Biographical Sketches
Town of Carrolton
Cattaraugus County New York
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Biographical Sketches From the Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County New York - Town of Carrolton N.Y.
Source: Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893, History of the Town of Carrolton - Chapter XVIII Pg. 430.
ADAMS, John Smith Biographical Sketch
John Smith Adams, son of William and Magdelene (Wade) Adams, was born in Massachusetts, April 23, 1806. His ancestors came from England to America about 1630. In 1820, as near as can be ascertained, he came to Farmersville with his parents, where he married Theda Corkins, Jan. 17, 1831, who was born Oct. 18, 1811. In 1834 they emigrated to Ohio with a team and heavy wagon and settled in Lorain on a farm adjoining his brothers, W. H. H. and Lyman. He was there a farmer and a ship-carpenter, and returned to Cattaraugus county in 1883 and spent the remainder of his old age with his son, Albert Quincy Adams, in where he died March 21, 1889.
ADAMS, Albert Quincy Biographical Sketch
Albert Quincy Adams was born in Lorain, Ohio, July 14, 1844. With his father's consent he enlisted in the 55th Ohio Inf. and was mustered in Sept. 1 1, 1 861, being honorably discharged Nov. 5, 1862, on account of a gun-shot wound in his left leg received at the second battle of Bull Run. He returned home and was employed to drive a team for the government in Kentucky in the winter of 1863-64. In the summer of 1864 he was employed on board a government tugboat on the Potomac and James rivers. In the fall of 1864 he came to Carrolton and ran a stationary engine in the steam saw-mill of Dr. J. Nichols for nine years. He settled on the place where he now resides in 1868, and has since been a farmer. Dec. 5, 1866, he married Euthenia Bosworth and they have two sons and two daughters. Their oldest child, May B., is a successful teacher.
ANDREWS, Harper G. Biographical Sketch
Harper G. Andrews, son of Robert H. and Julia E. (Wilmot) Andrews, was born in Windsor, Broome county, February 3, 1845. He was educated in the common schools, at Rogers Seminary at Great Bend, Pa., and at Lowell's Business College in Binghamton. He was a farmer with his father until July 23, 1862, when, with his father's consent, he enlisted in Co. B, 137th N. Y. Vols., and returned at the close of the war with the rank of first lieutenant. He participated in all the events of his regiment, marched to the sea with Sherman, and returned by way of Richmond to Washington. He led a charmed life and only received one gun-shot wound in his right arm at the battle of Peach Tree Creek. He was honorably discharged June 20, 1865. He was again a farmer with his father the ensuing two years. In November, 1867, he settled in Limestone as a clerk and two years later engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber, which he followed until 1881. He then conducted a hotel up to 1890. Mr. Andrews is a staunch Republican, and has been electee! assessor and two times supervisor. May 5, 1869, he married Mary A. Irvine, of Carrolton. They have had three children, all of whom died in early childhood.
BAILLET, Felix Biographical Sketch
Felix Baillet, born Nov. 22, 1802, married Aff. Whitcomb, who was born April II, 1807, and removed from Farmersville to Limestone in the fall of 1852. He built a small tannery, the first in town, and tanned leather and made boots and shoes. His brother, Francis E. Baillet, was clerk of Cattaraugus county for nine years. Felix Baillet was a great reader, well informed, was familiar with the Bible, and loved an argument, especially with the clergymen. He had a mind and will of his own. He was supervisor of this town in 1867. He removed with his family to Tullahoma, Tenn., in 1868, where he still resides. His father, Francis Baillet, was born in Rocheforte, France, in 1769, and died in Philadelphia in 1804. John W. Baillet, son of Felix, was born in Farmersville, March 12, 1837. January 31, 1864, he married Abigail, daughter of Levi Leonard. He was a railroad conductor and train dispatcher eighteen years. He was always affable and kind. He died in 1881. His only surviving child is a son, Frank, born July 26, 1871.
BEARDSLEY, John Odell Biographical Sketch
John Odell Beardsley was born in Dutchess county in 1779 and married Charity Bromley, of Delhi, N. Y. Being a lumberman and merchant with his father they used the Delaware river as a means of transportation to and from Philadelphia. Mr. Beardsley removed to near Seneca Lake and in 1813 or 1814 to Chautauqua county, where he was a successful lumberman until 1829, when he came to Tuna valley and purchased several hundred acres of pine land in the township of Bradford, Pa., and engaged extensively in manufacturing lumber. In February, 1831, he brought his family to his log cabin. In a few years he built a comfortable residence, the center of which was exactly on the State line. He claimed his residence in Pennsylvania. In 1836, with his sons John O. and William, he built a double mill on Foster brook, where they were engaged in manufacturing lumber to the time of his death, April 23, 1842. John O., William, and Hiram were all lumbermen. They had a tract of land along the State line in Carrolton which contained 2,000 acres, from which they cut the timber. J. O. Beardsley was the river pilot for the family from the age of fifteen years, and took millions of feet of lumber to market. He became a prominent man in society and the first leader of the M. E. class organized in Carrolton in 1850. He is now a farmer in Sardinia, Erie county. Mr. Beardsley married Alinda Whitaker and his children are Malvina, born Nov. 10, 1836, of Arcade, N. Y.; Louenza (Mrs. Richard Hazzard), of Limestone; Lucy, born May 6, 1842, wife of Joseph Leonard, of Carrolton; Charles O., born May 10, 1844, of Duluth, Minn.; Louise J., born Oct. 27, 1846 (Mrs. M. W. Caffee), of Bradford; Millie A., born Nov. 14, 1850 (Mrs. Guy C. Irvine), of Irvine's Mills; Clinton J., born Sept. 18, 1853, a farmer on the homestead; and Wilbur G., born Nov. 18, 1858.
BEARDSLEY, Hiram Biographical Sketch
Hiram Beardsley, youngest son of John O., Sr., was born March 25, 1825. He married Mandana Hull, succeeded his father on the homestead, and gave his mother a home until she died in August, 1876, aged ninety-two years. He built his present fine residence in 1880, north of the State line. In 1865, Hiram and William Beardsley, with a company of capitalists, took the first leases of territory and made a test by drilling the first well in this region on land where the city of Bradford has since been built. Although this well was not a success, because it was not bored deep enough, it established two facts: that oil did exist in paying quantities, and that William and Hiram Beardsley were the pioneers in the discovery of petroleum in Tuna valley. On the farm of Hiram Beardsley is the first paying oil well in Carrolton. This was drilled in the winter of 1875-76 and is still yielding oil. William Beardsley died in October, 1885. He served the town as supervisor in 1855, 1856, and 1857.
BEDELL, Hiram Biographical Sketch
Jacob Bedell, a native of Branchville, N. J., was born March 1, 1840. His parents removed to Owego in 1850, where he resided until i860, when he joined them in Prompton, Pa. He then began business for himself as a jobber in lumbering. He has since been a jobber and overseer of lumbering and peeling bark, except three years and a half spent on contract work in the coal mines. In 1879 he began business as a jobber in peeling bark for Hoyt Brothers in Gouldsboro, Pa., which employed him there and in Hillsgrove, Pa., about six years. Since then he has resided in Limestone and is the overseer for Hoyt Brothers in the business in which he has long been an expert. Mr. Bedell is efficient and trustworthy. In March, 1881, he married Emma Engler, of Gouldsboro, Pa. They have two daughters, Maud and Frances M.
BIDEN, Rev. J. D. Biographical Sketch
Rev. J. D. Biden, born in Buffalo, Sept. 30, 1852, spent his boyhood in Cattaraugus county and acquired his early education in the common school on Whig street in Little Valley. After a short business career in Buffalo he entered Niagara University in 1874 and in Dec, 1879, received the degree of A.B. After a two years' course in theology he received in 1881 the degree of A.M. and was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church June 3, 1882. He then spent one year as assistant at West Seneca. Aug. 1, 1883, he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's church of Limestone, where he still officiates. Since coming to Limestone he has purchased a cemetery for the parish, enlarged and greatly improved the parsonage, has wrought many other necessary improvements, and has built a small but neat church edifice at Carrolton village. He has also started a fund to build a more commodious church at Limestone. He served a term on the Board of Education.
BISSELL, Byron Biographical Sketch
Byron Bissell, son of Aaron and Delilah (Pullen) Bissell, was born on the Bissell homestead in Lyndon, Nov. 5, 1849, and was educated in the common schools and Ten Broeck Academy. He was a farmer with his father until he attained his majority and the winter ensuing taught the district school where he had himself been taught. He spent two years of the ensuing ten as druggist's clerk with Dr. James Nichols in Limestone, two or three years on the home farm in Lyndon, where he held the offices of town clerk and justice of the peace, and the remainder of the period was engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania. Aug. 26, 1880, he succeeded Dr. Nichols in the firm of Nichols & Paton, druggists, of Limestone. Since 1883, when he purchased Mr. Paton's interest, Mr. Bissell has conducted the business alone. He has held the positions of deputy postmaster and trustee and president of the village. October 10, 1875, he married Ella Beebe, of Carrolton. They have five children: Jennie H., Clara M., Maud, and Leon B. and Lena (twins).
BOSWORTH, Alonzo Biographical Sketch
Alonzo Bosworth was born in Marion, Wayne county, June 17, 1823, and moved with his parents to New Hudson, Allegany county, when about five years old, where his parents resided to the close of their lives. Alonzo Bosworth married, in November, 1854, in Allegany county, Amelia Page, who died in June, 1855, and in February, 1861, he married, second, Sarah Adams, who was born in Deerfield, Oneida county, in 1832. Her father, Israel Adams, was a native of New Hampshire and of English descent. Mr. Bosworth is a lumberman and has been employed as head sawyer and manager of the lumber firm of J. Nichols & Co. for more than twenty years. He now gives his attention to his farm.
BROWN, Ansel J. Biographical Sketch
Ansel J. Brown, youngest child of Erastus Brown, a pioneer of Mansfield, was born on the homestead Jan. 8, 1849, was reared a farmer, and waseducated in the district school. His father died when he was only eleven years old. At eighteen he and his brother Levi bought the homestead and together cultivated it about twenty years. In the spring of 1883 Mr. Brown opened a general store at Union Corners, near his old home, where he remained until the spring of 1887, when he purchased his present store in Limestone. In 1875 he made an extensive tour through California. April 6, 1870, Mr. Brown married Ellen L., daughter of Lorenzo H. Smith, of Mansfield. Their children are Harry, who married Miss Armstrong; Clara (Mrs. George Seymour); and Melva. Mr. Brown is a musician and Mrs. Brown conducts a millinery store.
CARMODY, John Biographical Sketch
John Carmody was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1823. He resided in England three or four years, where he married Mary O'Day, a native of Ireland, and born in 1830. They came to New York city in 1853; he was engaged on the Erie and New York Central railroads until 1858, when he came to Limestone, where he was employed in the tannery until 1866. He then purchased a wood lot of fifty acres in the neighborhood known as New Ireland, where he resided about two years. In November, 1869, he settled on the farm where he now resides. This farm, with the aid of his industrious sons, he has converted into well-cultivated fields and a good home. In March, 1875, he leased fifty acres of his farm for oil' purposes, with a royalty of one-eighth net to himself, and has an income from six producing wells. Mr. and Mrs. Carmody have had born to thtm eight children, three of whom died young. Those now living are Michael, Kate M., John P., Marv, and Ellen A. Michael and John are contractors and jobbers in drilling oil and gas wells; Kate M. and Ellen A. are teachers; Mary (Mrs. M. Scanlon) resides in Bradford, Pa.
COGSWELL, Mason W., John Biographical Sketch
Mason W. Cogswell, son of Samuel, was born in Warren, Pa., Nov. 4, 1822, and about 1847 came to Carrolton, where he began manufacturing square timber and pine shingles. With four or five others he lived in a shanty kept by a mulatto. When their raft of timber arrived at Warren Mr. Cogswell took charge of it and ran it down to Pittsburg. He was known as one of the most capable pilots on the river. Until 1882 or '83 he made dozens of trips a pilot and was successful with all but one. In 1853 he settled where he now resides and is engaged in farming. Aug. i, 1851, he married Sarah Lawton, who bore him these children: Adelaide and Hannah, who died in childhood; Chloe A. (Mrs. W. Brooks), born April 3, 1857, died Feb. 10, 1877; John L., born Aug. 23, 1859, married Sylvia Tallman, of Minnesota, and resides on the homestead with his father; and Perry M., born Feb. 10, 1862, also with his father. Mrs. Cogswell died Feb. 10, 1863. Jan. i, 1874, he married, second, Phebe Lawson.
COWEN, George J., John Biographical Sketch
George J. Cowen was born in Candor, Tioga county, in June, 1840. His father was a shoemaker and later a grocer in Limestone, where he died in 1873. Aug. 6, 1862, George J. enlisted in Co. C, 109th N. Y. Vols., and he participated in all the events of his regiment for two years, when he was sent to the. hospital to recover from an amputated finger. He left before it was fairly healed and assisted in repelling the attempted assault on Washington. Soon afterward he was transferred to the 13th Veteran Reserve Corps, from which he was discharged July 13, 1865. He immediately settled in Limestone, where he was a groceryman with his father one year. Mr. Cowen has served as constable since 1885, and since 1882 he has been police constable of Limestone. Aug. 29, 1865, he married Anna A. Hill, and their children now living are Fred C, Georgiana N., and Luney M.
CROWLEY, John J. Biographical Sketch
John J. Crowley, son of Dennis, was born in Cattaraugus, May 12, 1866, and attended the Union Free School of his native village. He began to learn telegraphy at the age of fourteen and became an operator for the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad at the age of sixteen. One year later he was operator and clerk at Mt. Jewett, Pa., and two years afterward was made station agent of Limestone, taking charge March 1, 1886. His is a family of railroad men.
DREHMER, Jacob G. Biographical Sketch
Jacob G. Drehmer was born in Dansville, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1844, enlisted Aug. I, 1862, in Co. B, 1st N. Y. Dragoons, and was honorably discharged June 10, 1865. Mr. Drehmer participated in the battle of Cold Harbor, where he received an injury in his left leg .and was excused from duty in consequence for about a week, but did not leave his regiment. He was present also at the Wilderness, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Yellow Tavern, Fisher's Hill, the siege of Suffolk, and other battles and skirmishes. Since returning from the army he has pursued his trade as a manufacturer of boots and shoes. Mr. Drehmer married Julia L. Common, of Angelica, N. Y., and they have one son. Mr. Drehmer is a Republican. Both are members of the Methodist church, of which he is one of the trustees, having held the position the past fourteen years. He has also served as superintendent of the Sunday school.
FRANK, Daniel Biographical Sketch
Daniel Frank, son of Daniel, a pioneer of Ashford, married Catherine, daughter of Peter Multer, also a pioneer of Ashford. He was a farmer and blacksmith. He came to Vandalia and -built the fences from Olean to Dunkirk for the Erie railroad by contract. He also carried on his trade of blacksmith, and was the superintendent in the construction of the State road from Vandalia to Great Valley. In 1861 he enlisted in the 64th N. Y. Inf. for three years. He stood six feet three and one-half inches in his stockings. The exposures of army life brought on inflammatory rheumatism, and after a period of treatment in the hospital he was discharged an invalid. He returned home about eleven months after he entered the service and died two years later. Mrs. Frank died October 25, 1888. Their son, Clark Frank, was born in Otto, March 27, 1844. Aug. 31, 1862, he enlisted in the 111th N. Y. Inf., participated in all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac, was never in the hospital nor away from his company until he received a wound from a minieball that struck him a little above the heart, passed through his left lung, and out at his back. By a strange coincidence his brother Sylvester, a soldier in the 61st Regiment, received precisely such a wound the same day and in the same battle. They were treated in the same ward of the hospital by the same surgeon, recovered at the same time, were honorably discharged June 14, 1865, and nent home together. Nov. 7, 1868, Clark Frank married Lucina Waters, of Fimestone. He conducted a grocery in Carrolton and was a lumberman until about 1870. He was successively baggagemaster, telegraph operator, and three years station agent at Limestone. Since 1888 he has been a farmer. Mr. Frank has officiated as justice of the peace eight years, and has held several other town offices. He has five children. James D. Frank, son of Daniel, was born March 23, 1854. He leaTned telegraphy without a tutor, was assistant station agent at Carrolton, and for eight years was station agent at Great Valley. He is now the station agent and telegraph operator at Vandalia.
FULLER, Chase Biographical Sketch
Chase Fuller, son of John and Betsey Fuller, was born in Piermont, N. H., April 18, 1797, received a good business education, and married Nancy Kenyon, of Holland, N. Y., May 5, 1822. She was born January 12, 1802, at Stanley, Conn. They came to Freedom in the winter of 1839-40. In Feb., 1844, they removed to Carrolton on lot 25, where the village of Limestone has since been built. His residence, a two-story log house, was located where the Bateman House now stands. Mr. Fuller was an extensive farmer and a manufacturer and dealer in pine lumber, which he rafted down the river to Cincinnati. In 1846 he opened a general mercantile establishment where the Tuna valley store now stands. Mr. Fuller was a man of good business ability, well informed, and a leading and prominent citizen. He was elected supervisor of Carrolton in 1844 and represented the town ten years and held the same office in Humphrey four years. He officiated as a magistrate over forty years and as associate judge of the county several terms. As magistrate he was the trial justice and officiated at nearly 200 weddings. Early in life he began practice in justice's courts and continued successfully until old age compelled him to relinquish the work. Mr. Chase was an honorable, upright citizen. In the spring of 1857 he removed to Humphrey, where he gave his attention to his farm, the various ofifices which he held, and his law practice. In 1868 he removed to Virginia, where he was postmaster, but five years later returned to Carrolton, where he died Jan. 25, 1880. Mrs. Fuller survived him until Dec. 24, 1887. Their children were Philetus M., born May 4, 1823, now of Smethport, Pa., a soldier in the Union army five years, a magistrate eight years, associate judge five years, county commissioner six years, and has been a heavy oil producer; Lafayette T.,born March 25, 1825, living near Bradford, Pa.; Manley C, born April 3, 1827, a magistrate in Carrolton several years, removed to Rochester, Minn., in 1865, was elected to the Legislature in 1868 and in 1870; Dolly P., born May 8, 1829, widow of Marcus IMcMillen, of Olean; Romanzo E., born May 22, 1833, married Harriet, daughter of Calvin Leonard, Sept. 11, 1853, and their children are Herbert C, a railroad bridge builder in Nebraska, Jerome H., a farmer and oil-well driller near Limestone, and Sam R., an oil producer in Forest county. Pa.; Desire E., born Nov. 3, 1835, widow of Samuel Huntington, a soldier in the Union army who died of starvation in Andersonville prison; Velonia N. (Mrs. Samuel Leonard), of Limestone, born March 21, 1840; Zoroaster C, born Sept. 21, 1842, a farmer near Bradford,' Pa., and a soldier in the Union army; Olivia A., born May 6, 1845, widow of Almanzer Jones, of Allegany; and Millard F., born Feb. 15, 1850, died at the age of fourteen years. Romanzo E. Fuller is a carpenter and builder by trade, which until recently has been his avocation. He was elected magistrate of Carrolton in 1866 and has served in that position twenty-four years. He has also held other important town offices.
GREENWOOD, Joseph Biographical Sketch
Joseph Greenwood, son of Robert, was born in Lanchester, England, in 1843, emigrated to America with his parents in 1848, and settled first in Massachusetts, where he resided until twelve years old. His mother died in 1855, and Joseph then had a home with his grandparents in Patterson, N. J., with whom he lived until 1859, when he became an apprentice to the trade of tinner in Orange, N. J., where he remained until 1862. He then enlisted in the 26th N. J. Vols, and was honorably discharged June 7, 1863. In March, 1864, he enlisted in the U. S. navy and was discharged in June, 1865. Mr. Greenwood settled on Oil creek in Aug., 1865, and was a tinner there until 1871, when he began dealing in hardware and oil supplies in Salem, Pa. In 1876 he came to Limestone and opened a general hardware store, which he still conducts. Mr. Greenwood is a staunch Republican, but is not an officeseeker. In 1868 he married Celestia A. Rockwell, of Summit, Pa., and they have had four children, of whom Joseph P. and John W. are now living.
GRIMES, William Biographical Sketch
William Grimes was born in New Hampshire, Feb. 2, 1804. In his childhood he removed to the eastern part of New York State, and finally married Margaret Dudley. He afterward resided a few years in Vermont and came thence to Essex county, N. Y., where he was a jobber in cutting and hauling lumber. He removed to Tiffanyville, Chautauqua county, where he stocked and ran the mills of Jehiel Tiffany. In the fall of 1840 or '41 he settled on the Nine Mile on the Allegheny river at what is now the village of Vandalia, and for about four years conducted the lumber mills of Guy C. Irvine and Judge Chamberlain. About 1845 he purchased 900 acres of timber lands and added to them from time to time till he had a tract of 2,000 acres. He began cutting and rafting square pine timber and shingles down the river to market, and continued to the close of his life, Jan. 26, 1877. Mr. Grimes was a man of more than medium height, broad-shouldered and muscular, and possessed great powers of endurance. He was ambitious, courageous, and industrious, and was known as the poor man's friend. He was a man of the old-school style, strictly honest and upright. His only son, James Henry Grimes, was born in Vermont, Feb. 10, 1829, received a common school education, and succeeded his father in 1877, continuing the business still and manufacturing an average of 1,000,000 feet of lumber annually. Mr. Grimes is also a farmer on a farm of one hundred acres. He employs from ten to twenty-two men. Sept. 25, 1882, he married Anna Horton, a native of England, and they have one son, William Henry, born Dec. 20, 1885.
IRVINE, Guy Carrolton Biographical Sketch
Guy Carrolton Irvine, brother of Andrew and uncle of B. F., was born on the West branch of the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania, the youngest son of a family of twenty-six children. His father died when he was a boy, and young Irvine was apprenticed to a blacksmith, whom not being a congenial spirit he soundly thrashed and ran away. In very early manhood he resided at Broken Straw, Warren county. Pa., and there began his active business life by jobbing in building roads and bridges. He had dealt in lumber and soon after his marriage with Polly Cotton he bought 2,000 acres of timber land on Conewango creek on credit, built mills also on credit, manufactured lumber, built up a small village which took the name of Irvinesburg, and was very successful. About 1837, in company with Judge Chamberlain and N, A. Lowrey, he purchased a tract of 25,000 acres of land lying in and adjacent to Tuna valley in Carrolton, which was divided among the proprietors. Mr. Irvine built the original Irvine mills in 1840, about half a mile below the site of the mills erected by Stephen and Jesse Morrison in 1828 and on the opposite side of the stream. He was succeeded in 1848 by his nephew, B. F. Irvine, who had for several years been engaged in business with him. He was an abrupt, fearless, able business man, possessed great energy, and was honest and true. The town named in honor of him took his second name, Carrolton.
IRVINE, Benjamin F. Biographical Sketch
Benjamin F. Irvine, son of Andrew, was born in Towanda, Pa., Aug. 12, 1819, and received a good business education. In the winter of 1841-42 he came to Irvine's Mills in the employ of his uncle, Guy C. Irvine, to haul logs. In drawing the logs to the chute at the top of the hill, where they were slid down into the pond, one of his horses slipped and fell into the chute, dragging his mate and the heavy load with him, and all went down together in a total wreck. This outfit was all Mr. Irvine had to carry on business. In 1843 he returned and got out square timber and pine shingles, which he rafted to Louisville, continuing until March, 1848, when he assumed the management of his uncle's large lumber business. In 1855 he bought his cousin's interest in 6,000 acres of land. In 1857 the firm of B. F. Irvine and Nelson Parker built the saw-mill on lot 29 on the site of Morrison's mill, where they manufactured lumber, which they rafted to the markets. In 1865 they sold their entire property to Job Moses, but in 1869 Mr. Irvine bought back the mills and 600 acres surrounding them, and enlarged the mills to a daily capacity of 50,000 feet, added a shingle-mill, a planer, and a flooring-mill, giving him a total capacity of 4,000,000 feet of lumber and 3,000,000 shingles annually. He continued this vast business until his death Sept. 10, 1878. January 1, 1847, he married Rebecca, eldest daughter of Levi Leonard. Mr. Irvine possessed many of the characteristics of his uncle, G. C. He had great energy, more than ordinary business ability, was quick to perceive, and bold and fearless to decide and act While he did business on strict business principles he had a quick ear for the voice of the needy and was not slow to relieve their wants. While he could drive a good bargain he was tender to those in distress and dispensed charity unseen, but with an open hand. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Irvine were Mary A., born May 5, 1848, wife of H. G. Andrews; Guy C, born March 21, 1850; Andrew L., born May 29, 1854, died Nov. 26, 1855; Leonard C, born March 27, 1856: Jerome N., born Oct. 27, 1857, died April 12, 1859; Benjamin F., Jr., born September 30, 1859, now agent for his mother and manager of the estate; and De Witt C, born Feb. 24, 1866, died Feb. 4, 1S67. June 26, 1872, Guy C. Irvine married Millie A., youngest daughterof J. O. Beardsley. Mr. Irvine learned his father's business as a lumberman, and with his brother Leonard C. succeeded him at his death in 1878, under the firm name of Irvine Brothers, who continued it until they sold the mills and fifty acres in 1882 to Plumer, Gilfillan, Steele & Co., the present proprietors. Mr. Irvine is now a farmer. Leonard C. Irvine is now bookkeeper for Schoonmaker & Davis.
Source: Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893, History of the Town of Carrolton - Chapter XX Pg. 462.