Wilbur, W. Montague, was born in Fairport, October 16, 1864, a son of Smith Wilbur. He was educated at the Union School and Colgate Academy at Hamilton, N. Y., and left school to assume a position with the W. H. Warner Company of Rochester, as superintendent of the mailing department, where he remained until 1892. He is now director of the Fairport Military Band, a very fine organization. Mr. Wilbur has been a member of several prominent church choirs in Rochester and Utica, as solo tenor, notably the celebrated Brick Church Quartette of Rochester, and has been director of the First Baptist church choir of Fairport five years. He has studied under some of the best masters, among them being Professor Wilkins of Rochester. His mother was for forty years leading soprano in the Fairport Baptist church. As a director of musical entertainments Mr. Wilbur has few equals, and was leading tenor in the Elliott Concert Company during their tour of this State in 1888. He is an enthusiastic advocate of Republican principles, and is now president of the Good Government Club of Perinton. In 1891 he married Imogene Hanna of Rochester. Mr. Wilbur enjoys large personal popularity in both Perinton and Rochester.

Garland, Morey C.- Eighty-three years ago, in Kent, England, was born William Garland, the father of our subject. Defrauded of an inheritance, after protracted litigation, he was thrown on his own resources, without capital, and forced to make his own way in the world. With undaunted energy he turned his face toward America in 1839, making his own way far west to Wisconsin, where he spent two years without material advancement of his fortunes. In 1847 he came to Pittsford, first purchasing a farm of fifty acres near his present home. Of his nine children only three lived to maturity, and two now survive: John, a resident of Mendon, and Morey C. William has not yet succumbed to the weight of years, but they press heavily upon him, and he lives chiefly in the past. Morey Garland was married August 20, 1876, to Agnes Cattelle, daughter of John C. Cattelle, of English birth, a graduate of St. John's College. Cambridge, C. E. Their children are Elsbeth, Jay C., and Ralph I., a daughter, Crystal Anita, having died in infancy, in 1893.

Holden, Alexander M., was born in Mendon in 1848. His father was Timothy H. Holden, a native of Charlestown, N. H., who was descended from good Puritan stock, and whose father and grandfather both served in the Revolutionary army. Timothy came to Rochester in 1838, and soon after to Honeoye Falls. He clerked in a store for a time, his fellow clerk being Henry Keep, in after years a noted railroad man. Mr. Holden married Minerva J. Martin, whose father, Alexander, came to Lima in 1812 and was well known in that section. In 1845 he opened a store in Mendon where he remained till 1866. He was postmaster, and for many years supervisor of the town, and during the war, he was chiefly instrumental in negotiating the town bonds and in filling the town's quota of soldiers. In 1868 he returned to Honeoye Falls, where he lived as a banker and merchant until his death in 1892. He had reared a family of three children: Alexander M., Addison R., who died in 1888 aged twenty-eight, and Anna E. Alexander went into mercantile business with his father in 1869. He started an exchange business and later, in 1876, sold the store and opened the Bank of Honeoye Falls. He married Eleanor L., daughter of Isaac L. Warner of Lima, a member of a family which celebrated its centennial in that town in 1894. He has one son, Raleigh W., who i4 preparing for college at Lima. Mr. Holden is an active member of the M. E. church, and has for several years been a trustee of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. He is also a director of the Rochester and Honeoye Valley Railroad, and the Lima and Honeoye Falls Railway.

Ritzenthaler, Stephan, was born in Hartheim-on-the-Rhine, Baden, Germany, December 25, 1825. His father was Joseph and his mother Gertrude Freund, the former a wagonmaker and a natural mechanic, and of their family of thirteen children, Stephan was next to the youngest, and he and this youngest, a sister, are the only ones now living. She married Martin Shinzinger, and resides near Newark. In 1846 Stephan went into the army, where he remained until 1850, having the rank of corporal, and was in the war between Germany and Denmark in 1848 in Schleswig-Holstein. After the return of the army to Baden the people rebelled against the Grand Duke Leopold, and the army of 30,000 joined them. Leopold appealed to the king of Prussia, who raised an army commanded by his brother William, afterward emperor of Germany, to put down the rebellion, which was done after a campaign of three months, the leaders being executed. Stephan was a prisoner of war for eleven weeks in the fortified city of Rastatt. After his release he emigrated to America, January 15, 1850, and landed in New York, March 4, 1850; he came to Rochester the next spring, where he went to work and learned the cooper's trade, which he has followed since. He was in Chapinsville three years, went to Chicago in 1854 and returned to Chapinsville the same year, moved to Rochester in 1861, and in 1862 came to Honeoye Falls. where he engaged in saw milling and coopering, and for a number of years 4id an extensive business. In 1876 he discontinued the saw milling, and in 1878 opened his hotel. His wife was Elizabeth Kreag, who was born November 4, 1830, in Seeheim, Darmstadt, Germany. who came here wrth her parents in 1846. They have had these children: Pierce, who married a Miss Milbeyer of Syracuse; Christine (Mrs. John Lapp), and Mary, all of whom live at the Falls; Henry, who died aged twenty-four; Katharine, who died aged five; Katie, who died aged five, and one who died in infancy.

Howe, Dr. William J., for twenty years a successful practitioner of Scottsville, was born in Buffalo February 24, 1853, a son of Joseph H. Howe, of England, who was born in 1823, and came to this country at the age of twenty-eight years, bring- ing his father with him. He located in Buffalo, where he has ever since made his home. His wife was Sarah A. Hummel, by whom he had two children, William J., and Clementina, wife of Thomas Coulson, of Buffalo. Our subject attended the common schools, and later the Central High School of Buffalo, and then graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo, class of '74. He began practice in Buffalo, and the same year removed to Scottsville, where he has established an extensive practice, often being called into adjacent towns, and as counsel in adjoining counties. He is a member of the Monroe County Medical Society, and of the Western and Central New York Association. He has been health officer of the town of Wheatland since 1881 and is also resident surgeon for the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad, and is treasurer of the Board of Education of Scottsville. In 1881 he married Ella G., daughter of the late Herman H. and Mary E. Miller of Scottsville.

Chadwick, Jeremiah, the well-known banker and philanthropist, late of Fairport, was born here in 1817. His father, Amos Chadwick, was one of the first settlers. He died in 1827, and Jeremiah became the mainstay of the family, but was undaunted by the difficulties and responsibilities of his position, and later in life never failed to recognize and assist any worthy applicant for his benevolence. He early learned the mechanic's trade of wagonmaking, and later conducted a grocery and general store. He was for many years postmaster of this place, and in every way an influential citizen. The banking establishment of Chadwick & Becker dates from 1878, and the firm also dealt largely in produce. Mr. Chadwick's death occurred August 5, 1887, and was considered a public calamity in Fairport. He left a widow, Elizabeth M. (Tillottson) Chadwick, formerly of Lowville. By his first wife, Maria Louise Smith, Mr. Chadwick had four daughters and one son; three of the daughter are living: Frances, wife of F. F. Schummers, hardware merchant; Margaret Lippincott, of Denver, Colo.; and Harriet J. Moore, of Rochester.

Williams, Rev. John H., who, since 1890 has acceptably filled the pastorate of the old and historic Ogden Center church, was a native of Wayne county, born September 29, 1838. His parents were from New England, settling in Wayne county about 1830; later locating permanently in Mendon. In the family were five children, three sons and two daughters. John H. was educated at Lima. N. Y., and for a time taught in the seminary. Was ordained to the ministry in 1876.

Whittier, J. Newton, was born in Ogden, December 1, 1827, the youngest of seven children of Edmund Whittier, who was a settler in the town in 1815, and who is more fully mentioned in the town history. When Newton was ten months of age his. father died, but the mother kept the family together, and gave the children such advantages as her slender means would allow. Our subject finally became possessed of the homestead, which he now owns, though since 1878 he has resided at Spencer- port village. Mr. Whittier has always been a farmer and a successful business man, who has enjoyed the respect and confidence of his fellow townsmen. During the past ten years he has been identified with the cause of Prohibition, and occasionally has stood as its candidate fur town office. He has been a member of the M. E. church for forty-five years, and has filled the various society offices. He was superintendent of the Sunday school for nearly twenty-five years, and was succeeded by his son, Wesley A. In 1853 Mr. Whittier married Hannah Norris, by whom he had one child. After Mrs. Whittier's death he married second Mary A., daughter of Richard Hancox, the latter a former resident of Rochester, who died in Spencerport.

Aldridge, Jennett A., widow of John O. Aldridge, was born in Webster, a daughter of Orville Burr Smith and of Elizabeth Cook, his wife; the grandfather, Ebenezer Cook, having been one of the first settlers in Webster. When very young Mrs. Aldridge married J. Henry Vosburgh, by whom she had two daughters, Augusta, now Mrs. Frank Weller, and one who died aged two years. She afterwards married John O. Aldridge, and they had one son, John B., who died aged seven months. Mrs. Aldridge has always lived in Webster, and now owns and lives on a part of the Ebenezer Cook farm.

Schuyler, Benjamin D., was born in Sullivan, Madison county, in 1807, a son of David I. of Herkimer county, born in 1778, whose father was Jacob Schuyler. Jacob was born in Albany, a son of Philip Schuyler, who, with his two brothers, Jacob and Peter, came from Holland and acquired many thousand acres of land along the Mohawk River, and who were the original settlers of Albany, of which city Philip was the first mayor. Jacob, the grandfather, went to Deep Springs from Albany about 1770, where he owned large tracts of land. Later he removed to Chittenango, where he kept the first public house. He guided Peter, father of the famous Gerritt Smith, through the woods by an Indian trail on horseback to the latter's possessions. The place later became Peterboro. He was a typical frontiersman, and could speak seven different Indian dialects. During the Revolution he was surprised while away from home, and taken captive by the Indians, and delivered to the British at Niagara, Canada, where he was a prisoner over three years. He died on his farm near Chittenango, at the age of eighty years. Of his three children, the youngest was David I., father of our subject. He was drafted in the war of 1812, serving as cavalryman, and he spent the greater part of his life in Madison county, but died at the home of Benjamin D. in Henrietta. His wife was Maria Woliver, and they had two children, Delilah and Benjamin. His mother dying when he was an infant, he was given, before her death, to his Aunt Schuyler, who later became the mother of his wife. She in turn left him with his grandmother, with whom he lived until manhood. He came to this town in 1829, spent five years here, then went to Clay for the same length of time, engaged in lumbering. Returning to Henrietta, he has made seed growing a specialty since 1868. In 1830 he married Anna Sternberg, of his native place, born in 1811, a daughter of William and Margaret (Schuyler) Sternberg.

Wager, P. Kelsey, was born October 2, 1838. He was the only child of Micheal D. and Sally Ann, and a grandson of George and Abiah Wager, whose maiden name was Abiah Dunning, from Vermont. George Wager came to this place from Montgomery county, N. Y., in the year 1817 and settled on the farm. Being a carpenter he built a house where he moved his family two years later. He died in 1835, aged sixty-four, and Abiah, his wife, in 1859, aged eighty-six years. His son, Micheal D., remained on the farm, and in 1837 married Sally Ann, daughter of Cornelius and Hannah Wiser, who moved from Montgomery county in 1815. Micheal D. died in 1882, aged seventy-six years, and his wife, Sally Ann, in 1894, aged seventy-nine years, when his son, P. Kelsey, succeeded him on the place. The latter has four children. two sons, John F. and Byron D., and two daughters, Ida A. and Clara A., his wife being Julyette E., daughter of Andrew J. and Mary C. Conrow.

Buell, Bela, sr., was born in Newport, N. H., December 18, 1805, and his wife, Almira C. Allen, was born in 1809, she being a daughter of Capt. Samuel Allen, a sea captain and merchant of Newburyport, Mass. They were married February 24, 1831, at Newport, N. H.. where the two sons, Samuel and Bela, were born; moved to and lived at Norwich, Vt., nearly thirty years, where the younger sons, Charles and Ransom, were born. In 1865 the family came to Ogden, where a farm had been purchased by Bela, jr.,just north of Spencerport village. This splendid property was the gift of Bela S. to his parents, he being then a resident of Colorado, and a remarkably successful man of business. Bela, sr., died March 15, 1872, after a residence here of seven years. He was a man of many warm personal friends. His children were Samuel A., who went to Colorado in 1862, and died in 1870; Bela S., who went to that State in 1860, rapidly made a fortune, and was for many years one of the heavy mining operators of the State. He was a prominent figure in politics there, was clerk of Gilpin county five years, represented the county in the Legislature in 1872, was treasurer of Lake county, and declined a nomination for State treasurer. The third son of Bela, sr., was Charles H., who always lived at home with his parents, and who died in Ogden June 6, 1894, distinguished more by family honors than any public ones. The youngest son was Ransom, born May 15, 1847, who died November 23, 1863. Mrs. Bela Buell, sr., now resides on the home farm in Ogden, and she and her devoted son, Bela S., remain the sole survivors of the family.

Warner, Samuel, was born at Potter, Yates county, in 1843. Mr. Warner's life has been one of considerable travel and adventure, and his various business enterprises a diverse theater for operation. He is the second son of Samuel Warner, the elder son, Fred, being a Fairport merchant, and the younger son, Henry, a Penfield farmer. Mr. Warner first learned the cooper's trade at Newark, and in 1866 engaged in farming in Kansas, returning seven years later. He is now a dealer in farming implements. In 1865 he married Maria J. Sammers of Sodus, who died August 30, 1893, leaving three children: Franklin, Mary M., and Irving Henry. Another son, Harrison, died during their residence in Iowa in 1872, aged one year.

Decker, Charles, was born in Clarkson, September 25, 1868, a son of Jonah D., who was a native of Washingtonville, Orange county, and came here about 1858. In 1860 he married Emily, daughter of Isaac Palmer, and their children were George P. of Rochester, Charles of Brockport, Mrs. W. A. Silliman of Clarkson, and Miss F. H. Decker of Richmond, Mo. Mr. Decker was admitted to the bar and practiced in Monroe county, and also established a private bank in Brockport, erecting for the purpose one of the largest blocks in that town, and was prominent in the political affairs of the county. He entered the army as second lieutenant of Co. A, 140th N. Y. Vols., and served during the war. He was for several years one of the managers of the State Industrial School at Rochester. He gave his best energies and business talents to the development of his town, and died in 1891 in his fifty-sixth year. Charles was educated at the Brockport Normal School, and in 1882 engaged in the go hardware business. In 1891 he went to California where he remained till 1893. Returning to Brockport in 1894 he formed a partnership with Mr. Minot, the firm name being Minot & Decker. In 1893 he married Margaret M., daughter of Alfred M. White, and they have one son, Alfred M.

Wood, Giles S., was born in Henrietta, October 2, 1825. His father. John, was a pioneer in that town, settling there about 1818. He was born at Woodstock, Windham county, Conn., and was in his earlier years a blacksmith by trade. Giles was one of a family of six children, and is now the only son living. When twenty-six he removed to Perinton, locating upon a farm, but devoting most of his time to the practice of his trade, carpentry, of which he is a master. His home is mostly his own handiwork, and is embellished with many specimens of fine woodcraft. He has a cabinet filled with rare geological and mechanical curios, besides many samples of his own skill in taxidermy. In 1851 he married Maria Louise, daughter of Charles Baldwin, who was also an early settler there, and who marched to Albany under arms with the patriots of 1812 in charge of prisoners. Of their five children, three are living: Charles J., Verna M., and Orson B.; J. Alexander and Myra L. being deceased.

Freeman, Daniel C., was born in Clarkson September 28, 1832. His father, Chauncey Freeman, settled in this county about 1826, and his wife was Harriet Johnson. He was a prominent and public spirited citizen. Daniel C. was educated at Clarkson and attended a course at Eastman's Business College at Rochester. He spent some time in Brockport and six years at Suspension Bridge. In 1860 he returned to Clarkson and engaged in farming, from which occupation he retired in 1886. He has been an inventor of considerable distinction, among the productions of nis genius being an elevator for crushed stone, a seeder for small grains, three different designs of bean planters, a bean puller, and other small implements. He was employed by the D. S. Morgan Co. several winters and made valuable improvements on their implements. He was a stockholder in the Brockport Electric Light Co., helped to organize the company, and held the positions of treasurer, secretary and superintendent. In 1860 Mr. Freeman married Sophia A., daughter of Isaac E. Hoyt, and they have three children: Edgar H. of Rochester; Mrs. Belle Steele, and Mrs. May Booth. Mr. Freeman is identified with all the leading events of his town, and for twenty-two years has been steward and trustee of the M. E. church.

Caswell, Warren, was born in Randolph, Cattaraugus county, in 1828, a son of Sylvester of Tioga county, whose father was Samuel, a native of Connecticut and a Revolutionary soldier. The latter came to this county in 1812, and later removed to Cattaraugus county, where he spent his remaining days. Sylvester, the father, re- moved from Henrietta to Cattaraugus county in 1824, where he died. He was a sol- dier in the war of 1812, and a strong Abolitionist. His wife was Violetta Acker, born in Rush, and their children were Thomas, Celia, Narcissa, Warren, Edward and Lovina. Our subject began for himself at the age of twenty as carpenter and joiner, erecting seven buildings the first year. Later he became a millwright, and in 1861 came to Henrietta and settled on his present farm of 180 acres. He is also a dealer in cattle. He has served as assessor several years, and for over twenty years has served as justice, being held in high esteem for his upright character and wise decisions. In 1861 he married Mary, daughter of James McNall, and their children are Samuel S., James, and Warren, jr.

Goold, Albert H. - Lewis Goold came from Hanover, N. H., many years ago. Removed from there to Fairlee, Vt.; from there to Hyde Park, Vt.; thence to Washington county, N. Y., where he resided seven years, coming to Parma in 1854, where he afterward died. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 with Great Britain. His grandfather received a lieutenant's commission in the Continental army, was wounded at Benington, Vt.. and died in Hanover, N. H., a pensioner of the Revolution, In the family of Lewis Goold were three children: Lewis H., Albert H., and Harriet A., the first named also having a family when coming to Parma. He still lives in the town and is a farmer. The daughter died at Medina, Orleans county, N. Y., in June, 1894. Albert H., who for many years has been numbered among Parma's successful farmers, was born at Fairlee, Vt., October 11, 1831, and was twenty-three years old when his father came to Western New York. He lived at home until 1861, when he enlisted in Co. I. 13th N. Y. Vol. Inf. He served seventeen months, and at the second battle of Bull Run was wounded. He was then in the hospital six months, but rejoined his company and served until May 11, 1863, when he was mustered out and discharged. Returning to Parma he engaged in farming, and has now a fine farm of sixty acres in the central part of the town. In 1866 Mr. Goold married Mary L. Salisbury of Troy, N. Y., by whom he had four children: Minnie H., Clark G., Seth M., and Raymond, who died when five months old.

Fowler, Joshua, came from Westchester county in the spring of 1836 and settled south of Pittsford village. He was born in 1774 and died in 1852, and his wife, Jane Fowler, was born 1788 and died in 1866. Their children were William, who died in Pittsford, an accidental death; James, who died in Missouri; Jeremiah, who died in Parma; Chauncey, a miller and farmer now living in Parma; Frances, who married Abram Keifer and lives in Kansas; Jane, widow of George Dusenbury of Ogden; Benjamin, who died young; Joshua, who died aged twenty; Mary, who married Zachariah Weatherwax, and lives in Middleport; Emeline, deceased wife of William Scott; Lucinda, deceased wife of Jacob Liddy; Josephine, wife of H. H. Cronkhite; Elizabeth, deceased wife of Alvin Nye. Vincent, the eighth of these children, was sixteen years old when his father came to Western New York. He has been a successful miller for many years. and has operated at least a dozen grist mills in various parts of this State. About 1857 he bought a farm on the Ridge, where he resided till 1883, when he purchased the Deacon Church property in Spencerport, where he has since lived in comparative retirement. In 1842 he married Rebecca A. Field, and their children have been Cortland F., George V., and Franklin J., who comprised the Fowler Company, the largest and most successful wholesale grocery firm in Iowa, doing business at Waterloo; Arthur W., the third son is a hardware merchant at Brockport; and their only daughter, Cora A., lives at home. Wright Field, Mrs. Fowler's father was a former resident of Westchester county, and came to Henrietta in 1832. He died in Parma at the age of seventy-seven.

Smith, John, jr., came to Duanesburg, but early settled in Parma, where he became a prosperous farmer. His second wife was Martha Strong, and their children were: Marcus J., Almira, Sara and Rosa, all now living. John Smith, jr., married Lucinda Hiscock, and had these children : William, Isaac, Marcus, Mercelan, Solomon, Silas F., Elizabeth, Mary M. and Almira. Silas F. was born in Parma February 20, 1832, and has always followed farming, in which he has greatly prospered, and he has one of the best and most pleasantly situated farms in Ogden, to which town he came in 1866 from Farina. He has served as road commissioner, etc., and taken a leading part in town affairs. His first wife was Arzela M., daughter of Joseph Buell of Farina, and their three children are deceased. His wife died in 1892, and in 1893 Mr. Smith married Dora B., daughter of John Hiscock. William Hiscock was the pioneer head of a large family of substantial descendants in Ogden. He came from Duanesburg and located east of Spencerport, where he died August 9, 1823. His wife died in 1847, and their children were: Isaac, who died in 1841; William, who died in 1814; Lucina, who married John Smith, jr., and died in 1846; John, who died in 1841; Dorothy, twice married, who died in Wisconsin in 1860; Sally, who married Roswell Smith, and is now deceased; James W., a Universalist clergyman who died in Parma in 1892; George W., who died in Ogden in 1879; Elizabeth, deceased wife of Amos C. Wilmot; and John, who married Orpha Spencer. The children of John and Orpha (Spencer) Hiscock were : Charles S., Henry M., Louisa A. and Dora B.

Wells, I. S., whose residence commands a view of three counties - Monroe, Ontario and Wayne - and four towns, was born in Perinton in 1838. His father, the late Jacob J. Wells, settled here in 1813, coming from Montgomery county, N. Y. Of sturdy English stock and sterling personal character, he took an active part in local affairs, his politics being Democratic. He was several times justice of the peace and town assessor. He married Miss Catherine Snediker of Trenton, N. J., who died in 1888. I. S. Wells is the only living child, the other having died in infancy. Mr. Wells was liberally educated, and has by personal research enlarged the scope of his scholarship and the breadth of his views. In earlier life for a time he was engaged in mercantile pursuits at Hornellsville, N. Y., but at present devotes himself to farming and the breeding of choice horses, having bred "Monroe Morgan," "Morgan Queen," "Middy Morgan," etc., first prize winners of New York State Agricultural Society. His accomplished wife, whom he married in 1859, was Clara E. Benedict of this town. They have one child, Minnie E., who is the wife of Morton D. Benedict of Fairport, N. Y.

Baker, Mrs. J. S., is the widow of Hon. Jeremiah S. Baker, who was born at Hoosick, N. Y., in 1813, a son of Thomas Baker, who early developed mechanical ability, and with two others erected and equipped the first cotton mill in the State. Jeremiah, was throughout his life handicapped by delicate health and compelled to seek the retirement of farm life for recuperation. He was a leader in the councils of the Republican party, and was at various times supervisor, superintendent of the poor, and member of assembly, where his unassuming manners and efficient legislation made him many friends. He was married, Octobor 8, 1839, to Adeline M. Sturtevant, who died September 1, 1867, leaving three daughters: Emma B., now Mrs. T. B. Wygant. of Egypt, N. Y.; Frances A., Mrs. W. H. Woolston, of Denison, Ia.; and Mary E., wife of Rev. F. W. Adams, an Episcopal clergyman of Los Angeles, Cal. He married again, in 1869, Miss Almira T. Pepper, who, with an only sister, Miss Catherine F. Baker, both of Fairport. N. Y., now survives him. His death occurred on April 3, 1883. A friend in writing of him said; "Many years ago I learned from his own lips of his religious hope and faith. While not forward to express his religious views, it was easy to see he had deep convictions and a firm faith in the word of God, great respect for the Christian church and Christian men of every name. From my acquaintance of over forty years I have always loved and respected him for his sterling character."

Mason, John, was a native of Bedfordshire, England, and came to America in 1828. He resided for a time in Rensselaer county and in Elba and Sand Lake, this county, and finally settled in Ogden in 1837. In 1872 he removed to Irondequoit, where he was a prosperous farmer, where his wife was taken sick, his daughter Mary, who was a widow with two children, went to live with him and take care of her mother until she died. He then sold his farm and went to live with his daughter Mary, who had moved back to Rochester, where she owned a house and lot. He spent the remaining years of his life with her and died at the age of eighty-six years. His family were well to do people. His children were Joseph, Enoch, John, Jonathan and Thomas, all born in England, and Mary, Rosetta, Maria and Sylvester born in this country. Enoch, son of John, was born November 23, 1821, coming to America with his parents as above. With the exception of two years spent in fishing, in which he was very successful, he has been engaged in farming. At the age of twenty-seven he started out to make his own way in life, working on a farm for several years, and finally bought the place which he now owns. In 1850 he married Lois C. Buell, of Orwell, Vt., and they have had three children: Martha, wife of George Irish; Mary. wife of William Freestone; and Enoch, jr., who died aged twenty-two. Mrs. Mason died in 1889. Although not a church member Mr. Mason supports the Congregational church at Spencerport. He has had no inclination for political life.

Seymour, William H., was born in Litchfield, Conn., July 15, 1802. But four generations intervene between him and his ancestor, Richard, whose name is inscribed on an old monument to the first settlers of Hartford in 1639. Richard came from Berry Pomeroy in Devonshire, according to an old bishop's Bible, still in the pos- session of the family, on which his name is written. William H. was the son of Samuel Seymour and Rebecca Osborn Seymour, and is the sole survivor of five children. Samuel, with his brother Moses, established a hat factory about 1760 in Litchfield. Moses Seymour was the grandfather of Gov. Horatio Seymour of New York State. James, son of Samuel, went to Pompey, where he was in the employ of Henry Seymour, father of Horatio Seymour, to Ovid, Seneca county, and soon after to Murray Four Corners, Genesee county, and engaged as partner with him in the general mercantile business. In 1818 William H. entered the employ of his brother, and in 1823 removed to Brockport which was then the head of navigation on the Erie canal, and continued the same business. James was appointed the first sheriff when the county was organized in 1820. Soon after he removed to Rochester, leaving the business to his brother, who continued it till 1844. About 1845 he engaged in the furnace business, manufacturing the first McCormick reaper used in the field, and after Mr. McCormick removed to Chicago, he invented the first self-raking reaper, known as the New Yorker, and other improvements.

True, George E. - In 1635 Henry True, from Yorkshire, England, emigrated to America and settled in Salem, Mass. After living in New England for four generations, the direct descendants of Reuben True - Moses, William, Hannah and Betsey, with their children, Moses, jr., Ransom, Urcula and Nancy (descendants of Moses) and Elias, Sherburne, Levi and Amelia (descendants of William), removed from Plainfield, N. H., and settled in Monroe county about the year 1818. In 1821 Ezra, Ransom, Elias and Levi, came to the town of Ogden where they lived until their deaths. Ezra and Elias died in 1871, Levi in 1872, and Ransom in 1893. As citizens they took a prominent part in local affairs and were always deeply interested in church and educational work. Ezra True was captain of a company of militia, was supervisor of the town for several years, as well as school commissioner and overseer of highways. Elias was an influential citizen and held the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. Levi also held many important offices in the town, and at the time of his death was a leading member and deacon of the Christian church of which he was a founder. These brothers with other citizens combined and dug a well at the place now called Ogden, which was known for many years as Company Well or Town Pump, a name which came to be applied to the place itself. This well was dug to avoid the inconvenience of drawing water from a place about two miles distant, which they had done up to that time. In 1850 a post-office was established and the name was changed from Company Well to Ogden. The descendants of their families still living in Ogden, are Seraph Walker (grand-daughter of Ezra True), Joshua, William and Martha (children of Ransom), and the sons of Levi True, James and George G. George True has always taken a prominent part in the affairs of the town, and has been always one of the first to engage in any enterprise for the public welfare. He received his education at the Brockport Collegiate Institute, and Hillsdale College, and was a successful teacher for several years. Since then he has taken an active interest in school work It was under his direction that the school house was erected at Ogden in 1888. This building was not only very pleasing to the inhabitants of the town, but was mentioned in the report of the superintendent of public instruction as being one of the finest district school buildings in the State.

Parks, William H., was born near Rochester, October 14, 1844. His father was a native of Westchester county, and came to Rochester in 1835. He bought a tract of land on the north side of the city. In 1860 he removed to Kendall, Orleans county. In 1868 William H. was married to Hattie S. Watson, who died in 1886; by her he had two children, Watson A. and Edith M. He married Hattie E. Adams in 1887, by whom he has one child, Roy J. His attention was given to farming until 1888, when he removed to Brockport, where he has been actively engaged in promoting various business enterprises, and dealing in real estate.

Clark, Herbert M., was born in Henrietta in 1844, only son of Jeremiah Clark, and grandson of Joel Clark, who was a native of Connecticut, born in 1767. The latter entered the Revolutionary army in 1781 at the age of fourteen, as a drummer boy, with his father and older brother, serving through the war. He moved to Bloomfield in 1799, and to Henrietta in 1816. In 1823 he bought of Cornelius Charles Dix, of the Hague in Holland, what now comprises a portion of the Clark homestead, where he spent the balance of his life, He died in 1847 at the age of eighty. Jeremiah was the youngest of seven children, born in Victor in 1812, being four years old when they moved to Henrietta. He spent his active life as a farmer in Henrietta on the homestead, and was a dealer in live stock for many years. In 1843 he married Sarah C. Richardson, born in Perinton in 1823. They bad five children: Herbert M., Isabell A., Clara S., Sarah E.. and Florence L. In 1855 he erected the fine residence which now stands on the homestead. In 1869 his wife, Sarah C. Clark, died at the age of forty-six. In 1872 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Barnes. He died July 7, 1891, in the eightieth year of his age. Herbert M. has devoted most of his life to farming. In 1866 he went to Michigan, where he engaged in teaching music. In 1868 he married Electa S. French of Kalamazoo county, near Vicksburg, where they resided until in 1892; they returned to Henrietta and bought the old homestead of 150 acres, where, on January 16, 1895, after a short illness, Mrs. Clark died, mourned by all who knew her, leaving a family of seven children - Emily S., Lee, Merrill, Wilber, Isabell, Frank, and Herbert M. jr.

Childs, Rufus, died in 1876, at Troy, on his return from the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. He is remembered as a man poor in this world's goods, but of strong, forceful character, sterling integrity, and as ever maintaining a high and consistent Christian character. He came from Sand Lake, Rensselaer county, to Parma, about 1835. His occupation was that of carpenter and millwright. In his religious views he held strongly to the Freewill Baptist church, and was one of its most active members. He was for a long time justice of the peace, and held other positions of trust and responsibility. His wife held to like religious views, and also maintained the same consistent course, and was of strong force of character and moral worth She died in 1888. Of their children - twelve in number - five died in extreme infancy, and seven grew to maturity and are now living, with the exception of one daughter, Juliett, who died in 1894. The remaining children are Mariah, May A., Louisa, Maranda, Gilbert C., and Edgar V. Gilbert was born February 2, 1838, attended district school until he was fifteen, and then entered the shop of his brother-in-law, and learned the trade of wagonmaker. Later on he attended school abroad, first at Hillsdale, Mich., for a short time, and then at Whitestown. On his return to Parma, he resumed his occupation of wagon-making, which he conducted until 1863, when he moved to Fairport. While there he suggested to George C. Taylor, engaged in the compounding of medicines, the feasibility of establishing a newspaper in connection with his recently purchased printing outfit, used in advertising; as an inducement, he offered his services to look after the editorial department without fee or reward. He entered upon this task with no conception of the magnitude of the job, and, as he afterwards said, with more zeal than literary ability. Be this as it may, the Fairport Herald was born of Mr. Childs's suggestion, and at once sprang to vigorous growth. Upon the death of Mr. Childs's wife in 1876, he returned to North Parma and established himself in his old line of business, which he is still conducting. Mr. Childs has always taken an interest in politics, but in local affairs was never ambitious to share in the honors, consenting to act only in municipal matters, both at his home and in Fairport. In 1866 he married Francis Elizabeth Clark, an accomplished music teacher and graduate of Cortland Academy. By this union there were born J. R. Childs, at present telegraph editor of the Rochester Union and Advertiser; Henry O., teacher of music, of Rochester, where he is organist of the Park Avenue Baptist church. His only daughter, Clara Louisa, is a graduate of Brockport Normal School, and now at Jamaica, L. I., engaged in teaching. Mr. Childs takes kindly to newspaper work, and is a well-known correspondent.

McLaren, John. - Among the first pioneers of Webster was John McLaren, who came from Fulton county with his parents, John and Catharine McLaren, who bought and settled on a farm in the town of Penfield, known as the Woods Four Corners in 1803. At the age of twenty-one he bought a farm of 130 acres in the town of Webster, and as it was nearly all woods, he cleared it up, and lived on the farm at the time of his death, which occurred in 1886, at the age of eighty-eight years. He lived a long and useful life, beloved and honored by all. In the year 1839 he married Aurelia Taylor, of Pittsford. Their wedded life was nearly fifty years, and she survived him only five weeks; she died at the age of eighty-five years. They were both members of the Presbyterian church of Webster, and he was a deacon of the same for forty years. Their son, William McLaren, and their daughter, Catherine Elizabeth Mohr, both reside on the old homestead, each having a portion thereof.

Brooks, Charles D., is a son of Ezra (whose father was Michael), born in Victor in 1833. His father and grandfather came from West Stockbridge, Mass., to Victor, Ontario county, N. Y., in 1799, and his mother, Desire Lusk, was also from Massachusetts. The Brooks and Lusk families came together, bought land and settled. Michael had six children: Ezra died in 1835 at the age of thirty-eight, when Charles, his youngest child, was about two years old. Of his others, John died in childhood; Jared in 1852; and Michael resides in Union City, Michigan. Charles D. married Lucy, daughter of Richard I. Hand, the latter a son of Josiah, who came to Mendon from Montauk Point, L. I., about 1820. The Hands were English, whose earliest American ancestor, John Hand, was a leading member of a company that emigrated from Maidstone, Kent, England, in 1635; he was one of the original patentees of East Hampton, L. I., and whose name stands first in the documents relating to the purchase of land from the Montauk Indians. Ten years after the death of Ezra his widow went with her sons to Michigan, remaining several years, but in 1851 returned with Charles to Mendon. In 1862 Charles enlisted ln Company K, 1st New York Mounted Rifles, and served in the Army of the James, receiving his discharge in December, 1865. After the war he went on to the Hand farm, north of Mendon, for several years, buying his present farm in the southeast part of the town in 1883. His two sons are Marion P., who is in the postal service at Buffalo, and William H., on the home farm. Mrs. Brooks spent many years of hard work on a genealogy of the Lusk family, which she had nearly completed when her labors were interrupted by an attack of paralysis in 1893.

Grinnell, J. W., son of Abner, and grandson of John, was born in Cattaraugus county in 1829, and came to Webster in 1834, and was brought up on a farm. He began his business career about twenty-two years ago at the completion of the R. W. & 0. R. R., as a dealer in produce. In this he continued until 1884 when, in partnership with J. A. Hopkins, he engaged in the coal business; this existed until 1893, when he purchased his partner's interest, and has since successfully carried it alone, and under his honorable and liberal management has built a business of which he may well feel proud. He has two large two-story warehouses located near the depot, and a large coal trestle adjoining the railroad tracks. Mr. Grinnell is probably one of the largest dealers in produce in the county. A fact worthy of mention is that about sixteen years ago he furnished the fruit for a banquet held in London, England, by Queen Victoria. He is engaged quite extensively in fruit evaporating. His business has always been conducted upon principles of liberality and honor for which all his transactions are noted and through which his success has been gained and maintained. He owns a large farm located on the lake road, which has been the homestead of his family for over sixty years. He was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah E. Allen, daughter of Mr. William Morley Allen, of Ann Arbor, Mich., one of the pioneers of that section. He has one son and two daughters; Mr. M. A. Grinnell, who is assisting him in the management of his business; and Carrie A. and Addie L., who are both married and have families. Mr. Grinnell has always taken a great interest in church matters and for many years has been a trustee and steward of the Methodist Church

Grinnell, J. W., son of Abner, and grandson of John, was born in Cattaraugus county in 1829, and came to Webster in 1834, and was brought up on a farm. He began his business career about twenty-two years ago at the completion of the R. W. & 0. R. R., as a dealer in produce. In this he continued until 1884 when, in partnership with J. A. Hopkins, he engaged in the coal business; this existed until 1893, when he purchased his partner's interest, and has since successfully carried it alone, and under his honorable and liberal management has built a business of which he may well feel proud. He has two large two-story warehouses located near the depot, and a large coal trestle adjoining the railroad tracks. Mr. Grinnell is probably one of the largest dealers in produce in the county. A fact worthy of mention is that about sixteen years ago he furnished the fruit for a banquet held in London, England, by Queen Victoria. He is engaged quite extensively in fruit evaporating. His business has always been conducted upon principles of liberality and honor for which all his transactions are noted and through which his success has been gained and maintained. He owns a large farm located on the lake road, which has been the homestead of his family for over sixty years. He was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah E. Allen, daughter of Mr. William Morley Allen, of Ann Arbor, Mich., one of the pioneers of that section. He has one son and two daughters; Mr. M. A. Grinnell, who is assisting him in the management of his business; and Carrie A. and Addie L., who are both married and have families. Mr. Grinnell has always taken a great interest in church matters and for many years has been a trustee and steward of the Methodist Church

Barnett, George F., was born in Bridgewater, Oneida county, N. Y., August 30, 1804. His father, Samuel Barnett, a native of Amenia, Dutchess county. N. Y., and his mother, Rachel Street, of Litchfield county, Conn.; both were of English extraction, their ancestors being among the early settlers of Connecticut. Mr. George Barnett came to this county in 1826, settling in Brockport while it was still a very small village, just beginning to feel the impetus occasioned by the opening of the Erie Canal. Here he first engaged in business as a builder and contractor, manifesting in this the same energy and fidelity that has characterized his life. In 1850 he established agricultural works, which were successfully carried on until 1886, when the death of a partner closed the business. In 1828 he married Catherine Lyell, daughter of Mr. Asa Thorpe of Galway, Montgomery county, N. Y., and to them five children were born, three, of whom survive. Mr. Barnett is one of the leading men of his town, enjoying the respect and affection of all who know him. Charitable, gentle in judgment, in manner, unostentatious and unassuming, in his old age he is reaping the fruits of a well-ordered and well-spent life.

Spurr, Capt. Samuel, was born in Lenox, Madison county, June 12, 1820, a son of Amasa, a native of Massachusetts. The family trace descent from Germany, and were very early settlers of Massachusetts. In 1838 our subject came to Holley, Orleans county, and was early identified with the freight and passenger service of the Erie Canal, beginning in 1836. He followed this business up to 1862, making a specialty of the passenger traffic, until the completion of the N. Y. C. R. R., then gave his attention to farming, and in 1844 he married Sarah Arnold, daughter of Elisha Arnold of Portland, Chautauqua county, N. Y., who died in 1846. He married, second, Eleanor D., daughter of Richard Noye, of Buffalo, N. Y., and their children are William F. and Richard N., Mrs. Jennie Taylor and Mrs. Cornelia Kane; and Sarah A., died March 24, 1884, and Samuel A., died December 12, 1887. Our subject is one of the represetative men of the town, interested in all public matters.

Howard, D. J., of Fairport, may well be called one of the prominent landmarks of the locality. He was born in 1819 at Bridgewater, Plymouth county, Mass., a son of Ansel Howard, who came to Fairport in 1835, where he died eight years later, leaving seven children: Ansel A., Lorenzo T., John E., Daniel J., Marshall, Harriet and Lucy. L. T. and J. E Howard were for many years carriage builders here, the pioneers in that line. Both are now deceased. Daniel has been engaged in farming and stock business, and always has been foremost in all matters pertaining to the best interests of the community and its growth. In the Congregational church of Fairport he has been and is still a leading spirit. His first wife was Caroline M. Robinson. She died without issue in 1887, and in 1889 Mr. Howard married Mrs. Frances Root of Fairport, who has two sons, James M. Root, of Galesbug, Ill., and Frank L. Root of Rochester, N. Y.

Leggett, Charles, was born in Charlmont, Mass., in 1803, a son of William, of the same place, who moved to Otsego county, and thence to Madison county, and in 1810 came to Henrietta and bought land, building a log cabin, and a year later he returned for his family, and spent his life on the place. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died at the age of seventy-nine. His wife was Sarah Holland, of Massachusetts, and they had six children: Sarah, William, Ivory Holland, Benjamin F., Charles and Stephen. Sarah was the first teacher in the town of Henrietta. At the age of twenty-one Charles began for himself as a farmer, which he has always followed. In 1836 he married Hannah Murray, by whom he had one child, William, who died aged nineteen. His wife died in 1889. He is now a remarkably well-preserved man of ninety-two years, and resides on his farm with his niece, Mrs. Mattie Leggett Brininstool, only daughter of his brother Stephen, who also lived and died on the old homestead. He was a public spirited and energetic man, and served the town as assessor, poormaster, etc. He was captain of A company of State militia, and was also a member of the Monroe County Agricultural Society, being president several years, His first wife was Mary Osborne, by whom he had one child, Franklin. He married, second, Mrs. Martha B. (Murray) Jackson, who had one daughter, Mattie, now wife of Alfred Brininstool of this town. Mrs. Leggett resides with her daughter. Mr. Leggett met his death by an infuriated animal on his own farm. Alfred Brininstool, one of the prosperous farmers of Henrietta, was born in this town in 1851, a son of John Brininstool, who is also a native of Henrietta, born in 1822. The parents of the latter came to Henrietta about 1820, but later removed to Cattaraugus county, where they reared their family and spent their remaining days. John, the father, later came to Henrietta, where he settled, and became a prosperous citizen, active and public-spirited, serving his town in various offices of trust. His wife was Sarah Burr of this town, daughter of Asa and Polly Burr, and their children are Mrs. Margaret Hyatt. who died in 1855, Alfred, and Mrs. Ida Hamilton, of Caledonia, N. Y. Our subject began for himself at the age of twenty-two, and has devoted his attention to farming on the homestead. The place belonged to his father-in-law, Stephen Leggett, and became the property of his wife. Mr. Brininstool is a Mason. In 1873 he married Mattie E. Leggett, and they have one son, Charles Leggett, now preparing for the practice of dentistry. Mr. and Mrs. Brininstool are members of Brighton Grange No. 689. Monroe county, Pomona Grange, and Patrons Fire Relief Association.

JAMES C. CUTLER

James C. Cutler was born at Albany, April 24, 1848. He removed to Rochester February 2, 1872, where he was a practicing architect from 1872 to 1884. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the New York Architectural league, ex-president of the Western New York Association of Architects, trustee of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and its first vice-president, director in the James Goold company, Albany, the Post Express Printing company and vice-president of the Alliance bank. Since 1884 he has been associated with his brother, J. W. Cutler, in management of the Cutler Manufacturing company, controlling and operating the Cutler mail chute patents.

J. WARREN CUTLER

J. Warren Cutler came to Rochester, from Albany, in 1879. For a number of years he associated himself with his brother, James C. Cutler, in the practice of architecture, but for some time past he has devoted his entire attention to the business of the Cutler Manufacturing company. He is also a director of L. L. Allen & Brothers, incorporated, also a director of the James Goold company, Albany, New York. He is one of the Board of Managers of the New York State Society Sons of the American Revolution, and is President of the Rochester Chapter of the society.

JOHN B. Y. WARNER

The city of Rochester seems to possess in no slight degree the fabled properties of those islands over which a bird could not fly without being drawn down. Her sons go away and seek fame and fortune elsewhere, but with great unanimity, when fate does not interpose an insuperable barrier, return to the old home in after years. John Bradt Yates Warner's is a case in illustration. He was born in 1845 in this city, where his father, Horatio C. Warner, was one of the foremost citizens. His education was obtained in the public schools of this city and in Union college. In 1870 he went South, intending to live on a cotton plantation in the delightful climate of Georgia. But with all its natural attractions the Empire State of the South could not keep him from the state of his nativity, and in 1889 he returned to Rochester, where he regards the conditions for the rational enjoyment of existence as being as complete as can be expected on this sphere. Mr. Warner was married in 1876 to Mary, daughter of Richard Franchot, of Schenectady. He is a Democrat and a member of the Genesee Valley club and of the Whist club. His residence on Mount Hope avenue is one of the finest in Rochester.

JAMES SARGENT

It has been said by one who knows him well that if the practical side of the life of James Sargent of this city, with its many achievements, were written, it would form an invaluable text book for youth by showing what strict integrity, inflexible determination, persistent industry and high purpose will accomplish in the life-time of one man. While Mr. Sargent has entered on the decade which marks three score years and ten, he is apparently in physical vigor, mental healthfulness, and full of ambition and energy. The mechanical wonders with which his name is inseparably associated, including the time lock, have been described by a distinguished writer as "placing him in history alongside of the greatest inventions the world has known, and constituting him one of the greatest benefactors of the age in which he lives." Some of his achievements in applied mechanics, especially lock picking, have been of such a startling nature as to surprise even the Government of the United States. Until Mr. Sargent was eighteen years of age he remained on the Vermont farm where he was born. He enjoyed the privileges of the district school, and having exhibited a decided inclination for mechanical affairs obtained employment in a woolen factory, where he soon became recognized as an expert in the care of machinery. He was placed in charge of the weaving room of the factory at Ashuelot, New Hampshire, where he remained until 1848. He had in the meantime learned the art of daguerreotyping, and with a view to seeing the country traveled as a daguerreotypist, in which capacity he met with marked success. After four years' travel he returned to New England, and as a partner in the firm of Sargent & Foster engaged in the manufacture of an apple parer on which they owned a patent. After his experience in that manufacture he became an inventor of locks, and in 1865 produced one that had no equal at the time. This he began to manufacture in Rochester, and in 1867 formed a partnership with Colonel H. S. Greenleaf and continued to invent new locks and improve the older ones. In 1873 he perfected his time-lock, by which not only burglars but every one else is prevented from opening the door to which it is attached until the hour arrives at which the lock was set to open. Mr. Sargent still retains his interest in the lock manufactory, but he is now working on other problems calling for the exercise of inventive power, and is at seventy as energetic in forwarding his ideas, and as sanguine of success as he was in middle life.

WILLIAM S. KIMBALL

William S. Kimball was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, and there spent his early years, receiving such educational advantages as the country afforded. At the age of fifteen he entered the Lawrence Locomotive works as an apprentice, and here worked at the various branches until he had mastered the trade of machinist. Next he attended a private school at Derry, New Hampshire; at Andover, Massachusetts, and at the Troy Polytechnic institute, learning engineering and mechanical drawing. On leaving Troy he entered the railroad repair shops at Concord, New Hampshire, where his business was to assist in rebuilding the locomotives, and he thus became familiar with locomotive engineering. Having now practically completed his mechanical training he shortly after relinquished this position and removed to Rochester. At the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Kimball received an appointment of master mechanic in the navy and was in the South Atlantic blockading squadron under Admiral Dupont at Port Royal, South Carolina. Here he was specially detailed to repair the machinery of gun-boats and transports, having in charge two old Nantucket whalers, the Edward and India, which were fitted up with machinery and on which a force of one hundred mechanics was employed. In 1863 he resigned from the navy and returned to this city, where he engaged in tobacco manufacturing, in which business he has ever since been interested, Mr. Kimball is president of the Post Express Printing company, a trustee of the Rochester Savings bank, president of the Union bank, president of the City hospital, president of the Industrial school, vice-president of the Security Trust company, vice-president of the American Tobacco company, director in the Rochester Railway company, and director in the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railroad company.

ADDENDUM

William S. Kimball, president of the Post Express Printing company, reference to whose career is made on page 165 of this volume, died suddenly at Virginia Beach, Virginia, March 26, 1895. The Post Express said editorially on that day: "The death of William S. Kimball, of which intelligence has just come, must be regarded not simply as a private loss, but as a public calamity. Probably no other man was ever so closely identified with the various social, business, charitable, and educational interests of a community as Mr. Kimball has been identified with those of Rochester. He was a man of great wealth, but what was much rarer, a man who believed in putting his wealth into full activity and throwing his personal energy into every movement for the public good. He was the first to be asked where a contribution was needed, where help in the shape of an investment was sought, where individual prestige was required. He was in the full vigor of manly strength, in the full flush of rational enjoyment of life-eager as a boy in the pursuit of new interests, and satisfied as a boy in the practice of old pastimes. His alertness and gayety were unfailing; and his frankness, courtesy, and good nature were such that his mere presence was enough to win popularity. As a business man he was fertile in resource and untiring in effort; but not less characteristic was his enthusiasm in the matter of recreation. He made the wisest choice In his methods of rest and relaxation. He loved the sea and spent much of his spare time beside it; he loved the woods and was an indefatigable sportsman. As a natural consequence he loved nature and was deeply learned in much of the lore of forest and stream. Even when most earnestly at work in the establishment of his great manufacturing business, he devoted himself to the culture of orchids, and became an authority on them as well as on other flowers. In the season of greater leisure he had gathered a magnificent gallery of choice paintings. It is sad to think of a man with so many capacities for what is fair in the world, so many opportunities to be useful, so prompt a disposition to active effort for what is good, cut off, so suddenly, from light and life and the affection of friends and family."