| Notes |
- From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
A. Chandler Hathaway, Bristol, a native of Bristol, was born February
23, 1822, and is a son of Abial, a son of Seth, a native of Vermont,
who came to Bristol about 1804. His wife was Bathsheba Gooding, and
they reared seven sons and four daughters. He settled on a farm (part
of which subject now owns). He was an Anti-Federalist and was the
first justice of the peace in Bristol, appointed by the governor.
Abial was born March 1, 1786, and came to Bristol when a young man. He
married Mary, a daughter of Isaac (born June 26, 1752) and Ann (born
December 30, 1756) Pool, of Dighton, Mass. Abial had three sons and
four daughters. He was engaged mostly in manufacturing woolen cloth at
Bristol. He was a Democrat and was justice of peace many years and was
a prominent Free Mason. He died November 5, 1843, and his wife June
12, 1859. Subject was reared as a wool carder and when sixteen years
of age came with his parents to the farm he now owns, and has here
since resided. He learned the cooper's trade and followed it a number
of years, but farming has been his principal occupation. He married H.
Augusta Cornell of Bristol, a daughter of Isaiah S., who was a son of
Stephen Cornell, and was born in Dighton, Mass., May 7, 1802, and
married Eliza Gregg of Bristol, a daughter of George and Betsy
(Gooding) Gregg, natives of Massachusetts. Mr. Cornell and wife had
four sons and three daughters. The youngest son, Mervin E., was killed
at the battle of Antietam at the age of twenty years. Mr. Cornell died
in 1853, and his wife on May 14, 1843. To subject and wife were born
two children: M. Agnes, who graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary,
and is now a teacher; and James M., formerly a teacher, but now a
farmer. Mr. Hathaway has been a Republican since the organization of
that party. He and family are members of the Universalist Church, and
he has been chorister for fifty years. He and Billings T. Case formed
the committee to raise money to build the church and carried it on
very successfully, having the church paid for when built, also the
parsonage. Mr. Hathaway missed but one meeting for twenty years in
succession, and that was at the death of his mother.
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