CHARLES J. FERRIN subject was appointed assistant district attorney. In 1887 he was elected district attorney. He has been counsel to the board of supervisors, and city attorney. He is a member of the Universalist Church, and is a Republican. He was married September 27, 1883, to Mary E. Parker, of Lockport. Two children have been born to them. Mr. Brong is a member of Red Jacket Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Order of Elks. WASHINGTON H. RANSOM is a graduate of the Albany Law School. He is a Demcrat. He has been supervisor and city attorney. He was clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and secretary of the Lockport and Buffalo Railway Company. He was admitted to the bar in 1867. He is president of the Niagara Guaranty Search Company, a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of St. John and Malta, and other societies. He married Miss Kate F. Stickney. Three children were born to them. Mr. Ransom was born at Lockport March 9, 1849. Mr. HON. JOHN E. POUND was born at Lockport, August 23, 1843. His father was a prominent farmer, and identified with the Pound Manufacturing Company. Pound was educated in the Lockport Union School and Brown University. During the Civil War he was connected with the quartermaster's department as chief property clerk under General Crane. After the war he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He began the practice of his profession at once in Lockport, and has been eminently successful. Mr. Pound was elected president of the Business Men's Association, which was established in 1891. He has been president of the Lockport charity organization. He was married November 11, 1868, to Catharine M. Hurd. He is a Republican. He was one of the memorable 306 who stood by General Grant in the National Republican Convention of 1880. He was elected in 1871 from the first district of Niagara County to the Assembly. He has been supervisor and mayor of Lockport. He was assistant United States attorney eight years and for years United States circuit court commissioner. He is a trustee of the Lockport Home for the Friendless, trustee of the Buffalo Law School, was Vice-President of the State Bar Association, and a member of the Lockport Board of Education. He has been elected Supreme Regent of the Order of the Royal Arcanum, and is a member of Lockport Council No. 307. He is a member and warden of the Grace Episcopal Church. JESSE SHAEFFER was born in Dauphin County, Pa., June 12, 1812. He came to Lockport when he was twelve years of age and received his education in the common schools here. He became a clerk in the dry-goods house of Rogers & Brown, and ten years later he was able to embark in business for himself. Success crowned his efforts. He owns a number of fine business blocks and dwellings. In 1888 he sold out to his son. He is a Republican, and a member and trustee of the First English Lutheran Church. He was married January 13, 1839, to Elizabeth M. Owen, of Canada. Six chilren were born to them. 152 B. FRANK GASKILL is first vice-president of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Lockport, treasurer of the Glenwood Cemetery Association, treasurer of the Niagara County Agricultural Society, and one of the trustees of the Home for the Friendless. He is a Republican, and has been alderman and tax assessor. He was born July 14, 1821, on the old Gaskill Homestead in the town of Royalton, Niagara County, N. Y. In the year of 1847 he settled in the town of Lockport, and purchased the farm known as the Jared R. Tyler Farm, where he continued to reside until 1875, when he became a resident of Lockport. He was married in 1843 to Miss Olive Freeman, of Royalton, N. Y. They had three children: Harvey F., Frankey J., and Gracie. HARVEY F. GASKILL.-Harvey F. Gaskill was born January 19, 1845, in the town of Royalton, Niagara County, N. Y. Graduating from the Lockport Union School, and after successful ventures in business, he became identified with the Holly Water Works Company as a draughtsman. It was there that he developed his genius for invention, his crowning achievement being the Gaskill pumping engine. This at once ranked him with the foremost inventors of his age. Mr. Gaskill was married December 26, 1872, to Miss Mary E. Moore of Lockport. One child was born to them. Mr. Gaskill was a lifelong Republican. He was district delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago which nominated Harrison and Morton in 1888. Mr. Gaskill was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Lockport. His untimely death, he being but forty-four years old, was mourned as a public calamity. Few residents of Lockport, or of western New York, ever died more widely lamented than Harvey F. Gaskill. His memory is still green in the community where he so long resided. B. FRANK GASKILL of the Erie to purchase and conduct the Niagara Hotel, which he has made one of the most excellent and popular in Western New York. It is the handsomest hotel in Lockport. He is Mr. Jackman was born at Alexander, Genesee County, N. Y., August 11, 1835. His father was one of the founders of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at which, and the Lima Academy, Mr. Jackman was educated. Mr. Jackman is a Republican. He is prominent in the membership of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a charter member of the Buffalo Division of the Conductors' Brotherhood, now known as the Order of Railway Conductors. He was its chief conductor, secretary, and treasurer. He was a charter member of Lafayette Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Buffalo, and a member of the Empire Order of Mutual Aid and a Knight of Honor. past master of Niagara Lodge, No. 375, Free and Accepted Masons, Past High Priest of Ames Chapter, No. 88, Royal Arch Masons, was three times Illustrious Master of Bruce Council, No. 15, Royal and Select Masters, and Past Commander of Genesee Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, and Past Thrice Illustrious Grand Master of Lock City Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons. He is a member of the Rochester Consistory and of Ishmalia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo. He was married September 20, 1854, to Frances O. Markham, of Onondaigua County. Four children were born to them. HARVEY F. GASKILL W. H. UPSON has been in the railroad business since 1865, when he began as clerk in the office at Starkey, on what was then called the Northern Division of the Erie, now the Northern Central Railroad. He was subsequently in office on the Susquehanna and Buffalo Divisions, and when the Niagara Falls Branch was completed he was appointed agent at Tonawanda. Soon after the Lockport branch was added, Mr. Upson was made freight and passenger agent at Lockport, which position he has filled ever since. In 1881 he established his present extensive coal business at Lockport, his yards having a storage capacity of 5,000 tons. He is also the wholesale agent for the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Upson is treasurer and a director of the Lockport Savings and Loan Association, and president of the Empire Knights of Relief of Buffalo. PERRY STOWELL was born in the town of Catlin, Chemung County, N. Y.. March 1, 1832. His paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Perry Stowell was educated in the common schools and in the Elmira Academy. He learned the trade of machinist in the shops of Downs & Co., of Seneca Falls, N. Y. He was fourteen years in the employ of that firm. In 1865 he came to Lockport. In 1869 he was made general foreman of the works of the Holly Manufacturing Company, in which he is now a stockholder. For the great prosperity and fame of these works, much credit is due to Mr. Stowell. Here are manufactured the Holly system of water-works, invented by Birdsell W. Holly, and the famous Gaskill pumping engines. Mr. Stowell is a Democrat. He has been police commissioner several years. He was married May 29, 1854, to Arvilla Owens, of Seneca Falls. He is a member of Red Jacket Lodge, No. 646, F. and A. M.; Bruce Council, No. 15, Royal and Select Masters; Ames Chapter, No. 88, Royal Arch W. H. UPSON JOHN T. DARRISON Masons; Genesee Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, and Ishmalia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo. JAMES TAYLOR was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England, December 28, 1836. He came to this country when a boy, and was educated in the common schools and learned the trade of a moulder in Rochester. In 1860 he went to Canada, and worked at his trade. In 1870 he came to Lockport in the employ of the Holly Manufacturing Co., and was soon made foreman of the moulding department, which position he continues to fill. He is a member of the Baptist Church and of Lodge No. 73, F. and A. M., of Lockport. He is a Republican. He married Charlotte Godkin, of Ontario. Eight children have been born to them. HON. JOHN T. DARRISON was born at Lockport, October 20, 1855, and has been in the wholesale and retail flour, feed, and grain business twenty-five years. He is a Republican. He was elected mayor of Lockport in 1892. He has also been alderman, supervisor, member of the Board of Health, civil service commissioner, railroad commissioner, and member of the city's Board of Education. The Railroad Commission, of which he is a member, was created when the Lockport branch of the Erie, then the Buffalo and Lockport Railroad, was first built. He was a member of this commission at the time the branch was sold to the Erie. He is the treasurer of the commission. The sale of the road met with the endorsement of all the leading citizens and stockholders of the Company. Mr. Darrison is a member of the Masonic fraternity in high standing, and of many other fraternal societies. WILLIAM COCKER is a native of Sheffield, England. He was born November 29, 1834. He was educated in the common schools of England, and came to this country WILLIAM COCKER with his parents in 1851. He learned the trade of sawmaker in Rochester. He came to this city in 1857 and established his present prosperous business as a saw manufacturer. His factory, on Market Street, is one of the largest and best equipped in the country. Mr. Cocker is a Republican. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. He was married in 1855 to Priscilla Stokes, of Rochester, N. Y. Two daughters were born to them. Mr. Cocker is a member and Past Master of Lockport Lodge, No. 73, F. and A. M.; Ames Chapter, No. 88, R. A. M., of which he is Past High Priest; Bruce Council, No. 15, Royal and Select Masters. He is now Past Commander of Genesee Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar; Ishmalia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo, and a prominent member of the Royal Masonic Rite. DR. FLAVIUS J. BAKER is a native of Andover Allegany County, N. Y. He was born July 18, 1843. He was educated in the common schools and the university at Lima, N. Y. After reading medicine he practiced most successfully with his father for five years at Andover. He also practiced at Suffern, Rockland County, and Buffalo. He left the latter city on account of failing health, and was for a year a partner of Dr. A. G. Skinner and succeeded to his practice. He came to Lockport in 1882, and has since resided here. Dr. Baker graduated in 1867 from the New York University, and has taken a special course in gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is a member of the New |