Bainbridge Douglas
Bainbridge Douglass, was born in Gorham January 4, 1841, a son of
Henry, son of Caleb, a native of Connecticut.
Bainbridge
Douglass was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and followed teaching
for some time, and then attended Eastman's Business College,
graduating in 1861. October of the same year he enlisted in Company
G, Eighth N. Y. Cavalry, and was in the following engagements: The
retreat of Banks from Winchester to Harper's Ferry; battle of
Harper's Ferry; and of Antietam. He was injured by being thrown from
a horse at Barber's Cross Roads, when he was conveyed to the
regimental hospital and afterwards to the hospital at Washington.
Here he remained a few days and was taken to Philadelphia where he
remained two months, and received a furlough for thirty days. On his
return to join the regiment he was taken sick at Elmira, and was
discharged February 19, 1863.
In 1864 he married Caroline
Stone, a native of Phelps, born June, 1841, and a daughter of
Harvey, son of Harvey H. Stone, a native of Connecticut, who came to
Gorham in 1809.
Mr. Douglass and wife have had two daughters:
Alice A., wife of Fortis Gates of Gorham; and Lilian L. who married
Levi Lincoln, and had one daughter, Gertrude N., who died aged
twenty-two months. Mr. Lincoln died September 3, 1891.
Caleb
Douglass
When a young man Caleb went to Whitesborough, and
married Sarah Roberts, by whom he had six sons and three daughters.
He was one of the founders of the First Baptist church at
Whitesborough, and was its first minister. In 1824 he came to Gorham
where he died in 1836.
Henry Douglas
Henry was born in
Whitesborough in 1808, and came to Gorham with his parents. He was
thrice married, first to Amanda Blodgett by whom he had two
children; second to Angeline Bainbridge of Romulus in 1810, by whom
he had two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Douglass died March 15,
1861, and he married Mrs. Martha Newman. In 1857 he moved to Penn
Yan where he resided six years, then went to Southern Kansas. He was
a deacon in the Baptist church at Gorham for forty years.
Harvey Stone
Harvey Stone was born in Gorham in 1811 on the farm
he now owns. June 20, 1838, he married Caroline Ottley, born in
Phelps October 6, 1818. Her father was William Ottley who emigrated
from England to Phelps in 1806, and married Lydia Peck by whom he
have five daughters and three sons. Mr. Harvey Stone and wife have
had six daughters.
Harvey H. Stone married Dolly Lake by
whom he had three sons and two daughters. He died in 1856, and his
wife in 1851.
From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich;
edited by George S. Conover; 1893;
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