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LEROY
TOWN, GENESEE COUNTY, NEW YORK GENWEB PROJECT
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BIOGRAPHY ARTHUR BAKER RATHBONE - OF OAKFIELD, NY |
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Arthur B. Rathbone, son of Laurin Rathbone, was born in Oakfield, December 23, 1837. He was educated at Cary Collegiate Seminary, which he attended in 1852-54, and at Wyoming Seminary in 1855. He then spent four years at the University of Rochester, from 1855 to 1859, graduating as A. B., and in 1863 as A. M. He engaged in the nursery business from 1868 to 1879, since which he has been engaged in the hardware trade. He was president of the village in 1874, 1875, 1877, and 1881, and was supervisor for the town in 1883 and 1884. Mr. Rathbone is one of the trustees of Cary Seminary, and a vestryman of St Michael's Episcopal Church, of which he is a generous and liberal supporter. FROM: |
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Rathbone,
Arthur Barker, P.O. Oakfield, N. Y., was born in Oakfield, December
23, 1837, only son of Laurin and Elizabeth (Barker) Rathbone. Laurin
Rathbone was born in Milton, Saratoga County. N. Y., in 1806, came
to Oakfield in 1826, where he died January 26, 1892. A daughter Augusta
resides in Oakfield. Arthur Barker Rathbone was educated at the Cary
Collegiate Seminary, Middlebury Academy, and was graduated from the
University of Rochester in 1859 with the degree of A. B., and in 1863
received the degree of Master of Arts. In 1862 and 1864 Mr. Rathbone,
with his father planted extensive pear and apple orchards, in which
he is still interested. Since 1869 he has been a hardware merchant
in the village of Oakfield. Mr. Rathbone was president of the village
in 1874, 1875, 1877 and 1881, and supervisor of the town in 1883 and
1884. He has been secretary of the board of trustees of Cary Collegiate
Seminary for twenty-three years. An active member of St. Michael's
Episcopal Church, he has been a vestryman since 1871 and senior warden
since 1892. Politically Mr. Rathbone has always been a Democrat. He
has been the nominee of his party three times for school commissioner
and once for member of assembly. He was postmaster at Oakfield under
President Cleveland's administration. January 23, 1867, he was married
to Georgia Whitwell Richmond of Nunda, N. Y. They have two daughters-Frances
Lucille and Georgia Whitwell and one son, Richmond Laurin, who also
received his early education at Cary Seminary, later entering Cornell
University from which he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of
Mechanical Engineer; after his graduation he entered the engineering
office of an electrical company in New York City.
Source: Our County and it's people A descriptive work on Genesee County, New York Edited by: F. W. Beers J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890 |
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