state. The 
 fine old homestead farm, now comprising one hundred and ninety 
 acres, and now owned by him whose name introduces this para- 
 graph, has been in the possession of the family since 1814, in which 
 year the tract was secured from the government. This admirably 
 improved property is located in Wayland township, and Hon. 
 Gordon ]\I. Patchin gives his general supervision to its operation, 
 having long been numbered among the representative agriculturists 
 and stock-growers of his native county and having ever held se- 
 cure vantage ground in the confidence and esteem of the com- 
 munity, where he is not as a prophet "who is not without honor 
 save in his own country." Mr. Patchin has served as a repre- 
 sentative of Steuben county in the state legislature and has held 
 other positions of public trust, besides which he has for many 
 years been recognized as a leader in the councils of the Republican 
 party in his section of the state. Both through personal accom- 
 plishment and ancestral prestige he eminently merits considera- 
 tion in this publication. 
 
 Gordon M. Patchin was born on the ancestral farmstead which 
 he now owns and occupies and the date of his nativity was De- 
 cember 26, 1850. His father, Myron Patchin, was born in Onon- 
 daga county, this state, in the year 1806, and was a lad of eight 
 years when, in 1814, his parents removed thence to Steuben county 
 and established a permanent home in Wayland township, which 
 had not at that time received its name. Myron Patchin was a son 
 of Walter Patchin, who was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, on the 
 24th of July, 1764, and who was a scion of a family, of English 
 lineage, that was founded in New England in the early colonial 
 days. Walter Patchin was a boy at the time of the family removal 
 from Connecticut to Ballston township, Saratoga county. New 
 York, in which county he was reared to maturity and from which 
 he eventually removed to Onondaga county, which was his place 
 of abode until he came to Steuben county in 1814. As a youth he 
 was in active service as a patriot soldier in the war of the Revo- 
 lution, and at the time of the burning of the village of Ballston, 
 Saratoga county, incidental to that conflict, he was wounded by 
 the Indian allies of the British forces, but was enabled to make 
 his escape by swimming across the Sacondaga River. He became 
 one of the first settlers of Wayland township, Steuben county, and 
 on the site of the present homestead he erected the first log cabin 
 in the township, the site having gained the name of Patchinville, 
 when it became the nucleus of the pioneer settlement. Walter 
 Patchin reclaimed a goodly portion of his land to cultivation and 
 here continued to reside until his death, in 1854, at the patriarchal 
 age of ninety years. He was twice married, and the two children 
 of the first union were Lawrence and Warren, the latter of whom 
 became a successful physician and surgeon. Nine children were 
 
734 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 born of the second marriage, and of these Myron, father of the sub- 
 ject of this review was the seventh in order of birth. Walter 
 Patchin made the journey to Steuben county with a team of oxen, 
 and on the spot now known as Patchin Hill one of the oxen fell 
 and broke its neck, the result being that Mr. Patchin found it 
 inexpedient to proceed farther and consequently selected at that 
 point the site for his new home in the midst of the sylvan wilds. 
 
 Myron Patchin was reared to manhood in Steuben county and 
 received his early education in the somewhat primitive schools of 
 the pioneer era. In due time he became the owner of a consider- 
 able portion of the old homestead farm and to the same he con- 
 tinued to devote his attention during the residue of his active 
 career. He was a man of superior mentality and srerling integrity, 
 thus wielding no little influence in local afifairs and gaining ad- 
 vancement through very intelligible merits. He was one of the 
 founders of the village of Wayland and to the township was later 
 applied the same name. When application was made to the state 
 legislature for a charter for the village some difficulty was ex- 
 perienced in selecting a name satisfactory to that body, and under 
 these conditions Mr. Hess, a sterling pioneer who was fostering 
 the cause of the village before the general assembly, returned from 
 Albany to Wayland for a consultation with Myron Patchin con- 
 cerning a name for the place, that of Millville having been re- 
 jected. Incidentally Mr. Patchiu chanced to whistle the melody 
 of the old song of ' ' Wayland, ' ' and Mr. Hess forthwith gained the 
 suggestion that no more appropriate name could be secured than 
 that of Wayland, under which the village charter was finally 
 granted. 
 
 Myron Patchin was originally a Whig in his political pro- 
 clivities, but at the organization of the Republican party he trans- 
 ferred his allegiance thereto, ever afterward continuing a stanch 
 supporter of its cause. He served for a term of years as super- 
 visor of Wayland township and for thirty years he was incumbent 
 of the office of justice of the peace. Both he and his wife were 
 zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their 
 names are held in reverent memory by all who came within 
 the sphere of their kindly influence. Myron Patchin passed to his 
 reward on October 29, 1890, and his cherished and devoted wife 
 was summoned to eternal rest on the 8th of December, 1906, at 
 the age of eighty-three years. She was born in Wayland town- 
 ship, Steuben county. New York, and was a daughter of Aden and 
 Nancy (Kenyan) Parmenter; her given name was Razilla, and 
 her parents were born in Saratoga county, this state, whence they 
 eventually came to Steuben county, where they passed the re- 
 mainder of their lives. Myron and Razilla (Parmenter) Patchin 
 are survived by one son, whose name introduces this article, and 
 three daughters: Grace, who is the wife of Eugene Sprague, of 
 Wayland township; Gertrude, who is the widow of Frank Baker 
 and resides at Cohoeton, this county ; and Cora, who is the wife of 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COITNTY 735 
 
 William Greene, of Wayland township. The eldest and youngest 
 of the daughters, with their husbands, reside with their brother 
 on the old Patchin homestead. 
 
 Gordon M. Patehin was reared to maturity on the ancestral 
 homestead, which has ever been his place of abode, and after 
 availing himself of the advantages of the local schools he con- 
 tinued his studies in turn in Dansville Seminary and Naples Acad- 
 emy. He has never married and his sisters preside over the do- 
 mestic economies and social activities of the attractive home. He 
 has long been numbered among the most progressive and success- 
 ful farmers and stock-growers of his native county and his high 
 civic ideals have been indicated by his activity in public affairs 
 and his zealous interest in all that touches the social and material 
 welfare of the community. He has been a most effective worker 
 in behalf of the cause of the Republican party and served for 
 nearly a quarter of a century as a member of its county committee 
 in Steuben county, besides which he was a member of its executive 
 committee in the county for twenty years. Further distinction 
 came to him in connection with the maneuvering of party forces 
 when he was chosen a member of the Republican state central com- 
 mittee, an incumbency which he retains at the, present time. He 
 represented his native county in the lower house of the state legis- 
 lature in 1892-3 and a decade later he was again elected to this 
 office, in which he served during the general assembly of 1902-3. 
 As a legislator he took advanced ground and did much to further 
 the best interests of the state and its people and to foster good gov- 
 ernment and wise legislation. He is interested in various in- 
 dustrial and business enteiprises of importance in Steuben county 
 and is one of the substantial, honored and valued citizens of this 
 favored section of the old Eihpire commonwealth. 
 
 Chester Scott Cole. — While the great commonwealth of New 
 York is especially fortunate in the integrity, character and worth of 
 the noble men whose names stand high on her roll of representa- 
 tive citizens, not one is more deserving of note and of remembrance 
 than that of Chester Scott Cole, late of Corning. He was for many 
 years identified with many of the leading interests and enterprises 
 of Coming, and as one of the leading members of the Republican 
 party was influential in political circles and active in public affairs. 
 A native of New York, he was born July 1, 1836, in Wirt, Alle- 
 ghany county, and died June 21, 1906, in Corning, Steuben county, 
 his death being regarded throughout the community as a personal 
 sorrow. Ardent and constant in his affections, he was a most ten- 
 derly devoted husband, a kind and indulgent father and a loving 
 and loyal friend and companion. 
 
 Brought up and educated in his native town, Chester Scott 
 Cole came to Corning in 1853, and was afterward for a number 
 of years a passenger conductor on the Erie Railroad. In the early 
 sixties he embarked in business, in partnership with C. H. Thorn- 
 
736 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 son, as a banker and insurance agent, and also, in company with L. C. 
 Kingsbury, conducted the Corning Gas Company, one of the most 
 beneficial early enterprises of the city. With both of these indus- 
 tries Mr. Cole was actively associated until 1904, when he retired 
 from active pursuits, spending his last years in well-earned leisure. 
 
 Activity in public affairs was almost inevitable in a man of Mr. 
 Cole's intelligence and caliber, and as a young man he was president 
 of the village of Corning a number of terms. He was influential in 
 the Eepubliean party until 1872, when he joined the ranks of the 
 Liberals, who nominated Horace Greeley for president of the United 
 States. In 1876 Mr. Cole resumed his former relations with the 
 Republican party, becoming one of its leaders in southern New 
 York. In 1880 he was appointed by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell 
 captain of the port of New York, a responsible position that he 
 filled satisfactorily for five years. Captain Cole served many times 
 as delegate to state Republican conventions, always being an im- 
 portant factor in shaping state politics. He was frequently a mem- 
 ber of the Republican State Committee for his congressional dis- 
 trict, in 1885 and 1886 being its chairman. As a delegate to the 
 Republican convention held in Chicago in 1880 he supported the 
 movement led by United States Senator Roscoe Conkling in favor 
 of the nomination of U. S. Grant for a third term as president of 
 the United States. The captain was one of the "306" delegates of 
 that convention that voted for General Grant's nomination thirty- 
 six successive ballots, and subsequently received one of the "306" 
 bronze medals given to said delegates in commemoration of one of 
 the fiercest and most notable struggles in the history of American 
 politics. 
 
 , During the earlier years of his residence in Corning Captain 
 Cole was foreman of the Alliance Hook and Ladder Company, of 
 which he was a life member. He was a charter member of the Corn- 
 ing Club, which he served as vice-president, being first vice-president 
 at the time of his death. During his long and active political career 
 the captain was regarded as one of the ablest and most sagacious 
 political leaders in this section of the state. Had he had ambitions 
 in that line he could doubtless have held high elective offices, but 
 he preferred to direct and shape party politics and to make and 
 unmake men. No man in southern New York for a score or more 
 of years had greater political influence and power than Captain Cole, 
 his opinions and counsel being often sought and invariably heeded. 
 He was a man of culture and refinement, endowed with sterling 
 principles and possessing a keen sense of personal honor. He was 
 a very congenial companion and had a pleasant acquaintance and 
 friendship with distinguished men of both parties. 
 
 Captain Cole married, in 1855, Adelaide Eleanor Wheat, of 
 Painted Post, New York, and into their home two children were 
 born, namely: C. Glen, of Corning, of whom a brief sketch may be 
 found on another page of this work; and Ma Belle, widow of the 
 late George T. Hawley, of Corning. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEiST COUXTY 737 
 
 Chester Glen Cole. — A worthy representative not only of the 
 able and progressive business element of Corning but of its native- 
 born citizens, C. Glen Cole occupies a position of prominence in 
 manufacturing and commercial circles, being president of both the 
 Corning Building Company and the Corning Coal Company. A 
 son of the late Chester Scott Cole, of whom a brief personal history 
 is given preceding this sketch, he vpas born August 10, 1859. 
 He had no brothers, but has one sister, Mrs. Ma Belle Hawley, of 
 Coming, widow of the late George T. Hawley. 
 
 Keceiving excellent educational advantages, C. Glen Cole com- 
 pleted the full course of study in the Coming High School and 
 was graduated from Cornell tjniversity, Ithaca, New York, with 
 the class of 1882. During the ensuing eight years he was in the 
 office of the Fall Brook Coal Company, in 1891 becoming associated 
 with the well-known firm of M. D. Walker & Company. In 1894, 
 in company with J. A. Drake, Mr. Cole purchased the entire busi- 
 ness of his employers and conducted it successfully for ten years, 
 when, in 1901, it was incorporated as the Corning Company, of 
 which he has since been president. In 1906 Mr. Cole purchased 
 the Corning Coal Company, and of this corporation he has since 
 been at the head. His executive ability, enterprise and integrity are 
 thoroughly understood by his fellow-workers, who have made him 
 one of the directors of the First National Bank of Corning and 
 likewise of the Corning Cooperative Savings and Loan Association. 
 
 Mr. Cole married, December 3, 1889, Hattie B. Walker, a 
 daughter of the late Congressman Cliarles C. B. Walker, in whose 
 sketch, which appears on another page of this work, further parental 
 history may be found. Three children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Cole, namely: Sidney T., Glen Walker and Dorothea Drake. 
 
 Charles C. B. Walker. — 'Honored and respected as a man of 
 incorruptible integrity, a loyal and law-abiding citizen, the memory 
 of the late Charles C. B. Walker will long be held in remembrance 
 throughout Steuben county, more especially in Corning, where for 
 many years he was prominent in business and political circles. The 
 descendant of a New England family of worth and distinction, he 
 was born in New Hampshire, among its rugged hills growing to a 
 sturdy manhood. Coming to New York in early life he embarked in 
 the hardware business with Horace Turner, a nephew of Brastus 
 Corning, the father of the village of Corning and one of its most 
 prominent residents. The partnership was dissolved in 1857, and 
 for many years thereafter Mr. Walker conducted an immense credit 
 business with his customers, being enabled to do so through the kind- 
 ness and generosity of Mr. Corning, who furnished the stock. He 
 was very successful as a merchant, and continued in mercantile pur- 
 suits until his death, January 38, 1888. 
 
 Mr. Walker entered the field of public activities in 1856, when 
 he was appointed postmaster at Corning by President Pierce. In 
 1859 he was elected state committeeman, and in the twenty-seven 
 
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738 HISTOE^'' OP STEUBP:X COU^TTY 
 
 years that he held the position performed the duties devolving upon 
 him with credit to himself and to the honor of his Democratic con- 
 stituents. In 1860 he was chosen as a delegate to the Democratic 
 National Convention, and in the bitter contes* that ensued between 
 the two candidates, Breckinridge and Douglas, he '^as brought into 
 opposition with Mr. Corning, who supported BrecMnrr'lsre. It was 
 confidently expected that Mr. Walker would be so influetti^'' '' Iv Mr. 
 Coming that he would change his vote, but when the m^i •■'s 
 broached to him Mr. Walker boldly replied: "My people are f> 
 Douglas, and I am representing them. All of my business future 
 is insignificant in comparison with my duty to fulfill and faithfully 
 discharge the trust imposed upon me by my constituents." His de- 
 cision was promptly reported to the Breckinridge leader with the 
 comment of Mr. Coming that ''Walker was right," and that he would 
 give orders to extend his credit three times as quickly as he would 
 before this trait in his character had been exhibited. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Walker was elected to Congress in a district that 
 was a Itepublican stronghold, giving a usual Republican majority 
 of five thousand votes. During the Ben Hill-Blaine amnesty debate 
 relating to the charge that rebel prisoners were starved at Elmira, 
 Mr. Walker's emphatic reply contained but these five words "It is 
 
 a lie," a reply that indicated his directness of speech and 
 
 the sentiment of loyalty that was ever uppermost in his heart. In 
 1886 he was elected chairman of the State Committee, and did valu- 
 able work during the campaign of that season. Fraternally he was> 
 a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 On March 3, 1854, Mr. Walker married Maria D. Townsend, 
 of Elmira, New York, and the four children born of their union are 
 all residents of Palmyra, New York, namelv: Isabel, wife of James 
 A. Drake; Charles E. ; Hattie E., wife of-C. Glen Cole; and Ed- 
 win S. 
 
 Nkil \\'. Andrews. — By temperament, training and experience 
 well equipped for his professional career, Neil W. Andrews is rap- 
 idly climbing the ladder of successful attainments and has estab- 
 lished a large and remunerative general law practice in Corning. 
 A son of Jerome \. Andrews, he was born December '^8, 1>!75, in 
 New Albion, Cattaraugus county, of substantial and honored an- 
 cestry. 
 
 Jerome A. Andrews, a life-long resident of the Empire state, 
 i(! a man of enter])rise and public spirit. As a young man he served 
 with bravery in the Civil war, participating in many engagements 
 of prominence, and he is now active in promoting the interests of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic. One of the foremost citizens of 
 Salamanca, he is there prosperously engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits, having an extensive trade. To him and his wife, whose maiden 
 name was Emeline R. Lattin, three children have been born, namely : 
 Bret Lattin, of Salamanca, a merchant, being in partnership with 
 his father ; Neil W., the special subject of this brief sketch ; and Max 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 739 
 
 W., proprietor of the Teck Theatre at Salamanca and also conduct- 
 ing a theatre at Perry, New York. 
 
 Ijaying a substantial foundation for his future education , in 
 the public schools Neil W. Andrews received his diploma at . the 
 Salamanca High School and the Oattaraxigus Academy, and was 
 graduated from the law department of Cornell University with the 
 class of 1901. A short time later he was admitted to the New York 
 bar, and in 1903 was admitted at Pittsburg to the Pennsylvania 
 bar. Accepting a position as clerk in the office of Thomas Patter- 
 son, a leading attorney of Pittsburg, he retained the position three 
 and one-half years, gaining legal knowledge and experience of great 
 value and the appointment of chief clerk. In 1907 Mr. Andrews 
 located in Corning, and during the comparatively brief time he has 
 been a resident of this city has built up an extensive general prac- 
 tice as an attorney-at-law, being tlfe legal representative of several 
 Corning organizations and succeeding to much of the business of 
 John T. Hall, whose office and good will he purchased. 
 
 Mr. Andrews married June 29, 1904, Eloise Potter, a daughter 
 of John E. and Jlargaret Potter, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
 and to them three children have been born, namely: Jerome A., 
 Walton F. and Margaret G. 
 
 Av. earnest champion of the principles of the Republican party, 
 Mr. Andrews has been active and prominent in political circles, 
 for some time serving as secretary of the Republican County Com- 
 mittee of Cattaraugiis county. He is an active member of the Corn- 
 ing Business Men's Association and of the Corning Club. Fra- 
 ternally jMr. Andrews belongs to Painted Post Lodge No. 117 of 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons and to the Corning 
 Consistory, and he is also a member of Corning Lodge No. 107-1, 
 B. P. 0. E. 
 
 James F. Tbant, M. D., has gained precedence as one of the 
 able and popular representatives of the medical profession in his 
 native county and is engaged in active practice in the village of 
 Prattsburg. He is a native son of Steuben county and a member 
 of one of its old and honored families. He was born on the home- 
 stead farm in Prattsburg township on> the 10th of August, 1862, ai^d 
 is a son of John J. and Hannah (Dean) Trant. The father was 
 numbered among the representative farmers of Steuben county, and 
 here both he and his wife continued to reside until their death, hon- 
 ored by all who knew them. Dj-. Trant was reared to the discipline 
 of the' home farm and after availing himself of the advantages df 
 the district schools he continued his studies in Franklin AcademJ. 
 In preparation for the work of his chosen profession he entered the 
 Long Island Medical College, in the city of New York, in which he 
 completed the prescribed course and was graduated in June, 1886, 
 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation Dr. 
 Trant engaged in the practice of his profession in New York city, 
 where he remained for a period of ten years, when impaired health 
 
740 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 rendered it expedient for him to make a change of location. Under 
 these conditions he returned to his native county and located in the 
 village of Prattsburg, where he has been engaged in successful gen- 
 eral practice since 1896 and where his clientele is of representative 
 order. He is a member of the Keuka Medical Society and the New 
 York State Medical Society. Both he and his wife are communi- 
 cants of the Catholic church in their home village. It is worthy of 
 note that while engaged in practice in the city of New York Dr. 
 Trant resided at No. 28 East Twentieth street, in the old home- 
 stead in which Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was born. The Doctor 
 takes a public-spirited interest in all that touches the welfare of 
 the community, and while he has never cared to enter the turmoil of 
 practical politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the cause of the 
 Democratic party. 
 
 In New York city, in the Vear 1893, was solemnized the mar- 
 riage of Dr. Trant to Miss Maude Elkins, who was born and reared 
 in the national metropolis and who is a daughter of the late Au- 
 gustus Elkins, of that city. The three children of this union are 
 John, Maude and Agnes, and the respective dates of their birth are 
 here noted, April 17, 1894; December 30, 4897, and August 27, 1902. 
 
 Henky A. Argue, M. D., a practicing physician of Corning, 
 New York, dates his birth in this city January 23, 1861, and is a 
 son of Thomas and Catharine (Conor) Argue. Thomas Argue and 
 wife were born in Ireland, the former January 23, 1830, the latter 
 in 1836, and they were married in Corning, New York, in 1855. 
 Of their family of four children, Dr. Henry A. Argue was the third 
 born and is the only one now living, the others being as follows: 
 Charles E., born in 1856, died in January, 1871 ; William, born in 
 1859, died in 1887 ; and Mrs. Louise Purtill, born in September, 
 1864, died in Buffalo, New York, in November, 1908. 
 
 Heni-y A. Argue received his first schooling in Corning Acad- 
 emy. Afterward he spent two years at McGill University, Mon- 
 treal, where he studied both art and medicine, following his course 
 there with three years in the study of medicine in New York Uni- 
 versity, of which institution he is a graduate with the class of 1881. 
 The year after receiving his degree of M. D. he settled down to the 
 practice of his profession at his old home. Corning, and here for 
 nearly thirty years he has successfully conducted a general practice. 
 He is employed as physician for the New York Central, Erie and 
 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad companies, also the street 
 railway of Corning, and is pension examiner for the New York Cen- 
 tral Insurance Company. He is a member of the Corning Academy 
 of Medicine, the Steuben County Medical Association and the New 
 York State ]\ledical Association. 
 
 On November 25, 1899, Dr. Argue married Miss Tressa Bowes, 
 daughter of ]\Irs. Anna Bowes, of Bath, New York, and to them has 
 been given one son, Thomas H. Argiie, who was born November 8, 
 1900. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBE]Sr COUNTY ■ 741 
 
 Fraternally Dr. Argue is identified with numerous organiza- 
 tions in addition to the medical societies above named, among them 
 being the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Red Men, Elks and 
 Eagles. Politically he is a Democrat. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet L. Davis, of Hornell, comes of old New Yofk 
 families, on both sides of the house, and, almost as a matter of 
 course, she has the blood of patriots in her veins; in fact, it was no 
 further back than the fourth generation of her maternal ancestors 
 when her gi'eat-grandfather Baker bravely served as a Revolutionary 
 soldier. 
 
 Mrs. Davis was born about a mile from her present residence 
 in Hornell, on the 35th of July, 1833, and is a daughter of Leander 
 C. and Minerva (Baker) Stevens. Her father, a native of Steuben 
 county, was born November 26, 1806, her mother's birthday being 
 October 25, 1814, and the place of her nativity, Clarence, Erie 
 county. New York. Reared at Hornell and educated in its public 
 school, the subject of this sketch was married July 8, 1861, to Anson 
 Davis, a son of James and Phoebe (Osborne) Davis, who was born 
 in 1837. The parents resided during the later years of their lives 
 in Fremont, Steuben county. 
 
 To ilr. and Mrs. Davis was born, in 1867, a daughter Nettie, 
 who married Alvin G. Miller and became the mother of the follow- 
 ing: Grace, Mildred, Elouise, Willie and Clifford, the latter dying 
 in infancy. The father of the family was engaged in the meat trade 
 for twenty-one years, and a citizen of industry and probity. His 
 death, September 12, 1891, meant the great loss to the community 
 of an honest man and a Christian gentleman. 
 
 ilrs. Davis was one of the following, of which all are deceased 
 but herself and her sister Joanna and one brother, D. V. Stephens. 
 Mary Eliza, Maria, Betsey, Amanda, Bazy, Delevan and William are 
 deceased. 
 
 William E. Gorton. — A man of rare business ability, tact and 
 judgment, William E. Gorton has contributed largely towards the 
 material progress of Corning, his native city, and to its substantial 
 development along industrial lines, his widely extended enterprises 
 bringing him into prominence in manufacturing and financial opera- 
 tions. He was born in Corning village October 9, 1854, and acquired 
 his elementary education in the public schools. 
 
 An ambitious student, he was graduated from the Corning 
 Academy with the class of 1872, after which he continued his studies 
 at the State Normal School in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, for a year. 
 Going then to Poughkeepsie, New York, he was graduated from 
 Eastman's Business College, after which he studied medicine for 
 three years with Dr. Updegraff, a specialist, in Elmira, New York. 
 ilr. Gorton then entered the Hahnemann ^ledical College in New 
 York city, where in 1878, after takincr a full course of three year?, 
 he was graduated with the degree of M. D. 
 
?42 HISTOIfY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Eeturning to Corning, Dr. Gorton laid aside Ms well-earned 
 title of Doctor of Jledicine and became a clerk in the Fall Brook 
 Company, of which he was sabsequentl}' assistant superintendent for 
 three _years. Becoming then a contractor in railway construction, 
 he as junior member of the firm of Griffin & Gorton built in whole 
 or in part several of the southern railroads, including the Charles- 
 ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Eailroad; a part of the Piedmont Air 
 Line extension in North and South Carolina, and likewise the 
 Eoanoke and Southern Eailway in North Carolina. 
 
 In 1889 IMr. Gorton again returned to Corning, and during 
 the same year established the Corning Iron Works, which he sold 
 later to the American Brake-Shoe & Foundry Company, and of 
 which he was acting manager until the incorporation, in 1893, when 
 he was elected to the responsible position of president and manager. 
 He has other interests of note, and as president of the Hunger Candy 
 Company is carrying on a substantial business both as a manufac- 
 turer and as a merchant. Noted from earliest youth up for his 
 patriotism and loyal spirit, he was known during the Civil war as 
 the "Drummer Boy of the Southern Tier." Politically Mr. Gorton 
 is a stanch Democrat, and although never an aspirant for public 
 office he served as first mayor of Corning under the city charter. In 
 1893 he was the Democratic nominee for state senator, but refused 
 the nomination. 
 
 On May 18, 1877, Mr. Gorton was united in marriage with 
 Clara Belle Stevens, a daughter of Peabody Stevens, of Buffalo, 
 New York, and to them six children have been born, namely : Ethel 
 Louise, Belle, Alonzo, Hiram, William E. and Gretchen. 
 
 Eev. J'esse A. Eyan, rector of the Protestant Episcopal church 
 at Hammondspoi't, Steuben county. New York, was born at Lock 
 Haven, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1875, a son of James F. Eyan, a 
 native of AVhitedeer, Union county, that state. Scarcely out of 
 school, a boy of sixteen, James F. Eyan enlisted to fight under the 
 stars and stripes in our Civil war. He was a member of Company 
 H, Fifty-third Eegimeut, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which 
 was included in the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. He served 
 through the war, participating in many engagements, great and 
 small, risking his life times innumerable, and after taking part in 
 the Grand Review at Washington was mustered out and permitted 
 to return home. That was a great experience for a lad of from six- 
 teen to- perhaps twenty, a beginning in life that might have made 
 such an one fit for any fate, equal to any responsibility to which he 
 might be called. One must have lived in the time of that struggle 
 to comprehend what it was. After the war the young man settled 
 at Lock Haven. He was a Grand Army man, of course, and he was 
 a member of the Union A'eteran Legion, too, and a communicant of 
 the • Presbyterian chiirch. He married, in 1874, Jennie Elizabeth 
 Smith, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who is living, aged fifty-two. Her 
 father was William Gibbs Smith, who married Mary Holly. Mr. 
 Ryan died in 1902. He left two sons, Ernest Eugene Ryan, of Lock 
 Haven, and the subject of this article. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 743 
 
 After leaving school Jesse Asa Ryan entered the Pennsylvania 
 Central State Normal School, where he was graduated in 1895. He 
 taught in the public school at Fairport, Clinton county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, till 1898. He was graduated from Hobart College in 1903. 
 Later he took a special course in theology at the Episcopal Theo- 
 logical Scliool at Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the intervals of 
 study he worked as a painter in order to procure money with which 
 to meet his educational expenses. He was ordained a deacon on 
 June 10, 1906, in Trinity church, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and 
 was made a priest by Bishop Darlington February 20, 1900, at 
 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He took charge of St. Mary's churcli 
 at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in July, 1906. On April 1, 1909, 
 he was called to the rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal parish 
 of Lawrenceville and Tioga, Pennsylvania. On February 1, 1910, 
 he was called to Hammondsport, where he is laboring successfully 
 and winning many friends. 
 
 'Sh: Ryan is a Mason, a member of Blue Lodge No. 106, of 
 Williamsport, Pennsylvania; of the Consistory (thirty-second de- 
 gree) at Corning, New York, and of Damascus Temple, A. A. 0. N. 
 M. S. He is a member, too, of the Sons of Veterans, Camp 46, of 
 Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and is division chaplain in that order 
 and brigade chaplain with the rank of major. He married, April 
 22, 1908, Mary Emily Perkins, who was born January 7, 1880, at 
 Baldwinsville, New York, a daughter of Charles Jenckes and Ann 
 Tlieresa (Holihan) Perkins. 
 
 JoHX L. Lewis. — Noteworthy among the active and progres- 
 sive citizens of Steuben county is John L. Lewis, of Corning, cashier 
 of the Fall Brook Coal Company. A son of the late Dr. E. W. Lewis, 
 he was born January 21, 1851, in Watkins, Schuyler county, New 
 York, coming from honored New England ancestry, the founder of 
 the branch of the family from which he is descended having been 
 a passenger on the Mayflower. He is of Welsh lineage, and many of 
 his ancestors were people of prominence and influence in Connecti- 
 cut, where his great-great-grandfather, Eldad Lewis, was a life-long 
 resident. His great-grandfather, John Lewis, a native of Connecti- 
 cut, was for a long time one of the instructors in Yale College. 
 
 John L. Lewis, the first, grandfather of Mr. Lewis, was born 
 and brought up in New Haven, Connecticut, and, eagerly availing 
 himself of the opportunity granted him for advancing his education, 
 was graduated when a young man from Yale College, in which he 
 was likewise a teacher for some time. Following the tide of emi- 
 gration to- New York in 1797, he settled as a pioneer in Geneva, 
 Ontario, where he was engaged as a physician and a teacher for 
 about five years. In 1802 he became a pioneer of Yates county, 
 settling in Benton, where he soon became prominent in public af- 
 fairs, holding various town and county offices and serving a number 
 of terms as postmaster. He died at the advanced age of eighty-five 
 years, having lived a long and useful life. 
 
744 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 A native of Yates county, New York, Dr. E. W. Lewis inherited 
 the scholarly tastes of his immediate ancestors, and having fitted 
 himself for the medical profession was for many years one of the 
 leading physicians of Watkins, where he died at the age of seventy- 
 six years. Dr. Lewis was twice married. By his first wife, whose 
 maiden name was Eelief Holden, he had two children, Charles C. 
 and Caroline S. He married for his second wife Mary C. Gardiner, 
 who was born in Khode Island, a daughter of Captain David Gar- 
 diner, a native of Providence, Ehode Island. She survived him, 
 passing away at the age of eighty-three years in Watkins, New York. 
 Four children were born of the second marriage, Edwin A., Martin 
 G., Mary E. and John L. Of these six children Caroline S. and 
 John L. are the only ones now living. 
 
 Going to Penn Yan, New York, when sixteen years of age, John 
 L. Lewis lived with his uncle, John L. Lewis, for two years. Dur- 
 ing the ensuing four years he was bookkeeper for the Morris Coal 
 Mining Company at Morris Eun, Tioga county, Pennsylvania. Lo- 
 cating then in Blossburg, Pennsylvania, Jlr. Lewis had charge of 
 the business of Pomeroy & Smith until 1878, when he accepted the 
 position of bookkeeper for the Fall Brook Company at Watkins, 
 New York. Coming from there to Corning, he has won a position 
 of prominence among the leading men of the city, and since 1903 
 has ably filled his present position as cashier of the Fall Brook 
 Coal Company. He is identified with various city enterprises, being 
 one of the directors of the First National Bank of Corning and 
 treasurer of the Corning Co-operative Savings and Loan Association. 
 
 A stanch Eepublican in politics, Mr. Lewis has been active in 
 public affairs, in 1884 serving as president of the village of Corning, 
 and at the present time being a member of the Corning Board of 
 Education. Socially he is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars 
 of the state of New York, and fraternally he is prominent in the 
 Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter and consistory, and has 
 taken the thirty-second degree of Masonry. His uncle, John L. 
 Lewis, for whom he was named, v/as a thirty-third degree Mason and 
 very prominent in the order, having served as grand master of the 
 state of New York and having been past sovereign grand commander 
 of the Supreme Council of the Northern Jurisdiction. 
 
 Mr. Lewis married, January 20, 1875, Belle Townsend, a daugh- 
 ter of Nathaniel Townsend, of Glenora, New York, and they are 
 the parents of two children, namely: Kate, wife of E. H. Gorton, of 
 Hornell, New York, and Spencer, who was educated at the Lawrence- 
 ville School, Lawreneeville, New Jersey. 
 
 Francis C. Williams.— Prominent among the foremost lawyers 
 of Steuben county is Francis C. Williams of Corning, who belongs 
 to the inner circle of the bar. The field of his professional labors 
 has been broad, and his fine legal attainments and his noted suc- 
 cess have won for him a wide and merited reputation throughout 
 this section of the Empire state. A native of Corning, he was born 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 745 
 
 November 26, 1864, in the house in which he now resides and which 
 has always been his home, being a son of the late Francis A. 
 Williams. He comes of Welsh lineage, the emigrant ancestor from 
 which he is descended having emigrated from Wales to this coun- 
 try about 1640. His great-grandfather, Joseph H. Williams, was 
 born and reared in Connecticut, from there removing to Yates 
 county, New York, in 1801, settling in Rushville, where on May 
 8, 1809, his son, Ira C. Williams, Mr. Williams' grandfather, was 
 born. 
 
 Francis A. Williams was born, March 25, 1834, in Prattsburg, 
 New York. He early determined to enter the legal profession, and 
 in 1862, at Rochester, New York, he was admitted to the bar. Lo- 
 cating the following year in Corning, he was here a practicing at- 
 torney until his death, which occurred very suddenly, December 
 21, 1901. He was quite active in public affairs and a valued mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian church. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Jane Clark, was born November 29, 1838, in Urbana, Steuben 
 county, a daughter of Solomon Clark, who came to this part of 
 the state in pioneer days from New Jersey, settling in the midst of 
 the woods. Five children were born of their union, namely ; Mary 
 G., a professor at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massa- 
 chusetts; Francis C, the special subject of this sketch; Clark B., 
 professor of mathematics at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michi- 
 gan; Jane, wife of W. H. Insley, of Indianapolis, Indiana; and 
 Elizabeth, who died July 5, 1908. 
 
 Acquiring his elementary education in the graded schools of 
 Corning, Francis C. Williams was graduated from the University 
 of Rochester with the class of 1888. He subsequently studied law 
 under his father's tuition, and in 1891 was admitted to the bar. 
 Immediately entering his father's office, he was engaged in the 
 practice of his profession with him until the death of the father in 
 1901. Since that time Mr. Williams has continued the practice 
 alone, meeting with excellent success in his legal work, his opinions 
 and counsel being much sought for the guidance of large interests 
 and in the solution of perplexing legal problems. He has rendered 
 excellent service as a public official, having been justice of the 
 peace in 1890, city recorder in 1892, city attorney for four years 
 and at the present writing, in 1910, being a member of the Corning 
 Board of Education. 
 
 Mr. Williams is prominent in social and fraternal circles, being 
 past master of Painted Post Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M. ; past high 
 priest of Corning Chapter No. 94, R. A. M. ; a member of Corning 
 Consistory ; and has taken the thirty-second degree of Masonry. He 
 is also a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 Politically Mr. Williams is an uncompromising Democrat, and re- 
 ligiously he is an active member of the Presbyterian church, in 
 which he is an elder. He is unmarried and lives with his widowed 
 mother in the home which has always been his dwelling place. 
 
746 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 William iEciliCHAEL. — At this point is entered brief record 
 concerning one of the native sons of Steuben county^ who has here 
 been actively identified with the great basic art of agriculture from 
 the time of his youth and who is one of the representative farmers 
 of Prattsburg township. The estimate placed iipon him in his native 
 township is shown by the fact that he is now serving as its super- 
 visor, a position of which he has been incumbent since 1907 and the 
 duties of which he has administered with great discrimination and 
 ability, as m^ evident from his continuous retention of the office which 
 involves the handling of the public funds of the township and the 
 fostering of its varied interests. 
 
 AVilliam ilcMichael was born in Prattsburg township on the 
 9th of ilav, 1866, and is a son of Alexander and Mary (Risdale) 
 ;Mc]\Iichael. both of whom continued to reside in this township until 
 their death. They were numbered among the sterling, citizens of 
 Steuben county, and here the father was a prosperous agriculturist 
 and an influential citizen of Prattsburg township, where he ever 
 commanded unequivocal confidence and esteem. William ilcMichael 
 was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and his early 
 educational advantages were those afforded in the district schools, 
 which he attended until he had attained to the age of nineteen years, 
 in the meanwhile having been associated in the work and manage- 
 ment of the horoe farm. As already noted, his active career has 
 been one of close identification with farming interests, and he eventu- 
 ally purchased the old homestead farm, which comprises three hun- 
 dred and two acres of most productive land and which is eligibly 
 located two and one-half miles north of the village of Prattsburg. 
 Mr. McMichael is a bachelor, and with him on the old homestead 
 resides his sister and two older brothers. He is a member of the 
 directorate of the Prattsburg State Bank and iS one of the sub- 
 stantial citizens of his native county, where he is well upholding 
 the prestige of the honored name which he bears. He is affiliated 
 with Prattsburg Lodge Xo. 583, Free and Accepted ^lasons, and with 
 Prattsburg Lodge No. 598, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 
 politics he has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Re- 
 publican party, and he has shown a public-spirited interest in all 
 that touches the ivelfare of the community, giving his support to 
 measures and enterprises that have conserved the social and indus- 
 trial advancement of the county. In 1907 he was elected supervisor 
 of Prattsburg township and as a member of the county board he has 
 shown distinctive loyalty and progressiveness the while he has been 
 specially earnest in forwarding the best interests of his home town- 
 ship. 
 
 Charles M. Gammox. — Corning, Xew York, counts among her 
 worthy citizens a sterling Englishman, who has to his credit nearly 
 sixty years of business activity in the town — Charles il. Gammon. 
 He was born in England October 15, 1824, and when a young man 
 was united in marriage, at Christ's church, [Marylebone, London, with 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 747 
 
 Miss ilaria Boddington, who was born in England in 1822, a niece 
 of Lord Boddington. She accompanied him to America and here 
 shared his joys and sorrows until her death, which occurred in 1870. 
 To them were given three children who grew to adult age, namely: 
 Mrs. Mima Hood, a resident of Corning, New York; Dr. A. M. 
 Gammon, of Oaklorna, New Y'ork; and Mrs. Anna Hill, of Fall 
 River, Wisconsin. 
 
 It was in 1848 that Mr. Gammon landed in New York city, 
 after an Atlantic voyage of six weeks in a sailing vessel. Going 
 direct to Philadelphia, he spent six weeks in that city, but at the 
 end of that time returned to New York and entered the employ of 
 John Brooks, a shoe manufacturer on Broadway. In England he 
 had learned the trade of shoe-cutter, and on coming to this country 
 took up that line of work. After remaining in New York one year 
 he spent two years in the employ of a Mobile firm, following that 
 with a few months each in New Albany, Utiea and Syracuse. On 
 June 17, 1851, he landed in Corning, and at once entered the service 
 of a ilr. Fuller, a boot and shoe dealer who occupied a store on 
 the same site on East Market street now occupied by Mr. Gammon. 
 He engaged in business here for himself in 1864, and in 1895 built 
 a three-story brick block. Also he owns a store building adjoining 
 the one in which he does business. His honest, active, regular life 
 has kept him in excellent physical condition, and now, although past 
 eighty-six years of age, he looks the picture of health, reads and 
 writes without the aid of glasses, is erect and active as a man of 
 forty and regularly attends to his duties at the old stand. His 
 kindly attitude toward his fellow-men during his long residence in 
 Corning has won for him their high esteem, and he counts among 
 his many friends both the old and the young and people in various 
 walks of life. 
 
 ^lany times Mr. Gammon has been solicited to accept political 
 office, but has always refused. He has ever taken a commendable 
 interest in public affairs, however, voting the Republican ticket and 
 always presenting himself promptly at the polls on election day. He 
 wtis made a member of Painted Post Lodge, F. and A. M., in 
 1854 and has advanced in the order up to and including'the thirty- 
 second degree. In 1861 and 1862 he served his lodge as worshipful 
 master and represented it in the Grand Lodge of New York. He 
 has long been a worthy member of the Episcopal church. 
 
 Jerome J. Barber. — This well known and highly respected 
 citizen of the town of Prattsburg was born in Pulteney, Steuben 
 county, September 3, 1883, a son of J. C. and Caroline (Mace) 
 Barber, both of whom are yet living there. He was reared on his 
 father's homestead and educated in the primary branches in the 
 district school near by. Later he was a student at Franklin Acad- 
 emy at Prattsburg. From the time he left school until he was 
 twenty-two years old he farmed on his father's land. Then, in 1895, 
 
748 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 he married Anna Ringrose, a native of Prattsburg and a daughter 
 of John and Elizabeth Eingrose. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Barber bought a hundred and eighty- 
 seven acres of land a mile and a quarter north of the village of 
 Prattsburg, where he has achieved success as a general farmer and 
 stockraiser. His knowledge of farming was obtained in the prac- 
 tical school of actual experience, and he is as well informed a farmer 
 as is operating anywhere in the county at this time. He is an excep- 
 tionally well posted stockman, too. In his hands a farm is handled 
 as scientifically as is possible, the best is planted, the crops are care- 
 fully cultivated, they are harvested on time, are properly cared for 
 and are sent to market in good form and in good time to bring the 
 best possible prices. No one in northern Steuben county raises bet- 
 ter stock than does Mr. Barber and no one sells to better advantage. 
 
 Mr. Barber is a member of Prattsburg Lodge No. 598, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In his political affiliations he is a 
 Republican, but he is not an office seeker and has resolutely refused 
 such offices as have been proffered him, yet he is a man of undoubted 
 public spirit, who is ready at all times to do anything in his power 
 to advance any measure for the general good of the community. 
 
 Michael F. McNamaea. — A man of undoubted legal talent 
 and ability, Michael F. ilcNamara, of Corning, has won notable suc- 
 cess as a general practitioner of law, his clientele being large and 
 remunerative. He was born February 19, 1870, in Howard, Steuben 
 county, New York, being a posthumous son of the late Michael Mc- 
 Namara, who was born in Ireland and died in Howard, New York, 
 in 1869. 
 
 Spending his boyhood days in Howard, Michael F. McNamara 
 acquired his first knowledge of books in the common schools, sub- 
 sequently being graduated from the Canisteo Academy in 1891. 
 He afterwards taught school for a while, in the meantime continu- 
 ing his studies for six months, preparing himself for college. Tak- 
 ing the Cornell examinations in Hornell, he won a Cornell scholar- 
 ship and immediately entered the Cornell University, from which 
 he was gra'duated with the class of 1895. In June, 1895, Mr. Mc- 
 Namara successfully passed the bar examinations at Rochester, New 
 York, and was admitted to practice before the courts of New York. 
 In 1896 he located in J^ew York city, where he was engaged in the 
 practice of his profession for two or more years, obtainiig a fine 
 start as a lawyer. Opening a law office in Elmira, New York, in 
 1900, he remained there until November, 1907, when he located in 
 Corning, where he has already established a good general practice, 
 being now one of the leading attorneys of the city. 
 
 Mr. McNamara married, April 29, 1903, Josephine Lonergan, 
 and they have one son, Francis McNamara. ]\Ir. McNamara takes 
 an active and intelligent interest in local affairs and is a member 
 of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Knights of Columbus. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 749 
 
 Herman E. Lobeck. — Incumbent of the office of assistant su- 
 perintendent of the Pleasant Valley Wine Cellar at Eheims, New 
 York, Mr. Lobeck is numbered among the highly esteemed citizens 
 and representative business men of Steuben county, and his standing 
 in the community is such, as to well entitle him to recognition in 
 this publication. 
 
 Herman E. Lobeck takes a due measure of satisfaction in ad- 
 verting to the historic Old Dominion commonwealth as the place ol 
 his nativity. He was born at Harrisonburg, Eockingham county, 
 Virginia, on the 14th of July, 1849, and is of stanch German lineage 
 ,on both the paternal and maternal sides. He is a son of Herman 
 and ilargaret (Greiss) Lobeck, both of whom were born in the 
 kingdom of Saxony, Germany. Herman Lobeck was reared and 
 educated in his native land, whence he came to America when u 
 yoiing man. He whose name initiates this sketch is the only child 
 of Herman and Margaret (Greiss) Lobeck. The mother ultimately 
 contracted a second marriage, having been united to Frederick Ar- 
 land, and she passed the closing years of her life at Hdmmondsport, 
 where she died in 1864, at the age of forty-five years. Her second 
 husband died at Ovid, New Y^ork, having survived her by a num- 
 ber of years. Of the second marriage were born three sons and 
 two daughters: Frederick 0. is now deceased and his widow re- 
 sides in Hammondsport, Steuben county; William F. is a resident 
 of Urbana township, this county; Charles E. operates a vineyard 
 in Urbana township ; Emma is the widow of Charles Vanderlip and 
 resides at Penn Y'an, New Y'ork; and NTellie is the wife of Charles 
 Merrill, a resident of Bath, New Y'ork. 
 
 Herman E. Lobeck was reared to maturity at Eheims, New 
 Y'ork. and his early educational advantages were those afEorded in 
 the public schools. After leaving school he entered the employ of 
 the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, and he has continued to be 
 actively associated with the affairs of this corporation during the 
 long intervening period of nearly half a century. He identified him- 
 self with the company in 1865 and he has proved a valued and 
 effective factor in connection with the upbuilding of its extensive 
 enterprise. He has been assistant superintendent of the company's 
 wine cellar for the past thirty-five years, and in an individual way 
 he also owns a farm and a well improved vineyard. Mr. Lobeck is 
 loyal to all civic duties and takes an earnest interest m all that 
 touches the welfare of his home city and county. He is a Eepubli- 
 can in his political allegiance, and both he and his wife hold mem- 
 bership in the Presbyterian church. He is affiliated with Pleasant 
 Valley Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he served as master 
 for two vears. and he is also identified with the Hammondsport 
 organization of the Improved Order of Eed Men. He is well known 
 in Steuben county and has a secure place in popular confidence and 
 esteem, the while-he has gained a due measure of success and is one 
 of the 'substantial citizens of the county. . ,r t u i 
 
 In the year 1870 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lobeclv 
 to Miss Jane Osterhout, who was born at Mitchellsville, Steuben 
 
750 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 county, on the 86th of January, 1851, and who is a daughter of the 
 late Abram and Rachel (Warner) Osterhout. Concerning the chil- 
 dren of this union the following brief record is entered in conclu- 
 sion of this review: Charles C, who is superintendent of Borden's 
 Condensed Milk factory in Algonquin, Illinois, married Miss Sadie 
 McKee, and they have no children ; Mignonette is the widow of 
 Louis E. Durham, resides at Rheims, Xew York, and has one child, 
 Lobeck Durham; Herman E., Jr., a carpenter by trade and voca- 
 tion and residing at Fairport, Monroe county, New York, married 
 iliss Gertrude Austin, and they have no children ; William L., who 
 remains at the parental home, is a bookkeeper and Ernest 0., who 
 has charge of his own and the vineyard owned by his father, married 
 Miss Josephine Calkins, of WoodhuU, New York, and they have one 
 child, Edward Jesse. 
 
 Frank J. NELSO>f. — The present mayor of the City of Hornell 
 is one of the representative members of the bar of Steuben county 
 and is a citizen whose loyalty and public spirit are uniformly rec- 
 ognized. Mr. Nelson was born at Titusville, Crawford county, 
 Pennsylvania, on the 2Sth of December, 1867, and is. a son of Cap- 
 tain Alanson H. and Electa (Strong) Nelson, both of Chautauqua 
 •county. New York. Captain Nelson served with distinction as a 
 soldier in the Civil war, a member of Company K, Fifty-Seventh 
 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was in active service for 
 three years and four months and in command of his regiment as 
 acting colonel some months before receiving his honorable discharge. 
 Prior to the war he had been engaged in farming and also identified 
 with lumbering operations. After the close of his military career 
 he became concerned with oil operations in Pennsylvania, in which 
 state he continued to reside until 1884, when he removed to the 
 state of Minnesota, where he has since maintained his home. For 
 nearly twenty years he was editor and proprietor of the Northeast 
 Argus, a weekly newspaper, in the city of Minneapolis, and now at 
 the venerable age of eighty-three years is actively engaged in his 
 work. Captain Nelson and his wife became the parents of five sons 
 and four daughters, all of whom attained to years of maturity ex- 
 cept one daughter, and of the number four sons and two daughters 
 are now living. 
 
 Frank J. Nelson passed his boyhood days on his father's farm 
 m Oil Creek township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and his 
 early education was secured in the district schools. Through his 
 own efforts he secured the funds that enabled him to pursue a 
 course of study in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Edin- 
 boro, Erie county. Upon leaving this institution he came to Hor- 
 nell ^ew York. He was graduated in the Hornellsville Business 
 College and later became a student in Alfred Universitv In 1892 
 he began the study of law, under effective preceptorship, and in 
 October, 1895, was admitted to the bar. He at once engaged in the 
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 was elected justice of the peace, and in 1898 he was elected to the 
 office of police judge, in which position he continued incumbent 
 until 1900, when he was chosen chief executive of the city of Hor- 
 nell. That year his party placed him in nomination for Eepresen- 
 tative in Congress and though defeated it was by a greatly reduced 
 majority. He was elected mayor as his own successor in 1903, and 
 after voluntarily retiring was again elected to that office in 1909. 
 His present term will expire January 1, 1912. In politics Mr. 
 Nelson is a progressive Democrat. He is affiliated with the ^Masonic 
 fraternity, the Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in 
 which latter he has- held important official positions, including tliat 
 of District Deputy Grand Master, etc. 
 
 On the 4th of June, 1901, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage 
 to Miss Irene M. Clark, daughter of Thomas C. and Mary (Leach) 
 Clark, of Hornell. 
 
 Henry C. Olney, Je. — The great industry of agriculture in 
 Steuben county has an able representative in the person of Henry 
 C. Olney, Jr., who is the owner of a well improved farm of one 
 hundred and sixteen acres in Prattsburg township and who also 
 owns real estate in the village of Prattsburg, where he maintains his 
 home. He is at the present time incumbent of the office of township 
 clerk, and this preferment indicates the unequivocally high esteem 
 in which he is held in the community. Henry C. Olney, Jr., was 
 born in Naples township, Ontario county, New York, on the 35th of 
 December, 1876, and is a son of Henry C. and Sarah (Hill) Olney, 
 both of whom now reside in the village of Naples, that county. Both 
 were born and reared in this state, and the active career of the 
 father has been principally in connection with the vocation of a 
 farmer. He whose name initiates this review was afforded the ad- 
 vantages of the excellent public schools of the village of Naples and 
 supplemented this training by a course in Starkey Seminary. He 
 continued to reside in his native county until 1904, when he removed 
 to Steuben county and purchased his present well improved farm 
 in Prattsburg township. He is known as an energetic and enter- 
 prising citizen, and his sterling attributes of character have gained 
 to him unqualified confidence and esteem in the community in which 
 he has elected to maintain his home. In politics he accords a stanch 
 allegiance to the Democratic party and he has the distinction of 
 being the first representative of this party to be elected clerk of 
 Prattsburg township in many years. He is affiliated with Prattsburg 
 Lodge, No. 598, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is 
 serving as warden at the time of this writing, 1910, and both he and 
 his wife are zealous and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church in the village of Prattsburg, in which he is a member of the 
 board of trustees. 
 
 In the year 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Olney to 
 Miss Alida Rippey, of Prattsburg, and they have one son, Hildreth 
 C, who tvas born" on the 18th of May, 1906. 
 
754 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Dr. John F. Dwyer belongs to the younger ranks of the medical 
 profession in Corning, New York, with which he identified himself 
 about four years ago. A brief sketch of his life gives the following 
 facts : 
 
 John F. Dwver was born May 13, 1880, at Painted Post, Steu- 
 ben county, New "York. He received his early education in the com- 
 mon schools, later attended Mansfield Normal School and Niagara 
 University, Niagara Falls, and made special preparation for his life 
 work at Columbus, Ohio, where in 1901 he entered the Ohio Medical 
 University, of which he is a graduate with the class of 1905. The 
 year following his graduation he began the practice of his profes- 
 sion in Corning. Soon, however, an opportunity for a broader ex- 
 perience presented itself and he went to Buffalo Hospital, Sisters of 
 Charity, where he remained a year and a half, returning at the end 
 of that time to Corning to take up and continue his practice here, 
 where he has met with success and where he now occupies the posi- 
 tion of city physician. 
 
 Dr. Dwyer is a member of the Corning Medical Association and 
 the Steuben County ]\redical Society. Politically he is a Democrai, 
 fraternally an Elk and religiously a Catholic. He is unmarried. 
 
 William N. Hallock.— One of the old and substantial financial 
 institutions of Steuben county is the George W. Hallock Bank, 
 founded in January, 1849, in the city of Bath, and the same has 
 had a record covering a period of more than sixty years of con- 
 secutive success, and that under the active control and management 
 of members of the Hallock family. He whose name initiates this 
 paragraph is now an executive of the Hallock Bank. 
 
 William N. Hallock was born in Bath, Steuben county, on the 
 19th day of July, 1886, and is a son of William H. Hallock and 
 Louise Nowlen Hallock, the former of whom was bom in Bath, New 
 York, in the year 1856, and the latter of whom was born in Avon, 
 New York, in the year 1855. William N. Hallock is a great- 
 grandson of Hon. William S. Hubbell, who was long a prominent 
 and influential citizen of Steuben county, a founder of the George 
 W. Hallock Bank and who served as a member of Congress. George 
 W. Hallock, grandfather of him whose name introduces this article, 
 was born in Dutchess county. New York, in 1819. In 1834 he re- 
 moved with his family to Steuben county and settled in Bath, which 
 was then a straggling village. Here he established a flour mill and 
 a saw mill, and one of these early mills was located on the present 
 site of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home. He be- 
 came one of the leading business men and most influential and 
 honored citizens of the county, and the prestige of the name has 
 been admirably sustained by his son, William H. Hallock, and his 
 grandson, William N., who, as liberal, upright and progressive citi- 
 zens, have contributed much to the material and civic advancement 
 of this favored section of the old Empire state. 
 
 William H. Hallock, the only son of George W. Hallock and 
 ilary (Hubbell) Hallock, was indebted to the public schools of his 
 
HISTOKY" OF STEUBEN COUNTY 755 
 
 native place for his early educational discipline, which was effectively 
 supplemented by a course in Trenton College, Trenton, New Jersey, 
 in which institution he was graduated. After the completion of his 
 collegiate course Mr. Hallock became identified with the bank of 
 which his father had been the founder so many years ago, and until 
 the time of his death, April 17, 1908, he continued with this in- 
 stitution, through his effective association with which he gained pre- 
 cedence as one of the representative financiers and substantial capi- 
 talists of his native county, where his course was such as to gain 
 and retain to him the inviolable confidence and esteem of those with 
 whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. He showed 
 a deep interest in all that touched the welfare of his home city and 
 county, and while he was never ambitious for public office he served 
 two terms as mayor of Bath, giving a most careful and acceptable 
 administration of municipal affairs. The Hallock family is the 
 owner of much valuable real estate in their native county, including 
 both city and farm property. 
 
 William N. Hallock, the present head of the George W. Hallock 
 Bank is a graduate first of the Haverling High School, class of 1904, 
 and then of Cornell University, class of 1907, receiving degree of 
 L.L. B. He is a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity, also of the 
 Phi Delta Phi and numerous college clubs and societies. He was 
 admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one, and at the death of his 
 father, \\'. H. Hallock, he, as the third generation, assumed charge 
 of the George W. Hallock Bank. Like his father he has never en- 
 tered into polities, but he is one of the trustees of Bath. He is a member 
 of Steuben Lodge, No. 112, F. & A. j\[., and of Bath Chapter, No. 
 95, E. A. Isl., and of the Empire State Society Sons of the American 
 Eevolution. He is a director of the Wheeler-Holden Company of 
 Buffalo, one of the largest and most successful railroad tie companies 
 in the country, vice-president of the Bath Harness Company and 
 president of the Eoualet Wine Company of Hammondsport, New 
 York. On the 19th day of October, 1910, in the city of Washington, 
 D. C, was solemnized the marriage of W. N. Hallock to Miss Shelby 
 Lee Eobinson, daughter of the late John Hancock Eobinson and 
 Frances Lyn (Scraggs) Eobinson, and a granddaughter of Archibald 
 Magill Eobinson of Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 Walter S. McCarty. — A man of broad capabilities and in- 
 domitable energy and perseverance, Walter S. McCarty is numbered 
 among the more active and valued citizens of Corning, where he is 
 carrving on a general insurance business. He was born December 
 26, 1879, in Biossburg, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, a son of J. J. 
 and Mary (Eyan) McCarty. 
 
 Brought up in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Walter S. McCarty was 
 educated in the public schools of that place, remaining there until 
 twenty vears of age. Coming to Corning, Steuben county. New 
 York, in 1899. he was in the employ of the T. H. Wheeler Company 
 as a salesman' for four years, during the ensuing three years being 
 
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756 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 corresponding clerk for the First National Bank of Corning. Gain- 
 ing business experience, self-confidence and self-reliance while em- 
 ployed in those positions, Mr. McCarty in 1906 established himself 
 in the insurance business, in which he has since been extensively and 
 profitably engaged, being a leader in his line of industry. 
 
 Mr. McCarty is prominent in fraternal organizations, being a 
 member of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E., of the Knights 
 of Columbus, and also of the Coming Club. 
 
 Clarence A. Dunning. — 'Incumbent of the office of bookkeeper 
 for the Urban a Wine Company, with headquarters in the village of 
 Urbana, Mr. Dunning is numbered among the popular young busi- 
 ness men of Steuben county and is a representative of one of the 
 honored pioneer families of this section of the old Empire State. 
 He was born at BlufE Point, Yates county, New York, on the 30th 
 of July, 1881, and is the only child of Hiram 0. and Elizabeth C. 
 (Chase) Dunning, the former of whom was likewise born at BlufE 
 Point and the latter of whom was born at Penn Yan, Yates county, 
 being a daughter of Elias Chase, a prominent citizen of that county. 
 Hiram 0. Dunning devoted the major part of his active career to 
 agricultural pursuits and to the raising of grapes, and he died at 
 Penn Yan, Yates county, on the 8th of April, 1905, at the age of 
 sixty-five years. He was a son of Alanson J. and Eliza (Cole) 
 Dunning and his father was one of the pioneers and successful agri- 
 culturists of Yates county. Hiram 0. Dunning was afforded good 
 educational advantages in his youth and for a time he was engaged 
 in teaching in the public schools of his native county. There he 
 later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and grape-growing, 
 and there he continued to reside until 1890, when he located in 
 Wayne township, Steuben county, where he continued to give his 
 attention to the supervision of a vineyard until three years prior to 
 his death, when he removed to the city of Penn Yan, where he lived 
 virtually retired until he was summoned to the life eternal. His 
 widow still resides in Penn Yan and is fifty-nine years of age at 
 the time of this writing, in 1910. 
 
 Clarence A. Dunning is indebted to the public schools of his 
 native county for his early educational discipline, which was sup- 
 plemented by courses of study in Keuka College and the Eochester 
 Business Institute. After leaving the latter institution he was em- 
 ployed for a time by the Bath & Hammondsport Railroad Company 
 and by the Lake Keuka Navigation Company for a period of five 
 years, holding the position of assistant auditor and maintaining his 
 headquarters at Hammondsport, Steuben county. In 1905 he as- 
 sumed his present position of bookkeeper for the Urbana Wine Com- 
 pany and he is one of the efficient and valued office executives of this 
 important corporation. He and his wife hold membership in the 
 Methodist Episcopal church at Hammondsport, where he is also 
 affiliated with Hammondsport Lodge, No. 459, Free & Accepted 
 ilasons, and where his wife holds membership in the Chapter of the 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COIT^TTY 757 
 
 Order of the Eastern Star. In politics his allegiance is given to the 
 Eepublican party. In the year 1903 was solemnized the marriage 
 of Mr. Dunning to Miss Susan C. Casterline, who was born at Bluff 
 Point, Yates county, on the 15th of September, 1882, and who is a 
 daughter of John V. and Sarah (Fulkson) Casterline, who now re- 
 side at Hammondsport, Steuben county, where Mr. Casterline is 
 living retired after having been for many years identified with the 
 industry of viticulture. Mr. and Mrs. Dunning have no children. 
 
 JoHK N. Fleishman is one of the worthy citizens of Cohocton, 
 whose change and progress he has witnessed through a residence last;- 
 ing over fifty years. He is German in nationality, but in the half 
 century has served his adopted country in both peace and war, having 
 been among those who took up arms in the cause of the Union. Mr. 
 Fleishman was born in Germany, April 15, 1835, his parents being 
 David and Rosine Fleishman. He was only about nineteen years 
 old when his parents decided to take advantage of the greater oppor- 
 tunities presented by America, which has been well termed "the land 
 of promise." Of their five children only two are living, Mr. Fleish- 
 man and a sister, Mrs. C. Mulhenbacher. Two of these died before 
 the removal from Germany and one, Godfred, died in 1904 in Co- 
 hocton. 
 
 Mt. Fleishman availed himself of the educational advantages 
 presented bv the district and worked during his younger years at 
 various vocations, these being all of an agricultural nature. In 
 1860 he became an independent land owner by his purchase of his 
 present farm of eighty acres in Cohocton township. Besides this 
 estate he owns a house and two lots in Cohocton village, where he 
 now resides. Mr. Fleishman's enlistment in the cause of the Union 
 was made in 1863, when he was enrolled as a member of Company 
 C, Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry. He was trans- 
 ferred to Company H, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Volunteer 
 Infantry, and later to Company F, Ninety-first New York Volunteer 
 Infantry. He participated in the battle of the Wilderness, the seige 
 of Petersburg, the battle of Hatch's Eun and other fighting of manor 
 importance. He served for two years and was honorably discharged 
 at the close of the war. Mr. Fleishman is a consistent member of 
 St. Paul's Lutheran church, where for sixteen years he has served 
 in the capacity of elder. . . 
 
 Mr. Fleishman has been twice married, his first union having 
 been in 1857 with Miss Caroline Mastin. born October 15. 1835, 
 and she died June 2, 1877. To this marriage were born thirteen 
 children, twelve of whom grew to maturity. They are as follows. 
 Eosanna, born February 19, 1859; Odelia, born August 25, 1860; 
 Joel M., born September 8, 1861; David G., born February 6, 1863; 
 John G., born June 16, 1864; Jacob L., born April 9, 1866 (de- 
 ceased) ; Johanna M., bom September 14, 1867; Frederick G. H., 
 born September 1, 1869; Mayette. born February 16, 1871; Herman 
 
758 HISTOIIY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 J., born April 30, 1872; Helen C, born March 21, 1874; Caspar N., 
 bom May 85, 1875; and George M., born May 32, 1876 (deceased). 
 The second wife was before her marriage Miss Clara Ahrans, born 
 in Germany, February 26, 1854. The date of their union was April 
 9, 1888. Two sons have been born, Frederick W., land Ernest P. 
 
 MiLNER Kemp, of Corning, New York, is at the head of the 
 largest shoe business in Steuben county — the Lester Shoe Store. He 
 furnishes an example of the self-made man. At the age of twenty- 
 three, with five dollars in his pocket and a change of clothes in his 
 grip, he landed on American soil and worked his way to the success 
 he now enjoys. A sketch of his life is of interest in this connection, 
 and is as follows: 
 
 Milner Kemp was born in England, March 1, 1856, son of John 
 and Elizabeth (Blackebrongh) Kemp, both natives of Yorkshire, 
 England, where they passed their lives. John Kemp was born in 
 1830, the same year in which his wife was born, and both died in 
 1906. They were the parents of eleven children, two of whom died 
 in infancy, and the remainder are all living at this writing, six being 
 residents of England. The father was a shoemaker by trade, which 
 he followed the greater part of his life. When well advanced in 
 years he turned his attention to gardening for health, recreation and 
 business. 
 
 In his father's shop Milner Kemp learned the shoemaker's 
 trade. He remained a member of the home circle until he reached 
 the age of twenty-two, when he came to America, Halifax, Nova 
 Scotia, his objective point and where he landed in April, 1879. As 
 he had only five dollars when he stepped ashore it was necessary for 
 him to seek work immediately. He worked and traveled through 
 the southern part of Canada to Toronto, stopping at all the im- 
 portant towns. Arrived at Toronto he entered the employ of a shoe- 
 maker by the name of Jackson, on Queen street, with whom he re- 
 mained three months, at the end of that time, with a companion, 
 he crossed over to Buffalo, and from there walking to Sterling Eun, 
 Pennsylvania, the journey requiring five days' time. There he went 
 to work as section hand on the Philadelphia & Erie Eailroad, and 
 ^ras thus employed six months, afterward working on the construc- 
 tion of a road. There, on Thanksgiving Day, he married, and the 
 following Janvxary, 1880, accompanied by his wife, he went to Wil- 
 liamsport, Pennsylvania; thence, in April, to Waverly, New York. 
 At the latter place for two years he was in the employ of John 
 Mahoney, a shoemaker, leaving him. to enter the service of Andrew 
 Hilderbrand, of the same place, and was with Mr. Hilderbrand for 
 a period of twelve years, doing custom work and also clerking. In 
 September, 1894, he began work for the Lester Shoe Company, and 
 in January, 1895, became a partner in the business and was placed 
 in charge of a branch store at Owego. They sold out in February, 
 and in March of the same year Mr. Kemp took charge of a shoe 
 store owned by the Lester Shoe Company at Coming, while he sub- 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 759 
 
 sequently bought a share in the business and in 1903 purchased Mr. 
 Kenney^s interest, since which time the business has been conducted 
 under the name of Milner Kemp & Company. In addition to the 
 Corning store Mr. Kemp, with Mr. Smith, had a branch store at 
 Horneil, Steuben county, which they sold in 1903, after conducting 
 it five years. 
 
 Mrs. Kemp, formerly Miss Amanda H. Chandler, was born at 
 Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1854, daughter of Nathaniel and Cath- 
 erine Chandler. While Mr. and Mrs. Kemp have no children of 
 their own they have an adopted daughter, Nora (Kemp) Wetmore, 
 she being a daughter of Mrs. Kemp's sister, Emma (Chandler) 
 Weles, who died when Mrs. Wetmore was an infant. This daughtei 
 was born May 10, 1883, and in 1900 became the wife of Irving 
 Wetmore, of Wellsborough, then an employe of the New York Cen- 
 tral Eailroad Company and now associated with Mr. Kemp in the 
 shoe business. Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore have two children: Victor 
 Milner Wetmore, born in August, 1901, and Ellen, February 2, 1903. 
 
 Since he became a resident of this country Mr. Kemp has fre- 
 quently visited his parents and brothers and sisters in the old home, 
 having made fifteen difOerent trips to England for that purpose. 
 He belongs to the Sons of St. George, an English organization, of 
 which he is grand trustee for the New York state organization. Also 
 he is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, having reached the thirty-second 
 degree in Masonry, and maintaining membership in the Corning 
 Council and Chapter and in the Mystic Shrine of Elmira. In his 
 political views he is what may be termed an Independent ; religiously 
 he is a Baptist. 
 
 Henhy F. Camfield has borne to the full the "heat and burden 
 of the day" and has marked the passing years with worthy and defi- 
 nite accomplishment. Mr. Camfield is now running a paper route 
 and sells all the popular daily papers. He is well known in Steuben 
 county and here has a strong hold upon the confidence and good will 
 of the community. A considerable part of his life has been passed 
 in this county, with whose annals the name has been identified for 
 more than half a century. 
 
 Henry F. Camfield was born in Urbana township, this county, 
 on the 1st of January, 1853, and thus became a right welcome New 
 Year's guest in the home of his parents, Eben and Mary Ann (Mills) 
 Camfield. His father was born in Vermont, where he was reared 
 and educated, and he was a scion of a family that was founded in 
 New England in the colonial days. In 184.8 he came to Steuben 
 county and located in the village of Bristol, where he was engaged 
 in the work of his trade, that of cooper, for the ensuing two years. 
 Thereafter he was engaged in farming near Mount Washington for 
 one year, at the expiration of which he located on a farm m Poul- 
 teney township. After his marriage he continued to be identified 
 with farm work and other lines of manual labor and eventually he 
 took up his residence in Howard. At the inception of the Civil 
 
760 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 war he tendered his services in defense of the Union, having enlisted 
 as a member of an Ohio regiment, and he sacrificed his life in the 
 cause, as he was killed in the battle of Fair Oaks. His wife was 
 bom in Seneca county. New York, and she long survived him, as 
 she was summoned to the life eternal in 1897, at the venerable age 
 of eightj'-two years. She was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth 
 (Bulmer) Mills, of Vermont. Eben and Mary Ann (Mills) Cam- 
 field became the parents of five children, of whom three are de- 
 ceased, and of the two surviving the subject of this review is the 
 elder; his brother, Charles B., is a resident of Bath, New York. 
 
 Henry F. Camfield was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 farm and his boyhood and youth were passed in Howard, Urbana 
 township, Steuben county, on the homestead of his maternal grand- 
 father, who was seventy-four years of age at the time of his 
 death. He was afforded the advantages of the district schools, 
 but early began to depend upon his own resources, so that his 
 education was limited in scope, though he has well overcome the 
 handicap through the lessons gained in the school of experience. 
 After the death of his grandfather he was engaged in farming and 
 railroad work for three years, and in 1873, when twenty years of 
 age, he went to Hillsdale, Michigan, in which state he was variously 
 employed during the ensuing thirteen years, at the expiration of 
 which he secured a position with the Hillsdale Gas Company, with 
 which he continued to be connected for eleven years. In 1897 Mr. 
 Camfield returned to Steuben county and engaged in market garden- 
 ing in Wayland township. Later he was employed for three years 
 in the factory of the Gunlocke Furniture & Chair Company, in the 
 village of Wayland, and thereafter he was employed as a mail car- 
 rier from the postoffice to the D. L. & W. R. R. Since 1900 he has 
 Bpen engaged in the newspaper business. He was reared in the faith 
 of .the Baptist church, is a member of the Wayland tent of the 
 Maccabees of America, and in politics he maintains an independent 
 attitude. 
 
 In the year 1885 Mr. Camfield was united in marriage to Miss 
 Mary Jane Evans, who was born and reared at Grass Lake, Jack- 
 son county, Michigan, and who was a daughter of Prank Evans, a 
 respected citizen of that county. Mrs. Camfield was summoned to 
 the life eternal in 1890, at the age of thirty years, and the only 
 fhild, Junius, died at the age of three and one-half years. 
 
 J. M. Grbig. — Prominent among the foremost merchants of 
 Steuben county is J. M. Greig, who is widely and favorably known 
 as president, treasurer and general manager of the J. M. Greig Com- 
 pany of Corning. A man of keen foresight and of sterling integrity, 
 he is a most successful business man, his prosperity being entirely 
 due to his persevering industry, his quick perception of character 
 and to his native good sense and his sound business tact and judg- 
 ment. Coming from a long line of thrifty Scotch ancestry he was 
 born on the 30th of September, 1853, in bonnie Scotland, and was 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 761 
 
 there reared and educated, completing his early studies at a busi- 
 ness college. 
 
 With a keen desire to try the hazard of new fortunes he emi- 
 grated to America in 1885, and for three and one-half years was in 
 the employ of the Adam Medrum & Anderson Company of Buffalo, 
 New York. Having become familiar with the business methods of 
 this country while there, he then opened a mercantile establishment 
 in Le Key, Genesee county. New York, where he remained four 
 years. Locating in Corning in 1891, Mr. Greig stocked a small 
 building, twenty-one feet by seventy feet, with dry goods, and as a 
 merchant established such a good trade that he was forced from 
 time to time to seek more commodious quarters, in the course of the 
 next fifteen years occupying three different buildings. In 1906 his 
 business was incorporated under its present name, the J. M. Greig 
 Company, of which he is the official head, being the president, treas- 
 urer and general manager. The building occupied by the company 
 covers twenty-four thousand square feet, is five stories in height, in- 
 cluding the basement, and is well filled with a. complete and choice 
 assortment of general merchandise, being the largest and best- 
 equipped department store between Buffalo and Binghamton. 
 
 Mr. Greig, June 13, 1889, married Antoinette Mitchell, a daugh- 
 ter of Dr. John Mitchell, of Addison, New York, and into their pleas- 
 ant household two children have been born, Beatrice and Gertrude. 
 Fraternally Mr. Greig is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member 
 of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E., and of the Knights of 
 Pythias. 
 
 Adsit Bailey, farmer, grape grower and banker, is well known 
 and highly respected throughout the greater part of Steuben county. 
 He is a native son of old .Steuben, born at his present home January 
 8, 1843, a son of David Bailey, of Baileytown, on Geneva Lake, who 
 died in 1 872, aged sixty-seven years. David Bailey came to Urbana 
 when he was three years old and the family settled on the present 
 Adsit Bailey farm. That was in 1808. His father, whose name 
 also was David, brought his family and their belongings across 
 Seneca Lake by means cf a raft. A part of its cargo was two horses 
 and eight sheep. The undertaking must have presented difiiculties, 
 but it was successful, and that is the test of the sanity of all ven- 
 tures. Mt. Bailey cleared the land of its timber and improved it 
 till it was one of' the best farms in his part of the county. David 
 grew up on the farm, gained an education such as was available to 
 him and married Subrina Stone, a daughter of Captain Amos Stone, 
 one of the early pioneers in the town of Urbana. Adsit Bailey has 
 two sisters living : Elzina is the widow of James Ordway of Hornell ; 
 Edna is the widow of Douglas Lockwood of Virginia. The father 
 of these children was an Episcopalian. He was a man of character 
 and of action^ who thought things and did things, and his children 
 are brainv and intelligent and efficient. 
 
 Adsit Bailey, after he left school in 1861, took up farming and 
 grape growing on the home farm with his father and mother, and 
 
762 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 has continued the business successfully since the property came to 
 him. He is a stockholder and director of the Hammondsport Bank, 
 being at this time vice-president of the board. He is well known as 
 as active and influential Republican, having attended state conven- 
 tions of his party as a delegate. He was assessor for the town of 
 Urbana in 1876-81 and supervisor, 1881-85, and has since filled the 
 office of highway commissioner. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Bailey man-ied Miss Edna E. Depew, who was 
 born in 1840, a daughter of Peter and Eleanor (Brundage) Depew. 
 Mr. Depew was an early settler in the town of Urbana. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Bailey have no children, but have adopted two — Fanny Depew, 
 Mrs. Bailey's niece, who lived with them from the time she was five 
 years old till she married C. L. Drew, a farmer; and Geneva, now 
 the wife of Daniel Gillette, a farmer in Urbana. 
 
 Eu.MUxi) G. Si'i;\ENs. — A native born citizen and a life-long 
 resident of Stetiben county, Edmund G. Stevens has spent three 
 score and ten years of his life in Hornell, for upwards of half a 
 century having been associated with the management of one of its 
 leading industrial plants. By means of industry, thrift and the 
 exercise of good judgment he has accumulated a goodly share of this 
 worlds goods, and is now living retired from business activities, en- 
 joying the fruits of his many years of toil, at his pleasant home at 
 94 Maple street. Comino- from English stock, he was born March 
 ?9, 1836, in Bath, Xew York. His father, John Stevens, a native 
 of England, emigrated to this country when young, locating first at 
 Bath, Steuben county, Xt'w York, where he lived several years. Com- 
 ing to Hornell in 1840, he followed his trade of a tailor for a long 
 time, afterward living retired until his death, at the venerable age 
 of ninety-two years. He was a man of good education, an especially 
 good student in history, and while in England was a landholder. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Maiy Gill, was born in England 
 and died in Steuben coiTuty when but sixty-three years old. Of the 
 four children born of their union but two are living, Anna, the oldest 
 child, born eightv-three years aeo, and Edmund G., the voungest 
 child. 
 
 Scarce four year!- of age when he came with his parents to 
 Hornell, Edmund G. Stevens obtained his early education in the 
 public schools, after which he served an apprenticeship of four years 
 at the ca-r|'icntcr's trade. On April 1, 1855, he entered what was 
 then the Morris Smith Planing Mill, but which has since been 
 merged into the MeConnell Manufacturing Plant, and was there- 
 after connected with that organization itntil 1909. For many years 
 he was foreman of the yard, from 1902 until his resignation, how- 
 ever, being superintendent of its coal office. Resigning the position 
 January 1, 1909, he was succeeded by his son, E. J. Stevens. 
 
 Mr. Stevens married first, July 3, 1857, Clara Palmer. She 
 died in early womanhood, leaving six children, namely: E. J., born 
 March 11, i858; Fannie, born October 3, 1861, is the wife of D. F. 
 
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HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 765 
 
 Potter; Anna, born April 10, 1863, married June Oaks; Fred, born 
 October 5, 1866, is foreman in the McConnell Manufacturing Plant,; 
 Alvah, born November 33, 1870; and Flora, born November 26, 1873, 
 is the wife of J. 0. Eeynolds. Mr. Stevens married for his second 
 wife, January 15, 1882, Alice C. Hemingway, who died October 12, 
 1895. On November 2-1, 1896, Mr. Stevens married his present 
 wife, Mary G. Hart, of Ithaca, New York. 
 
 Walter E. Hodgman. — Among the successful business men that 
 Steuben county has contributed to New York city is numbered Mr. 
 Hodgman, who is incumbent of the office of purchasing agent for 
 the Otis Elevator Company, with headquarters at 559 West Twenty- 
 sixth street. He was born at Bath, Steuben county, on the 21st of 
 May, 1858, and is a son of Lansing D. and Abby C. Hodgman, the 
 former of whom was born at Stillwater, Saratoga county, this state, 
 and the latter at Cohocton, in Steuben county. The father became 
 a resident of Steuben county when a young man and was long and 
 prominently identified with business interests at Bath. In the public 
 schools of his native town Walter E. Hodgman secured his early 
 educational training, and for several years he was engaged in the 
 hardware business at Bath, where he continued to maintain his 
 home until 1890, when he disposed of his interests there and re- 
 moved to New York city, where he entered the employ of the Otis 
 Elevator Company, one of the most important concerns in this line 
 of enterprise in the entire comitry. In 1894 he became purchasing 
 agent for the company, and he has since continued incumbent of this 
 important office, the manifold details of whose dxities he has dis- 
 charged with marked discrimination and executive ability. He is 
 also one of the principal stockholders of the Multiple Woven Hose 
 & Eubber Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and is president 
 of this corporation, which controls a successful industrial enterprise. 
 He is aligned as a supporter of the cause of the Eepublican party, 
 is essentially progressive and public-spirited in his civic attitude and 
 he is actively identified with the Steuben County Society of New 
 York city. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Hodgman was united in marriage to Miss Euth 
 Kellogg of Orange, New Jersey, and they have one son, Whitney C. 
 The family home is located at Yonkers, Westchester county. New 
 York. 
 
 Joitx B. ]ircBuRXEY. who owns and occupies the old McBurney 
 homestead at Corning, New York, is a representative of a family 
 wliose identity with this place dates back over a hundred years. 
 Great-grandfather Thomas McBurney, the progenitor of the family 
 in this country, was a Scotch-Irishman. On coming to America he 
 settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, where in 1796 his 
 son John, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born. 
 A few vears later they removed to New York and took up their resi- 
 dence in Steuben county, on a tract of land adjoining the town of 
 
766 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 Corning. And here, more than a century ago, was built the two- 
 story, frame farmhouse, with its sixteen rooms and half a dozen 
 fireplaces, which has been kept in a good state of preservation and 
 which stands to-day as a landmark. Here in 1830 was born James 
 McBumey, the father of John B. He was a farmer nearly all his 
 life. When a young man he went west to Illinois, where he married 
 Miss Lucv Brvant, who was bom in 1823, in Gilbertsville, Otsego 
 county, New York. When their son John B. was seven years old 
 they returned to New l^ork and took up their residence at the old 
 homestead; and here he grew to manhood and has since made his 
 home. The farm comprises two hundred and ninety-six acres and is 
 utilized as a dairy farm, the dairy averaging about twenty-five cows, 
 and the milk all being sold to regular customers in the city. 
 
 John B. McBumey married Miss Kose Bryan, who was bom 
 in Cianajoharie, New York, in 1868, and who is a cousin of the 
 celebrated William Jennings Bryan. Mrs. McBurney has a brother, 
 James S. Bryan, who for twelve years was employed as cashier 
 by the Philadelphia Times, one of the oldest papers published 
 in the state of Pennsylvania. While Mr. and Mrs. McBurney have 
 never had any children to enliven the house, they are jovial, hos- 
 pitable people, and their spacious old home, with its broad hearths 
 and briffht fires, is the scene of many festivities. 
 
 James McBurney, a brother of John B. McBurney, was born in 
 1857. For twenty-two years he has been engaged in the manufacture 
 of cigars as a wholesaler, employing eight people in his establish- 
 ment at Corning, which he himself represents on the road, traveling 
 and selling his own goods. He married in 1878 Miss Mary A. Gor- 
 ton, who was born in Corning in 1856, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Stephen Decatur Gorton, who passed their lives on a farm near 
 Coming. Her father, born in 1814, died in 1885 ; her mother, born 
 in 1820, died in 1862. To James McBurney and wife were born 
 four children: Grace, born in 1878, in 1899 married Howard Eyal, 
 and resides in Corning; Thomas Bryant, born in 1879, died in 1884; 
 Eaymond Earl, born in 1891; and Marion Lucille, bom in 1893. 
 
 Politically the McBurneys affiliate with the Democratic party. 
 Their religious creed is that of the Presbyterian church, with which 
 they are identified. 
 
 David J. Eoff. — Eesiding in the old homestead place in which 
 he was born, Mr. EofE is one of the successful grape growers of 
 Steuben county and one of the valued and popular citizens of Pul- 
 teney township, where he gives his attention to the fine vineyard of 
 twenty-five acres that was established by his honored father many 
 years ago. 
 
 David Eoff was born in Pulteney township on the 15 th of May, 
 1850, and is a son of Elisha and Mary (Moore) EofE, the former 
 of whom was born in the state of New Jersey and. the latter in Yates 
 county,. New York. Upon coming to Steuben county, more than half 
 a centurv ago, Elisha Koff located in Pulteney township, at the foot 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 767 
 
 of Keuka Lake, where he secured a tract of land and established his 
 home. The place became familiarly known as EofE's Landing, as it 
 is on the shore of the lake. He reclaimed his land to cultivation 
 and made upon the same excellent improvements of a permanent 
 order. He finally started a vineyard and eventually he became one 
 of the successful grape groveers and shippers of this county, whose 
 reputation in connection with this interesting line of industry is of 
 the highest order. Upon, his homestead he continued .to reside, one 
 of the sterling citizens of the county, until his death, which occurred 
 in 1898. His wife was summoned to the lif^ eternal in 1878 and 
 both were zealous members of the Presbyterian church. Of their 
 nine children four sons and two daughters are living. 
 
 He whose name initiates this review has well upheld the prestige 
 of the name that he bears and is a successful representative of the 
 industry of grape culture in his native county. He was afforded 
 the advantages of the public schools and early became familiar with 
 the various duties of the home farm and vineyard^ so that he was 
 well equipped for the carrying forward of these lines of enterprise 
 on his own responsibility. After the death of his father he pur- 
 chased the vineyard of twenty-five acres, and the same is one of the 
 best in Pulteney township, its location being specially eligible and 
 great care being taken in keeping the property up to the highest 
 standard of productivity. He has shown a lively intereist in all that 
 has touched the civic and material welfare of his home township 
 and county and in polities he is found aligned as a stanch supporter 
 of the principles of the Democratic party. Though he has never 
 been ambitious for official preferment he served for three terms as 
 assessor of his township, showing much of care and discrimination 
 in the discharge of the duties of this position. Both he and his 
 family hold membership in the Presbyterian church in the village 
 of Pulteney. 
 
 In the year 1882 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. EofE to 
 Miss Alice A. Stryker, who was born and reared in Prattsburg 
 township, this county, and who is a daughter of the late William 
 Stryker, an honored citizen of the county. The pleasant home of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Roff is notable for its generous and gracious hospitality, 
 and it is pleasing fo record that they have given to their children 
 the best of educational advantages. Otto, the eldest of the three 
 children, was graduated in Penn Yan Academy and in the Bliss 
 Electrical School, of Washington, D. C, and he is now holding a 
 responsible position as an electrical engineer in the city of Schenec- 
 tady, New York; Harry V., who was born on the 7th of July, 1889, 
 and who was graduated in the Kentucky Military Institute and also 
 in a business college in the city of Rochester, is now employed as 
 a stenographer in the division freight offices of the New York Cen- 
 tral & Hudson River Railroad; and Lucile, who was born on the 
 9th of August, 1892, was graduated in Penn Yan Academy in June, 
 1910, and is now attending Elmira College at Elmira, New York. 
 
768 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 j\I. E. Lake. — This prominent representative of real estate loan 
 and insurance interests in Steuben county was born in Fremont, 
 that county, September 9, 1855. His father was Israel Lake, a 
 native of Tompkins county, New York, who was an early settler and 
 a farmer well known in his time and who died aged about seventy- 
 two years. His wife was Clarissa White, born in New York state, who 
 passed awav when she was about forty-eight. They had five daugh- 
 ters and iovLX, sons, all of whom grew to womanhood or manhood, 
 of whom M. E. Lake was the fifth born. 
 
 Mr. Lake spent the days of his childhood and boyhood on his 
 his father's farm and in the common school in his native town. He 
 made a start in life for himself at the early age of eighteen and 
 farmed in Fremont till 1880. Then he went to Canisteo and was 
 clerk in a hotel there under three successive managements. Then he 
 put in seven years as a farmer near there. Eeturning to that village 
 he was engaged in merchandising there until 1896, when, still mak- 
 ing Canisteo his headquarters, he began buying and selling farms. 
 To this business he devoted himself profitably about four years, 
 meanwhile having in hand some other interests, among them a 
 bakery and grocery in Canisteo. In 1901 he still had a farm in 
 operation near there. In 1906 he opened a real estate, loan and m- 
 surance office in Hornell and has prospered as a business man and 
 financier. Some time since he sold his farm near Canisteo. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Lake married Miss Addie Curtis, daughter of John 
 and Catharine Curtis, old residents in Steuben county. She was 
 born at Canisteo and was well known and popular there. She has 
 borne her husband two daughters— Catharine, wife of Frederick 
 Hull of Canisteo, and Lorena, who was twelve years old in 1910. 
 Mr. Lake is a Eepublican and as such has wielded a recognized 
 political influence. He very ably filled for one term the rather 
 exacting office of justice of the peace. He is an Odd Fellow and a 
 past grand of his lodge. 
 
 James 0. SbIshing. — A commanding figure in the professional 
 and business life of Corning, James 0. Sebring has won fame and 
 distinction as a skillful and able lawyer, and as a man of financial 
 and managerial ability has acquired considerable property, and has 
 become identified with several of the large manufacturing industries 
 of Steuben county. He was born November 4, 1860, in Pulteney, 
 Steuben countv, which was also the birthplace of his father, Charles 
 W. Sebring. His grandfather. Daniel Sebring, a native of Schuyler 
 county. New York, was an early pioneer of Steuben county, taking 
 up wild land and clearing and "improving a homestead in Pulteney. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm, Charles W. Sebring succeeded 
 to the occupation of his German ancestors, and spent his entire life 
 in Pultenev and Prattsburg. He died recently. He married Cath- 
 erine A. Miller, who was bom in Putnam county. New York, of 
 substantial New England stock, her ancestors having come to this 
 state from Connecticut in pioneer days. Her father, Thaddeus A. 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 771 
 
 ililler, came with his family from Putnam county to Steuben county 
 about 1836, making the removal with an ox-team. Taking up land 
 bordering on Keuka Lake, he cleared and improved a good farm, 
 and there spent his remaining years. Mrs. Charles W. Sebring died 
 on the home farm in Pulteney in 1909, aged seventy-seven years. 
 To her and her husband four children were born, as follows: Frank 
 A., wife of Willard Wallis, of Prattsburg, Steuben county; John C, 
 engaged in farming in the town of Wayne, Steuben county; James 
 0., the special subject of this brief sketch; and Burt, of Corning. 
 
 Completing his education in the district schools of Pulteney 
 and the Franklin Academy at Prattsburg James 0. Sebring remained 
 with his parents until attaining his majority. Starting then in life 
 for himself he taught school during the winter terms for several 
 years, working as a farm laborer during seed time and harvest. 
 While thus employed he began reading law in the office of J. K. 
 Smith, of Prattsburg, afterwards continuing his reading with Hon. 
 I. W. Xear, completing his studies under the instruction of John F. 
 Little, of Bath. Being admitted to the bar in June, 1885, Mr. 
 Sebring began the practice of his chosen profession in the autumn 
 of that year at Hammondsport, where he met with fine success, re- 
 maining there ten years. 
 
 la 1895 Mr. Sebring located in Corning, and has since built up 
 an extensive and exceedingly remunerative law practice. In Febru- 
 ary, 1902, he formed a partnership with Warren J. Cheney, under 
 the firm name of Sebring & Cheney, which is one of the strongest 
 law firms in Steuben county. Mr. Sebring is a large real estate 
 owner, among his other holdings of value being Sebring Park, which 
 contains one hundred and twenty acres of land adjoining Corning. 
 
 On August 29, 1889, Mr. Sebring was united in marriage with 
 ilary A. Busbnell, a daughter of the late Watts Bushnell and Har- 
 riet (Wheeler) Bushnell, of Kenona, New York. In politics Mr. 
 Sebring is a Democrat, and is now serving as city attorney for 
 Corning. 
 
 Joi-ix B. K. C-VMEKON^ a prominent agriculturist and grape- 
 grower in Steuben county, also controls a large trade in the meat 
 business in Urbana. He was born at Hammondsport, this county, 
 December '27, 1852, and is a son of Dugald Cameron, a native of 
 Scotland, his birthplace being Glasgow and the year 1817. Dugald 
 Cameron emigrated to the United States in 1817, in company with 
 his parents, and he was summoned to the life eternal in Steuben 
 county in 1893. The Camerons first settled at Bath, whence they 
 removed to Hornellsville, where they became known as farmers and 
 lumbermen. The grandfather of him whose name initiates this re- 
 view, Dugald Cameron, at one time owned as much as two thousand 
 acres of land in and adjacent to Hornellsville. The maiden name of 
 his wife was Ann Taylor. Grandfather Cameron was a linen weaver 
 by trade and Grandmother Cameron was a lace maker. 
 
 After due preliminary education Dugald Cameron, father of 
 John B. R., went, at the age of nineteen years, to Hammondsport 
 
772 HISTORY OF STEUBEN^ COUNTY 
 
 and there found employment as a clerk in the establishment of A. M. 
 Adsitj an old-time concern of considerable prominence. Eegularly 
 for twenty-one years this firm sent Mr. Cameron to New York city 
 to attend to business connected with transportation. During that 
 period he became part owner of the old "Navigation Company," 
 then the firm of Adsit & Eice. Associated with him in this enter- 
 prise was John W. Davis. In 1860 Mr. Cameron turned his at- 
 tention to farming on one hu^ndred and sixteen acres of land near 
 Hammondsport and eventually he began to specialize in grape-grow- 
 ing. He was one of the original stockholders in the Pleasant Valley 
 Wine Company and was connected with this concern for a number 
 of years. His religious belief coincided with the teachings of the 
 Protestant Episcopal church and he was an influential factor in the 
 religious life of the community. A Republican in politics, he was 
 active and efficient as a worker for the success of his party and the 
 furtherance of its principles. Incidentally, as they came to him, 
 not as he sought them, he held many offices. He was tax collector 
 and town auditor at different times and was long a deputy sheriff. 
 His public spirit made him a useful citizen, helpful to all worthy 
 local interests. As a citizen he was alert for the advancement of his 
 town and the prosperity of his neighbors. He was ever held in high 
 esteem by his fellow men and he was a man of good judgment and 
 fine mental caliber. He married Miss Rachel Brundage, a daughter 
 of John and Rachel (Conger) Brundage, farmers of Urbana. She 
 passed away in 1895, at the venerable age of seventy-six years. Of 
 their children two now survive: John B. R., of this review, and 
 Azubah, who is the widow of S. S. Smith, of Joliet, Illinois. 
 
 John B. R. Cameron was reared and educated in this county 
 and he continued to be associated with his father in the work and 
 management of his farm until the latter's death. Then he relieved 
 his mother of all care relative to the conduct of the business during 
 the remainder of her life and eventually he inherited the property 
 and he has since continued its management on his own account. 
 Besides diversified agriculture he is extensively engaged in the grape- 
 growing industry and since 1906 he has conducted a meat market 
 at Urbana. He is a useful and popular citizen, publie-spiritedly de- 
 voted to the general good and identified with many important in- 
 stitutions. He is a devout member of the Episcopal church and is 
 affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men and the Grange, in 
 addition to which he is also a member of the Hammondsport Hook 
 and Ladder Company. Though not an active politician, his political 
 views are in harmony with the principles and policies of the Re- 
 publican party and he has ever contributed in liberal measure to all 
 matters projected for the general welfare. 
 
 In 1890 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cameron to Miss 
 Nellie L. Carr, who was born at Hammondsport April 26, 1860, 
 and who is a daughter of Alfred and Elizabeth (Coon) Carr, long 
 prominent citizens in Steuben county. William and Mary (Lati- 
 more) Carr, great-great-grandparents of ]\Trs. Cameron, emigrated to 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 776 
 
 America about 1705 from Londonderry, Ireland. They were Scotch- 
 Irish Presbyterians and William Carr was a blacksmith by trade. 
 Tradition has it that Mary (Latimore) Carr was a descendant of 
 Bishop Latturin, the early English martyr. Their son, John Carr, 
 married Amy Armstrong and he was a farmer and a valiant soldier 
 in the war of the Eevolution, serving in the Fourth regiment of the 
 Orange County Militia. Amy Armstrong was the descendant of a 
 Scottish chief, concerning whom the following legend is written: 
 In combat to prove the superiority of his elan. Chieftain Armstrong 
 encountered the chieftain of another clan and killed his adversary. 
 The next day he met the chosen one from a second clan and was 
 again victorious, killing his man. The third day a similar meeting oc- 
 curred, but this time Chieftain Armstrong was less fortunate and 
 tradition has it that he returned to his camp dead, sitting in his 
 saddle. The next in line of direct descent to Mrs. Cameron was 
 John Carr, who wedded Sarah Hutches. He was born in 1775 and 
 was a soap and candle maker. He lived at Pine Island, Orange 
 county. New York, and came to Hammondsport about 1825, his 
 death having occurred at that place about 1850. He had sons, Aus- 
 tin, Lansing, Vincent, John, Alfred, Jackson and Morris, the latter 
 remaining in Orange county, — and daughters, — Mary, Elizabeth and 
 Almeda. Alfred Carr married Elizabeth Coon and they became the 
 parents of Nellie L. Cameron, wife of the subject of this review, 
 as previously noted. Alfred Carr was born in Orange county. New 
 York, November 6, 1825, and he died January 2, 1882. His wife 
 was born at Pulteney, New York, September 11, 1823, and she 
 passed away February 17, 1862. They had seven children, Mrs. 
 Cameron being one of twins. Her twin sister is now the wife of 
 S. A. Eroding, of Rochester, and her sister, Mary Carr, resides in 
 the Cameron home. Mrs. Cameron was an expert stenographer prior 
 to her marriage to Mr. Cameron. 
 
 Amos B. Straight, M. D., who was formerly in the ministry 
 of the Methodist Episcopal church, is widely known as a gentleman 
 of versatile ability. He was born in the town of Burns, Allegany 
 county, New York, on the 4th of February, 1866. Elijah Abbott 
 Straight, his father, was a native of Avoca township, Steuben coun- 
 ty, where he was born on the 31st of October, 1833. From 1867 to 
 the time of his death, which occurred on the 19th of July, 1894, he 
 was a resident of Burns, Steuben county. New York. Dexter 
 Straight, father of Elijah Abbott Straight and grandfather of Dr. 
 Amos B. Straight, was born in Haskinsville, this county, in 1806, 
 and he was summoned to the life eternal October 25, 1855. His 
 father, Elijah Straight, was born in 1776 and died in 1847. He 
 was a pioneer in Steuben county in the days of really primitive 
 things, a friend of education and one of the promoters and builders 
 of the first schoolhouse in the vicinity of his early home. He was 
 twice married, his first union having been prolific of five sons and 
 one daughter, namely — Dexter, John B., Augustus Elijah, Cyrus, 
 
776 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Albert and Maria. Eor his second wife he married Mrs. Polly 
 Abbott, who was the widow of Elijah Abbott and who had three 
 daughters— Hannah, Betsy and Lucinda. Dexter Straight, the Doe- 
 tor's grandfather, married Betsy, daughter of his step-mother, thus 
 making the unique history of a son marrying the daughter of his 
 fathers wife. Elijah Abbott Straight, father of the Doctor, mar- 
 ried Eunice Jane Burdick, who was born at Almond, Allegany coun- 
 ty, Aew York, September 18, 1835, and who passed away m Hornell, 
 New York, October 31, 1909. Her father, Bradford Burdick, was 
 a native of Vermont and an early settler in Allegany county. Their 
 wedding was celebrated at Almond November 14, 1860, and to this 
 union were born five children, two of whom, Bradford and Bur- 
 dick, died in infancy. Their only daughter, Libby Kate, was born 
 on the loth of February, 1861, and she died August 18, 1890. Olin 
 Leroy, who was born November 6, 1862, is now a resident of Almond, 
 New York, and Amos B. is the immediate subject of this review. 
 
 Dr. Straight was the fourth in order of birth of the above named 
 children and he was about one year of age at the time of his parents' 
 removal over the border line from Allegany into Steuben county, to 
 whose public schools he is indebted for his preliminary educational 
 discipline. After attaining to years of responsibilty he taught school 
 for two years, at the expiration of which he entered the medical office 
 of Dr. J. E. Walker at Arkport, under whose able preceptorship he 
 made rapid progress in the absorption and assimilation of the science 
 of medicine. In the spring of 1891 he was graduated in the College 
 of Physicians & Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, duly receiving 
 his degree of Doctor of jMedicine, and for one year succeeding his 
 graduation he was engaged in practice with his former preceptor. 
 Dr. "Walker. Thereafter he entered upon an independent practice 
 • at Silver Springs, New York, where was solemnized his marriage 
 and where he resided for three years, after which he removed to 
 Perry, New York, where for seven years he was engaged in a pro- 
 fessional way, controlling a large and lucrative patronage and gain- 
 ing prestige as one of the ablest practitioners in that section. 
 
 While living at Perry Dr. Straight felt that he was called to the 
 Christian ministry and in 1899 he was appointed pastor of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church at Hamlin, Monroe county, this state. 
 One year's work there was crowned with success, his church having 
 the distinction that year of adding more members to its roll than 
 any other church in the Niagara district of the Genesee conference. 
 The following year he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church at Canaseraga, Allegany county. New York. He 
 was then appointed to Spencer Methodist Episcopal church, Hornell, 
 New York. After having been pastor of that church for two years 
 he was appointed to the pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal church 
 at Corning, this county, and a large addition to the membership 
 and great financial gain to the church was the result of his labors 
 there. Two years after that appointment impaired health com- 
 pelled him unwillingly to relinquish platform work. After a post- 
 
HrSTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 777 
 
 graduate course and hospital work in New York city during the 
 winter of 1905 Dr. Straight located the following spring at Hornell 
 as a practicing physician. 
 
 On the 2.3d of December, 1892, was solemnized the marriage 
 of Dr. Straight to Miss Eva Eliza Pryor, who is a daughter of 
 George Pryor. Her paternal grandfather was Sylvester Pryor, who 
 traced his ancestry back to stanch English extraction. He was an 
 early settler in Allegany county, where he lived to the venerable age 
 of eighty years. Sylvester Pryor married Olive Brockway, and they 
 became the parents of four boys — Alden, George, Jesse and Luther^ 
 and two girls— Mary and Eleanor. George, father of Mrs. Straight, 
 was born in Almond, New York, July 25, 1837, and died at Ark- 
 port, New York, June 24, 1877. Mrs. Straight's maternal grand- 
 father was William C. Ward, who was born in the state of Ohio, 
 whence he came to Allegany county, New York, where he lived to 
 the age of seventy-seven years. He married Eachel Head, who 
 passed away at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. and Mrs. William 
 C. AVard had twelve children, five boys and seven girls, namely: 
 Samuel, Ashabel, Otis, Seymour, George, Electia, Mary, Elizabeth, 
 Eliza, Maria, Helen and Harriett. Mary Ward, who married George 
 Pryor, was born on the 27th of February, 1838, in the town of 
 Almond, New York, and she became the mother of five children — 
 three girls and two boys — Ella, Eosetta, Eva Eliza, Frank and Will- 
 iam Sylvester. Eva Eliza was born in Almond, New York, Mav 
 25, 1872, and she was afforded excellent educational advantages in 
 her youth. Dr. and JNIrs. Straight have three children: Katie Nat- 
 alie, who was born at Silver Springs, Wyoming county. New York, 
 on the 16th of December, 1893 ; Erie Abbott, born at Perry, Wyom- 
 ing county, New York, June 9, 1896; and Thomas Benjamin Neely, 
 born at Corning, Steuben countv, New York, on the 5th of October, 
 1904. 
 
 In politics Dr. Straight is aligned as a stalwart supporter of 
 the principles and policies for which the Prohibition party stands 
 sponsor, and in 1904 he received the nomination for member of 
 assembly from the thirty-third district. He has done much to ad- 
 vance the general welfare of the community. He is affiliated with 
 various professional and fraternal organizations of representative 
 character, and no citizen in Steuben county is held in higher con- 
 fidence and esteem than is the Doctor. He has been described as 
 "a broad-minded man, an earnest student, a deep thinker and an 
 eloquent and convincing speaker." His success as a medical man 
 gives him eminence among his fellow-practitioners. His office and 
 residence are on the corner of Seneca and West Genesee streets, in 
 the old William O'Connor residence, which he bought in August, 
 1906. This is one of the best locations in Hornell, and the property 
 is one of the finest residence properties in the city. Dr. Straight 
 in his professional service has been prompted by a laudable ambi- 
 tion for advancement as well as by deep sympathy and humani- 
 tarian principles that urge him to put forth his best efforts in the 
 
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778 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 alleviation of pain and suffering. He has gained recognition from 
 the profession as one of its able representatives, and the triist reposed 
 in him by the public is indicated by the liberal patronage awarded 
 him. 
 
 James J. O'Hara, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Corn- 
 ing, New York, is a Canadian by birth and comes of Irish parents. 
 His father, Patrick O'Hara, was born at Temple House, County 
 Sligo, Ireland, in 1830, and is still living; his mother, Elishie 
 (Burk) O'Hara, born in Ireland in 1836, died in 1870. They left 
 Ireland soon after their marriage and directed their course to Can- 
 ada, Hullet their objective point, where they spent twelve years, 
 at the end of that time coming to Steuben county. New York. Of 
 the children born to them, now married and scattered, we record 
 that Mary (O'Hara) Baxter lives in Corning, New York; Mar- 
 garet (O'Hara) Noke is a resident of Brooklyn, New York; James 
 J., the subject of this sketch, was next in order of birth; Martin 
 resides in Michigan, and Julia, at Brooklyn, New York. At the 
 age of twenty-one Patrick O'Hara joined the police force in Ireland, 
 with which he was connected for three years or until his departure 
 for America. Upon his arrival at Hullet, Canada, he went to work 
 as a farm laborer, and was thus occupied there for a period of 
 twelve years. Then he came over into New York state and at Addi- 
 son, Steuben county, spent another year in farm work. Next he 
 moved to Gang Mills in the same county and turned his attention 
 to the lumber business, as an employe of Fox Weston & Company, 
 with whom he remained until the mill closed its business in 1880. 
 From 1880 to 1887 he was in the employ of the same company in 
 ilichigan, and the latter year he returned to Steuben county and 
 settled at Corning, where he went to work for the Corning Glass 
 Works. At intervals, now at a ripe old age, he still works for this 
 concern. 
 
 James J. O'Hara was born July 25, 1862, at Hullet, Canada, 
 and in his boyhood accompanied his parents to New York. At the 
 early age of twelve years he began doing chores nights and morn- 
 ings while he went to school, and thus spent his time for four years. 
 Then he went to Michigan, where for three years he worked in a mill 
 during the summer months, and in the winter in the lumber camps. 
 Coming back to Steuben county with his father, he entered the 
 Corning Glass Works, where he thoroughly learned the glass busi- 
 ness and where he remained until about the age of thirty years. 
 Following this service he was variously employed until 1894, when 
 he accepted a position as salesman in the shoe store of J. L. Clark, 
 where he still remains. 
 
 For more than twenty years Mr. O'Hara belonged to Coming's 
 volunteer fire department, and he is now an exempt fireman. Po- 
 litically he is a Democrat. In 1904 he was elected a supervisor, has 
 been re-elected three times, and is now chairman of the board. He 
 belongs to the Elks and to the Knights of Columbus. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 779 
 
 In 1894 Mr. O'Hara married Miss Josephine Leary, daughter 
 of Patriclc Leary, of Painted Post, New York, and the children given 
 to them are as follows: James, born July 6, 1899; Frances, De- 
 cember 25, 1901 ; John, May 33, 1903, and Helen, April 32, 1906. 
 
 Myeon C. Sherman. — This man, well and favorably known 
 in northern Steuben county, an extensive handler of grain and 
 produce, was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county. New York, August 
 16, 1875, a son of William and Sarah (Lamphere) Sherman. He 
 was reared and educated among the people with whom he now does 
 business, and among his many patrons none are more loyal than are 
 some of his old schoolmates. Soon after leaving school he became 
 connected with the produce business, buying and selling on his own 
 account or otherwise, as conditions were from time to time. He is 
 now the manager of the Seofield-ilcMichael Produce Company, of 
 Prattsburg, K(j\v York, which handles hay, grain and produce on 
 an extensive scale. His relations with the farmers round about him 
 have been long and to them eminently satisfactory, and he is getting 
 the gilt edged business of Prattsburg and vicinity in his line. 
 
 Mr. Sherman married Miss Edna Moore, of Prattsburg, New- 
 York, and she has borne him three children — Esther, aged nine 
 years ; Francis, aged seven years ; and Edna, aged six years. 
 
 Politically ilr. Sherman is a Republican, zealous for the suc- 
 cess of the principles and men of his party; but he is not in the 
 ordinary sense a politician. At the same time he is a discriminating 
 voter aiad has the reputation of being a man of public, spirit who 
 has the welfare of the community at heart and may be depended on 
 to do everything within his means and ability to further any move- 
 ment for the common good. 
 
 H. B. SiiiTH, M. D. — Devoting his time and energies to the 
 practice of his chosen profession, H. B. Smith, M. D., of Corning, 
 has gained a position of note, being widely known throughout this 
 section of Steuben county as one of its most able and successful 
 physicians. He was born July 27, 1876, in New Brunswick, New 
 Jersey, a son of B. F. and Fannie E. (Ryno) Smith, natives also 
 of New Jersev. 
 
 Completing his early studies in the public schools of New 
 Jersey, H. B. Smith began the study of medicine in 1896, and in 
 1899 was graduated from the medical department of the New 
 York University in New York city, receiving the degree of M. D. 
 After serving in Bellevue Hospital for about one year he came to 
 Corning. He has met with eminent success in his professional 
 career and has built up a remunerative patronage, his knowledge 
 and skill gaining for him the confidence and respect, of the people. 
 
 The Doctor belongs to numerous organizations of a professional 
 nature, including the Coming Medical Association, the Steuben 
 County Medical Association, the New York State Medical Asso- 
 ciation and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is 
 
780 HISTOET OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the consistory, and he 
 is also an Odd Fellow. He is a stanch Eepublican in his political 
 affiliations and is now serving as county coroner. 
 
 Dr. Smith married, June 26, 1900, Nora Thomas, and they 
 have one daughter, Marianne Smith. 
 
 Ernest J. Guttinger. — The gentleman whose name heads this 
 notice has perhaps had more to do with the development of the silk 
 industry in southern and central New York than any other one 
 man. The history of that industry is so interesting that the little 
 that Mr. Guttinger's modesty permits us to put on record here will 
 be hailed by the average reader as especially edifying material. Mr. 
 Guttinger, like so many experts in our various industries, is of 
 European birth. He first saw the light of day in Lyons, France, 
 June 2, 1880, and was there given a liberal education. When he was 
 nineteen he went to Germany and other silk manufacturing centers 
 and by practical experience acquired expert knowledge of silk mak- 
 ing. In 1900 he came to the United States and put in operation for 
 a French company a silk mill at Hazleton, Pennsylvania. From 
 there he went to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he identified himself 
 with the enterprise of the Schwarzenbach-Huber Company, the larg- 
 est operators of silk mills in the world. In 1904 he started a silk 
 mill at Andover, AUeganj' county. From there he came to Hornell 
 in 1906. Until September of that year he was foreman in the weav- 
 ing mills, and then he took charge of the entire mill. This business 
 is operated by the Canisteo Silk Company in connection with other 
 mills at Wayland, all of which are now in charge of Mr. Guttinger. 
 In these various establishments about four hundred people are em- 
 ployed. Their notable success is due in no small measure to the 
 skill and business ability of Mr. Guttinger. 
 
 In 1908 Mr. Guttinger married Miss Nina E. Laughlin. They 
 have a son named Jack. Mr. Guttinger is a progressive, up-to-date, 
 public spirited man who takes an interest in the communities with 
 which his business has made him acquainted and may be depended 
 on to do whatever he can to aid their growth and prosperity. 
 
 RuFus C. Baldwin. — This popular and successful farmer and 
 commercial traveler is a native of Addison and was born February 
 8, 1857. James Baldwin, his father, was born at Lawrenceville, 
 Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and was brought to Addison when he 
 was about four years old by his parents, Eufus and Parmelia (Wom- 
 baugh) Baldwin. Kiifus Baldwin, born in Connecticut, was a soldier, 
 serving the patriot cause in the Revolutionary war, as was Isaac 
 Baldwin, his father. This family of Baldwins is descended from 
 Henry Baldwin, who emigrated from Buckinghamshire, England, 
 in 1627 and settled at Woburn, Massachusetts. His grandson, Isaac 
 Baldwin, Sr., removed with his family from Norwalk, Connecticut, 
 to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, whence they were driven by 
 border wars to a more peaceable part of Pennsylvania north and west. 
 
HISTOKY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 781 
 
 In 1787 they settled on the Chemung river, then in Tioga county, 
 New York. Isaac Baldwin, St., was born at Norwich, Connecticut, 
 in June, 1730, and married Patience Eathbun in November, 1751. 
 They had eleven children, of whom Eufus Baldwin, great-grand- 
 father of Eufus C. Baldwin, was one. Eufus Baldwin, Jr., his son, 
 was born in Canterbury, Windham county, Connecticut, in 1795. 
 In December, 1812, he became connected with the Light Guards, in 
 which he soon rose to the rank of major. In 1825 he removed to 
 Lawrenceville in Tioga county, Pennsylvania. He married Parmelia 
 Wombaugh, daughter of William Wombaugh, of Addison, New York. 
 In 1838, having disposed of his Pennsylvania property, he settled 
 a mile east of Addison, on a tract of six hundred acres of farming 
 and timber land that he had bought. 
 
 In 1851 Eufus Baldwin, Jr., retiring from active life, moved 
 into the village of Addison, where he died June 10, 1854. Ten years 
 later his widow passed away. The following suggestive items of 
 information concerning their children will be of interest in this 
 connection. One of his daughters married Eufus N. Weatherby. 
 William W., who became a lawyer, died in 1852. Walter H. died 
 in 1854. Henry, a lawyer, financier and banker, was supervisor of 
 Addison township from 1859 to 1861 and sheriff of Steuben county 
 from 1886 to 1889. In 1861 he recruited Company E, Thirty- 
 fourth Eegiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, was elected its 
 captain, saw service in the Shenondoah Valley, at Yorktown, at 
 West Point, at Fair Oaks, at Seven Pines, in McClellan's seven days' 
 retreat to the Potomac, at Antietam, at Fredericksburg and else- 
 where, and came out of the Civil war with high honor as a soldier 
 and as an officer. In 1867 he was brevetted major; in 1868, colonel. 
 Eufus, the next son in order of nativity, died young. Parmelia 
 married the Hon. Byron G. Stout, of Pontiac, Michigan. E. Haskell 
 died in childhood. James, father of Eufus C, was born at Law- 
 renceville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, and was brought to 
 Addison by his parents when four years old. There he was reared, 
 acquiring his primary education in the village school. After hav- 
 ing taken a preparatory course at the old Addison Academy he fin- 
 ished his education at a historic old time college at Lima, New York, 
 which was in its day a boon to western New York. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Baldwin married Miss Emma L. Cowley, a daugh- 
 ter of Calvin and Phila (Eathbun) Cowley, and located on what is 
 known as the Woollenmill farm, near Addison. In the spring of 
 1857 he removed to Woodhull, where he built the first steam mill 
 in that part of the county. In 1866 he came back to Addison and 
 during the remainder of his life was one of the leading men of that 
 town. From that time, indeed, dates that larger, broader history 
 which identifies him with county and state affairs. He was an 
 ardent and outspoken temperance man, and in 1884 was a nominee 
 for congress on the Prohibition ticket. He also ran for the office 
 of treasurer of the state as a nominee of the Prohibition party. In 
 business circles he was active and prominent, as proprietor of the 
 
r-83 HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 Baldwin bank and in connection, direct or indirect, with many im- 
 portant interests. As a member of the Presbyterian church he was 
 generously identified with the religious movement in the village. 
 He died January 6, 1903. Of his three sons two died in infancy, 
 Eufus C. Baldwin being the only survivor. 
 
 Rufus C. Baldwin was educated at the Addison academy, De 
 Veaux College, Niagara Palls, New York; Williston Seminary, East 
 Hampton, Massachusetts, and at a commercial college at Eochester, 
 New York, where he finished with a business course. From 1880 
 to 1885 he was in the furniture and undertaking business. After 
 living at Bath three years as under sheriff of Steuben county he re- 
 turned to Addison in 1889 and soon located on a farm two miles 
 west of the village, where he lived till April 1, 1896. In the year 
 last mentioned he accepted a position as a commercial traveler, which 
 he has filled with much ability ever since, maintaining his residence 
 in Addison. On June 18, 1879, he married Miss Celestia M. Smith, 
 of Addison. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin is a member of the Steuben Society of New Y'ork 
 city, the City Club of Corning and the Steuben Club of Bath. He 
 was a charter member of the Baldwin Hook and Ladder company 
 of Addison. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, identified with 
 Addison Lodge of the F. & A. M., the chapter at Addison, the Con- 
 sistory at Corniug and St. Omar's Commandery of Elmira. Of 
 his Blue Lodge he is a past master. He is identified also with the 
 local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the 
 Corning organization of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks. 
 
 Official and commercial life have not stifled Mr. Baldwin's love 
 of the soil. He has not lost his interest in agriculture, owning, as 
 he does, a fine farm of two hundred and fifty acres near Addison. 
 There is no one who takes a deeper or more abiding interest in the 
 affairs of the village, township, county and state than does ilr. 
 Baldwin. Especially is he interested in the growth and prosperity 
 of Addison, one of the most solid and progressive of the minor trade 
 and manufacturing centers of Steuben county. To no appeal look- 
 ing to its advancement does he turn a deaf ear. 
 
 Phin. Gould, known far and near in the athletic world as a 
 champion wrestler, and for the past few years proprietor of a bil- 
 liard and pool business at Corning, New York, is a native of this 
 state, born in Chemung county, December 17, 1881. Mr. Gould's 
 parents, William M. and Ella B (Smith) Gould, were born in 1851 
 and 1853, respectively, and were married in 1876. They have one 
 other child, a daughter, Mrs. Elvira (Gould) Adsit, born April 11, 
 1884, and both their son and daughter were educated at Horseheads, 
 Steuben county. By trade William M. Gould is a carpenter and 
 joiner, which he has followed all his life, at times also doing con- 
 tract work. 
 
 At the early age of fifteen Phin. Gould began life on his own 
 responsibility, working as a glass blower in the Corning Glass 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEiSr COUNTY 783 
 
 Works, and this business he followed until 1904, when he opened 
 up the billiard and pool business he has since successfully conducted. 
 From boyhood athletic sports had a great fascination for him, and 
 when quite young he became locally famous as a bicycle rider. He 
 was the winner in all the long-distance bicycle contests within a 
 radius of seventy-five miles of Corning. In 1903 he began public 
 wrestling on the mat, catch as catch can, and during the years of 
 his public wrestling has met and defeated such men as Mitchell, of 
 Elmira ; jMiles, of Buffalo ; Curley, of Auburn ; Al Swanson, for- 
 merly of Sycamore, . and George Bothner, champion lightweight of 
 the world and holder of the Police Gazette silver belt. Mr. Gould 
 defeated George Bothner in two hours and forty minutes, with two 
 falls. Also he defeated Hanson of Norwich, who had had seventeen 
 years' experience, twelve years being in the old country ; and he 
 wrestled with Eugene Trembalaj^, of Montreal, in a match at Elmira, 
 New York. ]Mr. Trembalay posted in the Police Gazette that he 
 would wrestle any man in the United States for one thousand dol- 
 lars and that he could beat any man at one hundred and forty-five 
 pounds. j\Ir. Gould's weight is from one hundred and thirty-five to 
 one hundred and forty and his height five feet and nine inches. 
 He met Mr. Trembalay, and for two hours and five minutes wrestled 
 with him, without a fall, at the end of which time it was called 
 a draw and they were stopped by the police on account of dark- 
 ness. This was the only drawback Mr. Gould ever had. Also he 
 defeated Bradstreet at Hornell in an hour and fifteen minutes, and 
 two falls. Bradstreet weighed one himdred and sixty-eight pounds. 
 ;Mr. Gould has offered a challenge to any lightweight wrestler for 
 the world's championship. 
 
 ' His billiard rooms are the finest in Corning, and he has hosts 
 of friends, being a Mason of high degree and a member of the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 Mrs. Saeah A. Sjiith is well known for her many good quali- 
 ties of mind and heart throughout northern Steuben county, and 
 her late husband is remembered as an upright man and a fine citizen 
 who achieved success in life because he deserved to. She was born 
 in Benton Centre, Yates county. New York, August 9, 1854, a 
 daughter of Jacob H. and Sabra (Mattiee) Ouderkirk, both natives 
 of ]\iiddleburg, Schoharie county. New York. Mr. and Mrs. Ouder- 
 kirk came to Steuben countv in 1865 and lived on a farm m the 
 town of Cohocton, where the" mother died in 1903 and the father in 
 September, 1906. There Mrs. Smith was reared, under the careful 
 oversight of a good father and mother. She gained her primary 
 education in the public school near the home of her girlhood days, 
 then became a student in the high school at Elmira, Chemung 
 county. Returning home, she was a member of her father's house- 
 hold itill she married. 
 
 :\riss Ouderkirk was married to A. E. Smith m 1877. Mr. 
 Smith was born on the farm on which his widow now lives m the 
 
784 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 
 
 year 1854, a son of Artemas and Sarah (Williams) Smith. Artemas 
 Smith was a son of Elihu B. Smith, who came to this part of Steu- 
 ben county among the early settlers. His parents were pioneers here 
 in 1815. He was born in 1806 and was, consequently, nine years 
 old when they came. They located on the farm which afterward 
 came down to the late A. E. Smith. There Mr. Smith was born, 
 reared and lived his busy and useful life. He was educated in the 
 common schools and in a school at Havana and was for a time a 
 successful and popular teacher. He was a member of the order of 
 A. K. 0. T. M. and a member of the Presbyterian church. He 
 lived on his farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres the life of a 
 man who is sowing well and expecting to reap well — the life of an 
 honest. God-fearing man who loves his fellow-men and never extends 
 a hand to them but the open hand of friendship. His sympathy for 
 the troubled and the afflicted was unbounded. Many a man found 
 in him the friend in need who is truly the friend indeed. He had 
 a kind and encouraging word for all, a generous helpfulness for any 
 who stood in need of it. His house was the home of guests, his 
 table was spread for all who might come. Eegardless of any ques- 
 tion of personal relations, the visitor was welcomed at the door, fed 
 and entertained or aided as the case might demand and sent on his 
 way with a hearty "God-speed" that made burdens lighter for days 
 and days. In all these good works Mrs. Smith loyally aided him. 
 Her ideas of our duty toward our fellow-men and women do not 
 differ materially from his, and so far as she can she orders her 
 attitude toward humanity in general as she knows he instinctively 
 ordered his. Her charity is well known, and no one needing a true 
 friend ever appeals to her in vain. She is a good business woman, 
 and the farm under her management is not falling back by any 
 means. She is known as a woman of rare intelligence and of more 
 than average attainments and all who know her are proud to call 
 her "friend." 
 
 Hugh H. Kendall. — Prominent among the leading citizens and 
 foremost btisiness men of Corning, Hugh H. Kendall is officially 
 associated with one of the more important industries of Steuben 
 county, being president of the C. E. Maltby Company, of Corning. 
 A son of Amaziah Sheffield Kendall, he was born November 30, 1859, 
 in Jasper, 'New York, coming from honored New England stock. 
 
 Amaziah S. Kendall was born in Massachusetts, and when a 
 child came with his parents to New York, locating in iladison 
 county, where a short time later his father died at about the age 
 of thirty. His mother married a second husband and lived to be 
 one hundred years old. Not fvilly agreeing with his step-father on 
 many points, Amaziah S. Kendall left home when a boy of ten 
 years and began the battle for himself, working on a farm in Livings- 
 ton county. In the meantime he continued his studies and subse- 
 quently taught school several terms in Jasper, Steuben county. AVhile 
 thus engaged he read law and after his admission to the bar formed 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEK COUNTY 785 
 
 a partnership with Hon. George B. Bradley, for over thirty years 
 being junior member of the law firm of Bradley & Kendall. He 
 continued the practice alone when Mr. Bradley was called to the 
 Superior Court. He was very successful as a lawyer, continuing 
 his legal work until his death in May, 1898, at the age of seventy- 
 four years. Energetic and forceful, he was a fine representative of 
 the self-made men of our country, a record of his life furnishing a 
 fine illustration of the success that may be attained by persevering 
 industry, wise thrift and manly integrity. He married Caroline Latt- 
 imer, and to them four children were born, namely : Dr. Arthur A., 
 who became a prominent and successful physician of Steuben coun- 
 ty and who died at the early age of thirty-nine years ; Hugh H., the 
 subject of this sketch ; Lester L., who died in early manhood, was for 
 a brief time engaged in the practice of law with his father; and 
 Adelaide, wife of Charles A. Hungerford, a well-known business man 
 of Bloomfield, Kew Yorlc. 
 
 Only a year old when brought by his parents to Corning, Hugh 
 H. Kendall was educated primarily in the public schools of Corning, 
 afterward attending the Corning Free Academy, and a member of the 
 class of 1882 in the University of Rochester. Returning to Corning, 
 'Mt. Kendall immediately found employment in the office of the 
 C. R. Maltby Company, with which he has since been associated, 
 at the present time being half owner. This company is a wholesale 
 dealer in groceries of all kinds; buys, roasts and sells coffee in 
 wholesale quantities; and manufactures and packs various kinds of 
 food products; in which it has a large trade. It is finely equipped, 
 among other practical conveniences owning its own large printing 
 plant. Largely through the enterprise and energy of Mr. Kendall 
 the company has extended its interests and is widely known in com- 
 mercial circles not only in its home city but throughout the county 
 and the state. 
 
 Mr. Kendall married in January, 1889, Harriet Maltby, a daugh- 
 ter of Charles R. Maltby, the president of the C. R. Maltby Com- 
 pany, and they have on child, Barbara Kendall. Mr. Kendall was 
 made a Mason in 1883, and has since been very active and prominent 
 in the order, in 1895 receiving the thirty-third degree of ilasonry. 
 He has filled almost every office in the order, including that of 
 commander-in-chief of the Consistory. He has made a close study 
 of Masonry in its varied branches and is now historian for this sec- 
 tion of the country. 
 
 Ray Giffoed Lawrence, M. D. — This popular and successful 
 medical practitioner was born in the town of Cameron, Steuben 
 county, Few York, March 28, 1869, a son of Andrew James Law- 
 rence, who was bom there January 14, 1834, and a grandson of 
 James Lawrence, born in N"ew Hampshire in 1801, a blacksmith 
 by trade, who came on foot to Cameron in 1823, one of the early 
 pioneers in that part of the county. This early settler, who was 
 known as Major Lawrence, was prominent in many ways, one of the 
 
786 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 influential men of liis time. He was postmaster thirtj-'Six years and 
 town elerk thirty-four years and was an active and helpful factor in 
 the establishment of Presbyterianism in his vicinity. His title came to 
 him for his activities in connection with the old state militia, which he 
 commanded at general trainings. He was a leader, too, in the local 
 work of the Sons of Temperance and was instrumental in organizing 
 lodges of that order. In politics he was an old-line Whig and a hater 
 of slavery and of the "state rights" idea. He married ilary Ann 
 Dickey, of a family that located in the county very early. She bore 
 her husband seven children, of whom William Lawrence and Andrew 
 James are the only ones alive. Andrew James Lawrence was a twin. 
 After the death of his wife Major Lawrence married her sister, Euth 
 Dickej-, who bore him three children — Sarah, wife of William Yates, 
 of Brockport; George N., of Spokane, Washington, and Almyra. 
 The original Lawrence of this American family of the name settled 
 in New Hampshire. 
 
 Dr. Lawrence's father was taught the blacksmith's trade by the 
 Major. Later he was employed at railroading. After spending some 
 years in the service of the Erie Eailroad Company at Addison, New 
 York, he turned to farming and assisting his father in blacksmithing. 
 His father retired from active life in 1874, after thirty-eight years of 
 honest and strenuous endeavor, which had brought him fair success 
 for the time and locality. In the later years he did quite a business 
 in buying and selling produce. His son took his business and added 
 to it the sale of coal and agricultural implements. In his earlier 
 years the latter was an active raftsman. In 1 854 he rafted one hun- 
 dred thousand feet of timber down the rivers to southern markets. 
 Colonel James Jones, now of Yonkers, was also a noted pilot in those 
 days. Mr. Lawrence retired in 1901 and moved to Hammondsport 
 to pass his declining years with his son. He was reared in the 
 Presbyterian faith. Politically he sided with the Eepublicans, work- 
 ing zealously for the success of his party. He was a member of the 
 Steuben County Eepublican Committee and held numerous offices. 
 He was supervisor three terms and was three times elected justice of 
 the peace. He trained with the "Know Nothings" in the time of 
 that party and was in all things consistently American, a lover of 
 freedom for all men, an advocate of equal chances for all. In 1858 
 he married Alma Chissom, who was born in Cameron in 1842, a 
 daughter of George Chissom, a native of Yates county and a pioneer 
 in Steuben. George Chissom's wife was Euth Williamson. Dr. 
 Lawrence has two brothers — Matthew D. Lawrence, nf Bath, and 
 Charles E. Lawrence, a hardware merchant at Knoxville, Tioga coun- 
 ty, Pennsylvania. 
 
 After a course in the schools of Bath Dr. Lawrence was grad- 
 uated from the high school in the class of 1889. He then went to 
 New York as a student in the New York College of Pharmacy. He 
 was graduated in 1893, and during the following five years was 
 preparing further for his professional career. In 1898 he was grad- 
 uated from the New York University Medical College, with the degree 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUISTTY 789 
 
 of M. D. He practiced medicine and surgery a year at Eochester, 
 New York, and in 1901 came to Hammondspo/t and bought the 
 practice of Dr. B. A. Barney. He has achieved an enviable success 
 and has become l^nown as one of the up-to-date physicians of the 
 county, a practitioner of modern attainments and of the best methods 
 of today. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of 
 the Struben County Medical Society and of the Lake Keuka Medical 
 Association and is a Mason. 
 
 On June 15, 1910, Dr. Lawrence married Miss Fredericka Mich- 
 elfelder, a native of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of 
 George jMichelfelder. 
 
 Fkepeeick a. Ellison. — A man of keen intellect and superior 
 business ability, public-spirited and progressive in a practical way, 
 Frederick A. Ellison, an accountant for the New York Central and 
 Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company, is a prominent and valued citizen 
 of Corning, which he is now serving as mayor. A Pennsylvanian by 
 birth, he was born June 20, 1865, in Tioga county. His parents, G. 
 F. and ilary (Sanderson) Ellison, natives of New York state, are 
 now residing in Elkland, Tioga county, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Spending his youthful days in his native state, Frederick A. 
 Ellison was educated in the Tioga High School and in the Elmira 
 School of Comm.erce, becoming well fitted for a business career. He 
 was subsequently engaged in the lumber business for some time with 
 his father. Entering the employ of the New York Central and 
 Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company in 1885, he was for a while tele- 
 graph operator at Waterville, Pennsylvania, from there going to 
 Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as accountant. Being transferred to 
 Corning in 1891, Mr. Ellison has since continued as accountant for 
 the company, with which he has been connected for a full quarter 
 of a century, his long record of service bespeaking his ability and 
 his fidelity. 
 
 One of the leading members of the Democratic party, Mr. Ellison 
 has been active in the management of public affairs, serving one year 
 as alderman from the Fourth ward and having been elected mayor 
 of the city in November, 1909, a position- which he is filling with 
 credit to himself and to the honor of his constituents. Fraternally 
 he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. and of the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. 
 
 On March 8, 1894, Mr. Ellison married Stella Bosard, and they 
 are the parents of three children, Henry, Harold and Jessie. 
 
 Frank LeEoy Puedt, A. M., M. D., D. 0., came from Boston, 
 Massachusetts, to Hornell, Steuben county. New York, August 1, 
 1909, and is in the active practice of his profession in its various 
 branches at his pleasant offices No. 9 Hakes Avenue. Dr. Purdy's 
 father was the late Dr. Andrew Purdy formerly a physician at 
 Jasper New York and later a minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church at various places in New York state and northern Pennsyl- 
 
790 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Dr. Frank LeEoy Purdy was graduated from the Genesee 
 Wesleyan Seminary in 1888 and from Syracuse University in 1893_j 
 after having become prominent on the athletic field and socially as 
 well as a student. He was the first athlete in that university and 
 still possesses a splendid physique. In 1895 he was graduated from 
 the Buffalo Medical College. Ho spent the ensuing year in the 
 Buffalo General Hospital. In 1899 he was graduated from the 
 Massachusetts College of Osteopathy and has since been granted by 
 examination, certificates of registration for the practice of 'medicine 
 and surgery in the states of New York, Maryland and Massachusetts. 
 During the past ten years he has practiced osteopathy in Boston and 
 during that period has been also connected with the Massachusetts 
 College of Osteopathy as professor of orthopedic surgery, major and 
 minor surgery, pathology, clinical diagnosis, obstetrics, gynecology 
 and osteopathic technique. 
 
 Dr. Purdy, with his fine scholastic and medical training, with 
 his exceptional hospital experience, entered upon the study of oste- 
 opathy with a preparation possessed by few, and his distinguished 
 services in osteopathy since have made him a leader in that school. 
 His broad education has enabled him to adopt the best methods of 
 all schools, and his comprehensive knowledge of the structure and 
 function of every part or organ of the human body enables him 
 quickly to diagnose the cause of a disordered condition and intelli- 
 gently to apply the treatment most exactly indicated. 
 
 Dr. Purdy is a Knight Templar and belongs to the Methodist 
 Episcopal church, in which he has served as steward. While in 
 Buffalo he was a church choir director. He married Miss Mollie 
 Spicer Jones, of Philadelphia, and has had three children, his oldest 
 son being a high school student and also an athlete. 
 
 The Purdy family is one of marked intellectuality. Dr. Purdy's 
 brother, Andrew J. Purdy, is a lawyer at Buffalo. His brother Eoss 
 C. is at the head of a department in the Ohio State University. 
 His brother Victor W. is an osteopathic physician in Toronto, Canada. 
 Andrew Purdy, M. D., D. D., father of these remarkable young 
 men, was born in Jasper, Steuben county. New York, February 26, 
 1842. He was graduated from Alfred University, at Alfred, Alle- 
 gany county, New York, took a post-graduate course in the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan and then studied medicine and surgery in the 
 University of New York. For twelve years he practiced medicine, 
 for a time being house surgeon in Bellevue Hospital. Becoming 
 dissatisfied with the part he was playing in the world, he studied 
 theology and preached as opportunity was afforded him and eight 
 years later was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. He had charges in Erwin Center and Cohocton, Steuben 
 county. New York,' Lawrenceville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, Vic- 
 tor, Ontario county. New York, Tonowanda, Erie county. New York, 
 and at Asbury church, Buffalo. 
 
 The Eev. Dr. Purdy was a man of much prominence on the 
 lecture platform and in conference work, and wherever he was sent 
 he met with great success. His powerful preaching made many 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 791 
 
 converts. Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, had to show for his labors 
 there an augmented congregation and a new church building and 
 parsonage. Other towns where he preached were in large measure 
 benefited. He died at Corning, October 6, 1896. 
 
 PtUFus E. Clement.— The present popular postmaster at At- 
 lanta, Steuben county, New York, is Eufus E. Clement, and he is 
 a man of sterling integrity of character and unquestioned honesty. 
 He was born at Honeoye, New York, on the 25th of December, 1864, 
 and IS a son of Peter N. Clement, a native of Bristol, Ontario coun- 
 ty, New York. Peter Clement established his home in Naples town- 
 ship, Steuben county, in 1871, and he was identified with farming 
 dunng the greater part of his active business career. He was a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was a loyal Ee- 
 publican in his political convictions. He married Lois Bundy, who 
 was a daughter of Eufus Bundy, formerly of Connecticut, whence 
 they removed to Cohocton township, Steuben county. The mother 
 of Mrs. Clement was Lois (Love joy) Bundy, and she and her hus- 
 band passed the closing years of "their lives with their daughter, 
 Mrs. Clement, ilr. and Mrs. Clement became the parents of six 
 children, namely : Peter, of North Cohocton ; Mary, wife of William 
 Chapman, of Watkins, New York; Ella, wife of John Goundry, a 
 farmer in Naples- township, this county ; Carrie, wife of Prank Carey, 
 of Naples township; Lola, wife of L. Laird, of Naples township; 
 and Eufus E., the immediate subject of this review. The father was 
 summoned to the life eternal in 1879, at the age of sixty years, and 
 his wife passed away in 1888, at the age of fifty-eight years. 
 
 Eufus Eichmond Clement was reared to maturity on the old 
 homestead farm of his parents and he was afforded the advantages 
 of the public schools of his native place. He was nine years of age 
 at the time of his parents' removal to Naples, Ontario county, where 
 he completed his education. He was associated with his father in 
 the work and management of the home farm until his marriage, in 
 1884, and he continued to be identified with farming pursuits until 
 1895, in which year he removed to Atlanta where he entered the 
 emploj' of William T. Cornish, who owned a general store, in con- 
 nection with which he conducted the postoffice. After his death, 
 which occurred in 1904, Mr. Clement was appointed postmaster by 
 President Eoosevelt, and he is still incumbent of this position. 
 In politics he is a stanch adherent of the cause of the 
 Eepublican party and he has ever manifested a deep and intelligent 
 interest in all measures and enterprises projected for the general 
 welfare of the community. He takes an active part in local politics 
 and has served as delegation committeeman for his district. He is 
 a valued and appreciative member of Kanawha Lodge, No. 566, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past grand master, 
 besides which he also holds membership in Cohocton Lodge No. 510, 
 Free & Accepted ^Masons, and Bath Chapter No. 95, Eoyal Arch 
 Masons. 
 
792 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUN"TY 
 
 111 1884 Mr. Clement was united in marriage to Miss Alice 
 Salisbury, who was born at Naples, New York, in Julj^, 1866, a 
 daughter of Henry and Mary (Wilson) Salisbury, the former of whom 
 is a prominent farmer in Naples township and the latter of whom 
 is deceased. Mrs. Clement is a member of the Daughters of Eebekah 
 and is active in the affairs of the local lodge of this order. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Clement have one daughter, Mildred, born in 1886. She was 
 graduated in the North Cohocton high school and also attended the 
 Teacher's Training School of Cohocton. At the present time she is 
 one of the successful and popular teachers in Cohocton township. 
 She is a member of Eastern Star Ijodge, of Cohocton, and of the 
 Daughters of Eebekah, of Atlanta. 
 
 William E. Kimball is the owner of a well improved farm of 
 sixty acres in Caton township and is numbered among the successful 
 and popular representatives of the agricultural industry in Steubeii 
 county. He is a man of high ideals and sterling integrity and has 
 been prominently identified with church work, as well as with the 
 affairs of the Young Men's Christian Association. His sterling 
 character and his broad humanitarianism have gained to him an 
 inviolable hold upon the confidence and esteem of those with whom 
 he has come in contact in the various relations of life, and as one 
 of the honored citizens of Steuben county he is well entitled to rep-" 
 resentation in this publication. 
 
 William E. Kimball claims the fine commonwealth of ilinnesota 
 as the place of his nativity. He was bom in Steele county, that state, 
 on the 18th of June, 1868, and is a son of Lazell and Amanda (Hill) 
 Kimball, the former of whom was born in Wellsboro, Tioga county, 
 Pennsylvania, and the latter in Caton township, Steuben county, 
 New York. When William E. Kimball was about one year old 
 his parents returned to Wellsboro, Pennsj'lvania, and he was but 
 three years of age at the time of his father's death. He was reared 
 to the age of eleven years in the home of his maternal grandfather, 
 William P. Hill, of Steuben county, and in the meanwhile he duly 
 availed himself of the advantages of the district schools. When 
 he was eleven years of age his mother contracted a second marriage, 
 becoming the wife of Robert Richards, of Caton township, this 
 county, and Mr. Kimball passed the following seven years in the 
 home of his mother and step-father. At the expiration of this period 
 his mother was summoned to the life eternal and shortly afterward, 
 at the age of eighteen years, he removed to Iowa and located at 
 Clarion, Wright county. He remained in the west about one year 
 and then returned to Steuben county, where he secured a position in 
 the Corning Glass Works, in the city of Corning. Shortly afterward, 
 however, he was tendered and accepted the position of secretary of 
 the Corning Young Men's Christian Association. He was general 
 secretary for fifteen years and assistant secretary for one year and 
 nine months during which time he did much to further the material 
 advancement and general work of the organization. At the expira- 
 tion of the period noted he went to St. Petersburg, Florida, where he' 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 793 
 
 remained about two winters^ spending the summers here. He then 
 returned to Steuben county, and in 1907 located upon his present 
 well improved farm in Caton township, tO the supervision and work 
 of which he has since given his attention. Besides his valuable home- 
 stead he is also the owner of a number of residence properties in the 
 city of Corning. 
 
 In politics Mr. Kimball is a stanch adherent of the Prohibitionist 
 party and he has been most zealous in connection with temperance 
 work. That his convictions in regard to the nefarious liquor trslffic 
 are those of action are shown by the fact that he exercises his 
 franchise in support of the cause which he thus advocates. Both he 
 and his wife are earnest and devout members of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal church in the village of Caton, and he is not only a member of 
 its official board but is also the superintendent of its Sunday-school. 
 
 At Corning, New York, January 13, 1892, was solemnized the 
 marriage of Mr. Kimball to Miss Cora E. Cleveland, who was born 
 and reared in Elmira, and they became the parents of two children: 
 Everett, who was born in the year 1900, and Erwin, who died in 
 infancy. Mrs. Kimball was summoned to the life eternal in April, 
 1905, and in 1907 Mr. Kimball was united in marriage to Mrs. 
 Bessie (Deyo) Smith, who was born in Steuben county, where they 
 now live, and who is a daughter of Alonzo Deyo. No children have 
 been born of the second marriage. Mrs. Kimball by her former mar- 
 riage to Willard Parker Smith had two children : Cornelia, now ilrs. 
 Benjamin Honness, and Pauline, who is at home. 
 
 Feaitk DixsoN Kingsbury. — A man of stanch financial and 
 business ability and of broad, practical views, Frank Dixson Kings- 
 bury is at the forefront among those progressive and influential citi- 
 zens who have given to Corning a bright and enviable name for a 
 superior brand of aggressiveness and evolution. He has been identi- 
 fied with many of the important concerns of the town and was for 
 twenty-seven years treasurer and general manager of that thrifty 
 enterprise, the Corning Gas Company. A public-spirited citizen and 
 one to be depended upon to give his support to any cause likely to 
 result in the attainment of the greatest good to the greatest number, 
 it was indeed appropriate that he should have served as president 
 of the village. 
 
 Mr. Kingsbury's father, Lewis Clark Kingsbury, was a son of 
 Jonathan and Artimisia Kingsbury, and was bom in Livonia, New 
 York, December 3J, 1815, his death occurring at Corning, September 
 5, 1889. He married Eliza Dixson, daughter of Henry and Louisa 
 Dixson of Livonia, New York, the date of their union being August 
 23, 1844. The wife was born at Livonia, April 3, 1835, and died at 
 Corning, November 27, 1901. The removal of the family to Corning 
 was in 1854, Mr. Kingsbury being local station agent for the Buffalo, 
 Corning & New York Eailroad Company, now the Eochester division 
 of the Erie Eailroad. He continued in this position for some time, 
 later becoming a passenger conductor on the Erie Eailroad. In 1868 
 
794 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN" COUKTY 
 
 he left the employ of the Erie and embarked in the carriage business 
 at Corning, under the firm name of L. C. Kingsbury & Company, 
 and this enterprise he carried on successfully for a number of years. 
 For twenty-five years previous to his death he was president of the 
 Corning Gas Company. As an evidence of the confidence in which 
 he was held by the community in which he lived he was elected to 
 many public ofQces, among which was president of the village of 
 Corning and supervisor of the town of Corning, holding the latter 
 office at the time of his death. For several terms he was chairman 
 of the Board of Supervisors of Steuben county. For many years 
 he was the president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society. 
 
 He was interested in the great basic industry and the natural 
 resources of the county and was president of the Corning Agricultural 
 Society. He and his wife were the parents of two sons, Frank Dix- 
 son Kingsbury, whose name initiates this review, born in Conesus, 
 JS'ew York, February 26, 1847; and Fred Stewart Kingsbury, born 
 in Conesus, New York, May 5, 1853, and died at Corning, May 20, 
 1883. On November 25, 1877, the latter married Carrie Louise 
 Smith, of Painted Post, who died at Painted Post, January 31, 
 1887. They are survived by one daughter, Ella. 
 
 Frank Dixson Kingsbury, as previously mentioned, is a native 
 of the Empire state. He received his preliminary education in the 
 public schools of Corning. He later matriculated in Williston 
 Seminary at East Hampton, Massachusetts, and after finishing there 
 he entered the employ of Cole & Thomson, bankers and insurance 
 agents, of Corning, New York. He also became associated with the 
 Corning Gas Company on March 26, 1864. On December 1, 1874, 
 Mr. Kingsbury purchased the interest of Charles H. Thomson in 
 the Coming Gas Company, and on July 12, 1879, he also purchased 
 that gentleman's interest in the firm of Cole & Thomson, and formed 
 a partnership with Chester S. Cole, under the firm name of Cole & 
 Kingsbury, which continued until July 1, 1901. Following that date 
 the business was continued by Mr. Kingsbury as F. D. Kingsbury 
 & Company. As previously mentioned his connection with the Corn- 
 ing Gas Company as treasurer, general manager and director, was 
 of twenty-seven years' duration prior to 1901, in which year he 
 disposed of all his gas and electric interests. 
 
 In addition to these important offices and connections Mr. Kings- 
 bury has had various other interests. For many years he was pres- 
 ident of the Corning fire department, and previous to that had 
 served in the capacity of treasurer for that organization. He was 
 the president of the board of sewer commissioners and also of the 
 board of river commissioners and is the vice-president and executive 
 officer of the board of water commissioners of the city of Corning. He 
 was instrumental in the organization of the Corning Co-Operative 
 Savings & Loan Association, which was incorporated May 14, 1889, 
 and has served as its president since that date. Since the time of 
 its organization he has been the president of the Corning Opera 
 House Company. This versatile and energetic gentleman, whose 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBElsr COUNTY 797 
 
 sound judgment and executive ability are of an order which make 
 him a valuable adjunct to any enterprise, is a member of the board 
 of managers of the Corning Free Library and trustee of the First 
 Presbyterian church. 
 
 *Mr. Kingsbury is unmarried and resides at 33 East First Street, 
 Corning, New York. 
 
 Geoege W. Kyan. — A wide-awake, enterprising young man, pos- 
 sessing excellent business qualifications, George W. Ryan of Corning, 
 is actively engaged in the real estate and loan business, in which 
 he is meeting with satisfactory success. A worthy representative of 
 the native-born citizens of Corning, his birth occurred November 13, 
 1881. His father, William G. Eyan, was born at Mount Morris, 
 Livingston county. New York, and was brought up and educated in 
 Yates county. Coming to Steuben county in 1880, he established 
 himself as a merchant in Corning, where he has since been a respected 
 and valued resident. He married Ellen Dormer, who spent her entire 
 life in Corning, her death occurring here December 15, 1909. Five 
 children were born of their union, namely: William, deceased; Ber- 
 tha, wife of T. D. Tennant, of New York city; G-eorge W., of whom 
 we write; Catherine; and James D., of Corning. 
 
 Bred and educated in Coming, George W. Ryan began hustling 
 for himself at the age of twenty-one years, and in addition to dealing 
 in real estate and making loans has other financial interests in Corn- 
 ing. Paying strict regard to honor and veracity in his transactions, 
 ilr. Ryan has met with most satisfactory success in his undertakings, 
 being recognized as an important factor in the promotion and ad- 
 vancement of the material welfare of his city. He is widely and 
 favorably known, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and 
 of the Order of Eagles. 
 
 C. E. Beaed. — Steuben county cannot boast of many lawyers 
 better equipped for their profession or of more credit to it than the 
 prominent citizen of Hornell whose name is the title of this article. 
 Mr. Beard was born in what is now the town of Hartsville, Steuben 
 county, .Tilly 8, 1843. His father, Erastus S. Beard, of English ex- 
 traction but of Connecticut nativity, came with an ox team to 
 Steuben county in the days when that was an approved mode of 
 travel. He was a teacher, a hotel-keeper and a farmer, was active 
 and influential in public affairs, first as a Whig and finally as a 
 Democrat, and he died on his birthday in March, 1888, deeply re- 
 gretted by all who had known him. His wife, who was Emaline 
 Browne, a native of Pennsylvania, lived to be eighty-six years old. 
 The following facts concerning some of their children will be found 
 to be interesting in this connection. Solomon died in infancy. Clara 
 B. married Solomon B. Huy, of Corning. John M. is deceased. 
 Daniel E. lives in Hornell. Asher M. is deceased. Sabra A. is de- 
 ceased. C. B. was the fourth of the family in order of nativity. 
 He passed the days of his childhood and boyhood in Hartsville, work- 
 ing on the farm and attending public school. 
 
 Vol. 11—16 
 
798 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Mr. Beard's real battle for life began when, at eighteen, he went 
 to Canisteo as a clerk in the store of Southworth and Waldo. After 
 he had worked there one year and saved a little money, for the sal- 
 aries of young clerks were very small, he became a student at Alfred, 
 but was obliged soon to give up his studies because of ill health. After 
 having spent a year on the farm at work and in recuperation, he went 
 to Hornell, where for about two years he was employed hj E. G. 
 Durfee, merchant and postmaster. During the succeeding two years 
 he conducted a merchant tailoring business on his own account. 
 Then, after devoting a year to the study of law, he entered the 
 Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in the spring 
 of 1869. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation Mr. Beard was admitted to 
 the bar of the state of New York. Eeturning to Hornell he be- 
 came connected with the law offices of Bemis and Near and was soon 
 elected a Justice of the peace. Under the law existing then the office 
 was called that of justice of sessions and the County Court was com- 
 posed of county Judge and two justices of the peace. He served 
 in that capacity a year. In 1874 he was appointed one of the 
 district clerks of the general assembly at Albany. The session began 
 January 1, 1875, and ran througli the winter. Hiram A. Calkins 
 was clerk of the assembly and Daniel S. Lament was the chief en- 
 grossing clerk. At the close of the session he returned to Hornell 
 and resumed the general practice of the law, in which he has since 
 been very successful. In 1876 he took an active part in the presi- 
 dential campaign in support of the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden. Since 
 then ,he has been active as a Democrat. He worked in Steuben 
 county for the nomination of President Cleveland in 1892 and in the 
 campaign was active in the advocacy and promotion of his election. 
 He has supported each successive Democratic nominee for the presi- 
 dency since, doing his best for Bryan, and he is now a firm believer 
 in the destiny of Judge Gaynor of New York city. For twelve 
 years, under the village and under the city government, he filled the 
 office of justice of the peace with rare ability and fidelity. 
 
 In 1873, Mr. Beard married Miss Cora Swain. She died in the 
 fall of 1875 ; and in February, 1898, he married Miss Josephine M. 
 Collins. In connection with his legal practice he has been active 
 in the handling of real estate. He owns considerable real estate in 
 the city and a fine dairy farm near by. His solicitude for the 
 growth and advancement of Hornell is such that it impels him fre- 
 quently to the exhibition, of a commendable public spirit which marks 
 him as a most useful citizen. 
 
 Valentine Eettig. — Worthy of special mention in this bio- 
 graphical volume is Valentine Eettig, of Corning, who is a self- 
 made man in every sense implied by the term. Coming to this 
 city from Germany when young, he has risen from humble surround- 
 ings and limited circumstances without the assistance of influential 
 friends or the advantages of wealth, steadily working his way up- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 799 
 
 ward until today he is a power in the manufacturing and commercial 
 life of the city, being at the head of the "Rettig Bottling Works/" 
 a substantial and successful industry. He was born June 11, 1846, 
 in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he was bred and educated. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years ambition impelled him to leave the 
 Fatherland and in America seek the fortune waiting the young 
 men of industry, perseverance and sobriety. Locating in Corning in 
 1865, soon after his arrival in this country, Mr. Rettig entered a 
 tinning eatablishment and for two years managed the mercantile de- 
 partment of the company by which he was employed, the next two 
 years being engaged in the grocery business. He was afterwards a 
 dealer in meats and provisions for three years, and then changed his 
 occupation, becoming a hotel keeper. In connection with his hotel, 
 Mr. Rettig in 1875 embarked in the bottling business, beginning 
 on a modest scale but he has now an extensive plant, the pro- 
 ductions of which find a ready market in the different towns, cities and 
 villages of Steuben county, his variety of soft drinks being widely 
 known and in great demand. In 1909 Mr. Rettig sold his entire 
 business to his daughter Mabel, and her husband, Thomas O'Connor, 
 but the old firm name is still retained. 
 
 Since casting his first presidential vote in 1873 for U. S. Grant, 
 Mr. Rettig has been a zealous advocate of the principles of the Re- 
 publican party, and has been prominent in public affairs. In 1893 
 he was elected to represent the Third ward on the Board of Alder- 
 men, and has since been elected to the same position four different 
 times. In 1904 Mr. Rettig was elected mayor of Corning on the 
 Democratic ticket, and in 1906 was elected to the same high office 
 on the Independent ticket, which was supported by the Republicans. 
 Fraternally Mr. Rettig is one of the oldest members of Corning 
 Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E., and he is also a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 In May, 1870, Mr. Rettig married Mary Greger, and they are 
 the parents of six children, namely: Matilda, Fred, Kate, Elmira, 
 wife of Walter Wood; Hattie, wife of John McAvoin and Mabel, 
 wife of Thomas O'Connor. 
 
 Teumai^- S. Pritchaed. — The descendant of an early family of 
 Corning, Steuben county, Truman S. Pritchard is distinguished as 
 the longest-established merchant in this part of the county, having 
 been continuously engaged in business here for forty-seven consecu- 
 tive years. A inan of noble character and good business capacity, 
 he has won well-deserved success through his fidelity to his trusts 
 and his honest, upright dealings with the people; and the respect 
 and esteem in which be is justly held by all bears evidence of his 
 straightforward manly life. He was born August 11, 1837, in Law- 
 renceville, Tioga countv, Pennsylvania, which was also the birthplace 
 of his father, Hiram Pritchard. 
 
 Hiram Pritchard was born February 7, 1818. About 1838 he 
 came from Pennsylvania to New York, locating in Corning, where 
 he followed his trade of a miller many years, being also engaged 
 
800 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in the lumber business to some extent, and for some time eon- 
 ducting a grocery store. He died in Corning February 6, 1896, at 
 the good old age of seventy-eight years. He was of Welsh descent, 
 and inherited in a marked degree many of the traits of character 
 that distinguishd his honored ancestors. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Lucinda Searles, was born December 1, 1817, in Tioga 
 countj', New York, and died in Corning, New York, in 1888. They 
 reared two sons and one daughter, Truman S., the subject of this 
 brief biographical sketch, being the eldest child. 
 
 About a year old when his parents came to Corning, Truman 
 S. Pritchard was here bred and educated, obtaining his early knowl- 
 edge in the common schools. Soon after attaining his majority he 
 embarked in mercantile pursuits, from 1861 until 1866 dealing in gro- 
 ceries. In 1867 Mr. Pritchard established himself in the hardware busi- 
 ness in the building which he is now occupying, and has since conducted 
 a large and lucrative trade, increasing his stock in quantity, quality 
 and variety as the wants of his many patrons demanded. He is the 
 oldest merchant of the city and is widely known and highly re; 
 spected. 
 
 No man has taken greater interest in the growth and prosperity 
 of his home city than Mr. Pritchard, and none has been more willing 
 to contribute of his time and means to further its interests. For 
 eight years he served as chairman of the Eepublican County Commit- 
 tee. He was one of the aldermen of the village of Corning in 1865 
 and 1866, and was collector of the port of Corning four years. 
 He is very prominent in Masonic circles, having passed through all 
 the chairs of Masonry and is one of the few men in this part of the 
 state that has taken the thirty-third degree of the craft. 
 
 On December 1, 1858, Mr. Pritchard married Mary W. McCarty^ 
 and of their union two sons and two daughters were born. One son 
 and both daughters have passed to the life beyond, the only child 
 living being their son Harrie W. 
 
 Harrie W. Pritchard. was born August 13, 1863, in Corning, and 
 was here brought up. He received his elementary education in the 
 public schools, afterwards attending the Corning Free Academy. In 
 1882 he was graduated from the Peekskill Military Academy, after 
 which he continued his studies at the Syracuse University. Return- 
 ing from that institution to Corning, he has since been actively en- 
 gaged in business with his father. Following in the political footsteps 
 of liis father, he is active in the Eepublican ranks, and for two terms 
 has served as alderman from the Second ward. He married April 
 38, 1889, Bertha Eoe, and they have one daughter, Margaret 
 Pritchard. 
 
 Hon. William Rdmset, son of Supreme Court Justice David 
 Eumsey and Jane E. (Brown) Eumsey, was born at Bath, Steuben 
 county. New York, October 18, 1841. He was educated early in life 
 in the public and private schools of Bath. He early developed a com- 
 prehensive desire to investigate all questions of an intricate nature, 
 especially those involving the principles of government, civil rights 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN" COUNTY 801 
 
 and political economy. He prepared for and entered Williams Col- 
 lege, in Massaclmsetts, in 1857, became an industrious and promising 
 student, attracting the attention of the whole faculty. The exciting 
 political campaign of 1860, developed Ms enthusiasm for the party of 
 Lincoln, and during his vacation in that year he became the captain 
 of and drilled the political marching clubs of that historic political' 
 campaign, known as the "Wide Awakes." 
 
 In April, 1861, after the assault upon Eort Sumter, and a few 
 weeks before the commencement of his college term, William Eumsey 
 with other young men, closed their books, turned their backs on the 
 classic halls, gave up their cherished hopes and ambition, to answer 
 to the call for troops to maintain the integrity of the Union, but in 
 recognition of his standing and his sacrifice, he was graduated by his 
 Alma Mater in June, 1861. Soon after his enlistment in the mili- 
 tary service of the United States, he was, at Elmira, Few York, ap- 
 pointed aid-de-camp to General Eobert B. Van Valkenburg, an uncle 
 (the husband of his father's sister) ,: on October 17 of that year he 
 resigned that office and was appointed first lieutenant and adjutant, 
 in the First iNTew York Light Artiller}% commanded by Colonel C. D. 
 Bailey; in November he went with his regiment to Washington and 
 remained there in camp until April, 1863, when Colonel Bailey was 
 assigned to the position of Chief of Artillery, in Casey's division in 
 the Fourth Army Corps, and Lieutenant Eumsey went with Colonel 
 Bailey to his new post. He reached Newport News, Virginia, with 
 his division, in the fore part of April, and went to the front. He 
 was engaged in the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, till May 4, and the 
 next day he participated in the battle of Williamsburg; he was in the 
 Peninsular campaign from that day till May 31, when, in the battle 
 of Fair Oaks, his horse was shot under him and he was severely 
 wounded in the shoulder and sent north. On his return to duty he 
 was promoted to the rank of captain and assistant adjutant general 
 for bravery at Fair Oaks. He was assigned to the command of Gen- 
 eral William W. Averill, a Steuben county, New York, West Point 
 graduate, with whom he participated in many engagements, mostly 
 in West Virginia. His gallant services' rendered his promotion 
 steady, and on the 25th of May, 1865, he was commissioned a major, 
 for braverv at Moofield, West"Virginia, when he led one column of 
 the sixteen hundred Federal troops, under General Averill, who at- 
 tacked and utterly routed thirty-two hundred Confederate troops, 
 killing, wounding and capturing one-half of the entire force, and dis- 
 persing the remainder. In further reward for his services he received 
 from President Andrew Johnson a further commission as lieutenant 
 colonel, with rank from March 13, 1865, and stated it was given for 
 distinguished services in the campaign of May, June and July, 1864. 
 In February, 1868, he received from Governor Eeuben E. Fenton, of 
 New York, a commission of brevet colonel, for meritorious services 
 in the late war. It was the opinion of general officers, among them 
 General Casey and General Averill, that Colonel Eumsey should have 
 received a much higher commission than he had attained. 
 
802 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUISTTY 
 
 Soon after the close of the war General Van Valkenburg was 
 appointed minister to Japan, and Colonel Eumsey went out with him 
 as secretary of the legation. After a sojourn in that country for two 
 years Colonel Eumsey returned to his native state and settled down 
 to the active and serious work of his after life. He studied law in his 
 father's (Judge David Eumsey) law office, a noted feature of which 
 was that it was the training school of five justices of the Supreme 
 Court, namely: The subject of this sketch. General E. B. Van 
 Valkenburg of the Supreme Court of Florida; James M. Barker of 
 the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; Loyd Barber of the Minnesota 
 Circuit Court, and David Eumsey of New York. Colonel Eumsey 
 was admitted to the bar three years thereafter and became a lawyer 
 of executive reputation and large practice. In 1880, Colonel Eumsey 
 was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New York 
 for the Seventh Judicial District, where he served at special and trial 
 terms and in the Appellate Division of the Fourth Judicial Depart- 
 ment, with noted ability. He was afterward designated by the gov- 
 ernor of the state to serve as one of the seven justices of the Appellate 
 Division, in the First Judicial Department of the Supreme Court, 
 composed of the city and county of New York. The Supreme Court 
 Eeports for that period attest his great learning and judicial ability. 
 
 Because of his refusal to yield to the dictations of that political 
 tyrant. Senator Thomas C. Piatt, the personnel of the bench of the 
 Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department was changed. 
 Shortly following this Judge William Eumsey resigned from the 
 bench of the Supreme Court and returned to the active practice of 
 his profession in the city of New York. Judge Eumsey is the author 
 of an exhaustive and standard work on the practice in the courts of 
 the state of New York. He was appointed by Governor David B. 
 Hill, with Hon. David Dudley Field and Hon. David L. Pollett, a 
 commissioner to revise and prepare a code of evidence. He had a 
 large fund of literary and historical acquirements, and frequently 
 upon request delivered addresses upon those subjects with credit and 
 distinction. Notably was his address delivered upon the occasion of 
 the observance of the centennial of the settlement of Hornellsville 
 and -the Canisteo Valley in 1890. 
 
 Judge Eumsey married Miss Ella Moore and three children 
 blessed their union, a son, David Eumsey, a well known and prom- 
 inent lawyer of the city of New York, and two daughters, Mrs. John 
 S. Sheppard, of the same city, and Mrs. Evans, of London, England. 
 
 Judge Eumsey was of untiring energy and ceaseless industry ; he 
 was possessed of a splendid physical system, but his labors in the 
 field, at the bar, on the bench and in his study were too much for his 
 robust constitution, and he died from overwork at his home in the 
 city of New York, on January 16, 1903. His remains were brought 
 to Bath and there deposited in the family lot in Grbve cemetery, 
 mourned by all who knew him. 
 
 MoKRis E. Gregory. — Holding high rank among the active and 
 progressive citizens of Steuben county is Morris E. Gregory, pro- 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBElSr COUNTY 803 
 
 prietor of the Corning Brick, Terra Cotta and Tile Company. He 
 possesses a natural aptitude for business, being keen and alert to take 
 advantage of opportunities, and broad and bright enough to handle 
 large enterprises, being, in Western parlance, a "hustler." A son of 
 Erwin L. Gregory, he was born in Caton, Steuben county. New York, 
 July 29, 1864. His grandfather, Stephen L. Gregory, a farmer by 
 occupation, was a pioneer settler of this part of the Empire state and 
 actively identified with its early development and growth. 
 
 Born and reared in Steuben county, Erwin L. Gregory spent his 
 sixty-six years of life in the county, during his active life being 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits in the town of Caton. He married 
 Laura Hildreth, who was born in Yates county. New York, and died 
 in Steuben county. They reared two children. May and Morris E., 
 the son being the first-born. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm in Caton, Morris E. Gregory 
 acquired the rudiments of his education in the district schools, 
 in 1886 being graduated from the Corning Free Academy. He sub- 
 sequently taught four years in the graded schools of New Jersey, from 
 there coming to Corning to establish himself in business. He entered 
 the employ of his predecessors, proprietors of the Corning Brick 
 Company, and continued as bookkeeper uptil 1896, when he pur- 
 chased the entire business, of which he has since been the sole 
 owner. In its management Mr. Gregory has met with eminent 
 success during the fourteen years of his ownership. Mr. Gregory's 
 business includes the manufacture of architectural terra cotta, paving 
 and common building brick, and besides this he is a large dealer in 
 cement, lime, coal, etc., he is also interested quite extensively in 
 the lumber business. The architectural terra cotta manufactured 
 by this plant is shipped throughout a large territory and Corning 
 terra cotta may be found in many large buildings in the east. Mr. 
 Gregory has made a thorough study of paving brick and the result 
 is that his, product ranks among the best made in this country. 
 
 Mr. Gregory married Miss Anna Creveling on October 29, 1902, 
 and they have two sons, Morris Creveling and George Erwin. Mr. 
 Gregory has long been a member of the Masonic order, ranks as a Sir 
 Knight, has taken. the thirty-second degree, Scottish Eite, and is a 
 member of the Mystic Shrine and of the Consistory. He is likewise 
 a member and past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
 and a member of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. Politically 
 he is a straightforward Eepublican. 
 
 George Foster of the town of Prattsburg, Steuben county, 
 was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1817, one of the nine children 
 of Ealph Foster, and came to the United States in 1850. Locating in 
 the town of Prattsburg, he engaged in farming, meeting with good 
 success and winning honor as a citizen. In 1867 he married Ann 
 Stevenson, a native of England. They had six children: Frank, 
 John, Mary, Ann, George and William. Of these two are deceased, 
 John and Ann. Frank and Mary live in Eushville, and George and 
 William reside in Prattsburg. The mother of this family died in 
 
804 HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 1872. The father later married a Miss Horton. He died November 
 3, 1899. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a 
 good citizen, helpful in all the relations of life and as a business 
 man thrifty, industrious and prosperous. 
 
 His son George was born January 33, 1860. He was educated 
 in the public schools and brought up as a farmer's boy of all work. 
 At sixteen, he began to work out by the month. He now owns one 
 hundred and twenty-two acres of land a mile and a half northwest 
 of Prattsburg. A lover of good horses he raises some of the best in 
 the county. As a general farmer and stockraiser he ranks with the 
 most successful men in his vicinity. 
 
 June 33, 1890, Mr. Foster married Lillie Parks, born June 33, 
 1863, a daughter of Luther Parks, who was a native of Albany, 
 New York. She was reared on a farm and early in life left home to 
 do for herself and was domiciled with the family of Thomas Hutch- 
 inson until she married. She has borne her husband two daughters: 
 Clara, born February 3, 1897, and Grace I., born April 16, 1901. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Foster are earnest, upright, highly respected people. 
 They are essentially self-made. Both relied on personal resources 
 in youth and made a good and honest start in life. He in his way, 
 she in hers, planned wisely and worked successfully. They are en- 
 joying the rewards of years well spent. 
 
 John M. Pinch. — This enterprising business man and prom- 
 inent citizen of Hornell was born in that city January 39, 1841. 
 Nathaniel Pinch, his father, came to Steuben county in 1838 and lo- 
 cated at Hornellsville. He was of English descent but of American 
 birth and was a lawyer of ability who practiced his profession about 
 thirty-five years, a part of the time holding the office of Justice of 
 the peace and for twenty-five years was the attorney and land agent 
 of the New York & Erie Eailroad Company and its successors. He 
 died when he was about sixty-eight years old. His father, a Baptist 
 minister, was a Connecticut man. This family of Pinch is descended 
 in the male line from one of four brothers who came over from 
 England in Colonial times. Nathaniel Pinch married Samantha Pat- 
 rick, a native of Dutchess county, New York, and of Irish par- 
 entage, who lived to be ninety-one years old. They had nine chil- 
 dren, five daughters and four sons, all but two of whom grew to 
 maturity. Three of the sons were living in 1910. John M. Finch 
 was the third son and seventh child in order of nativity, and he is 
 the only member of his parents' family now living in Steuben 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Finch spent his youth in Hornell and began his education 
 in local public schools. After having been a student for a time at 
 the old Nunda Academy he read law with his father as a preceptor 
 and was admitted to the bar when he was twenty-two years old. He 
 was for eight years assistant to his father and twenty-five years gen- 
 eral land and tax agent for the Erie Railway Company, and he has 
 been from time to time connected with numerous business inter- 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 807 
 
 ests. He was one of the chief organizers of the First National 
 Bank of Hornell, and has been its vice-president from its beginning 
 to the present time. He helped to organize and is president of the 
 Hornell Land Company. He was one of the organizers also, in 1886, 
 of the Hornell Electric Company, of which he is president. He was 
 one of the original promoters of the Hope Cemetery Association and 
 has been manager of its business since 1864. He built the present 
 Steuben Sanitarium and was for some years president of the cor- 
 poration controlling it. He was one of the historic twenty men who 
 organized the Hornell Chamber of Commerce and was the first pres- 
 ident of that body. In fact he has been identified for many years 
 with every important public movement in which the citizens of 
 Hornell have been interested. One of the latest is the Hornell and 
 Bath Interurban Electric Eoad, and he is chairman of the board of 
 directors having this great public improvement in hand. He is the 
 owner of much real estate at and near Hornell. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Finch married Caroline A. Patrick. They have two 
 daughters. One of them is Mrs. Charles A. White, of Chicago, 
 Illinois. Miss Mabel S. Finch is a member of her father's household. 
 Mr. Finch's earliest political alliance was with Republicans. Adher- 
 ing to Horace Greeley in the great editor's hapless fight for the 
 presidency, he became a liberal Republican. Since that campaign he 
 has acted with the Democratic party. As alderman, as school trustee 
 and otherwise he has officially served his fellow citizens of Hornell. 
 In every public relation to which he has been called he has amply 
 proven his public spirit. Indeed there is no proposition looking with 
 any degree of promise to the general good of the city that does not 
 have his cordial and liberal support. 
 
 Waeren J. Cheney. — Noteworthy among the active and prom- 
 inent members of the Steuben county bar is Warren J. Cheney, of 
 Corning, who, as junior member of the well-known law firm of 
 Sebring & Chenev, is carrying on a substantial business, having a 
 large and lucrative practice. He is likewise identified with one of 
 the leading business concerns of the city, being vice-president of the 
 Corning Cut Glass Company. A son of Judson Z. Cheney, he was 
 born April 27, 1862, in Saint Lawrence county. New York. 
 
 Judson Z. Cheney was born, bred and educated in Saint Law- 
 rence county. New York. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil 
 war his patriotic spirit being aroused, he cheerfully offered his serv- 
 ices to his country, enlisting in the Ninety-eighth New York Volun- 
 teer Infantry. With his comrades he took part m many battles, and 
 in September, 1864, at Fort Harrison, during the very last engage- 
 ment of his regiment, he lost his life, being killed on the field ot 
 battle when but twenty-eight years of age. He married Thirza M. 
 Blanchard, who was left a widow when young, with one child, War- 
 ren J Cheney, the special subject of this sketch. She subsequently 
 married for her second husband Charles G. Cheney, and by that 
 marriage had one child, Carroll C. Cheney, of Corning, who is now 
 
808 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 shipping clerk in the wholesale grocery house of the C. E. Maltby 
 Company. The mother died December 14, 1908. 
 
 Graduating from the classical department of the Potsdam Nor- 
 mal School with the class of 1881, Warren J. Cheney was principal 
 of the Covington Academy during the following five years, while 
 from 1886 until 1889 he held a similar position in the Brasher and 
 Stockholm Union Free School and Academy. During his pedagogical 
 career ilr. Cheney read law, completing his studies in the office of 
 John & Gilbert at Malone, Franklin county. In September, 1890, 
 at Saratoga, he was admitted to the New York bar, and two months 
 later began the practice of his profession in Corning. In 1897 he 
 formed a partnership with James 0. Sebring, of whom a brief per- 
 sonal record is found elsewhere in this volume, and he has since car- 
 ried on a lively and remunerative practice as junior member of 
 the firm of Sebring & Cheney. Successful in his work, Mr. Cheney 
 has acquired valuable business and residential property in city and 
 town, and has large farming interests in the county. He has ever 
 evinced genuine interest in local affairs, and as a loyal adherent of the 
 Eepublican party served as alderman from 1893 until 1895, and from 
 1895 until 1899 was city recorder. 
 
 On July 3, 1884, Mr. Cheney was united in marriage with Lizzie 
 H. Southwick. She died March 'lO, 1886, leaving one child, Guy W. 
 Cheney, who was graduated from the classical • department of the 
 Syracuse University in 1908 and from its Law School with the class 
 of 1910. He was admitted to the bar at Eochester in September, 
 1910. Mr. Cheney married for his second wife, August 10, 1887, 
 Addie C. Benedict, a daughter of James T. and Celia Benedict, and 
 their only child, Muriel A. Cheney, graduated from the Corning Free 
 Academy in June, 1910. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Cheney is a member and past master of Painted 
 Post Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., at Corning, New York; a member 
 and past high priest of Corning Chapter No. 130, E. A. M.' ; a mem- 
 ber of Omers Commandery, K. T., at Elmira, New York; a member 
 of Kalura Temple, at Binghamton, New York; and at present is 
 commander-in-chief of the Corning Consistory. He stands high in 
 the order, being a thirty-second degree Mason. At the meeting of the 
 Supreme Council A. A. S. E., at Detroit in September, 1910, he was 
 elected to receive the thirty-third degree. Mr. Cheney is also a mem- 
 ber of Corning Lodge No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. Eeligiously he belongs 
 to the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 Fkank L. McCabe. — This successful and widely known citizen 
 of Steuben county is a self-made man whose example should not 
 be lost on the young men of today. He was born at Campbell, July 
 15, 1861, a son of John McCabe. The latter was born in county 
 Ca'van, Ireland, and came to the United States when he was about 
 twenty-one years old. He located in Dutchess county, New York, 
 and went from there to Troy, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where 
 he married Eliza Patterson, a native of Dublin, Ireland. They 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 809 
 
 came to Campbell in 1854. He found work in the tannery there and 
 was killed by the cars when he was about seventy-eight years old. 
 His widow is living, aged about seventy-five. They had ten chil- 
 dren, six sons and four daughters. One of them died in infancy. 
 The others grew to maturity and eight of them are living. All of 
 this large family were born at Campbell. Frank L. was the second 
 son and third child. He spent his boyhood in Campbell, and gained 
 a practical education in the public school of the village. At eighteen 
 he went to Emporium, Pennsylvania, but after working three months 
 there went to Eedhouse, Cattaraugus county. New York, where he 
 was a clerk in a store ten years. Then he bought the store and en- 
 gaged in the lumber business. In 1896 he returned to Campbell, 
 leaving his interests in Eedhouse to the management of his brother 
 and partner, John B. McCabe. At Campbell he established a 
 flourishing general store, owns the Erie and D. L. & W. coal yards, 
 and has acquired several farms in the country round about. He is a 
 partner in the McCabe Lumber Company, of Warren, Pennsylvania, 
 which is under the management of his brother, Thomas P., the pres- 
 ident of the company. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. McCabe married Miss Eilla Fuller, daughter of 
 Howard Fuller, of Eedhouse, New York, where she was born in 1860. 
 They have two daughters. Mary L. graduated at the Corning High 
 School and has been a student at the Elmira Female College three 
 years. Elizabeth A. is attending the -ehool at Campbell, ilr. 
 McCabe is a Democrat. 
 
 Aedeen Eichmond, M. D., of Wayland, one of the most suc- 
 cessful medical and surgical practitioners in Steuben county, was 
 born in Independence, Allegany county. New York, March 11, 1879, 
 a son of William H. and Nettie (Baker) Eichmond. His father, 
 who was also bom in Independence, is a resident of Wellsville, in 
 that county. After he left school he farmed for some years, then 
 became a traveling salesman and was so employed four years. Later, 
 after ten years in the service of a prominent concern, he took up opti- 
 cal work, studying and practicing for fifteen years in New York, 
 whence he moved to Owego, Tioga county, where he remained a year. 
 From 0-\vego he went to Wellsville, Allegany county, where he has 
 had a successful career. He was born in 1859 and married Miss 
 Nettie Baker, daughter of William and Melissa Baker. They have 
 living two daughters and two sons: Sadie, Harry, Gladys and 
 Ardeen. Sadie is the wife of Professor D. Lowell, principal of 
 schools at Wyoming, New York. Harry, of Wellsville, is a student 
 at Syracuse University. Gladys is a member of her parents' house- 
 hold in Wellsville. 
 
 From the time he became of school age until in 1898, Ardeen 
 Eichmond attended the public schools. Then he entered Syracuse 
 University, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1902. 
 In 1904 he began the study of medicine in the same institution and 
 in 1908, after a four years' course, was graduated with the medical 
 doctor's degree. He came to Wayland in July of the year last 
 
810 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 mentioned and began the practice of his profession in partnership 
 with Dr. Peabody. Since November 15, 1907, he has been in inde- 
 pendent practice. His preparation for his profession being thor- 
 ough and his devotion to it very great, he has won a success of which 
 any physician and surgeon might well be proud. He is a member 
 of the Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity, a national institution; of 
 the Steuben County Medical Society and of other professional bodies 
 and is examining surgeon for the Metropolitan, Prudential, New 
 York Mutual and New Y'ork Life Insurance companies. 
 
 Dr. Richmond married, January 25, 1903, Miss Martha Knick- 
 erbocker, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Knickerbocker of 
 Port Allegheny, New York. Mrs. Richmond was born November 15, 
 18S5, in Naples, Ontario county, New York. Her parents died when 
 she was but an infant and she was taken to the home and the hearts 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Knickerbocker when she was three years old. She 
 has borne her husband two sons : Dexter Eugene Richmond, Decem- 
 ber 10, 1906, and Hugh Norris Richmond, July 20, 1909. 
 
 Geokge M. Hemmee, bookkeeper at the First National Bank, 
 Wayland, Steuben county. New York, was born April 5, 1884, at 
 Perkinsville, New York, a son of Valentine and Elizabeth (Ballin- 
 ger) Hemmer, who are now living at Wayland. They became the 
 parents of ten children, of whom the immediate subject of this 
 sketch wa? the eldest except one. He was educated in the public 
 schools and entered the service of the First National Bank of Way- 
 land as a clerk when little more than a boy and has risen to be 
 bookkeeper and assistant cashier. He is a communicant of the 
 Catholic church of Wayland and is identified with the Modern 
 Woodmen of America. Though he has definite ideas as to the 
 merits and demerits of every economic question before the people 
 and faithfully does his duty as a citizen, he has no liking for prac- 
 tical nolitics and takes no active part in political work. 
 
 Mr. Hemmer married, September 22, 1908, Miss Lillian Hotter, 
 daughter of John Hotter, a farmer at Springwater, Livingston 
 county. New York. Mrs. Hemmer, who was born in March, 1889, 
 bore her husband a son, Kenneth, on March 5, 1910. She, too, is a 
 member of the Roman Catholic church. 
 
 To all matters affecting the development and prosperity of 
 Wayland and its tributary territory :\[r. Hemmer is thoroughly 
 alive. There is no measure proposed for the benefit of any con- 
 siderable number of his fellow citizens that does not have his hearty 
 and generous support. 
 
 Oklaxdo W. Suttox, M. B.—X gentleman whom Bath is happy 
 to term a representative citizen is Dr. Orlando W. Sutton, physician, 
 surgeon and postmaster of the capital of Steuben county and one 
 of the leading Republicans of the county. Dr. Sutton is .amply 
 qualified to enjoy the confidence and esteem of his associates, and 
 several public offices have been bestowed upon him, among them 
 the presidency of the village of Bath. He is a native son of the 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 813 
 
 Empire State, his nativity having occnrred at Bradford, Steuhen 
 county, on Christmas day of the year 1849. His father, Edwin W. 
 Sutton, was a native of New Jersey and of English descent, who 
 pursued the vocation of a merchant tailor with success and who was 
 called to the life eternal in the year 1887, when in his sixty-fourth 
 year. He married Huldah Hopkins, of Bradford, New York, and 
 of their four sons Dr. Sutton was the first in order of birth. 
 
 Early in life Orlando W. Sutton found himself in possession 
 of certain natural inclinations toward the medical profession, and 
 accordingly he began his preparation for this high and useful call- 
 ing in the year 186.5, when a youth only about sixteen years of age. 
 His preparations were interrupted from time to time, for he found 
 it expedient to engage in other occupations meantime, and after 
 serving eight years as deputy postmaster of Bath and two years in 
 the railway mail service he completed his studies, being graduated 
 from the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York. He 
 first hung out his shingle at Bath and has ever since remained hero, 
 biiilding up a practice and acting as the kindly friend and doctor 
 of hundreds of families. 
 
 As previously suggested. Dr. Sutton is devoted to the interests 
 of the Republican party and is ever ready to do anything, to go 
 anywhere to promote the cause to which he has given his heart ever 
 since he became, by reason of attaining his majority, able to cast 
 his vote. He has been chairman and secretary of the Republican 
 County Committee, president of the village of Bath, trustee of the 
 village, member of the New York State Board of ]\Iedical Exam- 
 iners, secretary and treasurer of the Southern Tier Medical Societv 
 and has given efficient service as coroner for a period of three terms. 
 He is public-spirited, progressive, altruistic and ever ready to lend 
 a hand to any measure likely to result in good to the whole body 
 politic. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Masonic 
 fraternity and finds no small amount of pleasure in these fraternal 
 relations. 
 
 In 1898 Dr. Sutton was appointed postmaster of Bath, and he 
 has held this office ever since that time, having proven himself one 
 of the most faithful and efficient of Uncle Sam's servants. He still 
 engages in the practice of his profession and keeps in touch with 
 the latest investigations in the science of which he is an exponent. 
 Since his appointment to the postmastership the service has greatlv 
 improved and has proved eminently satisfactory to the people of 
 Bath and the surrounding country. 
 
 ' In 1877 Dr. Sutton laid the foundation of a happy married 
 life by his union with Susan, daughter of Daniel M. Coss, and the 
 issue of the marriage is a son, Frederic C, who resides in Bath, New 
 York, and is at present connected with the Bath postoffice. 
 
 Lucius A. Waldo. — Another of the native sons of Steuben 
 county who has achieved success in connection with the work of the 
 legal profession in the city of New York is Mr. Waldo, who is 
 attornev for the Excise Reinsurance Association, with headquarters 
 
814 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 at 96 Broadwa}'. He was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county, on 
 the 22nd of February, 1865, and is a son of Daniel D. and Hannah 
 (M.) Waldo. Daniel D. Waldo was born at Edmeston, Otsego 
 county. New York, and he took up his residence in Steuben county 
 about 1860. . He became one of the prominent members of the bar 
 of that county, where he continued in the practice of his profession 
 until his death, which occurred in 1879, at which tim^ he was but 
 forty-two years of age. He was an active and influential factor in 
 public affairs of a local order. 
 
 Lucius A. Waldo has achieved success in the profession which 
 was honored and dignified by the services of his father, and his early 
 educational training was secured in Franklin Academy of his native 
 place, where he remained until he was fifteen years of age, when he 
 removed to Bath in the same county, where he continued to maintain 
 his home until 1897. At Bath he studied law, being admitted to 
 the bar in 1891, in the city of Eochester. Thereafter he was en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession at Bath, until 1897, when he 
 removed to New York city and engaged in the general practice of 
 his profession, in which his success has been on a parity with his 
 recognized ability. He has been attorney for the Excise Eeinsur- 
 ance Association since 1908. He is a member of the Association 
 of the Bar of the City of New York, and he manifests his continued 
 interest in his native county by his membership in Steuben County 
 Society of the national metropolis. Mr. Waldo has been an active 
 and effective factor in connection with political affairs, is a stanch 
 adherent of the Republican party and has been called upon to serve 
 in various local offices, besides which he was stenographer of the 
 state senate in 1894-5. 
 
 In the year 1907 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waldo 
 to Miss Mabel Allen, of Paterson, New Jersey. 
 
 Rev. Caelton H. Norkis, Ph. D. — The able and honored pas- 
 tor of the Methodist Episcopal church in the village of Wayland 
 is one of the well known representatives of this religious denomina- 
 tion in the Genesee Conference, and in his various pastorates he has 
 labored with all of zeal and devotion in the guiding and uplifting 
 of his fellow-men. The more interest attaches to his services in his 
 present incumbency from the fact that he is a native son of Steuben 
 county and also on account of the fact that his paternal grandfather 
 was a pioneer minister and "circuit rider" of this section of the 
 state. 
 
 Rev. Carlton Henry Norris was born on the old Norris home- 
 stead, in Bath township, Steuben county, on the 27th of February, 
 1852. His father. Case Norris, was born in Middlesex township, 
 Chenango county. New York, on the 26th of January, 1830. He 
 was a son of Rev. Peter and Fedilia (Case) Norris, the former of 
 whom was born at Catskill, Green county, this state, on the 28th of 
 February, 1796, and the latter of whom was born in Canandaigua, 
 New York, on the 14th of November, 1804. Both passed the closing 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEF COUNTY 815 
 
 years of their lives in Steuben county, where the father died on the 
 3d of July, 1881, and the mother on the 4th of May, 1886. Eev. 
 Peter Norris came to Steuben county in an early day and settled 
 on what is now known as the Wheeler homestead in Bath township. 
 There he secured one hundred and fifty acres of land and developed 
 a productive farm, upon which he continued to reside until his 
 death. He was a clergyman of the Wesleyan Methodist church 
 and in his earlier life endured the vicissitudes and hardships which 
 came to the circuit rider in his ministerial work. 
 
 Case Norris accompanied his parents on their removal to Steu- 
 ben county, and after his school days he. continued to be associated 
 in the work and management of the home farm until his marriage, 
 at the age of nineteen years. He then settled one mile east of the 
 parental home, and hjs original domicile was a log house of the 
 primitive type. In addition to working his own farm he also had 
 charge of the operation of the old Wheeler homestead for two years. 
 He became one of the successful agriculturists of Bath township, 
 was a man of insuperable integrity and honor in all the relations 
 of life and he continued to reside on his old homestead until his 
 death, which occurred on the 16th of January, 1899, at which time 
 he was seventy-nine years of age. He was for fully half a century 
 a zealous and "consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 in which he served as steward and trustee. His name is held in 
 reverent memory by all who came within the sphere of his influence, 
 and the same is true concerning his cherished and devoted wife. On 
 the 4th of December, 1839, was solemmized his marriage to Miss 
 Samantha Wheeler, who was born in Bath township, this county, 
 July 9, 1820, and who was a daughter of Jeremiah and Sally 
 (Glover) Wheeler, the former of whom was born on the 11th of 
 March, 1797, and the latter in the year 1799, at Salem, Washington 
 county. New York. The wife of Case Norris survived him by only 
 four days, and thus in death they were not divided. She was sum- 
 moned to the life eternal on the 20th of January, 1899. Besides 
 the subject of this review they are survived by two sons and one 
 daughter— Bertha Aldrich, of the city of Chicago; Wlieeler Nor- 
 ris is likewise a resident of the great western metropolis; and Eev. 
 Myron Lee Norris, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 is "at the present time (l"910) incumbent of a pastoral charge at 
 
 Chicago. 1 . • 
 
 Eev. Carlton Henry Norris gained his early educational tram- 
 ino- in the public schools of Steuben county, and this discipline in- 
 cluded a course in the high school at Bath. In this institution he 
 was graduated when sixteen years of age, and in 1876 he was gradu- 
 ated at Lima, New York. He prosecuted his higher academic 
 studies at Alfred University, New York, in which he was graduated 
 in the class of 1888 and from which he received his degree of Bache- 
 lor of Arts. In 1891 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree 
 of Master of Arts, and in 1893 he received from Syracuse University 
 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His ecclesiastical course was 
 
816 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 
 
 taken at Evanston, Illinois, Garrett Biblical Institute. He joined 
 the Genesee Conference in 1882 and was ordained an elder of the 
 same conference in 1884. Mr. Norris began his pastoral career prior 
 to his graduation at Alfred University, and his first charge was at 
 Clarence, Erie county, New York, where he began his labors in 1883 
 and where he remained for three years. His other pastorates are 
 here briefly noted in successive order, with respective periods of 
 service : Fort Allegany, three years ; Friendship, Allegany county, 
 three years; Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, five years; Akron, Erie 
 county, five years; Brockport, Monroe county, five years; and Oak- 
 field, Genesee county, one year. From Oakfield Mr. Norris was 
 assigned by his conference to the pastorate of the church at Way- 
 land, in 1907, and he has found special satisfaction in his pastoral 
 work in his native county. He has administered the temporal and 
 spiritual affairs of the church at Wayland with marked discrimina- 
 tion and zeal, and all departments of the church work have been 
 vitalized and advanced under his effective regime. 
 
 Mr. Norris takes a deep interest in matters of public import 
 and keeps himself well informed concerning the questions and issues 
 of the hour, the while he gives his allegiance to the Eepublican 
 party. He is an appreciative member of the time-honored Masonic 
 fraternity, in which his affiliations are with Monroe Lodge No. 173, 
 F. & A. M., at Eochester; with Daniel Holmes Chapter No. 294, 
 E. A. i\I., at Brockport ; with Mintral Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plars, in the city of Eochester; and Damascus Temple, Ancient 
 Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in the same city. 
 
 In 1879 was solemnized the marriage of ilr. Norris to Miss 
 Hattie A. Morton, of Angelica, Allegany county. New York. She 
 was born at West Alman, this state, on the 28th of December, 1856, 
 and is a daughter of George and Harriet (Powers) Morton, the 
 father deceased, but the mother is yet living, aged ninety years. 
 Mrs. Norris, like her husband, was afforded the advantages of Alford 
 University, in which she was graduated as a member of the class 
 of 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Norris have one daughter, Olive Bertha. 
 She was born in Clarence, New York, on the 23d of September, 1884, 
 and is now the wife of Eoy E. Brockett. Mr. and Mrs. Brockett 
 have two children, Gertrude La Eene and Olive Zoe. Eoy E: Brock- 
 ett, M. E., is a son of Eansom J. and Elvira (Bliss) Brockett, of 
 Angelica, New York. He is now living in Buffalo, New York, and 
 is an insurance engineer. He received his degree from Syracuse 
 University, class of 1905. 
 
 ■Chaeles p. EoBiNSOiSr. — Again it is a privilege to accord recog- 
 nition in this work to another of the native sons of Steuben county 
 who have gained prestige as a member of the bar of New York city, 
 and Mr. Eobinson is successfully established in the practice of his 
 profession, with offices at 2 Eector street. 
 
 Mr. Eobinson was born at Hornell, Steuben county, on the 17th 
 of October, 1879, and is a son of Frank Hurd Eobinson, concerning 
 whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work, so 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBElSr COUNTY 817 
 
 that further reference to the family history is not demanded in the 
 present connection. Charles P. Eobinson gained his early educa- 
 tional discipline in the public schools and supplemented this by a 
 course in Canisteo Academy, in his native county. Thereafter he 
 continued as a student in Hamilton College until 1897, when he 
 entered historic old Yale University, in which he was graduated as 
 a member of the class of 1900 and from which he received the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Arts. After his graduation he studied law in 
 the office of his father at Plornell for one year and at the expiration 
 of this period he was matriculated in the New .York Law School, 
 from which he was graduated with honors in 1903, with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Laws. Por the following eighteen months he was 
 engaged in professional work in the office of Edward H. Pallows, 
 attorney for the state C9mptroller, at 170 Broadway, New York 
 city, and in 1905 he establisJied himself in the general practice ol 
 his profession in New York city, where he has shown such energy 
 and abilitv as to gain to him definite and pronounced success. Ho 
 is at present a member of the firm iff Kindlcberger & Eobinson, Mr. 
 Kiudleberger having been an assistant corporation counsel of New 
 York city and an assistant in the district attorney's office under Hon. 
 William Travers Jerome, ilr. Eobinson is a member of the Yale 
 Club and the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn. He was a corporal 
 in the Seventh Kegiment of the New York National Guard. Mr. 
 Eobinson has been an enthusiastic worker in behalf of the cause of 
 the Eepublican party and has been influential in its councils. He 
 was elected a member of the New York County Committee and is the 
 secretary of the district committee of the twenty-fifth assembly 
 district. He also holds membership in the Madison Square Eepub- 
 lican Club, besides which he is affiliated with the Masonic fra- 
 ternity. 
 
 Geovek C. Shepakd.— ilr. Shepard is numbered among the 
 popular and progressive young business men of Steuben county and 
 is incumbent of the position of bookkeeper in the Pirst National 
 Bank of Wayland. He was born at Chaumont, Jefferson county. 
 New York, on the 19th of June, 1884, and is a son of A. James and 
 Fannie (Waite) Shepard. The father was born at Cape Vmcent, 
 Jefferson county, in 1849, and he died at Chaumont, that county, 
 in 1909. As a mere boy he became a skilled engineer, and later 
 he became a marine engineer, in which capacity he was employed on 
 the Great Lakes for several years. He finally located at Chaumont, 
 in his native county, where he was successfully engaged m the 
 grocery and bakery business for thirty years, durmg a considerable 
 portion of which period his sons were associated with him in the 
 enterprise. He was a stalwart supporter of the principles ana pol- 
 icies of the Democratic partv, and that he was a great admirer ot 
 Grover Cleveland, one of the great exponents of the cause ot that 
 party needs no further voucher than the fact that he named one of 
 his sons, the immediate subject of this review, m honor of that 
 Vol n— 17 
 
818 mSTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 distingiaished former president of the United States. He was in- 
 fluential in the local work of his party and was one of the well known 
 and highly honored citizens of his native county. He was an ap- 
 preciative member of the Masonic fraternity, with which he was 
 identified for many years prior to his death, and he passed the 
 official chairs in both his lodge and chapter. He served for many years 
 as township supervisor and he was liberal and progressive as a 
 citizen. In Jefferson county was solemnized the marriage of A. 
 James Shepard to Miss Fannie Waite, who was born and reared m 
 that eountv and who still maintains her home at Chaumont. She is 
 a daughter of the late Horace and Eliza (Smith) Waite, who passed 
 the closing years of their lives in Chautauqua county, Kansas, where 
 the father long served in the office of the justice of the peace. The 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. A. James Shepard are: Grover Cleveland 
 Shepard, whose name initiates this review ; Fannie, who remains with 
 her widowed mother at the old homestead in Chaumont ; Charles E. 
 is employed as a marine engineer on the Great Lakes; William N. 
 is engaged in a mercantile buflness and remains at the maternal 
 home ; and Louis W. and Horace J. are likewise engaged in business 
 in their native town. 
 
 Grover Cleveland Shepard was afforded the advantages o± the 
 public schools of Chaumont and supplemented this discipline by a 
 course in a business college at Watertown, New York, where he pur- 
 sued his studies for eighteen months. For some time thereafter he 
 was incumbent of clerical positions in offices in his native town and 
 finally he became identified with his father's business. On the 10th 
 of February, 1910, he came to Wayland and assumed the position 
 of bookkeeper in the First National Bank, in which he has proved 
 a careful and efficient executive, gaining the confidence and esteem 
 of the stockholders and directors of the institution. i.. , u- 
 
 Mr. Shepard has never repudiated the principles for which his 
 Christian name stands significant and is aligned as a stanch supporter 
 of the cause of the Democratic party. He is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church, in whose faith he was reared, and he is 
 affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 
 Masonic fraternity. . ■> ,, • t 
 
 On the 1st of January, 1907, was solemnized the marriage ot 
 Mr Shepard to Miss Lulu Silver, who was born at Chaumont, Jeffer- 
 son county, on the 1st of August, 1886, and who is a daughter of 
 Chester and Clista (Hogeboom) Silver, who still reside m that coun- 
 ty, where the father is a prosperous farmer. Mrs. Shepard has one 
 sister. Pearl, who remains at the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Shep- 
 ard are popular in connection with the best social activities of their 
 home town and both hold membership in the local Methodist Episco- 
 pal church. 
 
 George K. Sutherland has gained prestige as one of the suc- 
 ce'^sful financiers and progressive business men of the national me- 
 tropolis and his banking house is located at 49 Wall street. He was 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 819 
 
 formerly an influential factor in connection with business inter- 
 ests in Steuben county and has been prominently identified with the 
 Steuben County Society of New York city, of which he has served 
 as president. Mr. Sutherland has also served with marked distinction 
 as a member of the legislature of his native state and is well equipped 
 for leadership in this field, but found it expedient to decline further 
 political honors in order to devote his attention to his large and 
 important capitalistic interests. 
 
 George E. Sutherland was born at Candor, Tioga county. New 
 York, on the 21st of October, 1848, and is a son of Leander and Eliza 
 Sutherland, both of whom were representatives of sterling Eevolu- 
 tionary families. The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Sutherland 
 was George Robertson, who was a commissioned officer in the Con- 
 tinental army during the great struggle that gained the boon of in- 
 dependence to the nation. Mr. Sutherland availed himself of the 
 advantages of the schools of the locality in which he was born and 
 as a young man he removed to Steuben county and established his 
 home in the town of Campbell. He represented this town as a 
 member of the county board of supervisors for a number of years 
 and during the latter part of his services in this connection he was 
 chairman of the board. In 1878 he was elected to represent the 
 Second assembly district of Steuben county in the state legislature 
 and he was chosen as his own successor in 1879. During his term 
 in the general assembly he was a member of the ways and means com- 
 mittee and was assigned to other important duties, besides which he 
 was an active and valued factor in the deliberations of both the 
 fioor and the committee room. Concerning his services in the leg- 
 islature the following statements have been made: "He took an 
 active interest in all legislation relating to educational matters and 
 state charities. The urgency of business demands obliged him to 
 decline further political honors, disappointing his many friends who 
 still desired him to represent them in the legislature."' 
 
 In the year 1878, soon after establishing his home in Steuben 
 county, i\fr. Sutherland there founded the Bank of Campbell, which 
 has continued to maintain high prestige during the long intervening 
 years and with which he is still actively concerned. In 1888 Mr. Suth- 
 erland removed to New York city, where he has since been actively and 
 successfully engaged in the banking business, conducting a private 
 banking house at 49 Wall street. For several years he was a member 
 of the board of trustees of the Soldiers & Sailors' Home, at Bath, 
 Steuben county, and for three years he was treasurer of the Steuben 
 Countv Society in New York city. He holds membership in the 
 Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and 
 was a member of the Hudson-Pulton celebration commission. He 
 has served as trustee and executor of several large estates and as coun- 
 selor is often sought by those desiring to invest capital with a view 
 to the best possible returns consistent with absolute safety. Mr. 
 Sutherland during the past several years has been actively concerned 
 with building and loan associations and through this medium has 
 
820 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 done much to further the material and civic progress in New York 
 city and other parts of the state. He is a stanch Republican in his 
 political allegiance and is identified with various civic and fraternal 
 organizations aside from those already mentioned. 
 
 Leon G. Godlet. — It is pleasing to give evidence through va- 
 rious personal sketches appearing in this volume of the fact that a 
 goodly quota of the native sons of Steuben county have had the am- 
 bition and ability to gain a secure place among the substantial mem- 
 bers of the bar of New York city and in this category is to be 
 classified Mr. Godley, who is there engaged in successful practice. 
 He is serving as assistant corporation counsel of Greater New York 
 and this fact indicates his professional ability, as well as his personal 
 popularity. Leon G. Godley was born in the village of Curtis, Steu- 
 ben county, on the 5th of April, 1877, and is a son of David and 
 j\Iary (Chapin) Godley, the former of whom was likewise born in 
 Steuben county, v,-here he continued to maintain his home until his 
 death in 1908, and the mother still resides in that county, which 
 has been her home from the time of her nativity. Of the six children 
 three are now living and Leon G. is the elder of the two sons. 
 
 Mr. Godley gained his early educational discipline in the public 
 schools of his native county and later continued his studies in a 
 business college. He initiated his business career as an employe in 
 the offices of the firm of Herendeen & Mandeville, of Elmira, New 
 York, and in 1895 he removed to New York city, where, in 1897, he 
 became private secretary to Edward M. Shepard, one of the leaders 
 of the bar of the city. He retained this incumbency about twelve 
 years and in the meanwhile began the study of law, in connection with 
 which he finally entered the law department of St. Lawrence 
 University at Brooklyn, in which institution he was graduated as a 
 member of the class of 190S. Ho was forthwith admitted to the bar 
 and he has since continued in the active work of his profession in 
 New York city, where he has also been incumbent of the office of 
 assistant corporation counsel of the city since 1910. He has been 
 a close and appreciative student of his profession and his knowledge 
 of the science of jurisprudence is broad and exact, a fact which has 
 received distinctive recognition as he is now serving as a member of 
 the faculty of the law department of his Alma Mater, St. Lawrence 
 University. In politics Mr. Godley is a stanch adherent of the Demo- 
 cratic party and he has given yeoman service in behalf of its cause. 
 He is an appreciative member of the Steuben Society of New York 
 city; he is past master of Orion Lodge, No. 717, Free & Accepted 
 Masons, in the city of Brooklyn, where he maintains his home, and 
 there he also holds membership in the Crescent Club. He is also 
 affiliated with the Theta Phi law fraternity. 
 
 Raymond V. Ingeesoll. — At 261 Broadway, New York city, 
 are located the law offices of Mr. Ingersoll, who has gained a place as 
 one of the well fortified members of the bar of the national metropolis 
 and who likewise has beeh a resourceful factor in connection with 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 821 
 
 political affairs in his native state, especially in Greater New York. 
 He maintains his home in Brooklyn, New York, and there he 
 served for some time as municipal judge. Mr. Ingersoll was born 
 at Corning, Steuben county, on the 3d of April, 1875, and is a son 
 of Andrew J. and Ellen (Vail) Ingersoll, the former of whom was 
 likewise a native of Steuben county, where the family was founded 
 in the pioneer days and the latter of whom was bom in New 
 Jersey. Andrew J. Ingersoll owned and conducted for many 
 years a health resort, known as Pinewood Sanitarium, in his 
 native county and he was an honored and influential citizen who ever 
 showed a loyal interest in all that touched the welfare of the com- 
 munity. He died at the age of seventy-five years and his wife passed 
 away at the age of sixty-eight years. Of their seven children Eay- 
 mond V. was the sixth in order of birth and of the number four are 
 now living. 
 
 Eaymond V. Ingersoll availed himself of the advantages afforded 
 in the public schools of his native county, including the local 
 academy, and he then entered Amherst College, in which he was 
 graduated as a member of the class of 1897, andf from which he 
 received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For one year thereafter he 
 was employed as a teacher in a high school at Duluth, Minnesota, and 
 he then began the work of preparing himself for his chosen profes- 
 sion. He returned to his native state and entered the New York Law 
 School, in the city of New York, in which he completed the prescribed 
 technical course and was graduated in the class of 1900, receiving 
 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Since that time he has been actively 
 engaged in general practice in the national metropolis. In politics 
 he has been a zealous worker in the interests of the independent 
 Democratic contingent in various city campaigns of Greater New 
 York and in 1901 he was elected city magistrate of the borough of 
 Brooklyn, where he maintains his home. He also served as a member 
 of the commission appointed by the appellate court to examine can- 
 didates seeking admission to the bar of the state, this preferment 
 having come to him in 1903, and in 1906 and 1907 he served as 
 counsel to the Eegister of Kings county. He also assisted in the 
 organization of the celebrated "committee of one hundred," which 
 assumed leadership in the New York city campaign of 1909 and he 
 was made chairman of both the campaign and executive committees 
 of this body. Mr. Ingersoll is a member of the Steuben County 
 Society of New York city, is a member of the directorate of the 
 Legal Aid Society and he is one of the directors of the United 
 Neighborhood Guild, which has charge of the work of three effective 
 social settlements in Brooklyn, where it also does a large amount of 
 general philanthropical work. He is also a member of the board of 
 trustees of the Brooklyn League and in addition to his professional 
 associations he has various business interests. 
 
 On the 29th of September, 1908, Mr. Ingersoll was united in 
 marriage to Miss Marion Crary, of Warren, Pennsylvania. They have 
 no children. 
 
822 HISTORY OF STETJBEN COUNTY 
 
 Maynakd H. Eosenkkans. — One of the prosperous business 
 men and highly esteemed citizens of Wayland, where he controls a 
 successful enterprise as a painter and decorator and where he has 
 also given considerable attention to dealing in real estate, is Mr. 
 Eosenkrans, who is a native of Steuben county, which has represented 
 his home from the time of his nativity. He was born in Wayland 
 township on the 16th of July, 1863, and is a son of Hamilton S. 
 and Helen M. (Davis) Eosenkrans, both of whom continued to re- 
 side in this county until the death of the father, and the mother still 
 lives here. Here the father devoted the major portion of his active 
 career to farming and real estate operations and he ever commanded 
 a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Of the children 
 Maynard H. was the oldest in order of birth and concerning the other 
 surviving children the following brief data are given: Laverne is 
 individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Merton J. is a 
 resident of Wayland ; Jennie J. is the wife of Herbert Goodenow, who 
 resides in the city of Rochester, New York, and who is a printer 
 by vocation and Hattie is the wife of Hugh McKay, who is a farmer 
 and gardener in the vicinity of Drewry's BlufE, Southampton county, 
 Virginia. 
 
 Maynard H. Eosenkrans is indebted to the public schools of 
 Steuben county for his early educational discipline and when eighteen 
 years of age he initiated his independent career, as a dealer in farm 
 products, a line of enterprise with which he continued to be identified 
 for a period of five years. He then perfected himself in the paint- 
 ing and decorating trades and in this line of enterprise he has for 
 many years controlled n large and substantial business as a eon- 
 tractor. The high grade of his work and his fidelity to all agree- 
 ments having gained to him the unqualified confidence of all with 
 whom he has had dealings. He is the owner of farm property in 
 Wayland tovmship and has also been successful in the handling of 
 real estate, with which line of enterprise he is still connected. He is 
 known as one of the progressive and public-spirited citizens of the 
 village of Wayland and has been identified with its fire department 
 for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a charter member of the 
 original volunteer fire department, which was organized in 1883 and 
 which in the early years of its existence utilized the Babcock fire 
 extinguishers. He is now a member of the Wayland Hose Company 
 and it is to be noticed that the facilities and equipment of the de- 
 partment have been brought up to a fine modern standard. In 
 politics Mr. Eosenkrans is aligned as a stanch supporter of the prin- 
 ciples and policies of the Democratic party and he has been a zealous 
 worker in its local ranks, having attended its conventions in his coun- 
 ty and congressional district and having also served on the election 
 board of Wayland township, as well as constable and census enu- 
 merator. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church and in the community that has so long represented 
 their home their circle of friends is coincident with that of their 
 acquaintances. 
 
HISTOEY OF STETJBEjSI' COFNTY 823 
 
 On the 8th of January, 1888, Mr. Rosenkrans was united in 
 marriage to Miss Eose Eyan, who was born at Arkport, this county, 
 on the 29th of October, 1870, and who is a daughter of Jeremiah 
 and Elizabeth (Lindsey) Eyan, the former of whom died at Cuba, 
 Allegany county, New York, in 1890, at the age of sixty-two years, 
 and the latter of whom died in 1877, at the age of thirty-five years, 
 being survived by five children. Concerning the other children it 
 may be stated that Catherine is the wife of Daniel Pike, a farmer of 
 Steuben county; Stella is the wife of Thomas Dunn, of Syracuse, 
 New York; and Frank is a manufacturer of New Zealand and 
 Australia. The father of Mrs. Eosenkrans was a blacksmith and 
 wagon-maker by trade and he was a valiant soldier of the Union in 
 the Civil war, in which he served during practically the entire period 
 of the great conflict. Mrs. Rosenkrans was a child of seven years at 
 the time of her mothei-'s death and she was reared in the home of a 
 Mr. Campbell, of Livingston county, where she remained until the 
 time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenkrans have three children, 
 whose nalnes and respective dates of birth are here noted: Paul L., 
 born in 1890, attends the Wireless Telegraph School at Valparaiso, 
 Indiana, and Hugh Hamilton, born in 1894 and Helen Marian, in 
 1896, are attending the public schools of Wayland. 
 
 Augustus dePeystbr PIaelow. — Numbered among the progres- 
 sive business men of the younger generation in the national me- 
 tropolis is Mr. Harlow, who is here engaged in- the manufacturing 
 of food products with headquarters at 474 Greenwich street. He is 
 a scion of old and honored families of the Empire state and was 
 born at Bath, Steuben county, on the 30th of December, 1872, a 
 son of Straton and Sarah E. (Dudley) Harlow, the former of whom 
 was born in Genesee county, New York, and the latter at Bath, 
 Steuben county, where she still maintains her home and where the 
 father died when thirty-six years of age. Of the children, the sub- 
 ject of this review is the only one who attained to years of maturity. 
 He is indebted to the public schools of his native place for his early 
 educational discipline and as a young man he entered the employ of 
 the Long-Distance Telephone Company, with which he continued 
 to be connected for ten years and for the greater portion of the 
 period he was special agent for the company and traveled extensively 
 in its interests, in the meanwhile maintaining his official headquar- 
 ters in New York city. In 1903 he joined the forces of J. W. 
 Beardsley's Sons, manufacturers of various food products. The 
 well equipped establishment is located at 474 Greenwich street, New 
 York city. In politics Mr. Harlow gives his allegiance to the Re- 
 publican party and he is an appreciative member of the Steuben 
 County Society of New York city, besides which he is affiliated with 
 the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 In the year 1903 Mr. Harlow was united in marriage to Miss 
 Henrietta C. Beardsley, who was born and reared in Newark, New 
 Jersey, and they have one son, John Dudley. 
 
824 HISTORY OF STETTBEX COUNTY 
 
 Charles Ingeesol DeWitt was born in Wells, Bradford coun- 
 ty, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1849, the oldest son of D. Barnett and 
 Eebeeca Jane DeWitt. He was married to Mary Jane Knapp, 
 daughter of Annanias and Rachel Knapp, February 20, 1872. Soon 
 after they were married they moved to Bath, New York, where were 
 born to them four sons, Harry B., Eugene Knapp, Harry, and Paul 
 A. Later the home was changed to Hornellsville, until it was broken 
 up on the death of the mother November 29, 1896, at Elmira. The 
 oldest son had died in infancy and the other three were separated 
 when the home was broken up. The father was murdered under 
 mysterious circumstances at Norwich, New York, January 18, 1903. 
 Harry died following an operation for appendicitis August 14, 1906, 
 at the home of George W. Wolfe with whom he had made his home 
 for ten years. 
 
 Eugene K. DeWitt was born May 6, 1877. He completed his 
 course at Hornell High School in 1903; Alfred University in 1908; 
 and McCormiek Theological Seminary in 1911. He and his wife, 
 who was formerly Elmina Georgiana Titsworth, the only daughter 
 of Dr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Titsworth of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 
 are now engaged in missionary work among the Mohammedans in 
 Bast Persia. 
 
 Paul A. DeWitt was born February 28, 1883. Although com- 
 pelled to leave school at an early age, he has improved his oppor- 
 tunities and by reason of his retention as manager of the Wayland 
 branch of the Huguet Silk Company has shown what one can do by 
 keeping everlastingly at it. He entered the employ of Merrill Field 
 & Co. as a weaver and has been advanced until now he has charge of 
 the important branch at Wayland, which was started under his su- 
 pervision in 1907. Mr. DeWitt removed with his family to Wayland 
 upon assuming his present office and he and his wife are valued 
 and popular factors in connection with the social and church activities 
 of their home town. Though taking an active interest in all that 
 tends to advance the general welfare of the community and to con- 
 serve good government Mr. DeWitt is not a strong partisan in 
 politics. 
 
 On the 19th of December, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Paul A. DeWitt to Miss Lelia Evelyn Emory, a daughter of Myron 
 C. Emory one of the representative farmers and honored citizens of 
 Cortland county. Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt have one son, x\lbert Knapp, 
 who was bom February 20, 1908. 
 
 Heney Ginnane.— One of the representative younger members 
 of the. bar of New York city who has been contributed to the na- 
 tional metropolis by fine old Steuben eoimty is Henry Ginnane, who 
 is established in the successful practice of his profession with office 
 headquarters at 100 William street. Mr. Ginnane wag born at Addi- 
 son, Steuben county, on the 15th of November, 1880, and is a son of 
 Jeremiah and Susan (Hurley) Ginnane, who still reside at Addison, 
 where the father is now living retired. He is one of the well Imown 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 835 
 
 citizens of Steuben county, where he is held in high esteem. Both 
 he and his wife were born in Ireland and are representatives of 
 stanch old families of the fair Emerald Isle. Upon establishing his 
 home in Steuben county Jeremiah Ginnane first located in the village 
 of Eathbone, where he engaged in the work of his trade until his 
 removal to Addison, where he has resided for the long intervening 
 years. Both the parents and their eight children are living. He 
 whose name initiates this review is the youngest of the children. 
 
 Henry Ginnane was reared to the age of nineteen years in his . 
 native town, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the 
 public schools, including the high school. He then entered the law 
 department of Buffalo University, in the city of Buffalo. In this 
 fine institution he completed the prescribed technical course and was 
 graduated as a member of the class of 1903, duly receiving his well 
 earned degree of Bachelor of Laws and also being admitted to the 
 bar of his native state. He had previously ' initiated the study of 
 law under the preceptorship of Delmar W. Darrin, a prominent 
 member of the bar of Steuben county. He was admitted to the bar 
 in the city of Buffalo, in January, 1903, and for the following three 
 years he was there engaged in professional work, in the law offices of 
 the firm of Cox, Kernan & Kimball. He then removed to New York 
 city, where he became an attache of the legal department of the 
 Metropolitan Street Railway Company, for which he acted as assistant 
 attorney about one year. Since that time he has been a member of 
 the legal staff of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, besides which 
 he gives his attention to the private practice of his profession, for 
 which he has proved himself admirably fortified. He is a member of 
 the New York County Lawyers' Association, is affiliated with the 
 Delta Chi Law Fraternity, and holds membership in the Knights of 
 Columbus and the Steuben County Society of the metropolis. 
 
 Edgar A. Lewis. — As principal of the high school at Wayland, 
 Professor Lewis is prominently and successfully identified with 
 educational work in Steuben county and he is thoroughly en rapport 
 with his profession, in which his success has been of unequivocal 
 order. 
 
 Edgar Alexander Lewis was born near Smithville, Jefferson 
 county. New York, on the 8th of November, 1869, and is a son of 
 Edgar and Nellie M. (McNeill) Lewis, who still reside on their fine 
 homestead farm near Bellville, where the father took up his resi- 
 dence when a young man. Edgar Lewis served as a gallant soldier 
 of the Union during the Civil war and he manifests his continued 
 interest in his old comrades by retaining membership in the Grand 
 Armv of the Republic, whose ranks are being so rapidly thinned by 
 the one invincible foe of humanity. The only child is Edgar A., 
 whose name initiates this review. 
 
 Professor Lewis passed his boyhood days on the home farm and 
 his rudimentary education was secured in the district schools. At the 
 age of fourteen he entered Union Academy, at Bellville, Jefferson 
 
826 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 county, in which institution he was graduated in 1891, after which 
 he taught in the district schools for three years. He then, in 1893, 
 was matriculated in Brown University, at Providence, where he con- 
 tinued his studies about two years and in the meanwhile he con- 
 tinued his successful efforts in the pedagogic profession. In 189G 
 he entered Colgate University, in which he was graduated as a mem- 
 ber of the class of 1898 and from which he received his degree of 
 Bachelor of Philosophy. For the ensuing year he was engaged as a 
 teacher in the public schools of Bellville, in his native county, and 
 for four years thereafter he was similarly engaged at Broadalbin, 
 Fulton county, where he remained until 1903, when he assumed his 
 present position as principal of the high school at Wayland. His 
 long retention of this incumbency stands as the best voucher for the 
 efficiency of his work, as well as for the public estimate placed upon 
 him. He has done much to bring the high school up to a high stand- 
 ard and is indefatigable and enthusiastic in all departments of his 
 work. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church and he is a member of the official board of the 
 church of this denomination in Wayland. Professor Lewis is also 
 affiliated with Warren Patehin Lodge, No. 883, Free & Accepted 
 Masons. 
 
 In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Professor 
 Lewis to Miss Minnie Elizabeth Eosendale, who was born at St. 
 Johnsville, Montgomery county. New York, and who is a daughter of 
 Ijawrence Eosendale, a native of Germany, whence he emigrated to 
 America when a young man ; he and his wife have both passed away, 
 the father dying in California in June, 1910, and the mother in 
 1894. i[rs. Lewis was graduated in the high school of her native 
 town and also took a special normal course, after which she was a 
 successful and popular teacher in the public schools until the time 
 of her marriage and for four years afterward. She is a woman of 
 gracious presence and is a popular factor in the best social activities 
 of the community, as well as an earnest worker in the Methodist 
 Episcopal church at Wayland. Professor and Mrs. Lewis have no 
 children. 
 
 Lewis F. Wilson. — Steuben county has not failed to contribute 
 its due quota to the professional and business circles of New York 
 city and he whose name initiates this sketch may properly be accorded 
 recognition as a successful member of the bar of the national me- 
 tropolis, where his labors have not only been creditable to himself but 
 also to the county of his nativity. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was born at Corning, Steuben county, on the 13th 
 of November, 1867, and is a son of Benjamin Carr Wilson, who was 
 born at Cooperstown, Otsego county, this state, and who was for 
 upwards of twenty years engaged in the clothing business at Addison, 
 Steuben county. He served as a gallant soldier of the Union in the 
 Civil war and was made lieutenant of his company. He died in 1888, 
 at Auburn, New York, where he had resided for about a year at about 
 
HIiSTOEY OF STEUBEX COmSTTY 837 
 
 fifty-five years of age. He was a stanch Democrat in his political 
 proclivities, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Eepublie and 
 his religious faith was that of^ the Episcopal church. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Martha D. Biles, was born at Bath, Steuben 
 county, a daughter of Lewis Biles, who was one of the sterling 
 pioneers of that county, where he continued to reside until his 
 death, which occurred after he had attained to the venerable age of 
 seventy-nine years. He was of English lineage, and this is also true 
 of the Wilson family. The mother of Mr. Wilson is still living and 
 resides with the elder of her two sons, E. Carr Wilson, at La Gloria, 
 Cuba. The only daughter, Helen Elizabeth, died in New York city 
 in the year 1903. 
 
 Lewis F. Wilson, completed the curriculum of the public schools 
 of Addison, Steuben county, in 18S4 and he then went to Hornell, 
 that county, where he became a student in the law offices of I. W. 
 Near, under whose preceptorship he continued his studies for a 
 brief period. He then entered the law class of Bemis & Orcutt, in 
 the same city, where he continued his studies about two years. Upon 
 the death of the senior member of the firm, in 1889, Mr. Wilson re- 
 moved to New York city and entered the law office of Frank Sullivan 
 Smith and in 1893 he was admitted to the bar of his native state. 
 He continued to be associated in professional work with Mr. Smith 
 until 1901, and since that time he has given his attention largely to 
 the affairs of the Cuban Land & Steamship Company, of which he 
 is the president. He has been very successful in the development of 
 the interests of this corporation and the demands of the same are 
 such that he has largely withdrawn from the practice of his profes- 
 sion. He is also secretary of the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern 
 Eailroad Company, besides which he is president of the La Gloria 
 Transportation Company, which is concerned with the development 
 of the colony of La Gloria, Cuba. He is connected with other in- 
 terests of importance and is known as a business man of administra- 
 tive ability. He is a member of the Bar Association of New York 
 city, is an independent Democrat in politics and is a member of the 
 Steuben County Society of New York City. 
 
 On the 17th of April, 1901, Mr. Wilson wag united in marriage 
 to ^liss Marian Harper TJdall, daughter of Charles B. and Fredericka 
 (Folhauber) Udall, who was born at Dubuque, Iowa, where her par- 
 ents resided for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the 
 parents of two children: Marian and Fairfield. 
 
 Daniel E. Burrows is identified with the operations of the Bor- 
 den Condensed Milk Company in New York ciiy, where the offices of 
 this popular corporation are located at 108 Hudson street. He was 
 born at Campbell, Steuben county, this state, on the 17th of January, 
 1866, and is a son of Josiah T. Burrows, who still resides in Camp- 
 bell, where for many years he was actively identified with con- 
 tracting and building, being a carpenter by trade. He is now serving 
 in the office of Justice of the peace and still continues to be more 
 
828 1[IST0]?Y OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 or less active in business affairs. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Amanda Nute, was born and reared in Steuben county, where her 
 father settled in the pioneer days, and she died when comparatively 
 a young woman. Of the four children two are. deceased and of the 
 two surviving the subject of this review is the younger. His sister 
 Ijjtta is the wife of Charles H. Eygabroat and they reside at Campbell, 
 Steuben county. 
 
 Daniel E. Burrows is indebted to the public schools of his native 
 town for his early educational training, which was supplemented by 
 a course in a business college at Warren, Pennsylvania. He initiated 
 his active business career as a bookkeeper and in 1888 he became 
 identiiied with the Borden Condensed Milk Company, in whose em- 
 ploy he has continued as bookkeeper during the long intervening 
 period of a quarter of a century and he is a valued and trusted attache 
 of the company's offices in New York city. He is the owner of a 
 well improved farm in Orange county, New York, and has other 
 capitalistic investments of substantial order. His political support 
 is given to the Republican party and he is identified with the Steuben 
 County Society of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows are Pres- 
 byterian in their religious affiliations. 
 
 In August, 1888, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Burrows 
 to Miss Maude E. Blood, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania, 
 and the seven children of this union are Gail, Etta, Martha, Daniel, 
 Josiah, Charles and Alta. Gail, the eldest son, married Eose Brooks 
 and they reside on his father's farm in Orange county, this state. 
 They have one daughter, born November 8, 1910, Florence J. Bur- 
 rows. 
 
 Salem A. Maksh. — Numbered among the representative con- 
 tractors and builders of Steuben county is Mr. ilarsh, who is engaged 
 in business at Wayland and who controls a most prosperous enter- 
 prise in his chosen sphere of endeavor. He was born in Naples 
 township, Ontario county. New York, on the 25th of September, 
 1868, and he is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of 
 that county, where his grandfather, Stephen G. Marsh, who was 
 born at Southbridge, Worcester countj!^, Massachusetts, took up his 
 residence when a youth, there securing a tract of wild land, which 
 he eventually reclaimed to cultivation. He returned to Massachu-. 
 setts after he had selected his land and in his native state his 
 marriage was solemnized. He then returned with his bride to the 
 new home in the Empire state, making the trip with horse and wagon, 
 and he and his wife lived up to the full tension of the pioneer 
 epoch, enduring the deprivations incidental thereto but finding it 
 .possible to enjoy peace and prosperity after the farm had been re- 
 claimed to cultivation. Stephen G. Marsh was born in the year 1810 
 and he died at an advanced age; his wife, whose maiden name wa.s 
 Esther Cave, was born in 1808 and was seventy-two years of age at 
 the time of her demise. Stephen G. ^Marsh was a stanch advocate 
 of the principles of the Democratic party and was influential in 
 
HISrOEY OF STEUBEN COLTXTY 829 
 
 local afi'airs of a piii)lic nature. Both he and his wife were zealous 
 members of the Universalist church. 
 
 Frank A. ilarsh, father of him whose name introduces this arti- 
 cle, was born on the old homestead farm in Naples township, Ontario 
 county, and he died on the 29th of December, 1909, at the age of 
 sixty-tln-ee .years. He never severed his allegiance to the great basic 
 industry of agriculture, and he eventually became the owner of the 
 old homestead farm in Naples township, Ontario county, where he 
 resided until a fe^\- years prior to his death. He was one of the suc- 
 cessful farmers and highly honored citizens of his native county 
 and his farm gave every evidence of thrift and prosperity. In con- 
 nection therewith he gave special attention for many years to the 
 growing of hops. He was liberal and loyal as a citizen but never 
 cared to enter the domain of practical politics. He was affiliated 
 with the Knights of the ilaccabees and liis religious faith was that 
 of the Jlethodist Episcopal churcli, of which his widow likewise is a 
 devout adherent. He married Miss Julia A. Morrison, who was born 
 in Cohocton township, Steuben county, on the 1st of October, 1845, 
 a daughter of one of the early settlers and prosperous agriculturists 
 of the county. ^Irs. ilarsh survives her honored husband and now 
 resides at Cohocton, the subject of this review being the only child. 
 
 Salem A. Marsh was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 home farm and was afforded the advantages of the public schools of 
 his native township. He continued to be associated with his father 
 in the work and management of the farm until he had attained 
 his legal majority, and he then entered upon a practical apprentice- 
 ship to the carpenter's ti-ade, in which he became in due time a 
 skilled workman. In the spring of 1895 he located in the village of 
 W'aylaud, where he has since been engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing, in which connection he has erected many excellent buildings that 
 stand in evidence of his ability and faithful service in the line of his 
 chosen vocation. His work has far transcended local limitations, 
 as he has erected fifteen residence buildings in the city of Eochester, 
 besides many substantial structures in various parts of Steuben and 
 adjoining counties. He has marked facility as an architect and has 
 drawn and perfected the plans and specifications for many of the 
 buildings which he has erected. He is recognized as one of the 
 representative contractors and builders of Steuben county and his 
 fair and honorable business methods have gained to him the con- 
 fidence and esteem of all with whom he has had dealings. He had 
 the supervision of the erection of the Gun Lock Chain Factory in 
 Wayland, in 1909, and in 1910 he secured the contract for the erec- 
 tion of the Wayland hospital for the Sisters of Nazareth. This 
 hospital when completed \vill be thoroughly modern in all facilities 
 and appurtenances and will represent a total expenditure of twelve 
 thousand dollars for the buildings alone. Mr. Marsh has completed 
 other important contracts and during the active season of building 
 work he gives employment to about twenty men. 
 
 Mr. Marsh is ever ready to give his influence and co-operation 
 in the furtherances of measures and enterprises projected for the 
 
830 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 general welfare of the conmiunity, but he has* naught of desire for 
 public office and in politics he maintains an independent attitude. 
 He is affiliated with Warren Patchin Lodge No. 883, Free & Accepted 
 Masons; with Wayland Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, of which he was vice-grand in 1910 ; and with the local organi- 
 zation of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also an active 
 member of the Wayland Hose Company, a part of the volunteer fire 
 department of the village. 
 
 In the year 1889 Mr. Marsh was united in marriage to Miss 
 Carrie A. Briggs, who was born in Naples township, Ontario county, 
 this state, on the 29th of April, 1870, and who is a daughter of 
 David and Phoebe (Arnold) Briggs, the former of whom still lives 
 in Naples township and the latter of whom is deceased. Mrs. Marsh 
 has one brother and two sisters, namely: Myron, who is a resident 
 of Avoca ; Emma, who is the wife of William Springstead, a farmer 
 of Naples township, Ontario county; and Minnie, who is the wife 
 of Byron King, of Wayland, Steuben county. Mrs. Marsh received 
 excellent educational advantages and was a successful and popular 
 teacher in the schools of her native county prior to her marriage. 
 She is prominent in church work and social activities in Wayland 
 and the attractive home over which she presides is known for its 
 gracious hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have one child. Vera 
 Julia, who was bom on the 33d of May, 1895, and who is a member 
 of the class of 1912 in the Wayland High School. 
 
 Delos Bliss. — One of the prominent and influential business 
 men of New York city is Mr. Bliss, who is vice-president and gen- 
 eral manager of Dodge & Bliss Company and president of the 
 Meredith Shook Lumber Company, the former corporation having 
 plants at Jersey City, New Jersey, and Tonawanda, New York, and 
 the headquarters of the latter company are in Meredith, New Hamp- 
 shire. Mr. Bliss has his office headquarters in New York City, at 50 
 Church street, and he is one of the prominent representatives of the 
 lumber and packing box industry in his native state. 
 
 Delos Bliss was born at Truxton, Cortland county, on the 26th of 
 January, 1841, and he is a son of George and Charlotte (Ames) 
 Bliss, the former of whom was born at Eehoboth, Ehode Island, and 
 the latter of whom was born at Leyden, Franklin county, Massa- 
 chusetts, being a representative of a family that was founded in 
 New England in the Colonial era. George Bliss devoted the major 
 portion of his active career to agricultural pursuits and about the 
 year 1820 he established his home in Cortland county, New York, 
 where he operated a farm and als.o was identified with the lumbering 
 business. Later he came with his family to Steuben county, where 
 he continued to be identified with the same lines of enterprise until 
 his death, which occurred when he was seventy-two years of age. 
 His father likewise was a native of Ehode Island, in which state 
 the family was founded in an early day. Mrs. Charlotte (Ames) 
 Bliss survived her honored husband and attained to the venerable 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 833 
 
 age of ninety-one years, having passed the closing years of her life 
 in the home of her son, Delos, whose name initiates this review. 
 Of the nine children three died in infancy. All of the others at- 
 tained to adult age and of the nnmher three are now living, Egertou 
 A., who is engaged in the jewelry business in New York city is one 
 of the intei:ested principals in the E. A. Bliss Company, in which 
 concern his brother, Delos, is a director; Sarah E. is the widow of 
 Elikaim Eice and she resides with her brother Delos, who was the 
 eighth in order of birth of the nine children and the eldest of the 
 three now living. 
 
 Delos Bliss was a child at the time of his parents' removal to 
 Steuben county, and here he was reared to the age of sixteen years, 
 in the meanwhile having duly availed himself of the advantages of 
 the common schools of the locality and period. On the 7th of 
 February, 1857, he went to New York city, where he secured a 
 position as errand boy in a jewelry establishment, at No. 13 Cort- 
 landt street. After having been in the service of this concern about 
 two years he was given a position as traveling salesman for the same, 
 then being but nineteen years of age. He represented this house in 
 the territory along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and proved a very 
 able and successful salesinan. In 1860 he entered the employ Sf 
 McGraw & Company, a prominent concern in the lumber business in 
 Jersey City. In 1861 he engaged in an independent enterprise in 
 connection with the above concern by establishing a box factory, in 
 which he manufactured wood boxes for the government, having 
 initiated this enterprise about the time of the inception of the Civil 
 war. In 1864 the business was disposed of to William E. Dodge, of 
 New York city, and the enterprise was thereafter continued for 
 some time under the title of Dodge & Company. In 1878 Mr. Bliss 
 fiecame associated in the organization of the present Dodge & Bliss 
 Company, of which he is vice-president and general manager, and the 
 other oliices of which are as here noted: D. Stewart Dodge, pres- 
 ident and William F. Brown, secretary and treasurer. This concern 
 has finely equipped plants at Jersey City, New Jersey, and Tona- 
 wanda. New York, and has prestige as being the largest box manu- 
 facturing concern east of Chicago. Mr. Bliss was the originator of 
 the effective device for the nailing and printing of boxes by machinery 
 and he has also perfected a number of other mechanical inventions 
 which have proved of great value in connection with this line of in- 
 dustry. The products of the Dodge & Bliss Company are shipped 
 into divers sections of the world, a large trade being controlled in 
 Europe and also in South America. The factories of this corporation 
 utilize an average of twenty-five million feet of lumber each year. 
 The Meredith Shook & Lumber Company is also a large and sub- 
 stantial corporation and has mills in Meredith, New Hampshire. In 
 the factory of the Dodge & Bliss Company at Jersey City employ- 
 ment is given to two hundred and forty men. Mr. Bliss is recognized 
 as a business man of great initiative and administrative capacity 
 and his success has represented the direct results of his own efforts. 
 
834 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 giving him precedence as one of the veritable captains of industry 
 in the national metropolis. In politics he gives a stanch allegiance 
 to the Eepublican party and he takes a loyal interest m public afiairs, 
 though he has never had aught of ambition for political office. In 
 New York city he holds membership in the Steuben Society and also 
 the Genesee Society, besides which he is identified with the Engle- 
 wood Club. He holds membership in the St. Paul Episcopal church, 
 
 as did his wife. . „ ^^ -dt i- 
 
 In the year 1864 was solemnized the marriage ot Mr. ±5iiss to 
 Miss Emily F. Field, of Jersey City, and after a long and happy 
 life companionship Mrs. Bliss was summoned to the beyond, Novem- 
 ber 19 1910, her demise occurring at her home at Highwood. In an 
 account of her death published at the time the following lines of 
 tribute were contained: "This sad event has plunged her relatives 
 into a grief which is shared by a large number of their friends, who 
 sincerely mourn the loss of one whose genial personality won such 
 a warm place in the communitv. As a friend and neighbor Mrs. 
 Bliss commanded an honored position socially that will cause her to 
 be greatly missed and deeply regretted. Her illness was of less 
 than a week's duration, but it defied all that care or skill could render 
 for her relief. She passed away at the age of sixty-nme, leaving her 
 husband and six daughters surviving." 
 
 The following children were born to ^Ir. and j\Irs. Bliss : Ji,mily 
 B who is the widow of William IL Kidder, and who subsequently 
 married Mr. Edward Eoberts, of Manchester, England, and resides 
 in New York citv ; Miss Susan F., who remains at the parental home •, 
 Laura B., who is the wife of Thomas B. Cummings, of New York 
 city; Bertha, who is the wife of Charles Bumsted, of Jersey City; 
 Ethel, who is the wife of Daniel Fellows Piatt, a successful stock 
 broker in New York city and Alma, who resides at the parental home. 
 
 Robert W. Gaednee.— In New York city Mr. Gardner has 
 gained distinctive prestige and success as an architect and he is well 
 entitled to consideration in this publication by reason of the fact that 
 he is a member of one of the well known and highly honored families 
 of Steuben county. He was born in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, 
 on the 17th of November, 1866, and is a son of Major Hezekiah R. 
 and Eliza (Wheeler) Gardner, the former of whom was born at 
 Belvidere. Illinois, on the 31st of October, 1839, and the latter of 
 whom was born in Steuben county, New York, where the family 
 was founded in an early day. Major Gardner was summoned to the 
 life eternal on the 25th of April, 1901, and his widow still resides 
 at Hammondsport, Steuben county. From an article published m 
 the Wine Press at the time of the death of Major Gardner are taken, 
 with but slight change of phraseology, the following appreciative 
 
 statements: .■,-,, ■ .. • j. j 
 
 "Few men were better or more widely known m the wine trade 
 than Major Gardner. For the last thirty years he has been connected 
 with the business in one way or another and he was personally 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 835 
 
 known to the leading wine makers and wine dealers of the country. 
 He had traveled extensively and had visited all the prominent centers 
 of grape-growing and wine-making from New York to California. 
 Every^^here he went he made friends by reason of his fine qualities as 
 a man. It was only natural that Major Gardner should have en- 
 deared himself to a wide circle of friends. He was honorable and 
 straightforward in all his dealings. His word was as good as his 
 bond. He was very frank and outspoken and he did not hesitate to 
 call things by their right names. There was no sham about Major 
 Gardner. You could always tell where he stood and what he thought. 
 He despised meanness and mean things, for he never did a mean 
 action in his life. He appreciated a good story and could tell one 
 himself, as he had a keen sense of humor. 
 
 "Hezekiah Ripley Gardner was born at Belvidere, Illinois, on 
 the 31st of October, 1839. He was seven years of age at the time of 
 the death of his father and soon afterward his mother removed to 
 Hammondsport, Steuben county. New York. He showed his loyalty 
 to the cause of the Union when its integrity was jeopardized by 
 armed rebellion and in 1862 he assisted in the organization of 
 Company I, One Hundredth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which 
 he went to the front as captain. He served with great credit and 
 distinction on the staff of General Buell and in the battle of Mission- 
 ary Eidge, in November, 1863, he received the wound which resulted 
 in the loss of his right leg. He was discharged for disability in Aug- 
 ust, 1864, but joined the Veterans' Reserve Corps, and soon after- 
 ward enlisted in the regular army, being brevetted major. He did 
 provost marshal and reconstruction duty at Jackson, Mississippi, 
 and later commanded the Forty-fourth Infantry for several months, 
 while stationed in the rear of the White House at Washington, D. C. 
 
 "Soon after retiring from service Mr. Gardner became identified 
 with the grape and wine industry at Hammondsport and he always 
 took great interest in his vineyard and grape culture. For several 
 years Major Gardner represented the Pleasant Valley Wine Company 
 and in the '70s, when American champagne was not so well known 
 or appreciated as it is today, he had plenty of missionary work to do 
 in the trade. Later on, after retiring from this position, he was 
 induced to travel in the interests of the Urbana Wine Company, in 
 which connection he made a splendid record. The ability and ex- 
 perience of Major Gardner were recognized by his appointment as 
 special agent of viticulture for the United States census of 1890. 
 His census work will always stand as a lasting record of patient in- 
 dustry. It was the first time that the statistics of grape-growing 
 and wine-making had been gathered in the United States. Having 
 no data or material to guide him. Major Gardner had to collect 
 personally and with great pains the figures at first hand. So well 
 did he do his work that he received the praise of his superior, and 
 his report is one of the few that were printed over the agent's sig- 
 nature in the complete volume of the Census Report. Early in 1900 
 he was appointed to collect the exhibits of wines from the eastern 
 
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836 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 states for the Paris Exposition and it was largely due to his ex- 
 perience and ability that such a fine exhibit of our eastern wines and 
 champagnes was made at that exposition." 
 
 Major Gardner was a stalwart Republican in his political alle- 
 giance and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, with 
 the Military Order of Loyal Legion and other fraternal and social 
 organizations. He was a member of St. James' Episcopal church, 
 as is also his widow. Of their children two sons and two daughters 
 are now living. 
 
 Robert W. Gardner was a child at the time when the family 
 home was established at Hammondsport, where he received his pre- 
 liminary educational discipline in the public schools, after which 
 he continued his studies in the high school in the city of Buffalo. In 
 1886, when twenty years of age, he removed to New York city, where 
 he began the study of architecture in the office of one of the leading 
 architects of the national metropolis. He gained a thorough knowl- 
 edge of all the details of this important profession and has been 
 concerned with much important work in his chosen vocation. In 
 1904 he engaged in business on his own responsibility and in the 
 private practice of his profession his success has been of the most 
 unequivocal order. He makes a specialty of fire-proof country dwell- 
 ings and is one of the pioneers in this important field, as well as 
 in the utilizing of reinforced concrete for such architectural pur- 
 poses. He designed all of the dairy buildings for the Briar Cliff 
 Farms in Dutchess county, New York, and it is worthy of note 
 that these farms are the largest producers of certified milk of all in 
 the world. These farms maintain a herd of fully one thousand 
 Jersey cows and the buildings are model in design, sanitary ap- 
 pliances and all facilities. Many buildings designed by and erected 
 linder the direction of Mr. Gardner have attracted wide attention 
 and it may be said without fear of legitimate contradiction that 
 he is one of the leading representatives of his profession in the great 
 metropolis. He has designed many fine modern residences in Nfew 
 Jersey and New York city and his experience in his chosen profession 
 has been wide and varied. 
 
 In politics Mr. Gardner is aligned as a stalwart supporter of 
 the cause of the Republican party and he is a charter member of the 
 Steuben Society of New York City, besides which he holds member- 
 ship in the Planters' Society of Boston, Massachusetts. He is a 
 member of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, senior warden. 
 
 In the year 1893 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gardner 
 to Eleanor (O'Neill) Dean, daughter of William O'Neill, a repre- 
 sentative citizen of Elmira, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner be- 
 came the parents of one daughter, Persis, who died at the age of 
 ten years. 
 
 John Harvey Hulburt. — A citizen whose enterprise has done 
 much to further the commercial and agricultural interests of Way- 
 land and who is now proprietor of a saloon, and an influential factor 
 in the community, is John Harvey Hulburt, formerly a farmer. Mr. 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 837 
 
 Hulburt was born September 9, 1851, and is the son of Clark Hul- 
 burt. The father, a native of Warsaw, New York, was a millwright 
 by trade and a well known man, whose demise occurred in the year 
 1887, at the age of seventy-five years. He married Lavina E. Phil- 
 lips, who survived him until 1891, her age being sixty-three years. 
 After his retirement the elder Mr. Hulburt made his home with his 
 son until summoned to the life eternal. There were three children 
 in the family, the two sisters of the subject being deceased. 
 
 After the termination of his school days Mr. Hulburt adopted 
 farming as an occupation. He continued thus employed for a great 
 many years, or until 1903, when he embarked in the hay shipping 
 business and in the sale of timber. In the latter branch "he bought 
 timber land and cut and shipped the logs. He was successful in this 
 and in a very few years found no small amount of financial gain. 
 In 1909 he removed to Wayland, where he now makes his residence, 
 secure in the enjoyment oif a large circle of friends. 
 
 Mr. Hulburt laid the foundation of a happy married life by his 
 union with Mary Letitia Curry, daughter of James and Nancy Curry, 
 natives of Ireland, who answered the beckon of opportunity from the 
 shores of the new world, and crossed the Atlantic to claim their 
 share of the good things on this side. Shortly after their arrival they 
 settled in Canisteo, where the father pursued the trade of a shoe- 
 maker. The name of the wife of the foregoing was Nancy Gregg. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Hulburt have been born the following children: 
 Ray C, aged twenty-six, who married Pearl Mann, and their two 
 children, Gladys and Edward, giving to the subject the pleasant role 
 of grandfather; Erwin, aged twenty-three, who resides beneath the 
 home roof; Mabel, aged seventeen, and Edith, aged fourteen, both of 
 whom are at school. 
 
 The Democratic party claims the allegiance of Mr. Hulburt and 
 he is very public-spirited, always giving his support to those causes 
 likely to result in the attainment of the greatest good to the greatest 
 number. He has held the office of trustee of the school district of 
 Livingston county for two terms. 
 
 J. Nelson Shdmvfay, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born 
 at Addison, Steuben county, February 13, 1862, a son of John and 
 Mary (Wettenhall) Shumway. John Shumway was born at Oxford, 
 Massachusetts, October 4, 1825, and died at Addison, November 17, 
 1910, aged about eighty-five years. He was brought by his parents 
 to Oxford, New York, in 1827, when he was about two years old. 
 The family remained there about ten years, then moved to Addison, 
 where his father and his elder brothers secured a considerable tract 
 of timber land. His father was connected with the lumber interests 
 in the vicinity of Addison from that time until he died. Mary 
 Wettenhall, who became the wife of John Shumway and the mother 
 of Dr. Shumway, was born in Massachusetts July 30, 1826, married 
 Septerriber 7, 1845, and died June 10, 1892, having borne her hus- 
 band five daughters and three sons, all of whom grew to manhood 
 
838 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 or womanhood. The family of Shumway in America is descended 
 from emigrants from the border region between Prance and Ger- 
 many. 
 
 These meager facts concerning the children of John and Mary 
 (Wettenhall) Shumway other than Dr. J. Nelson Shumway, the 
 eldest son and sixth child in order of nativity, will be of interest 
 in this connection : One of them is Mrs. Gertrude Page of Hancock, 
 New York. Another is Mrs. F. H. Wheaton of Addison, New York. 
 Sarah is Mrs. Kilbourne, of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. Ella died 
 aged seventeen years. Cora became Mrs. Hepworth and was killed 
 in a railroad accident. William and Eush are deceased. 
 
 Dr. Shumway passed his boyhood days at Addison and acquired 
 his primary education in the Addison public schools and at the 
 Addison academy. He was graduated in 1889 from the New York 
 State Normal School at Geneseo, Livingston county, and taught 
 school for seven years thereafter. Then, after two years' study in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Marjdand, he entered 
 the medical department of the University of Buffalo, New York, 
 where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1895. He soon 
 located in Woodhull, Steuben county, for the practice of his pro- 
 fession, but remained there only about eight months. In 1896 he 
 removed to Painted Post, where he has won satisfactory success and 
 has a large and increasing practice. He is a member of the Steuben 
 County Medical Association, of the New York State Medical Society 
 and of the Corning (New York) Medical Association, of which he is 
 vice-president. In politics he is strictly Eepublican. His interest in 
 his community is such that he is helpful to all measures which in 
 his judgment promise to benefit any considerable number of his 
 fellow citizens. He has served as trustee of the village of Painted 
 Post and has from time to time served his townsmen in other 
 capacities. 
 
 In 1888 Dr. Shuroway married Miss Nettie Stapley, of Geneseo, 
 New York, a daughter of Humphrey and Jane Stapley, and they 
 have a son and a daughter, named Clare and Fannie. The son, aged 
 about nineteen years, is a student at the Buffalo Medical College, 
 Buffalo. New York. 
 
 Dr. Shumway's honored father, above mentioned, was a pioneer 
 in this vicinity, lumbering in the early days when the product of 
 his mill was taken down the river by rafters to be marketed and later 
 until about 1880, when he retired from active life. His father, the 
 doctor's grandfather, was born in j\Iassaehusetts January 24, 1790, 
 and passed most of his mature life at Addison, where he is enshrined 
 in the memory of old citizens as one of those by whom the wheels 
 of civilization were put in motion in that vicinity. 
 
 John Eael Phillips is incumbent of the responsible position 
 of chief engineer of the Wayland Light & Power Company and is one 
 of the well known and popular officials of the village in which he 
 maintains his residence. He was born in Livonia township, Livings- 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 839 
 
 ton county, New York, on the 15th of August, 1883, and is a son of 
 Henry and Hattie (Shepard) Phillips, the former of whom died 
 in 1894, at the age of forty-five years, having been a successful 
 farmer and stock-grower of Steuben county, and the latter of whom 
 still resides in the village of Wayland. Three children besides the 
 subject of this review survive the honored father and all of them re- 
 side in Wayland, namely: William, Edward and Hazel May. 
 
 John E. Philips attended the public schools until he had at- 
 tained to the age of thirteen years and for the ensuing two years he 
 was employed in a sawmill. He then came to Wayland, where he was 
 identified with farm work and teaming for some time, after which he 
 removed to the city of Eochester, where he engaged in the dealing in 
 and training of horses. Later he returned to Wayland, where he was 
 employed for a time as a painter and later as a miller and fireman. 
 Since 1907 he has held his present position as chief engineer of the 
 power house of the local light and power company and he has shown 
 much discrimination and care in the handling of the duties devolving 
 on him in this connection. In politics he gives his allegiance to the 
 Democratic party and he takes a loyal interest in all that touches the 
 welfare of the community. 
 
 In the year 1903 Mr. Phillips was united in marriage to Miss 
 Ada Kittle, who was born in Attica in 1878, and who is a daughter 
 of Holton and Alice (Eobinson) Kittle, the latter of whom died in 
 1908 and the former of whom is now residing in the home of Mr. 
 Phillips, the subject of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two 
 children, Euby and Euth, twins, who were born on the 20th of June, 
 1906. 
 
 Calvin G. Hungekfoed. — This well known citizen of Corning 
 was born in Hornby township, Steuben county, August 26, 1855, 
 eldest son of Elias B. and Jane E. (Gibbs) Hungerford and 
 brother of Charles A. and Harry H. Hungerford, who are repre- 
 sented in this work by biographical sketches which throw light on the 
 family history not particularly suggested here. He was educated 
 principally in the good public schools of Corning. Some of his 
 earlier active years he passed as a steam engineer on the Great Lakes, 
 visiting many western and northwestern ports, then he was likewise 
 employed on the Hudson river by the West Shore Eailway Com- 
 pany. He abandoned that work to become a liveryman at Corning, 
 and as such he had a successful career for twelve years. In 1896, 
 when the Standard Manufacturing Company was organized, he was 
 one of its stockholders and was made its manager, in which capacity 
 he has since directed its affairs. The concern employs an average 
 of fifteen men the year around. Its catalogue shows that it makes a 
 fine and comprehensive line in its peculiar field. 
 
 Mr. Hungerford married in 1888 Miss Cora L. Sanford, a native 
 of Corning and a 'daughter of Alfred Sanford. He is popular and 
 prominent as a citizen, is a member of the Corning board of water 
 .commissioners and has fulfilled other public obligations, and is an 
 Odd Fellow well known throughout the county. 
 
840 HISTORY OF STEUBEX CO['XTY 
 
 Daniel V. Hungerford, son of Elias B. and Jane E. (Gibbs) 
 Huagerford and brother of Calvin G. Hungerford, was born at El- 
 mira, New York, April 8, 1865, and is foreman for the Standard 
 Manufacturing Company. The family had removed from Hornby 
 to the city of his birth. From there they came to Corning when he 
 was about three years old. After leaving school he was for about 
 eight years in the grocery business at Corning. When the Standard 
 Manufacturing Company began business he assumed his present 
 responsible position. 
 
 In 1887 he married Miss Nettie .Mercereau, daughter of Mack 
 and Belle (Armstrong) Mercereau, a native of Union, near Bing;- 
 hamton, Broome county, New York, who has borne him nine chil- 
 dren ; Percy M., Cedric E., Marguerite, A. Bell, Nellie M., Adeline, 
 Leiella, Daniel C, Jr., and Lacy. As a Republican Mr. Hungerford 
 takes an active interest in local politics. He is a man of influence 
 in the city, scarcely less well known throughout tlie ^u^rounding 
 country than is his brother Calvin G. In all the relations of life 
 the two represent all that is creditable in good citizenship. 
 
 Rev. James M. Bustin.— This devoted and efficient minister of 
 the Roman Catholic church, pastor of St. Mary's parish, Corning, 
 was bom in Towanda, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1860. His boy- 
 hood days were spent there and he was graduated at seventeen from 
 the graded school. He was graduated from Niagara University in 
 1881, with the A. B. degree, received the A. M. degree in 1883, and 
 was ordained on May 30, 188."). After a brief temporary pastorate at 
 Cuba, Allegany county, he was for about two years assistant pastor 
 at Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county. Then his abilities were recog- 
 nized by his appointment to organize a new parish at North Tona- 
 wanda, Niagara county, with his headquarters at Buffalo. In that 
 undertaking he was successful, building a fine church edifice in 
 1888 and a parochial residence in 1889. In 1893 both church and 
 residence were destroyed by fire, and with characteristic energy he 
 seVabout rebuilding them. In this effort he succeeded in 1894. He 
 remained at North Tonawanda till July, 1896, when he was called to 
 St. Mary's parish, Coming, where he has since labored with the 
 most satisfactory results, increasing the membership of the church 
 from about three thousand to nearly three thousand six hundred. 
 He has organized another parish of about one thousand seven hun- 
 dred members and has a fine parochial school at Coming, in which 
 about six hundred and thirty-five children are being educated. His 
 influence in the town is in all things for the best interests of society 
 and he is popular with citizens of all creeds and of all shades of 
 political belief. His success has not been attained without great 
 zeal and much hard work. His administration of the affairs of his 
 parish marks him not only as a good man but as a business man of 
 conspicuous constructive ability. ' 
 
 Lawbekce B. Bennett. — For nearly a quarter of a century has 
 Mr. Bennett been identified with railroad service and he is now 
 incumbent of the position of telegraph operator at the station of 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 841 
 
 the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Eailroad, in the village of 
 Wayland. He is well known in Steuben county and his popularity is 
 of unqualified order. 
 
 Lawrence Burdon Bennett claims the Wolverine state as the 
 place of his nativity, though he is 'a scion of families that were 
 early founded in the state of New York. He was born in Van 
 Buren county, ilichigan, on the 10th of April, 1870, and is a son 
 of Guy B. and Olive Bennett. Mr. Bennett was eight months old 
 at the time of his mother's death and he was shortly afterward 
 brought by his father to Steuben county, where he was reared to 
 maturity and where his educational advantages were those afforded 
 in the public schools of Wayland. Here he entered the high school 
 when ten years of age and he was graduated therein as a member 
 of the class of 1892. When sixteen years of age Mr. Bennett en- 
 tered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of telegrapher in the 
 Wayland office of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Eailroad 
 and after perfecting himself as an operator he continued in the 
 employ of this cornpany as such for two years, when he was also 
 made station agent. He held this position at various points on 
 the line of this- road and finally returned to Wayland, where he be- 
 came station agent and telegraph operator for the same railway 
 system, with which he has been identified for twenty-four years. 
 He is now serving as operator for the company and the business of 
 the office is adequate to demand his full time and attention, so that 
 he is not now station agent. In politics Mr. Bennett is a zealous 
 and effective advocate of the principles of the Democratic party 
 and he has been active in its local councils. He is affiliated with 
 the Wayland Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 
 both he" and his wife hold membership in the Evangelical church. 
 
 On the 9th of October, 1902, Mr. Bennett was united m mar- 
 riage to Miss Caroline Waitie Batholomew, who was born and reared 
 in Wavland and who is a daughter of Albert A. Bartholomew, who 
 is here engaged in the buying and shipping of produce upon a large 
 scale. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have one child, Margaret Alta, who 
 was born on the 30th of August, 1908. 
 
 Philip E. Kinsella, who at the end of his present term will 
 have served his fellow-citizens with great ability and credit for more 
 than twelve vears as supen'isor of Erwin township, was born at Gang 
 Mills, in that municipal division of Steuben county, April 24 1868 
 a son of Lawrence and Margaret Kinsella. His father, a native of 
 Ireland, came with his parents, Eichard and Elizabeth Kinsella, to 
 the United States and located at Corning when that now flourish- 
 ing citv was yet a small village. He found employment with the 
 firm of Fox & Weston, the then great lumber concern which was so 
 influential in the days of the earlier history of this vicinity. For 
 twenty-six vears he was engineer at their lumber manufacturing 
 establishment at Gang Mills, and from time to time was called to 
 the performance of other important duties m their interest. He 
 
843 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 married, in Erwin township, Miss Margaret Hogue, a native of 
 Canada, who passed away in 1900, he surviving. They were the 
 parents of four children, all of whom lived to manhood and woman- 
 hood. John A. is employed as an engineer by the New York Cen- 
 tral Eailroad Company. Elizabeth is the wife of John Gallagher 
 of Corning. Thomas L. is a member of his father's household. 
 
 Philip E. Kinsella, second child and second son in the family 
 just mentioned, passed his boyhood in his native place, attending 
 public school in his home district and at Painted Post. His first 
 work away from home was as fireman under his father in the Fox 
 & Weston mill. Thus he was employed three years, then he turned 
 his attention to farming land, which he rented of W. S. Hodgman 
 & Company. On this farm, located not far from Painted Post, he 
 has lived since that time. This life-long resident of Erwin town- 
 ship is widely known as one of old Steuben's most loyal sons. A 
 stanch Eepubliean, he has always been devoted to the furtherance 
 of the policies of that party so great in the history of our country. 
 In its local work he has long been active and influential. By suc- 
 cessive reelection, without opposition in his own party, he has filled 
 the responsible office of supervisor of Erwin township for more than 
 eleven years. His public spirit is such that he is in the forefront 
 of every movement which in his opinion promises good to any con- 
 siderable number of his fellow-citizens. His prominence in township 
 and county affairs has made him well known in Steuben and ad- 
 jacent counties. He and his family are identified with the Eoman 
 Catholic church. 
 
 On June 18, 1893, Mr. Kinsella married Miss Mary E. Cowley, 
 a daughter of Levi and Margaret Cowley, of Corning. They have 
 two children — Margaret and Philip. 
 
 Hiram P. Badger. — This well-known gentleman, now long re- 
 tired from active life, is a son of a pioneer in his vicinity in point 
 of settlement and a pioneer merchant of Steuben county. He was 
 born in Painted Post, in the house in which he now lives, August 18, 
 1845, and during all the sixty-five years since has been a resident 
 of that town. His parents were Harvey P. and Louisa (Potter) 
 Badger. Harvey P. Badger, a native of Colesville, Broome county. 
 New York, came to Painted Post in 1841 and was married that same 
 year. It was in that year also that he opened a general store at 
 Painted Post, which he conducted successfully until 1867, when he 
 retired from business. But he was too ambitious to abandon all 
 business projects, and in 1869, with his son Herbert as a partner, 
 he again engaged in merchandising, establishing another store, which 
 was in profitable operation till in 1873, when it was burned. Mr. 
 Badger, then advanced in life, retired permanently. He lived to be 
 about seventy-eight years old. His wife, who, as has been stated, 
 was Miss Louisa Potter, a daughter of ex-sheriff Hiram Potter, de- 
 ceased, of Steuben county, was born in the- town of Pompey, Onon- 
 daga county, New York, and died when she was about sixty-three 
 
HENRY G. TUTHILL 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 845 
 
 years old. She bore her husband a family of three sons and three 
 daughters, five of whom lived to manhood and womanhood. Hiram 
 P. is the immediate subject of this sketch. Herbert L. lives in Erwin 
 township on a farm and is mail carrier on Eoute 2 from Painted 
 Post postofBce. Samuel W. is a practicing physician at Athens, 
 Pennsylvania. Anna married W. J. Gilbert and is living in Brook- 
 lyn, New York. Sarah married W. H. Calkins and died in January, 
 1869. Louise died at the age of two years and ten months. 
 
 Of this family, Hiram P. Badger was the third child and the 
 second son in order of birth. His entire life thus far has been 
 passed at Painted Post. There he was educated in the best schools 
 in the town. At eighteen he began to learn the machinist's trade 
 under W. H. Calkins, and in that business his energies were expended 
 for the long period of a quarter of a century, and he has been nearly 
 as long in retirement. He was assistant postmaster at Painted Post 
 for six years and was the town assessor for thirteen years, also vil- 
 lage trustee for one term. In politics he is Eepublican in all that 
 the word has implied, and he has always devoted himself to the 
 general good of the town. His prominence and influence as a citi- 
 zen have been long established on so firm a foundation that his ad- 
 vice is invariably sought in any work for the general benefit and 
 improvement. 
 
 Colonel Henry G. Tuthill. — Distinguished not only for his 
 gallant service in the Civil war but as an enterprising and prosper- 
 ous business man of Corning, Colonel Henry G. Tuthill is widely 
 known as one of the leading architects of this part of Steuben 
 county and also as a dealer in real estate and as an insurance man. 
 He was born, September 35, 1833, in East Otto, Cattaraugus county, 
 New York, of thrifty New England ancestry, being the lineal de- 
 scendant of one of three brothers named Tuthill who emigrated from 
 England in Colonial days, settling in the Green Mountain state. 
 
 His father, Samuel Tuthill, was born at Bellows Falls, Ver- 
 mont, where his father, a life-long resident of Vermont, was engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits. In 1882 he made his way to New York 
 state, a large part of the way following a path marked by blazed 
 trees, and settled as a pioneer in Cattaraugus county. Taking up 
 a tract of wild land, he cleared a farm from the dense wilderness, 
 in the meantime bravely bearing all the trials and privations incident 
 to pioneer life. A man of much intelligence and energy, he became 
 active in public affairs, serving many years as justice of the peace. 
 He lived on the homestead place until his death, at the ripe old 
 age of seventy-six years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah 
 Guernsey, was born in Vermont of English ancestry. She survived 
 him, passing away at the age of eighty-six years. Of their family 
 of four daughters and three sons, all but one child grew to years 
 of maturity. Henry G., the fifth child and eldest son, and his 
 brother, Harvey Tuthill, living on the parental homestead in East 
 Otto,- are the only members of the family now living. 
 
846 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 With the exception of two years spent as a youth in Ohio, 
 Henry G. Tuthill remained beneath the parental roof-tree until nine- 
 teen years old. Going then to Livingston county, New York, he 
 served an apprenticeship at the cabinet maker's trade m Nunda 
 with his uncle, Daniel M. Tuthill, who at the end of two years gave 
 him two hundred dollars for his services. He paid his father one 
 hundred dollars for his time, and at the end of his two years had 
 a bank account of fifty dollars. He subsequently worked with his 
 uncle as iournevman for a year, and then, in 1856, came to dom- 
 ing and the following year was foreman in the Townley & Lower 
 factory. He then formed a partnership with William F. Townley, 
 hh brother-in-law, and continued in business with him about two 
 years, when he moved with his family to Nunda, Livingston county. 
 Few veterans of the war between the states can look back upon 
 a war record as thrilling and gallant as Colonel Tuthill. On Sep- 
 tember 30 1861, at Nunda, he enlisted in Company A, One Hunared 
 and Fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, of which he was at one*- 
 commissioned captain. This regiment, known as the Wadsvonn 
 Guards, he had been instrumental, in raising, and his company. A, 
 was the second to leave Nunda. The regiment was organized at Al- 
 bany March 4, 1863, with John Rohrbach, colonel; R. Wells Kenyim, 
 lieutenant colonel; L^wis C. Skinner, major. Serving bravely on 
 the field of battle, he was promoted from captain to lieutenant 
 colonel in October, 1862. At the battle of Bull Run Virginia 
 August 30, 1863, he received a piece of shell m his right leg, and 
 at Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1863, he was severely wound, 
 ed two fingers on his right hand being shot off, after which dis- 
 ablement he returned to Corning on leave of absence. His wounds 
 healing, Colonel Tuthill reported to the medical director at Wash- 
 ington! D. C, and was sent to Elmira, New York where he had 
 command of the post from December 15, 1863, to March 4, 1863, 
 when he was ordered to join his regiment, which had been assigned 
 to the First Array Corps, commanded by General John A. Keynoias, 
 of Rochester, New York, and subsequently participated xn many 
 important and fiercely contested engagements. He was wounded at 
 ChancellorsviUe, Virginia, May 3, 1863, receiving a gunshot m his 
 left leg, and again at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1863, a 
 ball, which he still carries, entered his right grom. For four days 
 thereafter he lav on the battlefield in the hands of the enemy, with- 
 out care of any" kind. When able to be removed he was sent to the 
 officers hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, where he was examined by 
 a board of army surgeons of which General Graham was president 
 and was discharged from the service November J, 1863 on account 
 of disability from a wound received in action at Gettysburg, l-enn- 
 
 svlvania, July 1, 1863. . . , , tj „=,;;i„„4- t in 
 
 " On January 33, 1864, he was commissioned by President Lin- 
 coln as captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps, U. S A-, and a^igBed 
 to duty at Newark, New Jersey, having charge of all the troops at 
 this important station. From there he was ordered to Washington. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 84T 
 
 D. C, in January, 1865, where he remained on detached duty until 
 March 4, 1865, he was ordered to Baltimore, Maryland, with two 
 companies of reserves. He furnished the guard of honor at the 
 catafalque when the martyred president was laid in state at the 
 government building. He remained on duty at Baltimore, fur- 
 nishing guards for the hospitals and forts until October, 1866, when 
 he was ordered to Washington, D. C, and mustered out by general 
 orders November 7, 1866. He was brevetted colonel of ^ew York 
 Volunteers on December 11, 1808, for meritorious services during 
 the war. 
 
 His services included the ensuing campaigns and engagements : 
 Campaign against Jackson in Shenandoah Valley, May-August, 
 1862 ; battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9 ; northern Virginia cam- 
 paign, August 16 to September 2 ; Rappahannock Station, August 
 20-23; Rappahannock River, August 21-22; White Sulphur Springs, 
 August 5-27; Thoroughfare Gap, August 28; battle of Bull Run, 
 August 30 ; Little River Turnpike, September 1 ; Maryland cam- 
 paign, September 3-20 ; battle of South Mountain, September 14 ; 
 battle of Antietam, .September 1 7 ; battle of Fredericksburg, De- 
 cember 11-15; Burnside's second campaign; Mud march, January 
 20-33, 1863 ; Chancellorsville campaign, April 27-May 6 ; operations 
 at Pollock's Mill Crossing, April 29-May 1 ; battle of Chancellors- 
 ville, Jlay 3-4 ; battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. His last field 
 duty was performed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Returning to Corning, Colonel Tuthill engaged in business as 
 an architect, and in this line has built up a fine business and won 
 an extensive reputation as a skillful and practical architect. He 
 erected a summer house, or cottage, on Keuka Lake in 1882, and 
 has also built many of the finest public buildings in Corning and 
 some of the most desirable residences. He is also extensively en- 
 gaged in the real estate and insurance business and has large real 
 estate interests in Coming. 
 
 Colonel Tuthill has long been prominent in the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, in 1868 having organized Logie Post, then No. 80, 
 now Hayt Post No. 276, of which he was the commander. The colonel 
 is one of the oldest members of the Ancient Order of Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, having joined Painted Post Lodge No. 117, F. & 
 A. M., in 1857. At this writing, in 1910, there is but one older 
 member of this lodge, in which he served as an officer prior to the 
 Civil war. Colonel Tuthill is one of the directors of the Corning 
 Co-operative Savings and Loan Association. He has been active in 
 public affairs, from 1869 until 1872 serving as superintendent of 
 the poor for Steuben county, and for three years being police com- 
 missioner of Coming. 
 
 On May 20, 1857, Colonel Tuthill married Catherine A. Town- 
 ley, and of the children bom of their union five sons are living, 
 namely: James S., a graduate of Cornell University, has been 
 superintendent of the Middletown, New York, schools for the past 
 nineteen vears ; L. H., also a graduate of Cornell University, is prin- 
 
848 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 cipal of Public School No. 16, Brooklyn, New York; Eugene, who 
 was graduated from Cornell University, is an architect at Corning, 
 New York; Charles G. is proprietor of a cut glass company at Mid- 
 dletown. New York ; and Frank W. is an engineer on the New York 
 Central Eailroad. Colonel Tuthill celebrated his golden wedding 
 anniversary on May 30, 1907, at which gathering all of his children 
 were present. 
 
 Edwin C. Smith.— This is the era of the comparatively young 
 man. Time was when the prominence already gained by the pro- 
 gressive son of Yates county whose name is above would have been 
 attainable only to a man on the shady side of the half-century mark. 
 Mr. Smith, who is district attorney of Steuben county, was born at 
 Dundee, Yates county, New York, December 15, 1870. His father, 
 Charles A. Smith, formerly a farmer and operator of vineyards, is 
 living in retirement at Hammondsport. He was born in Steuben 
 county, a son of Ameron Smith, an early settler from central New 
 York and a member of one of the old Mohawk Dutch families so 
 influential in that region. His wife, mother of Edwin C. Smith, 
 was born at Dundee, Yates county, New York, a daughter of Addi- 
 son B. Lewis, of Scotch descent. Two sons— Edwin C. and Frank A. 
 —were bom to Charles A. and Emma (Lewis) Smith. The father, 
 who had gone from Steuben county to Yates county, returned to 
 his native county when his eldest son, Edwin, was about eight 
 months old, locating in the town of Urbana, where the future prose- 
 cuting attorney passed the years of his boyhood. Mr. Smith was 
 duly graduated from the schools of Hammondsport and of Bath 
 and then was for five years a school teacher in Steuben county. 
 TJiree years he held the" office of school commissioner for the first 
 commissioners' district of the county, performing its duties with 
 characteristic thoroughness and integrity. He was graduated from 
 the law department of Union College in 1897 ; was admitted to the 
 bar and entered at once upon the practice of his profession at Addi^ 
 son, where he has been in continuous practice thirteen years. In 
 November, 1905, he was elected supervisor of the town of Addison. 
 In May, 1906, he was appointed district attorney and resigned the 
 supervisorship in order the better to handle the responsibilities of 
 the more exacting office. In his political convictions he is stanchly 
 Eepublican. His father is and his grandfather was in his time of 
 the same political faith, and the three have gone to the polls to- 
 o-ether and in turn voted the same ticket, showing three genera- 
 tions of Eepublicans in line. In that time Edwin C. was the nomi- 
 nee of his party for the office of commissioner of schools and had 
 the honor and pleasure of seeing his sire and grandsire cast their 
 
 ballots for him. , , _ „ T^m j nr j 
 
 Mr Smith is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, an Elk and a Modern 
 Woodman In Masonry he has attained to the thirty-second degree 
 and is a past district deputy of the thirty-fourth district. He is 
 past grand of his lodge of Odd Fellows. He married, m 1900, 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 849 
 
 jMiss Bertha Perrow, of Addison. He owns a fine farm near that 
 village. In all his active career he has demonstrated that quality 
 of public spirit which makes for good and useful citizenship. To 
 the duties of his office he brought adequate professional learninsr, 
 ample business experience and an honest determination to succeed 
 along the straight line of right and justice, respecting the court, 
 respecting the public and, what is better, respecting himself; and 
 his administration of the office has won him the good opinion of 
 his fellow-citizens of all shades of all political beliefs. 
 
 Charles F. Pakk, vice-president of the Park, Winton and True 
 Company, manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds, Addison, and 
 well and favorably thought of in southern New York, was born at 
 Addison, October 15, 1871, the younger son of James H. and Theresa 
 Adelaide (Reynolds) Park, his brother being William R. Park, a 
 citizen of Addison and also an official of the manufacturing con- 
 cern mentioned. Their father, who began manufacturing in Addi- 
 son in 1855, died there in 1901. The mother is living in that vil- 
 lage. 
 
 The immediate subject of this notice was reared and educated 
 in Addison and when he was about twenty-one yedrs old was taken 
 into his father's business, with the understanding that he would very 
 likely become prominent in it. But he made the right beginning, 
 working in the yards and at whatever there was to be done, side 
 by side with ordinary employes of the factory. After his father's 
 death he became buying agent, with sole responsibility for the equip- 
 ment and general efficiency of the plant. The Park, Winton & 
 True Company was organized in 1910, with George I. True as presi- 
 dent, Charles F. Park as vice-president and purchasing agent and 
 William R. Park as secretary, and the enterprise ranks as Addison's 
 oldest manufacturing enterprise and as one of the oldest concerns of 
 its class in the country. Mr. Park is a stockholder in the Yadkin 
 Lumber Company, of Yadkin, North Carolina, which owns fifty- 
 five thousand acres of timber lands in the western part of that' 
 state; also in the Embreeville Lumber Company, of Embreeville, 
 Tennessee, which holds title to thirty thousand acres of timber in 
 eastern Tennessee. . 
 
 A life-long resident of Addison, Mr. Park is one of its most 
 public spirited citizens. He has been a member of the local fire 
 department many years and is its assistant chief, is a member of 
 the village fire board and as a member of the board of education is 
 influential in the direction of the affairs of the Addison Union 
 school He is a Mason and an Elk and a vestry-man in the Episco- 
 pal church of Addison. Mrs. Park was Miss Caroline Stratton, 
 daughter of George W. Stratton, of Addison, formerly prominent m 
 the tanning business. She has borne her husband two sons— James 
 Stratton and Francis A. Park. 
 
 Burt C. Patchin.— No name has been more prominently and 
 worthilv identified with the civic and industrial development and 
 upbuilding of Steuben countv than that of Patchm, which has 
 
850 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 numerous representatives within the borders of the county at the 
 present time. The name has stood exponent of the highest integrity 
 and honor, of utmost civic loyalty and progressiveness and of dis- 
 tinctive constructive power, as the members of the family, as one 
 generation, has followed another on the stage of life's activities, have 
 each contributed to the advancement of those interests which make 
 for social and material prosperity. He whose name initiates this 
 review is one of the representative citizens of his native countv, 
 and he has directed his course along lines of productive energy, so 
 that he has gained status as one of the leading agriculturists and 
 stock-growers of this favored section of the state, with special repu- 
 tation in the breeding of fine standard-bred horses. His splendid 
 homestead place, known as the Patchin farm,' is one of the finest 
 rural demesnes in south-central Xew York and is eligibly located 
 in Wayland township about three miles distant from the village of 
 the same name. In all respects he is well upholding the prestige 
 of the honored name which he bears and which has been inseparably 
 linked with the history of Steuben county for nearly a century. 
 
 Burt Cameron Patchin was born on the farmstead which now 
 constitutes his home, and the date of his nativity was February 13, 
 1869. He is a son of Cameron and Harriet M. (Glines) Patchin. 
 Concerning the ancestral history, apropos its association with the 
 annals of Steuben county, excellent record was made in a history 
 of Wayland prepared by Charles M. Jervis and published in 1901, 
 and from this record the following statements are taken, with but 
 slight paraphrase: 
 
 "The Patchin and Hess families came to Patchinsville in 1814 
 and the years immediately following. The advent of these two 
 families gave to that section of the town the vast preponderance of 
 vigor and enterprise, and for many succeeding years it was, and 
 seemed destined to remain, the business center. Walter Patchin 
 was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, July 24:, 1764. When he was a 
 child his father removed to Balston, Saratoga county. New York, 
 and here, while a mere boy, he Joined the Continental army and 
 took part in the defense of the town against the British and Indians. 
 The town was burned, and young Patchin was wounded by an In- 
 dian, but saved his life by swimming the river. He was afterward 
 pensioned by the government for the injury he received. Later he 
 settled in Mareellus, Onondaga county, and in 1814 he removed to 
 Steuben county, where he took up a large tract of land, on which 
 he built a log house. This pioneer domicile stood nearly on the site 
 of the house now occupied by Hon. Gordon "M. Patchin. Walter 
 Patchin was twice married, his first wife being the mother of two 
 children — Loraine and Dr. Warren Patchin. Of the second mar- 
 riage eleven children were born. Walter Patchin died in 1854, at 
 the age of ninety years, and is buried in the East Wayland ceme- 
 tery. 
 
 "When AValter Patchin moved to town he transported his goods 
 with an ox team, and in coming down the East Patchin hill, over 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 851 
 
 which the old road led, one of the oxen fell and broke its neck — a 
 most serious loss for a pioneer farmer. On inquiry of Benjamin 
 Perkins he learned of a settler near Dansville from whom an ox 
 could be obtained, but Mr. Patchin was not prepared to pay for the 
 animal just then and, being a stranger, was in a predicament, from 
 which Mr. Perkins relieved him by picking up a chip on which he 
 scratched his initials, 'B. P.,' and gave it to Mr. Patchin to hand to 
 the settler, which he did, whereupon he returned home with the ox. 
 This is the first recorded bank check in the town. 
 
 "Dr. Warren Patchin, who was born at Balston, in 1784, had 
 graduated from Fairfield Seminary and had seen service in the war 
 of 18121-14. He followed his father from Marcellus to the 'far west,' 
 as this country was then known, and in 1816 he settled on what is 
 now the Marlette farm. He was the most noted medical practi- 
 tioner of his period in this locality, his clientele extending over a 
 radius of fifty miles of territory, and at a time when bridle paths 
 were the principal highways it was not an uncommon occurrence 
 for him to be compelled, if overtaken by night, to fasten his horse ■ 
 to a tree and make himself as comfortable as possible until daylight 
 permitted him to continue his journey. He was an active member 
 of the Steuben Medical Society from the time of its organization, 
 in 1818, and was its first president. He again held the presidency 
 of the organization in 1824 and in 1843-4. Aside from his profes- 
 sional work he found time and energy to devote to business matters, 
 and in 1820 he built the Patehinville saw mill, which burned the 
 following year, and in 1882 he erected the grist mill. The long- 
 time famous Patchin's Mills hotel was built by him in 1824. It 
 was his intention to make it of brick, which he endeavored to manu- 
 facture, but the clay was deficient and the bricks proved worthless, 
 so the wooden structure was erected. It stood where now is the 
 house of John P. Morsch and was a typical country tavern. Dr. 
 Patchin became the father of six children: Warren, 1804-1879; 
 Jabez, 1806-182.5; Harriet (Mrs. Warring), 1808-186—; Ira, 1812- 
 1898; Cameron, 1820-1896; Minerva (Mrs. John Young), 1826- 
 1900. Dr. Warren Patchin died in 1872." 
 
 Dr. Cameron Patchin, the fifth in order of birth of the six 
 children of Dr. Warren Patchin, was born on the homestead farm 
 in Steuben county on the 29th of February, 1820, and he died on 
 the 13th of August, 1896. He was a man of fine intellectual and 
 professional talents, and no citizen held more secure place in popu- 
 lar confidence and esteem. Concerning him the following pertinent 
 statements have been made : "Dr. Cameron Patchin was a man most 
 highly esteemed by our older citizens, and but little known to the 
 younger generation. A natural dignity of bearing lent a sternness 
 of appearance that caused him to be frequently misunderstood by 
 those who did not know the real man. In .youth his desire to study 
 medicine was not encouraged by his father, but his steadfast de- 
 termination in the matter at last gained paternal sanction. He 
 carried the same fixed determination to succeed into the work of 
 
853 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 his profession, for which he admirably prepared himself, and the 
 result was that he attained to at least equal eminence with his father 
 as a practitioner and in consultation, as well as in making substan- 
 tial additions to his inheritance." 
 
 On the 27th of January, 1860, Dr. Cameron Patchin was united 
 in marriage to Harriet M. Glines, who was born in Bradford county, 
 Pennsylvania, on the 4th of October, 1832, and whose death oc- 
 curred on the 6th of January, 1895. She was a daughter of Win- 
 throp T. and Harriet (Beeman) Glines, the former of whom was 
 born December 5, 1803, and the latter May 26, 1809, their marriage 
 having been solemnized on the 24th of January, 1828. Dr. Cameron 
 Patchin and Harriet M. (Glines) Patchin are survived by two sons, 
 of whom the younger is Burt C, who retains the old homestead and 
 is proprietor of the Patchin farm. The elder son. Prank G., was 
 for nine years editor of the Rochester Post-Express, in the city of 
 Eochester, and is a man of fine literary ability. He is the author 
 of various books and at the present time devotes his attention almost 
 entirely to literary work of various kinds. He is a resident of 
 Eochester. The mother was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 Burt Cameron Patchin, whose name initiates this review, gained 
 his early education in the public schools of Wayland township and 
 supplemented this by a course of one year in Dansville Seminary 
 and by one year's attendance in the state normal school at Geneseo. 
 He then entered Columbia Institute, in New York city, but before 
 the completion of his course the illness of his father caused him to 
 return home and assume the practical management of the estate. 
 He has since continued to reside on the magnificent old homestead 
 known as "Patchin Parm," and the same now comprises two hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, upon which the improvements are of the best 
 order. He erected, in 1900, the present beautiful mansion, which 
 is conceded to be one of the best in this section of the state. "Pat- 
 chin Farm" has gained a national reputation through the breeding 
 of high-grade trotting and pacing horses. 
 
 Mr. Patchin is one of the most extensive farmers and stock- 
 growers of this section of the old Empire commonwealth, and under 
 his able supervision the reputation of the "Patchin" breeding stab- 
 bles has been greatly amplified and emphasized. On the farm is a 
 one-eighth mile track, all under cover, also a one-half mile open, 
 and this is utilized for the training of the fine standard-bred horses 
 raised on the place, while a specialty is made of raising only the best 
 tyije. Mr. Patchin is enthusiastic in his work, and his success has 
 been of the most unequivocal type. "Patchin Farm" has its own 
 electric plant, which is utilized for the lighting of the residence and 
 other buildings and also for various mechanical purposes incidental 
 to the various departments of enterprise conducted on this beautiful 
 place. The residence and other buildings are supplied with water 
 from a private plant, and the improvements throughout are of the 
 best modern order. Mr. Patchin is the owner of an independent 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 853 
 
 telephone line from Wayland to Loon Lake, and he gave his capi- 
 talistic support to the organization and incorporation of the Inter- 
 Ocean Telephone Company, besides which he is a stockholder in 
 various other corporations of important order and concerned with a 
 number of local enterprises that have had definite bearing on the 
 progress and upbuilding of his native county. From 1897 to 1901 
 he was associated with Martin W. Snyder in the retail drug busi- 
 ness in the village of Wayland, where he is the owner of valuable 
 realty, including the Patchin block, one of the best business build- 
 ings in the village. 
 
 Though he finds insistent demands upon his time and attention 
 in the management of his fine estate and its varied interests, Mr. 
 Patchin is known as a loyal and public-spirited citizen — one who is 
 every ready to lend his influence and co-operation in the promotion 
 of enterprises and measures tending to advance the general welfare 
 of the community. Though he has manifested naught of ambition 
 for official preferment and the turmoil of practical polities, he gives 
 an unwavering allegiance and support to the cause for which the 
 Eepublican party stands sponsor, and he is an appreciative member 
 of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has completed 
 the circle of the Scottish rite body and attained to the Thirty-second 
 degree. He is also affiliated with the Coming Valley Consistory, 
 and as a master Mason he is a member of Warren Patchin Lodge, 
 No. 883, Free & Accepted Masons, at Wayland. He is also identified 
 with Damascus Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the 
 Mystic Shrine, in the city of Eochester. 
 
 On the 27th of August, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. Patchin to Miss Sally Gregory Nuttall, who was born in the city 
 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd of September, 1876, and 
 who is a member of one of the distinguished families of that city. 
 Her father, Eobert Peel Nuttall, was bom in England, and was a 
 boy at the time of his parents' immigration to America, the family 
 home being established in Philadelphia. He eventually became a 
 manufacturer of surgical instruments. He continued to reside in 
 Philadelphia until his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was 
 Hannah Hardy, is now also dead. Mrs. Nuttall likewise was bora 
 in England and she was seven years of age at the time when her 
 parents came to the United States and established their home in 
 Chester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Patchin has two sisters and two broth- 
 ers—John and Eobert, who reside in Philadelphia ; Mary is the wife 
 of Benjamin F. Jones, of Buifalo, New York; and Miss Hannah 
 resides in Philadelphia. Mrs. Patchin was graduated in the high 
 school of Philadelphia and later continued her studies in a normal 
 school of her native state. For three years prior to her marriage 
 she was a successful teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia. 
 She is a woman of most gracious personality and social charm and 
 presides most effectively over the beautiful home, which is a center 
 of generous hospitality. She is a communicant of the Protestant 
 Episcopal church, in which she holds membership. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Patchin have no children. 
 Vol n— 19 
 
854 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUXTY 
 
 Edwakd Jacobs. — Numbered among the well known and high- 
 ly esteemed citizens of the thriving little village of Wajdand, where 
 he conducts a successful teaming and general transfer business, Ed- 
 ward Jacobs IS well entitled to representation in this work. He is 
 a son of the late Elias Jacobs, and as definite record concerning the 
 family history appears on other pages of this work, in the sketch of 
 the career of an elder brother, John E. Jacobs, it is not necessary to 
 repeat the data in the article at hand. 
 
 Edward Jacobs was born in Springwater, Livingston county, on 
 the 6th of April, 1863, and his early experiences were those of the 
 home farm, upon which he was reared to maturity, in the meanwhile 
 duly availing himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools 
 of the locality. He continued to be associated in the work and 
 management of the home farm until he had attained the age of 
 thirty years. He then went to Levona, Livingston county, where 
 he lived twelve years, and in the later years he had practical super- 
 vision of the home place. In 1906 he removed to Wayland, Steu- 
 ben county, where he has since been successfully engaged in team- 
 ing. Mr. Jacobs is an energetic and enterprising business man, 
 and through his well directed industry has achieved success worthy 
 of the name. He and his wife are held in high regard in the com- 
 munity, and he takes a lively interest in all that touches its welfare. 
 He is a member of the German Lutheran church, and Mrs. Jacobs 
 holds membership in the United Evangelical church, in which she 
 is actively identified with the Ladies' Aid Society and the Christian 
 Endeavor Society. Mr. Jacobs has never had any desire to identify 
 himself with practical politics and in this connection is non-parti- 
 san. He is affiliated with the Wayland lodge of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 In the year 1886 Mr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Miss 
 Ella Hamsher, who was born in Sparta township, Livingston county, 
 on the 13th of July, 1864, and who is a daughter of Albert and 
 Mary (Chart) Hamsher. Mr. Hamsher was numbered among the 
 prosperous farmers of Livingston county at the time of his death, 
 which occurred in July, 1890, when he was fifty-two years of age. 
 His widow, who is now seventy-two years of age, resides at Spring- 
 water, Livingston county. Of her two surviving children Mrs. Jacobs 
 is ^he elder, and Frank is a prosperous farmer of Steuben county. 
 
 Thomas E. Haedeu', proprietor of the American House, Addi- 
 son, was born at Sandy Hill, Washington county, New York, Au- 
 gust 13, 1842, a son of Abner and Martha (Eldredge) Harden. His 
 father had come to Sandy Hill from the Mohawk Valley. He was 
 a shoemaker and worked there at his trade till 1848, when he went 
 to Sabinsville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, passing through Steu- 
 ben county on the way. He died at Sabinsville when he was about 
 sixty years old. Mr. Harden's mother was a daughter of Thomas 
 Eldredge, of English descent, and a native of Tompkins county, 
 New York. She died at Sandy Hill, New York, when more than 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 855 
 
 eighty-six years old. The extraction of the Hardens, of whom the 
 subject of this notice is a family member, is traced to Germany. 
 He was the third born of his parents' two sons and two daughters, 
 of whom, besides himself, his sister Frances J. is the only one liv- 
 ing. She is the wife of Ealph P. Eichards, of Sandy Hill, New 
 York. 
 
 Mr. Harden was six years old when his father went by way of 
 Steuben county,, New York, to Sabinsville, Tioga county, Penn- 
 sylvania. When he was twelve he went back to Sandy Hill to live. 
 In 1863, Avhen he was about twenty-one, he returned to Sabinsville, 
 stopping on the way at Addison, where he was for a short time 
 clerk in the village hotel, then owned by one of his uncles. He 
 returned to Addison and from there went to Syracuse, New York, 
 where he was clerk in the Globe Hotel about a year. After that he 
 was employed ten years as a commercial traveler by A. H. Gillett, 
 of that city. In 1877 we find him back in Addison, proprietor of the 
 American House, which he has conducted continuously to the present 
 time. For a time he was interested in the manufacture of bicycles, 
 was also interested in the LaCost dry goods store and has had to do 
 with other local business concerns, but first and foremost he has 
 been the village "landlord" and one of the most popular ones in his 
 part of the state. 
 
 In 1866 he married Miss Minnie M. Bennett, a daughter of 
 Urson G. Bennett, and A. G. Harden, their son, is president and 
 general manager of the Columbus Exhibition. Mr. Harden is a high 
 Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge No. 118, of the Chapter No. 
 145, of St. Omar's Commandery No. 19, at Elmira, of the Shrine 
 at Binghamton and of the Consistory at Corning. Everywhere 
 among Masons he is greeted as of the thirty-second degree. He is 
 a member also of lodge No. 364 of the Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks. In 1882 he was elected master of Union Lodge No. 
 118, F. & A. M., of Addison, and he was a member of the Council 
 at that place while it was in existence. He is a man of public 
 spirit, who takes an active and helpful interest in all that promises 
 to promote the best interests of Addison and its tributary territory 
 and is consulted by his fellow-citizens in all matters of general im- 
 portance. 
 
 LoKiN B. Aldrich. — This well known citizen of Steuben county 
 has been connected with one business plant at Addison about fifty- 
 one years and has for the same length of time been a contractor of 
 sash, doors and blinds. He was born at Plymouth, Chenango coun- 
 ty. New York, March 39, 1834, a son of Ethan Aldrich, a native 
 of Ehode Island, who came to Addison, bringing his family, about 
 1844. His wife (Esther Brewer), a native of Chenango eountv, 
 bore him eight children, of whom Lorin was the fourth in order of 
 nativity. :Mr. xildrich was a farmer during his active years, but 
 retired to Elmira, where he and his wife both passed away. 
 
 Mr. Aldrich was about ten years old when his parents took up 
 their residence at Addison. He attended common schools as a boy, 
 
856 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 and in 1860, when he was about twenty-six years of age, became 
 connected with the business of McKay and Bliss, whose plant has 
 been absorbed in that of the Park, Winton and True Company. 
 Two years later he began contracting. For half a century he has 
 been in the same position with successive firms on the same ground, 
 performing the same duties, each year confronting a task larger and 
 of more responsibility than that which he had confronted the year 
 before, until now he is with the Park, Winton and True Company, 
 one of the largest of its kind in the country. He has long been 
 active in the affairs of his village, township and county. He was a 
 member of the corporation board of Addison fourteen years, six 
 years of the time as its president, and he was twenty years on the 
 school board, and has for twenty years been a trustee of the public 
 library. In his politics he is Eepublican. He is a thirty-second de- 
 gree Mason, and is high in Odd Fellowship, with which he has 
 been affiliated thirty-five years. He has been married twice, first 
 to Huldah Houghtelling, who bore him two children, named Car- 
 mitia and Ermine. The first wife is deceased, and he has married 
 Ella Koberts, of Elmira, by whom he has a son named Harold. 
 
 Alonzo a. Jacobs. — He whose name initiates this article is in- 
 cumbent of the position of engineer and general mechanician for 
 the Gunlocke Furniture & Chair Company, one of the prominent 
 industrial concerns of the thriving little city of Wayland. He has 
 been a resident of this section of the old Empire state from the 
 time of his nativity and has so ordered his course as to retain the 
 unqualified confidence and regard of all who know him. Concerning 
 the family history more specific data may be found in the sketch of 
 the career of his brother, John A. Jacobs, on other pages of this 
 work. 
 
 Alonzo Alber^ Jacobs ^^■as born in Springwater township, Liv- 
 ingston county. New York, on the 10th of June, 1878, and is a son 
 of Blias Jacobs, who was a prosperous farmer and highly honored 
 citizen of this section of the state. Mr. Jacobs passed his boyhood 
 and youth on the home farm and gained his early educational disci- 
 pline in the public schools. He continued to be concerned with the 
 work of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority 
 and shortly afterward he purchased an interest in a threshing out- 
 fit, with the operation of which he continued to be identified for 
 eight years. In 1899, fortified with the practical experience thus 
 gained, Mr. Jacobs established his home in Wayland and assumed 
 the position of engineer of the power house of the electric light 
 system. One year later he secured a similar position at the plant of 
 the Gunlocke Furniture & Chair Company, of this place, and ihis 
 incumbency he retained for three years. . He then removed to Co- 
 hocton, this county, where he erected and ecpiipped a canning fac- 
 tory, with the operation of which he was actively identified for the 
 ensuing three years. He passed the following eighteen months as 
 engineer for the Wayland electric light plant and then assumed his 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 857 
 
 present position as engineer and general mechanician for the Gun- 
 locke Pumiture & Chair Company, with which he had previously 
 been employed. Mr. Jacobs is found arrayed under the banner of 
 the Democratic party, but has never had aught of ambition for 
 public office. 
 
 In the year 1895 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jacobs 
 to Miss Carrie Belle Kimball, who was born and reared in Steuben 
 county and who is a daughter of Sylvester and Lydia (Schutt) 
 Kimball, who now reside in the village of Wayland, where the father 
 is living retired after many years of earnest efEort as one of the 
 representative farmers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have 
 five children, namely: Ruth May, Vera Catherine, Roy Albert, 
 Dorena and Lillian Lydia. 
 
 Willis L. Hamilton, a manufacturer of Campbell, Steuben 
 county. New York, was born there April 14, 1860. John D. Hamil- 
 ton, his father, a native of the state of New York, settled there in 
 the middle of the last century and established a tannery at Curtis. 
 He established another at Campbell and a large one at Emporium, 
 Pennsylvania, and had an interest in a leather store at Boston, 
 Massachusetts, where some of his products were marketed. As a 
 Republican, he was several times elected supervisor of the township 
 of Campbell. As a member of the Presbyterian church he was lib- 
 eral in its upbuilding and support. In a general way it may be 
 said of him that he was a man of much public spirit, who con- 
 tributed generously toward the support and promotion of all causes 
 having for their object the enhancement of the general good. He 
 died at his home in Campbell, aged sixty-two. Lewis Hamilton, his 
 father, grandfather of Willis L. Hamilton, was of Scotch extraction 
 and was among the pioneers in Steuben county. John D. Hamilton 
 married Miss Harriett Lovell, who died, leaving a son and a daugh- 
 ter. The latter is Mrs. Sarah H. Pope, of Campbell. 
 
 Willis L. Hamilton was reared and educated in Steuben county 
 and early in life became associated with his father in the manage- 
 ment of the latter's business, of which he was sole owner and man- 
 ager after his father's death till he closed it out to the United 
 States Leather Company. About 1886 he engaged in the manufac- 
 ture of wood alcohol at Newton, McKean county, Pennsylvania. 
 His business is one of the largest of its kind in the country and is 
 constantly growing. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton married Mary E. Piatt, a daughter of C. P. 
 and Mary E. Piatt, of Painted Post, New York. They have a daugh- 
 ter, Harriet, who married Henry E. Joint, of Campbell. Mr. Hamil- 
 ton is a stanch Republican and a Son of the American Revolution. 
 Following in his father's footsteps, he is open-handedly helpful to 
 all worthy local interests at Campbell. 
 
 Andrew Redsecker. — Among the loyal and public-spirited 
 business men of Steuben county, New York, Andrew Redsecker holds 
 a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Though a native 
 
858 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 of Germany, his patriotism to the land of his adoption has ever 
 been of the most insistent order. He gave valiant service as a soldier 
 in the Civil war, as did also his father and three brothers, and his 
 entire life course has been marked by upright honesty and sterling 
 integrity of character. He was born in Germany, and the date of 
 his nativity was March 17, 1838. His father, Nicholas Eedsecker, 
 was a coachman in a noble family in the fatherland, and there was 
 solemnized his marriage to Miss Barbara Strauss, who was sum- 
 moned to the life eternal in 1907, at the age of eighty-seven years. 
 They became the parents of twelve boys and two girls and of the 
 number Andrew was the only one born in Germany. Nicholas Eed- 
 secker emigrated with his family to America in 1845, at which time 
 Andrew was about seven years of age. They settled near Patchins- 
 ville, this county, where the father engaged in farming, and he be- 
 came a man of prominence in public affairs in the early days. At 
 the time of the inception of the Civil war he enlisted as a private 
 in Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-first New York Volunteer 
 Infantry, and he sacrificed his life in the cause of the country, as 
 he was killed in 1864 at the battle of Gettysburg, at which time he 
 was fifty years of age. Four of his sons likewise gave gallant serv- 
 ice in defense of the Union and three of them were killed. 
 
 Andrew Eedsecker received his rudimentary education in the 
 common schools of Steuben county and he is now the only one living 
 in the family of fourteen children. He was reared to the sturdy 
 discipline of the home farm, in whose work he early began to assist 
 his father. When nine years of age he left the farm and entered 
 the employ of Dr. Patchin, serving as a hired man for a period of 
 five years. After his father's death he was drafted for one hundred 
 days' service in Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-first New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, his command being assigned to the Army of the 
 Potomac, under General Grant. He served until the close of the 
 war and was mustered out of service on the 14th of April, 1865. 
 Thereafter he initiated his independent business career as an hotel 
 man in Wayland and he continued to be engaged in this line of 
 enterprise for a period of five 3'ears, at the expiration of which time 
 his hotel burned down. He then engaged as an agent in the tomb- 
 stone and undertaking business, with headquarters at Wayland, and 
 he has been identified with this most important field- of endeavor 
 during the long intervening years to the present time. He is a 
 stanch Eepublican in his political convictions and he has aided ma- 
 terially in the progress and development of this section of the state. 
 He is a charter member of Wayland Post, Grand Aritiy of the Ee- 
 public, and his religious views are in accordance with the tenets of 
 the German Lutheran church, in whose faith he was reared. In 
 public life he is fair, honorable and outspoken — in private life he 
 is true, kind and tender and at all times, under all circumstances 
 he is Just, loyal and markedly courteous. He is a man of most 
 generous impulses and his charity knows only the bounds of his 
 opportunities. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 859 
 
 In 1860 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Eedseeker to Miss 
 Catherine Wolfinger, and to them were born ten children, four of 
 whom are now living, namely: John, who is engaged as a baker 
 at Eoehester, New York; Henry, who is in Eochester; Catherine, 
 who is the wife of Casper Sehnltz, of Livingston county; and Eose, 
 who is unmarried, resides in the city of Eoehester. Mr. Eedseeker 
 married in 1884, Matilda Eiehard, who died in 1903, leaving one 
 step-child, Nettie Eiehard, known as Nettie Eedseeker. She was 
 raised by Mr. Eedseeker. 
 
 Henet V. PeatTj lawyer and ex-president of Wayland, is one 
 of the best known citizens and Democrats of his part of Steuben 
 county, New York. He was born at Prattsburg, Steuben county, 
 February 5, 1865, a son of William B. Pratt, late of Prattsburg, 
 deceased, and a great-grandson of Captain Joel Pratt, the first set- 
 tler in the town of Prattsburg. His mother occupies the old Pratt 
 homestead, where he was born and which has been in the Pratt fam- 
 ily more than a century. Two brothers, William B. and Ira C. 
 Pratt, live at Prattsburg, and two sisters, the Misses Emily B. and 
 Alice C. Pratt, are members of their mother's household. 
 
 Henry V. Pratt attended Franklin Academy at Prattsburg, 
 where he was duly graduated in 1885. In 1890 he was graduated 
 from Cornell University and in 1891 was admitted to the bar and 
 entered upon the practice of his profession at Wayland in February, 
 1893, and has there won a commendable success. From 1894 to 
 1906 he was junior member of the law firm of Clark & Pratt, the 
 other member of the firm being William W. Clark, now a Justice of 
 the supreme court. He has been a director of the First National 
 Bank of Wayland since it was incorporated and is interested in one 
 way or another with other enterprises at Wayland in the country 
 round about. He is now and for many years has been corporation 
 attorney for Wayland, served as president of the village, and is high 
 in the counsels of the Democratic party in Steuben county. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Pratt married Miss Amelia C. Folts, of Wayland, 
 daughter of George Folts, now at Pasadena, California, but formerly 
 a merchant at Wayland. Two children have been born to them: 
 Kathrvn C. bom October 31, 1897, died September 13, 1899; Schuy- 
 ler B."was horn October 31, 1903. 
 
 In many ways Mr. Pratt has demonstrated the public spirit 
 that makes him so good and patriotic a citizen. In all his career at 
 Wayland, covering a period of nearly a score of years, he has never 
 failed to yield hearty co-operation and support to any measure that 
 has appealed to him as likely to be conducive to the public good. 
 In office and out of office he has done all that has been within his 
 power to advance the best interests of his fellow citizens, and espe- 
 cially as an official has he commended himself by his fidelity and 
 indefatigable devotion to public duty to the good opinion of all who 
 have watched his course with commendation of his past and friendly 
 predictions of success for his future. 
 
860 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 H. BuKR WiLLAKD^ druggist and postmaster, Campbell, Steuben 
 county, was born at Hornell, September 1, 1849. His father, Henry 
 G. Willard, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, was brought as a 
 little boy to Steuben county by his parents. Stephen Willard, father 
 of Henry G. and grandfather of H. Burr Willard, came of an old 
 Massachusetts family and was a pioneer in Steuben county. He 
 located in Thurston township about 1833, having bought a large 
 tract of land there. He bought much timber land and came in time 
 to own many thousand acres. He was a blacksmith by trade, and 
 also owned land, but he himself, did very little farming. Henry 
 G. Willard resided in Steuben county until 1867, when he moved to 
 a farm near Lansing, Michigan. His wife was Miss Jane Love 
 Eddy, a native of Tompkins county, New York. They had three 
 sons and a daughter, all of whom grew to maturity. 
 
 H. Burr Willard, the eldest of the children just mentioned, re- 
 members his removal with his father's family to Cameron Mills 
 when he was about nine years old. A year later they moved from 
 Cameron Mills to Thurston. At fourteen he went to Bath, where 
 he remained some years. Going to Michigan, he attended the agri- 
 cultural college at Lansing, and remained with his father until he 
 attained to his majority. After living about a year and a half in 
 Kansas he went to Avon, New York. In 1873 he returned to Steu- 
 ben county and in 1874 entered upon employment in the Curtis 
 lumber office at Curtis, New York, in which he continued some 
 years. In 1883 he located at Campbell, engaging in the drug trade, 
 in which he has since continued with much success. He has been 
 postmaster there since 1899. He has been in business twenty-eight 
 years in Campbell. 
 
 Mr. Willard married Miss Amelia Northrup, daughter of Nor- 
 man and Marilla (Harwood) Northrup, representatives of a family 
 long prominent in the county, closely identified with its earlier his- 
 tory. They have four children. Harriet married E. C. Peebles, of 
 Springfield, Massachusetts. George Northrup Willard lives in New 
 York city. Frances is Mrs. Darius L. Dean, of New York city. May is 
 a member of her parents' household. A strict and active Repub- 
 lican, Mr. Willard is influential in local affairs. He was for many 
 years a member and a part of the time president of the school 
 board, and held the office of supervisor six years. He is president 
 of the Hope Cemetery Association and a member of the board of 
 trustees of the Presbyterian church. In all ways in which a man 
 of broad views may do so, he has demonstrated his public spirit, and 
 it has had much to do with the advance of Campbell during the two 
 decades last passed. 
 
 Peter Johannes Kimmel. — The commercial interests of Way- 
 land are in part vested in the capable hands of Peter Johannes Kim- 
 mel, who is one of the important factors in the Kimmel Hardware 
 Company, one of the thriving business interests of this progressive 
 and up-to-date center. He is a native of the place, his birth having 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 861 
 
 occurred here on September 15, 1871, and his parents being Martin 
 and Clara (Vogt) Kimmel. The father had his nativity in Ger- 
 many, that country which has given to America one of her finest 
 sources of emigration, and shortly after becoming a citizen of the 
 land of the stars and stripes he settled in South Danville, and made 
 his living as a day laborer. He married and gave to the state a 
 number of boys and girls who developed into good citizens, and who 
 are, to enumerate, as follows: Martin, a farmer residing near Way- 
 land; John, of Wayland, manager of the Cohocton Canning Com- 
 pany; Prank, a farmer living near Wayland; Jacob, of the Cohocton 
 Canning Company; Catherine, who married Edward Eitz, engaged 
 in the tailoring business in Eoehester; Anna, wife of William San- 
 bier, a resident of Wayland; Clara, wife of Erederick Schmitz, of 
 Wayland; Elizabeth, bookkeeper and cashier of the Kimmel Hard- 
 ware Company, and Helen, who resides upon the old homestead. 
 
 Peter Johannes Kimmel received a public school education, at- 
 tending both the common and high school of Wayland and later 
 securing employment with the company of Whitte'd & Jervis, dealers 
 in dry goods, with whom he remained in the capacity of clerk for 
 four years. Ambitious for a more thorough education Mr. Kimmel 
 matriculated at the Canisius College in the city of Buffalo and pur- 
 sued his studies at that institution. His father had established a 
 dry goods business and upon his return home he entered the store 
 and remained for a year. He then left for Cohocton, where a 
 branch hardware store had been opened by the Kimmels, and for 
 two years he had charge of this branch, showing a great deal of 
 executive capacity for a young man of his years. He subsequently 
 bought his brother's interest at Cohocton. The Wayland house had 
 been changed to M. Kimmel & Sons and it thus remained until 
 March, 1909, when the business was incorporated as the present 
 firm, known as the Kimmel Hardware Company, which consists of 
 Mr. Kimmel and his brothers, John and Jacob, the subject serving 
 in the capacities of secretary and treasurer. He was associated with 
 his father for eleven years and greatly profited by that gentleman's 
 excellent commercial ideas. His interests are not limited to the 
 hardware enterprise, but likewise extend to the Cohocton Canning 
 Company, which was founded by himself, his father and his broth- 
 ers, John and Martin. 
 
 Mr. Kimmel inaugurated a happy and congenial life companion- 
 ship, when on December 4, 1894, he was united in marriage to Miss 
 Catherine Merz, who was born in 1871. She is a daughter of 
 Christian Merz, a native of Cohocton, and a mason and contractor 
 by trade. To Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel has been born one child, a son, 
 Cornelius, born November 17, 1896, and now in attendance at the 
 high school of Wayland. Mr. Kimmel and Tiis wife and son are 
 members of St. Joseph's church and the former belong to the Catho- 
 lic Mutual Benefit Association. His political inclinations are with 
 the Democratic party, but he is not an office seeker, having no desire 
 for the honors and emoluments of public station. 
 
863 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Frank E. Aulls, proprietor of the Campbell Eoller Mills, was 
 bom in Bradford, Steuben county, August 7, 1878. Frank Aulls, 
 his father, born near Urbana, this county, was reared, educated and 
 married in "Old Steuben." His father, Ephraim Aulls, was born 
 in Connecticut, became a pioneer in Steuben county and settled at 
 Pleasant Valley as a farmer and lumberman. Frank Aulls, a farmer 
 and lumberman in his turn, married Mary E. Eowlett in Wayne, 
 Steuben county, in 1863. She was a daughter of the Rev. James 
 Eowlett, a native of Scotland and educated in Dublin. He early 
 settled in Steuben county, where he labored as a minister of the 
 Presbyterian church. Mr. Aulls died, aged fifty-three years. His 
 widow is living at Bath in 1910. They had five children. Leslie 
 died at the age of twenty-four. Fred died when he was eight years 
 old. Velnett married Dr. J. P. Longwell, of Wellsboro, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and died when she was about thirty-four. Anna is the wife 
 of D. Beach Bryan, deputy postmaster at Bath. Frank E. Aulls, 
 youngest of this family of children, lived in Bradford until he was 
 twenty-one years old, attending the common schools there and the 
 Haverling High School at Bath. After farming about two years 
 he built a feed mill at Bradford in 1898. He operated it about two 
 jeSiTS, then sold it and in 1900 bought the water-power roller mills 
 at Campbell, which have a daily capacity of fifty barrels of wheat 
 flour and thirty-five barrels of buckwheat flour. He is interested also 
 in the Steuben County Creamery at Campbell. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Aulls married Miss May Charlton, of Peekskill, 
 New York, who died in 1906.. His present wife, whom he married 
 in 1909, was Miss Marguerite E. Cox, daughter of William 0. and 
 Anna E^ Cox, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a native of that city. He is 
 a Eepublican, active and influential in the local work of his party, 
 and a member of the Campbell school board. An alert, up-to-date 
 business man, he is at the same time a public-spirited citizen, gener- 
 ous in support of all progressive movements. 
 
 Vincent L. Tripp. — The subject of this sketch, Vincent Leroy 
 Tripp, was born at Cohocton, New York, October 24, 1869. As a 
 lad he removed with his parents to Cambridge, Maryland, in 1876, 
 where he attended the boys' school. Later the family returned to 
 New York state and became residents of Hammondsport, which 
 nestles among the vine-clad hills at the head of Lake Keuka. It 
 was here he grew to young manhood, attending the Hammondsport 
 High School, formerly the old academy. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Tripp entered the office of the Hammondsport 
 Herald, then as now ably conducted by Llewellyn H. Brown, to 
 learn the newspaper and printing business. Upon the completion 
 of his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman printer in New 
 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo and other cities. In 1892 
 he went from Buffalo, where he was employed in the office of the 
 Buffalo Express, to Atlanta, New York, where with his brother, 
 Milton E. Tripp, as a partner he purchased and conducted the At- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 863 
 
 lanta News. In the fallowing year, 1893, the business was removed 
 to Cohocton, New York, and the name of the paper changed to the 
 Cohocton Index. This partnership continued until 1899, when, ow- 
 ing to poor health, his brother sold his interest in the business to 
 Mr. Tripp, who has since successfully conducted it. In October, 
 1902, Mr. Tripp bought the plant and good will of the Cohocton 
 Valley Times, which was established in 1871, and consolidated that 
 paper with the Index, changing the name to the Cohocton Valley 
 Times-Index, under which title it is still published. 
 
 The building which is the present home of the paper was pur- 
 chased by Mr. Tripp in 1908. The paper enjoys a wide circulation 
 and holds the good will of its readers to a remarkable degree. It 
 is printed all at home on its own presses and in its own building. 
 The Job printing department has attained a splendid reputation for 
 the execution of artistic printing. 
 
 Mr. Tripp was united in marriage with Miss Emma Zimmer, 
 December 6, 1893, 'a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Zimmer. 
 Mr. Zimmer is a prominent vineyardist of Lake Keuka, New York. 
 To this union one son, Harold Curtis Tripp, was born November 37, 
 1896. He died January 30, 1911, after a short illness with scarlet 
 fever, being fourteen years of age. 
 
 To glance at the parentage of jMr. Tripp, he is the son of Sidney 
 Reynolds and Jane Jenks Tripp, both natives of the Empire state, 
 but now residents of Delta. Colorado. The former was born in 
 Cohocton, New York, and the latter in Sparta, New York. The 
 family of Sidney E. and Jane Tripp consisted of six children, four 
 of whom survive at the present day. Bertha 8. is a trained nurse 
 at Delta, Colorado; Vincent L. is the subject of this sketch and 
 resides at Cohocton, New York; Milton R. is engaged in the poultry 
 business at Delta, Colorado, and Earl C. conducts a newspaper at 
 Kennewick, Washington. 
 
 Mr. Tripp's paternal grandfather was Job Tripp, a native of 
 Seneca county. New York. The Tripp family history in this country 
 dates back to the early settlement of Rhode Island. 
 
 Monroe D. Ray. — For a number of years has Monroe David Ray 
 been actively identified with the viticultural interests of Steuben 
 county. New York. Energetic, enterprising and successful in a ma- 
 terial way, he is also honored and respected as a citizen, and has so in- 
 delibly stamped his individuality upon the community as to become 
 a potential factor in its civic and public affairs. Mr. Ray was born 
 in Pulteney, Steuben county. New York, on the 7th of May, 1887, 
 a son of Thomas and Minnie (Hughes) Ray, both of whom were 
 residents of Pulteney, New York, at the time of their marriage. 
 Thomas Ray claims Port Hope, province of Ontario, Canada, as the 
 place of his birth, the day of his nativity being May 17, 1860, and 
 the mother was born at ilexico, Oswego county. New York, on the 
 5th of January, 1865. Mr. and. Mrs. Thomas Ray now reside at 
 Hammondspoi't, the father being a vineyardist by occupation, and 
 their onlv child is him whose name initiates this review. 
 
864 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 Monroe D. Ray was reared to adult age in the place of his 
 birth and as a youth he attended the district schools, rounding out 
 his education by a course of two years in the high school at Ham- 
 mondsport. When sixteen years of age he entered the office of the 
 Columbia Wine Company, at Hammondsport, in the capacity of clerk 
 and at the present time he has risen to the important position of 
 bookkeeper in this thriving industrial concern. The Columbia con- 
 cern is one of the most important of its class in the town. In pol- 
 itics 'My. Bay accords an unswerving allegiance to the principles 
 and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor; he is 
 a man of great public spirit and one who lets no opportunity pass 
 to aid to the extent of his ability any movement which in his good 
 judgment promises to benefit a considerable number of his fellow 
 citizens. Fraternally he is affiliated with Keuka Tribe, iSTo. 386, 
 Improved Order of Bed Men, and he is also connected with the 
 Hammondsport Hook & Ladder Company, No. 1. In his religious 
 faith Mr. Eay is a devout communicant of the Protestant Episcopal 
 church, in which he is a member of St. James' parish, at Ham- 
 mondsport. 
 
 Henky B. Newell. — For fully three decades was Henry B. 
 Newell engaged in the newspaper business at Wayland, Steuben 
 county. New York, and during that time he was editor of the 
 Union Advertiser, which was a paper of broad influence in this sec- 
 tion of the state. He was born in Wayne county, New York, on 
 the 4th of July, 1847, and is a son of Cyrus and Sally (Edwards) 
 Newell, both of whom were born at Sodus, New York, and both are 
 now deceased. The father was a shoe manufacturer by trade and he 
 settled at Avoca, Steuben county, in 1848. Some time later he 
 removed to Wayland, where he erected a tannery, the first and for 
 a number of years the only tannery in Wayland. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Cyrus Newell became the parents of eight children, seven of whom 
 are now living. The father was summoned to eternal rest in 1908 
 at the patriarchal age of ninety-five years and his devoted wife passed 
 away February 8, 1898, at the age of seventy-four years. Both were 
 prominent and influential citizens in this county during their lives 
 and they held a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. 
 
 Henry B. Newell, the immediate subject of this review, received 
 his early educational training in the public schools of Steuben county 
 and he was apprenticed at the shoemaker's trade for a period of 
 two years, at the expiration of which he was associated with his 
 father in the work at the tannery for the ensuing three years. There- 
 after he turned his attention to the newspaper business and in 1874 
 he became editor of the Union Advertiser, at Wayland, which he 
 continued to conduct for thirty years. Under his management the 
 Union Advertiser became one of the most important publications 
 in Steuben county, and it is now run by other parties, who pur- 
 chased it at the time of Mr. Newell's retirement, in 1904. During 
 the last few years Mr. Newell has been engaged in literary work, 
 writing extensively for many of the best periodicals in the country. 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 865 
 
 In politics he endorses tlie cause of the Democratic party and he is 
 atmiated with many fraternal and social organizations of repre- 
 sentative order. His religious faith is in harmony with the tenets 
 of the United church, and he has ever been a liberal contributor to 
 all matters projected for the good of humanity. He is a man of fine 
 mentality and broad information, is possessed of considerable lit- 
 erary talent and is public-spirited and loyal in the largest sense 
 of the word. 
 
 Catherine, wife of Mr. Xewell, was born at Sandy Hill (this 
 county) in 1852. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Engel, reside in 
 Wayland. He is over ninety years of age and his wife some years 
 younger. Eight children were born to them, and all yet survive. 
 Two children were born to Henry B. Newell and his wife, Katiej 
 born in 3 882, and Julia, born in 1886, both living. 
 
 Martix a. TtiTTLE, who has been for nearly fifty years one of 
 the active citizens of Hornell, was bora in Columbus, Chenango 
 county, March 2, 1842. His ancestors immigrated from England 
 in 1635 and settled in Xew England. His grandfather, Uri Tuttle, 
 was one of the pioneers of this state, having moved from Connecticut 
 to Columbus, Chenango county, in 1798, where he made a home for 
 himself and family. He died in 1859. His father, Harley Tuttle, 
 was an active and prominent man in his native town. He died in 
 1851, aged forty-four years. ^ 
 
 Mr. Tuttle's mother was Alma M. Adsit, a daughter of Leonard 
 Adsit and Fannie Davenport, also pioneers of Chenango county. 
 His mother died in 1843 at the age of thirty-three years, leaving 
 six children. Alma M. Adsit's maternal ancestors were English and 
 her grandfather, Noah Davenport, served as a private soldier during 
 the Eevolution; her paternal ancestors were Welch, and her grand- 
 father, Martin Adsit, and her great-grandfather Benjamin Adsit, 
 were soldiers of the Eevolution. 
 
 Martin A. Tuttle, the youngest child, leceived his educa- 
 tion in the common school of his native town. Taking charge of 
 the home farm at sixteen years of age, from that time he has passed 
 a life of continued activities. In 1864 he came to Homellsville 
 and entered the general store of Martin Adsit & Co. as clerk. In 
 1868 he became a member of the firm .of Adsit & Tuttle. In 1874 
 this partnership was dissolved. Mr. Tuttle with Messrs. John and 
 Ira Davenport of Bath, having the year before bought the Erastus 
 Stevens farm in the southern part of the village of Homellsville, 
 which they laid out into city lots with Mr. Tuttle in charge. 
 
 Six years later the dry goods firm of 31. A. Tuttle & Co. was 
 formed, L. W. Eockwell being the company. Tn 1882 a branch 
 store was started in Wellsville. The following year Mr. Eockwell 
 withdrew from the firm, taking the Wellsville store. In 1889 the 
 firm of Tuttle & Eockwell Bros, was formed, which was a few years 
 later incorporated as the Tuttle & Eockwell Co. with M. A. Tuttle, 
 president, and L. W. Eockwell, treasurer. 
 
866 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 
 
 Mr. Tuttle's activities in other lines have been numerous, as 
 farmer, produce buyer, temperance advocate, president of the Business 
 Men's Association, member of Board of Managers for Hornell Pair, 
 and of the Hornell Chamber of Commerce, at present president of 
 the Maple City Land Co. of Hornell. As an active party Prohibi- 
 tionist he has done much hard veork in no license campaigns and for 
 the Prohibition party. 
 
 In 1869 he married Malene Hart, daughter of Charles N. and 
 Eliza Allen Hart of Hornellsville, who were among the earliest set- 
 tlers of the town of Hartsville, where Mr. Hart became prominent 
 as an extensive lumber dealer and buyer of fat stock. The town 
 of Hartsville takes its name from the Hart family. Both the Harts 
 "and Aliens are of English origin and were represented in the Con- 
 tinental Army by Jeremiah Hart and Barnabas Allen. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Tuttle are the parents of ten children, eight of whom are now 
 living. As follows, — ^Alma E. (Mrs. Mark H. Milne), Madelia Hart, 
 Gertrude S., Charles N"., Marion Bell, Abbie Allen, Edith A. {Mts. 
 Adam L. Davidson), Euth Hart. 
 
 Allen M. Bukeell is one of the veteran attorneys of Steuben 
 county, a man of ability and sterling character, whose record of 
 more than half a century is an ornament to the profession. Xow, 
 crowned with years and honor, he is gradually transferring his 
 practice to his son, Charles Burrell, who is in partnership with him_; 
 the firm of Burrell & Burrell enjoying high prestige in Steuben 
 county. Mr. Burrell is a native son of New York, his birth having 
 occurred at Lansing, Tompkins county, April 8, 1838. 
 
 Allen Burrell spent his early years on a farm near Greenwood, 
 in Steuben county, and there acquired those habits of industry and 
 thrift which have insured his success in life. At a later date he 
 was associated with his brother in the carriage building industry, 
 their establishment being in the village of Greenwood. It was suc- 
 cessfully conducted for some seven years. During this period Mr. 
 Burrell commenced to realize his youthful ambition by reading law 
 with Hon. Martin Grover and Lewis Simons, who were then engaged 
 in the practice of their profession at Angelica, Alleghany county, as 
 among the foremost members of the bar of that section of the 
 state. 
 
 In the fall of 1854 Mr. Burrell became a resident of Hornell, 
 concluding his law studies in the office of John K. Hale, a well 
 known attorney of that place, and in December of the year named 
 was admitted to the bar at Eochester. Having mastered his profes- 
 sion, in 1855 he entered into another distinct phase of his life by 
 marrying; and still another in the spring of 1860, when he moved 
 to Canisteo, which has since been his home and the main field of his 
 professional advancement. As before mentioned, his son Charles is 
 in partnership with him; the junior member of the firm also holds 
 the office of justice of the peace. In politics Allen ]\I. Burrell is a 
 Eepublican. 
 
HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 867 
 
 In the month of June, 1855, Mr. Burrell's happy married and 
 domestic life was inaugurated by his union with Mary A. McClay, 
 whose father was a prosperous dairyman of Greenwood, and the 
 parents have been residents of Canisteo since May 10, 1860. During 
 this period of more than half a century, both they and their chil- 
 dren have earned deep respect and high honor. Two of their off- 
 spring died in infancy, the living sons and daughter being Glen, 
 Harry, Ella, William and Charles. The only daughter of the family 
 married Fred C. Goff, a resident of Eacine, Wisconsin. 
 
 John Milne. — The parents of John Milne were born in Scot- 
 land and many of the good traits associated with the citizens of 
 that country belong to him. In every nook and corner of the wide 
 world the traveler will find the Scotchman; everywhere plodding, 
 patient, determined, steadfast, reliable, prosperous. It is of such 
 stock that this estimable business man, engaged in gas plumbing 
 and fitting, comes, and the name alone would divulge the secret of 
 his nationality. David Milne was born in Glasgow, and the mother, 
 Catherine McDougall Milne, in another part of the land of, the 
 thistle. When they were still young people they emigrated to the 
 Land of Promise lying across the Atlantic and their union was sol- 
 emnized in Oswego, New York. David Milne was engaged in busi- 
 ness similar to that which occupies his son, the subject of this sketch, 
 for he was a builder of gas light plants. He was superintendent of 
 a gas light plant at the time of his death, which occurred in 1873. 
 
 John Milne was born on February 15, 1867. He received his 
 education in Hornell and early concluded to follow in the paternal 
 footsteps in the matter of choosing his life work. In 1871, when he 
 was a lad about fourteen years of age, he began to learn this im- 
 portant and intricate business in which so much skill is required. 
 The steadiness of his race has been with him and he has climbed 
 up the ladder, until he is now the superintendent of the Hornell 
 Gas-Light Company and has filled this position since May, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Milne laid the foundation of a happy household by his mar- 
 riage on May 30, 1889, to Miss Hannah Haggerty, a daughter of 
 Jeremiah and Katherine Haggerty. Three children are growing up 
 beneath their roof, these being: Chester, born in 1900; Mary, 
 born February 28, 1905 ; and Julia Ann, born on December 18, 1908. 
 
 The religious faith of j\Ir. and Mrs. Milne is Catholic. The 
 head of the house gives his support to the men and measures of the 
 Democratic party and is interested in the issues of the day. He 
 holds membership in the Eoyal Arcanum. He is a thoroughly self- 
 made man. His father died when he was a boy and left his mother 
 with eight small children. Every one who was old enough, and 
 some who were not, had to help in the struggle to keep the wolf 
 away from the door and all of them have been prospered by their 
 hard work, industry and integrity. Mr. Milne is a respected citizen 
 and commands the respect of all who know him. A brother- of Mr. 
 Milne is an Episcopal clergyman, and another brother is a dentist in 
 
868 HISTOKY OF STP^UBEN COUNTY 
 
 Rochester, New York ; one brother is in the gas and plumbing busi- 
 ness, and there are two unmarried sisters. 
 
 Ira Egjelston has been a resident of Steuben county from the 
 time of his nativity and is a scion of one of the old and honored 
 families of this county, with whose history the name has been 
 identified for more than a century. He is the owner of a fine landed 
 estate, in Pulteney township, and he still gives a general supervision 
 to its work, though he maintains his residence in the village during 
 the winter seasons. 
 
 Mr. Egelston was born in Pulteney township on the 9th of May, 
 1849, and is a son of Thomas and Betsey M. (Clark) Egelston. His 
 father was likewise born in Pulteney township, in the year 1812, 
 and was a son of Benjamin Egelston, who likewise was born in the 
 same township, a fact that clearly indicates that the family was 
 founded in Steuben county in the very early pioneer epoch. The 
 parents of Mr. Egelston continued to reside in Prattsburg township 
 until their death and were folk of sterling characteristics, ever hold- 
 ing a secure place in popular confidence and esteem in the com- 
 munity. '' 
 
 Ira Egelston was reared to the discipline of the home farm 
 and he has never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the 
 great basic industry of agriculture, in connection with which he has 
 achieved distinctive success and carried forward the work instituted 
 by his father and grandfather in the earlier days. His educational 
 advantages were those afforded by the district schools of his native 
 township and he has long been numbered among its successful fann- 
 ers and stock-growers. He is a substantial capitalist and he takes 
 a lively interest in all that touches the welfare of the county that 
 has so long represented his home and to the development and up- 
 building of which he has contributed his due quota. 
 
 In politics Mr. Egelston has been actively identified with the 
 Eepublican party from the time of attaining to his legal majority' 
 and he has been influential in connection with its affairs in his home 
 county. He served from 1901 to 1909 as supervisor of his native 
 township but has never been ambitious for public office. Though 
 not formally identified with any religious organization he attends 
 and is a liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church, of which his 
 wife is a zealous ro.ember. He is affiliated with Hornell Lodge of 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in the village of 
 Hornell. i - '^'i^ 
 
 Mr. Egelston was married to Miss Anna DeKay, who was born 
 and reared in Pulteney township. Mr. and Mrs. Egelston have one 
 son, P. T., who was bom in April, 1872, and who now has practical 
 charge of his father's farm; he married Miss Eva Gibson, of Pul- 
 teney township. 
 
 Gilbert K. Ellis, M. D. — Though he has been engaged in the 
 practice of his 'profession but a short time in Pulteney township 
 Dr. Ellis has gained distinctive popularity both as a physician and 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 869 
 
 surgeon and as a citizen of utmost loyalty and public spirit. He 
 maintains his home in the village of Pulteney and his practice is 
 of a distinctively representative character, giving him prestige as 
 one of the successful physicians and surgeons of Steuben county. 
 
 Dr. Ellis was born at Clayton, Jefferson county. New York, on 
 the 39th of May, 1857, and after availing himself of the advantages 
 of the public schools of his native town he continued his studies 
 for some time in Hillsdale College, at Hillsdale, Michigan, to which 
 state his parents removed when he was very young. In preparation 
 for the work of his chosen profession he entered the medical depart- 
 ment of the celebrated University of Michigan^ in which he was 
 graduated as a member of the class of 1887, and from which ho 
 received his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He initiated 
 the practice of his profession in Erie county, New York, and there- 
 after followed his professional work at different points in the west. 
 He finally returned to his native state and in April, 1910, he estab- 
 lished his home at Pulteney, Steuben county, where he has since 
 continued the work of his profession with unqualified success. He 
 is a member of the New York State Medical Society and the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association. The doctor is a close student of his pro- 
 fession and keeps in touch with the advances made in both medicine 
 and surgery. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the cause 
 of the Eepublican party and he is affiliated with Pulteney Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 In the year 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Ellis to 
 Miss Sparks, who was born and reared at New York, and the three 
 children of this union are George L., Belle J. and E. A. 
 
 Henry E. BAEDEB]sr. — This life long citizen of Steuben county 
 was born in the town of Prattsburg, November 17, 1837, a son of 
 Moses and Margaret (Edson) Bardeen. His parents, natives of Mas- 
 sachusetts, were early settlers there and acquired about three hun- 
 dred acres of land. His father was a soldier under the stars and 
 stripes in the War of 1812 and became a man of recognized influence 
 in this part of the county. He was twice married. His second wife 
 bore him nine children, as follows: Edna, Mary Ann, Luther, 
 Catharine, Moses, Edmund, Olive, Letitia and Henry E. Edna is 
 dead. Olive is the wife of Thomas Cornish, of Eochester, New York. 
 
 Henry E. was reared on the home farm and sent to the common 
 school near by. In September, 1864, he enlisted for service in the 
 Civil war in "Company C, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Eegi- 
 ment. New York Volunteer Infantry, and was in active warfare till 
 the end of the struggle. He participated in six engagements, includ- 
 ing that at Stony Creek. Eeturning to Steuben coiinty in October, 
 1865, he began farming on the land he now occupies and has made 
 a notable success which marks him as one of the best farmers in the 
 north part of Steuben county. 
 
 December 29, 1860, Mr. Bardeen married Ellen Smith, a native 
 of Schuyler county, New York, who has borne him children as fol- 
 
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 lows: Charles, Emma, Herbert, Elmer, Orpha, Ella May, Bertha, 
 Carrie. Ella May and Bertha are dead. Carrie is the wife of 
 Prank Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Bardeen are members of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church of Prattsburg, and are among the foremost 
 of those who contribute to its support and promote its advancement. 
 Mr. Bardeen has been active in connection with Grange No. 12, and 
 is a member of the Grand Array of the Eepublic, of which he is 
 proud. In his political alliances he is stanchly Republican. He 
 owns two hundred acres of land four miles northwest of Prattsburg, 
 well improved and with a good residence and ample barns and other 
 storage facilities. Until his retirement he worked at various times 
 as a carpenter. 
 
 Sterling T. Boyd is one of the popular native sons of Steuben 
 county, where he is now incumbent of the office of game and fish 
 commissioner, in which he is giving most discriminating and effect- 
 ive service. He resides on the fine old homestead on which he was 
 born, in Pulteney township, and here gives his attention to diversi- 
 fied agriculture, the while he finds ample demands upon his time in 
 connection with his official duties. He is a young man of marked 
 ability and enjoys unalloyed popularity in the county which has been 
 his home from the time of his nativity. 
 
 Sterling T. Boyd was born in Pulteney township on the 26th 
 of May. 1884, and is a son of George and Adell (Wagener) Boyd, 
 the former of whom was likewise born in Pulteney township. George 
 Boyd became one of the successful agriculturists and grape-growers 
 of Pulteney township, where he continued to reside until his death, 
 on the 13th of January, 1910, and his wife still resides in the old 
 homestead. George Boyd was a man of sterling character and was 
 influential in legal affairs of a public nature. He made his life 
 count for good in all its relations and his death was uniformly de- 
 plored in the community which had been the place of his abode 
 throughout his entire life. He was Republican in his political pro- 
 clivities. 
 
 Upon the homestead where he now resides Sterling T. Boyd 
 was reared to maturity and after completing the curriculum of the 
 district school he continued his studies in Cook's Academy. After 
 leaving school he was employed for a time as clerk in a hardware 
 store at Bath and later there came due recognition of his popular 
 and specific eligibility when he was appointed to his present office 
 of fish and game commissioner of Steuben county. He was reared 
 in the faith of the Republican party and has never deviated from his 
 allegiance thereto. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of 
 America and he still remains with his widowed mother at the old 
 homestead, which is endeared to him by the memories and associa- 
 tions of the past. 
 
 Mhs. Marion (Hampton) Webb, of Hornell, is a native of Liv- 
 ingston county, New York, and was born July 1, 1854, a daughter 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY sn 
 
 of Philo and Clarissa (Wright) Hampton. Her father, also a native 
 of Livingston county, Few York, born in 1831, was a iine mechanic 
 who gave his attention to mill-wrightihg as a specialty. In his polit- 
 ical affiliations he was a Republican. Of a domestic turn of mind, 
 he never aspired to a public life and never sought or accepted polit- 
 ical office. He united with the Baptist church when he was eighteen 
 years old and was a consistent member of that great religious body 
 as long as he lived. Mrs. Clarissa ("Wright) Hampton was born 
 in Rochester, New York, February 5,. 18'^9, and is living at Batavia, 
 New York, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Philo Hampton 
 was one of eleven children of his parents' family. The others were 
 named Polly, John, Sabia, Thaddeus, Isaac, Sally, Fanny, Benja- 
 min and Andrew, and one who died young. All of them are now 
 deceased. ^ 
 
 Marion Hampton and Shepherd Webb were married May 8, 
 
 1875. The following information concerning their ' children will be 
 interesting in this connection. Wade Hampton Webb, born August, 
 
 1876, is a farmer. He enlisted for service in the Spanish-American 
 war in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York 
 Regiment, but got no nearer to the seat of liostilities than Camp 
 Alger, where he was honorably discharged and mustered out. Her- 
 bert Webb was born March 3, 1879, and married Miss Alma McCre- 
 vey May 7, 1909. He is a locomotive engineer and they live at 
 Fitzgerald, Georgia. Anna was born April 23, 1881, and died 
 January 8, 1886. 
 
 Peter Bricks. — A respected farmer and a man well known not 
 only in Perkinsville, where he now makes his home, but throughout 
 the county, is Peter Bricks. He is a native of Germany, in which 
 country he was born in 1843. His parents, Anthony and Mary 
 (Backus) Bricks, became citizens of the United States in 1846, Mr. 
 Bricks being but three years old at the time they crossed the Atlantic. 
 They lived for a while in South Dansville, but eventually the father 
 bought fifty acres of land west of Wayland in Wayland township, 
 where he farmed on a limited scale. Ho lived here until his death 
 in 1873, his widow surviving him for twenty-two years. This couple 
 were the parents of five children, Stephen, jMargaret, John, Peter 
 and Elizabeth, Peter being the only one alive at the present time. 
 
 Mr. Bricks gained his education in the public schools of Steuben 
 county and while a lad learned the trade of harness maker, which 
 he followed until his enlistment at the time of the Civil war. This 
 was in 1864, in which year he became a member of the military band 
 attached to the Second Brigade, Twenty-second Army Corps. He 
 received honorable discharge at the close of the rebellion. Upon his 
 return home he abandoned his trade and took up agriculture, in 
 which he has proved eminently successful. He has accumulated one 
 hundred and ninety-seven acres in three separate tracts, this consti- 
 tuting a very valuable property. Mr. Bricks operates his farms in 
 the most modern style, using scientific methods and the most im- 
 proved implements. He also has various other holdings. 
 
872 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Mr. Bricks has been excise commissioner four times and four 
 times assessor, the latter office being held by him at the present time. 
 He is an enthusiastic Grand Army man, being post commander of 
 Theodore Slick Post, No. 314, of Wayland, New York. After he 
 returned from army life he organized the Perkinsville Cornet Band 
 of fourteen pieces, and he has held the leadership of this for over 
 thirty years. This band is known far and wide for its excellence, 
 this quality being in large part due to the vigilance and inspiration 
 of its guiding spirit. 
 
 Mr. Bricks assumed marital ties on June 3, 1866, when he was 
 united in marriage to Miss Mary Gross. Their union has been 
 blessed by the birth of thirteen children, eight of whom are living, 
 as follows : Nicholas, Elizabeth, Catherine, Joseph J., George, ilary, 
 Theresa and William. 
 
 George P. Ellis, Hornell, was born in Steuben county, Au- 
 gust 28, 1860, a son of Albert and Matilda (Newson) Ellis, the 
 former a native of Livingston county, New York. He was educated 
 at Mt. Morris, Livingston county and began life on his own account 
 as a farmer at the age of twenty years. His present farm of ninety- 
 six acres he bought of Dr. Walker. He is a Eepublican in his polit- 
 ical convictions, but takes little active part in political work and has 
 no aspirations for office holding. 
 
 March 12, 1880, Mr. Ellis married Miss Diana McMichael, a 
 daughter of Philip and Mary (Hyde) McMichael, both of whom are 
 dead. The McMichaels are an old Pennsylvania family, and it was 
 in the Keystone state that Mrs. Ellis' parents passed their lives, 
 busy and useful people in their community. To Mr. and Mrs. Ellis 
 have been born six children, named as follows in the order of their 
 nativity: Mary, Lorin, Esther, Ira, Lee and Leo. The last men- 
 tioned is dead. 
 
 Mr. Ellis is a man of public spirit, who is ready at any time 
 to do his full share for the advancement of any cause which in his 
 opinion promises good to any considerable number of his fellow 
 citizens. As a business man he is progressive and successful. He is 
 of the type of man sometimes referred to as "forehanded," as is 
 evidenced by the fact that he carries a good policy on his life in the 
 New York Mutual Life InsiTrance Company. 
 
 Nancy S. Clakk was born at Naples, New York, November 
 21, 1833, a daughter of John L. and Sophia Clark, who were born 
 in Ontario county of that state. The death of the father in 1835 
 and the passing away of the mother shortly afterward left the little 
 daughter an orphan when but two years old, and she was then taken 
 into the home of Mrs. George Wheeler and reared to the age of 
 maturity. Of the eight children which were born to her foster 
 parents, only a son, Jackson Wheeler, survives, and his home is in 
 Kanona, New York, but he spends his winters in Florida. The 
 Wheeler place, which is one of the oldest family estates in Steuben 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 873 
 
 county, is managed by a granddaughter of Mr. Wheeler, whose home 
 is in Illinois. Miss Nancy S. Clark is a member of the Methodist 
 church at Kanona, and is prominently associated with its Ladies' 
 Aid and Missionary Societies. 
 
 Phineas G. Wakeen is a sterling representative of one of the 
 fine old pioneer families of Steuben county and it is interesting to 
 note here that the homestead on which both he and his father, 
 Francis M. Warren were born, has been in the possession of various 
 members of the name for more than a hundred years. On the 4th 
 of March, 1865, in Bath township, this county, occurred the birth 
 of him to whom this sketch is dedicated. He is a son of Francis M. 
 and Sophia Willis (Howard) Warren, the former of whom was born 
 on the 19th of August, 1838, and the latter on the 36th of March, 
 1841. The father was reared a farmer and his preliminary educa- 
 tional training included a course in the high school at Bath. He 
 has now reached the venerable age of seventy-two years and now 
 maintains his home with his son on the fine old ancestral estate, 
 where resides also his wife, who is sixty-seven years of age. Francis 
 ~Sl. Warren is a stanch Eepublican in his political proclivities and he 
 and his wife are devout members of the Presbyterian church, in whose 
 faith they were reared. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Warren are 
 three, namely: Evangeline, who is the wife of F. E. Bradley, a 
 farmer in Bath township; Adeline, who married James Little, also 
 resides in Bath township; and Phineas G. is the immediate subject 
 of this review. 
 
 The Warren family traces its ancestry back to stanch English 
 extraction and the original progenitor of the name in America was 
 one John Warren, who was born and reared to young manhood in 
 England, whence he immigrated to the New World, in 1630, settling 
 at Waltham, Massachusetts, where he beicame a prominent real 
 estate and business man and where he wielded a potent influence 
 for good in community affairs. His grandson, Jonathan, was born 
 at Waltham, was a gallant soldier in the war of the Eevolution and 
 he died on the 4th of October, 1834, at Marlboro, Vermont. The 
 latter's son Phineas was a major in the Twelfth Massachusetts Militia 
 in the War of 1813 and in 1836 he was a colonel in the Ninety-sixth 
 Massachusetts state militia. Dwight Warren, A brother of Francis 
 il. Warren and an uncle of him to whom this sketch is dedicated, 
 was first lieutenant in the One Hundred Eighty-ninth New York 
 Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war and he is now living in retire- 
 ment at Three Oaks, Berrien county, Michigan. The foregoing 
 shows the remarkable loyalty and public-spirited interest ever mani- 
 fested by members of the Warren family in matters affecting the wel- 
 fare of the nation from earliest Colonial times. 
 
 Phineas G. Warren early availed himself of the advantages 
 afforded in the common schools of his native place and then at- 
 tended the high school at Bath, Steuben county. He has passed his 
 entire life thus far on the old homestead farm on which he was 
 
87i HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 born and in addition to his general farming he makes a specialty of 
 the raising of breeded poultry and of Holstein cattle. While he 
 endorses the cause of the Republican party in all matters of national 
 import he maintains an independent attitude in local affairs, pre- 
 ferring to give his support to men and measures meeting with the 
 approval of his judgment. Although reared in the faith of the 
 Presbyterian church he usually attends the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, of which his wife is a member. In a fraternal way he is 
 affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees and with the Grange. 
 On the 8th of March, 1894, at Fairport, Monroe county. New 
 York, was solemnized the marriage of ]\Ir. Warren to Miss Lottie 
 J. Havens, the only child of Francis M. and Phoebe (Hart) Havens, 
 the former of whom was a mechanic in early life but who is now 
 . a retired farmer. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebel- 
 lion, participating in many of the important conflicts marking the 
 progress of that sanguinary struggle, in which he served for a period 
 of four years. Mrs. AVarren is; a high-school graduate and was af- 
 forded an excellent musical education in her girlhood.. She is a 
 woman of most pleasing personality and is deeply beloved by scores 
 of admiring friends. To Mr. and Mrs. Warren have been born three 
 children, namely: Hazel C, whose birth occurred on the 17th of 
 March, 1895; Hilda, bom February 22, 1898, and Dwight Francis, 
 born on the 17th of September, 1904. 
 
 Mr. Warren is a man of broad and liberal views, there being 
 nothing narrow or intolerant in his nature. He is enterprising and 
 progressive in all the terms imply, lives in the present, and, taking 
 a pardonable pride in his community and state, has faith in their 
 future and uses his power and influence to make this faith realize 
 the largest possibilities. Socially, he is an affable gentleman, genial 
 in manner, agreeable in conversation, courteous to all with whom he 
 mingles, and he impresses those with whom he has business or other 
 relations as possessing a power of mind and force of personality in- 
 dicative of 'the natural leader in large and important undertakings. 
 
 Emery A. Robinson. — It is pleasing to record in this publica- 
 tion that many of the native sons of Steuben county have here found 
 ample scope for successful effort along industrial and commercial 
 lines of enterprise and among this number is Mr. Robinson, who 
 has been actively identified with agricultural pursuits from the tim^ 
 of his youth, save for a brief interval. Emery Adelbert Robinson 
 was born in Dansville, this county, on the oth of Septejnber, 1860. 
 and is a son of Eliphalet and Susan (Kridler) Robinson, the former 
 of whom was bom in Steuben county, on the 31st of December, 
 1820, and the latter in Pennsylvania, in the year 1838. The father 
 died on the 16th of December, 1893, and the mother passed away 
 in the preceding year. The Robinson family is of stanch English 
 extraction and was founded in New England in the colonial epoch 
 of our national history. The Kridler family found representatives 
 among the early citizens of the state of Pennsylvania and the 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 875 
 
 lineage is traced back to German origin. Eliphalet Eobinson de- 
 voted his entire active business career to agricultural pursuits and 
 he was one of the representative farmers and stock-growers of Steu- 
 ben county for many years, having been the owner of a well improved 
 farm in Dansville township. Of the children two sons and four 
 daughters are now living. 
 
 Emery A. Eobinson was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 old homestead farm, which was the place of his birth, and his early 
 educational advantages were those afforded in the district schools 
 of Dansville township. He has never broken his allegiance to the 
 great basic art of agriculture except for a period of five years, 
 during which he was employed in the oil refinery of the Standard 
 Oil Company at Franklin, this state. When he was seventeen years 
 of age he initiated his independent career and for a long time he 
 was employed by the month at farm work. In politics though never 
 an aspirant for public office Mr. Robinson is found arrayed as a 
 stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and "he shows 
 a distinctive interest in local affairs, doing all in his power to 
 further such measures and enterprises as tend to advance the general 
 welfare of the community. 
 
 On the 3d of July, 1885, Mr. Robinson was united in marriage 
 to Miss Amelia Came, who was born in Wayland township, Steuben 
 county, on the 33nd of November, 1864, and who is a daughter of 
 Reuben and Charlotte (Koash) Came, who were residents of Dans- 
 ville township at the time of their death. Reuben Came was born 
 in the year 1837 and his wife was born in 1828; she came with her 
 parents from Germany when ten years of age and the family settled 
 in Wayland township, Steuben county. Mr. and Mrs. Eobinson have 
 three children, concerning whom the following brief data are given: 
 William Frederick, who was born on the 27th of August, 1886, 
 married Miss May Loohn and resides in Hornellsville ; Charles E., 
 who was born November 8, 1888, died on the 24th of January, 1892 ; 
 and John E., who was bom on the 13th of March, 1893, is now 
 attending the district schools near the parental home. 
 
 Moses Davison. — He whose name initiates this review has long 
 held prestige as one of the representative business men of Steuben 
 county and is still actively engaged in the mercantile trade, at 
 Bath, where he has a large and well equipped establishment devoted 
 to the handling of dry-goods, carpets, boots and shoes, groceries, etc. 
 It was his to give loyal service as a valiant soldier of the Union in 
 the Civil war and his sterling integrity of purpose in all the rela- 
 tions of life has retained to him the inviolable confidence and esteem 
 of his fellow men. 
 
 Moses Davison was born in County Cavan, Ireland, on the 
 17th of October, 1845, and is a son of William and Margaret Davi- 
 son, who were born and reared in the Emerald Isle and who were 
 representatives of stanch old families of County Cavan. In 1846 
 they emigrated to America, and soon after their arrival they estab- 
 
876 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 lished their home at Bath, Steuben county, where they passed the 
 residue of their lives. They were folk of sterling characteristics, 
 honest, earnest and industrious, and they were not denied the full- 
 est measure of popular confidence and esteem. He whose name 
 initiates this article was afforded the advantages of the old Haver- 
 ling school, at Bath, an institution well known as Haverling Acad- 
 emy, and in 1861, when about fifteen years of age, he assumed a 
 position of clerk in the dry goods store of J. & L. Buhler at Bath. 
 When this firm retired from business Mr. Davison entered the em- 
 ploy of W. W. Willson, who here conducted a general mercantile 
 establishment, and this position he retained until 1864, when he 
 enlisted as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-ninth 
 New York Volunteer Infantry. He proceeded with his regiment 
 to the front and took part in all the engagements in which it was 
 involved from the time of his enlistment until the surrender of 
 General Lee and the close of the war. Mr. Davison received his 
 honorable discharge on the 13th of May, 1865, and then returned 
 to Bath, where he entered the employ of H. W. Ferine, who was 
 here engaged in the general merchandise business. In 1883 Mr. 
 Davison atid two others entered into partnership with Mr. Ferine, 
 under the firm name of H. W. Ferine & Company. This partner- 
 ship alliance was dissolved in 1884, but Mr. Davison continued with 
 the concern until 1890, when he formed an individual partnership 
 with Mr. Ferine, under the title of Ferine & Davison. This pleasing 
 and effective alliance continued until the death of Mr. Ferine, in 
 1896, and shortly afterward F. N. DeCamp, a son-in-law of Mr. 
 Davison, became associated with him in the conducting of the busi- 
 ness, which has since continued under the firm name of Davison 
 & DeCamp. Mr. Davison is recognized as one of the leading busi- 
 ness men of Bath, and the large and substantial trade built up by 
 his establishment is based upon careful and conscientious methods 
 and progressive ideas. Each of the several departments of the large 
 and well equipped store is maintained at a high standard, and the 
 trade of the concern is of an essentially representative character. 
 
 Mr. Davison has not hedged himself in with private business 
 interests, but has shown a loyal concern in all that has touched the 
 general welfare of his home town and county. He is a stanch sup- 
 porter of the principles and policies of the Eepublican party and 
 has served as township clerk, besides which he has been called upon 
 to serve in other offices of public trust. He is a member of the 
 directorate of the Bath Savings & Loan Association and is the 
 owner of valuable real, estate in his home town. He is past master 
 of Steuben Lodge No.. 113, Free & Accepted Masons, and is affili- 
 ated with Bath Chapter No. 95, Eoyal Arch Masons, and DeMolay 
 Commandery No. 22, Knights Templars, at Hornell. He also holds 
 membership in the Grand Army of the Eepublic. 
 
 In the year 1873 was solemnized the marriage of 'Sir. Davison 
 to Miss Eva Hall, who was born and reared in Steuben county. She 
 is .a daughter of the late Alexander Hall, who Was loiig numbered 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 877 
 
 among the well known and highly honored citizens of Bath. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Davison became the parents of two children, William and 
 Anna B., who is now the wife of F. N. DeCamp. Mr. and Mrs. 
 DeCamp have one daughter.- As has already been noted, Mr. De- 
 Camp is associated with Mr. Davison in business, and he has proved 
 an able coadjutor in the conducting of the enterprise. 
 
 Hon. Frank Campbell is a son of one of the old and honored 
 families of Steuben county and is one of its essentially representa- 
 tive business men. He has wielded much influence in political af- 
 fairs as a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, 
 and he served two years as state comptroller. He maintains his 
 residence in the attractive little city of Bath, where he is president 
 of the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank. 
 
 Mr. Campbell was bom at Bath, this county, on the 28th of 
 March, 1858, and is a son of Hon. Robert and Frances (Fowler) 
 Campbell. His father was likewise a native of Bath, where he was 
 born on the 1st of May, 1808, a son of Robert Campbell, who was 
 one of the first settlers of Bath, where he took up his residence 
 in 1795, having come to America from Glasgow, Scotland. Robert 
 Campbell, Sr., was a carpenter and builder, and he became one of 
 the prominent and influential citizens of Steuben county. The maid- 
 en name of his wife was Martha MeCauley, and she likewise was of 
 stanch Scotch lineage. Hon. Robert Campbell, father of him whose 
 name initiates this review, was afforded excellent educational ad- 
 vantages, including a course of a preparatory character in Hobart 
 College, which was then located at Geneva, New York, and in 1886 
 he began the study of law in the office of Kruger & Howell, which 
 was then the leading law firm of Steuben county. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1829, and in initiating the active work of his profes- 
 sion he associated himself with William T. Worden at Auburn, 
 Cayuga county. About two years later he returned to Bath, where 
 he became associated in practice with his former preceptor. General 
 Kruger, under the firm name of Kruger & Campbell. He later 
 formed a partnership with Hon. Samuel H. Hammond. He gained 
 prestige as one of the leading members of the bar of this section of 
 the state and long controlled a large and important practice. He 
 was a stalwart in the camp of the Democratic party and gave effec- 
 tive service in behalf of its cause. In 1842 he refused the nomina- 
 tion of his party for the office of state senator, and in 1844 he was 
 a member of the Democratic National Convention, which nominated 
 James K. Parker for president. In 1846 he was elected by the 
 legislature a member of the board of regents of the University of 
 New York, and he continued incumbent of this office until the time 
 of his death. He was a member of the state constitutional conven- 
 tion of 1846, and in this position he gave most effective service in 
 formulating the new constitution. He was twic6 elected lieutenant 
 governor of the state — in 1858 and 1860 — and as ex-offieio ipresi- 
 dent of the senate he m.anif ested marked ability and dignity. As ■ 
 
878 HISTORY OF STEDBEN COUNTY 
 
 a member of the state canal board and in all other official positions 
 to which he was called his course was characterized by utmost loyalty 
 and fidelity, and he was indefatigable, in his efforts to promote the 
 best interests of the state and its people. As a member of the bar 
 he achieved prominence, though he was never notable as an elo- 
 quent advocate. The solidity of his legal learning was uniformly 
 recognized, and his briefs were models in diction and in the pre- 
 senting of the salient points at issue. He was very systematic and 
 laborious in his business habits and was a dignified and courteous 
 gentleman of the old regime, genial and kindly in his association 
 with his fellow-men and a man who ever commanded a secure place 
 in popular esteem and confidence. Both he and his wife continued 
 to reside at Bath until their death. 
 
 Hon. Prank Campbell gained his early educational discipline 
 in Haverling Academy, in Bath, and in a well-ordered educational 
 institution at Trenton, New Jersey. He early identified himself with 
 business interests, and in this connection he has been very success- 
 ful, having shown distinctive initiative and administrative ability. 
 In 1883 he became associated with his brother Clarence and others 
 in the organization of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank of Bath, and 
 of this solid and popular financial institution he is now president. 
 
 Mr. Campbell has long been a potent factor in connection with 
 the affairs of the Democratic party in this section of the state, and 
 he served several years as a member of the Democratic state com- 
 mittee, to which position he was first called in 1889. In 1891 he 
 was elected state comptroller, of which office he remained incum- 
 bent for the regular term of two years and in which he gave a most 
 careful and effective administration. In 1893 he was a delegate to 
 the National Democratic Convention, and from 1896 to 1900 he was 
 a member of the Democratic national committee. He is identified 
 with various fraternal and social organizations of representative 
 order. 
 
 Mr. Campbell married Miss Louise Willson, a daughter of War- 
 ren W. Willson, a representative citizen of Steuben county. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Campbell have one son, Willson E., who is now vice-presi- 
 dent of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank. 
 
 1. 
 John B. Smith. — A native son of Steuben county. New York, 
 John B. Smith is now engaged as engineer at Way land, and he is 
 recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen whose contribution 
 to progress and development in this section has been of prominent 
 order. Mr. Smith was born near Hornell, this county, on the 20th 
 of July, 1880, and is a son of Nicholas and Mary (Lisraan) Smith, 
 the former of whom is a native of Wayland township, this county, 
 where his birth occurred on the 14th of September, 1839, and the 
 latter was born in Prussia, on the 15th of August, 1838. Nicholas 
 Smith is a son of Jacob Smith, who was born and reared in Prus- 
 sia, a province of Germany, whence he came to America with a fam- 
 ily of six children in 1831. Settlement was made in the township 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 879 
 
 6f Wayland, Steuben coiintv, Xew York, where the father engaged 
 in farming and the timber business, reclaiming a fine farm from the 
 virgin wilderness. Tlie nearest market for lumber in those days 
 was Eochester, New York. Al)out the rear 1846 Jacob Smith dis- 
 posed of his first farm and purchased two hundred and sixty-five 
 acres of most arable land in the vicinity of Perkinsville, where he 
 operated a saw mill, .^ending liis lumber 'to Dansville by way of the 
 old plank road. He was a devout communicant of the Catholic 
 church, and his death occurred in 187'5. at the age of seventy-seven 
 years. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Eaber, was sum- 
 moned to the life eternal in 184:9, at the age of forty-five years. 
 It is interesting to note here that Jacob Smith built the first log 
 house in Wayland township, and many a time the family awoke in 
 the morning and found snakes coiled up near the old fireplace. 
 
 jSTicholas Smith received such educational advantages in his 
 youth as were afforded in the locality and period, and after leaving 
 school he farmed for his parents until he had attained to the age 
 of seventeen years, at which time he entered upon an apprenticeship 
 at the blacksmith's trade, at Perkinsville, where he remained for 
 two years, at the expiration of which he began to travel, working at 
 his trade for the ensuing six years. He married and started black- 
 smithing at Hornellsville in 1861, residing in that village until 1865, 
 in which year he removed to Patchinsville, where he was similarly 
 engaged for three years. In 1868 he removed to Perkinsville, where 
 he maintained his home for some ten years. Thereafter he lived for 
 two years at another town and for another two years at still an- 
 other, then returned to Perkinsville for six years, and in 1885 he 
 came to East Wayland, where he was identified with agricultural 
 pursuits 'for the ensuing twelve years. In 1897 he went to Cohoc- 
 ton, where he engaged in the hotel business, and in 1899 permanent 
 residence was made at Patchinsville. In 1865 was recorded his mar- 
 riage to Miss Mary Lisman, who was born in Prussia on the 15th 
 of August, 1838, a daughter of John and Mary (Schat) Lisman. 
 The Lisman family came to America in the year 1848 and located 
 at old Sandy Hill, near Perkinsville, where the father engaged in 
 farming; he was county highway commissioner at one time. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Nicholas Smith became the parents of eleven children, 
 concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: 
 Peter is a farmer near Patchinsville; Nicholas is similarly engaged 
 in the vicinity of Eogersville ; Jacob is a farmer near Cohocton ; 
 William is a machinist in the city of Rochester ; John B. is the im- 
 mediate subject of this sketch; Lena is the wife of Mr. Grant and 
 resides in Butte, Montana, as does also Mary, who wedded William 
 G. Smith; Barbara is the wife of Charles Brizette, who has a book 
 bindery at Butte, Montana; Lizzie married a Mr. Romey, of New 
 York; and Katie and Susie both maintain their home in Rochester, 
 New York. 
 
 John Benjamin Smith received his preliminary educational 
 training in the public schools of his native county, and he was asso- 
 ciated with his father in his various enterprises until he had at- 
 
880 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 tained to his legal majority. In 1901 he went to Rochester, where 
 he engaged in the restaurant business for a period of four years, 
 after which he became manager of a similar establishment for an- 
 other firm, and thereafter he spent three years as an engineer in 
 that city. In May, 1907, he established his home in Wayland and 
 here became interested in the hotel business, continuing to be iden- 
 tified with that line of enterprise until he again turned his atten- 
 tion to the work of engineering. Though never ambitious for the 
 honors or emoluments of public office, Mr. Smith is a stanch Demo- 
 crat in his political proclivities, and he gives his aid in support of 
 all worthy projects advanced for the general welfare. In a fra- 
 ternal way he is affiliated with various representative organizations 
 of a local character, and in his religious faith he is a devout com- 
 municant of the Catholic church. He is highly respected and 
 trusted by his fellow-citizens. 
 
 Geokgetta Smith was born at the old Smith home, Bath 
 township, Steuben county. New York, April 4, 1854, a daughter of 
 Matthew Smith. Her father, a native of Scotland, learned the stone 
 mason's trade when young and worked at it in the intervals of farm- 
 ing after he came to the United States. He bought a farm near 
 Savona, to which he added another, purchased later. He married 
 Agnes Smith, daughter of another Matthew Smith, but no known 
 relationship to himself. Her mother was Harriet Eichardson. Mr. 
 Smith of this sketch was a Democrat, active and influential in the 
 work of his party and in religion a Presbyterian, liberal and helpful 
 in advancing all the interests of his church. He was accidentally 
 killed by a horse in 1875. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith had five children, only one of whom — Miss 
 Georgetta Smith — is living. Their son John died aged fifty-six 
 years and their daughter Jeanette aged twenty-four. The others 
 died in infancy. Their mother died January 23, 1895, aged seventy- 
 six years. Miss Georgetta Smith was her father's favorite and was 
 much with him as long as he lived. After his death she devoted 
 herself to the care of her mother, whose faithful and sympathetic 
 companion she was until she too passed away. 
 
 Miss Smith is a woman of many accomplishments, friendly, help- 
 ful, charitable — a member and supporter of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal church. She has given her life for the comfort of those dear to 
 her and looks forward hopefully to the true Christian's reward. 
 
 Haeky C. Bkownson. — A native son of the fine old Wolverine 
 state, Harry Clark Brownson has been variously engaged in different 
 cities and states since attaining to his legal majority and he is now 
 following the trade of painter and paper-hanger in "Wayland, where 
 he has resided since 1905, and where his contribution to progress and 
 good government has been of the most insistent order. He was born 
 at Jackson, in the county of the same name, Michigan, on the 27th 
 of May, 1883, and is a son of Clark and Cora (Hotchkiss) Brownson, 
 
HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 881 
 
 the former of whom was summoned to eternal rest in 1883, at the 
 age of thirty-four years, and the latter is still living, her home being 
 in Jackson, Michigan. J\Ir. Brownson was engaged as a carpenter 
 during his short life. He became the father of three children,— John 
 Wesley, who is a shoemaker at Dansville, Livingston county; Maud, 
 who is the wife of Charles Mayer, resides at Jackson, Michigan; 
 and Harry C, the immediate subject of this review. After the 
 death of her husband, Mrs. Brownson contracted a second marriage, 
 being united to James W. Holmes, who is now deceased. They 
 became the parents of one child, Jennie, who is the wife of Frank 
 Staub, of Jackson. 
 
 Harry C, Brownson was an infant at the time of his father's 
 death and his rudimentary education consisted of the advantages 
 afforded in the public schools of his native county and Eaton Rap- 
 ids, Michigan. He began to work when fourteen years of age and 
 later engaged in the lumber business in northern Michigan. Later 
 he was similarly engaged in the lake region and subsequently he 
 spent seven years at Exeter, ilichigan, attending school in the 
 winter time and following the lumber business in the summers. He 
 returned to Jackson, his parental home, and entered the employ of 
 the ilichigan Central Railroad Company. He continued to be iden- 
 tified with railroad interests in this city for one year. He was then 
 employed by the Pennsylvania Montpelier Railroad Company for an- 
 other year. Proceeding to Cleveland, Ohio, he spent seven months 
 in that city operating machinery, at the expiration of which time 
 he removed to Dansville, Livingston county. New York. There he 
 was engineer in the Blumther factory and in 1901 he severed his con- 
 nections with this concern to accept a position with the A. J. Werd- 
 ing Company in Dansville. Four years later, in 1905, he established 
 his home in Wayland, Steuben county, where he was employed by 
 Maynard Rosenkrans, and thereafter for about one year he worked 
 at the Gunlock Chair factory. In 1907 he turned his entire time 
 and attention to the trade of painter and paperhanger and in this 
 line of enterprise he is achieving most gratifying success. In politics 
 Mr. Brownson accords a stalwart allegiance to the cause of the Re- 
 publican party and though he has never desired public office he has 
 ever given freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures 
 and enterprises advanced for the general welfare of the community. 
 He is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his 
 wife is a zealous communicant of the Catholic church. 
 
 On the 6th of February, 1907, Mr. Brownson was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Katherine Barbara Kuhn, who was born in Wayland 
 on the 13th of November, 1878, and who is a daughter of Jacob and 
 Thekla (Vogt) Kuhn. Mr. and Mrs. Brownson have two children — 
 Walter Jacob, who was born in 1908, and another child, bom on the 
 13th of November, 1910. 
 
 Frank Doughty. — In the matter of concrete accomplishment 
 Frank Doughty has marked the passing years with very intelligible 
 
882 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 and appreciable achievement, and lie is today numbered among the 
 oldest and essentially representative business men of the thriving 
 little city of Wayland, where he is a successful dealer in. farm produce 
 and where his course has been so guided as to retain to him unqual- 
 ified" popular confidence and regard. 
 
 Frank Doughty is a native son of Steuben county and a scion 
 of one of its old and honored families. He was born on the old home- 
 stead farm of the family, in Wayland township, on the 22d of Sep- 
 tember, 1839, and is a son of Wesley Doughty, who was bom in Xew 
 Jersey. He passed the closing years of his life in the village of Way- 
 land, where he died in 1896, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. 
 Wesley Doughty was a son of Zachariah and Phoebe Doughty, both 
 of whom were born and reared in New Jersey, whence they came to 
 Steuben county in the pioneer days, making the journey with two 
 ox teams and wagons, by means of which were transported their 
 household goods. Zachariah Doughty secured one hundred acres of 
 wild land in Wayland township, selecting a tract on which were large 
 pine trees and a creek. He erected a slab shanty and in this prim- 
 itive dwelling established a home for his wife and two children. He 
 set to himself the herculean task of reclaiming his farm from the 
 forest and eventually brought the greater portion of his land under 
 cultivation. He erected the first saw mill in this locality, and his 
 farm was two and one-half miles distant from the present village 
 of Wayland. Here he continued to reside until his death, in 1864, 
 at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife preceded him to eternal 
 rest, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. In politics Zachariah Doughty was originally a Whig, but 
 he transferred his allegiance to the Eepublican party at the time of 
 its organization, thereafter supporting its cause with all of loyalty, 
 besides which he did all in his power to support the Union at the time 
 of the Civil war, before the close of which his death occurred. 
 
 Wesley Doughty was a child at the time of the family removal 
 to Steuben county and here he was reared to manhood under the 
 conditions and influences of the pioneer era, assisting in the devel- 
 opment of the home farm and securing such advantages as were 
 afforded in the primitive schools. of the locality and period. He 
 eventually engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own responsibility 
 and became the owner of a good farm near the village of Wayland. 
 The locality has long been known as Doughty's Corners. Eventually 
 he purchased the old homestead secured by his father in the early 
 days, and members of the family have been prominently identified 
 with the development and upbuilding of this section of the county, 
 the name standing exponent of sterling integrity, well directed indus- 
 try and generous accomplishment in connection with, normal lines 
 of enterprise, including not only agriculture and stock-growing but 
 also dealing in timber, lumber, horses, cattle, produce, etc. Wesley 
 Doughty continued to be identified with farming and stock-growing, 
 as well as with the lumber industry, during his entire active career, 
 and he became one of the substantial business men and influential 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 883 
 
 citizens of this section. He was loyal and progressive in his civic 
 attitude and contributed in large measure to the furtherance of en- 
 terprises and measures conserving the prosperity and advancement 
 of the county. He was one of those largely concerned in the build- 
 ing of the plank road between Wayland and Dansville, and in the 
 early days this was maintained as a toll road, having nine toll sta- 
 tions. He assisted in the upbuilding of the village of Wayland, where 
 he lived virtually retired during the closing years of his life. He 
 was a zealous and intelligent supporter of the principles and policies 
 of the Republican party and both he and his wife were devout mem- 
 bers of the Wesleyan Methodist church. He served six years as 
 county commissioner and was also called to other local offices of trust. 
 In a reminiscent way it is interesting to record that he was the first 
 citizen of Wayland township to have the distinction of owning a 
 buggy, and the vehicle attracted much attention at the time. Of the 
 six children of Wesley Doughty the subject of this review and the 
 four others survive : Murray, who is a representative agriculturist of 
 Springwater township, Livingston county, this state; Danford, who 
 is a successful farmer in Steuben county; Elijah W., who is now a 
 resident of Batavia, Genesee county; and Mary, who is the wife of 
 Mr. T>oucks, of Avoca, Steuben county. 
 
 Frank Doughty passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm 
 and early began to contribute his quota to its work, the while he 
 availed himself of the privileges of the local schools, whose discipline 
 was supplemented by a two years' course in Starkey Seminary. He 
 purchased a farm in Springwater township, Livingston county, but 
 two years later he sold that property and took up his residence in 
 the village of Wayland, where he was employed in a warehouse for 
 Ihc ensuing five years and where he became the owner of a good resi- 
 dence property. He finally sold his house and lot in the village and 
 purchased a farm near Avoca, where he remained one year. He 
 then returned to Wayland, but shortly afterward he purchased his 
 fatber-in-law's farm, in Springwater township, Livingston county, 
 a property which he still owns. After residing on the farm for one 
 year he returned to Wayland, where he served for nine years as sales- 
 man and bookkeeper for the firm of Humphrey & I\Iorris. Since 1901 
 he has been successfully established in business as a dealer in farm 
 pioducc, as junior member of the firm of Oliver & Doughty. The 
 firm controls an extensive business in the buying and shipping of 
 produce and branch establishments are maintained at Perkinsville, 
 Dansville and Cohocton, with headquarters at Wayland. The firm 
 ships an average of five hundred cars of produce each year and the 
 enterprise thus proves a valuable adjunct to the industrial and com- 
 mercial activities of this section of the state. Hay, grain and wool 
 are handled in large quantities and the reputation of the firm for fair 
 and honorable dealings is unassailable. In politics JMr. Doughty 
 gives his allegiance to the Republican party, and while he takes a 
 loyal interest in all that touches the welfare of the community he 
 has never had aught of ambition for official preferment. He is affil- 
 
884 HISTOEY OF STEUBEjS' COUNTY 
 
 iated with Phoenix Lodge, Xo. 115, Free & Accepted Masons, At 
 Dansville,. Livingston county. 
 
 In the year 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Doughty 
 to Miss Frances Eobinson, who was born in Springwater township, 
 Livingston county, this state, on the 7tli of October, 1837, and who 
 is a daughter of the late Mason and Emma (Parshall) Eobinson, 
 honored pioneers of that county, where they continued to reside until 
 their death and where the father was a prosperous agriculturist. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Doughty have one daughter, Nora, who was born in the 
 year 1869 and who is now the wife of H. P. Masten, of Bentley 
 Creek, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where Mv. iMasten is a pros- 
 perous merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Masten have one child, Lenora, who 
 was graduated in the piano department of the conservatory of music 
 at Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and who is now pursuing courses in vocal 
 music and pipe-organ work. 
 
 Lowell Alphbus Penney, M. D. — This pioneer physician and 
 surgeon, prominent as a specialist in the treatment of cancers, was 
 born in Waterville, Maine, March 11, 1836, and his death, April 26, 
 1910, removed from Hornell one of its most venerable and distin- 
 guished citizens. George Penney, his father, was also a native of the 
 Pine Tree state, within whose borders he lived the simple, industrious 
 life of a farmer and died, aged seventy-five, after having enjoyed the 
 spiritual and material rewards of years well spent. The New England 
 family of Penney is of Scotch extraction and its earliest representa- 
 tives there were pioneers in the New World. George Penney mar- 
 ried Miss Malinda Bickford, who was born in Maine and lived to 
 be ninety-seven years old. 
 
 George and Malinda (Bickford) Penney had twelve children, all 
 but one of whom grew to maturity. Dr. Penney being the third child 
 and second son in order of nativity. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools near his boyhood home and in the historic old academy 
 at Waterville. He learned the trade of buggy-making and in 18.5-2 
 emigrated to Pennsylvania, settling at Lockhaven, Clinton county, 
 where he found employment at his trade and was later in busiiicss 
 for himself fourteen years. He married there in 1853 iliss Cath- 
 erine Silvis, who was born and reared in that old town and who has 
 now reached the venerable age of seventy-five years, having first seen 
 the light of day November 19, 1835. 
 
 In 1866, the subject of this review removed to Emporium, Penn- 
 sylvania, and began the practice of medicine, for which he had pre- 
 pared to a great extent by study in his spare time at Lockhaven. He 
 continued his studies and was graduated in medicine at Philadelphia 
 in 1869. He was successful at Emporium, but decided to remove to 
 Wellsville, Allegany county. New York, which he did in 1874. 
 There he built up a good practice, of which he disposed in order to 
 locate in Hornell, where he was engaged in practicing his profession 
 uninterruptedly since 1880. For more than forty years he made a 
 «tudy of the nature, cause and cure of cancei-. The subject interested 
 

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 887 
 
 him so deeply that he natiirally made a specialty of cancer treatment, 
 in which he achieved much success. His discoveries in this peculiar 
 field of medical and surgical investigation marked him as one of the 
 mo*t eminent practitioners in his line in this or any other country. 
 Hl' was a member of the Eclectic Medical Society and he was for a 
 time connected with the Steuben Sanitarium. 
 
 . . .. Dr. Penney was known as one of the "fathers of Kepublicauism," 
 l.'ntil in the early fifties he was an unquestioning Democrat, content 
 with things national .as they .were. The questions which had eventu- 
 ally to be answered at the polls and on the field of battle drew him 
 : out of his conservatism and brought him to a new conception of his 
 duty as a citizen. He affiliated with abolitionists and other, reformers 
 and was soon so much of a reformer himself that he helped, to organ- 
 ize Republicanism, voted for Fremont and for Lincoln and shouted 
 for the Union, as all Republicans and most of the northern Democrats 
 did in the days of the Civil war. From that time on he acted con- 
 gisteiVtly with the Republican party in all its history-making work. 
 He was one of the oldest members of the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows at Hornell and he has been a Mason for more than half a 
 century. In addition to his other interests he was the owner of a fine 
 I'arm of one hundred and thirty acres at Cameron ilills. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Penney became the parents of five children, one of 
 their sons dying in infancy. Their daughter Malinda is Mrs. D. A. 
 Coll', of Cohocton, Steuben county. Edith M. is a member of the 
 liousehold of her widowed mother. She was an assistant to her hon- 
 ored I'iither in his professional business, and is now a graduate pro- 
 fessional nurse specializing in the treatment of cancers. She pos- 
 sesses the formula of her father's remedies. Harry J. is a plumber 
 by trade and Margery is Mrs. Henry McEvoy, of Hornell. 
 
 William J. Smith, a prominent farmer near Bath, Steuben 
 , county. New York, was born in Elmira, Chemung county, New 
 York.' July 21, 1872, a son of Otis H. and Elizabeth (Sherwood) 
 Smilb. Otis H. Smith enlisted in 1861 in the One Hundred and 
 Sixty-liist Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served 
 through the Civil war, receiving his honorable discharge as first 
 lieutenanl of his company. He was variously employed till 1874, 
 wlien he returned to Batli and engaged in the tinware buisness. 
 r.ator hv was in the warehouse enterprise for some years. Then, for 
 many years, he was known in connection with butchering and in- 
 surance interests, either together or singly. In politics he was 
 stanchly Republican, active to the time of his death. He was for 
 twenty or thirty years an official of the Bath Soldiers' Home. His 
 wife" was the daughter of a Baptist clergyman. They left a son and 
 ;i daughter. The latter, Maud by name, is the wife of F. E. Wood, 
 nf New Mexico. 
 
 William T. Smith was brought up on a farm and educated in 
 public schools near his home. After leaving school he turned his 
 attention to farming, to which he has devoted all his active years 
 
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888 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 with satisfactory success. He is a Eepublican and a member of the 
 Protestant Episcopal church. Though he wields a recognized politi- 
 cal influence, he is not himself an office seeker and has persistently 
 refused such as have been profl'ered him. He married Mary S. Pin- 
 ehin, who was born May 12, 1873, a daughter of Alhert and Polly 
 (Griswold) Pinchin, the first mentioned of whom died in 1904. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had children named as follows: Ernest, 
 fourteen years old; Charles Otis, twelve; Frank, ten; William T., 
 eight; Albert, six; Kenneth, four; George, two. 
 
 Allison Sidney Mann. — A wide-awake, industrious young 
 man, full of American vim and energy, Allison Sidney Mann, of 
 Bath, is carrying on a substantial business as an ice dealer, and is 
 well known as a valued and trustworthy member of the community 
 in which his life has been spent. He was born on the parental 
 homestead, in Bath, December 11, 1883, of English ancestry. 
 
 His father, the late George Mann, was born in Suffolk count}. 
 England, and was there bred and educated. Immigrating to this 
 country in 1875, he bought land in Bath, Steuben county. New 
 York, and embarked in agricultural pursuits. He met with excel- 
 lent success as a general farmer, and subsequently devoted a portion 
 of his time to the ice business, building up a good trade in this al- 
 most indispensable article of commerce. He died on the home farm, 
 in 1902, at the comparatively early age of fifty-three years. He 
 was a man of high moral principles, and a consistent member of the 
 Episcopal church. Pie married Emily Dament, who was born 
 fifty-five years ago, in Suffolk county, England, a daughter of 
 George and Jane (Nichols) Dament, and she still occupies the old 
 home in Bath. Seven children blessed their union, namely: Alli- 
 son Sidney, with whom this brief sketch is chiefly concerned; Eliza, 
 wife of Charles Wallace, who is engaged in farming in Bath; Mabel, 
 wife of Oran Thomas, a plumber in Buffalo; Cora, wife of William 
 Morse, lives on the homestead; Florence, wife of Frank Mullen, of 
 Buffalo; Laura, a stenographer, lives at home; Lillian, attending 
 school; and M. Noble. 
 
 Leaving school at the age of fourteen years, Allison Sidney 
 Mann assisted his father in the ice business for several seasons, 
 obtaining an insight into the details of its management, and on the 
 death of his father took entire management of the ice plant, and has 
 since had charge of both that and the home farm. He has met with 
 success as an agriculturist, and the Mann lee Company, of Bath, 
 is carrying on a very prosperous and lucrative business under his 
 supervision. Mr. Mann has never married, his time, mayhap, hav- 
 ing been too much engrossed by other matters. True to the religious 
 faith in which he was reared, he belongs to the Episcopal church. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and 
 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. 
 
 Fat H. White. — Actively engaged in the practice of a pro- 
 fession that demands a large measure of veritable talent as well as a 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 889 
 
 comprehensive and technical knowledge, Fay H. White, of Corning, 
 is meeting with unquestioned success in his chosen vocation, his high 
 position as a man -and a lawyer clearly entitling him to representa- 
 tion in this biographical compilation. A son of Dr. Ezra M. White, 
 he was born, August 11, 1873, in Elmira, New York. 
 
 Born and reared in Caton, Steuben county. New York, Eugene 
 M. White, M. D., early resolved to enter the medical profession, and 
 having received his degree of M. D., was for nearly forty years 
 actively engaged in the practice of medicine in Steuben county, the 
 greater part of the time being located in Cohoeton. At the present 
 time, however, he is practicing in New York city. Dr. White mar- 
 ried Mary E. Van Wormer, a daughter of Valentine Van Wormer. 
 She was born in Cohoeton, in 1844, and there died at the age of 
 forty-nine years. Her paternal great-grandfather immigrated from 
 Holland to Massachusetts, where her grandfather, Lawrence Van 
 Wormer was born. Coming from the old Bay state to the Empire 
 state in 1806, Lawrence Van Wormer settled in Cohoeton, and there 
 spent the remainder of his life. Valentine Van Wormer was born 
 in Steuben county, New York, in 1812, and was here a resident until 
 his death, in 1897. The union of Dr. and Mrs. White was blessed by 
 the birth of two sons, namely: Dr. Ernest C. White, a practicing 
 physician in Paris, France ; and Fay M., with whom this sketch is 
 chiefly concerned. 
 
 After his graduation from the Cohoeton High School, Pay H. 
 White embarked in the real estate business, for two years being lo- 
 cated in Bath, Steuben county. Going from there to New York 
 city, he opened an office in that metropolis, and for twelve years 
 carried on an excellent business as a real estate broker. Ambitious, 
 however, to enter upon a professional career, Mr. White subse- 
 quently became a student at the Wesleyan College, in Genesee, 
 New York, and was graduated from its law department with the 
 class of 1909, and has since been successfully engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law at Corning, having already won a good standing among 
 his legal brethren. 
 
 Mr. White married, in 1903, Emma C. Cullen, a daughter of 
 William H. Cullen, of Macedon, Wayne county. New York, and 
 they have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Mr. White has large 
 real estate interests in Steuben county, and is active in social circles. 
 He is a member of the Steuben Society ; of the Delta Chi Fraternity 
 of New York city and of the Corning Club. 
 
 EiCHARD E. Enright.— Lieutenant Enright is one of the effi- 
 cient and popular officials of the police department of Greater New 
 York and is now acting captain in charge of the Vernon Avenue 
 Station in the borough of Brooklyn. He has been an active member 
 of the police department for nearly a decade and a half and his 
 record in this connection has been marked by fidelity to duty and by 
 his promotion to the ofiSce of lieutenant, of which he has been in- 
 cumbent since 1905. 
 
890 HISTOEY OF S'JEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Lieutenant Enright was born in the village of Campbell, Steu- 
 ben county, New York, on the 30th of August, 1871, and is a son 
 of Michael and Jett (Bennett) Enright, both of whom were born 
 in Ireland. Michael Enright was reared to about sixteen years in 
 his native land and he then came to America and settled in Steuben 
 county, where he continued to maintain his home for more than half 
 a century and where he died in 1904, at the age of sixty-eight years. 
 He was a man of sterling integrity and his career was marked by 
 consecutive industry and honesty of purpose. Both he and his wife 
 were communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith they were 
 reared. Mrs. Enright was a girl of about twelve years at the time 
 of her parents' removal to America and she was reared to maturity 
 in Steuben county, where she continued to reside until her death, 
 in 1877. Of the nine children all but one attained to years of ma- 
 turity and of the number seven are now living. All of the children 
 were born in Steuben county. In that county William and Jere- 
 miah still maintain their homes; John and Michael reside in El- 
 mira. New York; Patrick is a resident of Los Angeles, California; 
 Jett resides in Brooklyn, New Y^ork; and Lieutenant Enright, of 
 this review, is the youngest of the children. 
 
 Lieutenant Enright is indebted to the public schools of his 
 native county for his early educational training and as a youth 
 he learned the art of telegraphy. After perfecting himself in the 
 same he was employed at various places in the state and he finally 
 removed to New York city, where he was employed for a time as 
 operator for the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad, later by the 
 Erie & Western and finally by the Long Island Railroad. Besides 
 which he was for a time in the employ of the Western Union Tele- 
 graph Company. In 1896 he made a radical change of vocation by 
 joining the police force of New York city and he recalls with satis- 
 faction that at this time Theodore Roosevelt was police commis- 
 sioner of the city. In 1897 the Lieutenant was appointed secretary 
 to General Theophilus F. Rodenbaugh, Superintendent of Elections 
 in New York city. In 1902 he was promoted to the position of police 
 sergeant by Colonel John M. Partridge, who was at that time 
 police commissioner. In 1904 he was chosen Superintendent in 
 charge of the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies of the Police De- 
 partment and at the same time was advanced to the rank of lieu- 
 tenant, by Commissioner William McAdoo. In 1905 he received 
 his well-earned promotion to his present rank of lieutenant. In 
 1909 he was appointed Acting Captain of Police at the Gates Ave- 
 nue Station, in Brooklyn, and later he had charge of the Elizabeth 
 Street Station, the jurisdiction of which extended over the famous 
 "Chinatown" of New York. He assumed his position as Acting 
 Captain at the Vernon Avenue Station in 1910, and here he has 
 since continued to give most efficient administration of the duties 
 devolving upon him. 
 
 For several years Lieutenant Enright was president of the 
 Police Sergeant Benevolent Association, which at that time had a 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 891 
 
 membership of nearly six hundred and fifty police sergeants iden- 
 tified with the Police Department of New York city. For the past 
 five years he has been president of the Lieutenants' Benevolent 
 Association, which has a membership of seven hundred and fifty 
 men, and he is also chairman of 'the Federated Police Organizations 
 of Greater New York, in which capacity he has presided at many 
 important social and business meetings of the organization. He is 
 affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, Brooklyn Lodge, No. 22, Benev- 
 olent and Protective Order of Elks, and is well known in the 
 borough in which he resides and in which his popularity is of the 
 most unequivocal type. He is a Democrat in his political pro- 
 clivities. The captain is a bachelor. 
 
 Claud Y. Stowell. — A rising young attorney of Corning, 
 devoting all of his energy to making a success of his chosen profes- 
 sion, Claud V. Stowell is fast winning for himself a prominent and 
 honorable name in the legal circles of Steuben county. He was 
 born July 26, 1882, in Lindley, Steuben county, and has spent his 
 entire life in this section of the state. 
 
 His father, Harry Stowell, and his grandfather, Richard P. 
 Stowell, have both been residents of Steuben county for upwards 
 of thirty-five years, and both have been active in public affairs, 
 serving as justice of the peace many terms, each discharging the 
 duties of his office with ability and fidelity. 
 
 Receiving his preliminary education in the district schools, 
 Claud V. Stowell subsequently prepared for college at the North 
 Side High School of Corning, and in 1908 was graduated from the 
 Law Department of the Syracuse University, at Syracuse, New 
 York. Locating in Corning on February 1, 1909, Mr. Stowell 
 formed a partnership with Neil W. Andrews, and was with him 
 engaged in the practice of law until March 1, 1910, when the part- 
 nership was dissolved. Talented and capable, he has made rapid 
 strides in his professional career, his legal skill and ability winning 
 him the confidence of the people, and he is now serving as acting 
 city judge, and as justice of the peace, in the latter capacity closely 
 following in the footsteps of his immediate ancestors. He is a 
 stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and is 
 much interested in public matters. 
 
 Mr. Stowell married, November 4, 1907, Elizabeth J. Harrison, 
 a daughter of Edgar J. Harrison, a well-known agriculturist. On 
 April 27, 1909, she passed to the higher life. Mr. Stowell is a mem- 
 ber of the Delta Chi Law Fraternity of the state of New York. 
 
 Belmont M. LaRue.— At 180 Broadway, in New York city, 
 are established the headquarters of Mr. LaRue, who is here suc- 
 cessfully engaged in the real estate business and who is one of the 
 worthy representatives of Steuben county in the national metropo- 
 lis. He was born at Hornell, Steuben county, on the 2d of Decem- 
 ber, 1869, and is the elder of the two sons of Henry Belmont LaRue, 
 
892 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 who was born in the city of New York, whence he removed to Hor- 
 nell, Steuben county, about the year 1867. There he has since 
 maintained his home and for many years he has been one of the 
 honored citizens and prominent business men of Steuben county. 
 
 Belmont M. LaRue gained his. early educational discipline in 
 the public schools of his native place and in 1889, when nineteen 
 years of age, he removed to New York city, where he secured em- 
 ployment in the transportation department of the Erie Railroad. 
 Shortly afterward he assumed the position of private secretary to 
 the presideiit of the Title Guaranty & Trust Company, of New York 
 city, and this incumbency he retained for three years, within 
 which he gained most valuable business experience. He finally re- 
 signed his position to accept that of secretary to Colonel Samuel B. 
 Dick, president of the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, 
 with headquarters in the city of Pittsburg. He was thus engaged 
 about three years, at the expiration of which he returned to the city 
 of New York, where he became secretary to Marcellus Hartley, one 
 of the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Company and 
 prominently identified with many other capitalistic enterprises. 
 Mr. LaRue finally resigned his position and secured one with the 
 firm of Price, Waterhouse & Company, of London, England, a 
 concern that maintains offices in New York. In 1908 Mr. LaRue 
 began his independent operations in connection with the real estate 
 business, and in the same he has been very successful, having repre- 
 sented on his books at all times most desirable investments, both 
 city and country property, and also giving attention to the renting 
 of properties, as well as to collections. He is prominently con- 
 cerned in the exploiting of the Kelvin Grove addition to Westfield, 
 New York a tract of about ninety acres that has been effectively 
 platted and upon which improvements of the best order are being 
 made, including the erection of attractive houses, which have been 
 placed upon the market. 
 
 Mr. LaRue is an aggressive and enterprising business man and 
 is bringing to bear splendid executive powers in the handling of 
 his business interests, through which he has gained prominence as 
 one of the successful real estate dealers of the metropolis. Though 
 never manifesting any ambition to enter the turbulence of practical 
 politics, he takes a loyal interest in public affairs and his political 
 allegiance is given to the Republican party. He is a popular mem-* 
 ber of the Steuben County Society of New York City and retains a 
 deep interest in his native county. In the year 1897 Mr. LaRue 
 was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Benedict, daughter of Delos 
 and Letitia Benedict, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 Charles Griffith Young.— A nation's efficiency, its greatness 
 in a material sense, as well as its moral wellbeing, depends upon 
 whether its people can find their proper work, distributing them- 
 selves like a well-ordered army where each can do his best. There 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 893 
 
 Mr. Young has so placed himself as to make his efforts and activities 
 most productive and beneficent, as in his profession as a consulting 
 and construction engineer he has shown marked technical and 
 initiative power and has achieved large and definite success as well 
 as wide reputation, giving him prestige as one of the distinctively 
 representative members of his profession. He has his office head- 
 quarters at 60 Wall street. New York city, and since initiating his 
 independent career has added materially to the distinction which he 
 had previously gained in the employ of others. Steuben county 
 may well find pride in the character and accomplishment of this 
 native son, and he is a scion of old and honored families of the 
 county. Within the compass of a sketch of this order it is, of 
 course, impossible to enter into details concerning the various stages 
 of his professional career, but sufficient data will be offered to con- 
 vey an idea of the consistency of the foregoing statements. 
 
 Charles Griffith Young was born at Bath, Steuben county, on 
 the 1st of November, 1866, and is a son of Charles H. and Marian 
 (Kellogg) Young, the former of whom was born at Benton Center, 
 Yates county. New York, and the latter at Kanona, Steuben county, 
 where the Kellogg family was founded in the pioneer days. Mrs. 
 Young passed on in June, 1879, at the age of thirty-nine years. 
 Charles H. Young was a lad of twelve years at the time he removed 
 to Steuben county, where he was reared to manhood and eventually 
 became one of Bath's successful merchants. About the year 1898 
 he removed to Naples, Ontario county, where he continued to reside 
 until 'his death, which occurred on the 7th of September, 1908, 
 at which time he was about seventy-three years of age. Of the two 
 surviving children the subject of this review is the elder, and the 
 other is Marianna Young Quinby, now residing in Buffalo, New 
 York. 
 
 Charles Griffith Young gained his educational discipline by a 
 course in Haverling Academy, at Bath, Steuben county, from which 
 institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1885. In 
 the early part of the following year he began his technical training 
 in the establishment of the Schuyler Electric & Manufacturing 
 Company at Hartford and Middleton, Connecticut, where he fa- 
 miliarized himself with all departments of manufacturing, experi- 
 mental and testing work and with the practical erection and opera- 
 tion of electric lighting plants. In 1888 he became general super- 
 intendent of the Mount Morris Electric Lighting Company, of New- 
 York city, with which he continued to be prominently identified 
 until 1892, when he became identified with the interest of J. G. 
 White & Company and the White-Crosby Company, representing 
 one of the most important engineering-contracting concerns of the 
 kind in the world. In 1900 he associated himself with J. G. White 
 & Company, Limited, in London, England, and in this connection he 
 made special financial and engineering examinations, investiga- 
 tions, reports and negotiations for contracts in South Anierica, New 
 Zealand and various places throughout many other sections of the 
 
894 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 world. From 1902 to 1905 he had entire charge of all construction 
 for the J. G. White interests in America, and with this great con- 
 cern he continued to be actively identified until February, 1909, 
 when he established himself independently in the work of his pro- 
 fession. While with the White corporations Mr. Young did a large 
 amount of expert financial and construction work in many of the 
 leading cities of the United States, as well as in the Philippine 
 Islands, Australia, Holland, Argentine Republic, Ceylon, Cuba, 
 Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Porto Rico, China, Chili, New Zealand 
 and Japan. After establishing himself in the independent work of 
 his profession Mr. Young made his third trip around the world, hav- 
 ing been engaged to make certain important examinations and re- 
 ports in the far east. He left New York in February, 1909, and 
 during his absence of about seven months he again visited Hono- 
 lulu, Japan and the Philippine Islands, after which he passed 
 through China, Manchuria and Korea, thence to Vladivostock and 
 over the Siberian railroads to Moscow, and finally to Berlin, Paris 
 and London. He returned to New York city in September, 1909, 
 and here has since made his headquarters for his large and im- 
 portant work as a consulting and constructing engineer, in both 
 of which lines he is a recognized authority. 
 
 Mr. Young is a member of the American Institute of Elec- 
 trical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 
 Engineers' Club of New York City, the New York Railroad Club, 
 the National Electric Light Association, the New York Electrical 
 Society, the National Geographical Society, the American Electric 
 Railway Association, and the Steuben County Society of New York 
 City. He is a man of much initiative and marked resourcefulness, 
 and his high standing in his chosen field of endeavor affords the 
 best evidence of his fine technical and executive powers. He is a 
 man of genial personality and his sterling characteristics have 
 gained to him the confidence and good will of those with whom he 
 has come in contact during his wide and interesting business ex- 
 perience as well as those met in connection -mth social activities. 
 His political allegiance is given to the Gold-Democratic party, but, 
 subordinating all other interests to his profession, he has never 
 cared to enter the turmoil of so-called practical politics, although 
 interested in and identified with civic activities. 
 
 In October, 1891, Mr. Young was united in marriage to Miss 
 Bessie Curtis Leonard, daughter of Solomon M. and Elizabeth 
 (Hastings) Leonard, the former of whom was born at Troy, Penn- 
 sylvania, and the latter at Hammondsport, Steuben county, New 
 York, where her father was an honored pioneer and influential 
 citizen. Mr. and Mrs Young have one daughter, Elizabeth Gordon 
 Young. 
 
 William H. Farnham.— Few citizens of Addison contribute in 
 larger measure to the prosperity, of that attractive little city than 
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 trade throughout the southern tier of New York counties and in 
 Northern Pennsylvania. It is he who figures as captain of the im- 
 portant firm of Farnam & Reynolds, packers and wholesalers of 
 leaf tobacco, the business mentioned being one of those which lend 
 prestige to Steuben county. He is also one of the county's large 
 landowners, his property including several farms of great value. 
 
 Mr. Farnham has particular reason for that loyalty he gives 
 to Addison and the county, for it is dear to him through many asso- 
 ciations, among them the primary tie of birth, for in Addison his 
 eyes first opened to the light of day, November 11, 1860. The 
 scene of the early history of the Farnham family in America is 
 New England, that cradle of so much of our national history, and 
 the state of Connecticut was the birthplace of Mr. Farnham 's 
 father, George Farnham, who came a pioneer to Steuben county in 
 1856, only a few years previous to the birth of the subject. The 
 father was a merchant and lumber dealer and played a prominent 
 and praiseworthy part in the affairs of the community in which his 
 interests were centered. He was a man of remarkable business 
 sagacity and energy and there were few matters looking towards the 
 advancement and upbuilding of the community in which he was 
 not concerned. He was a Democrat, subscribing with enthusiasm 
 to its articles of faith and very influential in politics. This well- 
 remembered citizen died when seventy-six years of age. His wife, 
 mother of the subject, was a daughter of Steuben county, her maiden 
 name having been Julia Wambaugh. Her father, William Wam- 
 baugh, was an early settler here and has a place in history among 
 the leading pioneers. A man of force and ability he became a large 
 land owner and proprietor of sawmills and gristmiUs, and his 
 active and useful career was terminated by his death about 1856. 
 George Farnum and Julia Wambaugh were married in Steuben 
 county and became the parents of three children. Hannah C. is 
 the wife of Hon. Byron C. Stout, of Pontiac, Michigan ; George, Jr., 
 is a wholesale dealer in boots and shoes in Buffalo, New York ; and 
 William H. is the youngest in order of birth. 
 
 William H. Farnham has given Addison unmistakable proof 
 of the sincerity of his devotion by electing to pass his active career 
 within its borders. Here he passed his boyhood and early youth 
 and to the excellent public schools is he indebted for his early edu- 
 cational advantages. He was fortunate in securing an exceptionally 
 good education, following his public school career with attendance 
 at Alfred University, in Alfred, Allegany county, and going 
 thence to that noted institution, the University of Michigan, at Ann 
 Arbor. He had had some experience in the management of agri- 
 cultural property and after receiving his degree from the last- 
 named university, he took charge of the home farm for a time. 
 He eventually engaged in the produce and leaf tobacco trade and 
 was chiefly instrumental in developing the concern now known as 
 Farnham & Reynolds. In Masonry Mr. Farnham is locally promi- 
 nent. 
 
898 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 Sherman Smith, an enterprising and successful farmer in 
 Bath township, Steuben county, New York, is a native of the town- 
 ship, born on his present home, January 14, 1866. He is a son of 
 Andrew Jackson and Zidana (Le Gro) Smith, and grandson of 
 Charles and Azilla (Morgan) Smith. He great-grandfather, An- 
 drew Smith, immigrated to America in 1793 and the following year 
 took up three hundred acpes of land in Bath township, as men- 
 tioned in the sketch of Miss Nancy Smith, found elsewhere in this 
 work. Charles Smith, a pioneeer farmer of Bath township, was 
 born in 1796 and died in 1864. His wife was a daughter of General 
 Morgan, a soldier in the Revolution, who was captured by the 
 British and kept a prisoner in a man-of-war in New York harbor, 
 where he died. Andrew Jackson Smith was born on the old Smith 
 home, October 24, 1827, and died November 26, 1889. His wife was 
 a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Dudley) Le Gro. His early 
 married life was spent in Columbus, Ohio, where he kept a tin 
 shop. Later he^ returned to New York state and became a farmer. 
 Mr. Smith and his wife had nine children, as follows: Jeannie 
 Azilla, Samuel Le Gro, Mary Angelina, William Charles, Sherman 
 Tecumseh, Hoxie Wilber, Fred Douglass, Nellie Louisa and James 
 Lee. 
 
 After completing his education, Sherman T. Smith began farm- 
 ing with his father. He has been a farmer all his life, and has a 
 good dairy, keeping twenty cows and making a specialty of Hol- 
 stein cattle. He has been a Republican in politics, although he 
 has never cared for public office. He has always been identified with 
 every good cause and used his influence to promote the welfare of 
 the community. He is a worthy representative of a family that 
 has been most highly esteemed for many generations in Steuben 
 county and is accounted a public-spirited, useful citizen. 
 
 Mr. Smith married, March 14, 1900, Lizzie Grace Hadden, 
 daughter of James L. and Eliza Adelia (Silliman) Hadden, of 
 Bath township. She was born July 31, 1873, in Bath township. 
 Children as follows have blessed this union: Sherman T., Jr., nine 
 years of age, and Leon Burton, six years of age. 
 
 Dr. George Conderman was born October 15, 1868, in Fre- 
 mont, Steuben county, New York, and is a son of John D. and 
 Aseneth Conderman. His father first saw the light of day in 
 Warren, Herkimer county, New York, and eventually became one 
 of the early settlers of Steuben county. The grandfather, Adam 
 Conderman, brought his family to this section many years ago, 
 John D. being young at the time of the exodus. The maiden name 
 of the mother of the subject was Aseneth Spaulding, she being a 
 native of Tompkins county, New York, and a daughter of George 
 Spaulding, also born there, and who subsequently became a promi- 
 nent resident of Howard, New York. The father -died July 30, 
 1890, in Homellsville, New York, at the age of seventy, and the 
 mother is living in Homellsville at the age of eighty-five. They 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 899 
 
 reared a family of four sons— Prank, Laverne and George now be- 
 ing residents of Hornell, while Charles met with an accidental 
 death at the age of thirty-eight. 
 
 Dr. George Conderman was the youngest of the children born 
 to his parents. When six years of age he was brought by them to 
 Hornellsville, now Hornell, where he has since resided, his early 
 education being received at the public schools, he graduating from 
 the Hornell Free Academy in 1884. Taking up the study of medi- 
 cine under the preeeptorship of Dr. Clair S. Parkhill, he entered 
 the College of Physicians & Surgeons, of New York city. Taking 
 his degree from the University of Vermont in 1889, he completed 
 his medical education at the New York Post Graduate Medical 
 School and Hospital in 1890. For twelve years he followed the 
 practice of his profession in Hornellsville, New York. 
 
 In 1892 Dr. Conderman became financially interested in the 
 Clemons Belt Sander, a machine which eventually revolutionized 
 the question of sanding and today the same is in use in all the 
 principal countries of the world. He organized the Clemons Ma- 
 chine Company in 1892 and has served as its president since its 
 incorporation. The profits resulting from the manufacture and 
 sale of their product netted the company very satisfactory returns 
 and inasmuch as Dr. Conderman has ever been a firm believer in 
 the future of Hornell, he has invested largely in Hornell real estate 
 and today is the owner of some of the choicest property in the city. 
 
 Politically Dr. Conderman has been prominently identified 
 with the Republican party. He has represented his city for six 
 years on the board of supervisors and is at present a member of 
 the board of public safety. He is past exalted ruler of Lodge No. 
 364, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has been 
 prominent in other fraternal societies. He affiliates with medical 
 associations, has been a contributor to professional literature and 
 he owns a fine and constantly growing library. In 1884 he married 
 Miss Mildred J. Boyd, of Hornellsville, New York. 
 
 Dr. Conderman is a type of citizenship characterized by those 
 of Dutch descent. He is liberal in his views, temperate in his 
 habits, upright and honorable in all his relations in professional, 
 business and social life. He is conservative in his business deal- 
 ings and possesses a well-poised intellect which qualifies him as 
 one of sound judgment. He is therefore able to hold positions of 
 responsibility and trust in a manner to merit the confidence of the 
 public. 
 
 Faey Buchanan Bebcher, a leading lawyer of Atlanta, Steu- 
 ben county, is also a prominent Democrat of this section of the 
 state, and has demonstrated his reliability, as well as merited pop- 
 ularity in the community, by his many years of service as justice 
 of the peace. A native of Fremont township, he was born on the 
 2nd of June, 1856, and is a son of Randall F. and Statira (Sand- 
 ford) Beecher. The father, who was born June 4, 1814, after 
 
900 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 receiving a tliorough education, according to the standard of his 
 day, adopted veterinary and agricultural matters as his life work. 
 In 1835 he settled in Howard township, where he remained until 
 1850, when he moved to Fremont township, purchasing a home- 
 stead near Joab's Corners. There he resided and honored the 
 family name until his death November 12, 1876. 
 
 The wife and mother was a native of Bald Hill, Ontario county, 
 New York, born on the 7th of September, 1821, and she died at 
 Atlanta, New York, October 6, 1909. She was of substantial New 
 England and German blood her father, Hezekiah Sandford, being 
 a native of the Green Mountain state, and her mother, Catherine 
 Yerton (before marriage), a daugter of the Germanic fatherland, 
 whose family first took root in the United States in 1817. 
 
 Although there were fourteen children in the family, ]Mr. 
 Beecher managed to give them all a good education, and as Fary 
 B. evinced a special aptitude for the acquisition of intellectual 
 capital he was particularly encouraged to continue his studies be- 
 yond the average standard. After mastering the common branches, 
 at the age of seventeen he commenced a course at the Rogers Union 
 Seminary, and afterward entered the office of 0. S. Scool, of 
 Cohocton, as a law student. 
 
 Admitted to the bar in 1891, Mr. Beecher was granted the 
 privilege of practicing in all courts of the United States, 1894, and 
 still later received his LL. D. diploma. He has spent his entire 
 professional life in Atlanta and is a most worthy representative 
 of his calling and of the best citizenship of the Empire state. He 
 commenced his official service as justice of the peace in 1880, and in 
 his capacity as a citizen has actively promoted the interests of 
 Democracy through his membership on the county committee and 
 his private efforts in behalf of the party which he so stanchly 
 supports. ' 
 
 As a man of domestic tastes and virtues, Mr. Beecher in- 
 augurated this phase of his life by his marriage to Miss Emma E. 
 Johnson, daughter of William L. and Eliza J. (Ellsworth) John- 
 son. His wife was born on Christmas day of 1862. She certainly 
 has proven to be a precious gift to him and has presented him 
 with two sons and two daughters who have matured in a way to 
 gladden the hearts of their parents. Don. L., the eldest, is a de- 
 partment head in the large Sibley store of Rochester, New Y'ork; 
 Dana C, a progressive electrician of Canada: Una M., a teacher 
 now in Geneseo, Livingston county, and Marion is a bright student 
 in the Atlanta high school. 
 
 Mr. Beecher is a descendant of Hezekiah, one of three famous 
 brothers, Dr. Lyman, Hezekiah, and Linas, being descendants of 
 two brothers who came to this country on the Mayflower in 1620. 
 Mr. Beecher has devoted some time in collecting historical records 
 of the county and state, and that of the Randoll family, one of 
 whom was his father's mother, as well as the Beecher family, and 
 is now in possession of many interesting facts connected with this 
 subject. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 901 
 
 Eev. Walter L. Lee, pastor of St. Patrick's parish, in the 
 eastern section of the city of Corning, is one of the most eminent 
 members of the Catholic priesthood of Steuben county. New York. 
 Devoted heart and soul to the cause to which he has given his fine 
 intellect, inspiring character and splendid executive traits, he is 
 revered and honored by priesthood and laity, and his work, al- 
 though virtually but begun, has been one of high and admirable 
 achievement. Father Lee was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, 
 February 10, 1871, coming to Buffalo in early childhood. His 
 parents were John and Honora (Walsh) Lee, both of whom had 
 their nativity in Ireland, the former in County Westmeath, and the 
 latter in County Clare. John Lee was born May 9, 1834, and 
 when a lad but sixteen years of age he hearkened to the call of 
 opportunity from the shore of the New World and crossed the 
 Atlantic to claim his share. He made permanent location in the 
 state where he first touched American soil, drifting to the citj' of 
 Buffalo, where he resided almost continuously for the rest oP his 
 days. The clever young Irishman learned the carpenter's trade 
 and later became a general contractor, the independence and pros- 
 perity of which he had dreamed falling to his share in fullest 
 measure. He was a man of undoubted ability and among the 
 responsible offices held by him was that of lumber inspector at 
 Buffalo. The mother's birth was upon March 25, 1835. She came 
 to America in 1854, when a maiden less than nineteen years of age, 
 and two years later, June 2, 1856, she and John Lee were united in 
 marriage. After fifty years of devoted and ideally happy married 
 life, in 1906, they celebrated their golden wedding in Holy Angels 
 church, Buffalo, the church in which they had first exchanged their 
 marriage vows. The father died in Buffalo, June 28, 1909, and the 
 mother survived him only a little over a year, her demise occurring 
 September 14, 1910. 
 
 Rev. Father Lee received his preliminary education in the 
 Holy Angels' school, of Buffalo, and subsequent to that entered 
 St. Joseph's College, where he completed his classical course, grad- 
 uating in 1888. In September of the same year he entered Niagara 
 University, at Niagara Falls, where he began his seminary course 
 in preparation for the priesthood. In 1891 he received his Bac- 
 calaureate and in 1893 the degree of Master of Arts from Niagara 
 University. He is a student of rare attainments and that a useful 
 and brilliant career lay before him was evident even at that time. 
 He was ordained to the priesthood on June 8, 1895, by the Rt. 
 Rev. Bishop Ryan, at Niagara University, and a few days later 
 took up the work to which his many years of valiant preparation 
 had looked. It was in fact on June 20, 1895, that he was appointed 
 by Bishop Ryan, assistant to Very Rev. Dean Colgan of St. Mary's 
 church, Corning, New York. In this important field he had an 
 opportunity of manifesting his zeal and ability, and of assisting in 
 no small measure in the growth of the parish. In 1902, in evidence 
 of the marked approval of the elders of the church he was assigned 
 
902 HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 
 
 by Rt. Rev. Bishop MeQuaid, of Rochester, to the pastorate of the 
 new St. Patrick's parish, founded that year in the eastern section 
 of the city of Corning, and in that pastorate he has since continued 
 his labors which have been crowned with the greatest success. As 
 an expounder of the Scriptures Father Lee is eloquent and en- 
 lightened and the affection and respect in which he is held by his 
 flock is of the highest order. He maintains fraternal relations in 
 two of the organizations for which the Catholic church stands 
 sponsor,— the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association to which he has 
 belonged since 1898, and to the Knights of Columbus, his member- 
 ship being with Corning Council No. 281. In both of the above he 
 has several times served as chaplain or spiritual director. 
 
 In the ensuing paragraphs is given a brief sketch of the history 
 and affairs of St. Patrick's parish, of Corning, New York, to which 
 have been devoted for the past decade the labors of Father Lee. 
 St. Patrick's parish was organized August 10, 1902, by Rt. Rev. 
 B. J. McQuaid, Bishop of Rochester, who appointed as its first 
 pastor Rev. Walter J. Lee, who, as previously mentioned, at that 
 time was assistant pastor of St. Mary's parish, of Corning, from 
 which parish the new St. Patrick's was detached. During the first 
 year, the services of St. Patrick's were held in the building which 
 stood at the corner of Market and Steuben streets, but these humble 
 quarters of course, were understood to be but temporary. In 1903 
 Father Lee began the erection of a handsome new building, de- 
 signed to serve as a parochial school, with church quarters on the 
 first floor, a plan adopted by the bishop of the diocese for every new- 
 parish. The cost of this building was about $23,000. The corner 
 stone was blessed on June 21st by Rt. Rev. Bishop McQuaid, who 
 also officiated at the dedication of the church and school on the 1st 
 of November, 1903. The site includes about two hundred and eighty- 
 two feet on East Brie avenue, west of Steuben street, on the corner 
 of which is located the rectory of St. Patrick's parish. The school 
 is under the supervision of the rector and is taught by the Sisters 
 of St. Joseph, who have their residence in the adjoining convent on 
 East Erie avenue. The parish numbers over 1,100 souls and 
 the school has an enrollment of two hundred and sixteen pupils. 
 Regents examinations are held in the school each year and at their 
 conclusion are held the graduating exercises for the pupils entitled 
 to diplomas, such admitting them to the Corning Free Academy. 
 The Alumni Association, at the end of eight years numbers over 
 one hundred members. The building is of the most commodious 
 character, and in the basement of the combined church and school 
 building is an assembly hall and library for the church societies. St. 
 Patrick's parish is now (in 1910) practically free of debt and a 
 building fund is in progress to provide the future new church. 
 
 Horace Dyer Baldwin, who was lawyer and prominent citi- 
 zen of Steuben county, represented one of its pioneer families. He 
 was born at Sherburne, Chenango county. New York, June 24, 
 
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 1838. His family history presents many distinguished members, 
 the name having been one to which attached much honor in Colonial 
 days, and its luster having by no means dimmed with the present 
 generation. Abram Baldwin, great uncle of him whose name 
 initiates this review, was born November 27, 1754 ; graduated from 
 Yale College in 1772; was chaplain in the Revolutionary war; 
 studied law ; and settled in Savannah, Georgia. He was a member 
 of the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1788 and a member of 
 the convention which framed the constitution of the United States. 
 He was representative in Congress from 1789 to 1799 and a mem- 
 ber of the United States senate from 1799 to 1807. He died March 
 4, 1807. A detailed history of this eminent statesman and patriot 
 is to be found in the American Monthly Magazine (published by 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution) for March, 1910, pp. 
 313, 314, 315 and 316. Joel Barlow, the renowned author of 
 "Hasty Pudding" and other productions, one of the "Hartford 
 Wits, ' ' married Ruth Baldwin, a member of the family of the sub- 
 ject. He was brigade chaplain in the Revolutionary war and pub- 
 lished the,"Columbiad" in 1808. He was minister to Prance in 
 1811. Another distinguished Baldwin was Judge Simeon E. Bald- 
 win, of the Connecticut supreme court. 
 
 Horace Baldwin, father of Horace Dyer Baldwin, was born at 
 Goshen, Litchfield county, Connecticut, August, 1796, and came to 
 Woodhull, Steuben county, in 1840. He was a merchant, one of the 
 first, in fact, in the village. He became well known and influential 
 in the county and was active as a business man until his death, 
 which occurred February, 1854. Horace Baldwin's father, Elisha 
 Baldwin, a native of Goshen, Connecticut, lived and died there. 
 He was of English descent and his family history was of the most 
 interesting character. By occupation he was a farmer. Rev. 
 Theron Baldwin, son of Elisha and brother of Horace Baldwin, 
 clergyman and educator, was born at Goshen, Connecticut, July 21, 
 1801, and was graduated from Yale College in 1827. After two 
 years' study in the theological seminary there he was ordained a 
 home missionary in 1829 and became one of the celebrated "Yale 
 College Band," or "Western College Society," of which he was 
 corresponding secretary during most of his life. He was settled as 
 a Congregational minister at Vandalia, Illinois, for two years and 
 was active in procuring the charter of Illinois College at Jackson- 
 ville, of which he was a trustee from its organization to his death. 
 He served for a number of years following 1831 as agent of the 
 Home Missionary Society of Illinois and in 1838 became the first 
 principal of the Female Seminary at Monticello, Illinois, of which 
 he was at the head for five years. He died at Orange, New Jersey, 
 April 10, 1870. Abram Baldwin, brother of Horace and Theron 
 Baldwin, also a graduate of Yale, died in the foreign missionary 
 service. 
 
 Horace Baldwin married Penelope Allen, who was born af 
 North Kingston, Washington county, Rhode Island, in 1796. Their 
 
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 wedding took place in 1835. He died in 1854, she in 1879 ; he aged 
 about fifty-eight, she aged eighty-three. They had but two chil- 
 dren, Horace Dyer and Clarendon. The latter was bom in Nor- 
 wich, Chenango county, in April, 1836, and died in September, 
 1897. 
 
 Horace Dyer Baldwin passed his boyhood daj's in Woodhull, 
 attending district school and J. S. Dolson, of Hornell, was one of 
 his earliest teachers. He later studied at Troupsburg Academy, 
 under the principalship of Professors Newell and Reynolds; he 
 attended the historic school at Woodhull in 1851; and was grad- 
 uated from Oxford Academy, Oxford, Chenango county, under the 
 principalship of Prof. Humphrey, in the fall of 1855. In 1859 he 
 matriculated at Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany county, where 
 he was graduated in 1863. In this latter interval— in 1861, almost 
 immediately after the outbreak of the Civil war — he enlisted in 
 Company E, Thirty- fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infan- 
 try, at Addison, and served with that organization until honorably 
 discharged for disability. After completing his education, he taught 
 school at Rathbone, Erwin, and Addison, Steuben county, for 
 three years, meantime studying la^v in the office of Hon. F. C. and 
 Col. J. W. Dininny, at Addison. He was admitted to the bar at 
 Rochester, New York, at the general term of the supreme court of 
 the state of New York, in June. 1866, and was for three years 
 thereafter associated in the practice of law with his former pre- 
 ceptors at Addison. Since then, individually, he gave his attention 
 to general practice in all the courts of the state, with a degree of 
 success that is well known to his fellow citizens at Addison. He 
 presented the somewhat remarkable record of having been for forty 
 years continuously a notary public. He inherited Republican prin- 
 ciples and naturally and without debate with himself became a 
 member of the Republican party when he became a voter. From 
 that time he acted consistently with that great and progressive 
 political body, voting for Lincoln in 1864 and voting at every presi- 
 dential election afterward for the Republican nominee. 
 
 In 1882, Mr. Baldwin married Adelaide F. Birdsall, daughter 
 of Henry H. and Rachel Birdsall, at Afton, Chenango county, New 
 York, the Rev. Dr. Parke, of Binghamton, New York, performing 
 their wedding ceremony. Mr. Baldwin was a member and three 
 times commander of the Grand Army Post, No. 373, of Addison. 
 He was a communicant of the Presbyterian church. In all his rela- 
 tions with his fellow citizens he demonstrated that he possessed 
 such public spirit as makes for the advancement and improvement 
 of all local conditions. There is no movement proposed for the 
 public good that did not have his active and liberal support. A 
 resident of Old Steuben during all his active life, he won a per- 
 sonal reputation that is the best monument to his patriotism and 
 the most conspicuous mark of his success. He died suddenly No- 
 vember 23, 1910. 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 907 
 
 David H. Travis, president and general manager of the J. H. 
 Strait Milling Company, of Canisteo, is by every argument to be 
 accounted among the representative and influential citizens of that 
 particularly favored portion of our great commonwealth— Steuben 
 county. As the head of one of Canisteo 's large industries, he con- 
 tributes by his public spirited conduct of its affairs to the material 
 prosperity of the whole community. He is also interested in Steu- 
 ben county's agricultural welfare, having for twenty years— from 
 1884 to 1903— stood as one of the most successful and enlightened 
 of the agriculturists of this district. He is a stanch American in all 
 that the term implies — ancestry, independent ideals and fine 
 achievements, and in an uncompromising loyalty to "the land of 
 the free and the home of the brave. ' ' For nearly one hundred and 
 fifty years the Travis family has flourished upon American soil and 
 has figured in some of the most stirring events of national history. 
 
 The founder of the Travis family in America was Amasa 
 Travis, who was born in Dutchess county. New York, September 
 29, 1770, and died in 1859. He was a farmer and a stanch 
 Protestant and it was his distinction to be the second settler in the 
 town of Howard, this county. He was a soldier in the War of 
 1812, being well on toward middle life at the time of that British- 
 American conflict. He took as his wife Phoebe Baker, who was like- 
 wise a native of Dutchess county, where her eyes had first opened 
 to the light of day, December 25, 1783. Also like her husband she 
 was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was her por- 
 tion to live far beyond the usual length of life, and -when summoned 
 to the life eternal she was one hundred and four years of age, this 
 being in the year 1887. More wonderful still she retained her 
 mental faculties until within a year of her death, at which time they 
 began to weaken somewhat. During her long life this intelligent 
 woman witnessed most amazing progress in the section in which her 
 life was passed and where no one was better known than she. 
 Among the children born to Amasa and Phoebe Travis was Charles 
 B., grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, who was 
 born March 22, 1805, in Sheshequin, Pennsylvania. In 1834 he 
 married Sylvia Crosby and they came to Steuben county and set- 
 tled on the creek now known as Travis Creek. The present site of 
 Canisteo and the county roundabout was then an unbroken wilder- 
 ness, but about the stream upon whose banks they built their home 
 and reared their children many other pioneer families came to live, 
 and the subsequent flourishing settlement bore their name on ac- 
 count of the leading part they played in the community. Their 
 son, Amasa Travis, was born on the flrst day of the year 1837, and 
 died August 2, 1894. This highly respected and well remembered 
 eentlemajQ was born in the town of Canisteo on Travis creek and 
 he followed the example of his honored and useful ancestors when 
 it came to choosing a vocation in life. At the time of the Civil war 
 he enlisted in the militia, but was never called upon to serve. He 
 was a loyal adherent of the Republican party and his religious con- 
 
908 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 vietion was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was united 
 in marriage with Sarah J. France, who, like her husband, was a 
 native of the Empire state, the scenes upon which she first opened 
 her eyes having been those of Stark, Montgomery county. The 
 date of her birth was November 6, 1841, and she survives, making 
 her home at Jasper, New York. Her father, David H. France, was 
 a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, having preached for 
 forty-five years, and her mother, whose maiden name was Eliza 
 Farquharson, could trace her lineage to the land of the thistle. 
 
 David H. Travis, named for his maternal grandfather, was 
 born in Canisteo, February 3, 1863, was reared upon his father's 
 farm and passed his youth amid wholesome rural surroundings. 
 After attending the district schools he entered Canisteo Academy 
 and was graduated from that excellent institution in 1883. After 
 finishing his education he adopted the vocation of his forebears as 
 his own, practical experience having made him familiar with scien- 
 tific agriculture in all of its details, his land, consisting of three 
 farms, 160 acres being situated in Woodhull, where he resided until 
 the spring of 1896, when he moved to Greenwood and there pur- 
 chased two farms containing 356 acres; living there until 1905, he 
 then moved to Canisteo and has since sold the three farms and in- 
 vested in the milling business. During this period of time he was 
 engaged in general farming and dairying and the breeding of thor- 
 oughbred Holstein cattle, being a member of the Holstein Fresian 
 Association. The possessor of splendid executive gifts it was but 
 natural that he should be inclined to an occupation which put these 
 gifts into full play and in 1903 he purchased stock in that very 
 important concern, the J. H. Strait Milling Company, and in a 
 short time he assumed the position of president and general man- 
 ager. This company was incorporated in 1902 and has a capacity 
 of about 225 barrels of flour per day. It handles about 100 cars of 
 grain per year, doing $150,000 worth of business each year. In 
 short, he has won the success which always crowns well-directed 
 labor, sound judgment and untiring perseverance, and at the same 
 time has concerned himself with the affairs of his native county 
 in a loyal public-spirited way. In his political proclivities Mr. 
 Travis pays fealty to the principles and policies of the Republican 
 party, in whose wisdom he reposes much confidence, having served 
 the town of Greenwood as justice of peace. He is a member of the 
 First Methodist Episcopal church of Canisteo, as was Mrs. Travis 
 until her death, March 17, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Travis established a happy life companionship by his mar- 
 riage, which was celebrated July 1, 1884, in the town of Green- 
 wood, New York, Anna E. Miller, daughter of William and Ruth 
 Miller, becoming his bride. Though Mrs. William Miller's maiden 
 name was Ruth Miller, she was no relative of her husband. The 
 occupation of William Miller was farming and he was a well- 
 known citizen of his locality. The union of the subject and his 
 M'ife has been blessed by the birth of the following children, eon- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 909 
 
 eerning whose lives it is possible to give the ensuing data. The 
 eldest son, Miller Amasa Travis, was born at Woodhull, New York, 
 July 12, 1885. After graduating from the high school of Green- 
 wood, he took a four-year course in agriculture in Cornell Univer- 
 sity, where he earned the degree of Bachelor of the Science of 
 Agriculture. He has made excellent use of his thorough prepara- 
 tion and now holds the position of superintendent of the celebrated 
 Rockroane Dairy at Irvington, New York. He was married in June, 
 1910, the young woman to become his wife being Miss Margaret 
 Kieman, of Irvington, New York. The second son, Glenn D. 
 Travis, was born in Greenwood, New York, August 8, 1887, and 
 died November 12, 1888. Lynn France Travis was born in Jasper, 
 New York, April 15, 1889. He is a graduate of the Canisteo high 
 school and Hornell Business College and is now employed by the J. 
 H. Strait Milling Company. Andrew David Travis was born at 
 Woodhull, _ New York, November 20, 1891. He is a graduate of 
 Canisteo high school and is now preparing for a course in Cornell 
 University. The youngest child is a daughter, Mary Anna Travis, 
 born February 5, 1896, in Woodhull, New York, and now in attend- 
 ance at Canisteo high school. The Travis home is one of the hospit- 
 able and attractive abodes of the community. 
 
 Henry W. Bowes.— In the thriving little city of Bath Henry 
 W. Bowes is successfully established in the produce and coal busi- 
 ness, and he is numbered among the representative business men of 
 his native place, where he has a secure hold upon popular confi- 
 dence and esteem. He was born at Bath on. the 22nd of De- 
 cember, 1859, and is the son of Martin and Mary (McMahon) 
 Bowes, both of whom were born in Ireland, the former on the 15th 
 of June, 1836, and the latter in the year 1831, their marriage having 
 been solemnized in Steuben county, in 1856. Martin Bowes was 
 about twelve years of age at the time of his parents' immigration 
 to America, and the family home was established in Steuben 
 county in 1848. Here he was reared to years of maturity and in 
 1857, about the time of attaining to his legal majority, he pur- 
 chased a farm in Bath township, where he continued to be identified 
 with agricultural pursuits until 1859, when he established his home 
 in the village of Bath, where he engaged in business in the trans- 
 portation of passengers and freight, building wp a successful dray- 
 age and omnibus line. In 1870 he turned his attention to the retail 
 coal business and he also became a successful dealer in grain and 
 other produce. He is now virtually retired from active business 
 and is enjoying the just rewards of former years of earnest toil 
 and endeavor. He is held in high esteem in the village that has 
 so long represented his home and he served six years as a member 
 of the board of trustees of the village of Bath. He is a stanch 
 Democrat in his political proclivities and both he and his wife are 
 zealous communicants of the Catholic church. Of their five chil- 
 dren Henry W., of this review, is the eldest; Thomas F., is living 
 
910 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in Boston, Massachusetts ; Ambrose is engaged in business at Bath ; 
 Mary is the wife of Warren W. Faulkner, of Bath ; and Katherine 
 remains at the parental home. 
 
 Henry W. Bowes, whose name initiates this article, was reared 
 to maturity in his native village of Bath, which has been his home 
 during the intervening years, and here he has found ample scope for 
 the utilization of his energies and ability along normal lines of 
 pi'oduetive enterprise, through association with which he has gained 
 prestige as one of the substantial business men of his native county. 
 He gained his early educational discipline in the public schools and 
 supplemented this by a course in Buffalo and at Haverling Acad- 
 emy, in Bath, an institution which figures as the alma mater of 
 many of the representative citizens of Steuben county. He early 
 became associated with his father's business affairs and for the 
 past ten years he has been successfully established in business on 
 his own responsibility, as a dealer in coal and farm produce. His 
 political support is given to the Democratic party and he shows a 
 lively interest in all that touches the welfare of his home town. 
 He was reared in the faith of the Catholic church, in which he is 
 a communicant, and as a citizen he is essentially loyal and public- 
 spirited, the while he has not been denied the respect and esteem of 
 the people of the community which has ever been his home. 
 
 In 1901 Mr. Bowes was married to Clara G., daughter of 
 David M. and Sarah (Gaston) McMaster, of Bath. They have had 
 three children. Sarah A., and David M., living, and Virginia, de- 
 ceased. He served his native village four years as trustee, and one 
 year as president. For twelve years he was a member of the Board 
 of Health acting as its president most of that time. At present he 
 is serving his third term as a member of the Board of Education. 
 He was one of the founders of the prosperous Bath Savings and 
 Loan Association, and for a long time its treasurer. He has been 
 an active fireman thirty-five years, during which time he has served 
 in nearly every official capacity in the department. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trade, treasurer of the Steuben Club, and a 
 charter member of Elmira Council, Knights of Columbus. In 1910 
 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Hudson-Fulton 
 Celebration by Mayor McClellan, of New York City. 
 
 William G. Dean.— The Dean family of Steuben county, and 
 for that matter very largely throughout central and western New 
 York, claim descent from Walter Deane, who with his brother John 
 came from South Chard, near Taunton, Somersetshire, England, 
 and settled at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1638. Without tracing 
 the intermediate generations it is sufficient for the purposes of this 
 article to say that William Dean and Hannah, his wife, in 1762, 
 were occupying four hundred and seventy-seven acres of the ' ' Phil- 
 lipse Patent" near Carmel in Dutchess county. New York, that tract 
 having been opened up to settlers shortly before. Among his children 
 was John, who had been born in Connecticut in 1740, became a sol- 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 911 
 
 dier in the French and Indian war and was one of the army with 
 Wolfe at Quebec. He also served in the Continental army in the 
 War of the Eevolution. He came with his son, Dr. William N., to the 
 town of Pulteney, in Steuben county, in 1815, having previously 
 made a tour of inspection by horseback, and he died there at a ven- 
 erable age. He was three times married, though only one wife, Mary 
 Niles, bore him children. They were among the early settlers of the 
 town. Dr. William N. Dean was born at Carmel, New York, in 
 1795, married to Polly Terry in 1815 at Red Mills, in Dutchess 
 county, and spent his life from young manhood on in the town of 
 Pulteney. He was a man of strong mind and purpose, keen, active, 
 and as a physician took high rank in his profession. He left five 
 children, the youngest of whom, George R., was born in 1832. He 
 became interested in the reports of the discovery of gold in Cali- 
 fornia and shortly before reaching his legal majority joined the 
 hegira of gold-seekers to California, making the long trip by way 
 of the Isthmus of Panama. He remained in California and Nevada 
 for thirteen years, engaged in mining or other business, holding 
 ofiSee, fighting Indians, and playing his full part in maintaining 
 law and order in the wild life of the frontier. He returned to 
 Pulteney in 1866 and was married to Jennie M., daughter of Harry 
 and Theresa (Weed) Godfrey in 1867. The Godfrey family also 
 were early settlers in the town, having settled there about the same 
 time that Dr. Dean came. Their former home was South East in 
 Putnam county, New York. Harry Godfrey was supervisor of the 
 town for a number of terms, justice of the peace and a successful 
 farmer, lawyer and financier. His keen insight and wisdom in 
 choosing investments enabled him to amass a fortune that was in 
 those early days considered large. Soon after the marriage of his 
 daughter Jennie M. to George R. Dean he left the farm to them 
 and removed to Prattsburgh, where he died in 1887. To George R. 
 Dean and wife were born five children, as follows: William G., 
 March 1, 1868 ; Minnie G., a graduate of Elmira College and now 
 of the Department of Education at Albany, New York, July 11, 
 1870; Alice, now Mrs. Dr. William W. Baehman, of Prattsburgh, 
 July 2, 1872 ; Stella, still living at home with her mother, October 
 13, 1875 ; and Harry G., who owns and occupies the old farm, June 
 25, 1878. George R. Dean spent most of his life after his return 
 from the west in farming. In 1887 he removed to Prattsburgh, 
 where he lived till his death in 1904. Mrs. Dean still lives at 
 Prattsburgh. 
 
 The subject of this sketch lived at home until fourteen years of 
 age, when he came to Prattsburgh as a student at Franklin Acad- 
 emy, from which institution he graduated in the classical course in 
 1887. Before leaving school he had been called upon by his grand- 
 father, Harry Godfrey, to assist him in the management of his 
 affairs and at his death the settlement was left largely in his hands. 
 This work, which occupied his mind for a number of years, com- 
 
912 HLSTOKY OP 8TEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 pelled him to abandon his plans for college and to be content with 
 the education already obtained. 
 
 In 1904 he, with Dr. Robert J. Scott and others, organized the 
 Prattsburgh State Bank and bought from W. Frank McLean the 
 banking business which had been conducted by him as a private 
 bank. The bank was organized with a capital of $25,000 and its 
 record has been one of uninterrupted success and progress. It has 
 paid dividends almost from its organization and has amassed a sur- 
 plus now nearly as large as its capital. Mr. Dean and Dr. Scott ■ 
 for over six years had equal voice in its management, the former 
 holding the ofSce of president, the latter that of cashier. Recently 
 Dr. Scott retired from active participation in the affairs of the 
 bank and jNIr. Dean increased his holdings of stock in the bank and 
 correspondingly his voice in its management. It is worthy of note 
 that since the organization of the bank its losses have been less 
 than one per cent per annum of the aggregate amount of loans. 
 Mr. Dean has other real estate interests to which he devotes some 
 time. He was for twenty years a member of the Board of Educa- 
 tion of Franklin Academy and its president for a number of years. 
 He is a member and one of the trustees of the Presbyterian church, 
 and holds membership in the Masonic and Oddfellow bodies. 
 
 In 1894 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dean to Miss 
 Grace Conine, of Bath, this county. She was the daughter of 
 Lorenzo and Abigail Townsend Conine, the former a well-known 
 business man and representative citizen of Bath. The death of Mrs. 
 Dean occurred September 13, 1910, and, beloved by all who knew 
 her, it may well be said of her in the words of the poet, 
 
 "To live in hearts we leave behind 
 Is not to die." 
 
 Her parents removed from Pittsburgh, Green county, to Bath, 
 about fifty years ago, and there she was born, May 9, 1871. Her 
 education was obtained in Haverling Academy, from which institu- 
 tion she was graduated with the class of 1889. For a short time 
 previous to her marriage she was a clerk in the village postoffice 
 under the administration of her brother, Gamaliel T. Conine, and 
 in this capacity won many friends by her prompt and efficient serv- 
 ice and her obliging and cheerful manner. An appreciation of the 
 life and character of this admirable lady was given in a local pub- 
 lication at the time of her demise and from this extracts are taken, 
 with some slight paraphrase. 
 
 After her marriage on August 8, 1894, Mrs. Dean gave her- 
 self to the establishing of a home of culture and refinement. Soon, 
 however, tubercular trouble came to cast its shadow over her life 
 and she was obliged to spend some time in the Adirondacks, where 
 she did in large measure regain her strength, until two years ago, 
 when the trouble was renewed, gradually increasing in intensity 
 until the close. At the early age of nine years she united in mem- 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 913 
 
 bership with the Methodist church, and transferred her fellowship 
 to the Presbyterian church when she came here to live. As all so 
 well know, she was most devoted to her home and could not think 
 of remaining long away from it, although absence might mean the 
 regaining of her powers; other places and other scenes could not 
 compensate for the home joys. Mrs. Dean loved the best books and 
 the great authors became her personal friends. She delighted her- 
 self not with the ephemeral books of the day, but with the tried 
 -and true works of past years. Emerson, Scott, Cooper, Dickens, 
 Hugo, Eliot, and Whittier were her delight, as well as the better 
 class of writers of our own time. Reading was the pleasure of her 
 last years when sickness had compelled her to withdraw from social 
 life and duties in which formerly she had found pleasure. 
 
 Perhaps that which touched all hearts most deeply was the 
 silent and heroic struggle with disease, to which a weaker will 
 would have succumbed long before. In our intercourse with people 
 we occasionally meet with those who seem to bring out the hest in 
 our nature; we are loathe to speak the unworthy thought in their 
 presence, and there was this about Mrs. Dean's personality; she had 
 the faculty of drawing out the best in the lives of those who came 
 in toiich with her own. Such personalities are rare and when one 
 passes out we truly mourn the loss, yet the influence, the sweet 
 perfume of the life still remains. 
 
 Besides her husband, Mrs. Dean was survived by four brothers, 
 G. LaValle, Frank B., David E., and Clinton F., and also by a sis- 
 ter, Mrs. W. A. Sinclair, all of Bath. 
 
 Claeenoe H. -Fay.— a native son of Steuben county, who has 
 gained success and prestige as a member of the bar of New York 
 City, is Clarence H. Fay. He was born in Steuben county, on the 
 4th of August, 1877, and is a son of Henry C. and Mary Ostrander, 
 both of whom were likewise born and reared in Steuben county, 
 where the respective families were founded many years ago. His 
 paternal grandfather, Lewis Pay, was numbered among the pio- 
 neers of Steuben county, where he was identified with the operation 
 of a stage line in the early days and where he also engaged in the 
 express business. He was one of the first conductors on the Erie 
 Railroad and was well known throughout the section of the state 
 which represented is home for so many years. His maternal grand- 
 father, John Ostrander, likewise was numbered among the pioneers 
 of Steuben county. 
 
 Clarence H. Fay, the only son in a family of three children, 
 was reared to adult age in Steuben county and completed the cur- 
 riculum of the public schools, including the high school at Bath. 
 He thereafter became a student in Cornell University, at Ithaca, 
 this state, from which he was graduated as a member of the class 
 of 1901 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 In 1903 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the New 
 York Law School. In the same year he was admitted to the bar 
 
914 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 of New York city and here he has since been engaged in the active 
 practice of his profession. He manifests his continued interest in 
 his native county by his membership in the Steuben Comity Society 
 of New York city and in politics he gives his allegiance to the 
 Republican party. 
 
 James E. Jones.— As president of the Steuben County Society 
 of New York City Colonel James E. Jones keeps in close touch with 
 the affairs of Steuben county, where he was born and reared and 
 where much of his life has been passed. Although Colonel Jones 
 has reached the venerable age of eighty-one years (in 1911) he is 
 still most active and retains in much of their pristine vigor the 
 splendid mental and physical powers of his youth. His business 
 offices in New York city are maintained at No. 143 Wadsworth 
 avenue. 
 
 Colonel James E. Jones was born at Cameron, Steuben county, 
 New York, on the 27th of July, 1829, and is a son of James E. 
 and Sally (Orcutt) Jones, both of whom are now deceased, the 
 former having been born on Duncans Island, Pennsylvania, and 
 the latter at Chemung, Chemung county. New York. Mr. and Mvs. 
 Jones became the parents of five children and of the number two 
 are now living, the Colonel having been the last in order of birth. 
 After due preliminary training in the public schools of Steuben 
 county. Colonel Jones attended and was graduated in the Addison 
 Select School, conducted by the renowned Professor Loekwood, as 
 a member of the class of 1849. In 1852 he was elected town clerk 
 of Cameron and in the following year was made under sheriff, by 
 G. T. narrower, and resided at Bath, the judicial center of the 
 county, for two years. In 1857 Colonel Jones decided to seek his 
 fortunes in the west and accordingly journeyed to Fort Scott, Kan- 
 sas, where he edited and published the Fort Seott Democrat, a free 
 state journal. Because of his opposition to the "Jan Hawkin" 
 faction he was ordered by old John Brown to leave the territory. 
 We quote his own words in this connection : "I did not obey him 
 and when I subsequently heard that he was justly executed at 
 Charleston, Virginia, I shed no tears." He continued to reside 
 in Kansas until 1861. 
 
 At the time when the dark cloud of Civil war obscured the 
 national horizon Colonel Jones tendered his services in defense of 
 the cause of the Union. He entered the army on the 15th of April, 
 1861, as a private in the Frontier Guards of Kansas, and soon after 
 being mustered into service he was appointed, by President Lincoln, 
 a captain and assistant quartermaster and assigned to the Army of 
 the Potomac. He continued as a valiant and faithful soldier until 
 the close of the war, being three times brevetted for gallant and 
 meritorious service upon the recommendation of General Grant. 
 He participated in many important conflicts marking the progress 
 of the war and after General Lee's surrender he was ordered to 
 Albany, New York, in which connection his duties as a soldier 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 913 
 
 covered the entire state with the exception of New York city. He 
 continued in the volunteer service until May, 1866, at which 
 time he was honorably mustered out. In 1870 he purchased a 
 large tract of land in Addison, which he improved, erecting build- 
 ings and cultivating this extensive farm. At this time he also was 
 a member of the firm of Barber, Palmer and Jones, of Utica, manu- 
 facturers of statistical instruments. 
 
 Fraternally, Colonel Jones is affiliated with many important 
 organizations of representative character. He was made a master 
 ilason in 1851 and a Royal Arch Mason, at Addison, in 1869. In 
 1852 he joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Sons 
 of Temperance. He has ever retained a deep and sincere interest 
 in his old comrades in arms and signified the same by membership 
 in Angle Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Addison, of which 
 he is a charter member. In 1872 he was appointed captain of the 
 Post of New York by Governor Hoffman, and in 1885 was appointed 
 by President Cleveland deputy collector of the port of New York 
 and held the position for six years. Colonel Jones was appointed 
 port warden by Governor Hill and reappointed by Governor 
 Flower, subsequently being made director of the New York 
 Aquarium, which position he has held for six years. At the present 
 time he is a member of the Democratic Club of New York city, 
 where he has resided since 1885. He was particularly active in 
 the organizing of the Steuben County Society of New York City, 
 and of the same has been president. In politics he is aligned as a 
 stalwart in the ranks of the Democratic party and he has been a 
 most potent influence in promoting all measures advanced for the 
 general welfare. 
 
 In the year 1868 Colonel Jones was united in marriage to Miss 
 Mary Steele, who was a granddaughter of Judge Steele, an eminent 
 and distinguished citizen of the old town of Painted Post. She was 
 born and reared at Elkland, Pennsylvania, and has now reached 
 the age of sixty years. Mrs. Jones is a woman of rare culture and 
 refinement and she and her husband are devout members of the 
 Episcopal church. 
 
 Henet C. Dudley.— The name of Dudley is one which has 
 figured prominently and admirably in the history of the United 
 States and in the preceding Colonial period. The first Dudley came 
 to the shores of New England but a decade later than the May- 
 flower, and in scarcely less than three centuries the family has 
 given to the nation scores of distinguished men— soldiers, patriots, 
 and statesmen, and men whose honor and integrity has withstood 
 every test. Down through the generations there came in uninter- 
 rupted course the stanch Puritan principles of these illustrious 
 forbears to Henry Clay Dudley, lately deceased, who met the best of 
 them as a peer in the highest capacity granted to mankind— that of 
 a good man and a public-spirited citizen. 
 
 Mr. Dudley was born at Bath, New York, December 22, 1837, 
 
916 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 and he lived to pass by a few years the psalmist's allotment, his 
 demise occurring May 8, 1910. As said before, the Dudley family 
 is one of the oldest in America and the founder of the family on 
 these shores was Thomas Dudley, the ship "Arbella," which had 
 carried him and his family across the Atlantic, arriving in 1630 on 
 the coast of Massachusetts. He was the son of Roger Dudley, cap- 
 tain of Queen Elizabeth 's army and a Pu-ritan, and he was destined 
 to become a leader in the new world. With fifteen hundred others 
 he settled at Salem, and did a valuable part in the founding of 
 Boston and of Harvard College. He was several times governor 
 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, alternating with John Winthrop, 
 and he died after twenty-two years of usefulness at Roxbury, Mas- 
 sachusetts, July 31, 1653. It is probable that Thomas Dudley's 
 wife died before the exodus from England; at any rate, her name 
 and origin are not known. Glancing further, it is found that the 
 next in line with the subject was the Rev. Samuel Dudley, eldest 
 son of the Governor, He was born in England, possibly at 
 Northampton, his father's birthplace, and he was thrice married 
 and became the father of eighteen children. His first wife, to 
 whom he was united two years after coming to America, was Mary, 
 daughter of Governor John "Winthrop. The eleventh child, 
 Stephen, the offspring of his third marriage, was the ancestor of 
 him whose name stands at the head of this review. Like his father, 
 he was a citizen of Exeter, New Hampshire, and he thrived, becom- 
 ing a well-to-do yeoman and the father of eleven children. The 
 third of the children born to him was Lieutenant James Dudley, 
 his birthdate being 1690, and that of his death 1746. A cooper by 
 trade, he was also one of the large landowners of New England, 
 much of his property being in the vicinity of the present town of 
 Raymond, New Hampshire. He was a daring soldier and scout, 
 being present at the siege of Louisburg, and he served with dis- 
 tinction as an officer in the third Inter-Colonial war with France 
 in 1744-47. The third of Lieutenant James Dudley's eight children 
 was Lieutenant Samuel Dudley, born in 1720, and died in 1797. 
 Like his father, he was a valiant soldier and side by side with him 
 he displayed his valor in the war above-mentioned, his office at that 
 time being that of a sergeant. At the siege of Louisburg he cap- 
 tured a French captain in the woods. There were several military 
 Dudleys in that day, one of Samuel's vincles being a captain and 
 another a major. Samuel Dudley, soldier, answered to numerous 
 other callings, being a Quaker preacher, a farmer and a lumber- 
 man, and the scene of these diversified labors was Raymond, New 
 Hampshire. Of the seven sons born to his three marriages two died 
 from accident, four were preachers who left illustrious descendants, 
 and one, Jeremiah— in line with the subject— was a Revolutionary 
 soldier. 
 
 Jeremiah Dudley, fourth son of Lieutenant Samuel Dudley, 
 was born in Raymond, New Hampshire, in 1753, and had the dis- 
 tinction of serving through the war of the Revolvition under a num- 
 
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 ber of famous generals— under the great Washington himself, un- 
 der Generals Gates and Sullivan, and at one time Benedict Arnold 
 was his commander. He was one of nineteen Dudleys who were 
 Revolutionary soldiers. In later life Jeremiah became a ship- 
 builder and located in Bangor, Maine, whence .he removed in 
 sleighs with his large family to Bath, New York, in 1814. He pur- 
 chased fifteen Imndred acres of land south of Bath village, now 
 known as Dudley settlement, and thus in him we see the founder 
 of the family in the Empire slate. He was a Republican and a 
 Avell-informed citizen, and while in Maine held several minor 
 offices. His cousin, Nathaniel Dudley, wrote of him in 1817: 
 "He obtained a better education than his brothers, though it was 
 not extraordinary. He was a man of strong mind, of very indus- 
 trious and prudent habits while living in Maine and had the faculty 
 to keep, as well as to get, property." His life was bounded by the 
 years 1752 and 1838, and through him ten good citizens were given 
 to the state. Moses Dudley, eighth child of the foregoing, was born 
 at East Pittston, ilaine, July 13, 1797. He was a pious man and a 
 citizen who enjoyed the popular esteem and he prospered as a 
 farmer. He received a common-school education, but his learning 
 was not measured by the time he had spent behind a desk in the 
 school room. Politically he gave his support to the Republican 
 party. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Atwood, was born 
 October 14, 1802, at Bangor, Maine. Her mother was a Longfellow 
 and preceded by two generations that noted member of the family, 
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Mary A. Dudley died February 
 4, 1898, a woman of very advanced years and generally beloved in 
 the community. She and her husband were the parents of ten 
 sons and daughters. 
 
 Henry Clay Dudley was the eighth of the children of Moses and 
 Mary A. Dudley, and his birth occurred upon the ancestral home- 
 stead in Bath township, Steuben county. In this brief review it 
 must be apparent that never American citizen had ancestry more 
 worthy of pride and self-satisfaction. He was, however, one of the 
 most modest and simple of men, content to do his duty in that state 
 to which he had been called ; an Abolitionist in his convictions at the 
 time of the nation's disruption; a Republican in politics, though 
 not a rabid one, ever placing the good of the whole social body 
 above mere partisanship ; an advocate of Prohibition in his latter 
 days. He was not a church member, but he gave his right hand to 
 all good causes and any measure likely to result in the general wel- 
 fare was sure of his, support. 
 
 Mr. Dudley was educated in the public schools and early elected 
 to devote his energies to farming, his property consisting of four 
 hundred acres located in Dudley settlement and possessing com- 
 modious buildings, among them an attractive home of renowned 
 hospitality. 
 
 On the 2nd of February, 1869, occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Dudley to Rhuetta Z. Havens, daughter of Elijah and Susan 
 
918 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Havens, of Phelps, New York, their union being celebrated at that 
 place. Through her mother Mrs. Dudley is a descendant of the 
 same stock which produced the eminent American clergyman, Ed- 
 ward Everett Hale. Rev. Elijah Havens was a Wesleyan Methodist 
 minister and was burned to death at Bath when Mrs. Dudley was 
 but eight years of age. This marriage was blessed by the birth of 
 six sons and two daughters, of whom the ensuing mention is given. 
 
 The eldest son, Plummer A., was born at Bath, October 21, 
 1869, and died March 17, 1895. Carrie was born July 8, 1871, and 
 at Bath, October 18, 1893, became the wife of George Z. Harder, a 
 farmer. They have one son, Clay. Egbert H. was born August 31, 
 1873, and was united in marriage to Edith Morrow, November 9, 
 1898. He received a high school and collegiate education and is 
 successfully engaged as a produce merchant and lumberman at 
 Bath. He and his wife are the parents of five children. Susan P., 
 born January 24, 1879, on February 8, 1899, married Fred L. 
 Robinson, a machinist, and died January 4, 1903, leaving one son, 
 Byrd. George H., born December 7, 1882, received his preliminary 
 education in the high school and is a graduate of Hamilton College. 
 He married Arthella Philo at Washington Mills, New York, June 
 2, 1908, and has one daughter, Muriel. He is a produce dealer by 
 occupation. Frank E. was born March 13, 1884; was educated in 
 the Bath high school and at Oberlin (Ohio) College, being a grad- 
 uate of the latter institution. He was married in Buffalo, New 
 York, December 8, 1910, Eva Boyle becoming his wife, and he is 
 now occupied as a restaurant keeper at Bath. Clay, born February 
 5, 1886, received a high school and part college education and was 
 married August 20, 1908, to Katherine Parkhurst, their union being 
 celebrated in Bath. He is a member of the firm of E. H. Dudley & 
 Company, produce dealers. He and his wife have two children— 
 a son, Egbert P., and a daughter, Dorothy. The youngest member 
 of the family, Floyd, was born July 9, 1890, received a good public 
 school education, and married at Bath, November 18, 1909, Alice 
 Orcutt, they being the parents of a daughter, Edith. Floyd Dudley 
 is engaged in farming. Bath is the birthplace of all the children. 
 
 The widow of Henry Clay Dudley is a woman who enjoys the 
 respect of the whole community. Of Mr. Dudley it has been said 
 by one who knew him well, "He was provident; a careful farmer; 
 industrious; of good habits; a Puritan in principle; an accom- 
 modating neighbor; a good man." 
 
 Could simpler, sincerer, less bombastic, more desirable tribute 
 be paid ? 
 
 Samuel B. Balcom.— He whose name initiates this sketch is 
 one of the substantial and progressive business men contributed 
 to the national metropolis by Steuben county, and for nearly a 
 quarter of a century he has been established as a wholesale dealer 
 in butter, eggs and cheese at 151 Read street, New York city. He 
 has built up a large and appreciative trade within this long interval 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 919 
 
 and his definite success has been well justified by his fair and honor- 
 able methods. Mr. Balcom was born at Curtis, Steuben county, on 
 the 15th of September, 1865, and is a son of Benjamin and Melvina 
 E. (Dunkles) Balcom, the former of whom was bom May 14, 1830, 
 a son of Benjamin F. Balcom, who took up his residence in Steu- 
 ben county about 1829, becoming one of the successful farmers of 
 that section of the state. Mrs. Melvina E. Balcom was born and 
 reared in Steuben county, where her parents settled in the pioneer 
 days. Benjamin Balcom still resides in the village of Curtis and is 
 one of its venerable and highly honored citizens, being an octo- 
 genarian at the time of this writing. He has witnessed virtually 
 the entire development and upbuilding of that favored section and 
 in a reminiscent way recalls many interesting incidents in connec- 
 tion with the pioneer days in that county, where he made his advent 
 as a lumberman and farmer, and which he has always pursued suc- 
 cessfully. His cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the 
 life eternal in 1900, at the age of sixty-three years. They became 
 the parents of three children, all of whom are living — Uri, who 
 resides at Curtis; Eliza, who is the wife of Guy E. Calkins, of 
 Painted Post, Steuben county; and Samuel B., of this sketch, who 
 is the eldest of the three children. 
 
 Samuel B. Balcom was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 farm and early commenced to contribute his quota to the various 
 departments of its work. In the meantime he availed himself of 
 the advantages of the district schools, which he attended princi- 
 pally during the winter seasons and in which he laid the founda- 
 tions for the broad and practical knowledge which he has since 
 gained in the school of experience. Upon attaining to his legal 
 majority Mr. Balcom severed his active allegiance with the great 
 basic industry under whose influences he had been reared and re- 
 moved to New York city, determined to gain for himself as great 
 success as he could achieve under metropolitan conditions. He thus 
 took up his residence in New York city in 1886 and in 1888 he 
 began his independent operations as a wholesale dealer in butter, 
 eggs and cheese, with which line of enterprise he has since been 
 actively identified, with headquarters from the beginning at his 
 present favored location on Read street. As may be naturally 
 inferred, he began operations on a modest scale, but by energy and 
 good management, fortified by his thorough Imowledge of the hand- 
 ling of farm products, he has built up an extensive and substantial 
 business, in connection with which he gives employment to a large 
 corps of men. 
 
 Mr. Balcom has been one of the most appreciative and en- 
 thusiastic members of the Steuben County Society of New York city 
 and had the distinction of serving as its president in 1908. He 
 was one of the organizers of the society and has been zealous in 
 perfecting and cementing its social ties. He has also completed the 
 circle of York Rite Masonry and is identified with the Ancient 
 Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Benevolent 
 
920 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 & Protective Order of Elks. He is a stanch Democrat in his politi- 
 cal proclivities and is a member of the Machinery Club of New 
 York city. 
 
 On the 26th of Octobef , 1887, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. Balcom to Miss Sarah M. Haynes, who was likewise born and 
 reared in Steuben county, and who is a daughter of David R. 
 Haynes, one of the representative farmers of that county. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Balcom have two daughters, Louise S. and Helen J. 
 
 Glenn Hammond Cuetiss, of aerial navigation fame, was born 
 at Hammondsport, Steuben county, New York, and part of his 
 name was given him in honor of that village. His father was Frank 
 R. Curtiss, who settled at Hammondsport and was a harness maker 
 there till his death, which occurred in 1880, when he was twenty- 
 eight years old. Leah Andrews became the wife of Frank R. 
 Curtiss and the mother of Glenn H. and Rutha Curtiss. She is 
 living at Buffalo, New York. Miss Rutha Curtiss, who has been 
 deaf since her childhood, is a teacher at the Deaf Institute at 
 Rochester, New York. 
 
 After leaving school Glenn H. Curtiss studied photography 
 two years, then engaged in the bicycle business, eventually taking 
 part in national and international tournaments and becoming one 
 of the most noted wheelmen of his time. From the bicycle business, 
 to the motorcycle business was but a natural step, following the 
 development of the bicycle and its evolution to the motor vehicle 
 stage. While winning fame throughout the wide world he still 
 owns his motorcycle enterprise at Hammondsport and it is kept in 
 profitable operation. During the last few years he has devoted 
 himself to invention and adventure in aerial navigation and has 
 become one of the men foremost in this field. The story of his 
 work and of his triumphs would fill a volume. Since he made his 
 first flight in 1908, on the old Stony Brook farm, his achievements 
 have filled large space in the newspaper press of the whole civil- 
 ized world. On March 7, 1898, Mr. Curtiss married Miss Lina 
 Neff, born at Prattsburg, Steuben county, September 14, 1879, 
 a daughter of Guy L. Neff. Mr. Neff came of an old pioneer family. 
 He was born October 13, 1850, prospered as a lumberman and died 
 April 27, 1903. His wife was Jennie Potter, daughter of Seneca 
 and Marion (Chase) Potter, of Yates county, New York. Mrs. 
 Curtiss' mother is living, aged about fifty-three years; her grand- 
 father Potter is also living, aged about eighty-nine. Mrs. Curtiss 
 was the only child of her parents. She is a member of the Epis- 
 copal church. 
 
 Hammondsport and Steuben county are proud of Mr. Curtiss 
 and he shows his loyalty to Old Steuben and his love for his birth- 
 place and boyhood home by continuing to live there in these days 
 of his great prosperity, making the little town among the hills and 
 at the foot of the lake the scene of operations which must add lustre 
 to its already world-wide fame gained through the juice of its 
 grapes, the product of its wine presses. 
 
HIS-TORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 921 
 
 Geoege Ray Hall.— Through ambition, energy and persever- 
 ance George Ray Hall, of Hamraondsport, has won a high place for 
 himself among the substantial citizens of Steuben county, New 
 York. In addition to his duties as a wine manufacturer he is 
 manager and financial secretary for Glenn H. Curtiss, the eminent 
 exploiter of the aeroplane and promoter of aerial navigation. 
 
 Mr. Hall is a native son of this county, his birth having oe- 
 eured at Bath on the 13th of February, 1871. His parents, Alex- 
 ander and Eliza (Waterous) Hall, were likewise born in New 
 York, but both are now deceased. The father was identified with 
 agricultural pursuits during the major portion of his active busi- 
 ness career, and was a son of Reuben and Nancy (Gilmore) Hall, 
 early settlers of Hammondsport and the Lake Keuka region, Mr. 
 Hall traces his family history on his father's side through Lyman 
 Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and on his mother 's 
 side through Benjamin Waterous, through the Revolution and back 
 to the early history of this country. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hall 
 became the parents of ten children, seven of whom are now living 
 and concerning whom the following brief data are here recorded: 
 Emmet resides at Cameron Mills, Steuben county ; Ida is the widow 
 of Franklin G. Churchill, and she lives at Lansing, Michigan; Eva 
 is the wife of Moses Davison, of Bath, New York ; Elmer maintains 
 his home at Batavia, Genesee county, this state ; Lettie is now Mrs. 
 Charles C. Cook, of Lansing, Michigan; William is a citizen of 
 Hornell, this county; and George Ray ,^ the youngest member of this 
 family, is the immediate subject of th"is review. 
 
 After completing the curriculum of the public schools of his 
 native place George Ray Hall continued his studies for two years 
 at Holland, Michigan, residing with his sister, Mrs, F. G. 
 Churchill, and at the expiration of this time he returned to El- 
 mira, New York, and entered the Elmira Business College, from 
 which he was graduated in June, 1888. In January, 1889, he 
 became bookkeeper for the Hammondsport Wine Company, at 
 Hammondsport. In 1892 he accepted a position with the George W. 
 Hallock Bank, Bath, but one year later he returned to the Ham- 
 mondsport Wine Company for one year ; then he went to Warsaw, 
 Wyoming county, this state, where he was identified with the Blue 
 Stone industry for about six years, when he again returned to 
 Hammondsport and founded the Crescent Wine Company, of 
 which he has since been secretary, treasurer and general manager. 
 This company was started in 1902 and incorporated under the laws 
 of the state of New York in 1905. It caterers to a large wholesale 
 and retail trade and its general prosperity is constantly on the 
 increase. 
 
 In May, 1909, Mr. Hall was appointed manager and financial 
 secretary for Glenn H. Curtiss, the widely renowned aeroplane 
 inventor and operator, whose success in his particular field of 
 endeavor has aroused the admiration and wonder of nations. 
 
 In his religious faith Mr. Hall is a devout communicant of the 
 
922 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Protestant Episcopal church, holding membership in St. James' 
 parish at Hammondsport, in which he is a vestryman. He is an 
 active and zealous factor in church work and liberal contributor 
 to all worthy philanthropical projects. Holding definite views on 
 all political subjects and exerting considerable influence in local 
 affairs, Mr. Hall is not in the ordinary sense an active politician and 
 has resolutely declined all proffered public offices. In politics he is 
 not, strictly speaking, a party man. He exercises his franchise in 
 favor of the party most likely to give clean government with the 
 changing civic conditions, and no measure or enterprise advanced 
 for the general welfare fails of a most hearty and sincere support 
 from him. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the time-honored 
 Masonic order and he is also a valued and appreciative member of 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 In the year 1896 Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss 
 Anna Belle Lewis, who was born at Prattsburg, Steuben county, on 
 the 19th of March, 1872. She is the daughter of Jeremiah and 
 Marium (Anderson) Lewis, the latter of whom is a daughter of 
 John and Jane (Wyckoff) Anderson. John Anderson was a son of 
 John and Patience (Andrews) Anderson, who were early settlers 
 in Steuben county. Jeremiah Lewis, who died at the age of sixty- 
 nine, was a son of Graudus and Cornelia (Swarts) Lewis, de- 
 scendants of the earliest settlers of Prattsburg, Steuben county. 
 The mother of Mrs. Hall is a gracious old lady of seventy-two years 
 of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have one child, Wilber Lewis Hall, 
 whose birth occurred on the 5th day of July, 1900. 
 
 William Heney Chamberlain, of Bath township, Steuben 
 county, New York, is one of the prominent citizens of his county 
 and belongs to a family long resident here. He was born August 
 15, 1866, on the homestead where he now lives, a son of Jesse 
 Mark Chamberlain and wife, Erville, nee Ingham. 
 
 Jesse Mark Chamberlain, also a native of the Chamberlain 
 homestead, was born September 27, 1824. His parents were 
 Joseph Chamberlain, born at Wardsboro, Vermont, July 28, 1790, 
 and Esther, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Josselyn) Wheeler. 
 It was in 1810 that the Chamberlains came to New York and set- 
 tled near Kanona, in Steuben county, on the land which is still 
 retained by the family, being owned and occupied by William 
 Henry. Joseph Chamberlain was by trade a clothier, but after 
 coming to New York was interested in farming and milling. He 
 dug a mill race and built the first mill at Kanonaville, which he 
 later sold to a man by the name of Otis. On April 26, 1833, he 
 accidently fell from a high beam in his barn and sustained injuries 
 from the effects of which he died June 17, 1834. 
 
 Joseph Chamberlain's father, also named Joseph, was bom at 
 Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 27, 1762. He married 
 Lucy, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Cheney) Whitney, of Milford, 
 Massachusetts, and removed to a farm in Vermont in 1782, which 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 923 
 
 had been given him as bounty for services in the Continental 
 army. His father was Wilson Chamberlain, who married Eliza- 
 beth, daughter of Joseph and Joanna (Call) Austin, of Charles- 
 town. Wilson was born September 24, 1724, and resided at the old 
 home in that town until the spring of 1775. At the time of the 
 burning of Charleston and the battle of Bunker Hill his family 
 fled with other women and children before the invading enemy. 
 Wilson was also a soldier of the Revolution and received partial 
 compensation from the commonwealth for the loss of his house and 
 property, destroyed June 17, 1775. He was a son of John and 
 Thankful (Wilson) Chamberlain, of Charlestown. 
 
 The earliest ancestor of the family that settled in this country 
 was probably Henry Chamberlain, who came from Bingham, county 
 Norfolk, England, in the ship Diligent, and settled at Hull, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1638. He brought with him his wife, mother and two 
 sons, Henry and William, and was admitted freeman March 13, 
 1639. 
 
 Ervilla (Ingham) Chamberlain is a daughter of Isaac and 
 Mary (Lewis) Ingham. She was married to Jesse Mark Cham- 
 berlain October 25, 1860, and they are the parents of two sons and 
 a daughter, namely: Joseph Redington, William Henry and Mrs. 
 Lucy C. Baker, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Joseph R. married 
 Hope Sommerell and resides at Raleigh, North Carolina. Their 
 children are Mary Mitchell, Jesse Mark and Gratia. 
 
 WiUiam Henry Chamberlain graduated at high school in 1885 
 and at Cornell University in 1889, after which he went to North 
 Carolina, where he spent four years employed as secretary to John 
 T. Patrick, commissioner of agriculture. Returning to Kanona in 
 1893, he settled on the old home place, where he has since resided. 
 For years he has been interested in fine stock, breeding and raising 
 horses, cattle and sheep, making a specialty of Morgan horses and 
 Jersey cattle. For three years he was secretary of the New York 
 State Breeders' Association, and he served as vice-president of the 
 Steuben County Agricultural Society. Also he was elected and 
 served as one of the expert judges of cattle for the state conven- 
 tion. And in addition to his interests in his home county he owns 
 a large amount of property in the southern states. 
 
 For years Mr. Chamberlain has been prominent in Republican 
 polities. In 1905 and again in 1907 he was elected to the General 
 Assembly of the state, the last time receiving a majority of over 
 one thousand seven hundred votes, and in the legislature he figured 
 prominently, serving in such responsible positions as chairman of 
 the committee on the Soldiers' Home, member of the taxation, pub- 
 lic lands and forestry committees, and member of the state forest 
 commission, also the committee on state fishing, game, etc. In addi- 
 tion to his Greek fraternity, Kappa Alpha, be belongs to the 
 Grangers and to the Masonic order at Bath. 
 
 On October 27, 1898, Mr. Chamberla,in married Miss Carrie 
 Belle Stiekney, who bore him three children: William Henry, 
 
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924 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 born January 3, 1901; Julius John, May '31, 1903; and Melina 
 Erville, May 20, 1904. William Henry died March 5, 1903. Mrs. 
 Chamberlain was born March 10, 1873, a daughter of Julius and 
 Katie (AuUs) Stiekney, natives of Steuben county, and she died 
 October 1, 1907. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church and in every respect a most estimable woman, loved by all 
 who knew her. 
 
 Daniel Shoemaker.— This well-known, highly respected and 
 venerable farmer of Steuben county is a native son of the Emerald 
 Isle, which has given to America some of her most progressive 
 stock. His eyes first opened to the light of day in county Limerick, 
 Ireland, the date of his nativity being April 26, 1826. His father, 
 Philip Shoemaker, was born in 1798, at the time of the Irish 
 rebellion, and farmed in Ireland^ on land, which it is extremely 
 interesting to note, was granted by William of Orange, the estate 
 having been in the subject's family during successive generations. 
 The father came to "the new land of promise"— America— in 1852, 
 some few years after the arrival on these shores of the son whose 
 name initiates this review, and with his family he located on land 
 in Steuben county where his son Daniel had previously settled. His 
 wife, Mary Kinney, born in 1798, died in 1889, when more than 
 ninety years of age. Of these seven children of this worthy couple 
 only two are living — Daniel and his brother Amos, the latter a 
 citizen of Rochester, New York. One of his brothers was coach- 
 man for Archdeacon Warburfon, of the church of England. 
 
 Daniel Shoemaker was the first of the family to hear the call 
 of opportunity from the shores of the new world, and after arriving 
 in the United States he first located in Seneca county. New York, 
 subsequently removing to Keuka, Steuben county, where he was 
 living when he sent for his parents and others of his family. From 
 that place he came to Bath, where he was employed by the late 
 Judge Rumsey, his term of service for that gentleman lasting until 
 1867, and being of fifteen years' duration. He then bought a farm 
 near Kanona, to which he made additions until he owned four 
 hundred and fifty acres, which he eventually deeded to his chil- 
 dren. He is a Republican and was formerly active and influential 
 in local political movements. During the administration of Presi- 
 dent Hayes he was postmaster at Kanona, and then relinquished 
 the office in favor of his son Daniel. In the matter of religious 
 conviction he is affiliated with the Episcopal church. 
 
 Mr. Shoemaker laid the foundation of a happy married life, 
 when Elizabeth Kelley, a young woman of the North of Ireland, 
 became his wife. She was a daughter of Owen Kelley, and was the- 
 scion of a family very old and of high honor in Ireland. The demise 
 of this worthy woman and faithful wife occurred in 1885, her years 
 at the time numbering fifty-eight. She bore to her husband a num- 
 ber of children, concerning whom it is possible to include the fol- 
 lowing facts of biography. Clara married F. Evans and through 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 925 
 
 her the subject has two grandchildren and three great-grandchil- 
 dren. George, of Kanona, married Cora Shultz, and through him 
 Sir. Shoemaker has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. 
 Kate is the wife of WiUiam Goodman, a shoemaker of Kanona. 
 Daniel, a farmer and postmaster at Kanona, married Eva Snell, 
 and they are the parents of one child. Phillip, not married, is a 
 farmer near Kanona. Mary is the wife of C. Woods, of Hammonds- 
 port, Steuben county. 
 
 ilr. Shoemaker is peacefully passing the closing years of a long 
 and well-spent life, happy in the knowledge that he possesses a 
 prosperous and estimable family, sons and grandsons who have done 
 honor to his name. He confidently looks forward to the reward due 
 to the man who lives honestly and usefully. He has done his part 
 in the development of the county and the advancement of its inter- 
 ests and gladly lays the burden on younger shoulders, not doubting 
 that the Providence that has watched over the making of our his- 
 tory thus far will favor even greater and better things in the years 
 to come. In his more than sixty years of residence in this section 
 he«has witnessed great change and progress, while at the same time 
 contributing in due measure to the same and he is very loyal to the 
 adopted country, which has been the scene of the greater part of his 
 active and successful life. 
 
 Fkank 0. Gay, a farmer of Bath, New York, was born March 8, 
 1861, in the township of Pulteney. He is a son of Andrew and ]\la- 
 rietta (Rice) Gay, both natives of Steuben county, New York. An- 
 drew Gay was born in Howard, October 12, 1835, the son of John 
 and Permelia (Lounsbury) Gay. John Gay was born in Rochester, 
 New York, and his father, Joseph Gay, had his nativity in Balti- 
 more, Maryland, April 14, 1779, the latter settling first in Rochester 
 and subsequently removing to Steuben county. Joseph Gay was a 
 relative of the Gay who, according to the records of history, raised 
 a company at his own expense at the time of the Revolutionary 
 war and assisted Lafayette on his progress south through Virginia. 
 Joseph Gay married Sarah Laffler, July 26, 1801, and they were the 
 first of the Gay family to settle in Prattsburg, Steuben county. He 
 died in 1832 and his son, John Gay, was born October 2^, 1813, and 
 followed farming all his life. 
 
 Andrew Gay, father of him whose name initiates this review, 
 was engaged in farming for forty years in Steuben county, and he 
 is now living retired in Avoca village. His marriage to Marietta, 
 daughter of Henry and Eliza (Smith) Rice, was solemnized March 
 16, 1858. His wife traces her ancestry back to the Puritans of New 
 England and she is of the seventh generation of the family who 
 came to Boston in 1629 with Endicott. The subject is one of two 
 sons, the younger, Benjamin R., being a produce dealer of Avoca, 
 
 New York. 
 
 Frank 0. Gay is a graduate of Haverling High School, of Bath, 
 and a? a yotmg man he took up the work of school teaching, an oe- 
 
926 HISTORY OF STEUBEN "COUNTY 
 
 cupation in which he was engaged for three years. Then he settled 
 down to farming and has carried on farming and stock raising, of 
 which he has made a success, on his farm one mile north of the vil- 
 lage of Bath, on the Hammondsport road, to the present time. 
 
 Mr. Gay has always been a stanch Republican, active in party 
 work, and has filled various party offices, at present being town 
 superintendent of highways. He is the present county committee- 
 man, having held that office for several years. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Gay married Miss Adela Durnian, who was born 
 in Bath, Steuben county, October 10, 1861, a daughter of Richard 
 and Elizabeth (Stewart) Durnian. Mrs. Adela Gay died March 2, 
 1905, after more than twenty years of happy married life, in which 
 she knew the joys of motherhood, and her beautiful Christian char- 
 acter was a potent influence for good not only in her own home but 
 also in the circle of her acquaintance. She was a devoted member 
 of the Methodist church, as also is Mr. Gay. They were the parents 
 of three daughters and a son. Lillian, born in 1884, is the wife of 
 M. H. Taylor, a farmer of Bath township ; Edna and Edwin, twins, 
 were bom in 1886, the former being the wife of F. B. Quinby, of 
 Elmira, New York. The latter, a pharmacist and a graduate of 
 Brooklyn College, is manager of a drug store. Marietta, born in 
 1895, is a student in the Bath high school. 
 
 For his second wife Mr. Gay married Louise, daughter of 
 William Allison, of Bath. In his church the subject has long been 
 prominent and active, for years having filled the office of steward. 
 Fraternally he is a Mason and belongs also to the Grange. 
 
 MJRS. Martin Argus, of Urbana, Steuben county, has a double 
 claim to honorable mention in this historic picture of sectional 
 progress and individual achievement. For some three decades she 
 performed, with faithfulness and love, the many and exacting duties 
 of a helpful wife and the mother of a large family, and, as has 
 always been the case since family records commenced, took upon 
 herself the greatest weight of the burdens involved in rearing the 
 sons and daughters to useful and honorable manhood and woman- 
 hood. Then when all this had been accomplished, the husband was 
 taken from her in the strength of his middle age, and she assumed 
 the responsibilities of his business, which she had successfully car- 
 ried for more than twenty years. The result could not be less 
 than it is, namely — that no member of the community is more 
 respected for her ability and more revered for her good works 
 than the widow of Martin Argus, the venerable but still active 
 proprietor of one of the best vineyards in Steuben county. 
 
 Mrs. Argus is a native of Rheinpfalz, Germany, born on the 
 24th of October, 1834, and is a daughter of Matthew and Gertrude 
 (Hubschmitt) Rieks. Her father died in 1847, at the age of forty- 
 four, a man of high intelligence who had filled for many years 
 the office of notary. The mother, who passed away in 1872, in her 
 seventy-third year, was a daughter of Sebastian and ApoUina 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 927 
 
 XOchsner) Hubschmitt, who cultivated their vineyard with con- 
 tentment and profit during all the years of their quiet married life. 
 
 In 1857, when a sturdy young woman of twenty-three, the 
 subject of tins review emigrated to the United States and com- 
 menced her life of industry in her adopted country near Roches- 
 ter, New York. Later she migrated westward and became a resi- 
 dent of Prairie du Chipn, Wisconsin, where she met and married 
 the late Martin Argus. Two years afterward the young couple 
 moved to Urbana, where husband and wife engaged in the culture 
 of grapes; and it may be that Mrs. Argus had inherited a cer- 
 tain liking and skill in this branch of horticulture from her ma- 
 ternal ancestors of the Fatherland. Mr. Argus continued as active 
 head of the business until his death in 1890, since which it has 
 been conducted by his faithful and capable widow. 
 
 The deceased was a successful and honored man; a member 
 of the Roman Catholic church, and strictly moral in the con- 
 duct of life. His fraternal relations were with the Knights of 
 Honor, and his Democracy was never questioned, although he never 
 proclaimed it as an office-seeker. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Martin Argus were born the following: 
 ApoUina, who is now a widow with three children— Cecelia, Eugene 
 and Maynard; George, deceased; Charles, a resident of Rochester, 
 New York; Mary, who married S. Kueffen, of Urbana, and is 
 the mother of Walter, Harry and Paulina; Fred, who married 
 Lottie Eaton and has two children; Catherine, an artist and a 
 member of her mother's household; and Martin, who is a machinist 
 residing at Bath. Mrs. Argus has a brother and three sisters 
 still living. The first named, Thomas Reiks, is a resident of New 
 York city, and of her sisters the following facts may be mentioned : 
 Catherine is the wife of J. Gordon; May married J. Ropelt, the 
 piano manufacturer; and Lizette has never left the old family 
 home in Germany. 
 
 J. B. Conrad is prominently known in Way land as a produce 
 dealer, with which line of business he has been associated since 
 1904 and in which he has been very successful. In addition he also 
 owns sixty acres of good farming land in Perkinsville. On both 
 the paternal and maternal sides he descends from German fam- 
 ilies. His paternal grandparents, Philip and Elizabeth (Sehwen- 
 gel) Conrad, on emigrating to this country settled in Steuben 
 county, New York, where they became the owners of a farm. 
 They were upright members of society and loyal citizens of their 
 adopted country, as well as acceptable members of the German 
 Lutheran church. The maternal grandparents, Philip and Eliz- 
 abeth Dentz, after coming to this country prospered in their chosen 
 calling of farming. Philip and Elizabeth (Dentz) Conrad, the 
 parents of J. B., are living in Steuben county, the place of their 
 nativity, and he is the youngest of their three children, the other 
 
928 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 two being daughters, Ida, now Mrs. Hickey, and Mary, ]\Irs. 
 Mahenbacker. 
 
 J. B. Conrad was born at PerkinsviUe in Steuben county in 
 1879, and he received his education in the Cohocton high school. 
 His earlier years were spent in agricultural pursuits, and in course 
 of time he won and wed Miss Elizabeth Dides, their wedding occur- 
 ring in 1910. Both are members of the German Lutheran church 
 in PerkinsviUe. 
 
 Thomas Hassett.— He whose name initiates this paragraph is 
 a native son of Steuben county and a scion of one of its old and 
 honored families. At the present time he maintains his home in 
 the city of New York. He was formerly associated in no insig- 
 nificant way with municipal affairs in the national metropolis, 
 and he is recognized as a progressive and reliable business man 
 and able executive, the while his course has been so guided and 
 governed by the principles of integrity and honor as to retain to 
 him the confidence and uniform regard of those with whom he 
 has come in contact in the various relations of life. 
 
 Mr. Hassett was born at Bath, the judicial center of Steuben 
 county, on the 7th of February, 1865, and is a son of John and 
 Ann (Coyle) Hassett, both of whom were born and reared in Ire- 
 land. John Hassett established his home in Steuben county about 
 the year 1860, and the major portion of his career was one of 
 active identification with normal lines of productive business en- 
 terprise, through the medium of which he gained a due measure 
 of success. He was a man of sterling character and alert menta]il7/, 
 and he ordered his life in such a way as to merit the high esteem 
 in which he was held in the community that so long represented 
 his home. He was a Democrat in his political proclivities and 
 both he and his wife were zealous communicants of the Catholic 
 church, in whose faith they carefully reared their children. Both 
 continued to reside in Steuben county until their death. They 
 became the parents of four sons, all of whom attained to years of 
 maturity: Frank is deceased; Edward, who became a represen- 
 tative member of the bar of New York city, died on the 23rd of 
 February, 1910,- and to whom a special memoir is dedicated on 
 other pages of this work ; Hugh is a resident of Buffalo, New York ; 
 and Thomas, whose name forms the caption of this article, is the 
 youngest of the number. 
 
 Thomas Hassett is indebted to the parochial and public schools 
 of his native town for his early educational training, which was 
 supplemented by a course of study in Haverling Academy, one of 
 the excellent educational institutions of Steuben county. As a 
 young man Mr. Hassett went to Albany, the capital city of his 
 native state, and there remained for three years, as official stenog- 
 rapher in the general assembly of the state legislature. At the 
 expiration of the period noted, in 1896, he removed to New York 
 city, where for a time he was associated with his brother Edward. 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 933 
 
 Upon the election of Hon. George R. McClellan to the ofQce of 
 mayor of the national metropolis this honored executive appointed 
 Mr. Hassett his private secretary, and the latter continued incum- 
 bent of this positon during Mayor McClellan 's first term. In 1905 
 Mr. Hassett was appointed secretary of the board of water supply 
 of the etiy of New York, and after serving a few years in this 
 capacity he resigned the office. 
 
 In polities Mr. Hassett accords a stanch allegiance to the 
 Democratic party, and he has given effective service in behalf of 
 its cause. He is identified with various social and fraternal organi- 
 zations, is an appreciate member of the Steuben County Society of 
 New York City, as well as of the Manhattan Club, and is a com- 
 municant of the Catholic church. Mr. Hassett is a bachelor. 
 
 Edwaed Hassett.— Pure, constant and noble was the spiritual 
 flame that burned in and illumined the mortal tenement of the 
 late Edward Hassett, who was large of heart and large of mind 
 and who marked the passing years with accomplishment of dis- 
 tinguished and benignant order. He gained prestige as one of the 
 able members of the bar of New York city, and this mere state- 
 ment bears its own significance. Though not a native of Steuben 
 county he was but an infant at the time when his parents estab- 
 lished their home in Bath, the judicial center of this county, and 
 here he was reared to manhood, so that he may well be claimed 
 as a true son of the county which he so greatly honored by his 
 worthy life and worthy deeds. He was a son of John and Ann 
 (Coyle) Hassett, both of whom were born and reared in the fair 
 Emerald Isle, whence they came to the United States in their youth. 
 John Hassett located at Bath, Steuben county, in the early '60s and 
 in this county both he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. 
 It was not theirs to attain to wealth or prominence, but industry 
 and worth of character were theirs, and they made the most of 
 their lives under the conditions that compassed them, thus gain- 
 ing and deserving the respect and confidence of their fellow men. 
 They were devout communicants of the Catholic church and showed 
 forth their faith in their daily lives. Frank, 'the first born of 
 their four sons, is deceased. Edward, subject of this memoir, was 
 the next in order of birth ; Hugh is a resident of the city of Buffalo 
 this state ; and Thomas is individually mentioned on other pages of 
 this volume. No better estimate of the life and character of 
 Edward Hassett could be desired than that given by one familiar 
 with his career and fully appreciative of his worth to the world; 
 therefore it is deemed fitting to reproduce and perpetuate, with but 
 slight paraphrase, in this work the estimate thus given. 
 
 Of the many sons of Steuben county whose gifts and services 
 shed luster on its history, none better deserves perpetual memory 
 that Edward Hassett. Born to no other heritage than that of 
 intellect and honor, by his own unaided effort he carved for him- 
 self an enviable niche among the great lawyers of the state of 
 
d-.U HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 New York and a still rarer place in the affections of all who know 
 him. 
 
 Although born outside of Steuben county, he was but an 
 infant at the time of the family removal to Bath, where he spent 
 his youth and early professional years, and ever afterward he was 
 one of Steuben county's most loyal sons. He studied law in the 
 office of Ruggles & Little, commenced practice at Bath, and 
 from the first he met with flattering success. His view of the law 
 was a broad and noble one. If he could not deserve success he did 
 not want it. He looked at the law as a means of righting wrongs, 
 and he applied its principles with that end in view. From the 
 outset he shunned all efforts to compass undeserved success by arts 
 of sophistry or tricks of rhetoric. In his hands the exposition of 
 legal principles seemed the light of pure reason. If he avoided 
 the arts of the orator it was only that he might set forth his con- 
 tentions, as he did, with the logic of a master and the force of a 
 mind honest with itself. So he came, even in his early years, to 
 enjoy the confidence of the courts and the complete respect of 
 associates and opponents alike. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Hassett removed to the city of New York, and 
 in this field of wider opportunities he repeated, in larger measures, 
 the professional triumphs of his earlier years. Not seldom did 
 he take charge of great issues where lawyers of high repute had 
 failed, and by applying his profound learning and logical meth- 
 ods quietly worked out to complete success problems that had 
 seemed impossible of solution. The famous Barber asphalt pav- 
 ing ease was one of these, although by no means the only one. In 
 this case Mr. Hassett succeeded in recovering more than eight hun- 
 dred thousand dollars where some of the most distinguished law- 
 yers in the country had failed to reach satisfactory results. Con- 
 cerning his connection with this cause celebre another authority 
 has given the following statements : ' ' One of the great cases in 
 which he was employed was that of General Averill versus the 
 Barber Asphalt Paving Company— a case that had been before the 
 courts for more than ten years. This case was originally brought 
 by ex-Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, and after his death was 
 continued by Hon. Thomas Ewing. These great lawyers failed to 
 bring the matter to a successful conclusion and it was turned over 
 to Mr. Hassett, who, after several years of most incessant labor 
 and deep thought and in contest with able and eloquent counsel, 
 obtained from the referee a judgment of eight hundred thousand 
 dollars. The appellate division unanimously sustained the referee's 
 report and the case was finally settled by General Averill 's receiv- 
 ing a large sum of money— beyond the legal fees, which amounted 
 to over one hundred thousand dollars." 
 
 But to view Mr. Hassett only as a lawyer would be unjust 
 to one of the noblest of men. If he was broad in his profession 
 he was even broader and nobler in all his relations to his fellow 
 men. A devoted son, a loyal brother, a consistent churchman, a 
 
ZENAS L. PARKER 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 9J7 
 
 friend without a peer— he has left a wealth of loving memories 
 such as is given to few men to earn. For his friendships, his 
 charity, his hospitality, his kindly thought for others far outran 
 the limits of creed or sect, party or class. Firm in his adherence 
 to that which he believed, he extended to the convictions and belief 
 of others the same generous consideration which he claimed for 
 his own. So he came to a wonderful place in the affections of 
 all who knew him. A prince in all but the title, with all the graces 
 that adorn a noble soul, he was the chief spirit in every gathering. 
 It is no idle speech to say that he symbolized in his life the true idea 
 of the brotherhood of man. 
 
 All too soon his closer friends noted the resistless approach 
 of man's one implacable adversary, death. The splendid form 
 slowly yielded to malignant disease, till, in the very prime of his 
 life, he was summoned home. He passed to eternal rest on the 
 23rd of February, 1910, in his fifty-second year. On a bitter win- 
 ter day the cemetery and the Catholic church at Bath were thronged 
 with sincere mourners who had known him long and loved him 
 well for what he was his whole life through— one of the purest 
 and best of men, an honor to his country, his state, his profession 
 and his race. The breeze which fans the flowers in the valley of his 
 early home sings a gentle requiem over his last resting place, but 
 no song of bird or breeze or chanted hymn can equal in eloquent 
 harmony the loving memories which live and speak in the heart 
 of every friend who knew Edward Hassett as he was in life. 
 
 Zenas L. Parker. — One of the most interesting and highly 
 esteemed residents of Steuben county is its well-known poetical 
 writer. Professor Zenas L. Parker of Bath. He was born in Charle- 
 mont, Franklin county, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1819, has 
 just passed his ninety-second birthday, and is the only survivor 
 of a family of ten children born to Captain James Parker and 
 Lucretia Fales, who were married on April 9, 1795. 
 
 After completing his education in the common schools and 
 Charlemont Academy, he was for eleven years a successful teacher 
 in the rural schools of his native state, and in 1852 became assist- 
 ant principal of the public schools at Ithaca, New York. There 
 his abilities found wider scope, and there he remained until 1856, 
 when he was called to the very responsible position of principal 
 of the Corning Free Academy, at a time when it numbered only 
 three hundred and ninety-three pupils and when seven different 
 private and denominational schools were scattered about the city. 
 All of these were consolidated into one school of over thirteen hun- 
 dred pupils during his administration of about ten years. Through 
 individual contact with his students in their sports, as well as in 
 the class-room, and by adherence to the highest ideals of moral 
 and religious principles. Professor Parker won their confidence and 
 inspired in them such a high sense of honor and honesty that dur- 
 ing his last year there the school almost disciplined itself. At a 
 
938 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 time when the Board of Education were considering the discon- 
 tinuance of the use of the Bible in the school, he said to them, 
 "If you want the Bible taken out of the school, I will take it 
 under my arm and walk out with it," and this closed the incident. 
 The power of his personality is indicated by the following, written 
 by residents of the Crystal City more than forty years afterwards r 
 ' ' Character building as well as scholarly attainment was his watch- 
 word, and the splendid work he did is still an inspiration to all who 
 were under his instruction. ' ' 
 
 He took up his residence at his present home in Bath in 1865, 
 on the memorable day that Lincoln was assassinated, and for four 
 years continued his educational work as principal of Haverling 
 High School. From 1870 to 1873 he served the first district of 
 Steuben county as its school commissioner, and about that time 
 established the Parker Insurance Agency, a business he has fol- 
 lowed ever since, with the exception of six years, 1888 to 1893.- 
 when he devoted his whole time to the responsible duties of county 
 treasurer with such fidelity that upon his retirement the board of 
 supervisors appropriately expressed its appreciation of his long, 
 honest and efficient service to the county. He cast his first presi- 
 dential vote for John C. Fremont, was a firm believer in the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, and was one of its campaign 
 speakers and most earnest workers for many years. 
 
 Reared on a farm through which ran a trout stream, he became 
 an ardent sportsman and so continued as long as he could see to 
 bait a hook or load a gun. At the age of eighty-eight he caught 
 two nine-pound trout from Lake Keuka. Some time back in the 
 sixties he killed two deer near Coopers Plains, and the last one 
 seen at Lake Salubria near the village of Bath was a target for 
 his gun, but escaped by swimming the lake and running off over 
 Winegar Hill. As president of the Steuben County Sportsmen's 
 Club he was largely instrumental in securing to Steuben county 
 the New York State Fish Hatchery located at Cold Springs, in the 
 town of Urbana, and his love for outdoor sports may account for 
 his longevity and unusual vigor of mind, which enabled him to 
 produce such lines as the following extracts from his "Birthday 
 Dream," written at the age of ninety-one: 
 
 The birthday dream 
 Is here our theme, 
 
 And echoes through the soul, 
 As on the tide. 
 We calmly glide 
 
 Toward man's immortal goal. 
 
 Before our prime, 
 In childhood's time. 
 
 The years too long would last; 
 But now our days. 
 Like morning rays, 
 
 Are speeding on too fast. 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 9:^9 
 
 As eagles fly 
 Athwart the sky, 
 
 When searching for their prey; 
 So birthdays flee, 
 With you and me, 
 
 Whose locks are long and gray. 
 
 They bring us near 
 The gladdest year 
 
 That mortals ever know; 
 When clouds and night, 
 Give place to light, 
 
 Majestic in its glow. 
 
 So what care I 
 How birthdays fly 
 
 Out toward the Christian's goal; 
 Each passing year 
 Will bring us near 
 
 The homeland of the soul. 
 
 Yes, Ninety-one 
 Its race has run; 
 
 It will come back no more. 
 Till we sit down 
 To wear the crown 
 
 On Canaan's happy shore. 
 
 He penned the historical poem for Bath's Centennial Celebra- 
 tion in 1892, and for several years annually reduced to rhyme a 
 resume of the events of the closing year, and so many interesting 
 occasions in the life of the county seat and its people for almost 
 half a century have been put into the rhythm of his verses that 
 they would prove a valuable history for future generations could 
 they be brought together in one volume. 
 
 Perhaps one of the best of his shorter poems was the hyinn 
 written for the centennial celebration of the Presbyterian church 
 of Bath in January, 1908, the lines of which f oUow : 
 
 God of peace and battle, 
 
 God of time and space, 
 Thou art the King Eternal, 
 
 Yet no man sees Thy face. 
 Thou art a God of mercy; 
 
 Thou art a God of power; 
 We praise Thy matchless glory 
 
 At this centennial hour. 
 
940 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 "We thank Thee, our Father, 
 
 We bless Thy holy name, 
 That into this loved valley 
 
 Thy spirit ever came; 
 That here a church was planted, 
 
 And here a house was reared, 
 Where Christians met to worship 
 
 The God they loved and feared. 
 
 We bless Thee for the battles 
 
 Here fought on bended knees, 
 When this church led the conflict 
 
 Beneath the native trees; 
 For fathers and for mothers. 
 
 And children yet ungrown. 
 Who bowed in humble worship 
 
 At altars of their own. 
 
 Through Thy abounding goodness, 
 
 While in Thy house to-day, 
 We make new consecration 
 
 As here in song we pray. 
 Lead us, loving Father, 
 
 From this memorial hour, 
 And Thine shall be the glory, 
 
 The honor and the power. 
 
 The strong religious character of the author predominatei 
 his life and permeates all his writings. Beginning in the first S 
 day-school ever held in the old town meeting house of his I 
 England home about 1825, he has been a regular attendant at I 
 church and Sunday-school for eighty-five years, serving as an e. 
 in the Presbyterian church ever since 1857, first in Corning 
 for the past forty-five years in the Bath church, where he is i 
 the senior elder. He has frequently been its representative 
 Presbytery, and was once delegate to the General Assembly. 
 
 But perhaps Professor Parker is best known throughout 
 county at the present time as the president and founder of 
 Steuben County Old Folks' Association; and the increased re 
 ence for age on the part of the young folks and the number 
 blessings that have come to the honored old folks of the con 
 throught that organization, inspired and perpetuated largely 
 his indefatigable energy during the closing years of his active 
 useful career, will be a lasting memorial to his honored name 
 the capstone of a life lived in the faith of the Son of God 
 spanning almost a century of time. 
 
 On January 1, 1852, he was married to Nancy J. Warfi 
 also a native of Franklin county, jMassachusetts, born April 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 941 
 
 1827, who for fifty-eight years was spared to perform the sacred 
 duties of wife and mother and to be the light and joy of a happy 
 Christian household. She passed to her reward on November 6, 
 1910, leaving behind her entire family, consisting of her aged 
 husband and two sons, George Hamilton and Eugene Pales, both 
 well-known and respected citizens of Bath. 
 
 Chaeles L. Eingrose.— Four miles southwest of the village of 
 Prattsburg, in the township of the same name, is located the finely 
 improved fami of ]\Ir. Ringrose, who is known as one of the rep- 
 resentative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, 
 where he has been identified with his present line of enterprise 
 from his youth to the present time. He was born in the township 
 that is now his home and the date of his nativity was April 1, 
 1869. He is the eldest of the five children born to Thomas B. and 
 Mary (Korn) Ringrose, both of whom continued to reside in this 
 county until their death. 
 
 Charles L. Ringrose waxed strong in mental and physical 
 powers through the sturdy discipline involved in the work of the 
 home farm and the privileges granted him in the district schools. 
 It is gratifying to note that he has never wavered in his allegiance 
 to the great basic industry of agriculture and through his inde- 
 pendent indentification with the same he has achieved success 
 worthy of the name. His fine landed estate comprises two hun- 
 dred acres of excellent land and is eligibly located four miles south- 
 west of Prattsburg. Energy and good management have character- 
 ized his work as a farmer and stock-grower and the results are 
 tangible in the unmistakable evidences of thrift and prosperity at 
 his fine homestead. He is loyal to the duties of citizenship and 
 while he has never been ambitious for public office he gives a stanch 
 support to the cause of the Democratic party. Both he and his 
 wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 On the 20th of September, 1892, was solemnized the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Ringrose to Miss Early, who was born and reared in 
 Steuben county and whose father is a prosperous farmer of Pratts- 
 burg township. Mr. and Mrs. Ringrose have one son, Warren T., 
 who was born on the 9th of December, 1896. Mr. Ringrose is a 
 member of Prattsburg Lodge, No. 598, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and is also identified with the Prattsburg Tent of the 
 Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 Leon K. Williamson, who is ably filling the office of super- 
 intendent of the poor Steuben county. New York, maintains his 
 home at Avoea. He was born on the 21st of September, 1853, 
 and is a son of Ezariah Williamson, who is deceased. In 1857, 
 when Leon K. was a child of but four years of age, he came to 
 Avoea, New York, with his parents, and in that vicinity the father 
 turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. After the death of 
 his wife, Ezariah Williamson maintained his home with his daugh- 
 
942 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 ter, Mrs. John Waters, of Avoea. He was summoned to the life 
 eternal in 1902 and is survived by four children, namely, Leon K., 
 who is the immediate subject of this review; William, who is a 
 farmer in this county; George, a resident of Kochester, New York; 
 and Lida, who is the wife of John Waters, who is in the employ of 
 the Avoca Supply Company, with business headquarters and resi- 
 dence at Avoca. 
 
 After completing the curriculum of the common schools of 
 Avoca Leon K. Williamson became identified with farming, most 
 of his attention being devoted to the egg and provender business. 
 He later engaged in the livery business at Avoca and subsequently 
 he became a public auctioneer. In politics he endorses the cause 
 of the Democratic party and in 1910 he was elected to the office 
 of superintendent of the poor of Steuben county. In connection 
 with the affairs of his office he is acquitting himself most creditably 
 and as a citizen he is widely renowned for his devotion to all 
 matters pertaining to the best interests of the community. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with several representative organizations of 
 representative character and he supports and attends the Baptist 
 church, of which his wife is a devout member. 
 
 In 1908 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Williamson to 
 Miss Fanny Moss, who was born at Bradford, this county, on the 
 7th of March, 1868. She is a daughter of Philip Moss, who was a 
 soldier in the Civil war, in which he was seriously wounded, be- 
 ing troubled with the injuries so received until the time of his death 
 in 1906, at the age of seventy years. He was an agriculturist by 
 occupation and married Miss Vera Champlain, whose death oc- 
 curred in 1871. They were the parents of six children, two sons 
 and four daughters, of whom three of the sisters are deceased, 
 those living being Mrs. Williamson, Edward and Frank. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Williamson have no children. Mrs. Williamsoii is a member 
 of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 Joseph Strong.— This successful and popular representative 
 of the great industry of viticulture in Steuben county is one of the 
 sterling citizens contributed to this county by the fair Emerald 
 Isle, with whose annals the family name has been identified from 
 remote times. He is the owner of a well-improved and most 
 productive vineyard in Urbana township and is prominently iden- 
 tified with the manufacturing of high-grade wines— a line of enter- 
 prise that has given Steuben county wide repute. 
 
 Joseph Strong was born in Kings county, Ireland, on the 24th 
 of November, 1849, and is a son of Joseph and Ann Jane (Kelley) 
 Strong, both of whom were likewise bom and reared in that same 
 county of the Emerald Isle, where their marriage was solemnized 
 and where they continiied to maintain their home until 1852, when 
 they emigrated to Am!erica and established their residence in the 
 city of Albany, New York, where the father engaged in the grocery 
 and produce business, with which line of enterprise he had pre- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN 'COUNTY 943 
 
 viously been identified in his native land. Both he and his wife 
 continued to reside in the capital city of the Empire state until 
 their death, and both were well advanced in years when they were 
 summoned to the life eternal. Joseph Strong, Sr., was a son of 
 Joseph Strong, who was a prosperous farmer in the county of 
 Kildare, Ireland, where he served as high sheriff for a period of 
 fifty-four years and where he was a prominent and influential 
 citizen. The business established so many years ago by Joseph 
 Strong (II) in the city of Albany is still conducted by members of 
 the family and represents one of the pioneer enterprises of its kind 
 in the capital city. Joseph and Ann Jane (Kelley) Strong were 
 zealous communicants of Grace church. All of their surviving 
 children with the exception of the subject of this review still reside 
 in Albany, namely: Robert, "William, George and Lucy. 
 
 Joseph Strong, Jr., whose name initiates this article, was a 
 child of about three years at the time of the family emigration to 
 the United States, and his early educational training was secured in 
 the schools of the city of Albany. As a youth he became a clerk in 
 his father's store, where he continued to be thus here engaged for a 
 period of five years. On the 1st of January, 1870, Mr. Strong came 
 to Steuben county and secured a position in the employ of the 
 Urbana Wine Company, with which he has been connected during 
 the long intervening period of forty years, within which time 
 he has been advanced to a position of executive importance. He 
 is the owner of- a well-improved vineyard in Urbana township, 
 and is one of the well-known and successful viticulturists and hon- 
 ored citizens of the county that has so long represented his home. 
 He has been progressive and loyal as a citizen and it should be 
 noted that he was one of the most influential factors in establishing 
 the Wine Cellar road, in 1876, and in securing the establishment of 
 the Soldiers' Home at Bath, this county. He served on the staff of 
 Lieutenant Governor Woodruff for a period of five years, and has 
 long shown marked interest in the affairs of the state militia. He 
 is affiliated with the Knights of Honor and both he and his wife are 
 attendants of the Protestant Episcopal church, in which they hold 
 membership in the parish of St. James' church, at Hammondsport. 
 
 In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Strong 
 to Miss Alice Smith, who was born in Urbana township, this county, 
 on the 9th of January, 1849, and who is a daughter of the late Silas 
 and Rebecca (Fairfield) Smith. In the maternal line Mrs. Strong 
 is a great-granddaughter of Judge Baker, a distinguished repre- 
 sentative of one gf the old and honored families of the Empire 
 state. He was most probably the first white man that took up his 
 abode in Pleasant valley, and for many years he lived close to an 
 Indian camp. Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Strong 
 the following brief data are consistently entered for perj3etuati6n in 
 this article : Charles, who is associated with the Urbana Wine Com- 
 pany, married Miss Martha Albright ; Emma is the wife of Benjamin 
 Early; of Urbana ; and Gertrude is the wife of Jacob Dittiacur, of: 
 Wayne, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Strong have two grandchildren. 
 
944 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Lucros N. Manlby.— One of the prominent lawyers of Queens 
 county is Judge Manley, who has been for many years engaged in 
 the practice of his profession at Long Island City. He now has his 
 office at 103 Third street, Long Island City. Judge Manley was 
 born on a farm in the township of Addison, Steuben county, on the 
 24th of June, 1843; and is a son of Nehemiah and Jane (Baker) 
 Manley, the former of whom was born at Otsego county, New York, 
 and the latter in Charleston, Pennsylvania. Nehemiah IManley be- 
 came one of the early settlers of Steuben county, where he was 
 prominently identified with the lumbering and agricultural indus- 
 tries for many years. He was supervisor of the town of Tuscarora 
 in 1861, soon after it was set off from the town of Addison. He was 
 born in the year 1800, and his death occurred in 1879. His father, 
 George Manley, was a native of Connecticut and a representative 
 of a family that was founded in New England in the early Colonial 
 days, the same being of English descent. George Manley passed the 
 closing years of his life in Steuben county and his name merits a 
 place on the roster of the honored pioneers of the old Empire state. 
 The mother of Judge Manley was of Scotch-Irish descent and she 
 was bom in the year 1811 and died 1890. Of the children of this 
 couple Judge Manley is the only son that attained to years of 
 maturity. 
 
 Lucius N. Manley was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
 farm and under the direction of his honored father he gained splen- 
 did training in connection with the practical affairs of life. He 
 duly availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of 
 his native county and he continued to be associated in the work 
 of the home farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he 
 entered Alfred University, at Alfred, Allegany county, where he 
 continued his higher academic studies for two years. Thereafter he 
 put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and utilization by 
 teaching in the public schools about four terms. He then began the 
 study of law under effective preceptorship at Addison, Steuben 
 county, and in January, 1872, he proved himself eligible for and 
 was admitted to the bar of Steuben county. In the autumn of the 
 same year he established his home in Long Island City and here the 
 work of his profession has engaged his attention during the long 
 intervening period of more than thirty-eight years. He has been 
 prominent and influential in connection with public affairs of 
 Queens county and has given yeoman service in behalf of the cause 
 of the Republican party, being one of its leading representatives 
 in this county. He has been twice elected to the office of local 
 judge. At one time he was the candidate of his party for the office 
 of mayor of the city, but was unable to overcome the normal Demo- 
 cratic majority. He was a member of the state constitutional con- 
 vention of 1894 and in 1904 he was the candidate of his party for 
 the office of surrogate, and while in this election he received more 
 votes in Long Island City than were accorded to the presidential 
 nominee, Theodore Roosevelt, he was defeated. The judge is a 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 945 
 
 valued member of the Queens County Bar Association and holds 
 membership in the Steuben Society of New York City, where he 
 also holds membership in the City Club. He is a member of the 
 congregation of All Souls' church (Unitarian), New York city. 
 
 Judge Manley has been twice married. In the year 1877 he 
 wedded Miss Olive P. Weatherby, of Addison, Steuben county, who 
 died in 1881, being survived by one son— Edward W., who now re- 
 sides in the city of New York. In 1885 Judge Manley was united in 
 marriage to Miss Elsie H. Hillmann, of New York city, and the 
 four children of this union are Frederick, Martha, Helen and 
 Alice. 
 
 Alexander M. Stewabt, M. D.— A representative physician 
 and surgeon at Atlanta, Steuben county. New York, Dr. Alexander 
 McClaren Stewart has gained distinctive precedence as one of the 
 ablest medical practitioners in this section of the state and he has 
 maintained his home in Atlanta since 1903. He was born in the 
 province of Quebec, Canada, on the 14th of April, 1872, and is a 
 son of Robert and Janet (Grant) Stewart, the latter of whom is 
 deceased and the former of whom is now living, at the age of 
 eighty-two years, on his fine farm of two hundred and fifty acres 
 in Canada. Robert Stewart was born in the county of Lanark, 
 province of Ontario, Canada, and he was but four years of age 
 at the time of his parents' removal to Quebec, in 1832. He has been 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits throughout his entire active busi- 
 ness careei* and in this line of enterprise he has achieved most note- 
 worthy success. He married Janet Grant, a daughter of William 
 Grant, a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs. Stewart was summoned 
 to the life eternal in 1872, shortly after the birth of the Doctor, at 
 which time she was but forty-two years of age. Mr. Robert Stewart 
 is a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he has been an 
 elder for a number of years. 
 
 Dr. Stewart is the youngest in a family of seven children and 
 concerning his brothers and sisters the following brief data are 
 here entered : William is engaged in ranching in Montana ; Robert 
 is identified with the furniture business in the city of Rochester, 
 New York; George, who is a doctor by profession, resides in the 
 province of Alberta, Canada ; Mary is the wife of L. Beal, professor 
 of music at Broclrville, Canada; Janet is the wife of D. Chinder- 
 son, a farmer in Alberta, Canada ; and Sarah is married, and resides 
 in the city of Buffalo, New York. Dr. Stewart was reared to the 
 sturdy discipline of the home farm and he continued to be asso- 
 ciated with his father in the work and management thereof until he 
 had attained to the age of nineteen years, at which time he went 
 to Rochester, New York, where he secured employment in a carpet 
 and furniture house and where he attended night school, in prep- 
 aration for the Academy of Rochester, which he attended for one 
 year. Thereafter he was a student in the high school at Atlanta for 
 two and a half years, at the expiration of which he spent four years 
 
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946 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 in a medical college in Syracuse. After leaving Syracuse he spent 
 some time in Canada, under Dr. McFarland, and in the fall of 1903 
 he made permanent settlement at Atlanta, where he has since 
 resided. He has built up a large and lucrative practice and is 
 proving most successful in his particular field of endeavor. He 
 is giving most efficient service as medical examiner in the lodge of 
 the Knights of the Maccabees and in a professional way he is 
 affiliated with the Steuben County Medical Society. Fraternally 
 he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in the 
 time-honored Masonic fraternity he holds membership in Liberty 
 Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Cohocton, and with the Royal 
 Arch Masons at Bath. He has ever given freely of his aid and 
 influence in support of all measures projected for the general wel- 
 fare of the community. He and his wife are devout members of 
 the Presbyterian church, in the various departments of whose work 
 they have been most liberal and active factors. 
 
 Dr. Stewart married Miss Marie Goundry, a daughter of John 
 and Ella (Clement) Goundry, the former of whom is engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits, and the latter of whom is deceased. Dr. 
 and Mrs. Stewart have no children. 
 
 James E. Walker, M. D.— Other men's services to the people 
 and state can be measured by definite deeds, by dangers averted, by 
 legislation secured, by institutions built, by commerce promoted. 
 The work of a doctor is entirely estranged from these lines of enter- 
 prise, yet without his capable, health-giving assistance all other 
 accomplishments would count for naught. Man's greatest prize on 
 earth is physical health and vigor. Nothing deterioriates mental 
 activity as quickly as prolonged sickness— hence the broad field for 
 human helpfulness afforded in the medical profession. The suc- 
 cessful doctor requires something more than mere technical train- 
 ing—he must be a man of broad human sympathy and genial kindli- 
 ness, capable of inspiring hope and faith in the heart of his patient. 
 Such a man is Dr. James E. Walker, who for the past sixteen years 
 has been superintendent of the Steuben Sanitarium. The years 
 have told the story of a successful career due to the possession of 
 innate talent and acquired ability along the line of one of the most 
 important professions to which man may devote his energies— 
 the alleviation of pain and suffering and the restoration of health. 
 
 Dr. Walker was Born in Nunda, Livingston county. New York, 
 on the 21st of May, 1854, and he is a son of Henry L. and Susan 
 (Perry) Walker, both of whom are now dead. The seventh in order 
 of birth in a family of nine children. Dr. Walker received his 
 preliminary educational training in the public schools of his native 
 town, this discipline being later supplemented by a course of study 
 in the State Normal School at Geneseo, New York. At sixteen 
 years of age he began teaching school, studying most assiduously 
 during all his leisure time. At eighteen he became a student of 
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 he was matriculated in the Cincinnati Medical College, from which 
 excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 
 1876, duly receiving his well-earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 Immediately after his graduation he initiated his active practice of 
 the profession at Arkport, Steuben county, and here he built up a 
 large and representative patronage, gaining precedence as the ablest 
 physician and surgeon in the county. In 1883 he pursued a post- 
 graduate course requiring several months' work, in New York 
 city. Thereafter he continued his practice in Arkport until 1892, 
 when he sold his home and drug store and removed to Buffalo. 
 After a few months' practice there he became chief of staff of 
 Sterlingworth Sanitarium, filling this position with utmost ability 
 for one year. In October, 1893, he went to London, England, and 
 spent some time at the Brompton Hospital for diseases of the chest, 
 also taking a course in bacteriology and microscopy at Kings Col- 
 lege. Extending his travels to the continent he visited the various 
 hospitals and the Pasteur Institute of the French capital, and then 
 proceeded to Germany, stopping for a time at the celebrated Sani- 
 tarium for Tuberculosis at Honiff on the Rhine. He then went to 
 Berlin to investigate the methods of the Koch institute and to visit 
 the hospitals of the German capital. Not being. able to get the work 
 he desired, he went to Vienna, remaining for some months, taking 
 special courses in medical and surgical subjects. At the meeting 
 of the International Medical Congress held in Rome, he was made a 
 member of that great body. Returning to the United States he 
 toured the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, studying its 
 climatology in its relation to tuberculosis. In November, 1894, he 
 was proffered and accepted the superintendency of the Steuben 
 Sanitarium at Hornell, which position he has filled to the present 
 time, as previously noted. There has been scarcely a year that he 
 has not been in Europe, where he has combined medical work with 
 pleasure, and there are but few cities on the other side of the At- 
 lantic with which he is not familiar, particularly with their hos- 
 pitals. Having crossed the ocean sixteen times, he feels quite as 
 much at home in one part of the world as another, and he has 
 introduced into the Steuben Sanitarium whatever he has found to be 
 of benefit to suffering humanity. In the winter of 1910 he spent 
 some time in Spain and Portugal, afterward going to Bad Nauheim, 
 Germany, the celebrated resort for the care of those suffering from 
 heart diseases. Here he remained some weeks studying their physi- 
 cal and hydrotherapeutic methods, which he had introduced in his 
 work fifteen years ago and with which he has been so successful. 
 The Doctor does no medical or surgical work outside the Sani- 
 tarium, excepting in consultation with his professional friends, who 
 are many, throughout western New York and northern Pennsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 When the Doctor assumed charge of the Steuben Sanitarium 
 this institution boasted but one patient ; now it is one of the best 
 equipped and most admirably conducted medical and surgical insti- 
 
952 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 tutions in the country, filled with patients not only from different 
 states, but from foreign countries as well. The foregoing record 
 concerning the Doctor's studies and preparation for his profession 
 is ample voucher of his ability and his success has been on a parity 
 with his well-directed endeavors. 
 
 In a professional way Dr. Walker is a valued and appreciative 
 member of the Hornell Medical and Surgical Association, of which 
 he was at one time president ; the Keuka Lake Medical and Surgical 
 Association, of which he is also an ex-president ; the Steuben County 
 Medical Society and the New York State Medical Society ; and the 
 American Medical Association. He is also an honorary member of 
 many other medical bodies. In the time honored Masonic fraternity 
 he has passed through the circle of York Rite Masonry, holding 
 membership in Steuben Chapter, No. 101, and DeMolay Com- 
 mandery No. 22, Knights Templars, besides which he is also a 
 member of Ismalia Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of 
 the Mystic Shrine, at Buffalo. 
 
 In both politics and religion the Doctor is exceedingly liberal, 
 but he is a firm believer in righteousness and whatever tends toward 
 the upbuilding of society and the general welfare of the community. 
 He is very fond of art and music and is something of a student of 
 both. His extensive travel has given him an opportunity to enjoy 
 much in these directions, as he is familiar with almost every part of 
 the globe. He has never been married, except to his profession, of 
 which he is very fond. 
 
 Henry P. Wilcox. — One of the representative citizens and 
 progressive business men of his native county is the present efficient 
 and popular postmaster of the village of Cohoeton, which has been 
 his home from the time of his nativity and in which he is success- 
 fully engaged in the lumber and produce business, the while he has 
 served continuously as postmaster since 1900. 
 
 Henry Plato Wilcox was born in Cohoeton on the 3d of June, 
 1870, and is a son of Albert H. and Fannie (Parmenter) Wilcox, 
 representatives of families whose names have been prominently 
 identified with the history of this section of the state since the 
 pioneer days. Albert Hopkins Wilcox was born in Springwater 
 township, Livingston county, New York, on the 9th of February, 
 1844, and the old homestead farm was not far distant from the 
 Steuben county line. He was a son of David H. Wilcox, who moved 
 to Livingston county from Homer, Cortland county, in an early 
 day and established his home in Springwater township, where he 
 purchased land and where he also engaged in the operation of 
 flour and saw mills, having also a mill at Slab City and one in 
 Perry township. In 1850 he established his home in Cohoeton, where 
 he purchased a grist mill, which he continued to operate until 1867, 
 besides which he also owned and operated a saw mill which he here 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 953 
 
 established in 1856. He sold his mill properties in 1867 and his 
 death occurred in June of the following year, when he was of 
 venerable age. He was a man of ability and sterling character and 
 did much to advance the civic and material prosperity of the county. 
 He united with the Republican party at the time of its organization 
 and he served seven terms as supervisor of his township. He 
 wielded much influence in connection with public affairs of a local 
 order and was a citizen to whom was ever accorded the fullest 
 measure of confidence and regard. He was the prime factor in 
 affecting the organization of the Cohocton Universalist church, and 
 both he and his wife were most zealous members of the same. He 
 was affiliated with Liberty Lodge, No. 510, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, and also with the Cohocton lodge of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Delia A. Hopkins, of Spring- 
 water township, Livingston county, and they became the parents 
 of nine children. I ! . i 
 
 Albert H. Wilcox was a lad of six years at the time when the 
 family moved to Cohocton, where he was reared to maturity and 
 where he duly availed himself of the privileges afforded in the 
 common schools. As a youth he was associated with his father's 
 varied business activities and in 1868, when twenty-four years of 
 age, he became manager and superintendent of the business of 
 Thomas Warner, of Cohocton. He thus continued until 1882, in 
 which year he removed to Kanona, this county, where he was asso- 
 ciated with a partner in the lumber business until 1885. In 1883 
 he had become a member of the lumber firm of Warner, Turner & 
 Wilcox, which conducted operations at Elmira, New York, and in 
 Pennsylvania. In 1886 he returned to Cohocton and here engaged 
 in the lumber, shingle and coal business, both wholesale and retail, 
 and in addition to these interests he here became the owner of a well 
 equipped planing mill. With these lines of business he is still 
 actively identified and he has gained precedence as one of the most 
 aggressive and influential business men of this part of the county, 
 besides which he has been influential in public affairs and has an 
 impregnable hold upon popular confidence and esteem. He is a 
 zealous supporter of the principles and policies for which the Re- 
 publican party stands sponsor, and in 1891-2 he served as supervisor 
 of his township. He was a member of the first board of water 
 commissioners of Cohocton and was its president for two years, 
 and since 1892 he has been president of the Cohocton Dime Loan 
 Association. 
 
 In 1864 was solemnized the marriage of Albert H. Wilcox 
 to Miss Fannie Parmenter, who was born and reared in this state. 
 Mr. Wilcox, of this review, has a brother and sister living : Edmund 
 Parmenter Wilcox, who is a member of the United States navy 
 and who is now in charge of the navy recruiting station in New 
 York city, and Helen, who is the wife of James C. Barber, a suc- 
 cessful contractor and builder in the city of Rochester. 
 
 To the public schools of Cohocton Henry P. Wilcox is in- 
 
954 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 debted for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented 
 by a course of two terms in a business college in the city of Elmira. 
 In 1886 he became associated with his father in the lumber, coal, 
 produce and building-material business, and this alliance has since 
 been continued, under the firm name of A. H. "Wilcox & Son. He 
 is also the owner of valuable farm property in Steuben county, 
 besides real estate in Cohocton. 
 
 In politics Mr. Wilcox has given an unwavering allegiance to 
 the cause of the Republican party, and he has given effective service 
 in the promotion of its interests in his native county. In 1900 he 
 was appointed postmaster of Cohocton, and of this office he has 
 since continued incumbent. He has made many improvements in 
 the local service and his administration has met with uniform com- 
 mendation. Mr. Wilcox is affiliated with Liberty Lodge, No. 510,' 
 Free and Accepted Masons, and is thus a representative of the 
 third generation of the family to be identified with this lodge, 
 in which he has passed various official chairs. He is also a member 
 of the Modern Woodmen of America. 
 
 Mr. Wilcox married Jennie L. Allen, who was born in Avoca 
 township, this county, on the 15th of February, 1872, and who is 
 a daughter of William and Mary Catherine (Foults) Allen, the 
 former of whom died on his homestead farm in Avoca township in 
 1876, and the latter of whom now resides in the home of her daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Wilcox. The father was a valiant soldier of the Union, 
 in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox became the parents of 
 three children, one of whom, Louise, died in infancy ; Allen Albert, 
 who was. born August 19, 1894, and Lester Edward, who was born 
 October 16, 1903, are both attending the public schools. 
 
 David Travis Darein was born at Elmira, New York, July 4, 
 1823, and removed with his parents while still young to Barring- 
 ton, Yates county. New York. His father, Ira Darrin, was a native 
 of Hillsdale, Columbia county. New York. He removed to Elmira, 
 where he was married to Margaret Knapp, daughter of Jabez 
 Knapp, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and resided at Chester, 
 Orange county. New York. 
 
 Daniel Darrin, the father of Ira Darrin, was a native of New 
 Britain, Connecticut, and served under General Putnam in the war 
 of the Revolution. Jabez Knapp was a descendant of Nicholas 
 Knapp, who came to America with John Winthrop in 1630 and set- 
 tled at Watertown, Massachusetts. Daniel Darrin was a descendant 
 of Ephraim Darrin (Darwin'), residing at Gilford, Connecticut, in 
 1640. 
 
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 David T. Darrin received his education in the country schools of 
 Yates county and at Starkey Seminary at Eddytown, in that county. 
 On March 26, 1848, he married Mary Jane Matthews, also a grad- 
 uate of Starkey Seminary. In 1853 Mr. Darrin removed with his 
 wife and son Delmar to the village of Addison, Steuben county. 
 
HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 95,-) 
 
 where he engaged in the manufacture of wagons continuously 
 thereafter until his death, January 30, 1897. 
 
 From earliest boyhood Mr. Darrin was interested in all matters 
 pertaining to religious and educational life and to the great public 
 questions of his day. He was one of the founders of the Church of 
 the Redeemer at Addison and served as vestryman and warden of 
 the church for upwards of forty-three years, and the affection and 
 respect in which he was held by all who knew him testify con- 
 vincingly to the sincerity and earnestness of his religious beliefs. 
 He engaged actively in organizing the Addison Free Academy, one 
 of the first schools organized in the state under the New Union 
 Free School Act, and thereafter as a member of his district School 
 Board and as a trustee of the Board of Education of the village of 
 Addison he devoted himself earnestly and intelligently to the im- 
 provement of the schools of the village for more than twenty-five 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Darrin became a member of the Republican party at the 
 time of its organization and remained a consistent and earnest sup- 
 porter of its principles and devoted himself to its welfare through- 
 out his life. During the Civil war he, with Josiah Curtis and Row- 
 land Griswold, were constituted a committee to raise the quota of 
 soldiers required to be furnished by the town of Addison. At the 
 conclusion of their services the governor complimented them and 
 the town of Addison by saying "that in the matter of filling his 
 quota it certainly was the banner town of the state. ' ' 
 
 Mr. Darrin 's wife died March 30, 1891. They left three sons, 
 Delmar Matthew Darrin, David Herbert Darrin and Ira G. Darrin, 
 sketches in regard to whom appear below. 
 
 Delmar M. Darrin was born in the town of Barrington, Yates 
 county. New York, June 6, 1849, and is the son of David T. and 
 Mary Jane (Matthews) Darrin. In 1853 the family removed to 
 Addison, Steuben county, where Mr. Darrin received his early 
 education and prepared for college in the then famous Addison 
 Academy. He graduated in the first class at Cornell University, in 
 the year 1872. At the conclusion of his college course he engaged 
 in the study of law with Col. John W. Dininny, one of the leading 
 lawyers of Steuben county, and was admitted to the practice of law 
 in 1875. Since his admission to the bar Mr. Darrin has continu- 
 ously practiced law at Addison and in the city of Corning, where 
 since 1902 he has maintained offices in association with his son, Hugh 
 Webster Darrin, under the firm name of Darrin & Darrin. 
 
 Mr. Darrin has always been interested in religious and educa- 
 tional affairs. As a vestryman and warden of the Church of the 
 Redeemer in his home town he has devoted the best of his abilities 
 to the promotion of the welfare of the church. As a member of the 
 Board of Education for a period of over twenty-three years, as 
 clerk, trustee and president, and since the year 1893 as trustee 
 of the Addison Public Library and as president of the Library 
 
956 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Board, he has manifested the keenest interest in all matters relating 
 to the educational welfare of the community. An earnest Republi- 
 can in politics, he has throughout his life devoted himself to the 
 promotion of its principles and welfare. For many years he served 
 as corporation counsel of the village of Addison, and since 1901 he 
 has been referee in bankruptcy in his district. 
 
 On June 26, 1876, Mr. Darrin married Miss Mary Hill Dawson, 
 of Plainfield, New Jersey, a daughter of John W. Hill and adopted 
 daughter of her uncle, Charles C. Dawson. 
 
 Ira G. Darrin was born in the village of Addison, Steuben 
 county, on the 5th day of August, 1858, and is a son of David T. 
 Darrin and Mary Jane (Matthews) Darrin. In the fall of 1879 Mr. 
 Darrin entered Columbia College Law School and was admitted to 
 the bar December 12th of the same year. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Darrin commenced the practice of his profession 
 at BoUiver, Allegany county. New York, where he remained until 
 the fall of 1884, when he removed his office to Corning, Steuben 
 county. In 1886 he removed to the city of New York and has since 
 continued the practice of law in that city. Mr. Darrin was elected 
 and served a term as district attorney of Queens county, from 
 January 1, 1906, to December 31, 1908. A Republican in politics, 
 he has for many years taken an active interest in its welfare. 
 
 Mr. Darrin is a member of the Association of th^ Bar of the 
 State of New York, the Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, the Queens County Bar Association and, of course, of the 
 Steuben Society of the City of New York. 
 
 Mr. Darrin 's wife was Mary S. Davies, daughter of James 
 Davies and Angeline, his wife, of Durhamville, Oneida county. New 
 York, to whom he was married in July, 1886. 
 
 David H. Darrin was born in the village of Addison, Steuben 
 county, April 22, 1867, and is a son of David T. and Mary Jane 
 (Matthews) Darrin. In 1885, at the age of eighteen years, he en- 
 tered upon a mechanical and electrical apprenticeship at the city 
 of Elmira, Chemung county, and later removed to the city of Buf- 
 falo and engaged in the same line of business until 1895, at which 
 time he removed to the city of New York and engaged in the manu- 
 facture of elevators and automatic electrical controllers. Mr. Dar- 
 rin has been exceptionally successful as a mechanical and electrical 
 engineer, to which profession he devotes his entire energy. "While 
 an ardent Republican in politics, he has never engaged in the active 
 work of the party. 
 
 Mr. Darrin is a member of the New York Electrical Society, 
 General Society of Mechanical Engineers and Tradesmen, the 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Engineers' 
 Club of the city of New York. He is also a member of the Hen- 
 driek Hudson Yacht Club. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 957 
 
 Judge Almon Whitney BxmEELL, of Canisteo, former district 
 attorney of Steuben county and present county judge, is, to speak 
 with all due conservativeness, one of the most prominent and highly 
 esteemed of the citizens not alone of the town fortunate enough to 
 claim his residence but also of the county in whose affairs he plays a 
 leading role. Since his admission to the bar in 1894 he has enjoyed 
 splendid standing as a lawyer, which eventually found unmistakable 
 expression in his elevation to the county bench, and it has been his 
 to serve his county and state with distinction as a public man and as 
 a private citizen. He is a representative of old and honored families 
 of New England, that cradle of so much of our national history, 
 and he is descended from the same stock as some of the most admira- 
 ble and interesting of our American heroes and patriots, notable 
 among these being Colonel Ethan Allen. 
 
 Mr. Burrell is a native son of the state, the place of his nativity 
 having been Angelica, Allegany county, and its date October 15, 
 
 1865. His father is Alphonse H. Burrell, lawyer and district attor- 
 ney of Steuben county, and the maiden name of the mother was 
 Sarah C. Allen. This worthy couple gave to the state four good 
 citizens, Mr. Burrell having three brothers— Fred, Marshall M. and 
 Mareellus E. It has been the pleasant fate of the family not to suf- 
 fer disintegration, and the father and four sons all reside in Canis- 
 teo. The mother, a woman worthy of all honor and admiration, 
 died December 27, 1900. As mentioned in the preceding paragraph, 
 Mr. Burrell is descended on the paternal side from the same stock as 
 Ethan Allen, who was his great-great-grandmother's brother, while 
 on the maternal side he comes from good, hardy American stock, 
 his ancestors having been men of fine actions and high principles. 
 In the subject one is reminded that, "Mental and moral capital are 
 treasures invested for us by our forefathers. Nature takes the 
 grandsire's ability and puts it out at compound interest for the 
 grandson." 
 
 Alphonse H. Burrell, father of the subject, and his wife, moved 
 to Canisteo from Angelica, Allegany county, in the latter part of 
 
 1866, and the step was an important one, for here the family resi- 
 dence has ever since been maintained. The father is still living, in 
 his eighty-fifth year, sound and well-preserved both mentally and 
 physically and daily engaging in the practice of the law, to which 
 profession he has since his youth been an ornament. Mr. Burrell 
 was only about a year old when his parents made their change of 
 residence. As soon as his years were sufficient he began his attend- 
 ance in the public schools and he subsequently entered Canisteo 
 Academy, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 
 1884, when nineteen years of age. Like Oliver Twist, hungering for 
 more, he subsequently matriculated in the Genesee Wesleyan Semi- 
 nary, at Lima, New York, and was graduated in 1887 from its classi- 
 cal department. He was led very naturally to take up the law from 
 the fact that his father was a lawyer and that he helped more or, 
 less in his office, and his first step after leaving the portals of the 
 
958 HISTORY OF STETBEN COUNTY 
 
 Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was to attack his Blaekstone as a 
 general attacks a hostile entrenchment, pursuing his studies in his 
 father's office at Canisteo. He was already familiar to some extent 
 with legal matters, for he had frequently acted in the capacity of a 
 clerk for his father, indeed fairly growing up in an atmosphere of 
 the law, and even as a youth having legal terms at his tongue's end. 
 An uncle was also an active practitioner at the bar and, as in many 
 similar caees, a fondness and predilection for the profession seems 
 to have been inherent. 
 
 Very successful in his preparatory studies, Judge Burrell was 
 admitted to the bar in 1894, at Buffalo, New York, and ever since 
 that time he has been actively engaged in the practice of the law at 
 Canisteo, where he has built up a large and loyal clientele, being 
 associated with his father under the firm name of A. H. & A. W. 
 Burrell. A remarkably good equipment has easily won for him 
 high repute and professional success, and he ever meets grave ques- 
 tions with perfect valor and incomparable ability. Inspiring the 
 confidence of all with whom he comes in contact and what is more 
 important, retaining it against all events, he is one to whom the 
 community which knows him best looks as the proper incumbent of 
 public office. His career as a public servant has been varied, for he 
 was elected justice of the peace in 1887, while a law student. He 
 served as village attorney of Canisteo for several years, and in 
 November, 1900, distinctive mark of the strong hold he had gained 
 upon popular esteem in the community was given in his election as 
 district attorney of Steuben county, and his re-election in 1903 for a 
 second term was in eloquent testimony of the satisfactory character 
 of his services. He served until May 1, 1906, at which time he was 
 appointed Steuben county .judge by Governor Higgins, there being a 
 vacancy in that office succeeding Judge William W. Clark, who had 
 been appointed to the supreme court bench. Mr. Burrell, upon 
 being notified of his appointment, immediately resigned as district 
 attorney, and wiring his resignation to the governor, his appoint- 
 ment was at- once confirmed by the senate and he entered upon his 
 duties as judge of the county court. In the fall of 1906 Judge 
 Burrell, having already ' ' given a taste of his quality, ' ' was nomi- 
 nated and elected county judge for a full term of six y^ars from 
 January 1, 1907, and is now serving that term, the renown of his 
 wisdom and ability having spread far beyond the confines of Steu- 
 ben county. He gives the best of himself to every duty and while 
 district attorney he was frequently complimented upon the able 
 manner in which he prepared his cases before the grand jury and at 
 the trial court. 
 
 Politically Mr. Burrell is an ardent Republican, coming from a 
 family which has ever endorsed that political faith. He is familiar 
 with the articles of its faith, from his youth having poured over 
 the pages of its history and found inspiration in all of its high 
 traditions. In fact, he has championed Republican principles on 
 the stump in every campaign since he became of age. He is a prac- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 959 
 
 tical orator sehooled in the principles of platform address, rich and 
 fluent of speech and possessing the rare ability to baptize himself 
 in his subject and to carry bis audience with him to each climax. 
 In addition to his many other distinctions, Judge Burrell is one of 
 the most prominent of Steuben county Masons. He is a member of 
 Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, F. & A. M., of Canisteo, New York; 
 of Steuben Chapter, No. 101, R. A. M., of Hornell, New York; 
 DeMolay Commandery, No. 22, Knights Templars, of Hornell, New 
 York ; and he is a Thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of 
 Corning Consistory, of Corning, New York. His other fraternal 
 relations extend to Mountain Lodge, No. 503, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows ; and Canisteo Tent, Knights of the Tented Maccabees. 
 He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Canisteo and 
 for many years was secretary of the Sunday-school. Ever in the 
 forefront of any movement calculated to bring benefit to the com- 
 munity at large, he was active in the organization of the public 
 library at Canisteo, known as the Wimodaughsien Free Library. 
 Judge Burrell was the first president of the board of trustees, 
 which office he still holds, having been re-elected from time to time 
 by the Wimodaughsien Ladies' Club, whose members were the 
 sponsors for the new library and selected its board of trustees. It 
 was they who furnished the funds necessary for its maintenance, 
 although a part of this responsibility has now been assumed by the 
 village of Canisteo. 
 
 One of Judge Burrell 's most prominent characteristics is his 
 love of reading and good books, a quality evinced in his earliest 
 boyhood and one which has suffered no diminution with the passage 
 of the years and the encroachment of many duties. 
 
 An ideally happy life companionship was inaugurated when on 
 November 28, 1894, Judge Burrell was married at Richmond Mills, 
 Ontario county, New York, to Miss Lalla Olive Townsend, of that 
 place, a daughter of Alonzo W. Townsend, a lumber manufacturer. 
 Mrs. Burrell at the time of her marriage was a teacher in the Canis- 
 teo Academy, at Canisteo, having held that position with great 
 efficiency for ten years. The birth of two daughters has blessed this 
 union, ©orothy Helen, born March 9, 1900, died April 17, 1901 ; 
 and Hatherine T. was born August 26, 1904. Mrs. Burrell 's ances- 
 tors were prominent in the war of the American Revolution and also 
 in the War of 1812, and she possesses a badge worn by Captain 
 Daniel Townsend, a member of the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, 
 in the Revolutionary war. She is in a direct line of descent from 
 Ethan Allen, of.Revolutionary fame, as is her husband. Judge Bur- 
 rell, it being a surprising fact that the great-great-grandmother of 
 each were sisters of Captain Ethan Allen. 
 
 The home of Judge and Mrs. Burrell is one of the most cul- 
 tured and attractive of the abodes of Steuben county, and is widely 
 known as the centre of a gracious hospitality. 
 
960 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Hon. Edwin Stewakt Underbill, of Corning, publisher of 
 the Evening Leader and the Steuben Farmers' Advocate and mem- 
 ber of congress from the Thirty-third New York district, was born 
 in Bath, that state, October 7, 1861. His parents were Anthony L. 
 Underbill and Charlotte McBeth. His father was for over forty 
 years editor and publisher of the Steuien Farmers' Advocate in 
 Bath; was postmaster of Bath and Democratic presidential elector 
 on the Cleveland ticket in 1884. He is a direct descendant in the 
 eighth generation of Captain John Underbill, at one time governor 
 of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and who obtained fame as 
 an Indian fighter in the war which the early settlers of Massachu- 
 setts had with the Pequot Indians. 
 
 Mr. Underbill, of this sketch, graduated from Haverling High 
 School in Bath and entered Yale, where he graduated from the 
 academic department in 1881. Soon after graduation he entered 
 the office of the Steuben Farmers' Advocate and was associated 
 with his father in its publication during the latter 's life time. In 
 the presidential year of 1884 he was chosen chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic County Committee and served in that capacity several years. 
 In 1888 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for presidential 
 elector for his district. For a time he was editor of the Canandaigua 
 (N. Y.) Messenger, which was published by his father. In Septem- 
 ber, 1899, with his father, he purchased the Corning Daily Demo- 
 crat, since changed to the Coming Evening Leader. Since his 
 father's death, in 1902, he has been the publisher of the Advocate 
 and the Leader. 
 
 Mr. Underbill is a vestryman in St. Thomas Episcopal church, 
 at Bath; vice-president of the Davenport library, and a member 
 of the Board of Education. He was district deputy grand master of 
 the Thirty-fourth Masonic district for two years. He is also a mem- 
 ber of Corning Consistory, of Kalurah Temple, Mystic Shrine and 
 of the Elks. In 1902 he was elected president of the New York 
 State Press Association, and in 1907 was honored with the presi- 
 dency of the New York State Associated Dailies. In 1910 he was 
 elected representative in congress for the Thirty-third district of 
 New York, to succeed J. S. Fassett, Republican, whom he defeated 
 by about two thousand plurality. 
 
 Mr. Underbill was married October 9, 1884, to Minerva Eliza- 
 beth, only daughter of William W. Allen and Helen M. Ganse- 
 voort. Two sons, William Allen Underbill, born January 28, 1888, 
 and Edwin Stewart Underbill, Jr., born April 18, 1890, are their 
 only children. The former graduated from Yale, in 1910 (acad- 
 emic) and the latter in the class of 1911 (scientific), and both are 
 now associated with their father in the newspaper business. 
 
 Abner T. Niver is a representative of one of the sterling pio- 
 neer families of Steuben county and in his native county he is 
 following the sturdy trade which constituted the vocation of his 
 , honored father. He is a skilled artisan as a blacksmith and has 
 
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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 963 
 
 built up a large and successful business, the while his impregnable 
 integrity in all the relations of life has gained him the unequivocal 
 confidence and esteem of the community which has been his home 
 throughout his life. 
 
 Abner T. Niver was born in Caton township, Steuben county, 
 on the 2nd of October, 1854, and is a son of Evert D. and Char- 
 lotte A. (Clark) Niver, the former of whom was born in Orange 
 county, this state, and the latter in Reading, Schuyler county. The 
 parents continued to reside in this county until the time of their 
 death, the father having here established his home about the year 
 1850 and being engaged in the work of his trade, to which he here 
 devoted his attention imtil 1876, when his son Abner, the subject 
 of this review, assumed charge of the shop. Not only was Evert D. 
 Niver a skilled blacksmith but he was also successful as a wagon 
 maker, in which connection he controlled for many years a pros- 
 perous business. Upon withdrawing from the work of his trade 
 he removed to Hammondsport township, where he secured a tract 
 of land and turned -his attention to grape culture, which he con- 
 tinued during the residue of his active career and in which he met 
 with a due measure of success. He passed to his reward in 1887 
 and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal 
 in 1890. Both were members of the Baptist church and in poll: 
 tics he gave his allegiance to the Democratic party. Evert D. and 
 Charlotte A. (Clark) Niver became the parents of eight children, 
 all of whom are living and concerning them the following brief 
 record is consistently entered: Ruth is the wife of L. H. Curtis, of 
 Rochester, Monroe county; Marian is the wife of Carmon Carr, of 
 Grove Spring, Steuben county; Abner T. is the immediate subject 
 of this sketch; Frederick and D. 0. reside at Hornell, Steuben 
 county; Belle is the wife of M. V. Margeson, of Hammondsport, 
 this county ; Andrew F. of Savona ; and Lillie is the wife of Will- 
 iam Covel, of Elmira. 
 
 Abner T. Niver was afforded the advantages of the public 
 schools of his native township and under the direction of his father 
 he served a thorough and practical apprenticeship to the trade of 
 blacksmith. This ancient and important line of industry has been 
 given his attention during the long intervening years and he has 
 been signally prospered through his well-directed efforts. His 
 shop is well equipped for the handling of all kinds of blacksmith 
 work and a specialty is made of repairing vehicles and agricultural 
 implements. Mr. Niver has achieved success through his own efforts 
 and is the owner of valuable real estate in his home village of Caton, 
 besides which he is a stockholder of the Bell & Century telephone 
 companies. He and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church 
 and are zealous in the various departments of its work. He is affili- 
 ated with the local tent of the Knights of the Maccabees and is also 
 identified with the Sons of Veterans. In politics Mr. Niver has 
 ever been aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Demo- 
 cratic party and he has been a zealous worker in its local ranks, 
 
964 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 being at the present time a member of the Steuben county commit- 
 tee of the party. He has served as tax collector of Caton town- 
 ship and has been given other evidences of popular confidence and 
 esteem. 
 
 Mr. Niver's eligibility for membership in the Sons of Vet- 
 erans is based upon the valiant service of his father as a soldier of 
 the Union in the Civil war. The father enlisted in Company D, 
 One Hundred and Forty-first New York Volunteer Infantry, and 
 he continued in active service for one year, at the expiration of 
 which he received his honorable discharge. 
 
 In the year 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Abner 
 T. Niver to Miss Mary E. Johnson, who was born in Yonkers, West- 
 chester county, New York, on the 15th of October, 1856, and who 
 is a daughter of Jacob G. Johnson. Mr. and jMrs. Niver became the 
 parents of four children, all of whom are living and their names 
 and respective dates of birth are here entered : W. Clay, February 
 21, 1882 ; Cloy D., May 16, 1884 ; Pansy B., August 1, 1887 ; and 
 Drexel U., July 7, 1888. Pansy E., the only daughter, is now the 
 wife of William E. Beeman, of Corning, Steuben county. Jacob G. 
 Johnson, father of Mrs. Niver, was likewise a gallant soldier in the 
 Civil war. He enlisted at the inception of the war as a member 
 of Company F, Third Connecticut Regiment, with which he was 
 in service from May 14, 1861, until the 12th of the following 
 August, when he received his honorable discharge, at the expira- 
 tion of his term of enlistment. On the 2nd of September, 1864, he 
 again enlisted and he continued in service until the close of the 
 war, having received his final discharge on the 2nd of May, 1865. 
 
 David Burton Winton was born at Camillus, New York, 
 March 3, 1837, and as he lost his parents at an early age his home 
 was with an aunt in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and an uncle in 
 Havana, the Empire state. This covered the earlier years of his 
 life until he joined his older brother in California. 
 
 At the age of eighteen he sailed from California for Australia 
 and China, on business for his brother, and after his raturn he 
 located in Chicago. In 1859 he married Miss Frances J. Gillet, of 
 Addison, New York (where he had spent two years at an earlier 
 date), and their home was in Chicago for five years, when they 
 returned to Steuben county. There Mr. Winton entered into part- 
 nership with Mr. Lattimer in conducting the Addison Bank. At 
 eleven years of age the former had joined the Presbyterian church, 
 and for some years before his death was ruling elder of the church 
 in Addison. He died in 1898, leaving a wife and six children. 
 
 Michael Joseph Reagan is a valued member of the New York 
 State Board of Mediation and Arbitration and has charge of its 
 office in New York city at 381 Fourth avenue, and he is one of the 
 sterling citizens given to the national metropolis by Steuben county. 
 He was born in Hornellsville, that county, on the i2th of December, 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 9G5 
 
 1865, and is a son of William and Julia (McCarthy) Reagan, who 
 took up their abode in Hornellsville about the year 1850. There 
 the mother died on November 4, 1906, and there the father still 
 maintains his residence, the city being now known as Hornell. Of ■ 
 the family of four sons and four daughters, three sons and three 
 daughters are now living, and he whose name initiates this article 
 is the youngest of the number. 
 
 Mr. Reagan was reared to maturity in his native town and 
 he secured his early educational training in the parochial school 
 conducted by the Sisters of Mercy and in the public schools. He 
 later completed a course in the Albany Business College, in the 
 capital city of the state, being graduated in this institution as a 
 member of the class 1889. In his early childhood he traveled about 
 quite considerable for one of his j^ears. He attended all the noted 
 events at the time, such as the Courtney and Hanlon boat race on 
 the Potomac River May 19, 1880, at Washington, D. C. ; the funeral 
 of President of the United States James A. Garfield in Cleveland, 
 Ohio, September 26, 1881 ; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge May 
 24, 1883. His first employment was as a brick haker at fifty cents 
 a day for the Thatcher Brick Company and as helper at the Raw- 
 son Foundry Company. The next employment was as trainman on 
 the Western Division of the Erie Railroad. On June 1, 1883, he 
 left the service of the Erie Railroad and went as far west as Ocono- 
 mowoc, Wisconsin, where he secured a position as clerk in the 
 Townsend House, a summer resort, where he remained until the 
 house closed, about September 10, 1883. His next employment was 
 in a like capacity with the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, 
 where he remained from October 1, 1883, until July 1, 1884. On 
 account of the serious illness of his mother at this time he was 
 summoned to his old home at Hornellsville. He remained at home 
 and re-entered the service of the Erie Railroad as trainman and 
 baggageman, and was employed with Conductor Hiram Hurty on 
 trains 3 and 12 between Elmira and Dunkirk, and afterwards served 
 with such old timers as Jerome Farnham, Clarence Stannard, H. L. 
 May, W. S. Kimble, George AVright, LeGrand Tillman, Edward 
 Carroll, Del Wescott and Doctor R. N. Thomas, nearly all of whom 
 have gone to the great beyond from whence no traveler returns. 
 
 In January, 1886, with other friends (Arthur Maloney and 
 John Weldon) he organized a railroadmen's union known as Local 
 Assembly 7460, Knights of Labor, and was its first master work- 
 man. On September 20, 1887, he was appointed to a clerkship in the 
 Bureau of Labor Statistics at Albany, New York, by Commissioner 
 Charles F. Peck, having been endorsed for the position by Mayor 
 James B. Day and the late Hon. John McDougall. Soon after ac- 
 cepting this position he passed a state civil service examination and 
 was promoted to the position of special agent of the Bureau, where 
 he remained through the consolidation of the Bureau of Labor 
 Statistics with the Factory Inspection Bureau and Board of Media- 
 tion and Arbitration by Governor B. B. Odell during the legis- 
 
966 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 lative session of 1901, and now presided over by Commissioner 
 John Williams and known as Department of Labor. On Decem- 
 ber 1, 1906, Mr. Reagan was further promoted by being named as 
 Industrial Mediator and member of the State Board of Mediation 
 and Arbitration (this being a subdivision of the Department of 
 Labor) by Commissioner P. Tecumseh Sherman and placed in 
 charge of the branch ofifice of the Bureau in New York City. Mr. 
 Reagan has served under Commissioners Peck, Dowling, Mc- 
 Donough, McMackin, Sherman and Williams since the beginning 
 of his employment in the state service. 
 
 In the meantime he had identified himself with the Tenth 
 Battalion National Guard, New York, having enlisted in Company 
 B April 22, 1890, with the following military record both in the 
 National Guard of the State and the United States Volunteers 
 during the Spanish American war. 
 
 In National Guard, New York. 
 
 Private Co. B, Tenth Battalion, April 22, 1890; full and honor- 
 able discharge March 10, 1897. Re-enlisted same day. Corporal 
 April 29, 1898. Sergeant September 25, 1899. Pull and honorable 
 discharge October 17, 1899. Commissioned First Lieutenant as In- 
 spector of Small Arms Practice Tenth Battalion N. G. N. Y. July 
 26, 1904. Rendered supernumerary May 1, 1905. First Lieutenant 
 and Battalion Quartermaster Tenth Regiment Infantry May 5, 
 1905, with original rank. Supernumerary and re-assigned January 
 21, 1908, with rank from July 26, 1904. 
 
 In United States Volunteer Army. 
 
 Corporal Company B, First Regiment Infantry May 20, 1898, 
 Mustered out at Camp Presidio, San Francisco, California. July 
 19, 1898, on account of promotion, having been commissioned as 
 Second Lieutenant 202d Regiment Infantry N. Y. Volunteers July 
 6, 1898, and assigned to Company M. First Lieutenant October 1, 
 1898, and mustered out of United States service at Savannah, 
 Georgia, April 15, 1899. Served with the latter regiment, which 
 was the first United States troops to go through Havana, Cuba 
 (December 9, 1898), after its capitulation, and was stationed with 
 the regiment at Pinar del Rio and Guanajay as the army of occupa- 
 tion until relieved by the First Infantry United States Army in 
 command of Major Dougherty. The regiment left the Island of 
 Cuba about March 25, 1899, and was stationed at Camp Onward, 
 Savannah, Georgia. 
 
 Mr. Reagan is particularly proud of the Commissions he has 
 held in the United States volunteer service and the New York 
 National Guard signed by Governors Black, Roosevelt, Odell, Hig- 
 gins and Hughes. 
 
 Lieutenant Reagan with his other duties was acting quarter- 
 master and had charge of all railroad transportation while serv- 
 ing with the regiment both in the United States and Cuba. While 
 at Camp Meade with his regiment a vacancy occurred as first 
 lieutenant of Company M, of which he was the second lieutenant. 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 967 
 
 Several applications were made by members of the regiment of the 
 same grade in rank as Mr. Reagan, all of whom were his senior. 
 When filing his application for the first lieutenancy, Colonel Sey- 
 burn informed him that he had not only endorsed him for first 
 lieutenant in writing but had telegraphed same to Adjutant Gen- 
 eral Tillinghast at Albany, as follows : "I nominate Second Lieu- 
 tenant Michael J. Reagan for First Lieutenant in this regiment. 
 Reagan has done the work. Signed S. Y. Seyburn. Colonel 202d 
 Regt. Inf. N.J. Vols." 
 
 "While with the First Regiment Infantry, New York Volun- 
 teers, at Port Wadsworth, New York Harbor, orders were received 
 from the War Department by Colonel Barber to proceed to the 
 Philippine Islands, via San Francisco, and the regiment left Jer- 
 sey City, New Jersey, over the Brie Railroad on the morning of 
 July 7, 1898, but the orders were changed and the regiment went to 
 Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, instead. When the section of the train 
 in which he was en route arrived at his old home early in the 
 morning of July 8th a great reception had been arranged by his 
 friends and neighbors in good old Hornell. The committee in charge 
 were Judge James H. Clancy, Colonel James Schwarzenbach, Hon- 
 orable Milo M. Acker, William H. Murray, Charles H. Armsted and 
 W. H. Prangen. With the band out in full regalia and a crowd 
 of at least five thousand people gathered at the Erie Depot the 
 send off and good cheer Mr. Reagan and the soldier boys received 
 by the assembled multitude before the train departed on its west- 
 ern journey was certainly immense and will always be cherished 
 most highly by him as one of the proudest moments of his life. 
 
 Mr. Reagan is an ex-commander of Frank Rockwell Palmer 
 Camp, No. 28, United Spanish War Veterans; a charter member 
 of Albany Council No. 110, Knights of Columbus; a member of 
 the Catholic Union ; Branch 83, the Catholic Mutual Benefit Asso- 
 ciation; Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division 4; the Robert 
 Emmet Association ; and Old Guard, Company B, Washington Con- 
 tinentals of Albany, New York. He is a member of the Army and 
 Navy Club, the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish Amer- 
 ican War, Society of American Wars, Commandery of the State 
 of New York, president of the Bronx Borough Taxpayers' Pro- 
 tective Alliance, member of the Bronx Lodge, No. 871, B. P. 0. E., 
 and the Steuben Society of New York City. 
 
 Mr. Reagan has a very extensive acquaintance throughout 
 the state among the leading business and professional men and with 
 officers and members of labor organizations, he having traveled for 
 about fifteen years throughout the state for the department with 
 which he has been connected as special agent, which required such 
 travel and investigation. He has always been a great admirer of 
 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the late governor of New York, 
 '^rank W. Higgins, with each of whom he has had a very friendly 
 acquaintance. 
 
 On April 10, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reagan 
 
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968 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 and Miss Mary E. Burke, of Albany, New York, at the Sacred Heart 
 church, by the Rev. Father Peyton, and they have four children:* 
 Mary B., William Harold, Frank Higgins and Ralph. 
 
 Dr. Charles A. Carr. — The Carr family, which is represented 
 in. Steuben county by Charles Audubon Carr, the well known prac- 
 titioner and citizen of Corning, has given of its industry, integrity 
 and ability in the pioneer activities and progress of three states — 
 Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York. Wherever its members 
 have planted their homes, there have been found worthy examples 
 of those staying qualities which have always marked the best types 
 of the Anglo-Saxon or the Englishman and his American sons 
 of the eastern United States. 
 
 To reach the source of the Carr family in America it is neces- 
 sary to revert to Benjamin Carr, a native of the world's metropolis, 
 born August 18, 1592, ten years before the first English navigator 
 explored the shores of Massachusetts and New England, and twen- 
 ty-eight years before the Pilgrims established their colony at Ply- 
 mouth, on the shores of Massachusetts bay. When Benjamin Carr 
 was a few weeks past his majority — or, to be more precise, or 
 September 2, 1613,— he took to wife Martha Hardington. They 
 were married in London and died there, having become the parents 
 of five children, the eldest of whom, Robert Carr, founded the 
 American branch, of which Dr. Carr is an offshoot. 
 
 This American forefather, who was born in London, England, 
 on the 4th of October, 1614, boarded the ship "Elizabeth Ann," 
 May 5, 1635, and, with his brother Caleb, sailed for Narragansett 
 Bay, Rhode Island. They came as pioneers to that region and, as 
 is the custom of the far-sighted Englishman, at once commenced 
 to buy land. It appears from the records that Robert was ad- 
 mitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth February 21, 1639, and as 
 a freeman in Newport, Rhode Island, March 16, 1641. He was 
 one of the original purchasers of the island of Conanicut in Nar- 
 ragansett Bay, buying of the Indiana a considerable share of its 
 six thousand acres. He also acquired a considerable property in 
 Newport, and died in 1^81, a substantial citizen of most honorable 
 standing. Of his six children, Caleb Carr was born in Newport and 
 married Phillis Green, daughter of deputy governor Green of 
 Warwick, Rhode Island, where she was born in October, 1658. At 
 his death in 1690 his widow was made executrix of a considerable 
 estate. Caleb Carr and his wife were the parents of seven children, 
 of whom their son, Caleb Carr, Jr., was a direct forefather of 
 Dr. Carr of this sketch. 
 
 Caleb. Carr, Jr., was a . native of Jamestown, Rhode Island, 
 born on the 26th of March, 1670, and was, married, at that place 
 to Joanna Slocum, by her father Ebenezer Slocum, warden— the 
 ceremony occurring April .30, 1701. . The husband afterward set- 
 tled, with his family, at West Greenwich, that state, became a 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY Dfi'J 
 
 freeholder in 1731, and died in 1750, leaving a large property to his 
 five sons. 
 
 Caleb Carr (the third American by that name) was, like his 
 father, a native of Jamestown, Rhode Island, where he was born 
 November 6, 1702, and died at West Greenwich in 1769. His wife 
 Sarah was born November 8, 1711, and died in November, 1798, 
 mother of thirteen children. 
 
 The great-great-grandfather of the doctor was Eleazer Carr, 
 who was born in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, April 22, 1746, 
 and married Eleanor Stafford; settling in Rensselaer county. New 
 York, where he died July 19, 1816. They had six children. 
 
 Rev. Stutely Carr, son of the above, was a vigorous, patriotic 
 and Christian man, born in Rensselaer county, New York, on the 
 5th of July, 1773; he married Sybil Dyer (daughter of George and 
 Ann Dyer) in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, on the 16th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1791. His wife was born in that town on the 1st of August, 
 1772, and died December 4, 1839. Mr. Carr settled in Salisbury, 
 New York, where he lived many years. He was much interested 
 in military matters, as well as in religious work, and served as 
 captain in the New York State Militia, his commission from Gov- 
 ernor George Clinton bearing date of March 5, 1802. He died in 
 the town of Spring, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd 
 of June, 1840, and was the honored sire of sixteen children. 
 
 Captain George Carr, the grandfather of Dr. Carr, was born 
 in Salisbury, New York, June 28, 1794, marrying Nancy Gris- 
 wold, at Dry den, that state, on the 22nd of August, 1813, being 
 then little more than nineteen years of age. His wife was his 
 senior by nearly four years, having been born in Dryden Sep- 
 tember 16, 1790, and dying at the extreme age of ninety-one. For 
 some years they resided at that place, then settled at Almond, New 
 York, where they lived until about 1855, when they located in 
 Hector, where the husband and father died April 13, 1870, at the 
 home of his son, Stutely H. Carr. He received his military title 
 for the fine service which he rendered in the war of 1812, receiving 
 an honorable discharge at its close, as well as a land r/arrant and 
 a pension in special recognition of his standing as a soldier and 
 a patriot. 
 
 Stutely Hurd Carr, the father, was one of seven children and 
 was born at Dryden, New York, January 11, 1822, his wife (whom 
 he married at Almond, New York, February 24, 1848), being a 
 Aative of Westfield, Pennsylvania, born May 13, 1829, and a 
 daughter of Christopher Schoonover, one of the first settlers and 
 pioneers of Cowanesque valley. In 1854 Mr. Carr moved upon a 
 wilderness farm in Potter county, Pennsylvania, and at the out- 
 break of the war had made a comfortable homestead of it. But in 
 the fall of 1861 he left wife and family to jojn the ranks of Cpm- 
 pany D, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and later served 
 in Company G, Two Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volun- 
 teers. He followed the varying fortunes of these commands with 
 
970 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 the faithfulness of a true soldier whose family fought so well in 
 the war of 1812, and at the close of the war had participated in 
 many of its great battles. At the notable charge of Fort Stead- 
 man he received a gunshot wound in the calf of one of his legs, 
 from the effects of which he was confined in hospital when the 
 Army of the Potomac was disbanded after Lee's surrender; so that 
 he did not reach home until about eight weeks after the virtual 
 close of the war. He received two honorable discharges, carrying 
 with them a land warrant and a pension. Both parents died at the 
 home of their son, Dr. Carr, in Corning; the father, March 23, 
 1904, and the mother, on the 21st day of March, 1905, two days 
 before the anniversary of her husband's death. The father of the 
 family of six children was a farmer and a blacksmith who had 
 enjoyed a fair common-school education ; was a life-long Methodist, 
 always a Christian gentleman, and a sturdy representative of the 
 American middle class, upon which is based the best of the nation 's 
 life. 
 
 Dr. Charles A. Carr is a native of Hector, Pennsylvania, and 
 was born on the 19th of February, 1864. He received his early 
 education in the district schools of Pennsylvania, and completed 
 his preliminary literary studies in the Westfield Graded school and 
 The Knoxville (Pennsylvania) High School. In 1887 he was 
 matriculated at the Baltimore Medical College, from which he 
 graduated in April, 1890. In the following June he located for 
 practice at Caton, Steuben county, where he continued until 1895. 
 He then entered the School of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryn- 
 gology of New York, and after finishing the course in that institu- 
 tion became a resident practitioner in these specialties at Corning. 
 His career there has given him a high reputation as a practitioner 
 and a citizen. 
 
 Dr. Carr has taken deep interest in local public affairs. In 
 politics he is a Republican; has served two terms as alderman in 
 the Corning city council, and was health officer of Caton and Corn- 
 ing for about eight years. In a more strict professional sense, he is 
 a member (vice president) of the Corning Medical Association, of 
 the Steuben County Medical Association and the New York State 
 Medical Association; is visiting physician of the Corning Hospital 
 and lecturer to its training classes for nurses. He is also earnestly 
 identified with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. 
 
 On May 7, 1891, Dr. Carr wedded Miss Effie D. White, daughter 
 of John C. and Lucy Ella (Davis) "White, her father being a 
 farmer who died October 7, 1872. Mrs. Carr was educated in 
 the Corning Free Academy, from which also her son (Harold, born 
 in June, 1892), graduated in June, 1911. 
 
 Dr. Carr is the sixth and youngest son of- Stutely H. and 
 Julia S. Carr. He has four brothers living, viz. : . Dr. James G, 
 Carr, a noted Optometric Eye Specialist located at Harrison Valley-, 
 Pennsylvania, where he enjoys a. .large, and -lucrative practice 5 
 W. W. Carr, who resides in Bath, New York; H. E. Carr, of 218 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUI^TY 971 
 
 Bridge street, Corning, New York; S. A. Carr, of Clayton, Kent 
 county, Delaware. 
 
 W. W. Carr was bom in Almond, New York, January 5, 1854, 
 and is the father of five children by his wife, Bertha Chisholm, 
 whom he married in Cameron, New York, January 1, 1878. She 
 died in February, 1898, and he has since remarried. His children 
 are: Alfa May (Carr) Shattuek, bom December 22, 1879; Will- 
 iam Clifford Carr, born July 2, 1881 ; James Earl Carr, born April 
 29, 1883; Bessie Eva (Carr) Shattuek, bom April 4, 1889; Minnie 
 Adelia Carr, born June 3, 1895. They all reside in Steuben 
 county, New York, at or near Bath. 
 
 H. E. Carr was bom in Hector, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1855. 
 He married Eva Dorr in Elmira, New York, October 25, 1881. She 
 was born in Elmira, New York, November 27, 1861. They have 
 two sons, viz.: Dr. Fred D. Carr, bom July 22, 1882, who 
 graduated from the University of Vermont, College of Medicine, 
 with high honors, on June 24, 1908. He followed this with a year's 
 hospital practice, after which he located for the practice of his 
 profession at Caton, Steuben county, New York. He was married to 
 Mary Thaler on December 25, 1909. They had one child, Margaret 
 Louise Carr, bom December 25, 1910. Leigh S. Carr, born August 
 1, 1884, was married to Winnie Lovejoy October 6, 1'909. They are 
 located at 218 Bridge street. Corning, New* York, and he is con- 
 nected with the Corning Cut Glass Works. 
 
 Delano D. Cottrell. — An enterprise that has added mate- 
 rially to the commercial prestige of North Cohoeton is the subscrip- 
 tion business of Mr. Delano Dempster Cottrell. It is most inter- 
 esting to note the evolution of this business from the beginning to 
 the present time and in a following paragraph this matter will be 
 dwelt on in full detail. Mr. Cottrell was born at Oswego Center, 
 Oswego county. New York, on the 8th of June, 1864, and is a son of 
 Eev. Andrew Jay and Harriet Elizabeth (McKee) Cottrell, the 
 former of whom was born at Sandy Creek, Oswego county. New 
 York, on the 6th of January, 1836, and the latter is a native of 
 Ellisburg, Jefferson coimty. New York, the date of her nativity 
 being July 9, 1838. As a youth Eev. Cottrell learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade and early became interested in church work. He at- 
 tended the Adams Academy in Jefferson county, New York, and 
 in 1863 entered the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal church, but 
 was obliged to give up the work after two years' service. He fol- 
 lowed business pursuits until 1879 when his health having become 
 better, he again entered the ministry. He retired from the minis- 
 try in 1903 and was summoned to the life eternal on the 13th of 
 December of that year. Eev. Cottrell had three brothers, one who 
 is living in the south, one who served in the Union Army in the 
 Civil war and who now resides at Albany, New York, and a third, 
 also a veteran of the Civil war, who died some twenty-five years 
 ago. ilrs. Cottrell was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Wild) 
 
972 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 McKee and was a twin sister of Helen E., who married Ward 
 Sprague, Sandy Creek, New York. Mrs. Cottrell died at the home 
 of her son March 1, 1911, having made her home with him since 
 the death of her husband. The Cottrell family is descended from 
 one of three brothers which emigrated from England to Rhode 
 Island about three hundred years ago and the proprietor of the 
 noted Cottrell Printing Press Company is a descendant of one of 
 these brothers. On the mother's side Mr. Cottrell is of Scotch-Irish 
 extraction. 
 
 Mr. Delano Dempster Cottrell received excellent educational 
 advantages in his youth and for a time he was engaged in the peda- 
 gogic profession. He was graduated from the Sandy Creek high 
 school in 1880 and in the following year he pursued a business 
 course in the Belleville, New York, Academy, and the winter of 
 1881 taught school in Point Peninsula, New York. In 1882 he was 
 matriculated in Syracuse University at Syracuse, New York, as a 
 member of the class of 1886. The two years beginning fall of 1884, 
 he taught school at Deer River, and New Bremen in this state. For 
 a period of nearly ten years he was traveling salesman for the E. L. 
 Kellogg Company, at that time the largest publishers of educational 
 papers and professional teachers' books in the United States. In 
 connection with this wjork he covered a territory of twenty-five dif- 
 ferent states and attended many national, state and county educa- 
 tional gatherings, where he met many of the prominent teachers 
 and leaders in the educational world. In 1894 he located at North 
 Cohocton, New York, where he began his present business, concern- 
 ing the history of which a brief article from the Elmira Star Ga- 
 zette, of November 11, 1907, is here incorporated, with but slight 
 paraphrase. 
 
 Mr. Cottrell began the subscription-agency business in a small 
 way. His first attempts were made in the house of his mother-in- 
 law, where he utilized the dining-room table in the evening when 
 the family work was done. He then removed to a house between 
 North Cohocton and Atlanta, New York, where he remained for one 
 year. In April, 1895, he removed his ever increasing business into 
 a building next to the hotel in North Cohocton, known as the 
 "Three-story Building," which at that time was considered a pre- 
 tentious structure. The business was a great success from its in- 
 ception under the guidance of Mr. Cottrell, so that, in 1900, he 
 erected a fine office building, thirty by forty-eight feet, with the 
 postoffice in one side of the same building, he having been ap- 
 pointed postmaster in January of that year. This building was 
 very much enlarged in 1897 so that now its complete dimensions are 
 forty-five and a half by eighty-eight feet, the new postoffice on one 
 side being fifteen and a half feet by thirty-five. It is one of the 
 finest postoffices in the country in a town of this size and is finished 
 with steel ceiling and side walls painted white, is splendidly lighted 
 and meets all the requirements of the town and Mr. Cottrell's busi- 
 ness. The subscription department includes large offices, working 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 973 
 
 rooms and a fire-proof vault. The structure is a model building 
 and seventy-five or more persons are here employed during the busy 
 season. When Mr. Cottrell first started his business he found it 
 difficult to secure enough one-cent stamps at the local postoffice, 
 and an effort on his part to buy fifty dollars' worth from the North 
 Cohocton postofiice led to a government request to the postmaster 
 for an explanation as to why he needed so many stamps. Some ap- 
 preciation of the business of the oflice can be obtained when it is 
 stated that the postage paid by Cottrell's Subscription Agency to 
 the North Cohocton postoffice has been nearly six thousand dollars 
 in a single month. The postoffice became a third-class office on the 
 first of January, 1900, and a second-class one on the first of July, 
 1905. Mr. Cottrell was appointed postmaster by President Mc- 
 Kinley, in 1900, and reappointed by President Eoosevelt in 1904 
 and in 1908. He is allowed a deputy, a clerk, and temporary clerks 
 as needed in the postoffice. 
 
 Mr. Cottrell's first issue of catalogs was ten thousand, and it 
 has now run up to nearly a million a year. In addition to this he 
 issues circulars to the extent of some six to ten million per year, 
 doing mailing for a large number of publishing houses. As the 
 name indicates, his business is that of securing subscriptions for all 
 kinds of American and foreign publications and during the busy 
 season several thousand of such subscriptions are received daily. 
 The total number of subscriptions annually amounts to a number 
 of hundred thousand, the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday 
 Evening Post being the leaders at this office. The agency is one of 
 the largest in the United States and is by far the largest of any in 
 the country in a town of the size of North Cohocton. Orders are 
 received from all parts of the world. A large business is received 
 from the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands. Every civilized 
 country in the world is represented in their list of customers and 
 there is hardly a postoffice in the United States that does not send 
 orders to the Cottrell Agency. 
 
 Several years ago the Periodical Publishers' Association of 
 America was organized. The association at once made an effort to 
 secure uniformity in all clubbing offers advertised and called the 
 larger subscription agencies into a conference concerning this mat- 
 ter. The result was a complete schedule of clubbing offers. The 
 responsibility of having this schedule complete and correct to date 
 of publication is generally placed on Mr. Cottrell. This schedule 
 is sent to all the subscription agencies of the country by the lead- 
 ing publishers, who require that subscriptions must not be taken for 
 their periodicals except in accordance with its terms and conditions. 
 His wide experience, business tact and a special genius in this line 
 make him naturally a leader, so "that he is one of the most promi- 
 nent figures at the present time in this business in the world. Under 
 his management and through his clubbing offers the public has been 
 able to get more for the same money than previously, and the pub- 
 lisher nets a larger price for his publication, as the expense for ad- 
 
974 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 vertising and securing subscriptions is largely borne by Cottrell's 
 Agency. It is estimated that their customers altogether saved one 
 hundred thousand dollars in the year of 1910 by placing their sub- 
 scriptions through the agency instead of sending them direct to the 
 respective publishers and paying the publishers regular prices. The 
 great foundation principle of Mr. Cottrell's business has been to 
 make the money of his customers as safe in his hands as in their 
 own pockets. The clerks are uniformly trained to treat their cus- 
 tomers just as they themselves would like to be treated. 
 
 Mr. Cottrel] supplies hundreds of libraries, reading rooms and 
 clubs with all their periodicals, and so high is the reputation he 
 has built in this business that he frequently receives signed checks 
 from old customers left blank for him to fill in the cost of the 
 periodicals desired. His long experience in this business has re- 
 sulted in a splendid system of handling subscription orders which, 
 although laborious and full of detail, insures accuracy and satisfac- 
 tion to both subscriber and publisher. His agency enjoys the ad- 
 vantage of being closer to the large publishing centers of the coun- 
 try than any other large agency, and a letter from his office is the 
 next day in the hands of any publisher in the eastern cities. Mails 
 arrive and depart from the North Cohocton office ten times daily. 
 Mr. Cottrell's general catalog and bargain list of periodicals should 
 be in the hands of everyone in the United States interested in read- 
 ing. The catalog contains information that every reader of period- 
 ical literature should know, and will be mailed free to anyone on 
 request. 
 
 Mr. Cottrell is often honored by invitations to the Periodical 
 Publishers' banquets, gatherings of the leading editors, authors, 
 artists, publishers and advertising agents of the country. He is in- 
 timately acquainted with and enjoys the personal esteem of many of 
 the foremost literary men and publishers of the United States. He 
 is a gentleman of the highest personal and business standing and his 
 agency has been the means of bringing much of the best literature 
 of the world into American homes. 
 
 In politics Mr. Cottrell gives an uncompromising support to 
 the principles and policies of the Eepublican party and he is 9, 
 liberal contributor to all movements projected for the general wel- 
 fare of the community. He is giving efficient service as a member 
 of the board of school directors and he manifests a deep and intel- 
 ligent interest in all educational matters. He is also trustee of the 
 Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. In a fraternal way he is 
 affiliated -with the time-honored Masonic order and both he and his 
 wife are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church in 
 which he is steward and financial secretary. 
 
 On the 2nd of June, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of 
 Mr. Cottrell to Miss Edith Charlotte MegafEee, who was born on 
 the 15th of November, 1868, the place of her birth being Hillsdale, 
 Michigan. She is the daughter of Edward MegafEee and Cynthia 
 (Smith) Megaffee. Her father, Edward Megaffee, died at Somer- 
 
HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 975 
 
 set, Michigan, in 1876, but her mother resides at North Cohocton. 
 Mrs. Cottrell came to North Cohocton in 1876. Mr. and :Mrs. Cot- 
 trell have two children, Edward Jay, who was born on the 8th of 
 :\Iarch, 1895, and Lora Belle, born on the 25th of May, 1903. The 
 son was graduated from the high school at North Cohocton in June, 
 1910, and from the Military Academy at Bordentown, New Jersey, 
 in June, 1911, at which school he won the Buckley scholarship 
 medal for highest standing in his studies during the year. 
 
 Leveeett J. Simpson. — The career of Leverett Jerome Simpson, 
 who resides at Canisteo, Steuben county. New York, is a splendid 
 example of what may be accomplished by young manhood conse- 
 crated to ambition and high purpose. He is a lawyer, a self-made 
 man, recognized throughout this community for his ability and 
 conscientious dealings with his clients. His start in getting a high- 
 er education was particularly difficult, and in similar circumstances 
 many young men would have become discouraged and given up the 
 fight, but obstacles, instead of discouraging Mr. Simpson, spurred 
 him onward, giving him that aggressive, persistent determination 
 which has resulted since the period of his first struggles in steady 
 progress and success, and brought him the esteem of both the judi- 
 ciary and associate attorneys. 
 
 A native son of Steuben county. New York, Leverett J. Simp- 
 son was born in the town of Jasper, the 7th of March, 1871. His 
 father, Jerome Madison Simpson, was born in the town of Lenox, 
 Madison county, New York, on the 20th of January, 1839. As a 
 young boy 13 years of age Jerome M. Simpson came to Steuben 
 county, locating in the town of Jasper, where he passed the residue 
 of his life. He was successively a harness-maker, a farmer and a 
 carpenter. He was active in the local formation of the Republican 
 party, to whose principles and policies he gave an uncompromising 
 support and in the local councils of which he was ever a zealous 
 factor. He was ever public-spirited in his views, and active so far 
 as he had opportunity to advance the general welfare of the com- 
 munity and county in which he lived. He served most creditably 
 as justice of the peace for a period of forty years, being incumbent 
 of that position continuously except for a term or so. He was a 
 great and enthusiastic reader of the very best books and papers and 
 although his preliminary educational training, had been of some- 
 what meager order he had, by reason of his studious habits, ac- 
 quired more than an average mind at the time of his death, which 
 occurred August 13th, 1895, at the age of sixty-six years. 
 
 He married Miss Nancy Ann Griffin, who was born in Cazeno- 
 via, Madison county, New York, on the 23d of May, 1831. She was 
 a daughter of Asa Griffin, who removed to the town of Jasper when 
 she was a young girl 8 years old, where she still lives, loved and 
 respected by all. To Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Simpson were bom 
 four children: DeWitt, Asa, Leverett J. of this review, and Leslie, 
 all of whom are living, the third in age being the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
976 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 
 
 Mr. Simpson, of this notice, was reared to adult age in the town 
 of his birth, where he attended the public schools until he had 
 reached the age of eighteen years, at which time he entered Can- 
 isteo Academy, in the village of Canisteo, from which institution 
 he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890. After leaving 
 the Academy he worked at the carpenter's trade for two or three 
 years, in the meantime continuing his studies as he worked and 
 doing post-graduate work in the Academy. He then took up the 
 study of law under the able preceptorship of Eli Saule, of Canisteo, 
 one of the best lawyers in Steuben county. At the end of a three 
 years' clerkship he passed the bar examination at Rochester, in 
 June, 1899, being admitted to the New York bar in the following 
 July. He immediately began the active practice of his profession 
 in the village of Canisteo and November 5, 1900, entered into a 
 partnership for the practice of law, with Eli Saule, continuing 
 therein until the death of the latter, in 1902. Mr. Simpson was 
 decidedly successful in the legal profession from the beginning, 
 building up and controlling a valuable clientage. In addition to 
 his law practice, he is deeply interested in business affairs in Can- 
 isteo and in connection therewith is vice-president of the First State 
 Bank. 
 
 At Jasper, New York, on the 8th of August, 1900, was solem- 
 nized the marriage of Mr. Simpson to Miss Eva L. Taft, who was 
 reared and educated at Jasper and who is a daughter of Merritt 
 M. and Maria N. Taft. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have no children. 
 They are popular and prominent in connection with the best social 
 activities of Canisteo and their attractive and beautifully located 
 home is recognized as a center of gracious refinement and generous 
 hospitality. 
 
 In his political convictions Mr. Simpson endorses the cause 
 of the Republican party but while he has never manifested aught 
 of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office he is 
 deeply and sincerely interested in all public questions whether local 
 or national, contrilDuting in generous measure to all projects ad- 
 vanced for the good of the general welfare. He has been a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Education for a number of years past and at the 
 present time is president of that body. In his religious faith he is 
 a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also his 
 wife, and they are both very actrve in connection with church and 
 charitable work. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school 
 since 1901 and is deeply interested in temperance work. He is a 
 total abstainer from all intoxicants and tobacco and he is a strong 
 influence for good among the younger generation in Canisteo. He 
 is affiliated with a number of professional organizations of repre- 
 sentative character and in fraternal way is a valued and appreciative 
 member of the time-h<mored Masonic order. Mr. Simpson has 
 achievfid marked distinction in this section and his success is the 
 more gratifying to contemplate inasmuch as it is the direct result 
 of his own well directed endeavors. He is an extensive reader, a 
 
HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 977 
 
 keen lawyer, and a safe counselor, and a man whose whole life is 
 founded on the motto that while greatness is desirable, goodness is 
 indispensable to the most useful life, and that ethical and religious 
 theories are only valuable to the extent in which they successfully 
 work out in practice. Guided by these he has sought to make him- 
 self highly respected by the bar, of use to the community and a 
 citizen to be trusted. 
 
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