The Andrew Hollenbeck Family Genealogy

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Oak Knoll 

ca. 1834

The Andrew Hollenbeck Homestead,

Rt. 5 and 20, Caledonia, Livingston County, NY

  Andrew Hollenbeck, an enterprising Livingston Co, farmer, noted for breeding fine carriage horses, was born in Caledonia April 15, 1834, and has resided from his birth on the old homestead estate, which is one of the finest and best equipped farms in a famous farming region. He was named after his father, who was also a native of New York. His grandfather, John Hollenbeck, who was a native of Holland, was one of the earliest settlers in the interior of the Empire State. He did his full share toward clearing the vast tracts covered by virgin forests and died in Montgomery County.....The only child reared by him was Andrew Hollenbeck, Sr, who was born in Montgomery Co, and resided there until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he removed to Genesee Co. he made the journey in wagons, accompanied by an uncle, and at that time the journey from Montgomery to Livingston co, was really more of an undertaking than a trip from New York to San Francisco is today. The so-called "roads" were roads in little more than name. The country was infested with wild animals, some of which were savage as they were wild, and it was dangerous as well as decidedly inconvenient to take a long journey. But our ancestors accepted as a matter of course many things that would seem to us to be quite unbearable; and by combining courage, strength, and fixed determination they made the wilderness "blossom like a rose," and prepared the way for their fortunate descendants....When the father of our subject arrived in Livingston Co, he was just "seven with the world"; that is to say, he owed nothing, and owned nothing excepting a pair of strong arms, a knowledge of farming and of woodcraft, an industrious and enterprising spirit, and a strong fund of common sense. For a number of years he slightly improved farm, lived on it a few years, improved it further, and at length sold out at a decided advance on the original cost. This practice he continued, buying wild tracts of land, improving them, and selling out at advance, until finally, he bought the farm where upon his son Andrew resides, where he remained until his death in 1854. The maiden name of his wife, mother of our subject, was Prudence Usher. She was a Connecticut girl by birth, but her parents were early settlers in the vicinity of Scottsville, Monroe Co, NY, where they remained the rest of their lives. Mrs. Prudence Usher Hollenbeck died in 1880. She reared eleven children, their names being Lewis, John, Aaron, Moses, Jane, Walter, Andrew, Henry, Helen, Homer, Roxana, Otis, the eighth child, died young. Andrew Hollenbeck, who was twenty years old when his father died, worked on the farm from the beginning, and finally succeeded to its ownership. He was married in 1870 to Miss Mary N Moore; and two children have been born to the couple-Hattie Chase (Chase being the maiden name of Mrs. Hollenbeck's mother) and Harry Bell. Hattie Chase Hollenbeck is now the wife of Dr. McClellan, of Canandaigua....The Hollenbeck farm is one of the finest in the county, and the buildings are worthy of the farm. In 1893 Mr. Hollenbeck erected a barn eighty feet in length, thirty six feet in breadth, and twenty four feet in height , exclusive of a nine foot basement. In arrangement and in equipment this structure leaves practically nothing to be desired. for it combines "all the modern improvements." and everything in and about it is strictly first class. Mr. Hollenbeck inherited a taste for fine horses, and as a horse breeder has found both pleasure and profit, for such animals as he raises, and a ready market when there is any demand whatever for good horses."

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I wish to thank Carol (Robert) Hollenbeck, Joyce (Hollenbeck) Gleason, Toni (Hollenbeck) Lawson and Jim McGlen for their many contributions to this page and without whose work this site could not have been made.

Larry Hollenbeck, webmaster  (Great-Great Grandson of Andrew Sr.)

Hollenbeck Gravestone Photos
Andrew Hollenbeck Gravestone (Toggletown Cemetery)
John and Mary Louisa Hollenbeck Amos
Aaron and Otis Hollenbeck
Jane Hollenbeck Hassinger

Other Gravestone Photos

Rachel Usher        Aaron Usher

Hollenbeck Memorabilia
1927 Hollenbeck Reunion Phelps, NY (?)
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Photos: The Hollenbeck Boys (Sons of Lewis and Matilda Hassinger Hollenbeck Caledonia, NY  Soldiers Monument