"B" to "Beal" Surname Family Sketches
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Babb, Ira P., West Bloomfield, was born in Livonia, Livingston
county, July 28m, 1825. His parents, Hosea and Polly (Witherill)
Babb, came early in the century, he from Massachusetts and she from
Vermont, to Livonia. His father died in West Bloomfield in 1882, aged
nearly eighty-five years. Ira P., when eleven years of age, worked on a
farm and then four years in Lima at a trade, carpentering and wagon
making. He came to West Bloomfield and settled at Factory Hollow nearly
forty years ago, engaged principally in building houses. In 1848 he
married Louisa A. Matteson of Minden. They had six
children of whom these survive: Araminda (Mrs. Skellinger
of Honeoye Falls); Jennie (Mrs.
Tack of Batavia); William A., at home; and Frank E., a house
builder in New York and a graduate from Cooper Union, in architecture.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Charles Babbitt, Gorham, was born in Gorham, October 23, 1841,
a son of Avijah, a son of Enos, who was a native of Massachusetts. The
latter was a sailor, and when a young man came and settled in Scipio.
He married Margaret Mosher and had seven sons and one
daughter. In 1817 he settled upon a farm
in Gorham, where he died in 1855. Mrs. Babbitt died in 1830. Avijah
was born in Scipio in 1814, and married Louisa Calf, by whom
he had one child, Charles. The latter was educated in the common
schools, and May 25, 1870, he married Hannah Francisco, a
native of Canada, born March 31, 1850. Her parents were Henry and Mary (Miller)
Francisco, who had five sons and three daughters. Mr. Francisco was
a native of Amsterdam, and died in Gorham in 1871. His wife died in
1865. The father of Henry was John Francisco, an early settler of
Middlesex, Yates county. Subject and wife have had three children: C.
Allen, who married Maud
Cook of Gorham, and resides on the old homestead; Henry A. and
Annie. Mr. Babbitt is a Republican, and he and his family are members
of
the Presbyterian church.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
George L. Bachman, Geneva, was born in Fayette, Seneca county,
October 7, 1841, but when he was five years old his parents went West.
He was educated in the academic and common schools, and read law at
Adrian, Mich., in the office of Beecher & Howell for two years,
being admitted upon examination in open court in 1863. Mr. Bachman
practiced in Adrian form 1863 to 1876, when failing health compelled
him to come East for vacation and rest with an intention
at that time, however, of again returning to Michigan to practice.
Later on he opened an office in Geneva and soon established a
profitable clientage, and is now regarded as one of the prominent
residents of the county.
While a resident of Adrian, Mr. Bachman was an active worker in
politics,
and was a member of the State Democratic Committee, also chairman of
the county committee; but in Ontario county he has been content to drop
active politics and devote his time solely to professional work. Mr.
Bachman is one of a few Ontario county lawyers who are members of the
State Bar Association. In 1866 Mr. Bachman married Maria Simms, by
whom he has had four children, two of whom are living.
From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;
Jacob and Joseph Backenstose were brothers and came to
Geneva in the earliest years, and were the pioneer tailors of the
Genesee Country. Time was when to wear a coat from their press board
marked the wearer as an aristocrat. The late John Backenstose, for many
years a prominent merchant of Geneva, was a son of Jacob.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO
COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S.
Conover; 1893;
Dwight B. Backenstose, Geneva, son of Frederick T. and Leah (Kipp)
Backenstose, was born in Benton, Yates county, December 24, 1846.
He attended the public schools of Geneva, and in 1868 graduated from
the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and has
practiced his profession here since
that time. He is one of the leading lawyers of Ontario county, and was
elected member of assembly in 1877. He is a Republican, and takes an
active part in political affairs. In 1876 he married Lillie C.,
daughter
of Arthur W. Foote, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Orrin Stebbins Bacon, Canandaigua, was born
at Academy (town of Canandaigua), March 29, 1837, a son of Hiram
Bacon, a Free Will Baptist minister, and a native of Pennsylvania
born in 1809. He had five children all now living: Rev. John S. Bacon,
of Corning; Roxina L., widow of John Beardsley, of Schuyler
county; Eliza D., wife of Spencer Horton, of Penn Yan; Daniel
R., a farmer of Pulteney, Steuben county; and Orrin S. Hiram Bacon
came to this section in 1828 and followed his profession until his
death,
November 13, 1886. Mrs. Bacon died in Gorham aged eighty-eight years.
When Orrin S. was very young his parents moved to Potter, Yates county,
where he lived about eleven years and then went to Gorham. Orrin S. was
educated in the common schools and spent three winters at Dundee
Academy.
From there, at the age of seventeen he taught school one winter in
Jerusalem, Yates county. In 1855 he went to Victor where he followed
farming one year,
and then worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade one year. For
twenty-three
years he conducted a meat market, also dealt in real estate, etc.
During
the most of this time he held many of the minor town offices, and in
1879 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for sheriff and elected
by a majority of 866 over Milton Staffor, of Victor. At the expiration
of his term in 1883 he was appointed deputy revenue collector under
Henry S. Pierce, and held this office four years. April, 1887, he was
employed by McKechnie & Co. as financial manager, in their bank in
Canandaigua, an office which he has ever since held. He is one of the
directors for
the Canandaigua Lake Steamboat Co., and a member of Victor Lodge, F.
&
A. M. He married, September 14, 1850, Harriet E. Simmons, of
Victor, and they have had five children: Lillian M., wife of George M. Dunlop,
a silk manufacturer of Spring Valley, Rockland county; Orrin S.
Bacon, jr., connected in business with his father; Albert S., a
Presbyterian
minister of Niagara Falls; Lizzie, wife of Edward W. Simmons, of
Canandaigua,
and Jennie O.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Franklin Bailey, East Bloomfield, a native of East Bloomfield,
born March 25, 1812, is a son of Zadock, a son of William, a native of
Leeds, England, who with
three brothers came to Newport, R. I., and there owned a large tract
of land where the city of Newport now stands. William Bailey afterwards
went to Providence, where he died. He had three sons and a daughter,
and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Zadock was born in
Providence, R. I., in 1777, reared in Sheffield, Mass., by Rev. Judson
and in
1793 came to East Bloomfield. He married Hannah Merrills, a
native of Gorham, Litchfield county, Conn., and a daughter of Sylvester
Merrills. Mr. Bailey and wife had three daughters and a son. His death
occurred in 1776. Franklin was educated in East Bloomfield school, and
at the age of twelve years he started in life for himself working on a
farm.
After a short time he began working in a hotel at Lima, and remained
three
years, when he went to Chicago and engaged as stage driver from Niles,
Mich., to Chicago for three years, and then returned to East
Bloomfield.
Soon after he located at Albany and formed a partnership with Hiram
Brunley,
Josh Maxwell & Co., and for five years engaged in transportation on
what was known as the Buffalo & Ohio Line. Then for two years he
ran
a packet boat from Schenectady to Utica, and finally became general
passenger
agent for the New York Central and Great Western and Michigan Central
Railroads, in which capacity he acted for twenty-eight years. In 1865
he purchased 200 acres of land in East Bloomfield, and has here since
resided. He has increased his original purchase to 352 acres, and many
many improvements, so that he now owns one of the finest farms in the
State. Mr. Bailey is
a Democrat and an active politician. He has been twice married, first
in
1844 to Elizabeth S. Reston, a native of Leeds, England, and
daughter
of John and Elizabeth Reston, of Leeds, who came to Poughkeepsie, where
for nine years, Mr. Reston was professor of languages. He afterwards
went
to Albany and there engaged as a teacher. He died in 1845, and his wife
in 1855. Mrs. Bailey died April 25, 1882, at the age of sixty-eight
years. In 1889 Mr. Bailey married second, Mrs. Caroline T. Linkfield Carroll,
a native of Oneida county, and a daughter of Edward and Sophronia (Husted)
Linkfield, the former a native of Rutland, Vt., and the latter of
Oneida county. Mr. Bailey was one of the organizers, and for many years
was warden of the Episcopal church of East Bloomfield. He was one of
three
men who contributed very largely to the building of the church, and
also
one of the building committee. Mrs. Bailey was the widow of Gen. K.
Carroll,
by whom she had four daughters. Mr. Carroll was an attorney of Camden,
N.
Y., who was in 1872 a member of the Assembly. His children are: Ada E.,
wife
of Frederick Wager, an attorney of Rome; Theressa, wife of
Arthur
C. Woodruff, an attorney of Camden; Genevieve, wife of Prof. Parsell,
of Clinton Liberal Institute. Mrs. Parsell studied vocal music in
Paris, and is now a teacher in the institute; and Grace K., an expert
stenographer, who is engaged in teaching at Fort Plain.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis
Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Baldwin, Charles H., Canandaigua, was born in Sanford, Dutchess
county, October 2, 1853, and
was educated in the common schools and Pelham Institute at
Poughkeepsie, and has since been engaged in farming. In 1885 he
came to
Ontario county, where he remained but a short time when he moved
into Yates county and bought a farm, engaging in the cultivation of
grapes, from which he has raised for over two years over fifteen
tons per year. He also leased a farm adjoining, from which he raised
about the same quantity. Mr. Baldwin has been for the last four
years a dealer in coal, and in 1892 opened a yard and office in
Canandaigua, where he is prepared to furnish any quantity the trade
demands. Mr. Baldwin married in 1874 Frances, daughter of Merritt
Mallory, a farmer groceryman of this town, and they have four
children: Charles I., George E., Willis H., and Franklin S. Mr.
And Mrs. Baldwin are members of the Vine Valley M.E. church, of which
he is trustee. He is also a member of Canandaigua Lodge, No. 294,
F. & A. M.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
George Baldwin, Gorham, was born in Italy, Yates county,
September 10, 1825, a son of Daniel, who was a son of Jacob Baldwin, a
native of Boston, Mass. The latter in youth was apprenticed to a tanner
and currier. Not liking the business, at sixteen he enlisted in the
Revolutionary War, where he rose to the rank of captain. In an early
day Mr. Baldwin came to Saratoga county, and there married Hannah,
daughter of Lifelet Hull, and had three sons and four
daughters, Daniel being the eldest son. In 1804 he came to Benton,
Yates county, and settled on a farm, which has been in the family ever
since. Here he lived and died. Daniel was born May 3, 1792, in Saratoga
county. He married Annie Wilson, a native of Benton, by whom
he had two sons and two daughters. Mr. Baldwin was in the War of 1812.
He died in Italy, Yates county, in 1849,
and his wife in 1852. George Baldwin married, February 20, 1850, Mary Taylor,
of Italy, born May 5, 1821. Mr. Baldwin has always been a farmer,
and since 1866 has resided in Gorham. He is a Republican, and has been
assessor nine years, and has held other town offices. The parents of
Mrs. Baldwin were Stephen Taylor, a native of Benton, born 1797, and
Electa Hewitt, a native of Oppenheim, born 1802. They had six
children. He died in
Allegany county, December 11, 1858, and his wife January 20, 1888. The
father
of Electa Hewitt was Randal Hewitt, who, during the Revolutionary War,
was captured by the Indians.
From Victor Herald Newspaper 6 July 1895
Memorial Held at St. Paul's Universalist
Church, Victor, N. Y. - Charles Ball was born July 19th, 1812, in
Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. He was the sixth son of William Ball and Phebe Bement,
his wife, both of Stockbridge, Mass. The family
moved to Victor in 1820. The boy, Charles, then eight years old, was
sent to the district schools of the town which offered meager
facilities for education compared with those of today. But, he plodded
along industriously, and in early manhood was fitted to commence the
study of medicine with his brother, Dr. William Ball, then, and for
many years afterward, a practitioner in Victor. The Medical College at
Fairfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., was at that time attracting most of the
medical students from this vicinity and Charles Ball was a member of
the class which graduated therefrom in February, 1836; returning here,
he
entered upon his life work among us. He married Ann W. Page, October
12, 1845, and died August 30, 1880.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
The Barber Family - About the year of 1814, William Barber and
family came from Bridport, Vt., to the locality of Geneva, where he was
a farmer and teamster. His children were six girls and
one boy. The son, Asa H., was born in Manlius, N. Y., where his parents
then lived in 1806. He learned the trade of cabinet-making with William
Sutton and soon afterward engaged in business at the location now
occupied
by William C. Barber. Asa H. began business in 1830, and there he
continued until the time of his death, September 5, 1863. He was
succeeded, however, by his son, William C., and the business has been
maintained at this
place for more than sixty-three years, the latter conducting only a
general undertaking business, which his father had carried on in
connection
with his cabinet work, as was the custom of his day. Asa H. Barber
married Abagail Cowles, by whom he had four children: William
C., Alice, who became the wife of Abraham Turck, Harriet, and
Alonzo S. In 1849,
William C. Barber married Eliza S. Stewart, and they have had
six
children, three only of whom are living. Alza S., wife of William C.,
died
in 1889.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Barker, J. Albert, Canandaigua,
was born in Canandaigua, August 7, 1851, son of John, a gardener
of this town, and a native of England, who came to this country in
1850. He located in Canandaigua, where he lived until his death in
1881. Of his five children four are living. Our subject was educated
at the common schools, then entered the store of A. S. Newman, where
he remained until 1885, spending fifteen years there, then opened a
store
in his present location on Main street, where he has built up a very
successful business. He deals in all kinds of medicines, drugs, toilet
articles, paints, varnishes, etc. Mr. Barker married in July, 1877,
Julia,
daughter of James Glass, a native of England, who was a
gardener
here, and they have one son, Willie Glass, now in his fifteenth year.
Mr. Barker is a member of the K. of P., an honorary member of the
Mutual
Hook & Ladder Company, and both he and his wife are members of the
St. John Episcopal church.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George
S. Conover; 1893;
Barlow, Jesse, Phelps, was born at Amenia, Dutchess county,
January 19, 1832, was a son of Elisha and Lucy (Darrow) Barlow,
natives of Dutchess county. The father, Hon. Elisha Barlow, was a
native of Sandwich, Mass., who came with his father, Moses, and his
grandfather, Peleg Barlow, to Poughkeepsie in 1756, when a boy. The
Hon. Elisha Barlow was a member of assembly during 1800 and 1802, and
was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1821. The
ancestors were Cape Cod fishermen for several generations. Jesse Barlow
married, March 9, 1869, Lavinia, daughter of Newton Carter, of
Connecticut. They have one son, Howard Carter. In 1858 Mr. Barlow
bought a half-interest in the Swift Mills in Phelps, and in 1870 bought
out the remaining interest, and has been sole proprietor since that
time; it going under the name of the Barlow Roller Mills, having
a capacity of fifty barrels of flour per day. The house of Deacon Moses
Barlow, in which Jesse was born, was built prior to the Revolutionary
War.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Fitch Reed Barnard, Richmond, was born January 1, 1852. His
father, Captain Peter Pitts Barnard, was born in Livonia in 1812, and
died in 1876. For the last forty years of his life he held two hundred
acres of land in this town and seventy adjoining in Livonia. The stone
house in which he lived, now occupied by his son and namesake, was
built by him in 1850. His wife was Fanny, daughter of John F. Reed,
and their five children were: Ellen A., wife of M. H. Ray; Elizabeth
M., wife of J. P. Ray; Franc A., wife of R. C. Beach; Fitch R.
and Peter Pitts. He married, second, Abby Jane Olney (Gray),
who
survives him. She resides in Rochester. Chauncey, father of Peter Pitts
Barnard, was a native of Connecticut, and married Nancy, daughter of
Captain Peter Pitts, of Richmond, and came to Livonia, where
he lived and died. His father was Samuel, of Litchfield county, Conn.
Fitch R. was married in 1879 to Sarah J. Jerome, daughter of
Myron D. Jerome, of Livonia, and they have two children: Fannie E.,
born December 13, 1881, and Solon H., born December 10, 1887. Mr.
Barnard is a Republican. Mrs. Barnard's father
was born in this town, where Isaac B. Green now lives, and his father,
John
Jerome, married Sarah Aiken, whose family was among the first
to
settle at Allen's Hill. P. Pitts Barnard was born November 13, 1859,
and
married, October 21, 1885, Clara Jerome, daughter of Samuel Jerome, of
Livonia,
and their children are: Glenn H., born January 21, 1889, and P. Ray,
born
November 28, 1891.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Barnes, Albert F., Farmington, was born in Farmington May 24,
1824. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua and Macedon
Academies, and followed farming. He married twice, first in December,
1848, Sarah M. Case, and had three children: Marion, who died
at the age of a year and a half, and another son who lived but a few
days, and Carrie L., who married Lewis Quackenbush of Penn
Yan, now
residing in Canandaigua. Mrs. Barnes died April 3, 1875, and he
married second Christiana A. Robson, of Hartland, Niagara
county. They had two daughters, Ethel L., who died at the age of four
years,
and one that was not named. Stephen Barnes, the father of the subject
of this sketch, was born in Rhode Island December 24, 1791. He married
twice, first to Charlotte Algier of his native place, and came
here in 1810. They had three children: Emily, who married Clarkson Aldrich,
they had one daughter, Charlotte, who died at the age of seventeen
years; Ira, married Abigail Woodbury, they had five children,
two sons and three daughters, Charles, Stephen, Frances, Susanna and
Charlotte; Frances, married Henry Redfield and still lives in
this town; the third child, Adaline, died when young. Stephen
Barnes married for his second wife, Rachel Wilbur of Macedon,
Wayne county, in the year 1822. They had four children: Albert T.,
Stephen H., who died at the age of two years; Edward O. S. and
Charlotte
M. His mother's side was of the Friends denomination; her father, Henry
Wilbur, being one of the early settlers of Friends who came from
Massachusetts in the year 1792. He was an exemplary member of the
Friends Society at
Farmington during a period of nearly seventy years, he having lived to
the age of ninety-four years. Stephen Barnes died August 18, 1865, and
his wife, Rachel Barnes, twenty years later being January 14, 1885.
Mrs.
Barnes's father, Kendra Robson, was born in Yorkshire, England, in
1803,
and came to the United States with his parents and two brothers in
1820,
locating in Niagara county. The family were members of the Society of
Friends,
the father, Michael Robson, having become convinced of the truths of
the
gospel as held by them, when a young man and following the seas. He was
left an orphan when quite young, his father having died when he was but
three years of age, and his mother before he was ten. He was bound
apprentice to a sea captain when he was twelve years of age and
following the seas
for many years; he lived to the age of ninety-four years. Kendra Robson
married Ruth Brecken, who also came from England ten years
later.
They had thirteen children: James K., John B., Mary A., Elizabeth C.,
Rachel L., Christiana A., William D., Charles M., Eliza J., Alice S.,
Henry
L., Francis E., and Ella T. Twelve arrived at the age of manhood and
womanhood; eight are still living.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO
COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S.
Conover; 1893;
D. Eddy Barnes, Geneva, was born on the
old homestead in the southern part of Geneva August 10, 1856.
He was educated in the public schools, Canandaigua and Geneva
Academies, and has always followed farming. He has married twice; first
on
October 17, 1878, Caroline, second daughter of Henry and Mary Hazlett
of Seneca. Mrs. Barnes died April 29, 1891. For his second wife
on December 7, 1892, he married Harriet, only daughter of Silas and
Isabella Phinney, of Bellona, formerly of Friendship, Allegany
county. Mr. Barnes's father, David, was born in Pennsylvania in 1798,
and came with his parents here when an infant. He was one of the oldest
pioneers , with all that the term implies and he, too, was a farmer. He
married twice; first Martha Spencer of Yates county, by whom
he
had a son and a daughter, both deceased. For his second wife, he
married
Lucy A. Dorman of Seneca. They had two children: D. Eddy and
Ella
D., who married George Kelsey and had one daughter, Lucy, who
is still living. Mrs. Kelsey died April 8, 1890. David Barnes, father
of our subject, was a colonel in the State militia, and died April 9,
1871.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis
Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Barnes, Hurdman, Canandaigua, was born in
England, April 14, 1814, and came to this country when seventeen
years of age, where he worked two or three years for William Gorham
on the farm. He married, in England, Martha Shaw, who died June
16, 1862, aged fifty-three years, leaving no children. Mr. Barnes
married second, in June, 1864, Elizabeth Mitchell, widow of
William Meeks, of Canandaigua, and they have had five
children: Martha Mary, Jesse, Frederick and Ellen, all of whom
live at home. Mrs. Barnes died April 14, 1884. He took little
interest in public affairs, but devoted his time and attention to his
farm interests. The homestead consists of ninety-four acres, in
good condition, on which the principal crops are grain and fruit, with
four acres of
vineyard. The home and residence of this pleasant family was erected
about 1860 by Mr. Barnes, for whose memory the above is written.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Barnes, James W., Canandaigua, was born in Seneca in 1830, a son
of John R., a farmer of that town, who lived on the farm settled by his
father, James. John R. married Maria Goundry of Seneca, who
bore him ten children, of whom four sons were in
the War of the Rebellion. John R. died in 1863, aged about seventy
two years. The early life of James W. was spent on the homestead.
He was educated in the common schools, after leaving which he entered
the dry goods store of P. A. Button at Geneva, with whom he remained,
in Geneva and Canandaigua, about eight years. He then went with
Richardson
& Draper, and when in 1871 Mr. Draper established a bank here
Mr. Barnes went with him as cashier, which position he filled until
1890. He then formed a copartnership with C. N. Williams, making the
banking firm Williams & Barnes, which still exists. Mr. Barnes
married in 1876 Martha, daughter of Stanton S. Cobb of
Canandaigua.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Barnes, Washington, Geneva, was born in the town of Seneca (now
Geneva) April 10, 1819. He was educated in
the schools of his day. He afterward resided in Michigan,
where he also attended school. In early life he was a miller
and farmer. In the year of 1872 he embarked in the nursery business
with all the improved varieties of a first-class nursery conducted
on first-class honest business principles. He has married twice, first
August 8, 1844, Jane A. Mead of Benton, Yates county, and they
had seven children: Joshua M., Jane A., Catherine C., Frances and
Sara A. (twins), George W., and Charles F. Mrs. Barnes died in
1860, and he married second, October 8, 1862, Mary A. Davies of
the town of Milo, Yates county. Mr. Barnes's father, Thomas was born in
Ireland and came to the United States with his parents when he was
nine years old. He married Elizabeth Goundry of the town of
Milo,
Yates county, and they had twelve children. The ancestry of this
family is Irish, English and Welsh.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO
COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S.
Conover; 1893;
William T. Barnes, Geneva, was born in Seneca (now Geneva)
August 15, 1817. He was educated in the schools
of his day and owns the farm on which he was born. He is now a retired
farmer. May 9, 1858, he married Mary J., daughter of George and Dolly Barden
of Benton, Yates county, and they have four children:
Grace E., who married Edward Black of Bellona and has a
daughter,
Maud J.; Albert W., who married Mary E. Sloan of Yates county
and has four children: LeRoy F., Mary L., Karl and Alexander; Arthur
L., who married Gertrude Turner of Yates county, they have one
daughter, Bessie E.; and Fred C., who married Helen M. Scott of
Geneva. Mr. Barnes's father, Thomas, was born in Ireland in 1777 and
came to the United States with his father when six years old. He
married
Elizabeth Goundry, and had ten children who grew to maturity.
Mrs.
Barnes's father, George Barden, was born in Massachusetts in 1788, and
came to this State with his parents when nine years old, where he
married
Dolly Witter of Pennsylvania, and had thirteen children. Mr.
Barnes's
father was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Barnes's grandfather,
Thomas
Barden, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Mr. Barnes's
brother, George, served in the late war three years. Mrs. Barnes's
brother, Tilson, also served in the second Michigan Cavalry three years.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
William M. Barnum, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua, May 7,
1852. Ebenezer, the great-grandfather, was a native of Massachusetts,
and one of his sons, Moses, was the grandfather of the subject. He
was a farmer and came to Niagara county. He had five children, but one
of whom survives, John, a farmer of Iowa. Jedediah, father of William
M., was born June 16, 1820, and came to Ontario county when a child.
When
about ten years of age he went to live with an old lady on the lake
shore
with whom he remained until about fourteen, when he went to live with
William Martin, and stayed with him until reaching his majority. When
about
twenty-six years of age he married Amanda, daughter of John Penoyer,
of Academy, one of the earliest settlers of that tract. He owned
at the time of his death, June 15, 1886, 275 acres. He never took an
active interest in politics, but devoted his time to the farm. He was
a strong advocate of temperance principles, and a Republican. He had
two children: Imogene, wife of John B. Hall, and William M.
William
M. has always been a resident of this farm. He was educated in
Canandaigua, and Rochester Business College, graduating in 1871. He
taught school a
short time, and then came back to assist his father on the farm. He is
an active Republican. He married in 1872 Martha A., daughter of James
Hyde, a farmer of Canandaigua, and they have three children:
Fred
C., Edith M., and Frank J. Mr. Barnum is a member of Academy Grange, of
which he was a charter member, and is at present overseer.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
David Barron, Seneca, was born in Northumberland county,
England, August 15, 1800, came to the United States with his parents in
1801, being less than a year old, and the family located on the
turnpike road in the northeastern part of the town. He was educated in
the schools of that day, inured to hard work, and became an intelligent
farmer, even into his ninety-third year. March 22, 1827, he married
Sarah Shadbolt, of Caledonia, Livingston county; they had five
children: Martha, George, John, Mary, and David W., all now deceased.
His wife died February 20, 1882. Mr. Barron's father, William, was born
at the old home in England, March 25, 1756, and married Margery Wilkinson,
of Newcastle in
his native country. Their four children were: William, Mary, David and
Thomas. The father died July 14, 1833, and the mother June 6, 1855.
David
Barron has always borne the reputation of a modest, industrious,
thrifty,
and honest man.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Barron, William J., Geneva, son of William and Ellen (Booth)
Barron, was born in Caledonia, May 6, 1856. He received a common school
education, and at the age of
sixteen years came to Geneva and learned the blacksmith's trade. He
carried on this business four years in Caledonia, four years in Geneva,
and in the spring of 1890 bought the public sheds in Geneva. In 1877 he
married Ann Thornton, of Geneva, and they have one son,
David, born in 1878. Mr. Barron takes an active part in politics and
is a staunch Republican.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
William W. Barron, Seneca, was born on the old homestead in
Seneca, November 30, 1827. He was educated in the district schools (in
the same school house his father was educated in), was reared on a
farm, and learned the carpenter's trade, working at carpentry and
joining for eighteen years. He then resumed farming which he follows to
this date. February 13, 1859, he married Harriet Eddington, of
this town, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret, who married Robert J.
Plumb of Scottsville, Monroe county, and they have two sons,
Howard and Clarence. Mrs. Barron died March 22, 1866, and he married
second, May 3, 1870, Mary J. Taylor of Stanstead, Lower
Canada. They had one daughter, Mabel B., who now presides over her
father's household, her mother having died January 31, 1888, deeply
mourned by husband, daughter and many friends. Mr. Barron's father,
Thomas, was also born here, March 1, 1803, and February 4, 1827,
married Margaret Watson, by whom he had three children:
William W., John, who is in business in Geneva, and George, who died at
the age of two years. His father, Thomas, died September 17, 1892, and
his mother, March 26 1863. The family is of English origin on both
sides.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Joseph A. Bartholomew, Naples, son of John, was born in Naples
July 21, 1851, and prepared for college at the Naples Academy. In 1871
he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and remained two
years. He taught school a few years in Michigan, then went into
business with his father at farming and stock breeding in Hillside,
Mich. On the death of his father in 1891, he returned to Naples, where
he has since resided. His mother was Julia French, born in
Naples, who died in 1890. Mr. Bartholomew married February 24, 1883,
Alice Seacord, daughter of Absalom and Hannah Seacord, of
Naples. In his business relations, Mr. B.
has always ranked "high," and was never asked, as he says, for an
endorser
till he began to deal with Presbyterians in Naples.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Sarah A. Baxter, Geneva, was born in Geneva, of English
parents. She learned the art of dressmaking and has done business
on her own account for twenty years. Her father, William Baxter, was
born in Norfolk, England, June 16, 1807. He was an ingenious wood
worker. October 1, 1833, he married Ann Thompson of his native
place,
and came to the United States in 1836, locating in Geneva. They had
eight
children: Sophia, Elizabeth, John, Sarah A., Mary E., George, Eliza A.,
and William. Her father died August 18, 1872.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Arnold W. Beach, Bristol, was born in Walworth, Wayne county,
August 24, 1831, a son of Amos and Eleanor (Arnold) Beach, who
reared four sons and five daughters. Mr. Beach and wife went to
Richmond, where he died in 1835. Mrs. Beach then married Leonard Howard
and removed to McComb county, Mich., where she died in 1873. Arnold
W. Beach was reared by Dr. Daniel Durgan, and received a common school
education. February 22, 1855, he married Adeliza M. Codding, a
native of Bristol, born December 17, 1832. She is a daughter of Deacon
Stephen A. Codding, a son of Faunce and
Sallie (Andrews) Codding, early settlers of Bristol. Mr. and
Mrs. Codding had four sons and a daughter. He died in Bristol in 1810
at the age of forty, and his wife in Lockport, Ill., at the age of
eighty years. Mr. Beach and wife have had three children: Emma C., who
died at the age of three years; Hattie M., born July 28, 1865, wife
of Luther J. Howe, of Shortsville, and Stephen H., born August
14, 1874. Mr. Beach is a farmer, is a Republican, and has been overseer
of the poor six years. He and wife are members of the Congregational
church, of which Mr. Beach has been a deacon six years.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Levi S. Beach, a native of East Bloomfield,
born November 18, 1808, is a son of Salmon Beach, a native of
Connecticut, born in 1784. Salmon Beach was reared as a saddle and
harness maker, and followed that trade many years in East Bloomfield.
The wife of Salmon Beach was Aresta Waid, a native of Bristol,
by whom he had two sons and four daughters. Mr. Beach at one time held
the office of county clerk. He died in 1817, and his wife June 23,
1843. After his father's death, Levi S. Beach was reared by Isaac Newton.
He first worked by the month and later engaged in farming and stock
dealing, which he followed until 1872, since which time he has live a
retired life. In
1831 Mr. Beach married Catherine Pulver, a native of
Kinderhook, Columbia county, born August 6, 1809. and daughter of James
Pulver. Subject and wife had six children: Charlotte A., Alice A.,
William S., George
H., Edna A., and Adelia, of whom Charlotte and Edna only are living. In
politics Mr. Beach was formerly a Whig, but is now a Republican. He and
family are members of the M. E. Church. Charlotte A. is the wife of
Almond
Rowley, of East Bloomfield.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Richmond C. Beach, was born in Manchester, August
18, 1844. His father, Orrin B., was born in that town, and his
grandfather, Nathaniel, was a native of Williamstown, Mass., and came
to this
county at an early day. Orrin B. married in 1842, Speedy, daughter
of Daniel (3d) Short, and their children were: Richmond C.,
Lucy L., wife of George J. Ray, born in 1850; and Orrin S.,
born in 1854. Richmond C. was educated in the common schools and
married
in 1869 Frankie A., daughter of Peter P. Barnard, and they
have
two children: Mettie L., born November 12, 1870, and Bernard R., born
July
24, 1879. In 1869 Mr. Beach purchased 160 acres, a portion of the farm
of
Philip Read 2d, on lot 50, on which he has good buildings.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Beahan, Dr. Albert L., Canandaigua, was born in Watkins,
Schuyler county, April 13, 1855, a son of James Beahan, a farmer of
that place. The early life of our subject was spent in the town of his
birth. He was educated in Starkey
Seminary from which he graduated in 1876, and immediately entered
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he graduated in
1879. After leaving school he went first to Reading Centre, where
he practiced about four years, and then went to New York city, where
he spent two winters studying on specialties. The spring of 1884 he
came to Canandaigua, opening an office on Gorham street, which he
has ever since continued, having built up a lucrative practice. In 1886
he was elected coroner on the Republican ticket, and in 1889 re-elected
by a largely increased majority. Dr. Beahan is president of the Society
of Physicians of Canandaigua, health officer of the town, and has been
for six years physician of the Ontario County Almshouse. He is member
of New York State Medical Society, the Medical Association of Central
New York, Ontario County Medical Society, and Society of Physicians of
the village of Canandaigua. He married in March, 1889, Theodora C. Hopkins,
of Canandaigua.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Embery J. Beal, Clifton Springs, was born in Manchester,
December 19, 1834. His grandfather, Caleb Beal, and grandmother, Rachel
Redfield Beal, emigrated to this State in the winter of 1813
from Massachusetts on a sleigh drawn by horses, an unusual occurrence
(oxen being the common mean of conveyance in those days.). They stopped
at Lemuel
Bannister's in Phelps, whose wife was Caleb Beal's sister. There they
remained until April, when they moved on a tract of land on "Hog Back
Hill," in the town of Palmyra. After a number of years they erected a
large farm house, which still stands. Caleb Beal during his eventful
life
was a man of strong personality and powerful frame. He was for a time
in
the early days of the county intimately associated with six different
tribes
of Indians, who loved and respected him for his sterling worth, and
with
whom he exerted great influence. Washington Beal, son of Caleb Beal,
and
father of Embery J. Beal, was born in the town of Conway, Mass.,
September
13, 1803. He married Eliza H. Holmes, daughter of Nathaniel
Holmes,
of Manchester, and settled on a farm in said town, where he lived until
his death. He was a man of positive likes and dislikes, ever sustaining
his views of right against all opposition. He was an efficient exhorter
of the M. E. Church, being much respected and esteemed. He died in
Manchester, where he first settled, after a long and useful life, on
the 24th of February, 1889, at the age of eighty-five years, five
months, eleven days. Embery J.
Beal received a fair education at the public schools and at an academy
in
Macedon Center, Wayne county. He married Frances J. Tiffany, of
Walworth,
after which he lived with his father a few years, then settled on the
farm
known as the John P. Salor farm, which he owns at this date. They have
two
daughters: Josephine E., who has completed a course at the Commercial
College
at Elmira; and Calla E., who is attending the Brockport Normal School,
fitting
herself for a teacher's life. Embery J. has followed agricultural
pursuit
until six years since (1886) when he retired, renting his farm to a
tenant,
removing first to Palmyra, and three years ago to Clifton Springs. Mr.
Beal
is a man much beloved and respected. He is of a generous and upright
character,
a strong Prohibitionist in his convictions, and a faithful and loving
father
to his intelligent family.
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