Histories

Marcus Ansley

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

Ansley, Marcus, Geneva, was born on the pre-emption line at the old homestead, March 15, 1826. He was educated in the public schools and in early life was a farmer.

He began the nursery business in 1870, and has 120 acres in nursery and fruit orchard, having 12,000 trees bearing fruit.

He has married twice, first Mary J. Dorman of Seneca, by whom he had four children: Frank S., Flora, Lucy A., and Marcus D. Mrs. Ansley died in 1864, and he married second, February 20, 1867, Mrs. Cornelia M. (Atwater) Moore. They had three daughters: Mary L. who died aged twenty-one years; M. Belle, and Minnie C., both residing at home.