Histories

Alanson Ansley

From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893.

Alanson Ansley, Geneva, was born on the pre-emption line at the old homestead (which has been in the family about one hundred years), was educated in the public schools, and is a farmer, excepting about twenty years spent in the agricultural implement business in Geneva, but is now on the farm again engaged principally in fruit culture.

On September 15, 1847, he married Mary A., daughter of Joseph and Mary Eldestin, and have had three children: Cynthia M., Susie and Horatio Seymour. Susie died at the age of nine years; Cynthia married and has two daughters, Susie and Anna M. Horatio Seymour Ansley graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1890, but at present is doing business for a New York manufacturing company.