History of Waterloo, (Seneca County) New York United States of America

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Wesley Washington Pasko, typographist, was born in Waterloo, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1840; son of Jeremiah and Martha (Van Osdol) Probasco and a descendant of colonial families of New York. He did not adopt the surname of Pasko until after 1872. He was graduated at the public school of Waterloo, was employed in a cotton and woolen factory until 1855, when he entered a printing office in Utica, N.Y., and in 1859 went to the office of the New York Tribune, removing to Charleston, S.C., in 1860. He was arrested as an abolitionist by the vigilance committee, and on failure to prove the charge he was ordered to leave the city. He was married, Oct. 21, 1860, to Elizabeth Theresa Jarret. He published a paper in Trumansburg, N.Y., 1860-61, and returned to the Tribune in 1861. He enlisted in the 16th N.Y. Heavy Artillery, and served in the army under Gen. B. F. Butler. He returned to New York at the close of the war and served on the editorial staff of newspapers both in Albany and Troy. He was an editor in the department of public instruction, assisted in codifying the N.Y. school laws in 1867, and on his return to New York city in 1868, edited the Albion and subsequently a newspaper in Lancaster, N.H., again returning to New York to engage in the printing business. He was literary advisor for a Cincinnati publishing house, 1879-83, and in 1883 established the New York Typothet?, being made its secretary and librarian in 1885. He invented the Pasko Press in 1886, capable of producing 60,000 impressions of small financial and stock exchange bulletins in one hour. He is the editor of: Men who Advertise (1868); Old New York (1870); author of: Biographical History of Indiana (1881); History of Butler County, Ohio, (1883); A Dictionary of Printing and Book Making and History of Printing in New York from its Beginning to the Present Time. He died in New York city, Dec. 15, 1897.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Nicholas Norton, clergyman, was born in Waterloo, N.Y. (or at Allen's Hill, Richmond, Va.), in 1820; son of the Rev. George Halley and Catherine (Bush) Norton, of Winchester, Va. He was graduated at Hobart college, Geneva, N.Y., A.B., 1842, A.M., 1845, and at the General Theological seminary, New York city, in 1845. He was ordained deacon in Trinity church, Geneva, N.Y., July 20, 1845, and priest in St. Paul's church, Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 24, 1846, by Bishop Delancey. He was assistant rector of St. Luke's church, Rochester, N.Y., and a missionary in western New York, 1845-46. He was rector of Ascension church in Frankfort, Ky., 1846-70, professor at the Kentucky Military institute, and rector of Christ church at Louisville, Ky., 1870-81. He was a member of the standing committee of the diocese of Kentucky; a deputy to the general convention of the Protestant Episeopal church for nine years, and a trustee of the Theological Seminary of Kentucky. He received the degree S.T.D. from Hobart college in 1862; was vice-president of the Association of Alumni of Hobart, and a benefactor of the college library. He is the author of nearly forty books, including: The Boy who was Trained up to be a Clergyman (1854); Full Proof of the Ministry (1855); Lives of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, beginning with Bishop White (1857); followed by Bishop Seabury and fifteen others (1857-59); Life of Bishop Heber (1858); Life of George Washington (1860); Life of Benjamin Franklin (1861); Life of Archbishop Cranmer (1863): Life of Archbishop Laud (1864); Short Sermons (1858); Sketches, Literary and Theological (1872); The King's Ferry-Boat, sermons (1876), and Old Paths, sermons (1880). He died in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 18, 1881.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor