KANONA, N. Y. DR. F. H. LAWRENCE.-F. H. Lawrence was born at Arkport, N. Y., April 14, 1858. He graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College in 1881. He began the practice of his profession at Kanora, where he has been postmaster, and a member of the United States Pension Board. Dr. Lawrence is a popular citizen and a successful physician. CANISTEO, N. Y. LESLIE D. WHITING.-Ex-sheriff Whiting was born in Jasper, Steuben County, in 1859, on his father's farm. In 1881 Mr. Whiting engaged in the hay and grain business at Canisteo, and conducted it successfully. In 1894 he won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Steuben County. His triumph at the convention was followed by his election by a majority of 4,350-500 votes ahead of his ticket. While Mr. Whiting was one of the most thorough disciplinarians as sheriff, he was very kind and considerate in his dealings with the unfortunate class who chanced to be under him at the county jail. By his just and careful treatment, he was enabled to meet with far better success than had been accomplished in other penal institutions by the inhuman paddle. In 1897 Mr. Whitney, with other well-known capitalists, organized the First State Bank of Canisteo, of which he is the president. Sheriff Whitney has an interesting family, and his home life at Canisteo is most happy. He is a Knight Templar, and one of the most popular men in Steuben County. LESLIE D. WHITING JOSEPH FENTON CROSBY.-Joseph F. Crosby was born on the ancestral farm, in Yates County, N. Y. In 1862 he was chosen sheriff of that county. He was twice elected county clerk. He was one of the pioneers in steamboat navigation on Lake Keuka. At one time the firm of Joseph F. Crosby & Co. were the sole owners of all boats that plied on Lake Keuka. Their business was purchased by the Lake Keuka Navigation Company, Joseph F. Crosby retaining an interest. owned and conducted the Yates County Chronicle, at Penn Yan, during the presidential campaign of 1888. He has a fine place where he lives, at Crosby's Landing, on Lake Keuka. DR. PHILO L. ALDEN.-Dr. Philo L. Alden was born at Howard, August 27, 1856, and was educated in the High School of Howard and in Alfred University. He remained in Howard until 1879, in the mercantile business, and then removed to Buffalo. In 1883 he began the study of medicine at Pultney. He was graduated from the medical department of the university at Buffalo, March 1, 1887. He located in Wayne, Steuben County, and in October, 1889, came to Hammondsport, where he has since been engaged in practice. He is a member and vice-president of the Steuben County Medical Society. September 17, 1885, he married M. Emma Nichols, of Pultney. FIRST HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y. NATIONAL BANK OF HORNELLSVILLE. This invulnerable institution has been for years the financial bulwark which has fortified Hornellsville against panics, depressions in business, and other untoward and unexpected hindrances to its progress and prosperity. The bank is one of the oldest, as it is one of the most substantial, in all Western New York. It was first established in 1849. In November, 1863, it was changed from a private company and organized as a national bank. Business was begun May 1, 1864, with a paid-up capital of $50,000, with the privilege of increasing it to $200,000. In 1870 the bank moved from its original quarters, at the corner of Main and Canisteo streets, to the handsome new building at 117 Main Street, and the capital stock increased to $100,000. In various times of depression and panics from which the country has suffered at intervals during the existence of the bank, the people of Hornellsville and the surrounding territory learned to look upon the bank as the one institution which could be depended upon at all times to make good its obligations in full, and none was ever disappointed. In the last great panic, in 1893-4, the busi ness of the bank was carried on as calmly and as steadily as though a panic had never been heard of, and while banking and business houses everywhere were going down in scores, the First National of Hornellsville not only promptly met its own responsibilities, but increased its deposits and rendered assistance to other banks and many commercial houses. The character and reputation of the officers of the bank are very high, and their names alone are sufficient to give the public confidence without reference to the resources of the bank. The president is Martin Adsit; vice-president, Ira Davenport; cashier, Charles Adsit. MARTIN ADSIT.-Martin Adsit, president of the First National Bank, has been a resident of the place as a hamlet, village, and city longer than any other man. Born in December, 1812, and in the latter part of 1826 having determined to start out in the world for himself, he emigrated at the age of fourteen years to what was then the wild settlement of Hornellsville, arriving there on December 14th of that year. His uncle, Ira Davenport, Sr., was the keeper of a general store in the then settlement, which consisted of about twenty-five houses and 100 inhabitants, located in the wilderness, with pine forests all about and coming down to the very doors of the rude houses. The lad was set to work doing general chores and clerking about the store, and in the course of a few years, when he had learned to weigh sugar and nails and measure calico, as well as to compute the number of pounds or yards that a certain number of coon skins would pay for, he was taken into partnership, and eventually became proprietor of the business. Mr. Adsit was always a successful business man and man of affairs. Starting in business for himself in 1833, he remained continuously in the business of a general storekeeper for many years, until he at last handled dry goods only. For many years his was the largest drygoods business in that part of the State. When the New York and Erie railroad was being built through the Canisteo Valley, a majority of the men employed in the work of construction were Irishmen who had left their families in the old country. Every pay-day they sent home as much money as they could spare, and as there were no MARTIN ADSIT DR. JAMES KELLY banks in this part of the country at that time they applied to Mr. Adsit for help in sending the money away. When the men were working around Elmira, Dr. Beadle of that place had forwarded the remittances for them, and had gained their confidence to an unusual degree. Mr. Adsit went to Elmira and saw Dr. Beadle, from whom he learned how to send the money, and thereafter he was the chief financial agent in Western New York for the Irishmen employed on the railroad, and through doing their business he became familiar with the possibilities of banking, and formed a love for that business. His experience then induced him to engage regularly in the banking business, and in November, 1863, the First National Bank was organized through his efforts. Ira Davenport was president, and Martin Adsit cashier. The other directors were Ira Davenport, Jr., and Constant and Henry H. Cook of Bath. Martin Adsit subsequently became president, and remains to this day the active director of the important bank, and enjoys, as he has long enjoyed, the reputation of being one of the ablest financiers in the western part of the State. A storekeeper for more than forty-seven years, and a banker for over thirty, Mr. Adsit has shown himself in every way to be a man of affairs, and a success in every way. His solicitude for the benefit of Hornellsville has been shown in numberless ways, and there is to-day no citizen of Hornellsville who takes a greater personal interest in the growth and welfare of the city than he, nor any who would do more than he to benefit the thriving city, which he has seen grow from a waste place in the wilderness to its present metropolitanlike proportions. DR. JAMES KELLY.-Dr. Kelly was born in Bergen, Genesee County, N. Y., February 12, 1857. After the usual boyhood experience with the district schools, young Kelly went to the Brockport Normal School three years. Dr. Kelly married Miss Theresa Henneberg, of Port Jervis. Dr. Kelly is a member of St. Ann's Church. HON. RUSSELL M. TUTTLE.-Mr. Tuttle was born in Almond, Allegany County, January 12, 1840, and two years later his parents removed to Hornellsville, which city he has since made his home. He was educated in the public schools of Hornellsville, at the Alfred University, and the University of Rochester. In 1867 he was married to Miss Ervilla Goodrich, daughter of the late Dr. Levi S. Goodrich. mittee. From there he went to Buffalo, where he attended lectures in the medical department of the University of Buffalo, and was graduated there in the spring of 1884, and during the succeeding two years was a surgeon in the Sisters' Charity Hospital of Buffalo. Leaving there he removed to Hornellsville, where he commenced practice, and has been highly successful from the beginning. In 1892 he was appointed surgeon of the Erie railway, and in that capacity has had charge of Dr. many very important surgical and other cases. Kelly has been prominently identified with the Democratic party, and in 1890 and 1891 represented the Third Ward in the Board of Aldermen. He is also chairman of the Democratic City Committee, and is one of the three members of the Executive Committee of the County Com In August, 1862, Mr. Tuttle enlisted in the famous One Hundred and Seventh Regiment, New York He participated in the Atlanta camHe was propaign and in the march to the sea. Volunteers. moted through the various non-commissioned offices to second and first lieutenancies, and at the close of the war was brevetted captain of U. S. Volunteers. The duties he was assigned to in the army were those of topographical engineer and assistant adjutant-general with Generals T. H. Ruger and W. T. Ward of the Twentieth Army Corps. In 1868 Mr. Tuttle was elected president of the village of Hornellsville, and in 1880 and 1881 he represented the Second Assembly District of Steuben in the State Legislature. In 1867 he was one of the organizers of the Hornellsville Times, of which he was an editor until 1879. Then he retired from the paper. In 1888 he again secured an interest in it, and has been its editor continuously since. No newspaper in the interior of the State wields a greater influence than the Times under the guiding hand of its editor. Mr. Tuttle has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of the Hornell Library Association, of which he was one of the founders. He has always lent his assistance towards encouraging a love of literature in the minds of the young. No proposition for the advancement of the city or its interests fails to receive his most hearty encouragement and support. No man is more highly regarded in the Maple City than he. REV. EDWARD MARK DEEMS. - The First Presbyterian Church of Hornellsville was organized August 14, 1832, at the house of Truman Bostwick, and its first pastor was the Rev. Moses Ordway, a pioneer of Methodism. The congregation in those days was small, and the people were poor, but from the day of its organization until the present time the church has prospered. Rev. Edward Mark Deems was called to the charge in 1889. He was born at Greensboro, N. C., April 22, 1852, and is a son of the famous Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, New York City. In 1865 the family removed to New York City, where Dr. Deems HON. RUSSELL M. TUTTLE REV. EDWARD M. DEEMS was prepared for school. He was a student at the Lawrenceville High School in New Jersey, and subsequently attended Princeton College, from which he graduated in 1874. He pursued his theological studies in Union Seminary, New York, and at Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1877. During his vacations he devoted his time to home mission work in Nevada and among the Rocky Mountains. In April, 1877, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York, and was immediately called to the pastorate of a church at Longmont, Col. In February, 1879, he resigned to become chaplain of the "Woodruff Scientific Expedition." On his return to America he served for six months, as the supply of the Church of the Strangers in New York City. In March, 1880, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of New York City. This was consolidated in 1889 with the West Twenty-third Street Church, of which, under the name of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of West Twenty-third Street, Dr. Deems became associate pastor. In November, 1889, Dr. Deems accepted a call of the First Presbyterian Church of Hornellsville, and was installed its pastor on May 9, 1890. In June, 1892, the University of the City of New York conferred on Mr. Deems the title of Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Deems is happily married and his home life is charming. DR. CLAIR S. PARKHILL.-Dr. Clair S. Parkhill was born in Howard, Steuben County, November 15, 1842. In 1876 David Parkhill moved to Hornellsville, where he died November 8, 1892. The Parkhill family traces its ancestry to a French boy castaway saved from a wreck in the English Channel. Near where the wreck came ashore an English gentleman had a country seat in a large The park, at Torquay, and it was called Park Hill. castaway being unable to give an account of his family, the gentleman adopted him and gave him the name of Parkhill, after the name of the place where he lived. is an ancestor of Dr. Parkhill. He The subject of this sketch was educated at the Haveling Union School at Bath, the Michigan University, and the Albany Medical College, from which he was graduated December 24, 1866. He began the practice of his profession with his brother, Reuben F., in the town of Howard, and continued with him for seven years. In September, 1873, he removed to Hornellsville and continued his practice. For a number of years he has been the company surgeon for the Erie Railway at Hornellsville. He is a prominent member of the Steuben County Medical Society, a member of, and has been president of, the Hornellsville Medical and Surgical Association, a member of the New York State Medical Association, and the New York State Medical Society; president of the New York State Railway Surgeons' Association; member of the Erie Railway Surgeons' Association; of the surgical section of the Medico-Legal Society of New York City; president of the medical and surgical staff of the St. James Mercy Hospital, and is advisory member of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Parkhill is a member of Evening Star Lodge, No. 44, F. and A. M., and one of the principal supporters of the Railway Y. M. C. A. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1884 Dr. Parkhill was president of the village of Hornellsville, and was subsequently a member of the Board of Education four years, being president of the board during the last year. Dr. Parkhill married Mar jory P., the daughter of the late William Rice of Howard, March 20, 1867. They have had four children: Louise, the wife of Blake B. Babcock; Annie, who died at the age of three; Walter, who died at seventeen; and one who died in infancy. THE ROCKLAND SILK MILLS.-The Rockland Silk Mills were located in Hornellsville in 1887. E. S. Brown, the owner and manager of these mills, is a native of Paterson, N. J., where he was president of the Rockland Silk Company of that place. The Hornellsville mill is equipped with the very latest and most approved machinery, and makes a specialty of organzine and tram. The substantial and handsome two-story building has a floor space of 20,000 square feet. The mill gives employment to about 150 persons. The silk is received in its raw state, and when it leaves the mill is ready for shipment to the larger cities. It is only within the past few years that the manufacture of silk has been an industry of any importance in the United States, it having for a long time been believed that silk could not be manufactured successfully in America. To-day, however, the United States makes as good, and perhaps as much, silk as any other nation of the earth, and the product of the Rockland Mills ranks among the leaders of all the fine silks. WILLIAM H. MURRAY.-Mr. Murray was born at Hornellsville, July 26, 1854. He was educated in the village schools and at St. Ann's parochial school. He became the support of his widowed mother and the family, and at the age of fourteen he became a switchman in the Erie yard at Hornellsville. He was soon promoted to yardmaster. He held that place sixteen years, when he was appointed deputy sheriff of Steuben County under Sheriff Esek Page. He served three years and was reap |