DANIEL M. ANTHONY

One of the leading bakers of Rochester is the subject of this sketch. Mr. Anthony was born in Moroe, Saratoga county, New York, April 7, 1836. He was brought up on his father's farm and received what little education he obtained in his youth in the public school. His father was Asa Anthony. He removed to the vicinity of Rochester in the town of Gates (now in the city limits) in the Spring of 1848. When of age he went into the nursery business on East avenue with Bissell & Salter. In the Spring of 1858 this was changed to C. P. Bissell, Salter & Company, Mr. Anthony becoming the company. After that the firm became Salter & Anthony, continuing six years. About the year 1865 he bought out the aerated bread establishment on North Water street and ran it successfully for a few years. When the popularity of that bread declined he introduced other kinds of bread and a full line of crackers and cakes. In the Summer of 1891 lie built a three-story-and-basement building at No. 134 West avenue for baking purposes entirely, fitted up with all modern machinery and appliances, and supplied the trade with all kinds in his line. In the Winter of 1894-5 he bought out the old Fleckenstein bakery, established for forty years, on West avenue, close by his present building. This gives him practically the control and lead in the baking business in this city. Mr. Anthony represented the old Eighth (now the Eleventh) ward in the Board of Alderman for two years, and in the Board of Supervisors in 1891-2. He has been an active, public-spirited citizen in all interests of the city. He is a large stock-holder, director and vice-president of the Hathaway Investment company of Muncie, Indiana. He is a director in the Rochester and Muncie Land company, and also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He was the originator and a member of the board of directors of the West End Improvement company, the object of which is to promote the welfare of West end interests. His residence is at 358 West avenue.

GEORGE H. NEWELL

George H. Newell, one of the men of strong character and marked individuality to whom the prosperity of Rochester is largely due, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on February 18, 1828, and came to Rochester at the age of thirty. His first employment here was as foreman in the furniture manufactory of Brewster & Fenn; but he soon embarked in business for himself and established the Empire Moulding works, which he was conducting at the time of his decease. Mr. Newell took an active interest in public affairs and was for two terms a member of the Board of Education from the Fifth ward. He was also a member of the Board of Park Commissioners from its organization; a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce; a trustee of the Rochester Trust and Safe Deposit company, and an active member of the Rochester Yacht club, of which he was one of the organizers and for four years commodore. In 1887 Mr. Newell was vice-president of the Lake Yacht Racing association and in 1888 was elected its president. Mr. Newell died suddenly and unexpectedly in this city June 8, 1892. His surviving family are his widow and four children: Frank G. and George, of this city; Mrs. Ella Searles, of Arizona; and Mrs. Julia C. Marshall, of Duluth, Minnesota.

GEORGE W. FISHER

George W. Fisher, one of the earliest settlers in Rochester and one of its most respected citizens, who outlived nearly all who were in business here during his prime, was born in Dover, Massachusetts, June 29, 1814. His ancestors came to America before the Revolution and took part in the war of Independence. His grand-father, Captain Samuel Fisher, fought at Lexington. and his father, Colonel George Fisher, commanded at Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, during the war of 1812. Colonel Fisher became a civil engineer after the war and made this city his home in 1821, having purchased land at the junction of what is now West and Caledonia avenues. He was a friend of De Witt Clinton and superintended the construction of a section of the Erie canal. Colonel Fisher died in 1831 tn New Orleans, where he was accompanied by his son. The latter returned to this city in 1834 and engaged in the book trade with the late Everard Peck, whom he ultimately succeeded, at No. 6 Exchange street, remaining there until he retired from business in 1871. He was also the publisher of many useful books, still much in demand, one of which has had a larger sale than any book of a similar kind ever published in Rochester. During nearly forty years in which he was a bookseller he was the best known representative of that business in Western New York. He was one of the first to join the Rochester Union Greys, and as secretary of that corps read very entertaining "extra minutes" at their annual meetings for forty-four years. Mr. Fisher's wife, who survives him, was Mary J. Acer, daughter of David Acer, whose father, William Acer, settled in Pittsford in 1790 and was one of the men of character who invaded the wilderness of Western New York from the East. Mr. Fisher departed this life at his home inthis city, February 24, 1895.

SIX MAC MASTER BROTHERS

The history of few families in this or any other land affords a parallel to that of the six MacMaster brothers of Riga, Monroe county, New York. All were born in Riga, and one of them, J. D. MacMaster, was a successor to the Argonauts of '49 who opened up to mankind the golden treasures of California; having been led thither twenty years ago by his uncle, who enjoyed the honor of being the third man to examine the famous first nugget of gold found in the mill-race at Sutter's mill in 1848. That famous piece of precious metal set men mining for it on the Pacific slope and in consequence transformed, as if by magic, the western face of the American continent. The claim to recognition as a miner which the elder brother acquired influenced the career of all his brothers, and after he had been engaged in the business for three years he succeeded in persuading them to try their fortune as miners. They took up claims in Colorado and other states and have ever since been interested in mining, part of the time owning interests in some of the most valuable mines in America. Their interests have included the Homestake in the Black Hills, which has paid in dividends $5,500,000, and now pays twenty per cent. monthly dividends, and the Ontario of Utah; which has paid $18,000,000 in dividends; in fact, had they retained their interest in mining properties which they developed, they would now be multi-millionaires. The six brothers are now engaged in building a thirty-stamp mill in Gilpin county, Colorado, to operate two very rich gold mines they have just purchased. The ore is free milling quartz, and judging from the quality and quantity now exposed, these mines bid fair to equal if not excel either of the two world-famous mines they have been connected with. Five of the brothers are unmarried and are in charge of the mines, J. D. alone having assumed the responsibilities of a benedict. He is now a resident of Rochester and is president of the Six Brothers Gold Mining company, and of the Gordon Automatic Railway Signal company, the latter owning an invention which has been adopted by the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad, and of which a trial block is in operation in this city on the Lehigh Valley railroad.

HENRY R. SELDEN

Henry Rogers Selden was born of Puritan stock at Lyme, Connecticut, October 14, 1805. He came to Rochesterville in 1825 and began the study of law in the office of Addison Gardiner and his brother, Samuel L. Selden. At the age of twenty-five he was admitted to the bar, began practice in the town of Clarkson and rapidly advanced to the front rank of American lawyers, where he long stood without a superior. He returned to this city in 1859. In 1851 he was appointed reporter of the Court of Appeals and held the office until 1854. Henry R. Selden was one of the men who advanced the money with which Morse and Vail were able to push the telegraph to success. His brother, Samuel L. Selden, and Henry O'Riely were associated with him in that immortal enterprise. He was president of the "Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi Valley Telegraph Company," and a stockholder in the "New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company," which developed into the Western Union Telegraph company. Judge Selden was one of the organizers of the Republican party, and in 1856 was its candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York with John A. King as candidate for Governor. Both were elected. He was in Europe on business during the campaign, but his reputation was so high throughout the State that his absence did not hazard the success of the ticket. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National convention and supported William H. Seward for the presidency. When Lincoln was nominated the nomination for Vice-President was offered to Judge Selden, but he declined to accept the honor. When his brother, Samuel L., retired from the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Appeals in 1862 Governor Morgan tendered the office to Henry R. Selden, who waived his claim to the higher position ill favor of Judge Denio and accepted the place of Associate Justice, which he held until 1863. He was afterwards elected for a full term, but resigned in 1865 on account of illness. In 1865 Mr. Selden was elected Member of Assembly for Rochester; he also accepted the nomination of his party in 1870 for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, hut was defeated. He was one of the callers of the Liberal Republican convention at Cincinnati in 1872, but was not satisfied with the result and never after engaged in politics. Judge Selden's failing health compelled him to retire from professional life in 1879, hut he maintained an active interest in public affairs. His marriage took place September 25, 1834, to Laura Ann Baldwin, daughter of Dr. Abel Baldwin of Clarkson. His widow is still living. Of their twelve children the survivors are George B. Selden, Mrs. Theodore Bacon, Mrs. William D. Ellwanger and Arthur Rogers Selden. Judge Selden died at his residence in Rochester, September 18, 1885.

JAMES C. COCHRANE

It is rarely that the mental and moral qualifications requisite to the character of a successful inventor and a lawyer of the higher order, are found combined. The first and most conspicuous instance of the kind among the eminent men of Rochester was the late James C. Cochrane, whose decease on January 25, 1881, impressed this community with a sense of loss that is but rarely experienced, and gave occasion for the expressions by the pulpit, bench and bar of regret that is only felt when a good man is seemingly called from earth prematurely. James Craig Cochrane was born at Lorne, Ireland, March 22, 1824. His father, a graduate of the University of Edinburg, was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lorne, and his mother, Jane Craig, was the daughter of James Craig, a prominent Member of Parliament in the last century. In 1825 or 1826 Mr. Cochrane's father came to Rochester, but moved in a short time to Genesee county, where he combined the work of preaching, editing an anti-Masonic paper, and teaching. The subject of this sketch did not have first-class school advantages, as he went to work on a farm when a young boy and was next a clerk in a grocery store. He then undertook to learn harness making, but had a disagreement with the man he proposed to work for which was referred to an arbitrator. The prospective apprentice submitted a written argument which was so good that people said he would make a "good lawyer." The incident may have changed the current of his life, for in a year or two later, when he was seventeen years old, he began the study of law in the office of Bishop & Paine in this city. He studied hard, not only law, but books in general, to make up for lack of early advantages, and that he succeeded in his purpose need not be told to all who remember him as one of the foremost members of the Rochester bar. Before his law business grew to the importance it had in his after years Mr. Cochrane gave considerable attention to inventions and obtained patents that proved valuable.

HON. JOHN C. NASH

John Calhoun Nash, a son of Vermont parents, was born in Caledonia, New York, August 8, 1803, and received his education at Hamilton college. On leaving that institution he came to Rochester and began the study of law in the office of Isaac Hills. After his admission to the bar he was, in 1834, elected City Clerk, that being the first of several occasions on which his fellow citizens evinced their confidence in him by selecting him for public office. He was appointed Master in Chancery in February, 1840; was elected Clerk of Monroe county in 1846 and Mayor of Rochester in 1861. He saw at an early day that the city was destined to become a large town and bought a large tract of land on the east side north of the railroad. The Hibernian and Teutonic names of the older streets in that quarter were bestowed on them by Mr. Nash, who opened several of the highways and was a liberal friend of emigrants, in whose interest he originated a system of land contracts that enabled many of them to become owners of homes on easy terms. He married Miss Isabella Wait of Massachusetts, and had two daughtersand a son. His only surviving child is Mrs. D. M. Childs of this city. Mr. Nash expired at his home in this city December 25, 1865.

HON. ALFRED ELY

Alfred Ely was born in Lyme, Connecticut, on the fifteenth of February, 1815. He completed his education at Bacon academy, New London county in that State, where he had for a classmate the late Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite of the United States Supreme bench. In 1836 Mr. Ely came to Rochester and began his legal studies in the office of Smith & Rochester, one of the most eminent law firms in the State. As a student Mr. Ely was patient and persevering and mastered the principles of his profession with great care. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar, and in a comparatively short time built up a large practice. As attorney of the New York Central nnd Hudson River railroad, and of the Buffalo and Rochester Railroad companies, he was very successful. He was also attorney for many extensive firms doing business in the metropolis. He excelled in a high degree as an office lawyer, showing great familiarity with the rules of practice; was studious and accurate in the mastery of a case, and as a pleader was one of the most skillful. In 1858 Mr. Ely represented this district in the Thirty-sixth Congress and enjoyed the honor of having his political career endorsed by a re-election in the famous campaign of 1860. Mr. Ely's services to his country during the Rebellion, in respect to the raising of troops, added to which was his deep interest in the Northern soldiers and the success of the Union cause, cannot be too highly appreciated. At the first battle of Bull Run he was present in person to aid in the Union cause and was taken prisoner, and for nearly six months was subjected to severe cruelty in Libby prison. While there he was indefatigable in his efforts to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow prisoners. Subsequently he rendered valuable service to the Union cause in the publication of his well-known book, Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War in Richmond. This work, pleasing in style and intensely interesting, had a large circulation and served in a great measure to mitigate the harshness with which prisoners of war had previously been treated. In 1862 Mr. Ely resumed the practice of his profession in Rochester, and continued it until a few weeks prior to his decease. Mr. Ely's home on Plymouth avenue was one of the most attractive in the city, and here his widow, Mrs. Ely, continues to reside. His library was one of the most stensive and valuable in Western New York, while his taste in literature was one of the most-cultivated. As a public speaker Mr. Ely was forcible and fluent, and as a writer he was able and graceful. His friends were numberless and his charities and good deeds many and far-reaching, while as a husband and parent he possessed the rarest virtues. In early years Mr. Ely married Caroline L., daughter of Joseph Field, Esq., a former mayor of Rochester. Mr. Ely died May 18, 1892, and his remains were laid at rest n few days later in the beautiful Ely mausoleum at Mt. Hope.

HON. ISAAC HILLS

Hon. Isaac Hills was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, August 15, 1798. He attended the district school and Lenox academy and graduated from Union college with honor in 1819. From 1814 to 1820 he had charge of various district schools and finally of Lenox academy. He then studied law in the office of John Dickson of West Bloomfield, New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He formed a copartnership with Daniel D. Barnard and began the practice of law in the village of Rochester October 1, 1824. In 1828 the partnership was virtually closed by Mr. Barnard's election to Congress; this necessitated his resignation as district attorney, and Mr. Hills was appointed to fill the office, which he held for about two years, when the court appointed General Matthews. After he had ten years' practice, in 1834, a law was passed incorporating Rochester as a city and Mr. Hills received a commission from Governor Marcy appointing him City Recorder. Holding this position he put the first pen to paper to organize the city government, and drew up the rules and regulations for the government of the Common Council and for its proceedings. While in Bloomfield he was elected school commissioner under the school act of the State and continued to discharge the duties of the office for many years after coming to Rochester. In 1843 he was elected Mayor; in this capacity one of his most notable acts was the quelling of a riot occasioned by the due-bill system. In 1847 he was appointed one of the building commissioners of the Western House of Refuge, acting in that capacity, and also as trustee, for more than twenty years. He was also one of the commissioners on the part of the city for the erection of the second Court House. He was one of the directors of the Rochester City bank from 1840 till the expiration of its charter in 1866, and its attorney for the first sixteen years of its existence. He also held the offices of Master Examiner in Chancery and Commissioner of Deeds. In 1854 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Rochester and Genesee Valley railroad, which office he held until his resignation in i868. He was one of the original projectors of the Rochester Savings bank, and on the organization of the board was elected its attorney, and soon afterward was elected one of its trustees. He held both positions, with the exception of about two years in which he acted as secretary, till within a few years of his death, and previous to that event he was elected president, which office he held till the time of his decease, which took place at his home in Rochester October 10, 1851, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.

JAMES LANSING ANGLE

The late James L. Angle, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and during the long period of his residence in this city one of its most respected public men, was born in the town of Henrietta on December 19, 1818. His ancestors in this country were from Holland and England. He was educated in the district schools and at the Monroe and Mendon academies, and at the age of sixteen became a teacher in a district school, hut worked on his father's farm in the Summer. He continued at these occupations until April, 1840, when he began the study of law in the office of Gay & Stevens in this city. In 1845 he was admitted to the bar; In 1854 was Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and was electeda member of the Legislature in the same year. In 1855 he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors, and in 1857 was City Attorney. He was reelected to the Board of Supervisors in 1863 and was chosen by his associates as Chairman of that body. Governor Robinson in 1877 appointed Mr. Angle Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Rawson, deceased. In 1883 he was elected Justice of the Supreme Court and held the office until January 1, 1889, when he retired, having reached the age of seventy. When Judge Angle retired permanently from the bench the Bar of Monroe county presented to him a testimonial of the esteem in which he was held by his professional associates. It had the merit of sincerity, and although dictated by friendship, was one to which all of his fellow citizens could unhesitatingly subscribe.

CHARLES B. ERNST

Justice Charles B. Ernst is a son of the late Colonel Louis Ernst and is a native of Rochester, where he was born August 16, 1854. He attended St. Joseph's Parochial school and public school No. 14. In 1878 he was graduated from Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettshurg, Maryland. On his return to this city he was engaged for a time as a clerk in his father's hardware store, hut soon turned aside from a business career and entered on the study of the law in the office of Hon. James L. Angle. His studies in the office of Judge Angle were supplemented by a course at the Albany Law school, from which he was graduated in 1880 and admitted to the bar. From that time forward Mr. Ernst has been active in the practice of his profession, first as one of the firm of Ernst & Perkins and more recently in that of Hone & Ernst. The first office that Mr. Ernst filled by election was that of Supervisor from the Fourth ward, which he represented for two terms. In the Spring of 1888 he was appointed by the Common Council to the office of City Attorney for a term of two years, and was re-appointed in 1890. Mr. Ernst's reputation as a lawyer is so high that when he was nominated for the office of Police Justice by the Democrats of Rochester he was triumphantly elected in this Republican city.