David Seribner, son of Ebenezer and p;rands()n of yanuiel, was born May 12, 17G7, and was tbc father of thirteen eliildren, -- David, Hannah, Sarah, Eben. Sewall 15., Silas, Ruth, Jaeob D., Jonathan, Albert G., Hannah D., Alfred and Almira H.

Sewall B. Seribner was born March 12, 1793, and removed from his native place (Andover, N. H.) to Monroe County, N. Y., in ISlli. At that time the present eity of Kochester was a mere hamlet, and Mr Seribner was among the pioneers in what is now one of the most prosperous portions of the State.

In 1821 he married Clarissa De Wayne Hilton> (laughter of David Hilton, who was descended from a noted line of English ancestry, whose family records are unbroken from June 23, 1295, to the present time. The children of this marriage were Gilbert Hilton Seribner, Alsada, Arveda (wife of William E. Stickland, of Rochester), Albert S. (who died in 18r)2), Mary (wife of Van Buren Denslow), Celesta (deceased) and Celia M.

Gilbert Hilton Seribner was born in Ogden, Monroe County, N. Y., June 23, 1831, and his early education was received iu the common schools of his native place, which offered exceptional advantages. He subsequently became a student at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y., and, after remaining there two years, entered college at Oberlin, where he received the highest honors for his thoroughness and originality. At the close of his collegiate course, in 1853, he went to New York and began life in the great city without friends or accjuaintance, and with little to encourage him, but an amount of determination and energy with which he could not fail to work his way. Commencing the study of law in the office of Hon. Daniel B. Taylor who enjoyed a large practice and was the possessor ot one of the largest law libraries in the city, the young student, by indefatigable labor, soon made himself useful in his chosen [irofession, and, iu 1855, was admitted to the bar and soon after called to i)ractice in the United States Courts as proctor, solicitor and advocate.