"G" Surname Family Sketches



From Victor Herald 20  April 1900

William Gallup was born in Brighton, Monroe county, in the year 1817. His childhood and youth were spent in Brighton and Henrietta, during which he obtained a good education, and engaged in teaching in his early manhood. Mr. Gallup came from Brighton to Victor in 1842, and taught school in what is known as the Camp district for three years; then on Boughton Hill for two years. In 1847 he married Caroline Boughton, and with her taught the Macedon Union School for about a year and a half. From Macedon they went to Fairport, where Mr. Gallup went into the mercantile business with T. W. Dickenson, teaching school in the winter. In the early fifties, Mr. and Mrs. Gallup came to Victor, he going in as clerk in the store with Arah P. Dickenson & Co., purchasing an interest in the business in 1857. After a time Mr. Dickenson retired from the firm, which was continued by Mr. Gallup and Myron H. Decker until 1884, when Mr. Decker retired from the business, and Mr. Gallup's son, Wm. B., was taken into partnership. This arrangement continued until the death of Mr. Gallup, March 8, 1890, since which time Wm. B. Gallup has carried on the business alone. As a teacher Mr. Gallup was popular the very necessary ability of imparting instruction in such a manner as to be understood and appreciated, and the faculty of maintaining good order in school and retaining the good will and respect of his pupils. Many who were his pupils are now fathers and even grandfathers and cherish the most pleasant memories of the days spent under his care and tuition. Mr. Gallup was of a very genial disposition and enjoyed a good company, and none could appreciate a joke or tell a laughable story with greater zest than he. In his forty years dealings with the people he was ever found advocating sound principles, favoring that which he considered was for the right; and always interested in the welfare and advancement of public education.



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

George S. Galusha, Phelps, was born in Yates county, July 14, 1857, one of four children of Clark and Eunice (Burnett) Galusha. The father, Clark Galusha, was born in Otsego county, his wife being a native of Phelps. Simeon, the grandfather, was a native of Otsego county. George S. married, September 26, 1877, Mary Isabel Thatcher, one of four children of Jesse and Cyntha (Estey) Thatcher, of Hopewell. Mr. Galusha has lived in the town of Phelps since he was four years of age. His farm is used for the production of the variety of crops common to this section.



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

William H. Gambee,
Geneva, was born in Varick, Seneca county, February 4, 1833. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from Lima Seminary. He has always been a produce dealer and farmer. January 4, 1860, he married S. Elizabeth Boyd, who was born on the place on which they reside, north of Geneva, her father's homestead. They have one daughter, Nellie E., who was married on February 5, 1893, to Edward Hooper, of Newark, Wayne county. Mr. Gambee's father, William, was born in Pennsylvania about 1792, and married Agnes Armstrong. They had six children: John Y., Mary E., Isaac T., William H., Annie and Lavina. Mrs. Gambee's father, David Boyd, was born in Pennsylvania about 1796, and married Ann Ringer, by whom he had eight children: John, Isabella, Robert, Sarah E., Elvira, Charles, Elizabeth and David. David Boyd served in the War of 1812, and Mr. Gambee's father, William, was also in that war. Mr. Gambee was a sutler in the Army of the Potomac in the late war.



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


Edwin J. Gardner, Farmington, was born in Farmington January 22, 1853. He was educated in the public schools and follows farming. He is a justice of the peace in the town of Farmington, also does some photographic work for his friends. March 30, 1880, he married Roseline R., daughter of John J. and Lydia B. Doty of this town. Mrs. Gardner was born in Farmington September 15, 1860, and they have two children, Mary R. and Lindley J. Mr. Gardner's father, John W., was born in the town of Rensselaerville, Albany county, was one of a family of twelve children, was a brother of Sunderlin P. Gardner, and his father was Elisha W. He was born November 13, 1814, and married Anna B. Colton of Farmington. They had eight children: George W., Sarah P., Anna E., Leonard W., Charlotte S., Marium A., Edwin J. and Charles H. John W. Gardner died February 23, 1875. Mrs. Gardner's father, John J. Doty, was born in Washington county July 15, 1812, and came here with his parents when he was a boy. He married twice, first in 1834 to Amy Lane, and had one son, John S. For his second wife he married, August 27, 1836, Lydia B. Wilson of Morris county, N. J., and had five children: Mary W., Susan J., Charles E., John M., Roseline R. Mr. Doty died September 23, 1878.



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

Elisha W. Gardner, Canandaigua, was born in Farmington November 26, 1826, a son of Elisha W. Gardner, a farmer of that town, born in Rhode Island and resided in a few years in Albany county NY, where he married Sarah, daughter of General Patterson, of Revolutionary fame, and came to Ontario county in 1810 and settled in Farmington.  They had twelve children, three of them now living:  Rev. Sunderland P. Gardner of Farmington; Mrs. Miriam Sheldon of Barry Orleans county; and Elisha W., our subject.  The early life of our subject was spent on the homestead farm.  He was educated at Macedon Academy, and taught in district schools and Macedon Academy, preparing for college at Lima Seminary.  On the formation of Genesee College he spent one year there.  He practiced civil engineering for a few years and then entered the New York State and National Law University at Ballston Springs, graduating with the degree of LL.B. in the fall of 1851.  Chancellor Walworth was president of the University at that time.  He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court that same fall, and immediately opened an office in Canandaigua and has continued in practice here ever since.  In 1854 he was admitted to the United States District and Circuit Courts, in which his practice has been quite extensive, and has argued a large number of causes at the General Term and in the New York Court of Appeals, and he has been a very successful lawyer.  Mr. Gardner has been an active partisan of the Republican party since its formation in 1856, but has never been an aspirant to political office.  In 1856 and 1860 he made many speeches throughout the State in the interests of the new party.  Mr. Gardner married in 1852 Sarah A., daughter of William Pound, of Farmington.  Mrs. Pound was a sister of Rev. Dr. Goodell, well known as the Turkish missionary.  Mr. Gardner has three children:  Mary J.; Helen A.; and Edwin P., of Ontario County Journal.



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

Peter Garlock, Phelps, was born in Phelps, October 6, 1832. He was one of nine children of Abram and Catharine (Cook) Garlock, of Montgomery county. The grandfather was Peter, and his father emigrated to this country from Holland at an early day. Peter Cook, the grandfather on the mother's side, was a native of New Jersey. Peter Garlock married in 1857 Maria Van Devort, of Phelps, who died in 1886 leaving seven children: Ellen (Mrs. O. M. Lincoln), Abram, Thomas, Charles, Kate, Alfred and Jessie M. He subsequently married Cecilia Smith, of Rochester, and they have two children: Arthur, and Grace. Mr. Garlock spent twenty-seven years in Arcadia, the rest of his life in Phelps. In 1863 Peter Garlock began distilling cider-brandy and peppermint, and has continued in that business. In 1879 he started the mill in Phelps where he is now located, adding improved machinery in 1885. In 1889 his son, Charles Garlock, went into business with his father, under the firm name of P. Garlock & Son. Their plant has a capacity of from 2,500 to 3,000 barrels per year.



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

William Garratt
, Canandaigua, was born in Stanley, Seneca county, March 7, 1854, a son of Charles, a farmer of that town, who came to this country from England in 1850.  He had 10 children, of whom William was the fifth son.  The latter's boyhood was spent in Seneca county, and he was educated in the common schools of Seneca and Ontario counties.  His father moved into Gorham in 1865, where he died August 26, 1889, at seventy-three years of age.  Our subject lived on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, and then engaged in the manufacture of carriage and wagon spokes, which business he has since followed.  In the fall of 1880 he moved into Canandaigua, where he bought out the small spoke factory of his brother, John, and increased the capacity of the mill by the addition of new machinery, and enlarging the building.  Mr. Garratt is also a dealer in all kinds of hard wood lumber and kindling wood.  The spokes manufactured by Mr. Garratt are shipped all through New York and the Eastern States.  Mr. Garratt also conducts farms in this vicinity aggregating 269 acres.  He married in 1888 Carrie E., daughter of O. E. Brocklebank, a carpenter of Canandaigua, and they have one child, Charles A., now in his third year.  The mill is located at the foot of Main street, and his residence is near on the Lake Road.  The mother of our subject, Hannah (Hibbell) Garratt, is a resident of Canandaigua, now in her seventy-sixth year.



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

John Gartland, Jr., Canandaigua, was born in Canandaigua October 25, 1859, a son of John, a native of Ireland, who came to this country in 1849 and located in Canandaigua. John, jr., was educated in the common schools and early in life engaged in butchering, which he has always followed. October 26, 1887, he, in company with William Boyle, established a market in Canandaigua which they conducted together until August, 1892, when Mr. Gartland bought out the interest of Mr. Boyle and has since conducted the market alone. He has a commodious market at 153 Main street, where he carries a large stock of fresh and salt meats, game and poultry, and in the rear conducts a sausage manufactory. Mr. Gartland married, June 30, 1885, Jennie E., daughter of Terrence Clarke, and they are the parents of three children: Willie C., Annie M., John Leo Edward. Mr. and Mrs. Gartland are members of the Catholic Church.



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

Gatchel Family, Origin and Descendants of the -- 1st William Gatchel, grandfather and great-grandfather to the generation of descendants now living, was born April 13, 1733, birthplace no known, but lived in the town of Chazy, near Lake Champlain, in northern part of New York State. At an early date he married Eunice Graves, by whom he had the following children, to wit: William, Nancy, Don A., Harvey, Saphronia and Lamentta. William Gatchel died January 24, 1805. 2d, William Gatchell, father of the present living generation, was born in Chazy, November 7, 1896. At an early age the family removed to Oneida county, this State, where he learned the clothier's trade, which he followed successfully for several years. In 1821 he left his parental home and came to Farmington, Ontario county. April 2, 1822, he married Huldah Herendeen, daughter of Welcome Herendeen, one of the first pioneer settlers in town (Farmington). By this marriage four children came to bless their home, namely: William H., Welcome D., Harriet A., and Arthur M. These children are all living and situated as follows: William H., now owns and lives on the homestead farm; Welcome D., now living in Louisville, Ky., a seller of photo stock supplies, married Frances Tripp of Walworth, Wayne county, N. Y., March 19, 1856. Four children were born to them, to wit: Mary, now married and living in West Virginia; next came Albert D., now living in Birminham, Ala; Willie A., who died at the age of four; and Frank T., a recent graduate at Yale College. Harriet A. married Theodore E. Lawrence, formerly of Cayuga county, N. Y., March 24. 1875. They have one son, William. Mr. Lawrence died October 7, 1888. He had successfully followed farming for a business. Arthur M., unmarried, is now living on the old home farm with his older brother and widowed sister and son. William Gatchel, the father, died September 23, 1871. Huldah Gatchel, the wife, died November 7, 1868.



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

Curtis C. Gates
, West Bloomfield, was born August 3, 1809.  His father, Marvin, was born in 1757 and came from Colchester, Conn., a year later than his brother, Daniel.  In 1799 he built the house, now the property of Curtis, and occupied by Charles Hopkins of North Bloomfield.  Marvin was a farmer, and in company with his brother, Daniel, was interested in a saw-mill at that place, also making brick there, early in the present century.  January 16, 1798, Marvin married Rachel Coe of Granville, Mass., born in 1768.  Their children were Orpha, Melancton, Marvin, Reynold and Curtis Coe.  With Daniel and Marvin came their father, Captain Josiah Gates, a Revolutionary soldier, who was, however, too aged to enter into active work.  Orpha, the oldest child, married John Lloyd of this place in 1819, by whom she had ten children, of whom Eunice now makes her home with her Uncle Curtis, both parents being deceased.  Curtis C. has been three times married.  His first wife was Mercy Malvina Leach, whom he married in 1838 and by whom he had one son, Robert Lewis, his only child, born in 1839.  He was in the Seventh Ohio Infantry in the late war and was killed at the battle of Port Republic MD, June 9, 1862.  An interesting relic in the shape of an old Bible, brought by Mrs. Marvin Gates from Massachusetts, bears date of 1754, Edinburgh.  Mrs. Gates was a descendant in the seventh generation of Robert "Cooe" of Milford, Suffolkshire, England, who, with his wife, Anna, and three sons sailed from Ipswich April 10, 1634.



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


Preston L. Gates,
West Bloomfield, son of Alfred, was born September 30, 1842. His grandfather, Daniel, who, with his brother, Marvin, was a pioneer in that part of the town (then known as Smith's Mill's), came from Colchester, near New London, Conn., in May, 1789. He was the first comer by one year. The old homestead was built in 1802, and is one of the few ancient landmarks of the locality. Of his family Alfred was born January 25. 1807, and married Catharine Pratt of this town, by whom he had two children, Preston L. and Catharine, the latter dying at the age of twenty-one years. His wife died in 1844, and he married second Sarah Emeline Pratt, sister of his first wife, who now resides on the old homestead. Alfred died in April, 1890, at the age of eighty-six. Preston L. was educated at the district schools and has always followed farming. For the past twenty years he has had charge of the old farm. He married in 1866 Helen R., daughter of George Davis, of Honeoye Falls, and they have two sons: Lewis E., born in 1867, married and resides on the old homestead; and Alfred D., born in 1871, lives with his parents. Mr. Gates is a Prohibitionist in politics. He lives on the old place on which he has erected a fine modern house. He is increasing his dairy interests, introducing Jersey stock, and is the owner of many fine animals of that breed. He is also interested in the culture of bees and fancy poultry.



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

Ashman B. Gauss
, East Bloomfield, was born on the farm where he now resides, February 24, 1831, a son of Thayer and Electa (Beebe) Gauss.  The grandfather, Benjamin, came to Bloomfield and married Sarah Codding of Bristol, (the first white woman married on the Phelps and Gorham purchase), and in 1789 left Berkshire, Mass., and settled on 320 acres of land where the subject resides, where he lived until his death October 5, 1854, aged eighty-nine years.  He served through the Revolutionary war, and lost his toes by being frozen.  His wife died January 22, 1847, aged seventy-nine years.  They had six children:  Benjamin, jr.; Thayer; Sally; Phoebe; Mary and Abbie.  His son, Thayer, was born April 27, 1797, in the house where subject now resides.  He was the owner of considerable real estate, and during the War of 1812 he traded in Buffalo.  He was one of the trustees of the Congregational Church for over forty years, and contributed liberally to public improvements.  He died December 19, 1879, and his wife February 11, 1883, aged seventy-eight years.  She was the daughter of Ashman Beebe, an old settler of East Bloomfield.  Thayer Gauss and wife had five children:  Eliza and Electa (twins); Lurinda; and Ashman B.; besides one who died in infancy.  Our subject has remodeled his father's and grandfather's home ( which has been in the family since 1793), and occupies 160 acres of the half section taken by his grandfather.  He married October 21, 1858, Mary L., daughter of Lewis and Mary (Talmadge) Goodwin, who came from Plymouth, Conn., to Gates, Monroe county.  Mr. and Mrs. Gauss have had three children:  Lewis T.; Lucy H.; and Charles T.  Mrs. Gauss is a member of the Episcopal Church.



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

Melvin S. Gaylord, present mayor of Geneva, has been for many years associated with the Dorchester & Rose Hardware Company, of which he is now principal owner. He was born in Geneva, March 3, 1871, the son of John B. Gaylord and Anna Howard. His education was in the Geneva schools and his association with the Dorchester & Rose Company has continued form 1885 to the present time. He was a member of the Common Council from 1899 to 1901 and from 1926 until he was elected Mayor in 1929 for four years; school collector 1900-11; and is president of the Board of Trustees of the Geneva General Hospital. He has had a long and distinguished military service with Company B and is at present its captain. He is a Mason, an Elk and a member of the Hydrant Hose Company. His wife was Miss Jessie Fidler and they reside at 172 Hamilton street.



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

Thomas H. Gerow
, Phelps, only son of six children of Oliver and Lucy (Howard) Gerow, was born in Phelps March 26, 1832.  Oliver, the father, was born in Westchester county, and came to Phelps in early life.  Lucy Howard, the mother, was born in Dutchess county.  Thomas H. married Harriet A. Pardee of Phelps, daughter of Israel and Phirza (Crosby) Pardee, and they have three children:  Gertrude (Mrs. Albert Williams); Hattie H.; and Milton P.  Mr. Gerow's farm of 100 acres is used principally for grain.  He is a representative citizen and has served the town as road commissioner continuously for eight years.



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

Levi Gifford, Canandaigua, was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, December 22, 1818, a son of Nathaniel, a farmer of that county. The early life of Levi was spent in Pittstown, and he was educated in the common schools. After leaving school he taught about eleven years. When twenty-two years of age he came to Ontario county, teaching in Gorham until 1845, when he bought a farm there. This he sold in 1858 and bought the farm on the west shore of the lake where he has since made his home. Mr. Gifford never gave any attention to politics or anything that would detract from his interest in the farm. He died November 19. 1889. He was three times married, and by his first wife, Alida Van Dercook, had two children, but one is now living, Mary Frances, wife of John Douglas, of Troy. Mrs. Gifford died September 29, 1849, and he married second Olive Weatherwax, of Schenectady county, who died December 21, 1853. His present wife, Mary Jane Weatherwax, he married February 1, 1855, and they have had eight children, seven of whom are living: O. Alida, wife of John P. Sanford, of Gorham; Ella M., wife of O. J. Cooley, of Canandaigua; Minnie E., wife of S. G. Bates of Syracuse; Matilda, wife of E. D. Spangler, jeweler of Canandaigua; Puaala, wife of M. S. Elden, an electrician of Williamsport, Pa.; Nathaniel J., who conducts the home farm; and David Dayton, an electrician of Syracuse. The Gifford farm consists of 120 acres, on which the principal products are fruit and grain. Nathaniel, manager of the farm, was born here March 29, 1867, and was educated at Canandaigua Academy under Prof. Clarke, and Cook Academy of Schuyler county. He married, March 13, 1890, Eva Gignac, of Troy, and they have two children, Ruth L. and Rachel.



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

John Gillette, Canandaigua, was born in Palmyra, Wayne county, in November, 1839, a son of John Gillette, a farmer of that town where the early life of our subject was spent. He prepared for college at the Palmyra Classical Union School. After leaving school he entered the office of Aldrich & McClouth, of Palmyra, to study law. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1863, and immediately opened an office in Canandaigua, where he began practicing, and has ever since been here. He has built up an enviable reputation as a learned counsellor and brilliant speaker. He has never taken any active interest in politics outside of the interest all Republicans have in the success of the party ticket.



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

Enos Gillis
, Victor, was born in Argyle, Washington county, June 12,1815, and came with his parents to Victor in 1826.  He was educated in the district schools and has always been a farmer.  He married twice, first on December 31, 1840, Eliza Snedeker, formerly of New Jersey.  They had two children, both deceased; one died in infancy and the other lived to be twenty-seven years of age.  Mrs. Gillis died June 9, 1847, and he married second Catherine Wells, of Victor.  They had one daughter, Jennie, who married Frank S. Gallup of this town, February 23, 1882.  They had four children:  Enos G.; George M.; Martha D.; and Rose A.  Mr. Gillis's father, John D., was born in Hebron, Washington county, was a blacksmith for a number of years, and afterwards a farmer.  He married Mary A. Smith and they had six children:  Margaret; Robert R.; Enos; Martha; John S. and Rosena.  Mrs. Gillis died November 27, 1852, and his father about 1873, aged ninety-six years.  His grandfather, Robert, and four brothers were in the Revolutionary War, all killed but himself and Joseph.  Mr. Gillis has resided on the same location sixty-seven years.



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

Jerome Bonaparte Gillis,
Victor, was born in Victor, April 23, 1853. He was educated in the district schools and Victor Union School, and is a farmer. April 13, 1886, he married Lucy, daughter of Edward and Sarah Williams, of Victor, and they have had three children: Edward R., born January 18, 1887; Harry J., who died in infancy; and Cora B., who died when she was nineteen months old. Mr. Gillis father, Robert R., was born in the town of Argyle, Washington county, October 22, 1812, and came with his parents to Victor when he was ten years old. He was a farmer. He married Martha Hart, of Victor, and had six children: Julia A., Maryette, Helen, Jerome B., James L., and Hart R. Mrs. Gillis's father, Edward Williams, was born in England, and came to the United States when a young man. After a period of time he returned to England and married Sarah Kailsley, then returned to his adopted country. They had seven children, four survive: Phoebe, Emma, William, and Lucy. In politics Mr. Gillis is a Republican. The ancestry of the family are Scotch, English and Welsh.



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

John S. Gillis, was born in Argyle, Washington county, July 17, 1823, and came with his parents to Victor in 1826. He was educated in the public schools and was always a farmer. December 30, 1847, he married Sarah, daughter of William and Catherine (McKinley) Wells, and they had five children: William W., who is editor and proprietor of the Victor Herald, and married Harriet S. Bundy of Rochester; Mary V., died in the year 1870, aged nineteen years; Martha, who married Joseph N. Brace, of Shelby, Orleans county; Alexander P., who is a farmer with his father; and John D., who married Margaret Cline, they also live on the farm. Mrs. Gillis's father, William Wells, was born at Coxsackie, Greene county, April 16,1797, and married Catherine McKinley, who was born June 3, 1799. They had six children: Catherine, Peter, Sarah, Amelia, John, and William Alexander. They came to Victor in 1835. Mrs. Gillis is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Gillis is a Democrat.



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

Charles S. Goodale, Canandaigua, was born in Bristol, March 4, 1844, a son of Solomon, jr., and Samantha (Buckley) Goodale. Solomon was a native and farmer of Bristol, and was the father of three children: George S., of St. Louis, Mo.; Leonard C., a farmer and lumber merchant of Bristol; and Charles S. The boyhood of the latter was spent on the farm in Bristol, and he had an education in the common schools. He was but seventeen years of age when the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted in the Fourth N. Y. Heavy Artillery, February 10, 1864, serving in the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, North Anna, before Petersburg, and many smaller engagements, being with the Second Corps in their service. He was mustered out September 7, 1865, and returned home. He engaged in farming in different places until 1871, when he bought a farm of 125 acres in Canandaigua, near Cheshire, since which he has added 265 acres, making now 390 acres, which is cultivated to grain and hay. Mr. Goodale also deals in sheep, for which he finds a market in New York city. He has been assessor six consecutive years, and is a supporter of the Union church of Cheshire. He married, December 15, 1868, Estella, daughter of Stephen and Samantha (Sawyer) Stiles, by whom he had one daughter, Lilian, a student of Granger Place School in Canandaigua.



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


Gooding Family - George Gooding, whose parents were natives of Massachusetts, was born in 1770, and came to this country about 1800. He married Naomi Wilder, a native of Connecticut, by whom he had twelve children: George, who married Achsah Reed, died in 1883, and left seven children; Lovisa married Allen Brown; Erastus, married and had one child, who was drowned when a lad; Russell was born in 1809, and married in 1839 Betsey, daughter of Samuel Thurber of New Hampshire, who lived in this town. They had four children: Horace, born in 1840, served in the One Hundred and Sixtieth N. Y. Vols., and died at Washington Hospital in January, 1863; Sarah married in 1865 Spencer Martin, a lawyer of Saginaw, Mich., who died November 13, 1871, leaving two children, Russell and Wells; Edwin of East Bloomfield, who lives on the home farm; and Ella, who married Roswell Lee, of East Bloomfield. Again taking up George Gooding's family: Ann married Elizur Booth, and they have had four children: Roxana, married Seymour Reed; Naomi, married Samuel Taylor; Chester married Laura Booth of Canandaigua; Timothy married Polly Hicks of Canandaigua, and died  January 15, 1883, aged seventy-five years; Wells, born in 1821, never married and died in 1881; and the youngest, Angeline, died in 1880, aged fifty years. One child died in infancy. Timothy and Wells Gooding accumulated large properties.



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


Chester A. Gooding, Bristol Centre, was born in Canandaigua, February 22, 1840. At the age of ten years he moved with his parents to Bloomfield, where he lived until 1861, when in October of that year he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York Volunteers, and served with them two years. He had been with them a short time when he was attacked with typhoid fever, and from that to rheumatism, until he was unfit for service, and was mustered out in August, 1863. He returned to Canandaigua and engaged in farming, and has since followed that occupation. On November 15, 1888, he married Emilie Kaufman of South Bristol.



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

Spencer Gooding, Canandaigua, was born in Bristol, January 22, 1830, a son of Ephraim, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1793. He came to Ontario county in 1819 and taught school in Bristol several years. He married about 1820, Corinthia Spencer, of Bristol, said to be the first white female child born in the town of Bristol; she was born in 1797. They had seven children, six of whom are living, all but one in this county. Spencer was the second son. His early days were spent working on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age. He was educated in the common schools, Canandaigua Academy and Lima Seminary. In 1853 he began reading the law in the office of M. O. Wilder, at Bristol, and in the spring of 1855 he went into the office of Hon. E. G. Lapham and Judge J. C. Smith, with whom he remained until admitted to the bar in September, 1855. He was afterwards admitted to the United States and circuit courts. He has ever since practiced his profession in Canandaigua. Mr. Gooding has always taken an active interest in politics, and has held several political offices. In 1858 he was elected county treasurer, and re-elected in 1861, and in 1880 he was elected police justice and re-elected in 1884. Mr. Gooding is a member of Canandaigua Lodge No. 294, Excelsior Chapter 164, and Zenobia Commandery of Palmyra No. 42. He married in 1856 Ann Pitts, of Bristol, and they have had two children: M. S. Gooding, a dentist of LeRoy, and Edith A., a teacher.



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

Doctor Daniel Goodwin owned and occupied the property on the south east corner of Castle and Linden Streets. He was licensed by the Connecticut Medical Society November 18, 1794; his certificate recorded September 16, 1797, in Misc. Book of Records A, Ontario County Clerk's Office. He and Doctor John Henry were the earliest permanent physicians. He finally moved to Detroit. Dr. Henry died in 1812.



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

Russell B. Goodwin
, East Bloomfield, was born in Hartford, Conn., December 18, 1810, son of John and Anna (Belden) Goodwin, a shoemaker and shoe dealer in Hartford and a descendant of Deacon John Goodwin, who came from England and was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn.  Russell B. was one of seven sons.  He received a common school education, learned the tailor's trade, which he followed a short time and was engaged nearly ten years in St. Louis.  October 12, 1859, he married Eliza Steele, born in East Bloomfield June 6, 1823, a daughter of William and Eliza (Pitkin) Steele.  Her grandfather, Elisha Steele, lived and died at Bethlehem Corners.  His wife was Susannah Strong, by whom he had these children:  Joel; Samuel; Rev. Nathaniel; Elisha; William; Rev. Julius; Joseph; Olive Hawley; Anna Sprague; Betsy, who married a Dr. Humphrey and died in Canaan Conn.; Lucy Kassan; and Margaret McKean.  William Steele was born September 10, 1781, and died April 7, 1858, aged seventy-seven years.  He came to East Bloomfield when a young man where he engaged in farming until his death.  His wife died May 30, 1886, aged eighty-eight.  She was born May 13, 1797, in East Hartford, a daughter of Levi and Abigail (Belden) Pitkin, who had three children:  Eliza, Nathan S. and Abigail.  The children of William and Eliza Steele were:  Eliza; William; Joseph; Henry G.; and Edward, the latter deceased.  Russell B. Goodwin died in 1884, leaving a widow.  Mrs. Goodwin was a prime mover in the organization of the Historical Society, of which she is secretary.  She springs from Deacon John Steele, who came from Suffolk county, England, and was a pioneer of Hartford.



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

Elijah J. Gordon, born Jan. 14, 1771, died Dec. 21, 1854, was an early merchant at Geneva trading for furs and afterward adding potash and ginseng. His store and residence were located on the southwest corner of Seneca and Exchange streets where the Geneva Trust Company now is. He was one of the judges of Ontario County, was the second postmaster at Geneva, succeeding General Walter Grieve, and was the first clerk in the Bank of Geneva in 1817.



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

Hugh Gorman
, Farmington, was born in County Down, Ireland, May 18, 1820.  He was educated in the schools of his day, and came to the United States in April, 1844.  June 27, 1851, he married Rose A. Keenan, formerly of his native country.  The ceremony took place in New York city.  They had these children:  Edward, who married Hannah Daylor, and have one son; Harvey J., Henry, and Mary reside with their parents; and Rose, who married Garrett Burns, who is a hotel keeper in Shortsville; they have one daughter, Mary.  Mr. Gorman located in Farmington in 1855, and has been a resident of the country forty-nine years.



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

Norman Gourlay, Farmington, father of Eli M. and Mark C. Gourlay, was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, May 22 1836, and came with his parents to the United States, landing in New York when he was four years old. Afterwards they came to Glens Falls, where he was educated in the public schools and was a farmer until he retired. He married twice, first on February 24, 1858 Relief Moore of Queensbury, Warren county, and they had six children; two died in infancy, four survive, Keziah P., and Mark C., who married Franc M. Outhouse of Canandaigua, and has one child, a daughter. Eli M. who is at present engaged in farming with his brother, Mark C., and Grace F. Mrs. Gourlay died in 1886. April 27, 1892, he married second a widow lady in Victor. Mr. Gourlay enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Eighteenth N. Y. S. Vols, and was honorably discharged June 27, 1865. He is a member of Albert M. Murray Post 162 G. A. R.



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;

Rev. James N. Granger
, D. D., m. Anna D. B. Davis (Simon, Simon, Daniel, Samuel, John, William).  He was b. Aug. 1814, at Canandaigua, N. Y.; d. 5 Jan. 1857, at Providence, R. I.  She was b. 7 Oct. 1816, at Thompson.
                      Children:
          i.  JAMES N., b. 7 July, 1845.
          ii.  WILLIAM DAVIS, b. 21 Dec. 1847; Physician in State Lunatic Asylum at Buffalo, New York.
          iii.  GRACE, b. 19 Feb. 1850; lives at Providence.
          iv.  DANIEL LARNED DAVIS, b. 30 May, 1852; Lawyer at Providence.



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


Hon. Julius N. Granger, Clifton Springs, was born June 22, 1810, on the farm now owned by his wife, Sarah A. Granger. Judge Granger during his eventful life was held in the highest esteem by all. He served as justice of the peace when only twenty-one years of age, and filled the office for several terms thereafter; for several years was judge of sessions of Ontario county; for eighteen years was recorder of the General Land Office at Washington; and for fourteen years an examiner in the pension office. He was a staunch Democrat. Mrs. Sarah A. Granger, his wife, is still living and enjoying the best of health. She was born October 29, 1811. She was the only sister of Stephen A. Douglass, and was with him at Washington, when that talented and patriotic gentleman was in the zenith of his fame. Mrs. Granger possesses a considerable amount of the ability of the Douglass family. Her mind is as bright as ever, which is saying considerable for a lady of over eighty years of age, and she is a most interesting historian. Mrs. Granger served as postmaster under the Cleveland administration.



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

Isaac Baker Green
, Richmond, was born June 29, 1837, in Rush, Monroe county.  His father, Isaiah, was born 1802 and died in 1872.  He was a native of Half Moon, Saratoga county, and when ten years of age came with his father, Jonathan, to Rush.  Isaiah married Sophronia Baker, daughter of William, and they had four children:  Mary Jane, deceased; Isaac B.; David W.; and Marcus B., deceased.  His wife died in 1870.  Isaiah was a farmer, and came to Richmond in 1855 and bought the Barton Stout farm.  Isaac B. was educated at Lima Seminary and married in 1871 Margery A., born in 1845, daughter of John Reed and granddaughter of Wheeler Reed.  They had three children:  John R., born in 1872; Frank L. born in 1874; Isaac M., born in 1884.  In 1867 Mr. Green bought the Jesse Stout farm, formerly a part of the Baker farm, containing 132 acres.  He has seventeen acres of hops and a fine flock of pure blood Merino sheep.



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


Miles H. Green, Canandaigua, was born in Jerusalem, Yates county, March 14, 1834, a son of Henry Green, a native of Rushville, born in 1797, who moved to Canandaigua and bought a farm on the Academy tract, where he lived until his death, March 28, 1836. He had seven children now living. Our subject is a twin, and he and his youngest brother are the youngest of the family. He has always made his home in this town, and was educated in the common school in Naples. After leaving school he took up farming, and in 1880 bought his present farm of William S. Durand. This is a fine place of 135 acres, and Mr. Green has set out about thirty acres of grapes and twenty acres of peach and apple orchard. In politics he is an ardent Republican, but has never been an office seeker. He married in 1856 Louisa A., daughter of William S. Durand, of Canandaigua, and they have had six children, four now living: Henry, bookkeeper and overseer of one department of Eastman's Kodak Works of Rochester; Frank, with the same company; Charles, a farmer of Canandaigua; and William, who lives at home.



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

Dr. Frank A. Greene
, Geneva, was born in Virgil, Cortland county, December 12, 1855.  He was educated in the public schools, and resided in Ithaca until nineteen years old.  He studied dentistry with Dr. E. D. Carr, of DeRuyter, Madison county, and began practicing dentistry in 1877, locating in Geneva in 1881.  October 1, 1879, he married Mary E., second daughter of Andrew and Eliza Crawford, of Ithaca.  They have one daughter, Edna Crozier.  The doctor is a member of Ark Lodge No. 33 F. & A. M. of the Knights of Pythias; of the Seventh District Dental Society of the State of New York; and also of the New York State Dental Society and American Dental Association.  His father, Truman P. Greene, enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.



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

Henry Greene
, Farmington, was born in Rochester, Monroe county, January 21, 1841, and moved with his parents to Macedon, Wayne county, in 1846.  He was educated in the public schools and Macedon Academy, and for some years was a carpenter and joiner, and now a farmer.  He has been highway commissioner twelve years, collector one year, and filled a vacancy for supervisor part of a term.  December 17, 1873, he married Cynthia A., only child of Isaac L. and Sarah D. Carpenter, at Macedon Centre.  They have had three children:  Carrie E., who died at the age of twenty months, George W. and Joseph, who reside with their parents.  Mr. Greene's father, Joseph, was born in the State of Rhode Island, on the Island of Canonicut in Jamestown, January 28, 1806, and came with his parents to Cayuga county, this State, when he was four years old, and resided there until 1827, when he went to Rochester.  June 2, 1831, he married Rosanna Bunker, formerly of Ghent, Columbia county, who was born August 26, 1812.  They had five children:  Sarah A.; Edwin; Henry; William and Charles A.  The ancestry of the family is English.  One, John Greene, came to the United States, and was associated with Roger Williams in the Providence purchase in 1636.  Mrs. Greene's father, Isaac L. Carpenter, was born in Dutchess county February 22, 1812, and was educated in the common schools.  November 16, 1836, he married Sarah D. Cornwell, of Henrietta, formerly of Westchester county, and had one daughter.  The ancestry of the family is English, Welsh and French.



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

Horace D. Greenleaf,
Hopewell, was born in Lafargeville, Jefferson county, May 11, 1845, a son of John D. Greenleaf, who was born in Guilford VT December 8, 1803, settled in Jefferson county.  His wife was Julie Truesdale, a native of Quebec, whose parents came from France to Quebec where they died of cholera in 1832.  Mr. Greenleaf and wife had two sons and four daughters, all now living.  Mrs. Greenleaf died 1881 and Mr. Greenleaf resides at Hall's Corners.  In early life he was a sailor on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.  Horace D. married, December 26 , 1870, Ella F., daughter of John and Lucina Dixon, early settlers of Seneca, where both died.  Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have two children:  John D. and Lucy J.  Mr. Greenleaf learned the carpenter's trade in 1863 which he followed until 1887, when he was badly injured by a fall.  In 1874 he came to Hopewell and purchased the Nathan Brundage farm, on which he has erected fine buildings at a cost of $5,000.  He has been station agent at Lewis since 1890.  He also deals in produce and coal, and has been in the mercantile business since 1888.  He is a Democrat and has been justice of the peace four years.  He is a member of Ark Lodge No. 33, F and A M at Geneva, and became a Mason in 1868.



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

Thomas Greenow
, Gorham, a native of England, was born October 17, 1829, a son of David and Ann Greenow, of England, to whom were born two sons and three daughters.  David died in 1880 and his wife in 1882.  Thomas came in 1852 to America where he worked by the month for some time and then worked rented land for sixteen years.  In 1871 he purchased and improved 100 acres in Gorham where he has since resided.  In 1853 Mr. Greenow married Mary A. Greenow, a native of England, who when seven years old came to America with her parents, William and Eleanor Greenow, who settled in Gorham and there died.  They had three daughters and five sons.  Mr. Wm. Greenow died in 1864 and his wife in 1880.  The children of subject are:  David of Ionia county Michigan, who married Eunice Squires and has two daughters, Jessie and Olive M.; Leonia, who died in 1884; Hattie A., wife of Charles Glew, died January 24, 1883; J. Frank, who married Emma E. Bender, resides in Gorham.  Mr. Greenow is a Republican but has never been an aspirant to office.



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

George Gregg, Bristol, was born in Bristol, May 24, 1842. He is a son of John Gregg, a son of George Gregg, whose father, John Gregg, was a native of Ireland, and the first of the family who came to America. John Gregg was born in Bristol in 1820, and married Lucy, daughter of Isaiah Case. They had two children: Betsey, wife of Edward Wilder, of Canandaigua, and George. Mr. Gregg lived on the farm owned by subject until 1881, when he went to Canandaigua, where he died in February, 1892. He and family attended the Universalist church. Subject of sketch was educated in Poughkeepsie Business College. He is a farmer and hop grower, and owns 280 acres of land in Bristol, and also a residence in Canandaigua. In 1863 he married Louisa, daughter of Orestes Case. They have had six children: Minnie L. (deceased); John B.; Lutie L. (deceased); George W.; Orestes J.; Oliver C. Mr. Gregg and son, John B., are members of the People's party. The family attends the Universalist church. John B. was born in 1870, and educated in Canandaigua Academy, from which he graduated in 1887. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and has been secretary of that organization. George W. was born May 15, 1876, and was educated in the Canandaigua Academy. Orestes J. was born June 26, 1882. Oliver C. was born May 9, 1886.



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

Charles P. Gregory, was born in the village of Naples, June 2 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Naples and Franklin Academy at Plattsburg. He was clerk for his uncle in general store twelve years, manager and also purchaser for the concern six years. February 22, 1864, he married L. Samaria Nellis, of Naples, formerly of Belfast, Alleghany county, N. Y.; they have one daughter, Frances E., residing at home with her parents. Mr. Gregory's father, Philip, was born in Seneca in 1804. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Emma Watkins, of Naples. They had five children: Matilda, Cinderella, Ann, Sarah, and Charles P. Mrs. Gregory's father, John B. Nellis, was born in Herkimer county in 1807. He was a dairy farmer, and married Samantha Stanton, and moved to Alleghany county. They had four children; Levi, L. Samaria, John W. and Marshall. Her father died in 1884. His father in 1886, and his mother in 1862. Mr. Gregory has resided upon the farm he owns thirty-two years. He has the most perfect barn we have seen, 140 x 51 1/2 feet, aside from the straw barns. He has two silos with system of tracks and cars to carry the feed to his very excellent dairy of Jersey cows, about fifty in number, fastened in their stalls with improved patent stanchions. The manure is all carried out in cars on these tracks and dumped a proper distance from the buildings. The grain when harvested is put into this barn and the threshing done at their convenience in winters. He has sixty miles of under tile drains on this elegant farm. One of the best farmers in the State.



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

Harrison Gridley, Canandaigua, was born in Cazenovia, Madison county, in 1822. His early life was spent in Cazenovia, and he was educated at the seminary there. His first business venture after leaving school was as clerk in a dry goods store in Elmira, where he was from 1842 to 1857. In 1857 he came to Canandaigua, and engaged in the coal business, which he still conducts, now handling 5,000 tons of Plymouth coal per year. His yard is located on Niagara street, and he employs three teams and five hands. The office is at 228 Main street, and Dr. Gridley's residence is at 32 Gibson street. Mr. Gridley married in 1854 Helen A. Lewis of Lenox, Madison county, and they are the parents of one child, H. Marietta, wife of Rev. John G. Blue of Waukesha, Wis.



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

Grieve & Moffat were early merchants in Geneva and had large dealings with Charles Williamson. They established the first brewery in Geneva. General Walter Grieve was a colonel in the War of 1812, was the first postmaster in Geneva, and owned a farm on the Waterloo Road. John Moffat, his partner, was connected with early movements at Sodus and finally removed to Buffalo.



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

Elias Griffin, West Bloomfield, was born in 1816. His father, Wheeler Griffin, was from Jefferson county, and came here just previous to the War of 1812, locating in the village, where he established a pottery, which he continued till about 1826, when he bought the farm now owned by Elias and located there. He was a member of Captain Peck's company in the War of 1812. He married Mary Klice, who came from Maryland, and their children were: Orson, Gustavus, Elias, Charles and Mary Ann. Only Elias and Charles survive, the latter being a dairyman in Michigan. Wheeler Griffin was justice of the peace and assessor. Elias spent his minority at the district schools and the academy here, working with his father on the farm. He was captain of the Independent Bloomfield Rifle Company at the time Governor Bouck was executive. He married in 1860 Adeline Fitch, whose parents were early settlers in Lima, N. Y. They had two children: Preston W., born in 1861, and Belle, both living at home. Mr. Griffin has been a hop grower and has now the second largest apple orchard in the town.



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

Dr. Chauncey W. Grove, physician and surgeon and Geneva Health Officer, was born in Fredonia, Penna., December 15, 1879. He was educated in the Pennsylvania Public Schools and graduated from the Erie High School. He entered the University of Buffalo in 1900 and graduated in 1904 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a year he was house physician in the Erie County Hospital and in July 1905 came to Geneva. On June 14, 1905, he married Kathryn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Nagel.



From "History of Grand Rapids and its Industries, Volume 1." By Dwight Goss. C.F. Cooper, 1906.

James Fulton Grove, MD., who for nearly thirty years was one of the prominent physicians of Grand Rapids, was born in Geneva, Ontario county. New York, December 11, 1828. Commenced the study of medicine at Geneva in 1852. He attended his first course of lectures at Geneva Medical College in 1852-53, his second course at Niagara University. Buffalo, N. Y., in 1853-54, and the third at Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he graduated February 21, 1855. He settled in Grand Rapids in July, 1856, where he practiced until the time of his death, except for the interval while he was in the army service during the War of the Rebellion. He entered service as Assistant Surgeon Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry, August 15, 1862; was commissioned Surgeon of the regiment September 11, 1862. and was mustered out June 20, 1864. He died in Grand Rapids, of congestion of the brain, July 7, 1885. [page 203]
Thanks to Martha Magill for this contribution.



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

Reuben H. Gulvin was born in Kent County, England, Nov. 20, 1869. Mr. Gulvin's school education was limited and he left school entirely when he was eleven years of age. When he was eighteen he borrowed sufficient money to come to America and after landing in New York went to Peterboro, Canada, where he remained three weeks and then came to Geneva. For three years he worked as a farm hand, again attending school during the winter. Three years later he entered the employ of Dr. N. B. Covert, becoming his driver and caring for his horses. At that time he entered the jewelry and watch-making business with Edwin Harris, at whose death his widow engaged Mr. Gulvin as manager of the store which he purchased at the end of a year. Three years later he also purchased the jewelry business of M. C. Haight, combining the two stores into a jewelry business from which he has only recently retired. Mr. Gulvin has been very active in Republican politics and has had a number of public offices. For four terms he was mayor of the city and retired to become sheriff of the County, after which he was appointed Geneva postmaster, which position he surrendered early in the present year. He has been exceedingly active on the Geneva Park Commission of which he is still president. Several of the Geneva parks owe their existence to his untiring energy and Gulvin Park was named for him. For many years Mr. Gulvin was Chief of the Fire Department. He was also for a time a member of the Cemetery Commission.



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

Charles C. Gunnison
, Farmington, was born at Milwaukee Wis., June 20, 1856.  He was educated in the public schools and spent two years at Canandaigua Academy.  He is a wholesale produce dealer and commission merchant as well as a farmer, at Mertensia.  In April, 1892, he married Ellen J., second daughter of Joseph P. and Ellen A. Hathway, of Farmington, one of a family whose ancestors settled in this town in the seventeenth century.  Henry, father of Charles C. Gunnison, was born in Claremont N. H., about 1826, and came to this State with his parents when young.  He married Esther L. Smith of Farmington, and they had four children:  Louie, who died in infancy; Charles C.; Florence and Ellen V. S., who married Dr. Arthur L. Benedict, now a physician in Buffalo.  Mr. Gunnison's home was built in 1800; the saw-mill in 1792; and the grist-mill in 1794, by his mother's people.



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

George L. Gunnison, Canandaigua, was born on his present farm February 14, 1830. The ancestry of this family is Swedish. The grandfather, Nathaniel, was a native of New Hampshire, and was the father of six children, all now deceased. Levi B., the father of George, was born in Goshen, Sullivan county, N. H., February 22, 1800, where he lived until sixteen years of age. In 1816 he came to Ontario county, spending one year in Farmington, and then returned to New Hampshire where he remained a year, and then came to Canandaigua. He bought different farms in this town, owning at one time over 200 acres. He was always a leading spirit in the Methodist church, and died December 11, 1883. He married in 1827 Rhoda H. Hurd, of Lempster, N. H., and they had seven children, four now living: John O., a retired farmer of Jackson, Mich.; Pliny H., a retired farmer of North Freedom, Sauk county, Wis.; Frances L., a general merchant of Marengo, Calhoun county, Mich.; and George L. Mrs. Gunnison, mother of our subject, still lives in her eighty-sixth year. George L. was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and assisted on his father's farm until of age, then took up his residence on the farm north where he lived three years. He spent two years on the Tiffany farm, and in April, 1856, bought 100 acres adjoining the old homestead on the north side, where he lived until 1865, returning and spending three years on the homestead, and then lived eight years in Canandaigua village, to give his children better school facilities. In 1876 he settled on the old homestead where he has ever since lived. Mr. Gunnison is a Republican, but has never been an aspirant for public office. He is a member and officer of the Methodist church. December 15, 1853, he married Jane Alvira, daughter of Edmund Tiffany, and they have three sons: Frank N., shipping clerk in the New York Central freight office at Canandaigua; Alfred M., who conducts the homestead farm; and George H., who is fitting for a teacher.



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