Biographical Sketches of Monroe County Residents

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John G. IDEMAN

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Among the capable and efficient members of the board of supervisors is John G. IDEMAN, who is now representing the second ward, and who in community affairs is progressive and public spirited, exercising his official prerogatives in support of many measures for the general good.

Mr. IDEMAN was born at East Hamlin, Monroe county, New York, April 8, 1869, and the public schools afforded him his educational privileges. When not busy with his text-books he was engaged in farming until twenty years of age, when he came to Rochester and engaged in the ice business, selling to the retail trade for about thirteen years, as the representative of the CALEDONIA ICE COMPANY. After ten years' service he was promoted to the position of superintendent of that company, in which capacity he remained for three years. Previous to this time he was business agent for the Ice Handlers and Peddlers' Local, of which he was one of the organizers. Mr. IDEMAN was a member of the organizing committee for two years and assisted in organizing eighteen locals in Rochester. For two years he was president of the Ice Handlers' Local.

Mr. IDEMAN has figured quite prominently in political circles. In 1903 he was elected supervisor and that he discharged his duties in a most capable and reliable manner is indicated by the fact that he was re-elected in 1905 and is now serving for the second term. He was chairman of the building committee for two years at the time the Monroe County Hospital was built, the new heating plant installed at the penitentiary, and the new morgue was built. He is now chairman of accounts and claims of the superintendent of the poor for the county of Monroe and is also serving on several other committees.

Fraternally Mr. IDEMAN is connected with the Elks, the Masons, the Eagles, the Liberal Knights, the White Cloud and the Red Men. On the 10th of July, 1892, he was married to Miss Nellie BUDD, of Oswego, New York, and they have one daughter, Mabel.