BIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM ELMORE - OF LE ROY, NY

William Elmore son of Richard and Elizabeth (Aylward) Elmore, natives of County Kilkenny, of Ireland, was born September 10, 1830, and was educated in Ireland. He came to Quebec, September 9, 1854, where he worked until 1855, when he came to Dunkirk and worked in a tannery, and afterwards removed to Buffalo, and thence to Pennsylvania. In 1857 he came to Alexander, where he has since worked on the railroad, except four years which he spent on a farm, and four years in the oil regions. He has been connected with the N. Y. C. & H. R. Railroad since 1861. By his wife, Catherine, he has 10 children living: Richard J., Thomas F., William J., John B., Elizabeth C., Catherine L., Michael J., Mary, Frances, and Ellen G. The family are Roman Catholics.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890