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GEORGE.
WASHINGTON.
George Mowry, born October 23, 1765; died October 23, 1823, in Oxford ; married June 11, 1809, Sally Manly of Ox- ford, born February 26, 1791, died February 26, 1830, in Oxford. Studied and practiced medicine in Oxford, and was very methodical in his ways. He owned and occupied a residence which stood near the present site of the Clarke block, the grounds extending to the river. He and his wife were buried in the old cemetery on State street. Dr. Mowry was about four feet in height and used two canes when walking, which was seldom. His wife always helped him mount his horse whenever his practice called him any distance, and when fairly astride he made a very odd appearance., His legs and arms were those of a tall man, but his body was very short, in consequence of a curvature of the spine, in those days called rickets.
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Capt. James Thompson of Norwich frequently told an amusing incident in regard to Dr. Mowry, both of whom were members of the Masonic lodge in this village. Joseph Richmond, a neighbor of Capt. Thompson, came with him one night to Oxford to join the lodge. Richmond was an unassuming man and stuttered when embarrassed. After entering the lodge room Capt. Thompson jokingly said to him that when initiated he would see the devil, as his Satanic majesty always took part in the work. At that instant the door opened and Dr. Mowry entered, stooping forward with flowing hair over his deformed shoulders and reaching out his long silver headed canes directly toward them. Richmond jumped up and excitedly exclaimed : "Goo-od God, th-th-there he comes!" The captain was highly amused and could scarcely restrain his laughter as he arose to greet the doctor.
Dr. Mowry was one of the original members of the Chenango County Medical Society, of which he was the first secretary, an office he held for over fifteen consecu- tive years.
Washington Mowry, born April 19, 1777; died May 20, 1859, in Oxford; married Hannah Curtis, daughter of Deacon Solomon Curtis, who lived on the farm now owned and occupied by Whitman Mowry. Mrs. Mowry was born April 2, 1782; died July 25, 1870, in Oxford. Washing- ton Mowry, when but a lad of 17, selected the land now known as the George Root farm, and assisted by his father made a clearing near a spring and erected a rude house to live in. He continued to clear and improve the land, and when opportunity offered set out many fruit trees, among which were apple, pear, peach, plum, and cherry. As his means increased he built a large and commodious house and numerous barns, and at his death owned a fine farm of 230 acres. He was an inveterate smoker and a
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man of very few words, aside from matters pertaining to his farm.
Children of George and Sally (Manly) Mowry, all of whom were born in Oxford :
RUTH ELIZA, born August 10, 1810. After her mother's death lived in the family of Deacon Wm. Gile. Died November 7, 1831.
SALLY CASSANDRA, born January 16, 1812. Lived with family of Dr. Cleveland, druggist. Died June 20, 1831.
GEORGE PHILLIP, born January 28, 1814; died June 28, 1885, in Geneva, N. Y .; married Mary Rodman, who, in 1905, was still living. While a young man clerked in the drug store of Dr. Cleveland in Oxford and later went to Geneva, where he engaged in the drug business with Luther Kelly. Had nine children.
DEWITT CLINTON, born May 18, 1816, died July 26, 1848, in Middlebury, Ohio; married Rhoda Allen of Mid- dlebury. Children : Allen and Henry.
OCTAVIA ALDRUDA, born September 16, 1818; died July 23, 1877, in Flint, Mich. Lived in the family of Samuel Farnham, merchant, for a time and then went to a rela- tive's in Pennsylvania, where she met and married Dr. Fish. They came to Oxford for a three days' visit and then left for Flint, Mich., accompanied by Mrs. Fish's sister, Helena. Children: two sons and two daughters.
WASHINGTON JEFFERSON, born December 28, 1820, is now a resident of Kansas City, Kan. He married in 1850, Mrs. Rhoda (Allen) Mowry of Coventry, Ohio, widow of his brother DeWitt. She died August 23, 1906, at Kansas City, Kan. After the death of his mother Mr. Mowry lived with his uncle, Washington Mowry, four months and then returned home with his aunt, Mrs. Arnold Briggs, of Smyrna, who had come to Oxford to attend the funeral of her mother. There he stayed till he was fifteen years
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old and then returned to his Uncle Washington's in Ox- ford, remaining till after his twenty-first birthday. Dur- ing this time his uncle never mentioned the name of his brother, the father of his nephew. Becoming tired of farm life, Washington J. drifted westward and located at Akron, Ohio, near where his brother DeWitt lived Later he engaged in the manufacture of Sarsaparilla beel at New Lisbon, Ohio, and then entered the grocery busi- ness at Salem, Ohio, but soon sold out to his partner and returned to New York, where he worked a year and 2 half for his brother George in Geneva. Still having fondness for the West he left Geneva and finally locat at Turner Junction, Ill., remaining there twenty yea. Here he bought land, built a large house, kept boarde. and again entered into the grocery trade. During four years of this time was postmaster at Turner Junction In 1870, with his family, Mr. Mowry again started w. for Kansas City, Mo., but, not liking the place, went Fort Scott, Kan., where he rented and kept a hotel ten months, then located at Arkansas City, Kan., ha been engaged in farming and hotel business. Of his dren but one is now living, Wilmot De Lancy Mowry, is married and resides in Kansas City, Kan.
HELENA CORDELIA, born April 10, 1823; died May 1900; married in Flint, Mich, John Sutton, a mercha tailor. Children : Lell M., married James Potter, of Flint: George, married and lives in Buffalo, N. Y .; Joseph: married William Tennant of Saginaw, Mich.
Children of Washington and Hannah (Curtis) Mowry two sons dying in infancy :
ALMIRA, died April -, 1827; married about 1826, Syl- vanus Root. Child: George W., married (1) Harriet Bowers; married (2) Mary J. Jacobs.
LYDIA, born February 26, 1810; died November 13,
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1888; married May 5, 1836, Nicholas Walker of Oxford. Children : Frances E., born July 15, 1842; married James Murray, a native of Scotland, and resides on the old homestead. Washington, born February 27, 1846; died March 20, 1851. Austin G., born May 21, 1849; died July 14, 1895; married Betsey Dent of Greene.
GEORGE W., born April 24, 1806; died suddenly Au- gust 17, 1885, in Oxford; married January 5, 1832, Polly Root of Oxford, born April 20, 1802; died August 4, 1886. Children : Bertha Almira, died in infancy ; Henry A., born October 30, 1834 ; married Emeretta Hutchison; Van- Buren, born December 27, 1839; died November 23, 1890; "married Sarah A. Wheeler.
PHILA, born January 10, 1812; died April 5, 1897; married Elisha Dickinson. .0.
[PO' SOLOMON C., born February 11, 1814; died January 26, )} 1886; married December 15, 1836, Abigail C. Havens. Children : Sarah M., died in infancy; Whitman R., mar- puried Sarah P. Wheeler; Charles L., married Augusta A. firewer; Sarah C., died March 18, 1849; Curtis S., married odAlice L. Root.
ANDREW, born August 4, 1816; died November 7, 1900; Enarried February 27, 1840, Hannah Carhart of Oxford. jaChildren: Lydia M., died in infancy; Narcissa A., mar- { ried February 26, 1862, Julius Wheeler; Andrew F., died .November 16, 1897, married September 27, 1869, Jane Bloomer; Phila A., married June -, 1868, Adelbert See- ,"ley; Washington E., married October -, 1882, Emma Lewis.
WILSON G., born - , 1824; died June 7, 1888, in Troupsburg, N. Y .; married Lucy A. Greene.
ZERUAH, born -, 1820; died August 19, 1884, in Coventry, N. Y .; married William Walker.
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God's finger touched him and he slept.
-TENNYSON.
Ray Clarke.
Ray Clarke, who lived on what is now the Cone farm, was born February 13, 1782, at Newport, R. I., and died in 1847 at South Oxford. He married Celia Greene of Warwick, R. I., born January 10, 1776; died August 9, 1829, at East Greenwich, R. I. In 1825, when traveling in Tennessee, he was overtaken by a heavy storm in the Cumberland Mountains and exposed all night to its fury. This brought on an attack of brain fever, from which he never fully recovered. Among his children were:
CECELIA GREENE CLARKE, born in 1808; died in 1880; married Judge George A. Brayton, Chief Justice Rhode Island Supreme Court for thirty-one years.
ETHAN RAY CLARKE, born January 10, 1818, at Po- towomut, R. I .; married October 29, 1840, Mary E. Mil- lard of Warwick, R. I. He was educated at Jamaica Plains, Mass., and inherited property from his grand- father, including a farm in this town. He removed to Oxford in 1840 after his marriage, and entered the min- istry in 1851, becoming pastor of the Free Will Baptist church in the east part of the town. He removed to Genesee county in 1856, and, during the Civil war, went as Chaplain of the 1st R. I. Cavalry, and then later the 25th N. Y. Cavalry, serving until 1865. In 1866 he re- turned to Oxford and remained until 1870, when he removed to Michigan. Children :
SUSAN CELIA, born in Oxford; married Wm. E. Marwin of Jersey City.
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ANNA AUGUSTA, born in Oxford; married James P. Boyd of Chicago.
ISABELLA EMILY, born in Oxford; died April 25, 1888; married Arthur M. Mayhew.
MARY ELIZABETH, born at Oxford; married William J. Rose.
JESSIE, born October 19, 1849, in Oxford; died No- vember 8, 1864, at Buffalo.
GEORGE BRAYTON, married Florence J. Holley; resi- dence, Vernon, Mich.
RAY, born January 13, 1855, in Oxford; died January 6, 1865, at Buffalo.
WARD GREENE, born January 2, 1859, at Stafford, N. Y. A physician and professor of dental surgery in Rush University, Chicago.
His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man! -SHAKESPEARE.
Amos A. Franklin.
Amos A. Franklin was born in Stonington, Conn., June 27, 1785. He learned the trade of cabinet maker in New London, Conn., and came to Oxford in 1808, where he was active in advancing the interests both of religion and education. He fitted up the upper story of his cabi- net shop to make a comfortable place for holding meet- ings, instituted a flourishing Sunday school, of which he was for many years superintendent. In the long inter- vals when the Presbyterian church was without a pastor,
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being too poor to afford continuous support, with the assistance of other members of the church he held meet- ings, which were well attended, reading some well selected sermon. He was for many years a trustee of Oxford Academy. In company with James A. Glover he estab- lished in 1829 the Oxford foundry. Mr. Franklin was a member of the State legislature in 1829, was a partici- pator in getting the Chenango canal, at that time consid- ered of great importance to the prosperity of the town, and was one of the special commissioners sent to Albany to look after its success. He was a magistrate in Oxford for about twenty years, and sheriff of the county one term. In 1847 he moved to Wisconsin and assisted in building up a church in his new home, of which he was ten years a deacon. He died April 14, 1858, in Patch Grove, Wis. He married (1) in October, 1809, Anne Howe of Spring- field, Vt., who died July 12, 1811, aged 21 years. Married (2) in January, 1814, Minerva, daughter of Anson Cary, whose death occurred May 23, 1859, in Patch Grove, Wis.
Child by first wife:
STEPHEN.
Children by second wife :
HANNAH, married Anson Cary, 2d.
MINERVA, married Rev. Samuel H. Stevenson, died Janu- ary 27, 1872, in Gilman, Ill.
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BENJAMIN, died October 23, 1843, in Wisconsin, aged 18.
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They are soldiers, Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit. -SHAKESPEARE.
Sherwood Family.
Asa T. Sherwood was baptized in Greens Farms, Conn., July 4, 1762; died in Guilford, N. Y., June 18, 1834, where he settled when it was a part of Oxford; married Mary Phillips. He was one of those small Connecticut boys who went into the Revolutionary army as soon as he could hold a gun and served seven years. His broth- ers and sisters, some of whom settled in this section, were : Levi, Elen, Isaac, Abigail, John and Hezekiah, twins, and Hannah. His children were: Isaac, David, William, Asa, Phobe, Gorham, Sally, and John.
William Sherwood, third child of Asa T. and Mary (Philips) Sherwood, was born June 2, 1793, in Greens Farms, Conn .; died May 9, 1875, in Norwich, N. Y .; married Abigail. Smith, of Oxford, born September 18, 1800; died August 21, 1850. William Sherwood served in the War of 1812 and was with General Scott at Sack- ett's Harbor.
Children, all born in Guilford, N. Y .:
JAMES W., 1st, born May 5, 1818; died July 20, 1820, in Guilford.
DAVID L., born September 25, 1819; died suddenly No- vember 8, 1891, in Oxford; married Susan C. Peabody, died September 22, 1897, in Oxford. Children: Charles W., married Anna Estabrook; Frederick, married Hattie Judd; Emogene, died in Utica, unmarried; Ida, married Charles B. Eaton, died in Tacoma, Wash .; Abigail.
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CHARLES S., born February 7, 1822; died August 21, 1900, in Lebanon, Ill .; married Mary J. Riley.
NEHEMIAH, born June 22, 1824; died May 21, 1893, in Greene; married Lucy A. Rice, died June 12, 1899, in Greene.
SOPHRONA A., born April 9, 1827; died November 12, 1896, in Norwich, unmarried.
NANCY ELIZA, born March 29, 1829; married James H. Allen, born in 1822; died February 10, 1898, in Frank- fort, N. Y.
EDMUND T., born February 10, 1831; died October 3, 1895, in Norwich, unmarried.
EUGENE, born June 18, 1834; married Susan Whita- more and resides in Binghamton. Served three years in Civil war.
JAMES W., born February 7, 1837; married Cordelia T. Judson, and resides in Oxford. Served three years in Civil war.
SUSAN C., born October 7, 1839; unmarried. Resides in Norwich.
The descent of James W. Sherwood of Oxford from Thomas Sherwood, who came to America from Ipswich, England, in 1634, is as follows: I. Thomas, II. Isaac, III. Thomas, died August 5, 1756, in Albany, N. Y., where he was in Capt. Whiting's company in the campaign of 1756; IV. John, V. Asa, VI. William, VII. James W.
The descent of Asa T. Sherwood, on the maternal side, is, I. John Howland, born in 1593 in England. By first wife, said to be a daughter of Gov. Carver, he had a daughter II. Desire. John Howland was a prominent man in the Plymouth Colony; was governor's assistant, etc., and is named among the first in the list of Mayflower passengers. Desire, born in 1623, in Plymouth, married Capt. John Gorham, who was a great soldier, and lost
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his life from disease contracted when fighting the Nar- ragansett Indians. There are several towns named Gor- ham for him, and Gorham, Maine, has a monument erected to him. He and Desire had III. Jebez, born August 3, 1656, in Barnstable, Mass., who married Hannah (Sturges) Gray, and they had a son IV. Joseph, born August 22, 1692. Joseph married Deborah Barlow, and had V. Mary, who married John Sherwood, and they were the parents of VI. Asa T. Sherwood.
Offering to carry weary traveller His orient liquor, in a crystal glass. -MILTON.
Andrew Achorn.
Andrew Achorn, who had been one of England's " Hes- sian hirelings," in the war of the Revolution, but who, after being captured with Burgoyne's army, came to know and love the American people, whom, he said, he had been taught to believe were all savages. At the close of the war many of these soldiers remained and settled in the country they had fought against. Achron drifted into South Oxford, where he lived to a good old age, well pre- served in the whisky of that day. He was a good me- chanic and farmer, and had a large orchard and cider mill which flowed large quantities of cider. It was a place for the tramping Indians and a resort for Abe Antone and his band when they went into that neighbor- hood to hunt. Achron was a gunsmith, having learned the trade in Germany, and did a good business by re- pairing guns and making steel traps for the Indians. He and Antone were fast friends. When Antone was in hid- ing, after murdering John Jacobs in Madison county, it was Achorn who secreted and sheltered him until the search in this section was over.
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The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place, The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.
-GAY.
Wheeler Family.
Of the early history of Hezekiah Wheeler, from whom the whole Wheeler family in this vicinity is descended, little is known. He was probably born and raised in the vicinity of Gloucester, R. I., and spent his youthful days there. He was born about the year 1749 or '50, and was married to Mary Wood about 1773. Soon after his mar- riage he enlisted in the Patriot army of the Revolution as a minute man, like every other able-bodied man of that day who was not enrolled in the regular army. The min- ute men were permitted to remain at home, but were liable to be called out in an emergency on short notice when an invasion took place or when army stores and supplies were to be guarded. At the close of the war Mr. Wheeler settled down on a farm in Gloucester, where, in connection with his farm, he conducted a hotel, which, being on the public highway leading from Gloucester to Providence, and being withal a genial landlord and a popular man, he soon amassed a fair competence.
On the 8th of October, 1813, Mr. Wheeler came to Ox- ford, where some of the family had already preceded him. During this year he had had a protracted illness which nearly cost him his life, but on the 27th of September his health having improved, he with his wife, and Nicholas Smith, wife and child, started on the long and tedious journey to join their friends in the then famous " Che-
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nango county." Their progress, necessarily slow, was a part of that general trend of New England blood toward the setting sun, which so markedly characterized the early part and middle of the last century, and took place at the time when it was going "out west " to go into New York State.
Their friends became very much alarmed and anxious at their failure to arrive on the day expected, and, on October 8, Nehemiah Wheeler and Arnold Phetteplace started out to find trace of them. Passing through Rock- dale, Mt. Upton, up the Butternut creek, and through Gilbertsville, without any tidings, they continued the search until near Morris the travelers were discovered slowly approaching. After joyful greeting had been ex- changed the journey toward their destination was resumed which would consume many hours. Night fell, the wolves howled, and terror began to exert its sway as they passed beneath hemlock trees whose heavy boughs overhung their path. Late in the evening they reached their journey's end, the log house of Eddy Phetteplace, the husband of their daughter Anna, where a warm fire of crackling logs and a warmer greeting introduced them to their western home.
The farm where Mr. Wheeler located is now owned by Nelson Turner. During the fall of 1827 it became evident that his earthly pilgrimage was drawing to a close, and that he with his companion of so many years were soon to be numbered with the departed. On January 8, 1828, his spirit took its flight into the great unknown. Mrs. Wheeler was too ill to be informed of her husband's death, and on the following day, after an interval of twenty-seven hours, their spirits were reunited. They were both buried in one grave at the Gospel Hill cemetery in Guilford. Children :
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HEZEKIAH, born November 5, 1775; died February 26, 1779.
MARY, born September 10, 1777, in Gloucester, R. I .; died January 7, 1863, in Providence, R. I .; married Oliver Wade of Gloucester, R. I., born June 4, 1773; died May 8, 1853, in Providence, R. I. Children : Susan, born April 4, 1795; died January 16, 1882; married Asaph Smith. Wheeler, born October 2, 1796; died June 22, 1809. Nancy, born May 1, 1800; died July 8, 1887. Deborah, born De- cember 25, 1804; died January 16, 1884. Sarah B., born February 21, 1807; died May 11, 1880. Violetta, born May 8, 1808; died October 23, 1893. Nathaniel, born April 19, 1811; died September 20, 1841. Mary M., born July 19, 1813; died November 27, 1902. Paris, born January 19, 1816; died March 28, 1854. Serrie, born November 28, 1821; died October 19, 1872.
ANNA, born December 17, 1779, in Gloucester, R. I .; died October 10, 1859, in Springfield, Pa .; married April 20, 1796, Eddy Phetteplace of Gloucester, R. I., born February 29, 1776, in Gloucester; died August 15, 1861, in Spring- field, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Phetteplace settled in Oxford in 1811, but in April, 1813, the town of Guilford, then called Eastern, was set off from Oxford, which made them resi- dents of Guilford. Children: Arnold, born June 8, 1798; died in Sabona, Ill. Mary, born August 31, 1800; died August 10, 1871, in Wisconsin. Isaac, born April 27, 1802; died May 12, 1815. Minerva, born November 18, 1804; died December 31, 1841, in Oxford. Eddy W., born April 21, 1808; died about 1898 in Jamestown, N. Y. David T., born February 13, 1800; died February 18, 1868, in Wis- consin. Hezekiah, born July 11, 1812; died May 20, 1891, in Chautauqua, N. Y. Anne, born May 16, 1815; died May 8, 1892, in Wisconsin. William, born January 4, 1818; died November 23, 1883, in Michigan. Eli, born June 6,
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1821; died June 29, 1865, in the army. John, born July 18, 1823.
HENRY, born February 26, 1782, in Gloucester, R. I .; died October 24, 1855. Married Naomi Phillips, born June 10, 1784; died March 9, 1874. Children: Nehemiah, born July 23, 1802; died June 29, 1872; married Fanny Burli- son ; (children, Lee, Hezekiah, Nathan, Willis, Peter, Nehemiah, Minerva, Lily.) Thomas, born December 13, 1803; died June 4, 1875; married (1) Alma Stead ; married (2) Charity, widow of Stephen Stead; (child by first wife, Angel S.). Jeremiah, born December 21, 1805; died May 11, 1864; married Almira Brown; (children, Orrin, An- drew, John, George, Eddy, Elizabeth). Anna, born No- vember 26, 1807; died February 22, 1839 ; married Gardner Wade. Hezekiah, born December 4, 1809; died March 29, 1816. Henry, born November 18, 1811; died May 14, 1902; married (1) Miranda Shapley; married (2) Emma Lamb; (children by first wife, Maria, married Devillo Hallett; David, married Janette Knight; Julius, married Narcissa Mowry; Thomas, married Lydia E. Dickinson; Sarah, married VanBuren Mowry. (Child by second wife, Julia M., married George Hovey). Naomi, born February 1, 1814; died June 7, 1901; married John Shapley; (children, Martha, Hannah). Luke, born January 27, 1816; died January 23, 1860; married (1) Sarah Evans; married (2) Pamelia Gray ; married (3) Mary Ann Gray; (children by second wife, Jirah, married Janette Smith; Sarah, married Whitman Mowry; Gerritt, married Hattie Hovey). Ru- fus, born April 2, 1818; died July 27, 1896, in Whitney Point; married Elizabeth Willcox; (children, Nancy, mar- ried Abram Coxe; Priscilla, married (1) Silas Rogers; married (2) Samuel Rounds; John P., married (1) Lot- tie Smith; married (2) Mrs. Carrie Cline; Mertie died young). Mary, born February 27, 1820; died April 28,
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1888; married Reuben Pearsall; (child, Edgar A., married Marietta Moon). Philip, born July 31, 1823; died Octo- ber 11, 1878; married Lavina Scott; (children, Anna, mar- ried Joseph Baker; Randall, married Marilla Stead). Nancy, born January 16, 1827; died October 28, 1839.
SUSANNA, born October 17, 1786, in Gloucester, R. I .; died August 19, 1858, in Guilford, N. Y .; married Nicholas Smith, son of Perigrine Smith of Gloucester, R. I .; came to Oxford October 8, 1813. Children: Mary, born Decem- ber 29, 1811, in Rhode Island; died August 3, 1891, in Pennsylvania. Susan, born December 31, 1813, in Oxford ; died December 31, 1847, in Guilford. Isaac P., born No- vember 18, 1815, in Oxford; died May 25, 1875, in Pennsyl- vania. George, born December 18, 1817, in Oxford; died February 3, 1848, in Guilford. James W., born March 1, 1820, in Oxford; now resides in Bainbridge. Miranda, born November 16, 1822, in Oxford; died February -, 1825, in Oxford. William H., born April 6, 1827, in Ox- ford; died January 31, 1899, in Guilford. Elvira O., born September 8, 1830, in Guilford.
The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among human actions .- BACON.
The Chenango Foundry.
The Oxford Foundry was established in April, 1829, as the Chenango Foundry, by Amos A. Franklin and James A. Glover. They introduced the first steam engine into this town, and were the first establishment of the kind west of the Hudson river to use steam power. They carried on the business a few years, when Levi Chubbuck and Erastus Miller became associated with Mr. Franklin. The business was continued a short time under the name of A. Franklin
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