"Mi" to "Mz" Surname Family Sketches
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Albert Middaugh, Gorham, was born in Phelps,
Ontario county, April 13, 1834, son of Eli, who was a son of Jasper, a
native of Pennsylvania, and one of the early settlers of Phelps, where
he died. Eli was born in Phelps May 10, 1799. His wife was
Mariah McCarty, by whom he had four sons and four
daughters. Mr. Middaugh was a man of extensive reading and good
judgment. He was a farmer and died
in Phelps October 8, 1892, and his wife October 20, 1866. He was
a highway commissioner a number of years. Albert married in 1866
Eunice Burnett, by whom he had one child, Orson W., born March
15,
1871. He was educated in the Phelps Union School and the Elmira
School
of Commerce, graduating from the latter in 1890. He afterwards
engaged
as manager for G. W. Krowl of Elmira. January 12, 1874, Mrs.
Middaugh
died, and June 6, 1875, Mr. Middaugh married Persis Humphrey,
who
died June 9, 1879. April 30, 1884, he married Margaret Manzer,
born in Otsego county January 11, 1854. They have had one son,
Albert B., born June 9, 1885. Mr. Middaugh's early life was spent
in Phelps, but for many years he has resided in Gorham. He is a
Democrat and has been poormaster three terms. He is a member of
the Grange at Reed's Corners. Mrs. Middaugh is a daughter of
Albert and Rosetta (Cummings)
Manzer of Otsego county. Mr. Manzer served eleven months in the
war
in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-fourth N. Y. Vols.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Rev. Benjamin F. Millard, Naples, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Naples, was born in Cayuga county November 1,
1820, a son of Jesse and Lucinda (Loomis) Millard, both from
New England. The ancestors of the family were French Huguenots,
Welsh and Scotch, and they trace their lineage to the Mayflower.
Jesse Millard was a
merchant and a prominent man in the neighborhood. He was for many
years a justice of the peace and postmaster, and a deacon of the
Presbyterian
church. His wife was a relative of Professor Loomis, of Yale
College.
Our subject was educated at the Western Reserve College of Ohio and at
Yale College, Theological Department, and was ordained about
1847.
He was the first pastor of the church at Lansing, Mich., when the place
had less than 1,000 people. He came to Naples when a young man as
pastor. After a few years, on account of failing health, he
resigned
his pastorate and studied law, and practiced successfully for several
years.
He was also editor of The Tribune for some time in
Chicago.
During the Civil War he became business agent of the New York Christian
Commission, and associate pastor of the New York Society's Mariners'
Church,
and afterwards was again called to Naples as pastor of the church
there.
He is a man greatly esteemed by the community. He was first
married
in 1847 to Francis Mann (who died in 1879), by whom he had two
sons: Franklin Mann and Chalmers S., both deceased.
September 12, 1881, he married Mrs. Margaret (Andrews) Monier,
widow of the late James L. Monier, a merchant and real estate dealer,
who died April 3, 1870.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Albert D. Miller, Phelps, was born on the Miller homestead in
Phelps, January 22, 1839. He was one of nine children of Daniel Miller.
His grandfather, Jacob Miller, came from New Jersey about 1797 and
settled in Phelps on the farm now owned by Albert D. Daniel Miller, the
father, was a soldier of the War of 1812. Albert D. married in 1867
Clara V. Gifford, daughter of Cady and Elizabeth (Valkenburg)
Gifford of Phelps. They have two children: Elmer G. and Irma V.
Miller. The farm of Mr. Miller, comprising 170 acres, is noted in the
town as a potato farm, it producing in favorable years from 3,000 to
4,000 bushels. The barns and adjoining buildings erected in 1882 are
extensive and complete. Mr. Miller is also owner of the Empire plaster
mill.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Charles Dudley Miller, Geneva, was born in the
town of Utica, Oneida county, December 3, 1818. He was educated in the
Utica High School, Hamilton College, and Harvard University. He was
appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment of
Madison county, receiving his commission
from Governor Seward, and has always performed his duty in whatever
position placed. October 13, 1843, he married Elizabeth, only daughter
of Hon. Gerrit Smith of Peterboro, N. Y., and they have had
four children, one
daughter and three sons: Gerrit S., who married Susan Dixwell, of
Cambridge, Mass, and they had three children: C. Dudley, William F.,
who
died at the age of twenty-six, and Ann F., who resides at home with her
parents. C. Dudley married Louise Willard of Oswego Falls, and
they
have had two sons: Charles D. 3d, and one who died in infancy. Colonel
Miller
has been associated with every movement for the improvement and
elevation
of mankind from his young manhood until the present time. His
grandnephew,
Alexander McComb Miller, is making his application for his appointment
as
a cadet at West Point, and it is known that the family has had a
continuous
record since before the Revolution in military service.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Luman Phelps Miller, Victor, was born in the town of Augusta
(now Oriskany Falls) Oneida county November 9, 1818. On March 4,
1819, his father came with Jonas M. Wheeler, and located southwest of
Victor on the land now occupied by subject, and immediately returned
for their families, including the subject of this sketch, then only six
months
old. He was educated in the public schools and was a
farmer.
October 5, 1859, he married Mrs. M. (Humphrey) Smith of
Victor.
They have had three children: Charles B., Orrin H., and Eugene
H.,
who died at the age of nineteen; Orrin H., at the age of twenty
months. Charles B. received his education in Canandaigua Academy,
afterward graduated from the Rochester Business College, and is now a
resident of South Norwalk, Conn., superintendent of J. J. Asche's Fur
Cutting Factory. Mr. Miller's father, Orrin, was born at
Cooperstown, Otsego county, April 27, 1793,
and came with his parents to Miller's Corners when a child. He
too
was a farmer, and married Abigail Thompson, formerly of
Massachusetts. They had three sons and a daughter: Alonzo
W. who died in Toronto, Canada, in 1891; Luman Phelps; Arthur H. and
Sarah A., who married Hiram Humphrey of this town. Mrs.
Miller's father, Rufus Humphrey, was born in Goshen, Conn., October 2,
1795, and came to Ontario county in 1818. He married Lurania Smith,
formerly of North Carolina. Mr. Humphrey was a machinist and
invented the first threshing machine used in Western New York. He
was one of the first to encourage the public school system and a strong
anti-slavery man, and was interested in all matters of public
concern. His death was sincerely regretted by the whole
community. Mr. Miller's father, Orrin, died March 6, 1872.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Universalist church, and Mr.
Miller is one of the deacons. He has been superintendent of the
poor three terms, poormaster of the town several years, was deputy
sheriff
during Sheriff Hildreth's term. His father was in the War of
1812.
The ancestry of the family is English and Scotch.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Dr. Charles T. Mitchel, Canandaigua, was born in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, January 30, 1836, a son of Charles and
Betsey E. (Drake) Mitchel. His father was born in 1806 in
Madison county N. Y., and followed carriage making. He was a son
of Elijah Mitchel, and one of fourteen children, but one of whom is now
living. William E.
Charles, the father of our subject, married in 1834 Betsey E., daughter
of Theodore S. Drake, of Leroy, Genesee county, to whom were
born six children, three daughters and three sons, of whom Charles T.
was the oldest. His early life was spent in Paris, County Brant,
Ontario, whither his parents had removed, where he attended the grammar
school in
that village until nineteen, then spent one year in Warsaw (N. Y.)
Academy, and the following year in the hardware store of Morris, Buxton
& Co., at Warsaw. He returned home and went into partnership
with his uncle, James E. Mitchel, in the manufacture of fanning mills,
remaining with him three years when he began the study of medicine in
the office of Dr. S. W. Cooke, of Paris. He spent the summer of
1862 in an army hospital in Washington, D. C., and graduated from the
University of Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, in 1863, after which
he went into practice at Ionia, Mich., where he remained three years,
then came to Geneva Hygienic Institute, where he remained three years,
and began the study and practice of homeopathy. In the fall of
1870 he went to LeRoy, N. Y., where he practiced for three years.
The winter of 1874-75 he spent at the Homeopathic Hospital College at
Cleveland, O., graduating at the the close of the session, and
immediately located in Canandaigua, where he is now engaged in active
practice.
He is a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ontario
County,
and present secretary and treasurer. He married in 1865 Cordelia
Cooper, of Waterloo, and they had one child, Florence G., who
was born in 1867, and died in 1878. Dr. Mitchel and wife are
members
of the First Congregational Church, of which the doctor is
treasurer.
He was high priest of Excelsior Chapter, No. 164, R. A. M., four years,
and is the present secretary, and also master of Canandaigua Lodge, No
294, F. & A. M., two years. He was one of the organizers and
the first president of the Canandaigua Anglers' Association, and a
frequent contributor to angling literature, both in poetry and
prose. He is one of the original members, and has been secretary
and treasurer of Canandaigua Microscopical Society for ten years
past. He occupies a pleasant
home at No. 2 Park Place.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Monagle, William, Gorham, a native of Gorham, was born in 1814,
a son of John, who was a native of Maryland and came to Gorham in an
early day. He married Susan Armstrong, by whom he had
five
children. William was reared on a farm and educated in the common
schools. In 1844 he married Elizabeth Marks, a native of
Rockland county, born July 29, 1828. Her parents were Jacob and
Elizabeth Marks, who reared four daughters and two sons, and lived and
died in Rockland county. Mr. Monagle has a farm of 148 acres,
which
he has greatly improved. He is a Democrat, and cast his first
vote
for Andrew Jackson. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church
at Seneca. They have had six children, only two of whom
survive:
Oliver, who married Nettie Billborough, and has two children,
George
and Robert; and Eugene W., who married Marietta Dillenbeck, and
has three children, Emma D., Ward and Leland.
From Ontario County Journal 21 July 1916
The Rochester papers have asked me to write up a genealogical
record and have already published some statements, so I thought some
remembrances might prove of interest to your readers. I enclose an
autograph letter published some time since in the Rochester papers from
Lord Lydenham, in reply to a letter I sent him. Lord Lydenham is a
member of the House of Lords, fellow of the Royal Society, and carries
many other titles. He has written for some of our
publications, and you will observe that his word carries great weight
in the debate. Lord Lydenham also sent us his speech made before the
British War League. I have also communications from Sir Herbert Tree,
the most celebrated of Shakespearean actors.
My mother was born in the town of West Bloomfield in 1817. She was a daughter of Lemuel Monroe, who
enlisted at the age of 16 years in the Continental at Upton, Mass., in
November, 1877, under Colonel Thomas Baker, and also served in the War
of 1812. Lemuel Monroe received a pension in 1832 while a resident of
West Bloomfield. My mother was a Daughter of the Revolution Society and
was enrolled as a member of Irondequoit Chapter, and received from the
National Society at Washington the souvenir spoon granted only to an
own (sic) Daughter of the Revolution, there being at that time, in
1908, but two others in Western New York.
My mother's father removed from West Bloomfield to Howell, Michigan. At
the time of his decease, he was 95 years of age, and was 75 years of
age when he began to draw a pension. My mother's father was a son of
Alexander Monroe, who emigrated to America in 1750. He was a direct
descendant of Hugh Monroe, who led the Highland Clan against the forces
of the Earl of Mar at the battle of Hastings in 1411, when the mailed
knight in armor with spear and battle axe did its deathly work.
I spent the year 1859 at the Albany State Normal school and in 1861 at
the Canandaigua Academy, and after that I finished my schooling at
Geneseo college. Have never used tobacco or alcoholic drinks. My father
was of Welsh descent, his ancestors coming to America before the
Revolutionary war. Henry M. Dusenberry, 71 North Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, N. Y.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Moody, Robert, Seneca, was born on his father's homestead
in this town in 1829. He was educated in the common schools, and has
always followed farming. He was assessor of the town three years
and was elected supervisor in 1876, serving six years. In 1887 he
was elected member of assembly, serving two years. November 15, 1854,
he married Mary A. Stokoe, of this town and they have had five
children; only one son survives, Edward L., who is a farmer in this
town. Mr. Moody's father, Benjamin, was born in Lincolnshire, England,
in 1775, and came to the United States in 1795, first locating near
Sing Sing, where he remained nine years. He came to Ontario
county in 1804 and received title to his homestead from James Wadsworth
in 1806. He married twice; first we have no record; she died
early. For his second wife he married Mrs. Ann (Millspaugh)
Ferguson, and they had four children: Ann M., Mary J.,
Harriet D. and Robert. Mr. Moody's father died in 1847 and his mother
in 1874. Mrs. Moody's father, William Stokoe, was born in England
about 1797, came to the United States with his parents in 1801, and
married Jane Martin of this State. They had six children:
Thomas, John, Edward, William, Elizabeth and Mary. Her father and
mother are both deceased.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Daniel E. Moore, Geneva, was born in County Queens,
Ireland, April 2, 1841, and was one of a family of six children of
Matthew and Mary Moore, who came to Geneva in 1851. The parents
and all the children except two are now dead. Daniel learned the
trade of making sash, blinds and doors with N. H. Kipp, and later on
became Mr. Kipp's successor in the business. The old factory
stood on Castle street, where the substantial block is located, and
where Mr. Moore still conducts the
business. In local politics our subject has been quite active,
he having been trustee of the Third Ward for more than twenty years,
and town collector before holding village offices. Mr. Moore is
and always has been a firm and consistent Democrat. He has been
one of the police commissioners, and is now a member of the sewer
commission,
whose business it is to devise a thorough and complete system of
sanitary
sewerage for the village. He has been a large operator in real
estate,
and has developed and improved a number of unproductive parcels of
land,
especially in the northern part of the village, by opening streets and
building houses, some of which he sold at moderate prices and on easy
terms, so that many a thrifty mechanic has been able to secure a
comfortable home. Being fully identified with its business
enterprises and prominent in all village affairs, he has done much to
promote its growth and prosperity.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
David Moore, D. D., Geneva, was born in
Westmoreland, England, March
28, 1822, and came to the United States in 1834. He was educated
at
Clarkson and Albion Academies, and was for seven years under eminent
private instructors. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in
June, 1852; was pastor of Gaines and Murray Baptist church, New York,
1852-55; of LeRoy Baptist church 1855-60; of Washington Street Baptist
church, Buffalo, 1860-64; of Washington Avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn
1864-76.
In consequence of ill health he was compelled to resign, his
resignation
being accepted by his people with great reluctance and with substantial
tokens of their affection and esteem. He then came to Geneva and
became
pastor of the Baptist church here for seven years, when through failing
health, both of himself and his wife, he felt obliged to retire from
the
pastoral care of the church, but has continued to supply the pulpits of
various churches, as he has been able, up to the present time,
1893.
He received his degree of D. D. from Rochester University in
1866.
In June, 1847, he was married to Edna O. Alma, of Benton, Yates
county,
N. Y. She died in DeLand, Fla., in April 1884, and in August,
1886,
he married Eliza McVitty, of Geneva. They have three
sons:
David, jr.; John Bigelow; and James Ashton.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Robert Bruce Moore, Victor, was born in Victor May
21 1819. He was educated in the district schools and in early
life was a carpenter and builder, was also a farmer. He married
twice, first to Almira Fisher, and they had one daughter, Mary,
who married J. M. Hitchcock of Chicago, Ill. He married
second, August 25 1855, Rachel Williams of Lincoln county,
Ontario, Canada. They have three children: Alice, who
married Gardner Thomas, now of Livonia, Livingston county;
Charles A., who married Libbie Craft of Victor; and William B.
who resides at home. Mr. Moore's father, Ashel Moore, was born in
Massachusetts, and came to this State when a young man. He was a
farmer and married Lucinda Williams. They had fourteen
children:
Gustavus A., Theodore W., Caroline H., Eunice, William, Angeline,
Robert
B., Mary J., Lucy A., George B., Emily M., Julia M., Eliza, and James
W. Mrs. Moore's father, Nathan Williams, was born in Victor
September
9, 1805, went to Canada when quite young and married Rachel Wilcox
of Canada, and had nine children, three survive: Spencer, Albert
and Rachel. Mr. Moore's grandfather, Abijah Williams, was in the
Revolutionary War. His father died January 9, 1855, and his
mother
February 6, 1860. Mrs. Moore's father died October 29, 1881, and
her mother March 8, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the
Presbyterian Church.
From Phelps Citizen 18 October 1900
Washington Moore married Susanna, daughter of Elder Caleb Rice. She was born in 1781. They settled in Phelps, near Orleans. They had 10 children: 1. Loren, born 1809, married Philena Amsden; 2. Caleb, born 1803, married Anna Burnett, who deceased February 14, 1836, aged 33 years; 3. Jane, born 1806, married Isaac Whitney; 4. Morris, born 1808, married Almira Jerome; 5. Lucy, born 1811, married Sheffield Newton; 6. Polly A., born 1813, married Sept. 27th, 1832, Edwin Warner,
and died a few days after the observance of their golden wedding. The
writer has beautiful memories of her and her home. 7. William, born
1816, married Sarah Balcome; 8. Betsy, born 1819, married James Mansfield; 9. Charles, born 1821, married Olive Baggerly; and 10. James W., born Dec. 19, 1825, married first Alvina Palmer.
He died Dec. 21, 1867, leaving a widow. He resided on the homestead of
his father. He has a son, Palmer, who resides in Rochester. Mr. and
Mrs. Moore, out of a large kindness of heart, brought up two or three
children as their own. It is our mind that Washington Moore came from
Conway, though of this we may be mistaken. We trust those in a position
to know will write us giving fuller particulars of the family and their
former residence.
William Moore, a brother of Washington, was also a pioneer and settled
to the west of Orleans. He was a justice of the peace and was active in
the affairs of the town and of the Baptist church. His son, Lyman H.,
became a Baptist clergyman.
William Moore married Lucy, a daughter of Elder Caleb Rice.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
William S. Moore, Geneva, son of William B. and Cornelia (Atwater)
Moore, was born in Arcadia, Wayne county, August 18, 1857. He was
educated at Geneva Union School and Rochester Free Academy, graduating
from the latter in 1877. He read law with Seth H. Terry and Homer H.
Woodward of Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1880, at
Rochester. He opened an
office at East Bloomfield in June, 1880, where he continued to practice
law until February, 1891, when he removed to Geneva, where he is now
engaged
in active practice. On July 11, 1883, he married Luella Freer of
East Bloomfield, by whom he has one child, Minnie. William B. Moore
died
January 2, 1866, in Wayne county, and his widow married Marcus Ansley,
and resides in Geneva. He is a nurseryman and fruit grower. William
B.
Moore had three children: Williams S., Frederick H. and Clinton B.
Frederick
died in October, 1886, at Los Angeles, California. Clinton is a
nurseryman
and fruit grower, residing with his parents in Geneva.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
William N. Morrell, Geneva, was born in Ripon,
Yorkshire, England, February 17, 1850. He was educated in the Grammar
School of that place, and was a carriage manufacturer. He learned his
trade with his father, and came to the United States in 1869, locating
in Rochester, where he entered the employ of Cunningham Carriage Co. He
visited England in 1875, and returned to the United States and to
Rochester in 1879. In 1881 he became a partner in the Waterloo Wagon
Co. In 1889 he became associated with Charles A. Eddy, of Seneca Falls,
in the constructing and patenting of an iron arch for cut under wagons.
Mr. Morrell was president of this company. April 23, 1891, they sold to
the Geneva Carriage Co., they having a capital of $50,000. Since that
time, in December, 1891, Messrs. Morrell and Eddy have patented a coach
gear, or fore carriage, which is used exclusively by this company.
November 26, 1886, he married Miss E. A. Johnson, of
Waterloo.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Morse, Edward H., Canandaigua, was born on a farm in
Canandaigua, October 16, 1816. His grandfather, Isaac, was born
near New Haven, Connecticut, April 1, 1757, and in 1809 bought a farm
of fifty acres
in Canandaigua, which has ever since been in the hands of this
family. Isaac married Charlotte Grant, also of New
England, and they had seven children, of whom Orlando was the oldest
son. He was born in Connecticut December 21, 1790. He was
orderly sergeant in the war
of 1812, and was at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He married
January
26, 1816, Sarah, daughter of Moses Hawley, a farmer of
Canandaigua,
and they had four children who reached adult age: John, a
merchant,
who died May 20, 1864; Catherine S., and Martha A., who lives in
Canandaigua; and Edward. The latter was educated in the common
schools, and on
reaching his majority worked his father's farm on shares one year, and
the
next year took one adjoining. In 1848 he bought a farm in East
Bloomfield,
which he conducted five years, then returned to the old homestead,
where
he remained until Christmas 1870, when the old home was destroyed by
fire.
In 1871 he bought his present farm of 130 acres, where the next year he
built a beautiful residence. Mr. Morse has always been a staunch
Republican, but never an aspirant for public office. He married
in 1838 Lurana M. Buck of East Bloomfield, and they had three
children: Albert H., who lives on his father's farm; Ellen
Augusta, who died March 15, 1892; and John E., who lives on the old
homestead. Mrs. Morse died April 9, 1853, and Mr. Morse married
again June 7, 1855, James E., daughter of Asa Hawley, a farmer of
Canandaigua, and they have had two children: Jane, who died in
January, 1874, in her eighteenth year; and Edmund Henry, a clerk in a
jobbing house in New York city.
From The Story of Geneva; compiled by E. Thayles Emmons; 1931;
Glenn R. Morton, late manager of the Seneca Hotel and whose
death occurred last summer was born in Groton, N. Y., April 20, 1874,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Morton. He was educated in the
schools of Groton and at Auburn. After leaving school he worked for
fifteen years at the iron trade and for two years was assistant
superintendent at the George Junior Republic. From 1911 to 1920 he was
connected with the Hotel Wolcott in New York City and from 1920 until
his death he was manager of the Hotel Seneca. He was prominent in the
affairs of the Finger Lakes Association and was one of the Board of
Directors and was vice president; he was a trustee of the George Junior
Republic, a director of the New York State Hotel Association, a
director of the N. Y. State Tours Association and a member of the
Masonic and Rotary Clubs. His wife was Ruth Augusta Lobdell of
North Lansing, N.Y., to whom he was married in 1898.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Edwin M. Mott, Farmington, was born in Gorham, Ontario county
June 5, 1846. He was educated in the public schools and Oneida Seminary
and is a farmer. March 8, 1875, he married Mary A., only living
daughter of David W. and Ann Sheldon of this town. They had
one daughter, Emma, who died
at the age of four years. Mr. Mott's father, Henry, was born in
Washington, Dutchess county, April 20, 1791, and married Catherine Mackey,
who was born in Rensselaerville, Albany county, in 1807. They had
eight children, five survive; Anson, Alvira, Lucius, Edwin M., and
Dilwin, three died young. His father died October 26, 1883, and his
mother, September 15, 1881. His mother's father, Benjamin E. Mackey,
was a colonel in the War of 1812. Mrs. Mott's father, David W. Sheldon,
was born in this town January 21, 1814. February
12, 1840, he married Ann Gue, and they had four children:
Daniel,
Hannah C., Emily H., and Mary A. The other three are deceased. Her
father
died September 17, 1882, and her mother resides with them. In politics,
Mr.
Mott is a Democrat.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Mowry, Royal H., East Bloomfield, a native of Madison county,
born March 12, 1823, is a son of Augustus, a son of Sylvanus, a native
of
Connecticut and an early settler of Madison county, where he
died.
Augustus was born in Connecticut in 1783, and came to Madison county
when
young. He married Polly Hazelton of Madison county, by
whom
he had seven sons and two daughters. Mr. Mowry died May 13,
1843.
Royal H. was educated in the common schools, and married Polly,
daughter
of Joseph and Polly (Jones) Stafford, pioneers of Madison
county,
and to Mr. Mowry and wife were born three children: Cornelia, who
married T. A. Johnson of West Bloomfield; Clinton D., born June
7, 1848, who was twice married. First to Eliza Frost, and
second to Ella, daughter of Randolph McMickel, by whom he has
two
children: Mabel and Roy. He is a farmer, and for the last
twenty-six
years, has resided in East Bloomfield. The third child of subject
was Alice A., who married Lorin Webster, and had one son.
Mrs.
Webster died in 1886. In 18__ Clinton D. and father came to the
farm
they now own, and have since greatly improved it. Subject is a
Republican, but not an aspirant to office.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
M. Dwight Munger, Canandaigua, was born in
Connecticut March 7, 1830. While he was very young his parents
moved to Byron, near Rochester, and in 1837 they moved to
Canandaigua. Our subject
was educated in Canandaigua Academy under Prof. N. T. Clarke. His
first business venture was as a clerk and afterward a merchant in
hardware
at Penn Yan. He was there six years, from 1846 to 1852, and then
returned here and spent one year in Senator Lapham's law office.
He then went to Chicago, where he spent four years, and in 1857
returned
here. From 1857 to 1864 he conducted a brokerage business
here.
In 1864 the First National Bank of Canandaigua was organized by Mr.
Munger
with a capital of $75,000, and he was cashier for the first few years
and
subsequently president. In the fall of 1887, the bank went into
voluntary liquidation, going out of business. For the last
seventeen
years Mr. Munger has been manager and president of Canandaigua Gas
Company.
In 1888 he bought out the branch of the Excelsior Light Company at
Canandaigua
and is general manager and president of the company, which is now the
Canandaigua
Electric Light Company. Mr. Munger was for three years president
of
the Steamboat and Navigation Company, and he is also president of the
Board
of Trade. He married in 1860 Mary S., daughter of Assemblyman Z.
Barton
Stout, of Richmond, who is prominent in politics, and a man of
considerable
literary ability. They have two children: Jane C., and
Christine.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Rev. Reuben DeWitt Munger, Geneva, was born in
Ithaca, August 26, 1837, and moved with his parents to Watkins at the
age of seven. He was educated in the public schools and attended
Lima Seminary, where he remained two years. He also attended
Genesee College, and graduated at the expiration of four years in 1861,
receiving the degree of A.
M. from that college in 1864, and also the same degree from Syracuse
University in 1874. He joined the East Genesee Conference in
1861.
This was afterwards changed to the Central New York Conference in
1880. Mr. Munger's first charge in the ministry was at Big Flats,
Chemung county. He has been nine years trustee of Geneseo
Wesleyan Seminary, three years trustee of the Cornell Library
Association of Ithaca, also three years
Supreme Counsellor of the Royal Templars of Temperance, and nine years
member of the Board of Directors. He is also vice-president of
the
National Committee for effecting congressional action on the temperance
question. He is, with one exception, the oldest member of
Independent
Order of Good Templars in the world. For many years Mr. Munger
has been greatly interested in all the great questions of moral reform,
and in addition to his duties as pastor has found time to advocate this
course from pulpit and platform in many of the States of our great
country. September 2, 1863, he married Estelle, daughter of Dr.
George T. Hinman, of Havana, and they have two sons, George G.,
an able attorney in Syracuse, and James D., who is in the mercantile
business in St. Paul, Minn.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Munson, Frederick, East Bloomfield, was born July 27, 1809, a
son of Anson and Hulda (Dowd) Munson. Anson was born in
Goshen, Conn., in 1774, and in 1799 came to East Bloomfield and
purchased six
acres of land, built a tannery, and there lived the remainder of
his life, dying in 1849. His wife died in August 1861.
Their
children were: Harlow, born October 31, 1799; Mary, born March
11,
1801; Betsey, born May 27, 1803; Henry, born May 8, 1805; Luther, born
September 23, 1807; Frederick, born July 27, 1809; Ruth E., born April
27, 1811; Hiram, born May 30, 1814; William born May 22, 1816; Edwin,
born
April 28, 1818; Emily J., born August 17, 1820, died aged
twenty-three. Frederick received a district school education and
at the age of twenty-one began life for himself in the tannery with his
brother, Luther.
After two years he bought 114 acres of land, afterwards sold fifteen
acres,
and later bought the old homestead, making 223 acres in all. In
1849 he sold out and moved to the village, and in 1852 engaged with R.
F. Adams in the mercantile business, remaining five years. He
served
as supervisor from 1861 to 1866 and is a Republican. He has been
twice married, first to Olive, daughter of Timothy and Lucy (Rice)
Buell.
They had four children: Lansing and George of Brooklyn; Buell,
who
enlisted in the Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers in August, 1861, was
wounded
at Fredericksburg, and died in January, 1863, at Lincoln Hospital,
Washington; and Frank. Mrs. Munson died May 26, 1884, and he
married second
Florinda Hobart. They are members of the Congregational
church.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass
Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Roswell Munson, East Bloomfield, was born in East Bloomfield,
November 3, 1828, a son of Harlow and Theda (Carter) Munson,
and grandson of Anson. Harlow was born October 29, 1799, in East
Bloomfield, where he reside until his death, February 5, 1881. He was a
merchant and manufacturer of boots
and shoes for over thirty years, and in connection with a partner built
and
operated a large flouring mill. He held various town offices at
different times, was postmaster for a great many years, and sheriff of
the county for one term. In politics he was a Democrat in early life,
and a sound War Democrat during the Rebellion. His wife, Theda C., died
on the anniversary of her birthday,
February 5, 1892, aged eighty-five years. She was born in Connecticut,
a
daughter of Darius Carter and Asenath Peters, pioneers of East
Bloomfield. Roswell C. Munson received a district school education,
then attended and graduated from East Bloomfield Academy, class of
1846. He entered his father's store and engaged in mercantile business
until 1858, when he went to Oshawa, Canada, as managing partner in the
agricultural implement business, and five years later went to New York.
In 1864 he went to London, England, where he engaged in the American
commission business until 1881, when he returned to
East Bloomfield and occupied his late father's place. He is a staunch
Republican,
is the secretary of the Republican County Committee, and has been a
member
of that committee four successive years. He is a justice of the peace,
and
has an office in the village in connection with insurance and other
business.
He is president of the town historical society. He has been twice
married,
first to Lydia E. Peck, and second to Cornelia, daughter of
Thaddeus
Spencer and Deborah F. Gay of Suffield, Conn. Mr. and
Mrs.
Munson have two children: Harlow and Theda M.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by
Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Thaddeus Munson, Canandaigua, was born on a farm in
Canandaigua, December 18, 1832, a son of Lacey, also a native of that
town, born here December 5, 1809. His father, Thaddeus, was a
native of Connecticut, and came to this country when a young man, where
he died in 1814. He married here, Eliza Van Orman, and
they had five children, of whom Lacey (a twin) was one of the
youngest. He was an influential man in politics, but was never an
aspirant for political honors. He married March 1, 1831, Paulina,
daughter of John Milton Gillett, of Canandaigua, a native of
Connecticut, who came here when a boy. Lacey Munson had two
children: J. Milton of Cheshire, who lives on the farm where the
father and grandfather on the mother's side both died, and
Thaddeus. The latter was educated in the common schools, and his
first business venture was as a school teacher, a profession he
followed but two years and then engaged in farming. In 1861 he
bought the Harris farm of one hundred acres, and later bought sixty-one
acres of the Stiles farm, making a farm of 161 acres on which he has
built a fine residence and other buildings. The principal
products of the farm are grain, hay, and hops, the latter a specialty,
of which he has seven and a half acres. Mr. Munson is an ardent
worker in politics, and has been commissioner of
highways three years. He married in 1853 Melissa J., daughter of
William
S. Durand, a native of Connecticut, who came here about
1800. Mr. Munson has three daughters: Ella E., wife of
Edson Wolverton; Sophia L., wife of Warren Davis, and
Edna M., wife of Walter Wheeler, of Canandaigua.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
Murray, Thomas, Canadice, was born in Killeighy,
County Down, Ireland, May 3, 1834, and came with his grandmother to
this county in 1844, on the sailing ship Gerrick, landing in New York
after twenty-four days. They came to South Bristol, where he
lived until the age of seventeen, then went to Bristol and married in
1853 Sarah, daughter of
Samuel Gracey, also a native of County Down. They have six
children: Robert of Dakota; Edward, who married and lives in
Bristol; Susan, wife
of Dennis Riordan of Bristol; William, married and lives in
Bristol; Frank, married and lives in Canadice Corners; and Eliza, wife
of John Savage of Richmond. In September, 1862, Mr.
Murray enlisted in Company
K, One Hundred and Forty-eighth N.Y. Vols., and was discharged in
August, 1865. He was in several engagements, the principal of
which was
at Cold Harbor, where he was wounded. After his recovery he was
in detached service in Washington as wardmaster and hospital steward in
Finlay General Hospital. He was also detailed to take the census
of the colored population in three counties in Virginia, and later in
the engineer department as overseer under a civil engineer in the
building of fortifications, part of the time having 380 contrabands
under him. He is a member of the G.A.R. Hazen Post, No. 518, of
Springwater. After the war he returned to Bristol and engaged in
farming, coming to
Canadice in 1882 and now living at the Corners, where he has a farm of
sixteen acres, three of which are in hops. He is a Mason, and for
five years has been master of Eagle Lodge No. 619, F. & A.M. of
Honeoye.
He has been assessor eight years, and is justice of the peace. He
has always been a Republican.
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