v:i-^>. *bv^' 0'* ^L'.l '•^'■••' ^0 0^ r^ ■*- ^^ -"-s. .,-^ ,^^ ^oV" 'oK .-^ o^ ^-, -ti^:j,' .V "^ A^ V-^^ ■5-^ v^.. .r V • ,A^'^ A." ^^^ ri- -\ .^ 'kx^r'A-. % ,^'^ V ■5- .\\ Si' BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, NEW YORK. WITH A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COUNTY BY Hon. OBED EDSON. PUBLISHED BY JOHN M. aRESHAM & CO. EDITED BY BUTLER F. DILLEY. Nos. 1218 and 1220 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. JULY, 1891. : Jas. H. Rodgers Printing Company Philadelphia. INTRODUCTION. rTTlIE PUBLISHERS of this vnlunie tnkv pleawiuv ia presenting it to their i. patrons in (JhiuitaiKpui County, believing that, biographical ly, it is inucli the superior of anything ever oflfereil to the people of Western New York, and the mechanical workmanship is so far beyond anything heretofore attempted in this county, that no comparison is possible. While we have paid especial attention to biographj', the interesting ''Sketch of the History of ('iiautau([na County," written by the masterly mind of the Honorable Obed Edson, oi' Sinclairville, is the best compact account of the county's early history extant, and cannot fail to attract a deep interest. It was originally the intention to present the work in the old style, by grouping each town, village and city by itself, and to introduce the reader to the "History of the County" before reaching the main contents of the book, but, after consideration, we decided to depart from the rut ol' custom, and to insert the biographical sketches at random in the l)ook, and supplement it with the story which tells of early times, the whole to be preceded by a comprehensive index, by means of which the reader may turn to any desired place at will. Our engravings, it ^vill be noticed, are of steel and photographic repro- ductions made by the superior half-tone process; no wood cuts are inserted, consequently the likenesses presented are accurate and correct. The residences portrayed are elegant specimens of Chautau([ua County homes, and the old Court House, which has about outlived its usefulness, and is soon to be rejilaced, would, without this photograph, soon have remained to memory alone, 6 PREFACE. and the appearance of the building in wliich justice had been administered for so many years, would not be known to the coming generations. Our biographies are, in the main, correct. We have exercised great care in securing accuracy of names and dates, and have submitted, where practicable, the manuscript, more than once, for correction. Some of our subscribers failed to return corrections, but they were very few. Doubtless some errors will appear, but there will not be many. UjJon the whole, we have received very hearty co-operation, and we feel a just pride in the results of our labors. Our only wish is that the book will give pleasure to the present generation and to the generations to come; that when the future historian enters Chautauqua County, he can begin where we concluded, and carry the chain fifty years farther. The Pltblishers. I'lULADEM'HiA, Pa., July 20th, 1891. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Akirich, John J 8.3 Reebe, Miltou E. (House) 40 Brewer, Hon. F. B HI Burns, Andrew 194 Burns, Andrew (Honsel l^*" Babcock, Norman 230 Babcock, Alpheus ■ 235 Beebe, Milton E 284 Burgess, Rev. Clialon 346 Bloomquist, ( )tto L 499 Chase, Dr. William 73 C'uriLs, Major E. A 132 Gushing, Addison C 209 Carpenter, Col. Elial Foote 301 Case, Henry R 319 Corbett, Hon. Charles 11 372 Cushiug, Com. W. B., U. S. N 483 Chautauqua County Court-IIouse 670 Edson, Hon. Obed 220 Evergreen Cemetery 259 ICureka Factory (Howes) 16 Fuller, Frederick A., Jr 253 Fenner, Hon. M. M 391 Haywood, Col. Rufus 91 Howes, Simeon 136 Howes, Simeon (Residence) 139 Hooker, Hon. W. B 145 Huntley, W. W 305 Hungerford, Sextus H 621 Kingsbury, Henry C 125 Lockwood, Clark R 38 Lord, Bela B 296 Livermore, Mi-s. R. S 666 Morgan, Charles W 240 Morris, Hon. Lorenzo 247 Ornies, M.D., Cornelius 556 Ormes, Dr. F. D 560 Pattersou, Hon. George \V 54 Patterson, George W 60 Putnam, Major E. P 59 Peacock, .Judge William 213 Record, John G 106 Ryckman, (i. E 444 Smith, Hon. Hiram 20 Stafford, Austin H 24 Scofield, Carl W 31 Saxton, Isaac A 1 82 Sessions, Hon. Frank E 275 Sherman, Hon. Daniel 431 Van Dusen, Hon. A. A 64 Weeks, Charles E 46 Watson, Albert S 385 W'aterhouse, Dr. John \ 422 Waterhouse, Dr. John A. (Residence) 425 Wright, Reuben G •')36 Wright, Reuben G. (Residence) 539 TABLE OF (X)NTENTS. Poor-. l^'O^f '■ '^--^ A. P,ige Aldrich, John J. . • «'- Abbey, Chauiicey 113 Aldrich, Seth 217 Andrus, Wilson S 237 Anderson, John H 269 Adams, D. B 281 Allen, Herbert W 290 ^ Arnold, William H 310 Appleyard, Joseph 344 Ames, M.D., Edward 3ti2 Arnold, Capt. Joseph S 3f)4 Andrews, George 307 Allen, Charles G 368 Albro, Victor A 417 Abbott, Joseph 436 Arnold, George M 449 Alford, Dexter 470 Avery, Sherman S 479 Andre^vs, Joseph H 624 B. Bootey, Kdward R 28 Bemus, M.D., William M 30 Blackmarr, Hamlin 42 Breed, DeWitt C 44 Barrows, Henry R 55 Barrows, Ransom J 61 Brownell, Peter R 81 Burritt, Dr. Franklin 88 Bemus, M.D., William P 98 Benson, John B . 99 Brewer, Hon. Francis B 110 Boughton, Joseph T 115 Bolton, Stephen N. . .118 Burlaund, Gust. . . .127 Brown, Arthur L 134 Burlin, Anson A 143 Bull, Abraham 152 Barker, Hon. George H'l Burns, Andrew 195 Bratt, Anthony .207 Bemis, Philander W. 226 Babcock, Norman 231 Babcock, Alpheus 234 Broadhead, William ■ 249 Butler, Nelson .... . . 261 Blanchard, Dr. Koberl N 271 Beebe, Milton E. (Residence, 49) 2S5 Barlow, Byron A. 294 Bemis, Harvey 311 Brown, Nathan 313 Baldwin, Levi 315 Blood, Charles 332 Butler, Capt. James 334 Burch, Hiram 341 Bixby, Lewis B 342 Brownell, Smith II 343 Burgess, Rev. Chalon 347 Bird, Alberte 303 Bennett, Capt. James P 376 Briggs, Frank 376 Becker, Ellas 380 Burton, Hiram A 387 Briggs, Carey 389 Bissell, D.D.S., J. E. W 396 Page Brockway, Hon. Charles IS. . . 400 liaxter, John P 408 Blanchard, Flint 414 Brooks, Horatio G 474 Brown, Marshall 476 Bacon, George R. . ■ ■ . 486 Bennett, Lyman 496 Bloonuiuist, Otto L 498 Bookstaver, Hon. ^Villiam . . 498 Beebe, Charles Vincent 501 Barker, C'orrington 502 Bentley, Fred. A 543 Bond, Orlando 551 Baumgart, Gustav 553 Bandiualli, Rev. Jolin 582 Benjamin, M.D., Mirza N 584 Bourne, John 585 Bailey, Clayton E 593 Babcock, Hon. Jerome . . . 001 Burges.s, Celiu 605 Blanchard, James C 606 Brown, Rush 'i07 Barris, Michael 607 lirowu, Donald S 60S Barnes, Alpha ('09 Bosworth, William A <)10 Bilsborrow, George 611 Baker, Dermouth R 625 Birdsey, Capt. Comfort .... 625 Birdsey, Phineas . 626 Burnmaster, Henry 626 Barnes, Calvin W 627 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. Cady, Sylvester S C'hace, Dr. William Cranston, Fre4 Hilliard, John 165 Himebaugh, William L. . 169 Hough, Eugene K 227 Hiler, Orlando J 263 Horton, Nathan J 269 Huntley, William \V 303 Huyck, Andrus M 315 Hall, Ralph A _335- Hurlburt, George F 337 Haskin, Fernando Cortez .... 339 Hitchcock, Milo 351 Hunt, William 352 Hall, Ralph H 382 Hall, John A 369 Hall, Robert M 375 Hardenburg, Jacob 395 Houghton, Franklin J 434 Hall, Hervey 452 House, David 401 House, Cyrus 472 Huyck, Richard 474 House, John 475 Hull, Albert W 480 Horton, Alonzo C 514 Hale, Elijah E 544 Hall, Aaron . 507 Haas, Peter 568 Harrison, Benjamin L 569 Hopkins, Newell P 569 Hopson, M.D., Edwin R 569 Ilarell, William II 586 Hiller, Orville M 586 Hill, Nelson H 594 Hungerford, Se.xtus II 620 Hall, Richard A 033 I. Isham, 1 )octor E 440 Isham, ( ieorge P 51.^) ,T. .James, Israel Jones, Thomas C 196 Jones, Thomas A 239 Josselyn, George S 204 Jillson, DeWitt G 300 Johnson, Jedediah M 340 Jennier, Elias II 348 James, Albert A 565 Jones, Carletou M 565 Jenks, Lafayette 566 Johnston, Robert M . 507 Jackson, Francis B 579 Jones, George W 618 Johnson, Oscar W 619 .Johnson, .lohn 619 Johnson, Louis L 620 K. Kidder, Samuel 100 Kingsbury, Henry G 124 Knox, Melvin J 155 Kimball, Pearl C 170 Kelsey, Andrew, Jr 418 Kane, Robert 446 Keith, John F 451 Kirkland, Albert 459 Kilbourn, Elisha E 467 Kofod, John 516 Klawiter, Rev. Anthony ... 583 Kieswetter, M.t)., Paul 11. . . .611 Kendrick, Henry L 614 King, Ephraim T 615 Knowlton, Hiram L 616 Kewley, John 017 Kingsley, Eunnett T 617 L, Lannes, Andrew Julin 33 Lyon, Charles 36 Lockwood, Clark R 39 Lewis, Nathan D 48. La Due, Jerome 79 I>undquist, Olof 96 Libby, A. H 153 Lake, Hon. Henry C 160 Livingston, John J 177 TAI1LI-: OF CONTEXTfi. Luphani, Ariodi . . LanJscIioof, Joseiih, Jr. I^et, Willis ]). . . Imvc, Joy ... Lombard, Lucius Loi-d, ]'.ela B Lambert, Hon. Joliii S. Lee, (ieorge . . . • Lanphere, Ca|it. Jolin 1 Langford, John ... Lnsoelles, Jjolin IL . . Lauphere, Chauncy A. Leonard, Clayton D. . Lown, Andrew . . . Leet, George Edwin . Lake, Edwin P. . . . Lnnt, Alfred J. . Lowell, Albert 1'. . . Liverniore, Emory W M. Martin, Hon. William MeDonougl), Michael Minion, James H. . . Merrill, David E. . . Myriek, Cornelius W. Maynard, J. D. . . . Montgomery, Harvey Mulgrew, James . . . Morgan, Charles W. . Morris, Hon. Lorenzo Mawliir, George D. . Mawhir, John . . . Murray, ( liarlcs I). Mericlc, .\ndrew J. . Minor, WilliiHH K. Martin, William Milspaw, Wesley . . Maginnis, Henry J. . Morian, Alexander Mathews, Benjamin 1' Mace, William . . . Munson, Milton .J. Miison, Addison . . . Mai-sh, tieorge W. . . . 192 . 200 201! 21 T) 2f;5 2'.>7 32'.) 3S.S 370 413 449 4o3 489 494 532 614 028 629 (ifi- . 71 93 . 94 . 123 . 158 . 1.59 . 164 .216 . 240 . 246 . 265 . 271 . 277 . 280 . 292 . 309 . 324 . 356 . 358 . 380 . 305 . 395 . 407 . 410 Madigan, .lohn . . Mead, AmosT., Jr. May, Francis . . . Munson, Alson N. . Mimson, Henry S. . Mahle, Jercmi.ah McGinnie,s, Joseph . M.aple.s, Chariest;. Miniger, William L. Merriam, F. T. . . Munson, Harry S. Morris, John W. McFadden, .John Maxwell, Robert A. Mead, Edmund . . Montgomery, W'illiani Marvin, Frederick N McAllister, James . Miniger, Alexander M Ma.son, Silas W. . . McDauiels, Almeron Moore, Israel (i. Martin, Jonas . . . Martin, George Le Roy Moon, Col. Jeffrey T. . Mahoney, John . . . McCartliv.John . . N. Nichols, Bcnjaniin . Newton, Sherman U. Newell, Thomas J. Newton, William M. Noxon, Matthew S. Nichols, Ira C. . Northam, Solomon I! Newbury, Adelbert A Newl.and, Robert Newman, Harry J Near, Lafayette . Nixon, Hon. S. Frederick Norton, Sylvanus Nobles, George . Nevins, Milo P. Neill, Hugh . . . r-.xgi- 4-24 427 438 448 452 477 492 494 516 517 518 530 .534 543 540 579 592 (■30 (131 631 633 034 035 035 (SO 037 637 34 89 147 178 203 366 440 460 464 488 492 519 038 038 639 640 O. Page Olson, ( )lof A 85 Ottaway, Arthur I! 94 O'Brien, John W 108 Odell, Henry W 520 ( )l.som, Louis 520 Ormes, M.D., Cornelius .... 5.57 Omes, M.D., Frank I ). . 501 O'Connell, John F 590 Osnier, Richard A 041 Osborn, Elmer 041 P. Peckliam, \'cruou E 27 Patterson, lion. Geo. W' 55 Patterson, George W 61 Putnam, Major Edgar P. .68 Phillips, Philip 75 Pardee, Myron W 109 Price, Addison A. and Wilson A., 122 Pennock, Jonathan P 127 Pitts, John W 147 Peterson, A. John 149 Peacock, Judge William .... 212 Pierce, Levi J 210 Phillips, Albert L 288 Pettit, William W 292 Parker, Amos 357 Phillips, Brewer D 300 Powers, William E 404 Patterson, John K 405 Palmer, Alfred 411 Porter, Oscar L 419 Price, Oscar F 420 Phillips, Peter G 401 Post, Daniel Hazeltiue 402 Perry, William I! 497 Peacock, Thomas A 521 Peters, Arthur 521 Prenderga.sl, Hon. Henry A. . .522 Payne, Charles S 523 Peckham, William (i 524 Phillips, Hurlburt L 525 Pabody, Ezra F 525 Parks, George W. 541 TAHLE OF CONTENTS. Preudergast, Dr. William Piiiilus, Michael, Jr. . . I'ickanl, Major AIouzo . I'elton, Marcus Aliihoiizo Palmer, Daniel N. . . . Peirce, Albert P Palmer, K. 11. . . Pratli. r, Al.ral.aii, S. . . 5(!2 580 . r,93 020 . 042 . 042 043 . 044 Smith, D.D., Kev. Cl\arles Shearman, Col. Silas, R. A.P R. Kecord, l.srael .104 Record, John! i 107 Rykert, Gilbert M 108 Roesch, Lewis 108 Rugg, Corydon A 199 Rii.s.sell, David 238 Rossiter, (leorge I. ...... . 273 Reynolds, Henry 323 Rowley, Ira I) 374 Rathbun, D.DS., Chauni'cy M. . . 399 Reed, William F. L. F 4Ui Root, Will M 428 Roberts, Thomas IT 439 Ryckman, G. P^ 445 Eider, Delos J 480 Randall, Nelson 487 Risley, Laurens ( i 045 Ross, M.D., Artemus 040 Reed, Richard 047 Robinson, William 11 047 Rush, Jolui P. 048 Smith, Hon. Hiram 21 Sheldon, Hon. Porter . ... 22 Stafford, Aastin II 25 Scofield, Carl W 31 Strong, M.D., Thoma,s D ... 80 Simmons, Harvey 101 Stearns, Crawford 129 Slotboon, John A 149 Starring, Alfred A 108 Skinner, Edward A . . 173 Slieldon, Hon. Albert B .179 Sly.W. S Severance, Henry . . Shattuck, Lawrence E . Skidmore, S. M . . . . Saxton, Isaac A . . . . Sherman, David () . Sternclierg, John .1 Swezey, Samuel N . . . Shaw, Horace II . . . . Sessions, Hon. Frank E Shaw, Robert Sterling, Charles II Skinner, Homer J . Stoddard, Oren ... Sturdevant, Charles B . Smith, William L . . Skinner, George L . . Sherman, Winslow . . Strong, William C) . . . Shaw, Dr. Orriu C Swetland, M.D., Benjamin Sheldon, Charles E . Scott, J. Frank . . . Sherman, Judge Dauie Shaver, James II . . Spencer, Frank G . Sherman, Charles II Stetson, Oliver . . . Smith, MD., Charles Scofield, Dr. Era M . Snyder, Julius L . Simmons, Alexander . Sexton, WMlliam . . . Sikcs, Iddo A . . . . Shaw, Frank E Seymour, M.D., (Jeorge W Sykes, Lieutenant William Stoneberg, John A . . Stone, Anson A . . . Strong, Walter E Sackett, Marcus Stebliins, Charles I'agf E. . . 181 P. and . 189 . 190 200 , i05 220 182 245 250 258 270 274 290 298 314 310 330 332 349 350 354 3-55 359 300 427 430 4.30 44J 455 458 405 473 491 490 522 520 Page Smith, Daniel C . . 641 Sawln, Horace!! . . . . 542 Stebbins, All)erl 11 . . 545 Strunk, WillitUM 1' . . .545 Smiley, John . . 548 . 549 Sixbey, Herman . . . . 504 Stai)f, Frank V . . . 581 Stapf, John A . . .582 Stearns, Hon. L. F . . . . . 688 Simmons, Franklin . . . . . 589 Solomonson, Andrew, Ji- , - .589 Strong, Gilbert W . 044 049 Simpson, Rev. Charles , . 0.50 Spear, John T . . 050 Spear, Thomas . . 051 Stearn.s, E. P . 051 Sears, Hiriau . •i52 Smith, I)avid, Jr. . . Stevens, M.D., Allen A. . . 0.53 Slocum, Jonathan II. . . 053 Shults, Charles J . 054 Sweeney, Michael W. . . . . . 055 . . 050 Skinner, l<;iial \\ . . . . . - 050 529 530 532 533 534 T. Tucker, Rev. ( 'liarles E 34 Thompson, Norman 1! 35 Tousley, John II 02 Thompson, Hugli \V 100 Taylor, David II 172 Thomas, I'red. W 172 Tower, Klish.a, .Ir 223 Thayer, J. L 232 Toomey, Daniel F 291 Tifliiny, Albert J 293 Talcott, Chauncy Q 308 Towne, Hon. George E . . . . 325 Taylor, James 490 Taylor, John 491 Taylor, Seymour A 491 Taylor, Edgar S 491 Tennaut, Delos < J 552 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Tennant, Alviu J . Tennant, Jolin A . Torrey, David A . Tellt, Asa Thonipsou, Lewis B. Taylor, A.M., Almon N. Tallman, John Tolles, Edgar B. . . . /Truesdell, Zebedee . Taylor, Erastus II. . . . u. Page . 5.54 . 568 . 613 . G57 . G57 . 658 . 658 . 659 660 , 660 Usborne, William 06 1 V. Van Dusen, Theodore F . . . . 26 Van Dusen, George C 32 Vincent, James 156 Van Dusen, Hon. Almon A . . 65 Van Buren, James Lyman . . . 355 Vandergrift, William K., Jr . . 384 Valentine, I'eter F . . . . 584 Vandergrift, Theophiliis J . . G61 W. Page Warner, Lucius Bolls 17 Weeks, Charles E 47 Walker, William H 163 Widman, Albert C 165 Wheeler, Frank S 180 Waggoner, Daniel L 206 Wilson, David A 222 Woleben, Marvin H 225 Wilcox, Charles N 245 Wilson, F. B 267 Weaver, George K . . . 272 Ward, James H 273 White, Dr. Squire 288 Warr, Jesse 311 Wincli, Jay 321 Walker, James C 338 Weeden, Lyman F 353 Williams, Samuel P 362 WVtson, Albert S 384 Wilson, Lydell L 409 Waterhouse, M.D., John A . . .423 Page Watrons, Justin 493 Wright, Reuben CJ 537 Wilson, W. Thomas 563 White, Charles F 587 Woodbury, Hon. Egbert E . . . 590 Wade, Arthur C 591 Woodward, John 595 Walter, Joseph M 597 Wilson, James 623 Wallace, Matthew 624 Wicks, Charles H 662 Wilson, William H 663 Wiggins, Elmer H 663 Wood,SamneI 664 York, Stephen H 437 Young, William B 434 Zahn, .John M. Sketch of the Early History of CiiAUTAiniUA County 673 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, T . UCIUS BOLLS WARXER. It may be ^~^ said of Lucius Bolls Warner, without detracting aught from any other whose name stands high on the roll of Jamestown's useful citizens, that his honesty and integrity, his career of industry and his public-spirited services and liberal contributions for the development and the prosperity of his town, furnish an example that may be profitably followed by every young man who aspires to a position of thrift, useful- ness and respectability. He was born at Mill- ington, Middlesex county, Connecticut, March 3, 182'J he was un- fortunate enough to have his left hand so badly crushed in the factoiy as to be unable to work any longer at that business. He then engaged in the produce business, which he followed until 1885, when he was elected county clerk by the Republican party of Chautauqua county, and ran 700 votes ahead of his ticket. He served very satisfactorily in that office, and at the end of his term in 1888 he took one year's vacation from business, which he spent in traveling. In January, 1890, he and Joseph i\I. Walter formed a partnership under the firm-name of Walter & Stafford, and became United States pension at- torneys and notaries public in Jamestown. In a kw months they have handled a large number of cases and have been very successful. On February (J, 18G9, he married Louise M., daughter of Warren Arnold, of Ellington. They have two children: De Leo and James P. The military career of Mr. Stafford com- menced on August -1, 1862, when he eulisteil in Company B, 112th regt., N. Y. Vols. He served in the Army of the James, Army of the Potomac and under Sherman in i^orth Carolina. He participated in many battles and numerous skirmishes with his regiment. He was iu the very front of the storming of Fort Fisher, and Mas honorably discharged June 13, 18G5. When the Grand Army of the Republic was organized iu the county he became prominent in the move- ment and has served as commander of three different posts. He is a member of the A. (). U. W., Royal Arcanum, Odd Fellows and Jamestown Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Stafford has always been a republican, is proud of the fact of casting his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 18G4 and has been chosen rejieatedly by his party as a delegate to State and county conventions. In addition to his Jamestown agency Mr. Stafford has a controlling interest in a very profitable real estate business in the city of Buffalo, jS'. Y. Active, energetic and reli- able in whatever he undertakes, he is now iu the midst of a verv successful business career. nrHKODOKE F. VAX DUSEX, an active -'■ business man of Jamestown and one of the coroners of Chautauqua count}', is a son of Ben- jamin F. and Mehitable (Lovell) Van I)nsen, and was born in Jamestown, Chautauqua county. New York, June 8, 1846. His remote ances- tors on the paternal side were natives of Hol- land. Several members of this Van Dusen family came from their home in that country and settled at an early day at Claverick, in what is now Columbia county, Xew York. In 1720 Abraham Van Dusen, a descendant of one of these Van Dusens, went to Connecticut, where he settled at Salisbuiy. He was the father of John Van Dusen, who was the grandfather of Theodore F. Van Dusen. John Van Dusen had a son, John Van Du.sen, Jr., who married Mary Forbes and reared a family of six chil- dren : Alonzo, INIarshall, Harry, Elizabeth, Benjamin F. and Edwin, who enlisted as a sol- dier in the Federal army during the late war and was killed in one of the battles of that great struggle. Benjamin F. Van Dusen, the fourth sou and fifth child of the family, was born in Perry, Wyoming county, New York, January 3, 1815. He learned the trade of cab- inet-maker and came in 1842 to Jamestown, where he was engaged for many j'ears in the cabinet-making business and where he has re- sided ever since. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Baptist church. He mar- ried Mehitable Lovell, who is a daughter of William Lovell, a native of Maosachusetts. Their children are: Judge Almon A., whose liiography ap[)ears in this volume in connection with the Mayville sketches; Theodore F. and OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. George C, ao attoriiey-at-la\v (see his sketch). Theodore F. Van Diisen was reared at James- town, wlicre lie received his education, in tiie public schools of that city. Leaving sciiool, he learned the trade of cabinet-maker with his father, and in 1870 removed to Sugar Grove, Warren county, Pa., where he embarked in the undertaking business. Four years later he re- turned to Jamestown, where he formed a part- nership with his brother, George C.Van Dusen, in their present undertaking business, under the firm-name of Theodore F. Van Dusen & Bro. Mr. Van Dusen gives a considerable portion of his time to his well-established and prosperous business, and is amply prepared to furnish any- thing to be found in a first-class undertaking establishment. He is secretary of the Chautau- qua County Undertakers' Association, and was elected coroner of the county in 1887. He married, February 20, 1866, Frances A. Smith, a daughter of Ezra Smith, a farmer of the town of Poland. To their union have been born four children: Vesta M., Nellie G., Theo- dore E. and Alice L., who died young. Theodore F. Van Dusen is a member of the First Baptist church and a member and Past Grand of Ellicott Lodge, No. 221, I. O. O. F. In political matters he is a republican. For the last ten years he has been a member and the secretary of the board of health of Jamestown. He is also serving his city, at the present time, as register of vital statistics. T iERNON E. PECKHA3r, a member of tiie ''- Chautauqua county bar in successful prac- tice in Jamestown, is a descendant, through one of bis ancestors, of Capt. John Smith, the real founder of the Virginia Colony, and tiie first thorough explorer of the New England coast, and whose meteor-like career in America for the benefit of English civilization made a lasting impression on the world's history. Vernon E. Peckham was l)orn in Allegany county, New York, October 1, 1849, and is a sou of Lauriston and Mary J. (Bacon) Peck- ham. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Peck- ham, '.vas born iu 1786, in Rhode Island, and removed iu early life to near Boston, Massachu- setts, which he soon left to settle in New York. He first located temporarily in Cortland, but soon settled permanently iu Allegany county, where he died in 1873, at the rij)e old age of eiglity-sevcn years. He was a farmer by occu- pation, a carpenter by trade, a Baptist in church membership, and a republican in political senti- ment. He married Julia Smith, who traced her ancestry back to Capt. John Smith, the hero of Virginia's early history. Their family num- bered four sons and four daughters. One of these sous, Lauriston Peckham (father), was born February 5, 1823, at Homer, N. Y., and now resides at Angelica, this State. At twenty- one years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, but soon afterwards purchased a large farm, which he tilled up to 1871, when he sold it and retired from active life. He is a re- markably industrious and very even-tempered man, and supports the Republican party. He married Mary J. Bacon, and they have but one child, the suliject of this sketch. Mrs. Peck- ham is a woman of unusual good judgment and business ability, and her husband and sou ascribe much of their success in life as due to her wise counsels, judicious suggestions and in- spiriting words. She was born February 10, 1824, aud is a daughter of Thomas Bacon, who was the sou of a Mr. Bacon, a merchant who, in the early histoiy of Boston, had a store on Bacon street, now called Becon, although spelled Bacon. Thomas was left an orphan at the age of nine years and went to sea, which he followed for many years, until shipwrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia ; he was one of only three of the whole crew that succeeded in reaching shore. Among the sailors he was known as honest Scotch Bacon, and was an houorably discharged soldier of the war of 1812. He married Betsy Woodcock, of Vermont, and came to Allegany 28 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY county, this State, where they reared a family of six children, one son and five daughters. Thomas Bacon was a man of great will power, scrupulous honesty and untiring energy. Vernon E. Peckham received his education in district schools, and the Belfast academy, Allegany county, New York. After finishing his course in the Belfast Academy, he followed teaching for three or four years, and, in 1873, commenced the study of law with Hon. D. P. Richardson at Angelica, New York, and was admitted to the bar on April 7, 1878, at Roches- ter, N. Y. In the following August he went to Attica, Wyoming county, where he purchased the office and books of ex-Judge M. Thrall, and commenced the practice of his profession. He remained five years, and then was compelled to leave a very flattering practice on account of failing health. After one year spent at Omaha, he returned to his father's, where he continued j to gain in health. In Februarv, 1885, he deemed himself sufficiently recuperated to re- sume his profession, and came to Jamestown, where he has been in active practice ever since. He is a republican politically, and while in Attica, in 1880, he was elected justice of the peace, and served for one year, resigning when he went to Omaha. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Presbyterian church, of which his wife is also a member. January 28, 1880, he united in marriage with Helen Cogswell, of Attica, who is a graduate of Attica Collegiate Institute, and the Musical Conservatory of Cleveland, Ohio. She is a daughter of ]Moses Cogswell, who was a station agent on the Lake Erie railroad for many years, but resigned that position to acce])t the office of general freight agent of the T. K. M., having his headquarters at the city of Chicago, 111. Returning from a visit to his family at Attica, he lost his life on the ill-fated passenger train that went down on the Ashtabula bridge in 187G. Mr. and Mrs. Peckham have two children, Mary and John. A list of Jamestown's able and successful lawyers is almost a catalogue of its entire num- ber of attorneys, and among this uncommonly able array of legal talent Mr. Peckham has found no trouble in securing and holding a high rank. He was associate counsel in the noted George W. Foster murder trial, and has taken part in many other important ca.ses ; he has won and retained the good- will and respect of all w'ho know him. T^^KWARIi K. BOOTEY, who, in addition -*"*• to the reputation of being a successful ad- vocate, enjoys popular distinction as one of the ablest criminal lawyers of western New York, is a son of Simon and Ann (Couvoyne) Bootey, and was born in Jamestown, Chautauqua county, N. Y., April 16, 1839. The Bootey name has been well and favorably known for several gen- erations in Cambridgeshire, England, while the Couvoyne family traces its remote American ancestor back to honorable parentage under the rule of the " Grand Monarque " of France. John Bootey (grandfather) was born and reared near Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, where he lived a quiet and honest life, and where he died the serene and peaceful death of a Chris- tian. His excellent character and consistent walk in life so recommended him as being a man safe to trust that he was appointed as su- perintendent of a large landed estate, which position he held until well advanced in years, when by an accident he was disabled for the remainder of his life. He was a member of one of the churches which were in opposition to the established Church of England. His c'hil- dren were : John, Edward, William, Elizabeth, Fannie, Alary, Philis, and Simon. Of these Edward and Simon (father) came to the United States. Simon Bootey was born in 1801, and came in 1834 to Jamestown, where he resided until his death in 1875. The farm which he owned and tilled is now within the borough limits, and most of the laud is covered with OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. buildings. He was an okl-iiue whig until the Republican party was organized, when he joined its ranks and supported its principles as long as he lived. He was a life-long opponent of Jiu- niau servitude, denounced negro slavery, and was one of the early abolitionists of Chautauqua county. He married Ann Convoyue, a daugh- ter of Robert Convoyue, and they had seven children. The three oldest were named Rebec- ca, Nathan and Edward, and, dying in infimcy, the next three children were given respectively the names of the deceased ones. The seventh child was called Mary Ann. Edward R. Bootey was reared at Jamestown, where he received his education in the academy at that place. Leaving school in the spring of 1860, he entered the office of Cook and Lock- wood, and commenced the study of law, whicli he had prosecuted but one year, when the late civil war burst in all its fury and desolation upon the land. When President Lincoln's call for troops was issued, Mr. Bootey left the, law office, and on September 10, 18C1, enlisted in Company C, Ninth New York Cavalry. He served in the Peninsular campaign, under Gen- eral McClellan, and was honorably discharged on December 8, 1862. He then returned home, resumed his interrupted law studies, and was admitted to the Chautauqua county bar in 1865. Immediately after admission he commenced the practice of his profession at Jamestown, which he has followed ever since. His political career commenced with his election, in 1865, as justice of the peace, which office his increasing law practice soon compelled him to resign. In 1871 he was elecited by his party as district attorney, and at the clo.se of his term of office he was placed on what was known as the people's tick- et. His personal popularity proved a very im- portant factor in the campaign, and he was triumphantly re-elected by the largest majority of any of the successful candidates in the field. When his second term as district attorney ex- pired, in 1878, he declined all offers of a renom- ination, and resumed his law practice, which had then become so extensive as to require nearly all of his time. While devoted to his profession, and giving his undivided attention and be.st thonglit to tiie interests of his many clienLs, yet no man lakes a deeper interest in the political affairs or the material prosperity of the Empire State than Edward R. Bootey. In 187G he united in marriage v.ith Emma Young, of Busti, this county, and they have one ciiild, Edward R. Bootey, Jr., born No- vember 25, 1878. In politics Mr. Bootey has always been an unswerving republican. Not oidy does he com- mand the full support of his own party, but he also has a strong following independent of po- litical consideration, which has been drawn to him by his integrity of character, his hone.sty of purpose, and his efficient services when em- ployed in a public capacity. He is a member of James M. Brown Post, No. 285, Grand Army of the Republic. As a criminal lawver Mr. Bootey has been very successful, and ranks with the ablest of that class in the southwestern part of the State. For the last score of years there has not been an important criminal case in the courts of the county but what he has ap- peared in for either the prosecution or the de- fence. He was district attorney in 1872, at the time of the celebrated Charles Marlow trial. He thoroughly studies his cases, clearly grasps every important point, and closely scans every fact however apparently trifling. By these means he often constructs a plea of seeming ir- resistible force, and with swiftness or ease, as the ca.se demands, frequently detects falsehood and confounds villainy. His success as a plead- er has been remarkable, his standing as a citi- zen is very high, and his popularity with the people is founded upon the integrity, energy, honesty and fearlessness in the cause of right, for which he has always been distinguished. His hou.se is a pleasant one and ho enjoys life abtindantlv. 30 BIOGRAPUY AST) HISTORY T4^ILLIAM aiARVrV BEMUS, M. D.— •** One who has kept pace with the march of i^rogress whicli has characterized medical sci- ence for tlie last quarter of a century, is William Marvin Bemus, M.D., a young and rising phy- sician and surgeon of Jamestown, and Chautau- qua county. He was born at Meadville, Craw- ford county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1855, and is the eldest son of Colonel George H. and Julia (Prendergast) Bemus. The Bemus and Prendergast families were of New England an- cestry, and located in the valley of the Hudson river at an early day in the history of its settle- ment. Dr. Bemus' great-grandfather, William Bemus, was born probably iu jNIassachusetts, and served in the Revolutionary war. His son, Charles Bemus, was boru on the historic battle-ground of Bemus Heights, which Mere named in honor of the Benins fiimily. He served as captain iu tiie war of 1812. Dr. Daniel Bemus (paternal grandfather) was a graduate of Pennsylvania Uni\'ersitv, and served as a surgeon in the war of 1812. In one of the battles along the Canadian frontier he was shot through -both knees. He lived to be eighty-six years of age. Colonel George H. Bemus was born at Russellburg, Warren Co., Pa. He read law, was admitted to the ba7", and in 1855 located at Meadville, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, for the practice of his profession. When the late war broke out lie enlisted in the Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves, and wa.s com- missioned as first-lieutenant of Company F, of that regiment. He was successively promoted until he attained the rank of colonel, and was placed in command of the Fifty-eighth Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, which made an enviable record for bravery aud efficient service. After the close of the war he returned to Mead- ville, where he has been engaged in the prac- tice of law ever since. During his residence iu Crawford county he has been seut twice by his fellow-citizens to represent them hi the Penn- .sylvania House of Representatives. William M. Bemus passed his boyhood years at Meadville, and received his elementary edu- cation in the public schools of that place. At si.xteen years of age he entered Allegheny col- lege, where he remained two years, and had passed into the sophomore class, when he left to study medicine with the late Dr. William Church, an eminent and highly successful jihv- .sician of Meadville. After completing a full course of reading under Dr. Church, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, in 187(), and was graduated from that well-known institution in the class of 1878. He then came to James- town, where he has practiced his profession ever since. In 1887, he was appointed United States Pension Examiner for the district in which he resides, and at the jjresent time is a surgeon and staff-officer of the Fourth Brigade, of New York. For the last eleven years he has served as health officer of Jamestown, but increasing practice has caused him lately to re- signjiis insurance positions. He is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Jamestown. On April 30th, 1881, he united in marriage with Minnie M. Barrows, daughter of R. J. Barrows, a leading lumber dealer of Jamestown. Their union has been blest with one child : Selden Bemus, born May 9, 1884. Strongly attached to liis profession, and de- voting his whole energies to its exacting re- quirements, Dr. Bemus has deserved the success which he has won by his knowledge aud skill as a physician. He has been, during his pro- fessional career, an earnest and constant student, and has kept well abreast of the rapid advances of medical science. Of quick perception and sound judgment, he entertains a coutem])t for all shams and pretences in his profession. He is well read, progressive and successful as a physician and surgeon, and the field of his fu- ture distinction and usefulness in the medical profession will by no means be limited to the boundaries of his town or countv. CARL W, SCOFIELD. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUSTY. ry-XRL, W. SCOFIELD, oue of the most siic- ^^ cessf'iil business men that the " Empire State " has evei* produced and the second largest oil producer in the world, is a promi- nent and resjjected citizen of Jamestown and Chautauqua county. He was born at tiie village of Peterboro, ■ Madison county, New York, November 21, 1838, and is a son of Rev. Abisha and Elizabeth (Marvin) Scofield. Tlie Scotield family of New York is a branch of the Connecticut Scofield family. David Scofield (paternal grandfather) was born and reai'od in the vicinity of Stamford in the " Land of Steady habits." He was a soldier of the war of 1812 and afterwards settled in Greene ■county, New York, where he died. He was a farmer and married and reared a large family of children. His son. Rev. Abisha Scofield (father), was born about 1805 in Greene county. He completed a full academic course and then entered one of the foremost eastern colleges from which he was graduated with honors. He then entered the theological school of Auburn and was graduated from that institution with high standing in his class. He was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church and given a charge. During the early years of his ministerial life he met and became acquainted with Gerritt Smith, who was then entering upon his life-work of proclaiming chattel slavery as a sin against God and man and de- manding immediate and unconditional enjauci- pation of the negroes of the south. Rev. Sco- field warmly supported Smith's advanced posi- tion on the slavery question. He accompanied Smith through the different counties of the State where they spoke in denunciation of human servitude and formed anti-slavery so- cieties. As an abolitionist speaker and lecturer Abisha Scofield aided largely in educating the public mind in New York and preparing the Empire State fjr the important part wiiich it was to take in the disruption of tlie Whig party on account of its anti-abjiition tendencies and tlie establishment of the Republican party pleilged to immediate limitation and ultimate extinction of slavery. For his radical course in agitating the slavery question Rev. Scofield was called before the Onondaga conference of his church and silenced as a minister of the Congregational church. He then began the work of organizing independent churches in which he was very successful. His learning, earnestness and eloquence made him very jiower- ful in any cause which he advocated. He now resides at Spencerport, west of Rochester, in jNIonroe county, on the New York Central Railroad, and although eighty-five years of age, retains much of his old time vigor and energy. He married Elizabeth Marvin, daugh- ter of a Mr. Marvin, who was a native of Colchester, Connecticut, and served in the war of 1812. He was a ship owner and had oue of his vessels destroyed by the English while he was in the service of the United States. Mrs. Scofield died in 1842 and left three child- ren : Henry, Carl W., and William. Rev. Scofield for his second wife married Jeannette Marvin, sister to his former wife. By his second marriage he has six children. Carl W. Scofield obtained a common school education and at fifteen years of age became a clerk in a bookstore at a very low salary. At eighteen years of age, by careful economy, he had saved fifty dollars and with that small sum embarked in the book business for him.self. His venture was successful and in a few years by his business ability, honesty and judicious management he had laid the foundations of his future financial prosperity. In 1872 he ac- cepted a position on the New York Iiulependent but soon sought a wider sphere of operations than was afforded by his position and organ- ized an advertising agency which he rapidly developed until it furnished business for over 8000 newspapers. After six years of unceas- ing and toilsome labor in the advertising busi- ness his health became inii)aired and he paid BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY a visit to liis i':itlier-iii-!a\v, Elijali Bishop, of Jamestown. He then saw the great future possibilities of business and wealth that existed in the oil fields of western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. Having' success- fully demonstrated his capability to organize, control and direct a great enterprise of intricate combinations, he resolved upon embarking in the production of oil upon a large scale. With him to think was to act, and he immediately removed to Jamestown and engaged in oil pro- duction and dealing in oil wells. As he became better acfpiainted with the great industry which he was developing, he enlarged the field of his operations and perfected tlie organization of his vast business until to-day in size and import- ance his oil interests are second only to those of the Standard Oil Company. All his operations in oil have been of a strictly legitimate charac- ter and will bear the most rigid scrutiny. His career has been so far an illustration of the wonderful achievements of American ability and energy. From the lowest rung of the ladder he has pa.ssed, by his own exertions, to an honorable and lofty position. In 1870 he married Anna Bishop, a daugh- ter of Elijah Bishop, of Jamestown. They have one child, Carl Wilbour Scofield, mIio was born June 11 th, 1873. Although not a church member, Mr. Scofield aids all the churches and is i)resident of the Congregational .society in Jamestown. Being a self-made man his sympathies are always en- listed in favor of the laboring classes with whose true wants he is well acquainted from personal experience. Mr. Scofield's name has been mentioned as a candidate for Congress, and if he could be in- duced to Ijirow aside business cares for a time and turn his attention to public life, this dis- trict might secure a representative in Congress of sagacity and enterj)rise. Mr. Scofield, at his handsome and elegant country residence, " the Bungalow," greets his friends cordially and entertains them royally. Decision of char- acter, honesty of purpose, tact and sagacity are indic^ated in every line of his strong, earnest and intelligent face, and he seems to have beea a man born to achieve success and to command the respect and confidence of his fellow-men. ^EOIJOK C. VAX DUSEN, a member of the ^^ Clunitauqua county bar and a resident of Jamestown, is a sou of Benjamin F. and Mehitable (Lovell) Van Dusen, and was born in Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York, December 8, 1851. The Van Dusen family, of Chautauqua county, is descended from Abra- ham A^an Dusen, who is a descendant of the Van Dusen family of Columbia county, New York, who came from Holland. Abraham Van Dusen removed, in 1720, from New York to Salisbury, Connecticut, where he resided until his death. His son, John Van Dusen, was the father of John Van Du.sen, Jr., whose son, Benjamin F. A^an Dusen, now resi- dent of Jamestown, is the father of the subject of this sketch. For a more detailed history of the A-^an Du.sen family, which is one of the old families of New York, see the biography of Judge Almon A. A^an Dusen, of Mayville, in connection with that of Theodore F. A^an Dusen, of Jamestown. The Lovells (maternal side) are descendants of the Lovell family of New England. George C. A^an Dusen received his education in the High school of Jamestown. He read law with his brother, Judge Almon A., was admitted to the Chautauqua county bar in 1877 and commenced the practice of law at Sherman, where he remained for ten years. He then came to Jamestown (1887) and has continued there ever since in the active practice of his pi'ofession. He is a member of the First Bap- tist church and Olive Lodge, No. 575, F. & A. M., at Sherman. On October 27, 1888, he united in marriage with Luciuda M. Shelilon, daughter of M. B. Sheldon, of Sherman. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. In politics George C. Van Dusen has always been a strong democrat. While residing at Sherman he was nominated by his party for justice of the peace and although the tosvn was republican by two hundred majority, yet he came within twelve votes of being elected. Under President Cleveland's administration he served as postmaster of Sherman until 1887 ■when he i-esigued and removed to Jamestown. He was elected, in 1882,. as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention at Syracuse, and has the honor of being one of the sixty-six delegates who cast their votes on the first ballot for Grover Cleveland for governor of New- York. In the ensuing gubernatorial contest he took an active part as well as four years later when he spoke in the interests of Cleve- land for the presidency. In 1888 his time and services were freely given in the presidential campaign of that year, during which he took the stump and made many speeches throughout western New York in favor of the claims of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman, for the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States. In addition to his law practice he takes considerable interest in business affairs and is a partner with his brother, Theodore F., in the undertaking business at Jamestown. QNDREW JOHN LANNTES, editor of the -"■ Swedish paper, " Our New Home," is a son of Andrew and Louise Lannes, and was born in the county of Ydre, Sweden, November 8, 1860. His grandfather, Andrew Lannes, Sr., was a native of Sweden, a soldier in the stand- ing army of that country, dying on the battle- field in the wars against Napoleon I. He be- longed like his progeny to the Evangelical Lutheran church. He married Margerlta Hak- anson, with whom he had six children, all of whom, except one son, came to America, where the Lannes family is quite numerous in differ- ent states. Andrew Lannes (ftither) was born in Sweden in 1805, and served during a long life in the army grave to gay, from lively to severe," iias been aptly illnstrated in the career of this gentle- man, and each phase has been a successful one. He is a son of George W. and Mary (Reed) Tuck- er, and was born in Bath, Maine, December 26, 1848. His paternal grandfather, John Tucker, was a native of Bath, of Scotch-English par- entage, and spent his whole life in the citv where he was born. He was a large real estate owner there, and in politics was an old-line democrat, and in religion a member of the Methodist church. He mari-ied a Miss Pavson and they had three sons and five daughters. Mr. Reed (maternal grandtather) was a na- tive and life-long resident of ]\Iaine. He was of Scotch descent, was formerly a contractor and builder, and in politics a democrat. He married and had four sons and two daughters. He served in the war of 1812, and his widow is still living, at the advanced age of ninety- four years. George W. Tucker (father) was born in Bath, and spent his life there, where he was a large real estate owner. He was a dem- ocrat and a member of the Universalist church. In 1826, he married Mary A. Reed, and to them were born three sons and two daughters. One sou, George W., was for many years a sea captain in the merchant marine, but has re- tired, and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. Another son, Henry S., is a stock broker in Rochester, N. Y. Charles E. Tucker was educated in the pub- lic schools of Bath, and at St. Lawrence uni- versity, at Canton, this State. He entered the Universalist ministry and occupied pulpits for thirteen years, in Maine, Massachusetts, New Haven, Conn., and Titusville, Pa. In 1880 he exchanged theology for business, and en- gaged in the production of oil in Bradford, Pa., where he remained ten years. In the spring of 1890 he came to Jamestown, and entered into partnership with F. N. Marvin, in the manu- t'acture of shoes, the firm name being Tucker & Marvin. They manufacture the finest grades of ladies and misses' shoes. Mr. Tucker still retains his interest in the oil business iu Brad- ford, Pa., and also owns a plantation of eight hundred and sixty-two acres on the James river in Virginia, where he breeds and raises blooded stock. On December 16, 1874, Rev. C. E. Tucker was united iu marriage with Mary DruUard, a daughter of Solomon Drullard, of Buffalo, this State, who was the first general freight agent of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R., occupying that posi- tion twenty years, being, also, a member of the board of directors, and also engaged in the iron business, at which he accumulated a large for- tune. This union has been blessed with three sons and one daughter : Charles IM., Eddie D., Alice and Solomon. In politics Mr. Tucker is a prohibitionist, and is still a member of the Universalist church. He is an accomplished gentleman, of easy and pleasing address, suave in manner, very approachable, and a genial, interesting, entertaining companion, and his life's record gives evidence of his great versatility. jo EN.TAMIX NICHOLS is a son of Andrew ■'"^ and Cordelia (Holcomb) Nichols, and was born January 1, 1835, in Jefferson county, N. Y. His paternal grandfather, David Nichols, was also a native of Jefferson county, where he died in 1830. He married Jerusha Spinning, who bore him these children : Elijah, Andrew (father), Lucretia, George, Dimick and Juliann. His maternal grandfather, Sullivan Holcomb, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and emigrated to Jefferson county. New York, where he resided until his death. He was born in 1776. He was a farmer by occupation, but served as a sol- dier during the war of 1812-15. He was in the battles of Lundy'.s Lane and Chippewa, OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. being captured by the ciieray in the latter en- gagement. He married Abigail Lee, who bore him a son and four daughters. The sou, Seth, located in Jefferson county. The father of Ben- jamin was born in Oneida county, New York, in 1806, and removed to Chautauqua county about 1870, locating in Poland, where lie is now living. He is a farmer by occupation, in poli- tics a stanch republican and in religion a Meth- odist, being a consistent member of the Method- ist Episcopal church. He married Cordelia Holcomb, who still lives, aged eighty. They had five sons and three daughters, all living except the eldest daugliter. Of the others, Ira C. is a mill-man, residing in Kennedy ; Seth L. is a stock-dealer, who makes a specialty of fine horses, in Minnesota ; Andrew, stock-dealer in Minnesota, and Isaac C, who lives in Ashland, Wisconsin, aud is a miner, owning and operating extensive iron-mines. Benjamin Nichols was educated iu the com- mon schools and in Jamestown acatlemy. Ho learned the trade of millwright and labored in that vocation from 1852 until 188;{, in the latter year engaging in the machinery and foundry business in Jamestown, and has been interested in that business to the present time. When he entered the business he liad as partner a Mr. Babcock, whose interest he purchased in 1887, his son, C. M., being admitted as partner. Mr. Nichols iu politics is a republican and has served the city of Jamestown as alderman. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. jNIr. Nichols located in Jamestown in June, 1852, and has been a resident of that city ever since, esteemed and respected by all who know him. On Novemijer 10, 1856, Mr. Nichols married Jane A. Taylor, a daughter of Eli Taylor, by whom he has had these children : Delia, married to Celestus Wilcox, of Kennedy, Chautauqua county, by occupation a painter, still residing in that town ; Melvin C. (deceased); Charles M., in business with his father in Jamestown ; Myr- tle ; Maud C. (deceased), who married Selam Parker ; and Pearl L., married to F. H. Oaks. Grandchild — Maude Allene, daugliter of Selam and Maud Parker. jA OKM.\N K. T1103IPS0N, a veteran sol- 4 dier of the Army of the I'dtomac, who served his country well and honorably in the trying times of v/ar ;ind equally as well iu the piping times of peace, is a son of Milliard C. and Samantlia (Bailey) Thompson, and was Ijorn in Stockton, Chautauqua county. New York, Se])tember 10, ISoT. His paternal grandfather, Abel Thompson, emigrated from the eastern part of New York to Stock- ton and erected the first house in that town, where he resided until his death. By occupa- tion he was a farmer. The maternal grand- fatiier of Norman K. Thompson, was a native of the central part of New York State, but re- moved to aud settled in Stockton where he resided until his death. The father of Norman R. Thompson was born in 1811, in the central part of the State of New York, and was about eight years of age when his parents removed to Stockton. After receiving such education as the common .schools of that day afforded, he learned the tailor's trade, continuing in that business during his active life. In politics he was a stanch republican, and was honored with the several offices within the gift of his towns- men, conscientiously discharging the duties of each. Iu his early youth and manhood, he was a Presbyterian, but later became a believer in the tenets of the Methodist church. He mar- ried Samantha Bailey, and she bore him the following children: Harriet C, who married W. W. Seele)', a carpenter and joiner, residing iu Delanti, N. Y. ; Byron W., who married Louisa Bisell, and resides in Spartansburg, Pa. He .served three years in the army during the Rebellion, enlisting in 1862, in Co. I, 112th New York Volunteers, and took part in the battles of Cold Harbor, siege of Suffolk and BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY through the campaign in Florida. He was wounded in battle, but recovered ; Frederick, a clerk in a drygoods store in Cleveland, Ohio ; Altnedia R. (dead); Sarah J. (died young); Ella M., married to Samuel Riddle, who lives in Bradford, Pa., where he is superintendent of an oil lease ; Mary F., married to Hiram Hart, a painter in Delanti, N. Y. ; George M., mar- ried to Hattie Miller, and living in Jamestown, where he is a night-watchman; Eva (dead); and Norman R. Norman R. Thompson acquired his educa- tion, mainly at Westfield aeadem}', this county. After graduating therefrom, he worked by the month on a farm, for a season, and then engaged in the more congenial vocation of teaching school, in which he continued for forty consecu- tive terms. He was appointed superintendent of schools of Warren county. Pa., by State superintendent J. P. AVickersham, in March, 1876, to till a vacancy for two years, at the end of Avhich time the people were sufficiently appreciative of his indefatigable efforts in pro- moting the interests of the hundreds of school districts, to elect him for the succeeding full term. After serving successfully the entire term, he removed to Jamestown in 1883, and engaged in book-keeping until the spring of 1890, when he was appointed city treasurer of Jamestown. He never aspired to political office, believing the office should seek the man, not the man the office, and his belief has been strengthened by the popular vote in each case where he has been an office holder at the re- quest of his constituents. In religion he is an Independent Congregationalist. His record as a soldier is commensurate to that of his life as a citizen. He obe^'ed the summons of his coun- try when she was in peril, and enlisted in Co. G, 49th regt. New York Volunteers, in August, 1861, Col. D. D. Bidwell commanding, and served three years. He entered as a private soldier and was soon promoted to sergeant and when honorably discharged, was regimental and | commissar}' sergeant. He participated in every battle from the time of his enlistment, in which the Army of the Potomac was engaged, until his discharge. Three times he was wounded, but he declined to leave his post of duty. He several times narrowly escaped being captured by the euemy. He is an enthusiastic secret society man, being an active member of Mount ]\Ioriah Lodge, No. 145, F. and A. M., James ^I. Brown Post, No. 285, G. A. R., Jamestown Lodge, No. 34, A. O. U. W., Chaut. Lake Lodge, No. 46, Knights of Honor, Eureka Lodge, No. 20, Royal Templars of Temperance ; all in Jamestown. Thus the record of his life offers the best evidence of his usefulness as a citizen, of his worth as a man, and of the esteem which is justly his. He married, August 18, 1868, Kate Swift, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Swift, natives of New England, but residents of Carroll and Jamestown, Chautauqua county, N. Y., at the time of their death. ^VHARLES LYOX is a son of Alexander and ^^ Olive (VauBerger) Lyon, and was born February 12, 1819, at Oxford, Chenango county, New York. His paternal grandfatiier, was a native of Washington county, this State, but emigrated to Chenango county where he died. Charles Lyon's maternal grandfather, who was a native of Holland, emigrated to America and settled in Can- andaigua, this State, where he resided until his death. Pie was a patriotic man and served his country well and nobly, doing his full duty as a soldier during the War of the Revolution. He mai-ried Hannah Knapp. Alexander Lyon (father) was born in Chenango county, N. Y., in 1776, and removed to Tompkins county, this State, in 1825, where he died. He was a farmer by occupation, and during the exciting times following the disappearance of William Moi'gan, he was an intense anti-Mason and afterward affiliated with the Whig and Repub- < <''^. J.^Jl^ 'i/~z-'~~kXj OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. lican parties, never taking an active part, how- ever. In religion he was a consistent member of the Baptist chnrch and liekl the office of deacon for a score of years. He was married but once, and had born to him thirteen children, ten sons and three daughters. Charles Lyon was educated in the common schools, and afterwards tilled his father's farm in Tompkins county until the autumn of 1844, when he emigrated to Peimsylvania and en- gaged in the lumber business. In 1848 he re- turned to New York, locating in Jamestown. In politics Charles Lyon was a Whig until the formation of the Republican party, in 185(), when he became a member of that party and still continues firmly grounded in. the faith. His first vote was cast for Gen. William Henry Harrison, of " Tippecanoe and Tyler too'' fame, the grandfather of the present president, and he has steadily voted the straight Whig or Repub- lican ticket ever since. His standard of charac- ter is above the average and he has the reputa- tion ot fully living up to that standard, exam- , plifying in his private and business life all that a good citizen of tlie best republic in the world should be. On September 11, 1839, Mr. Lyon united in marriage with Hester A. Chapin, a daughter of Roderick and Sarah (Clough) Chapin. She was born in 1817. Her paternal grandfather, Roderick Chapin, was a native of Washington county, this State, and was of English ancestry. He removed to Chautauqua county and lived with the father of Mrs. Lyon, who came to this county and settled in the town of Kiantone (then Carroll), in 1828, when there were not more than four houses south of the creek that runs through Jamestown. He was a farmer and extended his usefulness to mankind by officiating as a preacher in the Methodist Epis- copal church. In the year preceding the War of the Rebellion, he was a stanch and uncom- promising abolitionist. Mrs. Lyon was one of a family of seven children. To their union 3 have been born three children, two sons and one daughter : thapin J., who died at the age of forty-four ; Septimus, who married Charlotte Howard, and is now a painter and paper-hanger in St. Charles, Iowa; and Sarah, who resides with her parents. CLARK RAWSOX LOCKWOOD, of sturdy and honorable New England ancestry, has been for about forty years before the public as a prominent lawyer of Chautauqua county, New York, where he now resides. He was born in tlie town of Schroon, Essex county, New York, June 6, 1827, and is a son of Jere- miah and Amanda (Rawson) Lockwood. Jer- emiah Lockwood, Jr., (for that was his father's name) was born at Lanesborough, Berkshire county, Mass., May 17, 1797. His mother was born at the head of Schroou Lake, Essex coun- ty, N. Y., February 4, 1800, and is said to have been the first white female child bora in the town of Schroon. Jeremiah Lockwood, Sr. (paternal grandfather of C. R. L.), came from Massachusetts to Schroon in the year 1810. His birth-place was Norwalk, Conn., but when quite young he moved to Massachusetts, where on January 19, 1776, he was united in mar- riage with Mehitable Clark. At the time of their removal to Schroon they had three sons living, of whom Jeremiah, Jr., was one. Jere- miah, Jr. and Amanda Rawson were married at Schroon Lake about the year 1819, and con- tinued to reside in the town of Schroon down to the death of Amanda, which occurred June 22, 1850. The permanent home of Jeremiah, Jr., and family was about two miles north of Schroou Lake, where for many years they kept what was known as " Lockwood's Tavern." November 20, 185G, Jeremiah, Jr., married Mrs. Margaret McCaftre Allen, a widow lady, ' with whom he continued to live down to lier deatli, which occurred May 15, 1868, and about I June 1, 1868, he removed to Chestertown, ! Warren county, N. Y., where he continued to BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY reside with his daughter Harriet (wlio was the wife of Charles Fowler,) dowu to his death, which occurred April 19, 1869. Of the nine children born to Jeremiah, Jr., and Amanda (Rawson) Loclvwood, there are now living : Harriet R., Henry F., Pamelia J. and C'larlv R. Amanda (Rawsou) Lockwood was the daughter of Simeon and Anna (Holden) Raw- son, who moved from Shrewsbury, Vt., to Schroon, iu the year 1798, and where both re- mained dowu to their deaths which occurred many years since. There w'ere born to them eleven children, the last of whom, Safford Raw- son, of Leroy, Genesee county, N. Y., died in May, 1891, being ninety-six years of age De- cember 9, 1890. If there be credit in adding multitudes to the Imman family, then, indeed, both the Lockwoods and Rawsons are entitled to very much, for from their households have sprung numerous children who, to greater or less extent, have made their mark in the world. Clark R. Lockwood received his early edu- cation in the common schools of his native town. At the age of about sixteen years he entered the wagon-shop of Jonathan Stevens, of Castleton, Vt., for the purpose of learning the trade. His health was not good, and after remaining in the shop about eighteen months, he w;is obliged to leave the business, which he did and returned to his home. After recruiting in health, and as soon as able, he commenced attending school with the view of fitting him- self for other duties. For several winters he taught school in his native district and adjoin- ing towns, and summers attended school at Ti- conderoga, N. Y. and Poultney, Vt. Consid- erable of his time was devoted to the learning of the French language ; and hoping to make greater proficiency therein, he went to Canada where he remained in a French family for quite a time, learning to speak the language, which he did so well as to enable him to instruct oth- ers. During these several years his physical health was very much improved, and he re- solved to engage iu something for permanent business, and through the assistance of Mr. A. R. Catliu, then of Jamestown, he secured an opportunity for reading law in the office of Or- sell Cook, at that time an active and popular lawyer also residing in Jamestown. Almost penniless and with but little eucouragement, ex- cept through his own resolution, in August, 1849, he left home for Jamestown where he arrived August 2-4, and on the next day com- menced as a law student with Mr. Cook. This proved to be a very favorable opportunity for learning law, as Mr. Cook had an extensive cli- entage and the field for practice in tiie lower courts was such that theoretical and practical knowledge were constant aids to each other. Mr. Cook, too, was an industrious worker and gave to his students the fullest opportunities for improvement, so that the main things needed ibr professional success, were willingness of and actual application, all of which C. R. Lock- wood possessed. Poverty of circumstances com- pelled constant labor and, after reading and office work for less than a year, he commenced trying cases in Justice's court, from which he derived a sufficiency to nearly support him, iu that great economy in dress was exercised, and he boarded himself in the office where he kept " bachelor's hall" for several years. During this time he taught a term of school in what was known as the Pine street school-house, then located on the corner of Fourth and Pine streets in Jamestown. During the winter of 1852 and 1853, Mr. Lockwood attended the Fowler law school at Ballston Spa, X. Y., and in the spring of 1853, at a general term of the Supreme Court, he was admitted to practice iu all the courts of the State, aud subsecjuently in the United States Courts. After his first ad- mission, in 1853, he returned to the office of Mr. Cook where he remained but a short time, aud then entered into a law partnership with William M. Newton, under the name of " Lock- wood & Xewtou." Tills firm lasted to about OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. August 25, 1855, when the former principal and student formed a partnership known as " Cook & Lockwood." Under this name they prac- ticed their profession, down to August, 1880, when Mr. Jerome B. Fisher was admitted into the firm, which then assumed and continued practice, under the name of " Cook, Locicwood & Fisher." About tiiis time Mr. Lockwood's health l>egan to fail and became so poor that in 1881, under the advice of iiis physician, he re- tired from the firm, and for many months re- frained almost entirely from the practice of his profession. On July 6, 1853, Clark R. Lockwood and Miss Eunice E. Wheeler, of the town of Schroon, were united in marriage^ and soon thereafter they commenced housekeeping in Jamestown, where they have ever since resided. Nehemiah and Olive (Fentou) Wheeler were the parents of Eunice E. Their residence was at the head of Parado.x Lake, town of Schroon, where Mr. W^heeler had for many years been a prosperous, and for that country an extensive lumber dealer. Their family consisted of three daughters and one son, Eunice E. being the oldest. All the children are now living : Car- oline F. and Laura W. residing in Jamestown ; and Eliza A. and Edward A. residing in Col- orado. Their parents died several years since. Nehemiah was quite a prominent man in his town, for many years holding important offices. His wife, Olive Fenton, was a native of Con- necticut, and born in the year 1805, March 5. To Clark and Eunice E. have been born three children : Olive Amanda, wife of A. E. Allen, now residing in Jamestown ; Lizzie W., who died in her childhood ; and Clark W., who con- tinues to live with his parents. It was during the year 1881 that Clark R. built the " Opera-house block" wliich is located on East Second street, Jamestown. This block is 87 J feet on East Second street, and extends back in depth 150 feet to East First street. On East First street it is si.x stories in height, and on East Second street four stories. Building is of brick and stone, and was constructed under the general superintendence of his son-in-law, Mr. A. E. Allen. In the block is " Allen's Opera-house," which has become quite noted in the theatrical world. Indeed the building is a bee-hive of industry, and to say that it is an ornament to the now " city of Jamestown," is no more than its merits deserve. After about eighteen months Mr. Lockwood's health had so much improved that he re-engaged in professional work and, establishing his office in his block, he continued in practice under the name of different partnerships down to the year 1888, when he formed a partnership with Fred. R. Peterson, under the name of " Lockwood & Peterson," which yet exists. Believing in the integrity of creation and liberal in opinion, C. R. Lockwood has ever repudiated the monstros- ities and absurdities of " ]ioj)ular religion," and to-day rejoices that advancing years verify his belief and justify his course. Unyielding in the belief that freedom is the nattn-al and should be the governmental right of every American citi- zen, regardless of color or sex, he was active in republican ranks, and no one more gloried at the emancipation of the slave than did he ; but when the party repudiated the well-earned and equal rights of citizen women, he regarded it as having violated plighted faith and no longer entitled to the fidelity of one whose principles of Liberty knew no distinction of right thereto between man and woman. I^atterly he has de- voted his energies to " political equality," be- lieving it the sublimity of American citizen- ship, as it will be the ultimate result from in- tellectual growth, personal need and State and National demand. Though nearly sixty-four years of age, Mr. Lockwood has much of mental and physical vigor remaining, and with the exercise of ordi- nary energy, there is considerable yet in store for him to perform ; and judging the future from the past, we may rest assured that it will BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY bear the impress of wouted perseverance and industry. PETER H. HOYT, a prominent and re- spected citizen of Jamestown, and who is a successful, self-made man, having begun the battle of life with comparatively nothing and accumulated a comfortable fortune, is a son of John and Phoebe (Stiles) Hoyt, and was born July 22, 1838, at Mt. Salem, Sussex county, New Jersey. His paternal great-grandfather, Ebenezer Hoyt, was born iu Stamford county, Connecticut, in 1712, and married Mary Green, of the same State. He served iu the war of 1812 and assisted in drawing a chain across the Hudson river at Newburg, to prevent the Brit- ish vessels further ascending that river. Peter Hoyt (paternal grandfather) was born iu Stam- ford county, October 24, 1764, and removed to Orange county, N. Y., where he died. He was a farmer, and married Obedience Haines, a daughter of Johu Haines, of Dutchess county, this State. Lewis Stiles (maternal great-grand- father) was a native of Connecticut and removed to Orange county, N. Y., where he died. Johu Hoyt (father) was born in Stamford county, May 7, 1786, removed to Orange county, then in 1810 to Sussex county, N. J., where he pur- chased a tract of three hundred acres of land, and two years later enlisted and served iu the war of 1812. He was a very active democrat, a member of the Baptist church and died in 1847, at the age of sixty-one years. His brother Peter also served in the war of 1812. He mar- ried Phoebe Stiles, by whom he had ten chil- dren — six sons and four daughters. Of the sons, Archibald is a farmer in Orange county, N. Y. ; Joel is a merchant in Newj^ort, R, I., but resides iu Jamestown ; John T. is a sjjecu- lator in live-stock in Orange county ; Peter H. ; Jerard R. is also a speculator iu live-stock at Clinton, Pa. ; and Louis S. is a coal dealer, iron manufacturer and railroad man in Xew Castle, Pennsylvania. Peter H. Hoyt was educated in the common schools of Mt. Salem, N. J., and at the early age of fourteen years was left to do for himself. After leaving school he began business, at twenty years of age, on his own account, and opened a grocery in Jersey City, where he remained seven years. In 1865 he went to New Castle, Pa., and engaged in the dry -goods, carpet and grocery business w-ith his brother, L. S. Hoyt, under the firm-name of P. H. Hoyt ct Bro., where he remained three years. In January, 1869, he came to Jamestown and opeued a dry-goods, carpet and clothing store at No. 32 Main street, which building he now owns. He continued in this business until the autumn of 1882, when he sold his stock and leased the building, in- tending to go to Texas, but abandoned the idea and, purchasing some real estate on West Third street, built a fine brick block of tenement- houses known as the Hoyt block, extending one hundred and twenty feet front and forty-five feet deep, comprising five four-story houses, each containing twelve rooms finished throughout iu cherry, maple and oak and supplied with the modern conveniences. He has a fine baru in the rear and keeps a half-dozen good horses. He is somewhat interested iu i"eal estate iu Jamestown. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, 2d regt., New Jersey Vols., going out as corporal, but was afterwards promoted to first lieutenant of Co. K. He participated in tlie first battle of Bull Run. Politically Mr. Hoyt is a democrat, is at present a memjber of the city council of Jamestown and is a member of Blue Lodge, No. 243, F. and A. M., at New Castle, Pa. In December, 1865, Mr. Hoyt united in mar- riage with Jennie E. Hogen, a daughter of John D. Hogen, a real estate broker of Patcrson, N. J. HA3ILTX BLACIOIARR was a sou of Ransom L. and Eliza (Bo we) Blackmarr, and was born in Busti, Chautauqua county. New York, September 3, 1843, and died February 25, 1886. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 43 Hamlin Black iiiarr was a man of good edu- cation, which he acrjuired at the Allegheny col- lege, in Meadville, Pa., and then engaged in the mercantile business in Perrysburg, N. Y., with liis father, afterwards going to Ohio, where he continued in the same business. Suc- ceeding this he returned to Pennsylvania, and began drilling for oil, some of his ventures be- ing the wonder and admiration of his less astute contemporaries. While a member of the Brad- ford Oil Exchange, it is recorded that he made the heaviest deals on record at that time. His ability ranked with the highest, and he was en- abled to secure a fortune in a few years. The fine residence at No. 417 East Second street, where Mrs. Blackmarr now lives, was purchased by him. lu May, 1870, Mr. Blackmarr united in marriage with Mary Gray, a daughter of Dr. Henry and Mary (Park man) Gray. This fam- ily were natives of New York city, but came to Perrysburg, Cattaraugus county, where Dr. Gray practiced medicine. He was the father of five sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Blackmarr had but one child, Frank Hamlin Blackmarr, who was born February 16, 1871, and at present is attending the Allegheny col- lege, where he is preparing for a professional life. In political matters Mr. Blackmarr was a republican, and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He stood high in his community, and was recognized as a man of good business ability. His loss was deeply felt by his many friends, and his remains are interred in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown. FKjINK B. FIEIjO, of Jamestown, now actively engaged in the undertaking and picture-frame business, is a son of Chauncey T. and Emeline (Rice) Field, and was born in the city of Jamestown, Chautauqua county. New York, April 4, 1852. His grandfather, Tyler Field, was a native of Brattleboro, Vermont, from which place he came to Jamestown in 1829. He was a tanner by trade, but after fol- lowing the tanning business in Jamestown for some years, he opened a boot and shoe store, which he continued until his death. He was a democrat, and married a Miss Dean, who died and left one child, the flither of the subject of this sketch. He married for his second wife a Miss Cunningham,, who bore him nine children. Chauncey T. Field (father) was born in Ver- mont, in 1828. He was reared at Jamestown, where he engaged, at an early age, in the mer- cantile business. He was successively a mem- ber of the dry goods firms of Sawdrey & Field, and Field & Ingersoll, on Main street. On January 18, 1875, he associated his son, the subject of this sketch, with him in the boot and shoe business, which he conducted until July 18, 1885, when he disposed of his stock of goods, and retired from active business life. He is a democrat in polities, and a prominent member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was treasu- rer for many years. November 25, 1850, he married Emeline Rice, and they have two chil- dren : Frank B. and M. Genevieve. The lat- ter died March 30,189], and Mrs. Emeline Field died May 25, 1891. Both mother and daugliter were favorably known in the social circles of Jamestown, and their death was uni- versally mourned. Frank B. Field grew to manliood in his native city, where he received his education at the Jamestown academy. Leaving school he became a clerk in a dry goods store, and at twenty-one years of age went to Coloi'ado, where he spent some time in gold and silver mining. He then became a salesman in the wdiolesule dry goods house of Field & Lyter (now Marsiiall, Field & Co.), of Chicago. In 1875, he returned to Jamestown, where he became a partner with his father in the boot and shoe business until 1885, when they sold their .store, and he engaged as a traveling salesman with tiie Jamestown Cune- BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY seat Chair Company. In 1890, he left their employ, and on IMay 15, of that year, became a member of the present nndertaicing and pic- ture-frame firm of Reed & Field. In this line of business, Mr. Field has been attended with his usual good success, and is rapidly building up a fine trade. On December 21, 1875, Mr. Field united in marriage with Kate A. Parsons, daughter of Dr. A. B. Parsons. To their union has been born one child, a danghter, named Lilla K., born December 29, 1876. He is a democrat in political opinion, and a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was Worship- ful Master, in 1885. He is a charter member, and was tiie first treasurer of Jamestown Com- mandery, Xo. 61, Kniglits Templar, whicii was organized in 1887. -^E WITT CLINTON BREED came from ^^ a good old Puritan family. The first and only man by the name of Breed (or Bred, as it was then spelled) known to have come to America was Allen Breed, who emigrated from England in 1630 with John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, who, with eleven vessels, landed in Salem, Mass., only a decade later than the landing of the Pilgrims. Mr. Breed settled in Lynn, Mass., a few miles from Boston, which is now one of the largest shoe manufacturing cities in the world. In Salem he had married Elizabeth Knight, and four sons resulted from this union : Allen, Timothy, Joseph and John. Allen, Sr., received a grant of land comprising two hundred acres, which is situated in what is now the north side of the city, and is known as " Breed's End." His family multiplied greatly upon the face of the earth, and a little over two centuries from the time he landed in Salem (1839), there were two hundred and forty-three persons named Breed residing in Lynn, and it is a fact that one of the family arose in his seat in Representative Hall, in the State House in Boston, a few years ago, and, with a twinkle in his eye, gravely moved that the city be re-chris- tened Breedville. The name was formerly spelled Bread, occasionally Breade, sometimes Bred, and, back in the sixteenth century, Le Bred. During the reign of Canute, of the Saxon heptarchy, in 1100, a Breed family left Germany and settled in Su.ssex county, England, and the place of settlement is still known as the town of Breed. Allen Breed's son, Allen, had a son named John, who is the ancestor of nearly all the Breeds who settled in New York, Penn- svlvania, and other Western States. He died March 17, 1791, aged ninety. John Breed married for his first wife Mary Kirtland. They had one daughter. John's second wife was Mary Palmer, and she bore him si.x daughters and four sons. One of the sons, John, married Mary Prentice, and to them were born six daughters and three sons. One of the .sous, Nathan (great-grandfather of De Witt C), was born December 13, 1731, in Stonington, Conn. He married Lucy Babcock, of Stonington, and by her had four daughters and five .sons. One of the sons, Thomas, w^as the grandfather of De Witt C. He was born January 3, 1764, in Stoniugton, and married Elizabeth Clements, settling in Saratoga, N. Y., on the farm famous as the place of the surrender of Gen. John Bur- goyne during the war of the Revolution. He died in 1826, leaving a family of seven sons and five daughters. One of the sons was Wil- liam, father of De Witt C, and he was born December 24, 1795, on the farm in Saratoga. The maternal grandfather of De Witt C, Solomon Jones, was born in Wadsbnrg, Ver- mont, and emigrated to Chautauqua county alwut 1810, locating near Stillwater, where he purchased a large farm, now known as " the ohl Jones Farm." He afterwards moved to Jamestown, and engaged in hotel-keeping for several years, and served as justice of the peace, in those days a much more important and honorable office than in the.so latter times. ^ _(o /hiM^ OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 47 Politically he was an i)kl-liue whig, and in ivli- giou a member of the Congregational church. He married Clarissa Howard, and had fourteen ciiildren, all living to maturity except one, who died in infancy. The father of De Witt C. emigrated to Pittsburg, Pa., and from thence removed to Jamestown, where he married Clara Jones, and engaged in the furniture and car- pentering business. At this time (182:'>) James- town was a very small village. Politically he was a whig, and later was the only abolitionist in Jamestown. When the Kepublican party was organized, in Fremont and Dayton's time, he affiliated with it, and voted that ticket' the rest of his life. For .several years he was cap- tain of the Lightfoot Infantry of Jamestown. He was an active and prominent member of the Baptist church. By his marriage he had one son and three daughters. De Witt Clinton Breed was born in James- i town, September 20, 1826. De Witt Clinton. Breed was educated iu the common schools of Jamestown, and afterward made himself prac- tically and thoroughly acquainted with every detail of furniture manufacturinsi;, and took the business of his father, which he has most suc- cessfully managed to the present time (1891). ' He makes specialties of chamber suits, side- boards and book-cas,es, and employs seventy men, besides a half dozen traveling salesmen. [ In politics he is a republican, having come from the Whig party. He is a member of the Bap- tist church, of which he is one of the deacons. An honorable, successful business man and a respected citizen, he occupies an enviable posi- tion in the community in which he resides. De Witt C. Breed married for his first wife Lucy A. Aldrich, of Kiantone, by whom he had four children : Clara I., who married John Aldrich, a retail furniture dealer of Jamestown; George W., married and resides in Denver, Colorado ; Anna L., married to Albert A. Moore, a merchant at Rockwell, Iowa; Ida May, mar- ried William A. Young, an insurance agent in Jamestown, and buok-koeper. For his second wife he married Mrs. Mary L. Haughwout, of New York cit}^ widow of Rev. B. P. Haugh- wout, a noted Baptist minister of Fall River, Mass., where he occupied a pulpit for iiftcen years. />'HARLE.S E. WEEKS, an active business ^^ man and a poj)ular democrat of .James- town, was l)orn at Blossburg, Tioga county, Pa., December u, 1834, and is a son of James and Betsy (Jennings) Weeks. His paternal grand- father, Samuel Weeks, who was of English extraction, was a resident for many years of Vermont and New York. His son, James Weeks, the father of Charles E. Weeks, followed wool-carding for several years in the " Keystone State," at the end of which time he removed to New York, where he settled in Orleans county, and lived a retired life until his death in 1847, at fifty-six years of age. He was a democrat in politics, married Betsy Jennings, and reared a family of four sons and three daughters: Mary, Walter J., engaged in the grocery business on the corner of Pine and Second Streets, James- town ; Andrew J., a real estate agent of the same city ; Charles E., Eliza, Laura and Henry, who is in the grocery business in Jamestown with his brother, Walter J. Charles E. Weeks, although born in Penn- sylvania, yet was reared principally in New York, where he was educated at Albion academy. At the end of his schooldays he determined upon a business career, and in 1856 became a merchant at Ellington, this county, where he remained two years. He then came to Jamestown, which he has made his permanent residence and place of business until the present time. The principal lines of business to which he has devoted his attention since becoming a resident of Jamestown have been real estate, groceries and manufactur- ing. His many real estate transactions and his large grocery trade are evidences of his business ability and adaptability to commercial pur- suits. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY On December 8, 1856, he married Eunice Woodworth, daughter of Erast us C. Woodworth, a native of Orleans county and resident of Ell- ington, now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Weeks have been born four children, three sons and one daughter: Francis (died in infancy), James L., Bertha E. and Ciiarles E., Jr. James L. completed a high school course^ read law, w'as graduated from Albany law school, and married Clara C. Kingsbury, of Westfield. He then formed a partnership with his former legal pre- ceptors, Bootey and Fowler, under the firm name of Bootey, Fowler & Weeks, and did the demo- cratic party good service as a public speaker in the presidential campaigns of 1884 and 1888 by stumping the counties of Chautauqua and Catta- raugus. Bertha E. is a student at Wells college, New York; and Charles E., Jr., is engaged in the real estate business with his father. As a democrat Mr. Weeks has always held firm to the time-honored and cardinal principles of his party, whose standard-bearers have never failed to receive his earnest support. In July, 1885, he was appointed by President Cleveland as postmaster of Jamestown, and served with satisfaction to the citizens of the city during his terra of four years and eight months. He also served his city as a member of the school board and board of trustees. He was nomi- nated by his party in 1881 as one of their candi- dates for assembly, and notwithstanding tlie county was republican that year by a majority of twenty-five hundred, yet he lacked but four hundred votes of being elected, and carried his own city by four hundred and twenty-five majority. Owing to his popularity he was made the democratic nominee, in 1882, for State Senator in the Twenty-second district, composed of the counties of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua, and although unsuccessful, yet ran far ahead of his ticket in the former as well as in the latter county, where he not only received his large vote of 1881, but almost succeeded in carrying Jamestown, which is one of the republican strongholds of western New York. Charles E. Weeks is ? prominent representative of the real estate business of Jamestown, which has been commensurable in its increase with the other industries of the citv. |H ATHAN D. LEWIS, a member of the Cliau- \ ^ tanqua county bar and an active prohibi- tionist of Jamestown, was born at West Win- field, Herkimer county, New York, February 15, 1842, and is a son of Nathan and Mary (Benjamin) Lewis. His paternal grandfather, Nathan Lewis, was of New England ancestry, and died in Connecticut, where he married a Miss Richmond, who lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and one years. His mater- nal grandfather, Jesse Benjamin, served in wars of the Revolution and of 1812. Reserved as a musician at Valley Forge and Monmouth, aud after the close of the Revolutionary struggle, married a Miss Bunn, by whom he had thirteen children. He was a native of New York and died in Jefferson county, that State, when nine- ty-three years of age. Nathan Lewis, the father of Nathan D. Lewis, was born in Connecticut, where his father died when he was quite small, and the young man was reared by his uncle. In early life he owned and operated a foundry at Clayville, N. Y. In 1859 he came to the northern part of the town of Harmony, where he purchased a farm which he cultivated until his death, in 1881, at seventy-nine 3'ears of age. He was a member of the Baptist church and voted the democratic ticket until 1844, after which year, he supported the Abolition and Republican parties. He married Mary Benja- min, aud reared a family of four sons and two daughters. Two of these sons, Charles C, aud Fernando C, served in the Uuion Army during the late war, in which the former was a corporal in tiie 112th New York, and the latter was for two years a member of the 21st New York regiment. Nathan D. Lewis received his education at OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. Arcade academy, in ^yyomi^g county, N. Y. He commenced tlie study of law at Arcade in 1862, but having to make his own way in lite he learned dentistry the next year and by fol- lowing that profession acquired means enough to complete his academic course, and to prose- cute his legal studies. He read law with J. L. White, of Jamestown, was admitted to practice in the United States District and Circuit courts of western New York, in July, 1882, and has made a specialty of bankruptcy cases. On December 28, 1873, he united in marriage with Emily Pelton, who is now the matron of the W. C. A. Hospital, Jamestown, N. Y. N. D. Lewis is a member of the Baptist church and a prohibitionist in politics. He has been active in the work of his party, whose vote materially increased in Chautauqua county while he served as secretary of the County Pro- hibition Committee (1884-88), and in 1885 when he was the nominee of his party he re- ceived a large vote and carried the town of Villeuova. In 1885 he commenced the publi- cation of a monthly prohibition paper called The Agitator, which he changed during the next year to a weekly sheet. In 1 889 he retired from its publication, and assumed charge of the temper- ance department of the Chautauqua Democrat. He is a member of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 416, Independent Order of Good Templars, in which organization he is a lodge deputy and county deputy for Chautauqua county. VICTOR HOL,3rES. In the great cause of temperance each locality has its advocate who stands out prominently as the champion glad- iator of the forces arrayed against the Bacchanalian devotees. Prominently identified with the tem- perance cause through the third party move- ment is Victor Holmes, a son of Jens and Elizabeth M. (Ailing) Holmes, who was born in Denmark, February 18, 1850. His grand- father, Jens Holmes, was a native of Denmark, where he was born, reared and died, his life profession being school teaching. He was con- nected with the State church in the latter ca- pacity, and was a man of extraordinary educa- tion. He married a daughter of Bishop Chris- tian Trause, a renowned ecclesiastical scholar and a divine of great power. Mr. Holmes was well read upon law points, and was in demand by the people of his locality as a drawer of legal documents. He married and had eight children, one of the daughters, Angnethe, being the mother of Lucianus Kofod, who became re- nowned in Danish politics and the army. He served as a member of the Reichstag and is now an officer in the Danish Army. The matei-nal grandfather, Mongesp Ailing, also lived and died in Denmark. He was a farmer and ship- per, and reared a family of eight children. Jens Holmes was born in Denmark, March 31, 1819, where he still resides. For many years he conducted a mercantile business, but some time since retired and is now living at Ronne, Denmark. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and has been twice married : first to Elizabeth M. Ailing, who died in 1878, aged sixty-two years. She was the mother of six children, three of whom are in Jamestown : a son, M. C, is an awning manufacturer in this city ; and a daughter, Betty, was married to Christian Gronberg, who is deceased ; and Victor. Two sons, Peter and 'Valdemar, are living in Denmark, engaged in the mercantile business. Victor Holmes was educated in the schools of the Fatherland and came to America in 1873, locating at Jamestown, where he has since lived, engaged in the sign painting and lettering busi- ness. He carries a stock of paints and a fine line of artists' materials, which is conducted in connection with his manual profession. He married Fannie A. Crumb, of Union City, Pa., April 22, 1875, and they have had three children : Victoria F., V. Frank and V. Elucy, who died in infancy. Victor Holmes is a member of the Presby- BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY terian church, in wliich he is a deacon. He is a member of Samaritan Lodge, No. 376, I. Q. of G. T., of New York, and is an active supported' of the Prohibition party. His connection with the Temperance society is one of respousibib'ty, and it is largely due to his energetic work that the can.se has met with its success in this .sec- tion. He attended the State convention held at Syracuse, and the Supreme Lodge on three different occasions at Saratoga and in 1889 at Chicago. Through Mr. Holmes' efforts, a German Grand Lodge, in Germany, was organ- ized. The society numbers over 700,000 in the world. In addition to these societies, Mr. Holmes belongs to Ellicott Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he is secretary, and is a member of, director and vice-president in the Scandinavian Loan & Building As.sociation, which was formed in Jamestown in 1890. The society is a strong one, numbering a large percentage of the 6000 Scandinavian population of Jamestown in its membership. O-YLVESTER S. CA1>Y is one of Janies- ^^ town's old residents, having begun mer- chandising here in 1844. He was born in Chatham, Columbia county. New York, near the Massachusetts line, June 8, 1817, and is a son of Sylvester and Abigail (Adams) Cady. His grandfathei", Aaron Cady, came of English stock and was related to Judge Daniel Cady, an eminent jurist of Albany, this State. In politics he was identified with the old-line whigs. Sylvester Cady was a native of Chat- ham, this State, where he was born March 2"), 1777. He spent his early life on a farm, and in 1845 removed to Kiantone, this county, still pursuing farming as a means of procuring a livelihood. In 1805 he married Abigail Adams and reared a family of eight children, all of whom are dead excejjting Sylvester S., and one daughter, Mariah, who married Ebenezer Cha- pin, a farmer, (now dead) and .'ihe lives in Cali- fornia. The names of the others were: Sappro- nia, who died in Iowa; Louisa, Ichabod, Ann Adelia and Clarissa. In life Mr. Cady was a whig and died on his farm at Kiantone, in 1850. Sylvester S. Cady, as will be seen, comes of good stock; originally from the English, he is thoroughly American. He attended the " Dees- trict" schools, two miles from home, and secured such knowledge as was usually taught there. He was brought up under the old regime of farming, by main strength, no foolish machin- ery about it, conseril 29, 1838 ; graduated from Yale college in 18G2, and from Union theological seminary, New York, in 18C5. After fourteen years' service in the ministry he was called home on account of his father's feeble heafth, and since his father's death has remained in charge of his business affairs. Mr. Hall was married, July 24, 1867, to Tirzah S., daughter of Prof. E. S. Snell, of Amherst College, Massachusetts. They have three children, and occupy the family homestead. Apo.Qt.^o (xZZ^^^^o ifX^ J3 o.] OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. nANSOM J. IiAl{IU)WS, tlie son of Levi C. and Abigail (Putnam) Ransom Bar- rows, was born in Luzerne, Warren county, New York, August 24, 183L His grandfather, Abner Barrows, was a native of Vermont, but removed to this State, located near Saratoga Springs and pursued farmiug until his death, in 1849. He married a Miss Call and had four sons and two daughters. Levi C Barrows was born at Lu- zerne, this State, in 1804, and came to this county in 1832, locating at Stockton for abt)ut one year and then removed to Jamestown, wiiere he engaged in the lumber business and, in part- nership with a Mr. John Scott, under the firm- name of Scott & Barrows, manufactured doors, sash, blinds and lumber. In {polities he was a democrat, but became a whig and later a repub- lican, being a strong sympathizer of the aboli- tionists. When the underground railway was carrying the blacks through to Canada, Mr. Barrows took pride in being known as one of its conductors and did much in advancing aboli- tion principles. For some years he was a jus- tice of the peace, serving in that capacity at the time of his death, March 10, 1863. In 1861 he transferred his business to his sons, Ransom J. and Henry R., who continued it about two years. He was a member of the Presbyterian, church — for many years a deacon. In 1828 he married for his first wife Abigail (Putnam) Ran- som, who bore him six children : Mary J., mar- ried to M. W. Hutton, of Jamestown, and is , now dead ; Maria, wife of Alexander Hawley who is the representative of one of the oldest fiimilies of this county; Ransom J., Sallie (dead), Henry R., who served as lieutenant of Co. A, 112th regt., N. Y. Inflmtry ; and Orton, ■ who died young. After Mrs. Barrows' death, i in 1846, he married Sallie Canfield and had three children : Halbert A., a resident of James- town ; Herbert L., who lives in California ; and Antoinette (deceased). He was a prominent and respected Mason, being one of the organizers of the first lodge of that fraternity established in Jamestown, and to the time of his death was active and entiiusiastic in its woi'k. Ransom J. Barrows received a common- school education, and married for his first wife Mary J. Putnam, daughter of rnioii Putnam, of Stockton, in 1854, and she died in 1859, leaving two children : Jennie M., wife of M. P. Hatch, of Buffalo, and Minnie M., wife of Dr. W. M. Bern us, of Jamestown. His second wife was Ellen A. Breed, a daughter of Deacon J. C. Breed, who died in 1869. In 1873 he mar- ried iSIinerva C. Williams, and this last marriage has been blest with three children : Ellen A., Elma M. and R. Jay. He is a Mason, and has held continuous mem- bership for thirty-eight years in Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145, of Jamestown. Mr. Barrows has held many offices of honor and trust in Jamestown, where he has resided for nearly sixty years. /-VEOKGK W. PATTERSON, one of the ^^ l)rominent and public-spii-ited citizens of Westfield, is a son of Hon. George W. antl Hannah W. (Dickey) Patterson, and was bora on his father's farm in Livingston county, New York, February 25, 1826. His paternal and maternal ancestry is given in the sketch of his father which is published in this volume. At fourteen years of age, he came with his father to Westfield where he has remained principally ever since. He entered Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, from which he was graduated in 1848, afterwards read law for two years in Buffalo, but with no intention of practicing and only as an accomplishment. From 1850 to 1853, he was engaged in the manufacture of .steel tools, and in 1854, in company with J. N. Hungerfbrd, organized the Geo. Washington bank at Corning, which had a successful career until 1873, when it went down with hundreds of other banks in the great panic of that year. Since 1875 he has resided at Westfield, where he has a pleasant home and has given his time 62 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY to the uianageinent of his lands, fifteen hundred acres originally owned by the Holland Land Company in Chautauqua county. He is one of tiie board of water commissioners of Westfield, president of the board and the chief engineer of the waterworks. He served as president of the board of education. On September 17, 1861, he united in mar- riage with Frances D. Todd, a native of Todd- ville, Otsego county, New York, which was founded by her grandfather, Lemuel Todd. Their union has been blessed with four children: Catherine, a graduate of Vassar col- lege, the wife of Frank W. Crandall ; George W., born February 1, 1864, who graduated at Yale college, and at the Institute of Technol- ogy, Boston, and since 1889 has been instructor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan ; Hannah W., a graduate of the art department of Vassar college; and Frances Todd, who was graduated from Vassar in the class of 1888. Mr. Patterson has beeu for several years a vestryman of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church at Westfield. TOHN H. TOUSLEY, a descendant of ante- ^ Revolution fathers, is living in retirement, having disposed of his baking and confectionery business about three years ago. His parents ■were William and Charlotte (Haughton) Tous- ley, who reared ten children. John H., the subject of our sketch, who was born in Madisou county, New York, December 28, 1827, is the youngest. John Haughton (maternal grand- father) came from England to Madisou county, but we have not the date of his arrival, except that it was some years before the Revolution— probably between 1760 and 1765. At the be- ginning of the war for independence he was im- pressed in Burgoyne's army, but escaj^ed as soon as possible and joiued the colonial troops, serv- ing with them, sharing the privations and dan- gers of the isolated camp-life and a skulking Indian enemy until the close of the war, wheu lie returned to his plow and followed it. In politics a democrat, he was a warm support(;r of Jeffersonian principles. William Tousley was born in Connecticut and came of old New Eng- land stock, but early in life came to Madisou county, this State, where he conducted a black- smith-shop and followed farming. He married and had a family consisting of three sons and three daughters : Sarah (now Mrs. Coman) lives in Madison county; Hiram, died in JNIadisou county in 1890 ; Lucinda (Mrs. Ames Belknap) moved to Michigan, where she died ; Edmund O., lived eighteen years in Jamestown, but re- moved to Madison county, wiiere he now resides; Deborah, married Leonard Leland (now dead), of Madison county; and John H. John H. Tousley received the usual early education of a country boy and afterwards took an academic course, and upon leaving school learned to be a carpenter, which trade he fol- lowed until 1855, when be opened a bakery and confectionery store. In 1864 he came to James- town and continued his business, following it uninterruptedly until 1889, when he was suc- ceeded in the business by his sous. In January, 1855, he married Mary E. Par- ker, of Allegany county, New York. Three children have blest this union : Charles P., mar- ried to Addie Turlow, is conducting the baking and confectionery business in Jamestown ; John H., Jr., is also engaged in business with his brother and lives at home with his father ; and Ruth C, a teacher in the Jamestown public schools. Of a retiring and modest disposition, Mr. Tousley, while being a supporter of the Demo- cratic party, has never sought ofBce or permitted his name to be used as a candidate, and has now arrived at an age where he can take a retrospec- tive view of life and feel satisfied with his life's work. He is a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons, and is held in high esteem by the fraternity. V^,t4^dAXjSUSeotland under the assumed name of Myreton, that being his mother's family name. He had two sons, W^illiani aud George, the latter of whom came to New York about 1750 and settled near the Hudson river. The former, William Myreton, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1720, and married Jane jNIorris, a cousin of Robert Morris, of revolutionary fame. About this time the family changed the spell- ing of the name to its present form. William Myreton (great-grandfather), commanded the coast guard station on the Isle of May, .seven miles from the mainland of Scotland. He was a .schoolmate of Paul Jones, and once carried important despatches to Franklin at Paris, which Jones had brought from America. He was drowned at sea in 17!((), and left an only son, William Martin (grandfather), born in 1760 and died in 1822. He succeeded his lather in command of the Isle of May Station and married his cousin, Jane Morris, by whom he had seven sons and four daughters. His youngest son, Robert Martin (father), was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1820. He was edu- cated at Edinburgii, went to England where he resided for several years, and was an active par- ticipant in the Chartist Movement from 1842 to 1847. He married Hester Beard, born LSI 8, who is a daughter of George Beard, Esq., late of Coggeshall, Essex, and came to the United States in 1854, entered the Baptist min- istry and located in western New York. He became deeply interested in tlie great anti- slavery movement of that day aud [ireached HIOGRAPIIY AND HISTORY and lectured extensively against the institution of African slavery and the curse of human bondage. He resided in western New York until 1880 when he removed to Michigan, where he now resides He has six children — William G., Jemima J,, Hester il., Duncan McLaren, Jean E. and Mary E.; the last three of whom were born in the United States. AV'illiam G. Martin received his education in the common schools of New York and commenced reading- law in the office of Hon. Walter L. Sessions, of Panama (now of Jamestown), this State. In 1882 he came to Mayville when he entered the office of A. A. Van Dusen, completed his course of reading and was admitted to pi-actice in the courts of this State in JNIarch, 1884. January 1, 1886, he formed his present law partnership with A. A. Van Duseu, under the firm-name of Van Dusen & Martin. In 1887 he was elected special surrogate of Chantauqua county for a terra of three years and is serving in that capac- ity at the present time. On January 1, 1873, he married Frances I.sabel Graves, daughter of Henrv M. Graves, of Friendship, New York. Mr. Martin is a republican in politics, is a mem- ber of Peacock Lodge, No. 696, F. and A. M., and Westfield chapter, No. 239, Royal Arch Masons. He has been successful in the practice of his profession and is discharging very credit- ably the duties of his present office. TAflLLIAM CHACE, M.T)., a well-known -*•''• physician of Mayville, of thirty-two years' continuous practice, was born at St. Cath- erines, in Lincoln couuty, jiroviuce of Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1833, and is a son of Dr. William C. and Celinda (Holden) Chace. The Chace family was one of the early settled fami- lies of New York and in every generation from its first settlement in the Empire State to the present time it has numbered among its mem- bers one or more physicians. Dr. William Chace (grandfather) was born in Coventry, October, 1754, and became a resident of Wash- ington county, this State, where he practiced medicine for many years. He served as a phy- sician and surgeon in the Continental armies during the Revolutionary war and after its termination resumed his practice in Washington county, where he afterwards died. One of his sons was John Chace, who was a lawyer, prac- ticed at Mayville for some time and then went South. Another son. Dr. William C. Chace (father), was born in Easton, Washington county, N. Y., August 19, 1795, and came about 1814 to this county where he studied medicine under Dr. Jedediah Prendergast, of Mayville, and attended Geneva Medical college from which he was graduated. After gradua- tion he went to southern Indiana where he remained two years and then went to St. Cath- erines, Canada, upon the urgent .solicitation of Hon. W. H. Merritt, who married a daughter of Dr. Jedediah Prendergast, and who was at that time largely interested in various business enterprises and quite prominent in Canadian political affairs. Mr. Merritt desired Dr. Chace's assistance as a partner in the manufac- ture of salt on a large scale, but about this time salt-brine was found in abundance at Syracuse, New York, and its subsequent manufacture into salt, with which the market was filled rendered the Canadian salt wells unprofitable property. Dr. Chace soon withdrew from the company in which he was intere.sted and engaged in the gen- eral mercantile business which he followed for several years. W'hile engaged in salt manufac- turing he made the discovery of the medicinal properties posses.sed by the water which is left after extracting the salt from the salt-brine. Dr. Chace was engaged in the mercantile business and practice of medicine at St. Catherines until 1855, when he returned to Mayville, where he practiced for some years and where he died in 1876, at eighty years of age. He was a re]iub- lican and a vestryman of the Protestant Epis- copal church. He was married three times. His first wife was Marv Brundiije, who died and left OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. him one child : James B., now deceased. He married for liis second wife Celinda Holden and after her death wedded Susan Evans. By his second marriage he iiad five children : Wil- liam and Mary, Mho died in infancy; Eliza (deceased) ; Dr. "William, and John (dead). Mrs. Celinda (Holden) ('hace was born August 30, 1802, and passed away in the spring of 1834. She was a daughter of William Holden (maternal grandfather), who was a native far- mer and life-long resident of Tompkins county. William Chace received his literary education in St. Catherines academy and read medicine with his father. He entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York city, and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1858. Immediately after graduation he came to Mayville where he remained eser since and has been engaged successfully in the practice of his jirofession. August 7, 1801, he married Mary L. Green, daughter of William Green, of Mayville. They are the parents of four children : three of whom are of age and graduates of Hobart college, Geneva, IS. Y. ; Dr. William H., a resident physician of Buffalo, who read medicine with his fother, was gradu- ated from Buffalo Medical college in the class of 1887, and is the physician in the fourth gen- eration of the Chace family of New York ; Clarence H., read law with Williams & Potter, was admitted to the bar in 1888, married Alice, daughter of William P. Taylor, of Buffalo, and is a member of the bar of that city ; John O., book-keeper for the Buffalo Storage company, and George. Dr. William Chace is a vestryman in the Protestant Episcopal church — the church of his forefathers. He is a democrat and a Fellow of the New York State Medical Association. He has a large and remunerative practice at May- ville and the surrounding country. He is in- terested, to some extent, in agricultural pursuits and owns farms iu the immediate vicinity of the county seat. He belongs to an old and worthy family, and his Christian name, William, ap- pears in each one of its generations since it was founded in the Empire State, and in every in- stance has been borne by a physician of ability and reputable standing. Dr. William Chace is a Past Master of Peacock Lodge, No. 696, F. and A. M., a Past Muster and High Priest of Westfield Chapter, No. 239, H. R. A. M., and a member of Dunkirk Commandery, No. 40, Knights Templar. j^HIT.lP PHILIPS. The fir.st Philip Phillijw to live in Chautauqua county was born iu MassaclnLsetts, July 29, 1764. In 1816 he moved to Cassadaga. Five children made up his family, and the fourth, an uncle of the subject of this sketch, was the second Philip Phillips to live in the county. To his eldest brother. Sawyer, born in 1791, was given a fam- ily of fourteen children, ten of whom lived to attain maturity. One of these, the subject of this sketch, was born August 13, 1834, and has lived to be more famed at home and abroad than any man Chautauqua county has given to the world. He was the seventh of the family of fourteen which bles.sed the humble farm-house near Cassadaga, at that time doing duty as the Phillips homestead. Whether his infant lungs were exercised to any greater degree than those of his brothers and sisters is not recorded ; cer- tain it is, that at a very tender age his musical proclivities asserted themselves. Once the village choir — by no means an accomplished body of singers — tried a new tune to the words " When I can read my title clear." A moment the mel- ody went along smoothly enough, then somebody struck a false note and somebody else followed, and the rout became general. The minister — a Rev. Mr. Peckham — had chanced to hear young Master Phillips sing the same tune a few days before, so he called on him to help the choir out, and up stood the future "Singing Pilgrim," scarce ten years of age then, and rendered the new tune all alone, from beginning to end. In BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY a short time he was a member of tlie choir to whose rescue he liad so chivalrously come a few years before. When nine years of age he lost his mother, but the memory of lier blessed teach- ings and tender tiioughtfulness toward her child- ren in the midst of manifold household cai-es, has remained with him as a benediction in after life. As can thousands of others, to whom the memo- ries of sainted motherhood have proved peren- nial springs of comfort, he can say, " Happy he With such a mother; faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and hope in all things high Comes easy to him." At about the age of fourteen young Phillips was apprenticed to a farmer of the vicinity, a Mr. B. W. Grant. The terms of his appren- ticeship stipulated that he was to assist in ordi- nary farm work as required, in return therefor receiving his board, being allowed to attend school during the winter months, and when he became of age to be " set off" with one hundred dollars cash and two suits of clothes. It was while serving this apprenticeship to Mr. Grant, that Philip Phillips had his first opportunity of attending singing school. Here, during the winter of 1850, he mastered the rudiments of music. The winter of 1851 proved one of the most important of his life, for with it came an old-fashioned revival of religion in the region, and with the revival young Phillips' conversion. The light that came into his heart those winter months has grown brighter ever since, and more than once tiie Singing Pilgrim has proved its power when darkness sought to reign over his pathway. Too poor to purchase a musical in- strument himself, the young apprentice found a sympathizing friend in his employer, Mr. Grant, who purchased for his use one of the old-fash- ioned melodeous then just coming into vogue. It proved the fruitful friend of his leisure hours, for they were all spent in its companionship, and here the "Singing Pilgrim," largely self-taught, acquired, or rather developed, that originality which is the handmaiden of genius. Noting this restlessness under farm duties when his heart was really in musical work, Mr., Grant re- leased young Phillips from the remainder of his apprenticeship, and at the age of nineteen the young singer opened his first singing school in Allegany, X. Y. This work set the pattern for his career, although it was not until some years later that all his talents were directed in the channel of Gospel singing. Fame soon came to him, and in 1858 he responded to an invitation to visit Marion, Ohio. It was while here that he found one of his music pupils peculiarly in- teresting, and on the 27th of September, 18G0, he was united in marriage to Olive M. Clark. To her loving help and companionship, Mr. Phillips owes much of his success; and no sketch of his life would be complete which failed to mention that other star that through the long years " has shone so close beside him That they make one light together." From 18G1 to 186(3 Mr. Phillips was in busi- ness in Cincinnati, O., having associated with him Messrs. William Summer and John R. Wright, t\vo of the most able and respected financiers of the west. Here they built up an extensive trade in music books and instruments, but the large and well-arranged store burned down in 18G5. Then the "Singing Pilgrim" gave his attention solely to the writing and singing of his songs and the sale of his books. Of these latter, while the " Musical Leaves," " Hallowed Song.s," and " Singing Pilgrim," have been most popular, the aggregate of all sales, largely in foreign countries, has reached over six million copies. In January, 18(55, at the great anniversary of the United States Christian Commission, held in the Congressional chamber at Washington, just a few days after its completion, Philip Phillips sang " Your Mission." Pre.'^ident Lincoln was there; all the cabinet advisers who had held up his liands so faithfully during the OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNT!'. war ; tlif Chief Justice and Justices of the Su- preme Court, senators and representatives, sol- diers, sailors, commoners ; these all united to make up that vast and brilliant assemblage. Never was the power of a single song, rich with music-set gems of truth, so demonstrated before ; and when at quarter before twelve President Lincoln sent to the Hon. William H. Seward, chairmau of the meeting, the written request, still in Mr. Phillips' possession, " Near the close let us have 'Your Mission' repeated by Mr. Phillips. Don't say I called for it. Lincoln," the great President had only voiced the desire of every other auditor, and again the soul- stirring words left the singer's lips to seal tlieir mission of renewed inspirations and determina- tions to more helpful living. When the sad shock of the President's assassination followed in April of that year, calls came from every hand for Mr. Phillips to sing the song which had so pleased the martyred President wdiile yet he was in the active fulfillment of his mission. Since that time, with slight variation, the Sing- ing Pilgrim's life has been spent in answering these calls to sing the story of Jesus and His love over every part of the world, lie lias trav^eled more than any other man. Ira D. Sankey caught his first inspiration from him, and through his direct influence became associ- ated with Mr. Moody ; he has given over forty- five hundred evenings of song, leaving behind him a net profit to different churches and chari- ties of well-nigh one hundred and fifty thou.sand dollars ; he has belted the world, and many times traveled throughout Europe; he has enjoyed the friendship of such men as Spurgeon, Lord Siiaftsbury, Dc Bonar, Beecher, and many others of the most noted ecclesiastics and piiil- anthropists both sides of the water; and at ti)e time of this writing, the fifty-sixth year of his age, seems to have lost none of that power antl originality iu sacred song which l:as made him a master iu his work. The intricacies of clas- sical music would never reveal their hidden beauties if no hand more skilled or voice of larger compass or finer training than Philip Phillips' attempted them. Of the two great teachers, earlier surroundings limited him to but one — that one, fortunately, the greater — and art can claim but little honor for the developed gifts with which nature was here so lavish. As a farm-boy, he heard the brooks, tlie birds, the sigiiing winds; and the low purling of the one, the lighter strains of the otiier, the sad mono- tones of the third — all tiie myriad voices of nature w'hieli to many a lower heart than David's have only chanted the praises of their Creator, were not more spontaneous outpourings than the simple, stirring melodies that have come from the pen of this " Singing Pilgrim." Philip Phillips' residence at " Ft. Hill Villa," Fredonia, is a most beautiful one, and it is evi- dent from its comfort and cosin&ss that years of traveled life have not made its owner in the lea.st oblivious to the joys and allurements of home life. It was while resident here, in Feb- ruary, 1884, that he lost his eldest .son, James Clark Phillips, a young man whose musical gifts were of the highest, and whose genial character made him the favorite of all who knew him. He lies buried in Forest Hill cemetery, and on the plain headstone are his last w'ords: "Tell everybody I die a Ciiristian." His loss was a peculiarly severe one to his father, for he had been, and would have been, his associate and co-worker for many years. His youngest son, Philip Phillips, Jr., the fourth of the name to live in Chautauqua county, is to enter the min- istry of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1890 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, the largest western institution under the control of that denomination ; and iu the spring of 1891 he was married to Mary Semans, only daughter of Prof. W. O. Semans, of the facultv of his aliii't mater. Y8 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY ■JOENJAMLN S. DEAK. — As journalism for ^^ the last quarter of a century has broad- ened its scope and elevated its aims, the editors of New York have never been found laggards in the march of progress, and the press of Jamestown has kept fully abreast of the papers of any other city in the western part of the State. One of tlieir number that is worthy of particular mention is The Morning News, Qd\ie.(\ by Benjamin S. Dean. He is tlie eldest son and second child of Philo N. and Rosella S. (Fisher) Dean, and was born at Randolph, Cat- taraugus county. New York, May 10, 1860. His paternal grandfather, Norman Dean, was a resident of Allegany county. New York, where he mari'ied and reared a familj' of three sons and two daughters. His maternal grandfather, Simeon Fisher, w-as a native of Vermont, where for many years lie was a very prominent and influential citizen and a trusted whig leader. At one time he was a candidate for governor of the "Green Mountain State," and his delicate sense of houoi- was such that he would not vote for himself, and thereby lost the governorship, as the election i-esulted in a tie between him and his opponent, and was thrown into the legisla- ture, which decided against him. About 1836 he moved to Waterborough, this county, but afterwards removed to Randolph, in Cattarau- gus county, where he died in 1864, aged sixty- three years. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, a congregationalist in religion, and an old-line whig in politics until the agitation of the slavery question, when he became a strong and leading abolitionist. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in the State, and was actively advocating its principles at the time of his death. He was of English descent, and mar- ried a Miss Brookins, who bore him three sons and five daughters. Philo N. Dean (father) was born at Ceutreville, Allegany county, N. Y., in 18.32, and in 1858 removed to Ran- dolph, in Cattaraugus county, where he has resided ever since. He is a shoemaker by trade, and a republican in politics. He married Rosella S. Fisher, who was born in 1830. Their children are : Emma L., wife of Edward May, a banker of Artesian City, South Dakota; Benjamin S. ; Odel H., married Martha Turner, of Addison, and is a clerk in a dry goods house; Daniel W., who is city editor of the Mornimj News of Jamestown ; and Louella A., w^ife of James Tanner, a lumber dealer of Artesian City, S. D. Benjamin S. Dean received a common school education, which he lias su[)plemented by read- ing, observation and self-study. At thirteen years of age he began life for himself in Michi- gan as a wood .sawyer, which he followed for one year. He then (1874) entered the office of the Randolph Register, of Randolph, N. Y., to learn the jjrintiug business. After three years of faithful ^vork on that paper, he went to Pennsylvania, where he worked for two years on the Emlenton Register. Later he pur- chased the Register, and enjoyed a large patron- age until one of his correspondents furnished an article whose publication incensed the busi- ness men of the town. Some si.xty of them in a body visited Mr. Dean and demanded the correspondent's name, but actuated by that sense of honor which lost his grandfather Fisher the governorship of Vermont, he declined to accede to their request, although he knew his denial would result in the downfall of his paper. They withdrew their advertisements and used their influence so effectively against him that he was compelled to suspend publication two weeks afterwards. In a short lime he became foreman of a New York city Sunday paper, and then served as city editor of the Olean Horning Herald, and associate editor of the Sunday Mirror of the same place. Late in 1882 he purchased an interest in the Randolph Register, which he edited until 1885. In the latter year he came to Jamestown, where he became a part- ner in the publication of tlie Morning Nevjs, and immediately assumed editorial charge of OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. its columns, which he has retained ever since. On t!ie 27tli of June, 1883, lie united in marriage witli Emil C. Blaisdeli, daughter of the late Richard Jsiaisdell, of Gawanda, Catta- raugus county, New York. To their union has been born one child, a daughter named Blanche B. In political aftiiirs Mr. Dean takes an active part, and his pen is always wielded vigorously in behalf of the principles, the jTosperity and the progress of the Ilepul)liean party. His paper, the 3Iorning News, is a power in tiie cause of Republicanism in Chautauqua countv. TEROMK LA DUE, who has been identified ^ with the business interests of Westfield since 1870, is a son of Joshua and Julia Ann (Cowles) La Due, and was born in the town of Chautauqua, Chautauqua county, New York, December 12, 1839. The La Dues of New York are of French Huguenot origin, and are descended from a La Due family that settled in Lower Canada during the last century. Josluia La Due was born in Dutchess county in 17I>4, and died in the town of Portland in 1865. He came to Chautauqua county in 1819, where he settled in what is now the town of Sherman, but afterwards became a resident of Miua. He was a farmer by occupation, served as keeper of a government light-house for four years under President James K. Polk, and was a supervisor and afterwards a justice of the peace in the town of Mina. He married Julia Ann Cowles, who was a native of Farinington, Connecticut, and of New England ancestry. Jerome La Due was reared from four years of age at Westfield, where he attended the acad- emy of that place and tiien (1858) entered the law-ofBce of H. C. Kingsbury. After readuig for two years he went west, and completed his legal studies in the office of his brother, Joshua La Due, who was pro.secuting attorney of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 18(37 he was admitted to the bar of Milwaukee, at which he practiced for three years, at the end of which time he went to Winona, Minnesota, where he practiced for nearly a year and attended to a part of the legal business of the M. & St. P. Railroad company, of which his brother had charge. In 1870 he returned to Chautauqua county, where he established himself at West- field in the real estate and insurance business, in whieii he has continued successl'ully ever since. Under President Cleveland's administration, in 1885, he was appointed postmaster of Westfield, which position he held until 1890. In 1867 he united in marriage with Ada Wells, daughter of S. V. R. Wells, a resident of Westfield. He represents two important branches of busi- ness which are necessary to the growth and pros- perity of any place. Beside handling desirable residence and valuable business properties, he also has good farm lands for sale and is the rep- resentative of the most solid and reliable insur- ance companies. FREDERICK I.. CRAXSOJf, one of the enterprising and bound-to-be successful business men of Silver Creek, is a member of the firm of Huntley, Cranson & Hammond, manufacturers of grain and corn cleaning, and buckwheat machinery, at the large establishment known as the Monitor Works, which was organ- ized by Giles S. Cranson (father) and his son, F. L. Cranson, in 1885. He was born in Rome, Oneida county. New York, March 16, 1855, and is a son of Giles S. and Mary E. (Bligh) Cranson. The fact that their guarantee, which states that their machinery is unequalled in fin- ish, that nothing but the very best material is employed in its construction, that none are per- mitted to leave their works unless absolutely perfect in every detail, is endorsed by commen- dation of the best millers from the Hudson river to the Rocky mountains and from Lake Erie to the Rio Grande, is sufficient proof that the firm knows its business and deserves their BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY reputation. Among the useful and indispen- sable machinery made at the Monitor Works are: The Cransou Scouring, Polishing and Sep- arating machine, single and double, with mag- netic attachment; the Oat Clipper, the Monitor Dustless Receiving Separator, tlie INIonitor Dustless Milling Separator, the Monitor Aspi- rator, the Monitor Dustless Warehouse and Ele- vator Se[)ai-at(»r, the Cranson Coru Scouring, Polishing and Separating machine, the Diamond Dustless Corn Sheller and Separator, the Cranson Buckwheat Scouring, Polishing and Separating machine, the Cransou Roller BuckwheatShucker, the Monitor Scalping and Receiving Shoe, and the Buckwheat Bolt. Giles S. Cranson (father) was born in 1821, in Venice, Cayuga county, this State, and after residing in several towns, came to Silver Creek, a thriving incorporated manufacturing village in the town of Hanover. In 184G he man-ied Mary E. Bligh, a daughter of E. Bligh and a native of Clockville, by whom he had five children. On his removal to Silver Creek in 1879 he engaged in the mauu- facture of buckwheat hullers. In 1885 he and his son organized the Monitor Works, and in 1886 they associated with them W. W. Hunt- ley and C. L. Hammond. G. S. Cranson re- tired from the firm in 1888. Frederick L. Cranson received his education in the common schools and afterwards acquired the art of telegraphy, and was employed as a telegraph operator for seven years. He has full charge of the correspondence and advertising department, and also directs the movements of the octette of indefatigable traveling salesmen. It goes without saying, that the productions of the firm find a ready market. He is an active and influential member of Dunkirk Comman- dery, No. 40, Knights Templar, has received the thirty-second degree, A. and A. Scottish Rite, and is a member of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, Ismalia Temple, Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Cranson united in luaii-iage with Eliza- beth A. Parkhurst, who was a daughter of Wm. ParkhurSt, of Clockville, this State. Their union has been blest with one child, a daughter, named Ethel D. />EORGE B. DOrOLA.S was born in the ^^ city of New York, DecendJer 25, 1846, and is a son of George and Mary (Barton) Douglas. He received his education in the ])ublic schools of his native city, and now lives iu Bnffldo, this state. nALPH B. DAY. A man whose life has not only been one of usefulness and business activity, but of genial, quiet manner and kindly deeds, is Ralph B. Day, a prominent and highly- respected citizen of the town of Dunkirk. He was born on the farm where he now resides, one mile from Dunkirk city, in the town of Dunkirk (then Pomfret), Chautauqua county, New York, March 10, 1831, and is a sou of Edmund and Maria (Drake) Day. The Days are of Scotch descent, and the founder of the American branch of the family came in the second ship load of Pilgrims that landed on Plymouth Rock to face the unbroken forest depths and the many warlike Indian tribes of New England. One of his numerous descen- dants in western Massachusetts was Edmund Day, .Sr., grandfather of Ralph B. Day. He was a native and life-long resident of .Spring- field, Massachusetts, where his son, Edmund Day (father), was born October 29, 1802, and remained until he was twenty-four years of age. Edmund Day, iu 1826, joined in the steady tide of New England emigration that then iiad for several years been pushing westward towards the Genesee Valle}- and southwestern New York. He settled upon the fine farm where the subject of this sketch now resides, and devoted all his energies for a time to the clearing and improv- ing of his land. He erected good farm build- ings, and built a saw-mill which was greatly needed in his eomniimity in that early day of its settlement. He was successful in his fin'ming; OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. operations and lumbering lousiness, wliicli he followed many years. He was a prominent member of tiie Presbyterian cliurch, was an active democrat in local politics, and held sev- eral of the most important offices in his town. His life was well worthy of imitation. It was straightforward, unfaltering and unstained. He died April 18, 1873, and rested from his many earthly labors when one year past the allotted threescore and ten years of man's life. His wife was Maria Drake, daughter of Eli Drake, of Connecticut. Siie was born February 18, 1800, and passed away March 4, 1847. INIr. and Mrs. Day were the jjarents of three children : Ralph B. ; Mrs. George Gerrans, of Lincoln, Nebraska ; and Mrs. B, B. Hill, of Leadville, Colorado. Ralph B. Day was reared on the Day home- stead, and received his education at Fredonia academy. Leaving school, his first employ- ment in active life for himself was in the lum- bering and farming business, in which he engaged with his father. He was successful in both those lines of business, and in 1861 pur- chased an interest in a wine house at Brocton, where he was engaged for eighteen years in the manufacture of wine. He then engaged in the cultivation of the grape and the manufacture of wine on a large scale upon his home farm. He also invested in a chemical works at Warren, Pennsylvania, besides purchasing a considerable body of choice farming lands in Wisconsin. Each and every one of these different lines of business has received his personal attention and careful su2)ervisiou for several years, and to-day, as the result of his able management, are in a very prosperous condition. The products of the chemical works at Warren, Pa., are of first class character, and the average annual jn'oduc- tion amounts to $25,000 in value. His vine- yards are extensive, and are amply provided with all modern machinery used in the manu- facture of wine. His extensive packing house is two stories in height, with a large, dry wine- cellar extending under it. His wine is popular in the market, and is known as an absolutely pure and wholesome article. April 17, 1855, he married Prudence J. Gates, of Dunkirk, wiio was a daughter of Phineas and Eliza A. (iatcs, and died April 25, 1890, when in the forty-ninth year of her age. To Mr. and Mrs. Day were Ixirn two sons: Edmund L. and Ralph D., now aged respec- tively twenty-one and fourteen years. In agricultural matters IMr. Day takes a great interest, and his fertile and highly improved home tiirm of two hundred and twenty-five acres bears witness to his extensive knowledge and good taste as a farmer. In politics he is pronounced in his democracy, and always active in supporting the principles and advocating the interests of the party of Jeiferson, Jackson and Cleveland. During his long business career, and in all his extensive business dealings, Ralph B. Day has never failed to meet every financial engagement promptly, and has never been known to deny an honest and deserving appeal in favor of any worthy enterprise calculated to benefit his fellow-men or advance the interests of his town. He has been for many years a useful member of Dunkirk Lodge, No. 767, Free and Accepted Masons. ■j^ETEK K. BKOWNELL, of Jamestown, is ^^ a sou of Joshua and Elizabetii (Reasoner) Brownel], and was born in DutcJiess county. New York, April 20, 1806. His father, Joshua Brownell, was a native of Long Island, N. Y., and was a man of much more than ordinary prominence. About 1812 he left Long Island and settled at a point near Elmira, this State, and engaged in the purchase and sale of cattle for the New York and Philadelphia markets. He was a large dealer, and bought and sold a great many. An active whig, he was an ardent supporter of De Witt Clinton when he was a candidate, and was probably one of his strongest workers. He married Elizabeth Reasoner and had nine children. He died near Elmira in 1822 BIOGRAPHY AM) HISTORY Peter K. Browuell received his education in the public schools of Jamestown, and when he left his paternal home he began life as a laborer, Morking by the month until twenty-eight years of age, when he bought a farm in the town of EUery, upon which he lived until 1870, a total of thirty-six years. After this he bought a property consisting of three houses aud lots in the city of Jamestown, and moving in one of them has lived there ever since. Some years ago he retired from business and is now enjoy- ing the fruits of the labor of his early life. On August 31, 1834, P. R. Brownell married Rhoda Putnam, who bore him three ciiildren : Smith H., whose first wife was Mary Strong, and after her death he married Minerva Dunn ; Mary Ann, married to John B. Rush, a promi- nent farmer living at Jamestown ; and Bessie M., w'ife of the well-known Jamestown livery- man, John Peregrin. After Mrs. Brownell's death Mr. Brownell married for his second wife Mrs. Mary Van Dusen. In politics he adheres to the tenets of the Republican party, and with a kindly disposition he has many friends, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. JOHN J. AIjI>KICH, the leading fm-niture dealer of Jamestown and ChaTitauqua county, IS a son of George and Maria (Plunger) Aldrieh, and was born in the town of Stockton, Chautauqua county. New York, November 23, 1841. His grandfather, Tillotson Aldrieh, was a native of Rhode Island, where he was a prominent manufacturer of cotton goods for many vears. He then removed to Tompkins county, this State, and afterwards settled in the town of EUery, where he resided, and was a farmer until his death. Among his possessions was a fine farm on the East side of Lake Chau- tauqua. He was a Quaker or Friend in relig- ious belief, reared a family of five sons and one daughter, and sold his farm to his son William, who afterwards became prominent in the poli- tics of his town. Another of his sons was George Aldrieh, the father of the subject of this sketch, and who was born April 1, 1806, in the City of Providence, R. I. He removed from Rhode Island with his father to Tompkins county, and thence to Ellery, this county. He is a farmer by occupation, and in politics sup- ])orts the Republican part}', but was formerly an old-line whig. He married Maria Mnnger, who died in 1873, aged sixty-nine years, and since that time has lived in Jamestown with his son, John J. They were the parents of two children, who lived to maturity: John J. and Orin T., now a resident and commercial travel- er of St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Aldrieh was a daughter of James Muuger (maternal grand- father), a farmer and I'esident of Tompkins county. John J. Aldrieh was reared in the town of Ellery where he received his education. When fifteen years of age he became a clerk in a gen- eral mercantile store in which he served five years and then bought out his employer. He conducted this store for over four years, and during his connection with it for nine years as clerk and proprietor he acquired a thorough knowledge of merchandising, and laid the foun- dations for his future success in business life. In connection with his mercantile business he purchased butter and eggs for a produce firm in New York city, and when he disposed of this store in 1866, he came to Jamestown, w^here he was engaged for ten years in the dry goods bus- iness. At the end of that time, in 1876, he was elected county clerk and at the expiration of his term was re-elected, being the only clerk during the last forty years who was elected for a second term. During the last three years of the time which he served as county clerk at Mayville, he was a member of the Breed Fur- niture Manufacturing Company, of Jamestown. When his second term of office expired, he soon after retired from his association with the Breed Furniture Company, returned to Jamestown^ OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTr. and, in January, 1887, he established his pres- ent furniture estaljiislinient on Main street. He is carrying on this business under the firm name of John J. Aldrieli, and Iceeps constant- ly on hand a full stock comprising all lines of furniture from the best down to the cheapest. His trade extends to nearly every section of the United States east of the Mississippi river. His business establishment is conveniently locat- ed and well fitted up and arranged for tlie dis- play of his different styles of useful and elegant furniture. In 1860 Mr. Aldrieh married Ijizzie Foster, of the town of Linden, Cattaraugus county, who died and left one child : Clara M., now the wife of Dr. D. R. Redgers, of New York City. He married for his second wife Hattie S. Coe, of the town of Ellery, who bore him two chil- dren : Minnie C, and John D. She died Au- gust 2, 1871, and on October 2,3, 1872, he united in marriage with Clara I. Breed, daugh- ter of Dewitt C. Breed (see his sketch), and of the two children born to them, one died in infancy ami the other is named Lucy Gene- vieve. Mr. Aldrieh has always been a repul)liean in politics and is now serving his fourth consecu- tive term as supervisor of the city of James- town, and is chairman of the Board of Super- visors of Chautauqua county. He is a member of the Jamestown First Baptist Church, James- town Lodge, No. 34, Ancient Order of United Workmen ; Chautauqua Lodge, No. 46, Knights of Honor ; and Chautauqua Council, No. 73, Royal Arcanum. He was chairman of the fi- nance committee of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor of the United States for four years, has been a member of the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum for one term and served as a presiding officer of the Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum of the State of New York for two terms, as well as being a member of tiie New York Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor for several years. He is at present President of the Board of Trade of the city oC Jamestown, and is prominently identified with the growth and prosperity of the city. e. OLOF A. OLSOX, a member of the Chatau- qua county bar, is a son of Olof H. Svens- son and Joiianna (Anderson) Sven-sson, and was born in Skarbolstorp, Kil Parish, Vermland, Sweden, December 17, 1851. He attended the common schools in Sweden, and, in 1868, emi- grated from that country to the United States, and located at Jamestown, New York, where he read law with Barlow & Green, and, in 1874, he entered the All)any (New Y'ork) law school, from which he was graduated the next year, having studied nearly seven years. He returned to Jamestown, intending to practice his profes- sion, but clientage coming slowly, he joined the ranks of the pedagogues, in order that he might add to his income while he established a prac- tice. In 1883 he was appointed a notary public at Jamestown, and the performance of the duties thereby incumbent upon him, together with his legal practice, leave him but little time to con- duct his private classes in his evening school. In 1874 he took the first .step, and a prominent part, in the organization of a company whose object was to publish a Swedish weekly paper in the interests of the Swedish citizens of James- town. He was manager of the paper, called the People's Voice, from July 1 to December 31, 1875. The name was afterward changed to Our New Home, and the journal is now ranked among the prominent Swedish papers published in the country, and has a circulation of about five thousand. He was, in 1873, one of the originators of the scheme to establish a circu- lating library among his fellow-countrymen. This library, which was established in 1873, was much used for a time in Jamestown, and has been productive of much good among the class whom it was intended to benefit. By these philanthropic efforts to advance their edu- BIOGRAPHY AXIJ HISTORY cational interests, Olof A. Olson has endeared himself to the hearts of his countrymen, and so thoroughly have they api)reciated his en- deavors, that when, in 1878, his health became so much impaired that Ids medical advisors insisted on a sea voyage as the only means of its restoration, the expenses of his trip to Paris, which he himself would have been unal)le at that time to meet, were defrayed by his Swedish friends and admirers, who were well pleased to have an opportunity to show how highly they valued his labors in their behalf He returned much benefited in health, and threw himself with zealous interest into the practice of law and teaching, and the fickle goddess of fortune has opened wide her arms to receive him. His abilities are recognized as of a high order, and his time is now fully engaged. Mr. Olson also ranks high as a violin player. His prac- tice in the law consists chiefly of office work. An only brother, Johan, is a teacher in Sweden. Mr. Olson is a gentleman, and is a recognized leader among his countrymen, and is also re- spected and honored by the entire population of Jamestown, who recognize in him one worthy of it. THOMAS DAVIS STRONG, M. D., a prominent and well-known physician of Westfield, was born in the town of Pawlet, Eutland county, Vermont, November 22, 1822, and is a son of Return and Laura (Davis) StronsT. Many New England families have taken a justifiable pride in the preservation of their genealogies, and among that number is the Strong family, which was founded at Northamp- ton, Massachusetts, by Elder John Strong, from whom Dr. Thomas D. Strong is lineally de- scended. Elder John Strong was a member of the Plymouth colony, and afterwards removed to Northampton, where he reared a respectable family. "Within two centuries and a half thirty thousand of his descendants have lived in various parts of New England and the Union, and their names are recorded in a large, two- volume history of the " Strong tamily, founded by Eider John Strong," which was published some ten years ago. It is said to be one of the most accurate and carefully kept family records that is to be found in the United States. Return Strong (father) came in 1851 to Westfield, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for several years, and died. Thomas Davis Strong prepared for college at Burr seminary in Manchester, Vermont, then under the charge of the celebrated Rev. Joseph Wickham, D.D., who is now in the ninety-sixth year of his age. He then entered the University of Vermont, from which he was graduated in 1848. Leaving college he read medicine with his cousin, Dr. P. H. Strong, of BuffaJo, this State, and attended his first course of lectures at Castleton medical college, of Vermont, while his second and third courses he took at the medical department of the University of Buffalo, which was then under charge of Prof. Hamilton Flint, afterwards of Bellevue, and from which he was graduated in 1851 with the degree of jNLD. In the same year he came to "Westfield, where he has enjoyed a remunerative practice ever since. Dr. Strong served as surgeon of the Sixty-eighth regiment of New York State troops, and made a trip in 1871 to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope, in whose development he takes a deep interest. On Mas- 25, 1852, Dr. Strong married Lucy ^I. Ainsworth, of Williamstown, Vermont. Dr. T. D. Strong has been for twenty-five years a member of the boards of trustees of Westfield academy and Westfield Union schools. He was one of the commissioners for locating the western New York asylum for the insane at Buffalo. He is a menaber and has served as president of the Chautauqua and the Lake Erie medical societies. He is an honorary member of the California State medical society, was vice- president of the New York medical association in 1889, and has been for the last twenty-five OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyXY. 87 years curator of tlie iiKdical dopartmeiit of tlie Uiiivei>itv of Butiiilo. TTUGUSTUS HOLSTEIjS", justice of tlie -**■ j)eace of Dunkirk, was boru iii tin; uiaiiu- facturiug city of Cassel, the cajjital of (lie pro- vince of Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, March 4, 1828, and was a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Burger) Ilolstein. His father, Peter Holstein, was an educated military man, who had accumulated a snng fortune, married Elizabeth Burger, in 1800, by whom he had six children, and spent seventeen years in the military service of Ger- many, being colonel of the Fifth Pru^.siall regi- ment under Gen. Blncher at the battle of Wat- erloo which practically ended the career of the Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, of France. The battle of Leipsic and the burning of Moscow had also seen him an active particii)ant and for his gallant conduct he had bestowed upon him the gold medal and iron cross, the most honor- able and distinguished decorations won by army othcers in Germany. In religious matters he was a protestant as was also his wife. He died at his home in Cassel, in his native country, in 1858, aged seventy-nine years ; his wife, a na- tive of the same place, passing away three years previously, at the age of sixty-five years. Augustus Holstein was reared in Cassel and graduated from the Polytechnic institute there. He spent a year in traveling over Europe, and in 1847 came to America, landing in Quebec but left that city in a week on account of the epi- demic of cholera and smallpox, which was car- rying off hundreds of victims, and by steam and rail journeyed until he reached Carbondale, Pa., where he remained five years during which time he learned the carpentering business. In 1852 he came to Dunkirk and entered into partnership with Joseph P. Rider under the firm name of Rider & Holstein, and engaged in carpentering and contracting, in which business they continued until 18G7 when lie lost his right hand in au accident. In the latter year he was 5 elected a member of thelioard of education and in 187G justice of the peace antl has held the last named ollice ever since. In his political |irinci])lcs he was a republican and takes an ac- tive part in politics. ^Ir. Holstein was a mem- ber of the Methodist church and a member of Lake Erie lodge. No, 85, A. O. U. W. On July 9, 1851, Mr. Holstein united in mar- riage with Mary J. Earl, a daughter of Beecher Earl, of Carbondale, Pa. To this marriage were born six children, four of whom died young: James A., who married Julia J. Dra- per, has one .son and resides in Dnidvirk; James, Auguta, Charles E., George, Charles B., and JosejJ) E., wiio died July 15, 1887, at the age of twenty-eight years, leaving a widow and three children, who now reside in Dunkirk. Mrs. Holstein died January 12, 18G5, aged thirty-seven years, and her husband, the subject of this sketch, followed her to his eternal rest February IG, 1891, aged sixty-three years. TAflLLlAM A. CRANI>AL,L, a veteran of -*'* the rebellion, who has converted his sword into a plowshare and resumed the peace- ful vocation of his forefathers, is a son of Paul and Betsey E. (Scrivens) Crandall, and was born, in 1840, at Beach Hill, Chautauqua county. New York. His paternal grandparents were of Puritan descent, and born in Rhode Island, where, except a few years residence in Berlin, Ren.s.selaor county, this State, they spent their lives. Grandfather Crandall was by occu- pation a farmer. Paul Crandall (father) was born in Berlin, November 2,1802, and in 1831 went to Troy, engaged passage for himself and family on a canal-boat, and came to Buffalo, the journey occupying nine days, it being then the only mode of public travel. Now the trip is made between the two cities in five hours by rail. Fn^m Buffalo they came down to Fre- donia, this county, a section which was then considered as the far distant west by the people of the eastern end of the State, three hundred BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY miles away. Paul Crandall finally settled in Stockton, but died at Beach Hill, in Cliautauijua. By occupation he was a farmer and in religion he was a member of the Baptist church. In 1823, he married Betsey E. Scrivens, a daugli- ter of William Tracy Scrivens, by whom he had eight cliiklreii, five sons and three daugh- ters. William A. Crandall was educated iu the common schools, and Jjegan his active life as a farmer at Beach Hill. On September 12, 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, One Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, New York Volunteers ; participated in the siege of Suffolk, and several other battles and skirmishes, and finally was taken sick and sent to the hospital. He was mustered out of service at the close of the war, and resumed farming. In 1877 he came to Sherman, where he has resided ever since, owuing a farm of seven acres within the corporation. Politically he is independent, in religion he, as well as iiis wife, is a member of the Methodist church, and is also a member of Sheldon Post, No. 295> G. A. R. at Sherman. William A. Crandall was married February 2.3, 18C5, to Mary J. Hunt, a daughter of Aaron and Electa (Maxim) Hunt, natives of Vermont, who emigrated to Hartfield, this county, where the father died. To this union have been born six children, four sons and two dauiihters. YY^- FKANKLIX BUKRITT, who was -*^ for many years a prominent business man of Fredonia, is a sou of Charles and Orpha (Tucker) Burritt, and was born at Fredonia, Chautauqua county. New York, February 24, 1827. Charles Burritt was born iu Connecti- cut and came in 1808 to Fredonia, where he owned for some years a log shoe shop on a part of the site of the Putnam block. Ill health caused him to abandon shoemaking and engage in the drug business, of which he was the pio- neer at Fredonia, where he had a drug store for nearly fifty years. He served as a lieuteuant in the war of 1812, and was a whig until Fill- more's election, after which he became succes- sively a "silver gray" and democrat. He was an industrious and estimable man and died March 9, 1866, when he was approaching the close of his eightieth year. He married Orpha Tucker, daughter of Major Samuel Tucker, and reared a family of two sons and two daughters. Captain Samuel Tucker (maternal grandfather) was born and reared in Vermont, where he was a neighbor of Ethan Allen, and served under the latter at the capture of Ticonderoga. He was one of the company of Continental soldiers which was drawn up into line at the execution of Major Andre. Franklin Burritt grew to manhood at Fre- donia, where he received his education in the schools and academy of that place. Leaving school he went to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he remained three years. He then returned to Fredonia and engaged iu the drug business, which he followed until 1870, when he retired fi-um active business. He read medicine and practiced considerably in connection with his drug business during his early life. He served for several years with Gov. Patterson, of AVest- fielil, on the State board of charities and was a manager of the Buffalo State hospital for the insane, which position he resigned after serving four years. On May 15th, 1849, he married Ann Norton, of the town of Pomfret. They have two daugh- ters living : Mrs. F. N. Conn and Mrs. P. B. Cary. Mrs. Burritt is a daughter of Elisha and Harriet (Lowell) Norton, who came from Ver- non, Oneida county, about 1815, and settled two miles southwest of Fredonia, where they reared a family of two sons and two daughters. Elisha Norton was a son of Isa.ie Norton, a native of Berkshire, Massachusetts, who was an early .set- tler of the town of Pomfret. During his active life and es pecially in his younger days, Dr. Burritt was an active Demo- OF CIIAU2AUQUA COUNTY. crat. He was elected sujiervisor of the town ut Pomfret in 1870, when the Republican party had a majority of two hundred votes in the town. He served very creditably in that position for four years and continued in the Democratic party up to 1884, and then connected himself with tlie prohibitionists, whose principles he has supported ever since. FKANCIS D. ELLIS is the oldest merciiant in Forestville, having more than a third of a century ago succeeded his father, who had been a prominent cabinet-maker and furniture dealer in this village for nearly a quarter of a century before him. He is a son of Thomas G. and Sophia (Dickinson) Ellis, and was born in Augusta, Oneida county, iS'ew York, October 17, 1826. His paternal grandfather, Moses Ellis, was from Scotch and English ancestry, and several of the family have scored high marks on the roll of fame as literary and eccle- siastical celebrities. He was a native of Barn- stable, in the county of the same name, Mass., and settled in Brookfield, Madison county, this State, in 1812, where he engaged in cabinet- making, an occupation which has been followed in his family for over eighty years. He died in Wayland, Steuben county, this State, aged eighty-two years. Thomas G. Ellis (father) was born on Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Mass., in 1803, but his parents moved to the mainland during the war of 1812. Nine- teen years later (1831) he came to this county, located in Forestville, and established himself in the cabinet-making business, in wiiich he continued until 1855. In religion he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which for forty years he was either a steward or trustee, and during many years held both oiBces. In politics he was a straight democrat, and for sixteen years was justice of the peace, also serving four terms as associate judge of Chautauqua county. He was a member of Hanover Lodge, No. 152, F. and A. M., and died January 22, 1882, aged seventy-nine years. He married Sopiiia Dickinson in 1826, by whom he had two sons and one daughter : Francis D., Irvine A. and Mary. Irvine A. went to Cali- fornia in 1851, where he was inspcctttr in the custom-house of San Francisco, assisted iu sur- veying southern California, was clerk of the California Senate, quartermaster in the army during four years of the civil war and then re- turned to the San Francisco custom-house, where he was employed until his death in 1866, at the age of thirty-three years. Mrs. Ellis was born in Fitchburg, Worcester county, Mass., in 1804, is the oldest member of the Methodist Episco- pal church at Forestville, where she now re- sides, and is a cousin of Hon. Daniel S. Dick- inson, ex-governor of New York. Francis D. Ellis was reared in Forestville, acquired his education in the common and select schools of that place and learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, iu which vocation he has since continued, succeeding his father in that and the furniture and undertaking business in 1855, and supplemental thereto does all kinds of embalm- ing, having in all branches of his business a well-established and good-paying patronage. Politically he is a democrat and in religion is a member of the iNIethodist Episcopal church, of which he has been a trustee for twenty years. He has been treasurer of tlie Equitable Aid Union since 1881. Francis D. Ellis was married .March 9, 184!», to Abi Phillips, of Forestville, by whom he had three daughters: Mary N. Harriet P. and Jennie L., all living. Mrs. Ellis died in 1865, and on Sei>tember 3d, 1867, Mr. Ellis married Jennie Hall, of r>roctou, Chautaucpia county, N. Y'. Q-HEK^IAN U. NEWTOX, one of the earn- ^^ est young business men of this section, who is bound to make an indelible mark as a successful and honorable man, is a son of Har- rison and Janette (Marsh) Newton, and was 90 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY born in Irving, Cliautanqua county, New York, July 17, 1867. Miio Newton (grandfatlier) was also a native of Irving, was by occupation a farmer and died in 188G, in the village where he was born, aged seventy-two years. In re- ligion he was a member of the Methodist church, and in politics was a republican. Harrison Newton (father) was also born in Irving, in 1841, and has been a resident of Buffalo, Erie county, since 1 870. He is a passenger conductor on the L. S. M. S. R. R., which position he | lias held for thirty-three years, running between ; Buffalo, and Cleveland, Ohio. In politics he is a stanch republican, is a member of Silver lodge. No. 757, F. and A. M., of Silver Creek, lodge No. 9, A. O. U. W., of Buffalo, and of the Conductor's Life Insurance Company. In 1863 he married Janette Marsh, who was born in Irving in 184.3, and by her had two children. Sherman U. Newton was reared in Buffalo, this State, and was graduated from the high school at that place at the age of fourteen, after which he took a thorough business course in Bryant & Stratton college of that city. In June, 1883, he came to Silver Creek to assume the position of assistant cashier in the Excelsior bank, where he discharged the duties of that office so satis- factorily that on November 18, 1890, he was appointed cashier to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his cousin, Dana C. Swift, who had held that position several years. In politics he is independent, is a charter member and Sr. Kt. Fin Kr., of Chau. Tent, No. 95 Knights of the Maccabees, and also a charter member of Huntley Hose and Fire Co., No. 1. Sherman U. Newton was married October 21, 1890, to Minnie C. Barnes, a daughter of Charles Barnes, of Silver Creek, N. Y. COIiONEL, KUFUS HAYWOOI>. A man well-known for his active and upright life, and also by reason of his services rendered to the Union cause during the late civil war, was Col. Rufus Haywood, of Fredouia, who has been identified during the last half century with useful and important business interests in New Hampshire, jNIassacliusetts, Illinois and western New York. He was a son of Benjamin and Polly (Sawyer) Haywood, and was born at Jaffrey, Cheshire county. New Hampshire, March 6, 1820. The territory of the " Granite State" as a royal province, was largely settled by thrifty and energetic families from the eastern part of Massachusetts colony, and among these pioneer families was the Haywood family. One of its members, who was born in Massachusetts, was Benjamin Haywood, Sr., grandfatlier of Col. Rufus Haywood. He was a blacksmith by trade and served in the Revolutionary war, during which he was severely wounded in the breast by a musket-ball in one of the jirincipnl battles of that great struggle. After the decla- ration of peace, he returned to his New Hamp- shire home, where he lived a respected citizen until his death. His son, Benjamin Haywood (the father), was born in 1786, and died in February, 1853. He inherited the industry and perseverance of his father, and judiciously and successfully improved his business opportunities. His life was devoted to agricultural pursuits, and while confining his field of labor to his own county, yet ranked as one of the foremost and most substantial farmers of the State. He married Polly Sawyer, who was a native of New Hampshire and a member of the well- known Sawyer family of that State. She passed away in 1842, at forty-six years of age. Rufus Haywood grew to manhood on the farm, received his education at Jaffrey academy, and then was engaged for five years in teaching in the district schools of New Hampshire. At the end of that time lie went to Winchendon, Mass., where for over one year he conducted a ; butcfier shop and livery stable. He thea j returned to Jaffrey, purchased property on which he built, and embarked in farming and I merchandising. After three years he removed I to Cambridge, Mass., where, in company with OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTV. H. 0. Houghton, lie engaged in publishing law- books for one yetir, and then sjjcnt several years in the west. ^Vhile in Illinois he kept a liotel for one year at Belvidere, and acted as teller for two years in a bank of that plaee, during which time he lost over seven thotisand dollars by speculating in corn. Leaving Belvidcre, he purchased a farm near Chicago, and embarked in the cattle business. AVith remarkable fore- sight he looked forward io a bright future for Chicago, saw in its commanding position the certainty of its future commercial supremacy as one of the great cities of the American continent, and invested in that city largely in real estate, whicli yielded him handsome returns in his sales of the same. In 1855 he settled in Brocton, this county, and engaged for several years in the stock business. In 18(31 he and his brother, Albert Hay wood, and a Mr. Hubbell, formed a partnership and purchased several thousand horses for the government. In February, 1 8G.3, he retired from this partnership to enter the Union army as a paymaster, with the rank of major. He was stationed at Washington city, and afterwards sent to Rochester, this State. He paid off the first regiment that was discharged, was brevetted colonel by President Joiinson for meritorious services, and served until December 31, 1865. He then returned to Chautauqua county, and became a resident of Fredonia, where he has resided ever since. From 18G6 to 187G he was largely engaged in mail contract- ing in a dozen different States, and since the last-named year has been more or less interested in various lines of business. In 1866 he was the prime mover in starting tiie Fredonia savings bank, of which he was chosen president. In 1877 he embarked in the oil business at Oil City, Pa., where he did a large brokerage business for several years. In the oil field his good judgment and clear insight into every possible combination rendered him successful in many ventures where old and experienced operators went down. While his star was still in the ascendant, and before age could ini]iair his mental powers, he left the hazardous ventures of oil and tnrnetl his atten- tion to dealing in real estate. He was a Knight Templar in Masonry, and always took a deep interest in agricultural and educational matters, as well as having been active and prominent in business affairs. On May 6, 1841, Col. Haywood united in marriage with Elizabeth Prescott, who was born within one-half mile of his New Hampshire birthplace. They had three sons, two of whom died in infancy, and Edward A., born January 26, 1861, died February 10, 1881. He was hospitable and generous, and no man greeted or entertained his friends with warmer cordiality. He was intelligent, honest, genial and straightforward, of strong force of character, of sound judgment, true to every interest in- trusted to his care, and a good citizen in the true meaning of that term. He died in 1S!I1, of valvular heart disease. TIITICHAEL, K. McDONOUOH, a wholesale 4 and retail dealer in coal, wood and stone, of Dunkirk, was born in County Clare, Ireland, September 25, 1842, and is a son of Michael and Mary (Kelley) McDonough. The McDon- oughs and Kelleys were old families of County Clare, where they had resided for several gene- rations. Michael McDouough was born and reared in his native county, where he |)asscd his life, and died in March, 1849, when but forty- two years of age. He was a farmer, a consistent member of the Catholic church, and a careful and hard-working man. He married Mary Kelley, and reared a family of seven sons and two daughters. Mrs. McDouough was a Cath- olic in religious belief, and in 1853 came to Dunkirk, where she passed away in 1869, at si.\ty-five years of age. Michael K. McDonough. at twelve years of age, came from Ireland tn the Uniled States, and became a resident of Dunkirk city, in whose BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY public schools he received his education. Leav- ing school he was employed for some time as a hand ou a farm, and diirini>- the late civil war was an cmjjloye in the freight department of the Erie railroad, at Dunkirk-, where his daily business was to call off all freigiit for shipment before it was placed on the cars. In May, 1865, he established his present wholesale and retail coal and wood business, to which he has since added sewer pipe, stone, sand, gravel and loam. His office and yards are at 130 Railroad aveiuie. He is also engaged in contracting on public works, and makes a specialty of excava- ting and teaming. Mr. McDonough commands a good trade at his yards, has been very suc- cessful in all of his business enterprises, and owns some valuable real estate in Dunkirk, be- sides a good farm in Sinclairville. He is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church, of Dunkirk. He is a democrat in political opinion, and has served for nine years as a member of the city council, besides holding other municipal offices. Since thirteen years of age he has made his own way in life, and achieved business success by his own efforts. On June 3, 1871, he united in marriage with Bridget Breen, daughter of Michael Breen, of Dunkirk. Tiiey have three children, two sons and one daugiiter : Joseph M., George W. and Kate A. n KTHUK B. OTTAWAY, a resident of -**■ Westfield, and ex-district attorney of Chautauqua county, is a son of John E. and Sarah (Boorman) Ottaway, and was born in the town of Mina, Chautauqua county, New York, May 8, 1854. His paternal and maternal grandfathers, James Ottaway and Benjamin Boorman, were among the early settlers in the town of Mina. James Ottaway was a native of Kent county, England, and in company with his brother Horatio, came, iu 1823, to that part of tlie town of Clymer, which, in the following year, was erected into the town of Mina. He was a miller by trade, and ran a mill in Eng- land, but after coming to Chautauqua county was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1870. He came into what is Mina, when it had but few settlers, and only seven years after its first settlement had been made bv Alex. Findley. James Ottaway settled on lot fourteen, in the eastern part of the town, and reareil a family of nine sons and two daughters: James, William, Charles, Edmund, Joseph, Henry, Horace, John E., Susan, Ann and Horatio. The seventh son, John E. Otta- way (father), was born in 1827, and now owns the home farm of two hundred and thirty acres, which his father purchased in 1823, and lived upon until his death. John E. Ottaway has always been engaged in farming, and married Sarah Boorman, daughter of Benjamin Boor- man, who came about 1823 to Chautauqua county, and was a farmer by occupation. Arthur B. Ottaway spent his boyhood days on the farm. I^eaving the public schools, he spent one year at Sherman academy, and then entered Westfield academy, where he remained two years, and from which, at the end of that time, he was graduated in 1875. After gradua- ting, he entered the office of William Russell as a law student, and upon the completion of his legal studies was admitted to the bar of the Su- preme Court in 1879. After his admission to the bar he entered upon the active practice of his j)rofession, and three years later, in 1882, was elected district attorney of Chautauqua county. At the end of his term of office, in 1885, he resumed the prac- tice of his profession at Westfield, where he has remained ever since. He is a republican in politics, stands well in his profession, and en- joys a good practice. JAME8 H. MFNTOX, ex-deputy-sheritf and coroner of Chautauqua county, and the proprietor of the well-known " Minton House," of Westfield, is a son of James and Tlieodosia OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTY. (Reeves) Minton, and vas born in Auburn, Cayuga county, New York, January 3, 181(3. He traces his paternal ancestry back to liis grandfather, Stephen ]\Iinton, who was, in all probability, a native of New Jersey, and whose son^ James Clinton (father), was born in 1783. James Minton was a stone-mason by trade, and assisted in building the old State penitentiary at Auburn. He was an excellent mechanic and died in 1826, aged forty-three years. He mar- ried Theodosia Reeves, wiio was a native of Connecticut, and whose father, Israel Reeves, the first jailer of the prison at Auburn, served in the Revohitionary war, and experienced ail the hardshii)s of being a British prisoner of war for several months. Their eldest daughter, Emily C. (now eighty-two years of age), married Lewis Pullman, and three of her sons are : George M. Pullman, inventor of the " Pullman Palace Car," and Revs. James Minton and Royal Henry Pullman, distinguished ministers of the Universalist church. Another daughter, Han- nah M. Da Lee, resides in Illinois. Mrs. Thcf)- dosia Minton survived her husband until 185*), when she passed away, in tiie sixty-sixth year of her age. James H. Minton, at fourteen years of age came with his mother to Brocton, this county, where he attended school for some time, cut cord-wood and assisted his mother in maintain- ing her family. At eighteen years of age he commenced to work with Lewis Pullman at the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed for ten years. He theu erected a hotel building and store-room at Brocton, where he kept hotel for twenty years, and was engaged for fourteen years of the time in the mercantile business with his brother, William L., who was postmaster of that village for seven years. During the late civil war he served as a revenue assessor, and was also dejjuty marshal of VVestfield. He was coroner of Cliautauqua county for fifteen years, and in 1875 held the inquest on the twenty-two dead bodies which were recovered from the rail- road disaster at " Prospect," and officiated in the same capacity at the inquisition held on the I)(idies of the seven ])eople killed by tiie explo- sion on Chautauqua lake of the old steamboat Cliautavqua. In 1884 he served as deputy- sheriff under Sheriff L. T. Harrington. In 1836 he married Sarah W. Lake, daughter of Nicholas and Eunice (Houghton) Lake, of I'^rie county. ]\Ir. and Mrs. Minton are the parents of five children : Maria A., William ]j., who is in the real estate and hotel business ; •lohn C, of Burlington, Iowa; James V., drug- gist, of AVestfield, and Waldo L. In political affairs he supports the Republican party, and in every position of trust and respon- sibility which he has ever occupied, he has always faithfully ])erformed his duty. He is one of the old and well-respected citizens of southwestern New York, and his hotel is well arranged and specially fitted up for the accom- modation, convenieuceand comfort of his numer- ous guests. TA>rLl.lA:>I FKIES KXmjESS, the origi- -*"'- nator and president of the Endress Fuel and Building Supply Company, of Jamestown, New York, was born at Dansville, Livingston county. New York, August 2, 1855, and is the only child of Judge Isaac Lewis and Helen Elizabeth (Edwards) Eudress. William Fries Endress is descended from the German family of Endress Im Hof, which was the name given in the latter part of the fifteenth century to a branch of the Franeonian family of Im Hof, a noble family of Swabia, now Bavaria. His great-grandfather, John Zacharia Endre.ss, was educated at the university of Tubingen (now Wiirtemberg), and at Geneva under Voltaire. He came to America in 1766, settled in Phila- delphia and was an officer in the Continental army during the war for Independence, in the cour.se of which much of his property was burned by the British. His .son, Chri.stiiin Frederi Lewis Endress, was educated at the University BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY of Pennsylvania, and became a Lutheran min- ister. He had charge, for many years, of the Liuherao Church at Lancaster, Pa., then one of the largest and wealthiest parishes in the country. His son, tlie late Judge Isaac Lewis Endress, the father of the subject of the present sketch, was born in 1810, educated at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., and practiced law, first at Rochester and after 1832 at Dansville, New York. He was appointed judge of Livingston county by Gov. William H. Seward in 1840 ; was a promi- nent member of the State Constitutional Con- vention of 1868; was .several times a presiden- tial elector, and delegate to the national nomi- nating conventions, and at the time of his death in 1869 was a member of the Republican State committee. He was married in 1849 to Helen Elizabeth Edwards, whose father was a direct descendant of Pierpont Edwards, a brother of Jonathan Edwards, the distinguished Puritan divine, and whose mother was a Fitzhugh, of thewell-known family of Virginia. Theonlvson of this marriage was the subject of this sketch. William Fries Endress received his earlv education at the Dansville seminary, and in 1872 entered the Pennsylvania military academy at Chester, Pa., in preparation for the United States naval service. The following year he secured his commission as cadet midshipman and entered the United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md., where he remained until Decem- ber, 1876, when continued ill health oblio'cd him to resign. For the next year he gave his atten- tion almo.st entirel_v to th.e recovery of his health, merely occupying a part of his time as instructor and commandant of the military battalion at Dansville Seminary. In the fall of 1877 he entered the sophomore clas;i of Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute at Troy, and was graduated in June, 1879, with the degree of civil engineer, being the foiu-th in the direct line of his family ancestry who have been college-bred men. Soon after graduating he became a resident of James- town and entered the coal business, which he rapidly developed into a whole.sale business of some magnitude and of which, under the name of the Endress Fuel and Building Supply Co)n- pany, he is still at the head at the date of this writing, 1891. During 1883 he owned and managed a b'tuminoiis coal mine at Hilliards, Butler county, Pa., and shipped coal to James- town, Buffalo and the east. As chairman of the railway committee in 1886, he was instru- mental in bringing tlie Chautaucpia Lake rail- road to Jamestown. In 1887 he organized the Jamestown Electric Light and Power Company, installed its jilant and managed its affairs for the first year of its operations. During 1889 and 1890 he was located at Havana, Cuba, and was engaged in organizing companies and putting into operation electric light plants in the prin- cipal cities of the " Queeu of the Antilles." Returning to Jamestown on January 1, 1891, he again took the active management of his present extensive and important coal and build- ing interests. On August 27, 1879, Mr. Endress united in marriage with Dora Elizabeth ^Villey, of Ger- man and Puritan descent, and a resident of Dansville, N. Y., and on July 7, 1880, was blessed with a son, named after his father and great- grand mother, William FitzHugh Endress. By priority of birth this boy became the child of the "Class of 1879" of" the R. P. I. In recognition of this fact he was presented with the class cup, a beautifully chased silver cup, lined with gold and emblazoned with devices emblematical of the various branchesof eugineei'- insr science. /^LOF LUXDQUIST, the proprietor of a fine ^^ clothing and gents' furnishing store at No. 112 Main street, Jamestown, is a son of Samuel and Brita (BL'Hing) Lundquist, and was born in Sweden, Ojtobcr 21, 1811. His ])arents wei-e also natives of Sweden, and reared a family of six sons and three daughters, but none of them excepting Olof ever came to America. OF CITAVTAUqUA COUNTY. Olof Luiulquist received his eduoatioii in tiie schools of his native land. While still in the mother couutr}- he had learned the hatter's trade and upon arriving in the United States settled atBoston where he followed this calling, remain- ing only one year. After this he went to Illi- nois, which at that time was considered pretty fur west, and visited various parts, finally com- ing back and locating at Jamestown, which he considered the most advantageous business open- ing he had seen, and commenced the mamifao- ture of silk hats. This occupation he continues in a lesser degree at present, but is principally engaged with his fine store where he now has a large patronage from first-class customers. Mr. Lundijuist is the owner of valuable real estate in the city, No. 211 Preudergast avenue belong- ing to him. On the 16th of October, ISGS, before emi- grating to America, he married Anna C. Anderson, and with her made the long journey in 1869. Their marriage has been blest with eight children, of whom five are living : Ellen B., O. Samuel, "A. C'celia, Arvid N. and Rob- ert, while those dead arc : John, Joseph and Robert. In politics Mr. Lundquist adheres to the principles of the Republican party, and while not a politician, is sufficiently interested in the elections to desire the best men obtainable. He is a member of the Swedish Mission church besides being connected with the Swedish Tem- perance and Benevolent Society of Jamestown, which have for their purpose the relief of all unfortunates of that nationality. j^AXIKL, GKISWOLD, president of the -*^ Chautauqua County National Bank, and a member of the lumbering firm of Griswold & Town.send, is a son of Daniel, Sr., and Mary (Hills) Griswold, and was born in what was then Genesee (now Wyoming) county. New York, February 18, 1830. His paternal grand- father, Daniel Griswold, was a descendant of the Connecticut Griswold family, but lived in Washington county, this State, where he dietl of small-pox in 1795, while his maternal grand- father, Moses Hills, was a native and life-long resident of Massachusetts. His father, Daniel Griswold, Sr., was born in Washington county, September 28, 1788, and went in early life to Bennington, Vt., where he was engaged for a time in mamifacturing. He then removed to Genesee county, this State, and about 1831 or 1832 came to the town of Poland and settled on lot 24, on the Ellington town line. He fol- lowed farming and lumbering until his death in 1854. He was an (_)ld-line whig and held sev- eral town offices. In Burlington, Vt., on May 25, 1815, he married Mary Hills, who was born at Upton, Mass., November 25, 1795, and died in the town of Poland, September 24, 1844. After her death he married a ]\Irs. Bentley. By his first wife he had two sons and four daughters : ^lary L., Hiram H., Sarah, Fanny, Alvira and Daniel. Daniel Griswold was fourteen years of age when his mother died, and soon after her death commenced life for himself. He had obtained a good common school education, and working for .some time on a farm he engaged in the bus- iness of buying up at Jamestown, scythe snaths, window-sashes, doors and other manufactured articles. He loaded his purchases during the winter on " Yankee notion boats," which in the spring he ran down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, and by the time of his arrival at Mem- phis, Tennessee, had generally dispo-sed of his cargoes at the different towns along the rivers. He was very successfully engaged in this line of business until the late war broke out, when he disposed of his last cargo to the Union army. He then turned his attention to lumbering, which he has followed with his usual good suc- cess until the j)resent time. He is now a mem- ber of the well-known lumbering firm of Gris- wold & Townsend, of Kiantone. He is a re- publican in politics, was a supervisor of the BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY town of Poland from 1865 to 1869, was super- visor of the town of EUicott for two years (1884-1885), and supervisor one year (1886) of tiie south side of tlie city of Jamestown, N. Y., and is now a member of tiie board of public works of Jamestown. In 1881 Mr. Griswold became a director of the Chautauqua County National Bank, of which he was elected pres- ident, May 8, 1890. He succeeded Robert Newland, who had served in that capacity for many years. He removed from the town of Poland in 1871, to Salamanca, Cattaraugus county, and two years later came to Jamestown where he has resided ever since. On November 18, 1868, he married Martha Townsend, daughter of the late John Town- send, of the town of Carroll. They have two children living : Martha Townsend and Harry. They had three children who died : Grace, Hugh and Daniel T. Mrs. Griswold is a lineal descendant of the old Townsend famil}^ of Eng- land. Throe mendjers of this family, who were brothers, came from Rumney Marsh to New England. A descendant of one of the.se broth- ers was Rev. Jonathan Townsend (the great- great-grandfather of Mrs. Griswold), who was pastor of the Congregational ist church at Need- ham, Mass., from March 23, 1719, until his death September .30, 1762. He was a graduate of Harvard college and married Mary, daughter of Capt. Gregory Sugars, of Boston, by whom he had seven children, one of whom, Samuel, was born in Need ham May 15, 1729, and d-ed in Tyringham, Mass., September 11,1822. Ho was married to Ruth Tolman in 1757. One of their eight children was William Townsend (grandfather), who was born December II, 1765, and married Rhoda Hall, by whom he had four sons and one daughter. One of their sons was John Townsend ('he father of Mrs. Griswold), who was born January 28, 179(), came to near Kennedy in 1817, and afterwards purchased a tiirm in Carroll on which he died in 1860. He was a whig and republican, fol- lowed farming and lumbering and married Adelia Hitchcock, who was born May 4, 1810, a member of the old Hitchcock family whieh came into tiie county about 1817, by whom he had four sons and six daughters. Two of the sons died early in life and one of the daughters is Mrs. Martha T. Griswold. WILLIAM PREKDKKGAST BEMUS, M. !>., a descendant of one of the early pioneer families of southern Chautauqua county, was a successful physician of Jamestown for nearly forty years. He was the fifth son and seventh child of Lieutenant Charles and Rolopha (Boyd) Bemus, and was born at Bemus Point, t^hautauqna county, New York, October 4, 1827. The Bemus fliraily settled at an early day in Saratoga county, at Bemus Heights, which were named after the family, and on which Arnold and Morgan defeated Burgoyne, and prevented the British conquest of New England and New York. Dr. Bemus' great-grandfather. Major Jotham Bemus, was reared at Bemus Heights and served as an officer in the Revolutionary war, and died at Pittstowu, Rensselaer county. His son, William Bemus, was born at Bemus Heights, February 25, 1762, and removed in early life to Pittstowu, where, on January 29, 1782, he married Polly, daughter of William Prendergast, Sr. In 1805 he accompanied his f;ither-in-law and the families of the latter's sons and daughters, twenty-nine persons in all, in their removal to Tennessee, and came back with them to Chautauqua county, where he settled in 1806 at Bemus Point (which was named for him), on Lake Chautauqua, in the town of Ellery. He died January 2, 1830, aged si.xty-eight years, and his wife, who was born March 13, 1760, passed away July 11, 1845, at eighty-five years of age. Their chil- dren were: Dr. Daniel, Elizabeth Silsby, Try- phena Griffith, William Thomas, Lieutenant Charles, Mehitabel Hazeltine and James. Lieu- tenant Charies Bemus (father) was born at Pitts- OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. town, August 31, 1791, ami died at Beiiuis Point, October 10, 18(jl. lie served as a first lioutouant in the war of 1812, and was a spec- tator at tlie burning of Buffalo. On February 28, 1811, he married Relepha Boyd, who was born July 20, 1790, and died January 2, 1843. They were the parents of ten children : James, Ellon Smiley, Matthew, Daniel, Jane Copp, John, Dr. William P., Mchitabel P. Strong, Dr. E. M. and George H., a lawyer. William P. Bemus obtained a good high school education at Fredonia, and also received instruction under private tutors of ability and qualification. He then read medicine with Dr. Shanahan, of Warren, Pa., attended lectures at Oberlin college, and was graduated from the Berkshire medical institute, of Springfield, Mass. After graduation he opened an office at Ashville, New York, but' soon removed to Jamestown, where he practiced his profession successfully and continuously for forty-two years. He held a prominent position in the ranks of his profession, was a liberal and sympathetic physician and his " free practice " was large, as he rendered his services to all who asked them of him. He stood high with the people, whose confidence he enjoyed to the fullest extent. He never went to law during his lifetime to collect any account f(jr medical services rendered by him. He was an ardent democrat in politics, served as president of the Cleveland democratic club, and although always active in the interests of his party, yet never aspired to, nor would accept of, any political office. He was secretary of the board of pensions at Jamestown, and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church of that city, which was organized in 1853. In 1855 he married Helen O. Norton, daugh- ter of S(jnire Morris Norton, of Ashville, New York. They had two children, a son and a daughter. The daughter, Helen, is the wife of Frederick E. Hatch, who is engaged in the drug and book business; and Dr. Morris K, the son, was graduated from Rutgers college. New Jersey, in 1885, read medicine with his father, and entered the <\)llege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, from which leading medical institution he was graduated in 1888. He then took a full post-graduate course, after which he became a jiartncr with his father, and since the death of the latter, in 1890, has continued suc- cessfully in the practice of his jH-ofession in Janjestown until the present time. Mrs. Bemus ont, and married Laura Hubbard, of Brimfield, Massachusetts. Both himself and wife died many years ago. Their children all came to the " Holland Purchase" " when the country was new," as local custom termed it. Ezbai Kidder (father) was born in Dudley, Ma.ss., in 1787, and was carried to Wardsboro in infancy where he spent several busy years helping his widowed mother rear a large family. He came to this county in 1813, but soon after went to Vermont, and again returned to this county and settled in Carroll, now Kiantone, in 1816. He married Louisa Sherman in 1824, and had four children, one son and three daughters, one daughter (Mrs. Mitchell) now residing at Bust! ; two are dead. A carpenter by trade, he conducted building in connection with his farming, and many of the old frame houses and barns of the towns of Carroll and Kiantone are .specimens of his skill. The farm mentioced at the opening of our sketch was one hundred acres of a plot known as the Blowers' Lot, having been located by and bought from a Mr. Blowers, one of the first settlers of James- town. Originally a whig, he afterwards be- came a repulilican, and at the first town meet- ing held March 6, 1826, was elected commis- sioner of highways. In 1838 he was supervis- or of Carroll town, and at the formation of Kiantone, the election being held February 21, 1854, he was made the first supervisor of the new town. IMr. Kidder was a member of the Congregational church at Jamestown, and died in 1879, aged ninety-two years and three months, Mrs. Kidder passing away November 14, 1867. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. Samuel Kidder was reared on his father's farm, and received his education in the schools of his neighborhood and Jamestown academy. Tlie ring of tlie axe in ihe forest was familiar to liis ears and the hooting of the owls at night was not unfamiliar. Farming was conducted without the help of improved machinery, hay being cut with a scythe. Scliools were not con- venient, and the boy who got an education worked for it. Life on his father's flirm in summer was changed for labor and school at- tendance in winter, later the Jamestown acad- emy opened her fount and he drank knowledge from it. Although always a farmer, the time spent in securing an education was not lost, for the intelligent man is needed in agricultural pursuits as well as in the counting-room. ]\Ir. Kidder has added to the farm his father owned, and to-day is the possessor of three hundred acres of as good land as may be found in the county, and has at least twelve acres of lots in the city of Jamestown. On October 17, 1854, he was married to Eleanor A. Partridge, a daughter of Joel Part- ridge, cf Jamestown, N. Y. To this union have been born ten children : Ida, wife of W. C. Parker, a hardware merchant residing at Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, this State ; Wiliard, a farmer of Kiantone, and married to Anna Miller ; J. Edward ; died when eigliteen years of age ; Henry E., married to Grace Sherrod, and resides in Kno.xville, Teun., where he follows c:irpentering, building and dealing in real estate ; George C, who married Lilian Van Duzee, and is a farmer of Kiantone; Dora, Samuel P., Mary L. and Fannie E. at home ; Jay H. is dead. ^ . Samuel Kidder affiliates with tiie democrats, but was a whig before the advent of the Repub- lican party. He has served the people of Ki- antone tiiree terms eacii as supervisor and as- sessor, and belongs to the Congregational church at Jamestown. HAKVEY SIBIMONS, who has been a resi- dent of Jamestown for over forty years, is a son of Philander and Mary Ann (Waid) Simmons, and was born in tiie town of Port- land, Chautauqua county. New York, July 11, 1827. Tiie Simmons, for three generations back, are to be traced as residents of Wasliiug- tou county, of which Zuriel Simmons, the paternal grandfather of Harvey Simmons, was a native and life-long resident. He owned a large farm, and being of good education and well versed in legal matters, was constantly employed in conducting civil cases before the magistrates. He was a whig in politics and married Sallie Hunt, by whom he had five sons and four daughters, who grew to manliood and womanhood. One of the sons, Philander Sim- mons (father), was born in 1797, and died in Jamestown in 1862. At an early age he came to the town of Portland, in which he purchased and cleared out a large farm in a section tliat then was in the woods. In 1855 he removed to Jamestown where he lived a retired life. He was a whig and republican in politics, and a member and deacon of the Free Will Baptist church. Mr. Simmons died December 13, 1882. He married Mary Ann Waid, and tiiey reared a family of ten cliiidrcn : Eliza, wife of Frank Colt, of Jamestown ; Leauder, who died at Ashville, N. Y., in 1888, aged sixty-five years; Franklin, a lumber dealer ; Harvey; Clarissa, widow of Hugh Mosier, of Brocton ; Martha, widow of J. W. Clements, and wife of William Cobb, of Jamestown ; Ira, who married Sarah E. Wilson, and served in Co. F, 112th N. Y. Vols., from August 25, 1862, to June 13, 1865; William H., a Union soldier in the late war and now a farmer ; Adelbert P. , who also served in the Union army, and Adaline, wife of Stephen Whitcher, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Mrs. Simmons was a daughter of Pember Waid who was born at Lyuie, in Litchfield county, Con- necticut, January 21, 1774, married Anna, daughter of Samuel Lord, and died February BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY 15, 1852, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where he had owned and cultivated a farm for many years. Harvey Sininions received the meagre educa- tion of his boyhood days in western New York, and commenced life for himself in the business of manufacturing scythe snaths and other tool handles. In five years he sold out and worked for some time with the manufacturing firm of Chase & Son. He then purchased seven acres of land in Jamestown, which he has continued to cultivate and improve until the present time. Mr. Simmons is a republican in politics, but has never aspired for any office within the gift of his fellow-citizens. On March 15, 1851, he married Mary Ann Southwick, who was born in 1829, and is a daughter of Herman Southwick, a native of Cayuga county (who married Achesa Wellman), reared a family of ten children, came to Busti in 1856, and afterwards died at Oil Creek, Pa. To Mr. and Mrs. Simmons have been born five children : Mary, wife of Allen R. Maubert, a shoemaker and dealer in boots and shoes on Brooklyn avenue; H. Adelbert ; and Cora, who married G. D. Andruss, a photographer, of Jamestown, and has one child, Pearl I. Two others dieL\S T. CLUNKY, the present efficient chief of the Jamestown fire de- partment, who rose from a private in the ranks of the Federal army to the grade of colonel, and who, when the war closed, was in the line of promotion to a generalship and the command of a brigade, was born in ^lontreal, Canada, October 30, 1838, and is a son of Sergeant John and Mary (McNickel) Cluney. His grand- fathers, Cluncy and McNickel, were natives and life-long residents of Great Britain, the former of England and the latter of Ireland. His father, Sergeant John Cluney, was born in England, entered the British army, rose to the rank of sergeant, and was stationed with his company at Montreal, Canada, during the War of 1812. He was afterwards honorably dis- charged from the English service, drew a pen- sion for over a quarter of a century, and died in Toronto, Canada, in 1840. He married Mary McNickel and had six children: Col. Thomas T., Charles, who is superintendent of a coal-wharf at Perth Amboy, N. J. ; three who died young, and John, who enlisted in a New York regiment, was wounded in the shoulder at the battle of Chickahominy and taken prisoner by the Confederates, who held him for three months. After being exchanged he died in a hospital in Piiiladelphia from the effects of his wound, which had never been dressed during the time that he was a prisoner. Thomas T. Cluney was, about 1849, brought by George Flint to Jamestown, where he received a good practical business education in the schools of that place. In 1859 he went to Pennsylvania, where he was a successful operator in the oil- producing business until the spring of 1861, when the life of the nation was menaced by the most gigantic rebellion of modern history. He immediately raised and equipped, at his own expense, a company of one hundred and five men at Tidioute, Pa., for the Fifth Excelsior regiment of New York volunteers, and for- warded them to Staten Island, N. Y. His colonel then ordered him to Jamestown to recruit more men. He enlisted and forwarded sixty men from that place, and had sixty more secured, when he received notice that his services were not needed any longer and that the command of his company had been given to another. This base treatment had been brought about by a couple of lieutenants in his company. He then enlisted as a private on July 5, 1861, in Co. A, 49th N. Y. vols., took part in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac from Yorktown to Appomattox Court-house, was wounded slightly in five battles V)ut never disabled from duty, and was honorably discharged on July 10, 1865. He was promoted to second lieutenant on August OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 8, 1861, made first lieutenant November 6, 1861, commissioned captain April 14, 1862, and pro- moted to major May 16, 1863, for gallant and meritorious conduct on the battle-field of Fred- ericksburg. In 1864 he received his commission as lieutenant-colonel, and on July 10, 1865, he was mustered out witii tiie raulv of colonel. After the war he took charge of the Johnson House at Fredouia, and then went to Mayville, where he had ciiarge successively of the Van Vaulkenburg, Mayville and Chautauqua liotels. From there he came to Jamestown, where he opened and run the GifTord house for six years, then was a liotel clerk for some time. Ho ne.xt opened the Milwaukee bottling works, which he sold in 1888, to become proprietor of tiie Wiiitc Elephant hotel and restaurant, which hasattained wonderful popularity and immense patronage under his management. In 1867 Col. Cluney connected himself with the fire department of Jamestown. He was foreman of Deluge com- pany. No. 1, for sixteen years, tiien (1883) was elected assistant chief, and in 1884 he was appointed chief, and has served as such ever since. Under his management the Jamestown fire department, comprising seven companies and two hundred and twenty-five men, is now regarded as one of the best regulated and most efficient volunteer services in the State of New York. Three years' drilling in the New York militia under Captain James M. Brown well fitted Qo\. Cluney for his active service iu the late war. His company furnished twenty-two officers, all of whom, except two or three, were killed, or died from effect of wounds or exposiu-e- On August 28, 1867, he married Hannah P. Benson, daughter of Eev. Henry Benson, a Presbyterian minister of Jamestown, who served as chaplain of the 49th regiment. New York Vols. He was killed near Wilson's Mills, August 7, 1883. In politics Col. Cluney has always been a republican, and is a stanch and liberal supporter of his jjarty. He is a member of James M. Brown Post, No. 285, Grand Army of the Republic, and captain-general of Jamestown Coumiandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. V^A:nIEL li. OOKSETT, a capitalist and ^^ real estate owner, who is helping to build up this city, (having just completed " De Orsay ," a handsome compartment building on west Third .street,) is a asserted the correctness of a statement it was useless to refer to a book for (•orr(jboi-ative proof — he was always found to be correct. i His faith in democracy was as strong as the most devout Christian's in religion. An ex- pression once made, referring to him, said : "Counter arguments, however good or impres- sive, fall as powerless as raindrops on a granite boulder." He endured the twenty-eiglit years of republican rule with outspoken condemnation and contempt, and probably no man iu the countr)' more sinc.erely welcomed, or was made so supremely happy by the democratic victory of 1884 and the change of administration in 1885. He was tender towards his family and the affection he felt for his wife bordered on adoration. Of her he would say : " She knew . something," in a tone that indicated that to him i all other women were as common clay. He died as he had lived, unflinching and unterrified, and he went into eternity " like one who wraps i the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasaut dreams," when he had reached the unusual age of eighty-eight years, ten months and four days. © JOI-IK G. RECORD, a strong democrat of Forestville, and a member of the Chau- tauqua county bar, was born at Smith's Mills, in the town of Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York, October 2, 1836, and is a son of Israel and Mary (Gardner) Record. During the last century his ancestors were settled in the rich and fertile valley of the Hudson river, which has been made famous for all time to come by the pen of Washington Irving, the prince of American writers. Rev. John Record, the paternal grandfather of John G. Record, was an active minister pf the Baptist 6 church. He I'an prominence as we grist-mill, and was a man of as of useful ui'ss in the com- munity in wliifh he resided. His son, Israel Record (see his sketcli), the iiithcr of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born and reared at Pouehkeepsie, and came to the town of Sher- man about 1830. He afterwards rt-nioved to the town of Hanover, of which he was a resi- dent until his death in 1S.S7, at eighty-nine years of age. He was a cattle dealer during the active })art of his life. His wife was Mary Gardner, who was born in Dutchess county, in the Hudson river valley, and passed away in l.SSO, when in the eighty-fourth year of her age. John G. Record spent his boyhood days in his native county, and received an academical education at Middlebury and Wyoming acad- emies. Leaving school he read law in 1858 with Sherman Scott, of Forestville, was ad- mitted to the Chautauqua county bar in Decem- ber, 1859, and has practiced successfully at Forestville ever since, excepting two years when he had an office at Silver Creek. He was married in 1802, to Mary Farnham, of Forestville, who died in March, 1886, and left four children. On October 2d, 1887, Mr. Record united in marriage with Flora M. Haywood, of Versaille.s, New York. To this second union have been born two children. In addition to his law practice Mr. Record gives some little time to the management of his farm of one hundred and fifty acres of land, which is situated one and one-half miles from Forestville. Thirty acres of this land is devot- ed to the culture of grapes, and shows this sec- tion of the county to be well adapted to the cultivation of the vine. In politics Mr. Record is a zealous democrat of Jeft'ersonian views, has always stood upon the platform of the old-time genuine principles of his party, and advocated \ honesty and economy in State as well as Na- tional affairs. John G. Record has served his I town as supervisor, and has several times ac- BIOGRAPHY AM) HISTORY cepted a nomiuation from liis party in its plucl^y, but luipeless fights against the over- whehuing republican majority in Chautauqua county. JOHN W. O'BRIEX had an unexpectey whom he had eight children, three sons and five daughters : John W. ; James, who died in Ireland ; Thos. B., is foreman in a large raanu- fiicturing establishment in Erie, Pa.; Ellen, wife of James Carroll ; Jane, married Bartholo- mew Cavauaugh ; Annie, married to P. C. Mulligan; Bridget and ]\Iary, who resides with John W. All the daughters reside in Dunkirk. Mrs. O'Brien came to America in 1858 and located in Dunkirk, where she is now residing with her son, John W., in the seventy-fifth year of her age. She is also a member of the Catholic church. John W. O'Brien received a portion of his education by a brief attendance in the common schools, but it came mainly by studying at home in the evenings. Ilis father was in reduced circumstances at the time of his death, and John W., at the age of thirteen, with his sister Ellen, aged eleven, came alone to America in 1855, and from New York City to Dunkirk, where they expected to meet an uncle, Thomas O'Brien, but found he had died. He then went to work on a farm, remained there two years and then secured a position in the flour and feed house of William O'Neil, who was an old friend of the O'Briens in Ireland. He continued to clerk for Mr. O'Neil until 1879, when he entered into partnership with Thomas O'Neil, under the firm name of O'Neil & Co., and bought out William O'Neil. This firm continued two years, when his partner died and he bought his inter- est of the heirs, and since then has continued the business alone. He carries a large stock of all kinds of flour, feed and seeds and enjoys a fine paying trade. He has reared and educated his brothers and sisters and has also accumu- lated a moderate competency. In politics he is a democrat and in religion is a member of the Catholic church. He enjoys the respect of all who know him and is satisfied with his experi- ence in his adopted country. A^ILBEKT 31. KYKEKT was born in Atti- ^^ ca, Wyoming county, New York, October 6, 1840, and is a son of Rev. Gilbert and Sarah A. (Nichols) Rykert. His ftither, Rev. Gilbert Rykert, was a native of Washington county, this State, a minister of the Free-Will Baptist church, and in politics a republican. He mar- ried Sarah A. Nichols, a native of the towu where her son was born, who is a member of the Methodist P]piscopal cliurch, and now re- sides with her son in Westfield, in the seventy- sixth year of her age. They were the parents of three children. Rev. Gilbert Rykert died in Evans, Erie county, this State, where he had lived for .several years, on June 12, 18(34, at the age of fifty-three years. Gilbert M. Rykert was reared principally in Erie and Chautauqua counties, and received a common-school education. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Co. C, 154th regiment, New York Vol.- Infantry, and was honorably discharged in February, 1864, on account of a wound re- ceived at the battle of Gettysburg, on July 1, 1863, while he was color-bearer. His comrade, also a color-bearer, had been previously shot, and ]\[r. Rykert had taken his colors in addition to his own. He was struck in his right arm by a minie-ball, permanently disabling the arm. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. After leaving the army, lie entered the employ of tiie L. S. & M. S. R. R. company, where he has remained ever since. From 187() to 1887 he was telegraph operator at AVestfield, and in the latter year he was appointed station-agent, which position he still retains. He also devot- ed some attention to the cultivation of the grape. Politically he is a prohibitionist, in his religious convictions a Baptist, of which church he is a raemher and a trustee, and is a member of Sum- mit Lodge, No. 219, F. and A. M.; Chautau- qua Lodge, No. 3, A. O. U. W.; Westfield Council, No. 81, Royal Arcanum, and William Sackett Post, No. 324, G. A. R. He has served three years as a trustee of the town of AVestfiold. November 10, 1868, Gilbert M. Rykert unit- ed in marriage with Arietta H., daughter of Leonard Smith, of Brocton, this county, and their union has been blest with three children : Homer S., Charles E. and William C. G. M. Rykert is a gallant soldier, an hon- est, faithful, conscientious employe, and an up- right, iionorabloand respected citizen, ever doing- all in his power for the prosperity of the town in which he resides. TlirVItON AV. PARDEE, a son of James and 4 Phccbe (Chandler) Pardee, was born April 15, 1856 and died at Jamestown, Nov. 22, 1889. Myron W. Pardee was a grandson of Woodley W. Chandler, a native of the Old Dominion State where he was l)orn February 14, 1800, and was one of the earlier of James- towui's settlers, arriving here in 1826. Prior to this date he lived for a while in Dexterville, Chautauqua county, where he married Pluicbe Winsor, daughter of Abraham Winsor, by whom he had five children. Upon his advent here, in partnership with his brother-in law, he bought a piece of land near the outlet formerly owned by Judge Foote, and built upon it a cloth-dressing and carding mill. Its site is now covered by a much larger similar establishment. At about this season he was also interested in lumbering. He afterwards removed to Levant, Chautauqua couiity, where he died April 22, 1854. Chandler street, Jamestown, derives its name from this famil)'. Grandfatlier Pardee was a native of Connecticut. Myron W. Pardee was educated in the James- town schools, graduating from the normal de- partment in 1876, and from the high school in 1879. Previous to his graduation, however, he had left school several times for the purpose of teaching. The first time when only seven- teen years of age he was principal of the school* at Kennedy, N. Y., for a year and at later periods had charge of schools at Falconer, N. Y., and at Farraington, Fayette county. Pa. Immediately after graduation, in 1879, he reg- istered with Hon. Orsell Cook and began the study of law. He also, at the same time kept books for two Jamestown firms in order to pro- cure means with which to go through with his studies. He afterwards entered the Albany law school, from which he graduated in 1881, and settled in Jamestown for the practice of his profession. Being bright, active and energetic he soon gained a lucrative practice, and at the time of his death was one of the leading young attorneys of Jamestown. On September 19, 1883, he was united in marriage to Eudora E. Klock, the accomplished daughter of Hiram and Margaret (Quiun) Klock. Mrs. Pardee is a musician of recog- nized merit. An expert instrumentalist, she has also rare natural endowments of voice which she has cultivated by thorough courses at Mead- ville. Pa., and in New York city under instruc- tions from the best artists in the profession. She has sung in nearly all the city church choirs. Politically Mr. Pardee was a republican and with his wife was a member of the ilethodist church. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY Hex. FRANCIS BEATTLB BREWER, M.D., a resident of Westfield for over thirty years, and au ex-raeniber of Congress, who conceived, j^lanned and developed the present methods of producing and utilizing pe- troleum, one of the great sources of national Mealth and i-eveuue, was born at Keeue, New Hampshire, October 8, 1820, and is a son of Capt. Ebenezer and Julia (Emerson) Brewer. Francis Beattie "Brewer is a descendant of Rev- olutionary stock, his grandfather, Ebenezer Brewer, having held the rank of colonel and participated in the struggle of the old Thir- teen Colonies, or " sea-shore republics," for in- dependence. His father, Ebenezer Brewer, was familiar with the trying scenes of Kevolu- tionary days and afterwards held a captain's commission during the War of 1812, in which he served with credit and distinction. He and his father were both natives and lifelong resi- dents of New Hampshire. Francis B. Brewer spent his earlier years at Barnet, Vermont, where his father was engaged in lumbering and the mercantile business. His preparation for college was made at Newbury seminary, Vt., and Meriden academy, N. H. After graduating from Dartmouth college he was engaged in teaching for .several months at Barnet and in Peacham academy, Vt., and then (1843) commenced the study of medicine with Dr. W. G. Nelson. In 1844 he attended lectures at Dartmouth Medical college where he also studied nine months with the faculty, and then completed his medical course with Dr. ^y. W. Gerhart, of Philadelphia, Pa. He received his degree of M.D. from Dartmouth Medical college in 1846, practiced at Barnet until December, 1849, and then removed to Plym- outh, Mass., where lie remained for two years. In 1851 he went to Titusvllle, Pa., where he was actively and extensively engaged for ten years in lumbering and the general mercantile business. He was a member of the firm of Brewer, Watson & Co., who owned several thousand acres of timbered land along Oil creek and its tributaries. On their land, and near one of their lumber mills was an old Indian well, remarkable for producing oil. This oil was extensively u.sed as a medicine, and was collected by absorbing the oil from the surface of the water with woolen blankets. In 1852 the idea occurred to Dr. Brewer, of using this oil in the lumber mills, both as an illumi- nator and a lubricator. The well was then en- larged and deepened ; a pump was worked in it by wires attached to the machinery of the mill, and in this way a large quantity of oil was ob- tained. Thus commenced the oil business. From this date Dr. Brewer gave his time, means and efforts to di.scover the best manner of producing and utilizing this valuable pro- duct. Although discouraged, but never dis- heartened, success finally crowned the enter- prise which he ju.stly claims to have conceived, planned and developed, and which has proved to be one of the great discoveries of the age. The oil business which he inaugurated as a branch of commerce, has attained gigantic pro- portions and has added immensely to the wealth of the world. The first oil lease on record was made July 4, 1853, between Brew- er, Watson & Co., and J. D. Angler, and the first oil company, " The Penna. Rock Oil Co.," w^as organized in New York City, in 1854, of which Dr. Brewer was one of the incorporators and directors, and this territory formed the basis of the company's oj^erations. On July 20, 1848, he married Susan II. Rood, daughter of Rev. Prof. Heman Rood, of Haverhill, N. H., but formerly of Gihuanton Theological .seminary. Dr. and Mrs. Brewer have four children: Eben, born May 14, 1849; Francis Beattie and Frances Moody (wife of W. C. Fitch of BuflPalo,) born October 16, 1852; and George Emerson, born July 28, 1861. In 1861 Dr. Brewer came to Westfield to re- side. He owns a beautiful farm on the shore ■nSv-i^i L f '//" I'll.inflllii/ii I unlnifi II : illlyi: Utlrilli'im ilitl!l\llh-"Hi milullh: III' ill'ilnU'lllh, yf'M HI! Illliniili H 7' Hill 1,1 llhin/ t n ill wifi'll ill: III/.', iiiiiii: iiivmlliii'lil", iimi lini-i^ II iiiix- Un\/ii iviiiniiK-inii )/(/")(»('■). ill i'lllpiiiini, l'(/,, UK uiiii'iiiiiiinnii>:liiniiinU'i'f/ni,Hiiii^i'iVI'.ii ^It^t i:,.iiiiiili,niiih> III iml th. iUi y^ir iiiyiinipii lim i'ii>'> ^ii> ^ '''"»'" '' iniiiii lUiiii' „!' W"^/()'l'(, »(('! WH« inii'ii' iin-i niiii^ iiint iil>^l>i' linil 1,1' lin i-iiiin'i wiiiiii tiui-ilinii ill' ii'i'i I'll lii'ii, "^ii'i iiii'^' I'l'i'/n* ')'' '''"!' 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Hn-^'f in ih*' '/' i/M'iiwi>'Af,nf V '■111111')/' / ''onnty/ I'n,, iinr. i/}'i'hi \\,i /I'.ii ^/'-it'/i'inii iiiiiinf*f'y viliifh ii'/w ',/' '' ,/'Hi )// tii'/nriuii/ini '/f liti'li III lit ' ■ ""' 'itM //f f/i'fiii/iinn, f/if/ii-'y >•' n, Mm- '/() M'i' '/f <'' ' !>*■*>> '* " BIOGRAPHY ASD HISTORY his otlior business enterprises. In 1856 he and Stephen M. Clements, with otiiers, were mainly instrumental in organizing the Fredonia bank which, in 18G5, became the Fredonia National bunk, of which Mr. Ablx'y has been president since 1882. He was a heavy stockholder and a prominent director in the old as well as the mw bank, and in their management his good judguieut and safe business methods added much to their uniform successand general prosperity. The Fre- donia National bank has a capital of one hun- dred thousand dollars, with average deposits of five luuidrcd thousand dollars and a surplus of forty thousand dollars. This bank is recog- nized as one of the best managed and most reli- able banks in the State, and has the reputation of having never extended or skipped the time of any jjuyment of its dividends. The bank has been constantly increasing its volume of business under the conservative, safe and reli- able management of ^Ir. Abbey, whose business relations have brought iiim in contact with and .secured for him the good will of the leading business men of western New York. The directors of this bank stand high as business men and financiers, and most of them, like Mr. Abbey, are identified with other important in- terests of the county. He married Elizabeth Chase, who died, and then he united in marriage with Mrs. Esther A., the daughter of Judge Allen, of Tiowanda, this State. To his first union were born three child- ren, one of whom, Ella E., is the wife of Hon. W. B. Hooker, member of Congress from the Thirty-fourth Congressional district of New York, whose sketch appears- elsewhere in this volume. In addition to his farm in the town of Ark- wright he owns several valuable tracts of land in other parts of the county, and has a well- improved farm in Ohio, for which he paid ten thousand dollars. At an early age Mr. Abbey developed those business habits which became the foiuidati(jn of his after success in life. He was slow and careful in the beginning of his business career, but daily widened out the sphere of his operations and eventually became a potent factor in the many business enterprises with which he is identified to-day. nOWLAXO W. GARDNER is a most worthy disciple of Ceres, Pomona and Flora, and «'as warmly welcomed as a member of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, where he found the representatives of these three mythological goddesses occupying chairs at the head of the hall. Rowland W. Gardner is a son of William J. and Sarah (Durfee) Gardner, and was born in South Kingston, Rhode Island, October 12, 1819. His paternal grandfather, Rowland Gardner, was also born in South Kingston, Rhode Island, where he owned a farm of one hundred acres on which he spent his entire life. He was married in 1770 to Deborali James, by whom he had five children: James, a farmer; John, who moved to New York State, settled in Wyoming county, and married Wealthy Bentley ; Nicholas, a foreman in a factory in Norwich, Conn., who married Betsey Hazard : William J., father of Rowland W. ; and Rowland, who died at twenty-one years of age. Their father died in 1805, while the mother jiassed away fifteen years before. Both are interred in South Kingston, R. I. The maternal grandfather, Joseph Durfee, was born in Connecticut in 1775, but after reaching his majority he removed to Rhode Island, where he bought a farm and i-emained there until 1821, when he removed to Wyoming county, N. Y., and purchased a farm, having sold his large property in Rhode Island. The farm in Wyo- ming county he occupied and cultivated until his death in 1845. He married twice. His first wife was Esther Wood, by whom he had six .children, four sons and two daughters: William was a laborer; Newell was a farmer in Rhode Island, and married Sarah Moore; Thomas was a cripple; Sarah was the mother OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. of Rowland W.; Eunice married Francis Hamil- ton, of Ireland, who was a Methodist minister; Joseph was a farmer in Wyoming county, N. Y., and married ]\Iartiia Pollard. The mother of these cliildrcn died in 1805, and Joseph Durfee married for his second wife Elsie Wilcox, and by this union had seven children, four sons and three daughters : Benjamin, a flirmer in Wyo- ming county, N. Y., married Eliza Sparr ; Esther, unmarried ; Eliza, married Noble Fair- child, a farmer in Michigan ; Whipple, bachelor and farmer; Anthony, also a bachelor and farmer ; Mariamne, married Abrani Pickard ; and Charles, who died when a young man. William J. Gardner, (father) was born in South Kingston, R. L, in 1794. He worked on the farm with his father until he was twenty-one years old, when he leased a farm and cultivated it until 1821 ; then he moved to Genesee county (now Wyoming), N. Y., and bought a farm of fifty acres, partially improved. He remained here until 1829, when he removed to Monroe county, N. Y., and leased a farm on which he lived two years, and then bought a farm of twenty-five acres in the corporation of Frcdonia, on which he lived until his death in 1863. He married Sarah Durfee, a daughter of Joseph Durfee, of South Kingston, R. I., by whom he had five children, two sons and three daughters : Rowland W., Joseph, a hardware merchant and seedsman at Fredouia, who married Abigail Hewitt, by whom he has had three children ; Deborah, unmarried ; Mary and Martha, both dead. The mother, Sarah (Durfee) Gardner^ died in 1870. Rowland W. Gardner acquired his education in the common schools of Chautauqua county and in the Fi-edonia academy. After leaving school he began his life's vocation of raising and selling garden > seeds, to which he afterward added fruit trees. For two years he raised the seeds on leased land, and then with his brother Joseph bought a farm of fifty acres in the village of Fredouia and continued the business for eight years. In 1852 they divided the business and each continued to raise on his own farm. He raised and papered the seeds until 18()4, when he discontinued pa|)ering theiu and lias since raised them for the wholesale trade. He is widely known as a most reliable seedsman, nurseryman and florist. He imports large quan- tities of trees and bulbs for his local trade, and in the last thirty years has sold over one million trees, plants and bulbs of his own importation. He has been very successful and accumulated a handsome competency. He is a charter mem- ber of Fredouia Grange, No. 1 ; a member of Chautauqua Lodge, No. 283, I. O. O. F. ; of Forest Lodge, No. 1(3(3, F. and A. M. ; of Fre- douia Chapter, No. 76, R. A. M. ; and of Dun- kirk Council and Dunkirk Commandery, No. 40, K. T. He was a member of the board of trustees and board of assessors of Fredouia sev- eral times and is highly respected as a u.seful, honorable and upright citizen. Rowland W. Gardner was married July 19, 1863, to Jane Carpenter, daughter of Ezra and Minerva (Nichols) Carpenter, her father being a farmer in Sheridan, this county, and has one daughter, Surah ]M., who resides with her parents. ^ JO.SKPH T. IJOUCiHTOX is a sou of Noah E. and Polly (Todd) Boughton, and was born in Delaware county, New York, July 4, 1837. His grandfather, Avery Boughton, was a native of New York and resided in Greeix,e county, wiiere his son, Noah E. Boughton (father), was born in 1799. Noah E. Boughton was a farmer by occupation, residing in Greene and Delaware counties, N. Y., until 1870, when he removed to Kansas and jjurchased a large farm, on which he lived until his death, which occurred January 17, 1890. He was a member of the INIetliodist Episcopal church and voted the republican ticket. His w-ife, Polly Todd Boughton, a daughter of Dudley and Irene Todd, was born in Greene county, N. Y., in BIOGRAPHY ASD HISTORY 1821 and died August 1, 1851, at the age of tliirty years. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal churcii. Joseph "'r. Boughton was reared on his fatlier's farm in Delaware county and attended the subscription schools of that period. He began life as a fireman in the employ of a rail- road, and was afterward promoted to the posi- tion of engineer running on the Xew York & Lake Erie and the Alton it St. Louis railroads, until 1863, when he enlisted in Co. F.,39th reg- iment, New York Vols. He served until the close of the war. After he was mustered out of service, he engaged in farming in Chautauqua county, but in 1867, he removed to Butler, Missouri, and run a saw-mill for two years, at the end of which time he returned to New York, locating in Dunkirk township, v^liere he has since made his home. In 1869, he entered the employ of the Brooks' Locomotive company, one of the important industrial companies in Dunkirk, and remained with them for fourteen years. On account of failing health he was compelled to retire from their service in 1883, and has since that time lived a retired life. He lias a pleasant home in the suburbs of Dunkirk, just outside the borough limits. Mr. Bough- ton is a member of the ^Methodist Episcopal church, and an active democrat. He is a mem- ber of the Royal Templars of Temperance and is regarded as one of the straightforward, relia- ble citizens of the town of Dunkirk. QLBERT .S. COBB, a wholesale and retail -^*- liquor dealer of Dunkirk, was born in .the town of Gorham, Cumberland couuty, Maine, June 21, 1815, and is a son of David and Sallio (Watson) Cobb. In the latter part of the last century three brothers, David, Ebenczer and Jonathan Cobb came from Scot- laud to this country, where David located in Ohio, Ebenezer in New York, and Jonathan in Massachusetts. Jonathan Cobb, who was the ffrandfatiier of Albert S. Cobl), resided in Mas- sachusetts until liis death. His son, David Cobb, was born in Barnstable, that State, and removed to Gorham, Maine, when that State was a part of Massachusetts. He was a tanner and currier which trade he left to engage in the mercantile business in Gorham and died in 1837, at the age of sixty-three years. He was an old-line whig, served as town collector for seven years besides filling other offices, and while energetic yet was a modest and unassuming man whose generosity and kindness to the poor were distinguishing traits of his character. He married Sallie Watson, who was a native of Gorham, where she died in 1813, when in the sixty-fifth year of her age. Albert S. Cobb was reared in Gorham where he received a common school and academic education and where he was engaged in the general mercantile business for two years. In 1840 he went to Great Falls, New Hampshire, and was employed for nine years and six months in doing all of the painting of the Great Fails Cotton Manufacturing company. At the end of this time, in 1850, became to Hornellsville, this State, and run for one year as a brakesman on the Erie railroad from Hornellsville to Cuba. In 1851 he was a brakesman on the first train that ran into Dunkirk and was afterwards em- ployed by the New York & Erie railroad, as a brakesman and freight and passenger conductor for twenty-one years and ten montiis. As a passenger conductor he run for seven years from Hornellsville to Dunkirk and for five years from Dunkirk to Oswego. From 1864 to 1868 he was a member of the wholesale and retail liquor firm of Cobb & Smith, of Dun- kirk, then for two years w-as in that business by himself and in 1870 became a member of the liquor firm of Cobb & Gifford which lasted two years, when Mr. Cobb established his present wholesale and retail liquor house. He removed to Dunkirk in 1861 and resigned as passenger conductor in 1871. He is a democrat, cast his first vote for Martin Van Buren and has been a OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTY. trustee of his city for «ix years. He served as a store-keeper in the State Arsenal at Dunkirk when John T. Hoffman was governor and in 18G0 was interested in tiie oil ]n-oducti(>n of New York and Pennsylvania. In the year 1840, he married Abby G. Libby, of the town of Gorhani, Maine, and they liave had with them for thirty-five years as a domestic Barbara Hiller, a native of Germany. A. S. Cobb has in his possession three silver dollars which he prizes very highly. " The first one is a Spanish milled dollar of 1797, received for driving a widow's cow and was the first dollar which he ever earned. The next one is a Mexican dollar of 1829 and was the first money he ever earned after becoming of age, while the third one is of the United States issue of 1844, and was the first dollar which he received as a railroad emj)loye. SAIIUKL OSBOKXK CODIXGTON, a manufacturer and contractor of Fredouia, was born at Geneva, Ontario county. New York, December 20, 1847, and is the eldest sou of John S. and Bertha (Monroe) Codington. He was educated at Edinboro State Normal school, and is now a member of the firm of Sly ct Codington. He is a master mason of Forest lodge. No. 166, F. and A. M., and on September 17, 1878, united in marriage with Mary Stauley, of Fredouia. His father, John S. Codington, was born at Geneva, N. Y., September 12, 1824, is an archi- tect and contractor, and has been superiutendeut of two divisions of the A. & G. W. R. R., married Bertha Monroe April 16, 1846, by whom he had six children : Clara (Irviii), Samuel O., Acie B., Ada, Theodore and Jolui: and removed to Ohio in 1874. John S. Coding- ton is a son of Samuel O. Codington (grand- father), who was boru at Newbui-g, March 17, 1791, married Martha White, January 11, 1818, and died May 23, 1844. He was the contractor who built the first frame building at Geneva ; was a Free Mason and his father, William Codington (great-grandfather), was a sea-captain who died many years ago. Captain William Codington was a descendant of Sir William Codington, the first governor of Rhode Island, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1601, came in Ki.'iO to Rhode Island, where he became the founder of the Codington family of tins country, and where he died November 1, 1678. The name of Codington is found on the records of England as far back as the thirteenth century. Samuel O. Codington's mother, liortha (^Nlon- roo) Codington, was born in Auburn, N. Y., April .3, 1827, and her father, Ansel ^lonroe (maternal grandfather), wjs an officer in the State prison at that place, and was last at Green Bay in the "Patriot War" of 18-37. Her graudf^ither, jNlajor John G. Perry, was killed at Queenstown in 1812, and one of lier great- grandfathers, a General Busch, of the German army, was killed in a battle during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, and his widow and children came to America. Samuel O. Codington's wife, Mary (Stanley) Codington, only child of Caleb and Cordelia (Crane) Stanley, was born at Fredouia, where she received her education at the academy of that place. Her father, Caleb Stanley, was born at Herkimer, N. Y., December 25, 1813, came in 1835 to Fredouia, where he married Cordelia E. Crane on September 19, 1844, and where he died, June 22, 1884. He was a son of Isaac Stauley, a merchant, who was born in Coventry, Conn., May, 1775, married Tiney, daughter of Jeremiah Smith, a merchant of Albany, on October 3, 1802, and died in Ohio, October 22, 1849. Isaac Stanley was a son of Hon. Caleb Stanley, boru July 31, 1741, married Martha Robinson, July 9, 1772, and represented Coven- try in 1784. His father, Caleb Stanley, was boru at Hartford, Conn., May 25, 1707, came as a clothier to Coventry, where he married Hannah, daughter of Deacon Joseph Olmstead, BIOGRAPHY AM) HISTORY aud died June 28, 1789. He was a son of Caleb Stanley, wiio was born September 6, 1674, married Hannah Spencer, ]\Iay 16, 1696, was secretary of Connecticut in 1709, and died January 4, 1712. His father, Captain Caleb Stanley, was born in March, 1G42, and married Hannah, daughter of John Cowlc's. His father, Timothy Stanley, was born in England in 1602, settled at Hartford, Connecticut,- in 1636, was a selectman in 1644, and died in 1648. The Stanley family, whose armorial bearings are three stags' heads, gold on field argent, bend azure, with motto '• Sans Changer," had its origin as follows : Two Norman knights who came with William the Conqueror in 1066 were Adam and William De Alditheley, who married Arabella and Joaime, daughters of the Saxons, Sir Henry and Thomas de Stoneley. William received as his wife dower the manor of Thalk, which lie exchanged with Adam for the manor of Stoneley, in Staifbi-dshire, and in honor of his lady and the great antiquity of her family, assumed the surname of Stanley, and became the recognized founder of the Stanley family. Mrs. Codington's mother, Cordelia E. (Crane) Stanley, was the eldest child of Henry and Eliza (Cassety) Crane, was born at Eaton, N. Y., July 4, 1823, was educated at Fredonia and Eaton academies, married, September 19, 1844, to Caleb Stanley, of Fredonia, and died February 9, 1878. Her father, Henry Crane, was born at Weathersfield, Conn., November 23, 1785, made several voyages as supercargo to the \Vest Indies, married in 1817 Eliza, daughter of Col. Thomas Cassety, one of the prominent and most highly' educated men in the State, aud in 1835 came to Fredonia, where hs died March 9, 1857. He was a Royal Arch Mason, and his parents were Captain Curtis aud Elizabeth (Palmer) Crane. Captain Crane in the early part of his life was a sea captain during the llevolutionary war, and was for seven years connected with the commissary department. He afterward removed to Eaton, N. Y., where he died. OTEPHEX N. BOLTON. One who has '*^ seen Jamestown grow from a country vil- lage to a live wide-awake city, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He came to Jamestown in 1851, where he has lived ever since. Stephen N. Bolton is a son of Hollis and Betsy (Sawin) Bolton, and was born at Westminster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, August 20, 1829. The Boltous were among the earliest white people who came to the cold and dreary winter climate of New England, but when the verdure of spring and summer burst forth, found the home pleasant and nature hos- pitable. Our indisj)utable record is when William Bolton married Elizabeth White, at Middlesex, Mass., in 1720. It is supposed that he came up from the settlement made on the James river in Virginia. ^ He died at Reading, Massachusetts, September 10, 1725, leaving a young widow with two little sons. The mother was of New England origin and these sons laid the foundation of the Bolton family of the present. One of the sons mentioned, Wil- liam Bolton, was the direct ancestor of Stephen N. He married Mary Roberts, who was born November 30, 1725, and they had ten children : one of them, Ebeuezer Bolton, born June 12, 1749, was the great-grandfather of our subject. He was married at Reading, on February 20, 1771, to Elizabeth Damon, a daughter of David Damon, and who was born May 3, 1749. Ebenezcr Bolton enlisted in the Colonial army during the Revolution and served as a corporal. He was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was one of the minute-men, ready for im- mediate service all through that struggle. He had four children, of whom Ebeuezer Bolton, Jr., was the grandfather of Stephen N. He was born February 14, 1778, married Linda, daughter of Simeon Leland, and served as a clerk in the War of 1812. His family consist- ed of four sons and two daughters. Hollis Bolton was born December 1, 1799, and is still living (May 1, 1891). He is a farmer, living OF CHAUTAUQUA COUSTY. near Mount Wachusett, Mass., and is enjoying excellent health for one of his years. He mar- ried Betsy Sawin, June 4, 1821, and had ten chil- dren : Charles H., born June 24, 1822, lived in Massachusetts and Maryland until 1852, and then went to California, and has lived there and in Oregon and Washington ever since, and was the first treasurer of Douglas county, Washing- ton ; Simeon, born November 27, 182.3, lives at home with his father; Franklin, born May 24, 1825, has been a selectman of his town ; Al- mond A., born December 28, 182(3, lives in Akron, Ohio; Aaron S., born April 3, 1828, served in the late war under Gen. Banks ; Stephen Nelson ; Eveline E., born May 6, 1831, died October 14, 1853 ; Andrew J., born Janu- ary 17, 1833, now living in Massachusetts, a carpenter; Henry Clay, born May 20, 1834, married Anise Phillips, entered the Union army with Co. B, 100th regiment, N. Y. In- fantry, and was present at Drury's Blutf, in 18G4, captured and taken to Andersouville where he was held from May until December. He took ]iart in the Seven Days fight, White Oaks and other battles, and was promoted to corporal ; and Alonzo D., the youngest, enlisted from Massachusetts, but was discharged on account of poor health. Stephen N. Bolton lived in Massachusetts until twenty-two years of age, when he came to Jamestown and worked as a wood-turner and chair-maker for nearly a score of years, and the subsequent five or six years was spent in the grocery business. Since that time he has been living a comparatively retired life. He was a sergt. in Co. B., 68th N. Y. S. M., which was called out by Gov. Seymour during the invasion of Penna., by Gen. Lee's army ; enlist- ed in the U. S. service for thirty days and served their term of enlistment. Mr. Bolton has always voted with the Republican party, and served the city as assessor for nine years. He is a member of Ellicott Lodge, No. 221, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. H1RA3I C. CLARK, a literateur of note, has been living in Jamestown since 1872. He was burn at Norwich, Chenango county. New York, on July 9, ISIG, his parents being Lot and Lavina (Crosby) Clark, both of whom came from old and distinguished families. His grandfather, Watrous Clark, was born in tiie State of Massachusetts in 1759, and with his two brothers served in the naval department of the colonial forces during the struggle for Amei'- ica's independence. His two brothers were lost at sea. At the close of the war, Watrous migrated into Otsego county, in this State, and followed farming, and being of a mechanical turn also, used farm tools of his own manufac- ture, until his death which occurred in 1831. Politically Mr. Clark was a ([iiiet voter and of unassuming demeanor, and was a member of the Baptist church. He was not a politician. His wife M-as Sarah Saxton, of Columbia county, this State, and they had three sons and five daughters. David Crosby was the mater- nal grandfather of our subject, who came from English stock but was born in Connecticut and removed to Broome county. New York, where he owned large tracts of land which he tilled. He died in Chenango county, in 1820, aged eighty years. Lot Clark, iiither of Hiram C, and second son of Watrous Clark, was born in Columbia county, near Kinderhook, this State, in the year 1788. Securing as thorough an ed- ucation as the times afforded, he studied law, and after being admitted to the bar, practiced for twelve years in the town of Norwich, Che- nango county, and was some years district attorney of that county. Succeeding his law practice he became a projector of large enter- prizes, and among others of note, was the first original railroad wire suspension bridge which crosses the Niagara river below the falls and was completed about 1848. He became and was president of that bridge company until his death in 1802. At one time he was perhaps the huvest iudixiilual land-holder in the Em- BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY pire State, being- a proprietor of one-third in- terest in a ninety thousand acre tract, and as many other acres iu other states in the west. Politically Mr. Clark was an old-time democrat and was elected by his party to a seat in tiic eighteenth Congress of the United States, serv- ing there in 1823-24; l)iit upon the sub-treas- ury issue, he was not in accord with his party and in 1840, voted for William Henry Harri- son for president. While in Congress Mr. Clark became very popular and was the leader of the New York delegation, at least at tiie time so styled. In 1840 he became an inti- mate and a permanent friend, socially and poli- tically of Henry Clay and other whigs of prominence, whose reputation have survived them. He was elected in 1846 to the leg- islature of New York, to compel the demo- crats to complete the enlargement of the Erie canal. When Gen. Jackson was president he invited Mr. Clark into his cabinet, by offering to him tlie appointment of attorney-general, but this was declined. His first wife was Lavina Crosby, who bore him four children, all sous, who became prominent in localities where they lived : Hiram C. ; Lot C, who held the office of district attorney on Staten Island for eleven years and was private counsel on the island to Commodore Vanderbilt for a number of years; Joseph B. Clark became an alderman in the city of Detroit, IMichigan ; and William C, moved to Illinois, and was owner of a fine land estate. Hiram C. Clark was educated in private schools and advanced to higher education through the aid of professors and private tu- tors. He was appointed cadet at West Point but resigned, considering that his nervous dis- position unfitted him for the .strain incumbent on the routine of a successful martinet or col- lege life. From 1833 to 1837 he lived in Augu.sta, Ga., as assi.stant to his brother-in-law iu a grocery store. Returning to New York he was, in 1840, admitted to the bar, and also edited in 1849, a history of his native, Chenan- go county, and in the .same year went to San Francisco California, where he remained and practiced law until 1865, when, returning to New York in 1866 he decided upon a European tour and went to London, where six out of the ten ensuing years were spent. During this so- journ abroad the columns of the San Francisco (California) Daili/ BuUetln, were enlivened by regular correspondence from his facile pen. Returning from Englaud in 1872, he .selected Jamestown for his future home and has since resided here devoting his attention to literary recreation, travel and newsjtaper correspon- dence. On November 23, 1857, Mr. Clark was uni- ted in marriage to Mrs. Sarah Thompson, a native of Nottingham, England, and after her death, in 1869, in 1871 he wedded Jane, the daughter of Samuel Dixion, a resident of New York but who came of Scotch parentage. It should not be overlooked that while stopping in Augusta, Ga., when the Seminole war of 1835 broke out and men were .scarce, Mr. Clark, then a very young man, joined the Richmond Blues, a famous organization, and served si.x months as a United States soldier and received 160 acres of government land. It was not, how- ever, with the sword but with his pen, that he achieved prominence, -.uul many articles of great merit have originated in his brain. In journalism and its circles he has been recog- nized as a ])rolific newspaper correspondent of his day, and among his interesting collection of jiapers, are letters showing corresjiondence and intercourse with the prominent public men of days agone. JNIr. Clark is an intere.sting, intelligent and able man who has seen the American Republic develop from childhood in- to its present stature. He is possessed of a store of information sufficient to fill a valuable book of reminiscences. Mr. Clark, though jx>s- sessed of personal convictions in regard to poli- tics, is iu no sense a politician. That is to say, OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. he lias never yet sat as a member of a political eonveutioii ; has never assisted a f)oliti'-'''iiJ or himself, to obtain a nomination for public office. He regards knowledge of the law a full occu- pation for the common mind without any ad- mixture of politics. Law, divinity, statecraft, j3ure and separate are praiseworthy and useful ; but when amalgamated are too often otherwise, not to say, .sometimes mischievous to the public welfare. His creed has been, that great char- acters may over multiply their abilities to the injury of their reputation. QNDKEW DOTTKRWEIOH, a pllblic- ■^*- .spirited citizen, an energetic and succes.s- ful business man, and the popular proprietor of the well-known " City Brewery" of Dunkirk, was born near the city of Bamberg, in Bavaria, Germany, September 7, 1834, and is a son of Joseph and Catherine (Scheitz) Dotterweich. Joseph Dotterweich and his wife were natives of Bavaria, and consistent members of the Cath- olic church. He was a brick manufacturer and farmer, and made a specialty of raising hops in which he was very successful. He was ener- getic and jjersevering, served as mayor of a vil- lage near the city of Bamberg for several year.s and died in 1879, aged seventy-eight year.s, while his widow survived him until 1887, when she passed away at the age of eighty-five years. Andrew Dotterweich received his education in the public .schools of Germany, and at twelve years of age left his father's farm to learn the brewery business. He worked in the brewer- ies of all the larger cities of Germany, where he became practically conversant and familiar with all the details of successful brewing, and received a diploma as being a scientific and prac- tical brewer. While working at the brewing busine.ss he added to the education which he had received in the public schools, by attending night schools. In 1857 he came to Dunkirk, and became foreman in the brewery of his brother, George Dotterweich, who had located in that city aljout 184!). He helped his broth- er to build up a large trade, while the sui)crior quality and general jropularity of their beer necessitated the frequent enlargement of their brewejy plant. In 1884, at the death of his brother, George Dotterweich, who was a liberal and public-.spirited citizen, he succeeded to the entire business, which he has so conducted as to constantly increase the number of his patrons and give his beer a wide reputation. On October 13, 1860, in Dunkirk, he married Mary Teresa Boettinger, a daughter of Albert Boettinger, who was tiie King's foreman of woods in Bavaria. For the purpose of bring- ing his bride to Dunkirk, he re-visited his na- tive land in the early part of the year of his marriage. To their union have been boru eight children, five .sous and thi'ce daughters : George A. J., Andrew Charle.s, Mary S., Ellen, Edward, Frank, Emma, who died at eleven years of age ; and Robert. Andrew Dotterweich is an active democrat in politics, and an earnest member of the Catholic church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who.se corner-stone was laid June 11, 187G. He is also a member of the Catholic Mutual Beuefit A.ssociation, which was organized in 1876 at Niagara Falls, and holds membership in Dun- kirk Branch, No. 21, of that organization at Dunkirk. Mr. Dotterweich owns a very hand- some brick residence opposite his brewery, be- sides some valuable real estate in the city, and two good farms between Dunkirk and Fre- donia. The City Brewery is located on the corner of Sixth and Dove streets, and the entire jjlant covers a large area of ground. The main building is a substantial three-story brick 36x110 feet with cellar and sub-cellar. A wing extending from it is 35x120 feet. At- tached to this wing and running parallel with the main building are the brick brewery barns and a brick ice-house connected with a double walled wooden reserve ice-house, which is caj)- lUOGnAPHY ASD HISTORY able of preserving ice for five years. The area inclosed on tliree sides by these extensive build- ings is occupied by a drive-way, fountain and lawn. Adjacent to the brewery Mr. Dotter- weieh has constructed two ice-iiouses 40x70 feet, and an artificial lake, of one acre in area, at a cost of over one thousand dollars, which furnishes a never-failing supply of ice. In 1890 he added two ice plants of forty tons each, and put in two boilers of fifty horse- power to his tliirty horse-power engine. He also uses two smaller pumping engines, and em- plovs from twelve to tsventy hands. His brew- ing and malting buildings, ice-hou.ses, vaults, cellars and storage rooms have all been care- fully planned and built. He uses yearly twenty thousand bushels of barley and eighteen thousand pounds of native and Bavarian hops. His annual output is over seven thousand barrels of beer, which is largely used in Dun- kirk and western New York. A gentleman well acquainted with the different business enterprises of the cities of New York, says of Ml". Dotterweich and his establish meut, that brewers from all other parts of the State have been unable to compete with Mr. Dotterweich, and that his beer is to-day the most popular bever- age in his section of the country. Andrew Dotterweich is popular as a citizen and a busi- ness man on account of his generosity, affability and integrity. His life has been one of activ- ity and usefulness, during whicli he has been remarkable for his eirergj', perseverance, pru- dence and business sagacity. He has been em- phatically the architect of his own fortune, and ^yith the characteristic energy of the grand old German race, has won his way from compara- tive obscurity to a prominent position in busi- ness circles. QDDISON A. and AVILSON A. PRICE **■ ai-e sons of Charles and Mary (Neff) Price, the former born June 26, 1814, and the latter September 24, 1816, in the town of Homer, Cortland county, New York. Their grandfather was Stephen Price, a native of New .Terse)', where he was born December 28, 1758. His occupation was school teaching, and in that capacity he went to the town of Homer where he died June 1, 1831. He bought a farm at that place which remained in the family for many years. Mr. Price gave seven years of service during the Revolutionary war. He married Elizabeth Hall and had eight sons and five daughters. Several of the former were engaged during the war ot 1812. The maternal grand- father, Abram Neff, was born in Holland, October 18, 1772. Emigrating to America he settled in Cortland county, this State and mar- ried Eunice Beckwith, who bore him five sons and the same number of daughters. Charles Price (father) was born April 20, 1786, in the town of Clarendon, Morris county, N. J., and came to Cortland county, this State, in 1808. In 1826 he removed to Chautauqua county and settled in Portland town. Two years later he went to Chautauqua town and in 1851 he moved into the city of Jamestown where he re- sided until his death, November 20, 1868. His early years were spent farming but later he began to do carpenter work, a trade he had mastered years before. ^Yhen a young man Mr. Price was a Jacksonian democrat but after- wards turned whig and then republican. For twenty years he \vas a member of the Baptist church. Mary Neff was born October 18, 1792, and lived to be over ninety-one years of age. The date of her death \vas November 4, 1883. She married Charles Price in 1809, and became the mother of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters : Two died in infancy ; Eunice married Abel Kimberly, who lives on Lake View avenue, and is a carpenter and joiner ; Addison A., Wilson A., Anna M., married Reuben S. Green (deceased) ; Charles H., lives in Stockton town, this county; Cla- rissa B., wife of Jonathan Pennock, a prominent Jamestown groceryman ; Caroline and Eveline OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNT W were twius, the former inan'ioil Pliineas Cross- man, who is a real estate man of Jamestown ; the latter married Ciiarles H. Lewis, who is a tailor in Philadelphia; Orlando L. died when fourteen years old ; Silas C, married first time to Charlotte Evans and then to Sai'ah Sampson, and he now lives on Lincoln street, Jamestown ; Cheston B., is dead ; he married Mrs. Catherine Gaggin ; and Adam N. (dead), was twice mar- ried, first to Helen Lowe and then to Harriet Wright. Addison A. Price received a good education at the common schools and learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. He is a republican and has filled various city offices. He came to Jamestown in 1839, and has been actively em- ployed there ever since. In 18GG he built the residence where he now resides. He has been twice married. His first wife was Charlotte D. Green, a daughter of David Green, who lived near ]\Iayville. They had six children : Oscar F.,at present mayor of Jamestown ; Caroline A., married Van Buren Weeks, a son of Liscom Weeks, of Ellery town ; Henry C, married Florence Cook, a daughter of Judge Cook, of Jamestown ; Henry C, is a carpenter and lives in New York city ; Cora is the wife of Walter J. Wayt, and lives in Vancouver, B. C, where her husband is employed as a draughtsman ; Fred A., is a joiner and lives with his father ; and Clayton E., is a merchant on Main street, Jamestown, and is married to Mary Rush. Ad- dison A. Price married the second time to Cynthia A. Hiller, who is still living. Wilson A. Price came to Jamestown with his brother in 1839, and has been employed with him at the same trade, carpentering. In 18G5 he erected the home where he now lives. Politi- cally a republican ; he married Amy E. But- ler, a daughter of Caleb Butler, in 1840, and they have one child : Charles H., who married Mary B. Kimberly. He lives at home with his father and follows the trade of a printer. Addison A. and Wilson A. Price, are honor- able and respectable gentlemen wiiose iabo minds have gone far toward developint city of Jamestown. md j^AVIl> K. MERRILL, a member of the -*^ widely known firm. Empire Washer Co., manufacturers of washing machines, also of the W. T. Falconer Manufacturing company, is a .son of Joshua S. and Olive E. (Griggs) Merrill, and was born in the town of Sheridan, Chautau- fpia county, New York, September 6, 1859. Lyman B. Merrill was born in eastern New York. He was our subject's grandfather, and follows his lineage to 1G32, when Jonathan and Nathaniel Merrill settled at New London, Con- necticut, as the original locators. The family drifted into Vermont, thence to Cherry Valley, N. Y., and finally to Chautauqua county. Lyman B. Merrill was a blacksmith by trade and pursued this occupation for many years in this county. Politically he was a democrat and when eighty-nine years of age died at Laona, this county. David Griggs was the maternal grandfather. He was a native of Connecticut but came to this county in 1810, and followed farming until about 1878, when he moved to Mishawaka, Ind., and died in 1889. Mr. Griggs "was a whig and republican, and served as a private in the war of 1812, participating in the engagements at Stony Point, Lundy's Lane and the burning of Buffalo. The renowned and wily warrior. Red Jacket, was a familiar ac- quaintance of Mr. Griggs, with wliou" he spent many days in the forest. He was a relative of Governor Clinton, and had other eminent con- nections. After reaching the advanced age of ninety-nine years he died at Mishawaka, Ind., in 1890. Joshua S. Merrill was born in the town of Sheridan, April 12, 1835, and spent his boyhood about the village. Heattended school and acquiredsufficienteducation to carry him thi'ough life, and then learned the trade of blacksmith and carriage-maker, and worked at it in Fre- donia, Titusville, Pa., and other places, in his BWGRAPIIY AM) HISTORY younger days. Latci" in life ha became an ex- tensive manufacturer of fine carriages and owned extensive works at Titusvilie, and Erie, Pa., where he employed about one hundred and twenty -five men. In 1854 he married Olive E. Griggs and had a family of three children : David E., Effie M., who married Frank A. Stilson, and lives in Jamestown ; and George J., a clerk in this city. Politically he was a re- publican and was a member of the Methodist church, and the Odd Fellows; F. and A. M., and Knights of Pythias fraternities. In busi- ness Mr. Merrill was conservative but astute, energetic and active, but careful, and was liberal- minded and juiblic-spirited in his notions as to the administration of the government. He died August 2-3, 1877, and is buried in Erie (Pa.) cemetery, while Mrs. ^Merrill resides at present (1891) in Jamestown. David E. Merrill changed his residence in youth as his father moved his busine.ss and spent his days and attended school at Fredonia, Titusvilie and Erie. He graduated from the high school of the latter place and attended the Normal school at Fredonia. He began his business life as a bill clerk for a wholesale . grocery firm in Erie, Pa., and was then ap- pointed paymaster's clerk in the navy. Suc- ceeding this he was attached to the signal ser- vice and was afterwards for a number of years book-keeper in various large institutions. In 1882 he came to Jamestown and soon after with a company began the manufacture of the Empire ^Yashiug machines. His company em- ploys above one hundred men and their annual product equals one hundred thou.saud dollars, shipments being made to all parts of the world. In 1882, he married Anna H. Merrill, of Willoughby, Ohio, and they have one .son : John Claybornc, born August 20, 1888. Politically Mr. Merrill identifies himself with the Republican party; he is very puijlic-spirited and is connected with several prominent organ- izations. HENRY C. KINGSBURY, a successful law- yer of W&stfield who has been in active practice in tlie courts of the county for nearly tiiirty-three years, was born at Homer, Cortland county, New York, November 6, 1830, and is a son of William and Hiljiah (Winchell) Kings- bury. His grandfathers, William Kingsbury and Rensalear Winchell, were natives of Con- necticut. His father, William King.sbury, was born in " the land of steady habits " during the latter pai-t of the eighteenth century, served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and removed from his native State to Cortland county, New York, in the year 1817. Henry C. King.sbury grew to manhood at Homer where he attended the public schools for several years. He then entered Hamilton col- lege from which he was graduated in 1849. Im- mediately after graduation he commenced the study of law with William Northup of Homer, read two years and was admitted to pi-actice in the Supreme Court of New York in 1851, at twenty-one years of age. Two years later he removed to Sherman where he practiced his profession successfully until 1859, when he came to Westfield and soon built up a good practice in the courts of Chautauqua county, which he has gradually increased from year to year. He is a democrat in politics. Though for that reason debarred from political office, his fellow-citizens have honored him — with many non-partisan positions, and for twenty years he has been president of the Board of Education. He owns nearly four hundred acres of good farming and grazing land, a part of which is well adapted to grapes and small fruits. On September 3, 1855, he united in marriage with Mary A. La Due, daughter of Joshua La Due, a native of Auburn, New York, who held several important offices in the town of Sher- man, Westfield and Portland, and died in 18G5, aged seventy-one years. To Mr. and ]\Irs. Kingsbury have been born five children, three OF CHAUTAUQUA COVyTV. sons and two daughters : Carlton, who read law, was admitted to the bar and is practicing with his fiitiier ; Edward P., a lawyer of Ogdens- burg, New York ; Clara K., wife of James L. Weeks, an attorney-at-law of Jamestown ; Julia H., and Henry C, Jr. JOXATH.AJS' P. PEXXOCK, who, with his son, is conducting a first-class grocery store in Jamestown, was born in Lj-me, Graf- ton county. New Hampshire, October 12, 1824, his parents being Alvin and Zilpha (Kidder) Pennock. Adonijah Pennock (paternal grand- father) was a native of the Green Mountain State and passed most of his days within its borders but a few years before his death he re- moved to this county. He was a carpenter by trade and followed it until advanced age for- bad. His wife was Elizabeth Bacon and they had seven children. Alvin Pennock was born in Vermont in 1800 and came from there to Jamestown in 1827 where he was employed as a laborer at the woolen mills, which were es- tablished in 1817. He married Zilpha Kidder, who came from the family of Kidders who were among Jamestown's first settlers, in 1823, and had eight children, two of whom died young. Mr. Pennock was a whig and a mem- ber of the Methodist church, in which faith he departed from life in 1842. Jonathan P. Pennock, upon arriving at school age, began his education and when suffi- ciently advanced attended the Jamestown acad- emy where he completed the course of instruc- tion taught, and leaving school secured employ- ment in the Jamestown woolen mills, where he worked until twenty years of age and then employed himself at chair manufacturing. On August 31, 1848, he married Clarissa B. Price, who, like his mother, came from one of the oldest families of the county. They have been the parents of four children : one who died in infancy ; Charles P., died when fifteen years old; Frank A., in business with 7 his father, married May Martin, daughter of Dr. W. B. ^lartin, a prominent physician of Busti, and they iiave two children: William J., and Marjorie ; and Lee .J. who is a machinist and draughtsman is tiie youngest son of J. P. Pennock. J. P. Pennock is an active ri'piiblican and served as constable and de[)nty shei'iff for a number of years. He also filled the ofiice of tax collector for a period of twelve years. For about one year during the war he conducted a grocery, and since 1877 has been in that busi- ness with his sou, their store being located on the corner of Main and Si.Kth streets. They have a large trade and are doing an excellent business. J\lr. Pennock is a Baptist and for the past twenty-seven or twenty-eight years has been an active member of JMt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, F. and A. M. /^UST. BUKLAUND, a member of thecon- ^^ traeting and building firm of Mahoney Bros. & Burlaund, and a native of Sweden, is the son of Abraham and Anna (Swanson) Bur- laund, and was born on the 21st day of Sep- tember, 1854, near (iinsiping. .John Burlaund (grandfather) was a well-to-do farmer and mason and never came to America, being em- ployed until his death in the work mentioned and as a contractor. Andrew Swanson (mater- nal grandfather) was a farmer and during Swe- den's last war, in her struggle with Russia and Finland, he served the king as a soldier. Abraham Burlaund was born in Sweden, December 10, 1821, and followed farming in his native country until 1868, when seeing greater inducements in the new world than the fatherland offered, he left his home and came to America. On his arrival he at once came to Jamestown and engaged in farming and stock- dealing, but died very shortly after his arrival, on September 10, 1868. He left his wife with eight children, five of whom are still living. Clai'ence H. is engaged in the livery business. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY After the death of Mr. Burlauud, Mrs. Bur- launil again married, this time to Peter Swan- son. Gust. Burlaund received his early education in the public schools of Sweden and after ins father's death he was apprenticed to and learned the mason's trade which he followed from 1872 to 1883. In 1879 he married Matilda Stonfaldt, a daughter of Andrew Stonfaldt, of Morlunda. To this union have been born three children, one sou and two daughters : Archie F. (dead) ; Anna R. (dead) ; and Ellen Matilda. From 1883 until 1885 he was a contractor and builder, but during the latter year he asso- ciated himself with the well-known firm of Mahoney Bros., and the company is now known as Mahoney Bros. & Burlaund, contractors and builders. Their reputation stands equal with the best in Jamestown and as specimens ot their handiwork, they point with pride to the Gilford block, Gokey house and the Swedisli Orphanage, which are among the largest and finest buildings in the city. The company em- ploys during the busy season as many as eighty workmen. Politically Mr. Burlaund is a re- publican, but is known as one that is indepen- dent, feeling that country is before party, and patriotism should be before partisanship. He is a communicant of the Lutheran church and takes an interest in his church work. 0-11^48 S. DERBY, an old and highly re- *^ spected citizen of Jamestown, is a sou of Joseph and Elizabeth (Kenyon) Derby, and was born April 29, 1820, in Monroe county, Xew York. His grandfather, Phineas Derby, was born in Vermont, where he quietly pursued farming and died. The Kenyon branch of the family came from Rhode Island and settled near Batavia, in Genesee county, this State. Joseph Derby was born in the Green Mountain State but while yet a young man, went to Monroe county, this State, and later to Warren county, Pa., locating near Sugar Grove, where he died March 14, 1837. While nominally a farmer he was essentially a mechanic, conducting his farm, as did many artisans of that day, to keep em- ployed. He was a democrat and a member of the Free Baptist church. He married Elizabeth Kenyon, in 1811, and had five children, all sous : Phineas, who removed to Michigan, where he died in 1889, at the age of eighty years ; Sylvanus was a resident of Saginaw, ^Michigan, where he died in 1883, at sixty-nine years of age ; John K., is a painter, residing at Jamestown (see his sketch) ; William R., who for many years followed farming, and is now buying and dealing in stock at North Warren, Pa. ; and Silas S. Derby. Silas S. Derby was educiited in the schools near his early home and at the age of eighteen came to Jamesto\\'n, from Warren, Pa., and has resided here ever since. Soon after his arrival he established himself as a painter and in 1839 opened a paint store in partnership with his brother, Jno. K. Derby, which they conducted for at least twenty years, but for the last si.xteen years he has laid aside the cares of active busi- ness and only attends to his investments made from the accumulations of earlier toil. He is now the owner of considerable real estate. On December 17, 1840, Mr. Derby married Huldah E. Frask, a daughter of Elijah Frask, who resides adjacent to Busti, this county, although they came originally from Penfield, near Rochester, this State. They have been the parents of but two children : Agnes D. ; and Sylvia A., who wedded Darwin E. Hay- ward, a railroad conductor living at Buflalo, this State. S. S. Derby was a rejiublican and as such held the office of street commissioner in this city, but of late years his sympathies have been with the prohibitionists. He belongs to the Royal Tem[)lars of Temperance and is a member of the Wesleyan Metho list church OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. /^-If.VWFOKD STKAKNS is one of the most ^^ successful farmers and cattle dealers in this county. He was Ijoru in Arkwright, Chautauqua county, New York, ^lay 9, 1830, and is a son of Benjamin and Electa (Halstead) Stearns. Benjamin Stearns was of English de- scent and was born in Vermont, in 1803, and came to this county in 1820, where he became an extensive farmer and stock-dealer and was successful in gathering together a goodly siiare of riches. In politics he was a democrat and held the office of county commissioner for sev- eral years. His religious convictions prompted him to become a member of the Baptist church, of which his wife was also a member. He died in Villanova, this county, in 1866, aged sixty- three years. In 1825, he married Electa Hal- stead, a native of Canada, who is now in her eighty-fifth year and resides at Villanova. They had sis children. Crawford Stearns was reared on the farm and received his education in the public schools. He has always been occupied in agricultural jjursuits, and now owns a fine farm of four hundred and fifteen acres in Villanova, besides being largely interested in cattle-dealing. In 1883, he came to Forestville and built a fine residence which he still occupies. Full of push and energy, he has as a natural consequence been very successful and now in the autumn of life is enjoying the fruits of his efforts. Politi- cally he is a republican and has held several village offices. In religion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of which he is also a steward and trustee. He is a member of Hanover Grange, No. 594, Patrons of Hus- bandry, and Hanover Lodge, No. 10, A, O. U. W. Strong in his convictions, fileasant and kindly in temperament and disposition, he is respected and esteemed by all who come in con- tact with him. In 1854, Mr. Stearns was united in marriage with Louisa White, a daughter of Joel White, of Arkwright this county, and they have been the parents of two children : Lester F., district attorney at Dunkirk, this count}' ; and Allie M., married to Irving Powers, who is engaged in the railroad business and resides at Buifalo. Mrs. Stearns is also a member of the ^lethodist Episcopal church. O-^IUEL SHEPAKl) CKISSKY is a well '*^ educated man of advanced ideas, and in addition to his labors in his nurseries, frequent- ly contributes to the newspapers valuable, in- teresting and instructive papers on the subject of farm work. He is a son of Harlow and Anna (Shepard) Crissey and was born in Stock- ton, Chautau(pia county, New York, August 13, 1833. His paternal great-grandfather, John Crissey, was born in Massachu.setts in 1700 and married Martha Davenj^ort in July, 1731, at Boston, Ma.sisachusetts. By this mar- riage there were six sous, and three of them came to Stockton, this county, in 1816. The names of these six sons were : John Jr., James Gould, Nathaniel, Samuel and Sylvanus. Sam- uel Crissey (grandfather) was the fifth son of John (great-grandfather), and was born in Fair- fax, Franklin county. In 1816 he settled in the north part of the town of Stockton, on lot thii-ty-nine, where he resided until his death I\Iarch 1, 1848, having just passed his seventy- seventh birthday. This lot comjjrised one hun- dred acres of wilderness, which he cleared and cultivated. He was one of the founders of the Baptist church in Delanti, and served it occa- sionally as a preacher. Samuel Crissey was married in 1799 to Lucy Grosvenor of Fairfax, Vermont, by whom he had seven children, three sons and four daughters : Almira, born in 1800, married Ethan Covley, both dead, (she died in 1868) whose daughter, Generva, is the wife of Mortimer Ely ; Harlow (father) born in December, 1802; Jason, born in 1805, mar- ried Roxanna Winsor and died in 1875, leav- ing four children : a son, Jirah ; a son, Edward J., living in Fredonia N. Y. ; a daughter. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY Mary, wife of Lucieu C. Warren, of Stockton ; and Sardis, who served in the army, and is in the department of the Interior at Washington, District of Columbia; Lucy, born in 1808, married Chauueey Winsor of Delanti, whose children are Wealthy Ann, widow of B. W. Fields, of Sinclairville, N. Y. ; Cynthia, born in 1812, married Zaimon Jennings, removed to Pennsylvania where she died in 1836; Patty, born in 180!) and died in 1821; Samuel, born in 1816, married Julia Grant of Fredonia and resides in Stockton, and has a daughter Lucy, the wife of Cassius Perrin, for several years a justice of the peace; a daughter Myra, wife of Georo-e Putnam ; and a sou Forest. Of the seven children of Samuel Crissey, Sr., none are living, except Harlow. Natiianiel and Sylva- nus Crissey, of Vermont, were brothers of Samuel Crissey, Sr. Nathaniel had two sons, Alson, who died at the age of thirty-one years ; and ISIerrill, who married Eunice Tracy, has been supervisor of Stockton, and had five chil- dren : Thomas, and two pair of twin broth- ers of whom one is dead. Sylvanus Crissey removed with his family to the west. Samuel Shepard (maternal grandfatlier) was born in Ashfield, Franklin county, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 13, 1778, and came to Stockton, this county, July 9, 1819, and was the first justice in Stockton. He married Rachel Cobb in June, 1798, by whom he had five children, two sons and three daughters: Ezra, Pamelia, Anna, Polly and Madison, all born in Massa- chusetts. Samuel Shepard died June 5, 1862, in the eighty-fifth year of his age ; Mrs. Shep- ard preceded him to the better land November 8, 1860. Harlow Crissey (father) came to this country with his father and settled in Stockton, taught school a few years and then purchased two hundred acres of land which he cultivated, and also started one of the first dairy farms in this section, owning forty cows. He was supervisor a few terras and was elected jus- tice of the peace in 1850 on the Whig ticket for one term of three years. In religion he was a member of the Baptist church. Harlow Cris- sey was married November 2, 1862, to Anna Shepard, a daughter of Samuel Shepard of Stockton, this county, by whom he had four children, all sons: Newton, born April 6, 1828, married Cynthia R. Miller and is a farmer in Stockton ; Samuel S. ; Seward M., born April 9, 1839, married Lucy Wood and is also a far- mer in Stockton ; and Elverton B., born June 23, 1843, married Mary Langworthy and is a banker in Jamestown, this county. Samuel Shepard Crissey was educated in the district school of Stockton until he was eighteen years of age, after which he attended the Fre- donia academy for three years, and then taught school three terms. He then engaged in the nursery business and fruit growing, having now eleven acres of most excellent laud, four acres of which are devoted to grapes, and last year those four acres produced seventeen tons of the iiest quality of that esculent fruit. Grow- ing grape roots for market is another specialty in which he indulges. For seven years he has been secretary of the Chautauqua Horticultural society. In religion he is a Baptist, being a member of the church of that denomination in Fredonia. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Fredonia for several terms. Samuel Shepard Crissey was married in Decem- ber, 1859, to Mary A. Leonard, a daughter of George V. and Anna Leonard of Fredonia, by whom he has had three children, all sous : Jay, born January 15, 1861, who is principal of the academy at Belmont, Allegany county. New York, and who married Alice Kennedy; George H., born December 24, 1862, and now a resi- ! dent of California ; and Howard B., born Feb- • ruary 22, 1864 and died October 11, 1889, while a junior at Cornell University, Ithaca, ; New York. Mrs. Crissey died May 31, 1868, and S. S. Crissey married January 15, 1871, Mrs. Ella K. Wright, widow of A. J. Wright, i D.D.S., of Fredonia and by her has had two % • ^- MAJOR E, A, CURTIS, OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. cliildren, sons: Newtou K., born July 12, 1873; aud Lester, born in 1877 but died in infancy. llir A JOIf ENOCH A. CURTIS, a successful 4 architect of Fi-edonia and a prominent post and encampment commander in the Grand Army of the Republic, is a son of Isaac C. and Susan H. (Hunter] Curtis, aud was born in the town of Busti, Chautauqua county, New York, July 19, 1836. Enoch A. Curtis is of Scotch- Irish descent ou his paternal side aud his grand- father, Rev. Enoch Curtis, was born in New Hampshire. He was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, removed to Pennsylvania and afterwards died in Cattarau- gus county, this State. His son, Isaac C. Cur- tis, the father of Enoch A. Curtis, was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where he luarrii'd Susan Hunter, a native of the same county. In 1834 he settled ou a fiirm in the town of Busti, and died in 1881, aged seventy -two years. Enoch A. Curtis was reared on his father's farm. He received his education at Jamestown academy from whicli he graduated in 1848. He then learned the trade of carpenter and joiner^ which he followed until the breaking out of the late civil war, excepting a part of the winter seasons during which he taught in the public schools. On July 13, 1862, he enlisted in the 112th regiment, N. Y. Infantry, under Presi- dent Lincoln's call of that year for three hundred thousand volunteers, for three years service. On August 12, 1862, he was commis- sioned captain of Co. D, which he commanded in the various skirmishes and battles in which his regiment was engaged until the fearful strug- gle at Cold Harbor where he received such severe wounds as to unfit him for further mili- tary service. He was honorably discharged ou September 12, 1864, on account of his wounds, and on June 27, 1867, was brevetted major by Governor Fenton for " gallantry at the battle of Cold Harbor." After the war he settled at Fredonia, where he resumed his studies in archi- tecture, which had been interrupted by the war, and in a sliort time had erected several fine and tasteful buildings which recommended him to the public favor as being a competent and skilled architect. He has prosecuted the study of his profession for over thirty years aud his experience as an architeqt has specially fitted him for tlie responsibilities of this most exacting of all the art sciences. The structtu'es which he has designed, stand as evidence of his skill, and prominent among them we may mention : the fine residence of A. O.Putnam, of Fredonia, R. G. Wright, of Westfield, and M. L. Hiu- man, of Diuikirk ; National Transit company building. Oil City and the Fredonia, and Oil City Town Halls. On Sept. 12, 1859, he married Jennie Nor- ton, of the town of Harmony. Tiiey have two children : Isabella and Edith. Major Curtis is kept very busy in his pro- fession, and does a large and lucrative business. He is a republican in politics, and has been president of the village corporation. He is a member and has been president of the Chautau- qua County Veteran union. He is past comman- der of Northern Chautauqua Encampment and commander of E. D. Holt Post, No. 403, Grand Army of the Republic. TAI-ILLIA3I K. DOUtiLAS, who owns and -*"'■ conducts the largest grocery, crockery and queenswai'e house of Westfield, was born in county Down, Ireland, January 30, 1847, and is a son of Thompson aud Anna J. (Shaw) Douglas. His parents were both born in county Down aud became members of the Presbyterian church. His father was engaged in the grocery business and in farming, and died in 1889, at eighty years of age. His mother is a daughter of James Shaw, who was a prominent linen manufacturer of Ireland (see sketch of Robert Shaw). She is now in the seventy-fifth year of her age and resides on the Ikiuic farm in county Down. BIOGRAPHY AXI) HISTORY William R. Douglas passed his boyhood days on the fiirm aud attended the national schools at Ireland. At sixteen years of age he left his native land and came (December, 1^-e^ OF CHArTAl-QVA COlWrV. 137 Babcock & Co., manufacturers of the widely celebrated Eureka Smut and Separating Ma- chine, where he held a clerkship for six years, and then (March 1, 1888) bought a third inter- est in the parlor furniture frames factory of Kofoed & Brc, in Silver Creek, the firm name being changed to Kofoed, Bros. & Brown, in whicii firm he still continues. They employ thirty operatives, their average sales being three hundred suits per month. In politics he is a democrat, and was a member of the board of trustees of Silver Creek for two years and in March, 1891, was elected president of the Vil- lage. He is a past-master of Silver Lodge, No. 757, F. and A. M. of Silver Creek. Arthur L. Brown was married November 17, 1880, to M. Cora Norton a daughter of Henry S. Norton, of Belmont, Allegany county, this State, by whom he has one son and two daughters: Ralph A., Florence N., and Alice M. ^I3IK()X HOAVES. Probably the one man ^^ who has done more to advance the mate- rial welfare of the village of Silver Creek than any other is the venerable and aged gentleman w-hose name appears at the head of this sketch. He became identified with this place in 1856, and since New Year's Day, 1866, has been at the head of our leading manufacturing estab- lisiiment. Simeon Howes is a sou of Sylvauus and Persis (Crittenden) Howes, and was born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, March 28, 1815, and is now seventy-six years old. He is a direct descendant of rugged and long-lived ancestry and traces his family back to a very early day, when three brothers emigrated to North America, settling at Cape Cod. When he was about one year of age his parents re- moved to jNIiddlebury, Wyoming county, this State, where they tilled the soil for subsistence for themselves and family. While he was still a boy his parents died and left him to battle with the world alone. Fortunately for him, his grandparents were still living, and he re- turned to Massachusetts and sj)ent three years with them near the scene of his birth. His life during this period was probably not materially different from that of other boys of tiiat time. He went to school and worked hard on the farm in his spare hours, and considered it the climax of earthly bliss to go to " general train- ing " with a couple of shillings in his pocket to spend. When he was sixteen years old, Mr. Howes returned to AYyoming county, and from that time on he has had to " paddle his own canoe." Three months at the academy at jNIiddlebury, then quite a noted educational in- stitution, finished his schooling and placed him in a position to impart to others the education he had himself received. For eight years he earned his living teaching school in winter, and working on a farm during the summer months. Then in 1838, he married Angeliue Ewell and settled down to farming. The issue of this union was eight children, five of whom are still living. These are : Mrs. Geo. P. Brand, Miss Charlotte L. Howes, Mrs. R. J. Quale, and Mrs. W. H. INIerritt, of Silver Creek, and Mrs. L. F. W. Arend, of Buffalo. At this occupa- tion he continued for fourteen years, and appar- ently had found his life work. But, fortunate- ly, as it afterwards proved, his health began to fail and he decided that he would give up farm- ing and turn his hand to something else. A fortunate determination indeed. On the farm he had only made his living and a trifle more. In his new business he was to make a reputa- tion and a fortune. In the spring of 1853 Mr. Howes went to Miami county, Ohio, and joined with Benja- min Rutter and Henry Rouzer in placing upon the market a combined smut and .separating machine. This embodied in a crude form the principles of the Euieka machine, which has proved so successful, but, as is generally the case with new inventions, the first machines BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY made were of comparatively little value for the use inteuded. Still it was the jjioneer, and as .sucli is worthy of respect. Some fifty machines were made and sold during the continuance of his partnership. The work of introducing them to millers was done entirely by I\Ir. Howes. In October of that year a patent was granted to Rutter & Rouzer, and then it was decided to stop making machines and to sell the patent in- stead. Accordingly, in the spring of 1854, jNIr. Howes and Gardner E. Throop, acting as agents for Messrs. Rutter & Rouzer, sold the patent under which the machines were made to Ezekiel ^lontgomery and his two sons, of Sil- ver Creek, and the right of selling in fourteen counties in western New York ; while Alpheus Babcock purchased the right of selling in nine counties of western Pennsylvania. Mr. Howes then went to Watertown, Xew York, where he devoted considerable time to improving the machine ; at the same time the other parties who had purchased the right to manufacture were striving in the same direction, and the re- sult naturally was much improvement. Not many machines were built, however, until in 1856 Mr. Howes moved to Silver Creek and joined hands with the Montgomerys in building the machines. In that year and the next about 120 machines were built, and they were I'e- ceived with favor by millers. In 1858, after a considerable delay in the patent office, a patent was granted Messrs. Howes and Throop for improvements in com- bined smut and separating machines. The principal points of novelty claimed in this pat- ent were, first; the placing of the separators side by side, and second ; the enclosing of the perforated case within an outside casing and connecting the space thus formed by means of tubes with an exhaust fan for the purpose of re- moving the dust. This patent was subsequent- ly held to be the foundation patent on combined smut and separating machines, and Howes and Throop claim to be its original inventors. At its expiration, in 1872, it was re-issued and its term extended for seven years. In 1879 it finally expired. In 1859 Sir. Howes sold out his interest — one-third — to his partners, and retired from the grain-cleaning machine business for a time, and during the interim between that date and 1864, the business was carried on by the Montgom- erys and also by the Babcocks, who each manu- factured a machine diiFering in some respects from that of the other. In 1864 Mr. Howes joined the Babcocks, and they carried on their business und»r the style of Howes, Babcock & Company. The Messrs. Babcock had already made some improvements in the machine, and Mr. Howes now suggested certain others. On January 1, 1866, Howes, Babcock & Co., bought for .$20,000, the business of the jNIessrs. Montgomery, and the firm changes since that date have consi-sted in the addition of Mr. Albert Hortou, in 1866, who, the same year sold his interest to Mr. Carlos Ewell ; the re- moval by death of jNIessrs. Babcock and Ewell, and the purchase of the interests of the estates of those gentlemen by Mr. Howes, who now for nearly three years has been the sole proprietor of this immense business. How steadily the business has grown may be judged by the constant enlargement of the buildings, and the great increase of the working force. In 1865 employment was given to only fifteen men ; subsequently this number was increased to fifty. In 1873, large, new brick shops were erected and another addi- tion to the workmen was made, so that now about 130 men are kept steadily employed in the factory which is 220x50 feet on the ground and is four stories high. In 1865 about 200 machines were made. All the work was done by hand, and the cast- ings were made outside. The next year the output was increased to 700 machines, and after that the number averaged about 1000 annually. At first only the combined smut and sei)arator OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTY. was built, but beginning in 1874 other luaeiiiues were added, until now a full line of grain clean- ing machinery is made and the total sales amount to upwards of 2000 machines per year. We have not, nor can we obtain, the figures relative to the number of men employed and the amount paid out in wages, prior to 1865, but we have figures beginning \vith that year, when ^Ir. Howes re-acquired an interest in the business, and a brief study of them will prove not only interesting, but highly instructive as well: YEAR. .\-( ). MEN. VEAKIV W.1GES. YEAR. NO. JIE.V. , YEAKLY WAGES. 1865 11 818,979.27 1878 66 $47,424.33 1SC)(5 29 33,694.80 1879 66 47,456.11 lS(i7 39 37,209.30 1880 75 53,777.15 1SG8 52 35,161.42 1881 89 57,819.99 18(511 55 48,337.55 1882 105 68,250.62 1870 53 44,946.88 1883 131 74,650.34 1871 53 48,093.78 1884 121 70,718.69 1872 58 50,198.63 1885 112 71,601.37 1873 61 53,356.21 1886 113 74,757.76 1874 67 55,005.42 1887 113 71,227.56 1875 64 53,277.22 1888 106 68,124.77 1876 67 48,668.43 1889 128 79,813.98 1877 71 till wa 48,756.43 ges in twenty Tol -five years $1,356,208.01 Making an average annual pay-roll of $54,248. 32 ; an average monthly roll of §4,520.69 ; and an average amount of §151.71, paid out for every day. In all these years Mr. Howes has had sole control of the financial and business manage- ment of this company and the manner in which he has discharged his duties needs no com- ments. No man's word .stands higher than his ; a promise is never forgotten nor in the least de- gree abated from. Financially, none in Silver Creek ranks higher than Simeon Howes; socially he is esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and in genera! popu- larity it is doulitful if a man could be found in Chautauqua county who possesses a larger de- gree of the people's confidence. He is a liberal supporter of the Presbvterian and Methodi-st Episcopal churches of Silver Creek, and, although allied with neither, is now, and for fifteen years ])ast, has been a trus- tee of the latter. In political adherence he is a stanch republi- can, and, although four times a delegate to the State conventions of his party, lias steadily refused other political distinction. Q X.SOX A. BUULIX is one of the natiou's ■^^ brave defenders, who responded when the second call was sounded, and remained until Union, one and inseparable, was acknowledged by our southern brothers. He is a sou of Brad- ford and Amelia R. (Standish) Burlin, and was born in Jamestown, Chautautpia county, New York, December IS, 1842. His ancestors were long to the manor born, the paternal side com- ing from the Green Mountain State, while his mother's early fathers were Puritans, and .'ihe a direct lineal descendant of the renowned Cap- tain Miles Standish. His grandfixther, John Burlin, lived and died a citizen of Vermont, and the maternal grandfather, Samuel Standish, was reared and resided in Washington county, this State. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served with credit and distinction. Bradford Burlin came to Chautauqua county in 1832, and built a hou.se in the vicinity of Broc- ton, afterwards, in 1838, coming into James- town where he died, November 10, 1864. While living at Brocton he kept a hotel, but his business in this city was the manufacture of wagons until the year 1859, when he sold out and engaged in milling at Dexterville, besides owning and cultivating a farm in the town oi Poland. Mr. Burlin was a democrat, and a prominent member of Ellicott Lodge, No. 221, I. O. O. F. He was married to Amelia R. Standish in 1832, and had six children : George, died in infancy ; Robert H., is a contractor of Cleveland, Ohio. He served in Co. H, 6th regiment, Indiana Infantry, entering in 1S61, BIOGRAPHY AXl) HISTORY and remaining three years, a portion of the time a non-commissioned officer, and being attached to the Army of the Cumberland, was present at the battle of Chattanooga, where he was wounded ; Anson A. ; Charles, who died young ; Louisa I. and Samuel P., who left home in 1883, and has not since been heard of. Anson A. Burlin received a college education and, when in his twentieth year, enlisted in Co. A, 112th regiment, New York Infantry, serv- ing until the close of the war. The greater portion of his active .service was rendered along the Atlantic coast, being with his regiment until December 20, 1863. He was then detailed for recruiting service, and coming north, was in New York until May 4, 1864. Eeturning to the front and rejoining his regiment, he was again detailed, this time for service as orderly at brigade headquarters, remaining there until February 20, 1865, when he again joined his company, but four days later he was sent to headquarters of the 20th army corps, and en- gaged iu the printing ile])artment, where he stayed until discharged at the close of the war. Being mu.stered out of service, he came back to Jamestown and soon opened an establishment for the manufacture of wagons and carriages, running it for one year, and theu went into the oil business at Oil Creek, Pa., afterwards re- turning to Jamestown, and entered mercautile life, following it about ten years. This, in turn was succeeded by a news and stationery store, continued for five years, and then he went to Virginia and lumbered, subsequently running a steamboat for one year on Lake Chautauqua. He then returned to manufacturing, this time wood seat chairs, when in 1889 he quit that and has since been living in retirement. In political matters Mr. Burlin is a demo- crat and a prominent secret society man, being a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145, F. and A. M., Western Sons Chapter ; and Jamestown Commandtry, and is also connected with James M. Brown Post, No. 285, G. A. R. HONORABLE WAKKEX B. HOOKER. They who have won prominent position and honorable distinction in life are not all old men. In political, as in business or military life, those who '.vin the rank of leaders, do so at an early age, or else give decided earnest of future achievement. Of that class of young men in Chautauqua county, who have won suc- cess by their own eiforts, is Hon. Warren B. Hooker, the present member of Congress from the Thirty-fourth congressional district of New York, composed of the counties of Allegany, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus. He is a son of John and Philena (Waterman) Hooker, and was born at Perrysburg, Cattaraugus county, New York, November 24, 1850. John Hooker was a native of Vermont, and .settled iu Cattar- augus county, where he was a leading farmer at the time of his death, June 24, 1888, when in the eighty-second year of his age. He married Philena Waterman, of Massachusetts, who passed away iu 1883, aged seventy years. Warren B. Hooker was reared on the farm and received his education at Forestville acad- emy, from which he was graduated in the class of 1872. At the close of his academic course, he determined upon law as a life vocation, and pursued his legal studies with J. G. Record, of Forestville, this county. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and practiced in Chautau(]ua county until 1882, when he went west. At the end of two years he returned to Chautauqua county, and established himself in active prac- tice at Fredonia, where he has remained ever since. His political career commenced in 1878, when he was elected special surrogate of Chau- tauqua county, which position he held for three years. In 1890 he recei%'ed the nomination of his party for Congress over several popular and able republican leaders, and at the ensuing elec- tion had a majority of 5,726 votes over his democratic opponent. On September 11, 1884, he united in mar- riage with Etta E. Abbev, dauIAS J. XEWET.L i-^ a son of Harvey *~ C. and Jane E. (Buck) Xewell, and was born in Sherman, Chautauqua county, New York, February 29th, 1848. His grandfatlier, Jesse Newell, was a native of Connecticut and emigrated to Genesee county, this State, when in 1822 he came to Sherman, in this county, where he owned and cultivated a farm of two hundred acres, and where he died, aged ninety- one years. In politics he was a democrat. He took great delight in military aifairs and was a captain in the New York State militia. Jesse Newell married Amarias Cole, by whom he had eleven cliildren, six sons and five daughters, all living but Harvey C. (father). One of the SODS, Thomas, served in the army in the late war. The maternal grandfather of Thomas J. Newell was Lansing L. Buck, a native of Con- necticut, who came to Sherman, in this county, about the time the Newells did (1822), when this locality was a dense forest. He was a far- mer by occupation, and an influential man among tlie pioneers here. Lansing L. Buck married Lydia Lewis and had four children, one .son and three daughters ; the son and one of the daughters are still living. Wallace, the son, is engaged in manufacturing in Bellville, N. J. Harvoy C. Newell (fatiier) was born in Connecticut, January 28, 1816, and died in Sherman, this county, in 18(57, 'aged fifty-one years. His jirincipal occupation was that of a farmer. In religion he was a memlier of the Methodist church, as was also his wife, and in politics he was a republican. Harvey C. Newell was married to Jane E. Buck, by whom he had four cliildren, three sons and one daughter : James H., who is in mercantile business at Belvidere, Nebraska ; Thomas J. ; Mary A., who married G. W. Tas- sell, a merchant, and lives in Iroquois, South Dakota ; and Ziba J., who is a railroad con- ductor and lives in Broctou, this county. Thomas J. Newell in 1869, engaged in the mercantile business at North Clymer, this county, where he kept a general store for eleven years, and in 1880 came to Sherman and opened a grocery store, in which l>e still continues. In politics he is a republican, and is now on his si.Kth term as town clerk, and is also village clerk. While he was at North Clymer he M-as appointed postmaster there. Thomas J. Newell was married November 24, 1870 to Sarah E. Pitt, a daughter of N. Pitt, and has two children, a son and daugliter: Edith E. and Clitibrd H. TOHX W. PITTS was the son of John and ^ Charlotte Pitts, and was born in England Augast 29, 1829. John Pitts (father) was a native of England, and came from there to America, settling at Chatham, Columbia county, N. Y., removing from thence to the State of Iowa, where both himself and wife died. John W. Pitts secured his education while young and went into a store when a mere boy, and after a clerkship of several years, established iiiinself in a .store, first at Canaan, N. Y., where BIOGRAPHY ASI) HISTORY he was a general merchant and postmaster for a number of years, and iu 1866 he came to Jamestown and opened a grocery store ht No. 209 Main street, which he conducted for several years, then built a brick store on Third street and removed there, but failing health compelled him to give up all business three years before his death, which occurred in December, 1881. In 1850, he married Lucy E. Bristol, a daughter of George and Sarah (Hutchinson) Bristol. This gentleman was a native of Columbia county, but removed to Oswego, Tioga county, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. Pitts had nine children (five living), four sons and one daughter : Henry, married Allie Bassett, and lives in Washington, D. C, where he is engaged iu handling dressed beef; Sarah B., is the wife of Henry Anderson and lives in Brooklyn, X. Y., where her hus- band is employed as an instructor iu the gym- nasium of the Adelphi academy ; J. Edwin is employed in the U. S. Railway Mail service, and married Agnes Kretch, of Corry, Pa. ; William is employed in Jamestown, by A. D. Sharp, who is in the dry goods business ; and George is a book-keeper in the liardware store of Clark & Co., of Jamestown. Mr. Pitts was a memlier of the Congrega- tional church in this city and belonged to the Kniglits of Honor and Royal Templars. He was a sterling gentleman, and his death, when but fifty-two years of age, was mourned by his sorrowing widow and a large circle of friends. His remains were interred in Lake A^iew cem- etery at Jamestown. FKANK HUNT, D.V.S., comes from a long line of farmers, his great-grandfather, of whom we are first apprised, following that occupation in New England, and he was fol- lowed iu the same work in turn by each suc- ceeding generation ; Dr. Hunt being so em- ployed until 1884. But while agriculture is among the noblest of man's pursuits, an active mind and ambitious disposition often seeks a broader field, and this is what our subject decided to do iu 1884. Leaving the farm he came to Jamestown and entered the insurance business, which he followed for two years, when he decided to attend the Ontario Veterinary College of Toronto. He matriculated in 1886, and pursuing the study with interest, he gradu- ated in 1887, since which time he has been suc- cessfully practicing his profession in the city of Jamestown, but retains his interest in his farm just inside the city. Mr. Hunt was born at Ellicott (now within the limits of the city of Jamestown) on the twenty-eighth day of Janu- ary, 1857, and is a son of John L. and Orilla Hunt. John L. Hunt is a .son of Elvin Hunt, whose father came from New England. Orilla, wife of John L. Hunt, was a daughter of George R. Nelson, a native of England, but who came to America, and located in Chautau- qua county, New York. He left there in 1860 and went to Minnesota, where he settled and afterwards died. Elvin Hunt was born in Washington county, New York, but located near Jamestown, on what is now known as the Hunt road. He was a farmer, and in politics affiliated with the whigs, although like his children since, he never aspired to be an office holder. He married Sylvia Lee, and with her raised a family of six boys and four girls, nearly all of wliom settled adjacent to James- town. Of this large family all were farmers, excepting one who was a machinist. John L. Hunt was born in Washington county, New York, iu 1840, and moved to Chautauqua county with his parents when a small boy, where he died, when forty-four years of age. He was the father of four children, one of whom died young. Of the others George E. married Lizzie Loucks, and is living in the city of Jamestown on the Hunt road. He has two children : John L. and George E. Jr. ; and William H., who is employed in Jamestown. Dr. Hunt led to the altar Miss Kate OF CHAUTAUQUA COUSTV. L. Crosby, whose father, Eliakam Crosby, one of the earliest settlers of the county, served the people acceptably as justice of the peace, and died in tiie town of Poland, of which place he was one of the original settlers. Dr. Hunt is a republican, but the office-holding bee does not buzz in his iiat. He is satisfied that those who desire them siiall have the trials and cares of jwlitical life, and is glad to see them secure all the honor and emoluments thej' honestly can. His veterinary practice, which is constantly growing, takes all of his time. Be- ing a good friend, he is pojiular with all his acquaintances. JOHXA. SLOTBOOX is a son of Garrett and Scena (Huytink) Slotboon, and was born in Holland, May 22, 1S41. His pa- ternal grandfather was also a native of Hol- land, where he lived and died. John Huytink (maternal grandfather) was likewise a native and life-long resident of Holland, and died there. His wife, after his death, came to America and died in Albany, this State, aged ninety years. Garrett J. Slotboon (father) was born in Hol- land, February 6, 1802, emigrated to America, spending his first winter in Albany, and came to this county in 1847, locating in Mina. Afterwards he came to Clymer about 1850, where he died September (j, 1885. He was a farmer by occupation, in politics was a republi- can, and in religion was a member of the Re- formed church. ^Yhile in Holland he had, in compliance with the laws of that country, served his time in the regular army. In 1832, he married Scena Huytink, a daughter of John Huytink, by whom he had five children, four of whom are living, all in this county; three of them in the town of Clymer. John A. Slotboon was educated in the com- mon schools of Clymer, this county, and began life as .a farmer. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. D, 112th regiment, N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged June 8, 1865. He was promoted to corporal, aud participated in the siege of Suffolk aud the Ijattle of Blaekwater, siege of Charleston, capture of Ft. Wagner aud bombardment of Ft. Sumter, went into Florida during the campaign there, thence to Bermuda Hundred, and Avas wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., June 1, 1864. In April, 1866, he entered the mercantile business at Cly- mer Hill, continuing in the same for about twenty-five years, and then moved to Clymer village, where he has been in business ever since, owning and running a first-class general store, aud doing a large business. Politically he is a republican, and served as a justice of the peace of Clymer four years, declining a re- election, and has also served as suj)ervisor of Clymer seven years. John A. Slotboon was married on January 13, 1866, to Magdalene Kooman, a daughter of Peter Kooman, of Dutch extraction, but born near Antwerp, and emigrated to Buffalo, this State, in 1847, where he resided eleven years, and then came to this county, settling in Clymer, where he died January 6, 1879, aged seventy-three years. To Mr. and ]\Irs. Slot- boon have been born five children : Sarah W., wife of Abrara Beckriuk, a gardener in James- town, near Falconer, they have one child, a son, Marvin Edward ; William Leonard, who lives in Clymer, and is iu business with his father ; Ada Paulina, at home ; one who died in infancy ; and Lvdia Louisa. TT JOHX PETERSOX was born a subject '^*-» of the King of Sweden, on June 18, 1844, and is a son of Andrew and Anna (Thranck) Peterson, of the town of Kaulstarp. His grandfather, Peter Peterson, was a life-long resident of his native land, Sweden, but his maternal grandfather, John P. Thranck, emi- grated to America and settled in Jamestown, where he resided until his death. He was a carpenter aud farmer, in politics a republican. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY aiul in religion a Metliodist. He married and reared cliildren. His fatlier, Andrew Peterson a native of Sweden, was born about 1815. He came to America in 1858, located in Jamestown, but subsequently removed to Sugar Grove, Pa., wbere lie remained one year, and tlien returned to Jamestown, wbere be passed the remainder of bis life. By trade he was a carpenter and joiner, and was also a contractor and builder. He was a republican in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and married Anna Thrauck, by whom he bad nine children : Theodore, enlisted in the Union army, July, 18(52, in Co. A, 112th regiment, X. Y. Vols., and served until the clo.se of the war. He was wounded in the arm at the battle of Cold Harbor, but this did not prevent his engaging in .several other battles, and died in Jamestown, July 27, 1881 ; Louisa married Peter Morgan, who was drowned in Lake Chau- tauqua, and after his death married John Kofod, of Jamestown; Matilda, wife of George Howard, of Jamestown ; Christina, married to James Holmes, of Jamestown ; Josephine, wife of Gustavus Carlson, a tailor of Jamestown ; William 0., married to Aleoia Tingwall for bis first wife and after her death married Dora Fox, and resides in Jamestown ; and Edward A., married to Edith Kirkpatrick, and is a salesman in bis brother's store. A. John Peterson received a common scliool education in Jamestown, supplemented by a prac- tical business experience and by wide reading and ob-servatiou. He began life on his own ac- count as a contractor and builder with his father and brother, and after his father's death he formed a partnership with his brother under the firm name of T. & A. J. Peterson, continu- ing therein fifteen years. During the latter part of that period they also engaged in the grocery business at No. 110 Main street, and finally abandoned contracting and building and devoted their attention to the grocery business uutil 1885, when he sold out, and the following year purcha.sed the clothing business in which Mr. Peterson .still continues, his brother having died. As merchant tailor, clothier, hatter and gentlemen's furnisher, he transacts a large and paying business. He is a republican in politics and has served on the board of aldermen of Jamestown two terms. He enlisted with his brother Theodore in the same company in July, 1862, serving until the close of the war, partici- pating in all the battles in which the Army of tiie Potomac was engaged and never received a scratch, although at the battle of Chapin Farm, he found seven bullet boles through his clothes at the close of the engagement. On Aug. 16, 1866, A. J. Peterson united in marriage with Clara Lanson, of Jjottsville, Pa., and after her death espoused Sophia Jones, of Jamestown. Their union has been blest with four cbildreu, three .sons and one daughter: James C, a clerk in his father's store ; Conrad (dead) ; Mabel Jenevieve, and John T. Loyal to his adopted country and his friends, yet having an affection for his native land, liberal in his ideas and broad in his sympathy, be is an excellent type of an ideal naturalized American. TOHX M. HA1{E>ENBI KG is an honest, ^ industrious and hard-working man, who has successfully conducted several farms, mak- ing money out of each, and after a more than average life-time, spent in agricultural pursuits, has, in the sere and yellow leaf of life, turned his attention to horticulture and enjoys it, for it is healthful, keeps one in touch with advancing methods, and is pecuniarily compensating for the time and labor employed. At least four generations of the family of Hardenburg have been Americans by birth, so that the more moderate Teutonic blood neutralizes the swifter and more nervous fluid which pulsates through the veins of an American, whose ancestors peopled Albion or Scotia. The paternal grand- father of John M. Hardenburg was a native of OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. Ulster comity, Xew York, being born in 1775. He became a farmer and removed to Oneida county, N. Y., locating on a farm there, but not being satisfied with his environments, he went to Tonjpkins county, where he bought a farm, which he a few years after sold and moved to Chautauqua, this county, where he purchased a farm, which he subsequently sold to his son Volkert, father of John M., about 1835. It is located nearly four miles from ^Slayville and is now owned by Nelson Crandall. He married Jane Vedder, by whom he had six children : Maria, who married Jacob Mowers ; Betsy, who married Israel Denman ; John ; Judith, who married Adam Hoffman ; Volkert, father of John M. ; Cornelius, whose wife was Adeline Tucker; and James. The father of these chil- dren died in 1840, and the mother in 1858. The maternal grandfather of John ]M. Harden- burg, John Miller, was a life-long resident of Oneida county. New York. The father of John M. was born in Oneida county. New York, January 25, 1799, and came to this county in 1834. He purchased a fifty acre farm three miles east of Mayville, worked it a short time and selling it, bought the farm of his father above alluded to and lived there two years. Thence he removed to the south-western part of Stockton, this county, where he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty-seven acres and continued investing in land until he became possessed of three hundred acres. He uow lives in Portland, Chautauqua county, a hale, hearty and hajjpy nouogenarian. He married, October 4, 1818, Susan Miller, daughter of John Miller, of Oneida county. New York, by whom he had six children, three sons and three daughters, of whom Jane A., the first-born, married George Munger, a blacksmith in Portland, this county ; Jacob is a farmer and dealer in cattle in West- field, and married Antoinette Hassett, Dec. 30, 1851 ; Catharine, now dead, married Thomas Ralph, a farmer in Stockton ; Cornelia, also de- ceased, married Stephen Reinhart, January 9, 1850. He is a farmer in Stockton, this county ; and Henry, a farmer in Westtield, married Diana Pane. The mother of these ciiildren died August 1st, 1868, and was buried at Westfield. John M. Hardenburg, a son of Volkert and Susan (Miller) Hardenburg, was born in Oneida county. New York, October 4th, 1823, and was educated in the common schools of Stockton, which he continued to attend, but only a few montiis in each year, until he was twenty-foiu' years old, when he rented a farm iu Stockton, where he remained two years and then bought a farm of one hundred acres, which he cultivated a brief time and sold it, only to buy another comprising one hundred and fifteen acres, on which he remained fourteen years. He then disposed of it and removed to Portland, where he purchased a smaller farm, some sixty acres, and lived three years. He bought, occupied and sold these farms success- ively and after the disposal of the third, he re- moved to Westfield, where he conducted a dairy farm for one year. Returning to Portland he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and occupied it sixteen years, after which, he sold it and came to Fredonia, whoe he now owns seven acres in the village on which he raises choice grapes. In religion he is a member of the Baptist church. John M. Hardenburg was married to Juliu A. Denton, September 12, 1848. She was a daughter of Fowler and Sophia (Colwell) Denton (her father being a farmer in Stockton), and by her had two .sons and two daughters, of whom Sophia, the eldest, married Homer Burr, a farmer in Portland, the union resulting in eigiit children ; Medora married A. J. Walker, a grape-grower in Portland, and they have one child ; Warren died in infancy ; and Fowler Denton, a grape-grower in Portland, who mar- ried Lizzie Burrows, and they have three children. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY ^HARLES 31. DOUGLASS, a descenJant ^^ of one of tlie pioneer families of Cliaii- tauqua county, is a son of Zattu and Elizabeth (Frazier) Douglass, and was born in the town of Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, N."Y., June 21, 1839. The Douglass family is of Scotch descent, and one of its members, Richard Doug- lass (grandfather), was a native of Connecticut, but removed early iu the present century to Chautauqua county, and bought a farm in the town of Dunkirk, which embraced part of the present site of Dunkirk city. He was a prom- inent Freemason, and although his " clearing " did not consist of over fifty acres, yet he M'as considered one of the rich men of Chautauqua county at that time, for his farm was one of the few to supply provisions to the new settlers until such time as their land would be cleared and become productive. One of his sons, Zattu Douglass (father), was born in the State of Ver- mont, and was engaged iu farming during the most of his life. He was a stanch supporter of the Republican party until he died in October, 1862. In 1835 he married Elizabeth Frazier, daughter of Fill Frazier, of Chautauqua county, by whom he had seven children. Charles INI. Douglass was reared on his father's farm, and attended the subscription schools of the town of Dunkirk. He owns a valuable farm, about one-half mile southeast of the city, on which he has resided all his life. In addition to his own farm he cultivates the lands of sevei'al of his neighbors. On April 27, 18G7, he married Dinah Harri- .son, a native of England. To their union have been born five children : Frederick and Diana, twins, were born January 27, 1868 ; Charles M., Jr., born March 20, 1869; Clarence E., born July 27, 1872; Arthur, born April 1-5, 1878 ; and Walter, born October 7, 1886. Charles M. Douglass is a republican in poli- tics, and is ranked among the energetic farmers of his town. rj BKAH.\3I BULL, the sexton at Lake View '•^*- cemetery, is a son of Benjamin and Ann (Lyons) Bull, and was born in the city of London, England, November 5, 1836. His grandfathei-, Abraham Bull, was a native of England, but emigrated to Amei'ica and settled at Jamestown, remaining, however, but a short time, when he returned to his native land and died. He gained a livelihood by following the sea. The maternal grandfather, John Lyons, came from Ireland. When Xapoleou was lead- ing his seemingly irresistible forces to victory after victory, until he met with disa.ster, dis- grace and a banishment to end in death at St. Helena, Mr. Lyons joined the army that defeated him and was never heard of after the battle. Benjamin Bull was born in England in 1812, and came to America, settling at .Jamestown about 1849, where he still resides. He married Ann Lyons, who is still living, and by whom he had ten children, five S()ns and five daughters. Politically, INIr. Bull affiliates with the Repub- lican party. Abraham Bull received such education as his own efforts would secure him, and in early life was a day laborer. Mr. Bull is, and since April 10, 1864, has been, the sexton at Lake View cemetery, performing the trying and responsible duties satisfactorily. On November 30, 1857, he married Lucy Cossart, daughter of Peter and Roxanna Cos- sart, of Jamestown. They have had five chil- dren : Jennie, mai'ried Perry Goodwin, a son of Augustus Goodwiu, and lives in Jamestown ; Nellie, wife of Darwin Clark, a farmer; Faunie (dead) ; Lucy, wedded Frank Dickerson, a resi- dent of Jamestown ; and Ciyda (dead). Politically, Mr. Bull is a republican, belongs to tiie ^Methodist church, and is a member of •Jamestown lodge. No. 34, A. O. U. W., and of Chautauqua Lake lodge. No. 46, Knights of Honor. The Jamestown Journal, speaking of the beautiful Lake View cemetery, says : " Twenty years have elapsed since Abraham OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. Bull was first appointed sexton of Lake View cemetery, which is nearly ever since it was first used. It is now one of the best kept concerns in the country, nicely laid out in walks and drives. He has always been reliable, and carried out his portion of every contract to the letter." Y\ H. LIBBY, who served for twenty-one "**■• years as foreman of the H. G. Rrooks Locomotive works, of Dunkirk, was born in the town of Gorham, Cumberland county, Maine, December 20, 1819, and is a son of Daniel and Martha Ann (]\Iorton) Libby. Tlie Libby family is of English descent and some of its members were among the earliest and fore- most settlers of the province of Maine. In a book compiled and published by Charles T. Libby of Portland, Maine, the history of the Libby family is accurately traced from 1602 to 1881. Simeon Libby, the grandfather of Al- bert H. Libby, w-as a Maine farmer, born Sep- tember 3, 1755, and served as a soldier in one of the Indian wars of the frontier and in the War of 1812. He died March 11, 18.50, when considerably past his four-score years of age. His son, Daniel Libby (father), was born on the home farm, March 18, 1792, and learned tiie trade of wheel-wright and carpenter, wliicli he followed for some years before turning his at- tention to farming. He was an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church, a strong dem- ocrat, like his father before him, and died in Gorham, Maine, May 11, 1826, at the early age of thirty-four years. His wife, Martha Ann Morton, was a Methodist and a native of Gorham, where she died in 1821, when but twenty-one years of age. Albert IT. Libby grew to manhood in his native town. As his parents died when he was quite small he was compelled to do for himself at an early age, and thus was able to secure but a limited education. He learned the trade of blacksmith and upon attaining his majority re- i moved from Gorham to Portland, in the same State,wliere he was foreman of the Portland Company's locomotive and nuu-liine works for twelve years. In l.SGO he left his native State and came to Dunkirk where he became fore- man of the H. G. Brooks Locomotive works, now the largest manufacturing establishment of the city, which position he held until 1881, when he resigned. Since leaving the locomo- tive works, Mr. Libby has been engaged to j some extent in the real estate business, in which his investments have been reasonably profitable. He now resides with his son, Frank L. Libby. On the 12th of August, 1845, he married Eliza A. Woodward, a daughter of Samuel Woodward, of Gorham, Maine, and who died in January, 1881, leaving three children, one son and two daughters : Josephine A., wife of Francis Lake ; Clara I., married to Arthur J. Scott ; and Frank L., who married Margaret J. Morris, and resides in Dunkirk. Mr. Lib- by has seven grandchildren : Florence I., daugh- ter of Mrs. Lake ; Emma L., Nettie L., and" Gertrude A., daughters of Mrs. Scott; and Mabel S., Alice Gertrude, and Albert W. H., children of Frank L. Politically Mr. Libby is a democrat like his father and grandfather before him, and has been a member of the common council, besides serving several terms as assessor of Dunkirk City. He is a Knight Templar in Masonry and holds membership in Irondequoit Lodge, No. 301, Free and Accepted Masons, Dunkirk, N. Y., Dunkirk Chapter, No. 191, High Royal Arch Masons and Dunkirk Commandery, No. 40, Knights Templar, and is a i)ast master and a past high priest. /^EOROE B. DOUGLASS, a descendant of ^* the Scotch family of Douglass, who were among the earliest settlers of Chautauqua coun- ty, is a son of Arnold and Nancy (Baldwin) Douglass, and was born on the farm on which he now resides, in the town of Dunkirk, Chau- BIOORAPJir AXD HISTORY tauqiia county, New York, January 14, 1833. His grandfather, Richard Douglass, the pioneer, was a native of Connecticut and removed with his family, in 1806, to Chautauqua county, this State. He purchased a large tract of land, to which he added from time to time, until he owned 750 acres of the finest farming land in the county. He was a Free Mason, a member of the Baptist church, and died in 184.5. His son, Arnold Douglass (father), was born in Connecticut, December 14, 1802, and accom- panied his parents to Chautauqua county in 1806. He was a successful farmer, a supporter of the Democratic party, aud died .July 6, 1838, ' when in the thirty-sixth year of his age. He married Xancy Baldwin, daughter of Samuel Baldwin, of Pawlet, Vermont. They had three children.: George B., Sarah, wife of Russell Jones, of Dunkirk ; aud Betsy, who died at the age of five years. George B. Douglass was reared on his father's farm, attended the subscription schools of Chau- tauqua county, and learned the trade of carpen- ter. In 1856, he went to Illiuois and entered the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, in the capacity of delivery clerk. He remained with them .some time and then engaged ia farming and afterwards in carpen- tering, until 18G1, when he returned to Dun- kirk, where he bought a pi'oductive farm of sixtv-five acres (the old homestead), on which he has since resided, aud has erected a good house, barn, and other necessary out-buildings. He has also a vineyard of four acres. In 1850 he married Aurelia E. Blakely, daughter of David Blakely, of Springville, Erie county. New York ; she was the twelfth child of fifteen children. They have four children: George M., a resident of Dunkirk, in the em- ploy of the American Express Company ; Frank E., who is engaged in farming near his father; Clarence E., baggage master on the Dunkirk & Warren R. R.; and Lilly \., who died in 1868, at the age of eleven years. George B. Douglass is a member of the Bap- tist church of Dunkirk, and an active republi- can. He has held several of the most impor- tant of the offices of his town. He is a pros- perous farmer and law-abiding citizen of the town of Dunkirk. "P3IEKY ^\. FEXTOX, the senior member -*"^ of the well-known firm, Fenton, Robert- son & Co., of Jamestown, is a son of William H. and Hannah (Tracy) Fenton, and was born in the village of Fluvanna, Chautauqua county, New York, March 23, 1836. The family on either side were natives of New England for some generations. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Fenton, came to Jamestown in 1811, and being a potter by trade, he established a kiln and pottery between what is now First and Second Streets, and manufactured all kinds of earthenware. His wife was Lois Hurd, and she bore him nine children. Jacob Fenton died in 1822. Elias Tracy (maternal grandfather) was a native of Vermont, and came to this State, locating on the Conewago flats, in 1814, where he followed farming until he died. William H. Fenton was born in New England in 1796, and came to Jamestown when sixteen years of age, and entered the earthenware manufacturing house with his father. They worked together until the old gentleman's death in 1822, when William H. Fenton continued the business alone until 1826, and then took Samuel Whittemoro as a partner. They moved their lousiness to Fluvanna. This partnership remained effective until 1839, when they dis- solved, and W. H. Fenton moved back to Jamestown, and shortly after was elected justice of the peace, a position that he held for fifty years. The old gentleman is still living, hale and hearty, and although ninety-five years of age is as enthusiastic a republican as can be found in the county of Chautauqua. Prior to the inception of this party he was a whig. Mr. Fenton is a member of the Congregational OF CHAVTAVQUA COVyTY. cluirch, being the oldest member in the State. In 181G he married Hannah Tracy, who bore him fourteen children, eight of whom are still living: Erasmus D. is living in Minnesota; Elias J. is a farmer in Iowa; Harriet is the wife (if John Harvey, of Iowa ; Carlos lives in Austin, Minn. ; Merriette is Mrs. Charles Jeffords, and resides in Jamestown ; Dana is engaged in the lumber business here ; and Emily H. married James Smith, and lives in this city. Emery W. Fenton spent his boyhood days at Fluvanna and Jamestown, and attended the public schools and academy at the latter place. He began to work in a pail factory when about eighteen years of age, and followed that line of business for a number of years, but at present is engaged in the furniture manufacturing, being the senior member of the firm of Fenton, Robertson & Co., of Jamestown. Their factory employs from fifty to seventy-five men, and the output of the factory is about fifty thousand dollars per yeai'. The plant is equipped with all modern improvements, and is one of the business enterpri.ses to which Jamestown's citizens may point with pride. In 18G1 E. W. Fenton married Louise Myers, a daughter of Peter JNIyers, of Frewsburg, N. Y., and has two daughters living: Lulu E., born August 10, 18G8 ; and Grace J., born May 5, 1871. Both of these young ladies were edu- cated at the Jamestown high-school, and are charming entertainers. Emery W. Fenton is a democrat, and belongs to Jamestown lodge. No. 1.3, A. O. U. W., and to the Equitable Aid Union. He has been throughout his life a straightforward and thoroughgoing man, and by his earnest will and untiring industry has risen to opulence. He is a good citizen and successful business man. lllfELVIN J. KNOX, who has been a suc- 4 cessful contractor and builder for many years, has erected man.y of the fine residences in Silver Creek, and is one of the most enterprising citizens of that village. He was born near Wattsburg, Erie county, Pennsylvania, March 13, 18.5.3, and is a son of Charles and Ami (Beart) Knox. His grandfather, James Knox, was born in 1794, in Connecticut, and was a .soldier in the War of 1812. He resided in Sheridan, this county, several years, and died in 1866, aged seventy-two years. Charles Knox (father) was born in Cortland county, this State, on August 24, 1 824. ' For several years he lived in Erie county, Pa., but removed to this county in 1854, locating in Sheridan, where he remained until 1868, when he came to Silver Creek, where he has since resided. He is a carpenter by trade, but ha.s been a contractor and builder most of his life, and politically is a republican. In 1850 he married Ann Beart, who was born in England in 1827, and she bore him five chil- dren. Melvin J. Knox was reared in this county, receiving his education in the common schools, and after leaving school at the age of fourteen years learned the trade of a carpenter, and has worked at it ever since, although he has largely added to it by taking up contracting and build- ing. He came to Silver Creek in 1868, and worked at his vocation until 1884, when he built the large plant he now owns on Buffalo street, known as the Silver Creek planing-mill, where he manufactures doors, sash, blinds, shutters, mouldings, lumber, lath, shingles and deals largely in builders' hardware and general sup- ])lies. He is a large contractor and builder, and has built all the way from three to twenty-three hou.ses a year for several years, and generally has a very flourishing and steadily increasing business. Politically he is a republican, and is assistant chief of the fire department. Melvin J. Knox was married, September 8, 1875, to Lily Holcomb, of Silver Creek. Their marriage has been blest with three children, one son and two daughters : Edith, Porter and Drusilla, aged thirteen, eleven and two years respectively. BIOGRAPHY AXD HISTORY JOHN T. GREE?f, who has been a leading citizen and merchant of Sherman, this county, for twenty-seven years, was born Janu- uary 31, 1829, in Lincolnshire, a pastoral coainty on the east coast of England, and is a son of William and Martha (Tomlinsou) Green, both natives of the same place. His parents came to America in 1830, locating near Utica, this State, for a short time, thence coming to Chautauqua town, and finally settled in Sher- man, this county, where the father spent the remainder of his life. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, was supervisor of the town of Sherman from 1856 to 1857, and in 1858, married Martha Tomlinson, by whom he had five children. He died March 25, 1862, at the age of fifty -nine years. John T. Green was reared on a farm, and re- ceived his education in the common schools. After leaving school he learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked for a short time, when he bought out the firm of Adams & Har- rington, and engaged in the mercantile business, associating with him W. F. Green, now cashier of the bank of Sherman, the firm name being J. T. & W. F. Green, which w-as dissolved in 1886, since which time John T. Green has car- ried on the business alone. He also owns two hundred acres of good land near Sherman, was supervisor of that town from 1870 to 1872, and was again elected in 1874. In politics he is a republican, and when the village of Sherman was formed, he was elected its first president, in October, 1890, and at the spring election in 1891, he was re-elected. This is a distinction of which any man might feel proud. John T. Green was married January 7, 1851, to Livia P. Hall, a daughter of Ahira Hall, a farmer of Portland, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Green have been blest with three children, two sons and one daughter : William A., the eldest son, is now in Australia, having been sent there by a manufacturing syndicate to represent them ; Frederick R., who is the present cashier of the Fredonia National Bank, this county ; and Florence, is at home. TA3IES A'ES'CENT is one of the largest ^ dealers in cattle, and is one of the prosper- ous and enterprising farmers of this county. He is a son of Sampson and Rhoba (Smith) Vincent, and was born in Herkimer county, New York, December 14, 1818. His grand- father, Caleb Vincent, was a resident of Herk- imer county for a number of years, but was born in Providence, Rhode Island. By occu- pation he was a farmer, and died in Crawfoi-d county, Pennsylvania. He married, and had five children, four sons and one daughter. The maternal grandfather of James Vincent was a Mr. Smith, who was born near Utica, Oneida county, this State, where he died. Sampson Vincent (father) was born in Rhode Island, and came to this county in 1825, and located on a farm of three hundred and fifty acres in Sherman, which, with the help of a few hired men, he cultivated, in connection with running a saw-mill, the remainder of his life. In re- ligion he was a member of the Free Will Bap- tist church, and in politics belonged to the whig party first, then became an abolitionist, and later on joined the republican party. He served a short time in the war of 1812, being sta- tioned at Sackett's Harbor, this State, on the east shore of Lake Ontario. Sampson Vin- cent married Rhoba Smith, by whom he had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, all the daughters and two of the sons being dead. Of the sons living, Dressor B. lives in Cold Water, a manufacturing city in Branch county, Michigan, and having studied medicine, is a practicing physician there; Jeremiah H. is a farmer in Wyoming county, this State ; Walker B., William B., and Stephen D., are all farmers in Sherman ; also James. James Vincent was educated in the common schools, and began his business career as a farm- er and a cattle dealer, having nearly always OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTi'. 157 dealt extensively in cattle. He owns a farm of four hundred acres in Sherman, which he oper- ates. Some years he has bought and sold two thousand head of cattle. When the Sherman bank was organized in 1883, he was one of the first board of directors, and has been a promi- nent member of the directorate ever since. In politics he is a republican, and has served two terms as road commissioner. When he was tweuty-five years old he was elected a jus- tice of the peace, but would not serve. James Vincent was married in 1845 to Ann Price, a daughter of Alexander .Price, of Owasco, N. Y., and by her has had three children, one son and two daughters : Jay S., who is a grad- uate of Eastman's business college in Pough- keepsie. New York, and a hotel-keeper at Eureka Spring,?, Ark. He is married, and has one sou, Claude; Mary, married to Cornelius Myrick, formerly a hardware merchant, and now owns two large farms in Sherman ; they have one child, a son, Preston R. ; Adelaide, a graduate of Syracuse University, who is mar- ried to Almon Taylor, the principal of the Union school at Westfield, and has one son and one daughter : Vincent and Katheryn. TOSEPHUS H. CLARK, M'ell known to ^^ the citizens of Jamestown, for a number of years as president of the Board of Education, was born in Worcester county, ]\Ias.sachu.setts, December 1, 1819. He attended the common .schools of the Commonwealth of Massachu.setts, and in 18-30 removed to Chautauqua county, to the town of Carroll. Five years later he came to Jamestown and learned the trade of foundry- man, at which he worked for about eight years as a day workman. In 1851 he purchased the foundry on Fourth street and has run it, and a machine-shop in connection with it ever since, employing some fifteen men. July 13, 1851, he married Jane Marsh, a daugliter of Closes Marsh, formerly of Sutton, Massachusetts. Jo- sephus H. Clark is an active member of the Eepublican party in Jamestown, and has served as one of the Board of village trustees, of which board he was president. For twenty-one years he had been j^i'ominently connected with the educational interests of Jamestown, and for fif- teen years has been president of tlie Board of education. He attends the Baptist church and has been one of the trustees of that churcii for over thirty years. nEV. WILLIAM LYMAN HYDE, a min- ister of the Presbyterian church and a graduate of Bowdoin college, is a son of Capt. Henry and Maria (Hyde) Hyde, and was born at Bath, Maine, December 27, 1819. The first record that we have of the Hyde family in the United States is in 1636, when the name of William Hyde appears in the municipal affairs of Hartford, Connecticut. He soon thereafter removed to Norwich, that State, where he was frequently elected and served as a selectman. From him was descended General Elijah Clark Hyde, the paternal great-grandfather of Rev. W. L. Hyde, who was born on June 14, 1735, at Lebanon, Connecticut, where he died on the last day of the first year of the present century. He was the confidential friend of Gov. Trumbull and served as Washington's cpiartermaster-general during the Revolutionary war. His son Zabdial (grandfather) was born June 4, 1762, at Lebanon, served at eighteen years of age in the closing struggles of the revo- lutionary conte.st and afterwards removed to Bath, Maine, where he died May 15, 1842. He married Mary Lyman and reared a family of eleven children, one of whom was Capt. Henry Hyde (father), who was born at Lebanon in 1792, and died at Bath, Maine, November 4, 1873. He was a book-seller by occupation, served as captain of an artillery company in the Maine militia for several years, held the office of notai'v public fiir .several terms and was a whig in polifics. He was twice married. His first wife was Maria Hyde, his tiiiid c(jusin, by BIOGRAPHY AXD HISTORY whom he hail one child — Rev. W. L. Hyde, and after her death he married Elizabeth Lov- ett, of Beverly, Massachusetts, who bore liiiii three childreu — Henry, of Maine, and two who died young. William Lyman Hyde received his education at Bowdoin college, from which he was gradu- ated in the class of 1842. Leaving college he completed his theological studies, entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church and was ordained May 4, 184!). He was first settled as a minister over the church at Gardner, Maine, in 1849, where he remained until 1856, when he accepted the call of the Presbyterian church of Dunkirk, this county, of which he had charge for six years. At the end of that time (18(32) he became chaplain of the 112th regiment. New York Vols, and served until the close of the war, wheu he accepted a call from the Presby- terian church at Ripley. He left Ripley in 1871 to become pastor of Sherman Presbyterian church, with which he labored until 1874. For the next ten years he was principal of the high school at Ovid, N. Y. In 1884 he came to Jamestown, where he has been principally en- gaged in journalism ever since. Mr. H^'de is a republiciui in politics and a member and the chaplain of James M. Brown Post, Xo. 285, Grand Army of the Republic. On May 4, 1852, Rev. W. L. Hyde married Frances E. Rice, granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Rice, circuit court judge of Wiscassett county, Maine. To their union have been born three sons — Dr. Henry Warren, a practicing physi- cian of Omaha, Nebraska, who married Naucy Plato, of Sherman ; Wallace E., who died iu infancy, and Captain Frederick W., born at Dmdiirk, N. Y., and who is in command of the Fenton Guards of Jamestown, where he has been editor of the Jamestown Evening Journal for fourteen vears. /CORNELIUS W. MYRICK is a son of ^^ Nehemiah and Abba D. (Reed) Myrick, and was born May 31st, 184(J, in Chautauqua, Chautauqua county, N. Y'. His grandfather was John Myrick, who was a native of Putnam county, N. Y'., where he was a life-long resi- dent and a farmer by occupation. John Myrick married Hannah Merritt, by wliom he had six children, three sons and three daughters. The maternal great-grandfather of C. W. ^lyrick was John Reed, who was a native of Middlesex county, Connecticut, where he .spent his entire life, being by occupation a farmer and black- smith. He married Abbie Whitney and by her had four children, three sons and a daugh- ter. One of the sons was Moses Whitney Reed (maternal grandfather of C. W^. Myrick), a native also of Middlesex county, where he ended his days. He studied for the ministry, but was compelled to abandon the idea of preaching on account of ill health and turned to teaching school for a few years. In his religious views he was a Presbyterian, being a member of the church of that denomination. IMoses Whitney Reed married Polly Middle- brook and they had one child, a daughter. His wife dying, he married for his second choice Hannah Haight, whose father svas a soldier iu the Revolutionary war, and by her he had two children, both daughters : Miriam, married to AVilliam Dougherty, who is in business in New Y'ork ; and Abba D. The mother of these tw-o children died November 17th, 1886, aged ninety-three years. Nehemiah Myrick was born in Putnam, New Y^ork, September 3d, 1806, and for a few years was engaged in the river business on the Hudson, coming to this county in May, 1838, and .settling in Sherman, where he died August 6th, 1876. He entered the mercantile business iu Sherman, but for several years followed farming in the town of Chautauqua. Politically he was a republican, and firm in his convictions. Nehemiah Myrick was married October 24th, 1831, to Abba D. OF CIL 1 [ 'TA I 'Q U. 1 CO I 'XT ) '. 159 Heed, a daughter of Moses Whitney Reed, and a native of" Connecticut, where she was born January 16th, 1814, this union being blessed witli four children, three sons and a daugliter : Sylvanus H., who was born June 5th, 1833, married Mary Ij. Hawley, and lives on the old homestead in Chautauqua, where he cultivates the farm ; he served in the 112th regiment New York Volunteers a few months during the late civil war; Elmore, born March 10th, 183G, married to Martha Button, and lives in Sharjjs- burg, Pennsylvania, where he is a retired mer- chant ; Marion E., born December 9th, 18-10; and Cornelius W. Cornelius W. My rick was educated in the common schools of this county, and began his business life as a hardware merchant in Sharps- burg, Pennsylvania, where he remained five yeai's, and then came to Sherman and continued in the same business an equal length of time. He is now engaged in farming, owning two large farms. Politically he is a rei)al;lican. Cornelius W. JSIyrick is married to Mary P. Vincent, a daughter of James Vincent of Sher- man, by whom he has one son, Preston R. T 1). 31 AYXAKD is one of the leading drug- ^^ • gists and pharmacists in Fredonia, and has, by his own exertions, accumulated a very comfortable competency. He was born in On- tario county, New York, June 19, 1820, and is a son of John and Sarah (Putney) Maynard. His i)aternal grandfather, John Maynard, had four sons and one daughter : Elisha ; Need ham ; John (father) ; Permelia and Joseph. The last named son was a house joiner in Lockport, Niagara county, this State, acquired considerable property and was one of the influential men in his section. John Maynard (father) was born in Goshen, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, in 1783, and was a mechanic and contractor until 1830, when he came to this county and settled in Charlotte, where he bought a farm of one hundred and forty acres. Prior to this trans- action he had built a mile and a half of the Erie canal under the administration and super- vision of Governor DeWitt Clinton. He oc- cupied and cultivated this farm until his death, in 1862, aged seventy-six years. He was col- onel of a regiment in the war of 1812, and wor- shipful master in a lodge of F. ^AL,TER W. HOLT, a lawyer of over forty -"*- years active practice before all the courts of the State of New York and senior member of the legal firm of Holt & Holt, of Dunkirk city, was born at Springfield, Otsego county, New York, September 24, 1821, and is a son of General Walter and Sarah (Van Benschoten) Holt. Tiie Holts of New York trace their English lineage through the Connecticut family of that name, of which their fiimily is a branch, and was founded by Deacon George Holt (grand- father), who removed from Connecticut to Ot- sego county, where he followed farming until his death, when eighty-six years of age. He was a democrat and an active member of the Baptist church. His son, Gen. Walter Holt (father), was born in 1791 and came with his parents about 1796 to Otsego county, where he died in 1867. Gen. Holt was an extensive farmer and a large stock-raiser. He was a deacon of the Baptist church, served as a major- general in the New York Militia and was a man of energy and unusual will-power. He was a democrat until 1856, when he became a repub- lican and afterwards served for seven years as a justice of the peace. His wife, Sarah Holt, was a member of the Van Benschoten family of Ot- sego count}", and a Baptist in religious belief; she died in 1857, aged fifty-six years. Walter W. Holt spent his boyhood days on the farm and received his early education in the common schools. He then entered Gilbertsville academy, but completed his academic course at Clinton academy of Oneida county, where the principal gave him charge of several classes while he attended there. Leaving Clinton academy he became principal, in 1845, of Akron High school, Ohio, and while there that year he aided in establishing a union school, and organ- ized the first teachers' institute ever held in the State of Ohio. In 1847, while on his way to visit his fatlier, he was taken sick at Fredonia, and after recov- ering from his sickness he was so liivorably im- OF CHAUTAVQUA COUNTY. pressed with this county tiiat lie decided to settle in it. He then read hiw with Stephen Snow, of Fredonia, was admitted to practice in tiie Sii- Ijreiue Court of New York in 1849, and four years later opened an office at Fredonia, where he practiced until 1861. In that year he came to Dunkirk, where he soon acquired a lucrative l)racti(;e, and where he now stands in the frt)nt rank of the resident lawyers of the city. He is au active democrat and was city counselor for several years, but resigned in 1882 in favor of his son, Walter D. Holt. He married, in 1845, ]\Iary S., daughter of Stephen Stewart, of Warren, N. Y., and who died in 1853, leaving one child, a daughter, Isabella S. Ou October 3, 1855, he united in marriage with Sarah S. Brown, daughter of Euos Brown, of Utica, New York. To this second union was born one child, a son, M^dter D., who read law, was admitted to the l)ar, served as city counselor since 1883, and since 1879 has been a partner with his father in the practice of law. In early life Mr. Holt was engaged in several extensive business enterprises, and furnished the stone used in the construction of several set^tions of the Erie & Lake Shore railroads, besides building a plank walk from Dunkirk to Fre- donia. He has been the counsel of the Chau- tauqua Assembly for over twelve years, and is also counsel of the Free Association of Cassa- (iao-a Lake. TA^II.I.I \>I H. WALKKK, postmaster of -**■ Westfield, and a jiast commander of Wm. Sackett Post, No. 324, Grand Army of the Republic, was born at Warsaw, Wyo- ming county, New York, July 18, 1838, and is a sou of William and Abigail E. (Ensign) Walker. His parents were natives of St. Alfcaus, Vermont, where his father, William AValker, learned the trade of harness-maker. He served as a solcher from Vermont, in the War of 1812, and afterwards came to Warsaw, where he followed farming and harness-making and where he died in 1885, at the advanced age of ninety years. William H. Walker was reared at Warsaw, where he received au academic education. In 1861 ho enlisted in Co. K, ITtli New York as a private and was afterwards promoted to ser- geant major of his regiment. He was at Han- over Court-house, Second Bull Run and Antie- tam, and was honorably discharged iu June, 1863, having served the full term of his enlist- ment. He returned to Warsaw where he was in business until 1866, when he came to West- field and became a partner of L. Parsons in the drug business. Mr. Parsons died eighteen months later and Mr. Walker pur- chased the interest of Mr. Parsons' heirs iu the business and since then has successt'ully con- ducted his drug store. He has a large stock of pure aud carefully selected drugs, and en- joys a liberal patronage. Having received the appointment by President Harrison, as post- master of Westfield, he assumed the duties of the office on March 3, 1890, which office he has held with credit to himself ever since. On September 3, 1863, he married Jeannette A. Taber, of Warsaw, New York. They have two children : Charles T., a graduate oi Wil- liams college, now a teacher iu the ''Berkely school," New York City ; and Edward T., book-keeper of the National Bank of Westfield. William H. Walker is a republican in poli- tics, but was never an office seeker, and as post- master of Westfield has endeavored to discharge faithfully every duty of his office. The West- field postoffice is the successor of Chautauqua postoffice, the first postoffice in the county, and was established on May 6, 1806, on the west side of the creek, with Col. James McMahan as postmaster. It continued until June 15, 1818, when it was discontinued, aud Westfield post- office was established as its successor, with Fenu Demming as postmaster. The ])ostmasters since then have been ; Orvis Nichols, William Sex- BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY toil, Hev. H. W. Beers, Dr. M. Kenyon, David Mann, Byron Hall, F. C. Borger, W. E. AVheeler, C. U. Drake, F. A. Hall, J. La Due, and the present incumbent, W. H. Walker. Mr. Walker is an active member of Wm. Sack- ett Post, No. 324, Grand Army of the Repub- lic, and the present secretary and past regent of Westfield Council, Xo. 81, Royal Arcanum. HARVI:Y 3IOXTGOMEKY is a descen- dant of a very old family in Ireland, which has sent several representatives to Amer- ica, who have become distinguished in military, naval, religious and political fields. He is a son of Ezekiel and Fidelia (^lartin) Montgom- ery, and was born in Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York, October 8, 1843. His father was a native of the eastern part of New York, born in 1800, and came to Chautauqua county, locating in Hanover in 1832. By trade he was a mill-wright, and for a number of years was engaged in the manufac- ture of milling and grain-cleaning machinery, in partnership with two of his sons, Henry and Martin, under the firm name of E. Montgom- ery & Co. They continued in this business un- til 1866. He died in 1868, aged sixty-eight years. Politically he was a republican. Eze- kiel Montgomery married Fidelia Martin, by whom he had eight children. One son, Bald- win, lives in Silver Creek; another, Plenry, died in Buffalo, October, 1887; and a third, Martin, in Newark, Ohio. Mrs. Montgomery was a native of eastern New York, born in 1806, and died in the autumn of 1886, aged eighty years. She was a member of the Pres- byterian church. Harvey Montgomery was brought up in Sil- ver Creek, this county, and received a common school education. After leaving .school he learned the machinist's trade, which he followed for the last thirty years. In JIarch, 1886, he engaged as foreman in the establishment, where he still holds that position, and is considered an expert, skillful and reliable workman with excellent executive ability. He is a member of the fire dejjartment, and also of Silver Creek Council, Royal Arcanum, No. 139. Harvey Montgomery was married Novem- ber, 1871, to Helen Horton, a daughter of Albert Horton of Silver Creek. JOSEPH W. HUNTLEY is a son of ^^ Michael and Mercy R. (Higgins) Hunt- Icy, and was born in Lyme, Connecticut, April 21, 1812. His grandfather, Reuben Huntley, was also a native of Connecticut, but emigrated to Chenango county, this State, where he passed the remainder of his days as a farmer. In politics he was a democrat. Sylvanus Higgins (maternal grandfather) was a native of Lyme, where he spent his life on a farm. Michael Huntley (father) was born in Lyme on October 27, 1777, and for a few years followed farming as an occupation. He then .sought the sea for a livelihood, and became captain of a merchant vessel running between New York city and the West Indies, and during a passage home from the latter port, died of yellow fever, January 23, 1818. Politically he was an old-line whig. In 1800 he married Mercy R. Higgins and had five children, all of whom are dead except Joseph W. Josejjh W. Huntley was educated in the com- mon schools of his native town, and after leav- ing school began the life of a sailor, which he followed until twenty-three years of age, when, in 1836, he exchanged the tempestuous king- dom of Neptune for the more quiet and peace- ful realm of Ceres b\' coming to Sherman, this county, and buying a farm of two hundred acres in the primeval forest, where an axe had never been seen, which he cleared and cultivated until April, 1881, when, feeling he was justly entitled to enjoy the harvest of his labors in a serene old age, he moved into the village of Sherman, where he has since resided. In his political opinions he is a republican, and has OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. held the offices of road commissioner and assessor several terms. Joseph W. Huutloy was married on October 10, 1835, to Mary E. Eeed, a daughter of Ely Reed. To this union have been born three children, two sons and one daughter : Sylvanus H., who died at seven years of age ; William It., who married Delia Frost, of Cherry Creek, and is a farmer iu Sherman ; and Elizabeth ]\I. rfLBERT C. WIDMAX, one of the suc- -■^ cessful and enterprising young business men of this city, was born in Dunkirk, Chau- tauqua county, N. Y., September 15, 1860, and is a son of Charles and Sabina (Hiller) Wid- man. His father was a native of Heiningen, Germany, and was born in 1827. He was brought up in his native country, receiving his education in the schools there, after which he taught school. He then learned the trade of a pattern-maker, and in 1853 emigrated to Can- ada, where he resided in Quebec for one year. He came to the United States in 1854 and located at Dunkirk, where he spent the re- mainder of his life. As a pattern-maker he worked in the Brooks locomotive works for twenty years, at the expiration of which time he engaged in the grocery business with William Wyman, the firm-name being W^idman & Wy- man. At the end of two years he withdrew from the firm and went into the same business alone, in which he remained during the rest of his life. He was a very successful business man, and built a handsome two-story brick block, using the ground floors for his business and the second story as his private residence. The block was erected in 1874 at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Courtney Street. Politi- cally he was a democrat, and died July 25, 1889. In 1847 he married Sabina Hiller, a native of Ulm, Germany, who was born July 21, 1822, and now resides iu Dunkirk with Albert C. They were the parents of four chil- dren, two sons and two daughters. Albert C. Widman was reared in Dunkirk, received his education in the public schools, and in 1889 bought his father's saloon and grocery business and still continues at the old stand. He not only has a most excellent trade, but adds materially to his revenue by handling flour and feed. In politics he is a democrat, has served as inspector of election boards, and is a promising and popular young man. Albert C. Widman was married. May 28, 1889, to Nellie Westerberg, daughter of S. J. Westerberg, of Hartfield, this county. This union has been blest with one child, Barbara L., who was born September 1(!, 1890. TOHX HILLIAKD is one of the men to ^ whom several of the best citizens and firms of Dunkirk owe the solidity and durabil- ity of their residences and places of business. He was born on Staten Island, New York, October 26, 1842, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Tims) Hilliard. His father, Samuel Hilliard, was of Quaker ancestry, born in New Jersey, in 1808, spending his early youth iu that State and in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a contracting mason by occupation, moved to Staten Island in 1839, where he worked at his trade until 1844, moved to and resided iu Buffalo until 1849 and then came to Dunkirk to complete the Loder House, which was opened to the public late iu 1850, when the Erie rail- road was completed to Dunkirk. He moved his family here in 1850, and for twenty-three years was foreman of the masons in the employ of the western division of the Erie railroad. In religion he was an attendant at the Episcopal church and politically was a democrat. He was a member of the Board of Education at Dunkirk for two years and was a very energetic man. In 1839 he married Elizabeth Tims, a native of England, who came to America when quite young, and they were the parents of ten children, si.x sons and four daughters. Mr. Hilliard died iu 1882, at the age of .seventy-four BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY years, and Mrs. Hilliard in 1884, aged sixty- tliree years. John Hilliard came to Dunkirk with Jiis parents in October, 1850, and received his edu- cation in the common schools of that place. He then learned the trade of a mason and for the last twenty years has been engaged in con- tracting and building, and among the buildings which show his haniliwork are the Avery, Book- staver, Brooks and Hinman residences, St. Mary's Retreat, the offices and additions of tie Brooks Locomotive Works and scores of others. Since the organization of the Brooks Locomo- tive Woi'ks in 1869, he has done all their mason work and is accounted as skilled a workman as this section affords. He is a member of St. John's Episcopal church, of which he is also a vestr3'man, is a democrat in politics and has been a member of the common council. He is a member of Dunkirk Chapter, No. 191, R. A. M., and Dunkirk Council, No. 25. John Hilliard, on May 1st, 1872, was mar- ried to Alice Cruser, a daughter of Samuel Cruser, of Dunkirk, and to their union have been born three children, one sou and two daughters : Maud, Ethel, and John, whose ages are respectively, eighteen, sixteen and nine years. FRANK KI)WAK1> (ilFFOKO, a son of Horace H. and Rlioda (Steward) Gifford^ was born November 6, 1845, at Wrightsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather was William Gifford, one of the pio- neers of Chautauqua county, and one of its most respected citizens. Frank E. Gifford received his education, after the common schools, at the Fredonia Academy, and at Fort Edward, New York. He developed marked business tastes early in life, and at the age of sixteen began a career for himself. During the war he held a respon- sible position in the quartermaster's depart- ment at Albany, N. Y. After business ven- tures in New York City and elsewhere, he returned, in 1870, to Jamestown, where his family all reside, giving his attention to tiie Jamestown Cane-seat Chair Works. In 1880 he, with his brothers Charles H. and William S. GifFord, bought the entire plant, and F. E. Gifford became president of the company, which office he still holds. On June 29, 1881, Mr. Gifford was married to Miss Josephine Fenton, daughter of Gov- ernor R. E. Fenton, of New York. To them have been born two children. Governor Fenton died August 5, 1885, leaving a large estate, of which Mr. Gifford was executor. He succeeded Governor Fenton to the presidency of the First National Bank of Jamestown, and still retains the office. Mr. Gifford is a democrat politically, a man of large ideas and wide influence. HrOH W. TH03IPS0X, editor and pro- prietor of the Westfield Hepublicnn, the seventh established and now oldest newspaper of Westfield, is a son of Hugh W., Sr., and Eliza (IVIcDowell) Thompson and was born at Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York, October 2, 1858. His pareuts are natives of County Down, Ireland, and came in 1851 to Westfield, where his father has followed car- pentering. Hugh W. Thom])son was reared at \\'est- field, where he attended the academy of that place until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Mayville and learned the trade of printer in the office of the Sentinel. In July, 1885, he returned to Westfield and worked on the Republicun until May 13, 1889, when he purchased the paper of A. E. Rose, then its proprietor, and has published it ever since. The Republican was started April 25, 1855, by a company composed of G. W. Patterson, W. H. Seward, Alvin Plumb and Austin Smith. Its first editor was M. C. Rice, and its circulation under his charge was about one thousand copies. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUXTY. 1G7 Hugh W. Thompson has always been inde- pendent in politics, and is a member and for the last three years has iiecn an elder of" tlic Westtield Presbyterian cluireh. His paper is a folio, 3() by 44 inches in size, has a circu- lation of one thousand copies and is a reliable weekly ; crisp, attractive and interesting. The Westfield Republican, as its name im- plies, lias always been and is republican in jiolities. It has always been aggressively re- publican, and has never been neglectful of the interests of Westfield or Chautauqua county. It has been so edited and conducted by Mr. Thompson as to command attention and re- spect from his political opponents, as well as to win support and advocates within iiis own party. He has succeeded in giving his county a clean and newsy sheet while establishing a fearless and successful organ in the interests of | the party of Lincoln, Grant and Garfield. TOHX K. 1>EKBY, an aged citizen of ^^ Jamestown, Cliautau(jua countv, New York, lias resided here since 183'i, and for many years was a painter, and conducted a paint and oil store here until 18G6; he then sold out the business to his brother Silas S. Derby, who had been a partner for a number of years. Mr. Derby is tiie third son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Kenyon) Derby, and was born near Batavia, Genesee county, New York, Feb- ruary 9, 1816. He comes from two very old families. Phineas Derby (paternal grandfather) was one of two brothers who came from Eng- land and settled in Vermont ; he followed farming until his death. He was active, politi- cally, and served in the Colonial army ; the maternal grandfather, Rouse Kenyon, was a native of Rhode Island, but removed to Gene- see county, near Batavia. Joseph Derby was born in the State, whose bosom holds the form of the glorious Ethan Allen, and he remained there until reaching manhood, when he left the place of his nativity and saw it no more. He first went to Genesee county. New York, and thei'e married Elizabeth Kenyon, and a few years after they removed to Monroe county, this State, and still later he removed to Warren county, Pennsylvania, and died there March 14, 1837. Mr. Derby gained a livelihood by farming and stone mason work. His marriage resulted in five children : Phineas, died October 6,1887; Sylvanns, died in 1886; John K. and Silas S. Derby (see his sketch) reside in Jamestown, New York ; William R. Derby resides in North Warren, Pennsylvania, where he is engaged in the butchering business. John K. Derby was educated in the common schools of Monroe county, pcipiired the paint- ing trade at Rochester, New York, and was em- ployed in that city five years. He afterward, in 1836, came to Jamestown, and for twenty- eight years was jiroprietor of a paint aud oil store. He then went out of active business, but since then has not been idle, but has been en- gaged in building and repairing his houses and has done considerable joiner's work and painting, besides building two steam yachts and a i'ayf row-boats for his own use on Chautau- qua lake. He has been twice married, first to Ruth Smith, of Busti, New York, December 13, 1837, by whom he had two children, a son. Ami, died at the age of thirteen months ; and a daughter, Edna, who married N. A. Arnold and died when twenty-three years of age. His second was L. Antoinette Dill, by whom he has one child, I. Frederick Derby, born May 30, 1882. J. K. Derby is in more than comfortable circumstances, owning considerable real estate, houses and lots. Politically he is a repub- lican, his first vote being cast for Martin Van Buren, when that gentleman ran for Presi- dent. He has held no office except that of poor-master for ten years, and a trustee of the Jamestown schools. Mr. Derby is a member of Ellicott lodge. No. 221, 1. O. O. F., of which he has been a member for eighteen years. 168 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY ri T.VlfKI> A. ST.\RKING, a member of the -**■ well-known and enterprising firm known as the Silver Creek Step-Ladder company, is a son of Sylvanus S. and Grace A- (Stearns) Star- ring, and was born in Barry county, an agri- cultural region in southwest central Michigan, September 24, 1860. His father, Sylvanus S. Starring, is a native of Utica, Oneida county, this State. When a young man he followed the avocation of a sailor on the lakes for seven years, until he was wrecked on Lake Erie by ths burn- ing of the boat on which he was employed. He then started for the west, but fell in with a party expecting to work for the Detroit & Milwaukee railroad, then being constructed. He worked on the road-bed until it passed through Lowell, wdiere he quit and, going five miles south, he cleared a farm from the wilderness in Barry county, Michigan, which he cultivated until 1861, and then enlisted in Co. D, 3d regiment, Michigan Infantry, serving until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, on June 3, 1865, at \Yashington, D. C. He was with Berdan's Sharpshooters one aud one-half years, and rose to the rank of captain, and while with them was wounded in front of Petersburg, Va. In 1866 he moved to Irving, this county, with his family, where he remained until 1879, engaged in the blacksmith's business. In that ( year he came to Silver Creek and resumed the same trade, which he followed until 1884, and then organized the Silver Creek Step-Ladder company, which manufactured the Starring pat- ent truss step-ladder, the shelf-lock and half- truss step-ladder, the folding wash-bench and wringer stand, aud the standard ironing-table, in which business he is nt present engaged. In politics he is a republican, and iu 1890 was elected a coroner, which office he is now holding. In religion he is a Methodist, being a member aud steward of the church of that denomination. He is a member of Lodge No. 757, F. & A. M. In 1856 he married Grace A. Stearns, a native of Bergen, Genesee county, this State, by whom he had five childreu. Three are deceased. Mrs. Starring is a member of the M. E. church, aud is now in the forty-ninth year of her age. Alfred A. Starring came to this county with his parents, was educated in the public schools, learned the trade of a blacksmith with his father and in 1880 became his father's partner in that business. In the spring of 1885 he bought out his father's interest and continued the business alone until 1888, when he bought a half-interest in the Silver Creek Step-Ladder company, the firm-name remaining the same. They have a large aud rapidly-increasing trade, will double their capacity, aud are now erecting new build- ings for the purpose of manufacturing fine parlor furniture. They expect to have this plant in operation July 15, 1891, and will then employ fifteen additional men. They have a branch office in Baltimore. About fifteen men are emploj-ed. Mr. Starring is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, politically is a rcjiublican and takes an active part in politics. Alfred A. Starring was married, on October 26, 1881, to Jennie M. Fuller, a daughter of Albert C. Fuller (deceased), of Silver Creek. To this marriage have been born four children, one son and three daughters: Albert, Beulah, Gertrude and Vera. T ^EWIS ROESCH was born in Baden, Ger- ^"^ many, January 4th, 1851, and is a son of Philip and ^lary ((JIaser) Roesch. His parents are both natives of Baden, where his father was born in 1825. His youth was spent in his native home among the foot-hills of the Black Forest, in the beautiful valley of the Wiese, celebrated for the numerous large cotton, wool and other mills that line its banks, as well as by its own native poet, J. Peter Hebel, the Robert Burns of that country. There Mr. Roesch received a common-school education and in 1868 came to Albany county, N. Y., and the year following to Fredonia, where he has resided ever since. Having no OF CHAUTAUQUA COUSTY. 1G9 particular trade or occupation, he fi>llo\ved his natural bent and soon drifted into the growing of fruit and vegetables, which business he started Avith a capital of two hundred and eighty dol- lars. This he soon developed beyond the re- quirement of the home market, and he opened a line of trade along the Erie and D. A. Y. & P. railroads. This trade in turn was pushed be- yond the ability of his own gardens to supply, and he became a dealer in country produce, which trade by the year 1880 amounted to over $10,000 a season. The growing of strawbei-ries, raspberries, etc., incidentally got him into the small fruit jilant trade, which he also developed and added to it, dealing in general nursery stock. In 1879 Mr. Roescli contracted to grow grape-vines for an- other nursery on a larger scale for four years, at the expiration of which term he continued the business on his own account. This trade flourished and in a couple of years became of such magnitude that he decided to drop that of grow- ing and dealing in fruit and vegetables, which by the way had grown poorer and more unsatis- factory every year, owing to over-produetiou, southern competition and the failure of canning factories. Mr. Roesch continued to increase the grape-vine and small fruit nursery, and has re- cently extended the same to include general \ nursery stock. At present Mr. Roesch's busi- ness consists of forty acres of grape-vines, cur- rant and gooseberry plants, etc., ten acres of fruit and ornamental trees, four acres in experi- mental and sample vineyard and some two acres of lawn and ornamental grounds, fruits and vege- tables, etc., all in a high state of cultivation and fertility. lie has a fine office; a cellar 60 by 100 feet for the storage of grape-vines and other nursery ' stock ; a large packing-house and gradiug-room connected and under one roof. He employs ! from ten to forty men and boys, according to the season. His market extends all over this country and Canada, but principally in the . 9 grape-growing section east of the Rocky Moun- tains. In 1879 Mr. Roesch married Sophia :\r:]ler, of Dunkirk, X. Y. To their union have Ijeen born three cliildren, two sous and one daughter : Flora ]\I., Sidney C. and Milton E. Witiiout political aspirations, Mr. Roesch is a business man ; he gives most of his attention to business and jjersonal affixirs, is careful, patient and methodical, and never embarks in any enter- prise without a thorough investigation emljrac- ing every possible detail of the same. To these (jtiaiities as well as to his enterprise and push is due the large degree of success attained in a business for which he had no special education or prejjaration. T1>ILLIA3I I.. HI3IEBAUGH. The term German-American is usually synonymous with success. William L. Himebaugh began life with nothing, and to-day, although less than forty years of age, is at the head of a manufac- turing business emj^loying not less than twenty- five men. He was born in Yenango, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1854, and is a son of Joseph and Susan (Sherrard) Himebaugh. The ancestors of W. L. Himebaugh were all of sturdy German stock, his grandparents emigrat- ing to this country from the fatherland. The paternal grandfather was the parent of three children : Polly, Jacob and Joseph. These children were born in the northwestern part of Pennsylvania, near Erie. Joseph, the father of William L., died at Yenango, Pa., wliere, up to the time of his death, he was a fiirmer and car- penter, and also filled the office of justice of the . peace for many years. He was a popular man in his locality, had recognized good judgment, and after once occupying the office the people continued to re-elect him to it, until advanced age compelled him to peremptorily decline to again serve. Like most of the Germans of his day he was an uncompromising democrat, but was also a deeply religious man and a communi- BIOGRAPHY ASD HISTORY cant of the Gei'man Lutheran cluiich. Susan Sherrard was Mr. Himebaugh's second wilie, and she bore him seven children ; witii a former wife, Matilda Grear, he had live chil- dren. They were : Jacob, David, Gusta, Delila and Sarah ; and Matilda, now Mrs. Lesher, livino- at Venango, Pennsylvania ; Almira, liv- ing at Edinboro', Erie county, Pennsylvania, is the wife of Alex. A. Torrey ; Hiram, who mar- ried Orlina Hotchkiss, lives at Venango, Pa. ; Joseph, whose wife was Anna Beystone, lives at Jamestown and is connected with William L. in the manufacture of woven-wire bed-springs, cots and spiral springs ; John, also living at Venango, Pa, married to Lydia Hotchkiss; Eausom, married Emma Baker and moved to a point in Kansas near Shiloh ; and William L. William L. Himebaugh, like many of our best men, got his education in the public schools, and when grown to manhood began to toil as a dav laborer in a saw-mill, alternating with farm work. This he continued for a while and then moved to the oil region, where for a season he continued to labor, but later took an interest in two wells while working by the day. This continued until 188(5, when he came to James- town, and with his brother Joseph began the manufacture of bed-springs, in which they are still engaged. Politically Mr. Himebaugh is an unswerving prohibitionist, theoretically and practically, and also is a member of the INIethod- ist church. On the 22d of May, 1877, he married Henri- etta Staudish, daughter of Alonson and Lora Standish, who resided near Northeast, Pa. This union has been blest with three children : Bertha E., Neal and Henry. William L. Himebaugh is still a young man, and the goods he manufactures are of recognized merit, so it may be expected that the business he has already made prominent may, in the future, become vast. ■J^EAKL C. KI3IBAI.L, a respected geutle- -*■ man, advanced in years, living at Xo. .338 Allen street, Jamestown, is a son of Sylvester and Lydia (Atwater) Kimball, of Montgomery county. New York, where he was boru Dec. 16, 1818. His great-grandfather, Richard Kimball, came from English parents ; lived in Novia Scotia for a time and afterwards came to the State of Connecticut, where he died. His paternal grandfather, Lebbeus Kimball, came to Ames, jNIontgomery county, this State, and fol- lowed the trade of stone-cutting in early life. Prior to his removal inland, he had been a sailor. He married Sarah Crafts and had three children, two sons and one daughter. Caleb Atwater (maternal grandfather) was born in New England, but came to this State, first to Columbia county, and later to Ames, Montgom- ery county, where he died, a farmer. Sylves- ter Kimball was born in Connecticut, but came to New York and settled at Ames, where he was employed as millwright. He married Lydia Atwater and had four children : Matilda, died young ; Norman (dead) lived at Cherry Creek at the time of his death ; Jane, married Geo. N. Frost, and is living at Cherry Creek; and Pearl C. ^Ir. Kimball was a democrat and a Mason, standing high in the councils of the lodge. Pearl C. Kimball, after receiving his educa- tion, apprenticed himself to a carriage-maker and learned the trade. In 1836 he went to Cherry Creek and worked at his trade for a number of years and was also engaged here in the mercantile business for a time. In 18-47 he came to Jamestown and established a carriage manufactory, continuing it until 1873, when he sold out and lived quietly for two or three vears, but he was too energetic to remain idle longer, so he opened a grocery store, which he conducted until 1887, when having reached nearly threescore years and ten, he sold put and has since lived quietly and in retirement. On May 27, 1838, he married Lucy Shattuck, OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTY. a daughtfT of Pliuy Shattuck, aud they have been the parents of" live children, four of whom are living: Matilda, now a widow, married Willard Smith ; Corolin, wife of Fred L. Far- lee, a traveling man for the Jamestown Plush mills ; Maurice was twice married, iirst to Rhoda Williams, by whom he had one child, Ernest ; his second wife was Anna Spies, who bore hira one child, Frances ; and Allen, who married Julia Macy, a daughter of William Macy, of Poland, and has one child. Pearl L. P. C. Kimball is a republican in politics aud has been town clerk for three years, in the town of Cherrv Creek. nEV. .\XDKEW FIJEY, pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Dunkirk, was born in the city of Cassel, Ger- many, February 26, 1856, aud is a son of George and Christine (Baker) Frey. George Frey was a member of the Catholic church, served in a civil capacity under his governmeut for several years, and died in his native city of Cassel in 1886, at sixty-seven years of age. His widow, who is a consistent member of the Catholic church, was born in 1827, and still resides in Cassel. Father Andrew Frey was reared in Cassel, where he received a collegiate education, and then took a five years' course in theology at Louvaiu University, Belgium. Upon complet- ing this course in October, 1879, he wasordaiued priest, and came to Buffalo, New York, where he had been appointed by Bishop Ryan, as as- sistant pastor of St. Louis church of that city. He served in this capacity uutil June, 1884, when he came to Dunkirk, and assumed his present pastoral charge of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This church, which is the second in age of the three flourishing churches of Dunkirk, is the successor of St. George's church, which was ! built by the German catholics of Dunkirk, in : 1857, and used for church purposes until 1877. ! The Jesuit, Franciscan and Passion ist orders had charge of St. George's church until 1874, wheu it was made an independent parish, and on June 11, 1876, the corner-stone was laid of its successor, the present handsome Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was dedicated on November 18, 1878. It is a fine brick structure, admirable in architectural design, and beautiful and rich in all of its interior furnish- ings. It was erected at a cost of tweuty thous- and dollars, and one who contributed liberally towai'ds its erection was the late George Dotter- weich (died in April, 1884), who also paid for the town clock in the steeple, the chime of bells, and gave the beautiful five thousand dollar marble altar, which was consecrated .July 23, 1882. Since 1884, the membership of the Ciiureh of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has increased rap- idly under Father Frey's charge, and now num- bers two hundred aud seventy-five families. In 1885 he erected the present handsome brick parsonage, which is gothic in design, conveni- ently arranged, and cost over five thousand ilol- lars. After the completion of the parsonage he turned his attention to the educational needs of his congregation, and carried out the long cher- ished design of erecting a first-class school building adjoining the church. This three- story brick structure — St. George's Hall — was erected in 1884 at a cost of nine thousand dol- lars, and is fitted '.vith gas, steam and water. The first floor is divided into thr(!e large school- rooms, the second floor is St. George's Hall and stage, while the third floor is occupied by the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. Father Frey has labored faithfully in Dunkirk for his people and the cause of Christianity, and his efforts have been duly appreciated by his con- gregation and all who know him. He is a pleasant gentleman of classical education, gen- eral information and good address. BIOGRAPHY AM) HISTORY V\AVID H. TAYLOR is oue of the ijrouii- -'^ ueut grape-gvowei's of Chautauqua couuty. He was born iu Murray, Orleans county, Xew York, Sejitember 4, 1822, and is a sou of Jona- than H. and Polly (Heudrick) Taylor. He comes from an old and honored family, iiis ancestor, a Taylor, coming from England to America in 1630 and settling in Massachusetts. His grandfather, Theoj)hilus Taylor, was born in Connecticut, January 28, 1760, and died No- vember 2-4, 1831. He was a farmer by occu- pation, and one of his sons, Jonathan H. Taylor (father), was born at New Fairfield, Connecticut, 1792. He M'as stationed with the State militia, of ■which he was a member, at New London, during the blockade of that port by the British, and in (1814) received a commission of lieuten- ant from Gov. John Cotton Smith. He came to Westfield in 1831 and built the first foundry in this town. In religion he was a member and a deacon of the Presbyterian church, and died April 28, 1846, aged fifty-four years, at West- field, where he had resided fourteen vears. He married Polly Hendrick, a native of Fairfield, Conn., by whom he had two children. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and died in 1860, at sixty-six years of age. David H. Taylor was reared princi]>ally at "Westfield and received his education in the com- mon schools and in the Westfield academy. In 1860 he began operations as a farmer, adopting the latest and most imjiroved methods, and has continued to keep pace with the strides iu im- provement. He has fifty acres in the village of Westfield devoted to the cultivation of grapes. On November 22, 1851, D. H. Taylor united in marriage with Harriet P., the only daughter of Judge Thomas B. Campbell, who had been a prominent citizen of Westfield and Chautau- qua couuty since 1817, when he came to this town from Batavia, and built a saw and grist- mill. Westfield was then known as Portland. Judge Campbell was born in 1788 in Alexan- dria, Grafton county, N. H., a town now some- what famous for its extensive mica mines. He continued the milling and flouring business for forty-seven years. He owned hundreds of acres of farm lands and in 1860 sold sixty acres iu the southern part of the village for fair ground purposes. In 1819 he was appointed clerk of this county, a.ssociate judge in 1826, and first judge in 1845, which office he held until the election of judges under the constitution adopted in 1846. He was supervisor eight years, 1819- '27, a member of Assembly from 1822 to 1836, and a member of the board of commissioners for building the present county court-house. He had two .sous and three daughters, all of whom are dead but Mrs. Taylor. Judge Camp- bell died at the house of Mr. Taylor, on Presi- dent Cleveland's inauguration day, aged ninety- seven years, in full possession of all his fiicul- ties. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have been the parents of four children, three of whom are living, oue son and two daughters — Mary L., wife of Dr. Charles G. Stockton, one of the most prominent physicians in Buffalo ; Anna, wife of Henry W. Huuter, of Canton, Ohio, and Tliomas B. C. married to Charlotte Flower, of St. Lawrence county, this State. In politics Mr. Taylor is an uncompromising democrat, a good substantial citizen, houorable and enterprising, broad and liberal-minded and a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman. A community which possesses such citizens geuer- allv feels a just pride in them, and the more thej- have of such men the greater is their material advantage and advancement. Mr. Taylor occu- pies a high place in the respect and esteem of the peojjle among whom he has dwelt so long. FRED. W. TH03L\S. The press to-day is a factor of potential jDower; has a wonderful influence over the people among whom it circulates, and molds jJublic opinion to a large degree. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is the proprietor and editor of the Hanover Gazette, the successor of a pajier OF CHAUTAUQUA COUSTY. called the Silver Creek Local. Fred. W. Thomas is a native of Wales, where he was borii, December 28, 1853, and comes from Cymric ancestors as far remote as the family can be traced. His parents were James and Ann Elizabeth Thomas, honorable and respect- ed people of their native country. Fred. W. Thomas was reared and educated in the old country and remained close to the scene of his birth until he reached his twenty- fourth year, having been trained and practiced in the art of book-keeping. As was custoniary with those who aspired to the higher employ- ments, he received a good classical and com- mercial education, in a prominent grammar seiiool. After his arrival in America ]Mr. Thomas found employment in various capaci- ties until 1885, when he embarked in the fire insurance business in Silver Creek, and his suc- cess in this line has been pronounced. In Feb- ruary, 1890, his business mind saw that a news- paper here would be a good investment, and although it might not at once net large returns, the succeeding years would increase its value, and he bought the Hanover Gazette, the name to which the Silver Creek Local had been changed. This paper was founded by J. I. Spears, who was attached to the New York Sun's I'ecent expedition to explore Greenland. The circulation of the Gazette is constantly in- creasing under the new management and it is entering into the confidence of its readers in a way that is gratifying and creditable to Mr. Thomas. Journalism in Silver Creek has had a check- ered career for thirteen years, but the Gazette is founded on a solid basis, is a clean and care- fully edited paper such as commends itself to every home, and whilst its future is full of promise, it may truthfully be asserted, that to the present editor belongs the honor of estab- lishing the most successful newspaper ever pub- lished in Silver Creek. October IS, 1882, he married Hattie Wells Ward, a daughter of Dr. Spencer Ward, who was a pioneer physician of northeastern Chau- taufpm county, and lived iu this village. Dr. Ward was a native of Vermont, from which State he came and settled here. Fred. W. and IMrs. Thomas have been blessed with three children, all daughters : Helen Elizabeth, An- nie Spencer and Marian Ward, who are yet, young and live witli their parents. ■pi>WARD A. SKIXNER, a well-known '•■^ business man and president of the Na- tional Bank of Westfield, was born in the towu of Aurora, Erie county. New York, May 10, 1841, and is a son of Rev. Levi A. and Laura (Patterson) Skinner. His paternal grandfather, Levi Skinner, was a farmer, and a native of Massachusetts, from which he came to Oneida county, this State, where he died in 1850. He was of Euglish origin and had been a member of the Presbyterian church for many years be- fore his death. His son, Rev. Levi A. Skin- ner (father), was reared iu the faith of the Presbyterian church, iu which he became a minister in early life. After preaching for sev- eral years in Erie county, this State, his voice failed him, and he was thus comjielled to retire from the pulpit. He then (July 1, 1854) came to Westfield and succeeded J. N. Hungerford as cashier of the Bank of Westfield, which position he held un- til 1864, when he became a stockholder and director of tiie First National Bank of West- field. In October the bank commenced busi- ness and he was elected cashier, which position he held until 1875, wheu he was elected presi- dent and .served iu that capacity until his death, April 12, 187(j, at sixty-five years of age. He was a man of moderate means, stood well in financial circles, and married Laura Patterson, a daughter of John Patterson, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. Edward A. Skinner was reared in Erie C(.)untv until he was twelve vears of aue, when BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY he came with his parents to Westfield where he completed his education in the Westfield acad- emy, from which he was graduated. At six- teen years of age he went into the Westfield Bank as book-keej)er, remained two years and then was engaged in mercantile business until 1861, when he enlisted in Co. G, 9th N. Y. cavalry, and served as second lieutenant several months. In 1862 he was promoted to first lieutenant and shortly afterwards was commis- sioned regimental quartermaster, which position he held until March, 1864, acting as brigade quartermaster much of the time. He was then discharged on account of physical disability, re- turned to Westfield where he became assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Westfield, which position he held until 1870, when he helped organize the First National Bank of Ottawa, Kansas, with which he is still identi- fied. He returned from Ottawa in 1874, was elected in 1875 vice-president of the Flr.st Na- tional Bank of Westfield, which position he held until 1886, when at the death of his father he succeeded him as president, and has acted in that capacity ever since. This bank was organ- ized in 1848 as the Bank of Westfield, has a cajjital of fifty thousand dollars aud its deposits average over two hundred thousand dollars. A well established and well conducted bank is a marked feature of progress in any community and the National Bank of Westfield has been so conducted that it has always commanded pub- lic confidence. In 1864 Mr. Skinner married Frances M. Barger, who died in June, 1872. On August 19, 1874, he married Augusta Wheeler, of Portvilie, New York, who is a daughter of Hon. William F. Wheeler, president of the First National Bank of Olean, this State. By his second marriage he has three children : Floi-a, Egbert and Frances. Edward A. Skinner is a republican in poli- tics and was supervisor of Westfield several years. He has served since 1880 as treasurer of the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum, and disburses nearly three million dollars per year of the funds of that organization which numbers over one hundred thousand members in the United States and Canada. ^HAKLES 1>. COLBUUX is a fiirmer of ^^ prominence and was born to David L. and Ann (AValter) Colburn in the town of Poland, Chautauqua county, New York, Dec. 2, 1841. David Colburn (grandfather) was a native of Otsego county, but died in Chautauijua county. David L. Colburn was born in Otsego county, this State, and removed to the town of Poland, where he worked by the day as a common laborer for a number of years, begin- ning when eighteen years of age. He after- wards became a landed farmer. He married Ann Walter and reared three children : William entered the Federal army in 1861, joining the 42d regiment, Illinois Infantiy, where entering as a private he was discharged at the close of the war with a captain's commission. Return- ing to his home in Michigan, he died in 1873. He carried a number of scars of wounds re- ceived, none of which were permanently dis- abling; Mary married a farmer named John Smith, and lives in Yillanova, this county; aud Charles D., who married Elizabeth Ingersoll, a daughter of Peter Ingersoll, who was a riative of Chenango county, and from there reuioved into Chautauqua county, locating in the town of Ellington, where he died in 1872, aged seventy- two years. "When a young man he engaged in merchandising, but later became a farmer. Politically a democrat, he was elected justice of the peace soon after his arrival in Chautauqua and held the office almost all his life. His wife was Lois M. Smith, who became the mother of the following children. Martin Y. B., a farmer residing in the town of Ellington ; Erastus S., resides at Randolph, Cattaraugus county, and is a prominent merchant. He was a member of the New York State Assembly two years ; OF (JIIAUTAVQUA COUSTY. Charles P., also represented his district in the Assembly, aud has until lately resided at West- field, hut uow lives in New York city, holding the position of graud dictator of the Knights of Honor ; J. Lambert was a lawyer and died at Jamestown, in 1881 ; and Martha, married Perry Slater ; she is now dead ; before her mar- riage she was a teacher in the public schools. They were all members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Air. Colburn married the second time to Theda M. Lily, aud had a large j family, four of whom are living. Charles D. Colburn has always followed farm- iug and owns a farm of one hundred and eight ; acres, a portion of it lieing in the corporate limits of Jamestown, and has recently pur- chased one hundred acres on the sliore of Chau- tauqua lake. On February 15, 18G5, he married Elizabeth E. Ingersoll and their union has been blest with three children : Mina B., is a very popular j teacher in the Jamestown Kindergarten schools, having graduated from the Jamestown High school and prepared especially for teaching . Martlia died when fourteen years and five months old ; and B. Vincent. The maternal j grandmother of Mrs. Colburn was among the oldest inhabitants of Ellington, and lived to the advanced age of one hundred and two ye.irs. Air. Colburn is a republican, and with his wife and entire family are members of the Methodist church. He is also a member of i Lodge No. 34, Ancient Order of United AVorkmen. T .EVERETT BARKER GREENE, of Fre- ^^ donia, is a grandson of General Leverett Barker, and a lineal descendant of the brother of General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary memory. He is a sou of Eosell and Eliza (Barker) Greene, and was born at Fredonia, Chautauqua county. New York, November 23, 1839. The Greenes are of English origin, aud the founder of the American branch of the family was a Quaker, among whose descendants were General Nathaniel Greene and his brother, from whom Rosell Greene (father) was descended. Rosell Greene was born in Herkimer county in 1815, and came, about 1830, to Mayville, where he attended school. He afterwards i-emoved to Fredonia, learned the trade of tanner with Gen. Leverett Barker, and then took charge of the tannery of the latter. He continued in the tannery business until his death, in 1859, when he owned the Fredonia tannery, besides a large tannery and mills in Cattaraugus county. He married Eliza Barker, the second child and eldest daughter of Gen. Leverett Barker, and had two sous and three daughters, all of whom are dead except Leverett B., the subject of this sketch. General Leverett Barker (maternal grandfixther) was a son of Russel Barker, of Branfort, Connecticut, where he was born May 6, 1787. He came to Chautauqua county in 1817, and on March 3, 1811, married Desire, daughter of Hezekiah Barker, who had come to Cauadaway in 1806. He built at Fredonia the fir.st cannery in the county, had an intere.st in a large tannery afterwards erected at Jamestown, and died in 1848. He was one of the prime movers, in 1831, in establishing the first bank in the county — the Chautauqua County Bank — of which he was president for several years. He served in the war of 1812, and was succes- sively commissioned lieuteuant, adjutant, lieu- tenant-colonel (1818), colonel (1823), brigadier- geueral of the 43d brigade (1824), and major- general of the 26th division of New York Infantry (1826). He left a family of two sons and six daugliters. Leverett Barker Greene .spent his boyhood days at Fredouia, where he received his educa- tion in the old academy of that place. At the death of his father he a.ssumed charge of the estate, aud is uow engaged in the tanning busi- ne.ss and looking after his real e.state interests in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus aud Erie counties. On February 27th, 1868, Air. Greene married 176 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY Isabella Burnliam, a native of Madison county, and tbey have one adopted daughter, Kate. Mrs. Greene is a lineal descendant of the De Burnlumi, who was lord of the Saxon village in England which was afterwards known as Burn bam. L. B. Greene is a republiean in politics, and has been for several years a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is a stockholder of the Fredonia Xational Bank, the successor of the Fredonia Bank of which his father was the first president. He owns some valuable property at Fredonia, which is his present home. The General Leverett Barker homestead was bought by his uncle, Darwin R. Barker, who willed this property to the village to be used for a public library. TT IJAD FULLER. The material wealth of -^^ a community is largely advanced by the possession of good live stock. Chautauqua county is justly renowned for the superior stock she raises, and to Arad Fuller the credit is largely due for its introduction. This gentle- man, a son of Amos and Charity (Roberts) Fuller, was born November 13, 1822, at Nor- wich, AVindsor county, Vermont. His great- grandfather, William Fuller, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., where he married Persis Paine, either a sister or niece of Robert Treat Paine. Their children were: William, Persis, Witt and a daughter (name forgotten). Witt Fuller was born in Massachusetts and married Deborah Garfield, by whom he had eight children: Persis, Betsey, Lucy, Laura, Walden, Nathan, Arad and Amos. He re- moved to Vermont, where he died in 1809 or 1810. Amos Fuller was born in Vermont, but in 1833 he emigrated to Chautauqua county and settled in the town of Poland, where he lived until his death, which occurred September 27, 1879, aged eighty-one years. By occupation he was a luml)ermau and farmer, in politics a whig and republican, and was a member of the Meth- odist church, but before his death he became a Universalist. Amos Fuller married Charity Roberts and had six children, two sons and four daughters, of whom Arad is the oldest. The daughters died when young, and the other son, Danford D., went to Iowa and afterwards to Dakota, where he died in 1885. Arad Fuller was educated in the early public schools and began life as a lumberman, subse- quently purchasing a small farm in Poland, to which he added until his death, when he owned about six hundred aci'es of land. He early de- voted his attention to raising fine stock, and brought some fine blood to Chautauqua county. A clipping from a Jamestown paper, published at the time of his death, April 11, 1887, says: "All these years Arad Fuller has been one of the re])resentative men of southern Chautauqua, full of ambition, possessed of great industry, and loving his work he has lived for a purpose and filled it well. He \vas a great lover of fine stock and always spent his money freely in any in- vestments that tended to elevate and develop the same. " Chautanquans owe much of their celebrated stock, to-day, to the good judgment exercised in the past by Arad Fuller. "It is proper here to say that no man was better or more favorably known to this commun- ity than Mr. Fuller. He was genial and always glad to meet his fellow -citizens, they, in return, ever had for him a warm and cordial reception. "He will be greatly missed. His counsel and advice will no more encourage his friends, but his memory will remain, and in future years, as now, many of us will recall the grandeur, the integrity and the association of Arad Fuller." Ai'ad Fuller married Malvina Bill, on March 4, 1846. She was a daughter of Norton B. and Cemeutha (Ransom) Bill. The father of Mrs. Fuller was a native of New England, and came to this county from Oneida county, N. Y., in 1830, and located in Poland, where he followed farmino- until his death, in 1871. Mrs. Fuller OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTY. 177 was the second child of a family of seven. Mr. and ^Irs. Fuller had three children : Sophia, married John Ely, a farmer living in Kennedy, Poland town, this county; Martha A., at home; and Frank, who wedded Elizabeth Phillips, of Villauova, and lives in South Dayton, Catta- raugus county. Politically he was a republican, a kind friend antl a devoted husband and father. TOHX JAY LIVIXGSTOX is a venerable ^ and dignified old gentleman of James- town, who was familiar with the use of the compass, tripod and chain for more than half a century. He is a sou of William and Sarah (Tracy) Livingston, and came into the world at Hebron, Washington county, N. Y., ou October 19th, 1798. His grandfather, John Livingston, was a native of Monaghan, Ireland, and from there came to America, locating in Saratoga county, jSTew York, where he lived three years, and during this period subject's father, William Livingston, was born, the scene of his birth overlooking the now renowned, but then un- known, historical battle ground where General Burgoyne, the haughty Briton, was compelled to acknowledge defeat and surrendered his sword and entire army. The elder Li\ ingston moved to Salem, Washington county, N. Y., while subject's father was a toddling infant. His wife was a Miss Boyd, who bore her hus- bend a fiimily of six sous and one daughter. Two of the former, Francis and John, served in the Continental army and were present at the surrender of Burgoyne. AVilliam Living- ston was born in 1768, and early in manhood, or soon after the close of the war, he studied medicine and was a practicing physician for about fifty years. He was a republican in poli- tics, and represented Washington county in the State Legislature four terms. Later he went to Essex county, this State. About 1830 he re- moved to Chautauqua county, residing at Hart- field for a few years ; then returned to Essex county, where he died in his ninety-second year. William Livingston married Sarah Tracy, who was born in Connecticut, and was twelve years old when Benedict Arnold betrayed New London. John Jay Livingston was born and educated in Washington county, and then went to Essex county, where he remained until 1830, and then he came to Chautau(jua county and stayed two years. In 1832 he went to Venango county, Pennsylvania. Eight years later the county was divided and Clarion county was erected from the detached portion. Mr. Livingston was a citizen of that county, the town being called Shippenville, for fifty-eight years. He was a student of languages, and attained a wonderful proficiency in French and German, and was also well informed on general subjects, particularly mathematics, and observing the de- mand for proficient surveyors, he took up the study of that profession and followed it more or less since 1832 until 1883. After his eigh- tieth birthday he performed field work with transit and chain for twenty -seven consecutive days. He was married first to ]Mary Ball, and for his second wife he took Maria Rice, of Washington county. New York. By that union be had seven children, four of whom yet live : James B. is a physician at West Middle- sex, Pennsylvania; William R. lives at Silver Lake, Minnesota, and is a farmer. He served four years in the 10th regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and was wounded in battle; Mary married I. G. Laeey, a lumberman at Warren, Pennsylvania; and Harriet E., still unmarried. John Jay Livingston, for his third wife, mar- ried Elizabeth J. Whitehill. Her father was a native and citizen of Centre county, Pennsyl- vania, until late in life, when he moved up into Clarion county, and was a blacksmith by trade. He died at the latter place. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston lived happily together during more than thirty-eight years, until June 7th, 1880, when the latter died. She had one child, a son, BIOGRAPHY ASD HISTORY Alfred T., who is uow a practicing physician at Jamestown, Xew York. He married Catherine Paclver, of "Williarasport, Pennsylvania. Al- fred T. Livingston was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and educated at the Jamestown academy and Allegheny college. He then studied medicine with his half-brother, Dr. James B. Livingston, and then attended the medical department of tlie University of Buf- falo, after graduating at which he began tlie practice of medicine in that city in 1873, but staid there less than a year before he was ap- pointed assi.stant physician of the State Insane Asylum at Utica, where he remained for five years. After this he went to Philadelphia, Pennsyh-ania, and established a home-hosj)ital for the treatment of mental disorders, which he conducted for eight years and then he came to Jamestown, where he is now established. John Jay Livingston is one of the oldest citi- zens of western New York, and his virtuous and upright life has gained him the confidence and respect of all his acquaintances. He is uow living at the home of his son Alfred, with whom he has resided for seven years. Rapidly approaching his ninety-third year, he realizes that his time upon earth is short at the longest, but he is at peace with liis Maker and worships Him in the Methodist Episcopal church, of whicli Mr. Livingston iias been a member since 1833. TA>1IJJA31 31. XEWTOX. Many of our most brilliant men are cut down in the prime of life, seemingly becau.se the physical man is too weak to sustain, the mental strain under which it labors. William M. Jsewtou was of this class. His early life was pas.sed with toil and hard study to attain an eminence whicli he finally reached. His maturer years were marked hy close application, that his client's interests should not sutler, and he had the confidence of tliose wiio employed his talent, and the respect and consideration of his brother barristers, even though they were opposed to him at tlie bar, because he disdained .subterfuge and petty advantages. William M. Xewtou was a son of John and Sally (Loomer) Newton, and was born in Norwich, New York, October 30, 1827, and died at Jamestown April 11, 1887, aged fifty-uine years and si.v months. His father, John Newton, went to Busti town in 1832 and settled as a farmer, and died a num- l)er of years ago. Wdliam !M. Newton early gave evidence of a bright mind, which developed rapidly as he ap- proached mauliood, but his parents were strug- gling to maintain a family of five children, and the young man got naught but such advantages as the common .schools afforded. He early de- termined to master the law for his life profes- sion, and ids studies were directed to attain this end. Various labor was performed to secure means, and he spent the winters teaching sciiool, principally in Chautauqua county. On June 3, 1848, he married Prudence Bar- ber, a daughter of Elihu Barber, an old resident and farmer of Poland, who .served as a drum- mer boy in the war of 1812. He had two children : Agnes, who married Ed. D. Warren ; and Otis J., who wedded jSIary E. Wilcox, and has two children, Burt and Maud. Mrs. New- ton was of great assistance to her young husband in his .studies. Instead of being a burden to him, she was the bright .star which led him on- ward, and Mr. Newton, in later years, gave her great credit for his attainment in legal study. In 1850 he entered the office of JNIadison Burnell, of Jamestown, who was one of the most prominent lawyers of western New York. His practice was extensive, and the young stu- dent had excellent opportunities for practice in the justices court long before his admission to the bar. After spending two years with Mr. Burnell, he attended the law school at Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, this State, where he rapidly improved in legal knowledge and style of oratory. Naturally gifted with an eloquence OF CHAUTAUQUA COUXTV. which swept away all (hmlit, he soou acquired a reputatiou for effective advocacy. He was admitted to practice iu all the courts of the State early in 1853, and on the 5th of Decem- ber, followiug year, he formed a jwrtnership with the Hon. C. R. Lockwood, of Jamestown, which continued only a year, when Mr. Newton went to Waterloo, Black Hawk county, Iowa, where he remained about seven years, and was elected district attorney. During the sixties he returned to Jamestown and followed his profes- sion with great success until his death, whicii occurred in 1887. Mr. Newton's death cast a gloom on the legal frateruity of Chautauqua couuty. Probably, excepting his family, none missed him so completely as his brother lawyers, who were wont to listen to his eloquence and wit. Politically, Mr. Newton was originally a democrat, but being of large ideas he saw the fallacy of parties and expressed himself as a rigid adherent of no party. His integrity of purpose and regard for the people, induced him to act for the maintenance of right." "To his cou.science, there were inconsistencies in the prevalent teaching of orthodox religionists, which he regarded as inconsistent with divine goodness, and from a sense of duty, although uot allying himself to any particular denomina- tion, he advocated the more liberal sentiment of the time." "He regarded superstition and bigotry as relics of darkest ages, which should succumb to the purer light and higher educa- tion of the present." He was devoted to his family, to his friends and to his profession, and although nearly sixty years of age, was still a youug man-, for age cannot be numbered by years. He is survived by his wife, one sou and a daughter, Agnes, — Mrs. Warren. Ed. D. Warren was a journalist of extraor- dinary ability. He was born in Trenton, Onei- da county, N. Y., July 1, 1849, was educated at Jamestown academy and learned the printer's trade. He then took up editorial wt)rk and was soon recognized as a l>rilliant writer and a successful journalist. The Jamestown, and Springfield, Mass., papers were well acquainted with him and prized the products of his pen. The Union of the last named city was his home for ten years. He then went to Concord, N. H., and took charge of the Blade. It was there that he did the best work of his life. In 1884 he returned to S[)ringfield and in the fall of 1888, assumed the editorship of the Paper World, a monthly publication devoted to tlie news of periodicals and paper production, which position he held until a few weeks before his death when exhausted vitality compelled him to relinquish his pen and surrender his desk. He died at Boston, Massachusetts, March 9, 1890, leaving a young wife in sorrow. His health iiad never been rugged. For years he had been a sufferer and many daj-s were spent at work by force of will onlj'. His employers respected, and fellow employees admired him for the de- termination not to give up, which though un- spoken was displayed, and it was only when completely exhausted that he quit. Ed. D. Warren was a republican, a member of De Soto lodge, No. 155, I. O. O. F., and an active Christian worker iu Sabbath-sciiool and church. His wife is now living at iier home, on Lake View avenue, Jamestown. HON. ALBERT B. SHELDON, one of the leading representatives of busiuess, politi- cal and social life of central Chautauqua county, is a son of Frauklin and Eliza (Brigham) Sheldon, was born in the town of Westfield, tiiis couuty, on April 7, 1842. The parents of our subject came from Pawlet, Vermont, and reached this couuty about 1830. Franklin Sheldon settled in the town of Westfield aud began to farm and deal in cattle, which he has followed to a greater or less extent until within the past few years. He is now eighty-two years of age, and for many years was assessor in the town of Westfield, and he filled the olfiee iu a most commendaljle manner. BIOGRArUY AXD HISTORY Albert B. Sheldon was born and reared on a farm, and received his education at the district scliools. Although the facilities for securing an education were far inferior to those of the present day, before he had reached the age of twenty- one he was the possessor of a teacher's State certificate of proficiency, and it is doubtful if there is another parallel instance. At fifteen years of age he began to teach and followed the jjrofession during the winter seasons for ten years. The summers were passed in the pur- chase and sale of stock, from the proceeds of which he accumulated considerable money. In 18C3 he became a produce dealer, and altliough now interested in many other matters, he still is identified as a drover. Butter and cheese form a large part of his annual business, and he is one of the very few who have made it a success. Between forty and fifty thousand dollars worth of these staple commodities pass through his hands yearly. In 1881 he was elected to the State legislature, and was re-elected the following year, and served as chairman of the committee on agricultiu'e. Mr. Sheldon was supervisor of the town of Sherman for three years, and is now vice-president of the State Bank of Sherman, that was organized in Feb- ruary, 1890, and of which Enoch Sperry is p)resident. The towns of Sherman, Kiantone, Westfield and Chautauqua, and the city of Jamestown, contain valuable real estate that belongs to him. He also has large real estate interests at Butfalo. Hon. A. B. Sheldon has a fine house at Sher- man, in which he takes much comfort and pleasure. In 1872 he married Maria Slocum, a lady from Frewsbnrgh, this county, and they had one child, which unfortunately died. He is a hard worker and pays close attention to business for nine months each year, but during the cold winter months he takes a vacation for amusement, rest and pleasure. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon have traveled very extensively both in Europe and America, and are well informed regarding the manners and customs of foreign countries, and the current news of American j)olitics and the affairs of State and nation come to them daily through the medium of periodicals published at Buffalo. FKAXK S. WHEELEH, a member of the Chautauqua county bar, is a .son of Silas and ^Nlaria (Camp) Wheeler, and M"as born in the town of Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, December 16, 1864. His great-grandfather, Seth Wheeler, was born in Xew Hampshire, in which State he lived during his life time ; he was a farmer by occupation. Moses Wheeler (grandfather) was born in Xew Hampshire, but removed to El- lington, Chautauqua county. New York, in 182-1 or 1825. He was a farmer by occupa- tion, and a whig in politics until the disruption of that party, when he joined the republican ranks. When the Free Will Baptist church of Ellington was orgar.ized in 1824, Closes Wheeler was one of the eight original mem- bers. He had four children, two .sons, Albert and Sila.s, and two daughters, Emily and ^Eary Jane. One of his .sons, Silas Wheeler (fatlier), was born in the town of Ellington in 1834, and is a prosperous farmer of the town of Poland, owning about three hundred acres of land in the towns of Ellington and Poland. He is a republican, and always votes that ticket. In 1862 he married ^laria Camp, daughter of William and Eliza Camj), of the town of Po- land. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler have had one child, Frank S. Wheeler. William Camp, Mrs. W^heeler's tather, was born in Onondaga county, New York, and i-emoved to Chautauqua county about 1831, and settled in the town of Poland. He is a farmer by occupation, and a republican. He married Eliza Wheelock, daughter of Eliab WHieelock, of the town of Poland. Mr. and !Mrs. Camjj had three chil- dren : ^laria, Julia and INIartha. Frank S. Wheeler received his education in OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. the 2>iiblic schools of tlie town of EHington, in the Ellington academy and the Chamberlain institute at Randolph, Cattaraugus county, from Mhich latter institution he was graduated in 1883. In the fall of 1884 he began the study of law, reading first with Theodore Case, of Ellington, and with Bootey, Fowler & Weeks, of Jamestown, and then attended the law school at Albany, fi'om which he was graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the bar as attorney and counsellor of the State in 1887, since which time he has been actively engaged in the prac- tice of his profession, first at Ellington, but since July, 1890, at Jamestown, where he has decided to make his permanent home. He votes the Republican ticket, but avoids all political complications. During the Harrison campaign he unfortunatel)' lost his left leg by the bursting of a cannon. He is a member of Lodge 97, A. O. U. W., of Ellington, and I. O. O. F., No. 522, of Kennedy. nEVElJEXD CHAKLES EDWAKD S3IITH, D.D., pastor of the First Baptist church of Fredonia, is of New Eng- land birth and parentage. He is a son of Philip and Roby (Simmons) Smith, and was born in Fall River, Bristol county, Massachu- setts, January 22d, 18.35. His grandfather, Edward Smith, was born at Newport, Newpoi-t county, Rhode Island, in 1770, and was a farmer by occupation. One of the beaches on the sea-coast near Newport is named Smith's Beach in honor of his ancestors, who settled there when they came from England. He moved to Massachusetts in 1822, and settled in Fall River, and there lived a retired life, being of a theological turn of mind and an acute reasoner. He died in 1834, in his sixty-fourth year. Brown Simmons, the maternal grand- father of Rev. C. E. Smith, was born in Somerset, Bristol county, Massachusetts, where he spent his whole life in the occupation of a farmer. In religion he was a member of the i Baptist church. His ancestors were English people, who reached Massachusetts not long- after the " Mayflower." Brown Simmons was ' married to Huldah Brown in 1770, and for that reason was excused from serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. By this marriage there were seven children, two sons and five daughters. The father of these chil- dren died in 1838, and the mother in 1848, in her ninety-third year. Philip Smith (father) was born in Newport, Newport county, Rhode Island, in 1804, and worked on the form until he was eighteen years old. Being ingenious to an unusual degree, and to develop this gift, he went to Fall River, IMassachusetts, served three years' apprenticeship) in a machine-shop, event- ually became a contractor for building cotton-mill machinery, and continued in this business the remainder of his life. In religion he was a member and deacon of the First Baptist church of Fall River, of high moral character, and very highly respected. Politically he was a member of the so-called Liberty party. Philip Smith was married (1.828) to Roby Simmons, and had three children, two sous and a daughter: Philip B., born in 1830, and died at the age of twenty-three years; Roby M., born in 1832, and died in 1834; and Charles Edward. C. E. Smith graduated from the Fall River (Massachusetts) High school in 1856, then went to the university of Rochestei-, New York, where he graduated in 1860, and then entered the Rochester Theological Seminary, graduating therefrom in 1863. He was licensed to preach by the church the night after he left home for college, and that summer had been assistant editor of the Fall Biver News. His first pas- toral charge was in Pawtucket, Providence county, Rhode Island, where he was ordained in August, 1863, as pastor of the first Baptist church. In 1868 he became pastor in Cincin- nati, Ohio, which pastorate he was compelled to resign in 1870 on account of ill-health. He then spent a year at Fulton, Oswego county. BIOGRAPHY AM) IILSTORY this State, whcrt' lie was assistant engineer on the Erie canal, at the same time being active pastor of the church there. From 1871 to 1875 he was pastor of Calvary Baptist church in New Haven, Connecticut, a large church with a seating capacity of twelve hundred. In the latter year he came to Syracuse, this State, where he was pastor of the First Baptist church for six years, when lie was again forced to resign on account of ill health. While recuperating, he wrote and published the book known as "The Baptism in Fire." In 1885 he came to Fredonia as pastor of the Baptist church, where he has since resided and occupied that pulpit. This church was organized October 8th, 1808, and is believed to be the second church organ- ized in the county, and the present brick edifice was built in 1853. Rev. Mr. Smith has just published another book entitled, " The World Lighted," a study of the Apocalypse. Ou June 16, 1891, the University of Roches- ter, N. Y., conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity, a title which he is well (jualified to sustain with dignity. Rev. C. E. Smith was married February 17th, 1864, to Catherine A. Kimball, a daughter of Morris and Louisa C. Kimball, of Fulton, New York, her father being a civil engineer all his life on the Erie canal. By this marriage there is one daughter, who is married to Dr. Nelson G. Richmond, a prosi)erous physician of Fredonia. IS.\AC A. SAXTOX. Within the last half- century several citizens of Chautauqua county have been very successful in the gold- fields of the Pacific slope and prominent in the founding and early progress of some of the leading cities of the great west. Among these was the late Isaac A. Saxton, of Fredonia. He was a son of Major Isaac and Lucy (Chapin) Saxton and was born in Oneida county, New Y'ork, June 24, 1818. Major Isaac Saxton re- moved with his family from Oneida county to uear Brocton, in the town of Portland, where he afterwards died. He married Lucy Chapin, who was a descendant of the Massachusetts family of that name. Isaac A. Saxton, after completing his academic course, was engaged for a short time in teaching in Kentucky, where he received one thousand dollars per year and was furnished a negro page to attend him. After returning from Kentucky he entered Hamilton college, from which he was graduated at the close of his senior year. He then went to Shreveport, Louisiana, and was in business for some time, after which he became a I'esideut of New Orleans, but his place of business burned soon after its establishment. To repair his loss, he sought the then new dis- covered gold-fields of California, where numer- ous ventures iu locating and developing gold territory were successful, although at various times he met with reverses and had his residence and business buildings burned. Returning from California to Chautauqua county, he read medi- cine for a short time, but then abandoned all idea of that profession and applied himself to the .study of law at Fredonia in order to fully fit himself Tor a business career as well as for a professional life. He was admitted to the Chau- tauqua county bar and did a large amount of real estate and other business during his life. At an early day in the history of Chicago he had strong faith in the future development of that then mere town. He invested largely in Chicago real estate, which advanced rapidly in value, as he had anticipated, and yielded him a wonderful iucrea.se of profit on his investments. He purchased western lands which became val- uable and had various other profitable business interests in this county and in the western States, besides forty acres of land within seven miles of the heart of the city of Chicago. He accumu- lated a fortune of large proportions by his un- ceasing activity, unwearied energy and successful investments. While cool, calculating and con- servative, while heeding carefully boom and lull in busine.ss, yet he was far-seeing and able ta (iM^z.^:^^^, yk^^^t^ OF CHAUTAVql'A COVXTY. predict the future successtul results of various investments in which many substantial business men were afraid to become interested. In polit- ical matters he supported the Republican party. After nearly half a century of active and suc- cessful business life he died on March 4, 1884, when in the sixty-sixth year of his age. His remains were entombed with appropriate cere- monies in Forest Hill cemetery. Ou January 2, 1855, Isaac Saxton married Louisa W. Pier, of this county. Their union was blessed with four children, of whom one son still lives: Isaac Henry, who is married and resides in Chicago when not engaged on his horse ranch of nearly four thousand acres in the State of Kansas. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Saxton w as teaching in the city of New York. She resides at Fredonia, where she has a beautiful and pleasant home. Mrs. Saxton is a daughter of Daniel Pier, who was boru at Cooperstown, Xew York, and removed to the site of Dunkirk city in January, 1814, where he engaged in farming. He and his father-in-law, Amon Gaylord, two of his brothers-in-law and four other parties sold their farms to a company who laid out on their purchase the village of Dunkirk. Daniel Pier had purchased the larger part of the site of the village for seventy dollars and sold it to this company for twenty-four hundred dollars. He died in 1837, aged fifty-four years. Before removing to Dunkirk he had followed merchau I dising, although by trade a hatter. He was a public-spirited man, and married Candace Gay- lord, daughter of Amon Gaylord, by whom he had seven children, of whom three are living : Amelia S., Mrs. Aveline H. Morey and Mrs. Louisa AV. Saxton. TA Ml,LIA3I J. COBB, a prosperous merchant -**■ and retired agricultural implement man- ufacturer of Jamestown, is a sou of Adam B. and Thetis (Bishop) Cobb, and he first saw tiie light of day February 17, 1823, inElizabethtown, Essex county, New York, where his father was married. Zaciiariah Cobb, grandfather of the subject of (Hir sketch, was a native of Connec- ticut, but early in manhood enjigrated to Essex county, this State, where he followed farming until his death. During the Revolution, like Putnam, he left his plow and with musket on his shoulder, remained in the Colonial service until the contest was decided, and again, at the breaking out of the second war with England, he went to the front. He married a Miss Brady and reared a family of four sons and three daughters. Elijaii Bishop (maternal grandfather) although of English extraction was born in New Milford, Connecticut, 1760. While young he emigrated to Vermont and later came to New York where he died. He was a man of considerable ingenuity, which he employed to good advantage. During the war of 1812 he served as major with distinction. When interested in politics he was identified with the democrats. He was twice married, his first wife being Dorcas Holcomb, who bore him eight children, of whom Elijah Bishop and the mother of "William J. Cobb, are the only ones now living. Adam B. Cobb (father) was born in 1801, in Essex county, and when thirty- two years of age, with his family, came to this county and died in Jamestown, in 1883. Like his son he was a whig and afterwards a republi- can. For a number of years he was associated with his son, William J. Cobb, in the manufac- turing business, but several years before he died he disposed of the business. He was a member of the Congregational church in which faith he died. In 1822, he married Thetis Bishop, who was born March 4, 1800, and who bore him four children : William J., Norval B., now dead, who served ou the Union side during the Rebellion; Sheldon B., (dead); and Lucy, who is the wife of William Broadhead, and resides in Jamestown. William J. Cobb received his early education in the common schools of his home, and early ia BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY life engaged with his father in the manufacture of agricuhural tools, from which he retired about twenty-five years ago and since then has been engaged in the grocery business. An en- thusiastic republican he is also a patriotic cit- izen, and enjoys seeing the government properly conducted, and is with his wife an active mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. !Mr. Cobb has a very pleasant home whicli it is hoped he will yet enjoy for many years. On Dec. 23, 18^6, Mr. Cobb married for his first wife Miranda Woodward, a daughter of Reuben Woodward, a resident of Chautauqua county, who was the mother of two children : Ordello \\. was a merchant tailor of James- town, but is now in the insurance business, and was married to Clara Brooks ; and Orlando W. (dead). The youngest son, George D., a conduc- tor on the electric street cars, is a child by IMr. Cobb's second wife, and is also married, his wife being Vesta A. Fox. After the death of the first Mrs. Cobb, he married Mrs. Martha T. (Simmons) Clements, with whom he had a very happy home for many years. Martha T. Cobb died June 11, 1891. -t>EXJ.\3IIN J. COFFIX, a promineni resi- -'^ dent of Sherman, who at first became well known as a gallant soldier, and later, through his business abilities, was born at Xantucket, Massachusetts, on July 30, 1821, and is a son of John G. and Rebecca (Joy) Coffin. The CofSn family is of English extraction and the Ameri- can branch are all descended from Tristam Cof- fin, who landed from the mother country about 1642. His first residence was at Salem, Massa- chusetts, but during the persecutions he removed to Nantucket, where he might enjoy his Quaker religion without being molested. Tristam Cof- fin was I'emote from our subject nine generations. He married Dionus Stevens. The great-grand- father of our subject was James Coffin, who en- tered the world at Nautucket, lived there, served as justice of the peace and a member of the General Assembly of !Massac!iusetts, and died in the town of his birth. His sou, Samuel Coffin, was boru at the same place and learned tailoring. The latter's wife was Eunice Folger, and belonged to the same family as Ex-Secretary of the Treasury, Folger. They had six children. The maternal grandfather, Obed Joy, was of English descent, although born in the town of Xantucket, and his fatlier's name was jSIoses Joy. Obed Joy was a skillful mariner aud fol- lowed the sea throughout his life. He married Ann Cartwright aud reared seven children. John G. Coffin was boru at the town of Xan- tucket in 1797. While yet young he went to sea aud followed it all his life. He rose to the dignity of a master and died while on a voyage. His remains were iuterred at Tombos, South America. Captain Coffin was a member of tlie Pres- byterian church and married Rebecca Joy, who was born October 29, 1798, and is still living (1891), and enjoying good health. They had three children — subject, and two daughters: Keziah J. now lives at Xantucket witii her mother on the old homestead ; and Mary A., who married George Simpson, now dead, aud she, too, is living with her mother. Benjamin J. Coffin was educated in the com- mon schools of his native town, and as they ranked with the average of their day, the extent of his instruction may be imagined. Wheu he left home he went to Xew York city and Brook- lyn and learned sash and blind making. In March, 1843, he united in marriage with Eliza- beth G. Paddock, a daughter of George Pad- dock, a Bay State mariner. He was master of a vessel aud while at Xew Orleans was attacked with yellow fever and died. Mr. and Mrs. Cof- fin have been blessed with two children : John G., who married Adaliue Miller, now lives in Westfield, where he owns aud operates a saw- mill — he has five children : George, Ruth, Eli- zabeth A., Mary aud Lueretia ; and Rebecca, now the wife of A. Jerome Peck, a gents' fur- OF CHAUTAUQUA COUXTy. nisher and clothiug dealer at Sherman — they have a daughter Louise. Benjamin J. Coffin first worked at carpenter- ing in Siierman and Westfield up to 1860, and then went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania and lived at Rouseville for one year, but in July, 1861, he returned to Sherman and re- cruited Company E, 9th regiment, New York Cavalry, and they were mustered out of service in October, 1864. Mr. Coffin was captain of his company for two years and eight months. After leaving the army he returned to the oil regions and engaged as a superintendent for two or three years, and then came back to Sherman, where, soon after, he was elected justice of the peace on the Republican ticket, and he has been re-elected at every election since. This is com- plimentary to the gentleman's integrity aud per- sonal popularity. In addition to his office of trust he does a large business in conveyancing and settling up estates, most of that work in this community coming to him. He has been supei'- visor of his town for eight years — first in 1856, and for the last seven years has served consecu- tively. Benjamin J. Coffin is a member of Sheldon Post, No. 295, G. A. R., and also be- longs to the Equitable Aid Union. "PLIAS FORBES, who is now enjoying a -'"^ well-earned aud comfortable repose in the evening of life, was born in Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., January 10, 1819, and is a sou of John and Statira (Phelps) Forbes. Nothing is known of his paternal grandfather, except that he was a sailor aud passed to the world beyond when his son John, (fsither) was nine years old. Jonathan Phelps, maternal grand- father of Elias Forbes, was a native of Con- necticut and a sea-faring man, who, became a captain of a privateer during the Revolutionary war and captured several prizes. With the money tluis gained, added to the pension which was awarded him, he was enabled to live in luxuiy in his old age. He came to this countv 10 in 1835 and settled in Fredonia, where he re- sided uutil 1850, when he went to Rutledge, Cattaraugus county, to live witli his daughter I and subsequently died there at the age of ninety- six years. In religion he favored the Baptists, being an attendant at a church of that denomina- j tion, of which his wife was a member. Jona- I thau Phelps married Charity Beckwith, by whom he had twelve cliiklreu, of whom Rodney [ is a farmer in Chenango county ; Beckwith is a liatter in Central New York ; Newell is a farmer at Bear Lake, Penua.; Statira (mother), Julia, married Lymau Shattuck ; Susan, married Jonathan Thompson ; Celestia, married a JMr. Wheeler; Aseuath married David Shattuck, and China Maria married Edwin Adams. The mother died in 1870 in her ninety-sixth year ; husband and wife by a singular coincidence each lacking just four years of completing a century of life. John Forbes (father) was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1790, and being left fatherless at the age of nine years, was thus early in life compelled to aid his mother in the maiutenauce of the family, which moved to Ciie- nango county, this State, aud settled in Greene; John having learned the trade of a tanner and currier. Afterward he purchased a farm of two huudred acres, which he cultivated in connection with operating a tannery. In the fall of 18.31 he was compelled to dispose of his farm aud tannery on account of ill health, and in the spring of 1832 he moved to this county and bought a farm of one luuidred acres (now owned by Clinton Ball) in the corjwration of Fredonia, where he remained two years and then sold it, shortly afterward engaging in the mercantile business at Fredonia, in which he continued until 1843. In 1852 he moved to Batavia, Genesee county, where he resided eleven years, and then went to Rochester, Mouroe county, where he died May 2, 1878, aged eighty-eight years. He was colonel of a regiment in Che- nango county and was drafted for the war of 1812, but peace was declared before he was or- 188 BIOGRAPHY AXD HISTORY dered iuto service. la freemasonry he was W. M. of a Lodge in Greene. In religion he was a member of the Baptist church, of wliich he was a trustee nearly all his life, and always a very prominent man in church affairs. John Forbes was married in 1814 to Statira Phelps, the union resulting in the birth of five children, three sous and two daughters : Julia A., born in 1815 and married Louis B. Grant, a merchant at Forestville, and later at Fredonia; David S., a retired merchant of Fredonia, who married Catherine J. Abell ; Maria, died at the age of three years ; and John B. The mother died January 8, 1850, and John Forbes married for his second wife Lavinia j\I. Grant, a daughter of Jared Grant, of Chenango county, in June, 1850. She is still living in Rochester, Monroe county, at the age of eighty-three. Elias Forbes was educated at the Fredonia academy and left school when he was eighteen years old to work as a clerk in his father's store, in which position he remained four years. In 1844 he bought his father's interest in the store and formed a partnership with his brother David S., under the firm-name of D. S. & E. Forbes; but David was later afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism and his father purchased his inter- est, \vhich he subsequently sold to Elias and L. B. Grant, the firm then being known as Grant & Forbes. This firm continued eight years, when Mr. Forbes sold his interest to ^Ir. Grant, remained inactive for a year and a half and then formed a partnership with Robert ilcPherson, under the firm-name of McPherson & Forbes, with whom he continued two years and then bought him out and conducted the business alone until his health failed in 1858, when he sold to Horace Pemberton, and, in connection with Preston Barmore, formed a gas company for the purpose of lighting the village and streets of Fredonia. The use of natural gas in Fredonia was begun in 1821, and among the public places into which it was introduced was the hotel that occupied the site of the present Taylor House, which was illuminated when Gen. La Fayette passed through the village by the first gas used in the L'nited States, and the gas-works then established were the first of their kind in the country. The spring first discovered and from which this gas was used is located on the north bank of Canadaway creek at the bridge crossing the stream on Main street. The gas from this well was sufficient for thirty burners and was used until 1858, when Preston Barmore sunk another well in the northwest part of the vil- lage, the shaft being thirty feet deep, six feet in diameter at the top and fourteen feet at the bot- tom, with two vertical borings, one one hundred and the other one hundred and fifty feet deep. It was this well in which ^Ir. Forbes purcha.sed a half interest. At first the well supplied two thousand cubic feet per day, through three miles of mains. In 1859 the company put in a gas receiver of twelve thousand cubic feet capacity and supplied private houses. In 1871 Albert Colburu sunk a well twelve hundred feet, for the purpose of supplying fuel for generating steam, but it proved inadequate and he bought out j\Ir. Barmore's interest in the gas company, connected his with the company's receiver, thus enabling them to supply the whole village. Of this company Mr. Forbes was elected president and held that office until 1878, when he sold out his interest and retired from business to spend the remainder of his days amid the sur- roundings of a most comfortable home. In re- ligion he is an Episcopalian. In 1858 he was elected one of the wardens of Trinity Episcopal church in Fredonia and still holds the same po- sition. He has been trustee of the village of Fredonia and held the office of treasurer for many years, and trustee of the old Fredonia academy here, i Elias Forbes was married November 5, 1843, to Rebecca E. Walworth, a daughter of Benja- min and Charlotte (Eddy) Walworth, her father being one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons in western New York, and for thirteen OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. years was jiulge of Chaiitau(|iia county, and for several years was examiner in chancery. He resided in Fredonia, whitiier he came from Hoosic Falls, N. Y., in ] 824. By this mar- riage there were three children : Kosciusko W., born Decemijer 14, 1844, married to Nellie A. Payne, by whom he has three daughters, and lives in Buffalo ; Charlotte E., born November 26, 1846, married Isaac S. Kingsland, a civil engineer, and was J. Condit Smith's chief en- gineer — he died in 1883, leaving a widow, one son and thi-ee daughters ; and John B., born Au- gust 19, 1855 and died May 30, 1862. /^OL. SILAS SHEAKMAX & SONS, of ^^ Jamestown, have been prominent in the manufacturing interests of that city for many years, and the sous, Rufus P. and Addison P., are the members of the present upholstering and furniture firm of Shearman Brothers. The Shearmans are of English descent, and the family was founded in New England by three brothers, who settled respectively in Massachu- setts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. From the family is descended Col. Silas Shearman, who was born at Tiverton, Rhode Island, De- cember 11, 1803, and is a son of Silas and Elizabeth (Perry) Shearman. Silas Siiearman, Sr., removed, in 1808, from Rhode Island to Cazenovia, Madison county, New York, where ten years later he died. He was a cabinet- maker and an excellent workman, and his two brothers, John and Carletou, learned cabinet- making with him in Rhode Island. He was a democrat, and married Elizabeth Perry, wiio was a daughter of Godfrey Perry, of Rhode Island ; he was a son of Stafford Perry, and a relative of the famous Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of American naval fame. Thev reared a family of nine sons and one daughter: Perry, a lumberman of Pennsylvania, where I he died ; Noble (deceased), a farmer of near Mayville; Eliza (dead); Silas, David, who is farming near Hartfield ; Edward, of Ohio, on part of whose farm the town of Plymouth is built; William, who went to Virginia about the commencement of the civil war, and of whom nothing has been heard since; Godfrey P., who died in Detroit, Michigan ; John P., of Jamestown, where he died ; and Elias, who removed from Jamestown in 1890, and from whom nothing has been heard since he left. Col. Silas Siiearman attended the schools of his boyhood days in Madison and Chautauqua counties. He learned the trade of saddler and harness-maker, worked for a time at Fredonia, and in 1827 commenced in that lineof busiuess for himself in Jamestown, where lie opened a shop in the Endlong building, afterwards known as the Hawley block. In December, 1832, he removed to a brick building, which he had erected on Third street opposite the Allen house. He dealt to some extent in saddlery and hardware, and gradually enlarged his busi- ness. In 1854 he associated his son, Rufus P., and afterwards his son, Addisoii P., with him under the firm name of S. Shearman & Sons, in which ixirtnerships he was an active member until 1870, when he retired from busi- ness life. Tlie sous were in various business operations until 1881, when they engaged in the upholstery business, and in 1882 erected their present large furniture flictory. In early life Mr. Shearman took considerable interest in the military affairs of his State, from which he held, at different times, five commissions under Governor Troop and Governor Marcy, — three in the cavalry, and those of major and colonel in the field. He cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson, and was a Democrat until the close of Polk's administration, when he be- came an abolitionist, and acted as a conductor on the underground railroad in assisting slaves to reach Canada. Since the late war he has been a Republican. He has been a remarkably strong man physically as well as mentally; and to-day at eighty-seven years of age is still active in both mind and body. He has always been 190 BIOGRAPHY AXD HISTORY strictly temperate as to his use of food and drink, and duriug tiie last sixty years of his life has used no stimulants of any kind. He has witnessed the erection of every building in Jamestown except one, and still resides in the house which he built in 1829. While no poli- tician, Col. Silas Shearman expresses the hope that he may live to see the day when the elective franchise will be extended to women. On the 29th of March, 1829, he married ]\Iary C. Marsh, daughter of Ebenezer Marsh, of Windham county, Vermont. They have been the parents of six children : Rufus P., Addison P., and four that died in infancy. Rufus P. Shearman is the eldest son of Col. Silas and Mary C. (Marsh) Shearman, and was born in Jamestown, May 31, 1831. He received his education at the Jamestown acad- emy, and embarked in 1854 with his father in the harness business, in which he continued until 1870. In 1880 he became a member of the present upholstery and furniture firm of Shearman Brothers. On October 19, 1854, he married Sophronia M., daughter of Adam NeiJ, of Cortland county. They have two chil- dren : Fred J., a locomotive builder who mar- ried Ella ]McCullough, who died and left him one child, M. Evelyu, after which he married Minnie Rugg; and Frank E., who has charge of his father's office, and married Catherine Derry, by whom he has three children : Lulu C, Frank E. and Florence M. He is a Repub- lican in politics, but never takes any active part in political affairs. Addison P. Shearman, the second son of Col. Silas and Mary C. (Marsh) Shearman, was born in Jamestown, June 25, 1843. He at- tended the Janiestown academy, and then en- tered the Jamestown office of the A. & G. W. R. R., in which he learned telegraphy, and served as a telegrajih operator until 1862. On August 25th of that year he enlisted in Co. F, 112th regiment, N. Y. Vols., and served under Grant at Cold Harbor and Petersburg ; Terry at Ft. Fisher; Gilmore at Charleston, and Sherman in his capture of Johnston's army at Raleigh, N. C. He returned home in 1865, and was engaged with his father in the manu- facture of harness and various other lines of business until January 1, 1870. In 1881 he became a partner with his brother in their pres- ent upholstery and furniture business. He is a republican in jjolitics, and a member of James M. Brown Post, No. 295, G. A. R. He mar- ried Caroline L. Havens, of Elmira, N. Y., October 1, 1867, by whom he had one son, William Brown Shearman, who died March 20, 1877. The furniture factory of the Shearman Brothers is located at Shearman Place, ojjposite the Union R. R. Depot. It is a five-story building 40x100 feet in dimensions with an L 32x40. It is equipped with all necessary machinery and modern appliances, and the firm gives employment to a force of one hundred workmen. In addition to the fiictory there is a large storage building. They make a spec- ialty of lounges and couches, of which they are probably the largest manufacturers in the United States. They keep six traveling sales- men constantly on the road, fill all orders promptly, and have an extensive wholesale ti'ade throughout this and adjoining States. \kt ^' ^^^ '^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ William H. and -*"'■ • Maria (Smith) Sly, and was born at Parish, Oswego county, New York, March 20th, 1847. His grandfather, John Sly, was born in London, England, in 1784, and came to Amer- ica with an uncle, when he was eight years old, who settled in De Kalb, St. Lawrence county. He remained with his uncle until he was twelve years of age and then he went to live with a Captain Fowler, with whom he resided until he was eighteen years old, when he went to Canada. In 1812 he returned to the United States and enlisted with Captain Fowler in the American army and was stationed at Sackett's Harbor OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. during the war. Forty-two years after the close of the war he received a land grant for his services. After the war he was engaged for a few years in running lumber from Oswego to JNIontreal and Quebec. He then purchased a farm in De Kalb, St. Lawrence county, New York, which he occupied and cultivated until his death, which occurred in his eighty-ninth year. He was twice married. First to Ellen, daughter of Hiram Lovejoy, by whom he had four children, two sons and two daughters : William H., father of W. S. ; James, Julia, who married Philip Fellows, of Parish, N. Y. ; and Laura, who married Bradley Taylor, of Michi- gan. His first wife died, and in 1842 he mar- ried Mrs. ^laria (Fordham) Belden, daughter of Theodore Fordham, but had no children. The maternal grandfather of W. S. Sly was named Harvey Smith, who was born at Cobleskill, Schoharie county, N. Y., and was of German descent. He lived all his life and died on a farm in Parish, Oswego county, New York, where he owned three large farms. He died March, 1871, aged 77 years. He was a mem- ' ber of the Baptist church and was a quiet, re- served man, atteuding strictly to his own affairs, and accumulated considerable wealth, as fortunes were counted in those days. He was married in 1822 to Catherine, daughter of Charles Simouds, and had five children, three sons and two daughters : Maria (mother) ; Nancy, who married C. H. Davy, of Parish ; Hiram, a farmer and lumberman in Oswego county ; aud David, who died while a young man, just after graduating from Fredouia academy. ]\Irs. Smith died in 1874 aged 76. William H. Sly (father) was born at Antwerp, October 18, 1825, and was educated in the public schools, supplemented by two years in Gouverneur academy. After leaving school he served au apprenticeship of seven years as a carpenter and joiner, wliieh trade he followed the remainder of his life, working as a contractor in Oswego and St. Lawrence counties. New York, building mills. I business blocks, etc. In religion he was a Methodist, being a member of the church of that denomination, and also a trustee for a number I of years. He was married in September, 1844, to Maria Smith and had seven children, five I sons and two daughters. The first-born died in infancy ; the second was W. S. ; then came George W., a carpenter and joiner in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, who was married first to Frances Redman, second to ]Mary Eason, and third to (name forgotten); Mary J., married to T. H. Wolfers, a carpenter and joiner, now fore- man in a shop in Buffalo ; Laura, who died aged twelve years ; Charles died at four years of age; Harvey, a sewing machine agent, who married Ada Corlett and died September 20th, 1888. Mrs. Sly is still living at the age of G5 years. W. S. Sly received his education in the public schools of St. Lawrence county, this State. At sixteen years of age he entered the shop of G. W. Burhaus at .Jamesville, Onondaga county, New York, manufacturer of doors, sash, blinds aud broom handles, where he remained al)out a year and then enlisted .January 6th, 1864, in Company C, 9th New York Heavy Artillery. He participated in the battles of Cold Harbor, Monocacy Junction, "Winchester, Cedar Creek, aud Petersburg. In the last named battle he was wounded in the right arm between the elbow and shoulder. He was honorably discharged September 20th, 1865, and returned to the shop of G. W. Burhaus at Jamesville, remaining there until the next spring, when he went on a farm in De Kalb, St. Lawrence county. Sep- tember 6th, 1866, he came to Fredonia and worked at his trade of carpenter and joiuer for Robert Wolfers for three years. He then went to Forest vi lie and formed a partnership with Robert Wolfers, uuder the firm name of AVolfers & Sly, contractors and builders. Mr. W^olfers retired from the firm after a year had passed and Mr. Sly carried on the business for two vears alone. In 1873 he returned to Fredonia BIOGn.lPJir AXD HISTORY and entered the employ of Wliite & Wells, manufacturers of dooi-s, sash, etc., with whom he remained until May loth, 1890, when he entered into partnership with S. O. Codington, buving the White & Wells plant, which firm is still doing husiness, manufacturing sash, doors, blinds and building material, etc., and contract- ing and building. W. S. Sly is a member of Temple No. 49, Fredonia, Temple of Honor, at Fredonia, of which he is Select Templar. He is also a member of Lodge No. 314, American Legion of Honor; No. 104, Equitable Aid Union, and the Life LTnioii, all at Fredonia. In religious matters he is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Fredonia, of wiiich he has been steward three years. W. S. Sly was married Se])tember 16th, 1869, to Ella B. Smith, daughter of La Fayette and Arabella (Hinkley) Smith, her father being a dealer in live stock in Laona, this county. By this union there have been three children, all sons : G. Eugene, who is a clerk for the grocery firm of Belden O. Leworthy, of Fredonia ; Fred. S., who is at school ; and J. Sidney, de- ceased. QiaOCH LAPHAM. Of the many old ^*- families, of which Chautaurpia county has an abundant supply, none has kept its record moi-e accurately, nor extends farther into auti- cpiity with indisputable clearness than that of Arioch Lapham, whose grandfather of the seventh generation, John Lapham, was a weaver at Devonshire, England, and came from there about 16.50 and settled in Providence, Rhode Island. He married Mary Mann, a daughter of William Maun, who lived at the future cap- ital of the little state, and after beginning to keep house, bad it burned on the night of March 29th, 1676, by a band of Indians who belonged to King Philiji's red-skinned warriors. He was the father of four sons and one daugh- ter : Thomas ; William ; John ; Nicholas (six gen- erations remote from our snl))ect) ; and Mary, who married a Charles Dyer. Nicholas Lap- ham married Marcy Arnold, who bore him five children : Nicholas ; Abigail ; Arnold ; Rebec- ca: and, following the line of succession, Solo- mon, who was born August 1st, 1730, and died June 24th, 1800. He married his second cousin, Sylvia Lapham, and reared seven children : Dutee, married first, Mary Caldwell, second, Mrs. Amanda Wheeler; William united with Susannah Ballon, of Burrillsville, Rhode Island ; Ruth ; Rhoda became the wife of Mar- tin Harris ; Rebecca was first the wife of Ben- jamin Smith and then of Elisha Brown; Zodock, born in 1764, died when five years old; and Thomas. Arioch Lapham is the son of Arioch and Eu- nice (Sherman) Lapham and was born near Sherwood, Cayuga county, New York, January 16th, 1821. His graudfiither, before mentioned, Thomas Lapham, was born at Smithfield, Rhode Island, on April 3d, 1761, and mo%'ed to Cayuga county, New York, some thirty-four vears after. About 1800 he bought a farm of two hundred and fifty acres of land near Sher- wood and followed farming all bis life, dying between 1835-40. Thomas Lapham was a member of the Baptist church, in which he was a deacon. He married Thankful Smith, a daughter of John Smith, of Gloucester, Rhode Island, and by this union there came nine child- ren : Cynthia married Elijah Kemp ; Sally wedded Benjamin Waldron; Amalek united with Charlotte Bullard ; Sinai became the wife of Nathaniel Tibbels ; Winsor married Elmina Dunham ; Sidney was the husband of Jane Mc- Comber; Cyrene was the wife of Jesse Moss ; Alva married Laura Hanua ; and Arioch, father of subject. The maternal grandfather of Arioch Lapham, Jr. was Charles Sherman, a native of Massachusetts. He moved from Dartmouth about 1800 and settled in the town of Venice, Cayuga county, where he owned a farm of one hundred acres. He also had a tract of four hundred acres in Ohio, in what OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTV. was known as the Connecticut Fire Land. He spent his life in farming and died about 1820. Mr. Sherman's wife's maiden name was Lois West, who became the mother of six children : Jonathan was a farmer in Indiana ; Charles died young; Benjamin was an agriculturist in Erie county, New York; Eunice is subject's mother; Edith became jNIrs. Dorcey Roberts ; and Lois married Samuel Rogers. Arioch Lapham, Sr., was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and, moving with his parents to Cayuga county. New York, worked upon his father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He afterward joined David Thomas' engineer corps, then en- gaged • in the construction of the Erie canal. Wiiile this work was in progress he sickened and died at Middleport, Niagara county, in No- vember, 1820, two months before the birth of our subject. He married Eunice Sherman about 1815 and three children, all sons, were born : Charles, a farmer in Iowa, married Olivia Win- ship, but is now dead ; George was a farmer of Erie county. New York, living in Eden. He married first, Lurena Newell and second, Mrs. Mary A. Rogers. Many years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Lapham married Deacon Benjamin Seamons, and died in 1868. Ariocli Lapham was educated in the public schools of Cayuga and Erie counties and at the age of twenty, entered the store of Thomas Rus- sel, of Collins, Erie county, as a clerk. After working two years he bought his former em- ployer out and conducted the business himself for four years and then selling out to B. W. Sherman, he went to BuflPalo and clerked for Pratt & Co. One year after he moved to Green- wich, Hiu-on county, Ohio, and embarked in mercantile life, continuing for four years. He then came back to Erie county, where, in con- nection with his brother-in-law, Charles Sniitii, he built a large tannery. A year after, he sold out to Mr. Smith and returned to Ohio, the scene of his first home, and again followed mer- cantile pursuits until 1859. Then ilr. Lapham bought a farm of fifty acres in Erie county. For eighteen years he was a member of the firm of Smith & Lapham, wholesale grocers, on Sen- eca street, Buffalo. In 1882 he purchased a handsome property in Fredonia and moved into it, where he now lives a retired life. While living in Ohio, he served as postmaster under both Presidents Pierce and Buchanan. On December .')Oth, 1842, I\Ir. Lapham mar- ried Sylvia Smith, a daughter of Humphrey and Deborah (Kniffen) Smith, a farmer, tanner and currier, at Collins. Erie county, New York, and by this marriage there has been one daugh- ter, Ella G, a graduate of Yassar C(jllege in the class of 1876. Arioch Lapham is a member of the Univer- salist church and a gentleman of upright char- acter. Few, if any, families of the United States can produce an ancestral tree with tiie trunk so strongly intact, or witli its escutcheon so free from blemish. QXDREW BUKX.S, a resident of West- ^^^ field, and one of the largest manufac- turers in the United States of grape baskets and fruit barrels, was born in Hanover, now one of the northwestern provinces of the great German empire, June 3, 185.3, and is a son of Theodore and Sophia (Caring) Burns. Theo- dore Burns was a native of Hanover, one of wliose electors became king of England and founded the present royal family of that king- dom, and was born in the first half of that period which is known in the history of Ger- many as the Interregnum, which extended from the subversion of the German empire by Napo- leon Bonaparte in 1806 until its re-establish- ment in 1870 by William L, Bismark and Yon Moltke. Theodore Burns was a cooper by trade, served as a soldier in the German army, and married Sophia Caring, who was a native of the same electorate as himself. He came in 1853 to Batavia, Genesee county, where, after remaining a few months, he went to Cattarau- BIOGRAPHY AXD HISTORY gus county, and afterwards removed to West- field, where he now resides, aged sixty-four years. His wife was boru in 1828, and they have reared a family of four sons and three daughters. Andrew Burns was reared in Hanover, Ger- many, until he was six years of age, when his parents brought him to Batavia. He received his education in the public schools of Cattarau- gus village. He learned the trade of cooper with his father, with whom he worked for some time at Cattaraugus. He then (1871) removed to Westfield, where he worked at his trade until 1875, when he and J. F. Wass engaged in the manufacture of staves, headings and fruit bar- ] rels. In 1880 they started a branch factory at Sherman, X. Y., and at both places employed a total of sixty-five hands. In 1883 they dis- solved partnership and Mr. Burns continued alone. In 1886 he added to his business the manufacture of grape and berry baskets. Mr. Burns is the patentee of some very valuable machinery for the manufacture of staves and baskets, by the use of whicii much labor is saved and the work considerably expedited. He has served his village for the last few years as one of its trustees and is a member of the Junior Order of American ilechanics. He owns one hundred and ten acres of land in the towns of Westfield and Sherman. On September 16, 1874, he united in mar- ' riage with Eva Page, daughter of Calvin Page; a carpenter of Westfield. To this union have been born three children, two daughters and one sou : Jennie ; Adelbert ; and Mabel. His present fine residence on Union street, which he erected at a cost of over five thousand dollars, is a frame structure of modern style with slate roof Mr. Burns' plant for the manufac- ture of grape and berry baskets, and fruit bar- rels covers nearly three acres of ground. He employs a regular force of thirty hands, and does a business of thirty tiiousand dollars per year. Tiie l)asket making department of his works has a capacity of one million per year, while his barrel naills and shops are run steadily during the entire year. His baskets and bar- rels are largely used throughout Chautauqua county, which is rapidly becoming one of the foremost grape and fruit counties of the United States. His orders also come from many other counties of New York, and from adjoining States, and at times tax the utmost capacity of his works to fill them. He is one of the lead- ing pioneers in a manufacturing industry that must ere many years assume proportions of con- siderable magnitude, as large orchards and vine- yards are being planted in every section of the Union which has been found adapted to fruit and grapes. T^HOJFAS C. JOXES is one of the enter- -*- prising and successful citizens of Dunkirk, who has an undoubted right to feel an honest and just pride in the success he has achieved in his business career, as he practically began the battle of life at the age of eleven years without a dollar. He was born in Buffalo, Erie county. New York, September 16, 1840, and is a .son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Dear) Jones. His father was a native of London, England, and was born in 1797. He married Elizabeth Dear, of Bedfordshire, England, and had twelve children. He came to the United States in 1835, located at Buffalo, this State, and worked at making soap and candles. In 1851 he came to Dunkirk, and engaged in the same business for Camp Bros. Politically he was independent, and in religion was a member of the Episcopal church, as was also his wife, who died October, 1881, aged seventy-three years. In August, 1886, he joined her in another and a better world at the age of eighty-nine years. Thomas C. Jones attended the public .schools in Buffalo until he was eleven years old, and then received employment in a grocery store, where he remained one year, and then began to learn the butcher's trade, at which lie worked OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyXY. until 1862, when he enlisted in company D 72d New York Volunteers, served until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged at Kingston, New York. In 1866 he opened a butclier shop in Dunkirk, in which business he still remains, and now has the largest and best- equipped shop and the largest trade in Dunkirk. He also owns some valuable real estate here. In politics he is a Republican, has once been mayor of Dunkirk, and has served four years in the City Council, where he now has a seat. In the fire department, where he has been seventeen years, he has held every position from ladderman to chief engineer. In religion he is a memlter of the Episcopal church. He is a member of Dunkirk Chapter, 191, R. A. M., Dunkirk Commandery, Xo. 40, and has received the thirty-second degree A. and A. Scottish Rite. Thomas C. Jones, in 1869, married Mary L. Andrews, a daughter of Horatio Andrews, of Pomiret, this county, by whom he has had two children (sous), George H. and Charles C. /^OUYDON A. RUGG, a citizen of James- ^^ town and assistant superintendent of the knitting mills of A. F. Kent & Co., is a son of Di'. Corydou C. and Fidelia (Goodell) Rugg, and was born at Irving, Chautauqua county, New York, April 1, 1853. The Ruggs point to Scotland as the land of their origin where their ancestors were known as the " Strong Men of Scotland." Isaac Rugg, the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born near Bloody Point, in Vermont, served in the Revolutionary war and died in his native State at Ruggtown, which was named in honor of his family. He was a Methodist and was married three times. His first wife was Katie Gates, who bore him one child, Jonathan (grandfiither), and after her death he wedded Emma Matoou, who died and left two children, John and Aurelia. His third wife was Al)igail Skinner, by whom he had ten children. J-HIT3IAN fl.AKK comes from English -*"*■ ancestry on the paternal side of the house, and running with it in his veins, is the cool and conservative Scotch blood of his mater- nal ancestors. He was born in Erie county, Xew York, July 16, 1826, and is a son of Simeon Jr. and Hannah (Stone) Clark. Sim- eon Clark (grandfather) was a native of Ver- mont, served as a soldier throughout the war of the Revolution, and then moved to Erie county, this State, and engaged in farming. He died in 1837, aged seventy-four years. Simeon, Jr. (father) was also a native of \ermont, and, emulating the patriotic example of his father, served his country as a soldier, enlisting among the first troops summoned to figlit the British in 1812, and after that war ended, he too, set- tled in Erie county, this State, and engaged in the manufacture of chairs and wheels, and also in the occupation of a millwright. The latter part of his life was spent in Clarksburg, Erie county, a town named in his honor, where he operated a saw and grist-mill. In politics he was a whig and in religion was a devout mem- ber of the Baptist church. He was a very en- ergetic man and respected by all who knew him. Simeon Clark, Jr., married Hannah Stone, by whom he had five children. Mrs. Clark was born in Rhode Island, in 1794, was a member of the Baptist ghurch, and died in Erie county, this State, May 28, 1828, aged thirty-four years. Mr. Clark died in Clarks- burg, March 22, 1859, aged seventy-three years and twenty-two days. Whitman Clark was reared in Erie county and received a common school education. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. After his school days liad ended, he learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and in 1852 ■went to work as a millwright, which vocation he has since pursued, and, in connection there- with, handles a large amount of mill machinery of all kinds on commission. May 2, 1870, he came to Dunkirk and has resided hei-e ever since. In politics he is a straight Democrat, and takes a very active interest in local, State and general political matters. In the election of the spring of 1887, he was chosen justice of the peace, and was re-elected in March, 1891, for four years. He is a very public-spirited man and always ready to aid any movement beneficial to the city, and is a member of Phce- nix Lodge, No. 262, F. & A. M. A\'hitman Clark married in 1846, Emily Beardsley, a daughter of Solomon Beardsley, of Eden, Erie county, by whom he had four chil- dren, two sous and two daughters: Simeon, who was born in 1846 and died in December, 1854; Jennie, born in 1850 and died August 18, 1871 ; Hattie M., born in 1863 and died May 19, 1879 ; and Newton L., born December 25, 1867, who is a clerk in Dunkirk. ■HIT ATTHEW S. XOXOX. Industry, econ- 4 omy and good management will secure a competency for any man. This is strikingly proven in the case of our subject, who was left an orplian when one year of age, and started in life without a dollar. Matthew S. Noxon is a .sou of Claudius and Lodunia (Farington) Noxon, and was born in Delaware county, New York, April 12, 1822. The maternafgrand- father, Matthew Farington, lived in Fishkill, Dutchess county, N. Y., M'here subject's mother was born. He had a sou, Daniel M. Faring- ton, who came to Westfield town in 1832, and died in 1881, aged eighty-six years. He Mas the foster-father of Matthew S. Noxon. Clau- dius Noxon was a native of Dutchess county, N. Y., married there and followed farming until his death in 1823. His wife was born in 1799, and lived until 1881. She was a member of the Baptist church. Matthew S. Noxon lived in Dutchess county, until nine years of age, when he was sent to live with his uncle, Daniel M. Farington, who reared him. He attended the "\\'estfield schools where he received his education and having learned practical farming with his uncle, when grown to manhood he began to farm on his own account. One of the finest farms in Portland, consisting of one hundred and ten acres, upon which is eighteen acres of neat vineyard, is his property, where he has a jiretty home. On March 28, I860, he married Ermina Weaver, who was born in Allegany county, February 21, 1832, a daughter of John "Weaver, who still lives in Westfield town, aged eighty- seven years. The latter's wife was Ann Benton, a gentle Christian woman who died in 1850, when but forty-five years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Noxon have au adopted daughter : Lizzie, aged twenty-two years. M. S. Noxon affiliates with the Republican party and has served the town as school trustee. His success has been due entirely to his indivi- dual efforts. Without a dollar's capital when he began life, he is now one of the town's sub- stantial citizen.s, a position he has attained by incessant toil ^and good management. He is proud of the fact that a blacksmith shop or store has nev-er carried his name on their books, it being his rule to jJay cash. Being just and exact in his business transactions he has never been called to answer to a law suit. Having reached nearly seventy years of age he has retired from active labor and is enjoying the reward of his labors. TA^^ILLIS D. liEET, one of the proprietors -*"*■ in the large tanning business at Laona, is a son of William and Harriet (Belden) Leet, and Mas boi'u at Point Chautauqua, this county, October 29, 1856. The Leet family came from the eastern states, and grandfather Anson Leet BIOGRAPHY ASn HISTORY settled in the towD of Stockton iu 1811, coming there from Connecticut and remaining two years, when he moved to the shore of the lake. The father of our subject was boru there and has been engaged in the produce business for the past thirty years, and during that time has been twice elected treasurer of the county. Willis D. Leet was reared iu Chautauqua town, acquired a good common-school educa- tion and then entered the produce business with his brother, George E., and followed it for eight or nine years. Being of a genial, good-natured disposition, Mr. Leet became very popular, and when only twenty-eight years of age he was elected treasurer of Chautauqua county and filled the office during the term of three years. In 1889 he came to Laona and bought a third interest in the "White tannery, one of the largest in the county. The buildings are very exten- sive and the product exceeds .§100,000 annually, the priucipal sales being made in Boston, and the works give employment to about twenty-five hands. Willis D. Leet led Carrie White to the mat- rimonial altar in 1884, and their union has been blessed with three children : Arthur W., AVillis D. and Harvey E. In addition to this Laona property Mr. Leet owns a fine home at Mayville. Willis D. Leet is a gentleman of recognized integrity and of strong force of character. His business ability stiiuds out promineutly iu the mercantile world, and the older men, who have passed tlieir experimental stage, warmly grasp his hand and welcome him, for they recognize an equal. WILLIAM F. GREEN. The prosperity of a community is often reflected, as a face in a mirror, by the condition of the local bank; and the banking facilities of a locality often decide whether business shall be active or slug- gish. William F. Green, the venerable but active and energetic cashier of the bank of Sher- man, realizes all this and does much to promote the business interests of his village. He is a son of William and ]Martha (Tomlinsou) Green, natives of Lincolnshire, England, and was boru in the town of Chautauqua, this county, March 3, 1832, two years after the arrival of his parents from their mother country. William Green was a carpenter by trade, iind when he first reached America he made a short sojourn near the city of Utica and followed his trade, but iu 1831 he came to this county, and after a short residence in the town of Chautauqua he settled permanently in Sherman. He was born in 1803, and married Martha Tomlinson in England. In 1856 and 1857 he was supervisor of the town of Sherman, and he died March 25, 18(52, when fifty-nine years of age, leaving five children. William F. Green spent the first fourteen years of his life in Chautauqua county, and was then sent to Oneida county, where he lived with an uncle. He was educated at the public schools and the Oneida Castle academy, and such was his proficiency and aptitude for absorbing knowl- edge that he was among the foremost scholars of the school. He attended there for six years and then took a clerkship in Henry Ransom's grocery and dry-goods store at Sherman. He remained there until about twenty years of age and then went to work for Isaac E. Hawley, a prominent dealer at Sherman. Upon attaiuing his twenty-third year he embarked in the gen- eral dry-goods business on his own account and conducted it for about five years, at Oneida Castle and Taberg. He married ^lartha T. Wiiite, of Taberg, Oneida county, and they have had one son, Israel W. They left Oneida county and came to Sherman and engaged in the dry-goods busi- ness with his brother, I. T. Green, for several years; afterwards moved to Northeast, Pennsyl- vauia, and then returned to this county and settled again in Sherman, where he engaged in the butter, cheese and grocery business, after- wards moving to Jamestown and remaining some two vears, where Mrs. Green died i'n 1883; OF CJIAUTAU(JUA COUSTY. he then again returned to Sherman, and in 1884 Mr. Green married Hattie S. Underhill, of Rochester, Minnesota, and from tiiat date ■ntil 1889 he was engaged in the wholesale produce business. INIr. Green assumed the duties of cashier in the Bank of Sherman during the month of February, 1890, succeeding ]Mr. W. F. Smalhvood, who had officiated as such since its opening, on November 6, 1884. It has always been a prosperous institution and, al- though an individual corporation, it represents a capital of 8200,000. Associated are A. Cal- houn, Hiram Parker and James Vincent — all solid and responsible men. William F. Green, although becoming ad- vanced in years, retains the vigor of his earlier days and transacts the business of his bank with the system and skill of a National bank. He is punctual and prompt in all his business trans- actions, and the increasing volume of business of the institution, whose business he directs, attests the appreciation and confidence of the public. T . AWKENCE EUGEXE SHATTUt K. ■'■^ One of the pioneers of Chautaurpia coun- ty, who spent his mature life here and gave most valuable aid in reclaiming its fertile lands from the wilds of nature was Lawrence Eugene Shattuck, who was the son of Pliny and Dolly (Rice) Shattuck, born in the State of Massachu- setts, July 20, 1810, and died at his home in Cherry Creek, January 20, 1890, aged seventy- three years and six months. The Shattucks were for several generations natives and resi- dents of New England. Pliny Shattuck was born in Massachusetts, and after marrying Dolly Rice, in 1820 moved to Virginia ; he was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that business in the Old Dominion, where he remained for four years and came to Sinclairville, and worked at blacksmithing, where he lived for eight years and then came to Chei-ry Creek, at which place he made his home until his death. By his union with Dolly Rice Mr. Shattuck became the father of eight children, as follows : Jerome B., Dolly H., Oliver, Frederick, Lucy, Eugene, Harriet and Philemon. Five of these are yet living. Lawrence Eugene Shattuck was sixteen years of age when his father came to Cherry Creek and located upon a wild farm about one mile west of the village, where his father built a blacksmith shop and carried on the trade. The other members of the family cleared up a small form and tilled the soil, while L. E. Shattuck " worked in the shop with his father, and, having learned the trade, succeeded to his father's business when the latter died. He was the only blacksmith for some distance around that could shoe oxen, and had all the work that he could do, but as he became older he found the work uncongenial, and gradually lessened his business until some years before his death he discontinued it entirely. On April 13, 183(3, Mr. Shattuck married Amy Anguline Ames, a stirring, energetic young lady, who was born at Trenton, Oneida county, New York, February 26, 1S17. Their union was blessed with five children, two sons and three daughters: L. E. Jr., born April 11, 1838; Lydia, born September 7, 1839; Amy A., born February 10, 1843; Jerome B., born May 27, 1847 ; and Rosella, born Novemljer 12, 1851. The old gentleman's fiirm was located at tour corners of the road one mile west of Cherry Creek village, and the place is still known as Shattuck Corners. Amy Angeliue Ames was a daughter of Amos Ames, who was born in Vermont, and married Lydia Franklin. She was the daughter of Stephen Franklin, and the latter was a great- grandson of the renowned philanthropist and American statesman, Benjamin Franklin. Ste- phen Franklin married Rachel Car])enter, whose father came from England. Mr. Frank- lin was a minister of the Gospel, an earnest. 206 BIOGRAPHY AXD HISTORY devout aud self-sacrificiug preacher, whose thought was uot of dollars but the faithful ser- vice of his Master. He became the father of five childreu, three sons and two daughters : John, Ebenezer, Eleazer, Hester and Lydia. The latter, the mother of INIrs. Shattuck, died May 15, 1830, after which jNIr. Ames married Mrs. Phrebe Burnett. He M'as a farmer mid cleared one hundred acres of laud on the banks of West Canada Creek, in Oneida county, just two miles below Trenton Falls, and, building a ' commodious house, he kept a hotel for a num- ber of years. His children by his first wife ■were Lydia F., Luther Loren and Amy Angel- ine, aud to his last wife was born one son, who did not reach manhood. Amos Ames died May 27, 1847, the same day that Mrs. Shat- tuck's youngest son was born. Mrs. Amy Ames Shattuck has always been characterized by energy, good judgment and force of character. "While she was yet a young girl, becoming dissatisfied with the arbitrary ac- tions of her step-mother, she left her father's home aud supported herself until she was mar- ried. While yet very young she spent three years in succession spinuiug wool for Pliny Shattuck and for a number of succeeding years she did this and other service. The winter following her marriage, after having spent the summer in preparing household linen and other necessary comforts, she put what goods she could command in boxes and barrels, and took them to the canal where she shipped them, by way of Rochester aud Buffalo, to Chautauqua county. During the journey she met a INIr. Beverly, who was going to the same place with his family, and he assisted her in hiring teams at Buffalo to convey them to their new home, where, after a tiresome journey, she arrived, and the following spring herself and husband began keeping house, at that time a lonely place in the woods, one half mile from the nearest neighbor. Mr. Shattuck and his sons, who are now gray-haired old men, have always said that their success in life was entirely due to the advice, counsel and encouragement received from their wife and mother. The oldest .son is L. E. Shattuck, Jr., now living at Stanbury, Missouri, where he is a sheep and cattle breeder, and is well known in that line all over the United States and Canada ; the youngest son, J. B. Shattuck, is a successful farmer living in the town of Cherry Creek, this county. It is to such mothers as Mrs. Shat- tuck that the county of Chautauqua owes its development and the United States of America its greatness. & yNANIEL, LEWIS WAGGONER, although ^^ for the past decade he has been living on borrowed time beyond the allotted span of man, enjoys a serene, happy and vigorous old age, and well deserves it. He is a son of Calvin and Rebecca (Babcock) Waggoner, and was born in Cayuga county, New York, August 4, 1809. His paternal grandfather, George Wag- goner, was born in 1756, was a farmer by oc- cupation, and served as a good soldier in the war of the Revolution, enlisting for a short term and re-enlisting at the expiration of that term. At the close of the war he resumed farming in Cayuga county, whither he moved, and eventually moved to Canada, where he spent the rest of his life, dying in 1827. He mai-ried Mary Connor in 1783, and had four sons and four daughters: INIargaret, Israel, George, Calvin, Cyrus, Charlotte, Polly and Electa. Calvin Waggoner (father) was born in Cayuga county, this State, in 1785, and was a farmer there until 1810, when he removed to Canada, leased some land and resumed his oc- cupation, continuing as tiller of the soil until his death in 1835. He married Rebecca Bab- cock in 1808, and she bore him six children, two sons and four daughters: Daniel Lewis; Caroline, who married John Vaughn, a farmer and tanner in Canada; Matilda, who married Rosel Merchant, a farmer in Crawford county, OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. Pennsylvania ; Charlotte, who married Michael Baugher, a lumberman in Crawford county, Pennsylvania ; Charles A., a farmer in Char- lotte, this county, who married Sarah Johnson ; and Rebecca, who married John Williams and lives in Canada. The motlier of these children died in 1828. D. L. Waggoner was educated in the corn- man schools of Canada. No better facilities for an education then being oiFered him, he was obliged to finish his education at home. He worked on a farm until a young man, when the farm was to be sold for unpaid taxes and rent, it being a leased farm. He borrowed money, paid the debts, cultivated the land a few years and then sold to a Mr. Hall, who came from England and moved to this county in 1832, and bought a tract containing ninety acres of land on the line between Cherry Creek and Ellington, about twelve miles from Jamestown. Subsequently he sold this and bought one hun- dred and fifty acres farther west, and afterward purchased two hundred more in Cherry Creek, part of which he gave his children. In Sep- tember, 1889, he moved to Fredonia, bought five acres of land, built himself a nice house and enjoys the fortune he has accumulated. Beside the land given away, he still owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Ellington village, a lot in Jamestown and a house and lot in Chautauqua. He is a member of the Meth- odist church and politically is a stanch prohibi- tionist. D. L. Waggoner was married August 14, 1831, to Maiy Millspaw, a daughter of Jere- miah and Margaret ilillspaw, of Canada, and has had by her six children, three sons and three daughters : Calvin M., died young ; Dan- iel Marshall, married to Mira B. Woodward, is retired from business and lives in Fredonia; Jane A., married Ezra Greeley, who is dead, and she lives at Jamestown ; George N., mar- ried to Victoria Ferguson, is retired from busi- ness and lives in Jamestown ; Mary M., mar- 11 ried to William Hitchcock, a farmer in Cherry Creek ; and Emily, married to Perry Slater, a farmer in Ellington. QNTHONY BKATT, an aged and venerable *^*~ gentleman, now leading a quiet and re- tired life, was born to Christopher and Elizabeth (Lee) Bratt, in the town of Stillwater, Saratoga county, New York, February 3, 1821. His grandfather, Daniel Bratt, was a native of Holland, but came to America and .settled ou the bank of the Hudson river, between Albany and Schenectady and established a hotel, but later, about the year 1834, emigrated to Chau- tauqua county, and shortly afterwards died. His principal occupation, besides keeping hotel, was farming. He was a democrat politically, like most of tJie early settlers of his nationality. His wife was a Dutch woman and they reared a family of five .sons and two daughters. Chris- topher Bratt (father) was born near the Hud- son river above Albany, in 1793, and later moved to Stillwater, which is located ou the same stream a number of miles above. AI)out 1834 he moved to Jamestown and farmed in connection with his other business until 1871, when he died on October 12th. Mr. Bratt married Elizabeth Lee, and she bore him tliree children : Elzada, married George Nelson and moved to Minnesota : Erastus (dead) ; and Anthony. Anthony Bratt received his education at the schools of the localities in which his early life was passed, and after coming to Chautauqua county, iu 1834, he jjursued farming until ten or twelve years since when advancing years caused him to relinquish this heavy work. Anthony Bratt has been married three times. His first wife was Eliza Lee, whom he married in 1844, and who bore him two children : Charles, now living at Bradford, is in a paper store; and Jeauette, wife of Harvey Davis, a carpenter of Jamestown. For his second wife he married Mary Lee, and had two children : BIOGRAPHY ASD HISTORY Orsinius, who married Maria Juden. Mr. Bratt married for his third wife Elvira Bailey, aud bv her has two children : Bailey, married and resides in Jamestown ; and ^lary, wedded Fred. ^loon and died. ADI>ISON C. CUSHIXO, an nnc-le of the renowned heroic Lieutenant Cushing, one of the pioneer grape culturists of the town of Pomfret, aud oue of the most prominent of that town's progressive men, is a son of Judge Zattu and Eunice (Elderkin) Cushing and was born near the site of his present home in Fredouia, May 4, 1820. His grand-parents were honorable Puritans who lived in the New England States. Judge Zattu Cushing was born at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, in 1770, and was one of thirteen children born to Nathaniel and Lydia Cushing. He received but a meager education, the schools of that day being primitive and their course of study limited in extent, but his natural industry, eneri;v, self reliance and integrity were of more value to him than schools. At an early age he was apprenticed to a ship carpenter, and when he had mastered that trade, he followed it for some time at Boston. The work, however, was not congenial to his nature and he decided to exchange it for a fiirmer's life and for the pur- pose moved to Ballston, Saratoga county, where he married Rachel Buckingham and then re- moved to Paris, Oneida county, and took up a tract of laud in the forest, from which he made a farm. In 1799 he was employed to go to Presque Isle, adjacent to Erie, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of superintending the con- struction of a ship. When it was completed it was christened the " Good Intent "' and was the first vessel of note-worthy size built on Lake Erie. She was losi with all on board in 18D5. In returning from the scene of his labors, one of his horses strayed, and while attempting to secure it, night came upon him aud he passed the night upon the lands where forty years later he built him a home. Having had excel- lent opportunities for examining the lands of that locality, he determined to locate there, and in February, 1805, he moved his family to the site where now stands the town of Fredonia. Two yoke of oxen, each drawing a sled, were the conveyances used and it took three weeks to perform the journey that may now be made in twice as many hours. At the time ^Ir. Cush- ing had eight children: Walter; Lvdia, married Dr. Squire White ; Milton B ; Zat- tu ; Catharine, married Philo H. Stevens ; Lucinda, the widow of William Barker j Alonzo ; and Rachel, who married Mr. Tup- per. All are dead. When they arrived at Buffalo, they started down the Pike upon the ice, intending to camp nights on the shore, but a driving storm coming on, they were compelled to stop, and were only rescued by two men who heard their signals of distress. At daybreak the ice was broken up so that escape would then have been impossible. L^pou his arrival here, he was much disappointed to find that his choice of lots was taken by Thomas IMcClintock and he took another, upon which he cleared fifty acres during the ensuing two years. In 1807 he sold to Mr. ^larsh, father of the present occupant, and bought from Mr. Mc- Clintock, for one-hundred dollars, the farm that he originally desired. He then paid the land claim at Batavia and on November 7, 1807, received a title to about six hundred acres, a great portion of which is now covered by the village of Fredonia. About the last mentioned date he erected the log -house on Eagle street, where A. F. Taylor now lives. Zattu Cushing was eminently a pious man, a Baptist of un- swerving devotion, aud his first thought upon reaching here was to establish a church. In 1811, when the organization of the county was completed, Mr. Cushing was appointed the first judge and he wore the ermine until 1822. At the battle of Butialo he served as a private and was highly indignant, feeling that with a com- OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyVY. peteut commander, the result might have been (liffereut. On the fourth of July 1812, a cele- bration was held at Judge Cushing's farm, he himself being the orator. Ere long the i-eport of u cannon and the rattle of musketry showed the presence of an enemy at the mouth of the creek. Jumping from his rough rostrum, the speaker was the iirst at the scene of action ready for IIISI\)I{\' K-\\^A\v\\i ('\an\plo I'oi' young imMi lo r<>lli>\\. Iliftlii-sl vvito \Vi»>» it ilivujihior of tJonornl Nn- ll\!>iuol (^iuul j< Mif<>> (Jivv'l King'. Mr, Kiii)i' wtis t> Isnvvor snul litonvtiMti' of llnmillou, MiulixMi (Mnin(y,(l\i,« Stato. To tlii-j union \vo)v Inirn two >l!\ngl»li>i'!»: Marniui'l ncnritnl .1. .1. >Sm'voss, !( InndHMMn.'in living at Porlsmouih, \"i(..i»iul tliov lnul ono«li\ngl(tiM' : tind l'!li(r(vl*otl> K.. i\o\v tl»o wilv of I', n. i"un\n\inji, !» iVnit I'lvisor ol" l''n<»loni!( ; tl\ov \vm\ two sons and two ilnnglitoiN, Mr, ('nsl>inj>'s wilo diinl Au,u«,«t V!.MI\, l.'^^s. {vn,l o\( (VIoIht i)ih, ISI'A ho wi\f! nnilovt and l,ytoh jivnilontan wl»o wont to Auslmlirt. on- a.ajj\Hl in laiming and iliod tl\o\T, To Me, and Mi's, Tnshing wvtv l>on\ Mary, who i\varri, 1 1, .laokson. a lawyor )>n»otioitvji' at Yvntngx- tvwti, Ohio; slio diisl it» ISvSo; and Kmnk ('., a iwoivhant tail»>r ol' l''n>lonia, Kinvnk T, Cnslv- ing nianit^d Jonnio («lis)»n, M«y Tll>, 18SI, and ho di(>l Soptondvr '2'2\\, «>l'tho s)»n»o \-\\u', Mrs. Addison (\ rnshinji diivi Mat>'h Silt. l.*^.*>ok for his tl»i»\l wilo V'slhor T. l'rit\>hai\l. a danghtor ol' l^aniol V^, and .VUigail (^iJwltivy^ Prid-ltaivl, living i(» l'i\Hlot\ia. •Vddison (.\ Ctishii\ii lias i»;issxn1 tho aUottt\l thixv-sv\>iv and ton of man, hiil. owing to his tonn>or!ito litv and ji\>\Hl (>Mistitntion. ho still oii- jv>y>i tino hoaUh, an>l it is hoj>s to i\>ntiniio t)iou\>od whiv^li h.i'^Kvn I'liai-jiotoristii' ol' liis litV. ol' tho pivmiiiont, inlUiontial sind pnMio- .«|nrit<\l oitinms ot' wrxstiorn Now Y»>rk, as wvU (W Chantniinna vvniity, w>Mild Iv iiuvmplot\» withont i\s|Hvial montiv>n »»t' tho IvMig and nsot\d vN'Uwr ol' dndgx* \\"iUiam l\\u\>»'k. wluvso namo will K^ luMionihly pi\\*in'\-\\l t'i»m v>hUviv>n in tho history ol'tlio Krio oanal, tho snrvxwTs ot'tho Holland Innd »\>mjvu\y, and tlio matorial do\-\^l- opmont v^r Dunkirk, Mayvillo and tho ivnnty. Mo waK horn in I'lstor iM>iiiity. Now \ oik, l'\>lirnary 'J'J, iTSt), and was a .miii oI" 'riuunas and Margaivt ^AiidoisoiO lV\'i>>»K'k, Hi> latlior sorvod iindor \\"ashiiigtioa(V ivmovoil with his wit'o and (jimily to a larm wliioli ho owiunI n(\'ir (tonova, this Stalo. Uo had ihixv ohildi-iMi, two sons and ono danghlor. Tho sons woiv; .Induv William, .lohn an.l Ahs'iloni ; and tho daiightor, (lonova, who marritnl Sjininol lliijihiiisvm. who livl a g\H>d i\lnoatioii, and stiidii^l siirvoying. In l.'^Oo ho wvnt to Ritavia with tho intvntion o(' jixMng to Now Orhsuis, hiit was vlisviuuhnl l\Mm his\Mntvnn>lati\l trip hy .Uvsopli Klli<\>tt. aiixMit of tho Holland l.and iMinjviny, and ontti'tHl tho omplov ol" that i\>m|>any as a snrvoyor. Mo snrvoyols, as wvll as hnyiiiji' t'i\>in tho <\Mn|vniy somo valnaMo traots of laiivl in Ohanlaiu^iia >xMinty, In l."<10 ho oamo to May\ illo. whon thoiv woix» Uiit two or tluHv oahins thoiv, and whoiv ho aotixl as .agxMit iW tho Holland 1 /md wnnviny until it »lisp(VMxl ot' tho last ol' its nnsold lands in Iv'^Jk?. whon his ollivv wasd(\sti\m\l hy a mob ot' dohtxM's ol' tho (»m}viny, who sviighl hy this unlaw I'nl nuvisniv tv» ohlitvr;Uo all i>\>M>i ol" thoir indohtixlnoss {o tho ivm|vniy. hnt in whioh thov wviv signally t"oih\l. as ho ha>l svni v»pios v^l'all his jvuvi-s to tho gvnoral v^lVuv ol' tlio »\Mn|v\ny. ,\ t'nll avWMint y^f this (ivnhlo will Iv t'onnd in tho hist\n\vortho Holland Ixind »vin|vvny whioh is jviwn in a\u>thor phuv in this volnmo, .ludgx^ IVuvok was a vory av\nu"!\tx» survt\vor and hnsi- n<\ss man, and had ol>vn o\j>»v<»\l himsx^lf to gix\it ^langx^xs whilojin thosorviivot'tho Holland l^md (vnnwny, AtWr 1S;U? ho do\»txxl his time m>vstly t\> tho managx^nont ot' tho valuaMo »x>j>l and poi-svMial ostnh? whioh ho j^ossx^s^wl at May- Ifc"«^ fij/ Cr/ />9fJ^ OF CHAUTAUQUA VOUSTY. ville and elsewhere in south-western New York. He was appointed as one of the commissioners for bnildiug the first court-liouse at Mayville, and was one of the most liberal patrons of the academy at that place. He was one of the early associate judges of the county court, and in 1821 served as treasurer of Chautauqua county. Prior to his removal from Batavia Judge Peacock took great interest in the conception and subsequent construction of the Erie canal. He gave Jesse Hawley, the engineer in charge of the work, valuable informa- tion, and the route he marked out for the canal through western Xew York was adopted with but little variation. lu 1816 he surveyed and located the western part of this canal, and two years later was appointed to survey and i-eport on the construction of a harbor at Butfalo. Judge Peacock was a strong democrat, and a great admirer of General Jackson and all demo- cratic leaders of the Jacksonian school. He was a Free and Accepted Mason from 1803 until his death. On October 3, 1807, he married Alice Evans, a uiece of Joseph Elliott, and who passed away after a short illness on April 19, 1859, when in the seventy-ninth year of her age. They had no children, and the Mayville Sentinel stated that Mrs. Peacock was no ordinary woman, and that her mental and physical powers were alike vigorous and active. Her numerous deeds of charity, the lives she saved, and the aid which she rendered to the sick and sorrowful have been handed down from parent to child. Her hand, her heart and her purse were ever open to aid any Christian enterprise. Her remains were interred in the family lot in the Mayville ceme- tery, where over them was erected a plain but costly monument. Being without other heirs, the Judge's nearest relatives were the children of his brother Absalom, who married Jane Nichols, of Newburg, this State, and in 1814 came to Westfield, where he followed farming until his death iu 1836. Absalom Peacock had eiirht children, one of whom, ]\Irs. Sarah J. Birdsall, of INIayville, is the widow of Judge John Birdsall, a native of eastern New York, who was a well-known lawyer and served on the bench . Eighteen years after the death of his wife, Judge Peacock entered upon his final rest on the 21st of February, 1877, when he had attained nearly to his ninety-seventh year. His body was laid to rest witii the impressive ceremonies of the Masonic ritual. He left no will, and his large estate was inherited by his nephews and nieces. He sleeps by the side of his wife, and although the monumental marble above his resting-place only records his age and the day of his death, yet his memory and virtues are written in the hearts of the people among whom he lived and labored. TOY LOVE, was born in (xerry, Chautauqua ^ county, on the 28th day of June, 1829. His grandfather, John Love, was born in Con- necticut, in 1769. He came to Chenango county when a young man, and afterwards, became an early settler of the town of EUery, iu Chautauqua county, where he came to reside in February, 1811. He died in Illinois, in his ninety-first year. His son John, the father of Joy Love, was born January 29, 1789. He married jNlary S. ^yard. He was one of the earliest settlers of the town of Gerry, and during his life, a well-known citizen of that part of the county. In 1812, he purchased the farm first owned by Amos Atkins, situated about one mile south of Sinclairville, on the Old Chau- tauqua road. He afterwards erected buildings thereon, which were long known as the Love Stand. He kept this inn for over thirty years, and afterwards, for about four years, the hotel in Sinclairville. He died upon his old farm, March 18, 1857. Joy Love followed the business of farming during the early part of his life, upon the old homestead, in Crorrv, owned l)v his fatiier in his BIOGRAPHY ASD HISTORY lifetime, and afterwards to some extent in Port- laud, ChautaiKjua county. In 1882, he formed a co-partnership in the business of hanking and milling, at Siuclairville with E. B. Crissy, now of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of James- town, under the name of E. B. Crissy & Co., which continued six years. He then formed a co-partnership in the same business with his son, John A. Love, under the style Joy Love & Son, in which business he has continued at Siuclairville, until this time. May 24, 1854, he married Rosina Flagg, daughter of Alonzo and Caioliue Flagg. John A. Love, who was boi'u February 24, 18G1, is their only child. He re- ceived his education at the Fredonia I^ormal school, and the Poughkeepsie Commercial col- lege. His business has always been banking. He now has principal charge of the business of the firm of Joy Love & Son, and is the present supervisor of the towu of Charlotte. October 29, 1884, he married Fanny A., the daughter of Obed and Emily A. Edsou. Their children are : Allen J., born in Siuclairville, August 23, 1885; and Nellie E., born in Siuclairville, Jan- uary 2, 1887. TA3IES MUI^OKKW is a man who has, by ^ his own uutiriug energy aud industry, accumulated a competency, and commands the respect of all who honor a successful mau. He was born in Duucaunou, County Tyrone, Ireland, June 6, 1843, and is a son of James aud Catherine (Gough) Mulgrew. His father was a native of the same towu, aud was born in 1806. He pursued the calling of a farmer on a rented farm, aud also transacted an agent's business for the queen's warehouse, being a good business man, highly respected by all classes. In religion he was a member of the Roman Catholic church. He died on Christmas day, 1870, and his wife (mother) is now living on the old homestead, in her seventy-fifth year. James Mulgrew was reared on a farm, aud I'eceived his education in the common schools of his native town. He learned the carpenter's trade, aud in 1S(J6 he came to America, putting his feet on American soil May 1st of that year, and shortly afterward located in Silver Creek, where he was employed on the construction train on the L. S. & M. S. R. R. He worked fifteen years on this train, being steadily pro- moted until, in 1881, he was given full control. It is his pride that he never had a pair of trucks leave the track in the twenty-two years he spent on that train. While iu Indiana, in 1888, he resigned his position, aud left the employ of the road December 10th of that year. Since then he has lived on his farm in Hanover, one mile from Silver Creek, where he has opened a rock quarry, aud finds a quick aud ready market for all the paviug-stoues and material for macad- amizing which he can quarry. He also has a good-sized tract of land devoted to grape culture. In National elections he votes the Democratic ticket, but in local elections he is independent, voting always for the mau he considers the best qualified for the office iu question. Religiously, he is a member of the Roman Catholic church. He has two brothers, Barney and John F., engaged in gold raining in ^Montana. James Mulgrew was married, in 18G0, to JNIargaret L. ^lulgrew, daughter of Peter Mul- grew, of Duncannon, Ireland, and they have three children, one sou aud two daughters : John F., Mary E., aud Margaret S., all attend- ins- school at Silver Creek. T tEVI J. PIERCE, the well-known dealer ^^ iu agricultural machinery, residing at Forestville, is a son of Levi H. aud Electa (lugells) Pierce, aud was born in the village of Cooperstowu, Otsego county, New York, Octo- ber 3, 1830, and is now in his sixty-first year. The parents of ^Ir. Pierce were both New Eng- land emigrants, the father having come from the Granite State, and the mother from Con- necticut. Levi H. Pierce came to Otsego countv and was euLraoed in the business of dis- OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyXY. tilling. The name was originally Pers, which is from the Englisli. Grandfather, Stephen Ingells, served with bravery and valor in the Revolutionary war, and was Iionorabl)' 'dis- charged at its close. The condition of his i^arents being humble, Levi J. Pierce was early taught habits of in- dustry, and pa.ssed his boyhood and youth in his native county. He was sent to the public schools and acquired such education as the fountain afforded. When a young man he secured a clerkship in a store at Cooperstown, and remained there until 1852, Avhen he came to Forestville and engaged in business with J. G. Hopkins and N. B. Brown, and the firm re- mained intact for twelve years. About the date of the close of the war, Mr. Hopkins dropjied out, and Messrs. Pierce & Brown continued the business for seven years longer, when they dis- solved partnership. Mr. Pierce then opened a hardware store, which he conducted until 1889, and since that time he has been handling all kinds of farming machinery and implements. On Jan. 17, 1860, he married Frances Hop- kins, a daughter of Joseph G. Hopkins, the latter being one of the early settlers and business men of Yillauova, this county, over fifty years ago. He was a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and died in 1876, aged sixty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have been blessed with a family of four children : Charles H., resides in Oregon; Albert L., is in the lumber business at Irvona, Clearfield county, Pa.; Joseph G., lives in Madford, Oregon, also engaged in the lumber business ; and Ophelia. Levi J. Pierce is the owner of considerable valuable property in Forestville, and Mrs. Pierce owns two farms within a couple of miles of the village. They have a pleasant and hap- ■ py home, and by their business ability and good management have risen to the position of re- spect and comfort they now occupy. j C'ETH ALDRICH, one of the most prosperous '*^ farmers in this section, came from sterling Quaker ancestry on both sides of the house. He was born in Hamburg, Erie Couuty, X. Y., Oc- tober 7, 1827, and is a son of Scott and Eliza (■White) Aldrich. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich I of Rhode Island is a family connection. The ! paternal grandfather of Seth Aldrich, Nathan, married Phivbe Apjilebee, each a member of the Society of Friends, and to them seven chil- dren were born, six sons and one daughter : James, Sayles, Simeon, Nathan, Thomas, Scott (father), and Esther. Scott Aldrich, was liorn in Smithfield, Providence county, Rhode Island, June 6, 1801. When eighteen years of age he went to learn the trade of shoemaking, and so apt was he that it might be said he made a pair of shoes the first day. After serving his full time as apprentice, he worked for some time as a journeyman. In 1820, having married, he and his wife drove from their Rhode Island home to Evans, Erie county, this State, carry- ing all their earthly possessions with them in a one-horse covered wagon. His brothers, James and Sayles had preceded him, and he spent the winter of 1823-24 with them. In the spring he purchased a farm of one hundred acres, located east of Haml)urg, Erie county, paying ten dollars an acre for it, and cleared and im- proved it with the aid of an ox-team and a wooden plow, adding to it until he owned three hundred and seventy-five acres. In 1849 he bought a farm on the flats of Buffalo creek, containing one hundred and eighty-five acres, for \vhich he paid one hundred dollars per acre, and in 1853, only four years later, he sold it for two hundred dollars per acre, netting him eighteen thousand five hundred dollars, which was a big business transaction in those days, involving an output on the part of the juir- chaser of thirty-seven thousand dollars, a hand- some fortune then. This was the best invest- ment he ever made, and profits of one hundred ])er cent, were extremely rare in anv business. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY He was one of the origiual promoters aud man- agers of the phink-road from Hamburg to Buf- falo, acting as the chief executive in its con- struction. Some of the directors becoming dis- satisfied, Thompson Culbertson offered him a farm near Forestville, this county, in excliange for his plank-road stock, aud he accepted. He had then (1857) resided in Hamburg thirty- three years. After a year's residence on his Forestville farm, he moved to Fredonia (1858) and bought the i)lace where Chas. Z. Webster now resides. This lot of land he soon sold to T. Z. Higgins, and bought the place known as " Sunset Hill," and most of the territory en- closed by Central avenue, Division, Free and Day streets, where he built the house in which T. S Hubbard now resides, but after a while exchanged his " Sunset Hill " place for a farm on the main road, just west of the corporation line, but after a shoi't time returned to the vil- lage and built a house on the corner of Free and Day streets. At the time of his death he owned thirteen hundred acres of land, but had previously at one time possessed twenty-eight hundred acres. Some time before he was sum- moned to a higher sphere, he disposed of a por- tion of his land to his sons, giving to each one three thousand dollars to be applied on these purchases, aud an equivalent in cash to the other children, who did not take land. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist church in Hamburg, but in his later years practiced the simple usages of his Quaker ancestors. The poor had in him a most excellent friend and benefactor, and in all his business transactions he was honest aud upright. He will be re- membered kindly by many who, in their early struggles for the possession of a home, experi- enced his generous and forbearing treatment. Just in all his dealings, his word was as good as a bond, and when once he had made a bargain, even verbally, he never in any way retreated. When the board of commissioners was appointed to appraise tiie lands for the Lake Shore rail- road between Buffalo and Eighteen Mile Creek, he was a member. He died October 16, 1885, in his eighty-fifth year. Scott Aldrich was married April 13, 1823, to Eliza White, by whom he had seven children, four sons aud three daughters : Amos, a farmer, who married Cordelia Culbertson; Mason, a farmer, who married Licena Clark ; Seth ; Ira, a farmer, who married Loui.sa Taylor ; Mary, who mar- ried Benjamin Miller, a farmer and gai'dener at Hamburg ; Ann, who married Isaac Long ; and an infant. Amy, who died September 28, 1838. The mother of these children died in April, 1855. July 26, 1855, he was married to Anna Meal, of Boston, Erie county, this State. Of their children, the eldest, David, died in Sheri- dan, May G, 1872. The others are still living, namely : George, a farmer, who married Mar- tha Dye, of Sheridan ; Xathau, a farmer, who married for his first wife, ilary Prescott, aud for his second Ellen Dye; Sayles, a farmer, who married Virginia Sweet ; Simon, a farmer, who married Carrie Spink ; Eliza, who married Carmie Daily of Fredonia ; INIartha, who mar- ried J. J. Kelly ; and IMaria, who married Jasper K. Aldrich. The second wife of Scott Aldrich died May 14, 1857, in her forty-fourth year, and he married, July 29, 1858, Lydia A. Snell, of Waterford, Pennsylvania, who bore him one child who died in infancy. I Seth Aldrich was educated in the common .schools of Erie couuty, this State, and also at the select schools of Hamburg, in the same county, attending at these founts of learning until he was twenty-two years of age. In 1851, iu company with his brother, INIason, he bought the stage line running from White's Corners, now in Hamburg, to Buffalo, carried it a year, aud in the fall of 1852 sold out. In the fall of 1853 he moved to Wyomiug couuty, where j he aud his brother, Mason, bought a farm of one hundred and ten acres, located near Weth- ersfield Springs. Here he remained until the spring of 1855, when he removed to Sheridan, ^^^ ^f^f^s^^^ OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTV. this coiiuty, on a farm owned by liis father, where he stayed two years, and then went to Hamburg and bought a farm of forty-four acres, on which he lived a year and then went to Wethersfield Springs, and traded his Ham- burg farm for the one he formerly owned, his brother having sold it. On this farm he resided four years, after which time he sold it and moved to Pomfret, this county, where he culti- vated a leased farm for five years. Then his father disposed of his property and he bought the so-called " Old Tarbox farm," four miles south of Fredouia, containing two hundred and fifty acres. Here he remained until March, 1887, when he bought a farm of eighteen acres one mile east of Fredouia, situated on the main road, on which was a fine residence, which he now occupies and raises grapes and small fruits. He is a member of the Methodist church of Fredouia, of which he is a class leader, and has been trustee, steward and Sunday school superintendent. All his life he has retained the many excellent qualities taught him by his good Quaker father and mother. Seth Aldrich was married May 10, 1853, to Mar- tha M. Clark, a daughter of Levi and Sallie (Fisk) Clark, the father being a farmer and blacksmith of Hamburg, Erie county, this State, and this union has been blessed with two children, a daughter and a son ; the former died July 26, 1860, in her third year. /^BED EDSOX, was born in Sinclairvillc, ^^ Chautau(|ua county, February 18, 1832. He is a descendant of the seventh generation, from Samuel Edson, who was born in England, in 1(312, came over to Salem, JNlass., in the year 1638 or 1639, and afterwards became an original proprietor, and first settler of Bridg- water, Plymouth county, !Mass. His father Judge John M. Edson, was bpru in the town of Eaton, ^ladison county. New York, July 30, 1801. He came to Sinclairville in 1810, with his step-father, Samuel Sinclair, from whom that village derives its name. Obed Edson obtained his education at the com- mon schools and Fredonia academy. He in 1851 commenced the study of la w in the office of Hon.E. H. Sears, in Sinclairville; in 1853 heattended the Albany Law university ; was admitted to the bar, April 8, 1853, and since that time has fol- lowed the practice of his profession at Sinclair- ville, Chautauqua county. He commenced practice as a partner of Judge E. F. AVarren ; at a later period for a few years, was a co-])artner of C. F. C^hapman. He has at intervals, fol- lowed the business of civil engineering. When eighteen years of age, he served as chainmau on the Xew York & Erie railroad, the year before its completion to Dunkirk. He has since been engaged in the survey of several railroads in New York and Pennsylvania. He ran the lo- cating line of the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh railroad, in the State of New York, in 1867. He was for several years supervisor of his na- tive town, and has held at different times, various other official positions in the town and county. In 1874, Ive was elected to the Assembly from Chautauqua county, and is the only democrat that has ever been chosen to fill that position, in its second assembly district. Mr. Edson, has been a contributor to The Continent, The ChaKtauquan, and other leading magazines ; generally upon historical subjects. He first gathered and collated the facts respect- ing the expedition of Colonel Daniel Broad- head, which was sent against the Indians of the Upper Allegheny river by General Washington, during the war of the Revolution, to operate in conjunction with General Sullivan. ]Mr. Edson prepared a full hi.story of this expedition, which was published as the leading article, in the November number of the magazine of American HiHtonj, for the year 1879. He is one of the founders of the Chautauqua County Historical Society, and has made to it, many original con- BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY tributious, usually of a historical, geological, or archeological nature. He is the author of sev- eral local histories, among which is a portion of Young's History of CLautauqua county, and all of that part of it which relates to its Indian, French, and early history. He was married May 11, 1859, to p]mily A. Allen, the daughter of Hon. Caleb I. and Emily E. (Haley) Alien. She was born in New London, Connecticut, November 27, 18.3.5. The children of Obed and Emily A. Edson, were Ijoru in Siuelairville, and are : Fanny A.^ born April 28, 1860 ; married John A. Love, who is a banker in Siuelairville ; John M., born September 29, 18G1, married Alma B. Green — he lives at New "Whatcom in the State of Washington, and is a printer and publisher; Samuel A., born September 1-5, 1803, died November 1(3, 1872 ; Mary U., born September 11, 1865t died November 27, 1872; Hannah, born February 15, 1809, died December 10, 1881; Walter H., born January 8, 1874; Ellen E., born April 21, 1875, died :\Iarch 31, 1887 ; and Allen O., born September 3, 1880, died January 1 6, 1 882. nUFUS FITCH. ]\Iuch study, a great deal of wealth and many lives have been ex- pended upon the theory, and in a practical search for the north pole. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch devoted a great amount of thought and wrote many articles upon this sub- ject. He was a son of Edwin and Lucy (Billings) Filch, and was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1830. The Fitch family were indigenous to New England for more than a century, a re- nowned ancestor being Rev. John Fitch, a preacher, contemporaneous with Revolutionary times. Rufus Fitch's early life was spent on a farm in Connecticut, where he secured an edu- cation in the district schools, which was supple- mented by a course in the city of New Haven. Prior to 1850 he went to St. Louis, where a few vears later he was eusi-ao-ed in the wholesale sta- tionery, paper and book business, his partner being an intimate friend, Robert Patterson. This business was continued for fifteen years, when declining health demanded a change of climate and atmosphere. Some years were passed in seeking a location congenial, and in 1874 Jamestown was selected, where four years later he died. The house where Mrs. Fitch now resides was erected by him. On October 7th, 1863, he married Mary Churchill, daugh- ter of Crispeu and Hannah Churchill. jNIrs. Fitch's grandfather on maternal side, William Churchill, was from England, bringing a large fortune with him, and settled in Newbern, North Carolina. She is a lady of an unusual degree of intelligence and exceedingly entertain- ing, being an accomplished conversationalist. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch had five children : Dabney C, born September 30th, 1804, prepared for college and is now in New York city engaged as a manufacturer's representative ; Mary C, was born in August, 1800, and graduated from the Jamestown High school, and Houghton Seminary; Edwin R., born June 19th, 1869; Lucy B., born September, 1870, is attending the Boston Conservatory of Music, being an accomplished musician of marked ability ; and Churchill, born in September, 1873. Mr. Fitch was a republican, but paid little attention to politics. He was a writer of prominence, his articles attracting most attention being upon the subject mentioned at the opening of this sketch and the science of fishing and hunting. His death, which occurred in 1878, was deeply re- gretted and mourned by many friends. DAVID A. WII^SON, the proprietor of the well-known " Wilson House," of West- field, and a veteran Union soldier of the late civil war, is a son of Willard W. and Nancy (Knight) ^^'ilson, and was born in Oswego county, New Y'ork, March 13, 1838. The Wilson family is of Scotch descent and settled in the United States at an earlv day in its colo- OF ClIAl'TAVQVA COrXTV. niftl history. Willard W. Wilsou was borii in Vernionl, where lie learued the trade of shoe- maker. In 1830 he removed to Oswego county, from whicii lie went in 1851 to Livingston county, Michigan, where he died in 1853, aged forty-four years. He was a farmer by oc'cu[)a- tiou, an old-line whig in politics and a Uni- versalist in religious belief and church member- ship. His wife, Nancy (Knight) Wilsou, who was of English extraction and a native of Ver- mont, was a member of the Universalist church and passed away in Livingston county, Michi- gan, in February, 1888, at seventy -seven years of age. David A. Wilson received his education in the common schools of Xew York and Michi- gan. At seventeen years of age he left the farm to become a clerk in a hotel. Six years later, in 1861, he enlisted as a soldier iu Co. D, 4tli Michigan Lifantry, but at the end of five months service had a severe hemorrhage of the lungs and was honorably discharged. He returned home, where he soon regained his health and enlisted as a sergeant in Co. G, Third Michigan Cavalry, in which he served three years. After being honorably discharged in Detroit, Michi- gan, in 1864, he returned home and for the next ten years was employed as a clerk in dif- ferent hotels in the county and at Titusville, Pa. In 1875 he engaged in the hotel business at Westfield, where he conducted the Lake Shore hotel for four years. He then went to Erie, Pa., where he purchased the Mansion house but soon disposed of it on account of sickness and bought the Brocton house and restaurant at Brocton, this county, which he conducted thirteen months. At the end of this time he sold his Broctou property, re-puichased the Mansion house, of Erie, Pa., which he conducted successfully for four years, when he sold it and returned to Westfield, where he erected during the summer of 1887 his present hotel, the " Wil- son House." Probably no feature of a place _ is more conducive to a favorable impression on visitors than that represented by hotel accom- modations. In this respect the " Wilson House " has attained a reputation equal to any hotel in the State outside of the leading cities. Its com- fortable and neatly furnished rooms, excellent table and courteous attendants are higlily appre- ciated by tiie traveling public. The house is furnished throughout in good taste and style, while its proprietor brings to its successful man- agement over a cjuarter of a ceutury's experi- ence as a clerk and manager of some of the fore- most hotels of southwestern New York and northern Pennsylvania. Mr. Wilson is pleasant, courteous and accommodating. He is a repub- lican in politics, a Universalist in religion and a member of Council No. 8, Ancient Order of United Workmen. On May 12, 1867, Mr. Wilsou married Delia Connelly, of Westfield, and their union has been blest with one child, a daughter named Ella M. PJLISHA TOAVEK, Jl{., came from a line ^^ of ancestors who, witli the excepti(jn of his paternal grandfather, had followed man's first occupation — that of tilling the soil, leaving it only to serve their country when she sum- moned her loyal sons to her aid. Elisha Tower was born in Ellery, Chautauqua county, New York, January 13, 1818, and is a son of Elisha and Philena (Morgan) Tower. Isaiah Tower (grandfather) was a native of Massachusetts, being born in 1760, and was a captain of a whaling vessel sailing from Xew Bedford, which occupation he left to serve as a soldier under General Washington, during the entire war of the Revolution. About 1800 he re- moved to Duanesburg, Schenectady county, this State, and located on a farm which lie occupied until his death. In religion he was a Baptist, of which church he was an influential member. Isaiah Tower was married iu 1786 to Sylvia Toby, l)y whom he had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters: Kiieuamv, l>orn in lilOQEAFlIY AND HISTORY 1790, and married Mr. Bowles; Benjamin, born in 1792, was a farmer by occupation, and died wliile a young man ; Isaiah, born in 1795, was a millwright by occupation, and married Mary Sherbum ; Sylvanus, born in 1797, was ' a farmer; John, born in 1799, was. a farmer, j and married Mary Shauber; Jeremiah, born in 1801, and Joseph, born in 1803, were farmers; Sylvia, born in 180G, and married Thomas Beal ; Stephen, born in 1808, became a min- ister of the Baptist denomination, and married i Martha Ruddock; and Zaccheus, born in 1811. Isaiah Tower died in January, 1846, aged eighty-six years, and Mrs. Tower died Decem- ber 3, 1848, aged eighty -two years. Simeon IMorgan (maternal grandfather) was born in 1765, and spent most of his life in Berne, Albany county, this State, where he owned and cultivated a farm, and conducted a general store. He married Rhobe Allyn, by M'hom he had five children, one son and four daughters : Clarissa, who married Ezra (iallup ; Xancy, wife of Nathan Gallup, and died young, leav- ing two children ; Philena (mother), born in Preston, Connecticut, June 1, 1792; Rhoda, wife of Johu Wheeler, and Simeon, Jr., a law- yer in Ciallupville, Schoharie county, this State, who married Jane Lee. Simeon Morgan died in 1814, aged forty-nine years, and Mrs. Morgan died in 1826. Elisha Tower (father) was born in New Bedford, Bristol county, Mas- sachusetts, May 10, 1788, and went to Duanes- burg, Schenectady county, New York, with his father, where he remained until 1810, when he came to this county witli his knapsack, pro- visions, a change of clothing and an axe, coming by way of Cross Roads to Mayville, where he worked a short time to replenish his nearly exhausted exchequer. In the fall he took a job of chopping at the Inlet, now in the town of Hartfield, which lie completed about the first of April, 1811, having boarded himself in a shanty, which he built by a fallen tree, having little else than a blanket and a frying- pan, his board being chiefly Johnnie cake and fried pork. In December, 1811, he took an article for the east half of lot four, township three, range twelve, comprising one hundred and seventy-six acres, lying between what are now the towns of Ellery and Gerry, and eight miles northwest of Jamestown, for which he paid less than three dollars an acre, it being all forest land, which he cleared and improved, and occupied most of the time until his death, ex- cepting from 1839 until 1842, during which time he resided in Jamestown. In 1812 he built a log house in which he lived alone for awhile, and in 1813 was drafted into the army, and participated in the battle of Black Rock, and was also j)resent at the burning of Buffalo, in December, 1813. Cornelius De Long, who built a house in Gerry, near the Ellery line where James IMcAlister now lives, was severely wounded in tlie head by a grape-shot at the battle of Buffalo, and was taken to the cabin of a settler and cared for by his fellow-soldier and neighbor, Elisha Tower. De Long afterward went West and participated in the Black Hawk j war in 1832, in which he received a captain's ! commission. After the war of 1812, Elisha Tower received a pension and a land grant. In the autumn of 1814 he returned to Duanes- burg, Schenectady county. In 1817, with his I wife and one child he returned to Ellery, but the child being taken ill, they were forced to stop at the house of William Barrows, where it died. He removed to his log cabin, where he lived until he could build a commodious frame house, to which he moved, and resided there until 1837, when he again moved to a I large two-story house which he had built. He j held several town offices iu Ellery, including that of justice of the peace. In religion he was a Baptist, being a member of the church of that denomination in Sinclairville, a village near the depot in Gerry, named in honor of Major Sinclair. Elisha Tower was married June 1, 1815, to Philena Morgan, a daughter OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. of Simeon aud Rhobe (Allyii) Morgan, of Berne, Albany county, this State, by whom he had seven children, three sous and four daugh- ters : Emily, bom March 11, 181G, in Berne, Albany county, and died in childhood in Ellery ; all the rest were born in this county, Elisha; Rhobe Allyn, born May 4, 1820, wife of Ebenezer Moon, a farmer in Stockton, at Moon station ; Simeon jNI., born September 11, 1822, married Sarah Denison, owns and occu- pies the south part of his father's homestead, and resides on the east side of the town line of Gerry; Clarissa, born June 14, 182(3; Emily M., born June 19, 1829, aud married Franklin Denison, a farmer and dealer in live stock ; and Corydou L., born Oct. 26, 1834, married Harriet Felt, aud resides ou the old homestead, by occupation a farmer. Elisha Tower sick- ened while ou a visit to his daughter in Stock- ton, and died January 9, 186(5, iu his seventy- eighth year. Mrs. Tower died December 17, 1860. " Elisha Tower, Jr., acquired a common school education by attending the winter terms of the school of his neighborhood, being obliged to work on the farm the rest of the year until he attained his majority. He remained on his father's farm until he was tweuty-seven years old, wheu he bought a farm of fifty acres in Gerry, on which he resided seven years, when he sold it and removed to Portlaud, where he bought a farm of sixty-five acres located three miles east of AVestfield, ou which he resided twenty-seven years, and then disposed of it and came to Fredonia in 1884, where he purchased twenty-five acres on the avenue, ten acres of which he devotes to the cultivation of grapes. He is enjoying the fruit of his labors in a se- rene old age, having the respect of the com- munity and the love of a host of friends, j Elisha Tower, Jr., was married January 3, 1854, to Electa Moon, her father being a farmer and mill-owner iu Gerry. Thev have had one son and one daughter. The son, Har- lan, resides with his father, aud the daughter, Emma C, married Daniel Farringtou, a farmer who lives on the farm iu Portlaud, formerly owned by her father. She died November 28, 1890. Mrs. Tower died in December, 1874, aged fortv-five years, aud was buried iu Port- land. IlirAKVrX H. WOLKBEX comes from Ger- V"*- man ancestors, is the son of Abraham and Minerva A. (Fuller) Wolebeu, aud was born in Portland town, Chautauqua county, New York, August l-j, 1846. His grand- father, John Wolebeu, was a native of Herki- mer county, and came from the latter place to Portland, this county, in 1833. He lived in this town and followed farming until 1852, aud then went to Illinois, where he died iu 1852, having reached the age of fifty-nine years. He served as a soldier through the War of 1812, mar- ried Catherine Isemau, aud had five children. Abraham Wolebeu was a native of Herkimer county, this State, aud came to the town of Portland in 1833, where he began to form con- tinuing until his death in the fall of 1878, when in his fifty-fifth year. He married Minerva A. Fuller who was born in Dutchess county, this State, in 1820. She is still living, now the wife of David Grauger, whom she married in 1885. Mr. aud Mrs. Wolebeu had two chil- dren, of whom both are still living. Marvin H. Wolebeu attended the schools of his district aud there received his education. His early life was speut ou his father's farm and wheu he attained his mauhood assumed control of its management. His place is loca- ted four miles east of the village of Westfield, where he gives considerable attention to raisino- grapes. On December 29, 1869, Mr. Wolebeu united in marriage with Mary J. Munson, a daughter of Chester Munson, who resides iu Portland town. They have only one child, Jay, whom they adopted. BIOGRAPHY AyD HISTORY M. H. Wolebeu is a democrat, a generous citizen, and came from one of tlie most respect- ed families in the county. T . lEUT. PHILANDER W. BE3IIS, one ■'-* of Phil. Sheridan's cavalry-men in the late war, was born in tiie town of French Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, Feb- ruarv 5, 1842, and is a son of David and Beth- iah (Vanostrand) Bemis. David Bemis left his native State of Vermont when a boy, and settled in French Creek, where he followed farming until his death in 1867, at sixty-five years of age. He was accompanied by his father, Stephen Bemis, who was also a native of Vermont. David Bemis married Bethiah Vanostrand, who was a native of Xew York and died in 1850, aged forty-six years. Philander W. Bemis grew to manhood on the farm, attended the public schools, and in 1861, enlisted in Co. I, 8th Illinois Cavalry. He was promoted to sergt.-major of his regi- ment, by reason of his efficiency and soldierly conduct, and was mustei'ed out of that regiment during the latter part of 1862, by order of the war department as a supernumerary officer. He re-enlisted in 1863, in the fifteenth New York Cavalry and served until June 17, 1865, when he was discharged on account of a Mound received at the battle of Five Forks, where he was struck in the left arm and shoulder by a minie-ball, which he carried in his body fif- teen months. Lieutenant Bemis made an en- viable war record of which he may be justifi- ably proud, as he served under Sheridan in all of that great commander's famous campaigns in Virginia, and participated in thirty-five en- gagements and battles. After the close of the w^ar he came to ^Vestfield where he has resided ever since, and where he has served five years as a lieutenant in the New York State troops. He has been, since boyhood, a member of the ^Methodist Episcopal church and is now class leader and chairman of the b(jard of trustees of the Westfield church of that denomiuation, in which he served in an official capacity for twenty-five years. He is a republican in poli- tics, has been active in the temperance cause for many years, served several terms as town clerk and as a member of the board of education and is now deputy sheriff of the county. He is a Past Master of Summit Lodge, No. 219, Free and Accepted ilasous. He has been con- nected with tlie Chautauqua Assembly ever since it was organized and has had entire charge of the ticket department, in which he handles from thirty to fifty thousand dollars every year and in connection with which he has served for five years as chief of police of the grounds. After coming to Westfield he engaged in the mercantile business, from which he retired three years ago. August 14, 1866, he married Jennie A., a noble Christian woman, daughter of Alexander and Malinda MeCoUom, of Westfield. Lieut, and ]Mrs. Bemis have two children : Ernest W., a printer, who is also a fine musician ; and Pearl A., aged respectively twenty-two and thirteen. Pearl A. could read in the Bible at two and one-half years of age, and when eight years of age, wrote the prize poem for which fifty competitors under seventeen years of age were contesting. She is a good musician and has already written poems which have been published. S3I. SKI03I0KE, a well-known grower • of small fruits, was born in Charlotte, two miles from Sinclairville, Chautauqua coun- ty, July 22, 1831, and is a son of Ira and Lydia S. (Mann) Skidmore. Luther M. Skidmore (grandfather) moved to Otsego county, this State, settling in Morris, M-here he owned a store, and a half interest in a cotton factory. He was married and had three sous : Wolcot, who was a clothier, and came to Forestville, this county, and kept a hotel, after- ward dying iu Ti>ledo, Ohio; Ira (father), and OF CHAUTAUQUA COUyTY. Enssell, who died while young. The maternal graudflither of S. M. Skidmore, Samuel Mann, moved to Otsego county, where he was a car- penter and joiner. About 18-38 he came to this county and settled at Laona, where he contin- ued working at his trade. He was married and had four children, one son and three daughters : Olive, married William Johnson ; Lvdia S. (mother), married Ira Skidmore. Samuel Mann died in 18G0, aged about eighty years. Ira Skidmore (fatiier) was boi-n in Morris, Otsego county, this State, iu 179C. Whik^ a young man he came to Chautauqua county, settling in Charlotte, where he bought a farm of one hun- dred acres. Ten years later he sold that farm and moved to Sheridan, where he bought an- other farm, remained on it a year, then sold it and bought still another of one hundred acres, which is now within the corporation of Dun- kirk, this county. He was a Mason until tiie William Morgan trouble, in 182(i, when he left them. Ira Skidmore married Lydia S. Maun, in 1823, and by this union had eight cliildren, six sons and two daughters, seven of whom reached maturity : JNIartha F., married to Sam- uel Tolles, a lumber dealer and oil operator, who lives in Dunkirk ; Thomas J., a contractor and coal dealer, who married jNIarion Johnson, and lives at Lily Dale ; S. S. ; Frances D., married to Stephen Yeasey, a locomotive engin- eer, who lives at Hornellsville, Steuben county ; Henry H., was assistant freight agent of the W. N. Y. & E. R. R., and now lives at Corry, Pennsylvania, married Martha Eaton, now dead ; George E., died in infancy ; Oscar W., a locomotive engineer, who married Sarah Keyes and lives iu Thornton, Illinois; and Charles W., a locomotive engineer, who died on the Erie railroad at Dayton, this State; mar- ried Mary Le Roy. The father of these children died when sixty-eight years old, and the mother died in 1850, aged forty-seven years. Both are buried in Laona. S. M. Skidmore was educated in the common schools at Fredonia and the academic depart- ment at Dunkirk. After leaving school he learned the trade of a tinsmith with Hart & Lester, serving three years, after which he worked at this vocation until 1857, when he entered into partnership witli M. J. Bellous iu the hardware business, in Dunkirk, the firm name being Bellous & Skidmore. He contin- ued in this firm one year and then sold out to R. L. Carey, accepting the position of foreman in their large shop, which he liekl five years. In 18G3 he went in partnership with J. B. Gardner, dealing in field, garden and flower seeds, at Fredonia. Here he remained twenty years, and then, in 1883 they closed up the business. In addition to the seed business he had also engaged in growing small fruits, grapes, berries, etc., and now devotes his entire attention to the raising of small fruits, havin"- eleven acres devoted to their cultivation. S. M. Skidmore was married in January, 1853 to Annette Hewitt, daughter of Cyrus and Lucia Hewitt, of Fredonia, the fother be- ing a carpenter and joiner. By this union there were two children, a son and a daughter : Xellie H. and Henry H., the latter being a locomotive engineer, married to Emma Beaver, of Huntington, Indiana, where he lives. The mother of these children died in 18G8, and in 1870 Mr. Skidmore married Alice Roberts, a daughter of Deacon Eli and Julia (Sheldon) Roberts, of Fredonia, by whom he has one daughter, Maude A., who resides with her pa- rents. His second wife dying in 1882, in 1884 he married Hattie J. Safford, a daughter of Justus and Charlotte (Chairman) Satford, of Fredonia. "PUGEXE K. HOUGH has passed through -*-^ many shifting scenes on the stage of life, and has imprinted on the plates invented by Daguerre, and by those later who have improved on his process, the counterfeit presentments of the representatives of many nations. He was 228 BIOGRAPHY AXn HISTORY boiu at Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, New York, December 24, 1834, aud is a son of E. A. and Susan (Pierce) Hough. E. A. Hough was a native of Connecticut, a builder and contractor by occupation, and served as a volunteer in the w"ar of 1812. He was married in 1829 to Susan Pierce, who was a native of Vermont and a cousin to Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States. They had seven children, of whom E. K. was the oldest but one, who died in infancy. Euo-eue K. Hough was reared in St. Lawrence county, and was educated in the academy of Potsdam and the High school of Lockport, this State. He left school at the age of seventeen to learn the then newly-discovered art of daguer- reotyping, which he practiced for some years successfully in the villages of Canton and Maloue, county-seats of St. Lawrence and Franklin counties. When twenty-three years of age, partly to oblige his cousin, S. E. Buttolph, and partly to see more of the world, he exchanged his Malone gallery for a travelling daguerreo- type car, in which his cousin had traveled from St. Lawrence county to Brocton, in Chautauqua county. Mr. Hough operated but a short time in this county before he sold the car to accept a situation oflered him in a house for the supply of daguerreotype and ambrotype materials, established in Xew York city. In 1859 he was sent by the house to Petersburg, Va., and thence to South Carolina, where he was during the exciting time of John Brown's raid and Lincoln's canvass. Realizing the gravity of the coming trouble, he returned north, reaching New York the day after Lincoln's election. He remained in New York city during the war, accepting a situation as photographic operator with Meade Bros, on Broadway, aud afterward with R. A. Lewis, who had galleries at Chatham square, aud at 19th Street aud Broadway. In 1865, .still desiring to see more of the world, he went to Barbadoes, in the West Indies, for a winter, and found his business so profitable in the tropics aud life so pleasant that he visited, with his photographic art, some of the largest cities in South America, remaining a year in Per- nambuco, afterward visiting Bahia aud Rio Janeiro, the capital of Brazil. In 1869 he returned to the United States, and opened a gallery in New York city. In 1870 he was married to Frances Mason, of Ripley, this county. Then, for more than ten years, he maintained a successful business of his own amid the intense competition of New York city, meanwhile continuing his art studies in the Academy of Design, aud being a regular paid correspondeut of the photographic maga- zines. The winter of 1879 he left his gallery in New York in charge of his brother and went to Trinidad, in the English West Indies, with his wife, mainly for her health, she having been ill several winters with severe neuralgia, com- plicated with heart trouble, and her physician advised a milder climate. They went to Trini- dad because they had friends there. Shortly after their arrival the two sous of the Prince of \ Wales stopped there on their voyage around the \ world. The governor of the islaud honored ] ISIr. Hough with an invitation to photograph the princes amid the tropical foliage surround- ing the governor's palace. This proved an excellent advertisement ; hundreds of their pic- tures were sold among the loyal population, and a profitable business immediately flowed in upon him. The business continued so good, and his wife's health so improved, that in 1881 his brother sold the gallery in New York and joined him, with the intention of remaining until they made a fortune, as they had every prospect of doing ; when suddenly in the height of their prosperity, a severe epidemic of yellow fever struck the island ; there had not been one before for nearly twenty years, and the Hough brothers and their families barely escaped with their lives, while hundreds were dying arouud them. At one time they were given up to die, but finally recovered to find their business cA^i/l^u^^^-t^' OF CIlAVTAUijUA COUNTY. ruined for the time, and their health so impaired that they were compelled to return to the States. In 1883, shortly after his return, Mr. Hough purchased forty acres of grape land in Ripley, and placed it in care of his wife's brother, George Mason, to plant a vineyard, the Chau- tauqua grape interest having then just begun. When he l)ought the grape farm it was Mr. Hough's intention to continue his business south in winter and only visit the farm in summer. On that plan he spent a winter in New Orleans in charge of an exhibit at the world's fair, and two winters in North Carolina, where his business was profitable and his wife's health seemed to improve. But she decided that she would rather live a few years less among friends and kindred than to be always among strangers; and his main endeavor being to place her in a condition most conducive to her health and happiness, he bought a house in Fredoiiia next to her sister's, and was just fitting it up as a quiet home, when his wife was taken worse and died of heart failure in May, 1887. Shortly after lier bi'other, George Mason, died with bilious inflammation, thus leaving two l>roken homes, with the incomplete vineyard, in Mr. Hough's care. In November, 1889, to continue their strong ties of family affection and unite their broken homes, Mrs. Fannie Mason, the widow, and Mr. Hougj) were married, and now reside in the Fredonia houie. The vineyard now has twenty acres of bear- ing vines under good management, and promises to be a profitable investment. He also has a photograph gallery in Fredonia, which keeps him pleasantly occupied in line with his life work. Mr. Hough is a quiet, unassuming gen- tleman, with no tendency to ostentation or display, and while he sometimes entertains his friends with descriptions of the countries he has visited, his residence so many years in the active centres of life and business, has satisfied his desire for bustle and excitement, and he now 12 has settled down, like Goldsmith's traveler returning liome, his remaining years " in ease and rest to spend." He has cliosen this Chau- tauqua grape region as having more that is pleasant and less that is disagreeable for a permanent residence than any part of tlie world he has visited. I^ORMAN BABCOCK.— Thouglits for his \ ^ fellow-man, feelings for the needy, aspira- tions to be useful, and a determination to win deserving and enduring success ; these were the materials out of which Norman Babcock built his active and honorable life. He was the youngest son of Samuel and Polly (Cleveland) Babccx*k, and was born at Forestville, in the town of Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York, April 19, 18.38. Sanniel Babcock was a descendant of one of five Babcock brothers, who, according to tradition, came over in the " Mayflower." He was born at Mansfield, Connecticut, October 31, 1793. In 1795 his parents removed to Bridgewater, near Wood- stock, Vermont, where he was reared and re- ceived a good edu(^ation. In early life he came to central New York and afl:crwards was en- gaged in teaching in Montgomery, Monroe, Al- legany and in this county, of wiiich he was one of the pioneer teachers. After a resilience of some years at Ellington and Forestville he re- moved, in 184], to Silver Creek, where he re- sided until his sudden death in 1882. In his thirty-fourth year he learned cabinet-making in wiiieh he soon became a skilled workman. He followed making cabinet furniture for several years at Silver Creek, after which he resided with his children. In 1825 he married Polly Cleveland, who was a native of Windsor county, Vermont, and died in 1867. Tiieir children were: Pamelia, Alpheus (see his sketch), Martha, Laura and Norman. Mr. Bal)coek and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian church. On Sunday afternoon June 11, 1882, while takinu; his accustomed walk around the 232 BIOGRAPHY AND IIISTOKY dejiot, he stepped from the right-hand railroad track to let a train j)ass and iu attempting to cross the other track was struck and instantly killed by a west-bound train. He was a constant reader and was well informed in political and religious affairs and in jihilosophy and literature. He was popular with the employees of the Eureka works who attended his funeral iu a body and the Silver Creek Local, in an extended account of his life said, " He has taught us by his sunny temper ' How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow into the Arctic regions of our lives.' " Norman Babcock was reared from four years of age at Silver Creek, where he attended the public schools and received a good business edu- cation. Leaving school he went into his father's shop where he first learned to handle tools. He afterwards entered the iron foundry of Hawkins &GreenIeaf, learned the trade of pattern-maker and followed tJiat business for several years, during which time he was foreman of a large shop in Erie, Pa. In January, 1864, he formed a partnership with his brother, Alpheus Babcock, who had been engaged for some time in the manufacture of a smut and separating machine, and whose successive improvements developed into the present justly celebrated and widely known Eureka smut and separating machine, whose history is given in the sketch of the late Alpheus Babcock. In July, 1883, Norman Babcock withdrew from the firm of Howes, Babcock &, Ewell, then owning and operating the Eureka Smut Machine works. From that time on until his death he was not engaged in any line of business. On March *J, 1805, he married Ursula Record, a native of Cattaraugus county, and a daughter of Israel and Mary (Gardner) Record, natives of Dutchess county, N. Y. To Norman and Ursula Babcock were born two children — Cleve- land, born in 1873 and now attending Exeter college in New Hampsiiire; and Grace, who was born in 1876. Mrs. Babcock still resides in her beautiful and well-appointed home at Silver Creek, to which is attached sixty-five acres of productive land. Norman Babcock had served once as president of his village but resigned as his time was chiefly needed for his work, although he was never too busy to assist a friend or relieve the distress of the needy. As a meml)er of his firm he had special charge of the mechanical depart- ment, and like his other partners always favored in dull times enougli macliines to keep all the hands fully employed. About 1881 he had an attack of hemorrhage of the stomach and con- tinued in ill-health until Christinas, 1883, when a series of hemorrhages commenced which proved fatal on the next day at ten o'clock. On the succeeding Sabbath his funeral occurred which was attended by the employees of the Eureka works in a body and after simple but very im- pressive funeral rites his remains were entombed in Glenwood cemetery. Fitting tributes to his memory appeared in the newspapers of western New York, one of which said, " Few men have ever died whose departure has called forth such universal expressions of deep regret, or caused so much sorrow iu .so many breasts." One who knew him intimately for f"orty years bore testi- mony of him in the wish that '" we had more like him with as many virtues even if they had to have more faults.'' The swift-flying years as they grow full- orbed and wane and die iu the future, may sweep from human sight the sculptured marble that stands in memory of Norman Babcock, but the mighty and slow-rolling ages of time will preserve his name and perpetuate his virtues as long as knowledge or memory of Silver Creek shall exist in history, or be repeated in tradition. T L. THAYER, stands well up in the front ^ • rank of the prominent business men of Chautauqua county, and, although compara- tively a young man, has rushed ahead until he has reached an eminence of which many an older OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 2;{3 mau might feel proiul. J. L. Tlia}'fr was born in tiie town of Miiia, Cliautaucjna county, New York, February Otli, 1851, and is a son of Ichabod and Fidelia (La Due) Thayer. The former was a native of Milford, Massachusetts, while his wife came from this State. Ichabod Tiiayer came to the Empire State before the first score had been counted in the years of this century, and in 1824 he settled in Mina, Chau- tauqua county and followed farming until 18()4, when he retired and moved to Westfield, where he lived until he died in 1888, when he had passed his eightieth year. Although not a poli- tician, as the word is usually understood, Mr. Thayer held many of the town offices and dis- charged their duties well. Grandfather La Due '' carried French blood in his veins and came to I the town of Mina early in its history. He was a popular man and was one of its first supervi- sors. J. L. Thayer spent his early life on a fiirm in the town of Mina and completed his education ! at the Westfield academy. His fir.st business ' experience was clerking during tiie year 18C6 at ' Brooklyn, but he staid there le.ss tlian a year and { then went to scliooi for about the same length of time, afterwards coming to Dunkirk and clerk- ing in a store in 18G9. The two succeeding years were passed in the emj)loy of B. Feuner, at Sherman, and then Mr. Thayer bought an interest in his employer's business. Two years later he purchased the entire establishment and embarked in business for himself. Mr. Thayer has added to and enlarged his place until now he conducts a double store and carries a line of drugs, jewelry, wall-papers and other stock equal to the best in the county. One store is sixty- five feet deep, the other forty-three. Mr. Thayer was active with Mr. Sperry, Mr. C'or- bitt and others in establishing the new State Bank and he was one of the first village trus- tees. In 1873 he married Julia E. Horton, who came from Erie county, and their union has been blessed with two children — one son and one daughter : Amos H. and Susie C. Politically, J. L. Thayer is a democrat an41 came to Silver Creek where he followed cabinet making for .some years and where he was acci- dentally struck and killed by a railway train on Sunday, June 11, 1882. Tie was a great reader anil an exemplary nienil)er of the Presbyterian church and married Polly Cleveland, a native of Vermont, who died in 1867. They reared a family of five children: Pamelia, Alpheus, Martha, Laura and Norman, in whose sketch a more extended history of the family is given. Alpheus Babcock received a common school education and learned the trade of mili-wright which he followed for some years. Being of an ingenious turn of mind and possessing good in- ventive ability, he gave some thought to the subject of improving mill machinery while he was busily engaged in erecting flouring mills in different parts of western New York. In 185-i he bought of G. E. Throop the right of the Rutter & Rouzer smut cleaning and separating machine for nine counties in Pennsylvania. It was very imperfect and after souie time spent in studying its defects he was enabled to gel up a far superior machine for which he obtained a patent in 1861 and after several years of suc- cessful manufacturing he sold his interest, and the machine was afterwards made by Huntley, Holcomb & Howes. In January, 1864, he as- .sociated his brother Norman with him in the manufacture of his machine, and in the follow- ing vear Simeon Howes became a partner with them and the firui name was changed to Howes, Babcock & Co. During 1865 they manufac- tured and .sold two hundred machines. On January 1, 1866, they took possession of the Montgomery machine works which they had purchased the preceding fall for twenty thous- and dollars. They refitted this wooden estab- lishment and used it until 1873, when, to fill their increase of orders, larger buildings were demanded and a three-story brick building, 80x110 feet in dimensions, was erected at a cost of twenty thousand dollars, besides a large and carefully planned foundry. The entire plaut w.as now christened " The Eureka Works " by which name it has become known wherever improved milling machinery is used in the civilized world. In the fall of I860 .llbert Horton became a partner, but in 1868 sold his interest to Carlos Ewell who died in 1887, when Mr. Howes purchased the interest of his cA4^^ - dJL./i OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. heirs and already having the interests of Alpheus and Nonuan Babcock, became, in 1888, tlie sole proprietor of the Eureka works. lu 1870 a suit for infringement of patent was brought against Howes, Babeock & Co., which they suc- cessfully contested and won at a cost of eight thousand dollars. The result of this suit was in the interest of millers and purchasers as the Babcocks could have saved all this cost by paying a royalty to the prosecuting sharpers and then adding it to the price of their machines. Another fact deserving of notice in the business career of Alpheus Babcock is that the founda- tion of Silver Creek's present prosperity was laid by the establishment of the Eureka works, which is the pioneer of the numerous plants that send out thousands of smut and separating machines to all parts of the world. During Mr. Babcock's connection with these works, the force of hands was increased from fourteen to sixty-six, the pay-roll went up from eighteen to nearly fifty thousand dollars per year, and the annual output of machines ran up from hun- dreds to thousands. In 1867 Alpheus Babcock married Sarah Pierce who died some years afterwards and left no children. The labors of his active and useful life came to a close on December 1 1, 1878. His death was caused by softening of the brain from over- work. His remains were entombed in Gleuwood cemetery amid a vast and silent throng wiio gathered to witness the last sad rites of one who had been deservedly popular in the community in which he had resided. Alpheus Babeock has aided largely in developing Silver Creek from a quiet village into a great manufacturing center, where many years of his active life were spent in perfecting the machine which will preserve his name from oblivion throughout the world as long as improved milling machinery is used by the human race. r r j ILSON S. ANDKUS is of English an- ^^^^ cestry and he and his father have been well-known and highly respected citizens of this immediate section for three-cpiarters of a century. He is the son of Sylvester and Rachel (Harris) Audrus, and was born in the town of Portland, Chauhiuqua county, New York, Sep- tember 20, 1819. His father was a native of Connecticut and married Rachel Harris of Rens- selaer county, New York, by whom he had eight ciiildren. While a young man be came to this county and located near Brocton, 1814, where he engaged in farming imtil 1828, with the exception of one year (1815) which lie spent in Connecticut on account of a severe attack of nostalgia. In 1828, he came to the town of Hanover, where he followed farming the re- mainder of his life and was a very prosperous farmer, lie was an old-line whig until the agitation of the slavery question, when he became a stanch democrat. He was poor- master for several years. In religion he was a Baptist, being a member and deacon of the first church of that denomination organized in Port- land. He died in 1805, aged seventy-four years. His wife (mother of W. S.) was also a consistent member of the Baptist church and died in 1883, aged eighty-eight years. Wilson S. Audrus was brougiit up on the farm and received a common school education. He has been engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life and, in connection therewith, has also handled thousands of feet of lumber, hav- ing for five years been in that business in Buffalo. He now owns a farm of one hundred and twelve acres near the village of Silver Creek, and has for sixty-three years lived in what is now the village corporation. He has been very successful and has accumulated a snug fortune. He owns the fir.st mill-stone made in this town. It was made from a boul- der taken from the hillside about one hundred rods from where the first grist-mill was erected in 1804, by Abel Cleveland and David Dickin 238 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY son. It was afterwards used in a mill Iniilt by | Thomas Kidder and Nehemiah Heaton in 1806, on Walnnt creek, near where the famous great black walnut tree stoml, and also on the spot where his saw-mill now stands in the south part of the village. The stone is still in an excellent state of preservation. Mr. Andrus also owns a cane, which was made from this black walnut tree, from whicii the creek takes its name, and which stooES W. 3IORGAN is one of those practical, sagacious, enterprising business men who constitute a very welcome and import- ant factor in the material welfare and progres.s of a community, and Jamestown is fortunate in possessing such a man. He is a son of Harvey and Amy (Crawford) Morgan, and was born in Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New York, August 12, 1855. Caleb Morgan, (great-grand- father) was born July 19, 1740, and died at Randolph, Vt., September 9, 1810, in the sev- enty-first year of his age. He married Ann Brooks, who was born March 18, 1745, and died December 11, 1816, by whom he had sev- eral children. Rufus Morgan (grandfather) was born in Brattleboro, Vt., May 4, 1781, and died in Randolph, Vt., October 17, 1827. He married Ruth Kibbe, who was born April 9, 1783, by wliora he had eleven children : Laura, born September 5, 1806 ; Maria, born March 22, 1808 ; Norman, born June 30, 1809 ; Cath- erine, born February 23, 1811; Caleb, born July 19, 1812; Frederick, born October 12, 1814; Nancy, born March 12, 1816; Elijah, born September 29, 1817; Heman, born Sep- tember 2, 1819 ; Harvey (father), born August 13, 1821 ; and Israel, born February 12, 1825. The maternal grandfather, William Crawford, was born in Hebron, Washington county, this State, April 5, 1798, was a farmer by occupa- tion and tiled in Napoli, Cattaraugus county, same State, October 27, 1875. He married Betsy Shaw, of White Creek, N. Y., by whom he had thirteen chihlreu, all of whom were i)orn in this State: Susan, born in Hebron, Wash- ington county, April 19, 1820, and died in Middleburg, Schoharie county, September 12, 1859; Matilda M., born in Hebron, February 20, 1822, and died in Napoli, Cattaraugus c(junty, October 15, 1880; John, born in Hebron, December 10, 1823; Amy (mother), born in Hebron, August 30, 1825; William, Jr., born in Bethany, Genesee county, August 23, 1827, and died in Java, Wyoming county, April 5, 1849; Harriet, born in Bethany, January 1, 1829; Phoebe R., born in Bethany, September 1, 1831 ; James, born in China, Wyoming county, July 21, 1833 ; Dolly B., born in China, July 2, 1835; Cornelius, born in Java, May 5, 1 1837 ; Ira, born December 23, 1842, and died in Napoli, September 10, 1857 ; Franklin C, born in Java, November 3, 1845 ; and Daniel S., born in Java, December 26, 1847. Mrs. Crawford was born in White Creek, Washing- ton county, August 15, 1802,and died in Napoli, \ November 4, 1878, both husband and wife being in their seventy-seventh year when summoned to join the silent majority. Harvey Morgan (father) was born in Randolph, Vt., August 13, I 1821, and when a young man emigrated to Cattaraugus county, this State, and thence to Allegany county, where he still resides, having 1 retired from business, his profession being that of a dentist. In politics he is a republican, and on June 6, 1844, he married Amy Crawford, a daughter of AVilliam Crawford, by whom he 1 had four children : Henry, born January 3, 1846, died February 22, 1867, who entered the 1^jLy^ P??. ^^^^^iU^ OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. army during the late civil war, was taken pris- oner and imprisoned at Cahawba, Alabama, during the last eigliteen months of the war, from the effects of which incarceration he died shortly after his release; Alice, born May 18, 1850, married to George T. Berry, had two children, Fred. N., born, Dec. 8, 1867 ; and Lewis A., born April 14, 1870, who died, and she mar- ried for her second husband C. H. Kilburn, who is one of the members of the North American Photo- Copying Co., of Jamestown ; Charles \V. ; and Julia, born Nov. 8, 1857, died Feb. 6, 18(32. Cliarles \y. Morgan was educated in tlie common schools of Randolph, this State, sup- plemented by a commercial course in Chamber- lain Institute, from which he graduated when sixteen years of age, and afterward.s accepted a position as book-keeper and clerk in a grocery store in Randolph, where he remained until February, 1874, when he went to Blue Rapids, Kansas, and engaged in the grocery business, but becoming dissatisfied returned to Randolph in the autumn of the same year, taking a posi- tion as clerk and book-keej)er in a hardware store, where he remained several years. In January, 1881, he came to Jamestown and en- gaged in the plumbing and steam-heating busi- ; ness in which he was very successful. In May, [ 1885, his health being seriously impaired, he sold out and remained inactive until Jamiary, 1886, when he organized the Maddux Reclining Chair Co., which was afterwards reorganized under the firm name of Morgan, Maddox & Co., and engaged in the manufacture of polished centre tables, with wood, marble and plush tops, which he also made an emphatic success ; but being interested in three laud companies in Buffalo, owning twelve lots of valuable real estate in Jamestown and a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Cattaraugus county, he was unable to devote an adequate amount of time to the table business and therefore sold out his inteix'st in that firm in July, 1890. In October of the same year he commenced the erection of a large factory to be devoted to the manufacture of furniture, the building being located midway between the Erie and the Chau- tauqua lake railways, and on the bank of the Chautauqua lake outlet, a few roSKI*H C. (IIFFOKD, a successful •*^ and one of the oldest dentists of West- field, ('hautauqua county, has been successful in three widely different kinds of business, ex- hibiting a versatility and powers of application quite unusual in a single individual. He is a son of William and Phiebe (Cornell) Giftbrd, and was born in the town of El lery, Chautau- qua county, New York, September 18th, 1820. His paternal grandfather, Jeremiah Gifford, was one of the early settlers of this county, remov- ing hither from Washington county, this State, and settling on lot No. 23, in the town of Busti, where he pursued farming until his death. Wil- liam Gifford (father) was a prominent man of Chautauqua county ; he was born in Washing- ton county in 1797, and came here in 1824, settling in the town of Ellery the following year, where he engaged in farming and lumber- ing. In 1832 he was appointed keeper of the poor-house, and held that position until 1841, and then movetl to Mayville, where he lived until death called him, in 188.'j, when he had reached the age of eighty-eight years. He held the offices of county superintendent of the poor, 1840-1843; county treasurer, 1847-56, a pe- riod of nine years, and was then elected justice of the peace, and held that office for a number of years. Originally he was a whig, but after the war he voted with the democrats. AVhen a young man he became a member of the Method- ist church, and throughout his life held many offices in that body, being always an active and influential member, and making his house the temporary home of every traveling preacher. He married Phcebe Cornell, of White Creek, Washington county, by whom he had five sons: Edson, Horace H., (Jeorge W., Joseph C. and James. His wife, Phiebe Cornell Gifford, sur- vived her husband three years, and died in 1888, aged eighty-five years. Joseph C. Gifford, after receiving his educa- tion in the common schools and the Jamestown academy, left the farm to engage with his bro- ther, Horace H. (Jifford, in the carding and cloth dressing business at Panama, this county, and they afterward moved to Wrightsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania, (if which latter place he was a resident for eight years. In 1852 he came to Westfield and engaged in the hardware business; he followed it for four years, in the meantime studying dentistry, and l)egan to j)racti<'e this profession in 1856, and l)y close application to business in a few years he succeeded in establishing an extensive prac- tice, which he has maintained ever since. In religion Dr. Gifford is a member of the Method- ist Episcopal church at ^^'estfield, in which body he has been recording steward for thirty-nine years. Politically he is a democrat, and is a member and Past Master of Summit Lodge, No. 219, F. and A. M., of Westfield ; he is also chaplain and Past High Priest of Westfield Chapter Royal Arch Masons. Joseph C. Gifford is one of Westfield's best citizens in every sense of the word, broad and ! liberal-minded, kind, genial and generous, fore- most in good works and with a large array of friends. On January 19, 1848, he married Rachel R. Messenger, a daughter of Chauncey Messenger, of Wrightsville, Warren county. Pa. Their oidy child, Clarence, who was a young man of I bright promise, died upon the eve of his gradu- ation from Amherst College, in 1877, when in the twentieth year of his age. His untimely I death was a source of great and lasting sorrow I to his parents. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 245 ■j^AVID O. SHERMAN, the only sou of ^^ Merritt and Laura (Barnes) Sherman, was born in Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York, May 7tli, 1833. His grandfather was Abram S. Slierman, a native of Albany county, this State. From tliere he went to Cayuga county, and then came to Chautauqua at an early date, where he followed farming and be- came prosperous. He affiliated with the Whig party, which at that time was dominant. He married and reared a family of six sons and two daughters. Merritt Sherman was born during his parent.s sojourn in Cayuga county. He learned farming and followed it tiirough life. He came to Chautauqua county and settled, and lived for a number of years, but died in James- town in 1891. His sympathies and votes were cast with the followers of Hamilton, but he refrained from active political life. He mar- ried Laura Barnes, a daughter of John Barnes, who lived at Ashville, Harmony P. O., this county. They were the parents of three chil- dren, two daughters and one son. One daugh- ter married W. W. Eddy, and lives at James- town, N. Y. ; the second sister married Samuel Cowing, and resides at Lakewood, N. Y. David O. Sherman, the subject of our sketch, was reared on the farm and passed his early days in the usual manner which country boys do. The public schools, that bulwark of the nation's safety, furnished him an education which has stood him in good stead throughout his long and honorable life. In April, 1857, he married for his first wife Miss Amanda Currier, who was a native of Arcade, Wyoming county, this State, and after her death lie mar- ried Mrs. Carrie (Bailey) Sabin, a daughter of Gambriel Bailey, of Hadden, Conn., who died in Holyoke, Mass., in 182(5. He was a shoe- maker by trade, at which he worked in connec- tion with his farming. Politically Mr. Bailey was a Connecticut democrat and married Lucy Phelps. They reared a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. Mrs. Sherman has been three times married : first to Hector L. Bodwell ; second to David Sal)iii, by whom she had one daughter, Nettie, now the wife of Martin Harrington, a farmer in the town of Ripley ; and last to David O. Sherman, ou September 25th, 188!». Mr. and Mrs. Sherman have a very happy and pleasant home. He is courteous, hospitable and generous, and a man of well-known integrity both in public and private life. For twenty years he was in mercantile life at No. 207 Main Street, Buffalo, in the wholesale grocery trade, and for the same length of time at other places. He established himself in Buffalo in 1857, and remained until the year following the nation's Centennial of Indepen- dence. /^•HAKLES N. WILCOX, was born in ^^ Charlotte, Chautauqua county, New Y'ork, October 2, 1851, and is a son of Elisha and Caroline (Barnum) Wilcox. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Wilcox, was born in Chenango county, New York, and at an early age he learned the trade of mill-wright and worked at it until 1830, when he moved to this county, and .settled in the town of Char- lotte, where he bought a farm, which he culti- vated in connection witli his trade until 1840, in which year he went to Kentucky to build a mill, where, in a short time, he died. He was married to Amanda Savage and had eight children, five sons and three daughters : Alonzo ; Eliab; Joseph; Elisha (father) ; Louis; Abi- gail, who married first. Freeman L. Link, then Charles Rijjley ; Louisa, married Morgan Link ; and Amanda, who married Albert Warner. Mrs. Wilcox died in 1849, aged fifty-five years. The maternal grandfather of C. N. Wilcox was Eliakim Barnum, who was born in Chenango county. New York, in 1800 and in 181(5 came to this county and .settled in the so-called " Pickett District " in Charlotte, being one of the first settlers in that town. The original BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY Barnuras of America came from England. Two brothers were stolen, placed on board a man-of- war and sent to Yiro;inia, and from these sprang the family. Phiueas T. Barnum, the famous showman, was a relative of Eliakim Barnum, who bought one hundred and fifty acres of land in the Pickett district, cultivated it for thirty years and sold it to his son. His grandson, Charles H. Barnum, now owns the place. Eliakim Barnum was considerable of a specula- tor in real estate and made large sums of money. He died April 25,1875, and Mrs. Bar- num died in February, 1878, aged seventy-seven years. He was married in 1824 to Sophia Underwood and by her had five children, three .sons and two daughters : Eliab ; Noah ; Charles ; Caroline (mother) ; and Mary, who married Brainard Kappell. Elisiia Wilcox (father) was born in Chenango county, this State, September 15, 1827, and came with iiis parents to this county, in 1830, settling in Charlotte. He worked on his father's farm until he was four- teen years old, when his father died and the farm was sold April 1, 1851 ; when he was twenty-four years of age he bought a farm of oue hundred and twenty-one acres in the Pickett district in Charlotte, and lived there until 1871, when he moved to Pomfret, where he bought a farm of fifty-nine acres, lived on it eighteen years and then moved to Cassadaga and iiought a house and lot, where he now resides. In re- ligion he is a member of the Christian church at Arkwright, of which he was trustee sevei'al years. Elisha AVilcox was married December 22, 1850, to Caroline Barnum ; by her he had two sons, Elisha and George O., the latter being a merchant in Cherry Creek, this county, who married first, Lizzie Todd and second, Mira Hartley, and has two children. Both parents i are still living. Charles N. Wilcox was educated in the dis- trict schools of Charlotte, until he was eighteen years of age, when he entered the State Normal school at Fredouia for a term, after which, he taught school for one terra. After his marriage he settled on his father's farm in Charlotte, where he lived four years and then moved to Cassadaga, and bought a half interest in the hardware store of C. S. Shepard, with whom he remained a year, when he bought him out and has since coutimied the business, carrying four thousand dollars worth of stock on an average, and having a patronage of twelve thousand dol- lars a year. He has a general line of hard and tin-ware, stoves and everything one would ex- pect to find in a fir.st-cla.ss hardware store. As a secret society man, he is a member and W. M. of Sylvan Lodge, No. 303, F. and A. M. of Sinclairville, and a charter member of Cassa- daga Lake Lodge, No. 28, A. O. U. AV. of Cassadaga. Charles N. AA'ilcox was married to Alice Sears, a daughter of Lyman and Anna (Pier- pout) Sears, the father being a farmer in Gerry, this county, whither he came from Franklin county, Massachusetts, in 1868. By this union there has been one .son, Ernest H., who is now in .school. HON. IA)RENZO MORKIS, a prominent lawyer of Fredonia and an (;x-State senator of New York, was born in Madison county, New York, August 14, 1817, and is a son of David and Abigail (Blodgett) Morris. David Morris and his wife were both natives of New England, and settled in the town of Chau- tauqua, this county, in 1829. After some years they removed to Sherman, where Mr. Morris die^ILI.IAl\r UIM)AI)HKA1> was born in ^^ Thornton, Yorkshire, England, Febru- ary 17, 181!l. While still a lad he was appren- ticed for a year to learn the trade of a weaver. At the entl of that year he began working in the smithy with his father, and cuntinued with him until he Itecame of age. Ill January, 1843, being dissatisfied witii his prospects in England, he emigrated to America, going first to Busti, where his uncle, the Rev. John Broadhead, was living. Seeing that Jamestown offered a much more favorable open- ing to a young man, he souglit em})loyment there and found it in the shop of Saftbrd Eddy. But he was too ambitious to remain a dav laborer long. Ever on t!ie lookout for some- thing more profitable, he soon found the oppor- tunity of forming a partnership with Adam C'obb, whose daughter Lucy lie had married in 1845. The firm of Cobb & Broadhead, scythe snath manufacturers, continued in existence for nine years, and was then dissolved, Mr. Cobb continuing in the manufacture of snaths and grain cradles and Mr. Broadhead in that of axes and forks. 250 BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY When his eldest son, Shelden, was about twenty years old, Mr. Broadhead opened a clothing store, taking this son into partnership with him, and a few years later he gave his younger son, Almet, an interest in the business. Under the firm-name of William Broadhead & Sons their business increased rapidly, until they soon had the largest merchant tailoring estab- lishment in Jamestown or the surrounding country. In 1872, Mr. Broadhead, accompanied by his wife and eldest daughter, visited his native home. Great changes had taken- place dur- ing his thirty years absence, especially in the neighboring city of Bradford, which had be- come the centre of the worsted manufactur- ing interests in England. His early interest, awakened when as a boy he learned to weave at a hand-loom, was now re-kiudled by the signs of prosjierity and success due to these mills. He returned to Jamestown thoroughly imbued with the idea that the establishment of a mill for the manufacture of dress goods in Jamestown, was feasible and would be most beneficial to the town as well as profitable to the owners. While he had by industry, eco- nomical habits, close attention to business and successful investments in real estate acquired a considerable sum, he felt that so large an undertiiking demanded more money than he could personally command, and so he set about to interest some of his moneyed townsmen in his project. The result of his efforts was the formation of the firm of Hall, Broadhead & Turner ; Mr. William Hall to assist him in furnishing the money, and Mr. Joseph Turner, of England, who had had some experience in the business. The alpaca mill erected by the firm in 1873, continued for one year and a half to be owned by them, and then Mr. Broadhead withdrew. A short time afterward he erected another mill, for the manufacture of simi- lar cloths, this time having for partners his two sons. When the business was well es- tablished, William Broadhead & Sons disposed of their cl(»thing store and turned their entire attention to the manufacture of ladies' dress goods. The mills have been enlarged from time to time as the business demanded. Early in the spring of 1880 Mr. Broad- head again visited England for the purpose of buying some of the late.st improved ma- chinery for his mills. The mills in llieir present condition con- sist of six large buildings, covering about four acres and giving employment to seven hundred operatives. Their salesmen traverse nearly every State and territory in the Union, and such is the reputation of their goods that it is at times difficult to supply the de- mand. As Mr. Broadhead foresaw, these mills have contributed immeasurably to the growth and prosperity of the city. Much of the steady in- crease in population is due to their continued demand for skilled workmen. The good wages and constant emj)loyment have attracted hither family after fixmily of intelligent and industri- ous English peojile, who have proved them- .selves mo.st acceptxible citizens. Mr. Broadhead is politically an ardent re- publican and a strong protectionist, believing that policy to be even more necessary for the welfare of his employees than for himself In his native town Mr. Broadhead was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church and a superintendent in its Sabl)ath .school. On settling in Jamestown, he joined the Methodi.st Epi.scopal church as the denomination nearest like the Wesleyan. Before the war, when the Methodist church was divideil on the subject of slavery, quite a lumiber of abolitionists, among them Mr. Broadhead, left the Methodist church and formed a Wesleyan organization which continued in existence until 1862, when the church building was destroyed by fire. Since then Mr. Broadhead has been an active member OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. of the First Congregational church, contribut- ing liberally to its support. To William and Lucy Broadhead six chil- dren have been liorn : Sheldon Brady, associ- ated with Mr. Broadhead in business, who was married in 1870 to Mary Woodworth ; Her- wood, who died at the age of seven years ; Almet Norval, also a partner with his father, who was married in 1886 to Margaret Allen Bradshaw ; Mary T., who married Adna H. Reynolds and now resides in Tacoma, Wash- ington : Stella Florine; and Mertie M., wiio re- side with their parents. ^ARL<;),S EVVELL. One of the foremost ^^ business men in the village of Silver Creek at the time of his death was Carlos Ewell, who was born in Middlebury, Wyomiug county, New York, in 1833, and died at his home in Silver Creek about noon on the 27tli day of October, 1887. On the 10th day of January, 1856, he mar- ried Auuette Wilson, of Wyoming county, and the union resulted in a family of tiiree ciiiidren; Mrs. George Moore resides in Fredonia; Ernest graduated at the Buifalo Medical University and is practicing in that city ; and Jo.sephine, a miss now six years of age. Carlos Ewell came to Silver Creek in 1866 and bought a one-fourth interest in the manu- facturing establishment of Howes, Babeock & Co., and the style of the firm was changed to Howes, Babeock & Ewell ; later Mr. Babeock retired and the house was known as Howes & Ewell. During the first ten years of his con- nection with this company Mr. Ewell became quite prominent in local politics, but in 1877 he was severely attacked with nervous prostration, which entirely unfitted him for business of any kind for a period of six years, when he seemed to secure a new lease of health and from tJiat date until his death he was apparently on the high- way of longevity ; and he again assumed the ar- duous duties of purchaser and general overseer of the works that had grown to lai-ge proportions and in which he had acquired a Jialf interest. He applied himself diligently to business, in fact too cldsely, and it was not long before his kidney trouble again displayed its presence and soon develoiH'd into acute Brigiit's di-sease, which compelled liiui to abandon, one after tiie other, the duties he had been accustomed to perform until exhausted vitality gave way and his life expired. Carlos Ewell was a man of positive character, as exacting in his requirements upon those whom he euiployed as he was rigid in the discharge of those duties that he himself was expected to perform, yet he possessed the faculty of commanding the respectful attachment of his employees, and withal was popular with his men, neighbors and fellow-townsmen. By his untiring attention to busine.ss, although so many years compelled to relinquish its active superin- tendence, he .secured a substantial fortune. So- cial pleasures had but small attraction for him, his chief happiness appearing to centre in his business and his family. Alter his decease his interest in the machinery factory, then known as the Eureka works, was disposed of to his for- mer associate, Simeon Howes, who .still contin- ues the business. For fifteen years Mr. Ewell was a uiember of the Presbyterian cluirch and was a liberal con- tributor to its support. In 1882 he erected at Silver Creek one of the finest residences in Chautauqua county, a model of convenience and architectural beauty, in which his widow, who has since married Cilbert B. Brewster, now re- sides. Mr. Brewster was formerly of Addison, New York. He was born in Elmira, Chemung county, New York, in 1828, removing to Ad- dison in 1845. Mr. Brew'ster has been engaged in various business enterprises in Addison but has now retired from active business and resides in Silver Creek. BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY FREDERICK A. FULLER, an old and j well-known citizeu of Jamestown, who has l)een identified with the progress and pros- perity of that thriving city for over fifty years, is a son of Fretlerick A. and llaciiel (Gordon) Fuller, and was born in Rutland, Vermont, May 24, 1813. Frederick A. Fuller, is a lineal descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, who was one of the "Pilgrim Fathers," who came over in the Mayflower and who was one of the signers on board of that historic bark of the immortal civil compact of the Puritans, the oldest as well as one of the noblest written con- stitutions of the new world. Dr. Fuller was the grandfather of Ebenezer Fuller of Ply- mouth, whose son, Ebenezer Fuller, Jr., was born in 1695, and died in 1759. He settled in 1731, at Hebron, Connecticut, where his farm is still in the hands of his descendants. He married Joanna Gray and had one child, Eben- ezer Fuller (great-grandfather), who was born September 25, 1715, in Massachusetts and died at Hebron. He married, on September 30, 1 738, Mary Rowley, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. One of tiiese sons, Roger Fuller (grand fatiicr), was born September 25, 1773, and died September 24, 1819. He was a farmer, lived on the home farm at Hebron and was married four times. His wives were Martha Phelps, by whom he had five sons and four daughtei's ; Violetta Taylor, who bore him one son and two daughters ; Louisa Taylor and Louisa Kenney. The third son by the first marriage was Frederick A. Fuller (father), who was born in Tolland county. Conn., March 1, 1775, and removed to Rutland, Vermont, where he was a successful merchant and where he died July 20, 1832. He was a federalist and whig, married January 20, 1811. Rachel Gordon and reared a family of five children : Samuel G., born in 1811, and lost on "The Home" on his return to Charleston, S. C, where he was a merchant ; Frederick A., Frank, born May 20, 1815; Dudley B. ; and Mary Ann. Mrs. Fuller, who died in Jamestown, October 28, 1856, was a daughter of Capt. Samuel Gordon, a Revolutionary officer, who was at Yorktown and afterwards commanded a company in the war of 1812. He died at Troy, this State, aged ninety-four and was a son of John Gordon, who came from Scotland to America as a British soldier in the Frendi and Indian war, and afterwards settled at Belch- town, Conn, where he died. He had four children, one son and three (laughters. Fretlerick A. Fuller received a common school education at Rutland, Vermont, where he learned the jewelry business witii Benjamin Lord. After an apprenticeship of five years he went to New York city, where he was employed for three yea i-s in the jewelry establishment of H. & D. Tarbox. In 1836 he returned to Rutland where he remained three years. He then returned to this State, and in July, 1841, came to Jamestown, where for forty j'eai"s he conducted one of the leading jewelry houses of western New York. In 1881 he transferred his jewelry business to his eldest son, Frederick A. Fuller, Jr., in order to retire from active life. He has been a member of the First Pres- byterian church of Jamestown since 1857, and is a republican in politics. At Rutland, Vt., on June 19, 1838, he married Emily Rathbone, who was a daughter of ^yaite and Betsy Rathbone, of Tinmouth, Vt., where Mr. Rathbone was a prominent iron manufac- turer. Mrs. Fuller died February 5, 1886, and on October 3, 1890, Mr. Fuller married Mrs. Martha B. Marsh, daughter of Dr. Boyer, of Clarendon, Vt. By his first marriage Mr. Fuller had four children : Frederick A., Jr. ; Dr. Dudley B., born Marcii 10, 1848, served throughout the last war as an assistant surgeon and died in 1889, at San Quentin, California, where he had practiced medicine from 1866 ; William Rathbone, born February 1, 1843; and Dr. Charles Gordon, who was born August 7, 1856, graduated from a medical college in §Tiecame proprietor of his father's large and important jewelry establishment which he has coudncted success- fully ever since. On May 24, 1800, he married Cornelia I^ndlow Benedict, of Brooklyn, a daughter of Roswell S. Benedict, formerly senior member of the old and well-known shoe mannflietin-ing firm of Benedict, Hall A: Co., of New York city, and a member of the Fnglish Benedict family of (Janaan, Conn., which came to Brooklyn in an early day and is one of the old families of that city. Mr. Benedi<'t is one of the original mend)ers of Plymoutii chiirch, whose iiiHuence has been National in txifut and character. To Mr. and Mrs. l''nllcr have Ixi-n born three sons: Koswell Se\inonr and ('lif ford Rathbone, born in Brooklvn, August I, 1871, and February 17, 1.S7;!; and (iordon Carter, l)c>rn irr .lamestown, August 3, 18S4. He and his wife are members of the Fii-st Presbytei-ian church. He is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 14i3, F. & A. M., and a director of the City National Bank of James- town, and the Rochester Mutual Relief society. Frederick A. Fuller, Jr., has always been a democrat in politics, is serving his third con- secutive term as a member of the board of edu- cation and has frequently been a delegate to Democratic State conventions. In 1884 he was elected as the Cleveland and Hendricks presi- dential elector rejjresenting the 'rhirlv-fnurth Congressional District, composed of the eouii- ties of Chautauqua, Allegany ami Cattaraugus. At the meeting of the Electoral College held at the Capitol in the City of Albany, on tlii' third day of December, 1,S,S4, Mr. Fuller, with Hon. Erastus Corning, of .Albanv, xvcre ap- pointed the special messengers to eouvev the sealed Electoral vote of the State of Xew York, for President and Vice President of the iriiiie<| States to the seat of government. JQSHBILL K. <'ATIJN'. Among the gen- •*■" tlernen of the old school who have adopted and put in active practice the modern method of transacting an honorable and legitimate busi- ness Jamestown is proud to number the gentle- man whose honored name stands at the head of this tribute to his successful cai-eer. He sprang from an honest, rugged, hard-working, honored and honorable ancestry, who were em-olled in the ranks of that first of man's vocations — tillei's of the soil. He was liorn in North HikIsoii Kssex county, New 'idrk, .lid\' 7, lsi*7, when Taurus was in the midst of his reign among the planetary orbits, and is a son of Linus and Sabrina (Jones) ( 'atlin. J lis grandl'alhcr, Theiaii (!atlin, was a native of \'ermont, but duiine his early manhood he removed to and purchased a farm in Wyoming <'omity, Pa., and there s|)enl the remainder of his life. He marrie(i and was blessed with eight (children four sons and four daughters. I'eltiah Jones (maternal grand- father) was born in Schroon, Essex eountv, this State, where after reaching man's estate, he bought a farm, married, reared a family of children, tilled the earth, led an honest, healthv, hap[)y life, and obeyed, without a murnun-, the sununons to join the silent, majoritv. Linus Catlin (father) was a native of Vermont and was born in 1 7!)!), almost at the very i)lnsh of the dawn of the nineteenth century — that era w hi IIISTOU Y Lodge, No. 575, F. & A. M., and iSluMinaii Lodge, No. 45, A. (). U. W. Charles E. Cobb united in marriage with Kate ^L Russell, a dangliterof Wilber Russell, of Cameron county, J'a. This tuiion has \)vm\ blest with one daughter : Nina J*>., who was born March 2, 18S2. OAMUKL N. SWKZKY, a leading member ^^ of the Farmers' Alliance and a prosperous agriculturist of Ripley town, is a son of Daniel and Clarissa (Sperry) Swezey, who was born in the town of Kussia, Herkimer count}', New York, December 26, 1830. Daniel Swezey was a native of Long Island, this State, with his grandfather; the latter going to Herkimer county from his birthplace among tlie very first |iioneers. It took tiiem three weeks to make the trij) with oxen and carts, and upon their ar- rival tiiey were obliged to chop a home out of the woods. All of the hardshij)s incident to pioneer life were known to them. Before leav- ing Long Island, he had married Sarah Beal and they reared a t'amily of eight children, five sons and three daughters. The maternal grand- lather, John Sperry, came from New England. Daniel Swezey, Jr., was born on Long Island, Christmas day, 1778, and went witli his father to Herkimer county, l)ut afterwards came to Harmony, this county, in 1836, and died there in 1847. He was a singularly successful farmer, methodical with his work and careful of all things appertaining to his business. He be- longed to the Whig [)arty and served in the war (.fl812. On December 25, 1805 he inanied Clarissa Sperry and reared a large family of children, seven sons and .seven daughters, all of whom lived to maturity and became good and prosperous citizens. Samuel N. Swezey was given a superior education at the district schools and the academy, and upon leaving them he spent a number of years in teaching, being very suc- cessful in this work. He finallv decided to adopt farming and began in Harmony, l)ut changed his residcMice to Rii)ley, where he now lives and owns three hundred and twenty-eight acres of good farming land all in doc boily. When tr