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==Notable people== *[[Cornelia Adair|Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair]], published diarist and matriarch of [[Glenveagh Castle]] and [[JA Ranch]], was born into the Wadsworth family of Geneseo. * [[Lois Bryan Adams]] (1817β1870), writer, journalist, newspaper editor * [[James C. Adamson]], [[NASA]] astronaut, grew up in Geneseo. * [[Chester A. Arthur]], 21st President of the United States, was son of a [[Baptists|Baptist]] minister and moved to [[York, New York|York]] in 1837, attending the Old Brick School there. His infant brother, George, is buried at [[Pleasant Valley Cemetery]] in York. *[[Harriet N. Austin]], a [[Hydrotherapy|water cure]] physician, [[Victorian dress reform|dress reformer]], and women's rights advocate, was associated for many years with the [[Jackson Sanatorium|Jackson Sanitorium]] in [[North Dansville, New York|North Dansville]] * [[Cassius McDonald Barnes]], [[American Civil War]] soldier, served as the 4th [[Governor of Oklahoma Territory]]; born in Livingston County. * [[Ross Barnes]], famous [[Major League Baseball]] player, was born at [[Mount Morris, New York|Mt. Morris]], Livingston County, in 1850. * [[Isabel Barrows|Isabel Chapin Barrows]], first woman employed by the [[United States State Department]], worked for a time at the Jackson Sanitorium in [[Dansville, Livingston County, New York|Dansville]] and met her husband, [[Samuel J. Barrows|Samuel June Barrows]], there. * [[Clara Barton]], volunteer nurse during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], organized the first chapter of the [[American Red Cross]] at [[Dansville, Livingston County, New York|Dansville]], Livingston County, in 1881. * [[Francis Bellamy]], author of the "[[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]]," was born in the village of [[Mt. Morris, New York|Mt. Morris]] in 1855 and lived there until 1859. * [[James G. Birney]], abolitionist and politician, is buried at [[Williamsburg Cemetery|Williamsburg Cemetery, Groveland]]. * [[Sarah Hopkins Bradford]], writer and historian, was born in [[Mount Morris, New York|Mt. Morris]]. * [[Claude Fayette Bragdon]], important architect, lived in Dansville for about four years beginning in 1877, where his father was a newspaper editor.<ref>{{Cite book|title=More Lives Than One|last=Bragdon|first=Claude|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|year=1938|pages=7}}</ref> * [[William A. Brodie]], [[Freemasonry|Grand Master of Mason in New York]], laid the foundation stone of the [[Statue of Liberty]] in 1884. He was Livingston County treasurer and spent most of his life in [[Geneseo, New York|Geneseo]]. * [[Charles R. Cameron]], [[Consul (representative)|consul]] in Brazil, [[Chile]], and [[Cuba]], and [[Consul (representative)|consul-general]] in Japan, spent over forty years in the [[United States Foreign Service]]. He was born in [[York, New York|York]]. *Rev. [[Augusta Jane Chapin]], born in [[Lakeville, New York|Lakeville, Livonia]], was the first woman in America to receive an [[Honorary degree|honorary]] [[Doctor of Divinity]] degree. *[[Emma Lampert Cooper]], a prominent [[Oil painting|oil]] and [[Watercolor painting|watercolor]] artist, was born in [[Nunda, New York|Nunda]]. * [[Cornplanter]], [[Seneca Nation of Indians|Seneca]] war chief, diplomat, and veteran of the [[French and Indian War]] and the [[American Revolutionary War]], was born at [[Canawaugus, New York|Canawaugus]], now part of Caledonia. * [[Millard Fillmore]], 13th President of the United States, [[Apprenticeship|apprenticed]] for four months as a teenager at a [[Carding|wool-carding]] and cloth-dressing mill in [[West Sparta, New York|West Sparta]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of Livingston County, New York|last=Doty|first=Lockwood Lyon|publisher=Edward L. Doty|year=1876|location=Geneseo|pages=676}}</ref> * [[Clinton Bowen Fisk]], [[American Civil War]] brigadier general, banker, 1888 US presidential candidate for the [[Prohibition Party]], and person whom [[Fisk University]] is named; born in York. * [[James W. Gerard]], [[Ambassadors of the United States|American Ambassador to Germany]], was born at Geneseo. * [[Walter E. Gregory]] (1857β1918), physician; first chairman of the Southern Livingston County chapter of the American Red Cross * [[Seth Green (pisciculture)|Seth Green]], the "Father of Fish Culture," established the first North American [[fish hatchery]] at [[Caledonia, New York|Caledonia]] in 1864; it is now also the oldest in the country. *[[Handsome Lake]], a [[Seneca people|Seneca]] religious leader, was born at Canawaugus, now part of Caledonia *[[Otto and Vivika Heino|Vivika Heino]], noted [[Ceramic art|ceramicist]], was born in Caledonia * [[Eben Norton Horsford]], scientist and inventor, developed a new formula for [[baking powder]], eventually producing Rumford Baking Powder. He was born in [[Leicester, New York|Leicester.]] * [[William Howe Cuyler Hosmer|William H. C. Hosmer]], poet, was native of Avon. * [[Mary Seymour Howell]], native of [[Mount Morris, New York|Mt. Morris]], was an educator and fought for [[Women's suffrage|woman suffrage]]. She was a colleague of [[Susan B. Anthony]] and wrote the equal suffrage bill for the [[New York State Assembly]], passed in 1892. * [[Washington Hunt]], [[United States Congress]]man, [[New York State Comptroller]], and [[List of Governors of New York|New York State Governor]] from 1851 to 1852, lived in [[Portage, New York|Portage]] as a boy and was educated at the [[Geneseo, New York|Geneseo]] Academy. *[[Helen Hunt Jackson]], a writer and advocate for western [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] groups, married into the Hunt family of [[Portage, New York|Portage]] * [[Mary Jemison]], the "White Woman of the Genesee," taken captive by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], lived much of her life among the [[Seneca people|Seneca]] at [[Little Beard's Town]], near present-day [[Cuylerville, New York|Cuylerville]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison|last=Seaver|first=James E.|publisher=New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan|year=1856}}</ref> After 1797, she resided on her 18,000-acre reservation, today part of [[Letchworth State Park]]. * [[Tom Keene (actor)|Tom Keene / George Duryea]], American actor, was likely native of Oakland in the town of Portage<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.b-westerns.com/tkeene1.htm|title=George Duryea / Tom Keene / Richard Powers|access-date=June 8, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813170758/http://b-westerns.com/tkeene1.htm|archive-date=August 13, 2016}}</ref> * [[Belva Ann Lockwood]], women's rights activist, educator, and politician, was educated at [[Genesee Wesleyan Seminary]]. *Sara Jane McBride, [[Entomology|entomologist]] and early woman [[Fly tying|fly tyer]], was born in [[Mumford, New York|Mumford]] and lived in [[Caledonia, New York|Caledonia]]. * [[Elizabeth Smith Miller]], [[women's suffrage]] advocate and [[Victorian dress reform|dress reformer]], was born at [[Groveland, New York|Groveland]] and designed the "[[Bloomers (clothing)|Bloomer Outfit]]," popularized by [[Amelia Bloomer]]. * [[Annetta Thompson Mills]], born in [[Portage, New York|Portage]], founded the first formal school for the [[Deaf culture|Deaf]] in [[China]]. * [[Henry Granger Piffard]] (1842β1910), New York dermatologist and author of the first systematic treatise on [[dermatology]] in America *[[Henry Jarvis Raymond]], [[United States Congress]]men and founder of the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]],'' was from [[Lima, New York|Lima]] and attended the [[Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College Hall|Genesee Wesleyan Seminary]] there. * [[Jessie Belle Rittenhouse]], American poet and critic, was born at [[Mount Morris, New York|Mt. Morris]], and received the first [[Robert Frost Medal]] from the [[Poetry Society of America]] in 1930. * [[Annie Rockfellow|Anne Graham Rockfellow]], architect, was born in [[Mount Morris, New York|Mt. Morris]] and was the first woman to graduate from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] with a degree in architecture in 1887. *[[John Samuel Rowell]] (1825β1907), agricultural inventor and manufacturing industrialist, was a resident of [[Springwater, New York|Springwater]] *[[Emily Maria Scott]] (1832β1915), artist and founder of the [[New York Water Color Club]], was born in Springwater * [[Daniel Shays]], [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] soldier and leader of [[Shays' Rebellion]], is buried in Scottsburg Union Cemetery in [[Conesus, New York|Conesus]]. * [[Curt Smith (author)|Curt Smith]], author and political speechwriter, was born in [[Caledonia, New York|Caledonia]] and graduated from [[State University of New York at Geneseo|SUNY Geneseo]] in 1973. * [[Annie D. Fraser Tallent]], pioneer, was the first white woman to enter the territory of the [[Lakota people]] in [[South Dakota]] in 1874. She was originally from [[York, New York|York]]. * [[Alice Hay Wadsworth]], national [[Anti-suffragism|anti-suffrage]] leader, was wife of [[James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.|Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr.]] and was president of the [[National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage (NAOWS)|National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage]] from 1917 to 1920. * [[James Wadsworth (of Geneseo)|James Wadsworth]], pioneer, land speculator, and education advocate, settled the [[Geneseo, New York|Geneseo]] area and later helped to fund New York State [[common school]] [[Library|libraries]]. His brother [[William Wadsworth (officer)|William]] also was a pioneer and officer in the [[War of 1812]]. * [[James Jeremiah Wadsworth]], American politician and diplomat, was native of Geneseo. * [[James S. Wadsworth]], [[American Civil War]] general who was killed at the [[Battle of the Wilderness]], had his hometown in Geneseo. * [[Ferdinand Ward]], American swindler, was a native of Geneseo. * [[Henry I. Weed]], Wisconsin state senator and lawyer, was born in Livingston County.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1901,' Biographical Sketch of Henry Irwin Weed, pg. 734β735</ref> *[[Julia Wilbur|Julia Ann Wilbur]] (1815β1895) resided on the northern edge of Avon and was an [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]] and [[Women's suffrage|suffragist]] *[[Frances Willard (suffragist)|Frances E. Willard]], suffrage and temperance leader, began an early career of teaching at [[Lima, New York|Lima]]'s [[Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College Hall|Genesee Wesleyan Seminary]] before becoming the national president of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union|Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)]] and influencing the passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]]. * [[John Young (governor)|John Young]], [[List of Governors of New York|New York State Governor]], was born in [[Conesus, New York|Conesus]] and opened a [[Law firm|law office]] in [[Geneseo, New York|Geneseo]] before embarking on his state and federal legislative career.
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