Notes

[NI0001] From the Penn Yan Chronicle
October 30, 1901 - Second Milo - Perry Guile, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Guile, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rector and daughter, Katherine, and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Longwell will visit the Pan-American two days this week.

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
26 Dec 1887 - "Went to funeral of Mrs S Rector."
22 Oct 1895 - "Ed & I went to Stephen Rectors & got 2 loads of pumpkins
28 Apr 1902 - "Decker took a load of timber to Rector."
18 Jun 1902 - "Reuben was down ........ & took up his buggy & some timber for Rector."
5 Jul 1904 - "Went to annual meeting of Telephone Co. Directors are same except F.B. Swarthout elected in place of S.M. Rector & officers are the same."
1 Jan 1908 - "I went to Stephen Rectors & met Uncle Herman Bullock & we went over the piece of pine & estimated the amt."
7 Jan 1908 - "I sent out some bills for G&W. Warner & I met S M Rector in regard to his timber."
11 Jan 1908 - "Rector was here & we made a contract with him for a piece of pine & with Uncle Herman Bullock to cut it up for us." (Phil's note - Here we find a story I've heard all my life. Homer drove the Steam Traction Engine pulling my grandfathers portable sawmill up to Rectors. Homer met Mary Rector and later married her.

Penn Yan Newspaper Article - courtesy of Esther Rector
OBITUARY
SECOND MILO, 1928, June 17 - Stephen Milton Rector, aged 74 years, died at his home in Second Milo, Sunday night. He is survived by his wife; three sons, Thomas Rector and Arthur Rector, both of Penn Yan; Rev. Milton Rector, of Cobleskill, N. Y.; two daughters, Mrs. Homer ( Mary) Bullock, of Milo; and Mrs, Howard (Helen) Swarthout, of Penn Yan. The funeral services were held from the late residence in Milo, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. E. W. Chapin, assisted by Rev. W. H. Wheatley, and Rev. K. N. Conrad officiating, Interment in Second Mi1o cemetery. Mr. Rector served as road commissioner of the town of Milo for several years.

[NI0002] The census records and township vital records often spell the surname Hawley, Halley, and Holley. In Cleveland's 1873 Yates History, Jennie was called Jane and Deborah J.; possibly it was Deborah Jane Hawley. Since her mother's name was Deborah, she was probably called Jane or Jennie.

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
26 Dec 1887 - "Went to funeral of Mrs S. Rector,"

[NI0003] OBITUARY - SECOND Milo, 1938, January 7 - Minnie Nichols. Rector, 63 year old, died 4 a. m. Friday morning at her home at Second Milo, four miles south of Penn Yan, following an illness which had confined her to her bed since, August. Mrs. Rector was the widow of the late Stephen Milton. Rector, who died ten years ago next June. Surviving her are two sons, Tom J., of Court Street, Penn Yen, and Rev. Milton M., pastor of the Baptist church in Walton; also two daughters, Mrs. Howard (Helen) Swarthout of Buffalo and Mrs. Homer ( Mary) Bullock of East Bloomfield; also a sister, Mrs. Earl McGilliard of Lakeland, Florida. Rev. E. J. Chapin, pastor of the Second Milo Baptist church officiated at the funeral services which were held from the home at 2:30 p.m. Sunday with Rev. Royal N. Jessup, pastor of the First Baptist church of Penn Yan, assisting. Burial was made in the cemetery at Second Milo.

What is Known about Minnie Nichols
1. Minnie Nichols married Stephen Milton Rector in Milo Twp., Yates Co., NY on 5 Aug 1888. The Milo Town Clerk marriage record shows that she was age 17, Thomas Nichols was her father, she was from Second Milo, Yates, Co., NY, and she was born in Rhode Island.
2. Mary Florence Rector was born on 9 Jul 1889. The Milo Town Clerk birth record shows that her father was S. M. Rector aged 39, her mother was Minnie Rector aged 20, her mother’s maiden name was Minnie Rector, and her mother’s birthplace was “don’t know.”
3. Minnie and S. M. Rector had four children.
a) Mary Florence Rector - b. 1889
b) Thomas Jefferson Rector - b. 1890
c) Helen Egeria Rector - b. 1891
d) Arthur Frederick Rector - b. 1892
4. When Minnie's son Arthur was born in 1892 the birth record say her place of birth was Brooklyn.
5. Minnie's death certificate says she was born in Kansas. The lines for parents and their birthplaces were filled in with "cannot be learned." The information was given by Mrs Howard Swarthout of Buffal
6. Minnie shows up on the 1892 census in Milo, age 21. Stephen M Rector was 39 and they lived with his mother, three children by Minnie and two from his first marriage to Jennie. In the same household was a young man named George Nichols, age 22.
7. Mary Florence Rector Bullock told her children that her mother, Minnie, came from Missouri. Frank Swarthout, Minnie’s grandson, was told that Minnie came from Kansas with the McGilliard family.
8. Minnie was very close to Carrie McGilliard Razey and Frances Harmon Townsend McGilliard. Minnie's daughter, Mary, always called Carrie Razey , "Aunt Carrie." Minnie and S. M. Rector held a party to honor Earle and Frances McGilliard after their wedding in 1905. A portrait of Frances and Earle is shown to the right. Earle was her second husband; nothing is known of her first husband, Mr. Townsend. Frances Harmon was born in 1868 in Northumberland Co., PA and died at 100 in 1968 in Lakeland, FL. Her father was P. H. Harmon and her mother Mary Carey. Minnie Nichols Rector’s obituary in 1938 states that Minnie was survived by her sister Mrs. Frances McGilliard of Lakeland, FL.

[NI0004] Mary Florence Rector's Birth
REGISTER OF OF BIRTHS IN THE Town OF Milo , YATES COUNTY, NY
Register # ............................................. 12
Date of Birth .......................................... 9 Jul 1889
Medical Attendant ................................. C. B. Stone
When Registered .................................. 13 Dec 1889
Name of Child: Family Name ................ Rect
Given Name ........................... Mary
Sex ........................................................ F
# of this Mother's Previous Children .... 0
# of Children Still Living ........................ 1
Race ......................................................
Place of Birth.......................................... Second Milo
Name of Mother: Maiden ........................ Minnie Rect
Married ................................... Minnie Rector
Mother's Age ......................................... 20 (sic)
Mother's Birthplace .............................. Rhode Island
Name of Father ..................................... Steven (sic) Rector
Father's Occupation .............................. Farmer
Father's Age .......................................... 39
Father's Birthplace ............................... Benton

Penn Yan Academy
Class of 1908
Commencement Program
Public Schools, Penn Yan, N. Y.
1908 - June 24, 10:30 A. M. - Class of 1908
Helen Ansley Hurford -- Valedictorian
Martha Marie Hansen -- Salutatorian
Harold Homer Barden
Helen Marceleine Barry
Isabel Marie Christian
Lucy Alma Clark
Marie Louise Collin
Donald Remer Comstock
Allan Jennison Davis
Ruby Hoover
Augusta Esther Knapp
Irene Rose McAdams
Roy Bradley Mallory
Clara Birkett Miller
Louise Moore Patteson
Flora Belie Pierce
Mary Florence Rector
Vera Mary Robson
Leon Hunt Spooner
Fanny Frances Taylor
Harold Franklin Tuthill
Harry Eugene Vail
Hazel Ann Vosburg
Everett Philetus Wright

Article in a Penn Yan Newspaper
Miss Laura M. Spooner entertained several young ladies last Thursday afternoon at a linen shower, given in honor of Miss Mary F. Rector, of Second Milo.

Article from a Penn Yan Newspaper
The Marriage of Miss Mary Rector and Homer Bullock Takes Place To-day
Bullock -- Rector
The marriage of Miss Mary Rector, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rector, and Homer Bullock, of Crosby, will occur at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the home of the bride's parents in Milo. Rev. Dr. Bethel, pastor of the Second Milo Baptist church, will officiate. The house will be decorated with goldenrod and ferns for the occasion. The bride will wear a gown of ivory colored messaline satin and will carry a bouquet of cream carnations. She will be attended by her sister, Miss Helen Rector, as honor maid, and Joseph Crosby, of Crosby, N. Y., will act as groomsman. The maid of honor will wear a white embroidery gown and will carry white flowers. Miss Helen Bullock will play the wedding march. Following the wedding ceremony a reception will be held to which 150 guests have been bidden. Later Mr. Bullock will leave with his bride for Crosby, where they will reside.

Obituary from a Rochester Newspaper
Mrs. Homer Bullock
HOLCOMB -- Mrs. Mary R. Bullock, 83, a retired cafeteria worker at Bloomfield Central School, died yesterday at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester. She was the widow of Homer Bullock. Mrs. Bullock was a member of the United Methodist Church and the Burell Class. She was also a member of the Twin Villages Bureau Unit. Surviving area daughter, Mrs. Peter Vandenberg (sic) of of Rochester; four sons, Phillip (sic) of Brighton, Robert of East Bloomfield, Calvin of Missouri, Paul of Monroeville, Pa.; 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Wheeler Funeral Home, East Bloomfield, today from 7 to 9 p. m. and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. where a funeral service will be held Sunday at 3 p. m. Burial will be in East Bloomfield Cemetery.

Obituary of Bullock, Mary A.
Mary A. Bullock, aged 83. May 31, 1973 in Strong Memorial Hospital after a long Illness. She is the wife of the late Homer Bullock of Holcomb. N.Y. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Peter (Ruth) Vandenbergh, 2226 E. Main St., Rochester; four sons, Philip of Brighton, Robert of E. Bloomfield. Calvin of Missouri and Paul of Pa.; eighteen grandchildren; great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at the Funeral Home, Friday evening 7-9. Saturday 2-4, 7-9 with services to he held 3 o'clock Sunday at the funeral home, 2 South Ave., E. Bloomfield. Rev. John Kamaras officiating. Burial in E. Bloomfield Cemetery, E. Bloomfield.

[NI0006] Penn Yan Democrat - 17 Jan 1913
SWARTHOUT - RECTOR - At the bride's home in Milo, January 8, 1913, Howard Wilson Swarthout and Miss Helen E. Rector. The ceremony was performed by Revs. H. L. Bethel and Milton Rector.

[NI0008] From the Penn Yan Chronicle
February 19, 1902 - Second Milo - Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rector, of Keuka College, visited at Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rector's on Saturday and Sunday.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
MILO, 1899, Dec. 27 - SWARTS .. RECTOR, a very beautiful wedding took place at 3 o'clock p.m., at the home of George Goundry when his granddaughter, Miss Leona G. Swarts and Mr. Milton M. Rector were united in marriage under a white horse shoe suspended from an evergreen arch dotted here and there with bows of white ribbon. The house was decorated with evergreens and potted plants. The bride and groom were attended by Miss Kathleen Rector, sister of the groom, as bridesmaid and George Swarts, brother of the bride, as best man, were ushered in by a wedding march played by Mrs. J. A. Guile, Sunday School teacher of the bride. The bride wore a light grey serge trimmed with pink silk, ribbons and white lace and wore white chrysanthemums, The bridesmaid wore a blue dress with light blue trimmings. The sermon was performed by Rev. G. Frank Johnson, during which Mrs. Guile played, very low, "Home Sweet Home," with variations, which was very impressive. The refreshments were bountiful and nicely served. The presents were handsome and useful, Noticeable were one dozen silver knives, eight forks, from Mr. D. A. Bissell, Lowell, Mich. a silver soup ladle and pickle fork, from Miss Lettie McCluskey, Tallapoosa, Ga.; silver mustard cup, from Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stone, Ottosen, a. silver sugar spoon and butter knife, from Mrs. N. H. Ellis, Jesse, Mich. At six o'clock they departed for a short wedding trip amid a shower of rice. They will visit friends at Dundee and Cohocton. Mr. and Mrs. Rector have been members of the Second Milo Baptist Church for some time and their host of friends wish them a happy life.

Penn Yan Newspaper Article - courtesy Esther Rector
OBITUARY
WALTON, N. Y., 1953, Jan.29 - Rev. Milton Medford Rector, native of Gorham died at age 73 in Walton, formerly of Milo. He had been a semi-invalid far the past three years, passing away quietly in his sleep after a ten days illness. Son of the late Stephen and Jennie Holley Rector, he was born in Gorham and in 1900 married Miss Leona Grace Swarts of Milo, who survives him. Other survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Frank Kubin of Delancey; Mrs. Harry DeGroat of West Hartford, Conn, and Mrs. Melvin Fielder of Shelburne, VT. ; and five grandchildren, Their only son, Elwyn, who had planned to follow his father's calling as a foreign missionary, died at the age of 14. Rev. Rector was a graduate of Keuka College, 1906, and Rochester Seminary, 1909. He held pastorates in New York State and Vermont, having been in Cobleskill for five years and at Walton for nine years. After retiring he had returned to Walton a year and a half ago to make his home. He was a naturalist, knew the birds, made collections of mosses and shells. He was accustomed to speak of his "Father's World," and his favorite hymn being " This Is My Father's World." He had been a nature instructor for several years in a Baptist boys' camp at Ocean Park, Me., and in Baptist camps in New York State and worked in Schoharie and Delaware counties in daily vacation Bible schools. Funeral services far Mr. Rector were on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the First Baptist Church of Walton, with burial in the Walton Cemetery. Rev. Richard Benait was the officiating clergyman, assisted by Rev. Louis F. Kirlin of Trout Creek and Rev. Paul Downes of Delancey.

[NI0009] Catherine spelled with a "K" on the gravestone and in the Town of Milo vital records of the marriage.

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
5 Jun 1902 - "Pa brought Miss Kate Rector down to tie grapes."
7 Jun 1902 - "I and Lou Scutt went to Himrod to the COSS Convention and around by PY home. Took Kate Rector home."
8 Jun 1902 - "Elder Johnson preached. Miss Rector came up with him to tie grapes for us."

Penn Yan Democrat - 12 Jan 1912
BECKWITH -- At Fulton, N. Y., January 5 1912. Mrs. Clayton Beckwith, aged 29 years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rector, of Milo, and before going to Fulton she lived in Penn Yan, her husband being employed in Wegener Bros. shoe store. Besides her husband and parents she leaves two sisters Mrs. Homer Bullock, of Barrington, and Miss Helen Rector, of Milo, and three brothers Rev. Milton Rector, of Kingsbury, N. Y., Thomas and Arthur Rector, of Milo. The remains were brought to Milo and the funeral was held Sunday afternoon.

[NI0012] Penn Yan Democrat - 20 Dec 1912

RECTOR - In Milo, December 16, 1912, Mrs. Catherine Rector, widow of Jacob Rector, died at her home, Monday, December 19th, in her 91st year. She leaves a son Stephen, in Milo, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jones, in Geneva. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon.

[NI0013] Military info about Medford Rector from 1865 NY State Census
126 NYV - first entered Aug 11, 1862 - 3 years enlistment - Private
3 months unexpired term on June 1, 1865

From: "Disaster, Struggle, Triumph. The Adventures of 1000 "Boys in Blue" from August 1862, to June 1865" by Mrs. Arabella M. Wilson, Albany, The Argus Company, Printers, 1870. Dedicated to the 126th Regiment of the New York State Volunteers.
MINFRED RECTOR was born in Benton, New York, and was by occupation a farmer; he enlisted August 10th, 1862, aged eighteen years, and participated in the following battles: Harper's Ferry, Gettysburg, Auburn Ford, Bristow Station, Mine Run and Morton's Ford; on the 4th of April, 1864, he was detached in provost guard at Head-quarters 2d Army Corps, and served in the detachment until the termination of the war; was discharged with the Regiment.

Penn Yan Newspaper Article - courtesy of Esther Rector
SECOND MILO, 1882, July 31 -- Medford L. Rector, aged 38 years. He was the son of Jacob Rector; was born in Benton, N. Y., and has always lived in this county, except about three years when he was in the army. About the time of the Yates County Fair last fall he was kicked by one of his horses on his right knee. The wound soon healed on the surface, but suppuration ensued and as the surface was healed over it could not escape but was consequently taken up by the absorbents and carried through the system and resulted in blood poison. On the fifth of March he gave up and was confined to the bed and thereon for four months and a half he was a great sufferer. Skillful medical aid was employed, and the best care that tender and kind friends could bestow were all unavailing to stay the progress of the relentless disease. In the early part of his sickness his thoughts were turned toward those things which pertain to the soul's eternal interests, and after several days spent in deliberate thought and meditation he determined to cast himself upon a merciful Savior and seek his pardoning love, and his words to the writer were, "I did not seek long before Jesus came to my relief, and OH I am so happy." From this time death had no terrors and he contemplated the hour of his departure with resignation and delight. He leaves a lone widow, an aged father and mother, brother and sister, with more sympathizing friends to mourn his loss. The funeral services were held at the Milo Baptist church on Wednesday, the 2nd inst., the Rev. C. M. Bruce officiating, assisted by Rev. P. Shiedd.

[NI0015] Sponsors at his christening were Teel and Marytje Rockvelder in the Reformed Dutch Church in Kinderhook.

from History and Directory of Yates County, New York, Vol 1
By Stafford C. Cleveland -- Penn Yan, NY
Published by S. C. Cleveland -- Chronicle Office -- 1873
Page 328
Teal Rector, born in 1789, married Eleanor Finger, of Columbia county, and settled on the homestead in Benton, where he died, in 1859, leaving eight children: Charity, John, Jacob T., Eliza, William T., Simeon, and Lucetta and Lewis, twins. Charity, born in 1812, married David Lovejoy, of Benton, and they reside in Ohio. Their children are John, Albert and Simeon. John, son of Teal Rector, born in 1813, married his cousin, Charity, daughter of William Rector. They reside in Naples, and their children are James and Hannah. Jacob T., born in 1815, married Catharine Baker, of Benton, and resides in Milo, on the Conrad Shattuck farm. Their children are Madriff, May and Stephen. Madriff married Sarah Gordon, of Barrington, and resides with his father. Mary married Holly Snyder, of Barringto
Eliza, born in 1817, married John Finger, Jr., and settled in Benton, where she died, in 1839, leaving one surviving child, McKendric. William T., born in 1820, married Mary Church, of Benton, and moved to Cohocton, N. Y., where she and her four children died within one month, the children of diphtheria, and she of pulmonary disease. He married a second wife, Catharine Harris, of Cohocton, and resides there.
Simeon, born in 1823, married Hannah Elder, of Benton, and resides at Iona, Michigan. They have two children, George and Oscar. Lewis married Catharine Potts, of Benton, and resides in Jerusalem.
Lucretia was the first wife of Freeman G. Wheeler, of Penn Yan, and died in 1864.
Eleanor, wife of Teal Rector, died in 1866.

[NI0017] Moved to Ohio. Three children: John, Albert and Simeon.

[NI0018] Wife Charity rector was a cousin. Two children: James and Hannah. Lived in Naples, NY. The 1855 census lists John and wife, Chareta with children James T. and Catherine may or may not be the same Rectors.

[NI0019] Mary and four children all died within a month. The children of diphtheria and Mary of a pulmonary disease. Moved to Cohocton.

[NI0021] Moved to Iona, MI.

[NI0024] From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
1 Aug 1905 - "Gardner & his son, Sacket Swarthoutt, Homer Bullock, & Belden worked on the line."
2 Aug 1905 - "Gardner & son, Swarthout, Homer, & I put on the crossarms
1 Jan 1908 - "I went to Stephen Rectors & met Uncle Herman Bullock & we went over the piece of pine & estimated the amt."
7 Jan 1908 - "Warner & I met S M Rector in regard to his timber."
11 Jan 1908 - "Rector was here & we made a contract with him for a piece of pine & with Uncle Herman Bullock to cut it up for us." (Phil's note: Here we find a story I've heard all my life. Homer drove the Steam Traction Engine pulling my grandfather's portable sawmill up to Rectors. Homer met Mary Rector and later married her.)

From the "Isle of Pines Appeal," December 1923
RARE HARDWOODS OF ISLE MUCH ESTEEMED
Beautifully Wrought Into Novelties That Find Ready Sale Among Tourists and in Havana.
The rare woods on the island furnish excellent material for the manufacture of hard wood novelties, and the business has assumed quite considerable proportions since first introduced by the pioneer, Mr. W. J. Bagley, in the early days of Americanizition. Mr. Bagley is still one of the leading producers. Displays are shown also from the shops of Edward C. Williams of Nueva Gerona and Messrs Bullock and Warfield, of Santa Fe.
The novelties are, principally, napkin rings, vases, trays, other receptacles, and gavels, all turned. and book blocks and display cross-sections.
The city of Havana and the tourists take the most of the product and prices range from fifty cents for a napkin ring to ten dollars and up for some of the larger and more nearly perfect vases.
Granadillo is perhaps the most popular wood on account of its exquisite shadings from white through brown and darkest brown to a dead black. Next in favor comes acana, a red wood with a very distinct grain; also satin-wood, a member of the sandal-wood family, of a golden cream color with a rich flaky grain and the fragrance of true sandal-wood; majagua. a green wood with delicate and deeper shades; sabicu, or burr mahogany, lighter than mahogany and of finer grain; fiddle-wood, a yellowish brown wood with a delicately traced grain and shades of deeper colors; sabina, a wood that resembles the pencil cedar and is very rare; and roble gallo, with the appearance of fine grained white oak but showing no flakes when quarter-sawed.
All these woods take an elegant polish. As yet there is no display of in-laid work or carving but an inspection of the turned product is a rare treat to the wood-lover.

Article in a Penn Yan Newspaper - NOVELTY FACTORY LOCATED HERE
Woodcraft Products Corp. Started at Second Milo to Turn Out Vases from Choice Tropical Woods
A novelty factory operating under the name "Woodcraft Products Corporation" has located at Second Milo Park, five miles south of Penn Yan, and will manufacture novelties such as vases, jardinieres, lamp standards, bases, etc., from choice wood imported from the Isle of Pines.
Homer Bullock, a Yates county man, is at the head of the undertaking; and has erected a small factory near his home in Second Milo, where the woodcraft products will be turned out.
Mr. Bullock spent his boyhood on the Isle of Pines and is familiar with the various kinds of wood grown there, in fact, he developed early in life a love for woodcraft and later learned the art of wood carving and turning. He works without model or pattern and shapes his work to agree with a preconceived image of the finished article which he has in his mind.
Last November Mr. Bullock returned to the Isle of Pines to go over the source of the raw material he would need for his factory, and while there he gathered together the following varieties of wood to make up the first carload; yuma, acetilla, sabieu, cerilIst, roble, jimmici, granadilla, and yaiti wood, all of which are foreign to this section. Even the Boy Scout troops failed to recognize any of them.
Many of these varieties are found only in the virgin forests where there are no roads, and they have to be cut into short lengths and carried out on the backs of the workmen. Some of the wood is very rare. Only the trained woodman can locate them. All of them are very heavy, the one carload weighing nearly forty tons. They are shipped by boat to the nearest point in Cuba where they are loaded on cars and shipped by rail and car ferry through Havana to Key West, arriving in Penn Yan in the same car in which they were loaded at Cuba. (Phil notes that Homer told him that the wood came by schooner to Tampa, Florida and then direct to Penn Yan by rail.)
All the woods used for this work are extremely hard as well as heavy so that special tools as well as special skill are required in turning them. They all have very beautiful coloring, two pieces from the same stick often showing different coloring and grain. The sticks are of small diameter, so each article is tuned from the heart of the wood where the grain is the finest and most beautiful. Such woods take a very high polish which brings out all the beauty of the grain.
This industry is in its infancy, in fact, this is the only factory in the United States turning novelties from those varieties of wood, and it is not expected that the growth will be rapid as each workman will have to be especially trained in the work. The manner of marketing the product has not been fully decided upon. A folder describing the articles and containing cuts of some of them, however, is now being prepared by Joseph P. Craugh.
Those who have seen sample articles, so far turned out, agree that there will be a ready market for all that can be produced, and no doubt the fact that a person could visit this factory and purchase an article they had seen turned from the rough wood and polished and which cannot be duplicated in color and grain, will be an additional reason for many tourists visiting this section of the Finger Lakes Region.

Rochester Times Union Article in 1935 on the Roadside Craftsmen
Turning Back History to the Day When Horsepower Was Just That
Potter Wheel, Loom And Lathe Operate In Response to the Pull of One Beast At Roadside Plant
by Elanor Chester
In the same simple fashion that the prehistoric Indian or the potter of ancient China moulded mud to make his household utensils, so does a group of young moulders near East Bloomfield create vases, bowls and trays for the households of 1935.
They are the Roadside Craftsmen, who have formed a co-operative system (Note: Phil comments that it was not a co-op; the artisans were paid a small salary and the main objective of the endeavor was to make a profit for the owner.) was beneath the roof of the historic little building on Route 5 where all their wares are made.
Even though high powered cars stream past the roadside shop all day long and electricity does the work of the villagers, as in cities, the craft shop spurns modern machinery for primitive methods. A horse draws a shaft that turns a mill to soften and smooth the clay in the potter's workshop. The sweep mills of many years ago were powered that way.
The potter takes his lump of earthenware clay, shipped from Maryland, moistens it and puts it through this "pug" mill. The clay is taken from the mill and kneaded by hand until all the air bubbles have disappeared. Then the craftsman breaks off the amount needed for a vase, an urn or a flower jar and places it on a small turntable operated by a foot pedal. As the table turns the operator shapes and hollows his vase with his hands, as it was done 2,000 years ago.
The next step in this primitive art is glazing and requires the touch of an artist. He dips the pottery into solutions of metallic oxides and water. Iron oxides will produce a brown color, copper will make both blue and red and cobalt blue.
The ovens, where the pottery next goes, are primitive too. They are of the type used in England and are so low that one cannot stand erect in them and so they have won the name of "ground-hog" ovens. There the pottery must bake for 12 hours at a temperature of 2,285 degrees. Watching over the ovens is Miss Elizabeth Rogers of Daytona Beach, Fla., a graduate of Alfred University. Emil Zschiegner is the glazing artist.
Near the display rooms, where the pottery stand in shining rows of greens, blues and browns, is the woodworker's bench. From the rare woods of Cuban jungles -- satin wood, smoke wood, granedilla, yaiti, sabicu, juimiqui, roble and Ramon d' Acosta -- the woodworker fashions his wares. He is Homer Bullock, a middle-aged man, who has spent most of his life in Cuba. He turns candle holders, vases and urns from wood he cut himself and had shipped here by natives. Many of the woods never have been seen in this part of the country.
In a corner of the display room is an old weaving loom at which Miss Gertrude Denning works. This young woman is a graduate of Berea College, Ky., noted for its handicraft courses. She is a native of Georgia. From silks, wool and linen threads she weaves women's purses and other small articles. The loom she uses is of the type used by pioneers in this country to weave designs such as are used today in the mountain regions of Kentucky.
On the next floor are the art works of the potter, the metal worker and woodworker. Directly opposite the entrance is a great stone fireplace, overhead is an ox yoke suspended from the hand-hewn rafters to hold two lanterns of the type carried by Paul Revere on his midnight ride. Pitchers, vases, mugs and urns line the shelves and on small tables are displayed lamps, plates, vases and articles inlaid with woods. In a corner are the products of the metal worker -- serving trays, letter openers, lamps and picture frames -- all hand hammered from metal. The metal worker is Arthur Cole. A silversmith has his exhibit hear the entrance.
The building that houses this feast for the eyes of a home decorator first was erected in 1834 as a Baptist meeting house at Branchport, about 50 miles [homespuns, quilts and spreads. Around the walls hang rugs of many intricate(sic)] from the spot where it now stands. In 1934 it was torn down and the pieces were moved to East Bloomfield. In restoring the building care was taken to replace each timber in its former position, thus retaining the original size and form of tie building. Wooden pins fasten the hewn timbers in place.
The two display rooms now fill the space that was the church auditorium. A few articles belonging to the Baptist Society and dating back to the time the church was established have been loaned to the craftsmen for display.
These are students and craftsmen who take all the time with the work that guild craftsmen of Medieval times devoted to making things before power machinery was dreamed of are incorporated.

Article in a Rochester, NY Newspaper
East Bloomfield Craftsman Produces Own Violins
By Lena S. Steele
HAY FEVER and music may not seem to have any connection, but it was the former that led Homer Bullock to give concrete expression to his love for the latter.
Bullock an East Bloomfield resident for several years, began making violins two years ago, at the height of the pollen season when he needed something to get his mind off his affliction.
He lives in a musical atmosphere anyway, with three of his four sons interested in music. Calvin, eighth grade pupil in the Bloomfield Central School plays a violin, in the school orchestra. Bob, a sophomore in the same school, plays the bass violin and sings in the Glee Club, and Paul, seventh grade pupil is manifesting a liking for music too.
Bullock has made two violins so far, and has three more under construction. The score may not seem impressive, but there is an astonishing amount of painstaking work involved in the production of a violin.
A natural-born craftsman, Bullock carves and measures meticulously. For work that may entail accuracy down to 5/64 of an inch he made his own gage, using three pieces of wood and a few bits of metal.
Bullock uses 150 year-old spruce from the Carpathian Mountains in Romania for the top of his products. That wood, he finds, has a tonal quality not found in others.

Obituary of Homer Bullock
Homer Bullock Rites Are Held
East Bloomfield -- Homer E. (sic) Bullock, 69, died Tuesday, July 16, at his home in East Main., Holcomb, after a brief illness. A native of Crosby, in Yates County he was born May 25, 1988, a son of Homer (sic) and Drusilla Fenton Bullock. He came to East Bloomfield in 1934 with Roadside Craftsmen Shop. Thirteen years ago he purchased a home in Holcomb and had a private business there. He was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving are his wife, Mary Rector Bullock; a daughter, Mrs. Peter Vandenbergh of Rochester; four sons, Philip, of Rochester; Robert, East Bloomfield; Calvin, Dallas, Texas, and Paul Bullock of Pittsburgh, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. Hugh Brown and Mrs, Robert Elliot of Wycombe, Pa. and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon from Wheeler funeral home; burial in East Bloomfield cemetery.

[NI0071] Anton lived in Elsheid, Germany. Anton was the great (5) grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller, the Govenor of New York and Vice President of US.

[NI0075] From the Penn Yan Chronicle
November 6, 1901 - Crosby - The Pan-American has been well patronized by the people of Crosby, and its many beautiful and instructive sights will be long be a pleasant memory to all who have been able to attend. Among the visitors who improved the last days were: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bullock, T. W. Windnagle and wife, Mrs. Charles Foster, Eva and Anna Bullock, Fred Cowell and son Harry, N. W. Plaisted, Mr. and Mrs. John Ovens, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Fort, Charles Combes.
January 15, 1902 - Crosby - Mr. Hermon Bullock has purchased a new Portland cutter.

from "History of Yates County, NY", edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, 1892, pages 455 and 456
The following are the names of the constituent members (of the Keuka Lake Baptist Church in Crosby): Isaac Crosby and wife, Henry Bullock and wife, Hermon (sic) Bullock and wife, Fred Crosby and wife, Mrs. B. M. Crosby, R. W. Weltch, his wife and two daughters, Frank and Ida, William I. Carr and wife, A. P. Wortman and wife, Susan Baily, Libby Baily, Mrs. C. Knapp, Mrs. C. Swarthout, Sarah M. Edwards, George W. Edwards and wife, E. Edwards, C. E. Guile and wife, Mrs. G W. Fenton, Eliza Hewitt, Mrs. L. B. Gipson, Minnie Gipson, Mrs. L. Janes, Timothy Janes and daughter Alice, also his two sisters Lydia and Mary, Mrs. K. Piasted, Will Burt and wife, Mrs. Albert Amadon, L. J. Bellows, Hattie Lee, James Grace, Mrs. B. Gardner. Thirty-six members came from the Warsaw Baptist Church, six from the Second Milo Church, and two from Penn Yan. Isaac Crosby and Henry Bullock were chosen deacons, Isaac Hewett, Herman Bullock, and, Amos Swarthout, trustees, Leroy J. Bellows, church clerk. They proceeded at once to erect them a house, and now they have as neat a house of worship as they could desire; church property valued at about $3,000. A goodly number have also been added by baptism and some by letter until the present membership is eighty-seven. Pastor James Hobbs has preached for them from the organization of the:church until the spring of 1891. The present pastor is Rev. Mr. Walker.
Post-offices, Manufactures, etc - There are three post-offices in this town. Barrington post-office, situated at Warsaw; Crystal Springs at the springs, and Crosby at Crosby Landing, on the shore of Keuka Lake. Crosby village is situated on the east shore of Keuka Lake, in Barrington. It has its store, church, post-office and school-house, two casket factories, and last but not least, a cluster of splendid houses, backed on the east by the beautiful vine-clad hills, and faced on the west by the silvery waters of Lake Keuka, -- the dream-land of the soul through the heated season of the summer. It is in the midst of the grape-growing region, and at this landing hundreds of tons of grapes are shipped annually. Some of the of the principal grape growers in the town are Joseph Crosby, J. Eggleston, I. Crosby, C. Plaisted, estate G. Bullock, H. Bullock, E. Edwards, A. Amadon, S. Lamont, George Fenton, and hundreds of others. The basket factories deserve more than a passing notice. The proprietor of one is Hermon (sic) Bullock, that of the other George Fenton. Ten years ago the baskets were bunched up in dozens and sold by the dozen -- a small pony business. But the demand has grown so rapidly that the mills have been furnished with all modern machinery for manufacturing baskets, and the largest logs are sawed and sliced out and turned until ready for the baskets; and this year the output of baskets from both factories is 1,500,000, giving employment to twenty-five or thirty men and to fifty or sixty girls. The Bullock mills do the sawing and cutting for the McMath and Morgan factories at Penn Yan. The Fenton mills furnish the Niagara Grape Company with 100,000 baskets annually. Peaches, currants, and raspberries are raised to quite an extent, and other small fruit, so that evaporators may be counted by the dozen all over the town. Among the berry growers of the town at present are Delmer Knapp and D. B. Cornell. The largest apple orchard is owned by D. B. Cornell, consisting of fifteen acres and twenty varieties. There are six steamboat landings in Barrington: Fenton, North and South Crosby, J. Eagleston, Hawk, and S. Eagleston.

from "History of Yates County, NY", edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, 1892, page 633
Bullock, Herman, of Barrington, a prominent fruit grower, was born, in Yates County, N. Y., March 25, 1848, a son of Calvin and Lucinda (Simpson) Bullock. His father was one of the early settlers of the county, a farmer by occupation, and had a family of nine children, six of whom survive. He died in the county in I867, and his wife in 1882. Both were members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Bullock married in 1871, Drusilla Finton, a native of this county, born in 1851. By this marriage five children have been born; viz.: Joseph, WiIliam, Edgar, Edith and Horner. In 1880 Mr. Bullock engaged in the saw-mill and basket business, employing some thirty-five hands. He has cut material for about 900,000 baskets this year up to date, and will cut about 5,000 more this fall. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
Herman Bullock, of Crosby and Charles E. Ward, of Penn Yan, NY.
DRIER
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,778, dated Nov 27, 1894.
Application filed April 24, 1894. Serial No. 508,904. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, HERMAN BULLOCK, of Crosby, and CHARLES E. WARD, of Penn Yan, in the county of Yates and the State of New York, both citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Driers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, . . . . . . .
Our invention relates to an apparatus for drying veneer wood, berries, fruits and substances applicable to its operation and use, and in which the drying agent is of an artificial character, such as superheated steam, hot air or the combination of the two. Our apparatus is designed especially for the
drying of wood veneer pieces, so extensively made use of in the manufacture of baskets, and other articles made from that material. . . . . . . . HERMAN BULLOCK
CHARLES E. WARD
By Attorney E. HORTON
Witnesses: L. J. WILKIN,
JOHN W. MORRIS.

From: "Keuka Lake Memories, 1835-1935" by William Reed Gordon, 196
A new object now attracts our attention, Keuka College, located on the west side. Finton's basket factory and Bullock's basket factory, on the east side of the lake, testify to the magnitude of the grape industry. There are about fifty miles of vineyards, averaging a half-mile wide around the lake.

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
1882 - Three entries are made regarding Herman Bullock. CEG went up to talk with him about timber. He took HB's horse & ploughed his own corn, & He borrowed HB's Democrat Wagon.
24 Feb 1891 - "Herman has consented for me to build 40 feet from the north side of my barn"
27Apr 1891 - "I got some Diamond Wood of Herman Bullock."
19 Sep 1894 - "I sold Uncle Herman Bullock my Victor Flyer for $100.00."
25 Sep 1895 - "Herman sent 5 men to help me pick con." (Phil's note - I assume con. = Concord grapes.)
3 Feb 1898 - "We saw Uncle Herman & went to the factory where he is putting in a dryer. Father bought an 8 x 10 center crank engine and one 8 x 12. I bought a 2nd boiler and engine at $30.00. I went to meeting with Herm tonight."
31 Jul 1900 - __?__ & __?__ got bass & elm from Jerusalem for Herman.
17 Jun 1902 - "We drawed some hoops to Herman Bullock's barn & took a load of baskets to Warner from the shop & put a lot of -?- in my barn."
8 Jan 1904 - "Decker went to Branchport to help get a saw mill for Uncle Herman Bullock to take to his wood lot." (Phil's note - This sounds like the story I've always heard that Herman had a "Portable" saw mill.)
11 Jan 1904 - "Warner & I went up to look at a pile of wood of Uncle Herman & the team went up & drawed it down to the road. 3 loads of lumber."
4 Feb - "Decker drawed 4 loads of wood of the Bullock lot to G&W. 3 ¼ cds in each load."
10 Dec 1904 - "The 4 teams drawed lumber for Uncle Herman."
12 Dec 1904 - "The 4 teams drawed lumber for Uncle Herman."
14 Dec 1904 - "The 4 teams drawed lumber for Uncle Herman."
15 Dec 1904 - "Decker & Houghtaling finished up drawing for Uncle Herman."
13 Jan 1905 - "Decker & Earl went to Tyrone & got a load of lumber for Uncle Herman."

Obituary -- Penn Yan Democrat - 20 Jun 1924
Herman Bullock died June 11, at Arlington, N. J., where he had been spending the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Edith Elliott. Since he was ten years of age his home had been in the town of Barrington, with the exception of ten years spent in the Isle of Pines, Cuba. For many years he operated a basket factory and saw mill at Crosby. Mr. Bullock is survived by his wife, four sons, Joseph F. and Herman (sic. Homer), of Penn Yan; W. W. Bullock, of Stamford, Conn., and Edgar Bullock, of Isle of Pines, Cuba. Two daughters, also survive, Mrs. Robert Elliott, of Arlington, N. J., and Mrs. Hugh Brown, of Hastings-on-the-Hudson. The body was brought to Penn Yan last Thursday, and interment was made in Dundee cemetery.

From: WEBSTER TOWN DIRECTORY 2002 - Page 10
Where Was The World's Largest Basket Factory in the 1950's?
Right here at the Webster Basket Company!
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It took nine steps to make baskets at the Webster Basket Company:
1. Logs were sawed into six-foot lengths, so they would fit in the boiling tanks and veneering machine.
2. Next, these logs were boiled in tanks filled with hot water to soften the wood.
3. The bark was taken off the boiled logs.
4. Then each boiled log went to the veneering machine, or lathe. The veneering machine had a knife which cut thin strips of wood from the log. These thin wooden strips were called veneer.
5. The veneer was taken from the veneering machine and put into the chopper. Here the veneer was cut into correct sizes for making baskets.
6. The veneer strips came out of the chopper and were put on carts. Workers used these carts to take the veneer to other workers called basket-makers.
7. The basket-makers braided the veneer strips by hand. At the Webster Basket Company, basket-makers were usually women.
8. The basket-makers put their braided veneer strips in the basket-making machine. It folded up the sides and ends of the braided veneer. Then this machine stapled other parts to the veneer to make baskets. The basket-making machine was set up at the Basket Company in 1930. Before 1930, the Company's basket-makers joined basket parts together by hand. It was done by hammering in tacks.
9. A second machine put handles on the baskets.
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[NI0076] In many records the name is spelled "Druzilla"; with a "z."

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
10 Jan 1891 - "Drusilla Bullock went to Jackson, Michigan with George and Martha to wedding of Omar Finton."
4 Sep 1895 - "Hattie & her Mother called on Aunt Drusilla."

From a Penn Yan Newspaper in 1937
Mrs. D. Bullock Injured in Fall
Mrs. Drusilla Bullock, mother of J. E. Bullock, Yates county Superintendent of schools for district No. 1, received a fractured hip bone as a result of a bad fall.
Mrs. Bullock, who is 75 years of age, was visiting at the home of her son, Edgar, who is general manager of the West Indies Fruit Importing Co., on the Isle of Pines. She had planned to spend the winter there until the accident which occurred on Thursday, December 3rd. Saturday morning, accompanied by her son and a nurse, she sailed for New York City on one of the Ward Line boats. She will remain in a hospital at New York for a short time and then go to the home of her daughter Mrs. R. T. Elliott, at Arlington, N. J.

Newspaper Article - Death of Mrs. Herman Bullock
Penn Yan -- Mrs. Drusilla A. Bullock, 90, native of Yates County, died Thursday (Nov. 20, 1941) in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert T. Elliott, in Wycombe, Pa. She was born in Barrington Nov. 15, 1851, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Fenton (sic), pioneer residents of this county. She was widow of Herman Bullock. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Elliott, and Mrs. Hugh F. Brown, of Hastings-on-Hudson; three sons, Homer Bullock, East Bloomfield; William W. Bullock, Penn Yan, and Joseph F. Bullock, Penn Yan, superintendent of schools in Second Supervisory District of Yates County. Funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Monday in Lake Keuka Baptist Church, Crosby, the Rev. Harvey I. Kester, pastor, officiating, Burial in Dundee.

from History and Directory of Yates County, New York, Vol 1
By Stafford C. Cleveland -- Penn Yan, NY
Published by S. C. Cleveland -- Chronicle Office -- 1873
pages 145 and 146
Joseph Finton was a revolutionary soldier, and came with his family into Barrington, (then Wayne,) from New Jersey in the Spring of 1806, and settled on land in the northwest part of the town, which, for some unexplained reason, was not run into lots and numbered with the original survey. There was enough of this land for about five lots, and it was marked on an early map as "very poor." Mr. Finton chose this location rather than land more heavily timbered in Milo, because in the open, less wooded land, there seemed a prospect of sooner getting food for stock, which was an object of great importance to the pioneer settler. The Bath road at that time was a crooked way through the woods, and Mr. Joseph S. Finton, who lives now on the spot where his father settled, thinks it was not opened as a highway till after the lake road. Their first school for that neighborhood was in a log house, north of the Barrington line, near the present residence of Job. L. Babcock, on land long owned by Jonathan Bailey. The house was warmed by a huge old-fashioned fireplace, capable of holding almost a cord of wood. School was principally attended to in the winter; and Mr. Finton says that on all the pleasant days they had to stay at home and break flax. Cotton was not king then, and flax wrought by home industry, was tile most important element for clothing the family. Joseph Finton's children were Mary, Phoebe, Eleanor, Stephen, Charity, Isaac R., Joseph S., Catharine, Susan and Amelia. The last was the only one born in Barrington. Mary married James Higby. Phoebe married Samuel Carr. Eleanor married Nehemiah Higby, and moved to Ohio, where she died. Stephen married Mary Ann Maring, and went to Michigan, where she died. Charity died at thirty-six unmarried. Isaac R. married Esther, a sister of Peter H. Crosby, for his second wife, and removed to Steuben county. Catharine married Peter H. Crosby. Susan married John Gibbs, the father of Joseph F. Gibbs. Amelia married Samuel Wheaton. Joseph S. Finton, who resides at the age of sixty-nine, on the original homestead, married Mary Porter, and has a second wife, Emerancy Gleason. His children are Susan, Mary Ann, George W., Joseph, William W. and Druzilla. Susan married David Lockwood, and after his decease, George Kels of Barrington. Mary Ann married Peter S. Bellis. George W. married Martha Ann Bailey, and lives in Barrington. Joseph married Minerva Spink, and lives on the homestead farm. William W. married Amanda Castner, and lives in Michigan.

[NI0078] Penn Yan Democrat - 17 Oct 1917 - RECTOR - GRODEN
A quiet wedding took place Saturday afternoon at the hone of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Groden when their daughter, Elizabeth Frances, was united in marriage to Thomas Jefferson Rector, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Rector, of Milo. The bride wore a suit of plum colored broadcloth with hat to match. Immediately after the ceremony the bridal couple left for a short wedding trip after which they will be at the home of the groom near Second Milo.

[NI0079] Penn Yan Democrat
November 9, 1923

RECTOR -- ANSLEY Penn Yan Democrat - November 9, 1923
Miss Gladys Josepine Ansley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ansley of Milo Center, and Arthur Frederick Rector, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rector, of Second Milo, were married at 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, November 1, 1923. The ceremony was performed by Rev. F. M. Windnagle at the Methodist parsonage in Branchport, N. Y. The bride was attended by her cousin, Miss Frances Ansley of Milo Center; Mr. Melville Gardner, of Milo, was best man. The bride wore a suit of midnight blue Pomfret twill with hat to match and wore a corsage bouquet of sweetheart rose buds and lilies of the valley. The bridesmaids maid wore a suit of fine tricotine with hat to match and wore a corsage bouquet of ophelia rose buds and lilies of the valley. Immediately after the ceremony a wedding supper was served at the Hotel Knapp. The brides' table was set for ten, the bridal party and Rev. and Mrs. F. M. Windnagle, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ansley, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rector.
Mr. and Mrs. Rector left that evening for Rochester, where they will make their home at 156 Sheppard St.

[NI0080] From Penn Yan Chronicle
September 4, 1901 - Crosby - Joseph F. Bullock will teach at Shortsville this year and William Bullock at Middlesex.
January 1, 1902 - Crosby - Mr. and Mrs. William Bullock, of Middlesex, spent Christmas at home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bullock and daughter, Elizabeth, are here of a week's stay.
January 8, 1902 - Crosby - Edith Bullock returned with her brother, Joseph Bullock, and wife, to Shortsville for a short visit.

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
10 Jan 1891 - "Jim Nobler & Joe Bullock were here to practice singing."
1 Sep 1900 - Chris loaded up Joe Bullock’s things to go to East Bloomfield. (Phil's note - I don't think they drove to E. Bloomfield. They could put things on the Pennsylvania RR @ PY and @ Canandaigua, change to t the NYC RR for Holcomb. It's then only a mile up the street to E.B.)
21/22/23 Jun 1904 - "Men got lodging & 2 meals / at Joe Bullocks."
4 Mar 1905 - "I went over to Joe Bullocks this eve."

Newspaper Article on Joseph Finton Bullock (Clipping courtesy Esther Rector)
JOSEPH F. BULLOCK
The town of Barrington was the birthplace of Joseph Finton Bullock on July 7, 1873. His father, Herman Bullock, a native of Barrington in 1848 and a manufacturer of baskets and fruit packages, married in 1873 Drusilla A. Finton, daughter of Joseph Finton, a pioneer farmer in Barrington. Joseph was the, first of their six children.
He was educated in the Barrington rural schools. Dundee High school, Keuka institute and Colgate university, receiving his B. S, degree from the latter in 1898. For a year he taught in a private school at Norwalk, Conn. then for a year entered the business with his father. Continuing as a teacher he served in East Bloomfield as principal for a year and in Shortsville for two years before returning to Barrington and helping his father in business until 1907 when for five years he worked as a vineyardist on the shores of Lake Keuka. In 1911 he was elected district superintendent of schools for the first supervisory district of the county, which position he has held to the present time.
In 1899 he married Katherine Worden, daughter of Rev. Alonzo T. Worden, Baptist minister of Ames, and deceased at the time of his daughter's marriage. They have six children: Elizabeth, born in 1900, the wife of Ralph W. Vaughn, instructor in the Penn Yan Public schools; Eugene, born in 1902, who now conducts a garage at Crosby; Francis, born in 1904, employed by the Dairymen's League, Penn Yan; Walter, born in 1906, now employed in the Strausenburgh Pharmaceutical Company, Rochester; Herbert, born in 1909, and Arthur Teall in 1917.
Mr. Bullock is a Republican, a member of the First Baptist church, and Rotary Club,. the New York State Educational Association, of the Central association of district superintendents of the Ontario, Seneca and Yates association of district superintendents and of the Finger Lakes School Men's association.
In the three counties of Ontario, Seneca and Yates, Mr. Bullock is the only one of the original school superintendents who is still holding office.

October 23, 1943
SCHOOL AIDES ELECT LEADER OF YATES AREA
Joseph F. Bullock To Head State Group
Penn Yan - Joseph F. Bullock, superintendent of schools for the first supervisory district of Yates county for the past 32 years, is the new president of the New York State Association of District Superintendent of Schools, elected at their annual session last weekend In Syracuse.
One of the most forward-looking educational men in the state, Bullock has been sponsor during the past few years of two revolutionary steps in the presentation of grade subjects. One is the correlation of geography and social science studies, the other the correlation of English subjects such as reading, writing, etc., with. the introduction of such unusual methods as newspaper writing and reading for style.
Both of these methods, new in the state, have been approved by the State Board of Regents with local teachers allowed to make out their own examinations under the supervision of Mr. Bullock.
Under his leadership, too, all schools in the county have been so coordinated that a child moving from one district to another, or from a rural school to one of the centralized schools, will not find himself out of step with the new group.
Born in the Town of Barrington, Mr. Bullock attended rural school there and knows from personal experience the problems of small schools from a child's angle. He taught in Norwalk, Conn., and served as principal of schools at Bloomfield and Shortsville before being elected as district superintendent of schools here in 1911, a position he has held continuously since.

Penn Yan Democrat - 1948
J. F. Bullock Resigns Supervisory
School Position Held for 36 Years
In an unannounced move that comes as a surprise to practically every one in Yates county, the state commissioner of education and the State Education department are consolidating all of the school districts of the county, outside of Penn Yan into one supervisory district. This comes on the heels of the resignation of Joseph F. Bullock, district superintendent of the first supervisory district for the past 36 years and eight months. The resignation which becomes effective Sept. 1 has not previously been announced.
Beginning Sept. 1, all of Yates county schools, except Penn Yan, including the Dundee Central school and the Middlesex Valley Central school, will be under the supervision of Stephen Underwood of Branchport, who for the past several years has served as superintendent of the second supervisory of the county.
Started Dundee Centralization
In speaking of his resignation, Mr. Bullock does not mention health as reason for his leaving his lifetime work, although he has been in ill health for the past several weeks. Always a progressive educator, Mr. Bullock is known familiarly in the southern part of the county as "father of the Dundee Central school." He was moving spirit in the organization of that central district, doing most of the basic work himself at a time when opposition to the change in the rural school districts was very strong.
Looking back over the years, Mr. Bullock comments that there has been a "tremendous change in teaching methods and in the methods of handling children."
Supervised 52 Districts
"When I first started, there were 52 school districts including the Dundee Union Free school. Now there are 30 with the Dundee Central school district as one," says Mr. Bullock.
When Mr. Underwood takes over the consolidated county district, there will again be just 52 districts, counting Dundee and Middlesex Valley as one each. The duties of the office have changed almost completely during the past 35 years, with new things added each year. Administrative duties have multiplied many times as administration and teaching methods are modernized.
The administrative office of district superintendent has been static in the first supervisory district for so long that many folk have forgotten the normal procedure when a resignation such as Mr. Bullock's occurs. Under ordinary circumstances the school directors, of which there are supposed to be two in each township, elected by township vote, would be called together by the county clerk. After organizing, this group would then hire a new district superintendent to fill the vacancy. The board of supervisors, has nothing to do with the employment of a candidate for this position.
School Directors Ignore Office
Candidates for the office of school directors have been on the ballots and duly elected when terms of office expired in the townships of Milo, Benton, Torrey, Starkey and Barrington, which make up the first supervisory district. The office has become so meaningless, however, that many candidates have not even bothered to take the oath of office. Although there has been no check made at this time, it is assumed that there are several vacancies in the 10 offices of school director in the five townships.
May Change Teachers Status
It is one of the prerogatives of the districts superintendent's office to okay and renew such teaching licenses as are not permanent. In the present shortage of teachers, with many women teaching on training class licenses first earned back before World War I and renewed from year to year, the supervisor of 52 districts has considerable veto power in his area. While all licenses authorized by Mr. Bullock for the coming school year will be good during the coming nine months, a change in supervision might well mean a big change in the rural teaching personnel in Yates county next year.
Mr. Bullock, who was 75 on July 7 of this year, is the son of Herman and Drusilla Fenton Bullock, pioneers in the Town of Barrington. He attended Barrington rural schools, Dundee high school, Keuka institute, and Colgate college, receiving his B. S. degree from the latter in 1898. For a year he taught in a private school at Norwalk, Conn., and then went into his father's business as a manufacturer of baskets and fruit packages.
Once Worked as Vineyardist
Returning to his favored career as a teacher, he served as principal at East Bloomfield for a year and at Shortsville for two years. Back again to Barrington he worked as a vineyardist for five years. In 1912 he was elected district superintendent of the first supervisory district.
During his long term of service the State Department of Education has more than once pointed out Yates county as unique in the fact that it is the only one in the state where the principals of the high schools, the district superintendents, and some of the rural teachers have worked together on a program of studies.
Helped with New Study Courses
This method has eradicated the big break which generally comes in a child's life as he transfers from a rural school to a high school. By working together the teachers have correlated the courses of the one-room and the larger schools so that studies mesh without embarrassment to the child and have eliminated a long adjustment period previously part of the change between schools.
Mr. Bullock is a member of the State Teachers association, the New York State Association of District Superintendents, the Central New York District Superintendents association, the District Superintendents of Ontario, Yates, Seneca, and Wayne counties, the Grange, Farm Bureau, National Education association, Penn Yan Rotary club, and the First Baptist church of Penn Yan.

[NI0081] From Penn Yan Chronicle
September 4, 1901 - Crosby - Joseph F. Bullock will teach at Shortsville this year and William Bullock at Middlesex.
October 9, 1901 - Crosby - William Bullock brought his charming bride for a visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bullock, last week.
January 1, 1902 - Crosby - Mr. and Mrs. William Bullock, of Middlesex, spent Christmas at home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bullock and daughter, Elizabeth, are here of a week's stay.

From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
23 Oct 1893 - Wm Bullock went with CEG to Syracuse and stayed all night.
14 Jul 1894 - CEG & Wm Bullock "went to PY on our Wheels." CEG had a consuming interest in Bicycles. He fixed bikes for everyone, put on tires, bought, sold, ordered, He appeared to have a Bicycle business going.

July 1942
Bullock - VanArsdale
(Crosby Correspondent)
A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Crosby Baptist church on Tuesday morning, July 14, 1942, at 11:30 o'clock when William Bullock was united in marriage to Miss Harriette VanArsdale of Manchester. Rev. H. R. Kester of Dundee, performed the single ring ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock will reside at the family home here.

Obituary for William Wallace Bullock
William Bullock Rites Held in East Bloomfield -- William W. Bullock, 83, a retired school principal, died Friday ( Feb. 13, 1958 ) in Thompson Memorial Hospital, Canandaigua where he had been a patient for two months. He was born June 7, 1875 in Barrington, the son of Herman and Drusilla Bullock. He was graduated from Colgate University. He was principal of several area schools including Middlesex, Cuba, Palmyra and Manchester, and for several years was principal of a school at Hastings-on-Hudson. He retired in 1943. For the past several years he has resided in East Main Street where he has been a cabinet maker. In 1901, he married Alta Cooley of Canandaigua who died in 1937. He is survived by his second wife, Harriett Van Arsdale Bullock; two sisters, Mrs. Robert J. Elliot and Mrs. Hugh Brown, both of Wycombe, Pa., several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon from the Weld Funeral Home in Clifton Springs.

[NI0082] From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
20 Dec 1890 - At election of Sunday School officers "Eddie Bullock" was elected Treasurer.
13 Feb 1898 - "We went to church & SS, Edgar Bullock read a sermon."
1898 - Edgar B. went to deliver "picking boxes."
13 Jul 1904 - "Went to Elder ' --- ? ----' . Fixed his phone. Edgar Bullock went with me."
27 Jul 1905 - At a funeral, "..... Edgar Bullock, Mattie, & --?-- Bellis helped sing."

From the "Isle of Pines Appeal," December 1923
ARREDONDO WINS SUIT FOR EDGAR BULLOCK
Mr. Luis Arredondo, Nueva Gerona's popular law agent to whom practically all the Americans on the island confide their business, recently won for his client, Edgar Bullock, in the case of Joyce vs. Bullock.

Edgar Bullock Obituary (Newspaper clipping courtesy Esther Rector)
DEATH OF EDGAR BULLOCK, Barrington Native, Isle of Pines Resident, Edgar Bullock, aged 61, a native of the Town of Barrington, Yates County, but for the past 30 years a resident of the Isle of Pines, Cuba, died Thursday, October 5, 1939 at the home of his sister, Mrs. Robert T. Elliott, Wycombe, PA, He was a son of Herman and Drusilla Bullock, and spent his boyhood at their home on the East Lake Road, south of Penn Yan. Mr. Bullock was an honor graduate of Colgate Academy and in 1904 received both arts and engineering degrees from the University of West Virginia. For two years until his health failed, he was with the Westinghouse Corporation at Pittsburgh. While retaining citizenship in Yates County, he was for several years engaged in the manufacture of fruit and vegetable packages in the Isle of Pines, both as manager and as an independent owner. He will be long remembered by the poorer people of the Isle of Pines, both Spanish and colored English-speaking groups, for his evangelical and rehabilitation work among them, as well as for his employment of and other assistance to hundreds after the great storm of 1926. He was for nearly 50 years a member of the Lake Keuka Baptist Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Rahmig Bullock a daughter, Edith; his mother, Mrs. Drusilla Bullock of Wycombe, PA; two sisters, Mrs. Robert T. Elliott of Wycombe and Mrs. Hugh R. Brown of Hastings-on-Hudson; and three brothers, Joseph and William of Penn Yan and Homer of East Bloomfield. Burial was made in Wrightstown, PA, Monday afternoon.

[NI0083] From the Penn Yan Chronicle
January 8, 1902 - Crosby - Edith Bullock returned with her brother, Joseph Bullock, and wife, to Shortsville for a short visit.

Edith May Bullock Dunkelberger says that Edith Mary Bullock met Robert Truman Elliott when she went to East Pittsburgh, PA to help her brother Edgar recover from an illness. Robert Elliott and Edgar Bullock were both working for Westinhouse Electric.

Penn Yan Democrat - 9 July 1909 - Married, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bullock, Crosby, July 5, 1909, their daughter, Mary Edith (sic), to Mr. Robert Truman Elliot, of Brooklyn.

Edith and Robert bought a farm with a large old stone farmhouse in Wycombe, Bucks County, PA in the late 1920s and lived there until their deaths. Her mother Drusilla lived with her after Herman died. Her sister Helen and family also lived with her from 1949 to 1964. Her sister Helen took care of Edith and Robert before they died in 1963.

[NI0085] Katherine Bullock Obituary (Newspaper clipping courtesy Esther Rector)
1937
DEATH OF KATHERINE L. BULLOCK
At Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital, Tuesday,Nov. 30, Mrs. Katherine L. Bullock, 61. She was the wife of Joseph F, Bullock, Superintendent of first supervisory school district of Yates County, Mrs. Bullock was stricken suddenly ill Thanksgiving night, Nov. 25 while a guest at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Vaughn, Highland Drive. The following morning she was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Bullock was prominent in church and women's societies in the community. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Guyanoga Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, and Parent-Teachers Association. She was the daughter of the late Rev. A. T. Worden, who was a frequent speaker at Keuka Assembly several years ago, and she was a student of the old Keuka Institute. Surviving are her husband, Joseph F. Bullock; one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughn of Penn Yan; five sons, Eugene Bullock of Crosby; Francis of Penn Yan; Walter J., of Brooklyn; Herbert of Penn Yan; and Teall of Washington, D. C., nine grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. George Turnbull, Syracuse; Mrs. Caroline Olive, Utica, and Mrs. Harriette Walrath of Ilion. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Bullock home, 121 Stark Avenue, Rev. Royal N. Jessup officiating. Burial in Lake View.

[NI0086] Article from a Penn Yan Newspaper - courtesy of Esther Rector
BULLOCK - CARLSON
Saturday, August 19, 1939 at 2 p,m., Miss Madeline M. Carlson of Torrey, and Joseph F. Bullock of 300 Main St., Penn Yan, and district superintendent of schools for the first supervisory district of Yates County,were married at the bride's home. The Rev. R. N. Jessup, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Penn Yan, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Bullock was graduated from Penn Yan Academy in 1916 and is a teacher in district No. 2 school in Torrey. Mr. Bullock was educated in the Barrington rural schools, Dundee High School. Keuka Institute and was graduated from Colgate University in 1898, receiving his B. S. degree. He taught in a private school at Norwalk, Conn., and served as principal in East Bloomfield and Shortsville. He also worked at times with his father, the late Herman Bullock, native of Barrington, in manufacturing baskets and fruit packages and as a vineyardist. In 1912 he was elected district superintendent of rural schools far the first supervisory district of the county, which position he is now holding. On August 15th the bride was honored at a personal shower given by her cousin, Mrs. J. S. Kask of Morristown, N. J. Guests were present from Wilmington, Del., Geneva, Walworth, Penn Yan and Morristown, N. J. The teachers of the vicinity gave a shower and Mrs. Ferdinand Anderson gave a dinner for the bride.

[NI0087] Penn Yan Democrat - 20 Sep 1901 - The marriage of Miss Alta Rae Cooley, of Canandaigua, and Mr. William Wallace Bullock, of Crosby, occurred at the home of the bride Wednesday evening, at six o'clock. Rev. W. D. Robinson, of East Bloomfield officiated. Only the immediate relatives and a few personal friends of the bride and groom wore present. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Bullock will reside in Middlesex, where be is employed as principal of the school. The Canandaigua Times said this week: "Miss Cooley is one of the most charming of Canandaigua's society young Iadies, and the congratulations and good wishes of a host of friends will follow her into her new home."

[NI0088] Newspaper Article from the Rochester Times Union
Harriet Bullock, 85, Ex-Teacher, Dies at Shortsville
SHORTSVILLE -- Mrs. Harriett van Arsdale Bullock, 85, retired Manchester school teacher, died yesterday (Sept. 11. 1967) in Thompson Hospital, Canandaigua. Her home was on Stafford Road here.
A lifelong resident of the town of Manchester, she was born April 26, 1852. She was graduated from the old Manchester High School and the former Brockport Normal School. She taught 8th Grade in Manchester until her retirement in 1942. Her husband, William Bullock, died in 1959.
Mrs. Bullock was one of the oldest members of Manchester Baptist Church.
Surviving are five sisters, the Misses Kate and Frances van Arsdale of Shortsville, Mrs. Albert Ulmer of Indian Rock, Fla., Mrs. Clinton Mason of Manchester and Mrs. Edgar Glass of Lakeland, Fla., and several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Halsted Funeral Home in Manchester, where the service will be tomorrow at 2 p.m. Rev. Gordon Deer, pastor of Manchester Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua.

[NI0089] Penn Yan Chronicle-Express
November 18, 1926
MRS. BULLOCK PICTURES HORRORS AND RAVAGES OF TORNADO ON ISLE OF PINES
"Home and Mill Wrecked, But We Are Safe," Is Message to Yates Relatives ---
Terrified People Cling to Trees All Night in Teeth of Gale Driving Over 150 Miles an Hour ---
Many Killed ---Curious Freaks Mark Indescribable Havoc ---
(Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bullock narrowly escaped with their lives when the tornado struck their home on the Isle of Pines two weeks ago. Mrs. Bullock describes the horror of the fierce storm which tore over the island in a letter to her relatives in the county. Parts of her description are printed below. Mr. Bullock is manager of a basket factory which makes containers for shipping the fruit which is grown on the island. After graduating from Colgate University, he spent summers at his home on the east shore of Lake Keuka and about 15 years ago left for his work in the south. He has three brothers living in this county:. Joseph of Penn Yan, who is superintendent of the rural schools in the first supervisory district, Homer of Second Milo, and William, who lives on the old homestead at Crosby. Dr. Charles Bullock of Geneva and Alfred Bullock of Penn Yan R.D. 2, are cousins. His mother is now living with one daughter, Mrs. Edith Elliott at Arlington, N.J., the other daughter, Mrs. Hugh Brown, residing at Hastings-on-Hudson. - Editor)
Oct. 24, 1926 - Santa Fe, Isle of Pines, Cuba
Dear Mother: -- The island had the worst hurricane in its history Wednesday morning, Oct. 20th. Every soul faced death from 1 o'clock till after day-break, probably 8 o'clock. Nearly all the houses went down. The few that are standing are badly damaged. Around Santa Fe, Mrs. Felton's house seems least damaged and ours next. Fortunately only one life was lost in Santa Fe, a little Hungarian girl, daughter of the comet player. The entire colored and Cuban section of Santa Fe was down within twenty minutes after the beginning of the storm, which left hundreds homeless, exposed to the terrible driving rain and wind, such as I never dreamed possible, but worst of all,the debris was flying everywhere, trees, enormous branches,tilting from roots, beams of every size, so that no one knew when they would be struck.
Tuesday, the 19th, the government sent warning to the Isle of Pines that a hurricane was raging 200 miles south of us and, unless it changed its course, would reach us in the afternoon. At noon the weather got real bad and the telephone operator advised everyone she could reach. It kept getting worse and as for some reason we could not get the mill on the telephone any more. Edgar started out to tell them to shut down so that no fire could start, but he was forced to return as he feared that by the time he could get back the river would be above our last high bridge, and possibly take the bridge, so that he would not be able to get home.
Then we closed, bolted and barred the garage doors and all the solid, wooden doors and blinds of the house and kitchen so that there was not a place for wind to get in. About 11:30 we woke up; the storm had increased. We nailed up the back window of the kitchen and nailed other doors and windows as an extra protection and went back to bed but not to sleep. We soon got up and dressed. The colored girl also dressed and was throwing herself into a panic, as they invariably do. We told her she had better get out of her room and stay with us but she had to go back and arrange her things. She finally got out of her room and a minute later came a terrible crash. Had she been in her room she would surely have been killed. An 8 x 8 beam had smashed her solid door, passed through the room, through the dining room and crashed into the frame of the guest room, broken doors, chair, and an enormous amount of debris following it. The wind that had hurried these things into the house, had to have a way out and wrenched one side our back door off, so that it had full sway after that. I thought that part of the house had collapsed. Had we known that those beams and other lumber had been part of our chicken roost which had been more than 300 ft to the east of our house, we would not have had to be quite so fearful but we did not know that. At the same time one of our heavy porch posts fell into the office window. We rushed for Edith, put on her shoes and best coat over her nightie, and all proceeded to the bathroom which is built on under the porch roof on the western side of the house while the storm at this time was raging exactly from the east. If the house had collapsed we would have been in a sort of a trap as there is no outside door from the bath-room and the windows are too small and high for anyone to crawl through. We could do nothing but pray for our lives and for the lives of our friends and we have much to thank God for, as He heard our prayer. None of us even hurt and all our friends here survived, at least with their lives.
The hurricane was in two sections; it blew with tremendous force in terrible gusts that, I thought, no house could withstand from about 1 to 3 o'clock. Then there was a lull for about an hour. From about 4 to 6 o'clock the storm blew directly from the west, almost as severe as the storm from the east a short time before. During the lull of the storm the Anderson's colored people living a quarter mile beyond us, came rushing, calling, "Bullock, Bullock." Even then the wind howled so that they could not hear Edgar answering telling them to come in at the back door, which had been blown off. They had tied Mrs. Anderson and the two grandchildren to trees so that they could not be blown away. We told them to get them during the lull, which they did.
The American Consul asked Edgar and Mr. Moment of Gerona to go to Batabano and Havana officially, in the name of the American Government, I guess, and they have not come back yet. They left yesterday, Saturday, at noon on a Cuban gun boat which had come in in the morning.
We hear this morning, Sunday, that Havana is in ruins, at least, part of it, and the entire province of Havana is practically destroyed.
Oct.27,1926 -- It is just a week since the storm. Everything will date from that storm now, I believe. Since writing you on Sunday I have not had a minutes time as I have had to do some of Edgar's work, doing the running around for the mill. We again have to go to Gerona for everything no matter how small as the telephone wires are all down, also the poles and the Santa Fe central is a mass of bricks.
Edgar started off immediately, on foot, with a colored man and a hatchet, to open up the road to the town, a mile from here, and to go see how the Barnes' had fared. He got back after one o'clock. It took him 4 hours to go two miles there and two back. The Barnes' had spent a good part of that fearful night under a table which leaned against a part of a wall of their former home. A few boards above the table, also supported by the same part of the wall, sheltered them from falling timber. They have now set up a little shack 8ft x 8ft with a roof of galvanized iron taken from the wrecked Masonic Temple and within a day or so they expect to go back and call that their home, at least for the time being. They sleep and eat here. Every morning we take them to their place or as close as we can get and get them back at night. I shall long remember their happy faces the first night after the storm as they had walked from their wrecked home, past the wreckage of other homes, two miles to our house. Their faces shone as we were still alive and they were and we still had a roof over our heads and, therefore, they had.
The Bartel house moved 40ft. settled on the side of the knell on which it was standing and now faces the creek instead of the road. Bob Kay's house is standing but the paper blew off the roof and wet everything inside. The Methodist church just simply fell back and collapsed. There is nothing left but the cement steps. The piano broke right in two lengthwise. Mr. Powers' new house across the way blew down completely. Briggs' house slid off the foundation and the east side of it is a wreck; porch off, bathroom pipes and fixtures all twisted. The kitchen remains fairly intact. Of course, the paper is all gone and water poured through everywhere, bringing with it beaver-board, dirt and what not. The house across the way where Homer used to live is standing minus porches. The Episcopal church and rectory are down completely. The cement block house where Mrs. Bacon and Mary live is minus porches and minus part of the roof. When part of the roof went they somehow got over to Fries during the storm but soon Fries' house started to go piece by piece, and Mr. and Mrs. Fries, Mrs. Bacon and Mary crawled under Fries' Ford car. When that started to move they could do nothing but try to get out of there and crawl as far as possible away from the wreckage and flying timber and hold on to trees. Byrnes' house which Mr. and Mrs. Pearson of Boston had just bought and were occupying, with all new furniture, etc., blew away cement block after cement block. Fortunately they were blown right out of their house and hung to a tree all night with flying timbers everywhere.
The mill is down completely, also the many homes of the working men. Mr. Clark's house and Mr. Bacon's house are the only two standing but they slid off their foundations. At the mill only the oil and gasoline house, a small building is standing. 75 percent of the big pine trees in the thickly wooded section about the mill, are down, broken off or uprooted.
Coming back to Santa Fe, the Cuban school is down. Warfield's lost their porches and roofing paper. Robert Hughes Warfield was born the Sunday morning before the storm and there they were. It must have been most awful for Mrs. Warfield. They got her , the baby and the bed in the living room and put their big tent over all, nailing it securely to the inner wall. Mr. Warfield worked so hard to protect his wife and baby less than three days old, also four other children, Bernice Cooper and a Cuban girl, that had about collapsed and was ready to give up. Immediately after the storm he got permission from Gov. Pack to use the galvanized iron blown off the Masonic Temple and now he has a galvanized iron roof over the main part of his house, which has only three leaks in it.
The new steel-hull S.S. "Cuba" was tied to the Jucaro dock with heavy chains and she survived the storm pretty well. The manager said that a few hundred dollars will put her back in shape again. The chains had to be sawed through to loosen the "Cuba" as they had become so twisted by the storm. The company's warehouse at Jucaro was not damaged much but the water came up 3 or 4 ft. above the foundation, wetting a good many packages. Dr. Lory's boat disappeared but has been found high and dry one mile up the river, in among big trees, minus the captain's cabin.
Columbia has only three houses standing, Smith's, Cooper's and Miss. Kennedy's. The big stone church- part of the walls and the entire roof are resting on the seats and altar. The Culley's had a narrow escape. Their house collapsed right over their heads. The youngest boy was pinned in under a heavy dish closet. Mr. Culley happened to be near and during the worst of the storm worked with all his might to pry his son loose and for hours they did not know what had become of Mrs. Culley, Dorothy and the older boy. The latter three were able to crawl out from under the wreckage and were blown into the grove, where they held on to trees. Something had pierced Dorothy's right upper arm and came out again below. Many times Mrs. Culley thought Dorothy would faint on account of the pain and then none of them knew what happened to Mr. Culley and the other boy. The red dye of Dorothy's sweater started an infection in her arm. They got to the doctor as soon as they possibly could and the arm seems to be getting all right now.
The Casas River at Gerona is a mess. Boats of all sizes everywhere, criss-cross the river, sunk or a way up on dry land. The S.S "Isla", the one Edith and I traveled on to Batabano on our way North this summer, is nothing but a hull. the two upper stories simply slid off on to land and collapsed into millions of pieces.
The big Catholic church in Gerona is a big mass of brick. There is just nothing left of it. The priest's house is leaning dangerously toward the former church. St. Joseph's academy, where Mrs. Schaemer kept a rooming house, is standing but badly damaged. The City Hall is pretty good. The big clock is gone, of course. Nearly 30 people were killed in Gerona and a good many badly hurt.
Two Americans and one Canadian who had accompanied the injured when they saw no way to transport the boat-load of sufferers, walked 36 miles to Havana, climbing over thousands of trees which had fallen across the road, through mud and water. They told Gen. Crowder, who immediately telephoned to the U.S.A. for relief. The train that got the injured from Batabano to Havana traveled through water up to the body of the coaches.
The S.S. "Cuba" took a second boat-load of injured, mostly from Santa Barbara. The large bridge just this side of Santa Barbara Heights was not passable for automobiles and there was a stretch of 20 miles of wreckage to be cleared before the injured could be transported to the port of Gerona. Capt. Miller and family in their two story frame house in Santa Ana, had all the doors and windows securely nailed so that they felt trapped when they felt that the house was going. Suddenly the front door opened, they rushed out, and the next minute the house was a mass of ruins.
Hundreds, if not thousands of people here on this island, owe their lives to miracles.
The first two days after the storm we were feeding twelve people here at the house and I had to watch out that they , especially the colored ones, did not eat all there was in one or two meals, starving later on. By Saturday evening the "Cuba" was back from Batabano with some more food and soon the U.S. warship "Milwaukee" came in, as a result of Gen. Crowder's telephone message, I believe, also smaller U.S. boats with surgeons, doctors, nurses and food. A relief station has been established at the Santa Rita and the poor and homeless receive food, such as bread, flour, sugar, rice, beans, coffee, condensed milk, etc.
At the Federal Prison that is being built here at the island there was a wind gauge with a maximum of 150 miles per hour. The velocity of the wind reached that maximum and probably more but there was no instrument on the island to measure it. I understand wind has never been known to reach a greater velocity.
Many strange things happened during the storm. We had a kerosene lamp standing on the buffet in the dining room between the girl's room and the office. When the chicken roost crashed into the girl's door and a porch post into the office window, the lamp went out and stood there through two hours of the worst storm, never harming it in any way. Our clock ,which had not been running for several weeks although Edgar had tried to clean it with gasoline and oil it, is running regularly since the storm and keeping time, and it was right in the path of the wind.
When the blind of the window in our dressing room blew off on the south side of the house, the suction of the wind (the wind was first from the east and later from the west) drew Edgar's best trousers off the rack around the corner and Joslyn found them 200 or 300 feet down the road, all mud. His collar bag went the same way, scattering collars everywhere. One of those red blankets I had put on the sewing machine to protect it from dampness; that blanket was found hundreds of feet away.
While in Havana, Edgar was able to get a reply from Chicago and the mill is to resume operations as soon as possible, notwithstanding that the pineapple crop in Cuba is estimated damaged from 20 to 30 percent.
Our personal loss is between $3,000. and $4,000. but we consider that we are very fortunate that we have a roof over our heads. The top of our new Franklin is slashed and the frame broken in several places, the windshield broken and two of the four spokes of the steering-wheel are broken. The Ford top is only slightly damaged, although the garage came down on both of the cars. All of our smaller buildings near the house are down, also fences down and gates broken.
Signed -- Elizabeth
(Editor -- All who wish to make contributions for the relief work in the Isle of Pines may leave their money at the Chronicle-Express office. From Penn Yan it will be sent directly to those in charge.)


At 78, Local Woman Becomes Landscape Artist,
Finds She's Good At It
Lexington. KY, Thursday, Sept. 27 1973
Following a lifetime of careers' as businesswoman, translator, wife, mother, education secretary and aide, Elizabeth Bullock is providing a sequel to the Grandma Moses story. The local artist says she just likes to keep busy.
By HELEN PRICE STACY
Leader Correspondent
You'd never know at first glance that her life had been one of excitement and travel and that after 20 years on the Isle of Pines, south of Havana, she at last has found contentment in a Lexington apartment.
She's a petite woman, but a stubborn set to her mouth indicates a determination that, coupled with an adventurous heart, has taken her around the world and at age 78 put an artist's brush in her hand and started her on the road to turning out 120 oil landscapes.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bullock currently is having an exhibition of her work at Shackleton's on East Main, Lexington, but she's not around to enjoy comments about her talent. She's oft on a two-week trip through the Pacific Northwest with Donavems - senior citizens of UK.
Two months ago she was discouraged by the lack of sales for her paintings. "I have painted and painted," she said. "Should I paint more?"
"You were given the talent," offered an artist friend, "which means you must use it for good. Don't you know that soon your work will start selling."
Then, this month she received a check for the second landscape in oil she recently sold to the First Federal Savings & Loan Association. "Of course, that makes me very happy," she noted. What does she paint? Landscapes of the many places she has visited and lived and, of course, Kentucky scenes. And her style? As her business background will testify, she goes about her painting with precision because for now at least, her work is a reasonable facsimile of her subject. If she is doing a scene of Cumberland Falls, it's readily apparent. If it's a scene on the Rhine River captured during a visit there, the work is so authentic in its color and surroundings that it is completely recognizable.
There is much about her work that today is defined as "primitive" but in any era can also it be defined as "truth." There is an over-all straightforwardness in her scenes that contributes much to their charm.
Began In Business - As a young girl she entered competitive examination and earned a year's tuition in a highly rated Brooklyn, N. Y., business college and later became office manager of an export-import leather house in New York.
"I enrolled in Spanish at New York University. Two years before we became involved in World War I the leather house business had slowed to a crawl and since I could not bear to draw a. good salary for doing nothing, I decided to go to Cuba and apply my Spanish." Arriving at customs at the dock in Havana she was disenchanted to learn that neither she nor customs officers could understand one word of the practical spoken Spanish!
In Cuba she ate beefsteak twice a day until she learned to say more than "bifstek."
She became English stenographer for United Railways and when the manager resigned she was assigned his position. Along with the job came a pass that allowed free rail travel. She took advantage of it and soon traveled to the Isle of Pines in the Caribbean. The beautiful island was only 30 by 40 miles and was considered United States territory after being ceded by Spain after the Spanish-American War.
Settles On Island - I met my future husband on the Isle of Pines. He was an engineer and had built and was managing a large pineapple crate mill that employed about 100 men. We lived on this beautiful health spot for more than 20 years.
It was in March 1925 that the U. S. Congress gave the Isle to Cuba. "The next year the worst hurricane in the history of the island leveled it - houses, trees, everything. The mill buildings had been blown away or damaged. My husband worked overtime to reconstruct it and as a result his health failed and later he succumbed."
Back in Philadelphia at the advent of World War II she did her part in the great Victory Bond effort by addressing labels. She later was told that from the time she started working with the labels the entire project worked smoothly and efficiently.
Mrs. Bullock later was secretary to Dr. Helen Dwight Reid, director of the European Division of Higher Education for the U. S. Office of Education. "At the forming of the charter of the United Nations in San Francisco, Dr. Reid was one of five women consultants. The implementation of teaching about the charter in schools in the United States was entrusted to her and once a year she and I as her secretary fashioned the report to the United Nations from the United States of what had been accomplished."
After World War II Mrs. Bullock started working with young people, principally with German and American youths who wanted to gain a better understanding of the other. This was through the Pen Pal Project for Better International Understanding. She studied the many letters, trying to decipher the ones written in old-style German script. She finally had to take some of the work home. At one time, she counted 1,000 letters on her desk for her reading and answering.
"Eighth Army Headquarters, Presidio, San Francisco, was feverishly hiring additional civilian help in preparation for a flareup in the Korean conflict. I was hired to speed up mail from home to our troops when the eruption came. It never came, so there I was getting paid again for doing nothing."
Still Another Career - She finally convinced her boss that she had more important things to do. "I was desperately needed at Oak Knoll Navy Hospital because of the many amputees coming in from Korea."
This work proved the most satisfying of all her endeavors. "The chief orthopedist of the Navy had been transferred from Bethesda, Md., and I became his secretary. I knew German and he was translating a German textbook on fractures for use by Navy doctors."
She was eager to start work on Volume II of the textbook translations when word came that the Austrian author needed to first revise it.
"Consternation seized me! That meant nothing but routine work for at least six months or maybe a year. I had received a raise, but even so I knew there were things in the world that needed doing. I resigned." She traveled for several months. Her daughter and physician husband and family loved to Wilmore and Mrs. Bullock left for four months in Europe. Back in the U. S. she worked as secretary in the office of a Baptist weekly in New York City.
To Lexington - From Miami, Fla., Mrs. Bullock came to Lexington. That was only six years ago, but already she has made friends throughout the area. She was afraid of failure when someone suggested she take art lessons through the Senior Citizens in Lexington. But with the same determination that pushed her from easy jobs to doing something worthwhile with her life, - she started painting - and she hasn't stopped except for travel. She is a member of both the Lexington Art League and Blue Grass Artists Association.
Is it any wonder that she is exact in her style and that she can paint a range of subjects? At an age in life when some souls take to a rocking chair and stare into space, Elizabeth Bullock picked up a paintbrush to continue a development that began many years ago in New York.
This is an artist whose work can be examined more closely, seeing with eyes that take in the entire spectrum of her life.

[NI0091] MR. BROWN
Hugh Ritchie Brown, age 88, of Wide Horizon Drive in Franklin died Tuesday, Aug. 30, at his residence after a period of declining health. He was a native of Dobbs Ferry, New York, the son of the late Robert and Keeghanna Ritchie Brown. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army in World War I, and was a retired real estate broker. He was the husband of the late Helen Louise Bullock Brown.
Surviving are two daughters, Edith B. McCormick of Cheslie Ontario, Canada, and Margaret B. Call of Naarchott Moratania, Canada; three sons, David Brown of Franklin, Malcolm Brown of Burnthills, New York, and Bruce Brown of Marion, Michigan; 10 grand children and six great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Friday, Sept. 2, at the Congregational Church of North Collins, New York, with burial in the North Collins cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Franklin affiliate of the Duke A.D.R.D.A., c/o Lucy Green, Route 2, Box 708, Franklin, N.C. 28734. Bryant Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements. New York arrangements were under the direction of the Westland Funeral Home, 10634 Main Street, North Collins, N.Y.

[NI0092] Handwritten letter - Calvin Bullock's resignation from the Militia - June 28, 1838
To Brigadier General Barnes
Sir - The undersigned respectively represents that he now holds the office of Ensign in the 56 Regiment, 12 Brigade and 8 Division Infantry of the Militia of this state and that in consequence of his holding a compensation a suitable or sufficient length of time to clear him from performing military duty as by law required he is induced to resign said office and doth hereby resign the same.
Your petitioner respectively represents that he is not under arrest or returned to Court Marshall for any delinquency or defecting and that he has delivered over all moneys, books and other property to the state in his possession to the officer authorized by law to receive the same and your petitioner respectively solicits that you will be pleased to accept his said resignation and grant him a discharge.
Dated at Chatham the 25th day of June 1838. Calvin Bullock, Ensign
I hereby consent that the resignation of the above named officer be accepted.

[NI0096] Reuben Bullock was born on August 14, 1840 in Huron, Wayne County, NY to Calvin Bullock and Lucinda Simpson Bullock. He was the third child; Mary A. and Caroline were born in Columbia County, NY. Calvin and Lucinda were married in 1836 in Chatham, Columbia County, NY. Calvin was in the New York Militia for several years and resigned his commission as an Ensign in 1838. Calvin’s aunt Nancy Bullock Sours, her husband, Philips Sours, and children also lived in Huron. After two more children, Phebe and Martha M., were born in Huron, Calvin, Lucinda, and family moved to Barrington, Yates County, NY.
The 1850 Federal Census lists the family, with three additional children, Henry, Herman, and German, living in Barrington. Calvin was a farmer.
The 1949 Bullock Genealogy, by Herman Bullock Jones, gives information on just where the family lived in Barrington. In about 1850, Albert Sours and his new wife, made a wedding trip from Huron to Barrington. Albert “visited Calvin Bullock, then living on the Bath Road north of Bellis Corners on the east side of the road. This house was later owned by Frank Mc Dowell, father of Dr. James Mc Dowell, now (1943) of Dundee. Phebe Bullock was married (1868) in this house.”
The 1855 NY State Census lists the family with another child, Harriet, living in
Barrington in a frame house valued at $500. Also listed is a servant John Stamp, age 25, and
Hannah Merrit, age 61.
The 1860 Federal Census lists the family:
Calvin - 48 - farmer
Lucinda - 45
Mary A. - 22 - school teacher
Caroline - 21 - school teacher
Reuben - 19
Phebe - 17
Martha - 15
Henry - 13
Herman - 12
German - 11
Harriette - 8
The value of the property is listed as $4000.
"Reuben Bullock was born in Barrington, New York, and was a laborer by occupation; he enlisted July 30th, 1862, aged twenty-one years; he participated in the battles of Harper's Ferry and Gettysburg; was severely wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2d, 1863, and discharged on account of wounds received in action April 11th, 1864." This is from the book "Disaster, Struggle, Triumph. The Adventures of 1000 "Boys in Blue" from August 1862, to June 1865" by Mrs. Arabella M. Wilson, Albany, The Argus Company, Printers, 1870.
Dedicated to the 126th Regiment of the New York State Volunteers.
The 1865 New York State Census lists the family as living in Barrington. All are listed,
Rueben included, except Caroline. Caroline had married James W. Baker in 1861. This census
includes the Reuben’s military record:
* 126 Regt. Geneva - Private - 20 months service - discharged.
* Present Condition - one finger right hand and one finger left hand.
* Was wounded July 3rd 1863 at Gettysburg.
* Lost the index finger on the right hand and ring finger on the left.
* Was admitted into the USA General Hospital at Newark, NJ on the 10th of July 1863.
* Was discharged April 21st 1864 on Surgeon’s certificate of disability.
* Had Gangrene and Erysipelas (?) in wound leaving my wrist stiffened.
For his wounds at Gettysburg, Reuben got a pension of $8 per month. It was upped to
$18 per month for lost fingers on both hands. The right hand was almost useless. This
information is from a letter, now in the possession of Philip G. Bullock, from Reuben to his
pension lawyer in Washington, D. C.
The last entry in Reuben’s Civil War diary is Sunday, July 12, 1863. However, later pages in the book are filled with entries for days in January through April of 1866 while he was back in Barrington living with his father and mother. It appears that he was going to school, attending church, hunting, and participating in a variety of social activities. There is no indication that he had a steady job but one entry indicates that he was paid for taking the census for the town of Barrington. On January 31, 1866 he wrote, "Paid fathers taxes – amount $60.00."
The 1870 Federal Census has Reuben living with his sister Martha Bullock Sebring and her husband Philip Sebring in Tyrone, Schuyler County, NY. Reuben is listed as age 28, a day laborer, and personal property valued at $800. Philip, a farmer, was also a Civil War veteran; he served in the cavalry in Company G, 10th Regiment, NY Volunteers. Reuben’s father, Calvin, died in 1867 and his mother, Lucinda, is listed as head of the family in Barrington. Henry, Herman, German, and Harriet were still living with her.
Based on the following newspaper article in the Watkins Review & Express, Schuyler County, NY, dated December 10, 1874, Reuben was probably still living in Tyrone in late 1874: "A Tyrone correspondent of the Havana Enterprise thus chronicles an accident: In our little Mud Lake (Lamoka) are many islands. Weller Bros own two of them. They also own an old boat (called 'Old Scow') to take teams and men to the island. On Fri. last the following started for the island: Hod. Sebring, Charley Hanmer, Reuben Bullock, Phil. Sebring and John Libolt, a span of horses belonging to Weller Bros, and another team to Phil Sebring. When quite a distance out, the 'Old Scow' tipped up and all found themselves in the cold waters. Mr. Weller was some distance from them in a row boat, and before he could render the necessary assistance, Mr. Libolt was nearly drowned, as he could not swim. One of Weller's horses and one of Mr. Sebring's swam to the shore, the other of Mr. Weller's took the wrong direction and tangled in the weeds and was only extricated by the most strenuous efforts. The other horse of Mr. Sebring became excited and swam in various directions and was finally drowned. Mr. Sebring feels his loss keenly."
The 1880 census lists Reuben as living with his sister Mary A. Bullock Swarthout, her husband Martin, and their children in Barrington. Reuben and Mary’s mother, Lucinda, was also living there. Reuben is listed as age 38 and a farm laborer. Martin was a cooper.
Reuben died on March 31, 1899 at the Soldiers and Sailors Home, Bath, NY and is buried at the Second Milo Cemetery, Second Milo, Yates, NY. His estate of $300 was divided among the following relatives: Mary Swarthout, sister from Starkey; Phebe Jones, sister from Starkey; Henry Bullock, brother from Crosby; Herman Bullock, brother from Crosby; German Bullock, brother from Crosby; Ella Grace, niece from Crosby; and Leroy Baker, nephew from Michigan. Less than a month before he died, he applied for a patent for "placing a reclining chair on a Tricycle." Ironically, a blank patent form from the U. S. Patent Office arrived after his death.
The following two items are mentioned even though there is no evidence that the Reuben Bullocks mentioned are actually our Reuben Bullock, the son of Calvin Bullock.
* The Cayuga County, New York Directory, 1867-68, lists a Reuben Bullock, a guard at State prison, living in Auburn, NY.
* The diaries of Charles E. Guile has an entry October 29, 1897, "Ruben Bullock helped on shed." Guile lived in Barrington near Reuben’s brother Herman and was both Herman and Reuben’s nephew.

[NI0100] From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
5 Feb 1891 - CEG Went to Warsaw to sit on jury - between German Bullock and DS Pulver. It was settled before trial.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - SEPTEMBER 1929 - OCTOGENARIAN RECALLS EARLY DAYS ON OLD YATES COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS

The following article was copied from the scrapbook of Catharine Spencer and provided through the courtesy of the Yates County Historical Society. This story appeared September 1929 in Penn Yan's Chronicle Express. A copy was given to me by Esther Rector.

German Bullock, a native and lifelong resident of Yates County, who recently made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Floyd E. Fletcher, of Second Milo, but who has been living since the first of April with another daughter Mrs. George D, Lambert of 3779 Lake Ave., Rochester, celebrated the 80th anniversary of his birth Tuesday of this week. Mr. Bullock well remembers eventful days of his past life.
German Bullock was born in Barrington Sept. 10, 1849, on what was then the Samuel Miller place, now owned by Dr. John Miller of Coming. His parents, Calvin and Lucinda Simpson Bullock, came to Warsaw, Barrington, from Columbia County, and moved about considerable from one farm to another with their large family of five girls and four boys, of which German, the youngest, is now the only survivor. His grandfather* served in the War of 1812, and his father was captain of the Home Militia of Columbia County. His sword is now in the possession of Homer Bullock** a great nephew.. When he was five years old his family moved to Merritt place in Chubb Hollow, where Homer Merritt now lives. A year later, he went to school, of which his father was a trustee, with a man 35 years old from Ireland, who worked for his father, and was just learning his letters. Children of this Mr. Killgrew now live in Dundee. When not busy with school he used to help his mother at her weaving, at which she put in most of her time, the girls doing the housework. Two of the children, one on each side of the loom, would pass the shuttles wound with carpet rags of different colors, through the warp. After eight years here his parents purchased from Joseph McCane, George Bullock's grandfather, his place on the Bath road about seven miles from Penn Yan. "We were there 14 years", Mr Bullock narrates. Father was a thorough and particular person about his work and taught us to be the same when we went by ourselves. I remember my elder brother*** enlisted the night of his 21"' birthday in the 126" Regiment, Co.B. He was wounded and had both hands crippled in the Battle of Gettysburg. Henry and Herman**** attended Penn Yan Academy and also took two terms at Starkey Seminary. Father died in 1868, and Herman took charge of the place. Mr. Bullock, in the 60s, and some other boys were helping the Barrington Baptist Church. The flooring put in by a former contractor, was a little too thin and suddenly gave way under the gang of men as they were lifting the heavy beam for the roof. Nine of the men crashed through the floor as the big beam came hurtling down. German was later rescued from the debris unconscious, he had struck his head against a stone well.
Nearly drowned in Keuka Lake - One day in 1872 he realized that he must be carrying the proverbial horseshoe in his pocket. He was working then for George Fenton on the east side of Lake Keuka near Crosby. While cutting corn in the field, the old steamer "Steuben" came near shore to land a lady passenger. Since there were no docks in the vicinity, he started out in a rowboat to take the lady ashore. Mr Bullock was not an experienced oarsman, and the waves from steamer capsized the small craft. For nearly 20 minutes Captain Archibald Thayer, who was in charge of the steamer, and members of the crew searched for the boat and its occupant. But even though the steamer had drifted several feet from the scene of the accident they saw no sign of either. Capt Thayer was just about to give the signal for his boat to proceed when he happened to think of the paddle wheel house. Investigating the shore side he found the rowboat turned upside down and an arm reaching out from under it to cling to a blade of the steamers side wheel. It took another 20 minutes of work to rescue Mr Bullock and revive him. He was rescued from his burning home and had to be revived again when he fell through the ice in Keuka Lake. On Jan 6,1874 he married Delia B. Wright, daughter of Dr Samuel Wright of Jerusalem. They built and started housekeeping. In 1880, Mrs Bullock purchased the Amasa Tuell estate on the corner of Lake and Main streets, in Penn Yan. Mr Bullock erected a cement building here and began making grape baskets. In 1882, the "Cor??es" company purchased the canal rights and claimed up to the "blue line" which placed his building two feet within their property. This stopped his business and proved a loss. In 1884 his wife sold the property and bought the B. F. Freeman farm of 46 acres, 3 miles north of Warsaw. Mrs Bullock died on Oct 29,1916.
The Old Fairgrounds - "I remember being at the fair in Penn Yan, when the grounds were in the vicinity of Keuka Street north of Elm Street, but I cannot give the exact locality and outlines" reminisces Mr Bullock. "The race course was on the north lot of the Pines". The entrance was at the southeast corner and the grandstand halfway between the outlet and the entrance. One horse which ran was a sorrel from Waterloo. On the first round this horse, as he neared the entrance, stopped short, and threw his rider over his head. The jockey rolled over three times, got up, mounted the horse, and won the race, which required twice around the half-mile track. As usual sweet cider and lemonade were sold. The man who owned the cider had a tent and the barrel rolled to the back of it. He had his hands full for quite a while, when all of a sudden his patronage stopped. A friend of his came and told him what the trouble was. Another friend, who was fond of a joke, had tapped the other end of the barrel and was selling for three cents a glass from that end, while the owner was trying to sell for five cents at his end. Mr and Mrs Bullock had three daughters Eva, born April 10,1878 married Paul Birr of Rochester; Mary Joanna born Feb 9,1883 married George Lambert, of Rochester; and Florina born April 8,1889 married Floyd E. Fletcher, of Penn Yan. His three brothers were : Reuben who died 1889; Henry, who died some 22 years ago and was the father of Alfred Bullock of Penn Yan, Charles of Geneva, and Emma of Rochester. Herman, his brother was the father of Edgar Bullock of Isle of Pines, Homer of Waterloo, Joseph of Penn Yan, William of Manchester, Mrs Edith Elliott of Wycombe, Pa, and Mrs Hugh Brown of Hastings on Hudson, NY.

Notes by Phil Bullock in 1998
* German's grandfather was David Bullock
** Sword now in the possession of Phil Bullock
*** German’s oldest brother, wounded at Gettysburg, was Reuben Bullock, Homer's uncle.
**** Herman Bullock was my grandfather.
I remember "Uncle Germ" walking between his Second Mile home and the Fletcher home. He lived in the second house east of Route 14 4 on the South side of the road. He was quite bent over as if he had "Osteoporosis" and always walked with his hands clasped behind his back. I don't remember ever talking with him. When I knew him he was 75+ years of age.
PGB 1998

[NI0107] 1863 Tyrone Twp. Men & Their Occupations - Schuyler County, NY
West TYRONE, NY - 68th SUB-DISTRICT
BAKER, James W. Age - 24 Occupation - farmer

[NI0108] Died in New Orleans of yellow fever.

[NI0114] Marie had two brothers, Christopher and Henry Pulver, living in Dutchess County.

[NI0121] Died at age 32. The 1855 census shows Charity living with brother Morgan in Barrington.

[NI0122] Druggist in Penn Yan. 1855 census lists Andrew, Phebe and Fredrica.

[NI0124] From Packet 120-H - Genealogical Library in Fonda, NY
HISTORY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY - GATEWAY TO THE WEST - By Nelson Greene
WILLIS BULLOCK, JR. -- Willis Bullock, Jr,, president of the village of Canajoharie, is one of that village's native sons, his birth having occurred on the 16th of September, 1879. On the paternal side of the house he is descended from one of the early New England colonists, Richard Bullock, who came from England in 1643 and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Richard Bullock was born in 1622 and a few years after his arrival in the colonies was married, in 1647, to Elizabeth lngham (sic), by whom he had a son, Samuel, born in 1648. Following the death of Mrs. Elizabeth (Ingham) Bullock, Richard married again, in 1660, his second wife being Elizabeth Billington, Samuel Bullock was likewise twice married. His first wife was Mary Thurber, to whom he was married in 1673, and his second wife was Thankful Rouse, He died in 1718, leaving, among other children, Richard Bullock, Sr., who was born in 1692 and married Mary Wheaton in 1718. Their son, Richard, Jr., born in 1725, married Keziah Horton, Reuben, son of Richard, Jr,, and Keziah (Horton) Bullock, was born in 1758 and died in 1827. He was survived for many years by his wife, Anna Bockes Bullock, who passed away in 1843, Their son, Hiram Bullock, was the grandfather of the subject of this review. Born in 1799 at Seeber's Lane, he lived to great age, passing away in Canajoharie in 1890. He married Catherine Seeber of Seeber's Lane, near Canajoharie, who was born in 1806 and died in 1844 in the place of her birth. Willis Bullock, Sr., son of Hiram and Catherine (Seeber) Bullock, was born in Canajoharie in 1844, where he lived most of his life, passing away December 30, 1898.

From: "History of Montgomery County: embracing early discoveries; the advance of civilization; the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson; the inception and development of manufactures; with town and local records; also military achievements of Montgomery patriots", revised and edited by Washington Frothingham, Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co., 1892
Bullock, Willis, Canajoharie, was born August 17, 1844, in the town of Canajoharie, about a mile south of the village, on the farm now occupied by Frederick Shinneman. He was a son of Hiram and Catharine (Seeber) Bullock. The earliest ancestor we can
trace on the father's side is Reuben, grandfather of Willis, who was born in Columbia county. Tradition says that his father and two brothers came from England about the middle o£ the eighteenth Century. One of these brothers settled in southwestern New
York, one near Philadelphia, and the other-the great-grandfather of Willis, on the Hudson river near Kinderhook. Reuben Bullock was the father of sixteen children, six sons and ten daughters. One son survives, Lewis of Sharon Springs who was born in 1807; Hiram, father of Willis, was the third son, born 1799, and followed farming all his life. In 1811 his father removed to Canajoharie, and at his death in
1842 Hiram succeeded to the farm, which he conducted until 1864. When forty-one he married Catharine, daughter of Johannes W. Seeber, who was a son of William H. Seeber of revolutionary fame. Hiram Bullock had four children, three of whom are living: Anna of Canajoharie; Charles, a railroad employee of Canajoharie; and Willis. The latter has always lived in this town, where he was educated at the academy, receiving a supplementary course at the Poughkeepsie Business College. In 1867 he engaged in tlie hay trade which he has since followed. He has been an active member of the Republican party and has held the office of commissioner two terms; trustee of the village three years; president of the village one term, and for the last thirteen years has been a member of the board of education. In 1892 he founded the Hay Trade Journal, a novelty in the line of literature, devoted to the trade from which it derives its name, and its editor and proprietor, Willis Bullock, is known (by name at least) from Maine to San Francisco. Mr. Bullock married in 1875, Hettie B., daughter of Dr. Joseph Burbeck of Canajoharie, and they have two children, Willis, jr., and Dewitt.

[NI0125] Son David was born in 1780, making Anna 15 at the time. Maybe Anna was Reuben's second wife and the mother of his younger children. The youngest , Lewis, was born in 1807.

[NI0130] From Packet 120-H - Genealogical Library in Fonda, NY
HISTORY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY - GATEWAY TO THE WEST - By Nelson Greene

WILLIS BULLOCK, JR. -- Willis Bullock, Jr,, president of the village of Canajoharie, is one of that village's native sons, his birth having occurred on the 16th of September, 1879. On the paternal side of the house he is descended from one of the early New England colonists, Richard Bullock, who came from England in 1643 and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Richard Bullock was born in 1622 and a few years after his arrival in the colonies was married, in 1647, to Elizabeth lngham, by whom he had a son, Samuel, born in 1648. Following the death of Mrs. Elizabeth (Ingham) Bullock, Richard married again, in 1660, his second wife being Elizabeth Billington, Samuel Bullock was likewise twice married. His first wife was Mary Thurber, to whom he was married in 1673, and his second wife was Thankful Rouse, He died in 1718, leaving, among other children, Richard Bullock, Sr., who was born in 1692 and married Mary Wheaton in 1718. Their son, Richard, Jr., born in 1725, married Keziah Horton, Reuben, son of Richard, Jr,, and Keziah (Horton) Bullock, was born in 1758 and died in 1827. He was survived for many years by his wife, Anna (Bockes) Bullock, who passed away in 1843. Their son, Hiram Bullock, was the grandfather of the subject of this review, Born in 1799 at Seeber's Lane, he lived to great age, passing away in Canajoharie in 1890, He married Catherine Seeber of Seeber's Lane, near Canajoharie, who was born in 1806 and died in 1844 in the place of her birth. Willis Bullock, Sr., son of Hiram and Catherine (Seeber) Bullock, was born in Canajoharie in 1844, where he lived most of his life, passing away December 30, 1898. Willis Bullock, Sr., was a hay dealer by occupation, and a business man who put into his work more than the ordinary amount of originality and thought. Far from satisfied to continue his business under the irregular conditions in vogue in the latter part of the nineteenth century in the hay trade, he conceived the idea of starting a trade paper to bring the hay dealers throughout the country closer together and keep them informed regarding conditions in the various markets, In 1892 he founded the Hay Trade Journal, of which he was the editor and publisher, This sheet met with success from the very start and non, after thirty-three years, is widely circulated among the hay shippers and receivers throughout the United States and Canada. Soon after getting his paper under way Mr. Bullock began using its columns to urge reforms in the hay trade and suggest improvements in trade conditions. In the early '90s there was no established custom to govern the hay trade and every transaction was typical of the parties engaged in it. Balers and shippers followed their own ideas in the detail of baling, weighing, buying, and shipping, while distributing markets and also points of consumption were under local influence and often sub3ect to irregular proceedings. Even in the same market there was often no uniformity of procedure or standards, so that each trader was prone to conduct his business in the manner that promised the largest rewards to him, As the hay trade gained

[NI0131] Sarek, daughter of Adam, married George Wright and lived in Huron, Wayne County, NY in 1905. Adam, along with his brother Hiram, was a member of the Free Baptist Church of Ames near Canajoharie in 1821. An A. Bullock was pastor of this church later on.

[NI0136] Richard moved with his family to Dutchess County from Rehoboth in 1754. Marriage may have been in 1749. Marriage was performed by Elder Richard Round Jr.

[NI0143] Ephriam moved from Rehoboth to Dutchess County in 1755, with his cousin Comer Bullock, the Baptist Church of Bangal in Stanford, NY.

[NI0150] Mary died at age of 93 years, 10 months and 11 days.

[NI0152] Reneff also called Rouse.

[NI0157] Marriage intentions dated October 28, 1681.

[NI0158] Mary Thurber Bullock died while giving birth to Mary. Note that the dates show that mother died a day before the daughter was born. Why???

[NI0160] Also spelled Buluk. Sources trace his lineage back to a Richard Bullock in Loftes, England in the 1200s.

[NI0167] Caleb's name was also spelled Idy. Swansea, where they were married, was also spelled Swanzey.

[NI0169] Elizabeth Billington was probably 21 years and 7 months old when she married Richard.

[NI0184] Penn Yan Newspaper Article - courtesy Esther Rector
OBITUARY
MILO, 1907, February 11 - Sarah Jane Gordon Rector Simmons, 57 years old departed this life at her home in Milo, Yates County, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah J. Simmons, wife of Justus M. Simmons, whose maiden name was Sarah Jane Gordon, was born in Barrington, in this county, March 12, 1850. She was the daughter of James and Catherine (Bain) Gordon, and was one of a family of seven children, of whom the following survive: John, of Winslow, Ill.; Oliver, of Benton Harbor, Mich.; Whitney,of Rochester, N, Y. and William, of Tully, N. Y. She was first married to Medford Rector, who served during the Civil War in the 126th Regiment of Infantry, and made a good record as a soldier. A son was born to them, who died in infancy. Mr. Rector died in 1882, and she married, Apr. 13, 1887. Justus M. Simmons, of Milo. She is survived by her husband, by her son, Leroy M. Simmons, and by her aged father-in-law, Sylvester Simmons, who all deeply lament their loss of one so essential to their welfare. She was a good wife, a kind mother, and an affectionate and devoted friend. The funeral was held on the 13th , at the family residence. Rev. George H. Brainerd, the pastor of the Baptist Church at Second Milo, officiated. The interment was in Lake View Cemetery.

[NI0190] Andrew was Andreas Richter when he lived in Columbia County, NY. Although a good guess could be made as to who Andreas' parents were, it not known for certain.

from History and Directory of Yates County, New York, Vol 1
By Stafford C. Cleveland -- Penn Yan, NY
Published by S. C. Cleveland -- Chronicle Office -- 1873
THE WEST WOODS. -- Page 324 of the 1976 reprint
In one of a series of articles contributed in 1869, to the Yates County Chronicle, concerning the "Yates County Gazetteer," Edward J. Fowle, wrote as follows: "After the earlier settlers of Benton, about 1816, there came a colony from Livingston's Manor, Columbia county, who located in the west part of the town, which for many years was designated as the West or Dutch Woods. They were an honest, frugal and industrious people. The 'Old Folks' are nearly all departed, as are most of the log houses they built. Many of the descendants reside there, possessing the virtues of the parents. They are well-to-do farmers, and good livers. Among them will be found the family names of Crank, Rector, Finger, Wheeler, Simmons, Carrol, Hoos, Moon, Miller and Niver. In the young days of the old people, the winters afforded good times for visiting and social enjoyments. Every week, if not oftener, at the log residence of some one of them, the families would all congregate, coming in sleighs or sleds, when there would be music and dancing, story telling, refreshments and smoking, while the huge logs blazed sway in the good large fire-places; and so the evening or night passed away. There was usually one double log house, with only one room below, which had two fireplaces, two looms, two beds, and other furniture, and occupied by two families. And those primitive times were happy times with them, with few artificial wants, with no heed to fashions, no class distinctions, no envyings nor jealousies, their lives glided along smoothly and pleasantly. Their spiritual wants were supplied occasionally by an itinerant Dutch or Methodist minister. They were always kind to one another, at house raisings and logging bees, at marriages. in sickness and at death and burial. The large and small wheel, the reel and the loom, have nearly disappeared from among them, but agriculture, the dairy, poultry flocks and herds; and general household duties, now claim the attention of both men and women, old and young, conducing to health and competence. They have rarely if ever been engaged in law suits, and never has one of them been before the courts for wrong doing. It would be hard for our friends in high life to frame for themselves a more exalted eulogy."
THE RECTOR FAMILY
Andrew Rector was a native of Copake, originally Taghkanick, Columbia Co., N. Y., and was born in 1762. He married Charity Rockefellow, of the same place. He died in Benton, in 1842, at the age of eighty, and she in 1838, at the age of seventy-two. They came to Benton in 1817, bringing most of their family of nine children, and settled in the West Woods, on lot 104, where there was no house or clearing, buying the land of Samuel Colt, of Geneva, who was a considerable landholder in that vicinity, and paying ten dollars per acre. Here they tarried the remainder of their days. Their children were (1) William, (2) Hannah, (3) Mary, (4) Teal, (5) Andrew, (6) Eva, (7) Christiana, (8) Catharine and (9) Elizabeth.

[NI0191] According to Reformed Church records in West Copake, Columbia, NY, related to the christening of her children, her name is Gertje Rockenfeller or Gertruv or Gertraut Rakkenfeller. Her sister Christina married a cousin William Rockefeller.

[NI0192] from 1873 History of Yates County
William, born in 1782, married Hannah Simmons, in Columbia county. They settled in Benton, in 1810, and on lot 101, in 1813, coming with Henry Simmons previous to his father. Hannah, his wife, was born in 1786, and died in 1870. Their children were Elizabeth, Andrew W., Conrad, Jacob, Charity, David, Catharine and William J. Elizabeth, daughter of William Rector, born in 1806, married James Jennings, of Benton, where she died. Her children were Hannah, Thomas, William J., Nelson, Sarah and Jerusha. Hannah married Jesse Tiers, of Benton. They reside on the Pottertown road, and have one child, Hannah. Thomas married Anna Wheat, of Benton. They reside in Naples, and have six children. William married Cynthia Kirkham, of Benton. They settled in Naples, and have three children. J. Nelson married Ursula Wheat, of Benton, a sister of the wife of Thomas, and has resided with his father. He has a second wife, Annie E. Washburn, of Naples. They reside now in Penn Yan. Sarah married John Miller, resides in Michigan, and has one child. Jerusha married William Washburn, of Naples, and has one child.
Andrew W., son of William Rector, born in 1806, married Elizabeth Coons, of Benton, and settled in Potter. He has held the office of justice of the peace in that town several years. Their children are Nelson, Hannah E., Sarah C., Emily J., Amelia M. and Julian. Nelson married Caroline Coons, of Naples, and resided in Benton, where she died, leaving two children, Elizabeth and William. He has a second wife, Harriet Shaw, of Benton, and there are two children of the second marriage, Caroline and Andrew. Hannah E. is unmarried. Sarah married Orson Linkletter, of Steuben county. They reside in Naples. Emily married Daniel Reynolds, of Middlesex, and resides in Michigan. They have one child, Llewellyn. Amelia M. married Daniel Olcott, of Naples, where they reside. They have one child. Julia married Addison Hasley, of Potter, and resides with her father. Conrad Rector, born in 1809, married Mary Wheeler, of Benton, and settled in Naples. They have one child, Caroline. Jacob, born in 1812, married Maria Coons, of Benton, and resides in Naples. They have one son, John. Catharine, born in 1822, married Seymour Wheeler, of Potter, and resides in Naples. Their children are Werder, Malcolm and Hannah.
Charity, born in 1815, married John Rector, of Benton. David, born in 1815, married Susan Bates, of Potter, and resides in Naples. They have one child, Hannah. William J. born in 1826, married Cataline Kelsey, of Benton, and resides with his father on the homestead. He is an enterprising and thrifty farmer. He has a second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Davis, of Benton.

[NI0194] from 1873 History of Yates County
Mary married Christian Niver, of Columbia county. They did not come to this county. Their children were Andrew, Elizabeth, Henry, Charity, Hannah, Catharine, Mary B. and Norman. Elizabeth and Catharine only became residents of this county. Elizabeth Niver married Col. William Carroll, and settled in Benton, where she died, leaving seven children, James, Peter D., Alfred, Ann, William, Worthy and Mary E. Col. Carroll married a second wife, Catharine Niver, sister of his first wife. Their children were Adelaide; Hannah J., Mercena and Frank. William Carroll was the successor of Col. Gilbert Sherer, as colonel of the old 103d regiment of Militia. He died in 1860, at the age of fifty-one. His son James Carroll is a Methodist clergyman. He is married, and resides in Connecticut. Peter D. married Mary J. Miller, of Columbia Co., and resides on a portion of the paternal homestead, on lot 106. Their children are Jane, Deloss, Seneca, Gazelle and Floyd. Alfred married Sarah Doremus, of Penn Yan, and resides on the place known as the Lovejoy farm, south of Cranks Corners. Their children are Grace, Charles and Fred. Baron married Mary, daughter of Simon Forshay, of Penn Yan. They reside in Torrey, on the Penn Yan and Dresden road, and their children are Job and Will. William married Alice Niver, of Columbia county, and resides there. Mary E. is the wife of William Miner Taylor, of Benton. Worthy is single, and is one of the firm of S. J. Larham & Co., grocers, and resides in Penn Yan. Adelaide married Charles Swarthout, of Torrey, and resides on the Swarthout family homestead. They have one son, Henry. Hannah J. married Dudley Olney, of Torrey. They reside at Ypsilanti, Michigan. Marcena and Frank are unmarried, and reside in Penn Yan.

[NI0195] from 1873 Yates County History
Andrew Rector, Jr., born in 1792, married Dorothea Finger, of Columbia county, and settled in Benton, with his father. He died in 1842. Their children were John H., Andrew, Edward and Henry, twins, Elizabeth, Jane, Jeremiah, Norman, Polly, William F. and Jacob. John H., born in 1814, died single, in 1835.
Andrew, born in 1816, married Elizabeth Finger, of Benton. Their children are John and Helen.
Edward, born in 1820, married Diantha Shaw, of Benton, and moved to Rockford, Michigan.
Henry married Harriet Gilbert, of Benton, and resides in that town. Their children are William W., Charles, Albert, Madison, John and Rosa, of whom William W. married Margaret Shaw, and resides in Naples.
Elizabeth, born in 1828, married Freeman Carroll, and resides at Benton Center. Their children were James and Anna. Fanny Jane, born in 1825, married Jefferson B. Briggs of Potter and they reside at Potter Hollow, Michigan. Jeremiah, born in 1827, married Artemesia Shaw, of Benton, and resides on the old Andrew Rector family homestead, on lot 104. Their children are Dorothea, Miner and George.
Norman married Harriet, daughter of Baltus Wheeler, of Jerusalem, and resides in that town. They have one son, Jerome. William F., born in 1831, married Phebe Jane, daughter of Theron R. Finch, of Potter. They have one child, and reside at Cascade, Michigan. Jacob T., born 1836, married Esther J. Corey, of Jerusalem. They reside at Birchtown, Michigan.

[NI0196] from 1873 Yates County History
Eva Rector, born in 1794, married Jeremiah Finger, of Columbia county, and settled in the "West Woods." Their children were John J., Andrew, Mary, Catharine, Charity, Hannah and Norton.
John J., born in 1815, married Sally Coons, of Benton and resides In that town. Their children are Emily, Hannah, Jane, William and Sidney. Emily married Charles Owen. Their children are Wilkie and Florence. The others are single. Andrew married Rosetta, daughter of Julius Barnes, Jr., of Jerusalem, and resides in Benton. Their children are Samuel, Rachel and Margaret. Mary was the second wife of Martin Brown, Jr., of Benton. Hannah married Abraham Bain, of Benton, and resides there. Their children are Theodore, Andrew and Martin. Catharine died single. Charity is unmarried. Norton married Emily Hainer, of Benton, and resides on his father's homestead. Their children are Oliver, Mary, Alice, Margaret, Irene and Eva.

[NI0198] from 1873 Yates County History
Christiana Rector, born in 1789, married Garnet Crank, of Columbia county. They settled near her father. He was a blacksmith, and gave the name to Crank's Corners, where they reside. Their children are Andrew, Amy, Charity and John M. Andrew married Mary A. Simmons, of Schoharie county, and resided in Benton, at the old McIntyre blacksmith stand on the Pottertown road, where he died, leaving three children, Emma, Catharine and Bradford. Emma married George Sampson, of Benton. They reside in Penn Yan, and have one son, George. Catharine married William Barringer, of Benton, where they reside. They have two children, Lizzie and Minnie. Bradford married Della Hatch, of Penn Yan, and resides in Benton. Amy Crank died single. Charity married Clinton Chrysler, of Benton, where she died, leaving one child, Charity. John M. married Samantha Simmons, sister of the wife of Andrew 3d, and settled on the homestead with his father. He died, leaving two children, Christina and Maria.

[NI0205] Christian and Mary did not come to Yates County.

[NI0210] Catherine died single

[NI0214] Garrett (sic) died at 80 years, 6 months, 15 days. Crank may have been Cronk. The Cranks ran a blacksmith shop and location became known as Crank's Corners. The Crank Cemetery is at Crank's Corners.

[NI0216] I have speculated that Andreas Richter (Andrew Rector), born in 1762, was the first born of Johan Wilhelm Richter and his first wife, name unknown.

How we make the genealogical connection from the Andreas Richter Jr., who came to America from Germany via England with his father John Andreas Richter, to the Andreis Rechter, shown living in Columbia County in the 1790 Federal Census, is not totally clear from the records I have seen. The simple fact that there were a number of Richters along the Hudson River between 1710 and 1800 some confusion. Based on the records available, the following seems a reasonable genealogical speculation:
(1) John Andreas Richter, his wife Anna Maria and children came from the Palatinate to England in 1709 and then to New York in 1710. One child was Andreas who was born in 1694.
(2)Andreas Richter and his wife Anna Elisabeth Stahl had a son, Johan Wilhelm Richter born in 1740 in Rhinebeck, New York.
(3) This one is pure speculation: Johan Wilhelm Richter and his first wife (name unknown) had a son Andreas (Ander, Andris) Richter (Righter, Rechter) born in 1762 in Columbia County, New York.
(4)This last Andreis Rechter was born in 1762, married Gertje Rockenfelder in 1781, had several children, and moved from Columbia County to Yates County with most of his children in 1817. When he arrived in Benton, Yates County, his name was Andrew Rector and his wife's name was Charity.

It is speculation that I make Johan Wilhelm Richter the father of Andrew Rector instead of his brother Johannes. The reason I did this is that Johannas had a son Andreas in 1742; this son married Eva Reifenberger and subsequently had a son named Andreas born in 1777. Since my Andrew Rector was born in 1762 about halfway between the births of Johannes' son and grandson, I conclude that Johan Wilhelm is the father. Both brothers lived in the area that my Andrew came from so it is highly likely that Andrew was the son of one or the other.

[NI0217] Some have speculated that Margaretha's husband was Wilhelm Richter son of Johannes Richter and not Johan Wilhelm Richter the brother of Johannes.

[NI0221] The Kocherthau Records list the birth of Johannes Richter to Andreas and Elisabeth on September 21, 1714. This birth was probably in New Town since the Simmendinger Register lists Andreas, wife Elisabeth and one child as living there. Ulrich Simmendinger, one of the immigrants, published the Simmendinger Register when he returned to Germany. Young Andreas moved across the Hudson to Livingston Manor since he, as Andries Rightster, is shown as a Palatine debtor of the four villages of Germantown, Livingston, Clermont, and Claverack on the dates of March 1, 1718; December 26, 1718 and February 1722. His debts may have stemmed from the time he was on the New York subsistence rolls ten years earlier.
The following are miscellaneous items that mention Richters in the Livingston Manor area:
(1) Anna Maria is born in 1732 to Andreas (probably Andreas Jr.) and Elisabeth Richter.
(2) Anna is born to Hannes (probably Johannes the son of Andreas Jr. mentioned above) and Lisabeth Richter in 1747.
(3) Reformed Church membership list of 1750 mentions Andreas (probably Andreas Jr.) Regter, his wife Anna Elisabeth Stael, and children Maria Elisabeth and Catharina.
(4) The Livingston Account Book lists Andris Richter as a tenant for various years between 1768 and 1782. Probably this Andreas is a son of Andreas Jr. or Johannes.
(5) Tax lists of 1779 list Andreas Righter (this and the next two items may be the Andreis Rechter mentioned in the next paragraph).
(6) John Curry's mill list of customers has several entries for Ander Righter under wheat, corn, barley, etc. in years 1783 and 1784.
(7) Andreas Richter is a Livingston tenant in 1799.
(8) Robert Livingston Estate lists Ander Righter as owing 50 cents in 1804.

[NI0222] Anna Elizabeth is listed in the membership list of a Dutch reformed Church in 1750 along with husband Andreas and children Maria, Elizabeth and Catharina. Her name was spelled Stalin in one source.

[NI0223] Johannes was also called Hannes. Several of his children were baptized variously in the Rhinebeck Lutheran, Red Hook Lutheran and Germantown Reformed Churches.

[NI0225] Birth record was from Reformed Dutch Church in Germantown.

[NI0227] Notes On The Rector Family Genealogy
by Paul Bullock - 18 Sep 1982
This story begins in the Electoral Palatinate in Germany in the years before 1709. The Palatinate was and is the area in Germany next to France and Belgium along the Rhine river and is presently called the Rhine-Palatinate or Pfalz. The War of the Palatinate in the late 1600's and the War of the Spanish Succession in the very early 1700's left this area ravaged and desolate. This caused many peasants and common people to be left homeless and destitute. Beginning in 1708, numbers of Palatines went to England in hopes to go on to the colonies. In 1709, approximately thirteen thousand (13,000) families entered England.
According to a list taken in Walworth, England on May 27, 1709, one of these families was the John Andreas Richter family. Listed with John Andreas is his wife, a 14 year old son, and daughters of ages 17, 7, and 3. The list shows John Andreas to be 46 years old, his religion Lutheran, and his vocation husbandman or vinedresser. There is no information on from where in Germany the family came.
In England, the Board of Trade proposed that some of the Palatines go to the colonies to make naval stores. In 1710, three thousand (3,000) became British citizens and the British officials sent them to New York. The naval stores operation never prospered so most, of those who stayed in the new world, became farmers.
Andreas Richter's name appears in Governor Hunter's New York subsistence list from the time of his landing in 1710 to September 1712. The list includes an Andreas Richter and with a family of 3 adults (over 10 years old) and 2 children in 1710. In 1712, a similar list shows 3 adults and no children. The Colonial Census of 1710 includes Andreas (age 47), his wife Anna Maria (45), son Andreas (16), and daughter Anna Barbara (9). So apparently the eldest daughter listed in England married and at least one younger daughter died in New York.
Probably the Richters moved up the Hudson in 1712 to the "West Camp" on the western bank of the river to Beckmansland. Beckmansland consisted of the towns of Elizabeth Town, George Town, and New Town. New Town is probably the present city of Newburgh, N.Y. In the Kocherthau Records, records of Pastor Kocherthau who was with the Palatine settlement, Anna Maria and Andreas were sponsors at the christening of Andreas Sutz on February 21, 1713. Then less than two months later, on April 7, 1713, the Kocherthau Records list the marriage of Johann Fuehrer to Anna Marie Richter widow of the late Andreas Richter of New Town. So Andreas Sr. died sometime in that two month period in 1713.


from the New York G&B April 1909
Pages 93 and 96
LISTS OF GERMANS FROM THE PALATINATE WHO CAME TO ENGLAND IN I709
(Continued from Vol. XL, p. 54 of the RECORD.)
The following lists are copied from the original documents preserved in the British Museum Library, London, England, and should be of the greatest genealogical interest to those families in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, which claim descent from the so-called Palatine settlers. These lists have never before been printed to the knowledge of the Editor, and it should be noted that the word "son" or "sons" and "dau." or "daus." followed by figures denote that the heads of the family had as many sons or daughters, as there are figures, and that these sons and daughters were of the respective ages denoted by the figures. The word "wife" indicates that the head of the family was married and that the wife was living. The abbreviations "Ref.," "Luth.," "Bap." and "Cath.," mean that the family belonged to the Reformed, Lutheran, Baptist or Catholic Churches.
BOARD OF TRADE MISCELLANEOUS. VOL. 2 D. 64.
The second list of 1193 Palatines lately come over from Germany into this kingdom taken at Walworth, 27th of May, 1709, by Mr. John Tribbeko and Mr. Ruperti, German Ministers.
SECOND ARRIVALS.
NAME AGE WIFE SONS DAUS. CHURCH
HUSBANDMEN & VINEDRESSERS
NAME AGE WIFE SONS DAUS. CHURCH
Richter, John Andreas 46 wife 14 I7,7,3 Luth.


EARLY PALATINE EMIGRATION
by Walter Knittle
Pages 282 and 288
E. THE NEW YORK SUBSISTENCE LIST
THIS LIST was compiled from the "journal" of Palatine debtors to the British government for subsistence given either in New York City or in the Hudson River settlements, from their landing in 1710 to September, 1712. The list was found in the Public Record Office, C. O. 5/1230 and was corrected from the accompanying "ledger," C. O. 5/1231. As it seemed advisable to include some indication of the number in each family and since limitations of space forbade the inclusion of the six notations at various times given in the journal, only two notations have been given here, that is, the first in 1710 usually and the last in 1712 normally. Thus, with "Abelman, Johann Peter 2-1, 2-0," the size of the family signified is two adults and one child under ten years of age; by 1712 the child had died for we have noted only two adults. All children over ten years of age were given the full allowance for adults and were therefore not distinguished from more mature members of the family. Where only one notation of family size appears, the presumption is of death, or in the case of women, of marriage.

Richter, Andreas 3-2, 3-0


EARLY PALATINE EMIGRATION
by Walter Knittle
Pages 291, 292, 297
F. THE SIMMENDINGER REGISTER
THIS LIST contains the Appendix of Ulrich Simmendinger's pamphlet, Warhoffte und glaubwurdige Verzeichnuss jeniger Personen ruelche sich anno 1709 aU" Teutschland in Americam oder ncuc ruelt begcben. ... (Reuttlingen, ca. '7'7) A COPY is i" the rare book room of the New York Public Library. Another copy is in the possession of Dr. Gustav Anjou, West New Brighten, Staten Island, New York. Simmendinger, who was one of the immigrants himself, returned to Germany in 17'7 and there published this brief account of the emigration and the names of those Palatine families still living in New York. The family names were given by Simmendinger under fourteen locations. These lists have been brought together into one alphabetized list, but the locations are preserved by including after the family head's name the letter of the alphabet,denoting the location according to the following key.
Quiinsberg = (a) Neu = Quiinsberg = (h)
Wormsdorff = (b) Neu = Heidelberg = (i)
Hunderston = (c) Neu = Heessberg = (i)
Heessberg = (d) Neu = Ansberg = (k)
Becksmansland = (e) Diese Menschen wohnen auf
dem Rarendantz = (l)
Neu = Stuttgardt = (f) In Neu = Yorck = (m)
Neu = Cassel = (g) Hackensack = (n>
The first four villages comprised East Camp on the land purchased from Robert Livingston on the east side of the Hudson River. These villages have been identified as Queensbury, Annsbury, Hunterstown, and Haysbury respectively, as they are named in the New York Colonial MMS., LV, 100. Beckmansland, judged by the identification of certain individuals in the list, comprised the three villages on the west side (West Camp), given in loc. cit. as Elizabeth Town, George Town, and New Town. However, it is possible that the families identified may have moved to the east side of the river south of Livingston Manor, and the location of Beckmansland may be the Rhinebeck area. The objection to this surmise is that it leaves us without any notation of families living in West Camp. The villages marked (f) to (l) are apparently German names for the seven Schoharie Valley settlements, probably used only in the pamphlet to impress the people in the Fatherland for whom the lists were prepared. Tentatively, by the identification of a few family names known to reside in the several villages, they appear to be as follows:
Neu = Stuttgardt (f) -- Weiserdorf
Neu = Cassel (g) -- Gerlachsdorf
Neu = Quunsberg(h) -- Hartmansdorf
Neu = Heidelberg (i) -- Brunnendorf
Neu = Heesberg (j) --- Fuchsendorf
Neu = Ansberg (k) --- Schmidsdorf
Auf dem Rarendantz -- Kniskerndorf
It is interesting to note in passing that neither John Conrad Kneskern nor Hartman Windecker lived in the villages named after them, as has been assumed by students of these settlements. Neu = Yorck of course is New York City. Hackensack is the present town of Hackensack, New Jersey. The entire Simmendinger pamphlet has been translated by Reverend Herman Vesper of Canajoharie, New York and published by Mr. L. D. MacWethy of St. Johnsville, New York in 1934.

Richter, Andreas (e) w. Catherine & 1 ch.

[NI0228] Anna Maria married again soon after John Andreas died.

[NI0348] Herman Bullock Jones wrote a Bullock Genealogy in 1949.

[NI0364] Lived in Wolcott, Wayne County, NY.

[NI0365] Went to Anoka, MI.

[NI0366] Had three sons living in Huron in 1905

[NI0371] The 1870 Federal Census has her name as Climatia Tenbroeck and the 1880 Federal Census has her name as Kiamesia Comstock. Her nbame may have been Kramesia after her late aunt, Kramesia Bullock.

[NI0372] Was from Livonia.

[NI0373] Married Kama V. and went to Colorado.

[NI0387] From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
12 Dec 1905 - "We went over and attended the wedding of Chas. Bullock & Nellie Gaigeat."

[NI0491] from History and Directory of Yates County, New York, Vol 1
By Stafford C. Cleveland -- Penn Yan, NY
Published by S. C. Cleveland -- Chronicle Office -- 1873
pages 145 and 146
Joseph Finton was a revolutionary soldier, and came with his family into Barrington, (then Wayne,) from New Jersey in the Spring of 1806, and settled on land in the northwest part of the town, which, for some unexplained reason, was not run into lots and numbered with the original survey. There was enough of this land for about five lots, and it was marked on an early map as "very poor." Mr. Finton chose this location rather than land more heavily timbered in Milo, because in the open, less wooded land, there seemed a prospect of sooner getting food for stock, which was an object of great importance to the pioneer settler. The Bath road at that time was a crooked way through the woods, and Mr. Joseph S. Finton, who lives now on the spot where his father settled, thinks it was not opened as a highway till after the lake road. Their first school for that neighborhood was in a log house, north of the Barrington line, near the present residence of Job. L. Babcock, on land long owned by Jonathan Bailey. The house was warmed by a huge old-fashioned fireplace, capable of holding almost a cord of wood. School was principally attended to in the winter; and Mr. Finton says that on all the pleasant days they had to stay at home and break flax. Cotton was not king then, and flax wrought by home industry, was the most important element for clothing the family. Joseph Finton's children were Mary, Phoebe, Eleanor, Stephen, Charity, Isaac R., Joseph S., Catharine, Susan and Amelia. The last was the only one born in Barrington. Mary married James Higby. Phoebe married Samuel Carr. Eleanor married Nehemiah Higby, and moved to Ohio, where she died. Stephen married Mary Ann Maring, and went to Michigan, where she died. Charity died at thirty-six unmarried. Isaac R. married Esther, a sister of Peter H. Crosby, for his second wife, and removed to Steuben county. Catharine married Peter H. Crosby. Susan married John Gibbs, the father of Joseph F. Gibbs. Amelia married Samuel Wheaton. Joseph S. Finton, who resides at the age of sixty-nine, on the original homestead, married Mary Porter, and has a second wife, Emerancy Gleason. His children are Susan, Mary Ann, George W., Joseph, William W. and Druzilla. Susan married David Lockwood, and after his decease, George Kels of Barrington. Mary Ann married Peter S. Bellis. George W. married Martha Ann Bailey, and lives in Barrington. Joseph married Minerva Spink, and lives on the homestead farm. William W. married Amanda Castner, and lives in Michigan.

from History and Directory of Yates County, New York, Vol 1
By Stafford C. Cleveland -- Penn Yan, NY
Published by S. C. Cleveland -- Chronicle Office -- 1873
page 142
The west side of the town was thickly infested with rattlesnakes. Joseph S. Finton relates that his brother and brother in-law killed nine of these serpents in one half day. But badly as these creatures were feared they did but little actual harm, and were far less dangerous than the whisky bottles that were cherished so warmly by many of the early settlers. They had other foes to contend with more difficult to drive away than the snakes.

[NI0499] Partner with Charles Elbert Guile in "Guile and Windnagle" grape basket factory and lumber company in Penn Yan, NY. The business was originally owned and operated by his father-in-law George Wasington Finton.

Obit published in a Penn Yan Newspaper - August 21, 1941
T. WARNER WINDNAGLE
Former President of Rotary
"Conscientious, dependable, always sincerely interested in the welfare of the boys and girls," is the comment made by Superintendent of Schools Clayton E. Rose Thursday when he learned of the sudden passing that morning of Thomas Warner Windnagle, who had served on the school board from 1910 to '22 and for another period since August 6, 1934, when he was appointed to fill vacancy. Only last month he was re-elected for another .three-year term. Until he became ill this spring, he never missed a meeting, Mr. Rose added.
Mr. Windnagle was,elected village trustee in 1922 and served as mayor from 1926 to '33. A member of the Yates County Republican Central committee, of the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities, and of the First Baptist Church of Penn Yan, he served as deacon of the church for many years and as President of the Baraca class in the Sunday school. His varied interests included the Guertha Pratt home of which he was a director for some three years before becoming treasurer from 1920 to '35. In 1932 he joined the Rotary club and was its president in 1939-40. Active in the Scout work, he served as a member of the local court of honor. He was at one time President of the New York State Basket Association and a member of the American Veneer Package association.
Born in Prattsburg
Mr. Windnagle was born in Prattsburg March 21, 1872, the son of Jonas Early Windnagle, a farmer who was a native of Gorham in 1827, and Millie Jane Smith of Ontario county. Educated in the district schools and Franklin Academy, he taught school for a short time then worked on a farm for three years.
December 26, 1894, he bought a vineyard and fruit farm and married Martha B. Fenton, daughter of George Washington and Martha Bailey Fenton. Two years later he and his brother-in-law, Charles E. Guile, took over and continued the fruit container manufacturing business which had been started some 20 years previously by their father-in-law in a small factory on the east shore of Lake Keuka at the vineyard home near Crosby - the property which has more recently been the Lake Keuka Rest home. The partnership has continued through 45 years until terminated by the death of this junior partner.
Many Coincidents in Business
The Windnagle family came to Penn Yan in 1907, residing on lower Liberty street and making baskets for a short time in a building where the body plant is now located. In 1908 Guile and Windnagle took over the stone factory along the outlet of Lake Keuka and built by Seneca L. Pratt in 1898. By coincidence, Mr. Windnagle's death on August 14, 1941, was exactly 30 years lacking two weeks, after the death of Seneca Pratt.
When the business moved to Penn Yan, there was a remarkable coincidence noticed. Mr. Windnagle was then 35 years of age, his partner was ten years older and Mr. Pratt ten years older than Mr. Guile. At that time the fathers of all three men were just 80 years of age and two of them were having the first birthday they had enjoyed in four years. Mr. Windnagle's father and Mr. Guile's father were both born on February 29, and the year 1908 was a leap year.
Mr. Windnagle Ill Many Weeks
Ill since spring, Mr; Windnagle had spent some 14 weeks in bed and only a week before his passing was able to get downstairs, through the use of an elevator which had just been installed in the home, 305 Liberty street, and ride around the block in his car. Wednesday night he was reading the paper on the porch of his home, but was taken critically ill about 7 a. m., the next day.
Funeral Services were held at 3 p. m., Saturday from the First Baptist church, the pastor, Rev. Royal N. Jessup, returning from his vacation in New Hampshire to officiate. Besides his wife Mr. Windnagle leaves a son, D. Fenton, who is employed by the Conde Milking Machine Company in Sherrill, and a daughter, Mrs. Walter J. (Paula) Bullock of 1967 Troy avenue, Brooklyn, where her husband, formerly of Penn Yan, is a chemist. Also surviving are two brothers, Adnah J. Windnagle of Portland, Ore., and Jerome A. Windnagle of 208 East Main street, Penn Yan.

[NI0501] Fenton was a radio repair man and gave Phil an antique radio signal generator. Phil later donated it to the Amateur Radio Museum in East Bloomfield, NY.

[NI0503] Obituary of George W. Finton
FINTON - In Penn Yan, May 19, 1913, George W. Finton, aged 77 years.
The end came at his home on Liberty street, last Monday, after an illness of several months. His wife died in November 1912. There are surviving, one sister, Mrs. Herman Bullock, of Isle of Pines; one brother, Joseph Finton, of Barrington; and three daughters, Mrs. Edmund Crosby, Mrs. T. Warner Windagle, and Mrs. Charles E. Guile, of Penn Yan. The funeral was held from the late residence on Liberty street, Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock, Rev. G. Willard Rockwell, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Interment in Lake View Cemetery.

Death of Geo. W. Finton
After a Long and Eventful Life
Mr. Finton Passes Away at His
Penn Yan Home Monday.
GEORGE W. FINTON.
The death of George W. Finton occurred Monday morning, May 19th, after a severe illness of three months. He was born in the town of Barrington, December 3, 1835, and was the son of Joseph S. Finton, whose father was a Revolutionary soldier, having moved to the town of Barrington (then Wayne) from New Jersey in 1806. He had spent nearly his entire life in the town of his birth and owned extensive vineyards in that town and was for years also engaged in the manufacture of grape baskets.
On October 16, 1859, Mr. Finton married Martha Ann Bailey, of Barrington. Their married life was unusually serene and happy. Three daughters were born to them: Harriet, Mrs. Charles B. Guile; Mary, Mrs. Fred Crosby; and Martha, Mrs. T. W. Windnagle.
Besides his children, one brother, Joseph Finton, of Milo, and one sister, Mrs. Herman Bullock, of the Isle of Pines, survive him.
About eight years ago they moved to Penn Yan and erected a fine residence on Liberty street, Mr. Finton still continuing his interest in vineyards and engaging in a small way to manufacture baskets.
In 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Finton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary surrounded by their family of three children, their husbands and five grandchildren. It is a curious fact that for thirteen years this family met around the festive board Christmas, thirteen members being present on each occasion, and in 1911 at this annual gathering the youngest granddaughter was 13 years old and Mr. and Mrs. Finton's married life spanned four times thirteen years.
The first death to occur in this family was on November S, 1912, when Mrs. Finton passed away. The loss of his life companion was a severe blow to Mr. Finton and from that time he gradually failed in health. While Mr. Finton never united with any church he was active in every good work and gave largely of his means to the support of the gospel, in fact he was largely instrumental in the building of the Crosby Baptist church.
The funeral will be held from his late home this Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Rev. G. W. Rockwell will officiate and burial will take place in Lake View Cemetery.

[NI0504] PENN YAN DEMOCRAT - MAY 12, 1916
FINTON - At his home in Barrington, May 7, 1916, Joseph Finton died suddenly while sitting in an easy chair waiting for dinner. He was 78 years old and leaves two daughters, Mrs. Frederick Taylor and Mrs. Simpson Crawford. both of Barrington; his widow, and one sister, Mrs. Herman Bullock, of the Isle of Pines. The funeral was held Wednesday. Burial in Dundee cemetery. Mr. Finton was a great grandson of a revolutionary soldier of the same name, who came to Barrington from New Jersey in the spring of 1806. The Bath road at that time was nothing but a crooked path through the woods. The family name has been an honored one in that part of the county for more than a century. The subject of this notice was well known and highly esteemed as a citizen and a neighbor.

[NI0511] Obituary of MRS. G. W. FINTON.
After a brief illness, Martha Anne Bailey, wife of George W. Finton, passed away peacefully at her home in Penn Yan, on Sunday morning, November 3rd.
Mrs. Finton was nearly 74 years of age, having been born January 8,1839, in the town of Barrington, in which town she resided during most of her long and useful life.
Her marriage with George W. Finton occurred in 1859. The golden anniversary of this happy event, celebrated three years ago, was the occasion of a very joyful family reunion. At that time the circle had not once been broken by death.
For the past eight years Mrs. Finton had been a resident of Penn Yan, where she became well and widely known through her active interest in whatever made for the good of her fellow being. She became a Christian at the early age of 16, and maintained the closest and most cordial relations with her church till the time of her death. She was a member first of the Baptist church at Barrington, was one of the charter members of the Crosby church, and while living in Penn Yan belonged to the Baptist church of this village.
One so active and so faithful as Mrs. Finton is sure to be missed and mourned on all sides - in her home and at the Christmas reunions of the family, which have been held for the past 13 years without a break; in her church, where she was justly respected for her
faithfulness; and among her many friends outside.
Beside her husband she leaves three daughters, Mrs. Fred Crosby, Mrs. C. E. Guile and Mrs. T. W. Windnagle; their children, George and Joseph Crosby, Ruth and Esther Guile and Finton Windnagle and one brother, Joseph Bailey, of Barrington.

[NI0514] Application for Pension
Joseph Finton - Private
Enlistment - June 1778 - 3 mos. Capt. Craig
Fall of 1778 to Jan 1, 1881 - Col. Craig
Battles Engaged In - Stony Point, Bergen Point
Residence of Enlistment - Allentown, PA
Date of Application for Pension - Sept. 28, 1832 - Claim Allowed
Residence at date of Application - Barrington, Yates, NY
Age at application - 79 years
Born at Phillips Patent, Dutchess, NY

Entered Continental Army (Pennsylvania Line - private) in 1778
Served three years as member of Washington's bodyguard in NJ
Presidential Execution of Major Andre'
With Wayne at capture of Stony Point
Employed for a time at West Point

[NI0519] On the Hunter lists [NY] on 7/4/1710. The Driedorf churchbook shows three additional baptisms, but the names and genders of these children aren't known.

[NI0534] The wife of Adam Betzer (1) is probably "Maria", daughter of Johannes Richter and Elisabetha Simon (2). Johannes and Elisabetha sponsored the baptism of Adam and Anna Maria Richter's second child (3). Anna Maria married a William Betzer after Adam's death in 1768 and sometime before 1773, after which time they appear together as husband and wife sponsors of numerous baptisms. This William could not be Adam's brother whose wife apparently survived him (4).

[NI0562] Jonathan Gleason was a Revolutionary War veteran. He moved from Mass. to Peach Orchard Point on Seneca Co. in 1801 and in 1821 moved to the shore of Lake Keuka. A house he built was moved to a new site and became the home of E. J. Gleason.

[NI0565] Always asked "How long you going to stay?"

[NI0571] Amelia and her youngest child died during an epidemic in Cohocton.

[NI0676] Charity is unmarried

[NI0840] Susan's father, Joseph Finton, lived with her at the time of his death.

[NI0842] There is a note that Mary Florence Rector Bullock wrote in the 1950s, "Sam stole a horse." Was he a horse thief?

[NI0844] Mary Ann and Nehemiah moved to MI.

[NI0886] Surname may have been How.

[NI0983] Partner with Thomas Warner Windnagle in "Guile and Windnagle" grape basket factory and lumber company in Penn Yan, NY. The business was originally owned and operated by his father-in-law George Wasington Finton.

From the Penn Yan Chronicle
August 28, 1901 - Crosby - Messers. Guile & Windnagle, with their wives and several of their workmen, are camping at Italy Hill, while the men are getting out timber for them. The "Carrie" took them over one morning last week, and while landing at Branchport ran upon an old pile, jamming a hole in the bottom of the yacht, and there was lively work for a time to keep her from sinking until she could be drawn upon shore.

From a brochure, "Penn Yan, New York", Peerless Print. Co., Penn Yan, N.Y., about 1914
Guile & Windnagle
The firm of Guile & Windnagle has been organized for twelve years, making baskets. It has been located at its present site for the past four years. Its extensive factory and storage buildings occupy 51,500 square feet of floor space - nearly one and one-quarter acres - just at the foot of Monell Street, on the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, and on the outlet of Lake Keuka, the ideal fishing and summer resort and the home of the world-renowned Keuka grapes.
At their factory all kinds of splint baskets and fruit packages are manufactured. All the work of assembling and nailing these baskets is done by hand, which assures uniform and very serviceable baskets, and furnishes work to a large force of employees.
They have recently equipped their factory with a modern electric lighting system and electric elevators.
About three years ago they installed modern machinery, for the manufacture of wire-bound veneer boxes, at Gaines. Pa., which will turn out on the average about 1,000 boxes per day, which output is already contracted for a term of years with a large meat concern in Buffalo. They expect to add to the box business there some lines of heavy baskets.
They are members of the Business Men's Association and have done much for the upbuilding of Penn Yan.

Chronicle – Express, Penn Yan, N. Y., January 3, 1946
Canners Take Over Old Guile and Windnagle Factory
The basket making equipment of the Guile and Windnagle basket factory, Penn Yan, one of the oldest in the United States, has been sold and is being moved to North Carolina, and the Comstock Canning corporation has taken a long-time lease on the factory, including some of the equipment, such as boiler, elevator, etc., and the land, which is adjacent to its Finger Lakes plant on Monell street. The Comstock company has not yet announced what use it will make of this large increase in its local facilities.
The close of 1945 also marks the closing of one of the oldest basket factories in the United States - the factory of Guile & Wincinagle, Inc., of Penn Yan, formerly owned by S. L. Pratt.
It was in 1891 that Mr. Pratt bought the first land on Lake Keuka outlet at the end of Monell street on which to erect a basket factory. The original building was destroyed by fire and the present field stone factory building, now covered with English ivy, was, erected in about 1898. Numerous additions of both land and buildings have been made since that time.
When Mr. Pratt retired in 1908, he sold the business to Charles E. Guile and T. Warner Windnagle. They operated as a partnership until 1922 when the organization of Guile & Windnagle, Inc., came into existence.
Prior to 1908, both Mr. Guile and Mr. Windnagle had been in the grape basket business at Crosby, on the east shore of Lake Keuka, first with their father-in-law, George W. Fenton, who was also a pioneer in the box and basket business, and later as partners. Mr. Guile began his career in the basket business in about 1885 and Mr. Windnagle in about 1891.
Products Widely Used
Baskets of many kinds, sizes and styles, have been made at their present factory. At first all baskets were made by hand and the first year this plant was operated by Mr. Guile and Mr. Windnagle over three million small grape baskets were made in this way and sold to the vineyardists in this vicinity. In more recent years most of the baskets have been made by machine although many hand made, woven baskets are still being made.
Climax baskets for grapes, cherries, mushrooms, etc; quarts, pints, and tills for berries and other fruit, the round stave bushels and various sizes and styles of market baskets have been sold largely in New York and Pennsylvania but, the woven laundry and baby baskets have been shipped to nearly every state in the United States. At one time large quantities of small candy baskets were also shipped to Canada.
Another popular package was the woven satchel or lunch basket which was not only used for picnics but was also used by leading poultrymen throughout the United States and Canada for shipping valuable eggs for hatching.
In 1912 Guile & Windnagle opened a branch factory at Gaines, Pa., for the manufacture of wire bound boxes for the Dodd Packing company of Buffalo. Fred H. Walker was superintendent of this branch plant. Later bushel basket machinery was also installed there. In 1932, shortly after Mr. Walker's death, the buildings there were dismantled and the machinery was moved to Penn Yan.
Since Mr. Windnagle's death in 1941, Mr. Guile, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last April, has found it increasingly difficult to carry on the business alone, in spite of the help of his employees, many of whom have been there for many years.
Have Veteran Employees
William Grace, plant superintendent, was employed in the early factory at Crosby. Claude C. Hall, shipping-clerk, started his business career with these men in 1907. Henry Palmatier, William Conklin, and William Fingar had been employed at the present factory for many years and have now retired. Miss Ella B. Hunt, secretary and treasurer of the company, was bookkeeper for Mr. Pratt when the business was taken over. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols, John Arnold, Lee Kinyoun and until recently, Marvin Decker, are some of the others who have been employed at this factory for many years.
Mr. Guile is looking forward to having a little leisure and thinks that the apartments which he still owns will keep him sufficiently busy.

[NI1024] EARLY DAYS ON LAKE KEUKA RECALLED AT GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crosby of Penn Yan Celebrated Monday Evening
His Father Planted First Vineyard on East Side
Grandmother Was Only White Settler in 22 Miles
Recalls Start of Guile and Windnagle Basket Factory
Monday night at the Elm Tea room in Penn Yan Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crosby celebrated the 50th anniversary of their wedding. Gowned in the wine-colored silk dress which she wore a half century ago at the ceremony in the old Finton lakeside home in Barrington, Mrs. Crosby and Mr. Crosby again enacted the ceremony, Mrs. Wendel P. Shattuck and daughter, Barbara, playing the wedding march from Wagner's "Lohengrin" on the piano and violin.
During the dinner the instruments played the popular songs of earlier days and friends on the outside serenaded them. A song, written especially for the event by Mr. and Mrs. George Crosby, proved entertaining when sung by all present.
For 70 years Mr. and Mrs. Crosby have lived in Yates county, in Barrington, Dundee and Penn Yan. As owners and managers of the store at Crosby landing, for some quarter of a century, they are perhaps best known, though at present they own and conduct the Pennsylvania hotel on East Elm street near the Pennsylvania station.
Mr. Crosby is the son of Joseph F. and Lois Swarthout Crosby, both of whom are deceased. He was born September 6th, 1860, on the farm now owned by Lee Morehouse in Barrington. His father was well known in Yates county because of his activity in politics, being a leader of the Republican party. He was town supervisor in 1857, county sheriff, 1865-68; and clerk of the county in 1873-75 and 1880-91. He was born on the old Frank Crosby place between the Lake and Bath roads, one of seven brothers. As each son was married, he and his bride started housekeeping in the place now owned by Floyd Kochler. When the next son was married, the new bride and groom would oust the others from "honeymoon cottage" and take possession themselves.
Father Was Political Leader - An interesting side-light on his father's political career is the fact that he lost election as member of assembly from Yates county by one vote, because the election commissioners would not credit him with votes cast for "Joe" Crosby, or Joseph Crosby. The only ballots counted were those for Joseph F. Crosby. For this reason perhaps he endowed his son with a simple name, Fred Crosby, that could be more easily written on a ballot, should he care to run for public office.
Despite his defeat, Father Crosby did go to Albany one year for business, however, and while there sent to his new daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fred Crosby, a beautiful French gingham dress. At the golden anniversary celebration Monday Mrs. Crosby's grand-daughter, Margaret, aged 12 1/2 years, wore this same gown.
It was Joseph F. Crosby, too, who set out the second vineyard along Lake Keuka. A Mr. Wagener, forefather of H. Alien Wagener of Penn Yan, set the first vineyard into the soil of Lake Keuka's hillside near Pulteney. Mr. Crosby planted the first vineyard on the east side of the old Fry place, now owned by Sam Kinyoun, on the cross road.
Lived Among Indians - Mr. Crosby's grandmother came to this part of the country when it was a wilderness, settling near Keuka. The nearest white family on the north was in Penn Yan, the only family living here then: the nearest on the south was on Lake Lamoka, they being therefore, the only white family in 22 miles. The hillsides were well populated with Indians at that time.
Many residents will remember the huge old Balm of Gilead tree which used to mark the front lawn of the Keuka hotel. When Mr. Crosby's father returned from a trip with grain to the grist mill in Waterloo, he stuck the branch he had used as a whip into the ground near the lake at this point. This big tree, now cut down, is said to have grown from his whip.
While Fred Crosby was a boy, his parents moved to Penn Yan to live in the jail, then went to the farm along the east shore of the lake. He was schooled in Barrington number 7, Norris S. Dailey of Penn Van being one of his district school teachers. He then went to the Dundee school for a term.
Mrs. Fred Crosby was the first daughter born, on February 17th, 1861, to George W. Finton and Martha Ann Bailey Finton when they were living near Crystal Springs. When she was about eight years of age, her parents moved to the old Finton place on the East Lake road, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Washington D. Hayes and known as the Lake Keuka Rest home. Her early education was received in Milo number II and, for three years, in Barrington number 7, rural schools. Norris Dailey was her teacher in the Barrington school. While in Milo Miss Ella Miller, now of Stark avenue, Penn Yan, was her teacher for a time. As a girl she attended school in Dundee for a term.
The Wedding - It was a simple wedding at the home on December 22nd, 50 years ago, with Rev. Mr. Worden, the pastor of the Barrington church, at that time, officiating. Mr. Crosby admits that the past half century has helped him get rid of the nervousness which made him moat uncomfortable and hot on that memorable winter's day.
For the first year after the wedding the bride and groom "lived in a suit-case." At Crosby, some eight miles south of Penn Yan on the East Lake road, they resided for a time in a grape packing house, while building their own home. At the first meal, Mrs. Crosby had to prepare in this temporary residence, she served 11 persons.
Crosby was their home for 43 of their 50 years of married life. Vineyardist, storekeeper and postmaster were the occupations which kept Mr. Crosby and his wife most busy. About 33 years ago they moved the tenant house on their place south to where the present barn stands and erected the building, used some 23 years as a store, and the pier, both of which are very familiar to the thousands of people who enjoyed the boat rides on Lake Keuka in years gone by. Until the automobile came, they had a big business in the general store, which also housed the post office. Overhead was a hall used by the Maccabees and the J. 0. A. M.
Two Lives Lost There - In those days traffic on "Crooked" lake was heavy. As many as 12 steam boats landed at their pier daily without signal. For the entertainment of the passengers an Italian orchestra would play on the south-bound trip on one boat, disembark at Crosby landing, then catch the next north-bound boat and play on the way to Penn Yan. One day Mr. Crosby, while working about his place, happened to glance towards the pier to see a pair of hands franticly waving above the water's surface. He rushed to the scene to find members of the Italian orchestra seated and leisurely walking about the pier while the harpist was drowning beneath it.
The Italian, only two months in this country, had seen the boys diving into the outlet at Penn Yan without ado, and decided he would attempt the same at the next opportunity. So between boats he had taken off his clothes and jumped in. His futile efforts to swim did not alarm his comrades and the poor fellow was drowned before they and Mr. Crosby could rescue him.
The second death at the landing occurred when a passenger tried to jump under the walking beam of one of the boats while it was in motion.
Father Ran Steamers - Mr. Crosby's father, by the way, was one of the three men who built the last steamer Yates. He was interested in steam-boating with Farley Holmes and afterwards became a director of the Lake Keuka Navigation company. As a captain he lived on the boat with Mrs. Crosby for two years, she boarding the help on the boat. The first day on board he hired the father of Fred Maxfield of Penn Yan. Mr. Maxfield for 37 years after that fired on Lake Keuka steamers.
Fred Crosby for a long time had the largest individual vineyards along the lake, with some 92 acres. Michael F. Leary came second with some 55. The Pleasant Valley Wine cellar at Hammondsport and the Urbana Wine cellar, of course, had plantings running over 100 acres.
100% Crosby Deed - When Fred Crosby bought his land he received a 100% Crosby deed by a coincidence that probably rarely happens. His deed described his first 25 acres as bounded on the north by the land of Isaac Crosby, his uncle; on the south by William and Joseph F. Crosby, his cousin and father; on the east by Alanson Crosby, another uncle; it was conveyed from William Crosby, his cousin; they met at the home of Isaac Crosby while Barnett Crosby, a justice of peace and cousin, took their oaths, in other words, the names of eight different people appeared on the deed and all were Crosbys.
Later Mr. Crosby acquired 10 more acres, then five and finally 23 more, all from William Crosby, while his wife Inherited 13 acres. When they first moved onto their land there was not a board on it. When they left there were houses for six families on the Crosby place and two more houses on the Mrs. Crosby place.
Moved to Dundee and Penn Yan - Two years after giving up the store, when the cessation of boat traffic and the increase of automobiles cut into their credit business, they' moved to Dundee, on April 1st, 1925, having sold their land the previous December to Paul Garrett of Bluff Point and four other small pieces to other persons. A year and a half later they came to Penn Yan, buying the Pennsylvania hotel, which they now conduct and in which they live. Despite their 70 years, both keep busy each day with the many duties which the business imposes upon them.
Mrs. Crosby's 'side of the family also is connected with a well-known lake-side property and business - a basket manufacturing enterprise which has been continued and la now located in the county seat.
Her father had built the William Kinyoun house, north of his own place. Then the home, in which Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crosby were married, was moved a year later south to Its present location, it now being the residence of Chris Christensen and family. The next summer Mr. Finton built a new house, the most modern in that day, on the old location. It is this building, greatly remodelled, that now forms the rest home of Mrs. Ida Hayes. It was in this house, that. Mrs. Crosby's sister, Hattie, married Chas. E. Guile, on December 1st, 1881, and in which her youngest sister, Martha, married T. Warner Windnagle, some 15 years later.
Basket Factory Started - On the old Finton place about 1870 was started in a very small way what is now the Guile and Windnagle basket manufacturing industry, with mills in both PennYan and Gaines, Pa. Mrs. Crosby enjoys recalling how and her sister, now Mrs. Guile, drove the horse around and around to provide power for the first cross-cut saw which cut the logs for use in making grape picking boxes and lumber. The business kept growing until it finally became a fairly large lumber mill and basket factory. Mr. Finton built another one on what is now the Christensen place.
Mr. Finton and his brother-in-law, Herman Bullock, were partners in this mill for a time. Then the business changed into the hands of Finton and Guile arid finally to Guile and Windnagle, which partnership is still sustained. The north mill was abandoned shortly after Mr. Finton moved to Penn Yan in about 1901, but not until last year, when Mr. and Mrs. Hayes were improving their property, was all the foundation of the old business covered and removed from sight.
Have Two Sons - Mr. Crosby has a brother, Edmund, who lives with his daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lamont on Clinton street, Penn Yan. Mrs, Guile and Mrs. Windnagle are Mrs. Crosby's only sisters.
Their elder son, George, married Alice Pulver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Pulver. They have three children, Edgar J., Margaret and Calvin. George Crosby is a Delco lighting equipment dealer In Penn Yan and also substitutes as a carrier in the local post office.
Their younger son, Joseph Fenton Crosby, after graduating from the veterinary college of Cornell university, lthaca, in 1916, practised for two years then entered service in the United States army. In recent years he has been situated in camps in many parts of the United States and, for short periods, in stations in foreign lands. He is now a captain attached to the 8th United States cavalry, at Fort Bliss, Texas. In Sepitember, 1928, at the Little Church Around the Corner, New York city, he married Miss Isabel Frances Kellman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Robert Kellman of Boston, Mass.
The Anniversary Dinner - At 7:00 o'clock Monday night 27 members; of Crosby, Guile, Windnagle and, Lamont families and a few intimate friends gathered for the celebration. Twelve were seated with the bride and groom of 50 years, at the table of honor. The brlde wore her wedding gown and a string of beautiful pearls from Tientsien, China, a golden anniversary gift from her children in El Paso, Texas.
On the table was a beautiful piece of confection, made in Milwaukee, sent to ElPaso, and then reshipped from that city, which is said to be the most remote from New York state of any city in this country. Gold letters on the icing carried the greeting and love from the children. A wreath in pastry, rose buds of icing and gilded leaves circumscribed the cake.
All their children and grandchildren, excepting Mrs. Joseph F. Crosby of El Paso, were here for the event.

[NI1029] Thomas Gleason came to America in 1642 and settled in Mass.

[NI1034] Robert Finton came from England to Waburn, MA, 1688. Settled at Mansfield Center, 1696.

[NI1055] From the diaries of Charles E. Guile
10 Jan 1891 - "Drusilla Bullock went to Jackson, Michigan with George and Martha to wedding of Omar Finton."

[NI1058] The story goes that Mr. Campbel "stole a horse." Was he a horse thief?

[NI1060] John was married to a girl he went to school with whose mother was a widow and lived at Keuka (named Swarthout). The mother objected. He taught school at Barrington and later married Eugenia Pulver, mother of Harry Gibbs.

[NI1093] Moved to Michigan in 1868.

[NI1095] Military info about William T. Hawley from 1865 NY State Census
148th NY Regt. - Entered service on Aug 13, 1862 - Private - served 33 mos. and 15 days
Present Condition - health permanently impaired - severe wound in hip and right leg

[NI1216] From memorial handout -
EVELINA GUYLE WALKER was born in the Town of Second Milo, January the 14th, 1865, and died in Penn Yan at the home of her brother, Charles E. Guile, on Friday morning, November 6th, 1908. She was the daughter of Perry Alien Guile and of Celicia Lawrence, both of Second Milo. Mrs. Walker was a graduate of the Penn Yan Academy and of the Geneseo Normal School. On May 24th, 1892, she became the wife of the Rev. John Walker, to whom she proved a true helpmeet in the work. She maintained her reputation for intellectual grasp and mental vigor, and before her marriage engaged in teaching, and exhibited a rare capacity for imparting instruction and stimulating the minds of all her pupils. She was a thorough Bible student and received the degree of Master of Ancient Literature from Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1905. In early life she gave herself to Christ and united by baptism with the Baptist Church of Second Milo, August 31st, 1879.
Mrs. Walker was an extraordinary woman, she was not made of common clay, and she lived in the highest and noblest ideals of life.
Her faith in Jesus Christ was so intense that she reflected in her sweet nature the beautiful spirit of her Lord. Her life was one of earnest religious activity, she lived in the presence of her Lord and reflected His glory, she made haste to finish the work her Heavenly Father gave her to do, and in her brief life upon earth she glorified and exalted her master. The forty four years of her life were pressed and crowded with Christian activity and full of good deeds.
She was a host in herself and her beautiful life and Christian character endeared her to all who knew her; through her sweet influence many were brought to Jesus Christ. Her sun went down while it was yet day, but in her crown there will be many stars. She left behind her as a legacy the best thing, a sweet, good Christian life. The last two years of her life were years of great suffering and pain, but she was brave and her faith in God never grew dim. She fell asleep in Jesus. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." The funeral took place on Monday, November the 9th, from the Second Milo Baptist Church, the Rev. G, Brainard reading the scripture lesson. Prayer was offered by the Rev. D. E. Sprague of Dundee, and the sermon by Rev. Thos. de Gruchy, D. D., of Penn Yan.

Dear Evelina, thou wast mild and lovely,
Gentle as the summer breeze,
Pleasant as the air of evening,
When it floats among the trees.

Peaceful be thy silent slumber,
Peaceful in the grave so low;
Thou no more will join our number;
Thou no more our songs shall know.

Dearest Evelina, thou has left us,
Here thy loss we deeply feel,
But 'tis God that hath bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal.

Yet again we hope to meet thee,
When the day of life is fled,
Then in heaven with joy to greet thee,
Where no farewell tear is shed.

[NF010] Rev. G. Frank Graham officiated.

[NF011] Rev. Leon L. Swarthout officiated.

[NF025] Married by Rev. A. W. Sunderling.

[NF037] Edith May Bullock Dunkelberger says that her father and mother were married less than three months after they met in 1919.

[NF125] Married by Rev. B. F. Doughty

[NF127] By Rev. R. P. Lamb

[NF180] Married by Rev. C. M. Bruce

[NF183] Married by Re. Wm. H. Wheatley

[NF196] Married by Rev. C. M. Bruce

[NF198] Married by Rev. C. M. Bruce

[NF201] Married by Rev. M. Livermore