"Ha" Surname Family Sketches



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

De Witt G. Haire, Canandaigua, was born in Jerusalem, Yates county, July 27, 1844. His father, James, was a native of Starkey, Yates county, born September 11, 1805. In his early day he was a farmer in Jerusalem, and in 1857 located in Hopewell, where he remained six years, then removed to Canandaigua and bought a farm in the northwest part of the town, where he lived six years. In 1869 he moved to the village and spent two years, and in 1871 bought a farm on the old Thaddeus Chapin estate, where he died May 12, 1888. H had five children, three of whom survive: Robie, wife of Bradner Ellis, a mechanic of Canandaigua; Louisa, wife of John A. Fisher, a farmer of Canandaigua; and DeWitt. James Haire was always prominent in church work, and was one of the founders of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Jerusalem. He was a great reader and profound thinker, and in his younger days was prominent in politics, and took great interest in the abolition of slavery. DeWitt was educated in the Canandaigua Academy, and followed farming until 1889 on the farm which he now resides, a fruit farm of fourteen acres. He is at present employed as a commercial traveler with the American Road Machine Co. His farm produces nearly every kind of fruit raised in this section, and has an apple orchard of ten acres. Mr. Haire married in 1870 Emma Kendall, of Tyrone, Schuyler county, and they had one child, James Haire, who lives at home. Mrs. Haire died March 22, 1890, and he married second, February 23, 1892, Sarah, daughter of Dennison Butler, of Naples, Ontario county.



From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;

A. B. Hall was an early resident of Geneva, and continued to reside and do business there until his death, March 4, 1872, being nearly 86 years old. He was a jeweler and watchmaker, and about 1830 occupied the south corner of Seneca and Main Streets. Afterwards he was located on the east side of Exchange Street a little north of opposite the foot of Seneca Street.



From Ontario County Journal 7 June 1889

Gen. Amos Hall was born in Guilford, Conn., and was of the sixth generation from his emigrant ancestor, John Hall, who was born in the county of Kent, England, in 1584, and who emigrated with his family to Boston, Mass., in 1633, where he was made Freeman in 1635. John Hall joined a colony and went to Hartford, Conn., and in the settlement drew lot No. 77, which in late years was the Sigourney place, and still later Governor Catlin's. In 1650 he removed to Middletown, Conn. He was a carpenter by trade and yet he is found to have acted as a surveyor of highways, and by appointment of court took entry and record of goods subject to customs. He held various offices of honor and trust, and seemingly was the patriarch and leader of the new settlement. He died there May 26th, 1673.

His son, Samuel, in the line of Gen. Hall's ancestry, was born in England about 1626 and died in Middletown in 1690. He married Elizabeth Cooke of Guilford, Conn. He was made freeman in 1654, was a farmer, and had also learned his father's trade.

Thomas Hall, son of Samuel, of the third generation, was born in Middletown in 1671, died in Guilford in 1753. He married Mary Cruttenden Hiland. He was captain of militia, moderator of town and society meetings, selectman, etc. His son, Hiland, of the fourth generation, was born in Guilford in 1703; died there in 1781. He married in 1725 Rachel Bishop, grand-daughter of William Hall, an emigrant ancestor from the county of Kent, England, who settled in Guilford, Conn. Their descendants have thus two emigrant ancestors of name of Hall. His son, Captain Stephen Hall, of the fifth generation, and father of Gen. Amos Hall, was born in Guilford Sep. 5th, 1739, and died April 25th, 1783. He married on Nov. 27th, 1757, Abigail Saxton. He was captain of a company in Heman Swift's regiment of the Connecticut line in the war of the Revolution and served through the war. In the roll of his company in the State Department at Washington is found enrolled at the age of fourteen years the name of his son, Amos, as fifer.

Gen. Amos Hall, of the sixth generation from his emigrant ancestors, and a son of Capt. Stephen Hall and Abigail Saxton Hall, was born in Guilford, Conn., Nov. 21st, 1761, and died in Bloomfield, N. Y., Dec. 28th, 1827, aged 66 years. At the age of fourteen, as fifer, he entered his father's company in the war of the Revolution, and served through the war, having the position of sergeant at its close.

In 1786, in the right of his father, then deceased, he received a certificate signed by Gen. Washington, as President, and Gen. Knox as Secretary, of membership in the Order of the Cincinnati, an order established by officers of the Revolutionary army in 1783. This certificate is now in the possession of one of his grand-sons and is valued for the genuine signature of Geo. Washington. In 1788-89, he was connected with one of the surveying corps, engaged in surveying the lands of the Phelps and Gorham purchase in Western New York. In April, 1790, he purchased over 3000 acres in township Ten, Fifth Range, now West Bloomfield; also two lots, No. 3 and half of 19, in Canandaigua village, west of Main street, about, if not exactly, where is now West Gibson street.

He removed to Bloomfield, or to Township Ten, Fifth Range, early in 1790, where he kept bachelor's hall part of two years, when he married on Dec. 11th, 1791, Phebe Coe, of Granville, Mass., and brought her to his western home. In July, as is supposed 1790, by appointment as U. S. Marshal, he took the first census of Western New York, embracing all west of the eastern line of the Phelps and Gorham purchases including Geneva, and reported population by township and range thereon, and included all west of the Genesee River, as 1084 persons, viz: 205 families; white persons, 728 males, 340 females; free blacks, 7; slaves, 9. West of the Genesee River, 24 families.

At the first town meeting of the town or district of Genesee or Geneseo, which embraced all the territory west of the town of Canandaigua, bounded by the lines of the state, held in April, 1791, at Canawagas, Amos Hall was chosen one of its five assessors, which office it is supposed  he held for two years. At the town meetings of the same town held in 1793, '94 and '95, Mr. Hall was chosen supervisor. In 1796, on the organization of the town of Bloomfield, the name of which, it is credibly reported, was suggested by him, Mr. Hall was chosen supervisor thereof, a position to which he was at various times afterward elected, viz: in 1802, '3, '6, '7, '8, '9. He was surrogate of the county of Ontario 1796-98. Was member of assembly from Ontario and Steuben 1798, '99 -- from Genesee and Ontario 1804, '5, and was also elected for 1808 but resigned the office. He was state senator from Western District from 1809 to 1818. Was member of the council of appointment 1809, '10. Was one of the corporate trustees of the Canandaigua Academy 1795. Mr. Hall's engraved likeness appears in the 4th volume of Documentary History of New York.

Mr. Hall was appointed Brigadier General of Militia of Ontario and Steuben counties in 1800, from which time, it is probable, he was known and distinguished as Gen. Hall, and was appointed Major General of the 7th division in 1810. He served on the Niagara Frontier in the war of 1812, and for a short time in the year 1812 was in command of the forces there. In December, 1813, he was in command of hastily gathered forces, when, before organization could be perfected, occurred the battle of Black Rock, which proved disastrous for causes stated by Gen. Hall in his report of same, part of which may be found in the history of Ontario county, published with illustrations in 1876.

Gen. Hall was selected for distribution of landed estates and division of lands, a notable instance of which was the division of the 100,000 acre tract between Sir Johnstone of England, and the State of Connecticut, in which Gen. Israel Chapin was his associate.

Gen. Hall's house, which was about one mile east of the present village of West Bloomfield, was so much resorted to in early days, that it was known and kept as a public inn on the then great thoroughfare of travel for western emigrants and explorers.

It is needless to state that in social life and local affairs of town and society interest, for which he had in adaptation rare qualities, Gen. Hall was conspicuous. His death occurred after a brief illness from what would now undoubtedly be called pneumonia, but was called quick consumption. He suffered from losses by others in business transactions which left him with comparatively small property in advanced life. He had eight sons and one daughter; one died in early manhood, the rest survived him, but none of them now are living. The century has given them their earthly existence and swept them away. Each had a history of incident of more or less importance. To refer to but one will show Gen. Amos Hall was the first supervisor of the town of Bloomfield. His eldest son, Enoch Augustine Hall, known as Col. Hall, was supervisor of Bloomfield during the last five years of its existence as a town, ending with 1832. The town was then divided by vote at town meeting, and one part named East Bloomfield and other West Bloomfield.
 
Brief is life's day and brief the remembrance of many worthy early settlers, even of those who were distinguished as eminently honorable and useful, who fortuitously have had no one to chronicle their deeds and virtues.



From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;

John Hall was an early resident of Geneva, a watchmaker and jeweler; on the east side of Main Street a little south of opposite the south end of Pulteney Park. He finally moved west where he died at an advanced age.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

John B. Hall, Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua August 7, 1842, son of Charles, a native of Lewis county, born September 1, 1815. Charles was a son of John B., who came here from Connecticut. Charles Hall married when a young man Nancy D. Hall, whose parents were Virginians, and whose mother was a Stewart, one of the old Virginia family of that name. Charles died in 1889 leaving three children: a daughter who married Dr. Lutz of this town; Lorenzo C., born August 5, 1845, a lawyer of Canandaigua; and John B. The latter was educated at Canandaigua Academy, and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. He has always made his home on the farm his grandfather settled in 1885. He has always taken an active interest in politics and is a Republican. In 1889-90-91 he served as chairman of the Ontario County Committee. In the spring of 1884 he was elected justice of peace, and on being nominated in 1888 for police justice he resigned his position, and was again nominated and elected to the same office in 1889. Mr. Hall has been for six years treasurer of the Ontario County Agricultural Society, and is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294 F. & A. M. He married February 7, 1866, Mary I., daughter of Jedediah Barnum of Canandaigua, and they have two children: Mary Stewart, and Merton M. Mr. Hall was one of the organizers, and a director (until he was made vice-president) of the Ontario Patrons Fire Relief Association. Lorenzo C. Hall was educated in Canandaigua Academy and after leaving school spent two years on a farm. He then entered the law office of John Callister, was admitted to the bar in 1875, and has ever since been a practicing lawyer of this town. He is a Mason.



From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;

Moses Hall, born August 25, 1776, died May 6, 1867. He was one of the early and most respectable settlers of Geneva. At a very early day he had a blacksmith shop on the east side of Main Street opposite the south end of the park; afterwards an iron foundry on the north side of Castle Street, and few rods west of Exchange Street. His residence was on the south side Castle Street, a little west of Linden Street.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Phillips A. Hall, Seneca, was born in Dutchess county, December 15, 1832. He was educated in the district schools of his day and worked at the carpenter's trade with his father until he was twenty-one years old. He then became a farmer. He has been twice married, first August 6, 1854, Susan L. Padget of the town of Phelps, and they had four children: Lavalden J., Emory W., Frank J., and Fred C. Mrs. Hall died November 17, 1871, and he married secondly Mary F. Lightfoot of this town, June 18, 1873. They have one son, William S., who was educated in the public schools and is one of Seneca's enterprising farmer boys, relieving his parents in many ways of various cares, proving a comfort to both. Mr. Hall's father, Samuel, was born in the city of New York, August 2, 1800, was a carpenter by occupation, and married Elizabeth Gay, by whom he had twelve children. He died April 28, 1870, and his wife November 21, 1889. Mrs. Hall's father, William Lightfoot, was born in Yorkshire, England, October 25, 1805, and came to the United States when a young man. He married Frances Sowersby of his native place. This event took place at Perry, Wyoming county, and they had four children: Ann E., Mary F., Martha B., and Maria J. Her father died in 1881, and her mother the same year. Mr. Phillips Hall enlisted in the War of the Rebellion, September 12, 1864, and served as private until honorably discharged July 1, 1865, near Washington.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Thomas W. Hall, Seneca, was born at Hall's Corners, January 31, 1812. He was educated in the schools of that time, was a farmer with his father until 1838, and has always followed this honorable calling until he retired in 1868. He kept a hotel a short time in connection with his farm business. June 12, 1838, he married Mary A. Sims of this town, and they had four children: Edward, who died at the age of seventeen months; John S., who is a farmer on the home farm. He married Mary J. Fish of this town, and has two children: Roscoe F., and Mary J., both reside at home; Mary J. married James P. Gage of Wisconsin, and they have a son, Charles H.; and Edward E., who married Jennie Dorman, who died, and he resides in town. Mr. Hall's father, Edward, was born in Northumberland, England, in 1774, and came with his parents to the United States in 1801, coming from Albany here in flat boats to Geneva, from there to Hall's Corners through the woods with only marked trees to guide them. He married Jane Wilson, formerly of Yorkshire, England, and they had six children: Sarah, Margaret, Thomas W., Mary, Jane, and Edward N. Mr. Hall's grandfather, Edward, was born at the old home in England, and married Margaret Neven. They had three children, two sons and a daughter. Mr. Hall's father was a constable many years, and held the position of deputy sheriff two terms under Sheriff Phineas Bates. He died in 1860, and his wife in 1832. Mrs. Thomas W. Hall died June 25, 1888.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Elmer Halladay, Manchester, was born in Michigan, April 4, 1856, where he was educated and lived until 1883. He then moved to this State, where he has since followed agricultural pursuits on a farm inherited from his grandfather, Thomas Howland. His wife was Lilla Crane, and they have one daughter.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

D. W. Hallenbeck, Geneva, the present president and principal owner in the Torrey Park Land Company, and otherwise known as one of the leading business men of Geneva, was born in Columbia county, April 7, 1838. Early in life he prepared himself for mercantile pursuits, and, before coming to Geneva, was in business in Catskill, N. Y., Reading, Pa., Hudson, N. Y., and from the city last named came to Geneva in 1868, where he was for many years in the grocery business, and also connected with manufacture and sale of cigars both in Geneva and Rochester. The Torrey Park Land Company was organized in 1889, and in its operations Mr. Hallenbeck has been the leading spirit. He was the president of the People's Building, Loan, and Savings Association. He is also in public affairs in Geneva and its locality, and has held the office of village trustee. In politics Mr. Hallenbeck is an ardent Republican, yet in no manner a politician. He was first married in 1860 to Emma L. Traver, by whom he had three children: Ellsworth L., Frank D., and Louise T. His wife died February 25, 1885, and in January, 1888, Mr. Hallenbeck married Bertha I. Pomeroy, of Geneva.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Dr. Orlando J. Hallenbeck, Canandaigua, was born in Schenectady county in 1853, a son of Charles, a farmer of that county. He was educated in Cobleskill, Schoharie county, at the Union Free School. From there he went to the Geneseo Normal School, and graduated in the classical course in 1875. He taught for two years, and then entered Albany Medical College, from which he graduated in 1879. In the competitive examination he was recommended, and secured the position of resident physician and surgeon of Albany City Hospital, where he remained six months, and then came to Canandaigua, where he has enjoyed a lucrative practice. Dr. Hallenbeck was elected in 1892, on the Republican ticket, coroner of the county. He married in 1880, Eliza P. Ewer, of Mendon, and they have four children: Lois M., Clive E., Claude O., and Mildred. Dr. Hallenbeck is trustee of the Presbyterian Church and a member of the Board of Education; also secretary of the village Society of Physicians, and president of the Canandaigua Anglers' Association.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

David W. Hallock, East Bloomfield, was a native of Norfolk, Eng., born September 5, 1831, is one of eleven children of David and Elizabeth (Gibbs) Hallock, natives of England, who lived and died in their native country. Subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1852 he came to America and started in life for himself. He worked by the month for about four years, and then for several years he rented land. His first purchase was ten acres of land which after three years he sold, and purchased forty acres in Richmond which he still owns. In 1879 he purchased seventy-three acres on which he now resides. This he has increased to 173 acres, on which he has erected a good barn and made many other improvements. He carries on general farming and hop growing. September, 1859, Mr. Hallock married Dalena Nudd, a native of Norfolk, Eng., and daughter of John and Mary (George) Nudd, natives of England who came to East Bloomfield in 1851, and there spent the remainder of their days. Mr. Nudd died in 1856, and his wife in 1863. Subject and wife have ten children: George W., Frank, John B., Emily S., Arthur D., Alice L., Edith M., Maud J., Willie and Howard. Mr. Hallock is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the M. E. church.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;


Burton D. Ham
, East Bloomfield, was born in East Bloomfield, December 8, 1817, a son of Robert and Eunice Gyle Ham.  The grandfather, Thomas, was a son of Gabriel, who came from Scotland and settled near Dartmouth College.  Here Thomas, his son, was born, and he was the father of five daughters and eight sons, three of whom died in the war for independence.  Robert, the fifth son of Thomas, the father of Burton D., was born near New Haven, Conn., and was a tailor by trade.  He moved to New Hampshire, then in 1806 came to Canandaigua, remained two years, then returned and brought his family.  In 1808 he settled in East Bloomfield.  He was one of the organizers of the First Universalist Church and was truly a conscientious Christian.  He owned a farm in Hopewell on which he lived three years, then returned to East Bloomfield and died there aged eighty-three.  He was twice married, first to a daughter of Governor Marsh, of Vermont, by whom he had two sons, Ida and Carlysle, and two daughters, Cilvy and Orell.  He married second Eunice, a daughter of Stephen Gyle, a prominent man of his time, being general purveyor for the Army of the Revolution, and owner of nearly eight entire townships of land in Vermont and New Hampshire at the time of his death.  Subject's father had nine children by his second wife, three sons and six daughters, two daughters and two sons are yet living.  Moses F. Hamm, a prominent and successful businessman of Newark, Wayne county; Helen Leste, of Marion; Eunice Orcutt of West Bloomfield; and Burton D. Ham, of East Bloomfield.  Rev. Robert Ham, brother of Burton and Moses, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Oberlin, O., and died in Cleveland in 1860.  His mother died in Hopewell in 1852, aged sixty-one years.  Burton received a common school education, then taught school several terms, the first term when only sixteen years of age.  He has been a farmer over forty years, and for many years owned several hundred acres of land in East Bloomfield, but now only cares for about 200 acres.  He was an active politician, first Whig then Republican, and for the last seven years a Prohibitionist.  He has been a delegate to county conventions in all twenty-two years, and was constable and collector eight years in succession in the town of Bristol.  He has been a collector of coins, Indian relics, and rare old books for the last thirty years, and now has the best library of old books in Western New York.  He was one of the organizers of the Historical Society and has been a frequent contributor on historical subjects to various journals.  He married Evelina B. Spencer, daughter of George and Pamela P. Spencer, and they have had three children:  Adelaide, wife of Myron Codding; Delia, wife of Jewitt Harvey; and Georgianna B. Ham.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

John S. Hamlin, East Bloomfield, was born in Bloomfield, July 14, 1842, a son of Henry W., a son of Elijah, who was born in Great Barrington, Mass., and came to Bloomfield prior to 1800, and settled on 220 acres near the village. He had eleven children: Henry W. was born October 20, 1807, and died November 30, 1891. He was a farmer and speculator, and always lived in Bloomfield, where he accumulated a large property, owning over 1,000 acres. He served as supervisor and was a Republican. He married Sibyll B. Sears, daughter of Dr. John Sears, of Sharon, Conn., and she died in 1870. They reared six children: John S., Agnes D., Frank H., Anna B., Sarah A, George W. (deceased). John was reared in Bloomfield, and received a district school and academic education. At the age of twenty he began life for himself, first working a farm on shares for two years, when his father purchased 177 acres in East Bloomfield, where he lived about eight years. In 1874 he moved to the village, where he and his brother conducted a meat market several years, also a coal and lumber yard. For three years he has been engaged in the bank which was started by his father and Charles  Steelein 1879. He now owns and operates several farms, comprising about 1,000 acres. He is a Republican and served three terms as supervisor. He has been twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Holcomb and Eliza White, and by her had two sons: William H. and Frederic H. His wife in December, 1879, and he married second Minnie, daughter of George and Jane (Scott) Howell, of Steuben county, by whom he had two children: Marion H. and Sarah H.



From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;

Senator S. H. Hammond was a member of the Geneva bar and ranked high in his profession. He was born in Groton, Tompkins Co., N. Y., November 24, 1828. He graduated from Hobart College in 1854, and then prepared for the profession of law and began practice in Geneva. In 1836 Mr. Hammond was chosen Deputy Attorney General of the State, a position which he held for sixteen years. He also represented his district in the State Assembly and Senate. During his service in the Assembly he was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. From 1891 until the time of his death Senator Hammond was a member of the Board of Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, and rendered to the State very valuable service. He died in Geneva March 8, 1810.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Charles W. Harkness, Gorham, was born in Gorham, September 42 1856, is a son of Daniel P. Harkness. He was educated in the Rushville Union school. January 4, 1882, he married Mary A. Harper, an adopted daughter of Henry and Maria Harper, natives of Canada, who came to Gorham about 1867 and there lived and died, he in 1890 and she in 1887. Charles W. Harkness and wife have one child, Florence M., born December 17, 1889. Mr. Harkness has always been a farmer, and purchased fifty acres where he now lives in 1878. Later he purchased more land, and now owns 110 acres. He is a Republican. His wife is a member of the Congregational church at Rushville, N. Y.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Daniel B. Harkness, Gorham, was born in Potter, August 26, 1831, and was six years old when he came to Gorham with his parents. He was educated in the common schools and Canandaigua Academy, and farming has always been his occupation. October 12, 1854, he married Mary Whitman, a native of Gorham, born May 21, 1832. She is a daughter of Henry G. and Emeline (Stearns) Whitman, of Gorham, who had three daughters and one son. To Mr. Harkness and wife were born six children: Charles W., Albert H. (deceased), Ellen M., Anna L., Isabel C., and Frank H. Mr. Harkness is a Republican and has been justice of the peace for twelve years and assessor six years. Mrs. Harkness's mother was a daughter of Ariel Stearns, a native of Massachusetts, and one of the first settlers here. His wife was Analine Mapes, by whom he had three sons and four daughters. The father of Daniel B. Harkness is Hiram, born in Potter, Yates county, January 2, 1809. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and an early settler of Yates county. His first wife was Miss Foster, and to them were born four children. His second wife was Fannie Larned, by whom he had four children. He was a physician and had an extensive practice. He died in 1819. Hiram Harkness married Eliza, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Sallie White, natives of Massachusetts, who had two sons and four daughters. Mr. Harkness was supervisor six, and assessor several years. For the last twenty years he has lived a retired life, and at present resides with his daughter Emma. He is now eighty-four years old, and has never missed an election, being a Republican. He has two sons and two daughters.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Deroy J. Harkness
, Canandaigua, was born in Potter, Yates county, February 3, 1835, a son of Hiram, a farmer of that town.  When three years of age his father, Hiram Harkness, moved to the town of Gorham, Ontario county.  Deroy J. was educated at the Rushville Academy, and after leaving school followed farming until 1862.  August 22nd of that year, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Forty-eighth N. Y. Vols., and saw service with the Army of the James, serving under General Butler.  In 1864 a connection was formed with the Army of the Potomac, and his regiment was at the battles of Drury's Bluff, Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor, in front of Petersburg, and many other engagements.  He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Fair Oaks, October 27, 1864, and was kept in hospital prison until February 6, 1865, when he was exchanged after which he was mustered out in May of that year.  Returning home he engaged in farming.  In 1884 Mr. Harkness was elected supervisor of the town of Gorham on the Republican ticket and re-elected in 1885 and 1886 by increased majorities.  The fall election of 1891 he was elected county clerk over George Shepard, of Phelps, by a majority of nearly 700.  Mr. Harkness married in September, 1865, Eliza, daughter of John Dunton, of Naples, who died in October, 1881.  He has five children:  Hiram, a farmer; John, of the county clerk's office; Fred, a farmer; Fanny; and Adelaide.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893

Newton Harrington, Shortsville, was born in the town of Farmington, August 5, 1833. His ancestors settled in Otsego county in 1819. They had participated in the war of the Revolution. Mr. Harrington's father was Calow H. Harrington, and his mother's maiden name was Martha Winslow. He is the youngest of his father's family, with the exception of one child who died at three years of age. Newton followed the cooper's trade in Chicago for a time, being foreman there of a factory, after which for thirteen years he was engaged in the trucking business. In 1875 he sold out and returned to Ontario county, where he has since been connected with the hotel business, in Manchester and Geneva. In 1880 Mr. Harrington bought the Shortsville hotel, which he rebuilt and refurnished throughout, making it now a first-class hotel, besides which he owns considerable real estate here. His wife was Jenette Chamberlain.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Charles Harris, Gorham, was born in Gorham in 1831 on the farm settled by his grandfather Isaac. The latter married Jane Freier, and they came from Ulster county in an early day. The father of Charles was Francis, born in Ulster county in 1797, who came with his parents to Gorham. He married Harriet Johnson, and had seven sons and four daughters. Charles Harris married in 1856 Irene Metcalf, born in Naples, February 18, 1826, a daughter of Lemuel Metcalf, a native of Massachusetts, who came with his father, Jabez, to Naples and Married Almira Parish, by whom he had nine children. He died in 1866 and his wife in 1867. Charles Harris has five children: Clara, born in 1859, died in 1873; Hattie, born in 1861; H. Stanley, born in 1862, A. Metcalf, born in 1862; Mary E., born in 1867. H. Stanley was educated in Canandaigua Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Martha Caward, born in Seneca, a daughter of William and Martha Caward of that town, and they have one son, Raymond C. A. Metcalf Harris was born in 1862, and educated in Canandaigua Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Rosina B., daughter of Robert and Ann Lightfoot, natives of England, who reside in Gorham. A. M. Harris and wife have two children; Nellie M. and Howard R. The Harris family are Methodists, and H. S. Harris and father are both holding offices in the church. Three of Francis Harris's sons were ministers: Hiram, a Presbyterian minister, and Horace and Isaac, Methodist ministers.



From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;

Ieuan B. Harris was born in Chicago, Ill., of Welsh parents. He entered the employ of the American Tobacco Company when 19 years of age as an apprentice and continued in the service of that company until 1914 after a steady rise to an executive position. Mr. Harris came to Geneva in 1915 and purchased a home on Lochland Road shortly after his marriage to Miss Laura Houghton of this city. In 1922 Mr. Harris was named a commissioner of police under Mayor Robert A. Catchpole. In November 1923, he was elected supervisor from the First City District and served as such until he resigned on May 28, 1931. During his career as supervisor he was chairman of a number of committees including the all important finance committee. He was also chairman of the public health committee. Mr. Harris has recently removed from Geneva and is now living in Connecticut.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

John Harris
, Gorham, is a native of New York, born May 10 1831.  He is a son of John and Margaret Harris, who had two sons and one daughter.  They lived on Lake Ontario a number of years.  Mr. Harris died when John was seven years old and the latter then lived with Ephraim Archer until twenty years of age.  He next worked by the month and ran a threshing machine for some time, after which he purchased a farm of fifty acres (now owned by Mrs. Powell.)  This he sold and purchased fifty acres of the old homestead, owned by the great-grandfather of Mrs. Harris.  The house in which he resides was built by her grandfather, Gilbert Wood.  January 22, 1868, he married Sylvia M., daughter of Joel Wood.  To subject and wife were born three children:  Albert J.; Fred N.; and Hattie E.  Albert J. graduated from the Canandaigua Academy in 1891, and is now a teacher in Gorham.  Mr. Harris is a Republican, and attends the Congregational Church at Reed's.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Levi Haskell
, Canandaigua, was born in Belchertown, Hampton county, Mass., January 18, 1811.  His father, the Rev. Eli Haskell, was born in the town of Dudley, the same county, in the year 1783.  He removed with his family to Bristol, Ontario County, in 1816.  He was a well educated man for his time, and was ordained to the ministry in 1823, and became pastor of the Baptist church of Bristol, which he served three years.  He then removed to Canandaigua and was pastor of the First Baptist Church for twenty-seven years.  During his pastorate he preached 267 funeral sermons, baptized 143 persons and married 113 couples.  He did a great work in what was then new country, enduring hardships as a pioneer, and preaching the gospel as a missionary in different towns of the county.  He was married in his native State to Elizabeth Tower, by whom he had eight children:  Abel, a Baptist minister, who died in Penfield, December 21, 1865; Levi, a farmer, who died December 16, 1889; Eli, a cabinet maker, who died in Wisconsin, August 16, 1866; Isaac and William (twins), both died in Michigan; Jeremiah, ticket agent N. Y. C. R. R. Co., died in Batavia in 1876; Achsah married Samuel Shaw now residing in Mason, Mich.,; Nancy died April 9, 1844, aged sixteen.  Levi, the second son, was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and taught school several terms.  He married Catherine L. Wilcox, who was a native of Connecticut, and settled on the farm where he spent the remainder of his life.  He always took a keen interest in public affairs, was a man of strong convictions, and very determined in what he believed to be right.  He was identified with the First Baptist church of Canandaigua.  They had six children:  Edson, who served three years in the army, died July 8, 1877, aged forty-one years; Sarah E. died October 31, 1852, aged fourteen; Mary died April 1, 1886, aged forty-six; Salem, who now resides on the farm owned by his father; Abel, a resident of Canandaigua, and Gilbert E., the youngest, residing on a farm adjoining the old homestead.  Salem attended school at Canandaigua Academy.  He is a Republican, in interested in public affairs and is now one of the assessors of the town.  He with his brother, Gilbert, now owns the old homestead and the adjoining farm.  He married May 26, 1880, Annette Green, daughter of Kelley W. Green of South Bristol.  They have one child, Anna E., born November 2, 1883.  Gilbert E. also was educated at Canandaigua Academy and spent seven years as a teacher, and then located on the farm where he now resides.  He is a Republican and interested in public affairs.  He has always taken an active interest in Sabbath school work, is a member of Academy Grange No. 62, is one of the directors of the executive committee of the company, and for two years was master of the Ontario County Grange.  He married March 13, 1878, Carrie E., also daughter of Kelly W. Green.  They have two children:  Katherine A. born March 20, 1881, and Martin G. born January 4, 1890.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Abel Haskill, Canandaigua, was born on the homestead farm March 16, 1845, and educated in Canandaigua Academy and Lima Seminary. In 1871 he went to Missouri and bought a farm, which he conducted until the financial panic of 1872-73. In 1880 he bought the Alvin Pennoyer farm of 112 acres, which is his present home. He has added many improvements to this farm in the way of new buildings, and has cleared it of every debt. He has also moved his family to Canandaigua village to give his children better educational facilities. Mr. Haskill married in 1872 Fanny, daughter of John McGee, a farmer of Missouri, and they have three children: J. Earl, born in Missouri, July 16, 1873; William P., born in Canandaigua, December 16, 1874; and Nellie F., born in Canandaigua, January 6, 1876. Mr. Haskill is a member of Academy Grange, in which he has held many offices, the last year secretary. Mr. Haskill makes the culture of hops his principal crop.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

A. Chandler Hathaway, Bristol, a native of Bristol, was born February 23, 1822, and is a son of Abial, a son of Seth, a native of Vermont, who came to Bristol about 1804. His wife was Bathsheba Gooding, and they reared seven sons and four daughters. He settled on a farm (part of which subject now owns). He was an Anti-Federalist and was the first justice of the peace in Bristol, appointed by the governor. Abial was born March 1, 1786, and came to Bristol when a young man. He married Mary, a daughter of Isaac (born June 26, 1752) and Ann (born December 30, 1756) Pool, of Dighton, Mass. Abial had three sons and four daughters. He was engaged mostly in manufacturing woolen cloth at Bristol. He was a Democrat and was justice of peace many years and was a prominent Free Mason. He died November 5, 1843, and his wife June 12, 1859. Subject was reared as a wool carder and when sixteen years of age came with his parents to the farm he now owns, and has here since resided. He learned the cooper's trade and followed it a number of years, but farming has been his principal occupation. He married H. Augusta Cornell of Bristol, a daughter of Isaiah S., who was a son of Stephen Cornell, and was born in Dighton, Mass., May 7, 1802, and married Eliza Gregg of Bristol, a daughter of George and Betsy (Gooding) Gregg, natives of Massachusetts. Mr. Cornell and wife had four sons and three daughters. The youngest son, Mervin E., was killed at the battle of Antietam at the age of twenty years. Mr. Cornell died in 1853, and his wife on May 14, 1843. To subject and wife were born two children: M. Agnes, who graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and is now a teacher; and James M., formerly a teacher, but now a farmer. Mr. Hathaway has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and family are members of the Universalist Church, and he has been chorister for fifty years. He and Billings T. Case formed the committee to raise money to build the church and carried it on very successfully, having the church paid for when built, also the parsonage. Mr. Hathaway missed but one meeting for twenty years in succession, and that was at the death of his mother.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Joseph P. Hathaway, Farmington, was born on the old Hathaway homestead in Farmington, August 31, 1833. He was educated in the district schools and in the Canandaigua Academy, and is now a farmer. February 20, 1861, he married Ellen A., second daughter of Arnold A. and Maria Bristol, of Macedon, Wayne county, and they have three children, as follows: Elizabeth, who married Andrew J. Hamm, of Macedon, Wayne county; Arnold B., a farmer with his father; and Ellen, who married Charles C. Gunnison. Mrs. Hathaway died June 12, 1874, and he married second, September 25, 1878, Mrs. Helena Beach, of Victor. Perez, father of Joseph P. Hathaway, was born on the old homestead July 12, 1805. He was educated in the district schools, and March 7, 1822, married Hannah Lapham, by whom he had four children: Elizabeth C., who died in her eleventh year; Joseph P., Ann M., who married George Collins, and Rebecca J., who died in 1873. Mr. Hathaway's grandfather, Isaac, was the pioneer of the family in this town. He was born in Rhode Island, October 28, 1755, and in 1784 married Jemimah Comstock, of Rhode Island, by whom he had two children, Isaac and Otis. Soon after their marriage his wife rode horseback from there here, and used a poplar sprout as a whip; on arriving home she planted the whip by their log house, which has since grown into a large tree. She died in 1793. For his second wife he married, May 4, 1794, Elizabeth Richmond, formerly, of Connecticut and they had four children: Sylvester R., Charles, Phoebe and Perez. The family were of the Friends' faith. The fifth generation is now residing on the farm, a granddaughter of Joseph P. Hathaway. The first settler of the family bought 600 acres on these four corners, about 240 acres of which is still in possession of the descendants of the family.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Thomas Hawkes, Manchester, was born in England, February 7, 1835. He received a liberal education in the public schools, and in 1854 came to this country and engaged in the business of market gardening. This branch of industry he has since been extensively connected with, owning market gardens both here and in the south. About three years ago he sold his southern interests, and has since devoted himself exclusively to his home trade. Mr. Hawkes married an English lady, Ann Harvey, and they have had nine children, some of whose bright intellects are recognized both in this country and far off Burmah, where a daughter of subject has withstood the hardships of that climate for the past four years, engaged in teaching and missionary work.



From Victor Herald 30 March 1900

Jeremiah Hawkins was born in Otisville, Orange county, March 5, 1792. In early life he learned the carpenter's trade, and was a volunteer in the war of 1812-14. He married Mahala Tooker, of Newburg, Orange county. He came to Victor about the year 1817, with his wife and small household possessions, on
a one-horse wagon, which he made himself. He purchased some land and built a house about a half mile east from the residence of William F. Hawkins. He worked at his trade and at farming for many years, investing his savings in adjoining farms until he became one of the largest land owners in the town. It is said he was a man of great energy and perseverance, with a quick, active mind and sound judgment. In politics he was a staunch Republican, and frequently represented the town on the board of supervisors and in other minor town offices. He held considerable stock in the old Auburn & Rochester railroad, which was built and put in operation about 1840. In early life, he became a member of the M. E. Church in Victor, paying his subscription for building the first church edifice by making the sash for the windows, he being the only carpenter in town capable of doing that work, and at that time too poor to pay his subscription in cash. He was a liberal subscriber for the present church edifice and gave $1000 toward the purchase of the organ. He died November 20, 1875, and his wife died July 6, 1889.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;


Thomas W. Hawkins
, Geneva, son of Thomas and Abbie (Rogers) Hawkins, was born in Manchester NY in 1859.  He was educated at Geneva, and in 1881 began business there, continuing five years.  He has since that time been in the wholesale and retail liquor business, and is interested in several local manufacturing enterprises and in real estate.  He has been trustee of the village six years.  Politically a Democrat, he takes an active interest in politics.  In 1881 he married Esther T. Smith, of Geneva, and they are the parents of six children.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

William F. Hawkins, Victor, was born on the old homestead farm north of the village of Victor, April 8, 1827. He was educated in the district schools and Canandaigua Academy, and was a farmer, but now retired from business. In April, 1855, he married P. Jane Mulock of Middletown, Orange county, and they have four children: Jeremiah W., born November 5, 1860; he was educated in the public schools, Canandaigua Academy and Lima Seminary, and is a farmer; December 28, 1881, he married Helen E., daughter of Dr. George H. Bennett of Lima, Livingston county; they have one son, George W., born October 22, 1883; Nellie E., who married Dr. Daniel Tillitson, now a practicing physician in the city of Corning, Steuben county; they have one daughter, Callie L.; G. Frank is a farmer on the homestead and a bachelor; and Nellie M., who resides with her parents. Mr. Hawkins's father, Jeremiah Hawkins, was born near Otisville, Orange county, March 3, 1792. When quite young he began to learn the carpenter's trade, and married Mahala M. Tooker of Newburg, Orange county. After exacting a promise from his brother to care for his father and mother, he started with his wife and household possessions on a one-horse wagon which he made himself. After looking over the territory, he located half a mile east of where his son, William F., now resides. He followed his trade for ten years and devoted the balance of his time to farming. He was a man of rare judgment and great industry. He died November 20, 1875, and his wife July 6, 1890. Mrs. Jeremiah W. Hawkins's father, Dr. George H. Bennett of Lima was born at Avon, Livingston county, June 9, 1820, a celebrated physician in that region for many years, and was a graduate of Buffalo Medical College. In politics he was a Democrat, and held the position of supervisor when he died, and also president of the World's Medical Association, and was a thirty-second degree Mason. In the late war he was a surgeon in the New York State Volunteers, was also an honored member of Sheridan Crandall Post No. 225 G. A. R. of West Bloomfield. October 23, 1848, he married Mrs. Eliza (Atwater) Dunlap of Ovid, Seneca county, and they had nine children: Charles A., Emma M., George D., John W., Eliza P., Helen E., Jason J., Ernest W., and Amanda J. Dr. Bennett died February 2, 1893, mourned by a bereaved wife and children and many friends.



From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Joseph Byron Hayes, Canandaigua, was born at Canandaigua in 1834. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Ontario county. He prepared for college at the Franklin Academy, Prattsburg, N. Y., and at the Canandaigua Academy, graduating with the degree of A. B. from Williams College in 1854, and from the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of M. D. in 1860. He married Louisa A., daughter of Chester and Eliza R. Coleman, in 1861. He took a prominent part both in the County and Village Medical Societies, and was a deacon of the Congregational Church from early manhood until his death. Dr. Hayes died July 17, 1890. Three sons survive him: Edward G., George B. and Chester C. Hayes.



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