A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 68

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1102

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* Wm. Van Nostrand tells us that on one election day an Indian appeared before a magistrate to get a bounty certificate for the head of an old wolf and eight young whelps.

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J. Brown, E. L. Graves, A. F. Countryman, J. E. Munroe and E. E. Warner. The church membership is 140 and the Sunday school has 180 members.

Rev. John Watson organized the First Wesleyan Church of Granger in 1843. In 1844 a church building was erected at a cost of $500 capable of seating about 150 persons. It was valued in 1879 at $1,200. Some improve- ments have been made since. Rev. George W. Cooper is pastor.

Maple Grove Lodge, No. 761, F. A. M., was instituted March 5, 1875. The first officers were: W. M., George S. Goldstone; S. W., DeWitt C. Albee; J. W., Jonas R. Collister; treas., Washington Moses; sec., Rev. A. H. Maryott; S. D., James Douglas; J. D., John Wilcox; tiler, Silas Brundage. The present W. M. is John A. Jones. The other masters of this lodge have been Jasper N. Parker and Samuel B. Luckey.

A Lodge of the Junior Order of United American Workmen, the A. & I. Van Nostrand Post of the G. A. R., and the W. R. C. are other societies ex- isting here.

Supervisors .- Isaac Van Nostrand, 1839, '42 ; Abner Bissell, 1840; Joseph Platt, 1841 ; Wm. Van Nostrand, 1843, '44, '48, '49, '58, '65; S. C. Jones, 1845, '46, '47 ; John Wheeler, 1850, '51, '57, '59; Lewis Van Nostrand, 1852, '53; Wm. R. Toby, 1854, '55 ; Wm. M. Smith, 1856; Asa N. White, 1860 ; Washington Moses, 1861, '62. '67, '68, '69; O. Olney, 1863, '64 ; Geo. W. Pitt, 1866; Wm. Weaver, 1870, '71, '77, '78 ; John N. Phinney, 1872, '73. '76, '83, '84; Gurdon H. White, 1880, '90 '91 ; Andrew W. Smith, 1885, '86 ; John Walbridge, 1887; Robert Bennett, 1888, '89 ; John L. Dudley, 1892, '93 ; V. Q. Smith, 1894, '95.

The 1895 officers are : supervisor, V. Q. Smith ; town clerk, Robert Bennett ; justices, S. B. Lucky, Frank Ricketts, V. Q. Smith, Clark Eldridge ; overseer of poor, David Wallace ; assessors, Ernest Cuddebee, O. A. Fuller, J. N. Parker; collector, Charles Snyder ; constables, D. F. Ben- nett, J. J. Galton, Charles Snyder, Thomas Hall. Charles Bates ; inspectors of election, Frank K. Allen, John Hussong, Arthur J. Bennett, Joseph N. Guptil ; excise commissioners, L. D. Bennett, Arthur Main, John Sylor.

CHRONOLOGY OF SOME CITIZENS .- Alonzo Aldrich is grandson of Marmaduke Aldrich a soldier in the war of 1812, who came to Lima, Livingston county, in 1820 from New Hampshire, to Grove in 1822, to Granger in 1827; children, Amasa, Gideon, Nelson, Benjamin, Sally and Mary. Amasa married Zeruah Parker, children Marilla, Linus P., Alonzo, Arvilla and Melissa. Alonzo was born in 1836, and has always been a farmer owning now 200 acres. He married Marinda Waite of Belfast, children, Amasa, a farmer in Granger, and Charles, who died at Short Tract in 1894 aged 24 years. Alonzo Aldrich enlisted in 1863 in Co. D, 4th N. Y. H. Art., which served as infantry. He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, South Side Railroad, Burkes Station, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Mrs. Aldrich died in 1892. Mr. Aldrich, always an active Republican, has been highway commissioner of Granger, and for many years a dealer in live stock.

Ira Bentley is son of Gideon Bentley, who lived in Onondaga county, and married Polly Harrington. Children, Rua, Weighty, Lucy, David, Callop, Stephen and Ira. Ira Bentley was born in 1813, and married in Yates county, Mary Hall. Children, Ira, Stephen, William. Floyd, Emma, Jeanette, Mary E. and Filena. Mr. Bentley came to Granger in 1826 and paid $6 per acre for his first 50 acres of land. To these he added till he owned 700 acres. His first wife died and his second wife was Emma Dunn. Children, Floyd and Arthur. His son, Ira, who lives on the old homestead, married a Miss Randall. They have two children, Fred and Emma.

Robert Bennett merchant at Short Tract, was born in Granger in 1839, son of Joseph Bennett, born in England in 1813, the son of Henry Bennett. Joseph Bennett came to Gran- ger in 1831 and bought what is now the John Bennett farm for $1.25 per acre. He married in 1833 Eliza, daughter of Robert Jemmison of York, Livingston county. They had eight chil- dren, Betsey dying at the age of 3 months, Robert, merchant at Short Tract, Mary C. (Mrs.

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Washington Walbridge) living in Granger, Sarah J. (Mrs. Joseph Wilcox) who died in 1877, John J., living on the old farm, Hugh who died in 1878, Francis who died at the age of 2 years, Helen (Mrs. John Hussong) who lives at Short Tract. Joseph and Eliza Bennett both died in 1884, on the 13th and 19th of April. In 1861 Robert became a partner in the firm of Wilcox & Bennett, grist, saw and shinglemill, which burned with no insurance the same year. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. H. 130th N. Y. This regiment was changed to cavalry and was called Ist N. Y. Dragoons and served under Gen. Phil. Sheridan and was in 46 actions including the Wilderness, Winchester, Cold Harbor and Cedar Creek. After 35 months' service, Mr. Ben- nett came home and worked in gristmills at Whitesville and Canaseraga three years and on his farm on English Hill five years. In 1874 he began business as a trader at Short Tract. The firm was then Collister & Bennett for three years, then Bennett & Eldredge two years, the firm adding drugs to the " general store " line of goods. Mr. Eldredge went to Livonia some years ago and since then Mr. Bennett has had no partner. In 1866 he married Jane McAllister of York. Children, Lida J, died at the age of 20 in 1889, Lena and Flora M., living at home, and Ethel, who died at the age of 10 months in 1888. Mr. Bennett is a staunch Republican and has been town clerk for 12 years and was supervisor of Granger in 1888-9.

Mrs. Laura Covey, daughter of Samuel C., and Loretta (Woodworth) Jones was born in Granger in 1835. Her father was born in 1801, in Vermont, the eldest of 12 children, and came to Granger about 1820, returning to Vermont in 1830, where he was married and brought his wife to Granger. He was a school teacher, and a man of affairs, holding the principal town offices, from the first clerk of the town, in 1830, then assessor, justice of the peace many years, and supervisor. Although not a lawyer he managed legal matters for others, appearing as counsel in justice courts. He was also a land agent for the Church family, and himself owned 1,000 acres in Allegany. His children were, John C., Loretta and Louisa (Mrs. H. P. Kellogg of Brooksgrove). Loretta married, in 1852, Howden Covey. They settled in Granger in 1854, where Mr. Covey was a farmer and filled several town offices. In 1867 they removed to Mt. Morris, and now reside at Dalton, town of Nunda. Their children have been, Samuel J. and Selden C, and Edward E.

Lucian A. Doolittle, is grandson of Alvan B. Doolittle who was a merchant in Boston and his son Alvan was born in Winchester, N. H., in 1812. About 1833 Alvan came to Granger with a wagon load of boots and shoes which he traded for horses that he took to the Boston market. In 1836 he married Sarah Felch. Children, Thusa, Marshall, Lucian A. and Lucius B. (twins born 1841), William and Willard (twins), Henry C., Oregon, Frank, Sarah, Edward and Mary. All but Thusa and Marshall were born in Granger. Alvan Doolittle brought his family to Granger in 1839 or '40 where Mrs. Doolittle died in 1888. Mr. Doolittle now lives in Wash- ington county. Lucian A. in 1861 married Anna Hanford and settled on their present farm in 1862. Children, Lucius, who married Agnes Bennett. Their children were Deforest, Hazel and Fred, Harmon married Claudie Morris, Flora (Mrs. Jones Dunn), her children are Leonard and Lora. Viola (Mrs. Geo. Gale, whose home is in Denver, Colo.), Grace is unmarried and lives in Denver, Albert is at home with his parents. Mr. Doolittle is a Democrat in politics, has been postmaster at Granger for the past 16 years. The office is kept in his farm-house.

Isaac Dunn was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1822, where his father John, son of Benjamin Dunn, married Mary Mitchell Children, Louisa, Caroline, Martha, John, Harriett, Ann and Cassandria. John Dunn served 7 years apprenticeship with a man who wrote a veterinary work. and studied with him and obtained a knowledge from practice which led to his great success as a veterinary surgeon. He brought his family to Nunda in 1832, and to Gran- ger in 1836, and was widely known as a farrier. He died in Tuscarora in 1885. Isaac acquired his father's profession which he practiced for about 30 years in Allegany and every adjoining county. He married in 1851, Synthia Eldridge. Children, Anna (Mrs. Alonson Towner, her children are Lillie and Ruth), Lillie (Mrs. Cassius Tuttle, children, Anna, Effie, Lottie, Willis and Synthia), Jones, married Flora Doolittle and has children, Leonard and Lora. Mr. Dunn bought his present home of 30 acres in Granger in 1874.

Eli W. Drury is son of Samuel and Hannah (Burgers) Drury, and the grandson of William Drury of County Kent, England, where Samuel was born in 1799 and his wife in 1804. Their children were Samuel, Charlotte. Helen, Amelia, Edwin and Eli W., born in Geneseo in 1838. Samuel came to America in 1827, and to Granger in 1845, and bought 110 acres of land. He died here in 1868, and his wife in 1877. Eli W. Drury married, in 1869, Grace, daughter of William and Emily (Baldwin) Van Nostrand of Granger. Their children are William and Ray- mond V. Mr. Drury is a farmer on the old homestead.

Omar W. Fuller, was born in Hamburgh, Erie Co., in 1829. His father, William H., and his grandfather, John Fuller, both lived in Sharon, Conn. William H., a tanner and harness maker, came to Erie county in 1822, and married Mary W. Blackmer in 1826. Children Frank, Omar W., Oscar, Jennett. In 1838 he brought his family to Granger, and in 1844 bought 100

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acres of wild land, upon which he settled and lived till his wife's death in 1870, and his own in 1871. Omar has always lived on the old farm, except from 1862 till the close of the war in 1865, when he was a soldier in the 4th N. Y. H. A., which was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen till 1864 after which it fought as infantry. Mr. Fuller was in most of the heavy fighting in Virginia till peace was declared at the Wilderness, taking part in Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and many other noted battles. He married in 1852, Eliza G. Guptill, whose family lived in Maine, coming originally from the Isle of Man. They had one child Annetta (Mrs. Frank Spohn) whose two children are Josie P. and Theresa.

Joseph N. Guptill is son of William Guptill, born in Waterboro, Maine, in 1776, whose grandfather came from the Isle of Man. William was a sailor till 28 years old, He married Ruth Fox and came to Granger about 1830. Children, Eliza, Matilda, Horace, Ellen, Joseph N., who was born in Granger in 1842. When the Civil War broke out he left Rushford Acad- emy, where he had been a student nearly three years, and enlisted in 4th N. Y. H. A., which was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen till 1864, then served as infantry. Mr. Guptill was in 14 engagements including the Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, and was at Appomattox at Lee's surrender. He was wounded in the arm in front of Petersburg, the bullet lodging in his canteen. He went " to the rear," leaving his gun on the field. The wound was not severe enough to send him to the hospital and the gun would be charged to him, so when night came he returned to the field, got a gun from a dead soldier, and joined his regiment again the next day. He was discharged in 1865, and married Melissa, daughter of Henry A. Smith. They settled on the old homestead and had two children, Horace, died when six years old, and Bessie D.

Hon. Washington Moses, son of Daniel and Phebe (Beckwith) Moses, was born in Granger Jan. 9, 1834. His parents were among the pioneer families of Lima, Livingston county, where both were born and came to Granger in 1823. Their children were : Frances, Ashbel, who went to California in 1849, wrote that he had a lot of gold he wanted to send home and was last heard from in the mountains where it was thought he was killed by the Indians ; Luther, enlisted twice in 85th N. Y. Vols., and was starved to death at Andersonville; Washington ; Aziza, still on the old farm in Granger, constable and deputy sheriff 25 vears ; his children are : Alice, Luther I., Orrin, Elsie, Nettie, Lottie. Daniel Moses was supervisor, justice of the peace and held various offices of trust. He died in 1867, 66 years old. W shington was raised a farmer and married in 1863. Ellen, daughter of Ira Parker, an early settler in Granger. Mr. Moses was supervisor of Granger in 1861, '62, '67, '68 and '69, was justice of the peace 29 years, associate justice of sessions 3 years, clerk of the board of supervisors 7 years, and was a member of the legislature in 1882 and in 1887. He has two sons, Grant E. and E. Walter. In 1891 he removed to Dalton, where Grant E. is a merchant.

John S. Pitt (whose father William Pitt was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1795, a son of William Pitt,) was born in Granger in 1843. His father married Miss Elizabeth Vincent in 1820, came to Granger in 1830 and settled on the farm of 142 acres still the home of John S. Their children were, Jane (Mrs. S. H. Whitcomb), Eliza (Mrs. Wellington Fletcher), Mary, Anna, Emma, William H., Elizabeth (Mrs. Alonzo Disbro), James, George W., John S. Mr. Pitt was the first assessor in town and made the first assessment roll for the town of Granger. Mrs. Pitt died in 1873 and he in 1882. George W. and John S. were both in the late war ; George as lieutenant in the 85th N. Y .; John served in the 104th N. Y. as musician and took part in 43 battles from the 2d Bull Run to the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. John married in 1869 Lucinda J. Ralston. For the next ten years he was in the West, building bridges for the I. & St. Louis R. R. Since 1879 he has lived on the old homestead. Besides attending to his farm he has run a steam thresher for 15 years past, and has been excise commissioner six years.

Frank Ricketts, son of Samuel, son of Richard Ricketts, a Newfoundland fisherman, was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1843. Samuel married Mary A. Brewer, and brought his family to Granger in 1843. Children : Frank, Emma, Charlotte (Mrs. George Parker, dec.), Belle (Mrs. W. Framingham of Nunda), George in Batavia, Richard, Fred in Elmira. Frank married in 1867 Catharine Closser of Granger ; children Rose M., a school teacher for the past ten years, Samuel and Ethel L. Mr. Ricketts owns a farm of 165 acres, and is justice of the peace, elected on the Republican ticket.

Mrs. Laura M. Smith, daughter of Salmon Remington, was born in Cayuga county in 1827, where her father married Thankful Kemp. Their children were : Betsey A. (Mrs. Nelson Aldridge), Abner (lives in Minnesota), Oril (Mrs. Richard Reynolds), Clarinda (Mrs. Clement Bates of Granger), Tamersen (Mrs. Orson Page of Nunda), Caroline, married Norton Scoville, (their son, Leroy N. Scoville, has lived with Mrs. Smith 17 years and works her farm), Catha- rine (Mrs. Frank Pennock of Granger), Rachel died when five years old, Amanda (Mrs. Nicholas Luther), Eliza (Mrs. Milo Eldridge). Salmon Remington came to Granger in 1829, and was

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killed here in a runaway accident. In 1845 Laura M. Remington married Aaron, son of Dar- ling and Mary (Luther) Smith, whose children were Hiram, Darling, Elisha, Luther, Aaron, Manning. Aaron Smith was born in Granger in 1821, and was raised a farmer. He bought 100 acres of the old homestead, and Hiram bought the other 60 acres, and Aaron still owned the 100 acres when he died. About 1855 he bought the farm where Mrs. Smith now lives, where he died in 1889.

Gardner C. Smith, son of Hiram, and grandson of Darling Smith, lives with three of his sisters, Ellen, Sophia, and Cynthia, on the old homestead in Granger, where they were all born, he in 1842. Darling and Mary (Luther) Smith were natives of Otsego Co .. being the parents of 9 children. Hiram the oldest was born in 1808. From Otsego they removed to Jerusalem, N. Y., and in January, 1818, to Granger, where Mr. Smith bought 80 acres east of G. C. Smith's, at $3.50 per acre. His nearest neighbor was three miles away. An axe and two dollars in money were all the capital he had. They got a cow, and raised some potatoes, but often were without bread for several days. At one time they had no bread for a week. Mr. Smith walked to Mos- cow and brought a bushel of musty cornmeal on his back, arriving home about midnight, his wife made some mush and awoke the children to eat it. Hiram often told his children the mush then tasted better than any cake he ever ate. The family struggled on for nine years and had only paid five dollars on their land, when Hiram then 17 years old hired out to Col. George Wil- liams, of Portage, and worked on his farm three years at $9, $to, and $12 a month, paying for the 80 acres for his father and 30 acres for himself. In 1832 he married Mary Hardy, born in Danville, Vt. Their children were : Sophia, Sophronia, Frederick, of Portage ; Chauncey on a farm joining the old homestead, Orpha, (Mrs. George Morse of Portage), Ellen, Gardner, Jasper, Sophia, Prudence (Mrs. E. Van Nostrand of Wellsville), Cynthia, Adeline. Darling Smith and his wife were both born June 9, 1787, and both died in March, 1846, on the old farm then in- creased to 170 acres. Mrs. Hiram Smith died in 1880 nearly 64 years old. and her husband in 1891 when 83 years old, being the last of his father's family, and survived by eight children. He left his family 460 acres of land.

George St. John, M. D., is of old New England stock, his ancestors settling there before 1650. His grandfather, John St. John, lived in Sullivan Co., where he married Clarissa Ferriss. John, the seventh of their 13 children, a carpenter by trade, married Sally J. Hutchins in Mid- dleton, Orange Co., where George was born in 1841. Jemima, the second child, is now Mrs. Charles Van Nostrand of Dalton, and Ferris, the youngest, lives in Ohio. Mr. St. John brought his family in 1844 to Allen where he died in 1877, 63 years old. Mrs. St. John is now living and 77 years old. George taught school five winters prior to 1863, when he began the study of medicine. [See Medical Chapter. ] He came to Short Tract in 1890, and is the only physician in Granger. He has been for many years a member of the Hornellsville Academy of Medicine. In 1867 he married Lorette, daughter of Hosea Hoskins. Their children are : May, (Mrs. Everett Wilcox) and Nina (Mrs. Leonard Bennett of Granger).

George Sylor was born in Germany in 1814. His father left home before he was born, as a soldier in the Napoleonic wars and was never heard from. His mother, Elizabeth (Gruber) Sylor, later married John Isaman, who brought his family to Granger in 1817. George Sylor married in 1838 Barbary, daughter of Michael Isaman. Children : Mary, Elizabeth (Mrs. Ed. Bennett, children, Nellie and Charlie) ; George (married Josephine Barnes, one child, Addie) ; Susan (Mrs. John Wiederight) ; John (married Fannie Smith, children Adelbert and Doatie M., 2d wife, Nellie Closser, children, Almer and Grace) ; Will (married Florence Slade, children, Clarence, Anna and Helen) ; Charles (married Lizzie Smith, one child Clayton) ; Michael (mar- ried Mary Bennett, children Roy and an infant).

William Van Nostrand comes from Dutch-French families who settled near Bridgeport, Ct., where Aaron, his grandfather, and Isaac, his father, were born ; the latter in 1780. Aaron brought his family to Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., before 1800. Isaac, farmer, carpenter and millwright, married, about 1805, Grace Hatch of Milton, born in Tolland, Ct., 1788 ; children : Luzon, born 1807, died in Allen 1895 ; Lewis, born 1809; Sidney, 1811 ; William, Feb. 28, 1814 ; Mary (Mrs. Thomas Jones, 1816) ; Anner, 1818, (Mrs. Alonzo W. Fuller) ; Rebecca, 1820, Mrs. Claudius Smith] ; Lucinda, 1822, (Mrs. Sylvanus W. Smith) ; Aaron, 1825, died in the army ; Jane P., 1827, and Isaac N. also a soldier who lost his life in the last war. Isaac Van Nostrand came in 1819 to Granger, bought land and built a sawmill on Rush creek. In 1820 he brought his family who settled so near that at one time he could visit them all in a half hour. He was supervisor of Grove 1827 to 1835. William grew up a farmer and lumberman. He married in 1840, Emily, daughter of Enos, and Elmira (Conkey) Baldwin, and settled on the farm still his home. Children : Grace, (Mrs. Eli W. Drury) ; Helen, Millie (Mrs. John B. Gilpatrick) ; Ethel, (Mrs. Louis Reynolds). Mr. Reynolds died in 1892. Originally a Whig, Mr. Van Nos- trand has been a Republican since 1856, and has never missed voting at spring and fall elections, serving his town as assessor, highway commissioner, and six years as supervisor. He has the

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largest library the writer has ever seen in a farmer's house. and is noted for vigor of mind and body, extensive reading, and accurate memory.

George Voss, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Strickland) Voss, was born in 1821, in Dor- chester, England. At the age of 12 he came to America with John Bridge who paid his fare. Mr. Bridge settled in Portage where George worked for him five years for his debt and $80 in money. Judge Collins of Angelica was his guardian, and got him a place with Judge Church at Belvidere as table waiter at $to a month for a year. The next year he drove a lumber team for Platt & Nathan, merchants at Short Tract, and in 1841 went to learn the carpenter's trade with Isaac Hatch for whom he worked three years. In 1844 he married Leah, daughter of John Bennett of Granger, whose farm he worked three years, when he bought the Crowfoot farm of 50 acres for $300. He later owned 500 acres, 200 of which he has given to his sons. Mr. Voss is widely known as a sheep and wool buyer, and keeps 200 sheep. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Voss have been Elizabeth (Mrs. William Ricketts of Granger ; children Fred and Bessie) ; Charlie (married Bertha Ricketts ; children, Georgie, Arlie, Leslie and Clarence) ; Melissa (Mrs. Thomas Wilcox, of Lima ; children, Lester, Mary and Frank) ; Harry, married Florence Van- Nostrand, one child, Morris ; El za (Mrs. Wilson Finney, one child Mary) ; Rachel (Mrs. Lyman Reynolds of Dalton), children Harry and Vernis) ; Belle (Mrs. George James, children ; Leon, Guy, Fay, Florence and Leah) ; Tom, married Elizabeth James, one child, Floyd ; Dick, married Sarah Elliot.

Gurdon H. White is son of Henry White who came from Pennsylvania when a young man to Groveland, Liv. Co., and was for several terms a school teacher there and in Geneseo, where William, James and Elizabeth Wadsworth were among his pupils. In 1817 he married Rinda Nowlen of Geneseo. Their children were Amy S. (Mrs. Francis Conable of Nunda) ; Elizabeth ; Mary (Mrs. Gurnsey of Nunda) ; Asa N., and Gurdon H., born at Hunts Corners, Groveland in 1827. In 1833 Mr. White came to Granger and bought the farm of 97 acres still the home of Gurdon H. Here he lived until his death in 1866. He was justice of the peace. Mrs. White died in 1880. Gurdon H. White married in 1854, Juliet H., daughter of Ira Safford, who came in 1847 from Washington Co. to Allen where he died in 1877. Jennie V., an adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. White is now Mrs. William H. Smith of Nunda. (She has one child, Clifford.) They have also an adopted son Volney E. Rev. Francis Conable, husband of Amy S., wrote the widely-known history of the Genesee Conference of the M. E. Church. Gurdon H. White and Senator H. M. Teller were schoolboys together in Granger, their fondness for each other ripen- ing into a lifelong friendship. In 1892 Mr. White passed two weeks with him in Washington.

John Welstead, born Dec. 26, 1807, married, Oct. 26, 1829, Margaret Willcox, born June 25, 1808. They came from England to Granger in 1829, where they settled and cleared land for the little log house where they lived some time, and also worshiped in a log house. Their children were Betsey, William, John, Jane, Thomas, James, Daniel. Mr. Welstead was a farmer and shoemaker. His wife died July 4, 1846. He married second, Eva Lampman, who died Jan. 18, 1874. Mr. Welstead then made his home with his son William. until his death Aug. 21, 1887. William Welstead educated as a farmer, was a clerk for George Ayrult for 5 years, and since then has been a merchant in Short Tract for over 25 years, deputy postmaster 3 years with the office in his store, and an excise commissioner for 3 years. He has also con- ducted a farm and now owns 234 acres of land. He married, in 1860, Mahalah Bradley, born in 1841. Their children have been Lincoln A., born Feb. 9, 1861, died Oct. 14, 1875; Maggie A., born Oct. 13, 1878, died Nov. 6, 1890; Otto J., born Aug. 1, 1868, married in 1887, Emma Harris, born Dec. 17, 1867. They have a son, Fayett Leroy Welstead, born Nov. 21, 1889. John Welstead moved to Illinois about 1860 where he enlisted in the First H. A. and served 4 years. He later went to Nebraska, took up government land, sold his interest and went to Fremont, Neb. Jane married at Short Tract, Edwin Ralf, went to Illinois about 1860 and after taking up government land, sold and went to Fremont, Neb. Thomas Welstead moved to Illinois, was a farmer, moved to Iowa, where he served about 6 years as supervisor, was member of the legislature, later located in Waterloo and deals in stock. James Welstead en- listed in the 136th N. Y. Reg't, remained 5 months, was ill and discharged. Later located in Fremont where Daniel, who married Clara Townsend at Short Tract, also made his home.

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A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany county, New York, Part 68

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co. Number of Pages: 1102

Author: Minard, John Stearns, 1834-1920; Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Alfred, N.Y., W. A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1102