Addison New York Family Sketches

Transcribed by Lynn Tooley

Addison New York Family Sketches extracted from Landmarks of Steuben County, by Hon. Harlo Hakes, 1896.

Ainsworth, H. R., M.D.

H. R., Ainsworth, M.D., was born in Erieville, Madison County, N. Y. , September 29,1841. Soranus Ainsworth, his father, was born at Cazenovia, and the ancestry of this noted family may be traced back to England and to as early date as the thirteenth century. The great-great-grandfather, whose sons were active participants in the Revolution, was a pioneer of the famous old town of Woodstock, Conn. Abial Ainsworth, grandfather of H. R. Ainsworth, was a posthumous child, his father, Colonel Nathan Ainsworth, having died a prisoner in the hands of the British previous to Abial’ s birth. He was one of the founders of New Woodstock, N. Y., in 1804, naming the settlement from the dear old place they had left behind. After a year had passed, he was filled with a desire to visit the old home, and, as railroad facilities and steamboat navigation were then unknown luxuries, the journey was accomplished on foot, through forests, across streams, and amid perilous surroundings, made more dangerous still by the ever lurking savage, but all of which is indicative of the strong physique and energy of the man. Mrs. Ainsworth, mother of H. R., was Caroline Hawkins of Virgil, Cortland County, and was also a descendant of an old Connecticut family near New Haven. Soranus Ainsworth, a Baptist minister, died in 1888, his death being earned by exposure to the cold weather of January of the same year, at which time he was called to Truxton, N. Y. , to officiate at the marriage of a lady whose father and mother he had married, also the grandfather and grandmother, making three generations he had united in wedlock. Dr. Ainsworth began his edu- cation at Erieville, Madison county, and his study of medicine was begun in 1862 at Truxton, Cortland County, in Drs. Newcome’s and Nelson’s office. In 1866 he graduated from the University of the City of New York, and although a general practitioner, he has a leaning toward specialism in ocular complaints. His career has been one of steady advancement, and he has the confidence, not only of the citizens of his own town, but of adjoining towns as well.

Aldrich, Loren B.

Loren B. Aldrich, was born in 1834, at Plymouth, Chenango County, N. Y. , son of E. A. Aldrich, who was a farmer of Rhode Island birth, and at his death in 1883 left nine children, of whom four are now deceased. At an early age Mr. Aldrich engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors, and blinds, which was for a long time the leading industry of Addison, and with which he has been connected for forty years, as an expert mechanic and contractor. Among the Masonic fraternity he holds the highest rank, being a member of Corning Consistory, St. Omer’s Commandery, and a knight of the Mystic Shrine He is also an Odd Fellow, and a member of various other benevolent and social organizations. In local government Mr. Aldrich has long taken a leading part, being village trustee for eight years, president for two years, and a member of the Board of Education for twenty years. He married Huldah Houghtaling, who died in 1893, leaving one daughter, Erminie, the wife of Jacob Bochnewetch, of Silver Creek, N. Y. , who has one son Harry, who is six years of age. Another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich, named Carmitia, died when four years old.

Ames, Charles

Charles, Ames, was born in Leyden, Mass., in 1825, where the first sixteen years of his life was spent. He was educated in the district schools, and has been a resident of Addison just half a century. He was a pioneer of the sash, blind and door indus- try, and in 1845 established a factory here, with his brothers, Ambrose and N. H., having previously been employed in the factory at Truxton, N. Y. Two years later he bought an interest in the business, which he maintained for twenty years, then selling out, the next year he engaged in the hardware business under the firm name of Graham & Ames, and after fifteen years of close application to this business he relinquished it in 1884. The Ames family were originally from Somersetshire, England, Ebenezer, the father of, Charles, being a descendant of the famous old family of Bridgewater, Mass., who were identified with the early manufactories there, especially the manufacture of agricultural implements, which have a worldwide reputation. In 1848 Charles Ames married Maria K., the elder daughter of the late Henry Wornbough, and they were the parents of one daughter, Frances, who married D. D. Cooley, and they located at Ashland, Nebraska, where she died. Mr. Ames is a Democrat, and has been president and trustee of this village. He is a supporter of the Episcopal church, of which his wife is a member.

Baldwin Family, The

The Baldwin Family, — The family of Baldwins is descended from Henry Baldwin, who came from Buckingham, England, about 1627. He settled in Woburn, Mass. His son, Benjamin, the youngest of twelve children, moved to Canterbury, Conn., about 1700. Rufus Baldwin, father of James and Henry Baldwin of Addison, was born in Canterbury, Conn., in 1795. In 1812 he was connected with the Light Guards and gained the title of major. In 1821 he came to Tioga county, Pa., purchased some 1,000 acres of timber land on the Cowanesque River, and engaged extensively in the manufacture of lumber. In 1825 he married Pamelia Wombough, daughter of Wm. Wombough, one of the pioneer settlers of Addison. In 1884 he removed to Addison and settled upon a farm about one mile east of the village, where he lived until 1851, in which year he moved into the village of Addison and retired from the active duties of life. He was one of the pioneer movers in the founding and erection of the Addison Academy in 1848. Through his efforts the first sash and blind factory was built in Addison. He was one of the projectors and stockholders of the plank road from Addison to Elkland. Major Baldwin was chosen to several important places of trust by the citizens of Addison. He was interested in every enterprise that had for its object the improvement of his town or the benefit of society. He was a man of strict business integrity, and was genial and sociable. He died in 1883; his wife died in 1866.

Baldwin, Henry

Henry Baldwin, son of Rufus Baldwin, was born in 1831; admitted to the bar in 1853, and was supervisor of Addison from 1859 to 1861. In 1861 he raised a company and as captain joined the 34th Regt. N. Y. Vols. He was in the battles of Ball’s Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. He was chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 1876 ; was elected colonel of the 106th Regt. N. Y. S. militia in 1869; was elected sheriff of Steuben county in 1885. He was married in 1856 to Bella Bliss of Hornellsville ; she died in 1863. Henry Baldwin has always been identified with the improvements of Addison. Through his efforts the Addison and Northern Pennsylvania Railroad was constructed. At present he is largely interested in farming.

Baldwin, Horace Dyer

Horace Dyer Baldwin, was born at Sherburne, Chenango county, N. Y. , June 24, 1838. Horace Baldwin, his father, was a native of Goshen, Conn., and was a successful teacher during early manhood, and taught at Canandaigua, N. Y. , in 1822. Later he engaged in the mercantile business at Norwich, N. Y., and in November, 1840, settled in Woodhull (early called Newville), Steuben county, and was one of the first merchants in the village, where he died in 1854. During his residence in Norwich he married Penelope Allen of North Kingston, Rhode Island, by whom he had two children, Horace Dyer, and Clarendon, who is now in Woodhull and engaged in farming. Mrs. Baldwin died in 1879, aged eighty-three years, and was highly respected, being a woman of great nobility of character. Horace Dyer Baldwin graduated from Alfred University in 1863, and began the study of law with Hon. F. C. & Colonel J. W. Dininny of Addison, N. Y., and prior to entering college had taught school for several years, farming on the homestead in the intervals and working out by the day during the season of haying and harvesting, for the necessary means to aid in paying his board and tuition while attending school. He enlisted at Addison, N. Y., April 27, 1861, in Capt. Henry Baldwin’s Company E, 34th Regiment New York State Infantry Volunteers, and was discharged at Seneca Mills on account of disability incurred in the service.

Baldwin, James

James Baldwin, son of Rufus Baldwin, was born in 1834. After leaving Lima Seminary in 1853, he settled upon a farm about two miles west of Addison, where he engaged in The manufacture of woolen goods and farming. In 1855 he married Emma L. Cowley In 1857, having sold his farm and timber lands to Hon. F. C. Dininny, he moved to Woodhull, where he built a steam grist and saw mill, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1866 he returned to Addison, and soon after commenced the banking business, in which he is still engaged. He has been from the organization of the party a prohibitionist; has been a candidate on the State ticket for treasurer, and also for congressman in his district. He has one son, born in 1857, who is a farmer and stock raiser, living about two miles from Addison.

Barron, Dr. William E.

Dr. William E. Barron, was born in Addison, Steuben county, in 1866. William P. Barron, his father, was a native of New Hampshire, and came to Addison in 1840, He was a farmer and river pilot, and married Matilda Jennings, a member of the well-known pioneer family. William E. Barron began the study of medicine at Baltimore, Md., and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891, and began practice in his native town, where he has won high esteem and honor. December 24, 1892, he married Julia Blakeslee, whose father, the well-known educator, was at that time a professor in Alfred University, and now principal of Addison Academy. They have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1893.

Blakeslee, Prof. D. A.

Prof. D. A. Blakeslee, A.M., was born in Savona, Steuben county, in 1837. He is the son of Lyman Blakeslee, who was born in the Green Mountains of Vermont, moving with his parents to Cortland county in or about the year 1818, thence to Steuben county in 1835, where he engaged in farming, which he followed until advancing age compelled him to retire. He now resides with his daughter, Mrs. R. C. Morgan, of Hornellsville. The boyhood and youth of Professor Blakeslee were spent on his father’s farm, attending school in the winter, and, later, teaching. In 1861 he entered Alfred University, where he appeared in a homespun suit of his mother’s own work, and he graduated in 1866 with the degree of A.B. Later he was for eight years professor of English in the Normal department of his alma mater, which indicates the confidence and appreciation in which he was held by the faculty and students of that noted school. For thirteen years he was principal of Grammar School No. 2, in Elmira, for five years principal at Wellsville, and he has also held the principalship of the Union School and Free Academy in Addison, which has maintained, under his administration, its high standing among the schools of the county and of this part of the State. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1866 he married Miss Lizzie La Force, of Wayne, N. Y. They have one daughter, Julia La Force, also a graduate of Alfred University, who is the wife of Dr. William E. Barron, a well-known and popular young physician of Addison. Professor Blakeslee’ s work has always been of a high order, being characterized by simplicity and thoroughness, and his administration has been firm yet of such a type as to secure the hearty assent of the students, and to develop in them those elements of self-direction that grow up into the best manhood and womanhood.

Bliss, Frank

Frank Bliss, is of English ancestry, and the sole survivor of five children of Willard A. Bliss, who was born in Leyden, Mass., in 1817. His father moved to Truxton in 1822, and to Addison in 1847. Willard Bliss was a sash and blind manufacturer, but on account of ill-health, spent his last years as a farmer and real estate dealer. He married Sarah A. Space, who now survives him at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Frank Bliss has always been a sash, blind and door manufacturer, and has large business interests in Buffalo, where he lived for ten years. Here he is attending large real estate and farming interests, owning 200 acres of choice land east of the village, where he makes a specialty of tobacco. In 1873 he married Delia A. Slater of Dunkirk, N. Y. Mr. Bliss was in early years an adherent of the Demo- cratic party, but has recently declared allegiance to Republican principles, and is now on the Board of Excise. He is a supporter of the Presbyterian church, and helps sustain the Y. M. C. A.

Brewster, C.A.

C.A. Brewster --Gilbert Brewster, his father, was born in Red Creek, N.Y. sixtysix years ago, of old English Ancestry, and came to Addison soon after attaining his majority. He was by trade a machinist and farmer, and married Martha, daughter of the late William Wombough, by whom he had four children, of whom Charles and Gilbert are the only survivors. She died in 1886. William Wombough occupied a central position in the early annals of Middletown, now Addison, having been not only one of the first comers here, but a man of wonderful energy and character, and at one time owned nearly 2,000 acres of land in and about Addison. He built grist, carding and saw mills in the vicinity, and it is related that in order to equip his first mill with machinery, he made a trip to Philadelphia with a team, and he thought little of an overland trip to Syracuse for a load of salt. C. A. Brewster, a grandson of William Wombough, was educated in the common schools and Cornell University, after which he occupied a clerical position in the Baldwin Bank, until the formation of the firm of Brewster Brothers, dealers in hardware, etc. In 1890 the firm dissolved, and Mr. Brewster thenceforward devoted his time and attention to his wholesale lumber business at Corning and Painted Post. He has served his town as village trustee, and in other positions, which he filled with great credit.

Coburn, L. D.

L. D. Coburn, was born in 1817, at Truxton, Cortland county, son of Harvey and Laura Beecher Coburn, natives of Connecticut. The only local residents of this family are Mr. Coburn, who has been here nearly sixty years, and his sister, the widow of the late Col. J. W. Dininny. L. D. Coburn’s boyhood was spent at Truxton and Cortland. He was apprenticed to a harnessmaker in Cortland when fifteen years old, and in 1836 came to Addison, where he engaged in the harness business, and erected one of the first business buildings on the south side of the Canisteo. From 1866 to 1872 he was engaged in the mercantile business. Mr. Coburn was appointed by Governor Fenton as New York State agent for the care of invalid soldiers located at Annapolis, Md. His connection with the Methodist church has extended over a longer period than any other member of the society, he having been one of its organizers, and has held the official position as trustee for fifty-two years. Mr. Coburn has married three times. His first wife was Harriet Stebbins, of Nelson, N. Y., the second, Harriet Elay, of Dansville, N. Y., by whom he had two children, a son and a daughter. In 1859 he married his present wife, Marie L. Bates, of Cazenovia.

Crane, Ferrel J.

Ferrel J. Crane, is a descendant of an old Massachusetts family. His father, Lyman Crane, who was born in the Bay State in 1807, came with his parents to Cortland, N. Y., where in 1830 he married Charlotte, daughter of Hezekiah Howe. Three years later he came to Addison and purchased 200 acres of forest land, about five miles north of the village, where he engaged in farming and lumbering with great financial success. Of Mr. Crane’s ten children, Ferrel, who resides on the farm where he was born in 1856, is the youngest. He is a blacksmith by trade, and has erected a shop on the farm. His mother died qt his home in 1890, at an advanced age. Mr. Crane married Amy, daughter of Garrison Briggs, of Addison, who was a native of Corning, N. Y. , and a descendant of an old Dutch family. They were the parents of three children: Maud E., born in 1880, and died April 21, 1889; Clara Sophia, born in 1883 ; and Mabel, born in 1892.

Daniels, P. C.

P. C. Daniels --Prominent among the familiar personal landmarks of this vicinity is Mr. P. C. Daniels, a resident of Addison since 1863, and for more than a quarter of a century local representative of standard and reliable insurance companies. Mr. Daniels was born March 2, 1920, at Gorham, Ontario County. His years rest lightly upon him, so correct has been his life, and so pure the blood bequeathed him from his English ancestry. He is one of a family which once comprised thirteen children, of whom but two survive. The ancestors of Mr. Daniels, especially on the paternal side, were somewhat noted for longevity, and his own father. Amasa Daniels, reached the age of ninety nine. Mr. Daniels received but a common school education, but has by close observation and personal research acquired wide range of information, and has kept wholly in touch with men and events. His first wife was Sarah Wolverton of Owego, and her death in 1853 she left two children: Mrs. Catherine Dawson, of Toledo, O.: and Sarah, who died in infancy. In 1854 he married his present wife, Mrs. Jane True. Mr. Daniels early gave his allegiance to the Republican party and holds it unshaken and with unswerving fidelity. He is now filling his second term as justice of the peace. He is a pillar of the local Baptist church, having been a member of that society from it's organization, and a member of the denomination for fifty-four years a member of the board of directors of the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York.

Darrin, Delmar M.

Delmar M. Darrin, is a well-known gentleman in Steuben county, and in referring to men and institutions in Western New York, much of interest can be said concerning his connection with the bar, and with the advancement of the thriving village of Addison. He was born in Barrington township, Yates county, N. Y., in the year 1849. His grandfather, Ira, went there from Elmira and afterwards returned to and died in that city. Mr. Darrin’s father was David Darrin. The son was educated at Addison Academy and at Cornell University, graduating in 1872. He spent three years reading law in the office of Colonel Dininny, at Addison, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. Addison has been his home ever since. He has a general law practice and does considerable work in the Surrogate’s Court. For several years he served as corporation counsel at Addison, and in legal affairs in general has been for years a recognized leader. For twenty-three years he has been connected with the local Board of Education, first as clerk, then as trustee, and at present president. It may be of interest to state here that Addison now has seven hundred pupils of school age, thirteen teachers, and two fine new buildings. Mr. Darrin has done much in helping local enterprises, and was a director in and attorney for the Water Works Company. He has been president of the Baldwin Hook and Ladder Company, and has been connected with other home organizations. Mr. Darrin has been a member of the district committee of his Assembly district for about eight years, aud in other ways has been an active Republican worker. In the Masonic fraternity he belongs to the local lodge and chapter, to St. Omer’s Commandery at Elmira and to Corning Consistory, where he has taken thirty-two degrees. For several years he has been vestryman of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at Addison. He is one of the three trustees of the Addison Free Library, and is vice-president of the Y. M. C. A. Miss Mary H. Lawson, of Plainfield, N. J., was the lady he married in' 1876, and they have a son aged eighteen, and two. daughters, seventeen and fifteen years old. Mr. Darrin loves his home and family and is devoted to his profession. He is one of the best lawyers in Steuben county, and possesses legal ability of a high order. He has been a good citizen, ever ready to do his part in educational and religious work, and is a gentlemen who commands the respect of the community.

Dininny, Mrs. Sarah A.

Mrs. Sarah A. Dininny, — Col. John W. Dininny was for years one of the most central figures in the social and political life of Addison, and a man closely identified with all its affairs. He was born at Oneonta in 1820, a place formerly known as Milford, but when twelve years of age he came with his parents to this town. He was an active participant in the labor of the pioneer settlers in clearing the land, lumbering, and sharing their hardships. After leaving Oneida Institute, where his education began, he entered the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, from which he graduated with high honors in 1842. Then followed several years of school teaching, ending with the principalship of Addison High School. His law career is, perhaps, the most noteworthy. He began his law study in the office of Hon. Andrew G. Chatfield in 1845, and in 1849, when only twenty-nine years of age, he was admitted to pactice in the courts of New York State, by an order of the Supreme Court. The next year he became a partner in the law office of his brother, Hon. Ferral C. Dininny, and ten years after his admission to the bar, he was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at Washington, D. C., to practice as an attorney and counselor. In 1863 his brother retired, leaving the entire charge of his large practice to Colonel Dininny, who continued in the law business until the time of his death. The war record of this man is no less brilliant. He accepted the position of major of the 141st Regt. N. Y. Vols., when it was first organized, and in 1862 he was mustered into the United States service. He went with his regiment to Virginia, and was a participant in many battles in and about Richmond. In 1863 he was promoted to colonel, which position he held until disease of the eyes compelled him to resign. Mr. Dininny was much interested in education, and was for twenty-four years president of the Board of Education, the establishing of the Union Free School of Addison being due largely to his efforts. In 1849 he married Sarah A. Coburn, who still survives him, and by whom he had four children: Harper F., Carleton V., William B., and Georgiana.

Farnham, George

George Farnham. — Perhaps no more conspicuous name could be selected from among the early annals of Addison, as a type of all that was best and noblest, than that of the late Col. George Farnham. No one man took a more active part in the advancement of all local interests, particularly of educational facilities, than he, and his name will ever suggest public spirit and manliness. He was born of Puritan stock in 1812, and perhaps the fact that he was thrown upon his own resources while yet a boy was fortunate in fully developing his inherent abilities. It was in 1836 that he came to Addison from his early home in Canterbury, Conn., to make it a permanent residence until his death in 1888. In his early mercantile life he was associated with his brother Edmund. The title of colonel was acquired during militia days, and he was always recognized as a leader of men and a moulder of events. The school children of Addison may well revere his memory, for to his untiring and well-directed personal effort is largely due the superior advantages they enjoy. Colonel Farnham was twice a nominee for senator on the Democratic platform, making a strong canvass and suffering defeat from ulterior causes with no shadow of a stain upon the name and memory he bequeathed. He left three children : Mrs. B. G. Stout, since deceased; George W., and William H. Their mother was Julia J. Wormbough. His surviving widow is Mary, daughter of Nathan Reynolds, of Elmira.

Feenaughty, William O.

William O. Feenaughty, was born in Howard, May 5, 1864, son of James Feenaughty, who was born in Ireland, May 24, 1888. He came to this country in 1847, and at fourteen years of age was employed as principal of a Boston city school, a position for which he was fully competent This seems strange, but for the knowledge of the fact that he was educated for the priesthood and that only boys of rare intellect and ability are given that opportunity. Later he became a lumber dealer in the towns of Canisteo and Howard, where he married Mary J. Alger in 1852. He died July 22, 1874, at the premature age of forty-one years, leaving five sons and one daughter, the latter now deceased. William O. was the second younger of the sons, and was educated at Canisteo Academy, where he graduated as president and valedictorian of the class of 1884. He engaged in farming, teaching school the winter terms. He was married September 15, 1887, to Mary, daughter of William Jamison of Canisteo. He came to Addison in May, 1889, and purchased' his present grocery business, making specialties of potatoes and eggs. Mrs. Feenaughty is past grand of the Odd Fellows, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a supporter of the Baptist church.

Ferry, Mrs. Mary M.

Mrs. Mary M. Ferry, is the widow of the late John Wesley Ferry, son of John Ferry, one of the pioneers of Almond. J. W. Ferry was born at Almond, Steuben county in 1834. His sympathies were with the Republican party, but he sought no political preferment, being too busily engaged with his farming interests and stock dealing. He was farming at Tuscarora at the time of his death, which occurred July 22, 1892. In 1885 he married Mary M., daughter of William Bennett, of Hornellsville, who died April 21, 1878, having been a farmer, and extensively engaged in the lumber business in Michigan at one time. His father, Thomas Bennett, was one of the first settlers of Hornellsville, where he kept hotel for many years. Mrs. Ferry became a resident of Addison in 1893, and has one son, John W., born in 1886. J. W. Ferry had two children, Lester and Lena, at the time of his marriage with Mary M. Bennett, who are both living; his son in Tuscarora, and his daughter in Hornellsville.

Gee, Theodore

Theodore Gee, was born jn Tioga county, Pa., in 1848, son of William Gee. ‘Upon the death of his father he came to Tuscarora, and was thrown upon his own re- sources when quite young. During the first three years of his business career he engaged in lumbering at Emporium, Pa., and later he carried on a thriving market business in Addison. Fifteen years ago he purchased a farm of 140 acres near Goodhue Lake, where he still resides. In 1864 he married Sarah, daughter of John B. Swon, and they were the parents of six children, of whom three are still living: Annie, wife of George W. Gray; John; and Grace. In politics Mr. Gee is a Democrat.

Gillet, Charles W.

Charles W. Gillet, was born in Addison, Steuben county, in 1840. Joel D. Gillet, his father, has by his practical benevolence and praiseworthy life, enshrined his memory in the hearts of the people of Addison, where he still lives at an advanced age. It is to his personal munificence that the Presbyterian church owes its material prosperity ; and the edifice and equipment of the local Y. M. C. A. was likewise his welltimed and generous gift. The family are descended from the Huguenots of France, many of whom came, when expatriated for constancy to their religious convictions, to Connecticut, and Aaron Gillet of Colchester may be considered the father of this branch of the family. Charles W. was graduated from Union College, and became a member of the famous Union College Zouaves, and later an adjutant of the Steuben Rangers, with whom he served two years with gallantry and distinction until he was discharged for physical disability. He was elected to the 5 d and 54th Congresses from the Twenty -ninth District, a representation conducted with honor and dignity. He married a daughter of the late General Comstock, and a niece of Colonel Hiram Bostwick, who is conspicuous among the pioneers of Corning.

Harden, T. E.

T. E. Harden, — One of the material landmarks of Addison village is the old American Hotel, erected by James Van Vleck, almost half a century ago, and today the leading hotel of the place. Its present proprietor, T. E. Harden, purchased it in 1877. It was then somewhat dilapidated, morally and materially, but has been, completely renovated and rehabilitated by the genial host and his accomplished wife, forming a rendezvous for Addison’s best people, and for the stranger within their gates. Mr. Harden’s experience as a traveling salesman for ten years, and as clerk of the Globe Hotel at Syracuse, well fitted him for the position he now fills. He was born at Sandy Hill, N. Y., in 1842, the son of Abner Harden, a farmer whose death in 1854 threw him upon his own resources at the age of twelve years, and his success may justly be ascribed to inherent ability. In 1866 he married Minnie M., daughter of U. G. Bennett, the Rushford miller, by whom he had one son, A. G. Harden, born in 1869, and who is now located at Ontonagon, Mich., associated with the Diamond Match Company as inspector. Mr. Harden is personally very popular in Addison and elsewhere. He is one of the supporters of the Presbyterian church, of which his wife and son are members. Among the Masonic fraternity he ranks high, having climbed the ladder from Blue Lodge to Consistory, and is a noble of the Mystic Shrine of the Damascus Temple of Rochester.

Harrison, J. S.

J. S. Harrison, who ably represents in the county legislature the important town of Addison, was first elected to that office in 1893, and is now rilling his second term. Salmon Harrison, his father, was born in Otsego county, and removed to Woodhull in 1848, where he continued to reside until his death in 1892, aged eighty-two years. He was a justice of the peace for twelve years, and during his residence in Otsego county he married Amy E. Haight, by whom he had four children: James S., Adelia, deceased, and Howard B., the well-known school commissioner of District No. 2, and a resident of Woodhull. James Harrison was educated at Alfred University, completing his course in 1871, being then twenty years of age. Purchasing and enlarging the plant at the eastern suburb of the village, he at once began his business career as a manufacturer of agricultural woodwork, making a specialty of steam bent handles and sled woods. In the fall of 1895, while this book is in press, he received the nomination for member of assembly from the First District of Steuben county; as his nomination is almost equivalent to his election, it may not be presumptuous to say that his record at Albany will equal his home reputation. June 5, 1883, he married Carrie E. Griswold, of Addison, by whom he had two children: Howard B. and Celestia G.

Hickey, D. D.

D. D. Hickey, was born in County Kerry, in 1837, and came to America and to Addison in 1853, when sixteen years of age. He first engaged in farming, receiving for compensation eight dollars per month the first year, after which for thirty years he received employment in the sash factory of Amos & Bliss, and their successors. Since 1888 he has been engaged in the mercantile business, at which time he entered as a partner with John Durkin, a grocer. After two years he purchased his partner’s interests, and is now alone, dealing prominently in groceries, provisions, flour, feed, etc. Mr. Hickey has been for twenty years a member of the Board of Education, and a trustee of the Catholic church for twenty-five years. In 1863 he married Mary Lynch of Addison, by whom he had six children.

Hinman, John

John Hinman, was born in Schuyler county, in 1887, son of Guy C. Hinman, who was a prominent farmer and politician. In 1831 he married Phebe Sherwood, of Fairfield, Conn., and they have been the parents of six children. In politics he was a Democrat, and was one of the three commissioners to form the county, and has been county superintendent of the poor. He died in 1874, aged sixty-eight years. John Hinman left home when but nineteen years of age, going to Minnesota, where he taught school for about two years. At the outbreak of the late war he was a law student at Wellsboro, and promptly enlisted at the first call in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, where he soon received the commission of first lieutenant. His health was greatly impaired while in the service. Until 1874 he was associated with the Fall Brook Coal Company as bookkeeper and paymaster at their mines, at which date he removed to Raleigh, N. C., where he spent six years as a real estate factor. In 1880 he came to Addison and in 1894 received his appointment as postmaster. In 1865 he married Ada S. Gibson, of Wellsboro, and six children have been born to them, Guy O. Hinman being deputy postmaster.

Hogue, Patrick

Patrick Hogue, was born in Ireland in 1846, and came to America when three years old with his father, Patrick, who first settled in Canada, then to Corning and in 1849 purchased the farm on the Goodhue Road, which has been Mr. Hogue’s home until recently. The father died in 1884. In 1883 Mr. Hogue began to buy and ship live stock to New York and other markets, still operating the farm. In politics he is a Democrat, and served as overseer of the poor for not less than eighteen years. He takes an active part in the affairs of the Roman Catholic church. In 1870 he married Honora Jane Reynolds, and they are the parents of eight children, two of whom are deceased. He has built a house in Addison village in order to give his children better educational advantages.

Hooker, Fred S.

Fred S. Hooker, — Mr. Hooker’s life has been one of more than ordinary interest and adventure and the “moving accidents by field and flood,” which environed his early manhood, might well have appalled a stouter heart. His birthplace was the quite little town of Springfield, Pa., and the date was 1833, an earlier one than the casual observer would surmise from his vigorous personality. His father was Clark Hooker, a farmer and lumberman, of Bay State birth, who moved to Pennsylvania about 1820 and was one of Springfield’s pioneers. Fred S. acquired a good academic education at Troy, Pa., and first learned the cabinetmaker’s trade, at which he became an expert, afterward taking up and mastering the art of photography. In 1858 -the love of adventure and exigencies of business life took him to Texas, and the outbreak of the Civil war found him a photographer at Houston. Treason was rampant there, and Mr. Hooker’s loyalty to the old flag was undisguised, so he became a marked man, and after arrest by a vigilance committee, was indicted for treason to the Confederacy, the penalty being an ignominious death. But he was not easily frightened, and had plenty of staunch friends who covertly aided his escape to Galveston, but hearing of the hue and cry at Houston, valiantly returned to that hotbed of secession, where his financial interests had become involved. The committee formed a plan for his assassination, making a quarrel the pretext, but as he was known to be an excellent shot, and without fear, he passed unmolested and boarded a pilot boat for Santiago, thence to Brownville, where he was conscripted into the rebel army, serving under that flag for three months. In the spring of 1862 he escaped and after an equestrian trip of 500 miles through hostile country he finally reached a loyal blockade-runner at Matamoras, and was thenceforward protected by the Union flag. Mr. Hooker has been a resident of Addison for a quarter of a century, principally engaged in photography. In 1894 he visited the Southwest and met many old friends, and whilom enemies, now, perforce, more amicably disposed.

Horn, Edwin J.

Edwin J. Horn, was born at Scranton, Pa., in December, 1811, of German parents, and had only the advantages of a limited common school education, which, however, were supplemented by a vigorous intellect and persistent research in the several fields of art, literature and mechanics. He removed to Addison, N.Y., about the year 1846 and became associated with Capt. Stephen Lewis, in the manufacture of steam engines and general foundry and machine work, being very successful in that enterprise, and in later years owning and conducting the whole business, which had grown into proportions creditable to himself, and of great interest to the village. Mr. Horn also took an active part in public affairs and held many important offices, as village trustee, member of the Board of Education, and for several years represented his town in the county legislature. At the commencement of the war of the Rebellion he was known as a War Democrat and gave his whole influence for the success of the Union cause and later allied himself with the Republicans and remained a zealous worker in that party till the day of his death, January 19, 1884. In 1860 he married for his second wife, Eveline, daughter of the late Simon Brown, of Addison, who still survives him.

Howard, George C.

George C. Howard, born in 1842, was the second son of Nathan Howard, a farmer of Barre, Vt., who was a typical Yankee, shrewd, and practical. He was a staunch Whig and Freesoiler, and was twice sent to the State Legislature where his great strength of character was manifest. George C.’s boyhood was spent at Barre until the outbreak of the Civil war, when at Lincoln’s first call for men, April, 1861, he quickly responded to the call by enlisting as a private in Company E, 3d Regiment of Vermont Volunteers. After one year’s service and while yet not twenty-one years of age, he earned a commission as lieutenant, and remained three years in this regiment, then received a civil appointment in the quartermaster’s department of the regular army, which office he filled acceptably until April, 1866. After spending two years in Chicago in a dry goods store he travelled for a wholesale drug house, which route took him all over the United States. In 1874 he accompanied a pro- specting party from Georgetown, traveling over the present sites of Leadville and Pueblo, having no conception of the future prospect and development of silver in that country. Mr. Howard came to Addison in 1882, and was a member of the dry goods firm of Jenpings & Howard for two years. Since that time he has been a dealer in china, glass, and sporting goods, making a specialty of tea and coffee. He is a Democrat and a member of the Board of Education. In 1878 he married Jennie Hutchins, of Jersey City, and they are the parents of one son: William H., born in 1879.

Hubbs, Dr. M. B.

Dr. M. B. Hubbs, was born at Corning, where his father, the late Gilbert Hubbs, was an early settler. That he ranks high in his profession while yet a young man is due to his own energy and talent. While teaching at Cameron he took up the study of medicine with the determination to make it his life work, and in 1882 entered the Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he graduated with full honors, and in 1887 located at Addison, where he is already highly esteemed, no less as a man than as a physician. In 1890 he married his present wife, who is a daughter of J. B. Wheeler, one of Addison’s pioneers, by whom he had three children: Georgie, Melvin, and Tracy. Dr. Hubbs is ex-president of the Steuben County Medical Society, ex-president of Hornellsville Medical Association, and is a member of the Erie Railroad Surgeons’ Association, New York State Railroad Surgeons’ Association, National Railroad Surgeons’ Association, New York Medico Legal Society, and of the Psychological branch of the same society.

James, John P.

James, John P., was born at Erwin in 1860, and is the sixth of nine children of John James, a native of County Kerry, Ireland, who came to the United States when twenty-three years of age and settled at Cooper's Plains, N.Y. His wife was Ellen Mulvihill, who survives him and lives wdth her son, John P. The latter came with his parents to Addison when six years old, and after attending the public schools for several years obtained employment in the sash and blind factory. Soon after en tering their employ he displayed progressiveness and was constantly promoted until he is now the superintendent of the blind department. Mr. James has held the office of excise commissioner, village trustee, and was president of the village in 1898. de- clining to accept the renomination. He is a firm Democrat, deeply interested in the growth and prosperity of the village and is held in high regard among his associates.

Jones, J. B.

Jones, J. B., was born in Addison in 1851, son of L. A. Jones, also a native of this place, where he lived for nearly eight years, being engaged in farming and lumbering. He was also a pilot on the river in early days, also a carpenter and joiner by trade, and held many prominent town offices, deputy sheriff being one of them. J. B. Jones's boyhood was spent here, and he first engaged in the market business, but for the past fourteen years has dealt in ice, and is also chief engineer at the Erie pumping station, which position he has held since 1887. He married Mary A., daughter of George W. Young. Mr. Jones is a member of the Maccabees, and also has a membership in other fraternities and benevolent organizations.

McKay, Annie

McKay, Mrs. Annie. — The late Amaziah Sylvester McKay was born in 1833, in the old town of Pompey, Onondaga county, son of Philo McKay, a shoemaker. His early days were spent at Bath, and near Avoca, and he taught school for a time in Howard. He began the study of law in the Dininny law office, where he afterward practiced, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1865 was sent to the State Legislature as a member of assembly. In 1859 Mr. McKay married Annie, daughter of Major Arthur Erwin, an old and well known family, after whom the town of Erwin was named. Mr. and Mrs. McKay were the parents of two children: Helen, wife of H. S. Rose, who is a jeweler in Addison; and Arthur Philo, a law student in Delmar Darrin’s office, who died at the age of twenty-four years.

MacDowell, Sidney Darrin

MacDowell, Sidney Darrin, was born at Bradford, N.Y., in 1858, of Scotch descent, and a son of Mathew D. MacDowell, a wagonmaker, who married Mary D. Darrin, and by whom he had five children. In 1849 Sidney came to Addison, where he received his education, and in 1887 purchased the furniture and undertaking business with a partner who had only a nominal interest, Mr. MacDowell always conducting the business himself, of which for the last three years he has been sole proprietor. In 1885 he married Mabel, daughter of John Brundage, of Urbana, by* whom he had four children: Roy Brundage, born April 2, 1887; Matthew D., born January 27, 1889; Lucy Shepard, born April 28, 1892; and Sidney Monroe, born December 6, 1898. Mr. MacDowell is a member of the Board of Health, is registry clerk, also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Merrill, Levi

Merrill, Levi, one of the oldest settlers of Addison, is a descendant of a Massachusetts family, a son of Clark Merrill, who came from that State in 1828, and settled in New York. He died at Cooper’s Plains in 1877, aged seventy years. Levi was born in the town of Campbell, Sceuben county, in the year 1835, coming here about forty years ago, and by occupation a farmer and engaged in lumbering, and also running a saw mill. In 1859 Mr. Merrill married Diantha, daughter of Isaac Brisso, of Campbell, who died in 1890, leaving one son, Lorenzo, who married Lizzie Andrus in 1888. He was drafted in July, 1868.

Miller, Charles L.

Miller, Charles L., was born at Wellsboro, Pa., in 1860. Delos Miller, his father, Jed a very active business life, being a contractor and bookkeeper, and at last engaged an the mercantile business. He was a wagon master in the civil war, enlisting in Co. K, 147th Regt. of Pennsylvania Vols., and being in active service for three years. He died in 1868. He had one other son, Archie, who died in childhood. Charles Miller was educated at Stony Fork, Pa., but before coming to Addison he took a course at Allen’s Business College, Mansfield, Pa. He was employed at Westfield, Pa., in 1882 as telegrapher for the Addison and Pennsylvania Railroad, which was built that year, making Mr. Miller the first operator on the road. He was then twentytwo years of age, but filled the responsible position with rare ability. Two years later he came to Addison and has been train dispatcher here ever since. In 1883 he married Lottie Bartle. He joined Addison Fire Department soon after coming to Addison, and has always taken an active part in fire matters.

Mitchell, Alma B.

Mitchell, Mrs. Alma B. — Prominent among the leading physicians of Addison, was the late Dr. John Mitchell, who died here in 1886. His widow, Alma B., daughter of David Hubbard, and six children live to cherish the memory of a kind husband and a. loving father, and the community a faithful and conscientious practitioner. Dr. Mitchell, who was born at Lisle in 1824, was the son of John Mitchell, a furniture dealer. He graduated from the University of Buffalo in 1851, his diploma bearing the signature of Millard Fillmore. Through his profession he gained the appointment of surgeon of the 106th Regiment of National Guards, during the civil war. He came to Addison in 1854, where he won the respect of all who knew him. He was an earnest member of the M. E. church, and was married in 1851.

Moore, T. V.

Moore, T. V., was born in Jasper in 1845, and has been engaged in the retail hardware trade nearly a quarter of a century. His first mercantile venture was when associated with L. V. Lain in 1871, and he afterward run a store at Canisteo, Osceola, and Mansfield, returning to Addison in 1890 and purchasing of Brewster Bros, their business on Tuscarora street, of which George Weatherby became a partner early in 1892.

Mullen, Seth

Mullen, Seth, was born in Waterford, Pa., in 1826, and was a posthumous child of John Mullen. He is a genial, unassuming, self-made man, who never went to school a day in his life, but was taught by his pet daughter to read and write, and is considered a fairly well educated man. Previous to his coming to Addison in 1840 he worked by the month, running lumber down the Susquehanna River, after which for twenty-one years he was employed on the Erie Railroad, as a foreman of construction works, and was afterward engaged in farming, but is now retired from activity. When he came to Addison there were only three houses on the upper side of the river, and he has done much toward the promotion of his town, filling the office of highway commissioner with credit for many years, where he has laid out the principal roads and superintended the building of many fine bridges. He was street commissioner when the village was first incorporated, and has been town assessor for nine years. In 1845 he married Betsy M., daughter of Thomas Phillips, by whom he had three children, one of whom died in infancy; Alice, who died in 1890, married Ross Jones of Addison, leaving one son, Ray S. The other daughter, Nellie M. Cowley, resides in Findlay, Ohio, where her husband is United States express agent.

Northrup, John M.

Northrup, John M., is the youngest son of Moses Northrup, who was born in Sussex county, N. J., in 1817, and died at Addison, N. Y., June 22, 1894. He was of English ancestry, and came to Rathbone in 1836, where he spent the greater part of his life at farming. After living on his farm forty-three years, he removed to Cameron Mills in 1879, and ten years later to Addison. He was supervisor two years, and several years assessor. He married Nancy M. Allen, May 11, 1844, who died after some years, leaving these children; William J. of New York city; Dewitt and Allen of Northrup Settlement; Mrs. William Crawford of Cameron Mills; and Moses P., deceased October, 1886. He married again, October 22, 1857, Amy Stroud of Woodhull, N. Y., who survives him. Their children are John M. of Addison, and Elizabeth, deceased wife of Harry Paxton. John M. was born at Rathbone in 1862, where he first engaged in farming on the old homestead, and was educated at Cook Academy, Havana, N. Y. In 1886 he came from Cameron Mills to Addison and purchased 100 acres of land one mile west of the village, where he gives close attention to his farming interests. On November 18. 1886, he married Clara Carpenter of Academy Corners, who died May 28, 1889, by whom he had two children: Loren M., born September 13, 1887, died March 11, 1889; and Clara Belle, born May 7, 1889. March 21. 1894, he married Jennie, daughter of George J. Merring, a Rathbone farmer, by whom he has one son, John Herbert, born March 4, 1895.

Orser, Frank B.

Orser, Frank B., was born at Cameron Mills in 1857. He is of Scotch descent, being a son of David II. Orser, who married Jane Hutchison, by whom he had four children. He died in 1882, aged sixty-six. David Orser was a wagonmaker by trade, and was one of the 86th N. Y. Vols., from which he was discharged for disability, and later he enlisted in the 4th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, where he was promoted to the rank of corporal. Frank Orser was educated in the common schools in Addison, and before learning the printer’s trade he worked in a sash factory, after which he entered the office of A. Roberts, and rose rapidly in his profession, and has been the associate editor of the Advertiser, the leading paper of Addison, since 1889. He has been village clerk for five terms, and in 1895 was elected town clerk, which office he administered so successfully that he is now serving a second term. He is a member of the benevolent order of Maccabees, and the Baldwin Hook & Ladder Company. In 1882 he married Lizzie D. Evans of Elkton, Pa., by whom he had one daughter, Marion J.

Owen, Cortland

Owen, Cortland, is a son of John Owen who was born in Otsego county, of Welsh ancestry. When sixteen years of age, Cortland enlisted in Co. K, 86th N. Y. Vols,, serving two years. He was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and at the latter place was slightly wounded, taken prisoner and sent to Libby prison, but was paroled and exchanged after two weeks’ captivity.. He was born at Cameron, in 1846. Two years later his father moved to Jasper and engaged in farming. In 1865 he purchased a saw mill and carried on a lumber business. Mr. Owen worked with his father until 1871, when he married Martha Harwood, and in 1872 he bought his father’s lumber business with which he has been extensively engaged ever since. He came to Addison in 1886 and built a planing mill, which furnishes employment for several men, and is one of the important enterprises of the town. He has two children; George, born in 1872, and Ella, born in 1879.

Parker, J. Elliott

Parker, J. Elliott, is descended from an old Massachusetts family and a son of John A. Parker, a farmer, who came from Chenango county to Jasper, Steuben county, in 1840, where he remained eight years. He then went to Woodhull, where he purchased a country hotel which he conducted for several years, then built a saw mill, but later engaged in farming. He died in 1893, six days after his wife passed away. She was Betsey M. Gates, of Chenango county, whose father camefrom Vermont. They left three children; Horatio, a farmer, of Rathbone; Mary,, wife of John F. Dawson, of Woodhull; and J. Elliott. The latter was born in Woodhull in 1857. He first engaged in farming, teaching school in the winter. Since coming to Addison in 1888 he has operated a hay pressing plant on Front street, carrying on an extensive business. He uses steam power and employs several men. In 1898 he established the East end coal yard, which does a good business.. Mr. Parker married, in 1883, Lida A., daughter of Robert E. Harder, a farmer, by whom he has three children: Eva May, Elmer N., and Reba M. He is a member of the Masonic order.

Paxton, E. C.

Paxton, E. C., was born in 1852, in Addison, where he was educated. He has been engaged in the Addison Mills for the last twentyfive years, and is still a junior partner of the Curtis & Paxton Mill, with which his father, the late Thomas Paxton, was associated the greater part of his life. In June, 1880, he married Kate, daughter of Thomas S. Reynolds, who was a pioneer settler of this place. They have two children: Adelaide Patterson, born in 1884; and Thomas Edward, born in 1885. Thomas Paxton, the father of E. C. Paxton, who was born in Banbury, England, in 1818, came to America when twenty-two years of age. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in 1836 opened a shoe store in Addison, and had a factory employing fifteen men. In 1885 he sold out the shoe business, and bought a half interest in the Addison Mills, and was also associated with the Goodhue tannery. He has been extensively engaged in the lumber business, and surveyed and drove piles on the Erie Railroad. He married Susan, daughter of Benjamin Patterson, a land owner. Mr. Paxton was supervisor and assessor of the town. He was a member of the Church of the Redeemer, which is greatly indebted to his benevolence. He died in 1893, aged seventy-five years.

Phillips, Mrs. Margaret

Phillips, Mrs. Margaret. — Libbius Phillips was born in Addison, March 16, 1829. In the early part of his life and at the time of his marriage in 1855 to Margaret Young, of Addison, he was engaged in an extensive lumber business at Canisteo, where he achieved a great success in this enterprise and acquired a considerable fortune. A little later he was subjected to financial reverses, but by his integrity and faithful devotion to his work he promptly recovered himself. For a number of years he was a resident of Pennsylvania, where he was landlord of a hotel at Fall Brook. He was associated with the Red Men, and also a member of the Masonic fraternity for nearly twenty-five years. The last years of his life he was engaged in farming.and hotelkeeping. He died in 1888, aged sixty years. He had one brother, Ransom, and one sister, Mrs. Seth Mullen, both residents of Addison.

Reynolds, Charles D.

Reynolds, Charles D., was born in Addison in 1857, son of Thomas I. Reynolds, an architect and contractor, who came here in 1846, and was afterward employed with the same sash, door, and blind industry. Mr. Reynolds traveled a great deal, being engaged in different cities in various enterprises. From 1860 to 1865 he was in Jersey City, and from 1868 to 1873 at Paterson, N. J. His death, which occurred in 1881, was caused by an accident. Charles D. received his education in Addison, and much of his early life was spent with his father in his travels. He was first employed with the sash, door and blind factory, which business he still continues, being now with Park, Winton & True. Mr. Reynolds has served two terms as a member of the board of trustees. In 1884 he married Emma, daughter of William H. Manners, a grocerof this place, and they have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Episcopal church.

Rial, John

Rial, John, is a son of Simon S. Rial, a native of New Jersey, who came to Seneca county in 1812, where he was engaged in farming, and in 1838 came to Erwin and settled near Painted Post, where John received his educatian. In 1856 Mr. Rial purchased a farm in the northeast corner of Addison, where he died in 1860, aged fifty-seven years, leaving six sdns and two daughters. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Methodist church. John Rial has always been engaged in farming and moved on the farm which he now owns in 1865. He makes a specialty of haying and dairying, July 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, 33d Regt. N. Y. Vols. for two years, during which time he was taken prisoner at Fredericksburg and confined thirty days. In 1864 he married Louisa Kent, and they were the parents of two children: Fred, an active farmer of Addison, twenty-eight years of age and Lizzie. Mr. Rial is a Republican, and has been school trustee for many years.

Roberts, Amos

Roberts, Amos, was born at Glens Falls, Warren county, N. Y., in 1843, and received a common school education, after which he commenced to learn the mysteries of printing with Hiram M. Harris of the Glens Falls Republican, a rank Democratic paper, and finished his trade in the job and composing rooms of the Atlas and Argus, now Albany Argus, at Albany, N. Y., arid after spending a number of years at work at his trade in nearly all the large cities in the United States, soon after the civil war, he purchased of E. N. Johnson a half interest in the Addison Advertiser, and run a Republican paper and did a successful business up to the Greeley campaign, when he w’ent for Greeley and “got left.” Soon after he sold the establishment to G. H. Hollis, who immediately turned it into a rank Democratic sheet, and after drifting around for a short time he purchased a half interest in the Cortland County Democrat, published at Cortland, N.Y., and there in partnership with Daniel S. Lamont, now secretary of war in President Cleveland’s cabinet, he did a successful business for a short time, until Lamont was appointed private secretary to Governor Tilden, when they sold out, and Mr. Roberts purchased a half interest in the Waverly Enterprise, located at Waverly, N. Y., which was soon after consumed by fire He then, in company with his old partner, E. M. Johnson, who was then chief clerk in the New York State Assembly, established the Cobleskill Herald, a ninecolumn Republican paper, at Cobleskill, Schoharie county, N. Y., where the Democrats had more majority than the Republicans had votes, and did a fair business for three years, when they sold out, and Mr. Roberts purchased the Addison Advertiser, and again enlarged it to a nine ’Column paper, and associated the principles of the G. O. P., where it still exists.

Shockey, Charles O.

Shockey, Charles O., was born in Elmira, in 1841. William Shockey, his father, had been a resident of Addison twenty years prior to his death, which occurred in 1881, aged seventy-four years. He was a carpenter and joiner. Charles Shockey came to Addison in 1863, and opened a livery business, two years later removing to Titusville, Pa., and returning to Addison in 1866. He has also been engaged in the carpenter business, having learned that trade from his father at Elmira. In 1877 he opened a liquor store at his present location, and in 1895 took an agency for the sale of D. M. Osborne & Co.’s agricultural machinery. He has also large farming interests, in 1892 purchasing a farm of 300 acres, which he leases. He was for four years a trustee of the village, and is treasurer of the fire department.

Stewart, Oliver Dwight

Stewart, Oliver Dwight, was born in Schoharie county, N. Y., in 1846, son of Willard Stewart, now a farmer of Rathbone. Oliver came to Hornellsville in 1853, where he received his education, and in 1859 he removed to Addison, buyiug a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, and making a specialty of raising choice sheep. In 1863 he enlisted in Company B, 107th N. Y. Volunteers, and took part in several severe battles during his two years’ service; was in Sherman’s army all the time. In 1872 he married Sarah Sizer of Rathboneville, and they are the parents of three children; Charles A., Gertrude, and Bertha.

Stratton, George W.

Stratton, George W., one of nine children of Thomas and Clarissa Stratton, of whom seven are now living, was born at Fallsburgh, Sullivan county, in 1840. Until eighteen years of age his boyhood days were spent in assisting his father on the farm, and in attending the common school of Fallsburgh, where, as a village student, he acquired his education. He then entered a store in Tioga, Pa., as a clerk, and his work there promised the active business life which has followed. At twentyone years of age he enlised in Co. K, 23d Regt. N. Y. Vols., and after serving three months with that regiment he was discharged for disability and came home. Having recovered his health a year later, his desire to serve his country led him to enlist in Co. A, 143d Regt., with which he remained until the close of the war, when he engaged in the tanning business here. He has been a faithful worker, and for fifteeri years was proprietor of the Goodhull Tannery, and at present is not engaged in any mercantile business, but is devoting his attention to his farm interests. Mr. Stratton is a solid substantial citizen, and a Republican, but not a seeker for political preferment. In 1871 he married Julia, daughter of Frederick Thurber. She is a descendant of Dr. Sidney Powers of Lawrenceville, a widely known practitioner. She is also a member of the Presbyterian Church. They have two daughters to help disburse the hospitalities of the handsome, modern residence, erected in 1891 on Front street.

Stratton, Oscar B.

Stratton, Oscar B., was born in Fallsburgh, Sullivan county, N. Y., in 1834, son of the late Thomas Stratton, who was of ail old Connecticut family, and an early settler in Sullivan county, where the remainder of his life was spent. His wife, the mother of Oscar B., was Clarissa Smith. Mr. Stratton acquired the basis of his education in the common schools, and remained at home on the farm until twenty-one years of age, then went to Tioga and learned the tanner’s trade, which has constituted his chief business since. In 1859 he became foreman of a tannery near Elmira, where he remained four years, at the expiration of which time he purchased the Addison tannery, of which he became sole owner in 1880, and of which he has continued to act as superintendent for the last two years. In politics Mr. Stratton is a Republican, and in 1889 he became sheriff. In 1859 he married Mary, daughter of P. S. Settle, of Tioga, and they have one daughter, Ellen.

Swon, Oren L.

Swon, Oren L., was born in 1845, son of John B. Swon, who was born in Chenango county, and married Louise Fenton, by whom he had nine children, all of whom are members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Swon’s mother was the first white baby born at Tuscarora. Mr. Swon died at Addison in 1888, and she resides at Tuscarora, being sixty-seven years of age. Oren L.’s grandfather, Allen Swon, one of the pioneer settlers of the county, came from England, and took part in the Revolutionary war, being one of the officers. This family is noted for longevity Mr. Swon married Rebecca Gunn in 1878. He has always been engaged in farming, either in Tuscarora or Addison, and also makes a business of hay pressing.

Thomas, A. L.

Thomas, A. L., was born at Rathbone, June 23, 1835. John Thomas, his father, came to that town in 1829, and was for many years a river man, of wide renown for herculean strength and energy. He died in 1842, leaving a family of five children. Mrs. Thomas died recently at Prattsburg, N. Y., aged nearly eighty years. Mr. Thomas was reared amid lumber and farming interests, dependent upon his own energy from an early age, and when about twenty-five he came to Addison, and was for six years an employee of McKay & Bliss. In 1866 he opened a grocery store at No. 20 Tuscarora street, and continued that business until 1890, when he remodeled the building and became a wholesale and retail dealer in liquor and cigars. October 15, 1871, he married Mrs. Emily Harrington, daughter of Daniel Barber.

True, George I.

True, George I., was born in Owego, N. Y., in 1847. Jairus True, his father, was a farmer and lumberman of Maine, and came to this locality about 1830, and married Jane Kimball of Enfield, Mass., who is now a resident of Addison, and the wife of P. C. Daniels. There were but two children; George and Anna; the latter died unmarried in 1868. George was educated in the Owego Academy, and in 1868 engaged in business here as a retail dealer of boots, shoes, and groceries, under the firm name of Paxton & True, and continued it for a quarter of a century, when in 1893 the present firm of Park, Winton & True was formed, succeeding C. D. Hill & Co. in manufacturing sash, doors, and blinds in large variety. In 1872 Mr. True married Louise M. Turner, of Addison. Mr. True has acceptably filled many positions of trust, being a steadfast Republican, and always identified with advancing the local interests. He has served as trustee of the village, member of the Board of Education, and is treasurer of the Board of Trade and Corporation. He was charter member of Baldwin Hook and Ladder Company, and of the Young Men’s Christian Association; this last he has always taken a special interest in, acting as treasurer, and on finance committee since its organization.

Underwood, George W.

Underwood, George W., was born at Groton, N. Y., in 1834, son of William Underwood, who married Ruth Goodwin, by whom he had twelve children, of whom George W. is the youngest. The time of his birth is remarkable, by the fact that he had brothers fifty years old, comparatively old men. They are of English ancestry on both the maternal and paternal side. He was educated in Groton, and when only sixteen years old began business for himself, being first engaged in buying and shipping stock, which business he still continues. In 1882 he purchased 150 acres of land, which is located about two miles from Addison village, making a specialty of tobacco. He married Ophelia Van Marter, of Groton, and they were the parents of seven children. In politics Mr. Underwood is a Republican, and at the present time is excise commissioner.

Webb, Lee R.

Webb, Lee R., was born in Tuscarora, September 5, 1859, son of George W. Webb, a farmer of Tuscarora, now a resident of Michigan, and during his residence at Tuscarora he held the office of postmaster at South Addison. Lee R. was a partner in a general store at Elkland, Pa., afterwards supplementing his education by a year’s assiduous work at Binghamton. In 1886 he embarked in business at Addison, establishing a co-partnership with S. A. Hill, and five years later he purchased his partner’s share and operated the business alone until recently when he associated with J. B. Knisely. In 1885 he married Laura M., daughter of John Hill of Addison, by whom he had two children, Harry E. and Ethel L.

Westlake, Harrison

Westlake, Harrison, was born at Horseheads, N. Y., December 6, 1822, son of John E. Westlake, the well known lumberman, and nephew of Col. Jacob Westlake. John E. came to Addison about 1855, engaging in a mercantile business, and was the builder of the brick block comprising the Wyckoff Hotel and stores. Harrison Westlake has now retired from active life, having been largely engaged in farming besides keeping a general store at Horseheads and Addison, with real estate interests. February 14, 1843, he married Sophia Humphrey, of Horseheads, and they have one son, John A., who was formerly a physician at Elmira, where he held the position of coroner, but is now managing a sanitarium near Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Westlake are implicit believers in Spiritualism, and he has quite a local reputation as a healer of disease.

Young, Peter

Young, Peter, was born at Rathbone, in 1833, son of Martin B. Young. He first engaged in lumbering and farming He married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ostrander, of Penn Yan, Yates county. Martin B., who was born in a log house in Addison, in 1804, and died at the home of his son Peter in 1885, was of German descent, his father coming here at an early age. Mr. Young devoted his time to lumbering and speculating and was financially successful. In 1827 he married Martha Crawford, of Rathboneville, and they were the parents of five children; Sarah, widow of the late Harvey Burgett, and resides in Sayre, Pa.; William, a farmer of Rathbone; Margaret, widow of the late Libbius Phillips, of this place; Mary, widow of the late John Kinneley, and resides at Elmira; and Peter.