TOWN OF HORNBY. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



THEODORE HENDRICK. 



THEODORE HENDRICK, 



of Orange, Schuyler Co., N. Y., son of Samuel and Han- 

 nah Hendrick, was born in Massachusetts, in 1792, and 

 settled in Hornby, beside Deacon St. John, about 1817, and 

 followed farming. He was one of the early settlers of Hornby, 

 and experienced all the privations incident to a pioneer life. 

 He married Miss Charlotte, daughter of Benjamin Jeleff, 

 of Vermont, on the banks of Lake Champlain, in the fall of 

 1813. Mrs. Hendrick was born in the spring of 1792, in 

 Vermont. Of this union eight children were born, viz., 

 Ellen, Sept. 27, 1814; Olive, Oct. 10, 1816; Laura, Jan. 

 19, 1818, being the first white girl born in Hornby ; Sarah 

 A., Oct. 19, 1820 ; Benjamin, Jan. 19, 1823 (died September, 

 1827); Maria, April 12, 1826 ; Charlotte, March 28, 1828 

 (died Sept. 18, 1842) ; and Amanda S., Aug. — , 1831 

 (died May 10, 1859). In politics Mr. Hendrick was a 

 Jefiersonian Democrat. He died Dec. 13, 1858, and Mrs. 

 Hendrick died March 5, 1875. Ellen and Maria live to- 

 gether, near where their parents settled in 1817, in Hornby, 

 on the farm owned by their parents at the time of their 

 death. Olive married George Goodsell, and now resides in 

 Hornby; Laura married John llemer, and resides in Min- 

 nesota ; Sarah married Philip Remer, and resides in Iowa ; 

 and Amanda married Amon Webster, and died while living 



MRS. CHARLOTTE HENDRICK. 



in Minnesota. Ellen and Maria have an equal interest in 

 the " Old Home," and insert this biography and portraits 

 in memory of their parents. 



JOHN B. WASSON, 

 son of Andrew Wasson, was born in Ireland, Dec. 13, 1827; 

 removed to America and settled at Watkins in 1849, and 

 in Steuben County in 1856. He married Miss Catherine 

 Ann Ellison, Sept. 15, 1863. She was born in Ireland, 

 May 12, 1836. Mr. Wasson served nearly two years in 

 the late war, and was honorably discharged. He settled 

 on his present farm in 1864, and built his present fine 

 house in 1877. 



Mr. Wasson has some one hundred and thirty acres of 

 good land in his home farm, clear of debt, beside some fifty 

 acres more, near by, nearly unincumbered. In politics he 

 is a firm Bepublican. 



Mr. and Mrs. Wasson are members of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church. They have the following children : 

 Sarah Jane, Thomas M. (deceased), Wm. John^ and 

 Robert H. 



Mr. Wasson's parents came to America in 1851, and set- 

 tled at Dix, Schuyler Co., N. Y., and are now (1878) liv- 

 ing. Mrs. Catherine Ann Wasson came to America in 

 1853, and settled at Watkins. 



