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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



formed in his profession, but upon all the topics of local 

 and general interest. Few raen in the county are more 

 conversant with its men or have preserved more of its 

 history than he. He is a very genial and companionable 

 gentleman, and one of those persons who never seem to 

 grow old. 



ALFRED P. FERRIS, ESQ. 



Alfred P. Ferris, Esq., was born in the town of Milo, 

 Yates Co., on the 29th of November, 1818. He received 

 an academical education at Franklin Academy, Prattsburgh, 

 and came to Bath, Jan. 1, 1840. He studied law with 

 Hon. Z. A. Leland and S. H. Hammond, and was 

 admitted in 1843. Mr. Ferris has practiced law in Bath 

 ever smce. At the special election under the new consti- 

 tution in June, 1847, he was elected district attorney, and 

 held the office till Jan. 1, 1851. 



CHARLES F. KINGSLEY, ESQ. 



Charles F. Kingsley was born in the town of Urbana, in 

 this county, on the 29th of September, 1835. After re- 

 ceiving a common-school education, he spent two years at 

 the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y. Studied 

 law and was admitted to practice in December, 1857. He 

 commenced practice in Prattsburgh in 1858, and settled in 

 Bath in 1860, where he has followed his profession ever 

 since. 



HON. WILLIAM E. BONHAM. 



Hon. William E. Bonham, now of Hornellsville, was 

 born at Painted Post. Bead law with Hon. Washington 

 Barnes, at Bath, with whom be practiced for some time in 

 partnership. In 1864-65 he was a member of the Legis- 

 lature, in which he creditably represented the first district 

 of Steuben County. He is a good lawyer, a man of integ- 

 rity, and a genial, courteous gentleman. 



HON. L. H. READ, 



who formerly practiced in Bath, was a native of Steuben 

 County. His grandparents were among the early settlers 

 of that part of the town of Bath now included in Urbana. 

 He studied law with Edward and William Howell, and 

 began practice in Hammondsport. About 1839 he re- 

 moved to Bath, and became a law partner of Hon. David 

 McMaster. In 1850, President Fillmore appointed him 

 Chief Justice of Utah, to which Territory he removed. 

 After performing the judicial functions for one year, he 

 resigned and returned to Bath, where he died in 1853 or 

 1854. 



HON. ZIBA A. LELAND. 



Ziba A. Leland was a native of New England, and was 

 educated at Williams College. He came to Bath about 

 1822. He was eminently successful in the practice of his 

 profession. In 1838 he was appointed Judge of the old 

 Court of Common Pleas, as the successor of Judge Edwards, 

 who died in November, 1837. Judge Leland removed from 

 this county to Auburn, N. Y., where he became a law 

 partner of Hon. George Rathbun. He died at Mechanics- 

 ville, Saratoga Co., about 1873, 



HON. ANDREW G. CHATFIEI^D. 



Hon. Andrew G. Chatfield was for quite a number of 

 years a practicing attorney at Addison, in this county. He 



was member of Assembly from this county in 1839, 1840, 

 1841, and in 1846, and district attorney in 1845. He 

 subsequently removed to Minnesota, where he became a 

 justice of the United States District Court, and where he 

 died not long since full of honors. 



F. C. DiNiNNY, now a resident of Elmira, formerly 

 practiced law in Addison. 



Hon. F. R. E. Cornell also commenced the practice of 

 law in Addison. He removed to Minnesota, where he 

 became attorney-general of the State, and is now one of the 

 justices of the Supreme Court. 



HON. HARLO HAKES. 



Harlo Hakes was born in Harpersfield, Delaware Co., 

 N. Y., Sept. 23, 1823. His father, Lyman Hakes, was a 

 native of Berkshire Co., Mass., and settled in Harpersfield 

 at about the age of twenty-two. He married soon after 

 Nancy Dayton, a native of Connecticut. He was a man 

 without early opportunities for book knowledge but pos- 

 sessed that native talent to be found often among the earlier 

 settlers of the country. 



In after-life he became a careful observer of the events 

 of his time, and a student of literature. He was by occu- 

 pation a farmer, yet by his own self-exertion and reading 

 he acquired a prominent place in the better-informed circles 

 of society. 



He was identified with the Whig party in politics, and 

 in the year 1841 received the appointment of judge of 

 Delaware Co., N. Y., by the Hon. William H. Seward, at 

 that time Goveroor of the State. 



He died at the age of eighty-five, in Harpersfield, in the 

 year 1873, leaving three sons, Lyman, Harlo, and Harry, 

 — the eldest, a lawyer of Wilkesbarre, Pa., from 1840 until 

 his decease in 1874 ; the younger, a part of his life a mem- 

 ber of the medical profession, but now a practicing attorney 

 of Wilkesbarre, Pa., having associated with him in prac- 

 tice his nephew, Lyman H. Bennett. 



His daughters are Mrs. Phineas L. Bennett, of Harpers- 

 field, N. Y., and Mrs. Joseph G. McCall, of Michigan. 



Mr. Harlo Hakes spent his time until about twenty-eight 

 years of age on his father's farm, attending school winters 

 until he was seventeen, and was for eight successive terms 

 a teacher. In the year 1851 he entered the ofiice of Bufus 

 King, of Davenport, Delaware Co. (now of Elmira), as a 

 law student, where he remained nearly two years. He 

 then became a student with Judge Harris, of Albany, and 

 after attending one course of lectures at the Albany law 

 school was admitted to the bar, 1853, and in May of the 

 same year settled in Hornellsville, N. Y., where he has re- 

 mained in the practice of his profession until the present 

 time. 



In the year 1855, Mr. Hakes married Mary, youngest 

 daughter of J. D. Chandler, of Hornellsville. Their chil- 

 dren are M. Evelyn, Hattie Y., and Carrie M. 



Mr. Hakes was chosen to represent his Assembly district 

 in the State Legislature for the year 1856, and served on 

 the judiciary committee during the term. .In 1862 he was 

 elected district attorney of the county, which office he held 



