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(IX) Arnold Bristol, son of Joseph P. Hathaway, was born at Farmington, October 4, 1866. He attended the district schools and Canandaigua Academy. He worked on the homestead in youth with his father. Since 1890, when his father died, he has conducted a farm of ninety acres at Farmington. In 1906 he added to his holdings by the purchase of ninety acres, and in 1910 he bought sixty-eight acres more. He raises high-grade cattle and deals in fancy stock in Buffalo and elsewhere. He has made the raising of Oxford Down sheep a specialty and scored a success in this branch of farming. He is an active and influential Republican. In religion he is a Methodist. He married. December 16, 1896, Emma A. Rose, born at Farmington, January 29, 1876, daughter of J. S. and Sarah (Bloodgood) Rose, and granddaughter of Henry Rose, of Victor, New York. She had brothers, Smith J., William H. and Edgar J. Rose, and sisters, Verna L. and Lydia Rose. Children: J. Perez, born at Farmington, December 19, 1897; Josephine, February 2, 1900; Elizabeth, May 29, 1902; Wilma Rose, November 16, 1906.