LORD BIOGRAPHY, YATES, NY

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Excerpt from HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF YATES COUNTY, NEW YORK by Stafford
C. Cleveland published in 1873 in Penn Yan, New York, biographical sketch
on the Lord Family, Vol. 2, pages  1076-1078 in chapter on the Town of
Starkey.

                THE LORD FAMILY.

    Ebenezer Lord, son of Ebenezer and Catharine Lord, was born in
Connecticut in 1771.  At sixteen he moved with his father's family to
Ballston, N. Y.  The father was a man of great force of character, and
died in 1812, bequeathing a competency to all his children, eight sons
and three daughters.  Ebenezer Lord, Jr., married Mary Morris, and they
had ten children, Catharine, Benjamin W., Sherwood, William, Joseph W.,
Mary Ellen, 
Sarah Ann, George P., Robert D. and Mary.  In the spring of 1824 Benjamin
W. and Sherwood purchased a lot of forest land near Irelandville in
Reading, and the following summer their father purchased two hundred and
fifty acres one mile west of Warsaw, for one thousand dollars, and to
this place the family of Ebenezer Lord, Jr., moved in 1825.  About this
time Daniel, a younger brother of Ebenezer, Jr., with three sons, Anson,
Jarvis and Daniel, moved to Pittsford.  Jarvis Lord and his sons are now
wealthy and influential citizens of Monroe County, the father twice a
State Senator, and his son George D. Lord, twice a member of Assembly. 
Ebenezer Lord, Jr., was an Episcopalian, and one of the founders of St.
Mark's Church, Penn Yan.  He died in Barrington in 1849, at seventy-six,
and his wife in 1855, at about the same age.
    Catharine married Thomas Sherwood, and removed to Saratoga County.
    Benjamin W. and Sherwood sold their farms in Reading and bought land
near the father in Barrington.  Sherwood moved finally to McHenry County,
Ill.
    Benjamin W., born in 1801 at Ballston, married in 1827 Elizabeth
Fleming.  She was born in New Jersey in 1806.  He died in 1857, and his
wife survives.  Their children were Rachel, Mary, George P., Charles B.,
Kate and Libbie.  Rachel, born in 1828, married Horace Kenyon of
Barrington, where they now reside.  Their children are Benjamin J. and
Lucretia.  Mary, born in 1829, married Albert Ovenshire of Barrington. 
Their children are 
Maud and Guy.
    George P. Lord, born in 1831, married in 1858 Eliza Ann, daughter of
Loomis Bunce.  She was born in 1838.  He graduated at Hobart College in
1856, and followed teaching and surveying at the West for two years.  He
was elected School Commissioner of Yates County in 1860, and held the
office two terms of three years each.  He has since resided in Dundee,
and was elected member of Assembly in 1870 and 1871.  During his second
legislative term he was chosen chairman of the Assembly Committee on
Education.
    Charles B., born in 1832, married Ellen Chandler.  They have five
children, George, Ella, Kate, Edith and Ray.  Kate, the third daughter of
Benjamin W. Lord, born in 1834, married Emmett Sheppard of Saratoga
County, and died in 1858.  Libbie, born in 1841, married Theron R.
Wheeler.  They reside in Barrington, and have three children, Kate,
Georgiana, and Carrie.
    William Lord married Nancy Corbett of Reading, and resides in Newark,
N.Y.  Rev. William H. Lord of Ruthford Park and E. E. Lord of Newark are
his sons.  Joseph W. Lord has a wife and daughter, and resides at Newark.
 Sarah married Alanson Bassett, and resides in Kane County, Illinois, a
widow with seven children.  George P., brother of Benjamin W. Lord,
resides in the town of Wayne.  Robert D. has a family and resides at
Maryville, 
California.  He was a Union officer of note in the War of the Rebellion. 
Mary married Seymour Swarthout, and died in 1854, leaving five children. 

Biographical sketches from p. 582 of History of Yates County, New York
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, D. Mason & Co., publishers, Syracuse, New
York 1892.

    Lord, Charles B., son of Benjamin M., was born in Barrington, in 1833. 
In 1857 he married Ellen Chandler, and in 1864 he removed to Starkey,
where he died in 1891.  He was a farmer and fruit grower.  His family at
the time of his death consisted of a wife and four children, two of whom
are married.  Charles Ray and Edith remain on the homestead with their
mother.
    Lord, Ebenezer, a native of Connecticut, came to Barrington about 1825,
and bought a large tract of land, where he resided until his death.  His
son, Benjamin M., was born in Ballston, Saratoga County, N. Y., in 1801,
and came with his father to Barrington.  He married Elizabeth Fleming, a
native of New Jersey, and they had six children, of whom Kate is
deceased.  Benjamin died in 1858, and his wife in 1874.
    Lord, Hon. George P., son of Benjamin M., was born in Barrington, July
23, 1832, and reared on the farm, graduating from Hobart College in 1856.
 He then went to Minnesota while it was a Territory and followed
surveying and teaching.  In 1859 he returned to Yates County and engaged
in teaching and farming.  The same year he married Eliza Bunce, daughter
of Loomis Bunce, of Barrington.  In the fall of 1860, he was elected
School Commissioner for Yates County and held that office six years.  In
1870 he was elected to the State Legislature and re-elected in 1871.  In
1879 he was elected State Senator and re-elected in 1881, holding the
office for four years.  In 1878 he formed  a co-partnership with W.C. and
C.R. Swarts, under the firm name of Lord & Swarts, carrying on a grain,
malting and coal business for ten years.  In 1891 he was elected
president of the Dundee State Bank, which he helped to organize, and of
which he has always been a director.  He has been president of the board
of trustees of the Dundee Preparatory School since its organization.  In
politics Mr. Lord is a Republican, having been an active worker in the
party for many years