The second volume of the work, The History of Ontario County New York, and Its People, is a volume of genealogical and family history. In it are chronicles of the people who have made Ontario County what it is. These records are presented in a series of independent narratives relating to lineal family heads, and the most conspicuous representatives down to the 20th century, giving it a distinct personal interest.
In every case the narrative has been submitted to the immediate subject or to his proper representative for correction and revision. If in any case the matter is incomplete or faulty. it is ascribable to the paucity of data. many families being unable to supply exact information at some point in their ancestral line. It is believed the work will prove a substantial addition to the mass of material relating to people of the region under consideration, and that without it much valuable information would be irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of many custodians of family records and disappearance of material which has been utilized in the preparation of this work.
The first installment of this series includes over 900+ biographies, many of them dealing with not only influential people in Ontario County, New York, but also for the world. A future installment will contain the narrative genealogies of the families, which will in part include the biographies already listed, but further expand on how each one in the family relates to the other.
Biographies and Genealogies from the History of Ontario County New York
A-B Surnames
- Alberto, Arthur
- Alberto, Pietro Caesar
- Alburtis, John
- Alburtis, John
- Aldrich, Cassius
- Aldrich, George
- Aldrich, Jacob
- Aldrich, Jacob
- Aldrich, Nathan
- Aldrich, Noah
- Aldrich, Urial
- Aldrich, Willis
- Aldridge, Albert C.
- Aldridge, Arthur Gilbert
- Aldridge, Gilbert T.
- Andrus, John
- Andruss, Benajah
- Andruss, Cornelius Jay
- Andruss, George
- Andruss, Zebina C.
- Avery, Asahel Blakeman
- Avery, Christopher
- Avery, Henry
- Avery, Humphrey
- Avery, James
- Avery, Peter Rockefeller
- Avery, Samuel
- Avery, Solomon
- Baldwin, Burt
- Barden, Henry Vincent
- Barden, J. Jay
- Barden, Levi
- Barden, Thomas
- Barden, Thomas
- Barker, John
- Barker, Thomas W.
- Barnes, D. Eddy
- Barnes, David
- Barnes, James
- Beahan, Albert L., Dr.
- Bean, Charles Danford
- Beard, Thomas
- Beattie, David
- Beattie, Herbert
- Beattie, James
- Beattie, William
- Beecher, Calvin
- Beecher, Frank R.
- Beecher, Rollin L.
- Beeman, Henry C.
- Bell, George Henry, Captain
- Bell, Henry
- Bell, Jonas
- Bell, William
- Bement, Louie M.
- Bement, Murray J.
- Bement, William E.
- Bennett, George
- Bennett, Horace D.
- Bennett, Matthew
- Black, Aaron
- Black, M. Newton
- Black, Moses
- Blossom, Joseph
- Blossom, William
- Bolger, Thomas J.
- Borden, John
- Borden, Richard
- Borden, Thomas
- Borgman, Bernard
- Borgman, Bernard
- Boughton, Eleazer
- Boughton, Hezekiah
- Boughton, Jared
- Boughton, John
- Boughton, John, Sr.
- Bowen, Ernest S.
- Bowerman, Brice W.
- Bowerman, Silas
- Bowerman, Silas
- Bowerman, Thomas
- Bowerman, Thomas
- Bowerman, Thomas
- Bowerman, William
- Brace, Elisha
- Brace, Elisha
- Brace, Romeyn W.
- Brace, Stephen
- Brace, Thomas Beach
- Brace, Williams, Major
- Brayton, Francis
- Brayton, Francis
- Brayton, Jay J., Rev.
- Brayton, John
- Brayton, Moses
- Brayton, Thomas
- Brayton, Thomas
- Brayton, Thomas
- Brown, Charles L.
- Brown, Hiram L.
- Brown, John N.
- Buck, Myron M.
- Buell, John
- Buell, Jonathan
- Buell, Jonathan
- Buell, Mortimer
- Buell, Samuel
- Buell, Timothy
- Buell, Timothy, Captain
- Buell, William
- Buffington, Carrie I.
- Burling, George W.
- Burnett, Jean La Rue
- Burnette, Frank H.
- Burnette, Hiram
- Burnette, Ulysses Grant
- Burrell, Dwight R., Dr.
- Burrell, Edward
- Burrell, T. William
- Burrell, Thomas
- Burt, Charles Harris
- Burt, Jonathan
- Burt, Jonathan
- Burtis, Arthur
- Burtis, Arthur
- Burtis, Arthur Benjamin
- Burtis, Charles
- Burtis, John
- Burtis, Sylvanus
- Bushnell, Almanza
- Bushnell, Wendell K.
- Bushnell, Zina
C-E Surnames
- Cammett, Frank
- Cammett, Samuel
- Carpenter, Curtis
- Carpenter, Frank H.
- Carpenter, Increase
- Carpenter, Increase
- Carpenter, Jacob
- Carpenter, John
- Carpenter, John
- Carpenter, John
- Carpenter, William
- Carpenter, William
- Carson, James Carlton, Dr.
- Carson, James S.
- Carson, Robert
- Carson, Robert
- Case, Edson T.
- Case, William
- Cavanaugh, James
- Cavanaugh, James Francis
- Chapin, Japhet
- Chapin, Jeremiah
- Chapin, Samuel
- Chapin, Samuel
- Child, Richard
- Child, Richard
- Childs, Albert Sherwood
- Childs, Benjamin
- Childs, Oliver
- Childs, Samuel, Deacon
- Clapper, William B., Dr.
- Clark, Cephus
- Clark, Frederick P. A.
- Clark, Lawrence
- Clark, Walter A.
- Clark, William Frederick
- Clayton, Edward
- Clayton, Joseph
- Clayton, Joshua
- Clayton, William
- Clayton, William
- Clayton, William
- Cline, John
- Cline, Mark
- Cline, Martus
- Cline, Richard
- Collie, James J., Dr.
- Collins, Chauncey Brooks
- Collins, Cyprian
- Collins, Cyprian
- Collins, George
- Collins, Guy
- Collins, John
- Collins, John
- Collins, John
- Collins, Louis D.
- Collins, Samuel
- Collins, Thaddeus
- Collins, Timothy, Rev.
- Colmey, John, Hon.
- Connolly, Robert Emmet
- Conover, Cornelius
- Conover, John
- Conover, Theodore
- Cook, Benjamin Franklin
- Cook, Edward
- Cook, Henry
- Cook, Robert George, Dr.
- Cooke, John D., Dr.
- Cooper, Louis A.
- Cornell, William A.
- Cornford, Thomas
- Cornford, William H.
- Cornford, William H.
- Cotton, Ephraim
- Cotton, Ephraim, Lieutenant
- Cotton, George
- Cotton, Isaac
- Cotton, Leonard
- Cotton, Samuel
- Cotton, William Marion, Dr.
- Covert, Jay Byington, Dr.
- Coye, Archibald
- Coye, Luke
- Coye, Nathan H.
- Coye, Nehemiah
- Coye, Nehemiah Mark
- Crothers, Oliver
- Crothers, William L.
- Davis, Benjamin
- Davis, William
- Davison, Charles C.
- De Graff, Frank A.
- De Graw, F. Allen
- Denton, Eugene C.
- Denton, John
- Denton, John
- Denton, John C.
- Denton, Robert
- Denton, Rowland
- Dixon, Dudley Marvin
- Dixon, Edward Baxter
- Dixon, James
- Dixon, John
- Dixon, John Boynton
- Dorchester, Edward G.
- Dorchester, Preston J.
- Dorsey, George C.
- Dougherty, James T., Rev.
- Eiseline, Daniel A., Dr.
- Ellis, Abram W.
- Ellis, Bolivar
- Ellis, Henry
- Ellis, Samuel
- Ellis, Smith
- Ellis, Willis C.
- Esty, Aaron
- Esty, Aaron B.
- Esty, Frank J.
- Esty, Isaac
- Esty, Isaac
- Esty, Jeffrey
- Esty, John B.
F-G Surnames
- Fairfax, Charles Washington
- Fairfax, George Henry
- Fairfax, George Henry
- Fairfax, Thomas, Sir
- Fay, Walter L.
- Flood, Herbert C.
- Flood, Luther
- Flynn, Francis
- Flynn, Francis
- Force, Benjamin
- Force, Chester B.
- Force, David
- Fordon, George
- Fordon, George Frederick
- Fordon, William
- Forster, Clark
- Forster, William B.
- Foster, Henry, Dr.
- Frary, Edward Harrison
- Frary, John
- Frary, John
- Frary, William Stoddard
- Freshour, Charles D.
- Freshour, John
- Fulton, James P.
- Galusha, Clark
- Galusha, George S.
- Gardiner, Jacob Janse
- Gardner, Anson Lapham
- Gardner, Charles H.
- Gardner, Elisha W.
- Gardner, Hanson A.
- Gardner, Sunderland Pattison
- Garlock, Abram
- Garlock, Charles H.
- Garlock, Charles H.
- Garlock, Cyrus
- Garlock, Peter
- Garlock, Peter
- Garlock, William F.
- Gifford, William
- Gillette, John
- Gillette, John
- Gillis, John D.
- Gillis, John D.
- Gillis, John Smith
- Gooding, Edwin
- Gooding, Elias J.
- Gooding, Ephraim
- Goodman, Charles
- Goodman, Henry H.
- Granger, Francis
- Granger, Gideon
- Granger, Gideon
- Granger, Henry Francis
- Granger, Henry Martyn
- Granger, John Albert
- Granger, Zadock
- Griffith, E. A.
- Griffith, Frank Allyn
- Griffith, John
- Griffith, John Watson
- Grove, Chauncey W., Dr.
- Gulvin, Reuben H.
H-J Surnames
- Hall, Edward
- Hall, John S.
- Hall, Roscoe F.
- Hall, Thomas W.
- Hamlin, Ebenzer, Deacon
- Hamlin, Elijah
- Hamlin, Frank Harwood
- Hamlin, Henry William
- Hamlin, Isaac
- Hamlin, James
- Hamlin, James
- Hamlin, Seth, Captain
- Harris, John
- Hart, Hawkins
- Hart, Jonathan
- Hart, Jonathan
- Hart, Samuel Collins
- Hart, Stephen
- Hart, Theodore Ephraim
- Hart, Thomas
- Hart, Thomas, Captain
- Hathaway, Arnold Bristol
- Hathaway, Isaac
- Hathaway, John
- Hathaway, John
- Hathaway, Joseph P.
- Hathaway, Perez
- Hayes, Edward Graham
- Hayes, George
- Hayes, Joseph Bryon
- Hayes, Joseph Bryon, Dr.
- Hayes, Samuel
- Hayes, Samuel, Captain
- Hayes, Simeon
- Heath, Clarence
- Hemiup, George M.
- Henry, David H.
- Herendeen, Albert H., Hon.
- Herendeen, Benjamin
- Herendeen, Charles H.
- Herendeen, Lemuel
- Herendeen, Nathan
- Herendeen, Welcome
- Herendeen, Welcome
- Hewson, George W.
- Hill, Reynolds
- Hoening, Ambrose V.
- Hoening, David
- Hoening, John
- Hofmann, Frank Christian
- Hollis, Alfred M.
- Hollis, Fred W.
- Hollis, Henry
- Hornbeck, James
- Horton, Barnabas
- Horton, Caleb
- Horton, Caleb
- Horton, Coe C.
- Horton, Elisha
- Horton, Isaiah
- Horton, Isaiah
- Horton, Nathaniel
- Horton, Nathaniel, Deacon
- Houston, Robert
- Hoyt, Benajah
- Hoyt, Benjamin F., Rev.
- Hoyt, Caleb
- Hoyt, Elijah
- Hoyt, Elijah
- Hoyt, Eugene F.
- Hoyt, John F.
- Hoyt, Simon
- Hoyt, Walter
- Hoyt, Zerubbabel
- Hunt, William
- Hutchens, Charles H.
- Hutchens, Henry
- Hutchens, Nodiah E.
- Jamieson, David
- Jamieson, David
- Johnson, Thomas
- Johnston, James
- Johnston, John
- Johnston, William James, Dr.
- Jordan, Whitman Howard
- Judd, Calvin L.
- Judd, William Arthur
K-O Surnames
- Kane, Daniel
- Keating, John
- Keating, William F.
- Kennedy, Francis M.
- Kennedy, Grant Maitland
- Kennedy, James
- Kennedy, Robert M.
- Keyes, Lewis W.
- Kirtland, Daniel
- Kirtland, Dorrance L.
- Klopfer, John
- Klube, Gustave Fredeman
- Klube, Henry John Lewis
- Knickerbocker, Hebram
- Knickerbocker, Richard Monroe
- Knickerbocker, Sidney
- Knowles, Eber A.
- Knowles, Fred W.
- Knowles, John, Rev.
- Knowles, Richard
- Knowles, Seth
- Lapham, De Witt C.
- Lapham, Nathan D.
- Lapham, Nathan D.
- Lauder, James
- Lauder, John A.
- Lauder, John W.
- Le Roy, James
- Le Roy, William J.
- Leahy, Patrick Henry
- Lee, George
- Lee, George, Captain
- Lee, John
- Lee, Richard
- Lee, Roswell Munson
- Lee, Seth Lafayette, Colonel
- Lee, Seth Lafayette, Major
- Lewis, Alfred George
- Licht, George F.
- Licht, Louis J.
- Locke, Ebenezer
- Locke, Fred M.
- Locke, Frederick
- Locke, Joshua
- Locke, Joshua, Lieutenant
- Locke, William G.
- Locke, William Morton
- Locke, William, Deacon
- Loomis, Leslie George
- Lyon, William
- Madden, Michael Thomas, Rev.
- Marks, William
- Marks, William
- Marks, William R.
- Marsh, Frederick
- Marsh, John N.
- Marsh, Lewis
- McDowell, Charles
- McDowell, John
- McDowell, John
- McDowell, William
- McKelvie, Charles
- McKelvie, Edward Wiser
- McKelvie, Willard Graham
- McKelvie, William
- McKelvie, William Graham
- Mead, Alfred M., Dr.
- Mead, David
- Mead, John
- Mead, John G.
- Mead, William
- Mead, William
- Merritt, Adelbert Clinton
- Merritt, Stacey
- Merritt, William Harrison
- Middaugh, Jacob
- Middaugh, Oren A.
- Milliken, Charles F.
- Mott, Philander A.
- Nagel, Samuel
- Needham, Michael
- Neville, P. A., Rev.
- Newland, Frank Herrick, Dr.
- O’Brien, Matthew T.
- O’Brien, Patrick
- O’Malley, Patrick, Hon.
- Oak, Jonathan
- Oak, Nathaniel
- Oaks, Jonathan
- Oaks, Nathan
- Oaks, Nathan
- Oaks, Thaddeus
- Oaks, William A.
- Osborne, William Bushnell
- Osburn, Henry C.
- Osburn, John
- Osgood, Burrus
- Osgood, Carlos Pierce
- Osgood, Elihu
- Ottley, G. Lynn
- Ottley, George W.
- Ottley, Thomas
- Ottley, William
- Overacre, John W.
P-R Surnames
- Padgham, Richard W., Dr.
- Page, John A.
- Page, Levi A.
- Page, Levi A.
- Page, Nathaniel
- Palmer, Edward H.
- Parmele, Henry M.
- Parmele, Hiram Taft
- Parmele, Isaac
- Parmelee, Anson
- Parmelee, Asaph
- Parmelee, George Herbert
- Parmelee, John
- Parmelee, John
- Parmelee, Jonathan
- Parmelee, Joshua
- Parmenter, John, Dr.
- Peck, Charles
- Peck, Charles E.
- Peck, Hiram
- Peck, Joseph
- Peck, Lewis
- Peck, Samuel
- Pecke, Joseph
- Pecke, William
- Pets, John
- Pierce, Andrew
- Pierce, Andrew
- Pierson, Samuel D.
- Plunkett, William, Dr.
- Pond, Benjamin
- Pond, George C.
- Pond, Timothy
- Post, Abram A.
- Potter, William
- Preston, Abner
- Preston, George H.
- Preston, George W.
- Preston, Roger
- Preston, Samuel
- Preston, Samuel
- Preston, Samuel
- Preston, Samuel
- Preston, Ward H.
- Prichard, Benjamin
- Prichard, George C., Dr.
- Prichard, James
- Raines, George R.
- Raines, John
- Raines, John, Hon.
- Raines, John, Rev.
- Raines, John, Rev.
- Reed, Vincent
- Reed, Vincent
- Rice, C. Willard
- Rice, Frank
- Rice, Terrence W.
- Richards, Allen Becker
- Richardson, Charles A., Major
- Richardson, Isaac
- Richmond, Edward, Captain
- Richmond, John
- Richmond, Perez, Judge
- Richmond, Silvester, Colonel
- Richmond, William, Judge
- Rigney, Martin
- Robinson, Baxter
- Robinson, Daniel Arnold, Dr.
- Robinson, Robert H.
- Robson, Edward B.
- Robson, James A.
- Robson, John
- Robson, William N.
- Rockefeller, Godfrey
- Rockefeller, Ira P.
- Rockefeller, Norman
- Rose, Arthur Patrick
- Rose, Oswald J. C.
- Rowley, Andrew
- Rowley, Charles Andrew, Dr.
- Rowley, Franklin
- Rowley, Henry
- Rowley, Jirah
- Rowley, John
- Rowley, John, Ensign
- Rowley, Moses
- Rowley, Moses
- Rupert, Frank E.
- Rupert, Philip
- Rupert, Theodore D., Dr.
- Rupert, William P.
S Surnames
- Salisbury, Humphrey
- Salisbury, John
- Salisbury, John Lewis
- Salisbury, John V.
- Salisbury, William
- Sawyer, Henry Howard
- Sawyer, Joseph
- Sawyer, Joseph
- Sawyer, Joseph Norris
- Sawyer, Thomas
- Sawyer, Thomas
- Sawyer, Thomas
- Sawyer, Thomas
- Schnirel, Reinhold A.
- Severance, Jesse
- Severance, Jesse
- Severance, John
- Severance, John
- Severance, Joseph
- Severance, Joseph
- Severance, William Dwight
- Severance, William Sidney
- Sheffer, Ceylon
- Sheffer, Edward Thatcher
- Sheldon, Cassius C.
- Sheldon, Cephas
- Sheldon, Charles
- Sheldon, Ebenezer
- Sheldon, Isaac
- Sheldon, John
- Sheldon, Rememberance
- Sheldon, Richard
- Short, Andrew J.
- Short, John W., Dr.
- Short, Myron D.
- Simpson, M. K.
- Sisco, Marvin, Rev.
- Skinner, Henry Godfrey
- Skinner, Israel, Dr.
- Skinner, William Waddell
- Smith, Asa
- Smith, Carl D.
- Smith, Edmund
- Smith, Edmund W.
- Smith, Franklin D.
- Smith, George Franklin
- Smith, Mack S.
- Smith, Martin
- Snyder, Homer Eugene
- Southworth, Samuel
- Spengler, John
- Spengler, John Arthur, M.D.
- Squire, Adin
- Squire, Jesse
- Squire, Jesse
- Squire, Jesse C.
- Stacy, Alanson
- Stephens, James H., Dr.
- Stephens, John H.
- Stephenson, Dolphin
- Stephenson, Frederick P.
- Stephenson, Harvey
- Stilts, John Robert
- Stilts, John Roberts
- Stilts, Thomas Henry
- Stoutenburg, Frederick
- Stoutenburg, Isaac
- Stoutenburg, Jacobus
- Stoutenburg, Pieter
- Stoutenburg, Tobias
- Stoutenburg, Tobias W.
- Stoutenburg, William
- Stryker, James I.
- Stryker, John
- Stryker, Winfield S.
- Stubbs, George S.
- Stubbs, Watson E.
- Stubbs, William
- Sutherland, Myron C.
- Sweeney, Charles Henry
- Sweeney, Edward
- Sweeney, Thomas Henry
T-V Surnames
- Taylor, Fayette
- Taylor, Livingston L., Rev.
- Thompson, Hugh
- Thompson, James
- Thompson, Joshua
- Thompson, Lester P., Lieutenant
- Thompson, Robert F.
- Thorne, Edwin S.
- Throop, Adoniram Judson
- Throop, Azel
- Throop, Benjamin
- Throope, Daniel
- Throope, Daniel
- Throope, William
- Tilden, Christopher
- Tilden, Christopher
- Tilden, David, Major
- Tilden, Joseph
- Tilden, Nathaniel
- Tilden, Stephen
- Tilden, William B.
- Tilden, William H.
- Titus, Anson
- Titus, Billy
- Titus, Joel
- Titus, John
- Titus, John
- Titus, Jonah
- Titus, Oliver
- Titus, Robert
- Truesdale, William Henry
- Turnbull, Adam
- Turnbull, Alexander
- Turnbull, William R.
- Tuttle, Anson S.
- Tuttle, Benjamin
- Tuttle, Joseph
- Tuttle, Joseph
- Tuttle, Joseph
- Tuttle, Joseph
- Tuttle, Joseph W.
- Tuttle, Richard A.
- Tuttle, William
- Van Dyne, Frank P.
- Van Valkenberg, William H.
- Van Voorhis, George Lyman
- Vance, James R.
- Vander Beek, Charles Abraham
- Vanderhoof, Abram
- Vanderhoof, Jacob
- Vanderhoof, Jacob
- Vanderhoof, Jacob W.
- Vincent, Arthur S.
- Vincent, Charles B.
- Vosburgh, Arnold
- Vosburgh, Lee
- Vosburgh, Richard
W-Z Surnames
- Warfield, Alexander
- Warfield, Brice
- Warfield, Emerson Eugene
- Warfield, John
- Warfield, Richard
- Warfield, Zadock
- Warfield, Zadock
- Warfield, Zadock
- Warner, Andrew
- Warner, Daniel
- Warner, Earle Spear
- Warner, Henry D.
- Warner, Hiram
- Warner, Jesse
- Warner, Jesse
- Warner, Rufus
- Warner, Samuel
- Webster, James
- Webster, John
- Webster, Jonathan
- Webster, Milo Freeman
- Webster, Otis A.
- Welch, William Harris
- Wells, Henri E.
- Wells, Samuel
- Westfall, Benjamin Franklin
- Westfall, Burton S.
- Westfall, Cornelius
- Westfall, Jacob
- Westfall, Samuel
- Westvall, Juriaen
- Wheeler, Addison H.
- Wheeler, Benjamin
- Wheeler, Benjamin D.
- Wheeler, Heber E.
- Wheeler, Oscar F.
- Wheeler, Simeon R.
- White, Charles D.
- White, David
- Whitney, Benjamin
- Whitney, Cheney
- Whitney, Cheney P.
- Whitney, Henry B.
- Whitney, John
- Whitney, Jonas
- Whitney, Jonathan
- Whitney, Jonathan
- Whitney, Jonathan, Captain
- Whitney, Nathan
- Whitwell, Frederic D.
- Whitwell, William
- Wilbur, Brownell
- Wilbur, Brownell
- Wilbur, Isaac
- Wilbur, Marvin A.
- Wilbur, Samuel
- Wilbur, Samuel
- Wilbur, William
- Wilbur, Wright
- Wilcox, Merritt Crawford
- Wilkins, Gustavus Charles
- Williams, Arthur
- Williams, Charles E.
- Williams, Ebenezer
- Williams, Ebenezer
- Williams, Enos D.
- Williams, Justus
- Williams, William H.
- Williams, Zebediah
- Williams, Zebediah
- Wilson, Thomas B.
- Wilson, William, Colonel
- Woolston, John A.
- Woolston, Joseph
- Woolston, William
- Woolston, William Franklin
- Wyckoff, Abram
- Wyckoff, Cornelius
- Wyckoff, Pieter Claesz
- Young, Arthur
- Young, Gardner B., Dr.
- Young, George
- Young, Samuel
- Young, Stephen
- Young, William