"Da" to "De" Surname Family Sketches
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Mrs. Addie B. Crowley Dake, M. D., was born in Mount
Morris, Livingston county, and graduated from Cleveland Homeopathic
Medical College in 1886. She settled in Geneva, where she
has since practiced medicine, making a specialty of women's and
children's diseases.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Elbridge Dakin, Geneva, was born in Concord Mass., October
19,
1802, and came to this State when a young man. He located first
in
Buffalo, and soon after in Geneva where he resided and conducted
business.
He married first Mary Ann Brizee of Geneva, by whom he had one
son,
George Brizee, who died in 1859; and second Mrs. Nancy Stearns Spalding
of Gorham, Ontario county. They had two daughters and a
son:
Sarah P., wife of Elisha C. Deane of Buffalo, by whom she had
two
children: Isabella and Elbridge G.; William O., who married
Eveline
Shepard of Toledo OH; and Mary O., who lives in Geneva.
Mrs.
Dakin died April 12, 1881, and Mr. Dakin March 1893, in his
ninety-first
year. He was the oldest Mason in this part of the State, being a
member
of Ark Lodge No. 33 of Geneva F & A M, and its treasurer over
thirty
years. He was a man of integrity in all his dealings with his
fellow
men. He conducted a coal and wood, Portland and Akron cement
business
for more than thirty years on Castle street. His
great-grandfather,
Colonel Barrett, on his mother's side, commanded at the battle of
Concord
Mass.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
William B. Dannahe, Geneva, was born in Geneva, January 31,
1867. He was educated in the public schools, and in early life was a
farmer. Being of a mechanical frame of mind he learned the blacksmith's
trade until he became a first-class mechanic. He began business on his
own account at Billsborough in April, 1891, and is doing a successful
business among the intelligent farmers and business men of that entire
locality. Mr. Dannahe's father, Daniel, was born in the old country
about 1830, came to the United States in 1852, and married Catherine McCune
of Geneva. They have seven living children: John, James, Daniel,
jr., William B., Catherine, Jeremiah and Mary.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
The late George Darrow, was born in Cannan, in the
eastern part of this State, in 1770, was educated in the schools of
his day, and married twice. His second wife was Judith Leland, by
whom he had five children: Fidelia, Hiram, Charles, Washington and
Judith
M. The family came to Western New York in 1800, locating this
homestead, where a log house was built. It was subsequently burned and
a frame house took its place, which was built by the settlers of the
locality, which was occupied in nine days. When their beautiful new
residence was recently erected, the old one was sent to the rear, and
is now, with additions,
just south of the old location, used as a tenant house. Hiram married
Emily
Wainwright, of Mendon, Monroe county; they had one daughter, E.
Estella, who on November 22, 1871, married Mark Atchley, of
the
town of Phelps. She died November 4, 1872. Her father died November 12,
1883. Charles married Augusta Whitney, and they had one son,
Charles
H., who married Hattie Bennett, of Geneva. They have a son,
Charles
W. It is the wish of Miss Judith M. and Mrs. Hiram Darrow, who now own
the property, that this property shall be owned by the Darrow family as
long as that family exists. This homestead is located in the northeast
part of the town, half way between the turnpike and the Castle road.
The
ancestry of the Darrows is French and the Lelands English. Miss Darrow
is
of the eighth generation from one Henry Leland, who came from England
in
one of the first ships that came from there. The family had several of
its
ancestors in the Revolutionary War. This family came to the United
States in Queen Anne's time.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Alexander Davidson, Canandaigua, was born in
Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1846, and came to this country in 1870.
He located in Canandaigua, and with the exception of one year has
always made his home. He was for two years on a farm, and then engaged
with J. L. Sherwood in his lumber yard, remaining with him six years,
then formed a partnership with his son, S. A. Sherwood, and made the
firm of Sherwood & Davidson. In 1882 Mr. Sherwood died and Mr.
Davidson became the sole proprietor. In 1888 he bought his present
property. He has added to the lumber business the dealing in hardware,
sash, doors
and blinds, and everything used in building and has also added the
handling
of coal, which has grown to be quite extensive. He has the best
accommodations for the handling of coal and lumber of any yard in this
section, and sells about 3,200 tons of Plymouth coal per year. Mr.
Davidson married in 1886
Catherine McKenzie of Aberdeen, and they have two children.
Mr.
Davidson is a member of the Chapter and Commandery F. & A. M. In
1884
and 1885 he was a master of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294. He and family
are
members of the Presbyterian church.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
James Davidson, Canandaigua, a native of Scotland, was
born in 1851. He came to this country in 1871 and located in
Canandaigua, where he engaged in his trade of shoemaking until 1881,
when he, in
company with James D. Park, established a shoe store at No. 1 Tillotson
Block, a fine large store, where they carry a full line of boots, shoes
and rubbers, and conduct a custom department in connection. This
company
has been extremely successful here, a fact which they owe to their
close
attention to business, and strict integrity in their dealings. Neither
Mr. Davidson nor Mr. Park have ever aspired to political office,
although
they are ardent Republicans. Mr. Davidson married in 1877 Ann McKinzie,
a native of Scotland; they have four children: Alice, Alexander
McKinzie,
Jennie C. and Annie. Mr. Davidson and family are members of the
Presbyterian
church. Mr. Park is a native of Scotland also, coming to this country
with Mr. Davidson. He married in 1882 Sarah E. Hughes of South
Trenton,
N. Y.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Davie, John, Geneva, was born at the old homestead in Geneva,
November 14, 1839, was reared on a farm and educated in the public
schools. In October, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, First
Veteran Cavalry, N.Y. Vols., and was in the following
engagements: New Market, Piedmont, Martinsburg, and was with the
regiment taking fifteen hundred prisoners from Staunton across the
mountains to Beverly, west Virginia. He afterwards was in the
battle of Monocacy Junction, where the Rebels were held twenty-four
hours thereby saving the city of Washington
from capture by General Early. The regiment was on that occasion
commanded by the intrepid General Milligan, of Lexington fame.
Mr. Davie was in all the engagements that his company and regiment was
in, and was always ready for duty. He was honorably mustered out
July 20, 1865, and discharged at Rochester about August 3 of that
year. After his return home he was a truckman in the village of
Geneva fourteen years, and is now a farmer. October 14, 1863, he
married Rosanna
Hicks, of Geneva, and they have had six children: Mary C.,
George T., (John W., Elizabeth E., and James W., deceased), Robert
A. George T. is chief clerk with the Skilton Bros. hardware
concern in the
village; Mary C. is a dressmaker at home; and Robert A. is a farmer
with
his father. Mr. Davie's father, George was born in Suffolk,
England, and came to the United States when a young man. He
married Mary Sliney of this town and they had six
children: John, Thomas, Catherine,
William, George and James. Their father died in 1866, and their
mother November 2, 1888.
Excerpted from: SAMUEL DAVIS, OF OXFORD,
MASS., AND JOSEPH DAVIS, OF DUDLEY, MASS.,
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS; NORTH ANDOVER, MASS.: GEORGE L. DAVIS,
COMPILER AND PUBLISHER; 1884;
Amasa Davis (Amasa, Edward, Edward, Samuel, John,
William),
b.
21 Oct. 1793; m. 16 Sept. 1816, at Canandaigua, N. Y., Sally Flint,
b. 16 May, 1792; sett. at Newport, N. Y., rem. 1833, to Webster,
Mass. He d. 6 Jan. 1866, at Dudley. She d. 6 March, 1869,
at Webster. Cabinet-maker and carpenter; an enterprising business
man.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Edmund O. Davis, Gorham. In an early day three brothers,
Philip, John and William came from Wales. One settled in Massachusetts,
one in Pennsylvania, and one in South Carolina. Subject is a descendant
of the one who was a native of Pennsylvania and early came to Hopewell
where he purchased land of the Indians. He here built flour mills and
afterwards exchanged the mills for land in Gorham. He died in
Pennsylvania. William Davis was a native of the latter town, where he
died. His wife was Mary Shaw and they had eleven children.
Ezekiel was born November 22,
1818, in Northumberland county, Pa. He married Elizabeth Thorp by
whom he had three sons and three daughters. Mary E. Davis and Edmund O.
Davis
now on the old homestead; Celia Davis Potter and James A.
Potter, on north part of the land, have nine children: Uriah L. Davis,
now of Fairmount, Neb., his wife, Martha Foster, have two
sons: William F. Davis married Anna Christie, have one son;
Sarah E. Davis, died in 1863. In 1840 he came to Gorham and took
possession of 300 acres of land left him by
his father, adding to this 125 acres. He died in 1888, and his wife in
1865. Edmund O. married in 1873 Annie Spry, a native of
Hamilton county, Ontario, born September 10, 1851. She is a daughter of
George and Isabella (McNaughton) Spry, he a native of
Devonshire, Eng., and she of Amsterdam. Mr. Spry and wife had five
children. He died in 1863 and Mrs. Spry resides with her daughter.
Edmond O. and wife have one child, Adella
E. Mr. Davis is a Democrat and is now excise commissioner. He and his
family
attend the Congregational church at Reed's Corners of which he has been
trustee several years.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Fayette W. Davis, Gorham, was born in Little Falls June
4, 1852, son of J. H. Davis. He was reared on a farm and educated in
the common schools and Canandaigua Academy. At the age of seventeen he
came to Ontario county with his parents. His wife is Eliza Lookup, a
native of Marion, Wayne county, born June 5, 1837. Their children are:
Clara H., Arthur G., Josiah H., Ethel M., and Myrtle H. Mr. Davis was
traveling
salesman for nursery stock and also for the Singer Sewing Machine
Company
for several years. In 1886 he purchased the farm he now owns and of
later
years has been a farmer. He is a Republican in politics and is a Free
Mason.
The parents of Mrs. Davis were William and Eliza (Garlock)
Lookup,
natives of Marion, Wayne county, who had two sons and two daughters.
Mr.
Lookup was a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Lookup died in 1857.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Fred H. Davis, Gorham, was born in Thurston, Steuben county, in
1867. His father was H. C. Davis, a native of Little
Falls, who married a Miss Moffitt, of Utica. They had two sons
and four daughters. The father of H. C. was Josiah H., a native of
Norway,
Herkimer county, born July 18, 1807, and he was a son of Joseph, a
native
of Long Island, born in 1774, who married Betsey Halleck, and
had
seven sons and seven daughters. He came to Norway in 1800, and in 1859
moved to Cortland, where he died in 1867. He was drafted in the War of
1812. Josiah H. Davis married, August 29, 1832, Hopeful Jefferds, a
native of Ohio, N. Y., born October 2, 1811. Her father was Obadiah,
who
married Rebecca Fox and had three sons and four daughters. Mr.
Jefferds was in the War of 1812, and died in Ohio. Josiah H. and wife
had twelve children, of whom ten survive. In 1868 he came to Gorham.
He is a Republican, and for many years has been a deacon in the
Congregational
church at Reed's Corners. Fred H. Davis is a young man of more than
ordinary
ability. He was reared on a farm, and when a boy attended the district
schools. He has been very industrious and given himself a thorough
education,
first taking a course in Canandaigua Academy, and graduating from
Hamilton College in June, 1891. He is now assistant principal of the
school at Lyons, Wayne county.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Homer A. Davis, Canandaigua, was born on a farm about three
miles west of Canandaigua village, August 26, 1849, a son of Cornelius
and Sabrina (Hawley) Davis. The grandfather, Mathew, was
a native of Connecticut, born at Somers, February 5, 1769, and married
Salone Pixley, of Great Barrington, Mass., by whom he had
eleven children, of whom Cornelius, father of our subject, was the
second son. He was born June 19, 1799, in Sherburne, Chenango county,
and came to this county when about twenty, locating first in Victor,
where he lived a short time, then removed to Canandaigua and married,
March 16, 1826,
Sabrina, daughter of Henry Hawley, a farmer of this town. They
had
eight children, two of whom survive: Henry M., a school teacher of
Canandaigua,
and Homer A. Cornelius was a man of good business management and
accumulated
a fair property. He died October 13, 1876. Mrs. Davis died October 1,
1856,
and he married second in 1858 Asenath Ferry, widow of Jonathan
Lee, of Erie county, by whom he had one son, Henry Lee, who
served in the army and died in Canandaigua in 1875. Mrs. Davis died
February 4, 1877. Homer A. was educated in Canandaigua Academy and
became a farmer. In 1878 he bought the old Ackley farm of ninety acres,
where he has since made
his home. He has always taken an active interest in politics, and in
1885
was elected highway commissioner. He married in 1873 Hattie A.,
daughter of Seymour V. R. Johnson, of Centrefield, and they
had one son,
Lot G., now in his tenth year.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Calvin P. Davison, East Bloomfield, a native of West
Bloomfield, was born July 3, 1824, a son of Enoch S., a son of
Christopher, a native of Connecticut who there lived and died.
Enoch
S. was born in Connecticut in 1802, and was reared as a mason. He
came to West Bloomfield in 1822, and there married Lucretia S.
Beebe, a native of West Bloomfield, and daughter of Adonijah
M. Beebe, a native of Connecticut and an early settler of West
Bloomfield.
He had four sons and four daughters. The death of Mr. Davison
occurred in 1890, and that of his wife in 1881. Calvin P.
received
common school education, and early in life learned the mason's trade,
and followed it for a number of years. In 1867 he came to East
Bloomfield and purchased seventy-seven acres of land, and has there
since resided. In politics he is a Republican. Calvin
married Ann C. Chase, a native of West Bloomfield and a
daughter of J.
Chase of that place, and they had one son, Frank J., born May 15
1859.
He received an academic education and is a farmer. Mr. Calvin
and family attend and support the Congregational church at East
Bloomfield,
of which his wife is a member.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Henry N. Day, Canandaigua, was born in the town of
Ogden,
Monroe county, May 20 1850. The earliest ancestor we find trace
of was Eliphalet Day, who was born in Washington county July 31,
1788. He came from that county to Monroe county in 1837 where he
died June 28, 1858. He was the father of ten children, four of
whom are living: Oliver H., a retired farmer of Niagara
Falls city; Samuel E. of Spencerport, Monroe county; Harriet Frances,
widow of William Beadle of Canyon Colo.; and Spencer E. Day
of Churchville, Monroe county. Oliver H. Day, the son and father
of our subject, was born in Washington county. His boyhood was
spent in the county of his birth, and he was twenty-one years of age
when his parents moved to Monroe county. He assisted on his
father's
farm until married and then bought a farm for himself, but kept this
one
but three or four years and after a year spent on another farm, he
moved
to Niagara in 1853, where he bought a farm of 200 acres, built stock
yards
and had a contract for feeding stock for the Y. C. R. R. Co., a
business
he was engaged in for five years. He was married October 7, 1841,
to Julia M. Wilder of Attica, and they are the parents of six
children,
five of whom are living: Helen D. Hawley of Round Grove Ill;
Eliza
Davis of Buffalo; Marion Todd of Suspension Bridge; Oliver W. of
Buffalo;
and Henry N., our subject. The early life of our subject after
he was three years old was spent in Niagara county. He was
educated in the common schools, at Brockport Normal School, and Deveaux
College
at Niagara. In 1880 he established the first evaporator in
Niagara
which he conducted for twelve years, and from 1883 he conducted a farm
in Niagara county which he gave up in 1891, and February 4 of that year
he bought the G. B. Sacket farm in Canandaigua. This is one of
the best farms in Canandaigua, containing 200 acres. The
principal products are grain, hay and stock. Mr. Day and wife are
members of the Presbyterian Church in Canandaigua. He married
Elizabeth K. Leach of Lyons and had four children:
Clarence Oliver, born December 30, 1884; Henry Ralph, born June 8 1886;
Edna Louise
born April 21, 1888; and Albert Leach born April 10, 1890. Mr.
and Mrs. Day, parents of subject, still live in Niagara Falls, where
they are spending a happy old age.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Rev. Samuel Mills Day, Richmond, is of the seventh generation
from Ralph Day who came from England in 1636 and settled in Dedham,
Mass. Our subject was born in Richmond August 8, 1827. His
grandfather, Orion, or Orin, a native of Dedham, enlisted in the army
of the Revolution at the age of seventeen. He was at West Point
at the time of Arnold's treason, and remembered well the anxiety of
Washington when reviewing the troops at that place. After the war
he married Joanna Everett of Dedham and settled in Sharon
VT. They had eight children, of whom Warren, the eldest, was born
October 1, 1789. He graduated in 1814 from
Dartmouth College, and then had private instruction in the theological
studies.
He came with his young wife, Sarah Kellogg of Hanover NH, to
Richmond
in 1816 as a licentiate, and began his ministry here at the First
Congregational
Church of Richmond Center. He was ordained and installed pastor
of
the church March 3, 1819, and remained until November 1828. He
then
went to Orangeville and was pastor of the church there two years.
He
was agent of the American Tract Society at Geneva seven years, pastor
at
Enfield four years, returned here, and was pastor of the Center Church
five
years. He went again to Orangeville and was pastor a second time
four
years, after which he resided with his son, Dr. Fisk H. Day, in
Wauwatosa,
a suburb of Milwaukee, nine years. In 1865 he returned to
Richmond
the third time, making his home with his son, S. Mills, until his death
in
1864, May 19. He was buried in the old cemetery at Richmond
Center,
and two years later a monument was erected to his memory by his old
parishioners
and his sons and daughters. By his first wife, he had four
children:
Orrin W., who died early; Ann D., wife of Charles Works of
Rockford
IL; Mary Lydia, wife of John Allington of Freeport IL; and
Parsons
Everett, a lawyer and real estate dealer of Brooklyn. He married
a
second time in 1823, Lydia L. Holbrook of Rushville, a native
of
Cummington Mass., and a schoolmate and near neighbor of William Cullen
Bryant.
She died July 14, 1880. Their children were: Sarah, wife of
the late Marcus C. Riggs of New York; Fisk Holbrook, M. D., now
of
Milwaukee WI; S. Mills; Edward Warren; and Warren Edward. The
last
two died young. S. Mills Day graduated with honors from Union
College,
class of 1850, where he delivered the valedictory address. He
pursued
theological studies at Auburn, graduated in the class of 1852, and was
ordained
and installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hammondsport June 30
of
that year. In April 1857, he went to Havana NY and was pastor of
the
Presbyterian church there four and a quarter years. In 1862 he
became
pastor of the Congregational church at Honeoye, and has been here in
that
capacity ever since. He married in 1852 Lucy E. Maxwell
of Geneva,
a sister of the Maxwell brothers, the well-known nurserymen
there. Their children are: Fannie Maxwell, born in 1853,
died in 1875; Minnie Everett, born in 1855, wife of George Patterson,
a blacksmith and justice of the peace of this town; Maxwell Warren,
born in 1865, graduated at Williams College in 1887, now an electrical
engineer at Lynn MA; and Lucy Holbrook, born 1866, wife of Warren McNair,
stenographer, of Springfield OH. For more than forty years, Mr.
Day has been pastor here, during which time the changes and incidents
that have occurred would make
an interesting volume.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
James C. DeBow, Farmington, was born in Canandaigua
May 30,
1832. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua
Academy, and has always followed farming. October 14, 1856, he
married Luzetta, youngest child of twelve living of Leonard and Marcy Knapp
of the town of Hopewell. They have two children, both sons, Hiram
and Jefferson T.; both well educated at Canandaigua Academy and
Rochester Business University, and are farmers at home.
Mr. DeBow's father, Garret, was born in the Mohawk valley in 1798,
and came with his parents to the town of Canandaigua when a year
old. He married Almira Thurber, formerly of New
Hampshire, and they had two children: James C. and Mary J., who
married Thomas W.
Cost of Hopewell. Mr. DeBow's grandfather, John, was a
soldier
in the Revolutionary War from this State. Mrs. DeBow's father,
Leonard Knapp, was born in Rensselaer county in the year 1785, and came
with his parents to Hopewell when eighteen years old. He married
Marcy Brown of that town (born in New Lebanon RI, and had
twelve
children who grew to maturity: Lucinda, Chloe, Clema, Leonard H.,
A. Henry, Marcy, Elizabeth, Fidelia, B. Franklin, Hiram and M.
Luzetta. Mrs. DeBow's father was a soldier in the War of 1812,
and both families
were among the settlers. Mr. DeBow is a Democrat. Henry F.
Thurber,
recently appointed personal secretary to President Cleveland, is a
first
cousin to James C. DeBow, and is a son of Jefferson Thurber.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Edwin M. Decker, Richmond, was born in Livingston county in
1843. His mother and grandmother were from Massachusetts. He came with
his father and family when an infant to Canandaigua, where he was
educated in the common schools, and he worked by the month until
beginning farming on his own account. He married in 1871, Lydia Child,
daughter of George H. Child, now of Victor, and they have six
children: Albert
E., George L., Fred W., Mary J., Alice J., and Howard W. Eight years
ago Mr. Decker came to Richmond and purchased the Cobb farm of
sixty-five acres in the eastern part of town. He has three acres of
hops, for which he has built a hop house. The father of Mrs. Decker,
George H. Child, was born in Bristol in 1826, and married Josephine Tiffany
of Naples, and the parents of both came from Connecticut to this
county. George H. Child's father, came from Rhode Island, and his
mother came from Massachusetts.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Dominick E. Dempsey, Geneva, son of Daniel and Mary (Hanlon)
Dempsey, was born in Kings county Ireland in 1851, and when he was
three years of age, his parents came to America and settled, buying a
farm whereon subject resided until 1870, when he came to Geneva and
clerked for several years. In 1877 he opened a wholesale and
retail liquor store, and is the only dealer in the county having a
wholesale liquor license. In 1878 he married Mary O'Malley
of Geneva and has one child, Mary Agnes.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
George H. Denton, Canandaigua, was born on his present farm in
May, 1851, a son of Michael, a native of this State, who was born in
Orange county in 1809, and came here about 1850. He then bought the
farm now occupied by George H., where he lived and died in 1883. Of his
four children three are living: Emily J., wife of Byron G. Mapes, of
Canandaigua; Ann E. of Rochester, widow of Egbert Denton, a
manufacturer of Fitchburg, Mass., and George H. The latter has always
lived on this farm and was educated in the common schools and in
Canandaigua Academy under
Prof. U. N. Clarke. He married in 1877 Hattie C. Miles of
Hopewell,
and after his marriage took charge of the farm on his own behalf. Since
then he had added many improvements in new buildings, etc., and has set
out about twenty acres of fruit, comprising peaches, grapes, apples,
pears,
etc. He has two children: Edith A. and Lois. Mr. Denton is a member of
Canandaigua Grange No. 138. He has never taken an active interest in
politics,
but devotes his time and energy to farming.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Jno. Depue, Hopewell, was born in Hopewell on the
farm he now
owns three miles east of Canandaigua. His father, Moses, was born
in 1756 in Sussex county N. J., where he resided many years.
About 1806 he came to New York State and settled where subject now
lives. The family descended from the French Huguenots.
Three brothers, on account of persecutions, left France for Holland,
thence to England and westward to America; settled near New York, one
on the east side of the Hudson River, the others in New Jersey.
They participated in the French and Indian war. One took part in
the Revolution of 1776. Benjamin Depue lived and died in Sussex
county. His wife, Ocee Stuyvesant, was a descendant of
Peter Stuyvesant. These were the parents of Moses Depue, father
of Jno. Depue.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
George M. Deuel, Canandaigua, was born in South
Bristol March
25, 1844, a son of Samuel H. and Priscilla W. (Randall)
Deuel. The grandfather, Daniel, was a native of Dutchess county
and had six children. Samuel H. was born in Dutchess county
August 23, 1811, and came to Bristol about 1832, and married Almyra Coville
and they had four children; three died in infancy, and Joseph C. lived
to be twenty-one years of age, dying August 2, 1858. Mrs. Deuel
died December 29, 1839, aged twenty-seven years, and he married second
Priscilla W. Randall, and they had one son: George
M. Samuel Deuel enlisted in Company A, Eighth New York Cavalry in
November 1862, and was killed at Berryville by guerillas on his
way to Winchester. The boyhood of George M. was spent in South
Bristol, Canandaigua, Ontario and Wayne county. He was seventeen
years old when he began learning the harnessmaker's trade, at which
he worked one year, and for one year worked on a farm. In
politics
he is a Republican, and in 1887 was elected commissioner of
highways.
He married in 1864 Keziah V., daughter of Alonzo B. Lucas, of
Canandaigua, who was a soldier in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment in the
Rebellion, and died October 5, 1892, aged seventy-two years, and they
have four children: Myra A., wife of Alexander Hunn, of
Bristol; Franklin H., married Eva Stiles, a farmer of
Canandaigua;
Louisa M., wife of William Montayne of Canandaigua; and George
M., who lives at home.
From Victor Herald Newspaper 6 July 1895
Memorial Held at St. Paul's Universalist Church,
Victor, N. Y. - Mrs. Augusta Cooper Dewey, the
daughter of Bela Cooper, was born in the town of Farmington, N. Y.,
Dec. 18, 1839. In 1857 she married Eugene B. Dewey. By this marriage
she had three children, two of whom survive, a son, Edmund, of Abiline,
Kansas, and a daughter, Bernardine, who married Herbert Fitch in
1893 and now lives in Canandaigua. Mrs. Dewey was a regular attendant
of this church and was always very active in church work and willing to
do her part. In fact it was while working at this church that she took
a severe cold and died after an illness of about one week, March 31,
1876.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Col. Edmund G. Dewey, Clifton Springs, was born at Clifton
Springs June 2, 1801. His father participated in the War of 1812, and
his grandfathers on both sides went to the Revolution. Colonel Dewey
has passed his life in agricultural pursuits. His first wife whom he
married in 1821 was Sarah Cooper, and they had twelve
children, four of whom
are living. His second wife was Fanny Vanderhoof. They have no
family.
Colonel Dewey commanded an independent rifle company prior to the late
war. He has served as assessor, commissioner of highways and in other
town
offices. He is one of the oldest Masons in New York State; and the
oldest
member of the Universalist church of Clifton Springs. Colonel Dewey has
worn the white flower of a blameless life and has worn it well, and
enjoys
the respect and esteem of the entire community.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Eugene B. Dewey, Victor, was born in the village of
Victor
November 7, 1833, was educated in the district schools and has always
been a farmer. November 7, 1857, he married Augusta Cooper,
of the town of Farmington, and they have had two children: T.
Emmett, who married Arra Etter, of Abilene Kan., where
they reside; and Bernie, who resides at home with his father.
Mrs. Dewey died March 31, 1876. Mr. Dewey's father, Lanson, was
born in Madison county April 2, 1805, and came to this place August 14,
1826. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Mary E. Felt,
of Victor, and they had five children, all living: Bernard M.;
Eugene B.; Gertrude, who married James Frost of Victor; Ellen,
who married Peter Plumb; Ida M., who married Marvin A. Wilber,
now of Victor. Mr. Dewey's father was supervisor of the town
eleven years, and represented the assembly district in the Legislature
two terms, 1862 and 1863. He died the last week of February,
1886, and his mother about the year
of 1852.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
John J. Dewey, Clifton Springs, was born in the town of
Manchester, December 1, 1832. He received a liberal education
in the schools of Ontario county, and at Clinton, Oneida county,
after which he taught school for two years. Then after being engaged
in agricultural pursuits for a few years, he accepted a position as
cashier of the Sanitarium, which position he has held for over twenty
years. Mr. Dewey was appointed postmaster of Clifton Springs, by
President
Harrison about three years ago. At present he is most acceptably
filling
both offices. He married Mary Butler, and they have three
children, all girls. Mr. Dewey is identified with the Masonic
brotherhood, K. of P.,
and other benevolent and social institutions; and is a prominent member
of
the Methodist church here.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
George C. Deyo, Naples, is a son of Ira Deyo, a descendant of
the Huguenots who first settled on the Hudson River, having left France
during the religious wars and persecutions of the sixteenth
century. He died in 1836, leaving six sons, of whom George C. is the
third. They were a remarkable family celebrated for their musical
ability
as well as for their patriotism. Four of them were in the war of the
Rebellion, two of whom died from the effects of the service. S. L., the
oldest of the brothers, was graduated from the Geneva (now Hobart)
College, and edited the Naples Record many years. Their mother
was Betsey Lyon, daughter of Simeon Lyon, one of the original
settlers of Naples. George C. was educated at the select school of
Naples, and married in 1870 Emily J. Dunham, of Philadelphia.
Mr. Deyo was in the dry goods business in New York about twenty years,
but returned to Naples in 1881, and has conducted a general store in
the village since.
From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;
William Steuben deZeng was the son of Frederick Augustus
deZeng, a Saxon nobleman, who came to this country in early manhood,
and who was prominently identified with the early improvements of the
Internal Waterways of the State and with other important enterprises.
He was born at Little Falls, N. Y., March 16, 1793, and named in honor
of Baron Steuben, who was at that time making one of his periodical
visits to Major deZeng, with whom he was on terms of intimacy. Being a
bachelor and pleased at the incident, Baron Steuben remembered it by
leaving his namesake a thousand acres of land.
William deZeng took up his permanent abode in Geneva in 1812. January
7, 1817, he married Caroline Cutbush, daughter of Major James Rees. For
more than half a century he was identified with the growth and
development of Geneva and the region of country surrounding it. He was
early identified with the glass manufacture in this region, both at
Clyde and at Geneva. With the Glass Works was established at Two Mile
Point on Seneca Lake, south of the village of Geneva, for the
manufacture of window glass by the Ontario Glass Works Company, he
connected himself soon after their erection, eventually buying out the
company and conducting the business for some years on his own
account. The business was discontinued for a number of years but was
afterwards, in 1841, resumed by him in connection with his son, James
deZeng, and continued until the manufacture became so unprofitable that
the Works was abandoned.
Mr. deZeng was also actively engaged for many years in mercantile
business in Geneva, and was foremost among its men of affairs and
prominently identified with all its commercial and public interests. In
the establishment of Hobart College he took a warm interest, and his
efforts in its behalf were indefatigable and of great value to the
institution. For many years he was a member of its Board of Trustees,
holding this position up to the time of his death. He gave much
attention to the location of iron and coal fields and his experience in
such matters made his opinion sought for by parties interested, and
many journeys were made by him to Virginia and the Ohio River in that
interest. His business also called him much to the City of New York,
where he was one of the originators of the Manhattan Life Insurance
Company, the presidency of which was offered to him, but declined from
the pressure of other engagements.
The large family that have borne his name were reared and educated in
Geneva and here full of years and ministered unto by the tender care of
an affectionate family, he peacefully passed away in the ninetieth year
of his age. He died at his residence on Hamilton street, Geneva, on the
15th of August, 1882. After the funeral services at Trinity Church on
the 18th his remains were interred in the Washington Street Cemetery,
where his wife, a few years before, had been buried.
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